Terms Of Service

Intent

The BikeTag Project aims to be the register of BikeTag Games all over the world, providing BikeTag Images for players on various platforms to enjoy through those platforms, as well as through BikeTag Project websites and applications. BikeTag is a social game that is played in real life and shared with others with the intention to be social. To meet this goal of the players of the game of BikeTag, The BikeTag Project leverages content creation on various public platforms in order to share BikeTag Images publicly with users of those platforms and the Open Internet.

Open-Source

BikeTag is a Free and Open-Source Project. To be able to provide Open-Source and free services to all BikeTag Players, the BikeTag Platform integrates with the following platforms: Imgur, Sanity. These platforms offer the ability to share images and text, which players create through the use of BikeTag Project websites and applications, freely and publicly with all users of the internet. Core to the BikeTag Project’s mission to provide the ability to play the game of BikeTag without needing to log into anything, we achieve this technological feat through the use of publicly available Application Programming Interfaces developed by these platforms using accounts created by the BikeTag Project. We have chosen these platforms for their stated protection of copyrighted material as well as their extension of rights to be able to share such material publicly.

Use

After having submitted any text or images or other materials to any BikeTag Project website or application, Anonymous content will be assumed under the public domain per the discretion of the BikeTag Project. While it is a primary goal of the BikeTag Project’s mission to provide the ability to play BikeTag Games all over the world without needing to log into anything, this also means that What You Type Is What You Get — meaning that in order to accept submissions using an anonymized “name” text field, we must accept that a “name” is all we have to identify BikeTag Players with the content that is created for public use.

Content

For any BikeTag Player who uses third-party accounts to “log in”, BikeTag Post submissions may contain identifiers that associate BikeTag Posts with that account. These features, enabled through third-party BikeTag Developers, allow BikeTag Players to create content that is under their explicit control and copyrighted ownership. Such features, existing both within the BikeTag Project’s websites and applications as well as outside of the BikeTag Project through use of the BikeTag Platform API, provide BikeTag Players the ability to have the content removed from the BikeTag Platform and associated services.

Copyright and Ownership

BikeTag respects the intellectual property of others and requires that users of our Services do the same. If you believe that anything on BikeTag Project website or applications infringes a copyright or a trademark that you own or control, you may notify the BikeTag Project by sending an email to: support@biketag.org. Also, please note that if you knowingly misrepresent that any activity or material on our Service is infringing, you may be liable to the BikeTag Project for certain costs and damages incurred by the BikeTag Project as a result. Extended terms of services from integrated Platforms Players of BikeTag Games using BikeTag Project websites and applications are agreeing to the terms of service of each platform that is integrated with the BikeTag Platform, as well as the terms outlined below, when uploading content (images, text, etc) using BikeTag Project websites and applications; for the explicit intention of sharing such content with the public. We do not control your content with any intention to supersede your inherent copyright or ownership of the material, and the use of other platforms to share your content extends your copyright or ownership to the content created on those other platforms.

1. When uploading images to be applied to a BikeTag Post, the following excerpts from (Imgur) are especially relevant:

If someone else might own the copyright to it, don’t upload it. Don’t upload gore, “hate speech” (i.e. demeaning race, gender, age, religious or sexual orientation, etc.), or material that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, or that encourages violence or crime [or content that could be illegal]1. Don’t impersonate someone else.

Imgur Terms Of Service – Stuff To Do

2. When providing text content to be applied to a BikeTag Post, all previous excerpts referenced from #1, are especially relevant:

The Services may contain information, text, links, graphics, photos, videos, or other materials (“Content”), including Content created or submitted to the Services by you or through your Account (“Your Content”). We take no responsibility for and we do not expressly or implicitly endorse, support, or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any of Your Content.

3. When submitting a BikeTag Post to any BikeTag Project website or application, to be shared publicly with the Open Internet, all previous excerpts referenced from #1 and #2, as well as these from (Sanity), are especially relevant:

The Content is not meant for use for any unethical or unlawful purposes including, but not limited to, phishing, scamming, spoofing, spamming, search site rank manipulation, threats and incitements to violence. … The Content does not and will not violate the privacy rights of any third party. … The Content is not being advertised via unwanted electronic messages (such as, by way of example, spam links on newsgroups, email lists, other blogs and web sites, and similar unsolicited promotional methods).

Sanity IO Terms Of Service – Content

4. When submitting a BikeTag Post Anonymously to any BikeTag Project website or application, all previous excerpts referenced from #1 and #2 and #3, are especially relevant:

Any use or reliance on any Content or materials posted via the Services or obtained by you through the Services is at your own risk. We do not endorse, support, represent or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any Content or communications posted via the Services or endorse any opinions expressed via the Services. You understand that by using the Services, you may be exposed to Content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or in some cases, postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive.

5. For any BikeTag Player who uses third-party accounts to “log in”, or any player who submits content Anonymously, to any BikeTag Project website or application, all previous excerpts referenced from #1 and #2 and #3 and #4, are especially relevant:

When Your Content is created with or submitted to the Services, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world. … Although we have no obligation to screen, edit, or monitor Your Content, we may, in our sole discretion, delete or remove Your Content at any time and for any reason, including for violating these Terms, violating our Content Policy, or if you otherwise create or are likely to create liability for us.

Glossary Of Terms

BikeTag Project - The BikeTag Project team members and entities underneath the BikeTag Project (seeking to become a 501c3).

BikeTag Platform - The Open-Source Software managed and employed by the BikeTag Project on all BikeTag Project websites and applications.

BikeTag Games - Individual community games of BikeTag enabled by the Open-Source BikeTag Platform.

BikeTag Players - All humans who use BikeTag Project websites and applications to participate in BikeTag Games.

BikeTag Ambassadors - Volunteer humans who oversee the continuation of BikeTag Games that are supported by BikeTag Project websites and applications.

BikeTag Websites - All websites underneath the BikeTag Project, which the BikeTag Project maintains.

BikeTag Platform API - The BikeTag Platform Application Programmable Interface that allows BikeTag Developers to create third-party BikeTag websites and applications.

Platforms - websites or services employed by the BikeTag Platform for public content creation.

Services - synonymous with BikeTag Platform services and APIs of integrated Platforms.

Content - anything found on BikeTag Platform websites or applications that may contain information, text, links, graphics, photos, videos, or other materials.

Your Content - content submitted to BikeTag Platform websites or applications which contains an identifier that can be associated with third-party applications.

Anonymous/Anonymously - when a BikeTag Player cannot be distinguished in any meaningful way beyond the content provided and displayed on BikeTag Platform websites and applications.

Anonymous Content - unverifiable content submitted to BikeTag Platform websites or applications, such as a "name" field, which cannot positively identify a BikeTag Player in any distinguishable way beyond the field content provided.

Open-Source - Open-source software is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. The BikeTag Project Open-Source Software uses various Open-Source licensing agreements.

Open Internet - Any publicly reachable website on the internet.

Application Programmable Interface - library code that software developers can use to programmatically access data from a given software platform.

BikeTag Developers - Software developers and applications developed using the BikeTag Platform API which adhere to the BikeTag Project terms of service.

Third-Party Applications - Synonymous with BikeTag Developers.

Referenced TOS Links

Imgur Terms Of Service – Stuff To Do: https://imgur.com/tos

Sanity IO Terms Of Service – Content: https://www.sanity.io/legal/tos