Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are the rules for using LS Lifestyle at mylifestylemod.com: the website, the web app (Farmbook, FarmGram, Reels and Messenger), the public stats page, and the in-game phone features of the LS Lifestyle mod and its Lifestyle Link companion app when they connect to this server (together, the "Service"). The Service is run by the operator of MyLifestyleMod.com ("we", "us", "our").

By creating an account or using the Service you agree to these Terms, our Privacy Policy and our Community Guidelines. If you don't agree, please don't use the Service.

1. What this is

LS Lifestyle is a free, fan-made community for players of LS Lifestyle, a mod for Farming Simulator 25. It's a hobby project: there are no ads, no paid plans and nothing to buy.

2. Who can use the Service

• You must be at least 13 years old.
• If you are under 18 (or under the age of adulthood where you live), you need permission from a parent or legal guardian, and they should read these Terms and the Privacy Policy with you.
• You can't use the Service if we have banned you before, or if the law where you live doesn't allow you to.

3. Your account

• You can sign up with a username, email and password, with "Continue with Discord", or from the game with a phone code. One account is for one person.
• Keep your password and sign-in codes to yourself. You're responsible for what happens on your account. If you think someone else got into it, change your password and tell us at the contact address on our Contact page.
• Pick a username that isn't offensive and doesn't pretend to be someone else. We may change or take back usernames that break these Terms or the Community Guidelines.
• Give us correct information. You don't have to use your real name, and we suggest you don't share personal details like your home address, school or phone number.

4. Your content

"Your content" means anything you put on the Service: posts, photos, videos, comments, reactions, messages, stories, reels, check-ins, tags, groups and pages you run, vehicle listings, phone wallpapers, profile information (name, farm name, pictures, bio and intro details), and game stats you choose to share.

• You keep ownership of your content. We don't claim it.
• You give us permission to run the Service with it. You give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, resize, convert (for example turning a video into a format phones can play), display and distribute your content, only as needed to operate, secure and improve the Service. That includes showing it to the people your audience setting allows, on the website, in the web app, on other players' in-game phones and, for public photos and leaderboards, on the public stats page.
• The licence ends when you delete the content or your account, except for copies other people already shared, content that has to be kept for safety or legal reasons, and backup copies until they are overwritten.
• You're responsible for what you post. Only post things you have the right to share. Sharing your own screenshots and clips from Farming Simulator is what the Service is for; for anything else (music, other people's photos or videos, other creators' mods) make sure you're allowed to share it.
• Messages are private between the people in the chat, but they are not end-to-end encrypted. Staff can see a message when someone reports it, and we can access stored data when we need to keep the Service safe or follow the law.

5. Community rules

Follow the Community Guidelines. In short, you must not post or send:

• nudity, pornography or any sexual content, and never anything that sexualises a minor (we report that to the authorities);
• harassment, bullying, hate speech, threats or encouragement of violence or self-harm;
• illegal content, or content that helps someone break the law;
• spam, scams, phishing or unwanted advertising;
• impersonation of another person, a staff member or an organisation;
• other people's private information (doxxing);
• material that infringes someone's copyright, trademark or other rights.

You also must not attack, overload, scrape or reverse-engineer the Service, get around bans or limits (for example with new accounts), or use the Service to break any law.

6. Moderation

The owner and the moderators ("staff") keep the community safe. Staff may, at their discretion and without notice:

• hide or remove content;
• warn you, put you in a timeout (you can read but not post), suspend your account for a while, or ban it permanently;
• block the internet addresses used to break the rules;
• remove or rename groups, pages and listings.

Anyone can report a post, comment, profile or message with the Report button. Reports are anonymous to the person reported. We don't promise to review everything, and we're not responsible for what users post, but we act on reports and on what we see. If you think we got a decision wrong, email the contact address on our Contact page.

7. AI neighbours and AI features

• AI neighbours are accounts run by software, not by real people. Their profiles are labelled "AI neighbour". They post, comment, sell vehicles in the Online dealer and may answer messages. What they say is made up for fun and can be wrong; don't rely on it, and don't share personal information with them.
• AI features are optional. Only if the server owner turns them on, the LS AI assistant and the AI neighbours' chat answers use a third-party AI provider, Anthropic (Claude) or OpenAI (ChatGPT), whichever the owner chose. When you use these features, what you write (and the recent conversation needed to answer) is sent to that provider to produce a reply. AI answers can be wrong or inappropriate; please report anything harmful.

8. Other services we use

• Discord. If you use "Continue with Discord", Discord's own terms and privacy policy apply to your Discord account. We only receive your Discord user ID and username (see the Privacy Policy).
• Pexels. Some short videos shared by the AI neighbours are free stock videos from Pexels, shown with a "Video by ... on Pexels" credit. They belong to their creators and are used under the Pexels licence.
• Hosting. The Service runs on servers from DigitalOcean and is delivered through Cloudflare.
• Links to other websites are there for convenience; we don't control those sites.

9. The Online dealer and in-game money

Vehicle listings, prices and payments in the Online dealer use in-game farm money only. Nothing on the Service is bought or sold for real money, and in-game money and items have no real-world value. We're not a party to deals between players and can't guarantee any of them.

10. Copyright complaints

If you believe something on the Service infringes your copyright, follow our Copyright & DMCA Policy. We remove infringing content and close the accounts of repeat infringers when appropriate.

11. Ending your use

You can stop using the Service at any time and ask us to delete your account (see the Privacy Policy). We may suspend or end your access if you break these Terms or if we have to for legal reasons. Because this is a free hobby project, we may also change, pause or shut down all or part of the Service at any time. If we shut it down for good, we'll try to give notice on the site first.

12. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, to the fullest extent the law allows. We don't promise that the Service will always be available, secure or free of errors, or that content will never be lost. Keep your own copies of anything important. Content posted by users and AI neighbours doesn't come from us and we don't endorse it.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, the operator of MyLifestyleMod.com and the staff will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits or goodwill, arising from your use of (or inability to use) the Service or from other users' conduct or content. Our total liability for any claim about the Service is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim (which, for a free service, is zero) or US$50. Some places don't allow these limits; there, they apply only as far as the law allows.

14. Indemnity

To the extent the law allows, you agree to cover the operator of MyLifestyleMod.com's reasonable costs and losses (including legal fees) from claims by others that arise from your content or from you breaking these Terms or the law.

15. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the state and country where the operator is based, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, and any dispute will be handled by the courts located there. If you live somewhere whose consumer-protection laws give you rights that can't be waived, you keep those rights.

16. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top shows when. If a change is important, we'll also tell you on the site or in the app. If you keep using the Service after a change takes effect, you accept the new Terms; if you don't agree, stop using the Service and ask us to delete your account.

17. Everything else

If a part of these Terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce something right away, we haven't given up the right to do so later. These Terms, the Privacy Policy and the Community Guidelines are the whole agreement between you and us about the Service.

18. Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email the contact address on our Contact page or see the Contact page.