These Terms govern your use of Larak's Zodiac, including accounts, community features, interpretive tools,
editorial archives, digital content, and legal notices.
Legal Governance
Terms of Service
Effective Date: January 1, 2025
These Terms govern your use of Larak's Oracle, including access to accounts, community features,
interpretive tools, editorial archives, and digital cultural content.
1.
Agreement to Terms
Welcome to Larak's Oracle.
These Terms of Service govern your access to and use of the Larak's Oracle website, including zodiac
calculators and interpretive tools, fortune and matching experiences, editorial archives and cultural
materials, community and forum features, downloadable and shareable digital content, and user accounts
and related services.
By accessing or using the platform, creating an account, purchasing digital content, or participating in
community features, you agree to be bound by these Terms. The platform is intended only for individuals
who are at least 18 years old.
2.
Nature of the Platform
Larak's Oracle presents Chinese zodiac culture as a living system of folklore, symbolism, seasonal
rhythms, historical interpretation, and editorial storytelling.
Cultural archives
Editorial interpretation
Digital reading experiences
Community discussion
Content provided through the platform is intended for cultural and editorial purposes only.
3.
Accounts and Access
You may create an account using email/password authentication or supported Google sign-in methods.
You are responsible for:
Maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials.
Restricting unauthorized access to your account.
All activities occurring under your account.
You agree not to:
Share accounts with others.
Access accounts that do not belong to you.
Use automated systems to create accounts or interact with the platform abusively.
Larak's Oracle reserves the right to suspend, restrict, or terminate accounts that violate these Terms
or undermine platform integrity or community safety.
4.
Community and User Content
The platform may include publicly visible community areas, including forums, discussions, replies, and
customer-support-related threads.
By posting content to the platform:
You retain ownership of your content.
You grant Larak's Oracle a non-exclusive, worldwide license to display, organize, format, and present that content within the platform and related internal community surfaces.
At this time, user-generated content will only be used within the platform itself and not for external
commercial licensing. Because community content may be publicly accessible, you should avoid posting
sensitive personal information.
Larak's Oracle reserves the right to remove, moderate, restrict, or archive content that:
Violates law or intellectual property rights.
Harasses or abuses others.
Impersonates individuals or organizations.
Attempts to manipulate, spam, or disrupt the platform.
Conflicts with the intended cultural or editorial purpose of the service.
5.
Digital Purchases and Refunds
Certain experiences or materials may require payment, including interpretive reports, matching dossiers,
archives, or other digital unlocks.
Payments are securely processed through Stripe-hosted checkout services. Larak's Oracle does not receive
or store full payment card information.
Because digital content is delivered immediately upon access, refunds are not automatically guaranteed.
Refund requests may be reviewed manually on a case-by-case basis, including situations involving:
Duplicate purchases.
Technical delivery failures.
Unauthorized transactions reported promptly.
Pricing, availability, and access models may change over time without prior notice.
6.
Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise noted, the platform's visual design, branding, editorial structure, illustrations,
text, code, research framing, curated archive systems, and interpretive materials are owned by or
licensed to Larak's Oracle and are protected under applicable copyright, trademark, and intellectual
property laws.
You may:
Browse the platform.
Share screenshots or excerpts for personal, non-commercial use.
Share generated reports or cultural readings socially for personal use.
You may not:
Republish substantial portions of the platform commercially.
Build derivative databases.
Systematically reproduce archive content.
Use platform materials for AI training datasets, model development, or automated extraction systems without written permission.
Normal search-engine indexing is permitted.
7.
Prohibited Activities
You agree not to:
Circumvent security systems or access controls.
Scrape or bulk-extract platform content.
Use bots or automated tools abusively.
Attempt to obtain account credentials.
Misrepresent identity.
Interfere with platform performance or availability.
Use the service for unlawful, deceptive, or abusive conduct.
Larak's Oracle may investigate and respond to violations using technical, administrative, or legal measures.
8.
Generated Content and Sharing
Some platform experiences may generate downloadable or shareable materials, including reports, cards, or
visual summaries.
You are encouraged to share these materials for personal, non-commercial use.
Generated materials may remain stored on platform systems for operational and archival purposes.
9.
Disclaimer
The platform does not provide:
Medical advice.
Psychological advice.
Legal advice.
Financial advice.
Investment advice.
Licensed professional services.
No prediction, compatibility outcome, fortune interpretation, or personal result is guaranteed.
Your use of the platform is at your own discretion and risk.
10.
Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Larak's Oracle shall not be liable for:
Indirect or consequential damages.
Loss of data.
Service interruptions.
User-generated content.
Personal interpretations or decisions made based on platform materials.
The platform is provided on an as available and as is basis.
11.
Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of New Zealand.
Any dispute relating to the platform or these Terms shall be resolved in courts located in Auckland,
New Zealand, unless otherwise required by applicable law.
12.
Changes to These Terms
Larak's Oracle may update these Terms from time to time.
When material changes are made, the updated version will be posted on the platform together with a
revised effective date.
Continued use of the platform after updates constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
For legal, copyright, privacy, or account-related requests, please contact us through the address above.
Terms Summary
By using the platform, you agree to use the services lawfully and respectfully, refrain from scraping,
bulk extraction, or AI training use, understand that forum content is publicly visible, acknowledge that
zodiac interpretations are cultural and editorial materials rather than professional advice, and accept
that digital purchases are subject to manual review refund policies.
If you do not agree with these Terms, please discontinue use of the platform.