Terms of Use

By using the services provided by the Semapedia.org web site, a non-profit community-driven project founded by Alexis Rondeau and Stan Wiechers in September 2005, you agree to be bound to the following terms and conditions

Basic Terms

  • You must be 18 years and older to use this site.
  • You will be responsible for any activity online and in the real world that occurs using Semapedia.org services such as but not limited to generating and using Semapedia Tags.
  • You are fully responsible for any consequences that arise by attaching Semapedia Tags in the real world.
  • You shall ask for explicit permission before attaching Semapedia Tags onto property or an object other than your own.
  • You shall make sure that the information provided through a Semapedia Tag attached to a specific physical place or object in the real world is relevant to a user and helps him in a positive, respectful and supporting way.
  • You shall not abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate others by using Semapedia.org services such as but not limited to generating, printing and attaching Semapedia Tags in the real world thus providing information relative to a physical location or object.
  • You shall not use Semapedia.org services for any illegal, pornographic, copyright music/video sharing or any unauthorized purpose. International users shall agree to comply with all local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content.
  • You shall be solely responsible for your conduct and any data, text, information, graphics, photos, profiles, audio and video clips, links that you physically hyperlink with Semapedia.org Tags. You shall only generate Semapedia Tags that hyperlink to content provided by Wikimedia projects including but not limited to Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wiki Commons, Wikispecies, Wikiquote, and Wiktionary.
  • Semapedia.org is intended only for personal, non-commercial use, and is not a commercial service.
  • You shall not modify, adapt or hack Semapedia.org or modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with Semapedia.org.
  • You shall not, in the use of Semapedia.org, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws).

While Semapedia.org prohibits such conduct and content on its site, you shall indeminify and agree that Semapedia.org cannot be responsible for the Content hyperlinked and distributed through Semapedia Tags, you may be exposed to such materials and that you use the Semapedia.org service at your own risk.

General Conditions

  • We reserve the right to modify or terminate the Semapedia.org service for any reason, without notice at any time.
  • We reserve the right to alter these Terms of Use at any time. What constitutes such an alteration will be determined at our sole discretion, in good faith and using common sense and reasonable judgement.
  • We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.
  • The Semapedia.org service makes it possible to physically hyperlink real world locations and objects with information that matters using mobile accessible content from Wikimedia projects.
  • We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you hyperlink and distribute using the Semapedia.org service including but not limited to Semapedia Tags.

Contact Information

You can contact the founders of Semapedia.org via email at hello@semapedia.org
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