NMTS Board Terms

This document is published in English and in Korean, and both versions state the same obligations in full — neither is a summary. The same language and governing-law rules as the NMTS Terms of Service apply (its section 17: the law of the country where you normally live governs): if your habitual residence is in Korea, the Korean version governs; elsewhere English is canonical, and the reading more favourable to you prevails where a term is unclear. Nothing in either version cuts into the consumer protections of the country of your habitual residence.

1. What this document is, and who it is with#

NMTS has a board: a public place to write about the NMTS product. These terms apply to writing on the board — posts, comments, and your board nickname — and they are a contract between you and NeedMoreTruth, the operator of NMTS. The contact address for board matters is nmts@nmts.me.

• Reading the board requires nothing. Anyone can read it, with or without an NMTS account, and reading does not make these terms apply to you.
• Writing requires three things: an NMTS account, your agreement to this document, and a nickname. You agree once, on a consent screen of its own, before you choose a nickname. If this document's version goes up — for any change, however small — you will be asked to agree to the new version before your next post (section 11). Nothing happens to your existing posts, account, or files in the meantime.
• The NMTS Terms of Service and Privacy Policy continue to apply to you as an account holder. In particular these provisions carry over to the board unchanged, named here by their numbers — and where a provision has a heading, by its actual words: section 3 (Accounts), clause 3.1 · section 12.4 (Reports and notices) · section 12.5 (What we will do, and how you hear about it) · section 12.8 (Repeated infringement) · section 13 (Support) · section 14 (Our responsibility to you) · section 15 (Changes to these terms), clause 15.3 · section 16.3 (If we stop serving your account) · section 16.4 (If we shut the service down) · sections 17–19 (Governing law and disputes · Contact · Language). This document does not reduce the report-handling guarantees of the main terms' section 12. Two divergences are stated openly rather than papered over: - The main terms' section 12.5 describes hand-only handling with no automated step, and on the board the 30-day review clock of section 7 is an automated step — where it decides, the notice says a machine decided (section 7). - The main terms' section 12.4 requires every report to carry a way to reach the reporter, which is why section 12.5 can promise the outcome to every reporter. Board reports can be made without any contact, and a report that left neither a contact nor an account has no channel the outcome can reach — the ones who hear the outcome are a rights claimant who gave a contact address, and a reporter who reported from a signed-in account and hears it in the notice box (section 7).
• This document adds the rules specific to the board; where this document and the main terms read differently, the reading more favourable to you applies. This document does not repeat the main terms' service availability and interruption provisions — they apply to the board as they apply to everything else.

When you agree to this document, you can download a confirmation file of that agreement on the spot, on the same screen.

2. The board is public#

Everything you post is a public posting: anyone on the internet can read it, copy it, and quote it, and search engines may index it — we do not stop them. Board posts are not encrypted — this is the opposite of your files in the NMTS drive, and it is by design: a board only works if everyone can read it.

Do not post anything you want kept private. The board has no private setting — the only way to keep something private here is not to post it. Do not post personal information — yours or anyone else's — in posts, comments, or your nickname. In particular, do not post facts about health, beliefs, sex life, or anything similarly sensitive, about yourself or about anyone else: a public posting is the worst place such a fact can live.

3. What the board is for#

The board is for talk about the NMTS product: questions, suggestions, and experiences. It is not a general forum. We can remove posts unrelated to NMTS under section 6, reason 1.

4. Your nickname#

• You choose a nickname when you set up writing access. It is shown next to everything you write. It is separate from your account code and from your public code. The link between them exists in our database — that is what lets you delete your own posts — and we do not display it anywhere.
• Nicknames must not impersonate NMTS or its operator, and must not contain personal information. A nickname can change once every 14 days. A nickname that breaks these rules is reported by reporting a posting it appears on and saying so in the explanation (section 7).
• When you change it, we keep the previous nickname for 12 months, so that a report about a post can still follow its writer through a rename; after 12 months it is deleted.
• When we — the operator — write on the board, every post and comment of ours is marked as the operator's. Nothing the operator writes is quoted in NMTS promotion.

