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Ár dTéarmaí Úsáide

Samhlaigh domhan inar féidir le gach duine aonair suim an eolais go léir a roinnt faoi shaoirse. Sin ár dtiomantas. – Ár Ráiteas Físe

Fáilte go Wikimedia! Is eagraíocht charthanúil neamhbhrabúis é an Fondúireacht Wikimedia, Inc. (“muid” nó “muid” nó “Fondúireacht”), a bhfuil ceanncheathrú aici i San Francisco, California, Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá, a bhfuil sé mar mhisean aicidaoine ar fud an domhain a chumhachtú agus a fhostú chun ábhar a bhailiú agus a fhorbairt faoi cheadúnas saor in aisce nó san fhearann poiblí, agus é a scaipeadh go héifeachtach agus ar fud an domhain, saor in aisce.

Chun tacú lenár bpobal bríomhar, soláthraímid an creat riachtanach bonneagair agus eagrúcháin chun tionscadail vicí ilteangacha agus a n-eagráin a fhorbairt (mar a mhínítear ar ár leathanach Tionscadail Wikimedia) (dá ngairtear “Tionscadail” leis seo) agus iarrachtaí eile a fhreastalaíonn ar an misean seo. Déanaimid ár ndícheall ábhar oideachasúil agus faisnéise ó na Tionscadail atá ar fáil ar an idirlíon a dhéanamh agus a choinneáil saor in aisce, go buan.

Cuirimid fáilte romhat (“tú” nó an “úsáideoir”) mar léitheoir, nó mar rannpháirtí na dTionscadal, agus molaimid duit a bheith páirteach sa phobal Wikimedia. Sula nglacann tú páirt, áfach, iarraimid ort na Téarmaí Úsáide seo a leanas (“Téarmaí Úsáide”) a léamh agus aontú leo.

Overview

Insíonn na Téarmaí Úsáide seo duit faoinár seirbhísí poiblí ag Fondúireacht Wikimedia, ár gcaidreamh leat mar úsáideoir, agus na cearta agus na freagrachtaí a threoraíonn muid araon. Tá méid dochreidte d’ábhar oideachasúil agus faisnéise againn, agus cuireann úsáideoirí cosúil leat féin leis agus is féidir é a dhéanamh. Go ginearálta, ní dhéanaimid ábhar a ranníoc, a mhonatóiriú ná a scriosadh (le heisceachtaí neamhchoitianta, mar shampla faoi bheartais mar na Téarmaí Úsáide seo, le haghaidh comhlíonadh dlíthiúil, nó nuair a bhíonn bagairtí práinneacha díobhála tromchúisí os ár gcomhair). Ciallaíonn sé seo go bhfuil rialú eagarthóireachta i lámha tú féin agus do chomh-úsáideoirí a chruthaíonn agus a bhainistíonn an t-ábhar.

Is é an pobal - an líonra úsáideoirí atá ag tógáil agus ag úsáid na dTionscadal agus / nó a láithreáin ghréasáin i gcónaí (dá ngairtear “Láithreáin Ghréasáin Tionscadail” leis seo) - an príomh-mhodh trína mbaintear spriocanna an mhisin amach. Cuireann an pobal lenár dTionscadail agus Láithreáin Ghréasáin Tionscadail agus cabhraíonn sé leo iad a rialú. Tugann an pobal faoin bhfeidhm chriticiúil a bhaineann le polasaithe a chruthú agus a fhorfheidhmiú d’eagráin shonracha an Tionscadail (ar nós na n-eagrán teanga éagsúla don Tionscadal Vicipéide nó d’eagrán ilteangach Wikimedia Commons).

