We’ve updated our Terms of Service

Our current Terms of Service have been in place, with very minimal changes, since we started hosting Codidact communities back in 2020. Five years later, we’re due for a few updates and clarifications, and we wanted to give you a summary of what that will look like.

We’ve also added a very small update to the Code of Conduct, to make “spam” part of the “definitely not okay” list.

The new terms will come into effect at 00:00Z, 15th August 2025. The changes that we’ve made are summarised here. If you’d like to read the full thing, it’s available on our development site already.

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Introduction

We’ve clarified a couple of points:

• Who the agreement applies to (i.e. between our users and the Foundation);
• That the Terms apply to any domain we operate, including both .com and .org.

Section 1

No changes.

Section 2

Clarified the link to the Code of Conduct and pointed it to Meta instead of Writing.

Section 3

We had concerns that because of the range of licenses we allow for user content and the ability to add more in the future, the attribution clauses in each could vary. While we’d vet a new license before adding it, we wanted to be explicit about how content is attributed. We’ve added an explicit agreement here that attribution provided on user content will be the user’s username; we’ve also noted that this is the current username not the username from the time of posting, and that usernames may be reset to the default value if a user chooses something unacceptable in line with Section 2. We will not make an involuntary name change for any other reason.

Section 4

Minor wording change – “may” to “can”, and “contact details” to “email address”.

Section 5

No changes.

Section 6

We’ve updated the applicable jurisdiction to specify English law and courts.