We do not hold your name or your address. What the board holds is a nickname and an account code, and the only other thing we can hold is the notification address you put on the account screen yourself (section 7). One thing is stated openly rather than left out: article 44-6 of the Network Act and article 103-3 of the Copyright Act each provide a procedure under which the defamation dispute mediation division, or the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, may order information about a user to be produced. Where such an order lawfully binds us we comply — we can produce only what we hold, and what we hold is exactly what is written above. A demand from a court or authority outside Korea does not bind us merely by arriving — article 48 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation provides that such a decision may only be recognised or enforceable if based on an international agreement in force, such as a mutual legal assistance treaty. When such a demand reaches us we look at what does bind us, and at which law forbids the disclosure instead. Unless the law forbids telling you, we tell you before we produce anything.

5. Your posts: your copyright#

• The copyright in what you write stays with you. Posting transfers nothing.
• A licence to run the board. By posting, you grant NeedMoreTruth a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence limited to what running the board requires: showing your post to readers, and keeping it in our database and backups. The hosting and backup providers we use act for us in that publication — that is the whole extent of anyone else's involvement. This licence lasts while the post is on the board: deleting the post ends it, and what remains are the copies inside backups and — where the post was reported — the excerpt inside the report record (for the lifetimes sections 7 and 8 state).
• Quoting you in NMTS promotion is a separate switch, and the switch is the licence. Turning it on grants us a non-exclusive licence to reproduce, display, translate and excerpt posts you publish while it is on — with their nickname — in NMTS announcements and promotional material, including material distributed outside nmts.me (with the sublicence to the platform an announcement is published on, only to the extent publishing there requires). The switch lives on your account screen, and: - Granting it is not retroactive. Each post carries the switch's value at the moment you published it: posts written before you turned it on never become quotable. - Turning it off stops new quoting at that moment — including for posts written while it was on — and we take down our own placements ourselves. We keep a record of every place we quote a post (which post, where, when). When you turn the switch off — or delete a quoted post, or leave the board — we use that record to remove the quotes from the pages and material we operate, without being asked. Copies other people have already made of a public posting, and material already distributed beyond our control, are not ours to retrieve — that is the nature of a public posting. - The permission lasts until you turn it off, and the record of your on/off choices is kept for as long as your account exists — even if you leave the board — so that what was agreed and when can always be answered. - We quote what you wrote. Quotes are reproduced as written and attributed to the nickname; shortening is shown as shortening, and a translated quotation is marked as a translation. We do not pay or reward anyone for posts, and we do not present a quoted post as anything other than a board post. Where a quoted account has received something from us — for example a verification mark, trial or granted credits, or early use of a version not yet public — the quotation says so, so a reader can weigh the connection. That disclosure is made conspicuously, in the same place as the quotation, and in the language the quotation is published in. - Turning the switch on asks you to state that you are 16 or older (section 11). Leaving the switch off changes nothing about your use of the board, and you can turn it off at any time, from any account state.
• None of these permissions lets us sell your posts, license them to others for their own purposes, or use them for anything unrelated to NMTS. "Sell" here means: we take no money or other consideration from anyone in exchange for your posts — none.

6. When we remove or hide content#

We may hide or remove a post or comment only for the reasons on this list, and when we do, the action states which reason applied:

1. It is unrelated to the NMTS product (section 3).
2. It is illegal, or it infringes someone else's rights (including copyright and defamation).
3. It exposes personal information.
4. It is spam or flooding.
5. It carries or links to malware, phishing, or another attack on readers.
6. The law requires us to remove it, or leaving it up would put us in breach of the law.
7. It harms the people reading it: harassment aimed at a person, or sexually explicit or excessively violent material.

We may hide content first and decide afterwards (section 7). Removing a post under this section does not touch your files, credits, or wallet.

