Terms of use

To use certain features of the platform, you must register for an account at which point you must agree to our terms and conditions to be a fair and respectful user.

Sections 2, 3, and 4 outline what we mean by that:

Your commitments to us:

• You must be 16 years of age or older to register for an account.
• You must comply with our Acceptable Use Policy and Content Standards.
• You must comply with the latest terms and conditions.
• You understand that the content on this platform is provided for general information purposes only and is not intended to amount to advice (of any nature) on which you should rely.
• You understand that you can hide or choose not to disclose any information on the platform that you do not wish to share.
• You understand that you can stop using this platform at any time.

Our promises to you:

• We will only collect personal information that is relevant to your use of this community platform.
• We will never sell your data to third parties.
• We promise to tell you why we need your personal data when we ask for it.
• We promise to protect your data and store it safely.
• We promise to respect your wishes and rights in regard to our storage of your data.

Our commitments to you:

• We aim to ensure content is up-to-date and free from errors and omissions.
• We aim to give you reasonable notice of any major changes.
• We aim to support any internet-connected device running on the latest two versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Safari.
• We aim to support Internet Explorer 11 but we cannot guarantee the best experience.
• We will endeavor to support any queries in connection with this platform.
• We will ask for consent to share your information with Made Open if required to fix the problem.
• We will give you reasonable notice of any major changes and what this means for you as a member.
• We reserve the right to refuse inappropriate listings, content, and membership at any time.
• If you discover that your information has been included on this platform without your permission, we will aim to take it down as soon as you have notified us.
• Your details will be anonymized where possible.

For further information on how your data is used and stored, please refer to our privacy policy.

Whenever you upload content to our platform, or make contact with members of our platform, you must comply with the following terms which constitute our “Acceptable Use Policy”:

You must:

• Provide true and accurate information about yourself on the platform.
• Use our site in a manner that is true to its community purpose and intention.
• Treat others with respect when communicating with others through our platform.
• Use our platform only for lawful purposes and for your own purposes.
• Keep your user account details and passwords confidential.
• Immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your account.
• Include our copyright notice on any references you make to our platform.
• Comply with all technology laws and regulations that apply to the use of our platform.

You must not:

• Share the personal information of others without their permission.
• Use our platform for commercial purposes without obtaining a license to do so from us.
• Embed our platform, or any part of it, into other programs without our written permission.
• Make our platform or source code available to any person without our written permission.
• Disassemble, decompile, reverse-engineer, or create derivative works of our platform.
• Attempt to contravene section 296A of the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988.
• Use the credentials of any person or entity to access the platform.
• Act fraudulently or maliciously.
• Hack into or insert malicious code, including viruses or harmful data, into our platform.
• Infringe our intellectual property rights.
• Transmit material that is defamatory, offensive, or objectionable when using this platform.
• Use the platform in any way that could compromise our systems, security or interfere with other users.
• Collect or harvest any information or data from our service or systems.
• Use our platform to harm or attempt to harm minors in any way (or anybody for that matter).
• Harass or interfere with any other member’s use and enjoyment of the platform.
• Send, upload, download, use, or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards.
• Transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional material (spam).
• Suggest any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part where none exists.
• Damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You accept:

• You have sole responsibility for all content or data which is uploaded by you to our platform.
• You indemnify us for any breach of third-party intellectual property rights or copyright.
• We shall not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content posted by you on our platform.
• Any content you upload to our platform will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary.
• All intellectual property rights in the content you upload on our platform shall remain with you (or your relevant licensors).
• You grant us a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable license to use, store, modify, copy, distribute, display, and prepare derivative works of such content.
• You warrant to us that you have the full requisite power and authority to grant us such usage rights in the content you upload to our platform.
• You shall be responsible for obtaining and maintaining all licenses required for the use of the content you upload to our platform, including payment of all associated license fees and other costs.

Whenever you upload content to our platform, you must comply with the following terms which constitute our “Content Standards”:

Contributions must:

• Be accurate (where they state facts).
• Be genuinely held (where they state opinions).
• Comply with applicable law in the United States and in any country from which they are posted.

Contributions must not:

• Contain any material which is defamatory to any person.
• Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful, illegal, sexually explicit or inflammatory.
• Promote violence.
• Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
• Infringe any copyright, database right, or trademark of any other person.
• Be likely to deceive any person.
• Breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.
• Be threatening, harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person, or invade their privacy.
• Impersonate any person or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person.
• Give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case.

Without prejudice to any other rights or remedies, we may terminate your account immediately by written notice to you:

• If you commit a material or persistent breach of these terms and conditions which you fail to remedy within 14 days.
• If you breach any of our policies on ‘acceptable use’ and ‘content standards’.
• If we terminate, novate or assign any license or agreement relating to our service.

On termination for any reason:

• All rights granted to you under these terms and conditions shall cease.
• You must immediately cease all activities authorized by these terms and conditions, including your use of our platform.
• We may delete your account from our live databases.
• We will have no liability to you for the termination of your rights under this agreement.
• Any donations you may have made through the platform will not be refunded.

Failure to comply with our Acceptable Use Policy and Content Standards constitutes a material breach of our terms and conditions and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

• Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site.
• Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site.
• Issue of a warning to you.
• Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis resulting from the breach.
• Further legal action against you.
• Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities, as we feel, is necessary.

This agreement will remain in effect while you use the platform. You agree that we will not be liable to you or to any third party. You may close your account at any time, for any reason, by following the instructions on the platform.

We provide interactive services on our platform such as online messaging and chatrooms. Content from within these services is not moderated (other than self-moderated by users) but we do keep a record of all such content on our live databases.

Here’s what you need to know about how we moderate interactive services:

• We are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive service on our platform.
• If notified of any issues, we will decide in each case whether to intervene or apply moderation.
• We will normally provide you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise.
• The use of our interactive services by a minor is subject to the consent of their parent or guardian.
• We advise parents who permit their children to use an interactive service that moderation is not foolproof.
• We are not liable for any actions that breach our Acceptable Use Policy and/or the Content Standards.

• You may link to our platform in a way that is fair, and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
• We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
• You must not suggest any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part where none exists.
• You must not establish a link to our platform on any website that is not owned by you.
• The website to which you are linking must comply in all aspects with our Acceptable Use Policy.

Please contact [email protected] for all inquiries.

• The content on our platform is provided for general information purposes only.
• It is not intended to amount to advice (of any nature) on which you should rely.
• We do not review, monitor or endorse third-party links and advertisements.
• When you click on any third-party links, the applicable third party’s terms and policies apply.
• We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms and conditions to another organization.
• This will not affect your rights or our obligations.

Nothing in these terms and conditions shall be construed as excluding or limiting our liability for (i) death or personal injury caused by our negligence, (ii) fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or (iii) any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

If you are a business, we will not be liable for any loss of profits or business, business interruption, loss of anticipated savings, loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation, or indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are an individual, we only provide our platform for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our platform for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

You acknowledge and agree that we will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform our obligations under this these terms and conditions that is caused by any act or event beyond our reasonable control.