Rosetta Terms of Service

Last Updated: June 16, 2020

The Rosetta Community is a service by Coinbase, Inc. (“Company” or “we” or “us” or “our”) that provides developer resources and a community to discuss important considerations around designing and implementing the Rosetta APIs. We have developed these Terms of Service (these “Terms”) to describe the terms that govern your use of our resources, developer documents, and internet forum located at rosetta-api.org (the “Rosetta Community Site”) (collectively, the “Services”).

The Company may offer other products and services, under different terms. These Terms apply only to use of the Rosetta Community Site.

Agreement to Terms

Please refer to our Privacy Policy for information on how we collect, use and disclose information from our customers. You acknowledge and agree that your use of the Services is subject to our Privacy Policy.

Changes to Terms or Services

We may modify the Terms at any time, in our sole discretion. If we do so, we’ll let you know either by posting the modified Terms on the Site, by providing you a notice in a manner we deem reasonable including notifications within the product’s dashboard, and through other communications. It’s important that you review the Terms whenever we modify them because if you continue to use the Services after we have modified the Terms, you are indicating to us that you agree to be bound by the modified Terms. If you don’t agree to be bound by the modified Terms, you must stop using the Services. We may change or discontinue all or any part of the Services, at any time and without notice, at our sole discretion.

ARBITRATION NOTICE : IF YOU ARE A USER LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES OR CANADA YOU AGREE THAT DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND COMPANY WILL BE RESOLVED BY BINDING, INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND YOU ARE WAIVING YOUR RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS ACTION OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.

Who May Use The Services

Eligibility

Your permission to use the Services is subject to the following conditions:

  1. You must be at least thirteen years old. Additionally, if you are in the European Economic Area, you must be over the age required by the laws of your country to create an account or otherwise use the Services.
  2. You may no longer use the Services if the Company contacts you directly to say that you may not.
  3. You must use the Services in accordance with Acceptable Use and Content Standards found herein.

Registration and Your Information

If you want to use the Services you’ll have to create an account (“Account”) on the Rosetta Community Site. To open an account, you must provide a valid email address, create a secure password and access to a two-factor authenticator app. You agree to keep your Account information up-to-date.

You agree that you won’t disclose your Account credentials to anyone and you’ll notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your Account. You’re responsible for all activities that occur under your Account, whether or not you know about them. You may close your account at any time by emailing rosetta@coinbase.com.

The Company may restrict, suspend, or close your account on the Rosetta Community Site according to its policy for handling copyright-related takedown requests, or if the Company reasonably believes that you’ve broken any rule in these Terms. Please see Acceptable Use and Company’s Enforcement Rights Section for more information.

Feedback

The Company welcomes your feedback and suggestions for improvements to the Services (“Feedback”). See the Contact section below for ways to get in touch with us.

You grant to us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, fully-paid, royalty-free, sublicensable and transferable license under any and all intellectual property rights that you own or control to use, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon and otherwise exploit the Feedback for any purpose.

Content and Content Rights

For purposes of these Terms: (i) “Content” means text, graphics, images, music, software, audio, video, works of authorship of any kind, and information or other materials that are posted, generated, provided or otherwise made available through the Services; and (ii) “User Content” means any Content that Account holders (including you) provide to be made available through the Services. Content includes without limitation User Content.

Content Ownership, Responsibility and Removal

We do not claim any ownership rights in any User Content and nothing in these Terms will be deemed to restrict any rights that you may have to use and exploit your User Content. We take no responsibility for and we do not expressly or implicitly endorse your User Content. You agree that you own or have all rights, title and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in any User Content you provide to us.

Subject to the foregoing, Company and its licensors exclusively own all right, title and interest in and to the Services and Content, including all associated intellectual property rights. You acknowledge that the Services and Content are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of the United States and foreign countries. You agree not to remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying the Services or Content.

Rights in User Content Granted by You

In order to operate and provide our Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicensable, and transferable license to use, copy, distribute, create derivative works of, display, and perform the User Content that you upload, submit, store, send, or receive on or through our Services. The rights you grant in this license are for the purpose of operating and providing our Services. By submitting User Content to the Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, power, and authority necessary to grant the rights to User Content contained within these Terms. Additional information about your privacy and how we use User Content is available in the Privacy Policy.

You can remove your User Content by specifically deleting it. However, in certain instances, some of your User Content may not be completely removed and copies of your User Content may continue to exist on the Services through Creative Commons licenses or other means. Such licenses may give others, or the Company itself, the right to share your content through the Rosetta Community Site again. We are not responsible or liable for the removal or deletion of (or the failure to remove or delete) any of your User Content.

