Welcome to Kerning! We’re thrilled that you’ve chosen to publish with us.
This Publisher Agreement (“Agreement”) is a binding contract between you and Kerning Inc. (“we”, “us”, “our”). It contains the rules and restrictions that govern your use of Kerning’s products and services (referred to below simply as “Kerning”) to distribute your content. If you use Kerning for this purpose, you are a Publisher and will need to create an account. In this Agreement, we refer to people who read your content as Readers.
Using Kerning in any way means that you agree to this Agreement, and this Agreement will remain in effect while you use Kerning. This Agreement includes everything in this document, as well as those in the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Content Guidelines, Copyright Dispute Policy, and all other rules and procedures that may be published from time to time by us on Kerning. In the event of any conflict between this Agreement and any other terms and conditions you have agreed to with Kerning, this Agreement will prevail with respect to its subject matter.
You must be of legal age to form a binding contract to use Kerning. If you aren’t, you need to get your parent’s or guardian’s permission to use Kerning, and your parent or guardian will agree to this Agreement on your behalf.
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) requires that online service providers obtain parental consent before they knowingly collect personally identifiable information online from children. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personally identifiable information from children under 16; if you are a child under 16, please do not attempt to register for Kerning or send any personal information about yourself to us.
If we learn we have collected personal information from a child under 16, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 16 may have provided us personal information, please contact us.
If you’re agreeing to this Agreement on behalf of an organization or entity, you must be authorized to agree to this Agreement on that organization or entity’s behalf and bind them to this Agreement (in which case, the references to “you” and “your” throughout this document refer to that organization or entity).
If you don’t agree to all of the following, you may not use or access Kerning in any manner. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding the Agreement or our products and services, please contact us.
First and foremost, you own what you create. Any original content you post, upload, share, store, or otherwise provide to Kerning remains yours and is protected by copyright and any other applicable intellectual property laws.
However, please note that you agree to grant us a limited license to your content in order to enable us to operate Kerning. This license allows us to promote your content and help you succeed on Kerning.
You agree that this limited license includes a worldwide, nonexclusive, sublicensable, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable right (a) to market your content and to permit others to access your content through Kerning, and (b) to use your tradename(s), trademark(s), and logo(s) in connection with the distribution and marketing of content. For further details, please see “Posting Content on Kerning” in the Terms of Use, which is incorporated into this Agreement by reference.
You may offer your content for free or for a fee, to be determined at your discretion. You may set and change the prices for your content at your discretion through your account, though no price changes will apply retroactively.
If you choose to charge a fee for your content, you agree to the following: