mirror of
https://github.com/zulip/zulip.git
synced 2025-11-02 04:53:36 +00:00
Move Zulip's TOS to TERMS_OF_SERVICE markdown file.
This reimplements zulip.com/terms using the new markdown system.
This commit is contained in:
244
corporate/terms.md
Normal file
244
corporate/terms.md
Normal file
@@ -0,0 +1,244 @@
|
||||
# Zulip Terms of Service
|
||||
|
||||
### Welcome to Zulip!
|
||||
|
||||
Thanks for using our products and services ("Services"). The Services are
|
||||
provided by Zulip, Inc. ("Zulip"), located at 552 Massachusetts Ave Suite 203,
|
||||
Cambridge, MA 02139, United States.
|
||||
|
||||
By using our Services, you are agreeing to these terms. Please read them
|
||||
carefully.
|
||||
|
||||
The Services are not intended for use by you if you are under 13 years of
|
||||
age. By agreeing to these terms, you are representing to us that you are over
|
||||
13.
|
||||
|
||||
### Using our Services
|
||||
|
||||
You must follow any policies made available to you within the Services.
|
||||
|
||||
Don't misuse our Services. For example, don't interfere with our Services or
|
||||
try to access them using a method other than the interface and the instructions
|
||||
that we provide. You may use our Services only as permitted by law, including
|
||||
applicable export and re-export control laws and regulations. We may suspend or
|
||||
stop providing our Services to you if you do not comply with our terms or
|
||||
policies or if we are investigating suspected misconduct.
|
||||
|
||||
Using our Services does not give you ownership of any intellectual property
|
||||
rights in our Services or the content you access. You may not use content from
|
||||
our Services unless you obtain permission from its owner or are otherwise
|
||||
permitted by law. These terms do not grant you the right to use any branding or
|
||||
logos used in our Services. Don't remove, obscure, or alter any legal notices
|
||||
displayed in or along with our Services.
|
||||
|
||||
Our Services display some content that is not Zulip's. This content is the
|
||||
sole responsibility of the entity that makes it available. We may review
|
||||
content to determine whether it is illegal or violates our policies, and we may
|
||||
remove or refuse to display content that we reasonably believe violates our
|
||||
policies or the law. But that does not necessarily mean that we review content,
|
||||
so please don't assume that we do.
|
||||
|
||||
In connection with your use of the Services, we may send you service
|
||||
announcements, administrative messages, and other information. You may opt out
|
||||
of some of those communications.
|
||||
|
||||
### Your Zulip Account
|
||||
|
||||
You may need a Zulip Account in order to use some of our Services. You may
|
||||
create your own Zulip Account, or your Zulip Account may be assigned to you
|
||||
by an administrator, such as your employer or educational institution. If you
|
||||
are using a Zulip Account assigned to you by an administrator, different or
|
||||
additional terms may apply and your administrator may be able to access or
|
||||
disable your account.
|
||||
|
||||
If you learn of any unauthorized use of your password or account, contact
|
||||
[support@zulip.com](mailto:support@zulip.com).
|
||||
|
||||
### Privacy and Copyright Protection
|
||||
|
||||
Zulip's [privacy policy](/privacy) explains how we treat your
|
||||
personal data and protect your privacy when you use our Services. By using our
|
||||
Services, you agree that Zulip can use such data in accordance with our
|
||||
privacy policy.
|
||||
|
||||
We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement and terminate
|
||||
accounts of repeat infringers according to the process set out in the U.S.
|
||||
Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
|
||||
|
||||
Our designated agent for notice of alleged copyright infringement on the
|
||||
Services is:
|
||||
|
||||
> Copyright Agent
|
||||
> Zulip, Inc.
|
||||
> 552 Massachusetts Ave Suite 203
|
||||
> Cambridge, MA 02139
|
||||
> [copyright@zulip.com](mailto:copyright@zulip.com)
|
||||
|
||||
### Your Content in our Services
|
||||
|
||||
Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of
|
||||
any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what
|
||||
belongs to you stays yours.
|
||||
|
||||
When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Zulip
|
||||
(and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce,
|
||||
modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations,
|
||||
adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our
|
||||
Services), communicate, publish, perform, display and distribute such content.
