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Terms of Service

May 31, 2026

1. Acceptance of the ToS

Welcome to Supported Source (TM). Use of, and access to the Supported Source website, information, materials, products, chat systems, resources, and anything else at Supported Source ("Supported Source content") are subject to the terms and conditions laid out in this document or future revisions of this document, heretofore called the ToS. Please read the ToS carefully, INCLUDING THE BINDING ARBITRATION PROVISION, before using Supported Source. Usage of Supported Source constitutes a binding agreement between you and Supported Source to abide by the ToS. If you do not agree to the ToS, do not use Supported Source. Supported Source reserves the right to update the ToS at anytime without prior notice. It is your obligation to review the ToS with each usage of Supported Source in order to remain informed of the current terms. Any use of Supported Source after such notice shall constitute acceptance of such changes, modifications or additions to the ToS.


PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY TO ENSURE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND EVERY SINGLE PROVISION. THIS AGREEMENT CONTAINS A MANDATORY INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION/JURY TRIAL WAIVER PROVISION THAT REQUIRES THE USE OF ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS TO RESOLVE DISPUTES, RATHER THAN JURY TRIALS OR CLASS ACTIONS.


IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THESE LEGAL TERMS, THEN YOU ARE EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED FROM USING THE SERVICES AND YOU MUST DISCONTINUE USE IMMEDIATELY.

2. Proper Use

Supported Source hereby grants, and by using Supported Source you thereby accept, a limited license to browse Supported Source's website. You may use Supported Source only for lawful purposes and in accordance with the ToS. You agree not to use Supported Source:

  • In any way that violates any applicable national or international law or regulation.
  • For the purpose of exploiting, harming, or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way by exposing them to inappropriate content or otherwise.
  • To transmit, or procure the sending of, any advertising or promotional material, including any "junk mail", "chain letter," "spam," or any other similar solicitation.
  • To impersonate or attempt to impersonate Supported Source, a Supported Source employee, another user, or any other person or entity.
  • In any way that infringes upon the rights of others, or in any way is illegal, threatening, fraudulent, or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful purpose or activity.
  • To engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone’s use or enjoyment of Supported Source, or which, as determined by us, may harm or offend Supported Source or users of Supported Source or expose them to liability.
  • To use Supported Source in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, or impair Supported Source or interfere with any other party’s use of Supported Source, including their ability to engage in real time activities through Supported Source.
  • To use any robot, spider, site scraper, or other automatic device, process, or means to access Supported Source for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on Supported Source.
  • To reverse engineer Supported Source.
  • To use or study Supported Source in aid of a competitor or potential competitor.
  • To use any manual process to monitor or copy any of the material on Supported Source or for any other unauthorized purpose without our prior written consent.
  • To use any device, software, or routine that interferes with the proper working of Supported Source.
  • To introduce any viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful.
  • To attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage, or disrupt any parts of Supported Source, the server on which Supported Source is stored, or any server, computer, or database connected to Supported Source.
  • To attack Supported Source via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.
  • To take any action that may damage or falsify Supported Source rating.
  • To post spam, repeatedly request the same document multiple times or request multiple documents too quickly, bog down our servers with inappropriate requests, post inappropriate content, libelous content, racist content, offensive content, or anything else deemed improper at the sole discretion of Supported Source
  • Otherwise attempt to interfere with the proper working of Supported Source.

The information provided when using Supported Source is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject us to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country. Accordingly, those persons who choose to access the Services from other locations do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

Supported Source is available only to individuals eighteen (18) years of age and older. Children between the ages of thirteen (13) and eighteen (18) years of age may have their parent or guardian complete the registration process, in which case the parent or guardian will take full responsibility under this license.

Supported Source reserves the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue your usage or services without notice at any time, for any reason, and without any liability or explanation.

