Welcome to Cristoff!
These Terms of Service (or “Terms”) govern your use of Cristoff, except where we expressly state that separate terms (and not these) apply, and provide information about the Cristoff Service (the “Service”), detailed below. By creating a Cristoff account or using Cristoff, you agree to these Terms
We agree to provide you with the Cristoff Service. The Service includes all Cristoff products, features, applications, services, technologies and software that we provide to you in order to promote Cristoff's mission: Creating an international student community.
In consideration of our commitment to providing you with the Service, we ask that you make the following commitments to us.
You do not have to reveal your identity on Cristoff, but you must provide us with accurate and up-to-date information (including registration information), which may include providing personal data. You may not impersonate anyone or pretend to be something you are not, and you may not create an account for another person unless you have their express permission.
This includes misuse of any reporting, dispute or appeal channel, such as making fraudulent or unfounded reports or appeals.
This includes creating accounts or collecting information in an automated manner without our express permission.
This includes attempts to buy, sell or transfer any aspect of your account (including your username); solicit, collect or use other users’ login credentials or badges; or request or collect Cristoff usernames, passwords, or misappropriate access tokens.
You may use another person's works subject to exceptions or limitations to copyright and related rights under applicable law. You represent that you own or have obtained all necessary rights to the content that you post or share.
No changes are made to your rights to your content. We do not claim ownership of the content you post on or through the Service and you are free to share your content with anyone, anywhere. However, we require certain legal permissions from you (which we call a “license”) to provide the Service. When you share, post or upload content protected by intellectual property rights (such as photos or videos) on or in connection with our Service, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable and worldwide to host, use, distribute, modify, perform, copy, distribute or publicly display, translate and create derivative works of your content (in accordance with your privacy and application settings). The license terminates when your content is deleted from our systems. You can delete your content individually or all at once by deleting your account. To learn more about how we use information and how to control or remove your content, see the Privacy Policy.
1. We may remove or restrict any content or information you share on the Service if we believe it violates these Terms of Service or our policies (including our Cristoff Community Guidelines), or if the law requires us to do so. obliged. We may immediately refuse to provide the Service to you or stop providing the Service to you in whole or in part in order to protect our community or our services , or if you create legal risk or liability for us, violate these Terms of Use or our policies (including the Cristoff Community Rules), if you repeatedly infringe the intellectual property rights of others or if the law requires us to do so. We may also modify or terminate the Service, remove or block content or information shared on our Service or stop providing all or part of the Service if we believe that this is reasonably necessary to avoid or mitigate legal consequences or regulations that would be unfavorable to us. In some cases where we remove content, we will notify you and explain your options for requesting a review. You will not be able to make this request if you seriously or repeatedly breach these Terms or if doing so gives rise to legal liability to us or a third party, harms our community of users, or compromises or impairs the integrity or operation of our services, systems or products, or in the event of technical restrictions or where we are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons.
When you request to delete content or your account, the deletion process will automatically begin within 30 days of your request. Removal of content may take up to 90 days after the removal process begins. Once the process of removing such content begins, the content is no longer visible to other users, but remains subject to these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. Once content is deleted, it may take up to an additional 90 days to remove it from backup and disaster recovery systems.
2. Content will not be removed within 90 days of account deletion or the start of the content removal process in the following situations:
in which case, the content will not be retained for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was retained (the exact duration varying on a case-by-case basis). If you delete or we deactivate your account, these Terms will terminate as an agreement between you and us, but this section and the section below called “Our Agreement and What Happens If We Disagree” will remain. applicable even after termination, deactivation, or deletion of your account.
3. If you delete or we deactivate your account, these Terms will terminate as an agreement between you and us, but this section and the section below called “Our Agreement and What Happens If You Disagree » will remain applicable even after the termination, deactivation, or deletion of your account.
We may change our Service and our policies, and we may need to make changes to these Terms to align them perfectly with our Service and our policies. Unless otherwise required by law, we will notify you (for example through our Service) at least 30 days before changing these Terms and give you an opportunity to review them before they take effect. You will then be bound by the updated Terms if you continue to use the Service. If you do not wish to accept these Terms or their update, you can delete your account.
Effective date: May 2, 2024