Non Binding Summary
- Keep your account secure
- You know what you shouldn't be posting
- Your stuff will be licensed under the CC BY NC SA 3.0... you should read it, it isn't very complex
- Sugar Labs does not necessarily endorse any of the content here
- We don't screen content, so please flag it!
- Don't violate any laws, copyright, IP
- These could change without any notice
Full Terms of Service
The following terms and conditions govern all use of the socialhelp.sugarlabs.org
website and all content, services and products available at or through
the website, including, but not limited to, socialhelp.sugarlabs.org Forum
Software, socialhelp.sugarlabs.org Support Forums and the socialhelp.sugarlabs.org Hosting
service ("Hosting"), (taken together, the Website). The Website is
owned by Sugar Labs and operated by Sugar Labs Contributors. ("Sugar Labs").
The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification
of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other
operating rules, policies (including, without limitation,
socialhelp.sugarlabs.org’s Privacy Policy and Community
Guidelines) and procedures that may be published from time to
time on this Site by Sugar Labs (collectively, the "Agreement").
Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the
Website. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to
become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do
not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you
may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and
conditions are considered an offer by Sugar Labs, acceptance is
expressly limited to these terms. The Website is available only to
individuals who are at least 13 years old.
If you create an account on the Website, you are responsible for
maintaining the security of your account and you are fully responsible
for all activities that occur under the account. You must immediately
notify Sugar Labs of any unauthorized uses of your account or
any other breaches of security. Sugar Labs will not be liable
for any acts or omissions by you, including any damages of any kind
incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.
If you post material to the Website, post links on the Website, or
otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by
means of the Website (any such material, "Content"), You are entirely
responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that
Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question
constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, or computer software. By
making Content available, you represent and warrant that:
- the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe
the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright,
patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;
- if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you
have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make
available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or
(ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the
Content;
- you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to
the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass
through to end users any required terms;
- the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware,
Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;
- the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and
does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to
drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings
of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or
mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);
- the Content is not pornographic, does not contain threats or incite
violence, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any
third party;
- your content is not getting advertised via unwanted electronic
messages such as spam links on newsgroups, email lists, blogs and web
sites, and similar unsolicited promotional methods;
- your content is not named in a manner that misleads your readers
into thinking that you are another person or company; and
- you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code,
accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and
effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by Sugar Labs or otherwise.
User contributions are licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
License.
Without limiting any of those representations or warranties,
Sugar Labs has the right (though not the obligation) to, in
Sugar Labs’s sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content
that, in Sugar Labs’s reasonable opinion, violates any
Sugar Labs policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or
(ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Website to any
individual or entity for any reason, in Sugar Labs’s sole
discretion. Sugar Labs will have no obligation to provide a
refund of any amounts previously paid.
General Terms
Optional paid services or upgrades may be available on the Website. When
utilizing an optional paid service or upgrade, you agree to pay
Sugar Labs the monthly or annual subscription fees indicated.
Payments will be charged on a pre-pay basis on the day you begin
utilizing the service or upgrade and will cover the use of that service
or upgrade for a monthly or annual subscription period as indicated.
These fees are not refundable.
Automatic Renewal
Unless you notify Sugar Labs before the end of the applicable
subscription period that you want to cancel a service or upgrade, your
subscription will automatically renew and you authorize us to collect
the then-applicable annual or monthly subscription fee (as well as any
taxes) using any credit card or other payment mechanism we have on
record for you. Subscriptions can be canceled at any time.
Hosting, Support Services
Optional Hosting and Support services may be provided by Unconfigured
Forum under the terms and conditions for each such service. By signing
up for a Hosting/Support or Support services account, you agree to abide
by such terms and conditions.
Sugar Labs has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the
material, including computer software, posted to the Website, and cannot
therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects.
By operating the Website, Sugar Labs does not represent or imply
that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such
material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for
taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer
systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or
destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive,
indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing
technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The
Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity
rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary
rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is
subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated.
Sugar Labs disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting
from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by
those visitors of content there posted.
We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including
computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to
which socialhelp.sugarlabs.org links, and that link to socialhelp.sugarlabs.org.
