ACADEMY (academy.social) is an interactive platform consisting of collective communities, blogs, forums and other services where content is created by the editors and users.
Communities and blogs on academy.social are either official or user-generated. Along with the general rules for communication and publication of materials, there are points that apply to the entire site.
By creating an account with academy.social and using this website (the “Site”) and the services offered by IDIKSA LLP (together with their parent companies and subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, representatives, consultants, employees, officers persons and directors – collectively referred to as “ACADEMY“, “we” or “us”), you accept our terms – Our Rules and the legal rules for using our product (Terms of Use). You also agree to our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy and agree to be bound by any of our other site policies.
We may change these terms and conditions from time to time. If we do so, we will notify you of any material changes by sending you an email or by notifying you on the Site. If you continue to use ACADEMY after changes have been made, this means that you accept the new terms.
ACADEMY is for your personal, non-commercial use, except as described below.
- About creating an account
You can view ACADEMY without registering an account. But in order to use some of the functions of the Site, you need to register, select a username and set a password. However the information providing by you must be accurate and complete. Do not impersonate anyone or choose names that are offensive or violate anyone’s rights. If you do not follow these rules we may terminate your account.
You are responsible for all activity on your account and for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. If you discover that someone has used your account without your permission you must report it to: support@academy.social
To register an account you must be at least 18 years of age or sufficient to enter into a binding contract where you live. If necessary we may ask you for proof of age.
- Basic rules:
We expect all participants at ACADEMY to behave responsibly (properly) and help keep this a good place for positive communication. Please do not do any of the following on our Site:
Don’t lie to people and don’t mislead them.
Do not post information that is known to be false, misleading, unverified, or inaccurate. Do not do anything deceptive or fraudulent.
If facts are distorted in the publication, incorrect headings are used (misleading), and also if it contains unverified sources, the material will be supplemented with a plate indicating a dubious source, indicating that this is a rumor or otherwise corrected.
Materials that do not contain a link to the source of the rumor will be published immediately. Materials and comments that fall under the category of “fake news” will be published or removed immediately.
Do not create fake and offensive accounts.
You cannot create accounts that intentionally copy the names and surnames of other ACADEMY users or prominent, famous and public figures as well as use offensive expressions in the nickname. We will block such an account in case of violation.
Do not break the law or distribute NSFW content.
Do not take any action that infringes or violates the rights of others, violates the law or violates any contract or legal obligation you have with anyone.
NOT SAFE FOR WORK category includes materials and comments that contain pornographic content in any format, cruelty to animals, murders and mutilated bodies, calls for violence and inciting religious or ethnic hatred. All of these will be published or removed from the site at the time they are discovered.
Don’t make anyone a victim.
Do not do anything that is threatening, offensive, defamatory, inappropriate, obscene, blasphemous or that violates the privacy of another person. Do not forget that polite communication is spoiled not only by insults – for example someone expresses his negativity, harassing the user with the same questions or through massive minuses to his materials or comments. We consider such situations based on the complaint of the victim and can block the stalker.
If you dislike a particular person you can ignore him. You can also hide all posts with a specific hashtag.
Do not offer prohibited items.
Do not offer any rewards that are illegal, violate any policies, rules or guidelines on our Site or violate any applicable laws, statutes or ordinances.
Do not distribute military or political content.
We will publish such materials and in case of repeated violation we will block the account.
War and politics should not be the agenda of the blog and comments, because ACADEMY is a philanthropic platform for communication of positive people who are interested in the world around them, science and creativity, gaining new knowledge, and striving to live in harmony – a healthy and happy life, based on universal values filling life with meaning.
Don’t spam.
Do not distribute unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional materials, or any unsolicited mail, spam, or chain letters. Do not run mailing lists, mailing lists or any autoresponders or spam on or through the Site.
At the same time, we do not prevent the publication of links to our own sites and projects, as long as they remain in the interests of the community and are published in the context of discussions – for example to explain the author’s expertise.
Materials published solely for the purpose of advertising a third-party brand or company, as well as the author himself or another person, are prohibited on the entire site, except for official corporate pages and personal blogs.
Do not create malicious and destructive accounts, as well as accounts to bypass blocking or any kind of manipulation.
It is forbidden to create accounts for purposeful sabotage on the site – insults, preventing comfortable reading of the tape and communication in the comments. In case of such behavior the user will be blocked from removing the content.
If a user has received a ban for violating Site rules and created a new account to bypass the blocking he will be blocked. The previous account may also be subject to additional blocking.
In case of anomalous activity, we can also block profiles involved in manipulation – so do not ask your employees, colleagues and friends to like or comment on your publications, as well as lower the rating of other users.
Accounts created specifically for rating manipulation or false activity in comments will be banned immediately and permanently.
Do not make unsubstantiated stuffing and provocations.
If we believe that the purpose of your publication is a hoax, to undermine someone’s reputation or to use the ACADEMY name to further disseminate information in the media we reserve the right to publish the material. Comments that fall under this definition will be removed. Complain with reason.
Don’t harm anyone’s computer.
Do not distribute software viruses or anything else (code, movies, programs, etc.) designed to disrupt the proper functioning of any software, hardware or equipment on site (whether owned by ACADEMY or another party).
Do not abuse the personal information of other users.
When you use ACADEMY especially if you create and implement a successful project, you may receive information from other users, including such things as their names and email addresses: do not use it for other purposes or misuse it.
