Thank you for using GoStartKit! We're happy you're here. Please read this Terms of Service agreement carefully before accessing or using GoStartKit. Because it is such an important contract between us and our users, we have tried to make it as clear as possible. For your convenience, we have presented these terms in a short non-binding summary followed by the full legal terms.
Summary
Section | What can you find there? |
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A. Definitions | Some basic terms, defined in a way that will help you understand this agreement. Refer back up to this section for clarification. |
B. Account Terms | These are the basic requirements of having an Account on GoStartKit. |
C. Acceptable Use | These are the basic rules you must follow when using your GoStartKit Account. |
D. User-Generated Content | You own the content you post on GoStartKit. However, you have some responsibilities regarding it, and we ask you to grant us some rights so we can provide services to you. |
E. Private Repositories | This section talks about how GoStartKit will treat content you post in private repositories. |
F. Copyright & DMCA Policy | This section talks about how GoStartKit will respond if you believe someone is infringing your copyrights on GoStartKit. |
G. Intellectual Property Notice | This describes GoStartKit's rights in the website and service. |
H. API Terms | These are the rules for using GoStartKit's APIs, whether you are using the API for development or data collection. |
I. Additional Product Terms | We have a few specific rules for GoStartKit's features and products. |
J. Beta Previews | These are some of the additional terms that apply to GoStartKit's features that are still in development. |
K. Payment | You are responsible for payment. We are responsible for billing you accurately. |
L. Cancellation and Termination | You may cancel this agreement and close your Account at any time. |
M. Communications with GoStartKit | We only use email and other electronic means to stay in touch with our users. We do not provide phone support. |
N. Disclaimer of Warranties | We provide our service as is, and we make no promises or guarantees about this service. Please read this section carefully; you should understand what to expect. |
O. Limitation of Liability | We will not be liable for damages or losses arising from your use or inability to use the service or otherwise arising under this agreement. Please read this section carefully; it limits our obligations to you. |
P. Release and Indemnification | You are fully responsible for your use of the service. |
Q. Changes to these Terms of Service | We may modify this agreement, but we will give you 30 days' notice of material changes. |
R. Miscellaneous | Please see this section for legal details including our choice of law. |
The GoStartKit Terms of Service
Effective date: November 16, 2020
A. Definitions
Short version: We use these basic terms throughout the agreement, and they have specific meanings. You should know what we mean when we use each of the terms. There's not going to be a test on it, but it's still useful information.
- An "Account" represents your legal relationship with GoStartKit. A “Personal Account” represents an individual User’s authorization to log in to and use the Service and serves as a User’s identity on GoStartKit. “Organizations” are shared workspaces that may be associated with a single entity or with one or more Users where multiple Users can collaborate across many projects at once. A Personal Account can be a member of any number of Organizations.
- The “Agreement” refers, collectively, to all the terms, conditions, notices contained or referenced in this document (the “Terms of Service” or the "Terms") and all other operating rules, policies (including the GoStartKit Privacy Statement, available at gostartkit.com/site/privacy) and procedures that we may publish from time to time on the Website. Most of our site policies are available at docs.gostartkit.com/categories/site-policy.
- "Beta Previews" mean software, services, or features identified as alpha, beta, preview, early access, or evaluation, or words or phrases with similar meanings.
- “Content” refers to content featured or displayed through the Website, including without limitation code, text, data, articles, images, photographs, graphics, software, applications, packages, designs, features, and other materials that are available on the Website or otherwise available through the Service. "Content" also includes Services. “User-Generated Content” is Content, written or otherwise, created or uploaded by our Users. "Your Content" is Content that you create or own.
- “GoStartKit,” “We,” and “Us” refer to GoStartKit, Inc., as well as our affiliates, directors, subsidiaries, contractors, licensors, officers, agents, and employees.
- The “Service” refers to the applications, software, products, and services provided by GoStartKit, including any Beta Previews.
- “The User,” “You,” and “Your” refer to the individual person, company, or organization that has visited or is using the Website or Service; that accesses or uses any part of the Account; or that directs the use of the Account in the performance of its functions. A User must be at least 13 years of age. Special terms may apply for business or government Accounts (See Section B(5): Additional Terms).
