Terms of service

By using Greenthumbr, you agree to follow the rules.

Your responsibilities

Be civil to each other

You agree to be roughly civil to one another. You don’t have to agree, respect or even like each other. But you can’t be a big ol’ meanie. We’ll turn off your account if you’re abusive.

Intellectual property

Everyone contributes to Greenthumbr. This contribution isn’t necessarily free or easy. We’ve provided a way for each user to denote how they want to share their creations. Respect them. If you can’t respect other people’s property, you won’t be allowed to play.

If you’re posting stuff on Greenthumbr, we assume you actually have the right to do so. If you’re placing copyrighted material you do not have a valid claim to, that’s truly not cool, and is disallowed.

Any content that you add to Greenthumbr is yours. We do not claim ownership. But, by transmitting that content to our server, you are granting Greenthumbr and Shovelpunks a non-exclusive and perpetual license to be in possess of your content, and to share it through our media channels.

That basically just means it’d be very cheeky to sue us for displaying images your sent to us, and asked us to display.

This also includes the right for us to highlight your content in the variety of “spotlights” throughout the site, refer or include it in Greenthumbr podcasts, videos or other materials. Any time your content is used, we will absolutely ensure that the world knows it is your original content, and where they can find more of your work.

Be nice to the hardware

Don’t run scripts or automated tools to scrape the content from our site, or otherwise manipulate it. We’ll be releasing an API, so if you’re a developer, we’ll have a better answer for you soon.

Our responsibilities

Privacy and Copyrights

We’ll follow our own copyright and privacy statements. If you find us violating either the spirit or the letter of our own policies, please let us know.

Uptime and backups

We have a quality-of-service (QoS) agreement with our datacenter that is astronomical. They’re well-connected to the internet, have tons of spare parts handy, are staffed 24/7, and all that good stuff.

Unfortunately, our developers don’t deliver a similar QoS agreement, and tend to write software containing at least a few bugs. Sometimes these bugs cause the system to fail in catastrophic ways. We try to prevent these failures, and any data-loss that might happen as a result. Unfortunately, we can offer no guarantees regarding availability of the service or safety of your data.

We do keep backups of all data on a weekly basis and work cautiously with data. We use Greenthumbr ourselves, and would be considerably cheesed-off to lose our own data. We understand. Really.

We hope our tendenency to support microformats also helps you to maintain backups of your own data.

Violations and Disputes

Remember civility

In the event of a violation, by either Greenthumbr or a member, let’s try to be civil. Chances are, someone made a mistake. Malice is probably not a factor.

Courts

Should we have to utilize any legal system, everything happens in North Carolina.