Terms of Service

1. Acceptance

By accessing or using Letter To LDS, you agree to these Terms of Service and to the site’s Privacy Policy.

2. What The Service Is

Letter To LDS is a publishing platform for user-submitted letters, response letters, and archival historical materials submitted for public reference.

The service is not a comment system, not a social feed, and not a guarantee of publication.

3. Content Types

• Letters include top-level letters and response letters that you submit as your own work, or as work for which you own or control the necessary copyright or publication rights.
• Archival Material means historical text submitted for public reference, typically because it is public domain or otherwise out of copyright.

4. Your Responsibility

• You are responsible for the content you submit.
• For letters and responses, you represent that you wrote the work or otherwise have the right to submit and license it.
• The work is not under an incompatible license, or you otherwise have the right to relicense it.
• For archival material, you represent that you have a good-faith basis to believe it is suitable for publication as archival/public-reference material.

5. Publication and Moderation

Letter To LDS may review submissions before publication, request edits, reject submissions, remove content for policy or legal reasons, and maintain moderation records related to submitted content.

Publication does not mean the platform endorses any claims, interpretations, or conclusions in a published work.

6. Letters Versus Archival Material

If you submit a letter or response, you may request removal whether it is published or unpublished.

If you request account deletion, the platform may offer you the option to remove your published letters or keep them published in a de-identified form with identity information removed.

Once published, archival material is not ordinarily removed at the submitter’s request, though it may still be removed or revised for policy, privacy, safety, copyright, provenance, legal, or transcription-fidelity reasons.

7. Quotations Of Removed Letters

If your letter is removed, quotations of it inside another user’s published work may remain because the quotation may have become part of a separate work and the platform does not automatically edit another user’s work without consent except for site-policy or legal reasons.

8. License For Letters And Responses

Published letters and responses are published under CC BY-SA 4.0, subject to the site’s publication workflow and moderation rules.

By submitting a letter or response for publication, you agree that copies or reuses already made under that license may continue even if your original post is later removed from this site.

Removal from this site does not revoke copies or downstream uses already made under the applicable license or law, nor does it remove the CC BY-SA 4.0 license covering the work. CC BY-SA 4.0 is irrevocable.

9. Identity And Public Display

Letters are anonymous by default unless you choose to make some identity information public.

Depending on the product configuration and purchases you choose, public display may include country, state, display name, city, profile photo, stake or ward, contact information, and social links.

10. Credits, Paid Features, And Purchases

• Credits are the internal site currency.
• Publication, responses, identity exposure, and add-ons may require credits.
• Payments are processed by third-party providers such as Stripe.
• The platform may suspend or delay activation of a purchase until payment is confirmed.

11. Credits, Rejections, And Refunds

If a submission is rejected in a good-faith case before the paid feature is actually delivered, the platform will generally restore the relevant credit or provide a refund.

If a paid feature has already been publicly delivered, later user removal or regret does not automatically create a refund right.

Spam, harassment, fraud, chargeback misuse, deliberate rights violations, and repeated bad-faith submissions may result in forfeiture of credits or denial of refunds.

12. Availability, Disclaimer, And Liability

The service is designed with long-term sustainability and durable public recordkeeping in mind, especially for archival materials and for letters that users choose to keep published.

The service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis to the maximum extent permitted by law.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Letter To LDS and its operators will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from or related to use of the service.

13. Governing Law And Venue

Except where otherwise required by applicable law, these terms and disputes arising out of or related to the service are governed by the laws of the United States of America and the State of Utah, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Except where otherwise required by applicable law, disputes must be brought in the state or federal courts located in Utah, and the parties consent to that venue and jurisdiction.

14. Contact

For questions about these terms: reports@9thbit.net

For general site questions or softer support issues: hello@lettertolds.org