Dao Dao Resource Sharing Self-Directed Learning Website Terms of Service

The mission of Dao Dao is to cultivate lifelong learning capabilities through promoting self-directed learning. Our services are dedicated to creating a trustworthy learning ecosystem where learners can exchange real learning experiences, discover and share valuable learning resources, and build connections with like-minded individuals. Through self-exploration, collaboration, and growth, learners can fully realize their potential and continue to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

These Terms of Service govern the use of all features of the Dao Dao Resource Sharing Self-Directed Learning Website (https://www.daoedu.tw, hereinafter referred to as “this Website”), including searching for and adding resources, partner matching, group activities, and blogs. These Terms apply to any registered users or visitors of our services.

This service is available only to natural persons and is effective only for natural persons.

1. Members and Visitors

When you register and join this Website, you become a Member. If you choose not to register, you may access certain features as a “Visitor.” This Website is open to all, with no restrictions on eligibility to write verified responses.

2. Registration and Account Use

Regarding the registration and use of Dao Dao member accounts, you represent and warrant the following:

Users of this Website must be at least 16 years old. By completing registration or beginning to use the service, you are deemed to have fully reviewed, understood, and agreed to these Terms and to your registration as a member and use of the services.
You agree that all expressions of intent and content related to the service shall be expressed in electronic form, and that all notices from this Website will be delivered via email or other electronic means.
All information you provide during registration, including your real name and other required data, is current and accurate, and you will promptly update it if there are any changes.
You are not registering an account on behalf of another person.
You have not registered and will not register more than one personal account.
If your account is suspended, you will not register another account.
You understand and agree that any actions taken using your account on Dao Dao are deemed to be performed by you or with your authorization, and you may bear corresponding legal responsibility. Therefore, you will not allow others to use your account or disclose your account password to others.
You understand and agree that Dao Dao is an open platform where all public pages may be freely viewed. When publishing articles, responses, or communicating with other users, you should be aware that the information you disclose may allow strangers or acquaintances to identify your real identity, potentially impacting your real-life circumstances.
You understand and agree to fully disclose all necessary and truthful information regarding activities initiated on this Website, including but not limited to the purpose, content, requirements, and potential costs of such activities.
You understand and agree to receive periodic newsletters from this Website after registering as a member, and you may unsubscribe at any time.
Website services are available only to natural persons, and automated operations are prohibited. Except for known non-commercial third-party public service crawlers operating at low frequency and partial content capture (such as Internet Archive, Google, Facebook), automated crawling of Website content is prohibited.

3. Rights and Restrictions

Between you and this Website, you own the content and information you submit or publish to the service, and you grant us only the following non-exclusive license:

A worldwide, transferable, and sublicensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publish, and process the information and content you provide through our services or others’ services, without further consent, notice, or compensation to you or others. These rights are subject to the following limitations:

You may terminate the license for specific content by deleting it from the service or generally by closing your account, except where (a) you shared the content with others as part of the service and they copied, reshared, or stored it, or (b) reasonable time is required to remove it from backup and other systems.
If we intend to grant others the right to publish your content outside the service, we will obtain your consent.
While we may edit or change the format of your content (such as translating or transcribing, resizing, changing layout or file type, or removing metadata), we will not alter the meaning of your expression.
After logging in, members may contribute data by writing responses, evaluating existing responses, or supplementing additional information. Members should apply fact-checking methods when writing responses, providing verifiable objective facts and offering differing viewpoints where subjective opinions are involved.
Since you own your content and information and we only hold non-exclusive rights, you may choose to make it available to others, including under Creative Commons licenses.

4. Data Dispute Complaints

This Website does not proactively intervene in disputes regarding responses. Anyone may directly respond via the Website, and multiple responses to a single message are welcome.
If there are disputes regarding existing response content that require other forms of resolution, please contact this Website via email.
Complaint emails must clearly include the complainant’s real name and identity, the disputed response or message, the time and place of the dispute, and the reason for the complaint. This Website will attempt to contact the relevant member for assistance or add a new response to the message.
If a member’s response involves insults, defamation, dissemination of false information, copyright infringement, or other violations of laws or rights of others, this Website may delete the response and record the handling information in the Data Dispute Handling Record.

5. Disclaimer

This Website does not infringe upon attribution or moral rights related to information, responses, or supporting materials. Information collected under CC0-1.0 is primarily intended to ensure sufficient standing for subsequent use, and the Website retains the final decision on whether to use such content.
This Website does not endorse or assume responsibility for third-party chatbots, websites, or content farms that independently retrieve and use data. If such systems fail to respond accurately due to design limitations, this Website and its collaborators bear no responsibility for database corrections.
This Website strives for accuracy and completeness but assumes no liability for errors or omissions. Content may be changed at any time without notice.
This Website may suspend or modify webpage content at any time without prior notice.
This Website shall not be liable for any damages arising from the use of or linking to this Website, including but not limited to viruses, system failures, data loss, defamation, copyright or intellectual property infringement, or losses of profits, goodwill, data, or other intangible losses. No direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages shall be borne.
This Website may link to external websites operated by other organizations and assumes no responsibility for their content. Users bear all risks when browsing such websites. Any decision to download or obtain materials through this Website is at the user’s own risk, and this Website shall not be liable for any resulting system damage or data loss.

6. Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding these Terms of Service, copyright, database dispute handling, service content, or privacy, please email [email protected].

7. Dispute Resolution and Jurisdiction

Any disputes arising from these Terms of Service shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Taipei District Court, Taiwan, as the court of first instance.