Terms of Use

In short

• Tillyard is an Ohio nonprofit corporation. One person runs it. It is not a school, an employer or a placement service, and it is not connected to any college.
• Membership is for adults aged 18 or over, living in the United States when they join, who are current students or recent graduates of a United States college on our list. One account each, under your own name. Joining is not open yet: until it is, the join page takes a college email address for an early list, and we write once when you can join.
• It is free to students today. That is our current offer and not a promise about the future. We can change, pause or close any part of the service.
• Nothing you do here makes you our employee, intern, contractor, agent or partner, and nothing here is a credential of skill. The Record states what you did and who confirmed it. It does not grade you.
• You own what you write. You give us a limited licence to store it, show it to the people you chose, and check it for safety, so that the service can run.
• What you type at tables, in threads and in private messages is logged, checked by automated safety tools and can be read by staff in the cases these terms describe. Messages are not end-to-end encrypted.
• We may hold, hide or remove content, and pause, suspend or remove accounts, at our discretion. You can ask once for a second look.
• Tips are voluntary payments to Tillyard for a free service you have already used. They are not open yet. A tip does not change your standing here.
• The service is provided as it is. Our liability to you is limited as far as the law allows.
• Ohio law applies. If we disagree, we talk first. If that fails, the claim goes to a court, not to arbitration, and as far as the law allows it is heard for you alone, without a jury, and not as a class action. You have two years to bring a claim, where the law allows that limit.

If this summary and the full text below ever differ, the full text governs.

What you are agreeing to, subject by subject

The table below covers the same ground as "In short", subject by subject, and says where each subject is written out in full. The same rule applies to it: the full text governs.

1 Who we are and what these terms cover

1.1 Who we are

Tillyard is an Ohio nonprofit corporation. Post goes to 10602 York Rd SW, Etna, Ohio 43062. In these terms, we, us and our mean Tillyard.

The president also runs a business of their own under another name that has nothing to do with Tillyard. These terms cover Tillyard only. Accounts, records and standing on Tillyard are separate from it.

We are not a school, a college or a public body. We are not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any college, university, employer or government agency. When the name of a college appears next to a member's name, it is there because that member confirmed an email address at that college. It does not mean the college has any connection with us.

1.2 What these terms cover

These terms cover the website at tillyard.org, every page and tool on it, the emails and notices we send in connection with it, and the public pages we host, such as a published paper or a page of The Record. Together we call all of that the service.

1.3 Who these terms apply to

These terms apply to everyone who uses the service:

• Members: people who hold an account.
• Visitors: anyone who opens a public page without signing in, such as a recruiter checking a record or a friend reading a paper.
• Outside confirmers: people who are not members and who use a confirmation link to confirm something a member did (section 16).
• Tippers: anyone who has used the service and leaves a tip, with or without an account (section 23).
• People who use our public forms, such as the dispute form or a removal request (sections 20 and 25).

Most of these terms are written for members. If you are not a member, the sections that can apply to you are 1, 2.3, 2.4, 6, 9.7, 16, 18, 20, 22 to 28, 31, 32.1 to 32.4, 32.8 to 32.10, 34.4, 34.5 and 35 to 40. Sections 29 (covering our costs), 30 (the release) and 32.5 to 32.7 (individual claims, no jury, and the time limit for a claim) apply only to members, because only a member has ticked a box that names them. Section 2.3 says how far the listed sections bind a person who has not ticked anything.

1.4 The documents that make up the agreement

These terms are the master document. Other documents cover particular subjects in more detail. They come in two groups, and the difference matters: the first group is part of the agreement, and the second is not.

Documents that are part of this agreement

When you agree to these terms you also agree to the documents in this first table that apply to what you do. Each one says when it applies.

Guides and notices that explain the agreement and are not part of it

The documents in this second table explain, give notice or help you find your way. You do not agree to them, and they add no rule of their own. Where one of them repeats a rule, the rule is in the document it points to, and breaking the rule is a breach of that document and not of the guide. We still mean what they say to be true, and we correct them when it is not.

The company also keeps internal documents for its own staff: runbooks, a handbook for anyone who decides cases, a written security program and two templates. They guide how we work. They are not part of this agreement, they give nobody outside the company any rights, and where one differs from a document in this table, the document in this table is what we have said to you.

If two documents cover the same point, the more specific one governs that point, with the exceptions set out in section 37.5.

1.5 Words we use

Words that have one meaning in every one of our documents are set out in Definitions. The most common are repeated here for convenience. If a meaning here ever differs from Definitions, Definitions governs the meaning of the word.

• Content means text and other material that someone puts into the service: a paper, a note, a chat line, a profile, a project description, an answer on the chalkboard, a comment on someone's work. Your content is content you put in.
• Staff means the owner and any person who works for us under a paid, written contract and holds a staff account. At present the owner is the only member of staff. Members are never staff, and no member is given any power over another member's content or account, whatever title or history that member has.
• The owner is the person who runs the company and the service. The editor is the person who decides whether a paper is published in Tillyard Research. At present the owner is the editor.
• The Record is a member's set of records of what they did on the service (section 9). A title is a record that the editor or other staff approved or signed. A perk is a hospitality mark for taking part, such as a stamp or a mug on the shelf; some documents call it a keepsake.
• Connected describes two members who have each taken a step that links them, such as exchanging nods or belonging to the same booth, thread or organization. Only connected members can write to each other privately.
• The Shop, Tillyard Research, Pursuits, The Record, The Workbench, Notes and The Almanac are the names of areas of the service. We may rename them. A new name does not change these terms.

1.6 How to read "may", "aim" and "currently"

When these terms say we may do something, we are describing something we are allowed to do and can choose not to do. It is not a promise to do it in your case or in any case. When they say we aim to do something, we are describing what we try to do, not a commitment about a result or a time. When they say currently or at present, we are describing how the service works on the date of these terms, and that may change.

When these terms use the word will for something we do, we mean it as a commitment. The commitments we make, in these terms and in every other document, are listed in Schedule 1 at the end of these terms, so that you can see all of them in one place. If a sentence elsewhere reads like a firm promise and is not in Schedule 1, tell us at legal@tillyard.org, so that we can either add it to the schedule or reword it.

A statement of how the service works, such as "we do not keep your date of birth" or "the site sets no advertising cookie", describes the service as it is built on the effective date of the document that makes it. We mean every such statement to be true on that date, and we correct our documents when the service changes (section 33). It is a description and not a promise that the service will stay that way, and sections 26 and 27 apply to it. Nothing in this paragraph lets us describe the service untruthfully, and it takes away no right the law gives you if we do.

"Including" and "such as" introduce examples and do not limit what comes before them.

2 Agreeing to these terms

2.1 How you agree

You agree to these terms when you tick the box at sign-up whose own label says that you agree to them. The box starts empty. The titles in the label are links, so you can open and read each document first. The label reads:

"I am 18 or older, I am in the United States, and I am a student or recent graduate of the college whose email I used. I agree to the Terms of Use and the Community Guidelines, and I have read the Privacy Notice."

A line under the box says, in short, that rooms and messages are logged and screened (section 17.4 quotes it). The label has two parts. The first sentence is a statement of fact that you make to us (section 2.2). The second is your agreement to these terms and the Community Guidelines, and your statement that you have read the Privacy Notice. These terms bring in the other documents in the first table of section 1.4, each for the thing it covers; the policy library at tillyard.org/policies lists them all, and the features that have their own notice ask you about it directly the first time you use them. The Words on the Screen: Consent Register sets out this wording and every other box you may be asked to tick.

When you agree we record which version of each document you accepted, the date and time, and the account that accepted it. We keep that record so that you and we can both show what was agreed. You can see the permissions you have given, and the version of the wording you saw, in your account settings.

Some features ask for their own agreement the first time you use them, for example the logging notice in The Shop, the Author Agreement and Licence when you submit a paper, or the Standard Team Agreement when you join a project. Those are recorded the same way.

2.2 What you confirm when you agree

By ticking the box you state the first three of these in its own words. By agreeing to these terms you also confirm the rest:

1. You are 18 years old or older.
2. You are in the United States, and you live there.
3. You are a current undergraduate or graduate student, or a recent graduate (section 3.5), of the college whose email address you are signing up with, and you are not a high-school student taking college classes.
4. The name you give is your own.
5. You do not already hold an account, and we have not previously removed you from the service.
6. You are able to enter into a contract.

If any of the first, fourth, fifth or sixth stops being true, or if any of the six was not true when you said it, we may pause or remove the account (section 19). Section 3.1 says which conditions must stay true for as long as you hold an account, and section 3.3 covers a member who later travels or studies abroad.

2.3 Visitors and others without an account

If you use the service without an account, this is what binds you.

• If you only read public pages, you have ticked nothing, and we do not claim that reading a page is the same as signing a contract. The sections listed in 1.3 are the basis on which the pages are offered, and we give you notice of them here and by a link at the foot of each page. The points that matter most to a reader are short: a public page is offered as it is, with no warranty (section 27); it is not a reference, a background check or a consumer report (section 9.7); and Ohio law applies to any question about it (section 31).
• If you send us something through a public form, confirm something for a member, or leave a tip, you are doing more than reading. Where the form or page asks you to tick a box that names a document and a section, you agree to that document and section when you tick it, and to the sections of these terms listed in 1.3. The wording of each such box is in The Words on the Screen: Consent Register. Where a form does not ask, the first bullet applies to you.
• Sections 29, 30 and 32.5 to 32.7 never apply to you unless you hold an account. We do not ask a person who is doing a member a favour, or reading a page, to cover our costs, release claims in advance, or give up a jury or a class action.

If you do not accept the basis on which the pages are offered, please do not use the service.

2.4 Electronic records and messages

You agree that this agreement is formed electronically and that we may give you notices and records electronically: by email to the address on your account, by a notice inside the service, or by posting on the site. You agree that these have the same effect as paper. In full:

• What this covers. Every agreement, notice, disclosure and record that passes between you and us about the service, for as long as you hold an account and afterwards for anything that concerns it. That includes these terms and each later version, the notices in section 33, a notice under section 32.2, notices about your account, and any notice a law says must be given to you in writing.
• What you need. A current web browser with scripts and cookies allowed for our site, a working email address that you check, and a way to save or print a page. Our pages are ordinary web pages and our emails are text with simple HTML; nothing needs special software. You can save or print any page, including these terms.
• Keeping your address current. Notices go to the email address on your account. You can change it in your account settings (section 4.4). If your college is about to close the address, change it or tell us first (section 36.1).
• Paper copies. If you want a paper copy of these terms or of a notice we sent you, write to support@tillyard.org and we will send one at no charge.
• Withdrawing. You can withdraw your agreement to receive notices electronically by writing to legal@tillyard.org. It costs nothing to withdraw. We cannot provide an online service without it, so we may then close your account, and the withdrawal does not undo a notice already given.
• If what you need changes. If we change the service so that you would need different equipment or software to open or keep these records, we aim to tell you first, and you may withdraw as above.

2.5 If you do not agree

If you do not agree to these terms, do not create an account and do not use the service. If you have an account and no longer agree, you can close it at any time (section 34).

2.6 People only

Accounts are for individual people. A company, a college, a club or any other organization cannot hold a member account (a sponsor's account is a separate kind that shows only what the sponsor supports), and nobody may operate an account by automated means. Student organizations take part through their members (section 15).

3 Who can be a member

3.1 The conditions

To be a member you must meet all of these conditions. The second and third are tested when you join. The others must stay true for as long as you hold an account.

1. You are 18 or older.
2. You live in the United States when you join, and you sign up with an email address at a United States college that is on our list.
3. You are a current student or recent graduate of that college when you join (section 3.5).
4. You hold one account only, in your own name.
5. We have not previously removed you from the service, and you are not barred from using it by law.
6. Your college is not in a state where we are currently holding back membership (section 3.4).

3.2 Age

The service is for adults. At sign-up we ask for your date of birth and check it on our servers. If it shows you are under 18, sign-up stops. We do not keep the date. We keep only the fact that you met the check and the day you met it.

A college email address does not prove age, and we cannot verify anyone's age with certainty. So you also confirm to us, as part of this agreement, that you are 18 or older. If that statement is false, you have broken these terms.

If we learn or have good reason to believe that a member is under 18, we may pause the account at once and remove it. Any member can tell us they believe an account belongs to someone under 18, using the report tools. We do not knowingly allow anyone under 18 to hold an account, and the service is not directed to children.

If you are 18 but the law where you live sets an older age for making a binding contract, you confirm that you are able to enter into this agreement under that law. If you are not, please do not join.

If you were under 18 when you agreed. Sometimes a person under 18 gets in. If that was you, you may cancel this agreement by telling us at legal@tillyard.org or through the report tools, at any time before or within a reasonable time after you turn 18. We then close the account. We do not rely on sections 27 to 32 against you, and the licences and consents you gave end from then on. What is erased, and the little that is kept to stop the same address being used again before you are 18, is set out in section 4 of the Child Safety Policy and section 20 of the Privacy Notice. Cancelling does not make you liable for anything, and it does not excuse harm done to another person through the account.

3.3 Place, and colleges on our list

The service is run from the United States for people in the United States. We keep a list of email domains of United States colleges. If your college's domain is not on the list you cannot join yet, and you can ask us to consider adding it. We decide which domains are on the list and may add or remove them. The list leaves out high schools and other schools that are not colleges.

If you live outside the United States, or you are a student of a college outside the United States, please do not join. We make no claim that the service is appropriate or lawful to use anywhere else, and we do not direct it at people in other countries.

A member who joined while living in the United States and later travels or studies abroad for a time may keep using their account. You are responsible for following the law of the place you are in. We do not ask where you live after you join, and we do not check it.

