Agora terms of service

Effective: November 13, 2026

These terms are an agreement between you and Daedalus Data Labs, LLC, which operates Agora. They cover the Agora website and the Agora app. In these terms, "Agora" means the service, and "we", "us" and "our" mean Daedalus Data Labs, LLC. By creating or keeping an account you agree to these terms; if you do not agree, do not use Agora.

1. Who offers Agora

Agora is offered by Daedalus Data Labs, LLC, a California limited liability company, which develops and operates it. Agora is not affiliated with any university, and says so wherever a campus's name and colors appear on its signed-out pages: University names, colors and marks are the property of their respective institutions. Agora is an independent service and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any university shown here. Universities are not parties to these terms and are not responsible for Agora. Campus moderators and admins are members of their campus; they are not appointed by any university and do not act for one.

2. Who may join, and your account

You agree to these terms, and to the community guidelines at /guidelines, which are part of them, by ticking the box at signup or on the page that asks a member who joined earlier to agree. We keep a record of when you agreed and to which version.

Agora is for adults. You may use Agora only if you are 18 or older and able to make a binding contract where you live, and by creating an account you confirm that this is true. Agora is not for anyone under 18 and is not directed to children. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we close it. If you believe someone under 18 has an account, write to hello@agoraoncampus.com.

You may join if you hold an email address on the domain of a campus Agora lists, and you prove it by entering a code sent to that address; that is what places your account on a campus. Addresses under a listed domain, such as a department's subdomain, count. Only the part of your address after the @ is looked up, and addresses at consumer webmail and disposable providers are refused. One email address holds one account, and one person holds one account. Agora is offered only in the United States, and only to people at the campuses it lists. We may refuse an account, and we may decline to offer Agora in any state or at any campus.

You are responsible for your account, and for keeping your password and your recovery codes to yourself. Agora offers two-factor sign-in, and we recommend it. You may not let another person use your account. Tell us at hello@agoraoncampus.com promptly if you think someone else has used your account. You can see every open session on your account page and end any of them.

3. The campus boundary

Agora is designed so that what you post, your profile, your groups, your events, your searches and your messages are shown only to members of your campus. No system is perfect, and we do not promise that this design cannot fail. Pictures are different: a picture you upload has its own web address, and anyone who has that address can open the picture, including a person outside your campus. Do not upload a picture you would not want seen outside your campus.

4. Your content

You are responsible for what you post, comment, message and put on a group or organization page. Accounts are tied to a university email address. Names, affiliations and profile details are what members entered themselves, and we do not check them. Any member can report a post, a comment, a member, a group, an event or a message to the moderators and admins of the same campus.

You keep ownership of what you post. You give Daedalus Data Labs, LLC a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to host, store, copy, reformat, display and distribute your content in order to operate, protect and improve Agora. That includes showing it to the members who may see it, moderating it, backing it up, and following the law. We may pass this license to the companies that host and deliver Agora for us, only for that work. To the extent the law allows, you will not assert moral rights against these uses. The license ends when you delete the content or your account, except for content that section 15 says stays, copies other members already received, backup copies for a limited time, and anything the law requires us to keep. You confirm that you have the rights needed to post what you post and to give this license.

What members post is theirs alone and is not a statement by Daedalus Data Labs, LLC. If you send us an idea or suggestion about Agora, we may use it freely and owe you nothing for it.

Copyright. If you believe something on Agora infringes your copyright, write to hello@agoraoncampus.com with: what the work is, where the material is on Agora, your contact details, and a statement that you own the copyright or act for its owner. We review these complaints and may remove the material, and we close, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of members who infringe repeatedly. The same material can also be reported to the campus's moderators.

5. Conduct, reports and moderation

Objectionable content and abusive behavior are not allowed on Agora. Every member can report content and block another member. We and the campus moderators may remove content, limit features, or suspend or close an account, at any time, with or without notice, where we believe these terms or the community guidelines were broken or that members or Agora are at risk. We have the right to do these things but not the duty. We do not review content before it is posted and cannot review everything after, and a decision to act or not to act in one case does not bind us in another.