Do not attempt to interfere with the normal operation of our infrastructure and Services.
– do not circumvent any measures we have taken to protect the Services;
– do not attempt to damage or gain unauthorized access to any system, data, password or other information, whether owned by ACADEMY or another party.
– do not take any action that imposes an unreasonable load on our infrastructure or our third party providers. We reserve the right to determine what is reasonable.
– do not use any software or device (whether manual or automated) to “scan” or “spider” any part of the site.
– do not disassemble or reverse engineer any aspect of ACADEMY to gain access to things such as source code, main ideas, or algorithms.
Do not imitate our administration.
On the Site it is forbidden to introduce yourself as affiliated agents, consultants, official representatives, employees, or a person connected with the administration of ACADEMY if you do not work for our company.
Intentional misleading of users will be stopped.
- Rules for official, copyright and collective communities:
These restrictions are the same for communities that are managed by the administration and editors of ACADEMY.
In all other author and collective communities, as well as on the pages of companies and forums, the format of publications and comments is determined by their owners – with the exception of Our rules from this document.
3.1. Moderation of materials.
3.1.1. Copying materials and re-publishing.
We do not welcome the complete copying of other people’s materials. Full-text publication of other people’s materials is allowed if you have the permission of the author (and this is indicated in the text) or if you decide to transfer your own text from another site.
Check if someone has published material (article, news, photo or video) before you in one of the official communities. Interesting materials are often exhibited by several users at the same time. In such cases the replay will be published based on two factors: the time of publication and the depth of the material.
At the same time we can help to supplement and edit your material to meet our criteria, or publish it for you to refine.
The mass publication of materials already published on other sites can be regarded by us as a flood, and you should not transfer your archives to official communities at once.
3.1.2. Images, shorthand and referral links.
We reserve the right to remove photos and pictures that do not fit the style of ACADEMY.
It is forbidden to leave referral links because for the user, they look like advertising. You should not use shortened links either: the user must understand where he will go after clicking.
3.1.3. Event announcements and press releases.
To announce an event (webinar, trainings, conference, etc.) you can use the service: “Events”, and publish press releases on your personal blog / forum, or send them to our editorial office: support@academy.social
3.1.4. Toxicity and inappropriate language in materials.
Hatred and emotional criticism without a solid foundation does not benefit the community. Unacceptable vocabulary (mat, abuse, blasphemy, curses, vulgarisms, euphemisms, dysphemisms) is completely prohibited, even veiled, including in images. Such material will be published immediately.
3.1.5. Flood.
You should not clog the user feed with the publication of several entries in a row without interesting facts and without meaning. We will publish all such materials.
3.2. Comment moderation.
3.2.1. Insults and intentional rudeness.
In discussions do not get personal, treat the interlocutor with respect. Insults, by which we mean humiliation of the honor and dignity of another user will lead to blocking. Don’t forget that users can be ignored.
Any format can act as an insult: text, image, gif image, video, link and so on. Also you should not discuss the personality of the interlocutor or the hero of the material in isolation from the context of the discussion and different points of view.
The moderator intervenes in the situation at the moment of detection of rude dialogues, that is acts preventively or after a complaint from an offended user, including if the insults are of a minor or humorous nature.
3.2.2 Offtopic, political discussions and aggressive statements against different social groups.
Stick to a substantive discussion.
Conversations about politics will inevitably turn into meaningless heated debates, racist, homophobic, sexist and other similar statements and such comments will be deleted and their authors blocked if the violation is repeated.
The administration and moderators reserve the right to determine how rude or appropriate the expression was. It is also worth refraining from the abuse of obscene language.
3.2.3 Unconstructive negativity and toxic behavior.
By toxicity we mean hatred for everything, which poisons the atmosphere around the discussion and can be accompanied by brightly aggressive behavior.
- Rules for blog owners and communities.
4.1. Violation of the global Site rules.
We will remove, along with all content, blogs and communities that are created and used for spamming, posting pornography, violent content, inciting religious and ethnic hatred, as well as other violations described in the second section of the rules.
4.2 Designing blogs and communities
4.2.1 Imitation of others.
It is forbidden to use the same or maximally similar designs and names. Users should be able to distinguish between blogs and communities even on the same subject.
4.2.2 Offensive blogs and communities.
In cases where an administrator uses an offensive image, description or title, we will hide such blogs and communities until the violations are corrected.
- The order of application of punishments.
5.1 Review process.
For any violation in the comments or materials, the administration or the moderator reacts independently or according to user complaints. The decision on the presence of a violation is made on the basis of the rules of moderation and the context of the discussion.
If there is a violation, the user is temporarily blocked with an indication of the reason for blocking (rule clause), and the comment or comment thread with violations is deleted.
5.2 Penalties.
Immediately and permanently we will block the user on the entire Site for spam, inciting religious/ethnic hatred and incitement to violence, bypassing blocks, fake and offensive accounts, and reputation stuffing. For violations of other global rules, blocking is provided on the entire site, first for three days, for seven days, then for 14 days, for 30 days, after – forever.
If any other point of the rules is violated, we will simply delete the comment or publish the material.
You can report any comment or material that you find inappropriate. The administration and moderators will receive a complaint and make a decision.
The rules described here will definitely be supplemented and updated.
Thank you.
