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Terms of Service

What's covered in these terms

These Terms of Service show in a simple manner what is the relationship between you and us as you interact with our service.

Your relationship with us

These terms help define the relationship between you and our service. Broadly speaking, you are allowed to use our services as long as you follow these terms.

What you can expect from us

We develop, improve, and update this service. As part of the evolution of our digital content, services, and goods, we make modifications such as adding or removing features and functionalities, increasing or decreasing usage limits, and offering new services or discontinuing old ones. We may also change our digital content or services for other reasons such as:

  • to prevent abuse or harm
  • to address legal, regulatory, safety, or security issues

If a modification negatively affects your ability to access our use our digital content or services, or if we stop offering a service all together, we'll provide you with a reasonable advance notice by e-mail. This e-mail would contain a description of the changes, when they would take place, and your right to end your contract with us if our modifications create more than a minor negative impact.

We'll also provide you with an opportunity to export your content from your account unless it has been blocked or removed in response to prevention of abuse or harm, legal requirements, or security and operability issues.

What we expect from you

The permission we give you to use our service continues as long as you comply with these terms. We also make various policies and resources available to you to answer common questions and to set expectations about using our services. These resources include our Privacy Policy and our Abuse reporting document.

Altough we give you permission to use our services, we retain any intellectual property rights we have in the service.

We want to maintain a respectful environment for everyone, which means you must follow these basic rules of conduct:

  • comply with applicable laws, including export control, sanctions, and human trafficking laws
  • respect the rights of others, including pprivacy and intellectual property rights
  • don't abuse or harm others or yourself (or threaten or encourage such abuse or harm) — for example, by misleading, defrauding, illegally impersonating, defaming, bullying, harassing, or stalking others
  • don't abuse, harm, interfere with, or disrupt the services — for example, by accessing or using them in fraudulent or deceptive ways, introducing malware, or spamming, hacking, or bypassing our systems or protective measures

Our service is designed to let you upload, submit, store, send, receive, and share your content. You have no obligation to provide any content to our service and you're free to choose the content that you want to provide. If you choose to upload or share content, please make sure you have the necessary rights to do so and that the content is lawful.

Our service is designed to let you upload, submit, store, send, receive, and share your content. You have no obligation to provide any content to our services and you're free to choose the content that you want to provide. If you choose to upload or share content, please make sure you have the necessary rights to do so and that the content is lawful.

Your content remains yours, which means that you retain any intellectual property right that you have in your content. We need your permission if your intellectual property rights restrict our use of your content. Your provide us with that permission through the license available at User-generated Content License.

Using our service

Your account

If you meet the age requirements of your country and you are more than 14 years-old, you can create an account for your convenience. Somefeatures require that you have an account &emdash; for example, to create a database, you need an account.

You're responsible for what you do with your account, including taking reasonable steps to keep your account secure.

To provide you with our service, we sometimes send you service announcements and other information. To learn more about how we communicate with you, see our Privacy Policy.

If you choose to give us feedback, such as suggestions to improve our services, we may act on your feedback without obligation to you.

Content in the service

Your content

If you think someone is infringing your intellectual property rights, you can send us notice of the infringement and we'll take appropriate action. For example, we suspend or close the accounts of repeat copyright infringers.

Other content

Our service gives you access to content that belong to other people. You may not use this content without that peerson's permission, or as otherwise allowed by law. The views expressed in other people's content are theirs, and don't necessarily reflect our views.

Software in our service

Most of the software used in our service is offered under open source license terms that we make available tto you. Sometimes there are provisions in the open source license that explicitly override part of these terms, so please be sure to read those licenses.

You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of our service or software unless stated otherwise.

In case of pproblems or disagreements

Liabilities

These terms only limit our responsabilities as allowed by applicable law. These terms don't limit liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, or death or personal injury caused by negligence or willful misconduct.

Taking action in case of problems

Before taking action as described below, we'll provide you with advance notive when reasonably possible, describe the reason for our action,a nd give you an opportunity to fix the problem, unless we reasonably believe that doing so would:

  • cause harm or liability to a user, third party, or us
  • violate the law or a legal enforcement authority's order
  • compromise an investigation
  • compromise the operation, integrity, or security of our services

Removing your content

If we reasonably believe that any of your content breaches these terms, violates the applicable law, or could harm our users, third parties, or us, then we reserve the right to taked down some or all of that content in accordance with applicable law. Examples include child pornography, content that facilitates human trafficking or harassment, terrorist content, and content that infringes someone else's intellectual property rights.

Suspending or terminating your acess to the service

We reserve our right to suspend or terminate your access to the servicec or delete your account if any of these things happen:

  • you materially or repeteadly breach these terms
  • we're required to do so to comply with a legal requirement or a court order
  • we reasonably believe that your conduct causes harm or liability to a user, third party, or us

You're always free to stop using our services at any time. If you believe your account has been suspended or terminated in error, you can apppeal.

Handling requests for your data

When we receive data disclosure requests, our team reviews them and makes sure that they satisfy legal requirements. We access and disclose data, including communications, in accordance with the laws of Spain and France, and EU law applicable in Spain and France respectively.

About these terms

By law, you have certain rights that can't be limited by a contract like these terms of service. These terms are in no way intended to restrict those rights.

If it turns out that a particular term is not valid or enforceable, this will not affect any other terms.

We may update these terms to:

  • reflect changes in our services or how we do business
  • for legal, regulatory, or security reasons, or
  • to prevent abuse or harm

If we materially change these terms, we'll provide you with reasonable advance notice and the opportunity to review the changes, except:

  • when we launch a new service or feature, or
  • in urgent situations such as preventing ongoing abuse or responding to legal requirements.

If you don't agree to the new terms, you should remove your content and stop using the services. You can also end your relationship with us at any time by closing your account.