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Uploader Agreement for

Scribd and Slideshare
Jason
Updated 5 months ago

LAST UPDATED: 31 October 2023

1.0 About this Agreement; Other

terms
This Uploader Agreement for Scribd® and Slideshare® (the
“Agreement”) provides the Guidelines under which Users can upload
and share documents, presentations, and other user-generated
content (“UGC”, “Content”) to Scribd and Slideshare. Scribd and
Slideshare are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Scribd, Inc (“the
Company,” “We,” “Our,” or “Us”). The following additional Terms,
Policies, and Guidelines are expressly incorporated herein and form a
binding part of this Agreement as if reproduced fully herein:
1. Scribd, Inc. Global Terms of Use (https://scribd.com/terms)
2. Scribd, Inc. Global Privacy Policy (https://scribd.com/privacy)
3. Prohibited Activity and Content Notice
(https://support.scribd.com/hc/articles/210129166-Prohibited-
Activity-and-Content)
This Agreement is incorporated into, and is subject to, Our Global
Terms of Use. Unless otherwise defined in this Agreement, all
capitalized terms have the meaning given in the Global Terms of Use.
BY UPLOADING USER-GENERATED CONTENT TO SCRIBD AND/OR
SLIDESHARE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND
UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY, ALL RULES, TERMS,
CONDITIONS, GUIDELINES, AND RESTRICTIONS IN THIS AGREEMENT.
IF YOU CHOOSE TO MAKE ANY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION OR
OTHER INFORMATION PUBLICLY AVAILABLE VIA THE SERVICES, YOU
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.
2.0 Certain Rights of the
Company
We, without limitation, solely control the features and functionalities
of the Services and We reserve the right to modify, change, or amend
the same at all times, at Our sole discretion. We reserve the right to
remove or delete UGC at any time, at Our sole discretion, without
cause and without notice to You.

3.0 Your Eligibility to Upload

In order to upload Content to the Services, You must: (i) register for an
Account; (ii) be at least 18 years of age (or the age of majority in your
place of residence if it is other than 18) and if You are uploading
Content to the Services on behalf of an Entity, You must be an
authorized representative of the Entity with the authority to bind the
Entity to this Agreement, and to agree to this Agreement on behalf of
the Entity; and (iii) Your Scribd and/or Slideshare Account(s) must be
active and in good standing (among other things, this means that Your
account cannot be restricted or suspended). We reserve the right to
refuse or revoke Your access at any time, at its sole discretion, without
cause and without notice to You.

4.0 Your Authorization to Upload

Subject to Your compliance with these Terms, the Company grants You
a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, freely revocable license to
upload, enhance, and share original electronic documents,
presentations, and other similar Content to Scribd and/or Slideshare.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, We neither
guarantee against unauthorized copying or distribution of Your
Content nor will We be liable for any unauthorized copying or usage of
Your Content.
Your license grant to upload Content to the Services is subject to the
following restrictions:
1. You may not share, copy, adapt, redistribute, reconfigure,
modify, create derivative works from, resell, profit from, or
otherwise exploit content accessed on any Service provided Us,
other than as We may permit;
2. You may not breach or infringe the Global Terms of Use, Global
Privacy Policy, Prohibited Activity and Content Notice, other
applicable Guidelines, any other agreement between Us and
 Yourself, or engage in any action or practice that disparages or
devalues Our reputation or goodwill;
3. You may not upload, share, copy, create, distribute, or
redistribute Content that is in violation of applicable local laws
in the place where you live; and
4. You may not upload, share, copy, distribute, redistribute, modify,
create derivative works from, or otherwise exploit Content that
requires licenses or authorizations from any Government
agency. Relevant U.S. regulations include, but are not limited to,
the State Department’s International Traffic in Arms Regulations
and the Commerce Department’s Export Administration
Regulations. You shall not post any ITAR-controlled technical
data and other applicable information, including any official
Department of Defense documents that have not been
authorized for public release by the appropriate Government
agency. Your rights under this Agreement are contingent on Your
compliance with this provision.
You acknowledge that any attempted or actual violation of any of the
foregoing is a material breach of this Agreement and that We may
pursue applicable legal and equitable remedies against You, including
an immediate suspension of Your Account and termination of this
Agreement; and, when appropriate, the pursuit of civil or criminal
remedies. You understand and acknowledge that this Agreement does
not entitle You to any payment, royalties, remuneration, or other
compensation in exchange for posting Your Content.

5.0 The Rights You Grant to Us

By uploading Content to Scribd and/or Slideshare, you grant to Us a
worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, assignable, fully paid-up,
royalty-free license (with the right to grant and authorize sublicenses)
to host, transfer, display, perform, reproduce, translate, adapt,
distribute, compress or convert for distribution (including but not
limited to facilitating accessibility to the visually or hearing impaired),
monetize, charge money for, restrict access to view, restrict access to
download, advertise against, create derivative works from, train
machine learning, large language, or other statistical or data models,
and otherwise exploit Your Content, in any media formats and through
any media channels, in order to publish and promote such Content,
either alone or in combination with the Content of other Users, in
connection with services offered or to be offered by Scribd. Such
license will apply to any form, media, or technology now known or
hereafter developed. You grant Us the right to restrict access to view or
to download your Content (for example, without limitation, to paying
Users) and to charge Users for access to your User Content, subject to
certain configuration options provided to you by Us. You understand
and acknowledge that We may use automated systems to evaluate
your content in order to detect infringements and abuse.
Subject to the terms and limitations set forth herein, you may
terminate this grant of license to Us as to any specific piece of Content
by removing or deleting that piece of Content from all Services
provided by Us; however, you acknowledge and agree that We or Third
Parties, without limitation, may retain a copy or copies of any Content
as necessary for legal or archival purposes.

