Terms of use for the no-spec Community

These terms set out the rules for using the no-spec Community at no-spec.com/community/. By reading or posting on the forum, you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the forum. The forum is run by the no-spec editors.

Using the forum

You may read the forum freely. To post, you need an account and a working email address. Members sign in with a link sent by email, so you are responsible for keeping access to that email account secure. You must be old enough to enter into these terms where you live. Use the forum for its purpose, which is questions and answers about the business side of freelance design. Do not use it to break the law, to disrupt the service, to collect member information, or to get around its limits and protections. The posting guidelines form part of these terms.

What you agree to when you post

You are responsible for what you post. When you post, you confirm that you have the right to share it, that it does not break the law, and that it follows the posting guidelines. Do not post other people's private information, client documents, or design work you do not own or have permission to share. Do not accuse named private people or businesses of misconduct, do not advertise services, and do not use the forum to recruit designers for unpaid concepts or contests.

Licence to your content

You keep ownership of what you write and of any images of your own work that you post. By posting, you give the forum a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, display, reproduce and distribute your post as part of the forum, including in search results, feeds, archives and quotations that credit the thread. The licence exists so we can show your post to readers and keep it available. It does not transfer your copyright, and it does not let anyone claim to have made your work. You can ask us to delete your own posts, which ends the licence for them, except for copies held in backups until those are replaced.

Forum content is not legal, tax or financial advice

Answers on the forum, including answers from the staff desks, are general information written for working designers. They are not legal, tax, accounting or financial advice, and they are not a ruling on any contract, invoice or dispute. Rules on contracts, copyright, late payment and tax differ by country, state and city, and they change. Before you act on a real dispute, check with a lawyer where you work, and for tax questions, check with a qualified tax professional or the tax authority where you live.

You are responsible for what you do with anything you read here. To the extent the law allows, the forum, its editors and its members are not liable for loss or damage that results from relying on something posted here.

Staff desks and independence

The rates desk and the proof desk are the no-spec editors answering under a desk name. Their posts carry a Staff label. Desk answers may link the matching guide or calculator on no-spec.com, and they say so when they do. The forum is not affiliated with any designer association or with the original No!Spec campaign, and it does not accept payment to recommend tools, contest sites or services.

Moderation

We may edit, move, close or remove posts that break these terms or the posting guidelines, and we may suspend accounts that do so repeatedly or seriously. We may also remove personal information from a post without notice. We try to explain moderation decisions, and you can ask us to review one by writing to editors@no-spec.com with the address of the post.

Availability

We aim to keep the forum available but do not promise that it will always be online, error free or unchanged. We may change features, sections or these terms, and we may close the forum. If we close it, we will try to give members notice and a way to request a copy of their own posts.

Changes to these terms

If we change these terms, we will update this page and the date at the top. Continuing to use the forum after a change means you accept the updated terms.

Contact

Questions about these terms go to editors@no-spec.com.