A report goes to the moderators and admins of your campus, who can remove content and restore it, warn a member, suspend a member and reinstate them, or dismiss the report, and an urgent one also reaches Agora's own staff. We do not tell the person you report who reported them, unless the law requires it, and we try to tell you what came of your report. Moderation actions are logged. We send notice of an action taken on your account to your email address. A suspension ends every session on your account.

You may not use Agora to break the law; to threaten, stalk or harass anyone; to sexualize a child in any form; to offer or seek commercial sex or to exploit any person; to sell or give out illegal drugs; to post another person's private information, or an intimate image of another person, without that person's consent; to infringe anyone's rights; to send spam or run a scheme for money; or to pretend to be another person, an office or an organization. You may not copy Agora's content in bulk by script or scraper, or use it to train software; collect other members' information; run an account by automation; upload malware; try to reach another campus's content or get around the campus boundary; test Agora's security except as its vulnerability disclosure policy allows; use another person's account; open an account while suspended; or help anyone do any of these things.

A suspension can be appealed once, from the suspended page. The appeal is read by someone other than the person who made the suspension, and the decision on an appeal is final. Moderation decisions are made by people and can be mistaken; the appeal is how a mistake is corrected. You agree that a suspension may be shown on your profile, with its category and its end date.

We report apparent child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, as the law requires. We may report other suspected crimes, and give information, to law enforcement where we believe in good faith that the law requires or allows it; the privacy policy says when the content of messages is given.

6. Reports the law gives you a way to make

Intimate images shared without consent. If an intimate picture or video of you, real or made to look real, has been posted or sent on Agora without your consent, you can ask us to remove it, and a person you authorize can ask for you. You do not need an account. Write to hello@agoraoncampus.com, or use Report on it. Include your signature, for which typing your full name is enough; where it is, with enough detail for us to find it; a statement that you believe in good faith that it shows you and was shared without your consent; and how we can reach you. We remove it, and the identical copies of it that we can find, as soon as we can and within 48 hours of a valid request, and we tell you when it is done.

Material that sexualizes you as a minor. If material on Agora sexualizes you as a minor, report it with Report, choosing the reason about the sexual exploitation of a child, or write to hello@agoraoncampus.com. Give us an email address or a phone number that is not your Agora account. We confirm in writing within 36 hours that we have your report, write to you with where it stands every 7 days, and give you our decision in writing within 30 days. Material we find to be child sexual abuse material is removed for good and reported as section 5 says.

Threats of violence. To report a post or message that threatens violence, use Report and choose the reason about violence; a person without an account can write to hello@agoraoncampus.com. If someone is in danger now, call 911.

Illegal drugs. Agora may not be used to sell or give out illegal drugs. Report it with Report on the post or message; reports go to your campus's moderators, who can remove the content and suspend the account. We keep the words of what is removed for this reason, and the username that posted it, for at least 90 days. How we answer the police and courts, and when we give information without being asked, is in section 5 of the privacy policy and on the page "Who can see your messages"; how long we keep what you write is in section 7 of the privacy policy. For help with substance use, call or text 988, or call the national helpline at 1-800-662-4357.

7. Groups and student organizations

Agora is not the registrar of anything. The registering panel a group shows its members before an organization is confirmed says: Agora is not the registrar. Registration is made with your university, inside its own application windows, and official status is the university’s to grant. A board may say that its organization is registered with the university and may give the listing it is registered under, as a link or a name, and that statement is shown as the board's own word. A "Registered" badge appears only after a campus admin on Agora has confirmed it from the admin console, and the page then says it was confirmed by a campus admin; the confirmation records that admin's word, not the registrar's. A campus admin who sits on a board, holds an invitation to it or runs its group cannot confirm it. Nothing on Agora is a university's own word about an organization, because nothing in the application writes such a record.