Reason 3 (exposed personal information) carries more than removal. When we learn that somebody's personal information stands on the board, we treat it as a breach of personal information that has come into our hands, and we do the two things article 34 of the Personal Information Protection Act requires: we tell that person without delay (what was exposed · when and how it happened · what they can do to limit the harm · what we did and how to seek redress · where and whom to contact to report harm), and we notify the Personal Information Protection Commission or the specialised body the law names. Where the breach concerns someone in the European Economic Area we also do what the law there requires: article 33 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation has us notify the supervisory authority within 72 hours of becoming aware, and where it is later than that, to give the reasons for the delay with it. That notification carries the four things the same article sets out: the nature of the breach (where possible the categories and approximate numbers of the people and the records concerned), a contact point for more, the likely consequences, and the measures we have taken or propose to take. Where the breach is likely to result in a high risk to people's rights and freedoms we tell that person too, without undue delay, under article 34 of the same Regulation. ⚠We have no way to tell somebody whose contact we do not have — the board holds nothing but account codes and nicknames — so in that case we take the measure that stands in place of telling, as the same Act's Enforcement Decree provides. The place to tell us is the support mailbox's "Board action" category.

7. Reports, hiding, and review#

How to report. Every visible post and comment carries a report control. Reports can be made without an account. A report states the target (post or comment), the reason (a number from section 6), and an explanation, together with your confirmation that you believe the report is accurate. A rights-violation report (section 6, reasons 2 or 3) also states your contact address, your relationship to the right you say is violated (holder, or authorised agent), and what you are asking for — removal, or the posting of a rebuttal together with the content. A rights report under reason 2 (copyright, defamation and other rights) also states whether the claim is copyright or another right (the two run under different laws and different procedures — below). A personal-information-exposure report (reason 3) is not asked that question — it is never the subject of the copyright procedure. Choosing what you are asking for is required. ⚠A personal-information-exposure report (reason 3) can ask only for removal — a rebuttal is published beside the content, so posting one would put the exposed values back on the page. When you ask for a rebuttal to be posted, you send the rebuttal text itself with the report (a field on the report form · up to 2,000 characters) — we post that text together with the content, in the place where the content stands (the original stays up). If something is wrong with a posted rebuttal, tell us through the support mailbox's "Board action" category. All of this is so that we can tell you the outcome, so that nobody asserts someone else's rights casually, and so that we act on what you actually asked.

How we tell you things. Every action we take on your writing — hiding, restoring, removing, suspending — leaves a notice in the notice box on your account screen, stating what happened, to which item, under which reason, (for a suspension) until when, and whether a machine decided it (the 30-day clock below is the one machine that decides an action on content). The notice box is read by signing in. You may also pre-designate an address — e-mail, text message and the like — on your account screen: for a measure a person took, a person sends the notice there too; a decision the clock made lands in the notice box only — except that where the clock removed a post or comment, a person also sends the notice to that address. The address is used for those notices only and is deleted when you leave the board. A rights claimant who gave a contact address is told the outcome at that address by a person. The contact address on the report form is the notification means you designate as claimant — we tell you there and nowhere else. We tell you as soon as a measure is taken, and again when the report is closed — the progress of the handling and its outcome — and closing a report erases the claimant's contact on the spot. The machine cannot close a report that carries a contact: even where the clock decided what happens to the content, that report is closed only after a person has told the outcome. There is one moment where the closing happens without the telling: a report that turns 12 months old is closed by that deadline whether or not anyone was told, the contact is erased with it, and the record keeps the fact that we did not tell you (the report-records paragraph below). If you reported from a signed-in account, the outcome also lands in your notice box. Where we hide or remove the content, its place on the list shows the outcome and the reason (section 8). Where we decide to leave the content standing, a reporter who left neither a contact nor an account has no channel the outcome can reach.

