Community Central:Terms of use

Welcome to Wikicities. Before you start a new Wikicity, or edit an existing one, you must agree to the terms below. These terms will be expanded over time. Important changes will be announced on this central Wikicity and on the mailing list. You agree to be bound by any changes to this page.

If you do not accept and abide by this Agreement, please do not use Wikicities.

Description of service
Wikicities provides free, advertising-supported, wiki hosting for online communities to edit.

Wikicities content
Wikicities is a hosting provider, and takes no responsibility for the content uploaded by third parties. Wikicities will act to remove copyright violations in a timely manner following the receipt of a DMCA takedown request.

Wikicities is provided "as is". Wikicities has no responsibility for lack of availability of any wiki or of any particular content. You should be aware that the wikis are editable by the public, and, as such, may contain inappropriate content at any time.

Any use you make of Wikicities must be in line with the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

Any content you upload to Wikicities must be compatible with the GFDL, not violate another person's intellectual property or infringe on any copyright. No content shall be added which violates your local laws, or any laws in effect in the state of Florida.

No content shall be added to any Wikicity which is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, abusive, fraudulent, obscene, contains viruses, or is otherwise objectionable as reasonably determined by Wikicities.

Page histories and mailing list archives are archives as defined under the US Copyright Act.

Access to Wikicities
Wikicities reserves the right to refuse access to Wikicities, or to refuse the creation of a Wikicity, to any user, for any reason.

Wikicities, or any individual wiki, may be discontinued at any time and without any liability to any user.

All Wikicities shall remain publicly viewable and editable unless Wikicities chooses to remove a Wikicity. Wikicity pages should only be protected for administrative reasons or in cases of extreme vandalism or edit warring.

Any Wikicity may be closed, either to editing or viewing at any time and without notice. In cases where it is legal to do so, the content will be made available as a database dump for download for a period after the wiki is closed.

Advertising
Any Wikicity may host advertisements from Google, a similar provider, or directly from any advertiser. Advertising for Wikicities' sister project, Wikia, or any other projects Wikicities chooses to support may be included. Only official Wikicity advertisements may be shown. No user shall add advertising that has not been approved by the owner of Wikicities.

Personal details
Personal information is stored on servers in the United States. Wikicities is only for the personal use of persons aged 13 years or over.

All details submitted in your Wikicity request may be made public. The email address you provide in your request will be publicly viewable on the information page about your wiki's mailing list. You may change this email after your request in your user preferences.

If you choose to enter a real name in your preferences, this will be publicly available. However, this field is optional, and there is no requirement for any user to give a real name.

Trademarks
The name Wikicities and the Wikicities logo are trademarks of Wikicities.

All content on the site is available under the terms of the GFDL. All copyrights remain with their original holder, and Wikicities holds no copyright other than those of it's own trademarks, and the edits submitted by Wikicities' staff.

Legal action
You agree to indemnify Wikicities, its owners, employees, and users from any liability relating to your use or editing of this site.

All legal action will be subject to the jurisdiction of courts in Florida, US

Severability
If any term, condition or clause of these terms of use is found to be invalid then the remaining terms, conditions and clauses, shall remain valid.