Others who receive Content you submit to the Rosetta Community Site may violate the Terms on which you license your Content. You agree that the Company will not be liable to you for those violations or their consequences.

Rights in Content Granted by Company

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to download, view, copy, display and print the Content solely in connection with your permitted use of the Services.

Content Standards

You may not submit Content to the Rosetta Community Site that:

  1. Is illegal, offensive, or otherwise harmful to others, or instigates or encourages conduct that would be illegal, or otherwise inappropriate, including promoting violent crimes. This includes content that is harassing, threatening, intimidating, hateful or abusive.
  2. Violates the law, infringes anyone’s intellectual property rights, violates anyone’s privacy, or breaches agreements you have with others.
  3. Provides financial advice without authorization.
  4. Is obscene, sexually explicit, or containing nudity.
  5. Is exploitative of minors.
  6. Is violent or graphic.
  7. Contains malicious computer code, such as computer viruses or spyware.
  8. Is a mere placeholder, to hold a particular address, user name, or other unique identifier.
  9. Involves defamatory language or publishing falsehoods, misrepresentations, or misleading statements, including impersonating someone;
  10. Discloses information that you don’t have the right to disclose, like others’ confidential or personal information.

Acceptable Use and Company’s Enforcement Rights

You agree not to use the Services in ways that:

  1. Create or submit Content that violates the Content Standards Section of this Agreement, or attempt to circumvent any content-filtering techniques we use;
  2. Falsely imply that you’re affiliated with or endorsed by the Company;
  3. Hyperlink to images or other non-hypertext content on the Rosetta Community Site on other webpages;
  4. Remove any marks showing proprietary ownership from materials you download from the Rosetta Community Site;
  5. Intentionally negate any user’s actions to delete or edit their Content on the Services;
  6. Involve sending illegal or impermissible communications such as bulk messaging, auto-messaging, auto-dialing, and the like;
  7. Avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, impair, descramble or otherwise circumvent any technological measure implemented by us or any of our service providers or any other third party (including another user) to protect the Services or Content;
  8. Disguise your location through IP proxying or other methods;
  9. Interfere with, or attempt to interfere with, the access of any user, host or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, or mail-bombing the Services;
  10. Violate any applicable law or regulation; or
  11. Encourage or enable any other individual to do any of the foregoing.

The Company may investigate and prosecute violations of these Terms to the fullest legal extent. The Company may notify and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting violations of the law and these Terms.

Although we have no obligation to screen, edit, or monitor User Content, the Company reserves the right, at our discretion, to change, redact, and delete Content on the Rosetta Community Site at any time and for any reason, including for a violation of these Terms, or if you otherwise create liability for Company. In appropriate circumstances, we may terminate the Account of users who repeatedly violate our Terms including, but not limited to, repeat infringers of the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe someone has submitted content to the Rosetta Community Site in violation of these Terms, or that your Content may have been wrongly removed, please contact us immediately.

Termination

Either you or the Company may end the agreement written out in these Terms at any time.

When our agreement ends, your permission to use the Services also ends.

The following provisions survive the end of our agreement: Your Content, Feedback, Indemnity, Warranty Disclaimers, Limitation of Liability, and General Terms.

Warranty Disclaimers

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, COMPANY SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND/OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. COMPANY AND ITS THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS DOES NOT MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES THAT ACCESS TO THE SITE, ANY PART OF THE SERVICES, OR ANY OF THE MATERIALS CONTAINED THEREIN, WILL BE CONTINUOUS, UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, OR ERROR-FREE. THE ROSETTA COMMUNITY SITE MAY HYPERLINK TO AND INTEGRATE FORUMS AND SERVICES RUN BY OTHERS, OR CONTENT THEY MAY PROVIDE. USE OF SERVICE RUN BY OTHERS MAY BE GOVERNED BY OTHER TERMS BETWEEN YOU AND THE PARTY RUNNING SUCH SERVICES.

Disclaimer of Guarantee or Endorsement

You acknowledge that Company makes no promises or guarantee that the use of the tools and/or guidance found on the Rosetta Community Site will result in an asset being listed on the Coinbase exchange. Assets will be evaluated for listing according to Coinbase’s Listing Policy.

Company does not endorse, promote, or specify the listing or integration requirements for any third party projects, exchanges, or cryptocurrencies mentioned on the Rosetta Community Site. Any descriptions of functionality and services provided are for information only. Company is not responsible for any loss of funds or other damages caused as a result of using the projects described on the Rosetta Community Site.

Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Company and its officers, directors, employees, third party service providers, and agents, from and against any claims, disputes, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, and costs and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees arising out of or in any way connected with (i) your access to or use of the Services or Content, (ii) your User Content, (iii) your violation of applicable laws or regulations, or (iv) your violation of these Terms. You agree to allow the Company to control investigation, defense, and settlement of legal claims for which you would have to indemnify the Company, and to cooperate with those efforts.

