Terms of use

DR General Terms of Use
DR is a democratic site for users like you. There are some simple rules of conduct and contribution which we adhere to in order to ensure a fair play.

General Use Restrictions
Most of the content you’ll find on DR is user-generated, but everything else that is not user contributed belongs to us or to our partner contributors. This includes logos, graphics (site design) and images.

Password
If your password is lost, stolen or otherwise misplaced, please let us know because the responsibility of keeping your account safe and sanitized is ultimately yours.

Privacy Policy
DR will never, ever sell or share your info.

Third Party Content
We have partners and other suppliers who provide us with their content. You can use it, but again, only for personal use and with no changes, unless you get permission directly from that partner. DR also can’t take any responsibility for the verifiability or truthfulness of any claims, warranties or fitness for any particular purpose, whether stated outright or implied.

Links to Third Party Sites
DR does not endorse any links that lands up on its pages

Submitting, Commenting, Voting and Groups/Communities Submitting

To submit content, you must agree to the following:

• Do Not Submit SPAM.
• You will not post links to any site whose sole mission is to sell a good or service.
• You will not solicit or post any sexually explicit images (actual or simulated).
• You will not post anything that exploits children or minors or that depicts cruelty to animals.
• You will not post any copyrighted or trademarked materials without the express permission from the owner.
• You will not subject other DRers to junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of such solicitation.
• You will not attempt to overload our system or clog our “Recently Submitted” section with multiple submissions from one source in a short period of time.

Commenting

• Do not malign, abuse, defame or insult through this community
• NOT use offensive or derogatory language based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or ethnicity. If you have issues, get help, preferably somewhere else.
• NOT discuss or incite illegal activity of any sort.
• NOT place links to off-topic or irrelevant websites in comments.

If you have trespassed these rules, then DR will be forced to evict you.

Voting

You agree:

• That you will not conspire with others (or yourself) to create voting rings, fake accounts or use any other method to manipulate the rating or ranking of a submission.
• You will not use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access or manipulate DR, except for accessing RSS feeds or through accepted use of our API (coming soon).

Groups and Communities

In using Groups and Communities you agree to the following:

• Do not create groups solely for fulfilling the Search Engine’s objectioves
• Do not create duplicate groups.
• Do not create groups solely to sell specific products.
• Do not submit stories to groups irrelevant to the topic of the story.

Proprietary Rights
Any trademarks, copyrights or logos you see on the site are the property of their respective owners.

Copyright and Trademark Infringement
We respect the intellectual property rights of others and we ask our DRers to do the same. If you are a copyright holder and believe that your work has been borrowed/stolen, altered, illegally copied or misused in any other way, please let us know.

Limitation of Liability
Only you will be liable for any illegal activity while you are utilizing the resources of DR.

TRADEMARKS
DR , DR IT, and other DR graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts, and service names are registered trademarks.