Where a report brings us information about you. A report somebody else sends can carry an account of you — personal information we obtained from somewhere other than you. You do not have to ask: we tell you when we first contact you about that report — article 14 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation has this told at the latest at that first communication, and does not leave you to ask for it. What we tell you is this: who processes it and how to reach us, what it is processed for and on what legal basis, what kinds of information are involved, who receives it, how long we keep it, the source of that information, that you have the right to ask for access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, to object, and to have it ported, and that you can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The three things article 20(1) of the Personal Information Protection Act requires — the source, the purpose, and your right to demand that the processing stop or to withdraw consent — are all inside that. Ask for more through the support mailbox's "Board action" category. ⚠We do not tell you who reported — article 20(4) of the same Act excepts telling where it would unfairly harm another person's life, body or property, and protecting a reporter falls inside that exception.

The general procedure — our own numbers, stated here in advance. When a report comes in we review it and leave the content up, hide it, or remove it. When we hide it, the notice states the reason, and you can send us your side through the support mailbox's "Board action" category at any time while the review runs. We aim to decide within 30 days of hiding: the content is restored or removed, and the notice box states which. If the review has not ended 30 days after hiding, what happens is decided by the reason — and outside reasons 3, 5 and 6, never by destroying the writing by default:

• Reasons 3, 5 and 6 (exposed personal information · attacks on readers · legal removal duties) are the stated exception: the post or comment is removed. Exposed personal information is the one reason where restoring makes the harm grow — our own lateness is no ground to start the exposure again. Republishing malware links or content the law requires gone, unread, is not a restoration anyone is owed either.
• Content inside the Korean Copyright Act's article-103 procedure follows only the dates that procedure sets (below). A hiding that carries no such procedure marking — whatever its reason — never runs past 30 days from the day of hiding: the Korean Network Act caps a temporary measure at 30 days, and the same cap applies where we hid the content on our own initiative, without any report.
• Everything else is restored, and the notice says we ran out of time — a temporary measure must not become a quiet permanent one, and our own lateness is not your loss. These clock-made outcomes are marked as decided automatically. For any decision a machine made, you can demand an explanation or a review by a person through the support mailbox's "Board action" category — we answer within 30 days of receiving the demand (the deadline the Enforcement Decree of the Korean Personal Information Protection Act sets). Where there is a justified ground for needing longer, the same Decree lets us extend that by 30 days at a time, twice at most — and we tell you the ground before the deadline it extends runs out. ⭐That extension notice goes out by itself, with nobody having to act — once, before the first 30 days end, and that one notice announces both extensions (at most 90 days from the day you wrote). It arrives in the very thread you sent the demand in, and your notice box shows it unread. If those 90 days pass without an answer from us, we tell you that, and we tell you that you may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority and seek a judicial remedy — in Korea the Personal Information Protection Commission, in the EU the supervisory authority of the member state you live in. ⚠Refusing a demand is not on that clock: where there is a justified ground to refuse — an unjustified risk to another person's life, body or property, and the like — the same Decree requires us to tell you "without delay", so we do not wait 30 days. What our answer contains depends on what you asked for: - Where you asked for an explanation — the four items article 44-3(2) of that Enforcement Decree sets out: ⓐ the result of that automated decision ⓑ the main types of personal information used in it ⓒ the influence those types had on it and the decision's main criteria ⓓ the processing those types went through and the procedure by which the decision is made. - Where you asked for a review — under article 44-3(3), whether the view you sent was reflected, and the result of that reflection.
• What we state in advance about automated decisions (the five items article 44-4(1) of the Enforcement Decree requires). ⓐWe do make automated decisions on the board — where a post or comment has been hidden and no person has decided within 30 days, the clock decides instead. Its purpose is to stop a temporary measure becoming a quiet permanent one, and the people it applies to are those who wrote the post or comment. ⓑThree pieces of information go into that decision and no others: the date it was hidden, the section 6 reason number it was hidden under, and whether a copyright-procedure marking stands on it. Your account, your nickname and what you wrote are not inputs to it. ⓒWhat is weighed, and the procedure: reasons 3, 5 and 6 end in removal, anything else in restoration (the item above). Where a person has decided, the clock does not run. ⓓNo sensitive data and no personal information of a child under 14 goes into this decision — we do not hold either. ⓔYou may refuse that decision and demand an explanation or a review, by the route stated above: the support mailbox's "Board action" category.
• A post or comment the clock removed under reasons 3, 5 or 6 cannot be brought back. The demand above still stands: we explain, a person reviews, and where the measure was wrong we correct the record and how we handle the matter from then on. The writing itself does not return.