Limitation of Liability

TO THE EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY LAW, COMPANY SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY TYPE, WHETHER DIRECT OR INDIRECT, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THOSE ARISING FROM CONTENT MADE AVAILABLE ON THE SERVICES THAT IS ALLEGED TO BE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE, OR ILLEGAL. COMPANY SHALL NOT BE LIABLE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, INTANGIBLE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH AUTHORIZED OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF COMPANY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF OR KNEW OR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. COMPANY SHALL NOT BE LIABLE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR DEVICE OR COMPUTER SYSTEM, OR LOSS OF DATA RESULTING THEREFROM.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR PERSONAL INJURY, OR OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THIS LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN NO EVENT SHALL COMPANY’S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES (OTHER THAN AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW IN CASES INVOLVING PERSONAL INJURY) EXCEED THE AMOUNT OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00).

Dispute Resolution

Governing Law

Any action arising from or related to these Terms will be governed by the laws of California without regard to its conflict of laws provisions.

Forum and Venue

If you are a user located in the United States or Canada, the “Special Arbitration Provision for United States or Canada Users” section below applies to you.

If you are not subject to the “Special Arbitration Provision for United States or Canada Users” section below, you agree that you will resolve any claim you have with us relating to, arising out of, or in any way in connection with our Terms, us, or our Services (each, a “Dispute,” and together, “Disputes”) exclusively in the courts of San Francisco and you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating all such Disputes.

Special Arbitration Provision for United States or Canada Users

If you are a user located in the United States or Canada, you and Company agree that any Dispute shall be finally settled in binding arbitration, on an individual basis, in accordance with the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation, Inc.’s rules for arbitration of consumer-related disputes (accessible at https://www.jamsadr.com/rules-comprehensive-arbitration/) and you and Company hereby expressly waive trial by jury and right to participate in a class action lawsuit or class-wide arbitration, except that each party retains the right: (i) to bring an individual action in small claims court and (ii) to seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation or violation of a party’s copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents or other intellectual property rights (the action described in the foregoing clause (ii), an “IP Protection Action”). The exclusive jurisdiction of an IP Protection Action shall be the courts of San Francisco in California and you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating IP Protection Actions.

The arbitration will be conducted by a single, neutral arbitrator and shall take place in the county in which you reside, or another mutually agreeable location, in the English language. The arbitrator may award any relief that a court of competent jurisdiction could award, including attorneys’ fees when authorized by law, and the arbitral decision may be enforced in any court. At your request, hearings may be conducted in person or by telephone and the arbitrator may provide for submitting and determining motions on briefs, without oral hearings. The prevailing party in any action or proceeding to enforce this agreement shall be entitled to costs and attorneys’ fees.

If the arbitrator(s) or arbitration administrator would impose filing fees or other administrative costs on you, we will reimburse you, upon request, to the extent such fees or costs would exceed those that you would otherwise have to pay if you were proceeding instead in a court. We will also pay additional fees or costs if required to do so by the arbitration administrator’s rules or applicable law. Apart from the foregoing, each Party will be responsible for any other fees or costs, such as attorney fees that the Party may incur. If a court decides that any provision of this Special Arbitration Provision is invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be severed and the other parts of this Special Arbitration Provision shall still apply. In any case, the remainder of this Terms of Service, will continue to apply.

General Terms

These Terms constitute the entire and exclusive understanding and agreement between Company and you regarding the Services and Content, and these Terms supersede and replace any and all prior oral or written understandings or agreements between Company and you regarding the Services and Content. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable (either by an arbitrator appointed pursuant to the terms of the “Special Arbitration Provision” section above or by a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the other provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect. You may not assign or transfer these Terms, by operation of law or otherwise, without our prior written consent. Any attempt by you to assign or transfer these Terms, without such consent, will be null. We may freely assign or transfer these Terms without restriction. Subject to the foregoing, these Terms will bind and inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.

Any notices or other communications provided by us under these Terms, including those regarding modifications to these Terms, will be given by posting to the Services and/or through other electronic communication.

Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of such right or provision. The waiver of any such right or provision will be effective only if in writing and signed by a duly authorized representative of Company. Except as expressly set forth in these Terms, the exercise by either party of any of its remedies under these Terms will be without prejudice to its other remedies under these Terms or otherwise.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about these Terms or the Services, please contact us at rosetta@coinbase.com. .

The Company may notify you under these Terms using the email address you provide for your Account on the Rosetta Community Site, or by posting a message to the homepage of the Rosetta Community Site or your Account page.