1. Who We Are and These Terms
Discussite is operated by Discussite AB ("Discussite," "we," "us,"
and "our"), a company based in Sweden. These Terms of Service
("Terms") govern your access to and use of Discussite, including
our website, apps, extensions, content, and related services
(collectively, the "Service").
Discussite AB's registered address is c/o Vasa tobak &
konfektyraffär, Vasagatan 11, 411 24 Göteborg, Sweden. Our
organisation number is 559574-8483.
By accessing or using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you
use the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent that you
have authority to bind that organization, and "you" includes that
organization.
If you do not agree to these Terms, do not access or use the
Service.
2. Eligibility and Registration
You may use the Service only if you can form a binding contract with
us and your use is not prohibited by applicable law. If the law
where you live requires parent or guardian consent for your age
group, you may use the Service only with that consent.
You must provide accurate information when creating or maintaining
an account, keep it updated, and keep your login credentials secure.
You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your account
unless the activity resulted from our failure to use reasonable
security measures.
You are responsible for complying with the laws that apply to you
when you access or use the Service.
3. The Service
Discussite is an online platform that lets users submit links,
publish posts, maintain profiles, follow other users, and
participate in discussions. We may change, improve, suspend, or
discontinue any part of the Service at any time, with or without
notice, subject to applicable law.
Some features may be invite-only, limited, experimental, or offered
under separate product terms. We do not promise that any feature,
content, or account data will always be available, backed up, or
recoverable.
4. Other Policies That Apply
Our Privacy Policy describes how we collect,
use, and protect personal data and forms part of your agreement with
us. By using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read that
policy.
Our User Conduct Policy describes the content
and behavior rules for the Service. It forms part of these Terms and
is the user-facing source of truth we use for moderator review and
any automated moderation systems we deploy. You agree to follow it
when you use the Service.
We may also publish other community rules or product-specific
policies. Once published and made available through the Service,
those policies become part of these Terms from their stated
effective date.
5. Your License to Use the Service
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable,
non-exclusive, non-transferable permission to access and use the
Service for its intended purpose. This permission does not give you
any ownership rights in the Service or our content.
6. User Content: Ownership, Responsibility, and Risk
The Service may let you submit, upload, publish, send, store, or
otherwise make available links, titles, text, profile information,
images, comments, messages, and other material ("User Content"). You
keep whatever ownership rights you already have in your User
Content.
You, not Discussite, are solely responsible for your User Content
and for the consequences of posting, sharing, linking to, or
otherwise transmitting it through the Service. This means you are
responsible for making sure you have all rights, licenses, consents,
and permissions needed for your User Content and that it does not
violate law or another person's rights.
By posting User Content, you represent and warrant that: (a) you own
it or have the rights needed to submit it and grant the rights in
these Terms; (b) your User Content, and our use of it as permitted
by these Terms, will not infringe, misappropriate, or violate any
intellectual property, privacy, publicity, contract, or other
rights; and (c) your User Content does not contain malware,
deceptive code, or other harmful material.
We may, but are not required to, monitor User Content or user
conduct. We are not responsible for User Content submitted by users,
for how other users interpret it, or for any loss or damage
resulting from it.
7. The License You Grant Us to Operate the Service
To operate the Service, you grant Discussite a worldwide,
non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to
host, store, cache, reproduce, distribute, communicate, display,
perform, publish, reformat, translate, create technical derivative
works of, and otherwise use your User Content as necessary to
provide, operate, secure, moderate, improve, analyze, promote, and
support the Service and related products and features.
This license includes the right to: (a) make your User Content
available to other users according to the Service's functionality
and your settings; (b) create previews, excerpts, thumbnails, feeds,
rankings, accessibility adaptations, and search results; (c) use
service providers acting on our behalf; and (d) retain copies as
reasonably necessary for backups, logs, security, legal compliance,
dispute resolution, abuse prevention, and enforcement of these
Terms.
This license ends when your User Content is permanently removed from
the active Service, except to the extent your User Content has been
shared with others, stored in backups or logs, retained for legal or
safety reasons, or incorporated into aggregated or de-identified
materials that do not identify you.
8. Public Discussions and Account Closure
The Service is designed around public discussion. If you make User
Content public, other users may read, comment on, quote, flag,
share, or refer to it through the Service and outside it.
If you close your account or we terminate it, we may remove, retain,
anonymize, or de-identify your User Content and account data as
described in the Privacy Policy or as reasonably necessary for the
Service, moderation, fraud prevention, legal compliance, security,
backups, recordkeeping, and dispute resolution. Public discussion
content may remain available in de-identified form after account
closure.
9. Feedback and Ideas
If you send us any ideas, suggestions, proposals, feature requests,
corrections, recommendations, or other feedback about the Service
("Feedback"), you agree that the Feedback is voluntary and
non-confidential, and that we may use it without restriction or
obligation to you.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you hereby assign to
Discussite all right, title, and interest in and to that Feedback.
If any right does not automatically transfer, you grant us an
exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, fully paid,
royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to use, copy,
modify, commercialize, and otherwise exploit the Feedback for any
purpose, without compensation, approval, or attribution. To the
extent permitted by law, you also waive and agree not to assert any
moral rights or similar rights in the Feedback against us.
10. Our Intellectual Property
The Service, including our software, design, text, graphics,
interfaces, trademarks, logos, branding, compilations, and all
content other than User Content, is owned by Discussite or its
licensors and is protected by intellectual property and other laws.
Except for the limited permission in these Terms, we reserve all
rights.
You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, license, reverse
engineer, decompile, scrape, frame, mirror, or create derivative
works from the Service or our content, except as allowed by
applicable law or with our prior written permission. You may not use
our name, logos, or other brand features without our prior written
consent.
