Content Submission & Ownership Rules

Introduction

This document outlines the rules governing content ownership, licensing, and submission when you write reviews on Your.Reviews. Understanding these rules helps protect both your rights and the rights of others.

Your Content Ownership

You retain ownership of the content you create and submit to Your.Reviews, including:

• Review text and written content
• Photos and images you upload
• Ratings and other feedback you provide

License to Your.Reviews

By submitting content to Your.Reviews, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and irrevocable license to:

• Use, display, reproduce, and distribute your content on our platform
• Modify your content (for formatting, translation, or technical purposes)
• Create derivative works (such as summaries or excerpts)
• Promote and market your content as part of our platform
• Archive and preserve your content

What This License Means

This license allows us to:

• Display your reviews on our website and mobile applications
• Share your reviews with businesses you review
• Use your reviews in marketing materials (with attribution)
• Include your reviews in search results and recommendations
• Preserve your reviews even if you delete your account (in anonymized form)

What You Can Still Do

You retain the right to:

• Use your own content elsewhere (on other platforms, in your own publications, etc.)
• Edit or delete your reviews at any time
• Request removal of your content (subject to legal and business requirements)
• Export your review data

Content Requirements

Original Content

You must only submit content that you created or have the right to submit. This means:

• You wrote the review text yourself
• You took the photos yourself or have permission to use them
• You have not copied content from other sources without permission
• You have not used AI-generated content to write reviews (unless disclosed)

Prohibited Content

You may not submit content that:

• Infringes on intellectual property rights of others
• Contains copyrighted material without permission
• Violates privacy rights of others
• Contains personal information about others without consent
• Is defamatory, obscene, or illegal
• Violates our Content Moderation Policy

Photos and Images

Ownership and Rights

When you upload photos or images:

• You must own the photos or have permission to use them
• You grant us the same license as for written content
• Photos must be relevant to your review
• Photos must not contain personal information about others without consent

Photo Guidelines

• Use original photos when possible
• Ensure photos are clear and relevant
• Do not include photos of other customers without their consent
• Do not include photos that violate privacy or safety

Content Moderation and Removal

We reserve the right to:

• Moderate all content for compliance with our policies
• Remove content that violates our terms or policies
• Edit content for formatting or clarity (while preserving your meaning)
• Refuse to publish content that doesn't meet our standards

Deleting Your Content

You can delete your reviews at any time through your account dashboard. When you delete a review:

• The review will be removed from public view
• We may retain anonymized data for legal and business purposes
• Business responses to your review may remain visible
• Historical data may be preserved for analytics (in anonymized form)

Business Use of Your Content

Businesses may:

• View and respond to your reviews
• Use your reviews (with attribution) in their own marketing materials
• Share your reviews on their websites or social media

Businesses may not:

• Modify your review content
• Use your content in a misleading way
• Remove or hide your reviews from our platform

Intellectual Property Claims

If you believe your content has been used in a way that violates your intellectual property rights, please contact us at support [at] your.reviews. We take intellectual property rights seriously and will investigate all claims.

Third-Party Content

If your review includes content from third parties (such as quotes, images, or other material), you are responsible for ensuring you have the right to use that content. We are not responsible for any copyright or intellectual property violations in user-submitted content.

Changes to These Rules

We may update these rules from time to time. We will notify users of material changes by posting the updated rules on this page. Your continued use of our platform after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the modified rules.

Questions

If you have questions about content ownership, licensing, or submission, please contact us at support [at] your.reviews.