TERMS OF USE

These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern access to and use of Iteron (the "Platform"), operated by Turing Club, IISER Mohali, including the organizing core members listed on the About page (collectively, "we", "us", "our"). By accessing or using this Platform, you agree to these Terms.

1. Eligibility and Access

• You may use the Platform only in compliance with applicable law and these Terms.
• You are responsible for ensuring your submission is lawful and does not violate third-party rights.

2. Ownership of Submissions

• You retain ownership of strategy submissions, code, and related content that you create and submit.
• You represent and warrant that you have the rights necessary to submit and publish that content.

3. License Granted to Turing Club

By submitting content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, adapt for technical operations, publish, display, distribute, archive, and evaluate your submission for tournament and research purposes.

This license is required for operating the Platform, running evaluations, publishing results, and maintaining a public archive.

You further authorize us to sublicense and apply publication licenses for publicly released submission data, including licensing under CC BY-NC 4.0 as described below. Where content has already been validly published or distributed under a public license, that public license cannot be revoked retroactively for copies already accessed, used, or redistributed under that license.

4. Public Availability and Reuse of Submission Data

• Submitted strategies and related tournament data may be made publicly available after publication by organizers.
• Unless otherwise requested and approved as described below, public participant identification is limited to creator identity and institute/affiliation information.
• Unless a specific page states otherwise, published submission data is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 for research and educational reuse with attribution to the original creator and Iteron.
• Users reusing data must not misrepresent authorship, manipulate attribution, or imply endorsement by Turing Club or IISER Mohali.

5A. Attribution Preference Requests

• Participants may request anonymized or modified public attribution before publication by emailing iteron.iiserm@gmail.com with subject line "Attribution Request".
• Requests should include a valid reason and sufficient submission details for verification.
• Organizers may grant, partially grant, or decline such requests after reasonable review, while seeking fair treatment and publication integrity.

5. Organizer Content Ownership

• Infographics, analyses, reports, and research created by Turing Club/core members ("Organizer Content") are owned by their respective creators unless explicitly stated otherwise.
• Unless a specific page states otherwise, Organizer Content is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

6. Prohibited Conduct

• No plagiarism, impersonation, or submission of content you do not have rights to.
• No attempts to disrupt platform operations, abuse forms, or interfere with fair tournament execution.
• No unlawful, defamatory, or rights-infringing content.

7. Independent Similarity and Credit

• Similar or identical strategies may be independently developed by different participants. Where organizers reasonably conclude independent creation occurred, credit may be granted to all independently creating participants.
• Similarity alone is not treated as conclusive evidence of plagiarism or infringement. Context, development history, and supporting records may be considered.

8. Claims of Copyright Infringement or Plagiarism

• Any participant making a plagiarism, copyright, or ownership claim must provide sufficient supporting evidence for review.
• Evidence may include dated drafts, commit history, notebooks, timestamps, communication records, or other verifiable material demonstrating authorship and chronology.
• We may decline or close claims that are conclusory, speculative, or unsupported by adequate evidence.

9. Moderation and Removal

We may review, reject, unpublish, or remove content that we reasonably believe violates these Terms, tournament rules, applicable law, or third-party rights.

Report issues via iteron.iiserm@gmail.com with subject line "Terms/Content Report".

10. Disclaimers

• The Platform and all content are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.
• We do not guarantee uninterrupted access, error-free operation, or completeness/accuracy of user-submitted content.
• Research use of public data is at your own risk and professional judgment.

11. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Turing Club, IISER Mohali, and core members are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages arising from use of the Platform or reliance on published content.

12. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms. The "Last Updated" date will change when revisions are published. Material changes may be highlighted on the Platform. Continued use after changes means you accept the updated Terms.

13. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of India. Jurisdiction and venue will lie with competent courts in Punjab, India, unless applicable law requires otherwise.

14. Contact

For legal, submission rights, or policy queries, contact iteron.iiserm@gmail.com or turingclub@iisermohali.ac.in.

15. Severability and Waiver

If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. Any failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of future enforcement.

16. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Takedown Policy, and published tournament rules, constitute the entire agreement governing use of the Platform.

17. Survival

Clauses that by their nature should survive termination or discontinuation of access (including ownership, licenses, disclaimers, limitation of liability, dispute-related provisions, and enforcement rights) will survive.