Terms & Conditions

Opening one

You must be at least 15 years old. We do not ask for proof and we cannot check it; if we learn that an account belongs to somebody younger, we close it.

The address you sign up with must be yours. It is how the account is confirmed, how a forgotten password is reset, and how we reach you about a decision — an account whose address does not work is an account we cannot answer.

You can also sign in with Google, which tells us an identifier, an address and a name and nothing else. Doing it that way still creates an account here, on these terms.

Your username

Every account has a username, and that is where people find your profile. It is yours while the account is open, and you can change it. A username is not property: we can take one back where it impersonates somebody, where it was taken to keep it from its obvious owner, or where it is a word this service reserves.

When an account is erased, its username goes back into circulation and somebody else may take it. Old links to your profile then lead to theirs, so do not rely on a profile link as a permanent address.

Keeping it yours

Your account is yours alone. Keep your password to yourself, and tell us if you think somebody else has used it. You answer for everything done from your account.

The security settings show every device the account is signed in on, roughly where and when it was last used, and let you sign any of them out. Changing your password signs out every one of them.

It stays yours

Your lists, their titles, their descriptions, the notes and the images you add: these stay yours. By putting them on TidyCards you give us what is needed to store them and to show them — to you, to the people you share them with, and to everyone when a list is published — and nothing beyond that.

We do not claim them, sell them, hand them to anyone, or use them to train anything. That permission lasts as long as you keep them here: take a list down and it stops.

It is also your responsibility

You answer for what you put here. Do not put on TidyCards anything you do not have the right to share, and in particular:

• Anything unlawful where you are or where this service is run.
• Anything that harasses, threatens or incites hatred against a person or a group.
• Sexual content involving minors, or any sexual content presented so as to reach people who did not ask for it.
• Somebody else’s personal data, published without their say.
• Anything meant to deceive — a false identity, a scam, a link that is not what it says it is.
• Anything you copied from somebody who has not allowed it.

Links, and what you write around them

A link is a pointer to somebody else’s page. Sharing one is not publishing what it points at, and we make no judgement about a page we have never read. What we hold is what the page said about itself when you saved it — its title, its description, a picture — and what you wrote around it, which is yours to answer for.

If a page you linked to changes into something else, the link goes with it. Tell us and we will take it out of circulation.

Using the service fairly

Do not try to break, overload or get around the service. No automated collection of what other people have published, no probing of accounts that are not yours, no sending of invitations to people who have not asked for them, and no working around the limits your plan sets.

TidyCards publishes no interface for machines. What the browser calls is for the pages of this service, and calling it in bulk gets an account suspended.

The three of them

• Public — anyone can find it, it can appear on Discover and in search, and it is readable without an account.
• Unlisted — readable by anyone who has its address, and by nobody who does not. It is not indexed here and does not appear on Discover.
• Private — readable by you and by the people you have invited onto it, and by nobody else.

Working on a list together

You can ask somebody onto a list as an editor, who can add and change what is in it, or as a viewer, who can read it. The owner is the one who decides what the list is: its title, its description, its visibility, and who sits on it.

An invitation is sent to a username or to an address, and it says who invited them and to which list. It runs for seven days, and it can be sent again. Nothing is shared until it is accepted.

You can hand a list over to somebody who is on it, which makes them the owner and leaves you an editor. Anyone can leave a list they were asked onto; the owner cannot leave their own — they hand it over or archive it.

Telling us about something

Anybody can report a list, an item or a profile, with or without an account. The menu on each of them has an entry for it; where that is no good to you — you cannot reach the page, or you would rather write — the addresses on the privacy page reach the same place.

The form asks you to say what is wrong in your own words, to file it under one of eight headings, and to confirm that you believe in good faith that what you are reporting is accurate and complete. You can leave an address for our reply, and you do not have to.

• Illegal content
• Counterfeit or infringement
• Harassment or hate
• Sexual content
• Somebody else’s personal data
• Spam or scam
• Against these terms
• Something else, which you describe

How a decision is taken

A person reads every report and a person takes every decision. Nothing here is decided by an algorithm, no content is filtered or removed automatically, and no measure against an account is applied by automated means. There is no upload filter and no automatic detection of anything.

