Summary

Disqus.com is a product of Big Head Labs, Inc. We respect your privacy. We also have standard usage terms. Here is the short and sweet version:

• We will never share your email address with any third parties.
• We will not sell or distribute personal information. Any information collected is for the use of the website and service.
• You are using the Disqus service and Disqus.com voluntarily.
• We claim no intellectual property claims on your published content or comment content. It belongs to you.
• Disqus is only the service. Unless it is a legality issue, we do not moderate the content.
• We're good people. Please be good people as well.

If you'd like to read all the juicy details, the legal jargon is below. Have fun!

Terms of Use

Terms of Service for Your Personal Use

By accessing the Disqus website ("Site") or using the services offered by Disqus ("Services") you agree and acknowledge to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree to these Terms or to our Privacy Policy, please do not access the Site or use the Services. Disqus reserves the right to change these Terms at any time. We recommend that you periodically check this Site for changes.

Usage License

Disqus grants you a limited license to access the Site and use the Services in accordance with these Terms and the instructions and guidelines posted on the Site. Disqus reserves the right to terminate your license to use the Site and Services at any time and for any reason or in the future charge for commercial usage.

User Responsibility

You are solely responsible for your use of the Site and Services. Because Disqus merely serves as a repository of information, user-posted content does not represent the advice, views, opinions or beliefs of Disqus, and Disqus makes no claim of accuracy of any user-posted material. Disqus allows for the posting of user comments, and may include links to third-party websites. These comments, and any linked websites' content, business practices and privacy policies are not under our control, and we are not responsible for the content of any user comments, linked website or any link contained in a linked website. The inclusion of user comments and/or links on the Site or Services does not imply any endorsement by or any affiliation with Disqus. In a ccessing the Site and Services, reading user comments, or following links to third-party websites you may be exposed to content that you consider offensive or inappropriate . You agree that your only recourse is to stop using the Site and Services.

User-Posted Content

By posting content, you are granting permission to us and others to access and use it in connection with the Services, the Site and otherwise in connection with our business. For your content, you can label your compilations with one of several possible licenses. It is important to note that you can only copyright the compilation itself, not the individual links that make up the compilation. Please also note that just because your compilation does not have a license agreement attached to it does not mean that it is public domain. For a compilation to be classified as such, it must be explicitly labeled as belonging to the public domain. Your use of a license in connection with your compilation does not affect Disqus's right to access and use it in connection with the Services, the Site or otherwise in connection with our business. Disqus does not provide legal services, and therefore, providing you with the ability to attach a license agreement to your compilation of links does not create an attorney-client relationship. The license agreements and all related information are provid ed on an "as is" basis. Disqus makes no warranties whatsoever regarding the license agreements and the information provided, and disclaims all liability for damages, including without limitation, any general, special, incidental or consequential damages, resulting from their use. Disqus will include this license label in making your content accessible to others, but any enforcement of your chosen license terms remains your sole responsibility. Disqus is explicitly not responsible for the manner or circumstances by which third parties access or use public content and is under no obligation to disable or otherwise restrict this access. Disqus provides you with the ability to remove your personal information from the Site and the Services. This ability does not extend to copies that others may have made or to copies that we may have made for backup purposes.

Feeds and API

Disqus provides access to portions of its Site and Services via RSS feeds and an API; for the purposes of these Terms, such access constitutes use of the Site and Services. Disqus asks that you use these features respectfully, as outlined in the documentation. You may not use these or any other features or the Site itself to allow the display of a substantial portion of the Disqus database or reproduce, duplicate or copy the Disqus Site. Disqus reserves the right to change these features at any time and to disable access to the feeds and the API at any time for any reason.

Intellectual Property (Trademarks & Copyrights)

Disqus, the Disqus logo and the Disqus design are trademarks or trade dress of Disqus, and may not be used without express written permission from Disqus, other than for attribution. All other trademarks not owned by Disqus that appear on this Site are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by Disqus. Disqus-originated content included on the Site, such as text, graphics, logos, data compilations, APIs, software and the compilation of all content on the Site, is the property of Disqus and its licensors and protected by Swiss and international copyright laws. Except as set out in these Terms, no reproduction of any Disqus-originated content is permitted without written permission from Disqus. User-posted content is copyrighted, and any use or reproduction of user-posted content must comply with the terms of the respective license(s) and must include a label indicating such license.