The formation rules a campus admin can set for a campus are a checklist the page shows a group, not an enforcement; the defaults for Indiana University Bloomington are the operator's reading of that campus's requirements and are shown as Agora's defaults, nothing more. Indiana University's own policy on student organizations says a self-governed organization is separate from the university and may name its association with it only in a locational sense; that is the campus's rule, and Agora does not enforce it. Nothing on an organization's Agora page satisfies any duty an organization has to its own university, including any duty to state its independence from it.

A "Registered" badge records what a campus admin on Agora confirmed. It is not a statement by any university, and you should not rely on it as proof of an organization's status.

8. Universities

Universities are not parties to these terms. Their names, colors and marks are their own property, shown here under the notice in section 1. A campus may, at our choice, be taken off Agora's public directory, count and map at its university's request, by one setting that leaves its members' accounts, sign-ins and content untouched.

9. Charges and advertising

There is no charge today, and who pays is undecided. If that changes, you will be told first, with notice, and these terms will change with it. Nothing here promises that the service will stay free. Agora may show advertising or sponsored content in the future, and we will update these terms and the privacy policy before it does.

10. Availability

We do not promise that Agora will be available at any time. It may be slow, interrupted or unavailable, and problems may take time to fix. Agora is new: features may change or be removed, and content may be lost, so keep your own copy of anything you need. We may suspend or close an account, or stop offering Agora in whole or in part, at any time, with or without notice, to the extent the law allows. You may stop at any time by deleting your account.

11. No warranties

AGORA IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". TO THE EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, DAEDALUS DATA LABS, LLC MAKES NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT PROMISE THAT AGORA WILL BE AVAILABLE, UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE OR FREE OF ERRORS, THAT YOUR CONTENT WILL NOT BE LOST, THAT ANY MEMBER IS WHO THEY SAY THEY ARE, OR THAT ANYTHING A MEMBER POSTS IS ACCURATE OR LAWFUL. DESCRIPTIONS OF HOW AGORA WORKS, IN THESE TERMS, IN THE COMMUNITY GUIDELINES OR ON ANY OTHER PAGE, DESCRIBE ITS DESIGN AND ARE NOT WARRANTIES.

12. Limits on liability

TO THE EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, DAEDALUS DATA LABS, LLC AND ITS OWNERS, STAFF AND VOLUNTEER MODERATORS ARE NOT LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST DATA, LOST PROFITS OR LOST OPPORTUNITY, OR FOR WHAT ANOTHER MEMBER OR ANY OTHER PERSON POSTS, SENDS OR DOES, ON AGORA OR OFF IT. TO THE EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS, OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ABOUT AGORA IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF $100 OR WHAT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM AROSE. THESE LIMITS APPLY TO EVERY KIND OF CLAIM, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR ANYTHING ELSE. THEY DO NOT APPLY TO LIABILITY THAT THE LAW DOES NOT ALLOW TO BE LIMITED, INCLUDING LIABILITY FOR FRAUD, WILLFUL INJURY, GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR A VIOLATION OF LAW. Agora is free, and these limits are part of the basis on which we offer it.

13. Other members

You alone are responsible for your dealings with other members, online and in person, including meetings, events, sales and exchanges. We do not screen members, check what they say about themselves, or supervise events. What members post is not legal, medical, financial or academic advice, and Agora is not an emergency service. To the extent the law allows, you release Daedalus Data Labs, LLC, its owners, staff and volunteer moderators from claims and damages that arise from a dispute between you and another member or any other person. You waive California Civil Code section 1542, which says: "A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party." This release does not cover our own fraud, willful injury or violation of law.

14. Reimbursement

To the extent the law allows, you will reimburse Daedalus Data Labs, LLC for reasonable losses and costs, including reasonable lawyers' fees, that come from a claim by someone else caused by your content, your breach of these terms, or your breaking the law. This does not cover a claim to the extent our own conduct caused it. We will tell you promptly of the claim; we may run the defense, and you will help where reasonably asked.