Tá fáilte romhat, an t-úsáideoir, a bheith páirteach mar ranníocóir, eagarthóir, nó údar, ach ba chóir duit na beartais a rialaíonn gach ceann de na heagráin neamhspleácha Tionscadail a leanúint, lena n-áirítear an Cód Iompair Uilíoch (Universal Code of Conduct, UCoC), a bhaineann le gach eagrán Tionscadail. Is é Vicipéid an ceann is mó dár dTionscadail, ach óstálaimid Tionscadail eile freisin, gach ceann acu le cuspóirí agus modhanna oibre éagsúla. Tá foireann rannpháirtithe, eagarthóirí nó údair i ngach eagrán Tionscadail a oibríonn le chéile chun an t-ábhar ar an eagrán Tionscadail sin a chruthú agus a bhainistiú. Tá fáilte romhat a bheith páirteach sna foirne seo agus oibriú leo chun na Tionscadail seo a fheabhsú. Ós rud é go bhfuilimid tiomanta d’ábhar a chur ar fáil saor in aisce don phobal, cuirtear ábhar a chuireann tú ar fáil faoi cheadúnas saor in aisce nó scaoiltear é san fhearann poiblí.

Bí ar an eolas go bhfuil tú freagrach go dlíthiúil as do chuid ranníocaíochtaí, athruithe agus athúsáid ábhar Wikimedia faoi dhlíthe Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá agus dlíthe infheidhme eile (a bhféadfadh dlíthe a bheith san áireamh ina bhfuil tú féin nó ábhar do ranníocaíochtaí suite). Ciallaíonn sé seo go bhfuil sé tábhachtach go mbeadh tú cúramach agus tú ag postáil, ag modhnú nó ag athúsáid ábhar. I bhfianaise na freagrachta seo, tá roinnt rialacha againn maidir leis an méid nach féidir leat a dhéanamh, an chuid is mó acu ar mhaithe le do chosaint féin nó chun úsáideoirí eile cosúil leat féin a chosaint. Coinnigh i gcuimhne, le do thoil, gur chun críocha faisnéise ginearálta amháin atá an t-ábhar a óstáilimid, mar sin má theastaíonn sainchomhairle uait le haghaidh ceist ar leith (amhail saincheisteanna leighis, dlí nó airgeadais), ba cheart duit cabhair a lorg ó ghairmí cuí. Cuirimid fógraí agus séanadh tábhachtacha eile san áireamh freisin, mar sin léigh na Téarmaí Úsáide seo ina n-iomláine.

Ar mhaithe le soiléireacht, tá eagraíochtaí eile, amhail caibidlí agus cumainn áitiúla Wikimedia, a d’fhéadfadh a bheith páirteach sa mhisean céanna neamhspleách go dlíthiúil agus ar leithligh ón bhFondúireacht Wikimedia. Mura luaitear a mhalairt ag an bhFondúireacht mar pháirtí údaraithe ar Shuíomh Gréasáin tionscadail ar leith, níl aon fhreagracht ar na heagraíochtaí eile sin as oibríochtaí Láithreán Gréasáin an Tionscadail ná as a ábhar.

1. Ár Seirbhísí

Tá Fondúireacht Wikimedia tiomanta d’fhás, d’fhorbairt agus do dháileadh ábhar ilteangach saor in aisce a spreagadh, agus d’ábhar iomlán na dTionscadal vicíbhunaithe seo a óstáil saor in aisce don phobal. Is é an ról atá againn ná cuid de na Tionscadail tagartha is mó ar domhan a bhfuil eagarthóireacht chomhoibríoch déanta orthu a óstáil, [féidir iad a fháil anseo]. Mar sin féin, ní ghníomhaímid ach mar sholáthraí seirbhíse óstála, ag cothabháil an bhonneagair agus an chreata eagrúcháin. Cuireann an bonneagar agus an creat seo ar chumas ár n-úsáideoirí na Tionscadail a thógáil trí ábhar a chur leis agus a chur in eagar iad féin. Ligeann siad dár n-úsáideoirí an t-ábhar sin a athúsáid freisin. Cuimsíonn an bonneagar a choinnímid bonneagar teicneolaíochta speisialaithe a chuireann ar chumas úsáideoirí idirghníomhú agus athúsáid a dhéanamh ar ábhar ar Thionscadail (dá ngairtear “Comhéadan Feidhmchláir” nó “APInna”), agus feidhmchláir mhóibíleacha.