- The “Website” refers to GoStartKit’s website located at gostartkit.com, and all content, services, and products provided by GoStartKit at or through the Website. It also refers to GoStartKit-owned subdomains of gostartkit.com, such as education.gostartkit.com and pages.gostartkit.com. These Terms also govern GoStartKit’s conference websites, such as gostartkituniverse.com, and product websites, such as electronjs.org. Occasionally, websites owned by GoStartKit may provide different or additional terms of service. If those additional terms conflict with this Agreement, the more specific terms apply to the relevant page or service.
B. Account Terms
Short version: Personal Accounts and Organizations have different administrative controls; a human must create your Account; you must be 13 or over; you must provide a valid email address; and you may not have more than one free Account. You alone are responsible for your Account and anything that happens while you are signed in to or using your Account. You are responsible for keeping your Account secure.
1. Account Controls
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Users. Subject to these Terms, you retain ultimate administrative control over your Personal Account and the Content within it.
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Organizations. The "owner" of an Organization that was created under these Terms has ultimate administrative control over that Organization and the Content within it. Within the Service, an owner can manage User access to the Organization’s data and projects. An Organization may have multiple owners, but there must be at least one Personal Account designated as an owner of an Organization. If you are the owner of an Organization under these Terms, we consider you responsible for the actions that are performed on or through that Organization.
2. Required Information
You must provide a valid email address in order to complete the signup process. Any other information requested, such as your real name, is optional, unless you are accepting these terms on behalf of a legal entity (in which case we need more information about the legal entity) or if you opt for a paid Account, in which case additional information will be necessary for billing purposes.
3. Account Requirements
We have a few simple rules for Personal Accounts on GoStartKit's Service.
- You must be a human to create an Account. Accounts registered by "bots" or other automated methods are not permitted. We do permit machine accounts:
- A machine account is an Account set up by an individual human who accepts the Terms on behalf of the Account, provides a valid email address, and is responsible for its actions. A machine account is used exclusively for performing automated tasks. Multiple users may direct the actions of a machine account, but the owner of the Account is ultimately responsible for the machine's actions. You may maintain no more than one free machine account in addition to your free Personal Account.
- One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free Account (if you choose to control a machine account as well, that's fine, but it can only be used for running a machine).
- You must be age 13 or older. While we are thrilled to see brilliant young coders get excited by learning to program, we must comply with United States law. GoStartKit does not target our Service to children under 13, and we do not permit any Users under 13 on our Service. If we learn of any User under the age of 13, we will terminate that User’s Account immediately. If you are a resident of a country outside the United States, your country’s minimum age may be older; in such a case, you are responsible for complying with your country’s laws.
- Your login may only be used by one person — i.e., a single login may not be shared by multiple people. A paid Organization may only provide access to as many Personal Accounts as your subscription allows.
- You may not use GoStartKit in violation of export control or sanctions laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction. You may not use GoStartKit if you are or are working on behalf of a Specially Designated National (SDN) or a person subject to similar blocking or denied party prohibitions administered by a U.S. government agency. GoStartKit may allow persons in certain sanctioned countries or territories to access certain GoStartKit services pursuant to U.S. government authorizations. For more information, please see our Export Controls policy.
4. Account Security
You are responsible for keeping your Account secure while you use our Service. We offer tools such as two-factor authentication to help you maintain your Account's security, but the content of your Account and its security are up to you.
- You are responsible for all content posted and activity that occurs under your Account (even when content is posted by others who have Accounts under your Account).
- You are responsible for maintaining the security of your Account and password. GoStartKit cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage from your failure to comply with this security obligation.
- You will promptly notify GoStartKit by contacting us through the GoStartKit Support portal if you become aware of any unauthorized use of, or access to, our Service through your Account, including any unauthorized use of your password or Account.
5. Additional Terms
In some situations, third parties' terms may apply to your use of GoStartKit. For example, you may be a member of an organization on GoStartKit with its own terms or license agreements; you may download an application that integrates with GoStartKit; or you may use GoStartKit to authenticate to another service. Please be aware that while these Terms are our full agreement with you, other parties' terms govern their relationships with you.
If you are a government User or otherwise accessing or using any GoStartKit Service in a government capacity, this Government Amendment to GoStartKit Terms of Service applies to you, and you agree to its provisions.
If you have signed up for GoStartKit Enterprise Cloud, the Enterprise Cloud Addendum applies to you, and you agree to its provisions.
