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Terms of Use (English translation)
Below is the English translation of the Terms of Use of Tatoeba.
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Welcome to Tatoeba!
Tatoeba ("we") is a non-profit association. Its goal is to collect a large number of sentences and translations with a focus on cooperation, diversity and openness. We want to give people around the world the opportunity to participate in this project by adding or translating phrases from and to all languages. We do not just want to build a large linguistic database, but we also want to share that data and make it freely reusable by other projects. We provide the infrastructure and organizational framework for this project, including the Tatoeba website, whose domain name is tatoeba.org (the "Website").
You ("you" or "the user") are warmly invited to take part in the project. Before participating, you are asked to read the information written on this page (the "Terms of Use" or "TOS"). Any act of contribution to the project implies that you have previously read and accepted these Terms.
To acquire the legal personality and the legal capacity (and consequently to be able to conclude a contract, receive a subsidy, take legal action, etc.), the association "Tatoeba Association" was declared at the registry of the associations, in France. This implies that as an association, Tatoeba refers to French law. Thus, Tatoeba's regulations underlie French law. As a result, it is also subject to European regulations.
Be aware that you are legally responsible for all your contributions, edits or re-use of Tatoeba's content, as well as all your messages and comments sent to our site, under the following laws:
- French law, framework in which the association "Association Tatoeba" is declared;
- the laws of your place of life;
- or other applicable laws (which may include the laws of where you view, add or edit the content).
It is possible to register on our site by the button "Register". Once registered, you will have your personal profile on Tatoeba.
Tatoeba's services are not intended for children under 13 years old. Registering on Tatoeba means declaring that you are 13 years of age or older.
Persons between the ages of 13 and 16 are required to contribute with the permission and under the responsibility of a parent or guardian who is considered to be of legal age according to the law of the place of life.
Tatoeba does not, to its knowledge, collect any information about children. In addition to this, we encourage people to become aware of the importance of protecting information about the privacy of minors.
When creating your account, you choose a password, which we protect by encryption. Its security is your responsibility. Never share your password to a third party. Any action on Tatoeba under your password is your responsibility, whether or not you have authorized these actions. You agree to notify Tatoeba if you notice any unauthorized use of your account.
You can edit your profile information at any time on the "My Profile" page. To do this, you must first identify yourself on the site using the "Log in" button.
You can delete your profile by contacting us by email and indicate at least your username. In order for us to ensure that you are the owner of the account, you must send your request from the same email address as indicated in your Tatoeba account. If the email address is not the same, we will ask you to write in the description of your profile that you want to delete it. If you can no longer access the email account specified in your profile and you can no longer log in to your Tatoeba account because you have forgotten your password, we may refuse to delete your profile unless we find another way to make sure you are the owner of the account.
A detailed English version of this profile deletion procedure can be viewed here.
Deleting a profile does not remove contributions made under this profile. They remain part of our content and can be administered as such. In case you have contributed under this profile, we will change your username to make it more anonymous and your account will be marked as "inactive".
We collect information necessary for the management, maintenance and development of our Website and its content. This takes the form of registers tracing the actions performed on our Website, for example the addition, modification or deletion of a sentence, a word of vocabulary, a tag, etc. As noted in the Site Registration section, Age Criteria section, we do not collect, to the best of our knowledge, any information about children, and we have no purpose to collect it.
We store the collected data on a server located in Germany. In addition, as part of our Tatoeba development and administration activities, we may import data to our computers in the country where we are located. Such transfers from one country to another may also take place to make backup copies of our data. Thus, by using our Website, you consent to possible international transfers of the information we collect.
We carefully handle this information which may contain personal data. Our basic intention is respect for privacy. The purpose of our information processing is explicit, legitimate and limited: to ensure the best possible operation of our Website. We do not sell any information and have no mercantile goals.
We do not transfer information that may contain personal data outside the management and development infrastructure of our Website. The only reason for transferring such data outward would be a legal or judicial necessity. Therefore, we are not responsible for any information management outside our Website, even if they are sites or applications that reuse Tatoeba's language content.