People outside the United States sometimes reach us without being members: someone who uses a removal or dispute form, someone asked to confirm a member's open-source or service work, or someone who leaves a tip. Section 21 of the Privacy Notice says how we handle what they give us.

3.4 States where we are holding back

Some states have laws that would require us to do things we do not do, such as verifying identity documents. Until we are satisfied that we can open in a state lawfully, we do not accept sign-ups from colleges in that state. The join page shows the current list. At the date of these terms it is Tennessee and Mississippi.

If your college is in a held-back state you can leave your college email address on a waiting list, and we may write to tell you when that changes.

We may also decline or pause an account when we learn that a member lives in a place whose law would require us to do something we do not do.

3.5 Students and recent graduates

You must be a current undergraduate or graduate student, or a recent graduate, of the college whose address you use. At sign-up we ask which of these you are. A high-school student taking college classes is not eligible, even with a college email address.

A recent graduate is a person who completed a degree or a credit-bearing program at a listed college within the 24 months before joining. A person who joined as a student and has since finished or left stays a member on the same footing. In either case membership continues only while the yearly email check can be completed (section 4). If your college closes your address, your account can lapse as section 4.3 describes. This is the one definition of the term; Definitions and the Eligibility and Verification Policy repeat it word for word, and the join page does not change it.

We do not check enrolment with your college and we do not ask your college for anything. Your statement that you are a student or recent graduate is your own.

3.6 One account, one person, your own name

Each person may hold one account. You may not create an account for someone else, share your account, sell or transfer it, or let another person use it.

Use the name you go by professionally, the one on your résumé. It does not have to be every part of your legal name, but it must be yours. Other people rely on names here, on a published paper, on a project and on The Record, so a false name harms them as well as us. You may not use a name that belongs to someone else, a name chosen to mislead, or a name that suggests you are staff.

You can change your name within the limits shown in your account settings. Some changes are checked by staff before they take effect.

3.7 People we have removed

If we have removed you from the service, you may not join again unless we tell you in writing that you may. We may keep a protected record that lets us recognize a removed person's email address if it is used again, as the Privacy Notice explains. Creating a new account to get around a suspension or removal breaks these terms, and we may remove the new account without notice.

This reaches only as far as we can check. We enforce it by recognizing the email address that was used, and by comparing a protected fingerprint of a new member's name and college with those of accounts staff removed, which only raises a flag for a person to look at. We cannot prevent a person from returning under a different address, and we act when we learn of it. "May not join again" is a rule for the person removed. It is not a promise to other members that the person cannot come back.

If you closed your own account while in good standing you may join again after the waiting period shown when you closed it.

3.8 Our discretion

Membership is offered at our discretion. Joining is not open yet. Until it opens, tillyard.org/join takes a college email address for an early list instead. We may decline a sign-up, hold new sign-ups on a waiting list when the service is near its capacity (section 26), or ask for a further check before an account opens. We do not decline or remove anyone because of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age over 18, veteran status or any other characteristic the law protects.

4 Checking your college email, and the yearly re-check

4.1 What the check is

When you join we send a code to your college email address and you enter it. That shows that, on that day, you could receive mail at that address. Your profile then carries a line in this form: "Verified .edu email, checked October 2026".

That line means what it says and no more. It does not say that we confirmed your identity, your age, your enrolment, your major, your year, your grades, your degree or your standing with your college. You must not describe it to anyone as more than it is.

4.2 The yearly re-check

About once a year we ask you to confirm your college address again by entering a new code. When you do, the date in the line moves forward.

4.3 If the check lapses

If you do not complete the re-check within the period shown in your account, the account becomes lapsed. At present a lapsed account keeps its Record, its tools and its data, while taking part in The Shop, sending nods and making new submissions pause until the check is done. The public line changes to say when the address was last checked. A lapse is not a penalty and says nothing about your conduct.

4.4 Changing your address or moving college

You can change to another address at the same college, or move to a different listed college, by proving the new address with a code. For your protection there is a waiting period before a move takes effect, we tell the old address about it, and there are limits on how often you can do this. A new address must meet the same conditions as at sign-up, including section 3.4.

4.5 We do not contact your college

We send mail to your college address only to you. We do not have, and do not claim, any arrangement with your college. Your college's own rules about the use of its email system are yours to follow.

5 Your account and keeping it secure

5.1 Signing in

Day to day you sign in with a passkey stored on your own device. Emailed codes are used to join, to recover an account and for some checks. You are responsible for the devices and the mailbox you use to sign in.

5.2 Your responsibilities

• Keep your passkeys, your devices and your college mailbox under your own control.
• Never give a sign-in code to anyone. Staff will never ask you for one.
• Sign out on a shared computer. Some tools keep work in the browser of the device you are using, so do not leave your work on a computer other people use.
• Tell us promptly at security@tillyard.org if you think someone else has used your account.

You are responsible for what is done through your account unless you had told us it was compromised, or the cause was a failure on our side.

5.3 What we may do to protect an account

We may ask you to confirm your identity again before a sensitive action, limit what a session can do until you sign in with a passkey, sign out other devices, or pause an account we believe is compromised. We may send you a security notice by email even if you have turned other email off.

5.4 Accounts do not transfer

Your account is personal to you. It cannot be sold, given away, inherited or transferred, and neither can a title, a record or a perk. If a member has died or can no longer manage their affairs, a person with legal authority to act for them may write to support@tillyard.org to ask that the account be closed. We may ask for proof of that authority and we decide such requests case by case.

5.5 People who claim to act for us

Staff accounts are held only by the owner and by people working under a paid contract. No member has moderation powers over another member. If someone who is not staff tells you they can approve your paper, grant a title, remove a member or act for us in any way, they cannot. Please report it.

6 What Tillyard is

6.1 What members can do here

Tillyard is a website where college students can do several things alongside each other:

• The Shop: a text-only coffee shop that keeps posted hours, with rooms, tables, shared work timers, a table chat that opens during breaks, and short-lived traces of a visit.
• Notes: private notes and group threads between members who are connected.
• Tillyard Research: a student publication. Members write research papers, student readers who chose to read them score them against a published rubric, and the editor decides whether to publish.
• Pursuits: a menu of tracks built from rounds, portfolio pieces, team projects, hosting, organization roles and public-good service.
• The Record: a page for each thing a member did, stating what it was and who confirmed it.
• The Workbench: résumé tools that run in your browser.
• The Almanac: guides, templates, deadlines and links to opportunities elsewhere.

Parts of the service open in stages and some are switched on only when enough members are taking part. A feature described in these terms may not be available to you yet.

6.2 Text, figures and receipts

The service handles text. There is no hosted audio or video. The only uploads are figures, which are pictures an author adds to a paper in Tillyard Research, and receipts for a research grant. A figure is private to the author, the readers who took the paper and staff until the paper is published. A receipt is seen only by the member whose project it belongs to and by the owner. You cannot upload anything else. When you bring a résumé into The Workbench, the file is read inside your own browser and is not sent to us. Links that members type appear as text that cannot be clicked, except for a short list of link types we allow.

A host or a table may point to a call on an outside service. That call is outside Tillyard (section 17.6).

6.3 Learning and credit

We are not a school, college, university, career school or training provider. We do not teach courses or programs of study, and nothing here is a class, a course or a curriculum, even when members teach each other at a table. We do not award degrees, diplomas, certificates, grades, levels, pass marks, academic credit or continuing-education credit. We are not accredited by anyone and we do not accredit anyone or anything.

If your college gives you credit for something you did here, that is a decision made by your college under its own rules, and we have no part in it.

6.4 Employment, agency and partnership

Nothing you do on the service makes you our employee, intern, trainee, apprentice, volunteer worker, independent contractor, agent, representative, partner or joint venturer. This is true whatever you write, publish, read, host, build, confirm or share, and whatever title appears on your Record.

These facts decide it:

• You choose everything. You decide whether to take part, in what, when and how much. We set no hours, targets or quotas. A deadline applies only to something you chose to start, such as an entry, a reading you accepted or a paper you sent in, and the only result of missing it is that the thing lapses. A round is the one place where a prompt and a number are set: its published rules give every entrant the same prompt and, where they say entrants score each other, say how many entries each entrant scores and what happens to an entrant who does not return them (section 12.2). If you do not want that, do not enter the round. The count behind a hosting line or the Table Host title is a count of what a member chose to do, read from the log; it is not a target we set for anyone (section 14).
• Nothing is owed either way. You are not paid, and you are not promised pay, a reference, a recommendation, a role with us, or any advantage in being considered for one. You owe us no work.
• Your work is yours. You keep ownership of what you make (section 7). We do not direct it or supervise it.
• You cannot act for us. You have no authority to speak for us, sign for us, or commit us to anything. Please do not say or imply that you work for Tillyard or hold a role at the company.

If we ever pay someone to do something for us, that will be under a separate written contract and will not happen through a member account or these terms.

If you are an international student. Taking part here is not employment, an internship, practical training or volunteering for an employer, and we do not give immigration advice. We cannot tell you how your visa rules treat any activity. If you hold an F-1 or other student visa and have any doubt, ask your college's international student office before you take part in anything beyond ordinary membership.

6.5 Placement and recruiting

We do not find work for anyone, place anyone with an employer, or act as an employment agency, a recruiter or a staffing service. We do not promise that using the service, publishing a paper or holding a title will lead to an interview, an offer, an admission, a scholarship or any other result. Links to opportunities in The Almanac lead to other organizations' own listings, which we do not write, check or vouch for.

6.6 Professional advice

We are not a law firm, an accountant, a financial adviser, a doctor, a therapist, an engineer, a career counsellor or an immigration adviser. Nothing on the service is professional advice. Section 18 says more.

6.7 What a record states

The Record states what a member did and who confirmed it, for example that a paper was read by three students at other colleges and approved by the editor, or that a member hosted nine scheduled tables. It does not say, and we do not say, that a member has reached any level of skill, knowledge, competence or proficiency, or has passed anything. A title on The Record is a record of a fact. It is not a licence, a qualification, a certification or evidence of fitness for any role. It is not a certificate, a diploma or other evidence of proficiency or achievement in any course of study: we offer no course of study, and we take no charge, fee or other payment for anything recorded on The Record, from the member or from anyone else. A tip (section 23) is not a payment for a record, and tipping changes nothing on one.

6.8 Colleges and other bodies

College names appear on the service as text only, because members study there. We do not use college logos, seals, mascots or colours, and we ask members not to either. Nothing on the service means that a college, an employer, a government agency, a professional body or any other organization approves of, sponsors or is connected with us or with anything on a member's Record. Where an outside organization is named on a Record page, the page says exactly what that organization or person did.

6.9 The research cohort

You may see a page where you can say you would be interested in a small, selective research cohort if we ever run one. That page is only a way to register interest. It is not an application, an offer, a place, a promise that a cohort will run, or a promise that you would be accepted. If a cohort is ever offered it will have its own written terms, and nothing in these terms would govern it.

6.10 One person runs it

At present one person runs Tillyard. Requests are read by a person, and that person is not always available. We do not promise a response time for any request unless a law sets one, and where a law sets one we follow it.

6.11 Describing what you did here to others

When you tell an employer, a college or anyone else about what you did here, describe it as it was. List a paper under publications or writing as a student publication. List a project under projects. List hosting or an organization role under activities or leadership. Do not list anything from Tillyard as employment, as an internship, under an experience or employment heading, as a degree or certificate, or as something awarded by your college. That sentence, with section 9.6, is the rule. How to list this on a résumé is a guide that offers suggested wording for following it; the guide is not part of this agreement and adds no rule of its own. The Record and Verification Policy says what each page states.

7 Your content and the licence you give us

7.1 You own your content

You keep every right you have in your content. We do not take ownership of it, we do not ask you to assign it to us, and nothing you write here is a work made for hire for us.

7.2 The licence you give us

To run the service we need your permission to handle your content. You give us a licence to do the following, and only the following:

1. Store your content, and make the copies that storing, backing up and securing it require.
2. Show your content to the people it is meant for, in the places you put it. A table chat line goes to the table. A note goes to the person you sent it to. A published paper goes to the public. A Record item goes to whoever you chose in its visibility setting.
3. Format your content so that it displays properly, for example turning the Markdown you typed into a page, or setting a paper in the publication's layout. We do not change what you said.
4. Check your content with automated safety tools and, in the cases section 17 describes, have staff read it.
5. Keep copies as evidence when content is reported, held or part of a dispute, and where the law requires or permits us to keep it.
6. Refer to your content in the ordinary running of the service, for example listing a published paper's title in the library or in the daily edition.

This licence is non-exclusive (you can do whatever you like with your content elsewhere), royalty-free (neither of us pays the other), worldwide (because the internet is), and limited to operating, securing and improving the service. We may pass it only to service providers who act for us and on our instructions, such as the company that hosts the site, and to a successor that takes over the service under section 37.1.

7.3 What the licence does not let us do

The licence in 7.2 does not let us:

• sell your content, or license it to anyone else for their own purposes;
• use your content, or let anyone else use it, to train a generative AI model;
• use your name, your words or your work in advertising or promotion without your separate written agreement each time (section 7.7);
• publish something you kept private, or show it to a wider audience than the one you chose, except where section 17, section 19 or the law allows a disclosure.

Some of the automated safety tools we use are run by other companies acting for us. The Privacy Notice names them and says what they receive.

