Terms

By registering and setting up a profile on EarthMob, you are verifying that:

• You are using the same name you use in day-to-day life. EarthMob does not accept pseudonyms or fake profiles
• You are being truthful and accurate in the information contained in your profile
• You have only one personal account
• If you are registering on behalf of an organisation, that you are an authorised representative of that organisation and authorised to register and manage the account on their behalf
• You are not someone who has previously been banned from the use of the EarthMob platform
• You are not someone who is barred from receiving services under the laws of the applicable jurisdiction

As part of becoming a registered user of the EarthMob platform, you can make posts, make comments, start campaigns, post articles, connect with others, and conduct other activities on the platform that are aimed at helping in the collective global effort to protect nature and transform humanity’s connection with our planet to one where people and nature can survive and thrive together.

However, it is an expectation of your use of the platform that you comply with some basic ground rules:

In particular, you will:

• Take on your own responsibility for the accuracy, truthfulness and legality of anything posted under your own name on the platform
• Not do anything on the platform that is illegal, deceptive, fraudulent or discriminatory
• Not do anything on the platform that violates other people’s rights
• Not upload spyware, malware, viruses or other malicious codes to the platform
• Make all efforts, whilst being frank, honest and forthright, not to engage in personal abuse, vilification, ad hominem attacks or other destructive forms of communication or commentary on the platform, as opposed to focussing on thoughtful debate, persuasion, dialogue and critique

Some of the content that you share or upload on this platform, such as photos or videos, may be protected by intellectual property law.

However, by posting this content to this platform, you are giving us legal permission (‘licence’) for the use of this content within the site and our associated social media feeds, for the purposes of promoting the platform and improving the use of the platform.

When you share, post or upload content onto this platform, you give us the right to host, use, distribute, display the content or components of the content anywhere within the platform and the EarthMob social media sites.

This might mean, for example, that if you upload an article on our platform, that your article might be shared to our social media profiles to encourage new users to visit the platform and read your article amongst others.

When you publish an image, video or article on the site, we may choose to display that through multiple locations on our platform, with appropriate credit. For example, your image or video might be linked to a particular location, or issue, your article might be linked to other articles. Your contribution to the platform will also be linked to your profile.

You can delete your contributions to the platform individually, or in their entirety, by deleting your account. In some small number of circumstances there may be some technical reasons why this content deletion may not happen immediately or they may be some circumstances, for example if other users have copied or used or shared your content, whereby it may not be possible to delete this content.

Earthmob prohibits and will actively remove any content posted on the platform that:

• Promotes activities or actions that are environmentally polluting or destructive to the natural environment
• Promotes hatred, criminal behaviour or violence
• Is pornographic or sexually explicit in nature
• Is inauthentic, fraudulent, deceptive or defamatory
• Engages in personal abuse, vitriol, bullying, harassment, trolling or other bad online behaviour
• That violates other peoples’ intellectual property or copyright
• Or that does not facilitate or foster the constructive tone of empowerment, engagement, civil disagreement, debate and dialogue about how to protect nature and transform our relationship with nature that we are trying to enable through this platform

EarthMob does not direct the content of people’s contributions on the platform and does not take responsibility for people’s contributions or conduct on this platform. You are responsible for the content you post on the site and must be comfortable in sharing this with others before posting.

Earthmob encourages honest, forthright, thoughtful contributions to public debate and dialogue on how best to protect nature and ensure that people and nature can thrive together. Necessarily this will involve disagreement, criticism and sometimes fierce differences of opinion. We encourage that and see that as not just healthy but crucial in a vibrant, functioning democracy.

Having said that, internet discussion and debate can often descend to nasty, bitter, petty name calling, abuse, trolling and other destructive behaviours. We don’t want that behaviour on this platform, and we will do our utmost to foster a healthy positive dialogue and contributions from users through the EarthMob platform.

EarthMob reserves the right to make minor editorial changes to your article posts such as spelling mistakes or grammar, where that doesn’t change the intent or meaning of your contribution. We also reserve the right to refuse to publish, to delete or to ask you to make changes to article submissions, posts or comments if we do not believe that the contribution, post or article makes a positive contribution to the goals of the EarthMob platform and a healthy debate.

We want EarthMob to be a positive platform that is welcoming to all people of all backgrounds and that makes a positive contribution to the future of our planet.

If users behave in a way or make a contribution to the platform in a manner that seriously or repeatedly breaches our terms or policies, that damages the goals of Earthmob and this platform, or that damages the cause of the protection of nature, then EarthMob reserves the right to suspend or permanently cancel your account.