We make this information as secure as possible. However, no security can be considered infallible. Never disclose sensitive information to our Website whose disclosure would cause irreparable harm. In addition, you are responsible for any voluntary disclosure of private information in your profile, in a comment, in a private message, etc. Overall we recommend caution: never lightly disseminate private information on the internet.
As a large majority of contemporary websites, we integrate Google Analytics as an audience analysis service of our website to improve our management. This service is outside Tatoeba. If you have any questions about this service, we suggest you read the Google Analytics Data Protection page for your information.
We are considering the drafting of a complementary document of Privacy Policy. Once published, you will be notified when you next visit our Website.
Our content mainly includes sentences, but also comments, public messages, etc. This is text, graphic, image, audio format data. These works of the mind are part of a paternity system which is the subject of the section Intellectual property.
We put in place, to the extent of our means, the best technical and human solutions to best manage and control the content contributed to our Website. However, we are not able to exercise exhaustive and systematic control of our entire content.
We do not intend to do an editorial activity: our functioning is community. Our content is growing and is managed primarily by the interactions of volunteer and volunteer participants, of which we do not check any skills whatsoever. Contributors are responsible for all their contributions.
However, we may intervene and perform moderation or administration actions to resolve conflicts or to temper situations that we consider too harmful. See details in Restrictive Measures section. Our decisions are independent of any political, national, religious, cultural or ideological current, and we do not wish to privilege any philosophy other than that defined by our founding values: cooperation, diversity and openness of data.
The content of our site claims linguistic utility, particularly in the field and by means of translation. What matters to us is the formal validity of the sentences (grammar, spelling, syntax, fluency of the expression ...) and it is in this sense that we encourage the efforts of contributors, without being able to supervise everything.
In addition, the validity and accuracy of translations are not guaranteed by any professional intervention. We can not guarantee that they meet your language requirements and can not be held responsible for potential errors.
Moreover, no professional intervention controls the audio recordings of reading sentences. Thus, we can not guarantee their fidelity to the written word, nor the clarity of their enunciation. We also note that speakers of the same language can express themselves in different ways, which we do not seek to prioritize.
Our focus is primarily on form, and much less on substance. We do not examine the validity of the content of sentences. We judge neither the logic nor the veracity of statements. We do not exercise editorial activity on the content and meaning of sentences.
Furthermore, the content of our website is not the opinion of a professional, particularly in the context of sentences on medical topics, legal, historical, etc.
Depending on your personal sensitivities, the sentences can present content perceived as offensive, malicious, erroneous, problematic. In such cases, we encourage you to be critical and take a step back. Remember that all content is contributed by users whose malice can not be presupposed. They may have simply translated, invented or copied a sentence without its content reflecting their opinion, without any demagogic will. If, however, you find content that is unacceptable and disagrees with our values, we recommend that you seek to resolve the situation through courteous communication with the contributor or by contacting us (see the Contact us section at the bottom of the document).
Regarding intellectual property issues, we invite you to consult the dedicated section.
Community comments and messages are the responsibility of their authors, both in form and content. We do not generally conduct editorial activity on these publications, but we may, at our discretion, use the moderation tools explained in the Restrictive Measures section for publications that we deem inadequate under the section on Behavioral Conduct between users. For the serenity of our community, we invite you globally to show moderation, to take a step back and not to presuppose the malevolence of the authors · e · s.
We are not responsible for any resources external to our Website, even if an access link is published, for example in a comment. In addition, we are not required to control these outbound links.
Before participating in the Tatoeba project, it's necessary to realize that intellectual property laws can apply to sentences. Indeed, sentences fall into the category of works of the mind. This means that certain sentences are protected because they are intellectual property. In this case, it is not necessarily allowed to add them on our Website.
Despite our efforts, Tatoeba will not always have the means to put in place technical measures to ensure the complete compliance of licenses. We encourage you to be vigilant and honest about this topic.
