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Amend licence scope to account for different technical functionalities of fedi services. Clarify licensing position in respect of backups.

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@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ This means that:
You must do all of the following:
* comply with the Acceptable Use Policy
* comply with all laws, in whatever jurisdictions, which apply to your use of the Service
* comply with all laws, in whatever jurisdictions, which apply to you and your use of the Service
* not do anything which puts us in breach of any laws, in whatever jurisdictions, which apply to the Service
* only upload Content in respect of which you have the rights to grant us the licence set out below
* behave at all times in a polite and professional manner towards us and our staff (including our moderators), and respond promptly to any communications from them
@ -67,16 +67,32 @@ If you do not do these things, or if we are required by law to do so, we may do
## How we host, share, and remove your Content
### Ownership is unchanged
Nothing in these terms gives us ownership of your Content. Whoever owns the Content retains ownership.
When you upload Content to the Service, you automatically grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free licence solely to operate and maintain the Service. This includes:
### Your licence to us
* hosting your Content
* making your Content available to, and transmitting your Content to, other users and other servers (which, in each case, might store your Content on their own, or third party's computers), and any transformations and modifications necessary to do this.
When you upload Content to the Service, you automatically grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free licence solely to operate and maintain the Service (the "Licence"). The Licence includes:
* Hosting your Content.
* Automatically transforming and modifying your Content, and how we display your Content, by way of:
* Translating and localising your Content using automated translation tools.
* Sanitising and formatting you Content to make it available in different formats (e.g. JSON, XML) and via different interfaces (e.g. via the web, via one or more APIs for application access, via RSS).
* Shortening the length of, or partially hiding, displayed Content.
* Making your Content available to, and transmitting your Content to, other users and other servers (which, in each case, might store your Content on their own, or third party's computers), and any processing, transformations and modifications necessary to do this.
* When you upload Content to the Service, you are making it available via the Internet. Anyone, or any computer, might access your Content via RSS aggregators and readers, embed your Content in web pages and other media, or index and store your Content in search engines and databases. Please note that neither we, nor you, have control over these uses of your Content, and these services may not display your Content as you expect it.
* moderating Content in accordance with the Moderation Policy
* Moderating Content in accordance with the Moderation Policy.
* Backing up your Content, and restoring your Content from backups (including Content which you have deleted, as described below), to enable us to restore the Service in the event of a problem.
If you delete your Content, your licence to us, in respect of that Content, ends automatically. However, because this is a federated service, Content that you upload to the Service may - and probably will - be transferred to other people's servers. Deleting Content from the Service does not guarantee that it will be deleted from other servers or people's computers, as this is outside our (and your) control.
### Automatic licence termination on deletion
If you delete your Content, your Licence to us, in respect of us continuing to host, make available, and transmit that Content, ends automatically.
In respect of your Licence to us to create and restore backups, Content that you have deleted from the live Service may remain in our backups. If it does, your Licence to us in respect of that Content does not terminate automatically. If we restore the Service from a backup containing that Content, we will once again be hosting, making available, and transmitting that Content. To try to lessen the likelihood of this situation arising, we aim to restore from the most recent working backup, and we will try to inform you (including by way of a general announcement by means of the Service, rather than a specific communication to you) if we restore from a backup, so that you can check if that has restored any Content which you had deleted.
Be mindful that, because this is a federated service, Content that you upload to the Service may - and probably will - be transferred to other people's servers. Deleting Content from the Service does not guarantee that it will be deleted from other servers or people's computers, as this is outside our (and your) control.
* the Content will remain in our backups
## Dispute resolution