Terms Of Service

Table of Content

§ 1 Principles

mod.land is a free service provided by the owner of mod.land as stated in the imprint. The service will be only called "mod.land". All services are incumbent upon these terms and conditions.

mod.land accompanies and extends the service "GitHub Pages" provided by GitHub, Inc ("GitHub"). mod.land provides free subdomains underneath the domain "mod.land" to be used as a custom URL for a GitHub Page.

The Terms of the GitHub service and all rights of GitHub, Inc remain unaffected by the terms of mod.land.

Communication between mod.land and the user will take place on GitHub in the form of issues, pull requests or comments.

By submitting a pull request in the GitHub repo that accompanies and hosts mod.land with the wish to add a record to the list of domains, the user attends the mod.land service and accepts the terms and conditions as the sole basis of all services provided by mod.land.

§ 2 Availability and reservations

mod.land aims to ensure the constant availability of the subdomain service. A right on constant availability does not exist.

All services in connection with this free service will be provided on a voluntary basis. The user acquires no ownership or other rights to single services, the registered subdomains and the whole service.

If the user violates the terms, mod.land is entitled to exclude the user from the service without notice subjected to damages and other claims. mod.land is entitled to terminate or modify the service at any time without notice and without explanation.

In that case the user of mod.land will be informed timely, at least 7 days in advance by mod.land. The relevant information about the impending use and deletion is shown simultaneously to the concerned users.

§ 3 Termination

Both sides can terminate at any time without stating any reasons.

The user cancels the service by removing the CNAME file in their repository and making a pull request in the repository of mod.land with the wish to remove their subdomain from the list of active mod.land domains.

mod.land may also terminate the provision of a certain or all subdomains. Concerned users will be notified at least 7 days in advance by an issue in their GitHub repository

§ 4 Rights and Duties of the user

A transfer of a GitHub Page together with its mod.land subdomain is allowed as long as the new users accepts these terms and conditions, in particular § 2 of the terms (no property right). The user receives a non-exclusive right from mod.land to use the service. The use permit expires with cancellation of the conctractual agreement.

The user is fully responsible for the content provided by its GitHub Page, and is also responsible to extricate mod.land from all third party claims. The user warrants not to transmit any material that violates the rights of others or violates statutory provisions.

In particular providing content like the following is prohibited:

Piracy (warez, videos, MP3s, DVDs, software, etc.) Phishing, scam, malware, viruses Copyright offense Dubious business models (eg, pyramid schemes, chain letters, etc.) Content that is unlawful, obscene, threatening, abusive, libelous, or scandalous Content which led to committing criminal acts or acts that undermine the civil order, or otherwise contrary to national or international laws Pornography or content intended for adults only Unsecured Web 2.0 platforms (eg. no captcha protection in forums, blogs, guest books) File or Image hosting Sites with other illegal content

A violation of these rules will result in immediate deletion of the mod.land domain.

The user is obliged to publish legals on his website which contains at least the full name, mailing address and an e-mail adress.

§ 5 Limitation of Liability

In principle mod.land takes no responsability for the support. The use of the provided services of mod.land takes place at your own risk. This refers in particular to the functionality, availability and freedom from viruses of the provided services as well as damage caused by the use of programs, program components and scripts/applets. The user is obliged to create local copies of all his data at mod.land for security reasons and regularly to secure all stored data. mod.land indicates that mod.land is a free service and does not create data backups for the users.

The user is liable for any use of the service performed by his GitHub user account. Legal representatives are liable for minors. The user therefore has to ensure that his access can not be misused by third parties.

mod.land provides the service without any express or implied warranties. mod.land is not liable for inadvertent disclosure, damage or loss of transmitted, received or stored data from mod.land. The user expressly acknowledges that these terms also effect third party supplies.

For the purposed service usage as described above mod.land solely assume the liability for the injury to life, limb and health, and other damages caused by gross neglect of duty on mod.land A liability of mod.land for slight negligence exists only for breach of an essential contractual obligation A liability of mod.land for further damages, in particular consequential damages, indirect damages or lost profits is excluded.

A liability for malfunctions or failure as well as unauthorized access from outside the sphere of influence of mod.land is only in the context of intent and gross negligence.

§ 6 Name of the subdomain

Each user can select the names of subdomains in accordance to the URL provided by the GitHub Pages service and with respect to a public available list of restricted names published in the mod.land repository. It is sole responsibility of the user to consider whether the name is contrary to statutory provisions, third party rights (including trade marks or registered rights), or morality. If this is the case, the registration of the subdomain is to be omitted. The same applies to subdomains, whose name is misleading, or suspect websites which are excluded of the participation in the service because of their content according to § 4.

§ 7 Absolute ban of spam

References to domains registered at mod.land in unsolicited commercial e-mail or similar media (spam) are not allowed.

The mass registering of domains for the purpose of irritation to the users of search engines are also considered spam and are also inadmissible.

§ 8 Manipulation

It is prohibited to auto retrieve masses of mod.land subdomains.

§ 9 Responsibility

mod.land is not responsible for the names of subdomains or the content of external websites that are registered as link destinations of subdomains, or otherwise linked to this service.

§ 10 Change of Terms

mod.land reserves the right to make changes to the Terms of Service. The user will be informed by mod.land of the changes through a notice in the readme section of the mod.land repository.

§ 11 Severability clause

If single clauses of these terms and conditions are fully or partially invalid or void, respectively will be, so otherwise the validity of these terms and conditions remains untouched.