Add sample terms for services subject to the UK's Online Safety Act

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+# Sample terms if the Service is subject to the UK's Online Safety Act 2023
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+These Online Safety Act terms supplement, and are subject to, the [terms for registered users of fedi.example.com].
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+## Prohibited Content
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+* You must not post any Content which is illegal under the laws in any part of the United Kingdom.
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+* You must not use the Service to facilitate or commit any offence under the laws in any part of the United Kingdom. This includes, in particular, terrorism content (as set out in Schedule 5, Online Safety Act 2023), child sexual exploitation and abuse content (as set out in Schedule 6, Online Safety Act 2023), and content that amounts to an offence specified in Schedule 7, Online Safety Act 2023.
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+* [You must not post any Content which [is / Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, may regard as] pornographic. This includes Content of such a nature that it is reasonable to assume that it was produced solely or principally for the purpose of sexual arousal.]
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+## Protecting users from illegal content
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+ We provide the Service free of charge, and on the basis that we may:
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+* take down, or restrict access to, anything that you generate, upload or share; and
+* suspend or ban you from using all or part of the service
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+if we think that this is reasonable to protect you, other users, the Service, or us. This applies, in particular, to prohibited Content.
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+If we are alerted by a person to the presence of any illegal Content (which is Content which reasonably consider is, or could be, illegal), or we become aware of it in any other way, we will swiftly take down that Content.
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+To minimise the length of time for which any illegal Content within the scope of the Online Safety Act 2023 is present:
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+* in respect of terrorism content, we will ...
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+* in respect of child sexual exploitation or abuse content, we will ...
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+* in respect of content that amounts to an offence specified in Schedule 7, Online Safety Act 2023, we will ...
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+ ## Proactive technology (Include if you use any proactive technology. These are, obviously, just examples!)
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+ We use the following kinds of technology to help us try to keep you safer when using the Service:
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+ * Content identification technology: when you upload graphical Content to the service, we use a tool which tries to determine if that image is an illegal image. It does this by comparing some of the properties of the image with properties of known illegal images.
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+ * User profiling technology: we try to estimate your age based on the Content that you post to the Service. We do this by uploading your posts to a third party service, EstimateTheirAge.example.com, which [how does it work].
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+* Behaviour identification technology: we monitor how you interact with the Service, including your Content, to attempt to assess if you might be involved in, or be the victim of, illegal activity. For instance, we look at the people with whom you interact, and who interacts with you, and the Content that you, and other people, post to the Service.
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+## Complaints
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+Here is our complaints policy and process document, which governs our handling and resolution of complaints. [Link to the page(s) with the requisite complaints policies and processes.]
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+## Your right to bring a claim
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+The Online Safety Act 2023 says that you have a right to bring a claim for breach of contract if:
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+* anything that you generate, upload or share is taken down, or access to it is restricted, in breach of the terms of service, or
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+* you are suspended or banned from using the service in breach of the terms of service.
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+This does not apply to content which identifies you as a user (e.g. a user name or profile picture).
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+Please see our contractual limitations of liability.
+
+# Sample addition terms if your service is likely to be accessed by children in the UK
+
+## Protecting children
+
+We protect all children from the kinds of content listed below by:
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+* prohibiting that type of content from our service; and
+* swiftly taking down that content, if we are alerted by a person to its presence, or we become aware of it in any other way.
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+[If you use different measures to protect against different types of content, split these out separately.]
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+The kinds of content are:
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+* Pornographic content: we prohibit pornographic content.
+* Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for suicide.
+* Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for an act of deliberate self-injury
+* Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for an eating disorder or behaviours associated with an eating disorder
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+We protect [all children / children below the age of [x]] from the kinds of content listed below by:
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+* prohibiting that type of content from our service; and
+* swiftly taking down that content, if we are alerted by a person to its presence, or we become aware of it in any other way.
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+[If you use different measures to protect against different types of content, split these out separately.]
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+The kinds of content are:
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+* Content which is abusive and which targets any of the following characteristics:
+  * race
+  * religion
+  * sex
+  * sexual orientation
+  * disability
+  * gender reassignment
+* Content which incites hatred against people:
+  * of a particular race, religion, sex or sexual orientation
+  * who have a disability
+  * who have the characteristic of gender reassignment
+* Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for an act of serious violence against a person
+* Bullying content
+* Content which
+  * depicts real or realistic serious violence against a person
+  * depicts the real or realistic serious injury of a person in graphic detail
+* Content which:
+  * depicts real or realistic serious violence against an animal
+  * depicts the real or realistic serious injury of an animal in graphic detail
+  * realistically depicts serious violence against a fictional creature or the serious injury of a fictional creature in graphic detail
+* Content which encourages, promotes or provides instructions for a challenge or stunt highly likely to result in serious injury to the person who does it or to someone else
+* Content which encourages a person to ingest, inject, inhale or in any other way self-administer:
+  * a physically harmful substance
+  * a substance in such a quantity as to be physically harmful
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+We protect [all children / children below the age of [x]] from other content, of a kind which presents a material risk of significant harm to an appreciable number of children in the United Kingdom, by:
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+* prohibiting that type of content from our service; and
+* swiftly taking down that content, if we are alerted by a person to its presence, or we become aware of it in any other way.
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+Preventing access by children (If you take or use a measure designed to prevent access to the whole of the service or a part of the service by children under a certain age)
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+We use the following measures to prevent access by [all children / children under [x age]] [to [x] part of the service]:
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+* [insert the measures that you use]
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