Terms of the demonstration
These are the terms for the public demonstration at
https://bookpress.io/demo.html. It is a launcher
that starts a throwaway BookPress site for you at a random address under
trybookpress.dev. This page on bookpress.io is the
authoritative copy of the terms; the demo itself does not publish them, so
this is the version to rely on.
It is a demonstration, not a service
When you start the demo, we create a running instance of BookPress serving an ordinary WordPress site, so that the software can be examined by using it. The sandbox is yours for its short life and is not shared with other visitors: it has its own address and its own database. It is deleted 15 minutes after it is created, and everything in it is destroyed at that moment.
It is operated by Jonathan Hale, contactable at [email protected]. See the imprint.
Do not put anything real into it
There is no expectation of privacy and no expectation of retention. Do not enter personal data, real names or addresses, passwords you use anywhere else, payment details, or anything confidential. The sandbox runs on a public address and is not a secure place to keep anything; we make no promise about who can reach it while it is alive. Once it is deleted nobody can recover what was in it, us included. Treat everything you type as disposable.
The shop is not a shop
No order placed on the site will ever be fulfilled, and no payment is taken or processed. There is no inventory, no seller, no shipping and no payment provider. The only payment method offered is cash on delivery, which collects no card, bank or account details, because nothing is delivered and there is nothing to pay. Any name or address typed into a checkout form is deleted with the sandbox. Please do not type a real one.
Restrictions on what you may publish
Do not use the demonstration to publish unlawful content; to harass, threaten or defame anybody; to host malware, phishing pages or deceptive material; to publish anything that infringes somebody's copyright, trade mark or other right; to send unsolicited messages; to impersonate us or anybody else; to attack this or any other system; or to attempt to reach data or systems that are not part of the demonstration.
Security research on the software itself is welcome and the demo is there to be poked at. Please do not use a finding to reach beyond your own sandbox. How to report a finding →
How this is moderated
Art. 14 DSA asks that we say plainly what we do about content, so:
- Nothing is reviewed before it is published. There is no editorial process, no approval queue and no human or automated screening of what a visitor writes in a sandbox. What is published is published at the request of the person who wrote it and is not ours.
- Every sandbox is deleted automatically 15 minutes after it is created, whatever is in it. This is the primary control, and it is not a moderation decision about any particular item: it applies to the whole sandbox indiscriminately.
- Automated technical limits apply to everyone: rate limits on requests and on sign-in attempts, a challenge on the sign-in form, a fixed set of administrative screens refused at the web server for every account, and refusal of uploads whose content is not one of a small list of permitted image types. These are applied by machine, uniformly, and none of them looks at what a piece of content says.
- We act on notice. If we are told about unlawful content and we agree, we remove it and purge it from the content delivery network in front of the demonstration. Decisions on a notice are taken by a person, not by an automated system. The procedure is here.
- We may block access to the demonstration from a source that is abusing it, at any time, without notice.
- We remove, or we leave alone. We never edit. If we act on something, we delete it; we do not rewrite a visitor's words and keep the rewritten version. That is a firm rule, and the reason is that editing somebody's content and republishing it is how a host stops being a host and becomes the author of what it republished.
- We claim no rights in anything you publish here. Posting in a sandbox grants us no licence and transfers nothing. We do not want it; it is deleted within fifteen minutes.
- Because each sandbox is destroyed 15 minutes after it is created and no account outlives it, there is no suspension, no ban list and no account to restore.
One consequence of the sandbox being anonymous. Art. 17 DSA would normally have us send a statement of reasons to the person whose content we restricted. We cannot: we ask nobody to register, the sign-in we create for a sandbox is shown to you once and then kept nowhere, and we therefore hold no contact details for anyone who publishes here. Art. 17(2) applies that duty only "where the relevant electronic contact details are known to the provider", and here they never are. This paragraph is the explanation of why no such notice will reach you.
Content in a sandbox
What you create in your sandbox is not ours. It is stored at your request, which is what German and European law calls hosting, and it is gone fifteen minutes after the sandbox starts. The only content we put there is the fixed snapshot every sandbox is built from; everything else is yours.
Each sandbox is isolated, so you do not see another visitor's content and they do not see yours. We have not reviewed, and cannot review, what a visitor publishes in a sandbox. Saying so is a statement about what is possible, not a policy we have chosen: the demo accepts anonymous publication continuously and destroys each sandbox within the quarter hour, and Art. 8 DSA expressly imposes no general obligation on a host to monitor what it stores. By operating the demonstration we do not represent or imply that we endorse anything posted in a sandbox, or that we believe it to be accurate, useful or harmless.
Our own statements about BookPress are on bookpress.io, and our legal texts are the ones in this directory. If something on the demonstration is unlawful, tell us and we will act on it.
No warranty, and no service
The demonstration is provided as is and as available, with no warranty of any kind, express or implied, including without limitation any warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, availability, accuracy or non-infringement. It may be slow, wrong, broken, or switched off entirely at any moment and without notice. A sandbox may fail to start, or end before its fifteen minutes are up. Nothing on it is an offer, a contract or a promise of any service, and no support is owed for it. To the fullest extent permitted by law we are not liable for any loss arising from your use of it.
Nothing in that paragraph excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, in particular for injury to life, body or health, or for intent or gross negligence.
Logging
Requests to the demonstration are logged for security, abuse detection and debugging, and the log is archived off the box before a sandbox is deleted so that the deletion cannot destroy the record of an attack. Exactly what is recorded, and for how long, is in our privacy notice.
Changes
These terms are published from a version-controlled file and its history is the record of what changed and when.
Law
These terms, and any dispute arising from use of the demonstration, are governed by German law to the extent a choice of law is permitted. Nothing here limits any mandatory statutory right you have as a consumer, or the protection of the law of the country in which you are habitually resident where that law gives you more.