Mar a úsáidtear ar fud an chuid eile de na Téarmaí Úsáide, is éard atá inár seirbhísí ná: ÓstálaimidNa Láithreáin Ghréasáin Tionscadail bonneagar teicneolaíochta a choinnímid, agus aon spásanna teicniúla a óstáilimid chun ár dTionscadail a chothabháil agus a fheabhsú.

Mar gheall ar ár ról uathúil, tá cúpla rud ba chóir duit a bheith ar an eolas faoi agus tú ag smaoineamh ar ár gcaidreamh leat, na Tionscadail, agus úsáideoirí eile:

  1. Ní ghlacaimid ról eagarthóireachta: Toisc go ndéantar eagarthóireacht chomhoibríoch ar na Tionscadail, soláthraíonn úsáideoirí formhór mór an ábhair a óstáilimid, agus ní ghlacaimid ról eagarthóireachta. Ciallaíonn sé seo nach ndéanaimid monatóireacht ná eagarthóireacht ar ábhar Láithreáin Ghréasáin an Tionscadail de ghnáth, agus ní ghlacaimid aon fhreagracht as an ábhar seo. Ar an gcaoi chéanna, mura bhfuil a mhalairt ráite go sainráite againn, ní thacaímid le haon tuairimí a chuirtear in iúl trínár seirbhísí, agus ní dhéanaimid ionadaíocht ná ráthaíocht ar fhírinneacht, cruinneas ná iontaofacht aon ábhar pobail a chuirtear isteach ar na Tionscadail.
  2. Tá tú freagrach as do ghníomhartha féin: Tá tú freagrach go dlíthiúil as do chuid athruithe agus ranníocaíochtaí ar na Tionscadail, d’athúsáid ábhar ar na Tionscadail, an úsáid a bhaineann tú as na APInna, agus an úsáid a bhaineann tú as ár seirbhísí ar bhonn níos ginearálta. Ar mhaithe le do chosaint féin, ba cheart duit a bheith cúramach agus gan aon ghníomhartha a dhéanamh a bhféadfadh dliteanas coiriúil nó sibhialta a bheith mar thoradh orthu faoi aon dlíthe is infheidhme. Ar mhaithe le soiléireacht, áirítear ar a laghad dlíthe Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá agus Stát California sa dlí is infheidhme. I gcás tíortha eile, cinntear é seo ar bhonn cás ar chás. Cé nach féidir linn aontú le gníomhartha den sórt sin, tugaimid rabhadh d’úsáideoirí - go háirithe na heagarthóirí, ranníocóirí, agus údair-go neamh-SAM. Féadfaidh údaráis iarracht a dhéanamh dlíthe tíre eile a chur i bhfeidhm ort, lena n-áirítear dlíthe áitiúla ina bhfuil cónaí ort nó an áit a bhféachann tú ar ábhar nó ina gcuireann tú ábhar in eagar. De ghnáth ní féidir linn aon chosaint, ráthaíocht, díolúine ná slánú a thairiscint i gcoinne chur i bhfeidhm na ndlíthe sin.

2. Polasaí Príobháideachais

Iarraimid ort athbhreithniú a dhéanamh ar théarmaí ár bPolasaí Príobháideachais, ionas go mbeidh tú ar an eolas faoin gcaoi a mbailímid agus a n-úsáidimid do chuid faisnéise.

3. Ábhar a Óstálaimid

  1. Is féidir leat teacht ar roinnt ábhar agóide nó earráideach: Toisc go bhfuil réimse leathan ábhar againn a tháirgeann nó a bhailíonn úsáideoirí eile, d’fhéadfá teacht ar ábhar a fhaigheann tú maslach, earráideach, míthreorach, míchreidte, nó inchosanta ar shlí eile. Iarraimid, dá bhrí sin, go n-úsáideann tú ciall choiteann agus breithiúnas cuí agus tú ag úsáid ár seirbhísí.
  2. Is chun críocha faisnéise ginearálta amháin atá ábhar na dTionscadal: Cé go bhfuil go leor faisnéise inár dTionscadail a bhaineann le hábhair ghairmiúla, lena n-áirítear saincheisteanna leighis, dlíthiúla nó airgeadais, cuirtear an t-ábhar seo i láthair chun críocha faisnéise ginearálta amháin. Níor cheart glacadh leis mar chomhairle ghairmiúil. Lorg comhairleoireacht ghairmiúil neamhspleách ó dhuine atá ceadúnaithe nó cáilithe sa réimse is infheidhme in ionad gníomhú ar aon fhaisnéis, tuairim nó comhairle atá i gceann de Láithreáin Ghréasáin an Tionscadail.