Sugar Labs does not have any control over those
non-socialhelp.sugarlabs.org websites and webpages, and is not responsible for
their contents or their use. By linking to a non-socialhelp.sugarlabs.org website
or webpage, Sugar Labs does not represent or imply that it
endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking
precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems
from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive
content. Sugar Labs disclaims any responsibility for any harm
resulting from your use of non-socialhelp.sugarlabs.org websites and webpages.
As Sugar Labs asks others to respect its intellectual property
rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you
believe that material located on or linked to by socialhelp.sugarlabs.org
violates your copyright, and if this website resides in the USA, you are
encouraged to notify Sugar Labs in accordance with Unconfigured
Forum’s Digital Millennium Copyright
Act
("DMCA") Policy. Sugar Labs will respond to all such notices,
including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material
or disabling all links to the infringing material. Sugar Labs
will terminate a visitor’s access to and use of the Website if, under
appropriate circumstances, the visitor is determined to be a repeat
infringer of the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of
Sugar Labs or others. In the case of such termination,
Sugar Labs will have no obligation to provide a refund of any
amounts previously paid to Sugar Labs.
This Agreement does not transfer from Sugar Labs to you any
Sugar Labs or third party intellectual property, and all right,
title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the
parties) solely with Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs,
socialhelp.sugarlabs.org, the socialhelp.sugarlabs.org logo, and all other trademarks,
service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with
socialhelp.sugarlabs.org, or the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Sugar Labs or Sugar Labs’s licensors. Other
trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with
the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of
the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use
any Sugar Labs or third-party trademarks.
Sugar Labs reserves the right to display advertisements on your
content unless you have purchased an Ad-free Upgrade or a Services
account.
Sugar Labs reserves the right to display attribution links such
as ‘Powered by socialhelp.sugarlabs.org,’ theme author, and font attribution in
your content footer or toolbar. Footer credits and the socialhelp.sugarlabs.org
toolbar may not be removed regardless of upgrades purchased.
Sugar Labs reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify
or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to
check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or
access to the Website following the posting of any changes to this
Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. Sugar Labs
may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the
Website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new
features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of
this Agreement.
Sugar Labs may terminate your access to all or any part of the
Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice,
effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or your
socialhelp.sugarlabs.org account (if you have one), you may simply discontinue
using the Website. All provisions of this Agreement which by their
nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including,
without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers,
indemnity and limitations of liability.
The Website is provided "as is". Sugar Labs and its suppliers
and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or
implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of
merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
Neither Sugar Labs nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any
warranty that the Website will be error free or that cess thereto will
be continuous or uninterrupted. If you’re actually reading this, here’s
a
treat.
You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or
services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.
In no event will Sugar Labs, or its suppliers or licensors, be
liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any
contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable
theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii)
the cost of procurement for substitute products or services; (iii) for
interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any
amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to Sugar Labs under
this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of
action. Sugar Labs shall have no liability for any failure or
delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing
shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.
You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in
strict accordance with the Sugar Labs Privacy
Policy, Community Guidelines, with this
Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including
without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state,
city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and
acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the
transmission of technical data exported from the country in which this
website resides or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of
the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual
property rights of any third party.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Sugar Labs, its
contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors,
officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and
expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the
Website, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Unconfigured
Forum and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be
modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of
Sugar Labs, or by the posting by Sugar Labs of a revised
version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides
otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Website will be
governed by the laws of the state of California, U.S.A., excluding its
conflict of law provisions, and the proper venue for any disputes
arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the state and
federal courts located in San Francisco County, California. Except for
claims for injunctive or equitable relief or claims regarding
intellectual property rights (which may be brought in any competent
court without the posting of a bond), any dispute arising under this
Agreement shall be finally settled in accordance with the Comprehensive
Arbitration Rules of the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service,
Inc. (“JAMS”) by three arbitrators appointed in accordance with such
Rules. The arbitration shall take place in San Francisco, California, in
the English language and the arbitral decision may be enforced in any
court. The prevailing party in any action or proceeding to enforce this
Agreement shall be entitled to costs and attorneys’ fees. If any part of
this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be
construed to reflect the parties’ original intent, and the remaining
portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party
of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any
one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent
breach thereof. You may assign your rights under this Agreement to any
party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms and
conditions; Sugar Labs may assign its rights under this
Agreement without condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and
will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted
assigns.
This document is CC-BY-SA. It was last updated May 31, 2013.
Originally adapted from the WordPress Terms of
Service.