Perihelion Terms of Service

last updated: October 15th, 2024

non-legal summary

These terms can change whenever, but you will be informed when.
Whatever you put into the bot should be non-objectionable, and we can do what we want with it.
For any sort of questions, DM @whirlingstars on Discord.

definitions

For the purposes of shorthanding, here are some definitions:
"Perihelion", the "Service", or the "Bot" refers to the Perihelion discord bot.
"We" or "Our" refers to the three Perihelion maintainers, @legitsi, @diginist, and @whirlingstars.
"Data", "Content", or "Settings" refers to anything Perihelion stores on our servers - tags, random texts, information like that.
"You", "Your", or any other nouns with the same meaning refers to you, the individual using Perihelion.
"These terms" or just "terms" refers to this document.
"Privacy policy" refers to our privacy policy, accessed here: https://whirling.infernity.dev/perihelion/privacy-policy.html
These may all be used in the lowercase form, as well.

the actual legal part

you've read this, right?

You agree that you have read these terms before using Perihelion. If you break these terms, your permission to use Perihelion may be restricted or removed.
These terms may change at any time, however you are entitled to be informed through the "Perihelion Central" discord server, in the "bot-announcements" channel.
The privacy policy may also change at any time, however you are entitled to be informed through the same channels.

did you know the bot stores data? shocking

Perihelion stores data about you and miscellaneous content. How it is used is described in the privacy policy, and you agree to it by using the bot.
We aren't responsible for content you or other users put into Perihelion! You grant ourselves the right and license to use, modify, publicly perform,
publicly display, reproduce, sublicense, and distribute your content, but you retain all of your rights to the content you submit to Perihelion.
You are also responsible for protecting these rights. Other users may use your content subject to these terms, as well.

okay so you have permission for this right

The burden is on you to make sure that you own the content or can otherwise use it and give us the same rights to your content as described above.
The burden is also on you to make sure that your content does not violate privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any
other rights of any person.

i swear to god don't be stupid

You may not submit any content that is unlawful, offensive, upsetting, intended to disgust, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable.
Examples of such objectionable content include, but are not limited to, the following:

Unlawful or promoting unlawful activity.

Defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content, including references or commentary about religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin, or other targeted groups.

Any form of malicious or deceiving advertising without our approval.

Using Perihelion to spam in any channel or DM without permission from others.

Containing or installing any viruses, worms, malware, trojan horses, or other content that is designed or intended to disrupt, damage, or limit the functioning of any software, hardware or telecommunications equipment or to damage or obtain unauthorized access to any data or other information of a third person.

Infringing on any proprietary rights of any party, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity or other rights.

Impersonating any person or entity including ourselves.

Violating the privacy of any third person.

Misinformation and falsifying features.

dmca takedowns

If you are a copyright owner [or authorized on behalf of one], and you believe that copyrighted work has been copied in sunch a way that consitutes copyright infringement through Perihelion,
you must submit your notice in writing to the attention of myself through Discord at @whirlingstars.

dmca takedown details

If you want to submit a DMCA copyright takedown notice, send @whirlingstars the following information (see 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3) for further detail):

An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright's interest.

A description of the copyrighted work that You claim has been infringed, including the URL (i.e., wiki server id and page name) of the location where the copyrighted work exists or a copy of the copyrighted work.

Identification of the specific location on the Service where the material that You claim is infringing is located.

Your address, telephone number, and email address.

A statement by You that You have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

A statement by You, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in Your notice is accurate and that You are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

miscellaneous protections

Perihelion may link to websites which are not controlled by us. We do not assume any form of responsibility for these sites. We are not responsible or liable for anything that happens outside of Perihelion.
You may lose permission to use Perihelion at any time, for any reason, without limitation.

the golden rule

Perihelion comes as is, without warranty of any kind.