Hayseed is a flashcards and quizzes app. Hayseed is not a platform to express your views, not a file storage site, not social media. Hayseed is a platform to (1) memorize lists of facts by rote, and (2) to share lists of facts so that others may memorize them by rote. Any use of Hayseed inconsistent with these two purposes is forbidden.

You have permission to use this service for those two purposes until (a) you violate any of the conditions and policies herein or (b) we revoke your permission to use this service. We may revoke permission for any reason or no reason, because this is a free service. We don't even get ad money out of this.

This document is not a contract, it is a license (permission). You are granted a license to use Hayseed under the terms and conditions set forth herein. If you use Hayseed in a way that is inconsistent with this license, then you are exceeding your authorized use of Hayseed. If we delete your account, your permission to use Hayseed is revoked. If we disable your login, then your permission to use Hayseed is revoked unless and until we restore your login.

Defined categories of content:

Illegal Content

Content that is a crime, tort, or civil offense to publish in the United States:

• Materials that infringe on copyrights or trade secrets;
• Libelous material;
• Child pornography and child abuse materials;
• Scams or schemes to defraud;
• Revenge porn;
• Threats; and
• All other content that is a crime, tort, or civil offense to create, possess, distribute, or publish in the United States.

Patently Offensive Content

Content that is not necessarily illegal, but categorically serves no legitimate purpose here and poses a significant risk of reputational harm:

• Pornography;
• Gore, other than materials with a clear and compelling medical education purpose;
• Animal abuse images, video, or audio;
• Shock images, video, or audio;
• Simulations of the above; and
• Content that appears to be intended to target an individual or group for harassment.

Spam

Content that categorically serves no legitimate purpose here and makes Hayseed difficult to use for others:

• Advertisements for or against any business, service, or product.
• Advertisements for or against any political party, candidate, or cause.
• Advertisements for or against any charity.

Other Banned Content

Potentially legitimate content that we still do not allow because it raises legal compliance issues that we don't want to deal with:

• Photographic nudity of the genital or anal region or female breasts of humans;
• Computer-generated simulacra of photographic nudity of the genital or anal region or female breasts of humans or humanoid figures; and
• Simulacra of human-like nudity of the genital or anal region or female breasts.

No-Publish Content

Legitimate content that poses a high risk of reputational harm to Hayseed:

• Slurs and bigoted content, where there is a clear and compelling educational purpose.

Shitpost Content

Content, the legitimacy of which requires a determination of its accuracy and general quality:

• False or inaccurate content;
• Redundant content;
• Slurs and bigoted content with no clear and compelling educational purpose; and
• Prolific content of low quality.

Hayseed has sole discretion to determine whether content falls into any of the above categories.

Absolutely Forbidden Acts:

• Uploading, creating, editing, sharing, or publishing Illegal Content, Patently Offensive Content, Spam, or Other Banned Content.
• Publishing No-Publish Content.
• Hacking, doxxing, accessing any user account or part of the server or interface without authorization.

Users may report any of the above to Hayseed by e-mail at reports@hayseed.ch.

Moderation guidelines:

• Uploading or sharing Illegal Content, Patently Offensive Content, Spam, or Other Banned Content will result in the uploading or sharing user being banned on the first offense. Such users will permanently lose all access to all of their uploaded files, which we may preserve as evidence or destroy as permitted or required by applicable law.
• Uploading No-Publish Content is generally allowed, but it may be shared only user-to-user. If you designate No-Publish Content public, then we may warn you, delete or edit your decks, remove your sharing or publication privileges, or ban you completely.
• Uploading Shitpost Content is generally allowed, but it may be shared only user-to-user. If you designate Shitpost Content public, then we may warn you, delete or edit your decks, remove your sharing or publication privileges, or ban you completely.
• If you engage in any activity that threatens Hayseed's ability to function efficiently, threatens Hayseed's reputation, or is generally intended to annoy, vex, or harass other users, you may be warned, your content may be deleted or edited, your sharing privileges may be removed, or you may be banned completely.
• If you engage in any malicious conduct, you may be warned, your content may be deleted or edited, your sharing privileges may be removed, or you may be banned completely.

These are only guidelines. We have sole discretion whether to allow you to use Hayseed in the first place, because this is a free service. We can actually ban you for no reason at all. These guidelines are only intended to give you fair warning of how we intend to moderate.

Users may report any of the above to Hayseed by e-mail at reports@hayseed.ch.

No Appeals:

Users have no right to appeal any moderation decision. In the case of a situation where we think you should be banned and you disagree, your only recourse is to have already backed up your stuff, because we have probably already banned you and deleted your content from our servers.

No Requirement to Mark Content NSFW:

At this time, Hayseed does not require users to mark any permitted materials “not safe for work” (NSFW). Use Hayseed at work at your own risk.

Privacy:

We do not collect any data about you, except what is needed to run this site. The information we collect includes your e-mail address, your uploaded files, and certain metadata ("Collected Information"). The metadata we collect includes but is not limited to uploaded file sizes, screen resolutions, time zones, bandwidth usage, storage usage, dates and times that you use Hayseed, and other information that is reasonably necessary to make Hayseed work and work well. We don't collect your name, date of birth, or other personally identifying information (unless you go out of your way to give it to us, like by saving it as your display name). We do not sell Collected Information to anyone for any purpose.

Your Collected Information may be visible to others using Hayseed. We do not display your e-mail address to regular users as a matter of course, but it may be visible to moderators and administrators. While we do not sell Collected Information to anyone for any reason, we may disclose it for free to third parties as reasonably necessary to make Hayseed work and work well. For example, we may contract with an outside software development firm, and that firm may be able to see your Collected Information. We will never intentionally disclose your Collected Information to a third party, even for free, if we actually believe the third party will use your Collected Information for marketing purposes. We will disclose your Collected Information in response to a subpoena or other court order, as otherwise required by law, or as reasonably required to protect Hayseed's interests.

Amendments and Revocation:

This License may be amended or revoked at any time without notice.