Active Estate Record
THE DIRE MANOR — TERMS OF SERVICE
Last Updated: 06/06/2026
1. About The Dire Manor
The Dire Manor is a privately governed adult digital estate, membership platform, immersive social environment, and community infrastructure operating across web, virtual reality, and digital spaces.
The Estate was founded upon sovereignty, consent, accountability, selfhood, and respect for individual identity.
The Dire Manor was built upon the belief that adults are capable of governing themselves with dignity, personal responsibility, and mutual respect.
Participation within the Estate does not require conformity of belief, identity, philosophy, background, or experience. What is required is respect for the autonomy of others and conduct consistent with the integrity of a shared environment.
Participation is voluntary. Access is conditional. Membership is not ownership.
The Dire Manor exists independently as its own digital estate and governance structure. While members may participate through third-party platforms and technologies, the Estate itself is governed according to its own policies, standards, systems, and administrative authority.
2. The Dire Manor Values
The Estate recognizes that every individual arrives carrying a different story, background, perspective, and lived experience.
The purpose of the Estate is not to erase those differences. The purpose of the Estate is to create an environment where adults may coexist through mutual respect, accountability, and personal responsibility.
Governance First
The Estate values structure, clarity, accountability, and stewardship over chaos and disorder.
Consent
Consent is foundational. Participation, conversation, interaction, and engagement must remain voluntary and respected.
Sovereignty
Every individual possesses the right to their own thoughts, beliefs, boundaries, identity, and personal convictions.
Self-Sovereignty
No individual is expected to surrender their agency, autonomy, or capacity for self-determination.
Selfhood
Members are encouraged to preserve and develop their authentic identity rather than perform conformity for acceptance.
Respect for Autonomy
Individuals are free to participate, disengage, leave, return, agree, disagree, and grow according to their own choices.
Personal Responsibility
Freedom and responsibility are inseparable. Members remain accountable for their conduct and decisions.
Adult Accountability
The Estate is designed for adults. Ownership of one's actions, maturity, and respectful conduct are expected.
Respect for Individual Identity
Belonging does not require sameness. People are not required to become copies of one another in order to participate.
Philosophical Discussion
Thoughtful discussion concerning existence, ethics, consciousness, meaning, society, and the human experience is welcomed.
Curiosity and Exploration
The Estate encourages thoughtful exploration of ideas without requiring adherence to any singular worldview.
Empowerment of Self-Esteem
Members should leave interactions strengthened rather than diminished.
Recognition of Neurodivergence
People think, communicate, learn, and experience the world differently. Difference is not deficiency.
These values inform moderation decisions, governance practices, community standards, administrative actions, and the overall operation of the Estate.
3. Eligibility and 18+ Requirement
The Services are strictly limited to individuals 18 years of age or older.
By using the Services, you represent and warrant that:
- You are at least 18 years old;
- You have the legal capacity to enter into these Terms; and
- Your use of the Services complies with all applicable laws.
We may suspend, restrict, or terminate access if we reasonably believe a person is under 18 or has misrepresented their age.
4. Verification
Access to certain features may require identity or age verification through third-party providers, including Stripe Identity or similar services.
You acknowledge and agree that:
- Verification may be performed by external providers;
- The Dire Manor does not intentionally store sensitive identity documents; and
- Access may be restricted pending successful verification.
Failure or refusal to verify may result in limited access, denied access, or removal from age-restricted areas.
5. Accounts
You may be required to create an account to access certain features of the Services.
You agree to:
- Provide accurate and complete information;
- Maintain the confidentiality of your credentials;
- Be responsible for all activity under your account; and
- Notify The Dire Manor of unauthorized access or account misuse.
Accounts are personal, non-transferable, revocable licenses to access the Services.
6. Membership and Access
The Dire Manor operates as a curated access environment. Membership, roles, wax seals, badges, privileges, and access levels are discretionary and may be modified, suspended, or revoked at any time.
Access to the Services does not create ownership, equity, employment, partnership, fiduciary duty, or any legal interest in The Dire Manor, its brand, assets, systems, worlds, servers, communities, designs, or intellectual property.
Access is conditional upon continued alignment with the Estate's standards, boundaries, and operational requirements.
7. Payments and Digital Releases / Offerings
The Dire Manor may offer digital goods, memberships, support tiers, physical items, cards, artifacts, releases, or related offerings.
All payments:
- Are made in exchange for the described product, access, support tier, or offering;
- Do not confer equity, ownership, governance rights, or financial return;
- Are processed by third-party providers such as Stripe, PayPal, or equivalent services; and
- May be subject to third-party payment terms and processing requirements.
8. Refund Policy
Due to the nature of digital goods, access-based services, support tiers, and custom or limited offerings, all sales are final except where required by law or granted at The Dire Manor's sole discretion.
Refunds, credits, or adjustments may be reviewed case by case, but no refund is guaranteed unless legally required.
9. Estate Conduct and Community Standards
Participation in The Dire Manor requires conduct consistent with the Estate Values, adult accountability, consent, personal responsibility, and respect for individual autonomy.
You agree not to:
- Harass, threaten, stalk, intimidate, abuse, or exploit others;
- Engage in hate speech, discriminatory conduct, or targeted degradation;
- Misrepresent your identity, age, role, affiliation, authority, or verification status;
- Violate privacy or disclose personal information without consent;
- Exploit platform systems, bypass restrictions, evade bans, or interfere with security measures;
- Impersonate staff, leadership, partners, sponsors, or representatives of The Dire Manor;
- Use The Dire Manor's name, assets, logos, seals, worlds, systems, or reputation as proxy legitimacy without permission;
- Recruit, solicit, manipulate, pressure, or extract members for outside purposes without authorization;
- Engage in explicit sexual conduct in official spaces unless explicitly authorized by the rules of that specific space; or
- Conduct yourself in a way that undermines the safety, consent, dignity, or operational integrity of the Estate.
The Dire Manor reserves the right to interpret and enforce these standards at its discretion, including when conduct occurs outside the Estate but directly affects the Estate, its members, its leadership, or its operations.
10. Moderation and Enforcement
The Dire Manor may take action in response to violations, suspected violations, safety concerns, operational risk, or conduct inconsistent with the Estate's standards.
Actions may include:
- Warnings;
- Content removal;
- Feature restrictions;
- Role removal;
- Seal removal or reassignment;
- Suspension;
- Permanent ban;
- IP or device-based restriction where appropriate;
- Account termination; and
- Removal from associated spaces, groups, or platforms.
Moderation decisions are final unless The Dire Manor chooses to review them. Appeals, if permitted, are discretionary and do not guarantee reinstatement.
11. Third-Party Services
The Services may rely on third-party platforms and providers, including but not limited to VRChat, Discord, Supabase, Stripe, PayPal, OAuth providers, hosting services, analytics systems, or other infrastructure.
The Dire Manor is not responsible for third-party outages, policy changes, account loss, service interruptions, enforcement decisions, data handling practices, or system failures by external providers.
12. Privacy
The Dire Manor may collect limited data necessary to operate the Services, including account identifiers, roles, access status, verification status, security information, usage data, and other operational records.
Sensitive payment and identity verification data are handled by third-party providers. The use of the Services is also governed by The Dire Manor Privacy Policy.
13. Intellectual Property
All content, branding, systems, designs, text, logos, wax seals, visual assets, lore, code, worlds, layouts, trade dress, names, titles, and materials associated with The Dire Manor are protected intellectual property unless otherwise stated.
You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, modify, imitate, scrape, resell, exploit, reverse-engineer, remove branding from, or use any Dire Manor materials without prior written permission.
Access to the Services does not grant any license to use The Dire Manor's intellectual property beyond ordinary personal participation within authorized areas.
14. Termination
The Dire Manor may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including violation of these Terms, violation of Estate standards, risk to members, operational concerns, or misuse of access.
Upon termination, your right to access the Services ends immediately. Certain records may be retained as necessary for security, legal, fraud prevention, archival, operational, or enforcement purposes.
15. Disclaimers
The Services are provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent permitted by law.
The Dire Manor does not guarantee uninterrupted access, error-free operation, continued availability of any feature, third-party platform access, or preservation of any external account, group, world, server, or service.
16. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, The Dire Manor shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, exemplary, or similar damages arising from or related to the Services.
Any direct liability is limited to the amount paid by you to The Dire Manor in the twelve months preceding the claim, unless otherwise required by law.
17. Changes to Terms
The Dire Manor may update these Terms at any time. Continued use of the Services after updates are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms.
Material changes may be reflected through an updated version date, public notice, account notice, or other communication method selected by The Dire Manor.
18. Governing Law
The Dire Manor is based in the United States. These Terms, and any disputes, claims, or legal matters arising from or relating to the Services, shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the United States and the State of Texas, without regard to conflict of law principles.
While The Dire Manor operates internationally and its intellectual property, branding, and digital assets may be registered, protected, or recognized across multiple jurisdictions, all legal proceedings, enforcement, and dispute resolution shall remain anchored within the United States unless otherwise required by applicable law.
You agree that any disputes shall be resolved exclusively within the appropriate courts located in the State of Texas, United States, unless otherwise required by applicable law.
19. Contact
For questions regarding these Terms:
dm@thediremanor.com
20. Estate Statement
The Dire Manor is a privately governed adult digital estate founded upon sovereignty, consent, accountability, and selfhood.
The Estate does not require ideological conformity. It does not require uniformity of thought. It does not require members to become copies of one another in order to belong.
What it does require is respect for autonomy, adult accountability, personal responsibility, and conduct consistent with the dignity of a shared environment.
Participation is voluntary. Access is conditional. Membership is not ownership.
The Dire Manor does not exist to dictate who a person should become. It exists to provide a place where adults may explore who they already are.
This section describes the Estate's values and interpretive principles. It does not limit the enforceability of the Terms above.