SimulacronBeta
  • Version 0.3
  • 27 September 2026

Pilot v0.3, 27 September 2026: in force for the pilot; it may change after legal review, and we will ask you to accept material changes.

Simulacron terms of use

Version 0.3 (pilot), 27 September 2026.

1. About these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and Simulacron ("we", "us"). They apply to the Simulacron app and websites: simulacron.world, account.simulacron.world and each place's own site.

By selecting "I agree" in the app, you accept these terms and the contribution agreement, which is part of them. The economic rights in your contributions pass to us (section 7). We record which version you accepted and when. The privacy notice explains how we handle personal data. If you don't agree, don't use the service.

These terms are available in English and Lithuanian. If the versions differ, the Lithuanian version prevails.

2. The service

Simulacron lets the people who work at a place build a photo-real 3D model of it and walk around it online. You capture photos and 360° media of accessible spaces with the app. We check them, build 3D models and show them to the place's members in the browser. Presence, chat and voice may follow later; they will be opt-in.

Each place (a "tenant") has its own world, rules and member profiles. The first place is Cyber City, an office campus in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Simulacron is currently a non-commercial project, and the service is free.

3. Who may use it

You may use the service only if:

  • you are 18 or older; and
  • a place's access rules let you in: usually a work e-mail address on the place's list of allowed domains, or an invitation.

The service is for people who work at or are invited to a place. It isn't for the general public.

4. Your account

  • You sign in with Google, once for the whole platform. Your platform account is used only for signing in. Each place keeps its own member profile and data for you.
  • Keep your Google account secure, and don't let anyone else use your access. You're responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us straight away if you suspect misuse.
  • Your access to a place may end when you no longer meet its access rules, for example when your work e-mail stops working after you leave your job (see section 11).

5. Admins and moderators

The organisation that runs a place may appoint admins and moderators. They decide who can join, review content warnings and reports, see original photos and who uploaded them, and can blur, hide or exclude content and restrict members. They may use this access only to run the place, and their actions are recorded in an audit log.

Our platform admins manage places and sign-in rules. They have no access to a place's data, except time-limited, audited "break-glass" support access.

6. Acceptable use

You must:

  1. Capture only accessible spaces: places you're allowed to enter. Don't enter or capture locked or restricted spaces. Follow the place's rules and the instructions of its staff and security.
  2. Never photograph people, including reflections. If someone comes into view, wait or turn away.
  3. Not bypass the safety checks. Don't disable, trick or work around person detection, live capture, sensor checks or upload limits, and don't upload images that weren't taken live in the app.
  4. Upload only photos you took yourself, never someone else's.
  5. Not upload confidential material you aren't allowed to share, such as screens, documents or whiteboards. Resolve content warnings honestly; when in doubt, blur or delete.
  6. Not abuse the service or other people: no harassment, hate, threats, offensive content, spam, or false or abusive reports.
  7. Not scrape or copy the world: no bulk downloading, automated access or model extraction, and no sharing of views, screenshots or recordings outside the place's members unless the place allows it. Content shown to you may carry an invisible watermark linked to your account.
  8. Not use the service against a place's security, for example to plan unauthorised access.
  9. Respect report and moderation outcomes. If you disagree with one, contact the place's admins or us.

Stay safe while capturing: watch your step, keep away from edges and railings, and never capture while driving.

7. Your contributions

The economic rights in your contributions pass to us. Each upload transfers them to us under the contribution agreement (or, where a transfer isn't valid, grants us an exclusive licence). Your moral rights stay with you, and credit is your choice. Contributions stay when you leave or delete your account; only your identity is removed. You also let us use the other things you submit (reports, notes, chat messages) to run and moderate the service.

8. Moderation, reports and removals

We and the place's moderators combine automated tools with human review:

  • Automated tools: person detection on your phone and again on our servers; detectors that flag screens, whiteboards, signs, text and licence plates for your review; and abuse signals, such as a trust score based on whether your photos fit into the 3D model.
  • Human review: admins and moderators review flags, reports and uploaders' decisions, and can override them.

Reports. Any member can report something in the 3D world with the Report button. A single report goes to the moderators and changes nothing for others; sensitive categories alert them at once. If three or more different people report the same spot within 14 days (a place can change these numbers), it's blurred for everyone until a moderator decides. Moderators can blur anything at any time. Anyone, including non-members, can also contact us about content (section 14).

Outcomes. Moderators may blur a region, remove it from a model, exclude source photos, or reject a report. They may also hold back uploads while they look into suspected abuse (sometimes without telling you straight away), and restrict, suspend or block an account. People who report are told the outcome. Everything is audited.

Your own contributions. Deleting one is a request (contribution agreement, section 7): sensitive content is hidden at once; otherwise an admin decides and may keep it.

9. Availability

We provide the service "as is" and "as available", as a non-commercial project. We don't promise that it will always be available, error-free or complete. 3D worlds are approximate: don't rely on them for safety, navigation or evacuation, or as a survey. We may change, pause or stop features, places or the whole service. Where we can, we'll give reasonable notice before closing a place or the service.

10. Liability

As far as the law allows:

  • we're not liable for indirect or consequential losses, lost data, or content provided by other users;
  • our total liability to you is limited to EUR 100.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law doesn't allow us to limit, including for intentional acts, gross negligence, or harm to life or health. If you use the service as a consumer, you keep all your mandatory rights under consumer law.

You're responsible for your own conduct and contributions. If you breach these terms and someone makes a claim against us as a result, you're liable to the extent the law provides.

11. Suspension and ending

  • You can stop using the service at any time. To delete your account, use Settings → Privacy & data → Delete account, or contact us. We then remove your identity (your profile is pseudonymised or anonymised and your link to your contributions is cut), and your contributions stay. The same happens if you lose access to a place, for example when you leave your job.
  • We may suspend or end your access if you breach these terms, for security or legal reasons, if the place's organisation withdraws your access, or if a place or the service closes. Unless the law or an investigation prevents it, we'll tell you why and how to ask for a review.
  • The contribution agreement and sections 10 and 13 continue after your access ends.

12. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example when features or the law change. We'll show changes in the app and give reasonable notice (normally 14 days) before material changes take effect, unless a change is urgent for security or legal reasons. For material changes we'll ask you to accept the new version. If you don't, you can stop using the service and delete your account.

13. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by the law of the Republic of Lithuania, and disputes go to the courts of Lithuania. If you're a consumer, you also keep the protection of the mandatory law of the country where you live, and you can go to its courts. If consumer law applies, you may also contact the State Consumer Rights Protection Authority (VVTAT).

14. Contact

  • Operator: Simulacron
  • E-mail: privacy@simulacron.world
  • Version 0.4
  • 28 September 2026

Pilot v0.4, 28 September 2026: in force for the pilot; it may change after legal review, and we will ask you to accept material changes.

Simulacron contribution agreement

Version 0.4 (pilot), 28 September 2026.

This agreement is part of the Simulacron terms of use, between you and Simulacron ("we", "us"). In short: the economic rights in the photos and 360° media you contribute pass to us, and your contributions stay in the world even if you leave. You keep your moral rights, and your identity can always be removed. We remind you of this when you sign up and on the capture screen.

1. What it covers

Every photo, 360° image or video and other capture you upload to Simulacron (your "contributions"), including their metadata and the copies made from them.

2. You transfer your economic rights

Each time you upload a contribution, you transfer (assign) to us all your economic rights (property rights) in it: worldwide, for their full term and free of charge. They include the rights to reproduce the contribution, adapt and otherwise transform it, distribute it, display it publicly and make it available to the public, including online, in any form and by any means.

We grant you a free, non-exclusive licence to use your own contributions for personal, non-commercial purposes, as far as the place's rules allow.

3. Fallback: an exclusive licence

If, or to the extent that, a transfer isn't possible or valid, you instead grant us an exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual (for the full term of the rights), irrevocable and sublicensable licence with the same scope as section 2.

