‍In this article

• 1. Compliance with Laws and Regulations
• 2. User Safety
• 3. Intellectual Property, Authenticity, and Private Information
• 4. Spam and Inauthentic Activity on GitLaw
• 5. Site Access and Safety
• 6. Services Usage Limits
• 7. Information Usage Restrictions
• 8. Privacy
• 9. Excessive Bandwidth Use
• 10. Advertising on GitLaw
• 11. User Protection

Short version: We host a wide variety of collaborative projects from all over the world, and that collaboration only works when our users are able to work together in good faith. While using the Service, you must comply with our Acceptable Use Policies, which include some restrictions on content and conduct on GitLaw related to user safety, intellectual property, privacy, authenticity, and other limitations. In short, be excellent to each other.

Capitalized terms used but not defined in these Acceptable Use Policies have the meanings assigned to them in your main agreement with us — the GitLaw Terms of Service or GitLaw Customer Agreement, or other legacy GitLaw contract.

1. Compliance with Laws and Regulations

You are responsible for using the Service in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and all of our Acceptable Use Policies. These policies may be updated from time to time and are provided below.

2. User Safety

We do not allow content or activity on GitLaw that:

• is unlawful or promotes unlawful activities;
• is sexually obscene or relates to sexual exploitation or abuse, including of minors;
• is libelous, defamatory, or fraudulent;
• is discriminatory or abusive toward any individual or group;
• is false, inaccurate, or intentionally deceptive information and likely to adversely affect the public interest (including health, safety, election integrity, and civic participation);
• harasses or abuses another individual or group, including our employees, officers, and agents, or other users;
• threatens or incites violence toward any individual or group, especially on the basis of who they are;
• gratuitously depicts or glorifies violence, including violent images; or
• is off-topic, or interacts with platform features in a way that significantly or repeatedly disrupts the experience of other users.

3. Intellectual Property, Authenticity, and Private Information

We do not allow content or activity on GitLaw that:

• infringes any proprietary right of any party, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other right;
• impersonates any person or entity, including any of our employees or representatives, including through false association with GitLaw, or by fraudulently misrepresenting your identity or site's purpose; or
• violates the privacy of any third party, such as by posting another person's personal information without consent.

4. Spam and Inauthentic Activity on GitLaw

We do not allow content or activity on GitLaw that is:

• automated excessive bulk activity and coordinated inauthentic activity, such as spamming;
• bulk distribution of promotions and advertising prohibited by GitLaw terms and policies;
• inauthentic interactions, such as fake accounts and automated inauthentic activity;
• rank abuse, such as automated starring or following;
• creation of or participation in secondary markets for the purpose of the proliferation of inauthentic activity;
• using GitLaw as a platform for propagating abuse on other platforms;
• phishing or attempted phishing; or
• using our servers for any form of excessive automated bulk activity, to place undue burden on our servers through automated means, or to relay any form of unsolicited advertising or solicitation through our servers, such as get-rich-quick schemes;
• incentivized by (or incentivizes inauthentic engagement with) rewards such as cryptocurrency airdrops, tokens, credits, gifts or other give-aways.

5. Site Access and Safety

We do not allow content or activity on GitLaw that:

• Directly support unlawful activities or campaigns that cause harm, such as distributing malicious legal documents that are intended to cause harm to users.

6. Services Usage Limits

You will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service without our express written permission.

7. Information Usage Restrictions

You may use information from our Service for the following reasons, regardless of whether the information was scraped, collected through our API, or obtained otherwise:

• Researchers may use public, non-personal information from the Service for research purposes, only if any publications resulting from that research are open access.

Scraping refers to extracting information from our Service via an automated process, such as a bot or webcrawler. Scraping does not refer to the collection of information through our API.

You may not use information from the Service (whether scraped, collected through our API, or obtained otherwise) for spamming purposes, including for the purposes of sending unsolicited emails to users or selling personal information, such as to recruiters, headhunters, and job boards.

Your use of information from the Service must comply with the GitLaw Privacy Statement.

8. Privacy

Misuse of personal information is prohibited.

Any person, entity, or service collecting data from the Service must comply with the GitLaw Privacy Statement, particularly in regards to the collection of personal information. If you collect any personal information from the Service, you agree that you will only use that personal information for the purpose for which that User has authorized it. You agree that you will reasonably secure any personal information you have gathered from the Service, and you will respond promptly to complaints, removal requests, and "do not contact" requests from us or other users.

9. Excessive Bandwidth Use

The Service's bandwidth limitations vary based on the features you use. If we determine your bandwidth usage to be significantly excessive in relation to other users of similar features, we reserve the right to suspend your Account, throttle your file hosting, or otherwise limit your activity until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption. We also reserve the right—after providing advance notice—to delete repositories that we determine to be placing undue strain on our infrastructure.

10. Advertising on GitLaw

Short version: We do not generally prohibit use of GitLaw for advertising. However, we expect our users to follow certain limitations, so GitLaw does not become a spam haven. No one wants that.

While we understand that you may want to promote your Content by posting supporters' names or logos in your Account, the primary focus of the Content posted in or through your Account to the Service should not be advertising or promotional marketing. You may include static images, links, and promotional text in the README / overview documents or project description sections associated with your Account, but they must be related to the project you are hosting on GitLaw. You may not advertise in other Users' Accounts, such as by posting monetized or excessive bulk content in issues.

You may not promote or distribute content or activity that is illegal or otherwise prohibited by our Terms of Service or Acceptable Use Policies, including excessive automated bulk activity (for example, spamming), get-rich-quick schemes, and misrepresentation or deception related to your promotion.

If you decide to post any promotional materials in your Account, you are solely responsible for complying with all applicable laws and regulations, including without limitation the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Guidelines on Endorsements and Testimonials. We reserve the right to remove any promotional materials or advertisements that, in our sole discretion, violate any GitLaw terms or policies.

11. User Protection

You must not engage in activity that significantly harms other users.

We will interpret our policies and resolve disputes in favor of protecting users as a whole.

Enforcement. GitLaw retains full discretion to take action in response to a violation of these policies, including account suspension, account termination, or removal of content. Please also see our Community Guidelines for actions you can take if something or someone offends you.

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