Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using RateMyFeet ("the Platform"), you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree with any part of these terms, you must not use the Platform.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account, upload content, or interact with the Platform. By registering, you confirm that you meet this age requirement. We reserve the right to request proof of age and to suspend accounts that violate this condition.

3. Account Registration

To access certain features (uploading, voting, following), you must create an account with a valid email address and a secure password. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for all activity that occurs under your account.

4. User Content

You retain ownership of the content you upload and of the text you write. By publishing a photo, a video or a text on the Platform, you grant RateMyFeet a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, display, reproduce, and distribute it solely for the purpose of operating and promoting the Platform. What a creator publishes inside a backroom is never used to promote the Platform.

You represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights to the content you upload and to the text you write, and that neither infringes the rights of any third party.

5. Content Guidelines

RateMyFeet is a platform dedicated to sharing and rating photos of feet. Content published on the public side of the Platform must comply with the following rules:

• Identity: The person in the photos must be you. Uploading photos of other individuals without their explicit consent is prohibited.
• Relevance: Photos must be relevant to the purpose of the Platform (feet). Off-topic content will be removed.
• Legality: All content must be legal. You must be 18 or older and hold all rights to the images you post. Illegal content is strictly prohibited and removed.
• No identifiable faces: Photos must not include visible faces to protect privacy.
• Quality standards: Images must be at least 800×600 pixels, in JPEG, PNG, or WebP format, and under 5 MB.

A backroom is adult and private, and section 8 says what it may hold. The content rules in the help center set out, side by side, what belongs in public and what belongs in a backroom. Help Center

6. Moderation

No automated filter screens what you publish. No image-recognition service analyses your uploads, in public or in a backroom, and we match nothing against an external database of known images. Moderation on RateMyFeet is done by a person.

Anyone can report a piece of content or a profile in one tap, without giving a reason, and the report is recorded against what it targets. We may look at anything published on the Platform, and open a backroom gallery to see what is sold there. We may remove content, close a door, or suspend an account that breaks these Terms or the content rules, at our sole discretion and without prior notice.

Illegal content, and in particular any content involving a minor, is removed, the account behind it is closed, the evidence is preserved and the competent authorities are informed. Nothing here promises you an automated review, because none is run.

7. Voting & Ranking System

The Platform features a community-driven voting and ranking system. Rankings, badges, and trending indicators are calculated automatically based on engagement metrics. Any attempt to manipulate votes, rankings, or engagement metrics (including the use of bots, fake accounts, or coordinated voting) is strictly prohibited and may result in immediate account termination.

8. The Backroom

A creator may open a backroom of her own and sell access to it. A backroom is for adults only: it may hold explicit content, and you must be 18 or older to enter one, as the Eligibility section already requires. The public feed and the covers stay free of explicit content.

The Content Guidelines apply inside a backroom as they do in public, with one difference: what a creator shows there may be explicit. The person in the content must be the creator herself, or a consenting adult; she must hold every right to what she publishes; and the content must be legal where she and her subscribers live. A backroom is private, not exempt.

By opening a backroom, you accept that we may view its content, including the content only paying subscribers see, in order to answer a report, settle a dispute, or comply with the law. We may remove content or suspend a backroom that breaks these Terms, without prior notice. Subscribers may not copy, record or redistribute what they see in a backroom.

9. Stories, Comments & Hearts

A story is a photo or a short video a creator shows in her backroom for twenty-four hours. Once those hours are over, or once she deletes it, it is hidden from everyone, herself included, but the file is kept thirty days longer, so that an inspection made in that window can still see it, and for as long as the case lasts if it has been pulled out of sale. We record who viewed a story; the creator is told how many people saw it, never who.

A comment is a text a subscriber writes under a piece in a backroom. The other subscribers read it under an alias, a name drawn for that backroom alone; the creator reads it under the username. A comment stays where it is when the month that allowed it ends, and its author then loses the right to write. The creator may delete any comment in her backroom, and so may we if it breaks these Terms.

A heart is one person approving one piece or one comment, and it can be taken back. It is a count and nothing more: it feeds no ranking, no score and no public total, and nobody, the creator included, is told who gave one.

10. Subscriptions

A subscription is one month of access to one creator's backroom, at the price she sets. There is no automatic renewal and no payment method stored: every month is asked for and paid by hand. You ask, the creator accepts, you pay her, she confirms the payment, and the access opens for a month.

The price you saw when you asked is the price you pay. As long as your months follow one another without interruption, that price stays yours, even if the creator raises hers. If your access ends and you come back later, the current price applies.

You may renew up to one month before your access ends. A renewal confirmed while your access still opens the door, its three days of grace included, starts where your last month ended, so renewing costs you no day; confirmed after that, the month starts on the day it is confirmed. A renewal needs no acceptance: it only waits for your payment. Three days before your month ends, the Platform prepares your renewal request for you, unless you have switched that preparation off; preparing a request never moves money, you still pay by hand. Your access holds for three days past its end date, unless you have cancelled. A closed door stops new requests, never a subscriber's renewal.

You may cancel at any time. Cancelling leaves you the access until the end of the month you paid for, without those three days, and no further month is prepared. If you had already declared a payment for the next month, that declaration stands and the creator may still confirm it.