Who may do what is not the same for everybody who works on TidyCards: a moderator can suspend an account and take content out of circulation, and only an administrator can close an account or remove what it holds. Whoever decides has to record the ground before the measure takes effect — the decision cannot be applied without one.

We aim to answer within two working days. That is what we give ourselves, not a period the law sets; a report that needs looking into takes as long as it takes, and you are told when it is settled either way.

What we can do

We take the smallest measure that answers the problem. One item is taken out of circulation before the list it sits in, and a list before the account that made it.

• Take a single item out of circulation, leaving the list and the rest of it alone.
• Take a whole list out of circulation, where the list itself is the problem.
• Suspend an account, for a set time or without one: it cannot sign in, and it disappears from the public pages.
• Close an account, where nothing less will do.

What a measure does, and does not do

Withdrawn content is not deleted. It goes out of circulation — nobody else can open it — and it stays exactly where it is, so it comes back whole if the decision is reversed. Nothing is edited on your behalf.

A suspended account keeps everything it had: its lists, what it saved, and its place on other people’s lists. Every device it was signed in on is signed out at once, and it comes back untouched when the suspension ends or is lifted.

Closing an account is described under Leaving, and it is the same thing whether you do it or we do.

What you are told

Whoever a measure is about is written to, in their own language: what was done, on what date, whether it rests on the law or on these terms, and the grounds recorded. Where a suspension has a term, the letter says when it ends.

Whoever reported it is written to twice — once to say the report has arrived, with a reference, and once to say what was decided.

Every decision is recorded with the person who took it, the date and the ground, so that it can be answered for later. That record is kept even after the account it concerns is erased.

If you think a decision is wrong

Reply to the letter and say why. We read every reply, and a decision can be reversed — a withdrawal is put back and a suspension is lifted, whole, because nothing was deleted.

You may also take the matter to a court in the country you live in, whether or not you have written to us first. Nothing in these terms takes that away.

TidyCards is small enough that it is not required to run a formal internal complaint-handling system, nor to submit to an out-of-court dispute settlement body, and it does neither. We say so here so you do not go looking for one. What you get instead is a reply from a person.

Closing your account

You can close your account at any time from your account settings. Your lists go out of circulation, you leave every list you were working on, and every device is signed out at once.

A list that other people work on has to be handed over to one of them first, so that their work does not disappear with your account. The settings say which lists those are.

What happens afterwards

A closed account keeps its data at first, so that a closure made in error can still be answered. Thirty days later everything on it that names you is erased — your address, your username, your name, what your profile said and the pictures on it. Ask sooner and we do it sooner.

The lists and items other people work on stay, without an author. That is the point of erasing: your name goes, and somebody else’s work stays. The privacy page says exactly what is erased and what is kept.

An account we closed for cause is not on that clock. We keep it as it stands, so that housekeeping does not undo a decision a moderator took on a ground.

If we stop

We may stop offering TidyCards, or a part of it. If that happens we will say so on the service in advance and leave you time to take your lists elsewhere — you can download everything your account holds, as one file, from your settings, at any time and without asking.

What we do

We run TidyCards with care, keep it up as much as we can, keep your data as described on the privacy page, and tell you when something is decided about your account.

We answer what you write to us. One address sits at the foot of every one of these pages, and it reaches a person.

What we do not promise

We do not promise that TidyCards will never be down, never lose something, or always do what you expected. It is a small service, offered as it is, without a guarantee of availability and without a service level.

Keep a copy of anything you could not bear to lose. The download in your settings is there for that.

We do not vouch for the pages you or anybody else link to, and a list appearing on Discover is not an endorsement of what it points at.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect losses — a list gone, an invitation missed, time spent — arising from your use of TidyCards or from being unable to use it.

Nothing here limits liability that the law does not let us limit, and nothing here takes away a right the law gives you as a consumer where you live.