These Terms of Use are 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”).
Using Kerning in any way means that you agree to all of these Terms, and these Terms will remain in effect while you use Kerning. These Terms include everything in this document, as well as those in the Privacy Policy, Publisher Agreement, Content Guidelines, and Copyright Dispute Policy. If you don’t agree to all of the following, you may not use or access Kerning in any manner.
You represent and warrant that you are of legal age to form a binding contract (or if not, that you’ve received your parent’s or guardian’s permission to use Kerning and that your parent or guardian agrees to these Terms on your behalf).
If you’re agreeing to these Terms on behalf of an organization or entity, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to agree to these Terms on that organization or entity’s behalf and bind them to these Terms (in which case, the references to “you” and “your” throughout this document refer to that organization or entity).
You may be required to sign up for an account and select a password. You promise to provide us with accurate, complete, and up-to-date registration information about yourself.
You agree that you will only use Kerning for your own personal or organizational use, and not on behalf of or for the benefit of any third party. You may not transfer your account to anyone else without our prior written permission.
You may not select as your Kerning account name a name that you don’t have the right to use, or another person’s name with the intent to impersonate that person. Kerning reserves the right to refuse registration of or cancel a Kerning account name at its discretion.
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. Anything posted, uploaded, shared, stored, or otherwise provided through Kerning is referred to as a “Content” in these Terms. There are a few rules that apply to all Content:
We reserve the right to remove any content from Kerning at any time, for any reason (including, but not limited to, if someone alleges you contributed that content in violation of these Terms), in our sole discretion, and without notice.
We respect others’ intellectual property rights, and we reserve the right to delete or disable content alleged to be infringing, and to terminate the accounts of repeat alleged infringers. You promise to abide by copyright notices, trademark rules, information, and other restrictions you may receive from us or that are posted on Kerning. Please review our complete Copyright Dispute Policy to learn how to report potentially infringing content. You understand that we own Kerning. These Terms don’t grant you any right, title or interest in Kerning, or our trademarks, logos, and other intellectual property.