4. How we use contributions

As the rights holder, we may use contributions for any purpose. In particular, we:

  • store, archive and back them up;
  • process them: quality checks, person detection, content warnings, and matching and positioning in the 3D model;
  • create derivative works: 3D models, blurred copies, thumbnails, textures, tiles, floor maps and views from new angles;
  • show them, and works made from them, to the authorised members of the place;
  • use them for safety, moderation, security, traceability and legal claims;
  • may license them to the organisation that runs the place (the "tenant operator") for operating its world, and to service providers working for us.

Simulacron is non-commercial today. Because the rights pass to us, this also covers any future version of the service, commercial or not. You receive no payment for your contributions.

5. Your moral rights: credit and integrity

Under the Lithuanian Law on Copyright and Related Rights, an author's moral rights (personal non-property rights) always stay with the author and can't be transferred. They include:

  • the right to be recognised as the author;
  • the right to decide whether your work is used under your name, a pseudonym or anonymously;
  • the right to object to distortion or other changes to your work that could harm your honour or reputation.

This agreement doesn't take these rights away. It explains how we respect them in a service that merges thousands of photos.

Credit is optional.

  • You choose how you're credited: by your display name, by a pseudonym, or not at all. You can change this in the app at any time; the change applies from then on.
  • A 3D model blends many people's photos, so we can't name you on each part of it. We credit contributors where it's practical, such as in contributor lists for an area or model version, and on your profile. You agree that this is a fair way to credit you.
  • Once your identity is removed (section 8), your contributions are used anonymously. You agree to this.

Integrity. Building a 3D world needs technical processing: resizing, compression, colour and exposure correction, cropping, masking special surfaces such as glass and mirrors, blurring for privacy or confidentiality, removing parts during moderation, merging with other photos into 3D models, splitting into tiles and showing from new angles. You consent to this processing and accept that it is how the service works, not a distortion of your work. We won't use your contributions in a context that disparages you. If you think a use harms your honour or reputation, tell us and we'll review it.

6. Your promises

For each contribution, you promise that:

  1. you took it yourself (photos: live in the app);
  2. it shows no people, and you didn't try to capture anyone or get round the person checks. In 360° video, where passers-by can't always be avoided, you avoided people as far as you reasonably could; frames with people are removed during processing;
  3. you were allowed to be in the space and to capture it, and it wasn't locked or restricted;
  4. it contains no confidential material that you aren't allowed to share, and you'll respond to content warnings honestly;
  5. the rights are yours to transfer: for example, you didn't take it as part of your job for an employer who holds the rights.

If a promise turns out to be wrong, delete the contribution or tell us. We may blur, hide or exclude any contribution, whether or not a promise was broken.

7. Discarding and asking to remove a contribution

Before we process it, a photo is still yours to discard. Discard it in the app and it goes to a recycle bin: it's hidden and never used, you can restore it for 30 days, and then we erase it completely, including the original.

Once it has been processed into the world, the rights in it are ours, so deleting it in the app (Delete or Request removal in My photos) is a request:

  • Sensitive content. If you give "sensitive content" as the reason, the contribution is hidden straight away. If it's in a published model, the zone goes back to an earlier version without it, or the region is masked, until an admin decides.
  • Other reasons. An admin reviews your request and its impact on the world, and decides whether to remove the contribution, use a blurred copy or keep it. We'll tell you the decision.
  • Originals of processed contributions stay in a restricted archive. They're used only for traceability, safety, moderation and legal claims.

Anyone can also report content in the 3D world (terms of use, section 8). Data protection rights are separate: if a contribution shows personal information about you or someone else, see the privacy notice.

8. If you leave or delete your account

Your contributions stay, and your identity is removed from them. This happens when you delete your account, ask for erasure, or lose access to the place (for example, when you leave your job):

  • your member profile is pseudonymised or anonymised;
  • the link between you and your contributions is cut, and your credit is removed;
  • personal metadata (IP address, device details and anything else that identifies you) is stripped from the working copies;
  • archived originals are linked only to a pseudonym.

9. Other terms

  • We don't have to use any contribution.
  • This agreement doesn't limit your rights under data protection law (see the privacy notice).
  • It continues after your account ends and, like the terms of use, is governed by Lithuanian law.
  • Questions: privacy@simulacron.world.