4. Staonadh ó Ghníomhaíochtaí Áirithe

Níl na Tionscadail arna n-óstáil ag fondúireacht Wikimedia ann ach amháin mar gheall ar an bpobal bríomhar úsáideoirí cosúil leat a chomhoibríonn chun an t-ábhar a scríobh, a chur in eagar agus a choimeád. Cuirimid fáilte mhór roimh do rannpháirtíocht sa phobal seo. Molaimid duit a bheith sibhialta agus dea-bhéasach i do chuid idirghníomhaíochtaí le daoine eile sa phobal, gníomhú de mheon macánta, agus athruithe agus ranníocaíochtaí a dhéanamh atá dírithe ar mhisean an Tionscadail chomhroinnte a chur chun cinn. Iarraimid ar gach úsáideoir athbhreithniú agus leanúint a dhéanamh ar an gCód Iompair Uilíoch (“UCoC”), a leagann amach riachtanais maidir le comhoibriú coláisteach, sibhialta ar fud na dTionscadal go léir a óstálaimid.

D'fhéadfadh go mbeadh gníomhaíochtaí áirithe, cibé acu dlíthiúla nó neamhdhleathacha faoin dlí is infheidhme, díobhálacha do úsáideoirí eile agus go ndéanfaí sárú ar ár rialacha, agus d'fhéadfadh go gcuirfí roinnt gníomhaíochtaí faoi réir dliteanas freisin. Dá bhrí sin, chun cosaint a thabhairt duit féin agus do úsáideoirí eile, ní féidir leat páirt a ghlacadh i ngníomhaíochtaí den sórt sin ar ár gClár, nó úsáid a bhaint as ar bhealach eile. I measc na ngníomhaíochtaí sin tá:

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    With both text content and non-text media, you agree to clearly indicate that the original work has been modified. If you are reusing text content in a wiki, it is sufficient to indicate in the page history that you made a change to the imported text. For each copy or modified version that you distribute, you agree to include a licensing notice stating which license the work is released under, along with either a hyperlink or URL to the text of the license or a copy of the license itself.

8. DMCA Compliance

The Wikimedia Foundation wants to ensure that the content that we host can be reused by other users without fear of liability and that it is not infringing the proprietary rights of others. In fairness to our users, as well as to other creators and copyright holders, our policy is to respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the formalities of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA"). Pursuant to the DMCA, we will terminate, in appropriate circumstances, users and account holders of our system and network who are repeat infringers on our Projects and services.

However, we also recognize that not every takedown notice is valid or in good faith. In such cases, we strongly encourage users to file counter-notifications when they appropriately believe a DMCA takedown demand is invalid or improper. For more information on what to do if you think a DMCA notice has been improperly filed, you may wish to consult the Lumen Database website.

If you are the owner of content that is being improperly used on one of the Projects without your permission, you may request that the content be removed by filing a notice under the DMCA. To make such a request, please email us at legal@wikimedia.org or snail mail our designated agent.

Alternatively, you may make a request to our community, which often handles copyright issues faster and more effectively than the process prescribed under the DMCA. In that case, you can post a notice explaining your copyright concerns. For a non-exhaustive and non-authoritative list of the relevant processes for the different Project editions, visit the Copyright Problems page. Before filing a DMCA claim, you also have the option of sending an email to the community at info@wikimedia.org.

9. Third-party Websites and Resources

You are solely responsible for your use of any third-party websites or resources. Although the Projects and Project Websites contain links to third-party websites and resources, we do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for their availability, accuracy, or the related content, products, or services (including, without limitation, any viruses or other disabling features), nor do we have any obligation to monitor such third-party content.

