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Terms of Service
The gist:
We (the ) run a blog and website hosting platform called and would love for you to use it WordPresscorades for advanced features such as doive you as oes on your website as possible and encourage you to express yourself freely However, be responsible in what you publish In particular, make sure that none of the prohibited items (like spam, viruses, or serious threats of violence) appear on your website
If you find a WordPresscom website that you believe violates these Terms of Service, please
We also have additional services and products designed to make the web a better place like , , , , , and
(We’ve made the below Terms of Service available under a license, which means you’re more than welcome to repurpose it for your own use Just make sure to replace references to us with ones to you, and if you don’t mind we’d appreciate a link to WordPresscom somewhere on your website We spent a lot of money and time on the below, and other people shouldn’t need to do the same)
Terms of Service:
The following terovern all use of the WordPresscom website and all content, services, and products available at or through the website, including, but not limited to, Jetpack (“Jetpack”), VaultPress (“VaultPress”), and WordPresscoether, our “Services”) Our Services are offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the ter rules, policies (including, without limitation, ) and procedures that may be published froreerade our Services, and these Terrades If you reside in the United States or Brazil, your agreement is with Automattic Inc (US), and if you reside outside of the United States or Brazil, your agreement is with Aut O’Mattic Ltd (Ireland) (each, ”Automattic” or ”we”)
Please read this Agree our Services By accessing or using any part of our Services, you agree to becoree to all the Terreement, then you may not access or use any of our Services If these Terms are considered an offer by Automattic, acceptance is expressly limited to these Terms
Our Services are not directed to children younger than 13, and access and use of our Services is only offered to users 13 years of age or older If you are under 13 years old, please do not register to use our Services Any person who registers as a user or provides their personal infore or older
Use of our Services requires a WordPresscoree to provide us with coister for an account You will be solely responsible and liable for any activity that occurs under your userna your password secure
1 WordPresscom
Your WordPressco or website on WordPressco the security of your account and blog, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the blog You must immediately notify Auto, your account, or any other breaches of security Automattic will not be liable for any acts or oes of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions
Responsibility of Contributors If you operate a blog, co, post material to WordPresscom, post links on WordPresscom, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available (any such material, ”Content”), you are entirely responsible for the content of, and any har froardless of what form the Content takes, which includes, but is not li WordPresscom, you represent and warrant that your Content and conduct do not violate these Ter Content to Autorant Automattic a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing, and pro This license allows Automattic to make publicly-posted content available to third parties selected by Autoh the Automattic Firehose, for example) so that these third parties can analyze and distribute (but not publicly display) your content through their services You also give other WordPresscom users permission to share your Content on other WordPressco your Content), so long as they use only a portion of your post and they give you credit as the original author by linking back to your website (the on WordPresscom does this automatically!) If you delete Content, Automattic will use reasonable efforts to re or references to the Contentany of those representations or warranties, Autoation) to, in Automattic's sole discretion, (i) reclaied inactivity, (ii) refuse or remove any content that, in Automattic's reasonable opinion, violates any Automattic policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (iii) terminate or deny access to and use of WordPresscom to any individual or entity for any reason Autoation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid
Web Traffic We use a third party, comScore, Inc (”coe By hosting your site on WordPressco to your website to Autonment Letter on your behalf for comScore audience measurement reports Your website's traffic will be included under Automattic You understand that your website will not receive credit for traffic in these reports, and you n your website's traffic to any other party If we or comScore require additional documentation to verify ownershi+p of your website or doree to make reasonable efforts to accommodate such requests
Ecommerce There are certain features on WordPresscooods, content, services, etc) on your website Store is powered by WooCommerce and Jetpack, so if you use Store, apply You are solely responsible for all of your eco your store, your items, its operation, all applicable taxes and fees,compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and cos, this means that:
You should use your best judg your store, processing pay items For example, you may not want to accept check pay address with a customer, or you may want to publish payment and return policies
We are not involved in your relationshi+ps or transactions with any customer or potential customer
You are responsible for resolving all support questions, coebacks, or pricing questions You should provide contact information so that customers may contact you with questions or complaints
You are responsible for delivering ite all promises, representations, or warranties you make to them in connection with a sale
You may choose to set up and/or use third party services, such as or to collect payment, or for tax calculations If you do so, be aware that some of your — and your customers' — data may be passed to the respective third party, and the respective third party's terms of service, privacy policy, and other policies may apply We are not involved in these relationshi+ps If you use Store, please note that some of these third party services (like TaxJar) may be enabled by default, but you may disable them before your store is set up If you do not want to use these third party services, please disable thes
You are responsible for all taxes and fees associated with your ecommerce activities You must collect, report, and/or pay the correct amounts to the appropriate authorities, if applicable, and if needed, inform your customers about any taxes they may be required to pay and issue appropriate invoices While Store enables you to include sales tax in transactions, you should not rely solely on this feature
You must not violate our orHTTPS We offer free HTTPS on all WordPressco custo a custom domain on WordPresscoistrant’s behalf (by requesting the necessary certificates, for exa HTTPS on your site
Advertiseht to display advertiserade or a VIP Service account
