Terms of Service

Welcome to DevMeme (“we”, “us”, the operator of devme.me). These Terms of Service (“Terms”) are the agreement between you and DevMeme for using the website and its features. Please read them alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your data.

Agreement to these Terms

By accessing or using DevMeme, you agree to these Terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the service. If you use DevMeme on behalf of an organization, you confirm you’re authorized to accept these Terms for it.

Who can use DevMeme

You must be at least 13 years old, and old enough to give valid consent in your country (which may be higher). If you’re under 18, you confirm that a parent or guardian agrees to these Terms on your behalf. You also agree to follow any laws that apply to you when you use DevMeme.

The service

DevMeme is a free gallery of programming memes, DevOps jokes, and software-engineering humor, with optional accounts that let you save and like memes, comment, and use private-beta community features when they are enabled. We’re always improving it, so features may change, come, or go, and parts of the service may occasionally be unavailable. We provide DevMeme on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

Your account

• Sign-in is passwordless — through GitHub, Google, Apple, or Telegram, or via a one-time link sent to your email.
• Keep access to your email and sign-in provider secure; anyone who controls them can access your account.
• You’re responsible for the activity that happens under your account.
• Tell us at [email protected] if you suspect unauthorized use.

Acceptable use

When using DevMeme, you agree not to:

• Break the law or infringe anyone’s rights;
• Harass, threaten, impersonate, or abuse other people;
• Post content that is hateful, defamatory, sexually exploitative, malicious, or otherwise unlawful;
• Scrape, bulk-download, or place automated/excessive load on the service, or bypass its rate limits;
• Probe, attack, or attempt to gain unauthorized access to the service or its systems;
• Upload malware, or interfere with how DevMeme works for others.

Your content

You keep ownership of the comments, posts, and media you submit (“your content”). By submitting it, you grant DevMeme a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, display, and distribute that content as part of operating and promoting the service. You confirm you have the rights to share what you post. We may remove content that breaks these Terms or the law.

Memes & third-party content

DevMeme curates and comments on developer humor gathered from across the web, for the purposes of commentary, criticism, and entertainment. Trademarks, logos, and copyrighted works featured in memes belong to their respective owners and don’t imply any endorsement. If you own rights to a piece of content and believe it shouldn’t appear on DevMeme, email [email protected] with the work, the URL where it appears, and your contact details, and we will review and act on valid requests (notice and takedown).

We respond to valid copyright complaints, remove or disable access to infringing content, and, in appropriate cases, may suspend or terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe. If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake, you can reply to our takedown notice to contest it, telling us why, and we will review the matter in good faith and restore the content if appropriate.

Our intellectual property

The DevMeme name, logo, and the design and original elements of the site are ours and are protected by intellectual-property laws. These Terms don’t grant you any right to use our branding except as needed to use the service normally.

Disclaimers

DevMeme is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. Humor is subjective — we make no promise that you’ll find any particular meme funny, accurate, or inoffensive, and we don’t guarantee that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free.

Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, DevMeme and the people behind it won’t be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost data, profits, or goodwill, arising from your use of (or inability to use) the service. Because DevMeme is provided free of charge, our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us (which is zero) or the minimum the law allows.

Indemnity

You agree to cover (indemnify) DevMeme against claims, losses, and costs that arise from your misuse of the service, your content, or your breach of these Terms, to the extent permitted by law.

Suspension & termination

You can stop using DevMeme at any time and ask us to delete your account. We may suspend or terminate access if you breach these Terms or the law, or to protect the service and its users. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination (such as ownership, disclaimers, and limitation of liability) will continue to apply.

Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as DevMeme evolves. When we make changes, we’ll update the “last updated” date above, and continued use of the service after a change means you accept the revised Terms. If you don’t agree to a change, please stop using DevMeme.

General terms

• Entire agreement: these Terms and our Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and DevMeme about the service, and replace any earlier understanding on the same subject.
• Severability: if any part of these Terms is found unenforceable, that part is limited or removed to the minimum extent needed, and the rest stays in full force.
• No waiver: if we don’t enforce a right or provision on one occasion, that isn’t a waiver of it on any other.
• Assignment: you may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our consent; we may transfer ours in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or transfer of the service.
• Force majeure: we’re not responsible for delays or failures caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
• Electronic communications: when you use DevMeme or send us email, you agree we can communicate with you electronically (for example, by email or notices on the site), and that this satisfies any legal requirement for written communication.
• Third-party links: DevMeme links out to other sites (such as the original source of a meme). We don’t control them and aren’t responsible for their content or practices.
• Beta features: some features (such as communities and user submissions) may be offered in private beta, “as is,” and can change or be withdrawn at any time. If you send us feedback, you allow us to use it freely to improve DevMeme.

Governing law & disputes

These Terms, and any dispute arising from them or from your use of DevMeme, are governed by the laws applicable to the operator of the service, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, and are subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the operator’s competent courts. Nothing here removes any mandatory consumer-protection rights you have under the laws of your own country of residence.

Contact

Questions about these Terms? Email [email protected]. To understand how we handle your data, read our Privacy Policy.