Here are the cases where contributing content on our Website is allowed:
- You are the owner of the content, from the point of view of intellectual property. For example: create an original sentence yourself, without copying from another source.
- You can copy content that you do not own in two cases:
- if that content entered the public domain, that is, in general, seventy years after the authors' death. For example: a quote from ancient history. It is up to you to check that the use of this sentence is not or more restricted by the law of the country concerned.
- or if such reuse of such content is permitted under the license associated with it, and if such license is compatible with those we manage.
The administration team of our Website may delete a sentence if an abuse is found.
Creative Commonslicenses are part of the free distribution licenses, also known as open licenses. This means that licenses are granted by which the author grants some of its rights of use, reuse, dissemination, modification. This flexible vision of intellectual property rights corresponds to our value of openness of data and free circulation of contents.
Tatoeba's technical infrastructure uses the default Creative Commons Attribution 2.0France license (CC-BY 2.0 FR) for the use of textual sentences. The BY mention implies a single restriction on the use, reuse, modification and distribution of the sentence: a condition of attribution. That is, using, reusing, modifying and distributing the sentence is only allowed if the name of the author is cited.
The BY mention is also the basic requirement for audio phrases, which can be contributed under different Creative Commons licenses, involving other conditions. Exceptionally, audio sentences may be under other licenses than Creative Commons, especially if the contributor has not validated the authorization to use his audio phrase elsewhere than on our Website.
When you submit a sentence that you own on our Website as an author, you assign a license to this sentence.
When submitting a sentence on your Website that you do not own, you must specify the license under which this sentence exists. This license must be compatible with those managed by our infrastructure.
In case of uncertainty, do not add the sentence.
Tatoeba allows to license each text sentence, and to apply the same license for all the audio contributions of the same contributor.
If we want to make it possible to modify the license of a sentence, we must not overlook the fact that this sentence may already have been reused under the old license. The implications of this change will not necessarily be retroactive.
It is allowed to add conditions to a Creative Commons license, but it is forbidden to remove. This means that it is possible to modify such a license only to a more restrictive license.
Examples:
- It is authorized to use a sentence under CC0 license, to modify it, and to add it on our Internet site, either by preserving this same CC0 license, or by choosing a license CC-BY which implies the condition to now have to quote your author's name with this sentence.
- Conversely, it is forbidden to use a CC-BY-licensed phrase and add it to our Website under a CC0 license.
Thus, the first application of a license is important.
The administration team of our Website may correct the license of a sentence if an abuse is found.
We value the free flow of our content.
You are responsible for your use, reuse, modification and dissemination of the content available on Tatoeba. Thus, if you circulate a sentence under license, it is your responsibility to circulate with it its license. For example, in the case of a CC-BY license, it is your responsibility to quote the author of the sentence.
If a sentence exists under several different licenses, you can use it, reuse it, modify it and distribute it by choosing among those licenses the one that seems to you most suitable.
We are not generally opposed to using our content for commercial purposes. However, this choice depends primarily on contributors. Certain phrases, in particular audio, may be contributed with a non-marketing condition, and therefore will not have to be marketed.
We are not generally opposed to the use of the phrases contributed to our site implying their modification, whether it is a modification of their content or their sharing conditions. However, this choice depends primarily on contributors. Certain phrases, including audio, can not be modified: those contributed with a condition of non-modification (eg. Creative Commons ND: No-Derivative) or a condition of sharing under the same conditions (for example the Creative Commons Ltd: Share-Alike).
Overall, we encourage you, for any use of our content, to pay attention to its license or their licenses and to respect the constraints, if any.
It is forbidden to contribute copyrighted content to our Website.
It is important to note that a translation is generally considered a derivative work, protected by the rights that apply to the sentence in its original language. Thus, you can not contribute on our Website your translation of a sentence whose rights are reserved.
Each contributor is fully responsible for his or her contributions, including possible infringements of copyrights. Thus, we encourage you to be vigilant and honest. We implement, according to our means, the possible technical solutions to prevent and fight against such infractions. But not being able to carry out systematic checks on all the multilingual contents contributed, we can not be held responsible for a contribution in proven infringement with the copyrights.
