Last Updated: May 19, 2026
Welcome to IMDifferent. By accessing our platform, you agree to these Terms of Service. Our explicit goal is to provide a uniquely unbiased, cryptographically-secured voting ecosystem for the global community.
We offer an optional Universal Developer Tipping module globally supported by crypto blockchains (ETH, SOL, Tron). Any on-chain tips executed are final and considered non-refundable volunteer transactions structurally supporting the platform's independent operations.
IMDifferent is engineered for unbiased, anonymous voting. We use technical defenses — Turnstile proof-of-work, Human Passport scoring, Coinbase identity attestation, and World ID humanness verification — to make automated manipulation difficult. You are expected to interact with polls honestly. Our protection against manipulation is technical, not punitive; we do not commit to any specific enforcement action.
You retain ownership of polls you create. By posting a poll, you grant IMDifferent a worldwide, royalty-free license to display, distribute, translate, cache, and embed it as part of operating the platform. You also acknowledge that votes cast on your poll generate cryptographic commitments that are anchored to the Base blockchain and cannot be removed — see Section 8 for details.
IMDifferent is a community-operated platform provided to you free of charge, on an "as-is" and "as-available" basis. We make no warranties of any kind — express, implied, or statutory — about the platform's accuracy, reliability, completeness, fitness for any particular purpose, or freedom from defects, interruption, or security failure. Your use of the platform is entirely at your own risk.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, IMDifferent, its operators, and contributors are not liable to you or any third party for any damages — direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive — arising from: the content of polls posted by users; the outcome of any vote; any decision you make in reliance on platform information; service interruption, data loss, or security incidents; the conduct of other users; or any failure of third-party services we depend on. Where local law forbids such limitation, our liability is limited to the maximum extent that law allows.
You are solely responsible for the content of any poll you create and for any consequences that follow from posting it. If a third party brings a claim against IMDifferent or its operators based on a poll you posted — for defamation, intellectual property infringement, privacy violation, harassment, or any other reason — you agree to handle that claim at your own cost and to indemnify the platform against any resulting loss, damage, or settlement.
When you vote, a cryptographic commitment to your vote — a Merkle leaf — is generated. The leaf is a SHA-256 hash composed from: the vote identifier, the poll and the option you selected, a one-way hash of the network address used (never your raw IP), the names of the verification methods that scored your vote (the labels — not your credentials), and a timestamp. None of these inputs carry your real-world identity; the IP hash is irreversible and the method names identify only which checks ran. What we publish to the Base blockchain is the Merkle root for that day — a single hash per anonymity tier per day. The chain does not contain individual leaves and cannot be reversed into them. The public proof endpoint that lets anyone verify a vote's inclusion exposes the leaf hash and the inclusion path — not the leaf's pre-image — so an external auditor with both a vote receipt and full read access to the blockchain still cannot read which network address voted on which option. This commitment is permanent: it cannot be deleted, edited, or removed by IMDifferent, by you, or by any data-erasure request (including requests made under GDPR, CCPA, or similar laws), because the underlying blockchain is outside our control. The on-chain record is specifically a commitment to the leaf hash, not to the poll's display text or option labels, which may be edited by the poll creator or otherwise change over time. By voting, you understand and accept that the cryptographic record that "a vote was cast" is permanent in this specific, narrow sense.
You may use IMDifferent's public read-only APIs, OpenGraph endpoints, embed widgets, and shareable links to display polls on third-party surfaces, subject to these conditions: (1) visible attribution to IMDifferent must be preserved on any embedded poll; (2) you may not scrape, mass-download, or systematically copy poll content for redistribution or for training machine-learning models without prior written permission; (3) you may not republish polls in a way that misrepresents their results or removes anti-manipulation safeguards; (4) we may rate-limit or revoke access for any consumer that abuses these resources.
We may add, modify, or discontinue any feature of the platform at any time without prior notice — including features you currently rely on. We may update these Terms by publishing the new version at this URL with a revised "Last updated" date; if the changes are material, we will surface a notice on the homepage for at least 14 days. Your continued use of the platform after Terms are updated constitutes acceptance of the new Terms.
These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any documents they reference, form the entire agreement between you and IMDifferent regarding your use of the platform, and supersede any prior or contemporaneous understandings. If any provision is found unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions remain in full force. Our failure to enforce any right or provision is not a waiver of that right or provision.
IMDifferent is a community-operated platform and does not assert a binding legal entity relationship with you. You agree to use the platform in compliance with the laws applicable to you in your own jurisdiction. Any dispute arising from your use of the platform is governed by the laws of the country in which you accessed the platform, and you bear sole responsibility for ensuring such use is lawful where you live.
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