Content Policy

Updated: November 3, 2019

1. Prohibited Content and Activities, and Responsibility of Contributors: For anything you post, upload, share, store, or otherwise provide through the Service (“Content”), you are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. The purpose of the Service is aiding teaching, instruction, and/or training, and users are asked to post only relevant Content for these purposes.
   • The following are examples of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited to post on or through the Service; Plickers reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in Plickers's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending Content from the Service and terminating the accounts of such violators. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to Content that, in the sole discretion of Plickers:
     • is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm against any class or individual;
     • harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
       exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;
     • contains anything sexually suggestive, excessive violence, or offensive subject matter;
     • publicly posts information that poses or creates a privacy or security risk to any person;
     • violates the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark rights, contract rights, or any other rights of any person;
     • furthers or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal activities;
     • involves commercial activities and/or sales without prior written consent from Plickers such as contests, sweepstakes, advertising, etc
       
   • The following are examples of activities that are prohibited:
     • criminal or tortious activity of any kind
     • spamming, spimming, sending of viruses or other harmful files
     • attempting to impersonate another user or person
     • collect email addresses of users for the purpose of sending unsolicited email
       
2. By creating Content, you represent and warrant that:
   • if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content;
   • you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through an end users any required terms;
   • the Content is not obscene or libelous and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party
     
3. By submitting Content to Plickers for inclusion on the Service, for example creating questions, you grant Plickers a royalty-free, irrevocable, worldwide license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, translate, modify, publish, transmit, display, and distribute such Content in any media or distribution methods (now or later developed), for as long as your Content is stored with us.
4. Creative Commons Licenses: In certain circumstances (for example, when publishing Content), the Service may allow you to mark some of your Content with a Creative Commons CC BY license. Marking Content with a CC BY license permits other users to reuse, modify, and distribute the Content, subject to the terms of the license.
5. Responsibility of Service Visitors and Users: Plickers has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material posted to the Service, and cannot, therefore, be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Service, Plickers does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes 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. Plickers disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Service, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.
6. Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy: If you believe that material located on or linked to by Plickers violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify Plickers in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) Policy by providing Plickers with the following information in writing:
   • A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.
   • Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed
   • Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material.
     Your name, address, telephone number, and email address, and
   • A statement by you (a) that you believe in good faith that the use of the content that you claim to infringe your copyright is not authorized by law, or by the copyright owner or such owner’s agent; and (b) under penalty of perjury, that all of the information contained in your Infringement Notice is accurate, and that you are either the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.
   • Infringement Notices should be sent to Plickers by as follows: Attention: Copyright Agent, Plickers Inc, 580 Howard Street, Unit 201, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States of America, or by email at copyright@plickers.com.
   • Plickers will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. In the case of a visitor who may infringe or repeatedly infringes the copyrights or intellectual property rights of Plickers or others, Plickers may, in its discretion, terminate or deny access to and use of the Service.