7.4 How the licence ends, and what continues

The licence for an item ends when you delete that item, where the service lets you delete it, or when your account is closed and erased. After that we aim to remove the item from the live service within a reasonable time. These things continue:

• Backups and logs. Copies may remain for a limited time in backups and system logs before they are overwritten.
• Messages you sent. A note or thread message you sent stays in the conversation until you take it back, until its time under the Data Retention Schedule runs out, or until your account is erased. When your account is erased the text of the messages you sent is removed, and your seat in the conversation reads as that of a former member. The other people's own messages stay.
• Copies other people hold. Something another member saved, a visitor copied or a search engine cached is outside our control.
• Evidence and legal records. We may keep content that is part of a report, a case, a dispute, a legal request or our staff action log for as long as the Data Retention Schedule provides for that purpose. The staff action log holds identifiers and reason keys, never names, email addresses or your content. It is built so that entries cannot be edited or removed, and it is kept for as long as Tillyard operates (Data Retention Schedule, row H19).
• Facts about what happened. A record that something happened is our record, not your content. After your account is erased, a page of The Record may remain for a time as a nameless marker that says only that something was once listed there and is no longer.
• Work with other people. A paper with co-authors, a team project or a round entry may continue under its own licence so that your co-authors and teammates are not harmed by your leaving. The Author Agreement and Licence and Standard Team Agreement say how.

The Privacy Notice and the Data Retention Schedule give the periods that apply.

7.5 More specific licences

Some things you make here are covered by their own licence, which you see and accept at the time:

• A paper submitted to Tillyard Research is covered by the Author Agreement and Licence.
• A team project is covered by the Standard Team Agreement your team accepts before its first session, which is an agreement among teammates.
• An entry in a round is covered by that round's official rules (drawn from the Rounds Official Rules Template).
• Comments you write on another member's work as a reader are covered by the Reader Guidelines.

Where one of those documents says something different from this section about the same content, that document governs.

7.6 What you promise about your content

Each time you put content into the service you promise that:

1. It is yours to share. You wrote it, or you have the right to post it, and posting it does not infringe anyone's copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other rights.
2. You have checked who else may own it. If you made the work for a class, in a lab or research group, or for an employer or client, someone else may own it or have rules about publishing it. Our forms ask about this. You promise your answer is true and that you have any permission you need.
3. Your co-authors and teammates agree. You name everyone who should be named, nobody who should not be, and each person named has agreed.
4. It is not confidential. It does not contain trade secrets, unpublished lab data, material under a confidentiality agreement, or anything you learned in confidence.
5. It respects other people. It does not disclose another person's private information without their agreement. If your work draws on interviews, surveys or other research with people, you followed the rules that apply to you, including your college's rules on research involving people. We are not an ethics board and do not review research for that purpose.
6. It is honest. Where a form asks whether and how you used AI tools, your answer is true. You do not present someone else's work, or work generated for you, as your own.
7. It follows the rules. It complies with these terms, the Community Guidelines and the law.

You are also responsible for your own college's rules, such as an honour code or a rule about reusing coursework. We do not know those rules and do not apply them.

7.7 Your name and school beside your content

Because other people rely on knowing who wrote or did something, your name and your college appear beside your content in the places you post it, for example on a published paper, on a project, at a table and on The Record. You agree to that display. In some places you can choose a narrower audience, and your account settings list every such switch.

We will not use your name, your words or your work in an advertisement, a testimonial, a press piece or other promotion unless you have agreed in writing to that particular use. The writing is a short one-page permission that names the use, the place, the words and how long it lasts, and that you can end; we keep a form for it and send it to you to sign each time. You can say no, and saying no changes nothing about your standing. This sentence does not stop us listing a published paper in the library, showing a public page you chose to make public, or stating facts about the service as a whole, such as how many papers were published in a term.

7.8 Other people's content

Content belongs to the person who posted it and that person is responsible for it. We do not write, endorse or check members' content, except where a page says in terms that the editor approved or signed something, and then only to the extent the page says. A paper published in Tillyard Research states its author's views, not ours.

Do not copy, republish or reuse another member's content without their permission, unless a licence they chose allows it or the law does.

7.9 Our editorial discretion

We may check content before or after it appears. We may decline to publish it, hold it so that only its author can see it, hide it, label it, limit how widely it is shown, or remove it. We may do so for any reason these terms or the Community Guidelines describe, or because we judge it right for the service. We are not obliged to host, publish or keep any content, and we do not promise that any content will be reviewed, or reviewed within any time.

7.10 Keep your own copies

The service is not a backup. Keep your own copy of anything you care about. You can download a copy of your data from your account settings while your account exists. We may lose content through a fault, a pause or a closure, and section 28 limits our liability if that happens.

8 How you agree to behave

8.1 The Community Guidelines

The Community Guidelines set out how members treat each other and what may not be posted. They are part of this agreement. If you break them, you break these terms.

8.2 The short list of things you agree not to do

You agree not to use the service to:

1. threaten, harass, stalk, bully, demean or sexually pursue anyone, or encourage others to;
2. post anything sexual involving a minor, or any intimate image of a person without that person's consent, or point to such material elsewhere;
3. post content that is unlawful, that infringes someone's rights, or that discloses someone's private information without their agreement;
4. pretend to be someone else, use a false name, misstate your college or status, or misrepresent your connection to any organization;
5. submit work that is not yours, hide the use of AI tools where a form asks about it, invent sources or data, or name a co-author who has not agreed;
6. cheat the records: use more than one account, arrange confirmations that are not true, confirm for a teammate something they did not do, pose as an outside confirmer, or trade or sell confirmations, scores or readings;
7. advertise or sell goods or services, post openings for paid work, solicit money or investments, or send spam. A help-wanted card for a student project is allowed within section 13.6;
8. contact a member who has blocked you, or try to reach someone you are not connected with by going around the limits on messaging;
9. give advice to a real person about their own legal, tax, medical, engineering or investment matters as part of any track or project;
10. break the law, or help someone else to.

8.3 Technical rules

The Acceptable Use Policy sets out the technical rules in full. You also agree not to:

1. access the service by any automated means, including scripts, bots, crawlers or scrapers, or collect information about members by any means. Two things are allowed, as section 5 of the Acceptable Use Policy sets out: a general web search engine may index the public pages our robots file and page tags allow, and a service may fetch a single public page to show a preview when a person shares its link there. Nothing else is;
2. copy or compile The Record, the directory or published pages into another database, a people-search or background-check product, or a dataset for training a model;
3. get around a limit, a cap, a rate limit, a waiting period, a block, a hold or a suspension, or use the service in a way meant to run up our costs or take it offline;
4. probe, scan or test the security of the service, except as the Security and Vulnerability Disclosure Policy allows, or access an account, data or a part of the service that is not yours;
5. upload or transmit malicious code, or interfere with how the service works for others;
6. reverse engineer or decompile the service, except where the law gives you that right despite this sentence;
7. open a call, a recording or a screen capture of other members without the consent the law requires (section 17.7).

8.4 Reports must be honest

The report tools exist to keep people safe. Make reports in good faith. Do not use reports, disputes or removal requests to harass someone or to try to push them off the service. We weigh and limit reports to stop that.

8.5 If you post about us

You are free to say what you honestly think about Tillyard anywhere, good or bad. Nothing in these terms restricts that, and we will not penalize you for an honest review.

If you hold a title, a perk or a hosting record here, or you have received anything from us, and you post something that promotes Tillyard, say so clearly in the post itself, for example "I host tables at Tillyard". The law on endorsements expects that connection to be disclosed, and the person reading should not have to hunt for it. We never require or script posts, and we never pay for them.

Do not post on our behalf, do not use a college's logo, mailing list or notice boards to promote the service unless the college's rules allow you to, and do not send invitations by text message to people who have not asked for them.

9 The Record, and what "confirmed" means

9.1 What The Record is

The Record is a set of pages, one for each thing a member did on the service, that the member can link from a résumé. Each page says what was done, when, how we know, and its current status. The Record and Verification Policy explains it for members and for anyone checking a record.

9.2 Three kinds of record

Every item on The Record is one of three kinds, and each carries its own label in words (Approved, Recorded or Self-reported) so that nobody mistakes one for another.

9.3 Exactly who checked what

Each page has a line that states, in exact words, who checked what. For example: "Read by three students at other colleges and approved by the editor", "Approved by the editor", "Confirmed by an officer of the organization", "Counted from attendance logs", or "Confirmed from an @example.org address by Jordan Lee, Volunteer Coordinator".

Read that line literally. In particular:

• Student readers are students. They are members who chose to read a paper. They are not scholars in the field, they are not staff, and their reading is not academic peer review.
• Teammates and officers confirm each other. A confirmation from a teammate or a fellow officer is that person's statement, not ours.
• An outside confirmation shows that someone with access to that email address confirmed it. The person opened a link, read the claim, entered their own address at the organization, and typed in a code we sent there. We do not check that person's identity, their role or their authority to speak for the organization. Where the address is at a free mail provider, the page says "unverified contact".
• Logs count what the system saw. A count of sessions or attendees comes from the service's records of who was present. It says nothing about what was learned or how well anything was done.
• Things issued elsewhere are the member's report. If a member lists something another body issued, the page says the member reports holding it and, where there is one, gives the issuer's own address for checking. We do not check it.

We avoid words such as "verified" on their own, "independent" or "audited", because they would claim more than happened.

9.4 What a Record page does not say

A Record page does not say that:

• the member is or was our employee, intern or contractor. Each page carries a statement to that effect;
• the member has any level of skill, or would be good at any role;
• the work is correct, original or free of error. Approval by the editor is an editorial decision to publish, not a warranty of the contents;
• the member's college, or any organization named, endorses the member, the work or us;
• the page will always be there, or that its status will not change. A page shows the status on the day it is opened.

9.5 Status, withdrawal and holds

A page shows one of these statuses:

• Active. The record stands.
• No longer listed. The member chose to stop sharing it, or the page is unavailable for another reason. This status never says why.
• Withdrawn. The record no longer stands. The member, the area the record came from, or staff withdrew it. The page gives the month and never says who withdrew it or why.

A page that still stands can carry a note: disputed, where someone entitled to question a line of the record has done so and it is not yet settled; link changed since it was read; or confirmation withdrawn. The Record and Verification Policy (section 10) is the full statement of statuses and notes.

We may withdraw, correct or hold a record when we learn or reasonably believe that it is wrong, that it was obtained by breaking these terms, that a confirmation behind it has been withdrawn or was not genuine, that evidence it relied on has changed, or that the law requires it. An outside confirmer who tells us they did not give a confirmation, and proves the same email address, withdraws it at once. Where an item relied on an outside link and the link is later edited, the page may say that the link changed since it was read, until it is read again.

When a record is withdrawn we aim to tell the member. We do not publish our reasons, and a public page does not show that an account has been suspended or that a report was made.

After an account is closed, pages may remain for a period as nameless markers so that old links do not appear to be errors.

9.6 Your responsibilities when you use a record

If you link to, quote or rely on your Record:

1. describe each item as the page describes it, and not as more;
2. when an item is withdrawn, stop relying on it and take it off your résumé and profiles no later than 7 days after the notice;
3. do not alter, fake or imitate a Record page, a code or a QR code, and do not present a self-reported item as if it had been confirmed;
4. remember that sharing a link shares the page with anyone who gets the link.

Misusing a record is a serious breach of these terms. It can also mislead an employer, which may have consequences for you that have nothing to do with us.

9.7 If you rely on a Record page

This section is for visitors, including recruiters, employers and admissions staff.

A Record page is published at the member's request. It reports the facts stated on it, on the basis stated on it, as of the day you open it. It is one piece of information and it is yours to weigh.

• It is not a reference, a recommendation or an assessment of anyone's character, ability or fitness.
• It is not a background check. We are not a consumer reporting agency, and a Record page is not a consumer report. We do not assemble or evaluate information about people for employers. We accept no payment from anyone for, or in connection with, viewing a record, and no account, fee or tip is needed to open or check one.
• It is not confirmation of identity, enrolment, a degree or a right to work.
• We make no promise that a page is complete, accurate or current, and we are not liable for a decision you make by relying on one. Sections 27 and 28 apply to you.
• If you believe a page is false, the page has a link for telling us (section 20).

You may view and print a Record page to check a claim someone made to you. You may not collect Record pages in bulk or build them into another product.

9.8 Titles and perks are separate

A title is a record that the editor or other staff approved or signed. A perk is a hospitality mark for taking part: a stamp, a mug on the shelf, a founding number, a postmark. The two are kept apart by design. A perk never turns into a title, taking part never buys a title, and a tip never affects either.

Perks have no cash value. They cannot be sold, exchanged or transferred. We may change, rename or retire a perk.

We may grant a title or decline to, and we may withdraw a title, at our discretion, on the grounds in section 9.5.

9.9 Public profile, directory and search engines

Nothing about you is public unless you make it so. A public profile, a listing in the directory and listing by search engines are separate switches, each off until you turn it on, and each can be turned off again. When you turn something off it stops being shown by us on the next request. Search engines and other sites that already copied a public page work to their own timetable, and we do not control them.

Making a page public means anyone can read it, copy it and link to it, including people you would not have chosen. Think about that before you switch it on.

9.10 Self-reported items

You may add things you did elsewhere as self-reported items. They are your own statements, labelled as such, and you are responsible for their truth. You may not use our title names or wording that suggests we checked the item.

10 Reading other members' work is voluntary

10.1 Reading is your choice

Reading or reviewing another member's work is always your choice, with the one exception stated at the end of this section.

• You opt in to a reading pool, and you can leave it whenever you like.
• When you are offered something to read you may decline it, with no reason and no consequence, and be offered something else or nothing.
• There is no number of readings you must do, no minimum, and no condition that you read others' work before yours is read.
• Reading earns no title, perk, standing, priority or other reward, and declining or not reading costs you nothing.
• We do not assign readings, set hours for them or direct how many you do.

