2. § What you’re signing your life up for!
§ How not steal other people’s work!
§ You can be too young!
§ Naughty Stuff!
§ Legal Jargon!
3. § General and special arrangements, provisions, requirements,
rules, specifications, and standards that form an integral part of
an agreement or contract. (Business Dictionary,2015)
§ Basicallya list of rules you have to obey and if you don’t, they can
terminate you/your account etc.
4. § The visual bookmarking tool that helps you discover and save
creative ideas (Pinterest, 2015)
5. Anyone can use Pinterest! It’s free of charge.
Not common knowledge is that Pinterest has both business and
individual accounts. Which both have COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
T &C’S,so make sure you register for the correct one, or you can
get into some serious real world problems!
(Pinterest, 2015)
6. § To sign up for a Pinterest account you need to be over 13 to
register!
§ This is because some content may be for more mature
audiences!
§ Unlike Instagram and other image sharing sites, if you click on
the image in Pinterest it takes you directly to the home site
where the content . (Pinterest, 2015)
7. § Anything that you post or otherwise make availableon Pinterest is
referred to as "User Content."
§ You retain all rights in, and are solely responsible for, the User
Content you post to Pinterest.
§ This stuff you upload is yours BUT wait for it.
8. § “You grant Pinterest and its users a non-exclusive,royalty-free,
transferable,sublicensable,worldwidelicenseto use, store,
display,reproduce, re-pin,modify, create derivative works,
perform, and distribute your User Content on Pinterest solelyfor
the purposes of operating,developing,providing,and using the
Pinterest Products.”(Pinterest, 2015)
§ Simply put, they can use your content for anything, even if you
delete you content. So make sure when you upload content
you’re prepared to allow this to happen!
9. § If you upload naughty stuff like porn, racist or hate mail.
Pinterest has the right to terminate your account and ban you
from using Pinterest. (Pinterest, 2015)
§ Don’t do dumb stuff. If any of the content is illegal,you can also
expect a knock at the door from the police.
10. § If you have problems with your account, other users or content
just contact Pinterest and they will do their best to try and help.
§ Basically if you’re experiencing a problem let them know via
messaging.
11. § They’re quite straight forward.
§ Be over 13 years old.
§ Select business or personal
§ Use appropriately
§ Only upload things you are comfortable being used anywhere
else for Pinterest advertising purposes etc.
§ Be respectful to others pinners