Terms of Use

last updated: 19/05/2018

When signing up to or using The Restarters Community, it’s important to be aware that there are a number of terms you’re agreeing to. These terms govern all use of The Restarters Community website and all the content on it (the Website).

The Website is owned and operated by The Restart Project (“Restart”). You can only use the Website if you agree to accept all of the terms and conditions as they’re written below as well as all other operating rules, policies (including The Restarters Community’s Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this site by Restart (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.

You must be at least 13 years old to use the Website.

1. Who manages this site?

We are The Restart Project, registered Charity number 1151286. Our registered address is 3Space (Keeton & Collett’s), Keeton’s Road, London SE16 4EE. You can contact us by email on info@therestartproject.org and telephone on +44 (0) 7544 314 678. Hereafter, we will be referred to in the first person: e.g. ‘we’, ‘us’.

2. Disclaimer

The opinions expressed on this Website are the responsibility of their author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official views or policy of The Restart Project as an organisation, its staff, volunteers or the organisations cooperating with it.

3. Your account

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 us of any unauthorised uses of your account or any other breaches of security. We 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.

4. Content licensing

4.1. Licensing of single contributions

All content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This applies to content by us as an organisation and third-party content.

By posting on this site, visitors agree to grant non-exculsive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to the rest of the world of their submissions under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

This license grant applies to all submissions, both textual submissions in forms and to files uploaded to our servers, including images. For uploaded files however, users may alternatively choose to apply one of the following:

A free content licence according to the Definition of Free Cultural Works.
A free software licence according to the FSF list of free software licences (both GPL compatible or not) or an OSI approved open source licence.
An open source hardware licence that conforms to the Open Source Hardware Definition in its respective latest version.

For the avoidance of doubt, caching of this site is permitted by a service provider acting in the normal course of its business as provided for in the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002.

4.2. Licensing of the whole database

You are not permitted to download the whole Website database. The aggregate data on this Website is protected by the Council of the European Union Directive 96/9/EC of 11 March 1996. Website data may not be extracted either in full or in part without express written consent of The Restart Project. Researchers who want access, please contact us.

5. Name and logo use

You are free – and in fact encouraged – to use the Restarters name and logo, and associate yourself with it. You do not need to ask permission. For example, you are welcome to run local electronics events under the name ‘Restarters [place name]’, such as ‘Restarters Torino’. If you choose to do this, please let us know and we can offer support.

To do this, you can use the Restart Party Kit when planning and running your event. This is currently available in English and Spanish. It also provides guidance on using the Restart brand and logos.

However, we are NOT promoting the establishment of new Restart Project chapters, franchises or local NGOs and you are not permitted to use The Restart Project’s name or logo for this purpose.

6. Responsibility of contributors

You are responsible for all Content (including material and links) posted on the Website from your account, including any harm that results 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 content falls within our community guidelines and that:

you have permission to post the Content and that it will not infringe the proprietary rights (including copyright) of any third party;
the Content does not contain or install any malware, worms, viruses, 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 and;
your content is not named in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company.

7. Responsibility of website visitors

We work to keep this space safe and actively moderate discussions where we can.

However, we have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Website. Therefore we cannot be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Website, we do not represent or imply that we endorse the material there posted, or that we believe 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. We disclaim 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.

8. Links to third-party sites

We may provide links to third-party websites or information as a service to our community and users of our websites. If you use these links, you will leave the sites we maintain. The links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation by The Restart Party of the third party, the third party website, or the information contained on them. The Restart Party is never responsible or liable for your use of the third party sites or the information on them. When you use third-party sites or services, then it is not our terms of use and privacy policies that are applicable, but those provided by the organisations running the third-party sites and services.

9. Termination

Restart 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 The Restarters Community account (if you have one), you may simply discontinue using the Website or request your account be deleted by contacting us. 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.

By using this Site, you agree to the terms of use described above. We reserve the right to make changes to the Terms of Use from time to time. We will alert you to any such changes by updating the contents of this page.

Originally adapted from the WordPress Terms of Service and Edgeryders Terms of Use