Terms of use

1 · Who this is for

These terms cover the crosstype app — the one with an account, public rooms and direct messages. They do not govern this website, where the test needs no account, asks for no agreement, and scores in your browser.

Accounts are for adults: 18 and over, everywhere, with no exceptions. That is enforced by the database rather than by the honour system — a profile cannot be created without the adult attestation, and both direct messages and profile visibility check it again on every request. Taking the test on this website needs no account and asks your age not at all.

2 · The rule that comes first

There is zero tolerance for objectionable content and for abusive behaviour. An account that posts it can have the content removed and the account removed with it. That does not require a pattern, a warning, or a second offence.

3 · What is not allowed

These are the same categories the app’s own report button offers, because a rule nobody can report against is decoration:

• Harassment or bullying — including following someone between rooms to continue it.
• Hate speech — abuse aimed at who someone is.
• Sexual content. Sexual content involving minors is prohibited absolutely: it is removed, the account goes, and it is reported where the law requires.
• Spam or advertising, including bulk direct messages.
• Self-harm — which is on the sheet for a different reason, below.
• Something else — last on the sheet on purpose, so nothing that belongs in the queue arrives without a name for it.

The self-harm option sits on a different footing from the rest. It is not there to get someone punished. It is there so a person looks.

One more, particular to what this app is about: a type is not an insult and not a credential. Using someone’s type to tell them what they are incapable of is harassment with a diagram attached, and it is treated as harassment.

4 · Reporting and blocking

You can report a message from inside the app, choosing one of the six reasons above and adding up to 1,000 characters of description if you want to. You do not have to explain yourself to report something. There is no way to report a person rather than a message, and that is deliberate: a report that names a profile instead of the thing that was said makes the queue read it as evidence against the wrong account. To be rid of someone, block them.

Blocking someone hides each of you from the other by two different mechanisms, and we state them separately because they are not equally strong: in direct messages the block is enforced in the database — the thread stops existing for both of you, and no message can cross in either direction. In public rooms the hiding is client-side — the room’s read predicate consults blocks only for direct messages, so a blocked person’s messages are filtered by the app rather than withheld by the server.

Blocking also ends the friendship — the app does both in one move, on purpose, so that unblocking someone later does not quietly hand back a connection you had already ended.

5 · How moderation actually works

One person reads every report. There are no in-app moderators and nobody in a room can be promoted into one — the operator is the only account that can act, and that is a property of the database, not a policy we are asking you to trust.

Reports are reviewed within three business days. That number is deliberately not twenty-four hours. One person cannot hold a twenty-four-hour clock through a weekend, and a response time you publish and then miss is worse than a slower one you keep. An alert fires while anything is waiting in the queue, so this is a promise you could catch us breaking.

Two things can happen to content that breaks these terms: a message can be taken down, and an account can be removed. There is no suspension — it has not been built, and naming a penalty that does not exist would be the same sort of overclaiming this site is supposed to be against.

6 · Ending it

You can delete your account at any time, from inside the app, without asking anyone. It is immediate and it cannot be undone — /delete-account sets out exactly what goes and what stays.

We can remove an account that breaches these terms. Removal is the same deletion, with the same consequences, including that reports already filed about that account survive it.

7 · What crosstype is not

A socionics type is a hypothesis, not a diagnosis. Nothing here is psychological or medical assessment, none of it is advice, and no result should be used to decide anything that matters about another person. Socionics is a contested framework rather than settled science; the marking scheme is published at /method precisely so that you can go and argue with it.

8 · Which law applies

These terms are governed by the law of the State of New York, and by the federal law of the United States where that applies. That is where crosstype is run from, and naming it is the whole of the clause: there is no arbitration agreement here, no class-action waiver, and no term telling you which courthouse you have to use.

If the consumer law of the country you live in gives you rights this page cannot take away — and in much of Europe and the UK it does — then it gives you them, and the line above does not change that.

9 · Changes, and how to reach a person

The date at the top of this page is when its wording last changed. Write to support@crosstype.app — for a report that needs a human, for anything on this page you think is wrong, or to tell us the moderation cadence above was not met, which is the sort of thing we would rather hear than not.