Where the Korean Information and Communications Network Act (article 44-2) applies to a rights-violation claim: when the person claiming the violation requests deletion or the posting of a rebuttal with substantiation, we take the necessary steps without delay — deletion, hiding for up to 30 days, or the posting of the requested rebuttal together with the content, in the place where the content stands (the original stays up) — we notify the claimant and the writer, and the fact of the measure is visible on the board itself, in the place where the content stood. The procedure above, including the writer's way to respond and the 30-day window, is this document's advance statement of how such claims are handled. The same law gives the writer the right to pre-designate a notification means — that is the account-screen address above.

None of the roads above replaces a court. The review and explanation demands, the support mailbox's "Board action" category and the procedure below are all ways of contesting things with us, and your right to bring a claim in court is unaffected. Which you do first is yours to decide.

Where the Korean Copyright Act (article 103) applies to a takedown demand, the steps and their deadlines are these. ⚠The documents named below are needed only if you take the Copyright Act's form route, and only where an agent sends it for you — articles 13 and 15 of that Act's Enforcement Rules attach the agent document "only where an agent makes the request". An ordinary report through the report control needs no document at all.

• An article-103 takedown demand is made on Form no. 40 annexed to the Enforcement Rules of the Copyright Act: send it to nmts@nmts.me, with the material substantiating your right and material confirming who you are attached. An agent sending it also attaches the document proving their authority. Until that form is in order, the article-103 procedure has not begun — a copyright report through the report control (reason 2) is something we review, but it is separate from this procedure.
• On a substantiated demand we halt the posting's availability without delay, and within 3 days we notify both the rights claimant and the writer that we did. The notice to the writer carries a copy of the demand the claimant sent.
• The notice to the writer states three things: that they may demand resumption by substantiating a lawful right to the posting, that the demand must be made within 30 days of receiving the notice, and that the statutory form for it is Form no. 43 annexed to the Enforcement Rules of the Copyright Act (the resumption request) — we send that form with our notice.
• You may send it as plain writing, and we accept it. Article 16 of the same Enforcement Rules requires the resumption notice we send the claimant (Form no. 44) to have the resumption request attached — so where you write to us in plain words, we transcribe them onto that form and carry the procedure on, and we send you the transcribed form as well. The form is not a condition on your demand; producing it is our job.
• The form carries the material substantiating why the posting was yours to make and material confirming who you are (article 15 of the same Enforcement Rules): that you wrote it, that you were given permission, that the term of protection has ended, and the like. An agent also attaches the document proving their authority.
• Where you have a good reason for not being able to attach that material, you may attach instead a statement that you will compensate the damage and accept the penalty if it turns out you demanded resumption without a lawful right — article 42(2) of the Copyright Act's Enforcement Decree puts that statement in place of the material as an attachment to the resumption request. If no resumption demand arrives within those 30 days, the posting stays down.
• On a resumption demand, within 3 days we decide whether the claimed right is substantiated. Where it is, we notify the rights claimant of the demand and of the planned resumption date — a day between 7 and 14 days after the demand — and we resume the posting on that date. Where it is not, we tell the writer so, and why, and the posting stays down — the place to contest that is the support mailbox's "Board action" category.
• If before that date the claimant notifies us that they have filed suit against the writer over the posting, the posting is not resumed, and we tell the writer so — it then stays down until the suit ends.
• A posting inside this procedure is not subject to the 30-day cap above, and it can stay hidden until the procedure ends. The 30-day clock does not touch it — it neither removes it nor brings it back early. The only date that restores the posting is the planned resumption date this procedure sets, and resuming on that date runs automatically.