The one exception is a round whose published rules say, before you enter, that entrants score other entries. If you do not want to score other entries, do not enter that round. Separately, two members may agree between themselves to swap feedback.

A count of the readings you chose to do may appear privately on your own Record, and you may share it if you wish. It carries no title or rank.

10.2 If you choose to read

When you read another member's work you agree to the Reader Guidelines. The main points:

1. Treat unpublished work as confidential. Do not copy it, keep it, share it, quote it or use its ideas, and do not paste it into any outside tool or service.
2. Decline anything where you know the author, have a stake in the outcome, or cannot be fair.
3. Give your own honest view against the published rubric. Type what you observed. Do not use a tool to write your reading for you.
4. Do not try to find out who the author is or contact them about the work.
5. Be civil. A reading is feedback from one student to another.

Your comments go to the author and the editor. You give us a licence under section 7.2 to show them to those people and keep them with the paper's record.

10.3 If your work is read

A reading is a student's opinion. It is not expert review and it is not a decision. For a paper, the editor decides (section 11). For other items, the page says what the readers confirmed. You agree not to try to identify, contact or retaliate against a reader.

10.4 Swaps

The résumé swap in The Workbench is an exchange between two members who each chose to take part, paired by the service. It is never a condition of using any tool. A copy of your résumé goes to the other person with your name and contact details taken out, but you are responsible for checking that nothing else in it identifies you.

10.5 Readers are not staff

A reader acts for themself and not for us. Readers are not our employees, agents or moderators, and they have no power over any member's account, record or standing.

11 Tillyard Research

11.1 A student publication

Tillyard Research is a student publication. It is not an academic journal, its readers are students and not scholars in the field, and publication in it is not academic peer review. Do not describe it as peer-reviewed. On a résumé, a paper belongs under publications or writing, described as a student publication. The Editorial Policy of Tillyard Research describes how the publication is run.

11.2 How a paper is handled

You choose your own topic and your own timing. Nothing is assigned. When you submit, you accept the Author Agreement and Licence and make declarations about the work, including where it came from and whether AI tools were used. The paper is offered to members in the reading pool who are at other colleges and not connected to you. It goes to the editor after it has enough readings or after a set wait, whichever comes first. The editor decides in every case.

The published page says exactly what happened, for example "Read by three students at other colleges and approved by the editor", or "Approved by the editor" where there were fewer readings.

The writing tool keeps a history of your drafts and counts of typed and pasted text, which you can see. You agree to that at first use. We may look at that history when considering a paper.

11.3 Editorial judgment

Whether to publish a paper, ask for changes or decline it is the editor's judgment. We are not obliged to publish anything or to give reasons.

We may decline, unpublish or withdraw the record of a paper that we believe is not the author's own work, was generated by AI without the disclosure we ask for, is plagiarized, relies on invented sources or data, or is inaccurate. We review submissions and may decline or remove content we believe is AI-generated, plagiarized or inaccurate. This is editorial judgment; we do not guarantee detection. We make no claim that AI-written text can be detected, we do not run papers through AI detectors, and we do not act on a detector score, whoever produced it. The AI-Use Policy says what you must disclose.

When we decline or withdraw a paper we tell the author privately, in neutral terms. We do not publish an accusation against a named member.

11.4 Corrections, withdrawal and retraction

An author may ask for a correction, or withdraw a published paper. A withdrawal takes the paper off public view promptly and ends the licence as the Author Agreement and Licence describes. A short dated notice remains in its place so that links to it still resolve. Where a paper has co-authors, the Author Agreement and Licence says what happens when one of them withdraws.

The editor may correct a paper, add an editor's note, or retract it. A retraction notice is short and does not state a finding of misconduct.

11.5 A second look

If your paper is not accepted you may ask once for a second look, within the period shown in the decision, by giving new information. The same editor looks again. The outcome of that second look is final as far as the service is concerned. Section 20 covers other disputes.

11.6 No relationship beyond these terms

Being published does not make you a member of our staff, a fellow, a contributor under contract or a representative of ours. "Published Author" describes a fact about a paper. It is not a role you hold at the company.

12 Pursuits and rounds

12.1 Tracks

Pursuits is a menu of tracks. Each track's page says what counts, who or what confirms it, and what appears on The Record. Tracks open at different times, some only when enough readers have opted in, and we may change, pause or retire a track. If we retire a track, records already made under it stay on The Record with their dates unless section 9.5 applies.

No track has a fee. No track awards a certificate, a grade, a level or a pass mark. A series of sessions is not a course.

12.2 Rounds

A round is a time-limited call for entries with its own published rules. The official rules of each round, drawn from the Rounds Official Rules Template, are shown before you enter and govern that round. By entering you agree to them. Unless a round's rules say otherwise:

1. Entry is free and optional. No purchase, payment or tip is needed or helps. A tip never affects a result.
2. Results turn on skill, not chance. Entries are scored against criteria published in the rules. Where the rules say entrants score other entries, they do so blind, and the rules say how scores are combined and how ties are settled.
3. No cash prizes at present. The result of a round is a record of how an entry placed. Rounds currently carry no cash prize or prize of money's worth. If a round ever offers one, its rules will say who is eligible, what it is worth and how it is awarded, and the recipient will be responsible for any tax on it.
4. Eligibility. Rounds are open to members in good standing unless the rules narrow that. Staff and their households may not enter.
5. Your entry is yours. Section 7 and the round's rules cover the licence. You make the promises in section 7.6 for each entry.
6. Fair play. We may disqualify an entry or entrant for breaking the rules, these terms or the Community Guidelines, for colluding on scores, or for scoring in bad faith.
7. Changes and cancellation. We may extend, change or cancel a round if too few people enter, if scoring cannot be completed fairly, or if a fault, abuse or anything outside our control interferes with it. If we do, we aim to say so on the round's page.
8. Results. Results are published as the rules describe. If you think a result is wrong you can use the dispute form (section 20). Subject to that, results are final.
9. Where a round is not allowed. A round is void where the law prohibits it.

12.3 Portfolio pieces and outside evidence

Some tracks record a piece of work that lives elsewhere, shown by a link. Where the host offers one, the form asks for a reference that cannot change, such as a commit hash, a revision number, a docket number or an archived copy. A reader from the reading pool, who chose to look, then types what they observed at that reference. The record says what the reader saw and when. If the link is edited later, the page may say that the link changed since it was read, until it is read again.

We do not fetch, host or vouch for anything at an outside link, and we are not responsible for what is there.

12.4 Subjects we leave out

Design and practice tracks do not cover structures, pressure systems, mains electricity, vehicles, medical devices or weapons, and no track involves advising a real person on their own law, tax, medicine, engineering or investments. Pages in fields such as law, tax, medicine and engineering carry a fixed "student exercise" label. A student exercise is practice. It is not advice, a professional opinion or a design anyone should build or rely on.

12.5 Practice results

If a track offers a practice quiz or test, the result is shown only to you, with its date. It never creates a Record item and it is not a score, a grade or a pass.

13 Projects, booths and team agreements

13.1 Booths

A team of members can reserve a booth to work on a project together. The booth keeps a ledger of the team's working sessions, a statement from each teammate of what they contributed, and a thread for the team.

13.2 The Team Agreement

Before a team's first session, each teammate accepts the standard Standard Team Agreement. It is short and it covers three things: who owns what the team makes (the team picks either a named open licence or equal co-ownership), what happens to a teammate's contribution if they leave, and whose consent is needed before the work is used commercially.

The Standard Team Agreement is an agreement among the teammates. We supply the standard text and keep a record of who accepted which version. We are not a party to it, we do not enforce it, and we do not advise on it. Each teammate separately gives us the licence in section 7.2 for content they put in the booth.

13.3 The project belongs to the team

We do not own any part of your project. We do not manage it, supervise it, fund it, check it, test it or vouch for it. We do not choose your teammates and we do not check them beyond what these terms say about every member. What a team builds, and what happens when someone uses it, is the team's responsibility.

13.4 Relationships between teammates

Nothing in these terms makes teammates the employees, agents or partners of one another, and working in a booth does not make anyone our partner or yours.

Be aware, though, that the law can treat people who carry on a business together for profit as partners, whatever they call themselves, and partners can be responsible for each other's business debts. The Standard Team Agreement is written for student projects, not for running a business. If your team plans to earn money, take on customers, form a company or seek investment, make your own written agreement first and get advice from someone qualified. We cannot give that advice.

13.5 Contribution records

Each teammate writes their own contribution statement, and teammates confirm each other's. A Record item for a project says who confirmed what.

If a recorded teammate questions a part of someone's contribution line, the part is marked straight away (the booth says "in question" and the Record item says the line is disputed) and it stays off the Record item until the question is settled. The mark clears when the person who raised it takes it back, when the holder drops the part, or when the other recorded teammates answer. If the period shown in the booth runs out (currently 14 days) and the holder never stood by the part, a standing rule leaves the part off. If the holder did stand by it and the teammates did not settle it, the question comes to us. We may keep the part, strike it, or decline to decide and leave it marked. The Projects and Collaboration Terms (section 9) are the full statement. We decide only what the service displays. We do not decide who owns a project or any rights in it, and nothing we display is a ruling on that.

13.6 Help-wanted cards

A team may post a card inviting another member to join the project in a particular role. A card is an invitation to collaborate on a student project. It is not a posting for paid work, it is not an opening with Tillyard, and we are not involved in any arrangement about money, equity or ownership that teammates make among themselves. Do not use a card to offer or seek investment. The Projects and Collaboration Terms (sections 14 and 15) set out the rules for cards and for ventures, and say what applies if the service ever lets a card state a paid part; at present it does not.

13.7 Work made for a class, a lab or an employer

If any part of a project was made for a class, in a lab or research group, or for an employer or client, someone else may own it or restrict what you can do with it. Check before you bring it into a booth. Section 7.6 applies.

13.8 Tools outside the service

Teams often keep their work on outside services such as code hosts or document editors. Those services have their own terms, and what happens there is outside Tillyard.

14 Hosting tables

14.1 What hosting is

A member may schedule a table, a workshop or a circle at a set time and host it. A hosted table has a page that the host can share, and the service logs who attended.

14.2 Hosting is voluntary

You host because you want to. There are no required hours, no numbers to reach, no sign-up targets and no posts you must make. You are not paid, and nothing you receive is scaled to how much you host or how many people you bring. You can stop whenever you like. The Hosting Terms and Disclosure Policy say what hosting involves.

14.3 Hosts are not staff

A host is a member sharing what they know with other members. A host is not our employee, agent, teacher or moderator, and does not speak for us. A host has only the ordinary controls a hosted table gives, such as setting its topic and its seats. A host cannot suspend, remove or discipline anyone. If something goes wrong at a table, hosts use the same report tools as everyone else.

14.4 What a host says

What a host teaches or says is the host's own content and the host's responsibility. We do not check a host's knowledge, background or accuracy, and a hosted table is not instruction by us. A hosted series is a series of tables, not a course.

14.5 The hosting record

A hosting record says what happened, drawn from attendance logs: for example, how many tables a member hosted and how many people attended. It makes no statement about the quality of the hosting or about anything the attendees learned.

14.6 Calls and posts

If a host points a table to a call on an outside service, section 17.6 applies. If a host posts about Tillyard, section 8.5 applies.

15 Student organizations

15.1 Organization tables and pages

A student organization at a listed college can have a named standing table and a page on the service. Members who are officers of the organization can have that role recorded when another officer confirms it.

15.2 What you confirm when you set one up or claim a role

If you set up an organization's page, or claim a role in one, you confirm that the organization is real, that you hold the role you claim, and that the organization's own rules allow you to do this for it. You agree not to use your college's logo, seal, mascot or colours, and to follow your college's rules for student organizations, including any rule about telling the college of outside connections.

15.3 What an organization page means

A page for an organization means that members who say they belong to it use the service together. It does not mean that:

• the college recognizes the organization or has approved its presence here;
• the organization, its college or any national body it belongs to is affiliated with us, sponsors us or endorses us;
• the organization is a chapter, agent, ambassador or representative of Tillyard, or that we sponsor or fund it.

The organization stays independent of us and runs its own affairs.

15.4 What officer confirmation means

"Confirmed by an officer of the organization" means that another member, who is recorded as an officer of the same organization, confirmed the role. We do not check with the college, the organization's adviser or anyone else.

15.5 Disagreements about an organization

If members disagree about who may speak for an organization, or an organization, a college or a rights-holder asks us to stop using a name, we may pause or remove the page and the roles recorded under it. Requests go through the dispute form (section 20).

15.6 The organization is not a member

An organization does not hold an account and is not a party to these terms. Each member who takes part does so under their own account and their own agreement with us.

16 Public-good service and outside confirmations

16.1 What we record

Some tracks record service a member did for a charity, a public body or a public-good project. The member finds and arranges that service themself. The record is made when an outside party who knows about the service confirms it through a confirmation link.

16.2 We keep a record and nothing more

For service, we are a record-keeper. We do not find, arrange, broker or approve placements. We do not supervise, train, insure or equip anyone. We have no relationship with the organization you serve, and we do not check it. You are responsible for choosing where you serve, for following that organization's rules, and for your own safety. What happens during your service is between you and that organization.

Service is never for us. Nobody volunteers for Tillyard.

16.3 How an outside confirmation works

The member shares a confirmation link with the person who can confirm what they did. The member never types that person's email address into the service. The outside person opens the link, reads the claim, and, if they choose to confirm it, enters their own email address at their organization and types in a one-time code we send there. The email we send uses fixed wording and contains nothing written by the member. It includes a link that stops us ever emailing that address again.

