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Terms of use
The terms for reading, commenting and writing on WhizArts, including content ownership and moderation.
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These terms explain the deal between you and the WhizArts team when you use this site: reading, commenting, writing or contacting us. By using WhizArts you agree to them. They sit alongside our community guidelines and privacy policy.
Reading
Reading WhizArts is free and needs no account. You are welcome to read, share links to and quote posts in the usual way, with credit to the writer. The posts belong to their writers, not to you or to us, so don’t republish whole posts without the writer’s permission.
Writer accounts
Writing on WhizArts is by invitation only, and there is no public sign-up. An invitation is personal to the writer who receives it. We decide who is invited, and we may end a writer’s access if they break these terms or the guidelines.
Your content and who owns it
Writers keep ownership of everything they publish on WhizArts. By publishing, a writer gives us permission to host, store, display and distribute that content as part of the service, including through the site’s pages, topic pages and RSS feeds. This permission lasts while the content is published here.
Writers can ask for any post, or their whole blog, to be removed through the contact page.
Responsibility for content
Writers are responsible for what they publish: for having the right to publish it, for its accuracy, and for following the law and the guidelines. Readers who comment are responsible for their comments. Posts and comments reflect the views of the people who wrote them, not ours.
Feeds and sharing
Posts are also published through RSS feeds, one for each writer and one for the whole site. Feed readers and similar tools may fetch and display those feeds for their users. Using a feed to follow writers is welcome; using it to republish their work elsewhere as your own is not.
Comments
Anyone can comment without an account. Comments are reviewed before they appear, and we decide which comments to publish. Comments that are not approved are deleted after 30 days. By posting a comment you allow us to display it alongside the post.
Acceptable use
Don’t use WhizArts for anything the community guidelines forbid. Don’t try to disrupt the site, break its security, send automated spam through its forms, or access parts of it you are not meant to. Don’t put a heavy load on the site with automated requests, and don’t use it to collect information about other people.
If you find a security problem, please tell us privately through the contact page instead of testing it on the live site.
Removing content
We may remove any post, comment or profile, or close a blog, if we believe it breaks these terms, the guidelines or the law, or puts readers or the site at risk.
Copyright complaints
If you believe something on WhizArts infringes your copyright, use the contact page and choose “Copyright”. Include the link to the content, what you believe it copies, and how we can reach you. We will review the complaint and may remove the content.
Links to other sites
Posts and profiles can link to websites we don’t run. We are not responsible for those sites, their content or their practices, and a link is not an endorsement.
Changes to the service
WhizArts is a living project. We may change, add or remove features, and we may suspend or discontinue the service, in whole or in part, at any time.
No warranty
WhizArts is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied. We don’t promise that the site will always be available, error-free or secure, or that any content on it is accurate or complete.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, the WhizArts team is not liable for any indirect, incidental or consequential loss, or for any loss of data, content or opportunity, arising from your use of the site or from content published by writers or commenters.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time. When we do, we will change the “last updated” date at the top of this page. If you keep using WhizArts after a change, you accept the updated terms.
Contact
Questions about these terms? Ask us through the contact page.