We would like to point out that contributing copyrighted content could entail the risk for the contributor of having to face legal proceedings brought by the owner of the content. In such a case, Tatoeba could in no way serve as an appeal or defense, and would not share any responsibility for the offense.
If you own a copyrighted phrase discovered on our site, or if you detect the presence of such a sentence without owning it, you may notify the person contributing the sentence or a person administering the site to obtain its deletion. . Refer to the Contact procedure at the end of this document.
Please see this article detailing, in English, how we work to combat the behaviors we define as harmful. We are considering writing a label document. Once published, you will be notified when you next visit our Website. In any case, agreeing to these Terms of Use implies that you also agree to abide by the rules of good behavior currently in force.
Although it can not be substituted for a label charter, here is a practical summary of our behavioral policy:
- Behavior encouraged: courtesy, respect, honesty, openness, personal moderation.
- Discouraged behavior: publicly speaking about privacy issues or disagreements, using sarcasm or irony, making a fight worse.
- Prohibited behavior: See section below, Prohibited from use of the Website.
Certain behaviors between individuals are prohibited on our Website because they harm one or more people, all or part of the community, the team in charge of administration and development, or the project as a whole. We prohibit in particular, but not exhaustively: insult, whether individual or collective, harassment, threat, incitement to any form of hatred, incitement to any form of violence, identity theft etc. These behaviors are not tolerated in any means of communication or any form of contribution on our Website, even in the profile parameters of the users.
However, it is not forbidden to contribute an offensive sentence to our Website, because the reality of languages is also composed of popular, slang and vulgar registers. We reserve the right to authorize or delete phrases from these records in accordance with our judgment of intentionally. We can indeed suppress, without notice or obligation of justification, the sentences which seem to us to bear malicious intentions. In this, our will is not to censor, but to preserve the serenity of the project.
In general, it is forbidden to use our services in a manner incompatible with the applicable laws (see Legal and Legal Framework).
When adding content to our Website, it is forbidden to commit infringements of the reserved rights. This includes intellectual property, industrial and/or commercial, as well as copyright, trademark, and/or patent. See the section Intellectual Property, section Content under copyright for more details.
It is prohibited to divert the use of the site for purposes other than those we define in these Terms of Use. In particular, we prohibit, but not exhaustively, the purposes of propaganda (political, religious, ideological, denial, etc.), pornography, defamation (individual or community), etc. In addition, Tatoeba has no intention of hosting content that may require an age limit, and such content may be removed without notice.
It is prohibited to display or distribute malicious programs that may threaten other users or our infrastructure.
It is forbidden to make an automated use of our Website that can overload our services, slow down the loadings, for example by spamming (sending a large number of similar messages, often in a will of self-promotion), or by flooding (sending a large number of messages quickly, or a message of disproportionate size).
It is forbidden to check, scan or test the vulnerability of our systems or technical networks for malicious or destructive purposes.
This section does not list exhaustively all the prohibitions of use of our Website. Indeed, we remain attentive to the potential emergence of new problems, and any behavior that proves detrimental to the project will also be prohibited, by our evaluation on a case by case basis.
We do not wish to be an organ of censorship and restriction. We prefer to anticipate that to punish, however it can happen that we need means of action of type sanction. It is allowed to us, but tits actual use is left to our discretion. Applying it is neither mandatory nor systematic and depends on our situational arbitration. If you do not comply with these Terms of Use and we do not take immediate action on this, this does not mean that we waive our rights: we could, for example, take action later.
We are not required to provide any justification, whether public or private, for the implementation of a restrictive measure. Nevertheless, we try to point out to the offender the fault(s) that led to the application of a restrictive measure, from a constructive pedagogical point of view, to avoid recidivism.
- In case of harmful behavior between users → We use moderation tools: changes and / or deletion of messages and comments, sending a warning message, short or long term ban, etc.
