Six Acts’ mission is to empower people to take the initiative to design ways to improve the way democracy is conducted. We’re an open platform because we believe democracy belongs to everybody and people with different backgrounds and perspectives should participate in the conversation. We do need rules to keep the platform safe for you, us and the community. These Terms of Service outline rights and responsibilities related to our platform and services.
You need an account for most activities on the Platform. Keep your password somewhere safe, because
you’re responsible for all activity associated with your profile. If you suspect someone else is using
your account, let us know. You have to be at least 16 years or older to use Six Acts.
When you sign or create a petition via our platform, an account is created for you. All your comments,
voting and submitting activities are then tied to this account.
When setting up your account, you must provide accurate and complete information, including a valid
email address. You have complete responsibility for your account and everything that happens on your
account, including for any harm or damage (to us or anyone else) caused by someone using your account
without your permission. This means you need to be careful with your password. You may not transfer
your account to someone else or use someone else’s account without their permission. Inform us
immediately upon learning that someone else may be using your account without your permission by
contacting us via our email thesixacts@gmail.com
The Six Acts platform is for people who are at least 16 years of age. If you are younger than 16 you may not set up an account by yourself, but we encourage you to invite a parent or guardian to particpate in the poll on your behalf. If we discover that you have created an account and you are younger than 16, we will terminate your account
You’re responsible for what you post on Six Acts. You should keep your campaigns and comments in line with our 9 Rules for the 6 Acts document and the law, and respect the intellectual property rights of others. It’s not something we want to do, but we can terminate your account for repeated or major offenses.
Follow our Community Guidelines: When posting content you must follow the 9 Rules for the 6 Acts document
Abide by the law and respect rights of others: You cannot post any content that violates applicable local or national laws of your country, or international laws or regulations. You are solely responsible for any content you post via the Six Acts platform and the consequences of posting it.
Enforcement by Six Acts:
If we are put on notice that your content violates the law or the rights of
others (for example, if it is established that it is defamatory or violates privacy, intellectual
property or publicity rights or others), if we discover that your content violates our Community
Guidelines, or if we believe your content is inappropriate or objectionable, we may remove it from
our platform, or we may make edits to bring your content into compliance. In the vast majority of
cases, we will notify you and try to work with you to fix the issue before we take any of these actions
(but we are not obligated to).
Six Acts has discretion in enforcing these Terms. We may terminate or suspend your permission to use
our platform and services or disable your account at any time, and with or without notice, for any
material or repeated violation of these Terms, for unexpected technical issues or problems, or for
engagement by you in fraudulent or illegal activities. Upon any such termination we may delete your
account, passwords and content and we may prevent you from further access to the platform and use of
our services. Your content may still be available on the platform even if your account is terminated
or suspended. You agree that we will have no liability to you or any third party for termination of
your account, removal of your content or blocking of your access to our platform and services.
You retain ownership of content you post to Six Acts, but you should make sure you’re allowed to share it. We’re allowed to make versions of your content publicly available to anyone through any media, and others can do the same. Be sure to make backups of your work too.
The content you submit on the platform is not confidential: Any content you submit or post on Six Acts is likely to be publicly available, including all reform proposals you submit or vote on and your comments (on the Six Acts site, in apps and in social media pages). If you are concerned about other Six Acts community members, or people you don’t know, seeing a particular message or other content of yours, please do not post it. If you do not wish to have your name publicly displayed in connection with a particular petition, you may select the option not to display your name publicly. Please check out our Privacy Policy for more details on information we collect and share when you use the platform.
The content you post remains yours, and you also allow us to reuse and share it: By submitting and posting content, you do not lose any ownership rights you may have in your content. However, you authorise us to share this content with anyone, distribute it on any platform and in any media, and to make modifications or edits to it as we see fit (e.g. for clarity or optimisation purposes). For example, we may shorten a submission title for it to appear on our website or share the content with interested media. You also authorise us to allow others to do the same with your content. In legal language, by submitting or posting content on or through the Six Acts platform, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute your content in any and all media or distribution methods (existing now or later developed). This includes making your content available to other companies, organisations or individuals who partner with Six Acts for the syndication, broadcast, distribution or publication of content on other media. You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to authorise us to use any content that you submit. You also agree to all such uses of your content with no compensation paid to you.