11. Third-Party Links, Services, and Content
The Service may contain links to third-party websites, apps,
downloads, services, advertisements, or other content, including
links submitted by users. We do not control, endorse, or guarantee
any third-party content or third-party service.
If you choose to click a link, leave the Service, download
something, or interact with a third party, you do so at your own
risk. You are responsible for evaluating the safety, legality,
accuracy, and suitability of any third-party site, content, product,
or service before interacting with it.
Discussite is not responsible for any loss, damage, liability,
malware, fraud, offensive material, privacy practice, payment issue,
or other consequence arising from your access to or use of
third-party sites, content, or services. Your relationship with a
third party is solely between you and that third party.
12. Prohibited Uses
You may not use the Service to break the law, violate another
person's rights, or expose us, our users, or the public to harm.
Without limitation, you may not: impersonate others; submit
unlawful, infringing, defamatory, abusive, fraudulent, or hateful
content; distribute spam, malware, or deceptive code; attempt
unauthorized access; interfere with or disrupt the Service; evade
security, rate limits, or moderation controls; collect personal data
without authorization; or use bots, scrapers, or automated means to
extract Service data or content at scale without our written
permission.
You also may not use the Service or any content from it to build a
competing service, benchmark dataset, or commercial index in a way
that violates these Terms or applicable law. You must also follow
our User Conduct Policy and any other
published community rules that apply to your use of the Service.
13. Moderation and Enforcement
We may investigate, moderate, remove, refuse, restrict, de-rank,
age-gate, label, or disable access to any User Content, account,
username, or feature if we reasonably believe it may violate law,
these Terms, a published policy, the rights of others, or the
safety, integrity, or reputation of the Service.
We may act based on reports from users, trusted flaggers,
rightsholders, authorities, automated systems, internal review, or
other sources. We may use automated tools and human review for spam
prevention, fraud detection, security, abuse handling, and content
moderation. We aim to act in a diligent, objective, and
proportionate way, but we do not assume a general duty to monitor
the Service.
Where applicable law gives you rights regarding decisions that
materially rely on automated processing, we will apply the
safeguards required by law. Depending on the situation, that may
include additional human review or a way to request reconsideration.
Where appropriate and required by law, we may notify you about
enforcement action or give you an opportunity to correct an issue.
We may also preserve or disclose information if we reasonably
believe it is necessary to comply with law, protect users, enforce
these Terms, or protect Discussite and others from harm or
liability.
14. Availability, Disclaimers, and No Warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by law and without limiting any
mandatory consumer rights, the Service is provided "as is" and "as
available." We do not guarantee that the Service will be
uninterrupted, error-free, secure, accurate, complete, or available
at any given time, or that defects will be corrected.
We do not endorse or guarantee any User Content or third-party
content. Opinions expressed by users are their own. You are
responsible for deciding whether to rely on, view, share, or act on
any content, link, or interaction available through the Service.
15. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Discussite AB and its
directors, officers, employees, contractors, affiliates, licensors,
and service providers will not be liable for any indirect,
incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages,
or for any loss of profits, revenues, goodwill, use, data, or
business opportunities, arising out of or related to the Service,
these Terms, User Content, or third-party content or services.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total aggregate
liability for all claims arising out of or relating to the Service
or these Terms will not exceed the greater of: (a) the amount you
paid us, if any, for the Service in the 12 months before the event
giving rise to the claim; or (b) EUR 100.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud,
willful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury
caused by negligence, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be
excluded or limited. If the law where you live gives you rights or
remedies that cannot be waived, those rights and remedies continue
to apply.
16. Indemnity
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend,
indemnify, and hold harmless Discussite AB and its directors,
officers, employees, affiliates, contractors, licensors, and service
providers from and against any claims, actions, liabilities,
damages, judgments, losses, costs, and expenses, including
reasonable legal fees, arising out of or related to: (a) your User
Content; (b) your misuse of the Service; (c) your breach of these
Terms; or (d) your violation of law or another person's rights.
This section does not require you to indemnify us for losses to the
extent caused by our own breach, negligence, or misconduct.
17. Suspension and Termination
You may stop using the Service at any time. We may suspend,
restrict, or terminate your access to all or part of the Service at
any time if we reasonably believe you have violated these Terms,
created risk or possible legal exposure for us or others, engaged in
abuse or fraud, or if we are required to do so by law.
Termination or suspension does not limit any other remedies
available to us. Sections that by their nature should survive
termination will survive, including sections on User Content,
Feedback, our intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of
liability, indemnity, governing law, and dispute resolution.
18. Governing Law and Disputes
These Terms and any non-contractual disputes arising out of or in
connection with them or the Service are governed by the laws of
Sweden, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.
If you are a consumer, you may also have the benefit of mandatory
protections under the laws of your country of residence, and nothing
in these Terms takes those protections away. Where applicable law
allows it, disputes will be resolved exclusively by the ordinary
courts of Stockholm, Sweden. If applicable consumer law gives you
the right to bring a claim elsewhere, that right remains unaffected.
19. Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make material
changes, we will post the updated Terms and update the "Last
updated" date above, and we may provide additional notice where
required by law or where the change is significant.
The updated Terms become effective when posted or on the later
effective date stated in them. By continuing to use the Service
after the updated Terms become effective, you agree to them. If you
do not agree, you must stop using the Service.
20. Miscellaneous
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any published
policies or additional terms that apply to specific features, are
the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service. If
any provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will
remain in effect to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it. You may
not assign or transfer these Terms without our prior written
consent. We may assign these Terms as part of a merger, acquisition,
corporate reorganization, or sale of assets. Events outside our
reasonable control may affect our ability to provide the Service.
21. Contact
If you have questions about these Terms, contact us at
hello@discussite.com.