The record then says who confirmed it and from what kind of address, as section 9.3 describes.

16.4 If you are an outside confirmer

You do not need an account, and you do not have to confirm anything. If you do confirm, you tell us and anyone who reads the page that:

1. the name and role you gave are your own, and any email address you used is yours;
2. the statements you ticked on the confirmation page are true as far as you know: that you are at the organization in the role you gave, that the member did what is described between the dates shown and the organization accepted it, and that it was unpaid and for the organization's public or charitable work;
3. you are not a relative of the member, and nobody has paid or pressed you to confirm.

Section 7 of the Service and Volunteering Terms is the full statement of what a confirmer states and can expect, and it governs if this summary differs.

Your name, your role and the domain of your email address appear on the member's Record page. We use your address to send the code and a receipt, and for nothing else. You can withdraw a confirmation at any time, from the receipt or through the dispute form, and the withdrawal takes effect on the member's Record straight away. Section 7 of the Service and Volunteering Terms and the Privacy Notice say more. Sections 27 to 32 of these terms apply to you.

16.5 Rules for members

Do not pressure anyone to confirm something. Do not confirm your own claim by using an address you control, or ask a friend to pose as someone from an organization. Limits apply to how many confirmations a member can ask for and how many one person can give.

16.6 People and organizations named on a page

Someone who is not a member and is named on a public page can ask us to remove their name. Where the request comes from a confirmed email address at the organization named, the name may be hidden at once while we look at it.

17 The Shop, Messages and threads: what is logged and who can read it

17.1 The Shop

The Shop keeps posted hours and may be closed outside them. When you come in you place an order that says what you came to do, add one line about what you are working on if you wish, and take a seat at a table. A shared timer runs while the table works, and table chat opens during breaks. Your name, your college and the line you wrote are visible to members in the room. The greeter at the counter is a scripted feature of the site, labelled as such. It is not a person.

You can choose to leave a short trace of a visit for other members, and to keep a receipt of it. Traces expire after the period shown where you leave them, and you can wipe your own early.

17.2 Messages and threads

You can write privately only to members you are connected with. A nod is how you reach someone you are not yet connected with, and it carries no words. Group threads are by invitation. Every note and thread has controls to block, mute and report, and new accounts have lower limits.

17.3 What is logged

What you type at a table, in a thread, in a note, in a timed conversation or on the chalkboard is stored by us. How long each is kept is stated in the place where you type and in the Privacy Notice. The first time you use The Shop and the first time you open Notes, you are shown the notice again and asked to agree. The Messaging and Monitoring Notice sets all of this out in one place.

17.4 Your messages are not private from us

Please understand this before you use these features. The short statement you see when you join says it in a few lines: "Rooms and messages here are logged. What you type is screened by automated safety tools, some run by outside companies working for us, which receive the text. Nothing is end-to-end encrypted. Staff may read a conversation in the cases listed in the Messaging and Monitoring Notice, such as a report or a flag." The points below, and the Messaging and Monitoring Notice, are the full account.

• No end-to-end encryption. Messages and threads are not end-to-end encrypted. We can technically read them.
• Automated checks. Automated safety tools check what you type. Table chat is delivered straight away after a word filter and is checked shortly afterwards, and a message may then be withdrawn. Private notes are checked before they are delivered, and a note may be held. Some of these tools are run by other companies acting for us.
• Outside companies receive the text. Some of these tools are run by outside companies working for us. They receive the text of what you type, and nothing about who typed it. The Privacy Notice and section 3 of the Messaging and Monitoring Notice name them.

• When staff may read. Staff do not read conversations to see what is being said. Section 6.2 of the Messaging and Monitoring Notice is the whole list of when a member of staff may open one, and it is narrower for private messages than for table chat.

  • Messages and threads. Staff can read a message, and up to ten messages either side of it, only when someone in the conversation reports it or automated screening flags or holds it. There is no staff screen for browsing or searching conversations. The owner can retrieve stored messages from the database only to answer legal process or an emergency (section 17.9), or for the exact-match search for copies of removed material described in the Intimate-Image Removal Policy, and records each retrieval.
  • Table chat. A member of staff may open a table's log only in these six situations: (1) it was reported; (2) screening flagged or held a line, or safety signals opened a case; (3) a case is already open and the log is likely to hold evidence that bears on it; (4) the law requires it, or an emergency calls for it; (5) you ask us to; (6) a fault or a security incident cannot be dealt with any other way. A reason is recorded before the log opens and the view is written to the staff action log.
  • Staff are expected to read no more than the purpose requires.
• The owner's view. The owner can view the site as a particular member sees it, read-only, for up to ten minutes at a time. That view cannot open Messages, drafts, résumé copies or data pages, cannot join a room, and cannot send or change anything. Each use needs a reason and is written to the staff action log, which cannot be edited.
• Reports carry context. When a message is reported, the messages around it are captured with it so that the report can be understood.

17.5 Your consent

By using The Shop, Notes, threads and the other places where you type to other members, you consent to us, and to service providers acting for us, receiving, storing, screening and reviewing what you type there, as this section and the Privacy Notice describe. You also understand that the people you write to can read, keep, copy and report what you send them.

If you do not consent to this, do not use those features. The rest of the service remains open to you.

17.6 Calls on outside services

A table may show a link to a call on an outside service from a short list we allow. That call takes place on the other company's service and under its terms. We do not host it, hear it, record it or log it, and our report tools do not reach what is said there. If a member behaves badly on an outside call, you can come back and report the member, and we may act on what we are able to establish.

Nothing that counts toward The Record requires you to join a call or to meet anyone one to one.

17.7 Recording and sharing other people's words

Do not record a call with other members unless everyone on it has agreed. Several states make it unlawful to record a conversation without every person's consent. Do not capture and share another member's private messages, except to report them to us or where the law requires you to.

17.8 Deleting messages

You can delete messages you sent where the service offers that control. Deleting removes the message from the conversation. It does not remove a copy that was captured in a report or a case, a copy the other person made, or copies in backups that have not yet been overwritten.

17.9 When we share what you wrote

We do not hand the contents of your messages to people outside the company, including your college, an employer or another member, except in the cases below. This list is meant to be complete. It is the same list as section 5.5 of the Law Enforcement and Legal Requests Policy, with the two cases that are part of running any online service, and the Privacy Notice and the Messaging and Monitoring Notice do not add to it.

• The people you wrote to. To the people you sent them to.
• Consent. With your consent, or the lawful consent of someone the message was sent to.
• Service providers. To service providers who process them for us and on our instructions, such as the companies that host the service and that run the safety screening.
• Legal process. When the law requires us to, in response to valid legal process. For the contents of messages that means a search warrant or its equivalent, as the Law Enforcement and Legal Requests Policy explains.
• Emergency. To a law enforcement agency or other government emergency service, where we believe in good faith that an emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure without delay.
• Child-safety reports. To the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, as federal law requires and as section 19.10 describes.
• Running the service and protecting the company's own rights or property. As necessarily incident to providing the service or to protecting the company's own rights or property. Examples are sharing material in confidence with our lawyers or our insurer, and defending a legal claim.
• Evidence of a crime that we came across by accident. The law lets a provider give law enforcement content that it obtained inadvertently and that appears to relate to a crime. We do not go looking through private messages for this.
• A successor. To a company that takes over the service under section 37.1, which receives them bound by these terms and by the Privacy Notice.

We do not disclose message contents in order to enforce these terms against you, or on the general ground of protecting other members or the public. Where someone's safety is at stake, the emergency case above is the one that applies.

17.10 Switching chat off

We may switch off chat, notes or a room, for everyone or for one member, when safety checks cannot keep up, when the service is near a capacity limit (section 26), or when we think it is needed. The room is built to refuse new chat when its safety checks have fallen behind.

18 Tools, guides and links: no professional advice

18.1 General information only

The guides, templates, checklists, calendars, tools and examples on the service are general information for students. They are not advice about your situation, and they are not legal, tax, financial, medical, mental-health, immigration, engineering or career advice from a professional. If you need advice, ask someone qualified who knows your circumstances. Do not rely on anything here as a substitute.

18.2 The Workbench

• Where your work is kept. The Workbench runs in your browser. Unless you turn on account copies, your work is kept on the device you are using and nowhere else. If you clear your browser's data, use a private window or lose the device, the work is gone and we cannot get it back.
• Bringing in a résumé. When you bring in a file, it is read on your device. The file is not uploaded to us. Only text you then choose to save to your account reaches our servers.
• The checker. The résumé checker applies published rules and shows a preview of the text a typical screening system might extract. It does not know how any particular employer's system or any particular person will read your résumé, and we make no claim that a résumé that satisfies the checker will get through any system or lead to any result.
• Drafted lines. The Workbench can draft lines from facts on your Record. You decide what goes in your résumé and you are responsible for every statement in it being true.

18.3 The Almanac

• Guides and templates reflect the writer's general understanding on the date shown. They may be out of date or wrong for you.
• Deadlines. Dates in the calendar come from public sources and may be wrong or may change. Check the date with the organization that sets it.
• Opportunity links lead to other organizations' sites. We do not write, check or endorse those listings, we are not a party to any application you make, and we receive nothing for showing them unless a page says otherwise. Be as careful with an opportunity you find through a link here as with one you find anywhere else, and never pay anyone for the chance to be considered.
• Listings drawn from other services. Where a page of The Almanac shows listings that we fetch from a public listing service, the page names the service each listing came from. The listing is that service's and the listing organization's own content, shown under the terms on which the service makes it available. Showing it does not mean the service, the listing organization or any government body endorses, sponsors or is connected with us, and it does not mean we endorse the listing. The listing may be out of date by the time you read it; the organization's own page is the one that counts. At the date of these terms these sources are switched off.

18.4 Emails you write with our templates

The signature builder, the outreach templates and the compose helper produce text that you send from your own mail program. You are the sender. You are responsible for whom you write to, for what you say, and for following the law on unsolicited email and your college's rules for its mail system. We do not send these messages and we do not provide email addresses at our domain.

18.5 Other members are not your advisers

A host, a reader, a teammate or anyone else you meet here is a fellow student. What they tell you is their own view. A page labelled "student exercise" is practice, as section 12.4 says.

18.6 Not an emergency service

We are not an emergency service and we do not watch the service around the clock. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, contact the emergency services where you are.

19 Safety actions, suspension and removal

19.1 What we may do

The Reporting, Enforcement and Appeals Policy describes how we respond when something goes wrong. This section is the contractual basis for it. To protect members, other people and the service, we may at our discretion do any of the following, to content or to an account, with or without notice:

• decline, hold, hide, label, limit or remove content;
• limit or switch off a feature for a member, such as chat, nods, links, submissions or swaps;
• give a warning;
• mute a member for a time;
• pause an account while we check something;
• suspend an account for a set time;
• remove an account permanently;
• withdraw, correct or hold a title, a Record item or a perk;
• refuse a new account to someone we have removed.

19.2 When we may do it

We may take a step in section 19.1 when we believe that:

1. you have broken these terms, the Community Guidelines or another document that applies to you;
2. you do not meet, or no longer meet, the conditions in section 3;
3. your content or conduct puts another person, us or the service at risk;
4. the law, a court or a regulator requires it, or we need to act to meet a legal duty;
5. your account has been compromised;
6. it is needed to keep the service running within its limits (section 26).

We decide these things on the information we have. We may act on a report without being able to establish every fact, and we may get it wrong.

19.3 Automated tools and people

Automated tools may hold content, limit what an account can do, or pause an account while something is checked. They work from patterns and they make mistakes. Two limits are set by rule: your table chat stops for the rest of one visit after three lines in that visit were stopped by the word filter, and an account is paused while a person looks when a corroborated child-safety report is made about it. Software can also close your connection to a room that is being flooded. A person, not software, decides every notice, 24-hour mute, suspension and removal for conduct. Software may hold an item, stop your table chat for one visit, or pause an account while a person looks, including a pause of up to 24 hours when activity looks like abuse; that pause ends by itself unless a person extends it, and it is not a finding. One closure happens by rule: an age re-check answered "under 18" or "high-school student", or left unanswered. The closure by rule is not a finding about conduct: the account is closed as not eligible, and the time allowed for an answer is currently 30 days.

19.4 Telling you

When we act on your content or account we aim to tell you what we did and, in general terms, why. We may say less, or nothing, where telling you could put someone at risk, would reveal who made a report, would get in the way of an investigation, or is not allowed by law. Our notices are written to be neutral, and we do not publish them.

19.5 Asking for a second look

You may ask once for a second look at a decision a person made about your content, your record or your account. This is the appeal. Ask within the period shown in the notice (currently 14 days), through your account or through the dispute form (section 20), and tell us something we did not know when we decided. The Reporting, Enforcement and Appeals Policy (section 14) sets out how an appeal runs; an appeal about a paper follows section 9 of the Editorial Policy of Tillyard Research.

A person considers the request. Because one person currently runs the service, the person who looks again may be the same person who made the first decision. We may uphold the decision, change it or reverse it. We do not promise an outcome or a time. The result of the second look is our final answer within the service. It does not take away any right you have under section 32 or under the law.

19.6 While an account is paused or suspended

At present, a member whose account is paused or suspended can still sign in to download their data, withdraw permissions they have given, stop emails and close their account. They cannot take part.

19.7 What others see

Our practice is not to show on any public page that an account has been warned, muted, paused or suspended. A suspension concerns taking part and does not by itself change the facts on a Record. When an account is removed, its pages read "no longer listed". A title or record obtained by breaking these terms may be withdrawn, and then its page reads "withdrawn". Neither status states a reason.