Sharing campaigns: Except in very limited circumstances where we’ll expressly ask you not to, we encourage you to link to, post to social media and third party services, such as Facebook or Twitter, share via email, or otherwise copy and share individual reform submissions of interest to you, but only for informational, non-commercial purposes. If you share another user’s reform submissions you may not make any modifications, and you may not remove any attributions. When you post content to any third party service through the features and functionalities of our platform (such as our apps or API), you will be subject to the terms of that third party service. If you want to remove any submissions or content from a third party service, you should contact that third party service and request removal directly from them.
No user content storage: We are not a content-archiving service. We do not promise to store or make available on our platform any content that you or other users may post for any length of time. You are solely responsible for keeping backups of everything you post on the platform.
Reform submissions posted on Six Acts represent the many opinions of millions of people. We don’t take responsibility for their views. While we intend to monitor activity for offensive and other unacceptable content, we cannot be held responsible for the views or opinions of all our users.
We are not responsible for the content of our users, and we do not monitor user content: Content posted by users comes from people, organisations and other various sources. We make no promises about the reliability of any source or the accuracy, usefulness, safety, or intellectual property rights of any user content nor do we endorse any campaigns or petitions or support any views, opinions, recommendations, or advice that may be posted by users. You therefore use the Six Acts service and rely on any content you find at your own risk.
If you find any reform submission or other user content that violates our 9 Rules for the 6 Acts document please use the subject line “Report a policy violation” and email us at thesixacts@gmail.com
Links out: When you use our platform, you will find links to other websites that we don’t own or control. We are not responsible for the content or any other aspect of these third party sites, including their collection of information about you. You should also read their terms and conditions and privacy policies.
We own the Six Acts platform including the website, present or future apps and services, and things like our logo, API, code and content created by our employees – don’t mess with those! All right, title, and interest in and to the Six Acts platform and services including our website, our existing or future applications, our APIs, databases, and the content our employees or partners submit or provide through our service (but excluding content provided by users) are and will remain the exclusive property of Six Acts. Any feedback, comments, or suggestions you may provide regarding Six Acts or the services is entirely voluntary and we will be free to use such feedback, comments or suggestions as we see fit and without any obligation to you.
• You may not do any of the following while accessing or using the Six Acts platform and services:
• access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the platform, Six Acts’s computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of Six Act’s service providers.
• disable, interfere with, or try to circumvent any of the features of the platform related to security or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any of our systems.
• copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover any source code of the Six Acts platform or services.
• access or search or attempt to access or search our platform by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our currently available search functionalities that are provided via our website, mobile apps or API (and only pursuant to those API terms and conditions). Crawling the Six Acts site is permissible if done in accordance with the provisions of the robots.txt file; however, scraping the services, platforms and databases is expressly prohibited unless authorised in a written agreement between you and Six Acts.
• in any way use the Six Acts services to send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information (such as sending email communications falsely appearing as Six Acts); or (v) interfere with, or disrupt, (or attempt to do so), the access of any user, host or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, mail-bombing the Six Acts platform or services, or in any other manner interfering with or creating an undue burden on the Six Acts services.
If you think someone’s infringing your copyright on Six Acts, let us know. If you believe that one of our users has violated your copyright, you should notify our copyright agent in writing. In order for us to take action, you must do the following in your notice:
• identify your copyrighted work that you believe is being infringed
• identify the item on our service that you think is infringing your work and include sufficient information about where the material is located (for example, a URL or link to a relevant page) so that we can easily find it
• provide us with a way to contact you, such as your address, telephone number, or e-mail
• provide a statement that you believe in good faith that the item you have identified as infringing is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law to be used on the Platform
• provide a statement that the information you provide in your notice is accurate, and that (under penalty of perjury), you are the copyright owner or authorised to act on behalf of the copyright owner whose work is being infringed
Eva Schlunke
Flat 408, 41 Old Birley Street
Manchester M15 5RE
United Kingdom
Email: eva_schlunke@hotmail.com
One of the principles behind Six Acts is that people can interact with decision makers directly and come to solutions together. If you have a serious disagreement with a decision we make, let’s agree to sort it out with each other before we make claims in court.
Six Acts is a Uk-based initiative and these Terms are governed by laws of the United Kingdom without regard to their conflict of law principles. If a court having proper authority decides that any portion of these terms, policies and guidelines is invalid, only the part that is invalid will not apply and the rest will still be in effect. The official language of these Terms is English. If there is a conflict between the English language version and any translation, the English language version will prevail.
