Vidders.net is a private social network for fandom vidders/viewers to share & watch vids as a community.
As such, the following Terms of Service apply to your use of Vidders.net. You are solely responsible for your conduct and your content on Vidders.net and compliance with these terms. By registering with us/creating an account or using or browsing Vidders.net, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these terms. Vidders.net is not directed to children younger than 13 and is offered only to users 13 years of age or older. Any person who provides their personal information through Vidders.net represents that they are 13 years of age or older.
By creating an account, you agree to the following terms:
- You will only upload vids that you have edited - Clip/vid theft is forbidden and will result in administrative action;
- You understand and agree to abide by the rule of one account per Member/User;
- Vidders.net does not accept uploaded embeds from sites such as Youtube or Vimeo;
- Uploading unedited footage, clip archiving or concert/stage footage is not allowed;
- Vidders.net does not encourage or condone the promotion of illegal dowloading discussions in our public forums, and we reserve the right to delete or remove any Member posts related to those topics;
- Vidders.net reserves the right to change, remove or add tags to hosted videos without notice or agreement at anytime and for any reason we deem in the best interest of the site;
- Vidders.net reserves the right to remove videos that are not in compliance with our TOS or our Network host's TOS;
- Vidders.net may change, or add text to your description(s), depending on necessity of warnings or text errors;
- Some videos may contain extreme violence adult concepts and/or profanity - Members are responsible for using their discretion in deciding what to watch on-site. Any repercussions from viewing said material are the sole responsibility of the Member.
- We expect every Member to treat other Members with respect and consideration, regardless of experience, vidding platform or role (vidder/viewer), both in forums and when leaving feedback;
- If there is a conflict with another Member, you are encouraged to contact an Admin immediately to resolve the conflict;
- Failure to tag uploads with the minimum of musical artist and fandom may result in longer wait times for upload approval;
- You consent to email communication from vidders.net that may contain ads that are in most cases related to vidding. These “ads” may come from our member partners on site.
You agree that you will not post, email or make available any content or use Vidders.net:
- in a manner that includes personal or non-fandom related identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent;
Additionally, you agree not to:
- Post any content that constitutes pornography, or contains nudity as defined by Vidders.net (Vidders.net specifies "nudity" as any visible scene revealing parts of the body which would normally be covered by a modern swimsuit.);
- Take any action that may undermine the feedback or ratings systems (such as displaying, importing or exporting feedback information off of Vidders.net or for using it for purposes unrelated to Vidders.net); and
- Develop, invoke, or utilize any code to disrupt, diminish the quality of, interfere with the performance of, or impair the functionality of Vidders.net.
You agree not to authorize or encourage any third party to use Vidders.net to facilitate any of the foregoing prohibited conduct. You also agree that these Vidders.net Terms of Service inure to the benefit of our service providers (including our Network platform provider) and that they may take action (including the removal of your content and disabling of your account) in order to maintain compliance with these Network Terms of Service. Technology and hosting for aspects of Vidders.net are provided by Vidders.net's online service provider. However, the Network Creator of Vidders.net controls the content, membership and policy of Vidders.net, including those pages served by such service provider on behalf of Vidders.net. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, by participating on Vidders.net you agree to indemnify and hold harmless such service provider on all matters related to your interaction with others using Vidders.net and participation with Vidders.net.
The following Terms of Service apply to your use of this Network. You are solely responsible for your conduct and your content on the Network and compliance with these terms. By registering with us or using or browsing this Network, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these terms. This Network is not directed to anyone younger than 16 and is offered only to users 16 years of age or older. Any person who provides their personal information through this Network represents that they are 16 years of age or older.
You agree that you will not post, email or make available any content or use this Network:
- In a manner that infringes, violates or misappropriates any third party's intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights or contractual rights;
- in a manner that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
- to engage in spamming, "chain letters," "pyramid schemes", advertisement of illegal or controlled products or services, or other advertising or marketing activities that violate these Terms of Service, any applicable laws, regulations or generally-accepted advertising industry guidelines;
- in a manner that is misleading, deceptive or fraudulent or otherwise illegal or promotes illegal activities, including engaging in phishing or otherwise obtaining financial or other personal information in a misleading manner or for fraudulent or misleading purposes;
- in a manner that is libelous or defamatory, or in a way that is otherwise threatening, abusive, violent, harassing, malicious or harmful to any person or entity, or invasive of another's privacy;
- in a manner that is harmful to minors in any way;
- in a manner that is hateful or discriminatory based on race, color, sex, religion, nationality, ethnic or national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or age or is otherwise objectionable;
- to impersonate any other person, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, or to obtain access to this Network without authorization;
- to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Network or prevent others from using this Network, or in a manner that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to this Network, or that otherwise negatively affects other persons' ability to use this Network;
- to use any manual or automated means, including agents, robots, scripts, or spiders, to access or manage any user's account or to monitor or copy this Network or the content contained therein;
- to facilitate the unlawful distribution of copyrighted content;
- in a manner that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent;
- in a manner that employs misleading email or IP addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of content transmitted through this Network or to users; and
- in a manner that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if emailed to users who have requested not to be contacted about other services, products or commercial interests.
Additionally, you agree not to:
- "Stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;
- Collect, use or disclose data, including personal information, about other users without their consent or for unlawful purposes or in violation of applicable law or regulations;
- Request, solicit or otherwise obtain access to usernames, passwords or other authentication credentials from any member of this Network or to proxy authentication credentials for any member of this Network for the purposes of automating logins to this Network;
- Post any content containing child pornography to this Network;
- Post any content that depicts or contains rape, extreme violence, murder, bestiality, incest, or other similar content;
- Post any content that constitutes pornography, contains nudity, or is adult in nature.
- Use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from this Network - except for Internet search engines (e.g. Google) and non-commercial public archives (e.g. archive.org) that comply with our robots.txt file, or "well-behaved" web services/RSS/Atom clients. We reserve the right to define what we mean by "well-behaved";
- Post irrelevant content, repeatedly post the same or similar content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Network's infrastructure;
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, this Network;
- Use this Network as a generic file hosting service;
- Take any action that may undermine the feedback or ratings systems (such as displaying, importing or exporting feedback information off of this Network or for using it for purposes unrelated to this Network); and
- Develop, invoke, or utilize any code to disrupt, diminish the quality of, interfere with the performance of, or impair the functionality of this Network.
To provide notice of alleged copyright infringement on this Network, please see the DMCA Notification Guidelines.
You agree not to authorize or encourage any third party to use this Network to facilitate any of the foregoing prohibited conduct. You also agree that these Network Terms of Service inure to the benefit of our service providers (including our Network platform provider) and that they may take action (including the removal of your content and disabling of your account) in order to maintain compliance with these Network Terms of Service. Technology and hosting for aspects of this Network are provided by this Network's online service provider. However, the Network Creator of this Network controls the content, membership and policy of this Network, including those pages served by such service provider on behalf of this Network. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, by participating on this Network you agree to indemnify and hold harmless such service provider on all matters related to your interaction with others using this Network and participation with this Network.