Terms of Service

These Terms of Service (these "Terms") govern your access to and use of the Risorgi website, applications, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). Risorgi is referred to in these Terms as "Risorgi," "we," "us," or "our."

By accessing or using the Service, creating an account, or clicking to accept these Terms, you agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

These Terms constitute a legally binding agreement between you and the operator of Risorgi. If Risorgi is operated through a formal legal entity, that entity will be identified in these Terms or in the Service from time to time.

"Account" means a registered user account on the Service.

"Content" means any text, images, links, metadata, graphs, connections, bookmarks, upvotes, profile information, or other material submitted to, posted on, transmitted through, or stored in the Service, whether by you or by another user.

"User Content" means Content that you submit, post, or make available through the Service.

"Public Content" means User Content that is made publicly available through the Service, including public posts, public profile information, and public graph connections.

"Archive" means the private workspace available to signed-in users, including private connections and saved material not otherwise shared publicly.

"You" means the individual or entity accessing or using the Service.

You may use the Service only if you are at least eighteen (18) years old and have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract. By using the Service, you represent and warrant that you meet these requirements.

You may not use the Service if you have previously been suspended or removed from the Service, or if your use is prohibited by applicable law.

The Service is open to the public. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of the Service complies with all laws and regulations that apply to you.

To access certain features, including publishing, upvoting, bookmarking, and using your Archive, you must create an Account. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information and to keep that information updated.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials and for all activity that occurs under your Account. You must notify us promptly at hey@risorgi.com if you believe your Account has been compromised.

We may refuse, suspend, or terminate any Account at our sole discretion, with or without notice, for any reason or no reason.

If you delete your Account, your public posts and associated Content will be deleted, subject to reasonable technical limitations, backup retention, and legal obligations. Deletion may not be immediate and may not remove cached, copied, or third-party copies outside our control.

Risorgi provides an online platform that allows users to publish, connect, explore, and interact with Content. We do not create, control, endorse, or guarantee User Content, and we are not a publisher of User Content in the ordinary sense.

User Content is the sole responsibility of the person or entity that posted it. We do not verify the accuracy, completeness, legality, or quality of User Content. Any reliance you place on User Content is at your own risk.

Nothing in the Service constitutes advice, recommendation, or endorsement by Risorgi of any user, post, graph, link, upvote, bookmark, or other Content.

The Service allows users to read public posts without an Account; create an Account to publish Markdown posts, link posts together, upvote and bookmark posts, explore public and personal graphs, and maintain a private Archive; upload images in posts; and use other features we make available from time to time.

Public posts are visible to anyone and may appear in search, on profile pages, on the map, and in graph views. Your Archive and other private workspace features are visible only to you unless you choose to make Content public through the Service.

The Service is currently offered free of charge. We may introduce additional features, modify existing features, impose or change usage limits, or discontinue any part of the Service at any time, with or without notice, and without liability to you.

We do not guarantee that the Service will be available at all times, uninterrupted, secure, or error-free. Maintenance, outages, bugs, data loss, and other failures may occur.

User Content may include opinions, observations, personal notes, and informational material. User Content is provided for general informational purposes only and does not constitute professional, legal, medical, financial, therapeutic, or other specialized advice.

You should not rely on User Content as a substitute for professional advice. Always seek the advice of a qualified professional with any questions you may have regarding a particular matter.

You retain ownership of your User Content, subject to the licenses granted below and the rights of other users under these Terms and the functionality of the Service.

By submitting, posting, or making User Content available through the Service, you grant Risorgi a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable, and transferable license to host, store, reproduce, distribute, display, perform, adapt, modify, translate, create derivative works from, and otherwise use your User Content in connection with operating, providing, improving, promoting, and developing the Service and Risorgi's business, including in marketing and promotional materials, without compensation to you.

This license exists for as long as your User Content is available through the Service and for a reasonable period thereafter for backup, archival, legal, and operational purposes. If you delete User Content or your Account, this license will end except to the extent we are permitted or required to retain copies.

You represent and warrant that you own or have all rights, licenses, consents, and permissions necessary to submit your User Content and to grant the licenses in these Terms, and that your User Content does not violate any law or the rights of any third party.

The Service is designed to let users link to and connect with one another's public posts and graphs. You agree that other users may link to, reference, display excerpts of, and include your Public Content in their own public graphs and posts as permitted by the Service.

Risorgi's name, logo, branding, software, design, and other materials provided by us are owned by Risorgi or our licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws. Except as expressly permitted by these Terms or by us in writing, you may not use our trademarks or branding without permission.

You agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You are solely responsible for your conduct and for all User Content you submit.

