Acceptable Use Policy

Wonderthrough is a creative writing tool. We respect that novelists write about hard subjects — violence, sexuality, trauma, moral ambiguity, crime, and morally complex characters. Fiction is not a content-policy violation, and we don’t police your creative work.

This policy describes the minimum floor of what’s NOT allowed, and how we handle the edge cases.

What’s Prohibited

1. Illegal content. You may not create, store, or transmit content that is illegal under US federal or state law, including:
   • Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). This is an absolute prohibition. We report CSAM to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) as required by 18 U.S.C. 2258A, and we cooperate fully with law enforcement.
   • Non-consensual intimate imagery of real people.
   • Content intended to incite imminent violence against a specific person or group.
   • Content that directly facilitates a crime, such as operational instructions to harm an identifiable real person.
   • Content that infringes copyright in a way that goes beyond fair use (Wonderthrough is not a hosting platform, so this is primarily a concern for cloud-synced content).
2. Platform abuse.
   • Creating bulk accounts to evade entitlements or payment controls.
   • Attempting to bypass authentication, rate limiting, or billing mechanisms.
   • Using Wonderthrough to send spam, phishing, or malicious content to other users or third parties.
   • Scraping, reverse engineering, or probing the service for malicious purposes.
   • Using automated tools to generate mass content intended to be published as spam elsewhere.
3. Harassment and threats.
   • Using Wonderthrough to harass, threaten, or dox identifiable real people.
   • Storing content that functions as a threat or harassment against a specific target.

What’s NOT Prohibited

• Fiction about dark subjects. War novels, crime thrillers, horror, dark romance, morally complex characters, graphic violence, sexuality in fiction, morally ambiguous themes — these are creative writing and are explicitly allowed.
• Historical or biographical content about real events or public figures, including content that is critical, unflattering, or depicts violence or harm done to them.
• Research notes on any subject, including sensitive ones.
• Content that an AI provider declines to process. A provider’s content filter is not our judgment of your work. If Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google declines a request, you can try a different model, use your own API key, or run a local model.

How AI Providers Fit In

Wonderthrough uses third-party AI providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google) for AI-powered features. When you run a pipeline, your content passes through the applicable provider, which may apply its own content filters. Provider filters operate independently of Wonderthrough’s Acceptable Use Policy — a provider declining content does not mean you violated our policy, and we do not use provider refusals as evidence against you.

If a provider declines content, you’ll see a clear error with actionable next steps. Your options always include:

• Switching to a different AI model in Settings
• Using your own API key (subject to that provider’s own terms)
• Switching to a local AI model (no provider involvement at all)

See our Privacy Policy for details on what data transits each provider.

How We Enforce This Policy

We do not scan private user content. We never read your manuscripts, entities, or AI pipeline inputs for content review. This is not a promise we can be slippery about — the code paths don’t exist, and the Privacy Policy explicitly prohibits scanning.

We become aware of potential violations only through:

1. Reports from users or third parties
2. Law enforcement requests
3. Self-disclosure (for example, in a support ticket that references concerning content)
4. Metadata-level anomalies (unusual account activity — not content review)

When we become aware of a potential violation, we investigate and, if warranted, take action. Actions we may take include (in rough order of severity): contacting the user for clarification, warning, temporary suspension, permanent account termination, cooperation with law enforcement, and preservation of evidence.

For illegal content that triggers a legal reporting obligation (most notably CSAM), we follow the applicable legal procedure regardless of how we became aware.

DMCA and Copyright

Wonderthrough does not host publicly-accessible user content. Your private manuscripts stored in Wonderthrough’s cloud are not distributed or published, and are therefore not ordinarily subject to DMCA takedown.

If you believe content has been published publicly via Wonderthrough and infringes your copyright, contact us at dmca@wonderthrough.com with:

1. Identification of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed
2. Identification of the allegedly infringing material and its location on Wonderthrough
3. Your contact information
4. A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized
5. A statement under penalty of perjury that the information is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner
6. Your physical or electronic signature

We will review valid notices and respond appropriately.

Account Termination

Wonderthrough may suspend or terminate your account for:

1. Violating the “What’s Prohibited” section of this policy
2. Repeated receipt of validated reports of platform abuse or harassment
3. Court order, law enforcement directive, or applicable legal requirement
4. Other serious violations of our Terms of Service at Wonderthrough’s discretion, exercised in good faith

If your account is terminated for content reasons and you believe the termination was in error, contact support@wonderthrough.com. We respond within 2 business days and review each case individually.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy over time. Material changes will be announced via the product and email, and the most recent version is always available at this URL.

Last updated: April 11, 2026