Terms and Conditions

1 General terms

1.1 You may only set up one free standard account.

1.2 Accounts created on www.tiki-toki.com must only be used by the individual or company that set-up the account. It is strictly forbidden - unless permission has been given by the owners of Tiki-Toki - for an individual or company to sell timelines created on Tiki-Toki to another individual or company. Nor can an individual or company employ another individual (unless the individual is a direct employee of the company that owns the account with tiki-toki) or company to create a timeline for them, unless permission has been given by Tiki-Toki. It is also forbidden for companies/consultants to purchase or operate Tiki-Toki accounts on behalf of their clients. Agencies/consultants seeking to create timelines for clients should contact us at hello@tiki-toki.com to obtain permission.

1.3 You must be at least 13 years old in order to create an account on www.tiki-toki.com or have obtained parental consent to create an account. Parental consent can only be obtained by going through the process outlined here.

1.4 You agree that Tiki-Toki can use the data you provide us as outlined in our privacy policy. We aim to collect the minimum personal information necessary to ensure our service functions properly and for us to meet our legal, accountancy and customer service obligations. For a full-list of information we keep on users and how we use it, see our privacy policy.

1.5 Timelines are only embeddable with active Bronze, Silver or Education accounts. If an account is downgraded because monthly or annual payments are stopped, the account's timelines will no longer appear on external websites. It is only permitted to embed a timeline on a website using the official embed code available via the Tiki-Toki admin interface. All other forms of embedding are forbidden unless permission has been granred by Tiki-Toki's owner Webalon Ltd.

1.6 You must own the intellectual property (copyright and trademarks) or have permission from the copyright/trademark holders for any images, videos or other content you include in a Tiki-Toki timeline.

1.7 You agree that the Service contains copyrighted material, trade secrets, and other proprietary intellectual property that are property of Webalon, the operator of Tiki-Toki.com. Webalon and Tiki-Toki are protected by copyright, trade secret, and other proprietary rights and laws, and this content can only be used or accessed as specifically provided for in these terms of service.

1.8 You may not store any of Tiki-Toki.com (including any portion of the software or documentation) on any computer or other device, or copy or otherwise use such information to create derivative works.

1.9 You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and password. We will not be liable for loss or damage due to failure to comply with this obligation.

1.10 The services offered through this site are provided as-is and without warranty. We may discontinue the service or cancel accounts at any time with or without reason.

1.11 Though we do everything possible to maintain a reliable service, Tiki-Toki cannot guarantee that the Service will be error free or uninterrupted, and cannot be responsible data loss. Under no circumstances will Tiki-Toki.com and its owner Webalon bear any responsibility for any damages arising as a consequence of such unavailability.

1.12 To the extent authorized by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, save and hold Tiki-Toki harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, potential losses, claims, costs and expenses (including attorney's fees), asserted against Tiki-Toki.com, its affiliates, subsidiaries, partners, agents, customers, officers, contractors, and employees, that may arise or result from any service provided or performed or agreed to be performed or any product sold by you.

2 Account Types

2.1 The Bronze account is only available to individuals and small community groups. For business use, the Silver or above accounts must be used. Those who break this condition will have their accounts deleted without warning.

2.2 A reduced rate on the Bronze account is offered at Tiki-Toki's discretion to school and university students. Tiki-Toki will not provide refunds if a user bought the Bronze account at the standard rate and did not inform us within the first month that they qualify for the discounted student rate. Tiki-Toki will however reduce the future rate for a subscription if a user qualifies for the student rate.

2.3 The Teacher account is only available to currently employed individual teachers. Users of the free Bronze accounts that come with the Teacher account must be current pupils at the school where the teacher who manages the Teacher account resides. Those who break these conditions will have their accounts deleted without warning.

2.4 The Teacher account is only to be used for educational purposes. It is strictly not to be used by colleges, universities or schools for marketing or other non-educational purposes. Those who break these conditions will have their accounts deleted without warning.

2.5 The free Bronze accounts for pupils that come with the Teacher account only remain active while the Teacher maintains their Teacher account subscription. If the Teacher decides to stop their subscription, or downgrade their account, all the pupil accounts linked to the Teacher account will be downgraded to our free standard account level. Pupil accounts that are removed from a Teacher account by the account owner are downgraded to the free standard account immediately.

2.6 When you stop paying for a Bronze, Silver or Teacher account, you agree that your account will be downgraded to the free level, which offers a single un-embeddable timeline and that any extra timelines you may have created will not be editable or viewable, until you re-upgrade your account.

3 Acceptable Use

3.1 Tiki-Toki.com does not allow any of the following content, or links to external sites containing such content, on timelines created by users:

(i) Pornographic or sexually explicit material

(ii) Content of an illegal nature, including copyright materials

(iii) Content that is deemed to be threatening, obscene or that has the purpose of inciting hate

3.2 You may not decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, copy, create a derivative work, or display the Tiki-Toki Software code in human readable form, or otherwise use Tiki-Toki.com (which includes its software and documentation) except as explicitly provided for in this agreement.

3.3 You agree that you will not store, copy, modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, transfer, transmit, display, reverse engineer, reverse assemble, or otherwise attempt to discover any programming code or any source code used in or with the Services. You may not sell, assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in or otherwise attempt to transfer any right in the Services (which includes its software and documentation), create derivative works based on or in any manner commercially exploit the Services, in whole or in part.

3.4 You agree to only use the timeline JSON and CSV options to manually back up your timelines, convert a timeline for use with our desktop app, or to populate a timeline created using our Single Timeline License product.

3.5 The JSON and CSV options are strictly not available as web feeds to be called from your servers or website, without prior permission from Tiki-Toki. You agree that if you use the JSON and CSV options for such a purpose without our permission, your account may be closed without warning.

3.6 You agree not to use any automated process to scrape our website for data. You agree that if you use our service for such a purpose, your account may be closed without warning.

3.7 Users of our JSON/RSS feed functionality agree that the feed cannot be used to make a timeline generate different content on the basis of a user's identity, search term or any other basis, without permission from Webalon Ltd. Use of cookies or other methods to generate different timeline content based on user's id, search term or any other criteria is strictly forbidden and will result in an account being closed without warning.

4 Account/Chargeback terms

4.1 All premium accounts are billed in advance. Monthly plans rebill every 30 days. Education accounts are billed a year in advance. We cannot provide refunds or cash credits for account downgrades or cancellations.

4.2 Cancellation of a premium account must be submitted seven business days prior to the rebilling date.

4.3 All premium accounts are billed in advance, and are non-refundable.

4.4 Timelines may be deleted following account cancellation.

5 Miscellaneous

5.1 If for any reason any provision of these terms of service shall conflict with any statute, law, regulation or ordinance, then in such event the provision in question shall be modified only to the extent necessary to bring it within such requirements, and (as modified) these terms of service shall continue in full force and effect.

5.2 We reserve the right to modify these terms and conditions at any time and for any reason, with or without explicit notification to you. Continued use of the Site after any such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes. It is the user's responsibility to check these Terms and Conditions from time to time.