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 may be changed over time without notice to you. Important changes will be announced on this central Wikicity or 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. If you do not wish to follow Wikicity policies, please do not edit Wikicities.

Description of service
Wikicities currently provides free, advertising-supported, wiki hosting for online communities to edit. Wikicities' content is made freely accessible for informational or entertainment purposes to anyone with a connection to the World Wide Web.

Wikicities content
Wikicities is a hosting provider, and takes no responsibility for the content uploaded by third parties. Wikicities' designated agent 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 or post to Wikicities must be compatible with the GFDL, not violate another person's intellectual property or infringe on any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or other proprietary rights. No content shall be added which violates any applicable law, including local, state, national, and international laws.

No content shall be added to any Wikicity which is tortious, threatening, harmful, hateful, unlawful, libelous, defamatory, harassing, abusive, fraudulent, vulgar, obscene, contains viruses, or is otherwise objectionable or potentially damaging, as reasonably determined by Wikicities. For Wikicities supported by the use of Google AdSense ads, no content shall be added which is prohibited by Google's AdSense policy. Pornography and hate sites shall not be created as Wikicities. However, please be aware that wikis may still contain content of an adult nature, or content that you find offensive.

All content on any wiki is the responsibility of the person who uploaded it or added it to a wiki page. Wikicities does not control the content, and does not approve the content before it is published. Although they are not obliged to do so, Wikicities, or its designees, have the right to remove any content for any reason, including violation of these terms of use.

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

Use of the Wikicities site
Use of Wikicities is at your own risk.

Users of this service shall not act in a way on Wikicities which would be harmful to minors. Users of this service shall not impersonate any other person or entity.

Users shall not harass other users or collect or publish personal information about them.

Wikicities may terminate your use of the site, and administrators within each Wikicity may terminate your ability to edit the site.

Commercial activities which have not been authorized by Wikicities are not permitted on the site. You may not sell or otherwise commercially exploit the use of this service, or access to the service.

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.

Any Wikicity may be closed, either to editing or viewing at any time and without notice.

Advertising
Any Wikicity may host advertisements, promotions, and/or a sponsored search box. Only official Wikicity advertisements may be shown. No user shall add advertising that has not been approved by the owner of Wikicities. No user shall remove the advertising, or sponsored search features from the wiki in a way which means other users can not view these.

Wikicities takes no responsibility for the content of externally provided advertising.

The content of advertisements may be protected by copyrights, or other proprietary rights and laws, and should not be assumed to be available under the terms of the GFDL.

Wikicities will never host pop-up adverts.

Collection of personal information
User information is stored on servers in the United States. The only information that you need give is a username and password. The username does not need to be your real name. Therefore, any personal information you choose to give is not compulsory. No personal information should be given on the wiki by persons aged less than 13 years.

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. Users under 13 should not give their real name.

Information from our server logs may be stored and used to gather aggregate data about users, and used to determine whether the identity of one or more users is the same in cases of abuse. This data includes your IP address, and details about your browser.

The collection of cookies is needed to log in to Wikicities. If you do not make a Wikicities account, there is no necessity to accept cookie requests from this site.

Edits by users who are not logged in will show the user's IP address in the page history of the article they edited, and also in other places on the site, including watchlists and recent changes, and in any external feeds made of such pages.

Changes to wikis
Wikicities reserves the right to close, move, merge, or rename, a wiki for any reason. Wikicities shall not be held liable for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of any Wikicity, or of the service as a whole.

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 its 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 of this site, or its content.

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

Disclaimer of warranties
Except in those jurisdictions which do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, Wikicities expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind and shall not be liable for any damages or losses whether directly or indirectly related to your use of this site or its content.

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.