No Warranty and Limitation of Liability

DISQUS PROVIDES THE SITE AND SERVICES "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY. DISQUS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, INFORMAT ION ACCURACY, INTEGRATION, INTEROPERABILITY OR QUIET ENJOYMENT. Some states do not all ow the disclaimer of implied warranties, so the foregoing disclaimer may not apply to you. You understand and agree that you use the Site and Services at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damages that arise from such use . UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL DISQUS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES WHATSO EVER (HOWEVER ARISING, INCLUDING BY NEGLIGENCE), INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES RELATED TO USE, MISUSE, RELIANCE ON, INABILITY TO USE AND INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, OR TERMINATION OF THE SITE OR SERVICES, DAMAGES INCURRED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED ON THE SITE AND THE NONPERFORMANCE THEREOF AND DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, SALES, DATA, GOODWILL OR PROFITS, WHETHER OR NOT DISQUS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF SUCH POSSIBIL ITY. YOUR ONLY RIGHT WITH RESPECT TO ANY DISSATISFACTION WITH THIS SITE OR SERVICES OR WITH DISQUS SHALL BE TO TERMINATE USE OF THIS SITE AND SERVICES. Some states do not allow the exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above exclusions may not apply to you.

Other

Disqus and you are independent entities, and nothing in the Terms, or via use of the Site or Services, will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between Disqus and you. These Terms supersede any previous agreement and represent the entire agreement between Disqus and you. These Terms are governed by Swiss law. If any provision of the Terms is adjudged to be illegal or unenforceable, the continuation in full force of the remainder of the Terms will not be prejudiced, and the illegal or unenforceable provision of the Terms shall be severed accordingly. Any notices must be sent to Disqus in English at biz@disqus.com.

Privacy Policy

Disqus.com ("Site") provides this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies and procedures regarding the collection and use of personal information we receive from users ("Registered Users") who visit the Site and users of third party sites ("Unregistered Users") which use the Disqus service ("Partner Sites"). Our Privacy Policy may be updated without notice.

Information Collection

In the course of using this Site and/or Partner Sites, you may provide us with personally identifiable information. This refers to information about you that can be used to contact or identify you, and information on your use of and activities at our Site that may be connected with you (“Personal Information”). Personal Information that we collect from Registered Users may include, but is not limited to, your name, phone number, credit card or other billing information, email address and home and business postal addresses. Personal Information we retrieve from Partner Sites about Unregistered Users may include, but is not limited to, site login information, name, address, email, and open ID. Personal Information may also include information you supply concerning your preferences and interests expressed in the course of use of our Site and/or Partner Sites. Unregistered Users are encouraged to visit the Site, become a Registered User, and contribute and/or edit their profile information at any time.

When you visit the Site, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. This information may include, but is not limited to, your computer’s Internet Protocol address, browser type, the web page you were visiting before you came to our Site and information you search for on our Site. Like many websites, we also use “cookies” to collect information. A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes. We use “persistent cookies” to save your registration ID and login password for future logins to the Site; and we use “session ID cookies” to enable certain features of the Site, to better understand how you interact with the Site and to monitor aggregate usage and web traffic routing on the Site. You can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all portions of the Site or all functionality of our services.

How We Use Personal Information

Personal Information is used for the following purposes: (i) to provide and improve our Site, services, features and content, (ii) to administer your use of our Site, (iii) to enable users to enjoy and easily navigate the Site, (iv) to better understand your needs and interests, (v) to fulfill requests you may make, (vi) to personalize your experience, (vii) to provide or offer software updates and product announcements, and (viii) to provide you with further information and offers from us or third parties that we believe you may find useful or interesting, including newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information on services and products offered by us or third parties. If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive such communications, please follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications or update your “user preferences” information. (See “Changing or Deleting Information,” below.)

We use information we obtain by technical means (such as the automatic recording performed by our servers or through the use of cookies) for the above purposes and in order to monitor and analyze use of the Site and our services and for the Site’s technical administration, to increase our Site’s functionality and user-friendliness, to better tailor it to your needs, to generate and derive useful data and information concerning the interests, characteristics and website use behavior of our users, and to verify that visitors to the Site meet the criteria required to process their requests.

In order to offer and provide optimized and personalized services, we use cookies to store and sometimes track information about our users. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to a user's browser from a web server and is eventually stored on a user's computer hard drive.

Changing or Deleting Your Information

All registered users may review, update or correct the Personal Information provided in their registration or account profile by changing their “user preferences” in their account. If you choose to opt out entirely, then your account may become deactivated and you will need to re-register should you decide to opt-in again. To delete your account entirely, please email us at help@disqus.com.

Security

Disqus is very concerned with safeguarding your information. We employ reasonable measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access.

Policy Toward Children

This Site is not directed to children under 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with Personal Information without their consent, he or she should contact us at privacy@Disqus.com. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our files.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at biz@disqus.com