Terms of Use


This Terms of Use document outlines the rules of Poemist and its usage. By using this web site you accept this aggrement.

GENERAL

"Terms of use" are rules that affect your legal rights while using our community and website. Any participation means you accept this agreement.

This site is offered for informational and educational purposes only: we are not responsible or liable for the accuracy, errors, availability, or omissions of any information made available.

You may not use our website or products to do or share anything that is unlawful, misleading, discriminatory or fraudulent or that infringes or violates someone else's rights, including their intellectual property rights.

You may not access or collect data from our website using automated means -ex: not limited to but including scraping, crawling etc.- (without our prior permission) or attempt to access data you do not have permission to access.

You may not upload viruses or malicious code or do anything that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working or appearance of our website or products.

We can remove or restrict access to content that is in violation of these provisions.

RIGHTS & COPYRIGHT

By posting any poem, content or images, you assert that you are the copyright owner, or have permission from the copyright owner.

You remain the copyright owner of content you create and share with us and are free to publish it elsewhere.

To post your poems and other any kind of content on the Poemist.com, you grant us a royalty-free right to publish, share, and transmit this content through website, emails, and other non-print, non-ebook mediums. These permissions can only be revoked by deleting the content.

By submitting your poems to Poemist.com, you agree on making them accessible to the public. We are not liable for any issues related to your work being accessible to the public.

Your poet name, username and content will be seen by search engines and any kind of bots. Your profile pages and poems are always visible. If you change or delete content, search engines can take weeks or more time to remove content.

Poems published on Poemist.com, does not mean that the poet (or his/her representative) agrees to poems can be published on all sites on the Internet

We may promote users' great poems on our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or any kind of social media account as well as email newsletter. Shared content may include a link as well as lines of a poem.

We welcome suggestions. If you choose to share a suggestion we may use it as we wish, without any payment or credit.

We are DMCA compliant - Poems are published on this site purely for informational and educational purposes with good intentions. If the legal representatives ask us to remove a poem from the site, this will be done immediately. If you own copyright to information posted on this site and want it removed or edited, please contact us. Poemist.com reserves the right to investigate whether the person submitting that demand is authorized to do so or not.

UPDATING OUR TERMS

We work constantly to improve our services and develop new features to make our Poemist.com and products better for you and our community. As a result, we may need to update these Terms from time to time to accurately reflect our services and practices. We will only make any changes if the provisions are no longer appropriate or if they are incomplete, and only if the changes are reasonable and take due account of your interests.

We will not notify you before we make changes to these Terms and you should review Terms time to time. Once any updated Terms are in effect, you will be bound by them if you continue to use Poemist.com.

We hope that you will continue using our website or products, but if you do not agree to our updated Terms and no longer want to be a part of the Poemist community, you can delete/suspend your account at any time by contacting us.

DISPUTES

We try to provide clear rules so that we can limit or hopefully avoid disputes between you and us. If a dispute does arise, however, it's useful to know up front where it can be resolved and what laws will apply.

For all cases, you agree that the claim must be resolved exclusively in the Turkish Courts of Turkey. You also agree that you submit to the personal jurisdiction of either of these courts for the purpose of litigating any such claim, and that the laws of the Turkey will govern these Terms and any claim, without regard to conflict of law provisions.

CREDITS & ATTRIBUTION

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