Terms of use

Ficteca is a catalogue. We collect entries for fanfiction and independent novels published elsewhere — Archive of Our Own, FanFiction.net, Wattpad and others — so they can be searched, filtered, reviewed and discovered in one place.

Ficteca never hosts the text of a work. Never. We do not store it, copy it, serve it or display it. For each work we keep only its entry — title, author, summary, tags, language, length — and the link to the site where it is published.

When you want to read something, we send you to the original site. What happens there is governed by that site's terms, not by these.

This is not a technical limitation we intend to lift one day: it is the founding decision of the product and it is not up for discussion.

You need to be 16 or older. That minimum matches the age at which Paraguay's Personal Data Protection Act No. 7,593/2025 allows a person to consent to the processing of their own data without a guardian's authorisation.

By signing up you state that you are at least 16. If we find out otherwise, we close the account and delete the data.

You can read the catalogue without an account. An account is needed to review, rate, track your reading and receive recommendations.

You sign in with a six-digit code we send to your email. There is no password to lose and none for anyone to guess, but it does mean that whoever can read your inbox can reach your account. Look after your email.

One person, one account. Automated accounts, and accounts created to inflate ratings, are not allowed.

You are responsible for what is published from your account.

The reviews you write, the ratings you give and the tags you suggest remain yours. We claim no ownership over any of it.

What we do need is your permission to display it: by posting on Ficteca you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to store, display and distribute that content within Ficteca, and to convert its format where technically necessary. Without that licence we could not even show your review to somebody else.

The licence ends when you delete the content, with one exception worth stating plainly: if you delete your account, your reviews stay published but become anonymous, unlinked from you. The rating you gave keeps counting towards the work's average.

The reason is that the average is what other people use to decide what to read, and removing it retroactively would distort the catalogue for everyone. If you would rather a review disappeared entirely, delete it yourself before deleting your account.

The catalogue includes works rated Mature and Explicit. They are hidden by default for everyone, signed in or not, and appear only if you turn on the switch in your profile.

Worth saying without euphemism: since the minimum age to register is already 16, and the threshold for adult content is also 16, the age filter filters nobody who has an account. The only real control is that switch, and it stays off until you turn it on.

Unrated works are treated as Explicit. We would rather hide too much than too little.

Ratings come from hand-entered catalogue data and can be wrong. If you see something misrated, report it.

• Post the text of a work, whole or in fragments, in a review or any other field.
• Harass, threaten or attack another person, on Ficteca or elsewhere.
• Post sexual content involving minors, in any form.
• Pass off somebody else's work as your own, or deliberately enter false catalogue data.
• Manipulate ratings using multiple or coordinated accounts.
• Scrape the catalogue, or use Ficteca to build another service.
• Attempt to reach other people's data or parts of the system that are not yours.

A negative, harsh or unfavourable review is not harassment. Criticising a work is fine; attacking the person who wrote it is not.

Anyone can report a review, a catalogue entry or an account. Every report is reviewed by a person.

No review is ever hidden automatically for collecting reports. That is deliberate: an automatic threshold turns reporting into a weapon, and makes organising complaints the easiest way to silence criticism.

Depending on severity we may hide content, ask you to edit it, suspend your account or close it. If we close your account we tell you why, unless saying so would expose somebody else.

You can also block someone to stop seeing what they post.

If you wrote a work listed on Ficteca and you do not want its entry here, write to info@ficteca.com and we will take it down. You do not have to explain why.

It is worth being clear about what you are asking us to delete: the entry, meaning the title, summary and tags. The text of your work was never on Ficteca, so there is nothing further to remove.

If you also want reviews that other people wrote about your work removed, say so explicitly: those are other people's content and we treat them more carefully.

Ficteca is free and offered as-is, with no guarantee that it will always be available, that catalogue data is correct, or that external links still work.

Entries are typed in by hand and can contain errors. Links point at third-party sites that may delete a work, change it, or shut down without telling us.

We may change, suspend or discontinue the service. If we are going to discontinue it, we will give reasonable notice and a way to take your data with you.

We are not responsible for the content of the sites we link to, nor for what other people post on Ficteca.

To the extent the law allows, our liability for your use of Ficteca is limited. As a free service, that limitation is the one customary for services provided without payment.

None of this limits the rights Paraguayan law gives you as a consumer or as the subject of your own personal data, which cannot be waived by contract.

We may change them. Each version carries a date and a number, and earlier versions are kept on record.

If a change is substantial we will tell you and ask you to accept it again before continuing to use your account. We record which version you accepted and when, because the law requires us to be able to prove it.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Paraguay.

Any dispute is submitted to the courts of the city of Asunción, without prejudice to any forum the law grants you as a consumer.

info@ficteca.com. Write to us about anything: questions, complaints, errors in an entry, or because something in this document does not make sense.