19.8 Leaving does not end a case

Closing your account does not stop us finishing a case that was open, keeping the records of it, or refusing you a new account. We may hold the erasure of an account while a report about it is open or a legal matter requires it.

19.9 Serious matters

Serious misconduct such as threats, stalking, fraud or impersonation may lead to permanent removal and, where appropriate and lawful, referral to law enforcement or your institution.

That is the site's standing sentence on referral. "Your institution" means your college. Here is how narrow it is:

• A referral is rare and is our own decision. We do not report members to their colleges as a matter of routine, and a college cannot require one by asking.
• What a referral may contain, and your consent to it. In a referral for serious misconduct of the kind the sentence names, you consent to our giving your name, your college and a factual description of what happened on the service and what we decided to a law enforcement agency or to your college's safety or conduct office. That consent covers those facts and nothing else.
• Never the contents of messages on the strength of this section. A referral does not include the contents of anyone's messages. Contents leave the company only in the cases listed in section 17.9, for example with the consent of a person the message was sent to, under a warrant, or in an emergency involving danger of death or serious physical injury.
• A public college or university, and any campus police force, is treated as a government body. The stricter rules for government bodies in the Law Enforcement and Legal Requests Policy apply to it.
• Every referral is recorded, with what was sent, to whom and why. Section 12 of the Law Enforcement and Legal Requests Policy sets the limits in full.

19.10 Child safety and intimate images

We do not allow anyone under 18 on the service. The only images we accept are figures in papers and receipts for research grants, and the Child Safety Policy says how they are checked. If we obtain actual knowledge of apparent child sexual abuse material, or of the other child-exploitation offences that federal law requires providers to report, we report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and preserve the related information as the law requires.

The Child Safety Policy says more. Requests to remove an intimate image published without consent are handled under section 25.4.

19.11 What we do not promise

We do not review everything that is posted, and we have no duty to monitor the service. We do not promise that any report will lead to action, that harmful content or conduct will be found, that any member is who they say they are, or that the service will be free of people who behave badly. We do not tell a person who was reported who reported them, though they may work it out from the circumstances, and we may have to disclose it if the law requires.

19.12 Decisions made in good faith

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable to you for a decision made in good faith to take, or not to take, a step described in this section.

20 Disputes and corrections

20.1 One door for anyone

If you think something on the service is wrong, there is one place to say so: the dispute form, linked from the pages it applies to ("Something wrong here? Dispute or correct it"). You do not need an account to use it. It covers:

• a problem with a payment or a refund;
• a page or record about you that is wrong, or that names you without your agreement;
• a confirmation shown in your name that you did not give;
• credit on a project or a paper that is wrong;
• a decision about your paper, your record or your account (members only, and this is the route for the second look in sections 11.5 and 19.5);
• a title or record that you believe is false;
• anything else.

Copyright complaints and requests to remove an intimate image have their own routes (section 25), because the law sets out what those must contain. The Disputes and Corrections Policy describes the form and what follows in more detail.

20.2 What happens next

Each dispute gets a ticket number and a status page that you can check with the ticket and your email address. Some kinds are settled by a standing rule so that they do not wait for a person. At present:

• an outside person who says they did not give a confirmation, and proves the same organizational email address with a code, withdraws that confirmation at once;
• a teammate who disputes a contribution line marks it "disputed" at once (section 13.5);
• a person who is not a member, is named on a public page, and writes from a confirmed address at the organization named, may have their name hidden at once while the request is looked at;
• a request to refund a tip made within the refund period is acknowledged automatically and sent on to us to carry out (section 23.5).

Everything else is put in a queue in order of seriousness and considered by a person.

20.3 Disputing costs you nothing

Raising a dispute in good faith does not affect your standing. Disputes raised in bad faith, or to harass someone, are handled under section 8.4.

20.4 What we do not promise

We consider disputes and decide what the service should show or do. We do not promise any particular outcome or any response time, except where a law sets one. We do not decide legal rights between you and another person.

20.5 The dispute form and your legal rights

Using the dispute form does not give up any legal right. It is separate from the formal notice in section 32.2, though you may use the form to send that notice if you say clearly that you are doing so. A payment dispute you raise with your bank or card issuer is handled by them and by our payment processor, not through the form.

21 Feedback

If you send us an idea, a suggestion or a bug report about the service, we may use it freely, for any purpose, without paying or crediting you and without owing you anything. Please do not send us anything you regard as confidential or want to keep as your own. This section is about suggestions for the service. It does not apply to your content, such as a paper or a project, which section 7 covers.

22 Third-party services and links

22.1 Services we rely on

We run the service with the help of other companies: one that hosts the site and protects it from automated abuse, including a bot check on some forms; one or more that deliver email; some that run automated text-safety checks; one that processes tips; and a public index used to check scholarly references. The Privacy Notice names them and says what each receives. The bot check is provided by the hosting company and your use of it is also subject to that company's terms.

If one of these services fails, limits us or ends its arrangement with us, part or all of Tillyard may stop working. Section 26 applies.

22.2 Services you choose to use

Some features hand you over to a service that is not ours: a professional networking site where you paste text we prepared for you, an outside call service, a code host, your own mail program or calendar, a payment page. We do not control those services, we are not affiliated with them, and your use of them is under their terms and privacy practices, not ours. Where you add the address of your profile on another site, we store the address you typed and take nothing from that site.

22.3 Links

The service contains links to other sites, including opportunity listings and issuers' own verification pages. A link is not a recommendation. We are not responsible for what is on another site or for anything that happens there. Links that members type are shown as text by default, and you follow any address a member gives you at your own risk.

22.4 Other people's names and marks

The names and marks of colleges, companies and other organizations belong to their owners. They appear on the service only to state facts, and their appearance does not mean any connection with us or approval by them.

22.5 Sponsors

If a sponsor supports something on the service, we label it as sponsored. A sponsor has no say over editorial decisions, readings, records, moderation or any member's standing, and we do not give a sponsor members' personal information. Naming a sponsor is not our recommendation of the sponsor or of anything it offers.

23 Tips, larger payments and sponsorships

23.1 Membership costs nothing today

There is no charge to join or to use any part of the service, and there are no paid tiers. You never need to pay us anything to be a member, to be read, to be published, to hold a title or to have a record.

23.2 What a tip is

Tips are not open yet, because Tillyard cannot yet accept donations. When they open, anyone who has used the service may leave a tip, with or without an account. Leave a tip only if you have used the site yourself: a tip is for a service already received, so it is not for a parent, a friend or anyone else who has not used it. The statement shown beside every tip button is part of these terms:

"Tillyard is an Ohio nonprofit corporation and cannot yet accept donations. No part of a donation goes to any member. Donating does not change your standing here."

A tip is a voluntary payment for a free service you have already used. It goes into the company's general revenue, and no part of it goes to any member, author, host or organization named on a page. It gives you no ownership in the company, and nothing comes back to you later. The only receipt is the payment processor's own. We do not call a tip a gift, and we do not ask for one on the ground of any cause or purpose.

23.3 What a tip does not do

A tip does not earn or speed up a title, a perk, publication, a reading, a record or a decision of any kind, and not tipping costs you nothing. Tips are not linked to member accounts. The website itself receives and stores nothing about a tip. We can see a tipper's name, email address and amount in our payment processor's records, and we use those only to handle refunds, payment disputes, accounting and tax. We do not match those records to member accounts, we do not publish the names of people who tip, and tips play no part in any decision about a paper, a title, a record, a report or an account.

23.4 How payment works

• Tips are paid on a page hosted by our payment processor, Stripe. Your card details go to Stripe. We never receive your card number.
• Tips are one-time payments. There is nothing to cancel.
• Tips are priced in US dollars and there is a minimum amount. If your card is in another currency, or you pay from outside the United States, the processor or your bank may convert the amount and may charge for doing so.
• The charge should appear on your statement under the name TILLYARD HOUSE or something close to it. How it appears depends on your bank.
• Stripe's own terms and privacy policy apply to the payment.

23.5 Refunds

If you want a tip back, write to support@tillyard.org or use the dispute form within 30 days of paying, and we will refund the full amount. You do not have to give a reason. There is one exception: if you have already disputed the payment with your bank or card issuer, the refund cannot be made while that dispute is open, and the bank's process decides the outcome.

Refunds go only to the original payment method. How quickly a refund reaches you depends on the processor and your bank. After 30 days a refund is at our discretion.

23.6 Who should not tip

• Anyone under 18.
• Anyone for whom the amount matters this month. The service works the same either way.
• Anyone using a card or account that is not theirs to use.
• Anyone hoping to influence a decision. It will not work, and we may refuse or refund any tip, including one we believe was meant to influence a decision.

Tip links are for individuals. An organization that wants to pay a larger amount or sponsor something uses the route in section 23.7.

23.7 Larger payments and sponsorships

For a larger amount, or to sponsor something, there is a short inquiry form that needs no account. A larger tip from a person who has used the service, and a sponsorship by an organization, are each arranged in writing and usually paid against an invoice issued through our payment processor. Each one is governed by its own written letter or agreement, and these principles apply to all of them:

• it gives no ownership in the company and no financial return;
• it gives no say over editorial decisions, readings, records, moderation or anyone's standing;
• any refund goes only to the original payment method;
• we may decline any payment or sponsorship, and we may ask who is behind it and why;
• we do not accept a payment made in memory or in honour of anyone, or left in a will.

We never publish our own bank account details. If someone claiming to act for Tillyard sends you bank details you were not expecting, or asks you to pay by gift card, wire transfer or cryptocurrency, treat it as suspect and check with us at support@tillyard.org before you pay anything.

23.8 Switching tips off

We may remove the tip buttons, close a payment link, or refuse or refund a payment at any time, for example if the links are being used to test stolen cards.

23.9 Tax

The IRS has not recognized Tillyard as tax-exempt, and we do not say that it has. We cannot yet say whether a tip or a larger payment to us is tax-deductible, and we issue no tax receipt. A payment for which you receive nothing may be a gift for federal tax purposes and may need to be reported by you. We do not give tax advice. If the tax treatment of a payment matters to you, ask your own adviser.

23.10 If we ever offer something paid

We do not currently offer monthly tips or any paid feature. If that changes, the new offer will have its own terms, shown before you pay, and we will not charge you for anything you have not expressly agreed to buy.

23.11 The more specific document

The Tips and Larger Payments Terms say more about tips, refunds and larger payments. Where they deal with a point more specifically than this section, they govern that point.

24 Our software, design and brand

24.1 What is ours

The service itself belongs to us or to those who license it to us: the software, the design and layout, the text we wrote, the guides and templates, the rubrics, the names "Tillyard", the names of the areas and titles, and our wordmark and other marks. Open-source components are used under their own licences. Your content is not ours (section 7).

24.2 Your permission to use the service

While you follow these terms, we give you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable permission, which we can withdraw, to use the service for its intended purpose. We keep every right we do not expressly give you.

24.3 Using our name

You may state facts about what you did here, link to public pages, and share your own Record pages and their codes. You may not use our name, wordmark or design in a way that suggests we employ you, sponsor you, endorse you or stand behind something you made, or that suggests your own site or product is ours. Do not alter a Record page, a code or a QR code. The Trademark and Brand Use Policy says more.

24.4 Templates and guides

You may use our templates and guides for your own résumé, applications and correspondence. You may not republish them, sell them or build a product from them.

25 Copyright complaints and other removal requests

25.1 Copyright

We respect copyright and expect members to. The Copyright Policy sets out the full procedure and governs it. The main points:

Our designated agent for notices of claimed infringement is:

• Designated copyright agent: Chase Marcum
• Company: Tillyard
• Address: 10602 York Rd SW, Etna, Ohio 43062
• Telephone: (614) 600-9020
• Email: copyright@tillyard.org

A notice must be in writing, sent to the agent, and must include: your physical or electronic signature, as the owner of the right or a person authorized to act for the owner; the work you say has been infringed; the material you say infringes it, with enough detail for us to find it; how to reach you; a statement that you believe in good faith that the use is not authorized by the owner, its agent or the law; and a statement that the notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act for the owner.

If your content is taken down after a notice, we take reasonable steps to tell you promptly, as the law requires, and you may send a counter-notice as the Copyright Policy describes.

Repeat infringers. We have adopted a policy of ending, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of members who repeatedly infringe.

False statements. A person who knowingly makes a material misstatement in a notice or counter-notice can be liable for the damage it causes.

25.2 Complaints about your own published work

If you are an author and want your own paper withdrawn, you do not need a copyright notice. Use the withdrawal control on the paper (section 11.4).

25.3 Trademark, privacy, defamation and other requests

For a request to remove or correct something on another ground, use the dispute form or write to legal@tillyard.org. Say what the content is, where it is, who you are, and why you say it should come down. We consider such requests and may ask for more information, or for a court order, before acting. We do not promise an outcome.

25.4 Intimate images published without consent

The service does not accept images. Even so, anyone, member or not, can use the removal form described in the Intimate-Image Removal Policy to ask us to remove an intimate image of themself that was published on the service without their consent, including one made or altered by software. No account is needed.

A valid request is in writing and includes: your physical or electronic signature, or that of a person authorized to act for you; enough information for us to find the image; a brief statement that you believe in good faith that it was published without your consent; and how we can contact you.

When we receive a valid request we remove the image, and make reasonable efforts to remove any known identical copies, as soon as possible and no later than 48 hours after we receive the request.

26 Availability, capacity limits, changes and closing down

26.1 "Free to students" is our current offer

The service is free to students today. That describes what we offer now. It is not a promise that every part of the service will stay free or that the service will always exist. If we ever introduce something that costs money, section 23.10 applies.