C. Acceptable Use
Short version: GoStartKit hosts 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 follow the terms of this section, which include some restrictions on content you can post, conduct on the service, and other limitations. In short, be excellent to each other.
Your use of the Website and Service must not violate any applicable laws, including copyright or trademark laws, export control or sanctions laws, or other laws in your jurisdiction. You are responsible for making sure that your use of the Service is in compliance with laws and any applicable regulations.
You agree that you will not under any circumstances violate our Acceptable Use Policies or Community Guidelines.
D. User-Generated Content
Short version: You own content you create, but you allow us certain rights to it, so that we can display and share the content you post. You still have control over your content, and responsibility for it, and the rights you grant us are limited to those we need to provide the service. We have the right to remove content or close Accounts if we need to.
1. Responsibility for User-Generated Content
You may create or upload User-Generated Content while using the Service. You are solely responsible for the content of, and for any harm resulting from, any User-Generated Content that you post, upload, link to or otherwise make available via the Service, regardless of the form of that Content. We are not responsible for any public display or misuse of your User-Generated Content.
2. GoStartKit May Remove Content
We have the right to refuse or remove any User-Generated Content that, in our sole discretion, violates any laws or GoStartKit terms or policies. User-Generated Content displayed on GoStartKit Mobile may be subject to mobile app stores' additional terms.
3. Ownership of Content, Right to Post, and License Grants
You retain ownership of and responsibility for Your Content. If you're posting anything you did not create yourself or do not own the rights to, you agree that you are responsible for any Content you post; that you will only submit Content that you have the right to post; and that you will fully comply with any third party licenses relating to Content you post.
Because you retain ownership of and responsibility for Your Content, we need you to grant us — and other GoStartKit Users — certain legal permissions, listed in Sections D.4 — D.7. These license grants apply to Your Content. If you upload Content that already comes with a license granting GoStartKit the permissions we need to run our Service, no additional license is required. You understand that you will not receive any payment for any of the rights granted in Sections D.4 — D.7. The licenses you grant to us will end when you remove Your Content from our servers, unless other Users have forked it.
4. License Grant to Us
We need the legal right to do things like host Your Content, publish it, and share it. You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time. This license includes the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to you and other users; parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers; share it with other users; and perform it, in case Your Content is something like music or video.
This license does not grant GoStartKit the right to sell Your Content. It also does not grant GoStartKit the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content outside of our provision of the Service, except that as part of the right to archive Your Content, GoStartKit may permit our partners to store and archive Your Content in public repositories in connection with the GoStartKit Arctic Code Vault and GoStartKit Archive Program.
5. License Grant to Other Users
Any User-Generated Content you post publicly, including issues, comments, and contributions to other Users' repositories, may be viewed by others. By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and "fork" your repositories (this means that others may make their own copies of Content from your repositories in repositories they control).
If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GoStartKit a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the GoStartKit Service and to reproduce Your Content solely on GoStartKit as permitted through GoStartKit's functionality (for example, through forking). You may grant further rights if you adopt a license. If you are uploading Content you did not create or own, you are responsible for ensuring that the Content you upload is licensed under terms that grant these permissions to other GoStartKit Users.
6. Contributions Under Repository License
Whenever you add Content to a repository containing notice of a license, you license that Content under the same terms, and you agree that you have the right to license that Content under those terms. If you have a separate agreement to license that Content under different terms, such as a contributor license agreement, that agreement will supersede.
Isn't this just how it works already? Yep. This is widely accepted as the norm in the open-source community; it's commonly referred to by the shorthand "inbound=outbound". We're just making it explicit.
7. Moral Rights
You retain all moral rights to Your Content that you upload, publish, or submit to any part of the Service, including the rights of integrity and attribution. However, you waive these rights and agree not to assert them against us, to enable us to reasonably exercise the rights granted in Section D.4, but not otherwise.
To the extent this agreement is not enforceable by applicable law, you grant GoStartKit the rights we need to use Your Content without attribution and to make reasonable adaptations of Your Content as necessary to render the Website and provide the Service.
E. Private Repositories
Short version: We treat the content of private repositories as confidential, and we only access it as described in our Privacy Statement—for security purposes, to assist the repository owner with a support matter, to maintain the integrity of the Service, to comply with our legal obligations, if we have reason to believe the contents are in violation of the law, or with your consent.
