PuppyPad

Rules and terms

By signing up for or using PuppyPad you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use it. "We" and "us" below means the people who run PuppyPad.

A hobby host, run on a best-effort basis

PuppyPad is a free host for static homepages. It is run by a small team that does its best to keep it up, but we can't promise any level of uptime or service.

You are responsible for keeping your own copy of your site. We take backups, but if a server fails badly your files may not be recoverable.

Who can sign up

You must be a person, not a bot, and at least 13 years old, or older if the age of digital consent where you live is higher than 13. If we learn an account holder doesn't meet this, we may suspend or delete the account.

Your content is yours, and your responsibility

You keep the rights to what you upload. You are responsible for everything you publish here, and you confirm that you have the right to publish it and that it breaks no law. We don't pre-screen sites, but we do look at reports and at sites our automatic checks flag.

To show your site in the dog park and on your profile, we take a screenshot of your front page. Deleting your account removes it.

House rules

Accidents are welcome. These are not, and breaking them gets your pad rolled up:

1. Nothing illegal where you live or in the United States.
2. No content that sexualizes minors, ever, drawn or not.
3. No adult or pornographic content, and no real gore or shock content.
4. No malware, phishing, scams, crypto miners, or pages built to collect people's information under false pretenses.
5. No pretending to be another person, company or website.
6. No harassment, threats or bullying. No sites made to "expose", dox or pile on another person.
7. No spam, link farms, or sites that exist only for search engine tricks.
8. No pirated or cracked software, and no "unblocked games" or other copies of things you don't own.
9. No file dumps. Your 500 MB is for the files your website uses.
10. No attacks on PuppyPad or other members: no break-in attempts, no flooding, nothing meant to knock the site over.
11. One account per person, with one site (supporters can add up to 5 under the same login). Don't create accounts in bulk or to hold names.

When we remove a site

Moderators can take down or delete any site that breaks these rules. We may also contact you, and act if you don't respond, when a site's traffic is causing problems for everyone else, or remove sites that have been empty and untouched for a year so names aren't held forever. Removed names stay reserved for 90 days.

To appeal a decision, write to abuse@puppypad.org. You can delete your own account at any time from your dashboard.

Reporting a site

Use the report form or write to abuse@puppypad.org with the site's address and what's wrong.

Copyright complaints

If something on PuppyPad uses your work without permission, send a notice to abuse@puppypad.org with:

• what work you own, and the exact address of the page or file that copies it;
• your name, postal address, phone number and email;
• a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn't authorized by you, your agent or the law;
• a statement, under penalty of perjury, that your notice is accurate and that you own the work or may act for its owner;
• your physical or electronic signature.

We remove material that a valid notice covers, tell the member who posted it, and close the accounts of repeat infringers. We may pass your notice, including your email address, to that member so they can respond.

No warranty, limited liability

PuppyPad is provided as is, without any warranty. As far as the law allows, we are not liable for any loss or damage from using or being unable to use it, including lost files, downtime, or anything another member publishes. Member sites are made by members, not by us, and some may contain things you find offensive. You visit them at your own risk.

Supporter terms

Supporting is optional; everything free stays free. A supporter subscription renews each period at the price shown at checkout until you cancel, and includes:

• 2000 MB of space instead of 500 MB, and files up to 25 MB instead of 5 MB.
• Any type of file, not just the usual web ones. They are still checked for phishing and never run as anything but what they are.
• File history kept for 365 days instead of 30.
• Up to 5 sites under one login.
• Your own domain for a site, like www.example.com, with HTTPS.
• A rainbow frame around your screenshot and a little star next to your name across PuppyPad.
• A first look at new widgets before everyone gets them.

Payments are taken by Stripe. Cancel any time from the support page on your dashboard; the extras last until the end of the period you paid for, and nothing more is charged. We don't refund part-used periods, but if something went wrong with a charge, write to abuse@puppypad.org and we will sort it out.

When support ends nothing is deleted. Files over the free 500 MB stay online, but new uploads wait until the site is back under the free limits; extra sites stay, and new ones can't be added. Supporting doesn't change the house rules: a site that breaks them is removed like any other.

Changes

We may update these terms. The current version is always on this page, and using PuppyPad after a change means you accept it.

Contact

Questions about these terms or the privacy notice: abuse@puppypad.org.