Report records. The record of a handled report, including an excerpt of the reported content, is kept for 12 months from the day the handling ends, then deleted (if a dispute about that report is ongoing, until it ends). A report that arrived with neither a contact nor an account and was never resolved is deleted 12 months after it arrived. A report that carries a contact, that came from an account, or that holds a decision the clock handed over, is not deleted at 12 months — it is closed at that moment instead, and a reporter who reported from an account hears it in the notice box. The record of a report closed that way is kept for 30 days from the closing and then deleted — long enough to answer for the ending, short enough that it is not a second lifetime. Where the closing happened without anyone having told the outcome, the record says exactly that: the contact address was erased at that moment, nobody judged the report, and we did not reach the person who sent it. A rights claimant's contact address is erased at the moment a person tells the outcome and closes the report, or at the moment the 12-month deadline closes it — whichever comes first. A report that is the subject of an ongoing dispute is not destroyed by either clock until the dispute ends. Tell us about an ongoing dispute — the support mailbox's "Board action" → "Telling us about a live dispute" — and we place that hold on the record. ⚠The reporter's contact address is still erased at 12 months: what a dispute needs is the report's content and how it was handled, not the address of the person who sent it. For a personal-information-exposure report (section 6, reason 3) the exposed values themselves are not put into the excerpt. And a report under that reason cannot ask for a rebuttal to be posted — as stated above, a rebuttal is published beside the content, so it would put the exposed values back on the page with our own hand. Report records store no IP address; reporting without an account runs a human check, and that check sends your connecting address to Cloudflare — the report screen states this where you send it.

8. Deletion and what remains#

• You can delete your own posts and comments at any time. A deleted post disappears from the board immediately, together with its comments — a comment lives and dies with its thread. A deleted comment leaves a "deleted by the writer" placeholder — the thread stays readable; the text itself is removed.
• You can edit your own posts and comments for 1 hour after posting them. You do it on the thread screen, and an edited item is marked as edited. After that 1 hour the edit control stays on the screen, greyed, and says so. ⚠We keep no copy of the earlier text ourselves. If the item had already been reported, however, the report's record may still hold the words as they stood then.
• Editing is not open in these cases: ①it is not your item ②the item is already deleted or gone ③the board is not open ④you are barred as under 14 ⑤you are barred for a period ⑥you have not agreed to the current version of these terms ⑦you have not made a nickname yet ⑧your account is suspended ⑨the item is withheld ⑩1 hour has passed since you posted it. For ⑥ you can read the current terms on that screen, agree, and carry on editing.
• ⭐Deleting stays open in every one of those cases. Suspended, withheld, or not agreed, you can still delete — whether to correct or to delete is your choice, not ours (article 36(1) of the Personal Information Protection Act), and we do not stand in the way of deleting for any reason.
• You can download your own writing — every post and comment — as one machine-readable file, at any time, from your account screen. The file also carries the record of your consent on/off choices, the notices from your notice box, and your designated notification address. This is not tied to leaving or to the board closing.
• Deleting your NMTS account deletes your board writing with it: posts (together with every comment on them, including other people's — a comment lives and dies with its thread), your own comments on other people's posts, the nickname, the notice box, the consent records, and the board profile. Quotations already placed under section 5 are taken down by us; the quote ledger row stays as the proof they were. One exception — a board bar stays on record: a measure that vanished with the account would be no measure. That record holds only what the measure needs — which account, which reason, and the day it ends — and it is deleted when it ends: an age bar 5 years after the day it was made (or earlier, on the day we lift it because you have turned 14), and a bar carrying the rest of a suspension on the day that suspension would have ended.
• A hidden or removed post keeps its place on the list, showing only its status and the reason (where a rebuttal was posted, it shows too) — its title, text, and writer are not shown. The hidden text itself stays on the server while the review needs it: that is what makes restoring possible, and it is deleted with the post when the decision is removal.
• A posted rebuttal stays with the content for as long as the content is there, and is deleted with it. If the reporter who asked for it asks us to take it down, we take it down.
• Our database backups include board content, and backups live out the lifetimes stated in the Privacy Policy — today, 91 days for an hourly copy and 364 days for a daily one — so a deleted post can persist inside backups until the longest of those ends. Backups are used only to restore the service after a failure. A restore replays the database as it was, which can bring deleted posts back until we re-apply the deletions; the Privacy Policy's restore-notice rule covers that event.
• Report records of section 7 survive the deletion of what they describe, until their own 12-month deadline. The quote ledger of section 5 (which post, where, when, taken down when) outlives both the post and the account — it is the proof the take-down promise was kept, and it contains no nickname and no account identifier.
• A notice in the notice box is deleted 12 months after it was made.
• The day-keyed writing and verification counters behind section 9 are deleted 60 days after their day.