6.0 The Rights You Grant to Other

Users
By uploading Content to Scribd and/or Slideshare, you grant to each
authorized User of the Services a limited, non-exclusive license to
access and use Your Content under the terms indicated by You when
You uploaded such Content. You must at least grant to each such user
a limited, non-exclusive, license to view, download (including, without
limitation, to a portable device, but subject to restrictions either made
by Us or by You), print and have printed a limited number of copies of,
the Content for Your personal use. The foregoing license granted by
You terminates as to a specific piece of Content once You remove or
delete such Content from the Services, provided that User rights to
such Content arising out of distributions occurring on or prior to
deletion of such User Content from the Services survive any
termination or expiration of the license granted in this Section (Section
6).

7.0 The Rights You Reserve

Subject to the licenses granted herein, You retain all of Your ownership
rights to original Content uploaded and owned by You. You can change
or delete Your Content at any time.

8.0 Term and Termination of This

Agreement
8.1 Term. The term of this Agreement will begin on the date You
upload Your Content and will continue until terminated in accordance
with the provisions set forth in this Section (the “Term”).
8.2 Termination. We may, at Our discretion and without cause,
liability, or prior notice to You, immediately terminate this Agreement,
Your Account, or suspend Your upload privileges on any of the Services
at any time. You may terminate this Agreement either by canceling
your Accounts and removing your content from all of Our Services, or
by providing Us with written notification of intended termination
through electronic mail at support@scribd.com. This Agreement will
be deemed terminated by You fifteen (15) business days after Our
receipt of such notification.
8.3 Effect of Termination. Upon termination of this Agreement, any
provision which, by its nature or express terms, should survive will
survive such termination or expiration.
8.4 Retiring Your Content. If You choose to delete Your Content from
Scribd it will not be available to Users following the date of such
removal or deletion (the “Deletion Date”). We will not be able to
provide You with copies of Your Content after You delete it from the
Services. Users who have downloaded offline copies of Your Content
(including, without limitation to Our Apps), may continue to access
their downloaded copies of Your Content.

9.0 Your Representations and

Warranties
You are solely responsible for Your Content and the consequences of
uploading and publishing Your Content. By uploading and publishing
Your Content, You represent and warrant that:
All of the information that You provide to Scribd under this
Agreement is current and accurate;
You are the creator and owner of, or have the necessary licenses,
rights, consents, releases and permissions to use and to
authorize Us and Users of the Services to use, Your Content in
the manner permitted herein;
Your Content does not and will not slander, defame, or libel any
other party, violate any other party’s publicity rights or trade
secret rights, be obscene, or otherwise unlawful;
Your Content does not and will not violate Scribd's Global Terms
of Use, Prohibited Activity and Content Notice, or any other
Guideline;
Your Content does not contain any images, whether
photographic or artistic (including computer-generated
imagery), of a person under the age, or apparently under the
age, of 18 in a state of undress; or otherwise posed or presented
in a lewd, lascivious, provocative, or titillating manner;
You have not entered into any other agreement that is in conflict
with the terms of this Agreement;
 Your Content does not contain any viruses, adware, spyware,
worms, or other malicious code;
Your Content is free of any restrictions, password protections,
and/or digital rights management, including any software
designed to limit the number of times User Content may be
copied or played; and
No claim has been asserted nor have any proceedings been
instituted by any third party against You or Your predecessors in
title for the infringement of intellectual property rights in Your
Content.

10.0 Our Disclaimer of

Warranties
In addition to the warranties disclaimed in the Global Terms of Use,
We expressly disclaim any warranty that the security measures used to
protect Content and the systems used by Us herein will be entirely
effective. We make no assurances that such security measures will
withstand attempts to evade security mechanisms or that there will be
no cracks, disablements, or other circumvention of such security
measures.

11.0 Your Relationship with Us;

Rights and Remedies
This Agreement does not constitute and may not be construed as
constituting a partnership, a joint venture, a principal-agent
relationship, or an employee-employer relationship between You and
Us. No party shall have any right to obligate or bind any other party in
any manner whatsoever, and nothing herein contained shall give, or is
intended to give, any rights of any kind to You and/or any Third Parties.
Rights and remedies provided in this Agreement are cumulative and
not exclusive of any right or remedy provided at law or in equity.

12.0 How to Contact Us

We welcome your questions about this Agreement by email at
support@scribd.com or by post at: Scribd, Inc. 460 Bryant Street, Suite
300, San Francisco, CA 94107-2594. We respond to all inquiries within
30 days. If You are a California resident, You may have this same
information emailed to You by sending a letter to the foregoing
address with Your email address and a request for this information.
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