{
  "version": 1,
  "title": "Lexicon Garden site policies",
  "updated": "2026-11-09",
  "intro": "Lexicon Garden needs you to accept its policies before it starts a session for you.",
  "policies": [
    {
      "id": "terms",
      "name": "Terms of service",
      "path": "/terms/",
      "markdown": "/terms.md",
      "summary": [
        "This site provides raw, direct access to ATProtocol services and is intended for power users and developers.",
        "You must be 18 or older to sign in.",
        "You're responsible for what you publish to your repository through Lexicon Garden.",
        "Don't use sandboxes to squat names, impersonate other publishers, or host abusive content."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "privacy",
      "name": "Privacy policy",
      "path": "/privacy/",
      "markdown": "/privacy.md",
      "summary": [
        "Before you sign in, what you type in the sign-in field is sent to typeahead.waow.tech, a community-run account search, to suggest matching accounts. It isn't sent once you pick an account or enter a DID or server address.",
        "We store your DID, handle, and sandbox names, and index your policy acceptance. Your OAuth tokens are kept only for your session.",
        "Lexicon schemas are public network data. We index them whether or not you sign in.",
        "No ads, no tracking across sites."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "cookies",
      "name": "Cookie policy",
      "path": "/cookies/",
      "markdown": "/cookies.md",
      "summary": [
        "A few strictly necessary cookies keep you signed in and protect your forms. Nothing for ads or analytics, and no cookie banner."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "security",
      "name": "Security policy",
      "path": "/security/",
      "markdown": "/security.md",
      "summary": [
        "How to report a vulnerability, and the rules for good-faith security research."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "moderation",
      "name": "Moderation policy",
      "path": "/moderation/",
      "markdown": "/moderation.md",
      "summary": [
        "We can stop indexing lexicons, take down sandboxes, and take accounts off Lexicon Garden when they break the rules. Your records always stay in your PDS.",
        "Every takedown is decided by a person and logged with its reason, and you can ask us to look again."
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "sandboxes",
      "name": "Sandbox policy",
      "path": "/sandboxes/",
      "markdown": "/sandboxes.md",
      "summary": [
        "A sandbox name like garden.lexicon.sly-fox-123456 is yours permanently from its first publish and is never given to anyone else.",
        "Each publish keeps the name's DNS records for 90 days, including records for subdomains a later publish no longer uses. After that they're removed and NSIDs stop resolving until you republish.",
        "You can claim 3 new names in any rolling 90 days.",
        "Lexicon names can go up to 4 levels below lexicon.garden, and a sandbox gets at most 10 subdomains, including its top-level name. Past 10, only the first 10 in alphabetical NSID order are created, so the top-level name always is.",
        "Your schemas stay in your PDS and show up across Lexicon Garden like any other lexicon."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "agreement": "I've read and accept the Lexicon Garden site policies."
}