9. Writing limits and verification#

• Daily writing limits exist. Even without verification, an account can write at least 2 posts and 8 comments a day. The actual limits — they never go below that floor — are shown on the writing screen before you write, and a change that lowers them is announced in advance under section 11. The limits exist to keep spam and flooding out.
• ⚠Storage verification is not switched on yet. The check and the mark described below are built, but you cannot apply for them right now — running the check sends a request to another company that reads the public chain for us, and that company does not publish which country it processes in, so we cannot give you the disclosure a transfer abroad requires (Personal Information Protection Act article 28-8(2)). We will not switch it on before that is solved. On the day we do, this paragraph goes and a new version tells you.
• Storage verification. An account can apply for a check that it currently stores 1 GB or more on the Walrus network. Passing it raises your writing limits. A check reads the public chain through the Sui RPC service named in the Privacy Policy — the application screen states what travels there, to whom, for what, and for how long, and asks your agreement before any check runs; that agreement travels with the check and is recorded. If your storage was paid from your own wallet, you prove control of that wallet by signing a one-time value. We keep no wallet-address field of our own — but the blob object identifiers in your file records do lead to the owning address on the public chain, and we do not pretend that link away. The exact processing is described in the Privacy Policy's board section.
• A verification is valid for 14 days. There is no automatic re-check: when it lapses, the higher limits end until you apply again and pass. You can run 4 checks a UTC day, and a failed check spends 1 of the 4 like a passed one.
• A check can measure a subset. One reading covers at most 400 of an account's storage objects; when an account holds more, the check says on the screen that only part was measured.
• Showing the verified mark is a separate choice. An account that passed verification can turn on a "Verified" mark next to its nickname (the higher limits apply whether or not the mark is on). The mark shows the time of the last check beside it, and you can turn it off at any time, from any account state. When a verification lapses, the mark's display choice is reset: passing a later check does not put the mark back up by itself — you turn it on again, or it stays off. The mark is a measurement result, not our endorsement of the account or of what it writes.

10. Suspension from the board#

For repeated or serious violations of section 6, we may suspend an account from writing on the board. One suspension is at most 30 days. The notice box, and the place where you go to write a post or a comment, state the reason and the end date, and the way to contest it — the support mailbox's "Board action" category. Suspension affects the board only — never your files, credits, or wallet. Where reports show an account being used again and again to infringe other people's rights, the main terms' section 12.8 applies to the account itself, exactly as it applies outside the board. Your right to bring a claim in court about a suspension is unaffected — contesting it through the mailbox is a way of contesting it with us, not a substitute for that right.

