Add your own Terms of Service [Now live]

[Evan]

Little more than a month ago, we rolled out sweeping changes to your Ning Network’s Terms of Service. As promised, I’m happy to announce that Networks Creators can now customize the terms that apply to your network and your members.

Here’s how it works.

Every Ning Network has a simplified, two-page Terms of Service at the bottom of each page. By default, these Terms include a number of items that aren’t ever permitted on the Ning Platform. You cannot edit these items. But you can now add additional terms that suit your Network’s particular design or focus. For example, a neighborhood-based network may want to limit membership to people living within a certain area.

While the default Terms are always in English, you can use the new ability to add your own Terms to provide Terms in whatever language fits best for your Ning Network.

Customize your own Terms of Service
Head to your “My Network” tab and you’ll see a new “Terms of Service” link in the “Settings” section. Click it, and you’ll be taken to the new Terms of Service page.

You’ll see the default terms at the bottom of the page. You’ll also see a large text box, where you can add your own Terms of Service. Anything added to this box will be displayed on your network’s Terms of Service page, above the generic terms.

You can even preview what you’ve written without saving, to see what your terms look like when combined with the generic terms. These changes should provide you even more freedom and control over your Ning Network, and make it easier to ensure a positive experience for your members.

[San Juan, PR]

This is an example of when you enlarge a picture on our network if you leave the ipi of ning in it and other file to open the network through

Excuse my language is that I'm translating Spanish to English translator in google

[Evan]

Hey there!

Yes, images are stored at api.ning.com. The alternative would be to store them within the file system of each network — which would be very significantly slower for users to access and make it much more expensive to run the Ning Platform (meaning higher prices), so we don't have plans to do that.

/Evan
Ning Product Manager

[San Juan, PR]

I'm going to get the name of the program is free and is the opposite of what you say and takes up less space

Thank you very much

[San Juan, PR]

The "normal" people, the typical member of our comundades, when upload the pictures, in most cases as they do out of their increasingly powerful digital cameras. That is, unnecessarily large pixel size and extremely heavy in MB. This creates two problems known: the page load slows down and our contracted space is reduced drastically with each photo.

In this we see a fraction of a typical snapshot. The enormous size and weight of approx. 3MB.

It would be more than enough resolution standardized, for example, 800px wide to 800px high horizontal and for vertical and weight would be a once resized and with very little compression jpg 160KB. That is, clearly visible, with excellent quality and weighing less than 20 times eat when disk space.

Tip:

There are systems and libraries, no doubt, NING programmers know, run on all types of servers. For example, for Apache and PHP GD. These systems allow us to select the size creators resizing and compression to apply. And the best of it is that members not notice it, the photos would rise and be compressed without any intervention on your part or on ours.
It would also be interesting to implement a Lightbox-like system for viewing photos.
To those who do not know who is entering http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/.
This will avoid opening a new window with a friendly web address so little like the picture I put up

Thank very much

pd: this is also extrapolated to the videos, but on this issue Granted, my knowledge is basic and not know the mechanics and software by which you can resize and recompress a video on the rise. But there is, as we all know, as soon as we tried Subri something on youtube, vimeo, etc

[Lisa B]

WHOOP WHOOP :)

[shanavaskozhikode]

now i taken prime plan,bu i confused me amble to put my own add,how is put my adds ,i have adbrite accout pls explain

[Rev. O.M. Bastet]

This is fabulous, as I was looking for a venue to post just such network-specific TOS.

But perhaps this is a good place to seek the answer to a question I posted many weeks ago which as far as I know never got an answer (and I don't seem to see a list of all my discussions or posts here in Creators)

The Ning TOS FOR CREATORS says we are totally liable for anything which happens in and FROM our networks. That's what I recall anyway.

I see big legal problems therein.

1. I am not sure it is legal to bind someone else to liability for something.
2. It leaves no way for my own TOS to contain a "use at your own risk" clause! (Because I assume the contract I have with Ning would take precedence over the contract I have with my members.) I cannot disclaim liability for what might happen downstream from someone's use of my network. Someone meets someone in person and gets robbed by them, and they come sue me. Eh?

I would appreciate some insights about these matters.

TIA

[Rev. O.M. Bastet]

Evan, will you or someone be ABLE to respond to my post just above -- here, or perhaps by personal message? Or are these questions unanswerable?
Thanks in advance!

[Nolin]

(I am not a lawyer, but here's my take.)

The base TOS has been updated. I don't see anything that specifically declares the Network Creator liable. Is there a specific clause or passage you are looking at?

There is a Ning indemnification clause, but that doesn't shift liability onto the NC. You should add your own similar indemnification.

Here is the section that indemnifies Ning:

"However, the Network Creator of this Network controls the content, membership and policy of this Network, including those pages served by the Service Provider on behalf of this Network. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, by participating on this Network you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Service Provider on all matters related to your interaction with others using this Network and participation with this Network."

[Rev. O.M. Bastet]

Hi Nolin, thanks for adding info.

I can't find it now, and will keep looking, because I did see something there, and I quoted it in my original post on this topic which I don't know how to locate here in the Creators Network, but I did find this in Section 20, which apparently binds all Members, and relieves my mind somewhat, except it is not, as I recall, in the abbreviated TOS members are now shown. I will need to check whether that abbreviated version acknowledges it is not the "entire agreement" with Ning people make when they become a member of a network.

You will be solely responsible and liable for any activity that occurs under your account credentials.

IMO that and the clause you quoted would also need to say "and consequent to such activity." Or something like that. Though "all matters related to" is pretty comprehensive.

[Evan]

Hey there,

Unfortunately, I bailed on the LSAT, so I can't provide legal advice. However, if you'd like to add a 'use at your own use' clause, you can now do that by adding it to your custom Terms of Service.

/Evan
Ning Product Manager

[Rev. O.M. Bastet]

Yes, I plan to do that. I was just calling attention to a part of the Ning TOS for Creators which you guys might want your legal team to take a second look at, to see whether you can actually bind us in a blanket way like that.

And I hear you say if I want to know whether you can, and whether that takes precedence over my own TOS clauses, I will have to consult my own lawyer -- that even answering those questions would be "providing me with legal advice."

Am I reading you right? I'm fine if that's your position, I understand the trickiness of such matters, I just want to be sure I am reading you right.

Thanks!!