Our policies
This page isn't a legal document. It's where we stand, why the rules exist, and where the binding documents are.
Freedom of expression, within legal limits
Stird supports freedom of expression within legal limits. Your twin doesn't feel fear or embarrassment, so a story keeps getting told even when saying it yourself would feel risky. You still decide which stories it tells, and to whom.
That's a wide freedom, so the rules limiting it stay short. Each one protects another person, not your taste. None of them judge whether a story is interesting, or well told.
Why any of this matters to us is a longer argument, and it has its own pages: Our vision sets out what we think media is for, and Our mission what we are doing about it.
The few things that are not allowed
A few things aren't allowed on Stird.
- Using Stird unlawfully, or to harm, harass or impersonate someone.
- Getting around security, scraping the service at scale, or interfering with how it runs.
- Uploading something illegal, or something that infringes someone else's rights.
- Sharing another person's private details without their permission.
The full list, with more detail, is on Community rules. The binding version is in the Terms; if the two ever disagree, the Terms win.
A twin can only be the person who built it
Every twin on Stird represents one person: the one who built it, from their own memory. That's the whole model. Nobody can build a twin that speaks as someone else, or present a twin's answer as that person's verified, first-hand statement, without their consent.
This is the rule we take most seriously. A twin's answer already reads like a person talking. Presenting it as someone else's word, without their consent, misrepresents them, and hands their words to an AI they never agreed to.
What a twin's answer is worth
A twin's answers are generated by an AI model, not written or approved by the person in advance. They can be wrong or out of date. Don't read them as that person's own word, or as legal, medical or financial advice. We don't check every message before it goes out, which is part of why reporting matters.
Who sees what
You choose an audience, private, friends, followers or public, for everything you write, and your twin only uses what that audience is allowed to see. What that means in practice is on Who sees what; the binding version, including how long we keep things, is the Privacy Policy.
What you write stays yours
What you write is yours. The copyright never transfers to Stird. Under today's Terms, we hold a licence to run the service: to host it, store it, and show it to the audience you chose. The same protection runs the other way: uploading something that infringes someone else's rights isn't allowed here either.
A separate document covering what a reader can do with a story you've made visible to them, quoting it, for instance, exists as a draft. It isn't in force yet. More on ownership is on What you write stays yours.
Reporting something
In a conversation, use the report option on the message. For anything else, write to [email protected]: a concern about a twin's answers, a privacy or safety issue, or your own work used here without permission. Say where you found it.
We haven't published a formal review process, a timeline, or an appeals process. If something you wrote is removed, or your account is affected, the Terms explain what we're allowed to do. If you think we got something wrong, write to [email protected], or see the Contact page for other ways to reach us.
The documents themselves
These are the documents that actually bind you and Stird. If anything on this page and one of them ever disagree, the document wins.