Members guidelines

With Ipernity, you can publish and share your digitized works. You can also keep in touch and interact with your family, your friends and all the members of your network.
The respect of all users and the quality of the service remain Ipernity's permanent concern provided all our members strive to respect our values.
The present guidelines aim at helping you to better understand the state of mind we expect from our members. Your use of Ipernity relies on your agreement of both this document and our General Terms and Conditions of Service.

What we expect from you

  • Be the author of any content that you publish
    • (or make sure you own explicitly the dedicated rights to publish it).Respect the copyrights. Do not copy in your own space the content other ipernity members have published; you'd rather use the feature "Add to favorites", it has been designed to this effect!

  • Do not use ipernity to host logos, banners or any other external web pages elements.
    • Our publishing services are dedicated to host the numeric works of our members. We monitor any corrupted use : we'll delete any unsuitable content without notice, and terminate the concerned account.

  • Respect the external links reciprocity rule.
    • Links enable the publishing of contents hosted by ipernity on external Web pages at the option of their owners. If you use such links, you commit yourself to refer the published content to the ipernity page via a clickable link.

  • Do not publish any illegal or prohibited content: pornography, pedophilia, of racist, violent, defamatory nature...
    • It's simply FORBIDDEN on ipernity.

  • Choose a member picture that best represents your identity, your face ideally.
    • It contributes to the user-friendlisness we expect from our community. Don't use any illegal or forbidden photo. Nakedness is not permitted for members pictures either.

  • Be polite and respectful of other members.
    • When you communicate with another member, please pay attention and be as polite and respectful as you would in person. During a chat, several opposite opinions can be expressed. Consider these with respect and be open-minded enough to understand different points of view.

  • Do not divert the use of the features proposed.
    • No spam, no advertising, nor any kind of harassment can be tolerated in the comments, the keyword tags nor in the mailbox, the chat or any other ipernity feature. We constantly monitor the polluting and unnecessary activity of any diverted use and are inflexible with the persons held responsible!

  • Invite by email… sparingly and with good sense!
    • Spamming is a real pain. So invite only persons who matter to you, those who can understand your approach and at last those you really want to have among your network members. If you don't, you might be seen as a tormentor!

  • React if you come across an intolerable content.
    • If you feel offended by any doc or content on ipernity, there are several ways to protest. First you can decide not to visit this page again and to remove the author from your network if he belongs to it. You can also block this member not to receive any communication from him/her. Furthermore, if you think that the page disregards the General Terms and Conditions of Service, do not hesitate to let us know by clicking the link "This doc is an offend/illegal" displayed at the bottom right hand side of any doc page.

  • Always strive to protect the children.
    • Keep in mind that children also belongs to ipernity's community as simple users or members. Prohibit yourself from giving a public access to any content disrespectful of the protection of the children. Your family and friends network can also include some children. Please also keep this in mind when marking some content aimed at these networks.

  • Remove your docs or your blog posts from public search if you feel that their content might shock or offend.
    • Attention, the pornographic contents are prohibited on Ipernity. In order to remove a doc or a post from public search, click the link "Remove this doc/post from public search?" at the bottom right hand side of any doc/post page.

If ipernity was to face any content related problem

we reserve the right, at our own discretion, to delete any content considered unsuitable and/or disregarding the General Terms and Conditions of Service and/or the present guidelines . Depending on the seriousness of the case, ipernity shall decide to terminate the account of the member held responsible, and to delete all its content.

Last update of the French original: 15/07/2008
Last update of the English translation: 07-15-2008