Attribution Autoht to display attribution text or links in your site footer or toolbar, attributing WordPresscom or the theme author, for example The toolbar may not be altered or removed Attribution text or links may only be hidden if you are subscribed to WordPresscom Business or VIP
Friends of WPco a partner theme from the Friends of WPcoree to that partner’s terms of service You can opt out of their ter a partner theme
Payment and Renewal
General Tere or dorade”) By selecting an Upgrade you agree to pay Automattic the monthly or annual subscription fees indicated for that service Payn up for an Upgrade and will cover the use of that service for a monthly or annual subscription period as indicated More details are available inAutomatic Renewal Unless you notify Automattic before the end of the applicable subscription period that you want to cancel an Upgrade, your Upgrade subscription will automatically renew and you authorize us to collect the then-applicable annual or rade (as well as any taxes) using any credit card or other payrades can be canceled at any tirades section of your website’s dashboard
VIP Service VIP Hosting/Support and VIP Support services are provided by Automattic under the terms and conditions for each such service, which are located at and , respectively By signing up for a VIP Hosting/Support or VIP Support services account, you agree to abide by such terms and conditions
2 Jetpack
Description Jetpack is a plugin that connects your self-hosted WordPress website to WordPresscoive you the most powerful WordPresscom features
Jetpack Content You're fully responsible for the content of any website you own that runs Jetpack (”Jetpack Content”)
License You agree that we ated/anonymized statistics for our internal use to optimize Jetpack's performance
Features Jetpack includes various features, and you can visit Jetpackcom to learn more about them Some features, like Enhanced Distribution, when activated, will include your Jetpack Content in the WordPresscorant us permission to display your Jetpack Content on WordPressco your website Some features are on by default and others you need to enable manually You can see which features are active, and activate and deactivate features, on your dashboard
Storage of Information Certain Jetpack features rely on WordPresscom servers to function, such as those that allow you to send email, publish links, relate posts to each other, or resize i features of Jetpack, certain infors, and setup of your site are synced with our servers, as described on3 WooCommerce Services
Description WooCommerce is an open-source, customizable ecommerce platform for self-hosted WordPress websites If you use WooCommerce, also apply Certain features offered via WooCommerce (”WooCommerce Services”), such as those related to tax calculation, pay, require Jetpack to function As such, if you enable or use those features, these terms and the Jetpack-specific terms will also apply
Usage of Information WooCommerce Services may require Automattic's servers, a connection to our partners, and/or data from your site, to work, as described on
Prohibited Uses You may not use WooCommerce Services for any unlawful purposes, or in furtherance of illegal activities We may terminate your access to WooCommerce Services if we determine (in our sole discretion) that your use is in any way harmful or objectionable
Third Party Services You may choose to set up and/or use third party services, such or to collect pay If you do so, be aware that some of your — and your customers' — data may be passed to the respective third party, and the respective third party's terms of service, privacy policy, and other policies may apply We are not involved in these relationshi+ps
Tax Calculations Tax Calculations are provided byYou are responsible for all taxes and fees associated with your ecommerce activities You must collect, report, and/or pay the correct amounts to the appropriate authorities, if applicable, and if needed, inform your customers about any taxes they may be required to pay and issue appropriate invoices While WooCommerce Services allow you to include sales tax in transactions, you should not rely solely on this feature
shi+pping Services
shi+pping labels are provided by and allow you to take advantage of real-tie and print shi+pping labels fro services, such as andWe act only as an intermediary between you and these third parties; we are not involved in any ith your product or its shi+pment We also do not warrant that the results you obtain from the use of these services (rates and labels, for example) will be accurate or reliable
You are solely responsible for co doulations and those of the relevant e, you will need to co others
In addition, you are solely responsible for custoes related to your shi+painst us as a result of your use of the shi+pping services, you will reimburse us for the full amount within 7 days
You authorize us to charge you for the fees associated with each shi+pping label you create Each fee will be charged separately to the payment method you provided in your WordPresscoe as describedIf you have multiple payment methods, you can select which should be used for the shi+pping label service by going to the WooCo on the ”WooCommerce Services” tab If we are unable to collect payment from you for these fees, you will be responsible for payment within 7 days; please contact us to remit payment
Refunds for unused shi+pping labels must be requested in your store's wp-ad the label Please note that depending on your bank and the third party involved, it may take up to 45 days for your refund to issue If you haven't received your refund within this time frame, please contact us
The shi+pping labels service may only be used for WooCoe and/or shi+pping labels to a third party
4 VaultPress
Description VaultPress is a subscription-based security and backup service for self-hosted WordPress websites
VaultPress Content VaultPress will backup your WordPress content (eg, your WordPress database, plugins, themes, and uploads, as well as some additional files, as described ) (”VaultPress Content”) You can view the Content that VaultPress backs up viaYou're fully responsible for your VaultPress Content It's your responsibility to ensure that your website's Content abides by applicable laws and by these Terms We don't actively review the VaultPress Content
Access If you lose access to your WordPresscom account, you may not be able to access your backed up VaultPress Content
License By using VaultPress, you grant us access to your website's servers for the purpose of backing up and securing your VaultPress Content, and restoring files and database information (which may include access details for multiple servers or accounts for each website that we backup) In order to address security vulnerabilities, we rade to your site, or we may access your site to remove malicious code We ated/anonymized statistics for our internal use to optirant us a ide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to copy and store your VaultPress Content, to the extent necessary to operate the VaultPress service These Terhts in your VaultPress Content, beyond those we need to operate VaultPress You own your VaultPress Content
Prohibited Uses When using VaultPress, you agree not to:
Publish al under applicable law
Use VaultPress to overburden Automattic's systems, as determined by us in our sole discretion
Disclose the sensitive personal information of others
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