10. Management of Websites

The community has the primary role in creating and enforcing policies applying to the different Project editions. At the Wikimedia Foundation, we rarely intervene in community decisions about policy and its enforcement.

It is possible to notify us of illegal content, or content that violates our Terms of Use (including all policies and other documents incorporated by reference) for other reasons by contacting us directly. However, you can typically make a request directly to the Project's community: this may be more efficient, and is more consistent with our Projects' aim to empower the user community.

Each Project will usually provide "Help" or "Contact" pages for further guidance, or specific tools for reporting issues. Alternatively – if in doubt – you can ask members of the community for help, by sending an email to info@wikimedia.org or a more language-specific address from the Volunteer Response Team page. Please note that these mailboxes are monitored by users of the Projects, not the Foundation. As a result, they should not be threatened or issued with legal demands.

If you contact the Foundation with a problem, we will typically explore whether and how existing community-led mechanisms can investigate and, where appropriate, resolve it.

In an unusual case, the need may arise, or the community may ask us, to address an especially problematic user or especially problematic content because of significant Project disturbance or dangerous behavior. In such cases, we reserve the right, at our sole discretion (or where legally compelled), to:

  • Investigate your use of the Projects or our services (a) to determine whether a violation of these Terms of Use, Project edition policy, or other applicable law or policy has occurred, or (b) to comply with any applicable law, legal process, or an appropriate governmental request;
  • Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, false or unverifiable information, security, or technical issues or respond to user support requests;
  • Refuse, revert, disable, or restrict access to contributions of any user who violates these Terms of Use;
  • Ban a user from editing or contributing or block a user's account or access for actions violating these Terms of Use, including repeat posting of unlawful material under applicable law in line with human rights principles;
  • Take legal action against users who violate these Terms of Use (including reports to law enforcement authorities); and
  • Manage otherwise the Project websites in a manner designed to facilitate their proper functioning and protect the rights, property, and safety of ourselves and our users, licensors, partners, and the public.

Those Foundation moderation activities may be informed or performed by software (such as traffic flood ("Denial of Service") protection). In those cases human review is normally available, upon request.

In the interests of our users and the Projects, in the extreme circumstance that any individual has had their account or access blocked under this section, they are prohibited from creating or using another account on or seeking access to the same Project, unless we provide explicit permission. Without limiting the authority of the community, the Foundation itself will not ban a user from editing or contributing or block a user's account or access solely because of good faith criticism that does not result in actions otherwise violating these Terms of Use or community policies.

The Wikimedia community and its members may also take action when so allowed by the community or Foundation policies applicable to the specific Project edition, including but not limited to warning, investigating, blocking, or banning users who violate those policies. You agree to comply with the final decisions of dispute resolution bodies that are established by the community for the specific Project editions (such as arbitration committees); these decisions may include sanctions as set out by the policy of the specific Project edition.

Especially problematic users who have had accounts or access blocked on multiple Project editions may be subject to a ban from all of the Project editions, in accordance with the Global Ban Policy. In contrast to Board resolutions or these Terms of Use, policies established by the community, which may cover a single Project edition or multiple Projects editions (like the Global Ban Policy), may be modified by the relevant community according to its own procedures.

The blocking of an account or access or the banning of a user under this provision shall be in accordance with Section 13 of these Terms of Use.

If you believe we have not satisfactorily acted on a problematic content report, or if you have been subjected to a Foundation moderation action that you wish to challenge, you may be able to submit an appeal.  Other information about routes of appeal may also be explained to you at the time, or in Project-specific help pages.

We reserve the right to suspend (temporarily, or permanently) our handling of reports or other correspondence from users or third parties, whether about allegedly illegal or otherwise problematic content or conduct, or requesting appeals against moderation actions, if such correspondence was made in bad faith, repetitive, unfounded, and/or abusive. In appropriate circumstances, your email address may even be blocked on our email system(s), and you will then need to contact us at our postal address if you wish to further correspond with us during that block. For less serious cases (e.g. up to three polite emails about one or more meritless complaints), this is likely to be temporary. More frequent or more abusive communications are more likely to lead to permanent measures.

