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Privacy

Terms of Use

Q. Will you ever sell my private information?
A. No ... never... not going to happen. We like you too much to ever do a thing like that to you.

Q. Will you ever, EVER pass my personal information on to anyone else?
A. In certain situations, yes, but these situations are very limited. They include, for example, working with vendors and contractors who need the information to do their jobs, or when the law requires it. For full details, see the privacy policy on this site or on the site you are concerned about.

Q. Are children allowed to register?
A. Our registration features which collect personal information are intended to be used by those age 13 and over.

Q. Does Wetpaint require that I accept cookies?
A. Wetpaint does not require that you accept cookies, however, some functionality on Wetpaint sites may be disabled if you decline to accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it.

Q. What does Wetpaint do with the information collected from cookies?
A. Wetpaint primarily uses cookies to collect anonymous usage statistics, to help us understand if users are actively logged in to Wetpaint to enable certain features, and to keep track of editing and submissions to the site. We do not store any personal information in the cookies.

Q. How do I opt out of communications?
At this time, the best way to opt out is to edit your profile informationon your Wetpaint site of interest or click the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any email communications you receive from us.		Q. Can I contribute copyrighted content to a Wetpaint site?
A. Only if you are the one who owns the copyright, or you have the copyright owner's permission. It is your responsibility to make sure that everything you post is your own original work or that it is allowed by the copyright holder to be posted by you.

Q. Who owns the copyright to content published on Wetpaint sites?
A. If it's your work, you do. If you post your own original work to a Wetpaint site, you are still the copyright owner of your individual submission.

Q. What are others allowed to do with the content I post on a Wetpaint site?
A. When you post your content on a Wetpaint site, you give Wetpaint the right to add it to the site and retransmit it to the public, or use it for other purposes. Additionally, your content will be made available to others to redistribute for non-commercial purposes. They can do this by way of a Creative Commons license, which is automatically granted.

Q. Which Creative Commons license is used, and what does it allow?
A. Your content will be made available to other users under the Creative Commons' Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. This license lets people republish content from Wetpaint sites, as long as they are not using it to make money for themselves, as long as they attribute the content (e.g. with a link), and as long as they make the content available to other users on the same basis.

Q. Can I chose between different types of Creative Commons licenses?
A. So far, no. Any site you create with Wetpaint carries the Creative Commons' Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

Q. Can I use the Gnu FDL for my content?
A. So far, no.

Q. Is there anything else I should know about copyrights, trademarks, licenses, and other terms of use?
A. As a matter of fact, our lawyers would love it if you would read the full terms of use on the site you are asking about, or read our example terms of use from this site. Enjoy!