Terms, privacy and licences

Terms of use

Eligibility and acceptable use

The service is intended for people aged 15 and over. You agree not to use it to harass, threaten, defame or identify any real person; to upload or publish unlawful material; to attack, scrape or overload the service; or to misrepresent a simulated life as a factual account of a real person.

Fictional simulation

Every life, family, place, name and event shown in the simulation is fictional or a composite. Statistical figures are rounded approximations used for play, not predictions about any individual. Historical references are context, not a claim that a real person experienced a particular event.

Accounts

Accounts are optional. You are responsible for keeping your password secure and for activity under your account. You may delete your account and synced archive from the account panel. We may suspend accounts that abuse the service or violate these terms.

Availability and changes

The service is provided “as is” and may change, be interrupted or be discontinued. To the maximum extent permitted by law, OneSeedLife is not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from use of the service. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded.

Intellectual property

The simulation code, original prose, interface, pixel artwork and generated share cards are original to OneSeedLife. Third-party software, fonts, icons and data remain under their respective licences; see the notices below. You may not copy or republish substantial parts of the site as your own work.

Privacy

What is stored locally

Guest play stores your profile, archive, preferences and achievements in your browser. You can clear this from the archive or account panel. Local data is not a cloud backup.

What is stored on the server if you create an account

An account stores your email address, a password hash, display name, synced profile and archive, and basic security records such as session hashes and rate-limit counters. Passwords are hashed; we do not store plaintext passwords. We use truncated, keyed IP hashes for abuse prevention, not for advertising.

AI requests

AI mode sends the current scene, the selected action, age, country, year, character statistics and a short continuity context to the site’s AI service. Account email and password are not sent. AI responses are used to render the requested scene text and are not sold.

Analytics and cookies

Core play works without advertising or third-party tracking. Optional analytics are loaded only after you opt in. Essential cookies may be used for account sessions and security. You can withdraw analytics consent from the footer.

Retention and deletion

Local data remains until you clear it. Synced archives remain until you delete the corresponding lives or your account. Security logs and rate-limit data are kept only as long as needed for abuse prevention. Contact info@oneseedlife.com for a privacy request.

AI disclaimer

AI-generated text is fictional and may be inaccurate, incomplete, biased or unexpected. It is not a statement of fact and is not professional advice. The deterministic simulation engine remains responsible for the life path and its statistical effects; AI text can be replaced with the authored fallback if the AI service is unavailable.

Do not rely on an AI-generated outcome for medical, legal, financial, safety or relationship decisions. If a generated passage concerns you, use the feedback link or contact us with the page URL.

AI output is checked for unsafe content such as hate, harassment, sexual content, self-harm or violence instructions, graphic detail, personal data, political persuasion and professional advice. Rejected output is not displayed; the authored game outcome or a safe fallback is used instead. Moderation reduces risk but cannot guarantee that every generated sentence is accurate or appropriate.

Public community archive

Cloud accounts may opt in to showing completed lives in the public community archive. The archive shows the display name, character name, place, summary and life statistics; it does not show email addresses or private profile data. By keeping the public-archive setting on, you allow OneSeedLife to display those completed fictional records and to remove them on request.

You can turn the setting off in the account panel and sync again. Guest-only lives are never published to the community archive. Reported or unlawful content may be hidden while reviewed.

Copyright and takedown

If you believe content on this site infringes your copyright, email info@oneseedlife.com with:

• the exact URL and a description of the material;
• the work you say is infringed and your ownership basis;
• your contact details and a good-faith statement; and
• a statement that the information is accurate.

We will review the notice, may remove or disable the identified material while reviewing, and will respond to the reporting party. Knowingly submitting a false or abusive notice may have legal consequences. Account holders who repeatedly publish infringing material may lose access.

Licences and attribution

OneSeedLife is an original work. Its simulation code, event prose, names, pixel art and interface artwork were written or generated for this project. No source code, prose, images, fonts or other assets were copied from 1in8b.life or any other site.

Data sources

World Bank World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0); UN World Population Prospects 2022 (CC BY 3.0 IGO); Natural Earth 1:110m land (public domain); Unicode CLDR country display names (Unicode License); NOAA Fisheries and CDC (public domain); IPCC AR6 (CC BY 4.0); Our World in Data births and deaths (CC BY 4.0). Only rounded factual baselines are used; no article prose or dataset tables are reproduced.

This page summarises the terms and licences; the linked notices contain the authoritative attribution and terms. The project contains no CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA or unlicensed media assets. This page is not legal advice; an operator should obtain jurisdiction-specific advice before commercial launch.