A first request expires if the creator does not answer within seven days, and once accepted it expires if you do not pay within seven days. A renewal, on the other hand, must be paid before those three days of hold are over. A creator who refuses your request cannot be asked again for thirty days. You may have at most fifteen live first requests at a time; renewals never count.

11. Direct Payment

You pay the creator directly, through the payment services she lists on her instructions page. The Platform is not a party to that payment: it holds no funds, takes no share of them and issues no invoice for them. The subscription contract is between the creator and you.

The Platform refunds nothing, because it collects nothing. A refund is settled between the creator and you, under the rules of the payment service you used. The terms and the privacy policy of that service apply to the payment itself.

The reference we generate (RMF-ABCD, for example) is a courtesy, so that a transfer can be matched to a request. It is not a receipt, not a proof of payment, and not a commitment by the Platform.

Each party remains responsible for its own tax and reporting obligations on the sums exchanged. The figures a creator reads in her Studio Pro add up the months she confirmed receiving: they are neither a statement of account nor a proof of payment, and they replace none of her own records.

12. Declarations & Arbitration

Once you have paid, you tell the Platform so. That is a declaration, not a proof: the creator is the one who confirms that the money arrived, and that confirmation is what opens the access.

If the creator has not answered seven days after your declaration, the case comes to the Platform. We then open the access on the strength of your declaration, unless what we read says otherwise, and we may close a case without access when the proof points that way. We give a reason either way, and we judge on the history of the request and on the proof each side brings.

A creator who answers "nothing received" a second time to the same payment hands the case to the Platform in the same way. A first request the creator accepted and that then expired unpaid may still be confirmed by the Platform, on proof of your payment, within thirty days, unless the creator has stepped away since (her account paused or deactivated, her backroom suspended, or her Pro status left), or a newer request has been made between the two of you.

A creator whose silence opened an access may contest the decision by writing to the address in the Contact section. Declaring a payment that never happened is an abuse of the Platform and may cost you your account.

Every step (request, acceptance, refusal, declaration, confirmation, expiry, decision) is recorded with its author, its date and its reason. That record is what an arbitration reads.

13. Pro Status

Selling access to a backroom requires the Pro status. You ask for it on the Pro page and the Platform decides. A refusal may lock your next request for thirty days, and a request nobody has decided within thirty days lapses. You may take your own request back at any time, and ask again at once.

You may leave the Pro status whenever you wish. Leaving closes your door in the same gesture: the requests still waiting expire, the months already paid for run to their term, no renewal is offered, and your subscribers are told by email.

Leaving is refused while a payment declared to you waits for your answer. That refusal lasts a week at most, after which the case goes to the Platform and you are free to leave.

14. Accounts, Pause & Deletion

You may deactivate your account at any time. A deactivated account leaves the public side, and the subscriptions it is part of keep running: the backroom of a creator who stepped away stays readable to her subscribers, and a subscriber who stepped away keeps the month he paid for.

A creator cannot delete her account while a paid access is running. Deletion becomes possible once the last access has ended, its three days of grace included. Closing the door is always possible: it stops new requests and expires those still waiting, including a request already accepted and not yet paid, while renewals and the accesses already paid for run to their term.

A declared payment also blocks the deletion of both accounts it concerns, the creator's and the subscriber's alike, until the case is settled and for thirty-seven days at most. Deleting an account would take with it the history that case is judged on.

A subscriber who deletes their account loses the access they paid for, and nothing is refunded. Deleting an account also deletes its requests, its accesses and their record, and closes any case in progress.

The Platform may suspend a backroom that breaks these Terms. A suspension revokes every access, closes the door and takes the cover down, and lifting it revives neither the accesses nor the door. Neither a suspension nor a deactivation gives a refund by the Platform, which never holds the money.

15. Founding Creators

A creator whose Pro status is approved on or before December 31, 2026 is a founding creator. RateMyFeet takes no commission on what she earns, for life: every payment goes from the subscriber to her in full, and no later change to these Terms takes that away.

The founders period closes after December 31, 2026. Whatever applies to a creator approved later is announced under Changes to These Terms before it applies, and never reaches a founding creator.

16. Prohibited Conduct

• Harassment, bullying, or threatening behavior toward other users
• Impersonation of another person or entity
• Spamming, including repetitive uploads or misleading titles
• Attempting to circumvent moderation or security measures
• Collecting or scraping user data without authorization
• Using the Platform for any illegal purpose

17. Intellectual Property

The Platform, including its design, logos, features, and underlying technology, is the property of RateMyFeet. You may not copy, modify, distribute, or reverse-engineer any part of the Platform without prior written consent.

18. Disclaimers & Limitation of Liability

The Platform is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free access to the Platform.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, RateMyFeet shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages arising from your use of the Platform.

19. Termination

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account at any time, with or without cause, and with or without notice. Upon termination, your right to use the Platform ceases immediately, and we may delete your content.

20. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. We will notify you of significant changes by posting the new Terms on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. Your continued use of the Platform after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

21. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of France. Any disputes arising from these Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Paris, France.

22. Contact

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at contact@ratemyfeet.io.