11. Resolutions and Project Policies

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees releases official policies from time to time. Some of these policies may be mandatory for a particular Project or Project edition, and, when they are, you agree to abide by them as applicable.

12. API Terms

We make available a set of APIs, which include documentation and associated tools, to enable users to build products that promote free knowledge. By using our APIs, you agree to abide by all applicable policies governing the use of the APIs, which include but are not limited to the User-Agent Policy, the Robot Policy, and the API:Etiquette (collectively, "API Documentation"), which are incorporated into these Terms of Use by reference.

13. Termination

Though we hope you will stay and continue to contribute to the Projects, you can stop using our services any time. In certain (hopefully unlikely) circumstances it may be necessary for either ourselves or the Wikimedia community or its members (as described in Section 10) to terminate part or all of our services, terminate these Terms of Use, block your account or access, or ban you as a user. If your account or access is blocked or otherwise terminated for any reason, your public contributions and a record of your activities on or in relation to the Projects (including any correspondence you have sent us) will be unaffected (subject to applicable policies), and you may still access our public pages for the sole purpose of reading publicly available content on the Projects. In such circumstances, however, you may not be able to access your account or settings. However, regardless of any other provision in these Terms of Use, we reserve the right to suspend or end the services at any time, with or without cause, and with or without notice. Even after your use and participation are banned, blocked or otherwise suspended, these Terms of Use will remain in effect with respect to relevant provisions, including Sections 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9-16, and 18.

14. Disputes and Jurisdiction

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We hope that no serious disagreements arise involving you, but, in the event there is a dispute, we encourage you to seek resolution through the dispute resolution procedures or mechanisms provided by the Projects or Project editions and the Wikimedia Foundation. If you seek to file a legal claim against us, you agree to file and resolve it exclusively in a state or federal court located in San Francisco County, California. You also agree that the laws of the State of California and, to the extent applicable, the laws of the United States of America will govern these Terms of Use, as well as any legal claim that might arise between you and us (without reference to conflict of laws principles). You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of, and agree that venue is proper in, the courts located in San Francisco County, California, in any legal action or proceeding relating to us or these Terms of Use.

To ensure that disputes are dealt with soon after they arise, you agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action you might have arising out of or related to use of our services or these Terms of Use must be filed within the applicable statute of limitations or, if earlier, one (1) year after the pertinent facts underlying such claim or cause of action could have been discovered with reasonable diligence (or be forever barred).

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As described in section 4 of these Terms of Use, you agree to resolve violations of the Paid Contributions without Disclosure in a Marketing Company Mediation at the Foundation's discretion. Marketing Company Mediations are binding mediations where, at the end of either a half or full day session, any disputed items that remain unresolved will be decided by the mediator in a legally binding decision. They will be conducted in meetings by teleconference or videoconference. If an in-person meeting is required, then the Marketing Company Mediation will take place in San Francisco County, California. The parties will split all fees and expenses related to the mediation/arbitration equally.

You agree, as part of a Marketing Company Mediation, to cooperate with the Foundation, including by timely providing any documentation in your possession relating to your undisclosed paid editing activities including the accounts used, articles affected, and clients who purchased such services.

Marketing Company Mediations are subject to and governed by the Federal Arbitration Act to the extent that the mediator becomes an arbitrator. The prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its attorneys' fees (including all fees necessary to determine the applicability of the Marketing Company Mediation and to enforce the binding result) and all costs relating to the investigation and enforcement of its rights. A party may be deemed "prevailing" even if it is not successful on every claim asserted.

If for some reason the entirety of these Marketing Company Mediation requirements are found to be unenforceable, you agree to resolve any disputes as described in the beginning of this section.

15. Disclaimers

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At the Wikimedia Foundation, we do our best to provide educational and informational content to a very wide audience, but your use of our services is at your sole risk. We provide these services on an "as is" and "as available" basis, and we expressly disclaim all express or implied warranties of all kinds, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We make no warranty that our services will meet your requirements, be safe, secure, uninterrupted, timely, accurate, or error-free, or that your information will be secure.

