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<p>These Terms of Service (&quot;Terms&quot;) govern your use of any community hosted by The Codidact Foundation, including <a href="https://codidact.com/">https://codidact.com/</a>, <a href="https://codidact.org">https://codidact.org</a>, and subdomains thereof (the &quot;Service&quot;). They are an agreement between you and Codidact C.I.C. ("We" or "Us"). These Terms apply to all uses of the Service, whether you sign up for an account or not. Your use of the Service constitutes your acceptance of these Terms.</p>
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These Terms of Service (&quot;Terms&quot;) govern your use of any community hosted by The Codidact Foundation, including <a href="https://codidact.com/">https://codidact.com/</a>,
<a href="https://codidact.org">https://codidact.org</a>, and subdomains thereof (the &quot;Service&quot;). They are an agreement between you and Codidact C.I.C. ("We" or "Us").
These Terms apply to all uses of the Service, whether you sign up for an account or not. Your use of the Service constitutes your acceptance of these Terms.
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<h2 id="1-who-can-use-the-service">1. Who can use the Service</h2>
<p>The Service is intended to be as open as possible; however, there are a few restrictions on who is eligible to use it.</p>
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<h2 id="3-user-generated-content">3. User-Generated Content</h2>
<p>If you sign up for an account, you will be able to submit questions, answers, comments, and other types of posts, some of which may include images, video, or other media (collectively, &quot;User-Generated Content&quot; or &quot;Content&quot;).</p>
<p>By posting here, you license any such Content under the terms of one of (in increasing order of precedence) (a) the site default license at the time of creating your post; (b) the license of the category in which you post, or (c) the license you choose from the available list at the time of creating your post &mdash; the &quot;Applicable License&quot;. You represent and warrant that you own the rights to all Content you post or that you have the right or have been given permission from the relevant copyright holder to post it under the terms of the Applicable License.</p>
<p>You agree that any term of the Applicable License which requires attribution of such Content to you (an "Attribution Clause") shall be satisfied by the presentation of your username and a link to your profile alongside the Content. You acknowledge that the username presented as such will be your current username, not necessarily the username you used at the time of posting the Content. You agree that if, in Our sole judgement, your chosen username violates Section 2 above, We can reset it to the default value and doing so does not violate any Attribution Clause.</p>
<p>You may have the opportunity to post feedback on the Service in the Meta section, including reports of erroneous behavior or requests for changes to how the Service works. If your feedback is acted upon, you will not be entitled to compensation in any form. There will be no obligation to act upon your feedback.</p>
<p>Your use of the Service does not give you any rights in the design, branding, logos, or other design elements of the Service, and you may not copy, distribute, or otherwise use or disseminate any such elements without written permission (which may be requested by emailing info@codidact.com).</p>
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By posting here, you license any such Content under the terms of one of (in increasing order of precedence) (a) the site default license at the time of creating your post; (b) the license of the category in which you post,
or (c) the license you choose from the available list at the time of creating your post &mdash; the &quot;Applicable License&quot;. You represent and warrant that you own the rights to all Content you post or that you have
the right or have been given permission from the relevant copyright holder to post it under the terms of the Applicable License.
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You agree that any term of the Applicable License which requires attribution of such Content to you (an "Attribution Clause") shall be satisfied by the presentation of your username and a link to your profile alongside the Content.
You acknowledge that the username presented as such will be your current username, not necessarily the username you used at the time of posting the Content. You agree that if, in Our sole judgement, your chosen username violates
Section 2 above, We can reset it to the default value and doing so does not violate any Attribution Clause.
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<p>
You may have the opportunity to post feedback on the Service in the Meta section, including reports of erroneous behavior or requests for changes to how the Service works.
If your feedback is acted upon, you will not be entitled to compensation in any form. There will be no obligation to act upon your feedback.
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<p>
Your use of the Service does not give you any rights in the design, branding, logos, or other design elements of the Service, and you may not copy, distribute,
or otherwise use or disseminate any such elements without written permission (which may be requested by emailing info@codidact.com).
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<h2 id="4-termination">4. Termination</h2>
<p>You agree that if you engage in any conduct that contravenes these Terms, your right to use the Service can be revoked without warning. If you have provided an email address, you may be contacted to advise you of such revocation, but there shall be no obligation to do so.</p>
<p>You agree that if you terminate your account or if We terminate it for violation of these Terms, We are no longer required to provide attribution for Content you provided.</p>
<p>Any clause that should by its nature survive termination shall be deemed to survive it, including particularly clauses 3, 4, 5, and 6.</p>
<h2 id="5-limitations-on-liability">5. Limitations on Liability</h2>
<p>Although every effort is made to make the Service available, the Service is provided &quot;as-is&quot;, and no guarantee is made that the Service will be available, secure, or error-free. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service comes with NO WARRANTY, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.</p>
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Although every effort is made to make the Service available, the Service is provided &quot;as-is&quot;, and no guarantee is made that the Service will be available, secure, or error-free.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service comes with NO WARRANTY, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
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<h2 id="6-governing-law">6. Governing Law</h2>
<p>These Terms are governed by the laws of the United Kingdom, and jurisdiction in disputes relating to the Service shall be limited to the courts of England, United Kingdom.</p>
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For other reviewers: I inspected the diff manually (since the highlighting here is not very informative) and the only changes I see before this point are formatting of HTML source.

<h2 id="7-online-safety">7. Online Safety</h2>
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We acknowledge our responsibilities with regard to safeguarding our users' online safety under the Online Safety Act 2023. We are committed to protecting our users from online harm,
including illegal content. We will ensure that our moderation systems are fit for purpose and effective at protecting our users by identifying and removing illegal content.
If you see content which you believe is harmful or illegal, report it to us via our <a href="/safety/report">Safety Center</a>.
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We use proactive moderation mechanisms to analyse posts and user accounts on an ongoing basis. New posts and new users are scanned as they are created and blocked if necessary. We also run regularly scheduled scans of existing users and content to proactively identify and remove harmful or illegal content.
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Do we currently scan posts? I'm wondering if we should be saying we do or we can/might. Since this is in TOS, it could be phrased as "you acknowledge that we can do this", unless the OSA requires that we do it this way? (No strong opinion; just trying to make sure what we say is pedantically correct.)

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Technically we do; there's no real definition of "scanning", but it'll make sense to users. The system takes post content into account in some scheduled jobs and in spam blocking, which is close enough for me.

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Oh, I forgot about the role of posts in the spam tools. Works for me.

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If you are notified that your content has been removed for this reason and you disagree with our decision, you can raise an appeal through our <a href="/safety/report">Safety Center</a>. A different member of staff will review your appeal and make a final decision.
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