Terms of Service
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| 1 | 1 | ### The gist: |
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| 3 | 3 | We (the [folks](http://automattic.com/about/) at [Automattic](http://automattic.com/)) run a service called [WordPress.com](http://wordpress.com/) and would **love** for you to use it. Our basic service is free, and we offer paid upgrades for advanced features such as domain hosting and extra storage. Our service is designed to give you as much control and ownership over what goes on your blog as possible and encourage you to express yourself freely. However, be responsible in what you blog. In particular, make sure that none of the prohibited items listed below appear on your blog or get linked to from your blog (things like spam, viruses, hate content, etc). Please make sure you read through the list and the rest of the terms and agree with them before you get started. |
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| 5 | If you find a WordPress.com blog that you believe violates our terms of service, please [check this page](http://wordpress.com/complaints/). | |
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| 5 | 7 | (Note, we've decided to make the below Terms of Service available under a **Creative Commons Sharealike** license, which means you're more than welcome to steal it and repurpose it for your own use, just make sure to replace references to us with ones to you, and if you want we'd appreciate a link to WordPress.com somewhere on your site. We spent a lot of money and time on the below, and other people shouldn't need to do the same.) |
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| 7 | 9 | ### Terms of Service: |
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| 9 | 11 | The following terms and conditions govern all use of the WordPress.com website and all content, services and products available at or through the website, including, but not limited to, the WordPress.com VIP hosting service ("VIP Service"), (taken together, the Website). The Website is owned and operated by Automattic, Inc. ("Automattic"). The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, [Automattic's Privacy Policy](http://automattic.com/privacy/)) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by Automattic (collectively, the "Agreement"). |
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