We are not responsible for the content, data, or actions of third parties, and you release us, our directors, officers, employees, and agents from any claims and damages, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with any claim you have against any such third parties. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from us or through or from our services creates any warranty not expressly stated in these Terms of Use.

Any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through your use of our services is done at your own discretion and risk, and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download of any such material. You agree that we have no responsibility or liability for the deletion of, or the failure to store or to transmit, any content or communication maintained by the service. We retain the right to create limits on use and storage at our sole discretion at any time with or without notice.

Some states or jurisdictions do not allow the types of disclaimers in this section, so they may not apply to you either in part or in full depending on the law.

16. Limitation on Liability

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The Wikimedia Foundation will not be liable to you or to any other party for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data, or other intangible losses, regardless of whether we were advised of the possibility of such damage. In no event shall our liability exceed one thousand U.S. dollars (US$1,000.00) in aggregate. In the case that applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you, although our liability will be limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

17. Modifications to these Terms of Use

Just as the Wikimedia community's input is essential for the growth and maintenance of the Projects, we believe that community input is essential for these Terms of Use to properly serve our users. It is also essential for a fair contract. Therefore, we will provide these Terms of Use, as well as any substantial future revisions of these Terms of Use, to the community for comment at least thirty (30) days before the end of the comment period. If a future proposed revision is substantial, we will provide an additional 30 days for comments after posting a translation of the proposed revision in at least three languages (selected at our discretion). The community will be encouraged to translate the proposed revision in other languages as appropriate. For changes for legal or administrative reasons, to correct an inaccurate statement, or changes in response to community comments, we will provide at least three (3) days' notice.

Because it may be necessary to modify these Terms of Use from time to time, we will provide notice of such modifications and the opportunity to comment via the Project websites, and via a notification on WikimediaAnnounce-l. However, we ask that you please periodically review the most up-to-date version of these Terms of Use. Your continued use of our services after the new Terms of Use become official following the notice and review period constitutes an acceptance of these Terms of Use on your part. For the protection of the Wikimedia Foundation and other users like yourself, if you do not agree with our Terms of Use, you cannot use our services.

18. Other Terms

These Terms of Use do not create an employment, agency, partnership, joint control or joint venture relationship between you and us, the Wikimedia Foundation. For the purposes of European Economic Area law, United Kingdom law, or other laws that involve a similar concept, you are not acting "under the authority of" the Foundation when you use the services. If you have not signed a separate agreement with us, these Terms of Use are the entire agreement between you and us. If there is any conflict between these Terms of Use and a signed written agreement between you and us, the signed agreement will control.

You agree that we may provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to the Terms of Use, by email, regular mail, or postings on the Projects or Project Websites.

If in any circumstance, we do not apply or enforce any provision of these Terms of Use, it is not a waiver of that provision.

You understand that, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by us, you have no expectation of compensation for any activity, contribution, or idea that you provide to us, the community, or the Projects or Project editions.

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in these Terms of Use, we (the Wikimedia Foundation) and you agree not to modify the applicable terms and requirements of any free license that is employed on the Projects or Project editions when such free license is authorized by these Terms of Use.

These Terms of Use were written in English (U.S.). While we hope that translations of these Terms of Use are accurate, in the event of any differences in meaning between the original English version and a translation, the original English version takes precedence.

If any provision or part of a provision of these Terms of Use is found unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable from these Terms of Use and will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible, and all other provisions of these Terms of Use will remain in full force and effect.

Thank You!

We appreciate your taking the time to read these Terms of Use, and we are very happy to have you contributing to the Projects and using our services. Through your contributions, you are helping to build something really big – not only an important collection of collaboratively edited reference Projects that provides education and information to millions who might otherwise lack access, but also a vibrant community of like-minded and engaged peers, focused on a very noble goal.

These Terms of Use went into effect on June 7, 2023. Previous versions of the terms:

Please note that in the event of any differences in meaning or interpretation between the original English version of this content and a translation, the original English version takes precedence.

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