We are far more interested in creating neat software to make your life better than we are in being traffic cops, so please don't make us be traffic cops.

Our basic rule is "be reasonable people". Feel free to argue, but be a decent person while you argue: don't use ethnic slurs, hate speech, or personal attacks. Don't spam someone else's workspace with unwelcome pointless stuff. In shared workspaces, don't delete things simply to be destructive. And so on. If you're not sure if something's reasonable, ask yourself if your kindergarten teacher and your grandmother would both approve. If they would, then go for it. Otherwise...think about having a glass of warm milk and a chocolate chip cookie instead. Life is always better with warm milk and chocolate chip cookies.

The final responsibility for making sure that Kayuda is a useful service for as many people as possible lies with us, the Kayuda staff. That's going to force us to be traffic cops occasionally. If someone is causing problems, we will reduce their privileges, make their workspace(s) private, delete their account, or take whatever action we feel is necessary to solve the problem. Where possible, we will try to give the person a chance to shape up first, and we will try to contact them afterwards and explain what happened and what (if anything) they can do to fix it. Note that if you didn't give us a valid email, we're probably not going to be able to reach you.

As for traffic cops and other legal questions: what about ownership of the content here on Kayuda, copyrights, relevant IP, etc? It's simple: Wotan owns all IP to the code to the service, its look-and-feel, and what-have-you. As to the content, we make no claim of ownership unless we posted it; if you posted it and it's original to you, then you own it. Please do not post content unless you actually have the right to do so; violating other people's copyrights is not cool, is illegal, and if you do it we may have to take it down and/or take more stringent measures. Again, be reasonable people--please don't rip off our code, our ideas, or other people's IP, for if you do you will make us cry in our milk and then it's no good for dunking cookies in. If you promise not to do that, then we promise not to rip off your stuff. Fair deal?

Note that this document is a general policy, not a contract; it doesn't bind you or Wotan. It wasn't written by a lawyer (in case that wasn't obvious!) and we tried to keep it short and easy to understand. Please don't force us to go back and rewrite it with a lawyer standing over us...we'd really rather be giving you some cool new features—or, even better, a chocolate chip cookie. (One of our devs is locally famous for his.)