Translatious Terms of Use

Here at Team Translatious you will find not a group of deviously clever legal experts or shrewd businessmen trying to weasel time and money out of you, but rather a group of Computer Science students with an interest in creating a project that is both useful and fun to work with. It is not in our interests to make life difficult for you, the user, and we expect the same courtesy from you. Translatious is, in fact, all about the users, so your experiences with the site are highly dependent upon the conduct of you and other users.

With that in mind, the terms of use for using Translatious include pledges by both the Translatious Team and you, the user. By creating an account, you agree to abide by these pledges or face penalties ranging from a warning to expulsion from the site or even legal measures if the case is extreme enough to warrant them. Just because we are not a crack team of deviously clever legal experts does not mean that we do not take your obligations to us and (ours to you) seriously.

We (Translatious) agree to...

• "not be evil," to borrow Google's phrase. This includes:
  • keeping your personal information (including name, email address, and financial information ) safe from third parties,
  • keeping Translatious from being over-run by third party content that interferes with your site usage
  If for some reason in the future information from Translatious's database is used for academic or research purposes, the data will be used anonymously.


• mediate any user disputes in a fair and timely fashion. Because user information is not available to other users, all disputes must go through Translatious, and we will give due time and consideration to all of them.


• provide some quality checking on translations. Because the site is almost completely user-driven, there can be no absolute assurances that your translated text will be perfect; however, systems like Translatious have worked well in the past, and we currently employ the "two-translators-one-confirmer" system for quality checking.

You (the user) agree to...

• not use Translatious to transmit illegal or copyrighted material. We know that these are tricky legal seas to navigate, but if you have any doubts about your legal claim to the material you are considering, seek legal counsel before transmitting it. We at Translatious do not provide legal counseling.


• not try to "game" the system by using it in a way that is not intended. If you're trying to do something other than what the site explicitly states as its functionality, you probably shouldn't be.


• provide translations that are accurate to the best of your abilities. If you are unsure how to translate a particular block of text, it is better to skip that text rather than submit a faulty translation. Over the long run, poor translations will lead to a decline in the use of the site which means less projects will be posted and less opportunities for translating available in the future! It therefore is in your own interest to provide the high-quality service that we expect.

Lastly, these terms of use can be changed by a Translatious administrator without notice (although that probably won't happen all that often). It is in your interest to keep up-to-date on this page.

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