In the event of any dispute, claim, question, or disagreement arising from or relating to these Terms or an alleged breach thereof, whether arising in contract, tort or otherwise, between you and us, we shall use our respective best efforts to settle the dispute. If a dispute arises, the complaining party shall provide written notice to the other party in a document specifically entitled “Notice of Dispute,” specifically setting forth the precise nature of the dispute.
The possibilities for what people may do with a free, online platform that people everywhere can use to create change are endless. Like other platforms where people can post content, these Terms give us legal protection from the countless things that could happen.
While we’re working hard to build an amazing free platform for people everywhere, we can’t make you any promises that it will always work perfectly or that we’ll maintain all our services forever.
No waiver, assignment: If we waive any of our rights in any particular instance, it does not mean that we are waiving our rights generally or in the future. If we do not enforce all our rights all of the time under these Terms, it does not mean that we are waiving our rights, and we may decide to enforce them at a later date. These Terms, and any rights and licenses granted under these Terms, may not be transferred or assigned by you, but may be assigned by us to another company or person without restriction. We won’t be liable to you for any delay or failure to perform any obligation we have under these Terms if the delay or failure is due to events which are beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited to any strike, blockade, war, act of terrorism, riot, natural disaster, failure or diminishment of power or of telecommunications or data networks or services, or refusal of approval or a license by a government agency.
As is service: Use of the Six Acts platform is at your own risk. The platform (including the content you find on it) is provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. Six Acts and its affiliates, suppliers, partners and agents expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Furthermore, Six Acts and its affiliates, suppliers, partners and agents make no warranty that (i) its platform or any products or services provided through the platform will meet your requirements; (ii) the platform will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free or that Six Acts will fix any errors; (iii) you will obtain any specific results from use of the platform; or (iv) any content on the platform is accurate, complete, reliable, current or error-free. Any content obtained through use of the platform is obtained at your own discretion and risk and Six Acts shall not be responsible for any damage caused to your computer or data or for any bugs, viruses, Trojan horses or other destructive code resulting from use of the platform or any content obtained from the platform. Some countries do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you. You may also have other legal rights, which vary from country to country.
No guarantee of service: No guarantee of service: We may decide to cease making available the Six Acts platform, apps or services or any portion of the services at any time and for any reason. Under no circumstances will Six Acts or its affiliates, suppliers, partners or agents be held liable for any damages due to such interruptions or lack of availability.
Limitation of liability: To the fullest extent permitted under law, Six Acts and its affiliates, suppliers, partners and agents have no obligation or liability (whether arising in contract, warranty, tort (including negligence), product liability or otherwise) for any indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential damages or liabilities (including, but not limited to, any loss of data or content, revenue or profit, or personal injury or death) arising from or related to your use of the Six Acts platform, service or any content provided by or through the Six Acts platform or service, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages in advance. This limitation applies to damages arising from (i) your use or inability to use the platform and access the services; (ii) cost of procurement of substitute products or services; (iii) unauthorised access to or alteration or distribution of content you submit through the platform; (iv) third party content made available to you through the platform; or (v) any other matter relating to any aspect of the Six Acts platform and service, including the website, the API, any present or future apps, email communications and Six Acts content on third party sites. Some countries and states do not allow the limitation or exclusion of incidental, consequential or other types of damages, so some of the above limitations may not apply to you.
Indemnity:You agree to indemnify, defend (if we so request) and hold harmless Six Acts and its affiliates, suppliers, partners and agents from and against any claims, demands, losses, damages or expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising from the content you post or submit, your use of and connection to the Six Acts website, applications, API, and any other aspect of the Six Acts platform or service, your violation of these Terms or your violation of any rights of any third-party. Your indemnification obligation will survive the termination of these Terms and your use of the Six Acts platform and service.
Binding Agreement: By using the Six Acts platform you agree to abide by these Terms and our 9 Rules for the 6 Acts document and you consent to Six Acts collecting, using and sometimes sharing information about you as stated in our Privacy Policy. If you are accepting these terms and policies and using the Six Acts services on behalf of a company, organisation, government, or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you are authorised to do so.
The best way to get in touch with us is to email us at thesixacts@gmail.com
We’d love to hear your questions, concerns, and feedback about this policy. If you have any suggestions for us, feel free to let us know by contacting us at thesixacts@gmail.com or writing to the following address:
Flat 408, 41 Old Birley Street
Manchester M15 5RE
United Kingdom