These Terms and Conditions cover your activities on Protests Global, our platform that enables people to find, organise, and promote protests. Our platform allows people to submit and promote Protests, which includes and sharing content via our platforms and third-party sites and services.
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User content rules
You’re liable for what you publish on our platform. You need to hold all material you submit to Protests.org.uk in line with our Community Guidelines and the law, respecting the intellectual property rights of others. Failing this, your content will be disregarded or removed.
Follow our Community Guidelines: When posting content, you must follow our Community Guidelines at all times.
Abide by the regulation and appreciate rights of others: You cannot post any Protest or content that violates applicable local or national laws of your country, or international laws or policies where geographically relevant. You agree that any protest or content you submit will observe applicable local and national legal guidelines, which include data protection laws. Except as provided otherwise by relevant laws, you’re entirely liable for any protest, content material, and actions you post or take via the platforms and their consequences.
Enforcement by Protests Global: If we are put on notice that your protest or content goes against the law or the rights of others (for example, if it is established that it is defamatory or violates privacy, intellectual property or publicity rights of others, or is funding an illegal activity), if we discover that your protest or content violates our Community Guidelines, or if we believe your protest or content is inappropriate or objectionable, we may remove it from our platforms, or we may make edits to bring your content into compliance. In most cases, we will notify you and try to work with you to fix the issue before we take any of these actions (but we are not obligated to do so).
You agree that we are able to don’t have any legal responsibility to you or any third party for termination of your account, removal of your content, or blocking of your access to our platforms and services.
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Posting user content
You hold possession of content you publish to our platforms; however, you have to ensure you’re allowed to share it. We’re allowed to make versions of your content publicly available to anyone through any media, and others can do the same. We advise you make backups of your work.
The content you submit on the platforms is not confidential: Any content you submit or post on the platforms is likely to be publicly available, including all Protests you create and your comments. If you are concerned about other Protests Global community members or people you don’t know seeing a particular message or other content of yours, please do not post it. If you do not wish to have your name publicly displayed in connection with a particular Protest, you may select the option to use an alias. Please check out our Privacy Policy for more details on information we collect and share when you use the platforms.
The content you post (including photos) remains yours, and you also allow us to reuse and share it: By submitting and posting content, you do not lose any ownership rights you may have over your content. However, you authorise us to share this content with anyone, distribute it on any platform and in any media, and to make modifications or edits to it as we see fit (e.g. for clarity or optimization purposes). For example, we may shorten a protest title for it to appear on our homepage, test alternative images to help your protest be seen by more people, reformat a protest for a video highlighting protest success story, or share the content with interested media. You also authorise us to allow others to do the same with your content. In legal language, by submitting or posting content on or through the platforms, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, and distribute your content in any and all media or distribution methods (existing now or later developed). This includes making your content available to other companies, organisations, or individuals who partner with Protests Global for the syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication of content on other media. You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power, and authority necessary to authorise us to use any content that you submit. You also agree to all such uses of your content with no compensation paid to you.
Sharing protests: Except in very limited circumstances where we’ll expressly ask you not to, we encourage you to link to, post to social media and third-party services, such as Facebook or Twitter, share via email, or otherwise copy and share individual protests of interest to you, but only for informational, non-commercial purposes. When you post content to any third-party service through the features and functionalities of our platforms (such as our apps or API), you will be subject to the terms of that third party service. If you want to remove any protest or content from a third-party service, you should contact that third party service and request removal directly from them.
No user content storage: We are not a content-archiving service. We do not promise to store or make available on our platforms any content that you or other users may post for any length of time. You are solely responsible for keeping backups of everything you post on the platforms.
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Open platform
Protests on our platforms represent the many opinions of millions of people. We don’t take responsibility for their views, nor are we responsible for the legality or accuracy of the content. When you use our platforms, you will find links to other websites that we don’t own or control. We are not responsible for the content or any other aspect of these third-party sites, including their collection of information about you. You should also read their terms and conditions and privacy policies.
We are not responsible for the content or actions of our users: Protests or content posted by users come from people, organisations, and other various sources. We make no promises about the reliability of any source or the accuracy, usefulness, safety, or intellectual property rights of any user protest or content, nor do we endorse any campaigns or protests or support any views, opinions, recommendations, or advice that may be posted by users. You acknowledge that certain users may have commercial interests in their protests. You therefore use the Protests Global services and rely on any content you find at your own risk. If you find any protest or other user content that violates our Community Guidelines, please use the form below to “Report a policy violation”. In no event shall we be liable for any claims, penalties, loss, damage or expenses, howsoever arising, out of or in connection with your use of Protests.org.uk, including, without limitation, direct or indirect loss, consequential loss or damage, loss of profit or goodwill, loss of data, loss arising from use or inability to use Protests.org.uk, loss arising from any errors or omissions in Protests.org.uk as a result of a breach of contract, negligence, delict. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence or for any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. Protest Global provide only general hints, tips and news. If you need help with the specific detail of your claim, we recommend you speak to a solicitor. The information and opinions we provide do not address your individual requirements and are for informational purposes only. They do not constitute any form of legal advice and should not be relied on or treated as a substitute for specific advice relevant to particular circumstances and is not intended to be relied upon by you in making (or refraining from making) any specific decisions.