- In case of contribution of content that does not comply with these Terms of Use (illegal content, proven disrespect for copyrights, etc.) → We may send a warning message, refuse, disable or restrict the means of contribution, or completely ban the profile.
- In case of illegal action potentially destructive to our site, our infrastructure, etc. Or in case of illegal action according to local laws and/or French law. → We can block the profile and initiate legal proceedings by reporting the facts, if any, to the competent authorities.
In all these cases, or other unlisted cases, we remain free to manage our site in any other way in order to facilitate its proper functioning and to protect our rights, our property and our security as well as those of the users. This list is for informational purposes only and aims to discourage bad behavior and uses.
We take into account some aggravating factors. They can lead to a hardening of the restrictive measure. These factors, organized from least to most serious, are for example:
- Another past fault, having already been the subject of a warning or a sanction
- Recurrence (of the same fault having been the subject of a past restrictive measure)
- Non-acceptance, public discussion or scandal following the application of a restrictive measure
We hope that Tatoeba is useful and pleasant to you and we wish you to stay with us. However, you are free to delay or stop using our services at any time at your discretion. In cases that we hope will be very rare, we may have to suspend or terminate your action permissions on our project, or even write off your profile (see Restrictive Measures section).
If you no longer use our services, your profile is deleted, blocked, deleted or simply left unused, your past contributions will remain part of our content and will be managed as such, including by our administrators. Our General Conditions of Use will remain in force according to the relevant provisions.
In any case, you retain access to the public content of our Website.
The Tatoeba association is governed by French law and, therefore, if a dispute is to concern us, it will be subject to the same law and to the judicial institutions attached to it.
Nevertheless, you are encouraged, before any legal steps, to contact the Tatoeba team in case of dispute. If our project were to harm you, it would probably be an involuntary attack on our part, and we would then be very willing to engage constructively with you to find mutually acceptable solutions.
Accepting these Terms of Use does not create a relationship of employment, agency, mandate, partnership or joint venture between you and us. Unless otherwise agreed in writing between you and us, you may not claim any compensation from us for your activity or your contributions to our site.
In the event of a contract signed between you and us, it will prevail over these Terms of Use.
The fact that we do not enforce one of the provisions of these Terms of Use does not mean that we waive this provision.
If any part of these Terms of Use is unlawful, void or unenforceable, then this part will only be performed to the extent permitted. All other Terms and Conditions of Use will remain in effect.
We are also free to suspend or terminate, at any time, without notice and without obligation of justification, all or part of the functionalities of our project. For example, we can not commit to maintaining our Website online without any discontinuity.
We are solely responsible for the websites included in our domain name: tatoeba.org (in addition to our main Website, this includes for example our blog: blog.tatoeba.org, and our wiki: wiki.tatoeba.org). Consequently, we can not be held responsible for anything concerning external sites, even if they are affected by a link posted on our Website. We also can not be held responsible for sites or apps reusing our content data.
In addition, we are not responsible for any individual who is not part of the association, or the administration and development team of the Website. As a result, we can not be held responsible for volunteers who form our contributing community.
These General Conditions of Use may be modified at our discretion, according to the needs we perceive and according to any changes in the legal frameworks on which we depend.
A modification of the General Conditions of Use, or documents related to it, is notified to the persons already using the Website by displaying an announcement banner during their next visit. The amendments do not apply retroactively and come into force upon publication.
In case of any differences in meaning between the translations of these Terms of Use, the French version prevails, in its most recent update.
Questions about how our Website works?
Frequently Asked Questions are grouped together in our FAQ. Before contacting us directly, we invite you to check if the answer you are looking for is not there.
Questions about the Terms of Use? Need to contact us directly?
Our contact page details several ways to communicate with us.
Thank you for reading Tatoeba's Terms of Use. We wish you pleasant experiences with our project and hope to see you participate.
These Terms of Use came into effect on January 20, 2019. The previous version of the Terms and Conditions of Use was in effect until January 19, 2019.