15. Deleting your account, and what stays

You can delete your account from your settings. It is hidden at once, every session is ended, and your profile is no longer shown; signing in within thirty days cancels the deletion. About thirty days after you ask, the account is erased: your address, name, profile, photos, connections and settings are deleted, and what you wrote, your reports and appeals, and the moderation record about you stay, shown as written by "Former member"; section 7 of the privacy policy lists both, and says what may be kept longer. You can download your data from your account settings.

16. If you use the iPhone app

This section applies if you got the Agora app from Apple's App Store, and adds to the rest of these terms. The app is the Agora site opened inside an app, and it is licensed to you under Apple's standard license for App Store apps; these terms govern the service you reach through it. These terms are between you and Daedalus Data Labs, LLC only, and not Apple. We, and not Apple, are responsible for the app and its content, for supporting it, and for any claim about it or your use of it, including a product liability claim, a claim that it does not meet a legal requirement, a claim under consumer protection or privacy law, and a claim that it infringes someone's intellectual property rights. Apple has no duty to maintain or support the app and, to the extent the law allows, has no warranty duty for it. You confirm that you are not in a country under a United States Government embargo or named by it as a terrorist-supporting country, and that you are not on a United States Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. You must follow any other terms that apply when you use the app, such as those of your mobile data plan. Questions, complaints and claims about the app go to us at hello@agoraoncampus.com. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms, and may enforce them against you.

17. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. When they change, the effective date at the top changes. For a material change, we email you and show a notice on Agora at least 30 days before it takes effect, and we ask you to agree again before you go on; if you do not agree, you can delete your account before the change applies to you. A change needed sooner to follow the law or to protect members may take effect when we post it. A change does not apply to a dispute that either of us gave the other written notice of before the change.

18. Law and disputes

California law governs these terms and any dispute about your use of Agora, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. If the law where you live gives you protections that cannot be waived, you keep them. Before either of us files a claim, the one with the complaint will send the other a written notice describing it, to us at hello@agoraoncampus.com and to you at the email address on your account, and we will both try for 30 days to settle it; any filing deadline is paused for those 30 days. A dispute about your use of Agora that is not settled will be brought only in the state or federal courts located in Orange County, California, and you and Daedalus Data Labs, LLC consent to those courts, except that either of us may instead bring an individual claim in small claims court in the county where you live. To the extent the law allows, a claim about your use of Agora must be filed within one year after the person bringing it knew, or should have known, of the facts behind it; this does not shorten a deadline that the law does not allow to be shortened. To the extent the law allows, you and Daedalus Data Labs, LLC will each bring claims only on our own behalf and not as part of a class. Nothing in these terms waives a right to seek public injunctive relief, or a right to a jury trial.

19. General terms

Notices. You agree that we may send you notices about your account and these terms by email to the address on your account or by a notice on Agora, and that these count as written notice; keep your email address current. Send notices to us at hello@agoraoncampus.com.

The whole agreement. These terms, the community guidelines and the pages they link to are the whole agreement between you and Daedalus Data Labs, LLC about Agora. The privacy policy explains how we handle information; it is a notice, and not a contract. If a court finds that a part of these terms cannot be enforced, that part is limited as little as needed and the rest still applies. If we do not enforce a part of these terms, we have not given it up. We may transfer these terms to a company that takes over Agora; you may not transfer your account or these terms. These terms do not make you our employee, agent or representative, and campus moderators are volunteers and not our employees. Neither of us is responsible for a failure caused by events beyond reasonable control, including outages at the companies that host Agora. Agora may contain links to other sites, which we do not control and are not responsible for. You may not use Agora where United States law forbids it. Headings are for convenience only. The sections on your license, copyright, no warranties, limits on liability, other members, reimbursement, and law and disputes continue after your account ends.