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Our rights
We own the Protests Global platforms including the website, present or future apps and services, and things like our logos, API, code, and content we produce. All right, title, and interest in and to the Protests Global platform and services including our website, our existing or future applications, our APIs, databases, and the content our employees or partners submit or provide through our services (but excluding content provided by users) are and will remain the exclusive property of Protests Global and its licensors. Our platform and services are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of both the United Kingdom and foreign countries. You do not have the right to use the Protests Global name or any of the Protests Global trademarks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features. If you have any feedback, comments, or suggestions you may provide regarding Protests Global or the services is entirely voluntary and we will be free to use such feedback, comments, or suggestions as we see fit and without any obligation to you. You may not do any of the following while accessing or using the platforms and services:
- access, modify, or use non-public areas of the platform, Protests Global’s technical systems, or the technical delivery systems of Protests Global’s service providers.
- deactivate, interfere with, or try to circumvent any of the features of the platforms related to security or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any of our systems.
- copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, reverse assemble, or otherwise attempt to discover any source code of the Protests Global platforms or services.
- Crawling the Protests Global site is permissible if done in accordance with the provisions of the robots.txt file; however, scraping the services, platforms, and databases is expressly prohibited unless authorised in a written agreement between you and Protests Global.
- in any way use the Protests Global services to send altered, deceptive, or false source-identifying information (such as sending email communications falsely appearing as Protests Global); or interfere with, or disrupt, (or attempt to do so), the access of any user, host, or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, mail-bombing the platforms or services, or in any other manner interfering with or creating an undue burden on the services.
No guarantee of service: We may decide to cease making available the Protests Global platforms, apps or services or any portion of the services at any time and for any reason. Under no circumstances will Protests Global or its affiliates, suppliers, partners, or agents be held liable for any damages due to such interruptions or lack of availability.
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Purchases and donations
We work with different companies to process payments, so we can stay focused on improving our platforms and how people organise and attend protests. When you make a payment, you agree to use a valid payment method. We may provide you the ability to purchase promotional items related to protests, contribute monthly to help cover the costs of the Protests Global platform, or purchase other products or services.
PROTESTS GLOBAL RECURRING CONTRIBUTIONS
We may provide you with the ability to support Protests Global by making a recurring donation. If you choose to do so, a monthly contribution to Protests Global will be deducted from your preferred payment method. Your monthly contributions help cover the costs of the Protests Global platform, including, but not limited to, technology fees, engineering, operations, and expert protest support services. Recurring contributions help, in part, to keep the Protests Global platform free for everyone, open, and independent. Protests Global reserves the right to decide how recurring contributions are allocated within the company. You can make changes to your recurring contribution settings at any time. If you’re already a member you can manage your subscription here.
PAYMENT PROCESSING
We work with Stripe, and other payment processing companies to process all financial transactions. If you make a payment for services, Protests Global reserves the right to keep a record of your transaction amount only; none of your personal payment information is stored or saved within our systems. Instead, we rely on the payment processing platforms to store, on our behalf, certain information about you. For more information about which information we store, see our Privacy Policy.
- Protests Global uses Stripe for payment processing services. By using Stripe payment processing services, you agree to be legally bound by Stripe’s Services Agreementand Privacy Policy.
REFUNDS & REMOVAL
For Protests Global, Protests Global will process your donation via the payment method used at the time of donating. NOTE: no donations will be refunded for any reason, subject to applicable local laws. If you’re already a member you can manage your subscription here.
TAXES & FEES
You agree that, for all purchase, donation, or contribution transactions, (a) you will not use an invalid or unauthorised payment method; (b) you will be charged using the payment method you designate. You understand and acknowledge that payments made to Protests Global are not tax-deductible as charitable donations. You agree to review, be legally bound by, and comply with any relevant terms and conditions of the receiving organisation when making a donation. If you make a purchase, donation, or contribution through our platform, you agree to pay the applicable fee or amount in accordance with any pricing and payment terms presented to you for that purchase, donation, or contribution. You are also responsible for paying applicable standard credit card processing fees.
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Copyright infringement
If you think someone is infringing your copyright on our platforms, let us know. If you believe that one of our users has violated your copyright, you should use our contact form to let us know in writing In order for us to take action, you must do the following in your notice:
- identify your copyrighted work that you believe is being infringed
- identify the item on our service that you think is infringing your work and include sufficient information about where the material is located (for example, a URL or link to a relevant page) so that we can easily find it
- provide us with a way to contact you, such as your address, telephone number, or e-mail
- provide a statement that you believe in good faith that the item you have identified as infringing is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law to be used on the platform
- provide a statement that the information you provide in your notice is accurate, and that (under penalty of perjury), you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on behalf of the copyright owner whose work is being infringed
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How to contact us
Please use the contact form below to get in touch!
