Project Honeycomb · Terms of use
What you agree to when you enter
The archive holds people’s own accounts of their experiences, told in their own voices and often with their own faces. Entering the site means agreeing to treat those accounts the way their contributors were promised they would be treated. How a contributor’s story is handled is on its own page: how we handle your story and files.
In short
Watch, listen, read. Don’t copy, repost or scrape.Don’t contact or identify a contributor beyond what they chose to show. Keep your password or access code to yourself. What you find here is personal testimony, not verified fact, and it is offered as such.
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Who these terms are for
Anyone who enters the site with the site password (a visitor) or with a personal access code (a member). Members of the Honeycomb team who moderate the archive are bound by these terms too, and by the moderation guideline on top of them.
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What you may do
- Read, watch and listen to the stories shown to you at your level of access.
- Tell people the archive exists, and share the site address.
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What you may not do
- Redistribute a contributor’s recording, photo, transcript or name — no reposting, re-uploading, excerpting into a video, or sharing to a group — anywhere outside this site. A contributor can withdraw their story from here at any time; a copy you made somewhere else cannot be withdrawn, and that is the promise you would be breaking.
- Download, record your screen, scrape or crawl any part of the archive, or use any of it to train a machine-learning model. The site offers no download of any recording; please don’t work around that.
- Attempt to identify a contributor who chose to show less than their full name, or to contact a contributor through any means other than this site.
- Harass, ridicule or threaten a contributor, on this site or elsewhere, because of what they shared here.
- Share the site password or your access code, or try to reach records at a level of access you were not given.
- Submit anything to the archive that is not your own account to give, or that you do not have the right to share.
A member who breaks these terms has their access code revoked. Where the law gives a contributor a claim against someone who misused their likeness or their words, these terms are intended to support that claim.
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What the archive is, and is not
Every story here is one person’s account, in their words. Honeycomb does not verify, endorse or interpret it, and the fact that a story appears here says nothing about anyone named in it. The site is offered as it is; it may be unavailable at times, and content may be removed at a contributor’s request without notice.
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Copyright, and how to report a problem
Contributors keep the copyright in their own recordings and words; they have given Honeycomb a non-exclusive permission to keep and show them, which they can withdraw. The site’s own design, text and code belong to Honeycomb and its makers.
If you believe something in the archive infringes your copyright, email contact@projecthoneycomb.site with the subject Copyright and include: what the work is and that you own it; where on the site the material appears (a story title or submission ID); your name, address and a way to reach you; a statement, made in good faith, that the use is not authorized; a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate; and your physical or electronic signature. We act on complete notices promptly and tell the contributor what was removed and why. A contributor who believes the removal was a mistake can send a counter-notice to the same address.
If you believe a story defames you or wrongly identifies you, write to the same address with the subject Identification. A moderator reads every such message.
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Changes, and the law that applies
These terms may change; the date below changes with them, and continuing to use the site after a change means accepting it. They are governed by the laws of the State of Maryland, United States. Accessibility of the site is described on its own page.