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Terms of Service

LAST UPDATED: 2022-03-17

Please read the following Terms of Service (“Terms”) carefully before using the https://chir.rs/ website and associated services (“Services”). Footnotes are provided to explain why each clause is included in the Terms and what it means for you as a customer. Keep in mind that these are only provided for your convenience and that they are not part of the Terms.

1. Terms

  1. These Terms are a legally binding agreement between you and https://chir.rs/ (“Service”, “we”, “us”, or “our”).1 This agreement covers all of our Services.
  2. The contract is defined in Section 1 (Terms), with footnotes excluded. Other parts of this are supplemental information, provided for your convenience only.2
  3. We may require agreement to these Terms of Service to access our Service, or parts thereof.3
  4. You agree to follow the laws of Germany when using our Service.4
  5. We may terminate this agreement at any time, for any reason, including no reason.5
  6. You can terminate this agreement at any time, for any reason, by deleting your account if applicable, and ceasing the use of this Service.6
  7. You acknowledge that our Service contains User-Generated Content (UGC) that is not created by us. You agree that legal infringements in such content is not supported by us, and that you report the infringing content to us first. 7
  8. If a clause in this agreement is deemed invalid, the invalidity of the clause will not affect the validity of the remaining clauses.8
  9. You agree to be at least 16 years old, or have written consent from your legal guardian, to use our Service.9
  10. You are required to ensure confidentiality of your password. You are responsible for all actions done by your account, even in the event that this confidentiality is breached.

  1. This part requires a bit of backstory. In Germany, a court has ruled that Terms of Service are a legally binding contract. We however don’t want either us nor you to be held legally liable for infringement of these terms. ↩︎

  2. This limits the scope of the Terms to be as concise as legally possible. ↩︎

  3. This is primarily for authenticated functionality. ↩︎

  4. Our jurisdiction is in Germany. Germany has specific laws that limit sharing hate and misinformation. In particular:

    1. You are not allowed to share symbols or propaganda materials of unconstitutional organizations, such as the NSDAP, KPD, ISIS, and YPG. (§86, §86a StGB)
    2. You are not allowed to incite hatred against protected groups, or violate their human dignity (§130 (1) StGB).
    3. You are not allowed to approve of, deny or downplay the crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis (§130 (3) StGB).
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  5. This clause exists for two reasons.

    1. It avoids putting the rules and moderation guidelines in a legally binding contract
    2. It allows us to take action against trolls that post content that almost violates the terms.
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  6. You can find out how to terminate your account in the privacy policy. ↩︎

  7. This says that you should report any content that you believe violates the law, instead of suing us in court. ↩︎

  8. In cases where a clause is not consistent with the law, only that clause will not apply. ↩︎

  9. We are not allowed to collect personal data from under-16 year olds. ↩︎