Terms of Service

Using Glob Social

You must be 18 or older to use Glob Social, and you confirm that you are when you join. You sign in with a Colli account. You are responsible for what you do with your account and for keeping your sign-in safe, and you must follow these terms and the rules shown in the product.

We may change, suspend or stop any part of Glob Social. We will try to give notice of a change that affects what you have made.

What you make and share

You keep the rights you have in what you make, except as described below for public nodes. When you share something on Glob Social you give us permission to store it, show it to the people you chose to show it to, and make the copies the service needs in order to work. If you leave or delete your account, that permission continues for public work that someone else has placed on their canvas or saved, which stays on Glob Social without your name; everything else you made is deleted, as our Privacy Policy describes.

When you make a node public, you dedicate it, and everything inside it, to the public domain under CC0 and waive your moral rights where the law allows. Anyone may then copy, change and reuse it, and copies already made remain even if you later take it back. Only make public what you have the right to dedicate.

You promise that you have the right to share what you upload, including music, samples and artwork. Do not upload anything you do not have the right to share.

Content and conduct rules

These rules apply to everything on Glob Social: nodes, Pixls, music, chat, wall posts and comments, shouts, Freemarket listings, profiles and usernames. Do not post, share, sell or send:

• Sexual content involving minors, or anything that sexualises, grooms or endangers a child. We remove it, close the account and report it to the authorities.
• Harassment or bullying: insults, demeaning remarks or intimidation aimed at a person, or encouraging others to pile on someone.
• Hate: attacks on people for their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, caste, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, disability or serious illness, including slurs and dehumanising language.
• Threats of violence against a person or group, content that glorifies or encourages violence or terrorism, and graphic gore.
• Sexually explicit content or sexual solicitation.
• Encouragement of self-harm or suicide.
• Someone else's private information, such as a phone number, home address, email address or identity document, without their permission, or any threat to publish it.
• Illegal content, or content that promotes illegal activity, including the sale of illegal or regulated goods.
• Spam, scams, phishing or malware, and attempts to manipulate rankings, credits or the Freemarket.
• Impersonation of another person, brand or organisation, or of Glob Social staff.
• Content that infringes someone else's copyright, trademark or other rights.

Reporting and blocking

You can report a node, a wall post, a Pixl, a chat message or a person in the app, whether or not you are signed in: a node or a Pixl from its menu, a wall post or a chat message from the flag beside it, and a person from the menu on their name or from their profile. You can also report anything by email to [email protected]. A person reviews reports, and reports about child safety come first. For a copyright problem, use the copyright page.

You can block anyone from their profile, from your friends list or from the menu on their name. Blocking works both ways: any friendship or follow between you ends, neither of you can message the other, and you stop seeing each other's wall posts, comments and chat. The person is not told. You can unblock them in Settings.

Moderation and when we may remove content

We screen content with software and review reports with people. We may remove or disable content, hold it for review, limit what an account can do for a time (for example, pause its chat), and suspend or end accounts, when content or behaviour breaks these terms or the law, when we receive a valid notice that it infringes someone's rights, or when we have to protect people or the service.

If we act on your content or your account and you think we got it wrong, email [email protected] and a person will look at it again.

When we remove content after a copyright notice, we keep it (we do not delete it) so that it can be restored if the notice turns out to be mistaken.

Copyright

We respond to copyright notices about music tracks. If you believe a track on Glob Social infringes your copyright, use the copyright page to send a notice. It tells you how, and who our designated copyright agent is.

When we receive a notice, our staff review it. If it is complete and in order we may take the track down everywhere on Glob Social, and hold any sales of the track until the matter is decided.

We forward each notice to the people credited on the track, including the sender's name and contact details, as Canadian law requires (Copyright Act, section 41.26), and we tell the sender that we have done so. We keep records of notices for at least six months, and for a year when the sender says court proceedings are expected.

If you are credited on a track that was taken down and you believe that was a mistake, you can send a counter-notice from your copyright notices page. We pass it to the sender. Unless the sender tells us within 10 to 14 business days that they have started a lawsuit, we restore the track.

Sending a notice or counter-notice that you know is false can make you liable for damages.

How to report a copyright problem

Repeat infringers

It is our policy to end the accounts of people who repeatedly infringe copyright. A takedown counts as a strike against the account of the track's creator when we uphold it: that is, when a copyright notice is accepted and not undone by a counter-notice or by us. A takedown that is reversed does not count.

When an account has 3 upheld takedowns within 12 months, the account is reviewed for termination by a person. We may end the account, and we may end it sooner for a serious or deliberate infringement.

Selling in the Freemarket

If you sell something in the Freemarket, you promise that you have the right to sell it. A sale of a track that is taken down after a copyright notice is held until the matter is decided. If the takedown stands, the sale is reversed.

Privacy

Our Privacy Policy, at https://www.glob.social/privacy, explains what we collect, how we use it, who we share it with and how to leave Glob Social or delete your account.

Our responsibility

Glob Social is provided as it is. To the extent the law allows, we are not responsible for what members share, or for losses that come from using the service.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. Any dispute about them or about Glob Social will be decided by the courts of British Columbia.

Nothing in these terms takes away a consumer-protection right that the law of the place where you live gives you and that cannot be given up by agreement.

Contact

For anything about these terms, email [email protected]. For requests about your account, your data or deleting your account, email [email protected]. For a copyright notice, use the copyright page.