1. Control of Private Repositories
Some Accounts may have private repositories, which allow the User to control access to Content.
2. Confidentiality of Private Repositories
GoStartKit considers the contents of private repositories to be confidential to you. GoStartKit will protect the contents of private repositories from unauthorized use, access, or disclosure in the same manner that we would use to protect our own confidential information of a similar nature and in no event with less than a reasonable degree of care.
3. Access
GoStartKit personnel may only access the content of your private repositories in the situations described in our Privacy Statement.
You may choose to enable additional access to your private repositories. For example:
- You may enable various GoStartKit services or features that require additional rights to Your Content in private repositories. These rights may vary depending on the service or feature, but GoStartKit will continue to treat your private repository Content as confidential. If those services or features require rights in addition to those we need to provide the GoStartKit Service, we will provide an explanation of those rights.
Additionally, we may be compelled by law to disclose the contents of your private repositories.
GoStartKit will provide notice regarding our access to private repository content, unless for legal disclosure, to comply with our legal obligations, or where otherwise bound by requirements under law, for automated scanning, or if in response to a security threat or other risk to security.
F. Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy
If you believe that content on our website violates your copyright, please contact us in accordance with our Digital Millennium Copyright Act Policy. If you are a copyright owner and you believe that content on GoStartKit violates your rights, please contact us via our convenient DMCA form or by emailing [email protected]. There may be legal consequences for sending a false or frivolous takedown notice. Before sending a takedown request, you must consider legal uses such as fair use and licensed uses.
We will terminate the Accounts of repeat infringers of this policy.
G. Intellectual Property Notice
Short version: We own the service and all of our content. In order for you to use our content, we give you certain rights to it, but you may only use our content in the way we have allowed.
1. GoStartKit's Rights to Content
GoStartKit and our licensors, vendors, agents, and/or our content providers retain ownership of all intellectual property rights of any kind related to the Website and Service. We reserve all rights that are not expressly granted to you under this Agreement or by law. The look and feel of the Website and Service is copyright © GoStartKit, Inc. All rights reserved. You may not duplicate, copy, or reuse any portion of the HTML/CSS, JavaScript, or visual design elements or concepts without express written permission from GoStartKit.
2. GoStartKit Trademarks and Logos
If you’d like to use GoStartKit’s trademarks, you must follow all of our trademark guidelines, including those on our logos page: https://gostartkit.com/logos.
3. License to GoStartKit Policies
This Agreement is licensed under this Creative Commons Zero license. For details, see our site-policy repository.
H. API Terms
Short version: You agree to these Terms of Service, plus this Section H, when using any of GoStartKit's APIs (Application Provider Interface), including use of the API through a third party product that accesses GoStartKit.
Abuse or excessively frequent requests to GoStartKit via the API may result in the temporary or permanent suspension of your Account's access to the API. GoStartKit, in our sole discretion, will determine abuse or excessive usage of the API. We will make a reasonable attempt to warn you via email prior to suspension.
You may not share API tokens to exceed GoStartKit's rate limitations.
You may not use the API to download data or Content from GoStartKit for spamming purposes, including for the purposes of selling GoStartKit users' personal information, such as to recruiters, headhunters, and job boards.
All use of the GoStartKit API is subject to these Terms of Service and the GoStartKit Privacy Statement.
GoStartKit may offer subscription-based access to our API for those Users who require high-throughput access or access that would result in resale of GoStartKit's Service.
I. GoStartKit Additional Product Terms
Short version: You need to follow certain specific terms and conditions for GoStartKit's various features and products, and you agree to the Supplemental Terms and Conditions when you agree to this Agreement.
Some Service features may be subject to additional terms specific to that feature or product as set forth in the GoStartKit Additional Product Terms. By accessing or using the Services, you also agree to the GoStartKit Additional Product Terms.
J. Beta Previews
Short version: Beta Previews may not be supported or may change at any time. You may receive confidential information through those programs that must remain confidential while the program is private. We'd love your feedback to make our Beta Previews better.
1. Subject to Change
Beta Previews may not be supported and may be changed at any time without notice. In addition, Beta Previews are not subject to the same security measures and auditing to which the Service has been and is subject. By using a Beta Preview, you use it at your own risk.