26.2 No promise of availability

We try to keep the service running, and we do not promise that it will be. It may be slow, unavailable or wrong at times, for planned work or without warning. The Shop keeps posted hours and is closed outside them. One person currently runs the service, and that person is sometimes unavailable.

26.3 Capacity limits and pauses

The service is built to run inside fixed daily allowances from the companies that host it and deliver its email, and inside ceilings we set ourselves so that it stays safe to run and its costs stay predictable. When a ceiling comes near, the service reduces what it does in steps. Typically, drafts save less often first, then optional syncing and counting stop, then new sign-ups go on a waiting list, then chat is switched off, then publishing is paused. Some pauses last until the daily allowance resets at 00:00 UTC.

The service is designed to keep sign-in, reporting, the removal forms and moderation running longest. We cannot promise that they will always be available.

Email is the scarcest of these resources. When the day's allowance is used up, emails may be delayed or not sent, including sign-in codes.

26.4 Limits that apply to you

There are limits on what one member can do in a period: messages, submissions, reports, nods, invitations, threads, tables, saves and the size of anything you type. New accounts have lower limits and cannot send links for a time. The limits are shown where they apply. We may change them, and reaching one is not a fault in the service.

26.5 Maintenance and emergency switches

We may put the whole service into a maintenance mode or a read-only mode, pause sign-ups, chat, publishing or tips, or switch any feature off, at any time and without notice, when we judge it necessary for safety, security, cost or the law.

26.6 Changes to features

We may add, change, rename, limit or remove any feature, track, title, perk, threshold or setting. Features open in stages and may be withdrawn if they do not work as intended. Where a change removes something members rely on, we aim to say so beforehand.

26.7 Closing part or all of the service

We may close the service, or any part of it, permanently. Where we reasonably can, we aim to give members notice and time to download their data first. A sudden closure is possible, for example for legal, financial or security reasons.

If the service closes, public pages stop working. That includes published papers and pages of The Record, and it means links and QR codes on a résumé would no longer open. We have no duty to keep any page online after closure. For that reason, keep your own copies of your work and a printed or saved copy of your Record.

27 Disclaimers

Please read this section carefully. It limits what you can expect from us.

27.1 The service is offered as it is

The service, and everything on it or reached through it, is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties of any kind about it, whether express, implied or arising by statute, custom or course of dealing. We disclaim the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment, accuracy and non-infringement.

What this means: we offer the service as you find it. We do not promise that it will work, be right, or suit what you need it for. The legal terms in the paragraph above have these meanings. A "warranty" is a promise about quality that the law would enforce. "Merchantability" is the promise the law sometimes reads into a sale that a thing is of ordinary, usable quality. "Fitness for a particular purpose" is a promise that it suits the use you had in mind. "Title" and "non-infringement" are promises that we have the right to provide it and that it does not trespass on someone else's rights. "Quiet enjoyment" is a promise that nobody will interfere with your use of it. "Course of dealing" means how you and we have behaved toward each other before.

27.2 What, in particular, we do not promise

We do not warrant or promise that:

• the service will be available, uninterrupted, timely, secure or free of errors, or that faults will be fixed;
• any content is accurate, complete, original, lawful or safe, including a published paper, a guide, a deadline, a link, a reading or a confirmation;
• any member or outside confirmer is who they say they are, is the age they say they are, attends the college they name, or will behave well. We do not run identity or background checks;
• a record, a title, a publication or anything else on the service will be accepted, valued or given any weight by any employer, college, program or other person, or will lead to any result;
• our safety tools or our staff will find, stop or remove any particular content or conduct;
• the tools will produce a correct or suitable result, or that a résumé made or checked here will pass any system or reader;
• your content or data will be kept, or can be recovered if lost;
• any third-party service will work, or that anything reached by a link is safe.

Where another document describes how the service is built, for example what is screened or how sign-in works, that is a description of the design on the document's date (section 1.6). It is not a warranty that the design cannot fail.

27.3 Nothing said creates a warranty

No statement by us or by any staff member, in a guide, an email, a notice or a conversation, creates a warranty that is not written in these terms. The commitments in Schedule 1 are commitments, and this section does not take them away.

27.4 Where the law limits this section

Some states do not allow some warranties to be excluded. In those states the exclusions above apply only as far as the law allows, and any warranty that cannot be excluded lasts only for the shortest period the law allows. Nothing in this section takes away a right you have under a consumer protection law that cannot be waived.

28 Limits on liability

Please read this section carefully. It limits what you can recover from us, and what we can recover from you.

28.1 Kinds of loss neither of us pays for

To the fullest extent the law allows, neither of us is liable to the other for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive loss, or for any loss of profits, income, opportunity, data, goodwill or reputation, however it arises and even if the one was told by the other that it might happen. A lost opportunity includes an interview, an offer, an admission, an award or a place that you did not get. This paragraph does not limit what you agree to cover under section 29, which has its own limit.

What this means: we do not pay for knock-on losses, such as a job or a place you did not get, and you do not pay us for ours. "Exemplary" and "punitive" describe money a court awards to punish and not to make up a loss.

28.2 Things we are not liable for

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable to you for loss that arises from:

• what another member, an outside confirmer, an organization or any other third party said or did, on the service or away from it;
• content that we did not write;
• anyone's reliance on a record, a title, a publication, a reading or a confirmation;
• a third-party service, or anything reached by a link;
• the service being slow, paused, limited, changed or closed, or content or data being lost;
• a step we took, or did not take, in good faith under section 19;
• your not following these terms.

28.3 The cap

To the fullest extent the law allows, our total liability to you for everything arising out of or relating to the service or these terms, whatever the legal basis, is limited to the greater of one hundred US dollars (US$100) and the total you paid us in the 12 months before the claim arose.

This cap does not apply to money we hold that is yours, such as a refund we owe you under section 23.5, or to our breach of a commitment listed in Schedule 1.

28.4 What these limits do not touch

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability that the law does not allow to be limited or excluded. Depending on where you live, that may include liability for fraud, for intentional misconduct, for gross negligence, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence, and your rights under consumer protection laws that cannot be waived.

28.5 Who these limits protect

The disclaimers in section 27 and the limits in this section also protect our president, our staff, our contractors and our successors. To the extent the law allows, any claim about the service is a claim against Tillyard and not against any of those people personally.

28.6 Why these limits exist

The service is free, and one person runs it. These limits are a fair way to share risk for a service on those terms, and we could not offer it without them. They still apply if another remedy in these terms turns out not to work.

28.7 Where the law limits this section

Some states do not allow some of these limits. In those states our liability is limited to the greatest extent the law allows. Section 38 has notices for particular states.

29 When you cover our costs

29.1 What you agree to cover

If someone else brings a claim or demand against us because of:

1. content you posted that infringes their rights or breaks the law, where you knew that it did or were reckless about whether it did;
2. something you did through the service that you knew broke these terms or the law; or
3. a statement you made to us or on the service that you knew was false, including about your age, your identity, your college or a confirmation;

then you agree to cover the reasonable costs we incur because of it, to the extent your conduct caused them. Those costs are reasonable lawyers' fees, amounts a court orders us to pay, and amounts paid under a settlement reached as section 29.3 describes.

29.2 What you do not cover

You do not cover any part of a claim that was caused by our own negligence, our own breach of these terms or the law, or our own decisions about how to design or run the service. You do not cover a claim that arises only because we hosted lawful content that you posted in good faith and in keeping with these terms.

29.3 How a claim under this section is handled

We will tell you promptly about a claim we think this section covers. We choose our own lawyers and run our own defence, and you may take part at your own cost. We will not agree to a settlement that requires you to pay money or admit fault without your written consent, which you may not unreasonably withhold. We will take reasonable steps to keep the costs down.

29.4 Where the law limits this

This section applies only as far as the law where you live allows a consumer to give an undertaking of this kind.

29.5 A limit on what you cover

Your total liability under this section is limited to one thousand US dollars (US$1,000), unless you acted intentionally to cause the harm. This section applies only to members (section 1.3).

What this means: if you knowingly post something unlawful, or knowingly lie to us, and someone sues us over it, you help with our reasonable costs up to that amount. An honest mistake does not bring this section into play.

30 Disagreements between members: a release

30.1 We are not a party to your dealings with others

You deal with other members, with teammates, with outside confirmers, with organizations and with anyone you meet through the service or through a link on it at your own risk. We are not a party to those dealings. We do not check who people are beyond what section 4 describes. Take the care you would take with anyone you met online, especially before meeting in person, sharing personal details, or entering into any arrangement about money, ownership or work.

30.2 The release

To the extent the law allows, you release us, and our president, staff, contractors and successors, from every claim, demand and loss, known or unknown, that arises out of a disagreement between you and another member or any other third party in connection with the service.

What this means: a "release" means giving up a claim. If you fall out with another member, your claim is against that person and not against us. This section applies only to members (section 1.3).

30.3 What is not released

This release does not cover a claim that we ourselves broke these terms or the law, a claim based on our own gross negligence or intentional misconduct, or any claim that the law does not allow to be released in advance.

30.4 California residents

If you live in California, you give up the protection of California Civil Code section 1542 as it applies to this release. That law says a general release does not cover claims you did not know about when you gave it; by agreeing here, you let this release cover claims of the kind described in 30.2 even if you do not yet know of them. That section says: "A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party." If you live in another state with a similar law, you give up its protection for this release in the same way, as far as that law allows.

31 Governing law and where cases are heard

31.1 Ohio law

The laws of the State of Ohio govern these terms and any dispute that arises out of or relates to them or to the service, without regard to rules that would apply another state's law. Federal law applies where it governs.

31.2 Protections you keep

If you use the service as a consumer, choosing Ohio law does not take away any protection given to you by a law of the state where you live that cannot be waived by agreement.

31.3 Where cases are heard

Subject to section 32, a court case about these terms or the service must be brought in the state courts sitting in Licking County, Ohio, or in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. You and we each accept the jurisdiction of those courts and agree not to argue that they are an inconvenient place. There are three exceptions:

1. Small claims. Either of us may bring an individual claim in the small-claims court for the county where you live, or for Licking County, Ohio, if the claim is within that court's limits and stays there.
2. Urgent orders. Either of us may ask any court that has jurisdiction for an urgent order to protect a person's safety, the security of the service, or intellectual property.
3. Rights you cannot give up. If the law where you live gives a consumer a right to sue in their home courts that cannot be waived, you keep that right.

32 Resolving a legal claim against us

In this section a claim means a legal claim that you might bring against us, or that we might bring against you. Our documents keep three things apart that are all sometimes called a dispute. The dispute form (section 20) is for contesting or correcting something on the site. A chargeback is a dispute you raise with your bank about a payment (section 23.5). A claim is what this section is about.

32.1 Start by telling us

Most problems can be sorted out by writing to support@tillyard.org or using the dispute form (section 20). Please start there.

32.2 Formal notice

Before either of us starts a court case against the other, the one with the complaint must first send the other a written notice. This applies to you and to us equally.

• Your notice to us goes to legal@tillyard.org or by mail to Tillyard, Attention: Legal, 10602 York Rd SW, Etna, Ohio 43062.
• Our notice to you goes to the email address on your account and is also posted in your account, where you see it when you next sign in. If the email is returned to us, or you no longer have an account, the 60 days in section 32.3 start when you next sign in or, if we have a postal address for you, when a copy sent there would ordinarily arrive.

The notice must give the sender's name, the email address on the account if there is one, a description of what the claim is about, and what the sender wants done. Each notice is for one person. It cannot be sent on behalf of a group.

32.3 Sixty days to work it out

For 60 days after a notice is received, you and we will try in good faith to resolve the claim. We can do that in writing, by phone or by video, whichever you prefer. Either of us may have a lawyer take part.

So that nobody loses a claim by trying to settle it, any legal deadline for bringing the claim stops running on the day the notice is received and starts again 60 days later, or later if we both agree in writing to keep talking.

A court case may be started only after those 60 days, except for an urgent order under section 31.3.

32.4 If we cannot resolve it

If the claim is not resolved, either of us may bring it to a court as section 31.3 describes, including a small-claims court.

32.5 Individual claims only

To the fullest extent the law allows, you and we each agree to bring claims against the other only on our own behalf, and not as a plaintiff or a member of a class in any class action, collective action or representative proceeding. A court may award relief only to the person bringing the claim and only as far as needed to resolve that person's claim. If the law does not allow this waiver for a particular claim or a particular kind of relief, the waiver does not apply to that claim or that relief, and it still applies to everything else. For example, where the law of your state gives you a right to bring or join a class action that cannot be waived, as California's Consumers Legal Remedies Act does for claims under that Act, this section does not take it away. This section applies only to members (section 1.3).

What this means: a class action is one case brought for many people at once. As far as the law lets us agree it, you and we each bring our own case.

32.6 No jury trial

To the fullest extent the law allows, you and we each give up the right to a trial by jury in any case about these terms or the service. A judge decides the case instead. Some states do not allow this to be agreed in advance; in those states this section does not apply. This section applies only to members (section 1.3).

32.7 Two years to bring a claim

To the extent the law allows the period to be set by agreement, a claim by either of us that arises out of or relates to these terms or the service must be started within two years after the person bringing it first knew, or should have known, of the facts behind it. The pause in section 32.3 is added to those two years. Where the law does not allow a shorter period to be agreed, or gives a shorter period of its own, the period the law sets applies. This section applies only to members (section 1.3).

32.8 Costs

Each of us pays our own costs and lawyers' fees, unless a statute or a court order provides otherwise.

32.9 Regulators

Nothing in this section stops you from complaining to, or giving information to, a government agency or regulator.

32.10 No arbitration

These terms do not require arbitration, and neither of us can require the other to arbitrate. After a claim has arisen, you and we may agree in writing to mediate or arbitrate it if we both want to.