|
||||
The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating
|
||||
and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues
|
||||
even if you stop using our Services (for example, so that we can deliver a
|
||||
message that you sent to another Zulip Account before you stopped using our
|
||||
Services). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content that
|
||||
has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there may be
|
||||
terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in
|
||||
those Services. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this
|
||||
license for any content that you submit to our Services. If you use the
|
||||
Services to share content with others, anyone you've shared content with
|
||||
(including the general public, in certain circumstances) may have access to the
|
||||
content.
|
||||
|
||||
In order to provide the Services, our servers save a record of the messages
|
||||
received by each Zulip Account (the "Received Messsage Information" for the
|
||||
account). If you are using our Services on behalf of a business and a
|
||||
representative of that business sends [data@zulip.com](mailto:data@zulip.com)
|
||||
a request to delete all of your business' accounts with us, then within a
|
||||
commercially reasonable period of time, we will close all of your business'
|
||||
accounts with us and delete the Received Message Information for each such
|
||||
account by removing pointers to the information on our active servers and
|
||||
overwriting it over time. Notwithstanding the foregoing, deleting the Received
|
||||
Message Information for your business' accounts will not require deleting any
|
||||
information about messages that were sent or received by any Zulip Accounts that
|
||||
are not one of your business' accounts with us (such as system-wide announcement
|
||||
messages or any messages corresponding with the Zulip support team).
|
||||
|
||||
You can find more information about how Zulip uses and stores content in
|
||||
the privacy policy. If you submit feedback or suggestions about our Services,
|
||||
we may use your feedback or suggestions without obligation to you.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
### About Software in our Services
|
||||
|
||||
When a Service requires or includes downloadable software, this software may
|
||||
update automatically on your device once a new version or feature is available.
|
||||
Some Services may let you adjust your automatic update settings.
|
||||
|
||||
Zulip gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and
|
||||
non-exclusive license to use the software provided to you by Zulip as part of
|
||||
the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use and
|
||||
enjoy the benefit of the Services as provided by Zulip, in the manner
|
||||
permitted by these terms. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease
|
||||
any part of our Services or included software, nor may you reverse engineer or
|
||||
attempt to extract the source code of that software, unless laws prohibit those
|
||||
restrictions or you have our written permission.
|
||||
|
||||
Some software used in our Services may be offered under an open source
|
||||
license that we will make available to you. There may be provisions in the
|
||||
open source license that expressly override some of these terms.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
### Modifying and Terminating our Services
|
||||
|
||||
We are constantly changing and improving our Services. We may add or remove
|
||||
functionalities or features, and we may suspend or stop a Service
|
||||
altogether.
|
||||
|
||||
You can stop using our Services at any time, although we'll be sorry to see
|
||||
you go. Zulip may also stop providing Services to you, or add or create new
|
||||
limits to our Services at any time.
|
||||
|
||||
We believe that you own your data and preserving your access to such data is
|
||||
important. If we discontinue a Service, we will, if it is practical in our sole
|
||||
discretion, give you reasonable advance notice and a chance to get information
|
||||
out of that Service.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
### Our Warranties and Disclaimers
|
||||
|
||||
We hope that you will enjoy using our Services, but there are certain things
|
||||
that we don't promise about our Services.
|
||||
|
||||
OTHER THAN AS EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THESE TERMS, NEITHER ZULIP NOR ITS
|
||||
SUPPLIERS OR DISTRIBUTORS MAKE ANY SPECIFIC PROMISES ABOUT THE SERVICES. FOR
|
||||
EXAMPLE, WE DON'T MAKE ANY COMMITMENTS ABOUT THE CONTENT WITHIN THE SERVICES,
|
||||
THE SPECIFIC FUNCTION OF THE SERVICES, OR THEIR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR
|
||||
ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. WE PROVIDE THE SERVICES "AS IS".
