Terms of Service

Hi there! Below you’ll find Known’s Terms of Service. We at Known provide a web platform and website hosting service at WithKnown.com. We’d love for you to use our tools! We offer a basic service for free, and we offer paid plans for upgrades like more space and advanced features.

We designed our service so that you would have as much ownership over what goes on your personal webspace as possible. We want you to have control over your content and the ideas that you share online. However, please be responsible in what you publish on your site. The Terms of Service below are a legal contract between you and Known when you use Known’s site, our services, or products.

We’ve tried to be friendly, fair, and clear. If you have any suggestions, please email us at info@withknown.com.


Terms of Service

The following terms and conditions govern all use of the WithKnown.com website and all content, services and products available at or through the website, including, but not limited to, Known Sites, Known Support, and Known for Education (“Education”), (taken together, the “Website”). The Website is owned and operated by Known, Inc. (“Known”). The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, Known’s privacy policy located at withknown.com/privacy (“Privacy Policy”)) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by Known (collectively, the “Agreement”).

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by Known, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old.

  1. Your WithKnown.com Account and Site. If you create a webspace on the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and webspace, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the webspace. You must not describe or assign names or keywords to your webspace in a misleading or unlawful manner, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others, and Known may change or remove any description or keyword that it considers inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to cause Known liability. You must immediately notify Known of any unauthorized uses of your webspace, your account or any other breaches of security. Known will not be liable for any acts or omissions by you, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.
  2. Responsibility of Contributors. If you operate a webspace, comment on a webspace, post material to the Website, post links on the Website, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Website (any such material, “Content”), you are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes photographs, images, illustrations, animations, logos, tools, audio files, video files, written posts, replies, comments, information, data, text, computer software, scripts, executable files, graphics, and interactive features. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:
    • the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;
    • if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content;
    • you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms;
    • the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;
    • the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);
    • the Content is not pornographic, does not contain threats or incite violence, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
    • your webspace is not getting advertised via unwanted electronic messages such as spam links on newsgroups, email lists, other blogs and web sites, and similar unsolicited promotional methods;
    • your webspace is not presented in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company; and
    • you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by Known or otherwise.

    By submitting Content to Known for inclusion on your Website, you grant Known a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your webspace. This license allows Known to make publicly-posted content available to third parties selected by Known (through the Known API, for example) so that these third parties can analyze and distribute (but not publicly display) your content through their services.

    If you delete Content, Known will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.

    Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, Known has the right (though not the obligation) to, in Known’s sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in Known’s reasonable opinion, violates any Known policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Website to any individual or entity for any reason, in Known’s sole discretion.

    Known will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.

  3. Payment and Renewal.
    • General Terms. Optional paid services such as extra storage, or domain purchases are available on the Website (any such services, an “Upgrade”). By selecting an Upgrade you agree to pay Known the monthly or annual subscription fees indicated for that service. Payments will be charged on a pre-pay basis on the day you sign up for an Upgrade and will cover the use of that service for a monthly or annual subscription period as indicated. Upgrade fees are not refundable.
    • Automatic Renewal. Unless you notify Known before the end of the applicable subscription period that you want to cancel an Upgrade, your Upgrade subscription will automatically renew and you authorize us to collect the then-applicable annual or monthly subscription fee for such Upgrade (as well as any taxes) using any credit card or other payment mechanism we have on record for you. Upgrades can be canceled at any time in the Upgrades section of your site’s dashboard.
  4. Responsibility of Website Visitors. Known has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Website, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Website, Known does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. Known disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.
  5. Content Posted on Other Websites. We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which WithKnown.com links, and that link to WithKnown.com. Known does not have any control over those non-Known websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-Known website or webpage, Known does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. Known disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-Known websites and webpages.
  6. Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy. As Known asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by WithKnown.com violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify Known in accordance with Known’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) Policy located at withknown.com/dmca. Known will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. Known will terminate a visitor’s access to and use of the Website if, under appropriate circumstances, the visitor is determined to be a repeat infringer of the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of Known or others. In the case of such termination, Known will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to Known.
  7. Intellectual Property. This Agreement does not transfer from Known to you any Known or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with Known. Known, WithKnown.com, the Known logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with WithKnown.com, or the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of Known or Known’s licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Known or third-party trademarks.
  8. Attribution. Known reserves the right to display attribution links such as ‘Powered by Known,’ theme author, and font attribution in your webspace footer or toolbar.
  9. Partner Themes. By activating a theme from one of Known’s partners, you agree to that partner’s terms of service. You can opt out of their terms of service at any time by de-activating a partner theme.
  10. Domain Names. If you are registering a domain name, using or transferring a previously registered domain name, you acknowledge and agree that use of the domain name is also subject to the policies of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), including their Registration Rights and Responsibilities.
  11. Changes. We are constantly updating our services, and that means sometimes we have to change the legal terms under which our services are offered. If we make changes that are material, we will let you know by posting on our blog, or by sending you an email or other communication before the changes take effect. The notice will designate a reasonable period of time after which the new Terms will take effect. If you disagree with our changes, then you should stop using WithKnown.com within the designated notice period. Your continued use of WithKnown.com will be subject to the new Terms. However, any dispute that arose before the changes shall be governed by the Terms (including the binding individual arbitration clause) that were in place when the dispute arose.
  12. Termination. Known may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or your WithKnown.com account (if you have one), you may simply discontinue using the Website. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.
  13. Disclaimer of Warranties. The Website is provided “as is”. Known and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither Known nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.
  14. Limitation of Liability. In no event will Known, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement for substitute products or services; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to Known under this Agreement during the six (6) month period prior to the cause of action. Known shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.
  15. General Representation and Warranty. You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the Known Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.
  16. Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Known, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the Website, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.
  17. Translation. These Terms of Service were originally written in English (US). We may translate these Terms into other languages. In the event of a conflict between a translated version of these Terms of Service and the English version, the English version will control.
  18. Miscellaneous. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Known and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of Known, or by the posting by Known of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Website will be governed by the laws of the state of California, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of law provisions, and the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the state and federal courts located in San Francisco County, California. Except for claims for injunctive or equitable relief or claims regarding intellectual property rights (which may be brought in any competent court without the posting of a bond), any dispute arising under this Agreement shall be finally settled in accordance with the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules of the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service, Inc. (“JAMS”) by three arbitrators appointed in accordance with such Rules. The arbitration shall take place in San Francisco, California, in the English language and the arbitral decision may be enforced in any court. The prevailing party in any action or proceeding to enforce this Agreement shall be entitled to costs and attorneys’ fees. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties’ original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under this Agreement to any party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms and conditions; Known may assign its rights under this Agreement without condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.