33 Changes to these terms, and agreeing again

33.1 We may change these terms

The service will change, and so will the law, and these terms will need to change with them. We may change these terms as this section describes.

33.2 Important changes

An important change is one that reduces your rights or adds to your obligations in a way that matters, such as a change to the licence in section 7, to how messages are logged or read, to the limits in sections 27 to 30, or to how disputes are resolved.

Before an important change takes effect we will give you at least 30 days' notice, by email to the address on your account and by a notice in the service, with a summary of what is changing. The 30 days are counted from the later of the two: the day the email was sent and the day the notice was posted in the service. An important change takes effect for you when you accept the new version. We may ask you to accept it the next time you sign in after the notice period, and until you do, we may limit your account to downloading your data, managing your permissions and closing the account.

If you do not agree to an important change, you can close your account before it takes effect. You will not be treated as having agreed merely because you were sent a notice.

33.3 Other changes

Changes that do not reduce your rights take effect when we post the new version with its date and version number. Examples are fixing wording, correcting an error, updating a name or an address, describing a new feature, or adding a protection for members.

33.4 Urgent changes

Where a change is needed quickly to comply with the law, to protect someone's safety or to deal with a security problem, we may publish it without waiting the 30 days in section 33.2. An urgent change that reduces your rights or adds to your obligations takes effect for you when you accept it. Until you do, we may switch off for you the feature it concerns. It never changes sections 27 to 32 for anything that happened before you accepted. An urgent change that only adds a protection, or that a law requires of us whatever these terms say, takes effect when published. We aim to tell you as soon as we reasonably can.

33.5 No change reaches backwards

A change does not apply to something that happened before it took effect, and it does not apply to a dispute for which a formal notice under section 32.2 had already been received.

33.6 Versions

Each version of these terms carries a version number and an effective date, and the changes are listed in section 39. You can ask us for an earlier version at support@tillyard.org.

33.7 How these terms can and cannot be changed

These terms can be changed only as this section describes, or by a written agreement signed by the owner. Nothing a staff member says in a message or a conversation changes them.

34 Ending the agreement, and what survives

34.1 You can leave whenever you like

You can close your account at any time from your account settings. At present there is a short period after you ask, currently 14 days, in which you can change your mind. After that the account is erased, except for the limited things the Privacy Notice says are kept, such as nameless markers for old Record links and records we must keep. Download a copy of your data first if you want one. If you left in good standing you may join again after the waiting period shown when you close.

Closing your account ends this agreement for the future. It does not undo anything already done.

34.2 We can end it too

We may suspend or remove an account under section 19. We may also end this agreement with any member, without the member having done anything wrong, if we close the service, stop offering it at the member's college or in their state, or decide we can no longer provide it to them. Where we reasonably can, we aim to give 30 days' notice in those cases.

34.3 What happens when it ends

When this agreement ends, your permission to use the service ends. The licence you gave us ends as section 7.4 describes. Your Record pages change as section 9.5 describes. Any case, dispute or legal matter that was open may be completed. Tips are not refunded because an account closed, though the 30-day refund in section 23.5 still applies.

34.4 Visitors

If you use the service without an account, this agreement lasts for as long as you use it and ends when you stop, subject to section 34.5.

34.5 Terms that continue

These parts continue after this agreement ends, for as long as they are relevant: sections 1.5 and 1.6 (meanings); 6 (what the service is); 7.3 to 7.8 (limits on the licence, what continues, your promises); 9.4 to 9.7 (what records mean and how they may be used); 10.2 (keeping confidential what you read); 13.3 to 13.5 (projects); 16.4 (outside confirmers); 17.5 and 17.7 to 17.9 (consent, recording and sharing); 19.7 to 19.12 (after a safety action); 21 (feedback); 23 (for tips already paid); 24 (our rights); 25 (removal requests); 27 to 32 (disclaimers, liability, costs, release, law and disputes); this section; and 35 to 38. Any other term that by its nature should continue also continues.

35 Export controls and sanctions

You may not use the service if you are in a country or territory that is under a United States embargo or comprehensive sanctions, or if you are on a United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties, and by using the service you confirm that neither is true of you. You may not use the service in any way that breaks United States export control or sanctions law.

36 Notices

36.1 From us to you

We may give you notice by email to the address on your account, by a notice inside the service, or, for general announcements, by posting on the site.

A notice that starts a clock under these terms (a formal notice under section 32.2, or notice of an important change under section 33.2) is given when we have both sent it to the address on your account and posted it in your account. It is treated as received on the day after both are done, unless the email is returned to us. If the email is returned, it is treated as received when you next sign in. We do not treat an email as received merely because we sent it: email here can be delayed or left unsent when the daily allowance is spent, and a college can close a graduate's mailbox.

Keep the address on your account working. If your college is about to close your address, change it or tell us before it does, because we may be unable to reach you afterwards.

Some emails are part of running your account and are sent whatever your email settings say: sign-in codes, security notices, legal notices, and decisions about things you submitted or that concern your account. Other email, such as reminders and the weekly letter, is sent only if you have switched it on, and each one has a one-click way to stop it.

36.2 From you to us

A notice to us is treated as received when we actually receive it.

36.3 Court papers

Court papers must be served on our statutory agent on record with the Ohio Secretary of State, or in another way the law allows. An email is not service of court papers unless we agree in writing to accept it.

36.4 Requests from authorities

Requests for information from law enforcement or other authorities go to legal@tillyard.org. The Law Enforcement and Legal Requests Policy and the Privacy Notice describe how we handle them.

37 How our documents fit together, and other general terms

37.1 Transferring this agreement

You may not transfer this agreement or your account to anyone. We may transfer this agreement, and the service, to an organization that takes over running Tillyard, for example in a sale, a merger or a reorganization. The new operator takes these terms as they are, including the limits on the licence in section 7.3. We aim to tell members before a transfer takes effect, and you can close your account if you do not want to continue. The Privacy Notice says what happens to personal information in a transfer.

37.2 If part of these terms cannot be enforced

If a court decides that part of these terms cannot be enforced, that part is to be enforced as far as the law allows and the rest stays in force. Section 32.5 says what happens if the individual-claims term cannot be enforced.

37.3 No waiver

If we do not enforce a term on one occasion, we have not given up the right to enforce it later. A waiver counts only if it is in writing.

37.4 The whole agreement

These terms, the documents in the first table of section 1.4 that apply to you, and the wording you accepted on screen when you gave a particular permission are the whole agreement between you and us about the service. The Words on the Screen: Consent Register records that wording in one place; if the register and the screen you actually saw ever differ, what you saw and accepted is what counts. They replace any earlier agreement or understanding about it.

Descriptions of the service in guides, help pages, emails, the landing page or anywhere else are there to explain and are not terms of this agreement. That sentence is about what is and is not a contract term. It is not a licence to describe the service wrongly: we mean those descriptions to be true, we correct them when they are not, and nothing in this section takes away a right the law gives you if a statement of ours misled you. Nothing in this section excludes liability for fraud.

37.5 Which document governs

This is the one place where the order among our documents is set. Other documents refer to it and do not restate it. If documents conflict, this is the order:

1. A law that cannot be set aside by agreement comes first. Where a statute sets a procedure or a time limit, such as the removal of an intimate image, the copyright notice timetable or a duty to report or preserve, the document that carries out that statute is read to do what the statute requires.
2. A separate written agreement signed by the owner, such as a sponsorship agreement or a larger-payment letter, governs its own subject between the people who signed it. It cannot give anyone something that the Sponsorship and Independence Policy or the Tips and Larger Payments Terms say money never gives.
3. The more specific document in section 1.4 governs its own subject. For example, the Author Agreement and Licence governs the licence for a paper, the official rules of a round govern that round, the Privacy Notice governs how we handle personal information, the Data Retention Schedule governs how long a record is kept, the Messaging and Monitoring Notice governs when staff may read a conversation, the Reporting, Enforcement and Appeals Policy governs how an appeal runs, the Tips and Larger Payments Terms govern refunds, and the Copyright Policy governs the copyright procedure. Where two specific documents touch the same point, the one whose main subject it is governs.
4. These terms govern everything else.

Four things sit outside that order:

• The core sections of these terms. Sections 6 (what the service is), 27 to 32 (disclaimers, liability, costs, release, governing law and disputes) and this section 37 prevail over every other document in section 1.4, unless that document names the section and says expressly that it overrides it.
• Meanings of words. Definitions governs what a defined word means in every document. It does not, by itself, add or remove a right or a duty.
• Guides and summaries. The documents in the second table of section 1.4, among them How to list this on a résumé, For employers: how to read a record and What Tillyard is, explain other documents and add no terms. "In short" lists, summary tables, examples and help pages explain too. Where an explanation differs from the document it explains, the document governs.
• The version you accepted. Where a document is accepted for one piece of work, such as the Author Agreement and Licence for a paper, the Standard Team Agreement for a project or the official rules for a round, the version accepted for that work governs that work (section 33 says how changes take effect).

The Standard Team Agreement is an agreement among teammates. It does not change anything between you and us.

Our internal documents are not part of this order. They are instructions to our own staff.

37.6 Nobody else gets rights

These terms give rights only to you and to us, except that our president, staff, contractors and successors may rely on sections 27 to 30.

37.7 Events outside our control

We are not in breach of these terms, and not liable, for a delay or failure caused by something outside our reasonable control, such as a failure of a hosting, network, email or payment provider, an attack on the service, a power or internet outage, a natural disaster, an illness or emergency affecting the person who runs the service, or an act of government.

37.8 Summaries, headings and examples

The "In short" list, the summary table, the contents list, the headings and the examples in these terms are there to help you read. They do not change the meaning of the numbered sections.

37.9 Language

These terms are written in English. If we provide a translation, it is for convenience, and the English version governs.

37.10 Rights these terms do not touch

Nothing in these terms stops you from giving an honest review of the service, from reporting a concern to a government agency or to law enforcement, from taking part in an investigation, or from using any legal right that cannot be waived by agreement.

37.11 Counting time

A "day" is a calendar day. Where a daily limit resets, it resets at 00:00 Coordinated Universal Time unless the service says otherwise.

37.12 Accessibility

If a disability makes any part of the service, or these terms, hard for you to use, write to accessibility@tillyard.org. We can provide these terms in another format, and we can help you complete a step, such as agreeing to these terms or sending a notice, in another way. The Accessibility Statement describes the standard we build to. It describes our aims and is not a warranty.

38 State-specific notices

38.1 California: notice under Civil Code section 1789.3

If you live in California, you are entitled to this information:

• Provider. Tillyard. Post: 10602 York Rd SW, Etna, Ohio 43062. Telephone: (614) 600-9020. Email: support@tillyard.org.
• Charges. There are no charges to members for the service. Tips are optional and described in section 23.
• Complaints. To resolve a complaint about the service, or to get more information about using it, write to us at the address or email above, or use the dispute form. You may also contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210.

38.2 California: releases

The waiver of Civil Code section 1542 in section 30.4 applies to California residents.

38.3 New Jersey

If you live in New Jersey, the following applies to you in place of any broader wording elsewhere in these terms:

• Sections 27 and 28 do not limit or exclude our liability for our own intentional, reckless or grossly negligent conduct, and do not limit remedies that New Jersey law does not allow to be waived, including under the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, the New Jersey Punitive Damages Act and the New Jersey Products Liability Act.
• Section 29 does not require you to cover any cost that arises from our own negligence or misconduct.
• Section 30 does not release any claim based on our own conduct.
• Sections 32.5, 32.6 and 32.7 apply only to the extent New Jersey law allows.

All other parts of these terms apply to you as written.

38.4 States where a term is not allowed

Where the law of the state you live in does not allow a particular term of these terms to apply to a consumer, that term applies to you only as far as that law allows, and every other term still applies.

38.5 Outside the United States

Membership is offered only to people who live in the United States when they join. If you use the service from elsewhere, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for following local law. Section 21 of the Privacy Notice says how we handle information from people outside the United States who use a public form, confirm something for a member or leave a tip.

39 Changes to this document

When these terms change, the new version is listed here with its date and a short description of what changed. Section 33 explains how changes take effect.

40 Contact

Tillyard is an Ohio nonprofit corporation.

• Mail: Tillyard, 10602 York Rd SW, Etna, Ohio 43062
• General questions and refunds: support@tillyard.org
• Legal notices: legal@tillyard.org
• Copyright notices: copyright@tillyard.org, as the Copyright Policy explains.
• Security: security@tillyard.org
• Accessibility: accessibility@tillyard.org
• Telephone: (614) 600-9020
• Website: tillyard.org

To dispute or correct something, use the dispute form linked from the page concerned. You do not need an account.

Questions about this document

support@tillyard.org

Legal notices

legal@tillyard.org

By post

10602 York Rd SW, Etna, Ohio 43062

For anything else, see where to send what.

Schedule 1. The commitments we make

Most of what our documents say about our own actions is worded as something we may do or aim to do (section 1.6). This schedule lists the statements that are firm. Each is a commitment to you, each is something we have to do or keep doing, and the section named beside it sets it out in full. If a commitment here and the section it points to ever differ, the wording that gives you more governs. A commitment that exists because a statute requires it applies to anyone the statute protects, member or not.

Part A. Things we commit to do

Part B. Things we commit not to do

Everything else in the documents

Everything else our documents say about how the service works is a description of the service on the date of the document (section 1.6): what is screened, what is stored and for how long, how sign-in works, what a page shows. We mean those descriptions to be true and we correct them when the service changes. They are not promises that the service will stay as it is, and sections 26 and 27 apply to them.

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