Stuff Our Attorney Makes Us Tell You

Terms of Use

This tells you what you about the fun an interesting ways you can and can't participate in Collectivus and that you accept the risk that this application or your pursuit of Thingies somehow puts you in a state of bliss so great, the rest of life becomes depressing. In which case, oh well.

This is a very broad generalization of things the ToU says, although you should read the actual Terms of Use since we paid like a whole lot of money to get it written and that's what you're actually agreeing to by using the site.

  • Obey your local laws
  • Don't be an ass
  • Don't be mean
  • Don't pick your friend's nose
  • Don't post nasty content. Email hot, naked stuff to us directly.
  • Replacing “i” with “1” and “s” with “$” to try and spell bad words or stupid usernames and we reserve the right to boot you or change them if people get upset
  • If you do post inappropriate content we reserve the right to pull it down faster than your pants in high school gym class
  • The site could (and likely will) go down periodically. You lived through the great Twitter outages of 2007 and 2008, you'll survive this too.
  • Please don't try to interfere with the operation of the site or bring it down. Let's just agree that you've got the skills to do it, but we're not a worthy challenge for you.
  • Don't use crappy passwords then cry your account was hacked.
  • If you post something and someone sues you because of it, you're on your own
  • Don't hijack or use our IP without permission. We have a really good attorney
  • Don't hijack or use anyone else's IP without permission. We'll comply accordingly with claims you ripped off someone's haiku or picture of a cat and posted it as yours.
  • We truly appreciate any and all feedback, tips, ideas and suggestions — just don't expect more than our gratitude. We're not getting a check either if it makes you feel better.

Privacy Policy

This explains what we will and won't do with your information and how it's used on the site. You should read it, but the short version is that we won't sell your contact info and will do our best to keep it locked up, but if the Feds show up with a warrant, we'll sing like birds.

Again folks, the actual Privacy Policy is what counts. These are just the highlights:

  • We don't sell your individual information to third parties
  • If the law shows up with a court order, we will comply
  • If someone's foolish enough to buy this little enterprise, your info is part of the deal
  • Aggregate and non-personal info might be sold. We have bills too.
  • Don't post personal info about others without their permission. While it might be cool that you have the cell phone number of Julie Benz, I don't think she'd appreciate you broadcasting it. Tell her we said “Hi!” though.

Other Legalize

Unless otherwise noted, all content is © Copyright 2003­-­2010 Collective Detective, LLC. All Rights Reserved. No copying our mid-term papers either!

Collectivus™, Thingies™, and Thingiepedia™ are all trademarks of Collective Detective, LLC. There's probably others and those are ours too, except the ones that aren't, those are the respective trademarks of whomever owns the Trademark. We'll try to point them out and give credit where due.

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