You agree not to, and not to assist others to:

• post, upload, or transmit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, invasive of privacy, hateful, discriminatory, fraudulent, or otherwise objectionable;
• post Content that infringes or misappropriates any intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights of any person or entity;
• post Content that exploits or harms minors, or that depicts or promotes illegal activity;
• impersonate any person or entity, or misrepresent your affiliation;
• distribute spam, unsolicited promotions, chain messages, or deceptive content;
• upload viruses, malware, or other harmful code, or attempt to disrupt, damage, or interfere with the Service or its security;
• scrape, crawl, harvest, or collect information from the Service by automated means except as expressly permitted by us;
• access or use the Service to build a competing product or service, or copy any features, databases, or user lists;
• circumvent, disable, or interfere with security-related features, access controls, rate limits, or usage restrictions;
• use the Service in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Service or interfere with any other party's use of the Service.

We may, but are not obligated to, monitor, review, remove, restrict, or disable any Content or Account at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice, and without liability to you. We may investigate violations and cooperate with law enforcement or other authorities as we deem appropriate.

If you believe Content or conduct on the Service violates these Terms, contact us at hey@risorgi.com.

The Service may allow you to upvote, bookmark, link, connect, or otherwise interact with Content. These features are provided for convenience and discovery only.

Upvotes, bookmarks, graph connections, and similar interactions do not constitute endorsements by Risorgi. We do not guarantee the accuracy, persistence, or availability of any interaction data and may modify or remove interaction features at any time.

By creating an Account or otherwise using the Service, you consent to receive communications from us electronically, including service-related notices, security alerts, administrative messages, and marketing or promotional communications.

You agree that we may send these communications to the email address associated with your Account or through in-Service notices. You may opt out of marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in those emails, but you may not opt out of certain service-related communications that are necessary to provide the Service.

Our collection and use of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy. By using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read and understood the Privacy Policy.

The Service may rely on third-party services for hosting, authentication, storage, analytics, and other functions. Your use of those services may be subject to separate terms and policies.

User Content and posts may contain links to third-party websites, services, or resources. We do not control and are not responsible for third-party sites or services, and your use of them is at your own risk. Links do not imply endorsement.

We respect intellectual property rights. If you believe that Content on the Service infringes your copyright or other rights, please send a notice to hey@risorgi.com with enough information for us to identify the material and evaluate your claim, including the work allegedly infringed, the location of the material on the Service, and your contact details.

We may remove or disable access to Content that we believe infringes rights or violates these Terms. We may terminate Accounts of repeat infringers or users who repeatedly violate intellectual property rights, in our sole discretion.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL CONTENT, FEATURES, AND MATERIALS MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITH ALL FAULTS, AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE.

WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND ACCURACY. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, SECURE, ERROR-FREE, FREE OF VIRUSES OR HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT CONTENT WILL BE PRESERVED, ACCURATE, OR AVAILABLE.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL RISORGI OR ITS OPERATORS, OWNERS, AFFILIATES, LICENSORS, SUPPLIERS, OR SERVICE PROVIDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, BUSINESS, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, ANY CONTENT, OR THESE TERMS, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNTS YOU PAID TO RISORGI FOR THE SERVICE IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM (OR USD $0 IF YOU HAVE NOT PAID ANYTHING).

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN DAMAGES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Risorgi and its operators, owners, affiliates, licensors, suppliers, and service providers from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: (a) your use of the Service; (b) your User Content; (c) your violation of these Terms; or (d) your violation of any law or the rights of any third party.

We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, and you agree to cooperate with our defense of those claims.

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the Service or your Account at any time, for any reason or no reason, with or without notice, including if we believe you have violated these Terms or pose a risk to the Service, other users, or third parties.

You may stop using the Service at any time and may delete your Account through the Service where available. Upon termination, your right to use the Service will cease immediately.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive, including provisions relating to ownership, licenses granted by you, disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification, and general provisions.

We may modify these Terms at any time. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page. Material changes may also be communicated through the Service or by email.

Your continued access to or use of the Service after the effective date of any changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms. If you do not agree to the revised Terms, you must stop using the Service and may delete your Account.

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any additional terms referenced herein, constitute the entire agreement between you and Risorgi regarding the Service and supersede all prior or contemporaneous agreements on that subject.

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.

Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be deemed a waiver of such right or provision.

These Terms are written in English. Any translated version is provided for convenience only, and the English version controls in the event of conflict.

We will not be liable for any failure or delay in performance resulting from causes beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, war, terrorism, labor disputes, internet or telecommunications failures, power outages, or failures of third-party hosting or infrastructure providers.

Nothing in these Terms creates any agency, partnership, joint venture, employment, or fiduciary relationship between you and Risorgi. You may not assign or transfer these Terms or your Account without our prior written consent.

If you have questions about these Terms, please contact us at hey@risorgi.com.