|
||||
|
||||
SOME JURISDICTIONS PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN WARRANTIES, LIKE THE IMPLIED WARRANTY
|
||||
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. TO
|
||||
THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE EXCLUDE ALL WARRANTIES.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
### Liability for our Services
|
||||
|
||||
WHEN PERMITTED BY LAW, ZULIP, AND ZULIP'S SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, WILL
|
||||
NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUES, OR DATA, FINANCIAL LOSSES OR
|
||||
INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES.
|
||||
|
||||
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF ZULIP, AND ITS
|
||||
SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, FOR ANY CLAIM UNDER THESE TERMS, INCLUDING FOR ANY
|
||||
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF FIVE DOLLARS ($5) OR THE
|
||||
AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO ZULIP FOR THE PAST THREE MONTHS OF THE SERVICES IN
|
||||
QUESTION.
|
||||
|
||||
IN ALL CASES, ZULIP, AND ITS SUPPLIERS AND DISTRIBUTORS, WILL NOT BE LIABLE
|
||||
FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE THAT IS NOT REASONABLY FORESEEABLE.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
### Business uses of our Services
|
||||
|
||||
If you are using our Services on behalf of a business, that business accepts
|
||||
these terms. It will hold harmless and indemnify Zulip and its affiliates,
|
||||
officers, agents, and employees from any claim, suit or action arising from or
|
||||
related to the use of the Services or violation of these terms, including any
|
||||
liability or expense arising from claims, losses, damages, suits, judgments,
|
||||
litigation costs and attorneys' fees.
|
||||
|
||||
You agree that we, in our sole discretion, may use your trade names,
|
||||
trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names and other distinctive brand
|
||||
features in presentations, marketing materials, customer lists, financial
|
||||
reports and Web site listings (including links to your website) for the purpose
|
||||
of advertising or publicizing your use of our products or services.
|
||||
|
||||
### Export Compliance
|
||||
|
||||
If you are located outside of the United States or are not a U.S. person,
|
||||
you certify that you do not reside in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria,
|
||||
and you certify the following: "We certify that this beta test software will
|
||||
only be used for beta testing purposes, and will not be rented, leased, sold,
|
||||
sublicensed, assigned, or otherwise transferred. Further, we certify that we
|
||||
will not transfer or export any product, process, or service that is the direct
|
||||
product of the beta test software."
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
### About these Terms
|
||||
|
||||
If it turns out that a particular term is not enforceable, this will not
|
||||
affect any other terms.
|
||||
|
||||
If you do not comply with these terms, and we don't take action right away,
|
||||
this doesn't mean that we are giving up any rights that we may have (such as
|
||||
taking action in the future).
|
||||
|
||||
These terms control the relationship between Zulip and you. They do not
|
||||
create any third party beneficiary rights.
|
||||
|
||||
The laws of Massachusetts, U.S.A., excluding Massachusetts's conflict of
|
||||
laws rules, will apply to any disputes arising out of or relating to these
|
||||
terms or the Services. All claims arising out of or relating to these terms or
|
||||
the Services will be litigated exclusively in the applicable federal or state
|
||||
courts of Massachusetts, and you and Zulip consent to personal jurisdiction in
|
||||
those courts.
|
||||
|
||||
Zulip reserves the right to amend or modify these terms at any time and in
|
||||
any manner by providing reasonable notice to you. You agree that reasonable
|
||||
notice may be provided by posting on Zulip's web site, email, or other written
|
||||
notice. By continuing to access or use the Services after revisions become
|
||||
effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to
|
||||
the new terms, please stop using the Services.
|
||||
|
||||
These terms constitute the whole legal agreement between you and Zulip, and
|
||||
completely replace any prior agreements between you and Zulip in relation to
|
||||
the Services.
|
||||
|
||||
Last modified: October 4, 2013
|
||||
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ i18n_urlpatterns = [
|
||||
url(r'^zephyr-mirror/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='corporate/zephyr-mirror.html')),
|
||||
|
||||
# Terms of service and privacy policy
|
||||
url(r'^terms/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='corporate/terms.html')),
|
||||
url(r'^terms-enterprise/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='corporate/terms-enterprise.html')),
|
||||
url(r'^privacy/$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='corporate/privacy.html')),
|
||||
]
|
||||
|
||||
Reference in New Issue
Block a user