11. Changes, withdrawal, leaving, and closing#

• Changes. This document carries a version (the date-and-number line at the top). We change it only for these reasons: a change in the law, the fight against abuse and spam, or a change in what the board itself does. Every new version is announced at least 7 days before it takes effect, and at least 30 days before where the change is to your disadvantage. These two numbers are this document's own — the main terms' 15.3 says only that material changes are announced on the notice board before they take effect, and sets no number of days. Your next post requires agreeing to the new version — any new version, however small the change; not agreeing changes nothing about your existing posts, account, or files.
• Withdrawal. You can withdraw from this agreement within 14 days of giving it, without giving any reason. To do so, tell us at nmts@nmts.me or through the support mailbox; you can use the model withdrawal form in the annex at the end of this document, and a plain sentence works just as well. Withdrawing ends your writing access and deletes your board profile the same way leaving does (next point) — you choose what happens to your writing, and it does nothing to your account or your files. Where the law of your habitual residence gives you a longer or a further right, that law prevails.
• Leaving the board. You can leave the board at any time, without withdrawing from anything else, on your account screen — no request needed. Leaving deletes the board profile, the nickname, and the notice box, and you choose what happens to your writing: keep it public (the writer's place then reads "a departed writer"), or delete it too (a post disappears together with every comment on it, including other people's; your comments on other people's posts stay as deleted-comment slots). The record of your consent on/off choices is not deleted by leaving — it stays for as long as your account exists (section 5), because it is the proof of what was agreed while quotations were placed. The record of a previous nickname also lives out the 12 months section 4 sets — leaving does not shorten that clock. After leaving, for as long as writing you kept remains, the download and the deletion of that writing stay on your account screen. If you later start the board again, the consents still on record apply as they stand, and the writing you kept is shown again under your new nickname. A suspension that was running does not end by leaving — no new profile can be created until its original end date (section 10). Deleting your NMTS account removes everything at once (section 8).
• The age floor. The board is for people 14 or older (main terms, section 3.1). You state that you are 14 or older when you agree to this document, and the two optional switches each ask a statement again before they turn on — the mark display (section 9) the same 14-or-older statement, and promotional quoting (section 5) a statement that you are 16 or older (that is the default age European data-protection law sets for a child's own consent — a member state may set a lower one, down to 13, and we apply 16 everywhere); no birth date is asked or stored. If we learn that someone was under 16 when they turned the promotional-quoting switch on, we treat that consent as never given: the switch goes off, we take down the quotations we placed, the quote ledger records why they came down, and a notice of it goes to the notice box. If we learn that a writer is under 14, we end their writing access, delete the board profile, and remove their posts (the consent on/off record stays with the account, as section 5 states — it is the record that everything was turned off). That account can no longer enter the board — the same measure the main terms' section 16.3 (If we stop serving your account) describes for the account as a whole, applied to the board alone. If you believe this measure was wrong, tell us through the support mailbox's "Board action" category. Tell us after you have turned 14, and the bar is lifted — age is this bar's only reason, and when the reason is gone, so is the bar.
• Closing the board. We may close the board, stating why. Closing is announced on the board and on the notices page at least 30 days in advance — the same footing as the main terms' section 16.4. Your writing can be downloaded as one file at any time (section 8), including through that whole notice window. When the board closes, posts stop being publicly visible; section 5 (quoting rides the switch; our placements are taken down) and section 8 (backup lifetimes) continue to apply.

Annex — model withdrawal form (board terms)#

(complete and return this form only if you wish to withdraw from the contract; a plain unequivocal sentence works just as well)

To: NeedMoreTruth, nmts@nmts.me

I hereby give notice that I withdraw from my contract for the provision of the following service: the NMTS Board (my agreement to the NMTS Board Terms).

• Agreed on: —
• Name of consumer(s): —
• Address of consumer(s): —
• Signature of consumer(s) (only if this form is notified on paper): —
• Date: —

This form withdraws from the board agreement only — it does not touch your NMTS account, your files, or the NMTS Terms of Service.

Two questions that are ours, not the form's. They are optional, and your withdrawal is valid without them — we ask because the answers save a round trip: your board nickname, and what should happen to your writing (keep it public, or delete it).