Terms of Service

Commentsy. (“Commentsy”, “we”, “us” or “our”) is an open source project and offers an online public comment sharing platform where you may login and create profiles to participate in conversations with peers and enjoy an interactive experience. Our services are best only for educative and experimental purpose and it is best to use other commercial services of similar kind if commercial projects. These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) govern your use of and access to our comment sharing platform, software and website (collectively the “Service”) by using the Service you understand and agree to be bound by these Terms. Commentsy will not be liable for any losses.

Please note that this is not a real project and commentsy will not be liable for any losses. We recommended to rather self-host this project on your own and then use it.

Commentsy Account.

By creating a Commentsy account, you agree to these Terms. When creating your account, you must provide accurate and complete information. You are solely responsible for the activity that occurs on your account, and you must keep your account password secure. We encourage you to use “strong” passwords (passwords that use a combination of upper and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols) with your account. You may never use another user’s account without permission.

Privacy.

The Commentsy Privacy Policy describes how we use and process the information you provide to us when you use the Service. You understand that by using the Services you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your information as set forth in our Privacy Policy.

Content on the Services.

You are responsible for your use of the Services and for any content you submit, post, display or otherwise make available on or through the Service (“User Content”), including that such User Content complies with applicable laws, rules, and regulations. You should only provide Content that you are comfortable sharing with others.

Commentsy Content

Commentsy’ name, logo, designs, trademarks, trade dress, service marks, copyrights, patents or other intellectual property rights in Commentsy’ software, images, text, graphics, illustrations, logos, APIs etc. (the “Commentsy Content”) is the exclusive property of Commentsy or its licensors. Except as explicitly provided herein, nothing in these Terms shall be deemed to create a license in or to Commentsy Content, and you agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from any Commentsy Content. Use of the Commentsy Content for any purpose not expressly permitted by these Terms is strictly prohibited.

Service Rules

Please review the Commentsy Service Rules below, in consideration of the license to use the Services you agree to comply with the Service Rules which are part of these Terms and outline what is prohibited on the services. Please also note, Commentsy comments often appear in websites and online communities not owned by Commentsy, these websites and online communities may have their own rules about content and comments on their site, please respect the rules of the communities in which you are using Commentsy to comment.

Bullying; Harassment; Hate Speech. We do not allow bullying or hate speech on the Commentsy platform. Hate speech attacks people based on “protected characteristics” which include race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, sex, gender, gender identity or serious disability or disease. Bullying targets individuals with the intention of degrading or shaming them. Bullying is especially harmful to minors because they may be more vulnerable. Commentsy prohibits bullying and hate speech and requires our users to respect each other and comment with the respect and sensitivity of others in mind.

Trademark Rights and Rights of Publicity; Impersonation. Users are required to respect the intellectual property rights of others, and are prohibited from posting content that violates someone else’s copyright, trademark, or right of publicity. Additionally, users are prohibited from impersonating others in a manner that does or is intended to mislead or deceive others. Accounts portraying another person in a confusing or deceptive manner may be banned at Commentsy’ discretion.

Safety; Self-Harm. Users are prohibited from promoting or encouraging suicide or self-harm. When we receive reports that a person is threatening suicide or self-harm, we may take a number of steps to assist them, such as reaching out to that person and providing resources such as contact information for our mental health partners.

Violence and Criminal Acts. Users are prohibited from promoting or publicizing violent crime, theft, or fraud. We also prohibit users from making credible threats of violence, serious physical harm, or death. This includes, but is not limited to, promoting, publicizing or threatening terrorist activity, organized hate crime, mass or serial murder, human trafficking, organized violence.

Child sexual exploitation. Commentsy prohibits content that sexually exploits or endangers children. If we become aware of apparent child exploitation, we will report it in compliance with applicable law.

Inappropriate Content. Graphic media, including explicit violence, gore, and pornographic content are not allowed.

Deceitful data collection; Malware Collecting or harvesting any personally identifiable information, including account names, from the Service; attempting to interfere with, to compromise the system integrity or security or to decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Service; (v) taking any action that imposes, or may impose at our sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (vi) uploading data, viruses, worms, or other software agents through the Service accessing any content on the Service through any technology or means other than those provided or authorized by the Service; or (xiii) bypassing the measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Service, including without limitation features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content or enforce limitations on use of the Service or the content therein.

Spam.

Users are prohibited from posting or sending Spam through the service. What constitutes Spam is constantly evolving. Generally, Spam means repeated actions that negatively impact others, such as repeatedly posting a comment with the intent to post a thread etc.