Terms of Use

1. Operator

Changemappers is currently an independent, early-stage community platform operated by Incze Gaspar, an individual based in Hungary. Changemappers is not presently a company, foundation, association, or other incorporated organization. The operator runs the service in good faith, but users should understand that the project does not have the legal, financial, security, support, or operational resources of a larger organization. For questions, contact [email protected].

2. Scope

These terms govern your use of https://changemappers.org/, related applications, community features, collaboration tools, and any other services provided as part of Changemappers.

3. The service

Changemappers is a digital community platform for mapping initiatives, sharing knowledge, coordinating collaboration, and supporting systemic change. It is experimental and resource-constrained. The service is provided as is and may evolve, pause, degrade, lose features, or change as the platform develops.

4. Accounts and responsibility

You are responsible for the information you provide, activity through your account, and keeping login credentials secure. Registration includes a matching activation profile because useful recommendations depend on accurate offers, needs, causes, roles, availability, and boundaries. Keep that information reasonably current and tell us promptly if you suspect unauthorized access or misuse.

5. Content submissions and commons license

You keep ownership of content you submit. By submitting content, you confirm that you have the rights and permissions needed to share it and that the submission does not violate another person’s privacy, confidentiality, copyright, trademark, publicity, moral, or other rights.

Public knowledge contributions are submitted under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Others may copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon public content, including commercially, if they follow the license terms.

Submit public commons content only if you are comfortable with broad reuse rights. Publish only information you do not consider sensitive and that you are prepared to have copied, stored, indexed, quoted, or reused by others.

For non-public submissions, private messages, drafts, account information, and operational data, you grant Changemappers a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, display, reproduce, moderate, back up, and process that content only as needed to operate, secure, moderate, support, and improve the service, subject to visibility settings and the Privacy Policy.

6. Acceptable use

Do not use Changemappers for illegal activity, harassment, hate, threats, spam, deceptive behavior, unauthorized data collection, malware, security testing without permission, or attempts to disrupt the service. Respect other users’ privacy, safety, and consent. Users are expected to uphold commons, connection, co-creation, inner development, regeneration, systems thinking, responsible scaling, openness, transparency, ethics, and practical impact.

7. Moderation

We may review, restrict, label, remove, or preserve content when needed to enforce these terms, comply with law, protect users, or maintain platform integrity. We may limit or suspend accounts that create risk or repeatedly violate community expectations.

8. Ending your account

You may stop using Changemappers or request account deletion at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you materially breach these terms, create security or safety risk, or use the service in a way that harms other users or the platform.

By keeping an account, you consent that Changemappers may treat accounts as inactive after 180 days without authenticated activity. We send inactivity warning emails 30, 15, and 3 days before that threshold. At 180 days, the profile is marked inactive and we send a final notice explaining that you may export your data for another 30 days. If no activity happens during that grace period, the account and personal data are erased 210 days after the last activity.

9. Security, availability, and liability

We make reasonable efforts to keep Changemappers useful, secure, and reliable, but no internet service can guarantee uninterrupted availability, error-free operation, permanent data preservation, or complete security. Use good judgement and publish only information you do not consider sensitive.

By using Changemappers, you give conscious and informed consent to these limitations. To the maximum extent permitted by Hungarian law and directly applicable European Union law, Changemappers and its operator are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, loss-of-profit, loss-of-data, security-incident, service-interruption, or user-generated-content-related damages.

10. Privacy

Your use of the service is also covered by the Privacy Policy, which explains what data we collect, how we use it, and what choices you have.

11. Privacy notices and rights

For data rights, deletion support, or privacy-related account controls, visit the Privacy Policy and account privacy settings, contact [email protected] for access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, portability, and complaint-related requests, or use the in-app Feedback button if email delivery is unavailable.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Hungary and directly applicable laws of the European Union. The agreed main court for disputes is the Budapest-Capital Regional Court (Fovarosi Torvenyszek) in Budapest, Hungary.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the platform changes. When changes are material, we will notify users by email, in-product notice, or a clear notice on the website. Continuing to use the service after an update means you accept the updated terms.