Legal mumbo jumbo for your reading pleasure!

By using the WOVOX website and its services, you agree to the following provisions (which you'll love checking out of course):

1. Adding Stuff

1.1 Be Good

You're solely responsible for any content (pictures, videos, reviews, comments) and other material that you add to and display on the WOVOX website. You'll provide content you believe to be true, and you won't purposely provide any false or misleading information. We know this seems a bit iffy (after all, how can your experience be subject to 'truth'?), so take a look at provision 4 (The WOVOX Code), and read our user guidelines for more info.

1.2. Content Licensing

Any content you add to the WOVOX website will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. Sounds complicated, but it simply means this: we (other users & the WOVOX Team) are free to share and remix your stuff, even for commercial purposes, provided that: We credit you for it ('Attribution'), unless you add content anonymously (in which case credit goes to WOVOX). We offer it to the next person under the same conditions ('Share Alike'). Check CreativeCommons.org to get the full lowdown.

Why this license?
With only two conditions, it helps us stay true to what we stand for. It celebrates authenticity ('give credits to the person who created it') and it helps ensure that everything's passed on in the same spirit ('share under the same conditions').

But we also need to rest, eat, and sleep sometimes (i.e.: we also need a business model).

This license helps us to stay afloat as a company, while making clear to you what we (other users & the WOVOX Team) can and can't do with your stuff.
N.B.: we add this license to anything you upload to WOVOX.com. Embedded items, like videos for instance, do not fall under this license. Check our page on Creative Commons for more info. And on a side note: if you have a batch of extremely valuable content, and you want to share it on our website but under a different license: contact us!

2. Taking and sharing stuff

Unless we state otherwise, all content on the WOVOX website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license (see provision 1.2).

We encourage you to take it, show it off elsewhere, and to spread the love, provided that you:

  • Stick to the license conditions (see 1.2).
  • Provide a link back to the specific WOVOX page where you got the content from.

For any content licensed under different terms than those described under 1.2., stick to the terms as specified under those different terms.

3. Registering with WOVOX & managing your account

Be welcome, register with us, and enjoy the life-changing benefits of your personal account!
But (and this is no 'please'):

  • Don't give out false personal information, and don't create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission from that person (also see provision 4.2).
  • Don't share your login details, let other people access your account, or do anything else that puts your account's security at risk.
  • Don't transfer your account to anyone without getting our expressly stated permission first.

4. The WOVOX Code (of conduct)

Some of this comes down to plain common sense (check our user guidelines). But other stuff's a bit more complicated — and important. So please pay attention.

4.1. General conduct

Any content you add to the WOVOX website, as well as comments you add to other people's content and comments, relates to companies and their workplaces.
We encourage you to speak your mind, but:

  • Don't add content, write about, or comment about stuff you're not allowed to disclose because of a contractual or fiduciary relationship. Think of insider information, proprietary information, or confidential information as part of employment relationships or nondisclosure agreements.
  • The same goes for any content or communication that infringes upon patents, trademarks, and trade secrets.

4.2. Protect other people's & companies' rights

Again, we want you to voice your opinion — it's part of why WOVOX exists.
But:

  • Don't add content or communicate anything that falls under, but isn't limited to, this annoyingly long list: pornography, obscenities, unfounded statements, insults, prejudice, racism, hatred, or swear words.
  • Don't direct generally offensive statements and communication towards one or more users of the WOVOX platform.
  • Don't post content or take any action on the WOVOX platform that violates the rights, privacy or publicity of any person or party. Think of identification documents or sensitive financial information, but also stalking, harassment, or personal information about another person such as their address, email, and phone number.
  • Don't impersonate another person (See the Wikipedia article on Identity Theft). It's unfair to that person, if only because no one does a better job at being that person than that person.
  • Don't pretend to be connected to a company or business when you're not. And don't falsely add content or communicate anything as a representative, co-worker, employee, team member, etc.

4.3. Advertising uncalled for

We don't take kindly to, and so we don't allow, people — or bots — who upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail", "spam", "chain letters", "pyramid schemes", or any other form of fancy-worded solicitation.
This includes, but isn't limited to:

  • Submitting stories or comments linking back to affiliate programs, multi-level marketing schemes, or sites and blogs with advertising purposes.
  • Using WOVOX to connect to people who don't know you and to send them any of that stuff.

4.4. Intellectual Property

You'll only add content to this website for which you own the intellectual property rights to do so. These rights include, but are not limited to, privacy and publication rights.
For any content subject to rights that belong to a third party — or third parties, you can:

  • Not add it. Or, better yet…
  • Make sure you have an official license, or official permission to add that content to the WOVOX website under the terms as stated under 1.2.

And on a side note: if you have a batch of extremely valuable content, and you want to share it on our website but under a different license: contact us!

5. Protect our rights (we only reserve some)

Except where we state otherwise, all content on the WOVOX website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. We encourage you to share and remix it without our permission, as long as you stick to the conditions of the license. Check our page on Creative Commons for more info. The word "WOVOX", whether integrated into a larger whole or standing alone, is a registered trademark. We retain full, unrestrained, uninhibited, and sole discretion to revoke this trademark license for any reason whatsoever (or for no specified reason at all, whahahaa!).

6. Information you may find on the WOVOX website

On the WOVOX website, users can provide and (publicly) display information about companies, workplaces, and themselves.

6.1. Disclaimer (i.e.: not our responsibility)

We reserve the right to monitor activity and content on the WOVOX website, but we're not obliged to do so. One of our aims is to have a very, very, very energetic and fun platform, so we can't actively monitor all of the content on the website (we need to rest, eat, and sleep sometimes as well). We do our best to guide WOVOX users towards a path of good behaviour, but they may, on occasion, choose to be very, very naughty.

So you may find yourself exposed to stuff that you find offensive or objectionable.

  • You understand that all content publicly posted on the WOVOX website or privately transmitted through the WOVOX service is the sole responsibility of the users who added it.
  • We, the WOVOX Company, can't guarantee and can't be held accountable for the authenticity, accuracy, integrity or quality of any content that users provide — about themselves, about their experiences or opinions about companies, workplaces, and their people, or about the relationships they describe having with these companies. This includes links to third-party sites, products, and services.

6.2. Help us keep the site in good nick

If you come across content that violates something under provision 4, please flag it as inappropriate, be heard, and help us keep the site in good nick!

6.3. Notify us

If you believe that content posted on the WOVOX website violates one or more of your rights, be it as an individual user or as a representative of a workplace listed on our platform, we'll provide you with the tools to help you protect those rights. To learn more, visit the Report a violation section on our Support site. Note that we'll always try and work with the user in question to remove the violations. If we've removed your content for violating someone else's rights, and you believe we removed it by mistake, we'll provide you with an opportunity to appeal. To learn more, visit the same section on our Support site.

6.4. If you're angry with us

We'll always try to solve any dispute you may have with us, and we'll do this with love (see provision 8). We only ask that you do the same with us.

6.5. If you violate our Legal Stuff

We reserve the right to remove any content you post on the WOVOX website if we believe it violates our Legal Stuff. We may also, with or without cause, immediately terminate your WOVOX account and access to our service without prior notice (we prefer not to obviously, so we'll do everything to work with you on a solution first). If you violate our Legal Stuff, you will be liable for any damages and/or costs which we, the WOVOX team, incur as a result. Check our Privacy statement to see how we handle your private parts.

7. Changes to the terms & conditions in this Legal stuff

We're constantly improving the WOVOX website and services. And we always do this in tune with our mission and vision. We’ll be updating this Legal stuff when it needs tweaking, but we’ll notify you in good time before we do this. You’ll always find the most recent version on this website.

8. General WOVOX legal thingies

This website and its services are offered to you under Dutch national law exclusively. We favour alternative dispute resolutions over those settled in a court of law in Amsterdam, and we'll accept all honest invitations to negotiate and/or mediate. Only in second instance, when we can't figure it out, will a dispute be brought before the competent court of law in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. WOVOX is an official trading name of MARS media BV, a Dutch workplace.

9. And (finally!), about our legal stuff

We only reserve some rights for our legal stuff text. It's licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license (see provision 1.2 for more information). Feel free to use them for your own good; just stick to the license conditions!