3. Purchases and Payouts

If you wish to purchase any product or service of Supported Source ("Purchase"), you may be asked to supply certain information relevant to your Purchase including, without limitation, your credit card number, the expiration date of your credit card, your billing address, and your shipping information. You represent and warrant that: (i) you have the legal right to use any credit card(s) or other payment method(s) in connection with any Purchase; and that (ii) the information you supply to us is true, correct and complete. We may employ the use of third party services for the purpose of facilitating payment and the completion of Purchases. By submitting your information, you grant us the right to provide the information to these third parties. We reserve the right to refuse or cancel your order at any time for reasons including but not limited to: product or service availability, errors in the description or price of the product or service, error in your order or other reasons. We reserve the right to refuse or cancel your order if fraud or an unauthorized or illegal transaction is suspected. Except when required by law, Purchases are non-refundable.


You may purchase a recurring subscription on Supported Source. If you do, you consent to Supported Source and/or its partners charging your card in the future. You may cancel at any time. Cancellations will cause their subscription to expire at the end of the current period, and will not be refunded for any unused portion of the subscription.


You consent to our right to offset any liabilities, debts, or obligations you owe us against any liabilities, debts or obligations we owe you. This applies regardless of whether these liabilities, debts, or obligations are current or future, settled or unsettled, and irrespective of whether they stem from this agreement. Should these liabilities, debts, or obligations be in different currencies, we reserve the right to convert either debt using a prevailing market exchange rate to facilitate the offset.


A valid payout method must be added before payments will be issued. Valid payout methods are at the sole discretion of Supported Source and may depend on factors outside Supported Source's control, such as the financial services provider or country you live in. Supported Source may require verified identities before issuing any payouts. At Supported Source's discretion, payouts may be held for a reasonable waiting period of at least thirty-two days after their transaction date. Supported Source may hold payouts in case of investigations, chargebacks, or other issues.


Supported Source may request additional information from you before payout for tax purposes. You agree that any taxes and/or withholdings on your earnings are your sole responsibility.


Project maintainers must be in eligible countries to receive payouts. Ineligible countries include, but are not limited to: Afghanistan, Belarus, Burma (Myanmar), Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, North Korea, Russia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.

4. Content

Supported Source may contain user-generated content. As such, user-generated content submitted to Supported Source cannot be considered as representing Supported Source. Supported Source does not endorse, support, represent, or guarantee the truthfulness or reliability of content on Supported Source. By using Supported Source, you acknowledge that any reliance or acceptance of the content is at your own risk and discretion.

Improper content on the site does not constitute any consent or acceptance of such content by Supported Source. Supported Source reserves the right, but is under no obligation, to monitor content for improper use. Supported Source does not actively monitor content, does not publish content, and does not lay claim to content.

By transmitting content to Supported Source, you take full responsibility for the ramifications of such content. You acknowledge that the content is your own to post and your own responsibility, with all legal implications thereof. You understand that Supported Source may be legally required to provide information about your account to the government or third parties.

Supported Source is under no obligation to actively or passively monitor content for improper use. Content submitted to Supported Source must not be inappropriate, libel, slander, racist, offensive, untrue, or anything else deemed improper at the sole discretion of Supported Source. Supported Source will not be responsible or liable for exercising or failing to exercise discretion. You acknowledge that content on Supported Source may be removed at any time, for any reason, without warning, consent, or explanation.

5. Intellectual Property Rights

Supported Source owns the intellectual property rights up to, but not necessarily including, all design, development, code, databases, functionality, ideas relating to the site, products and services, trademarks, and logos. This includes the trademark Supported Source.

We are not the owner of intellectual property rights to third party maintainers' projects listed on our website. You, or an appropriate third party, retain the rights and powers to any and all concepts, ideas, and opinions posted by you on Supported Source. With great power comes great responsibility; you, not Supported Source, are responsible for your own content. Supported Source makes no claim to verify, support, or even acknowledge content posted online. By submitting content through Supported Source, you grant Supported Source a permanent, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce such content for the purpose of providing the Supported Source service, displaying or utilizing the content, or people aware of, advertising, or promoting Supported Source.

You hereby represent and warrant that you have the power and authority to grant such an agreement to Supported Source, either because you own the intellectual property to such content, represent the person or organization who does, or acknowledge that the content is in the public domain or under a sufficiently public license (such as a Creative Commons license). In the latter case, Supported Source is not party to any such licensing agreement; such agreement is between the the respective licenser and you.

6. No Resale of Service

Supported Source content may not be sold or offered for sale or resale, in whole or in part. You may not act as a third-party disseminator of Supported Source content if: access to such content is for sale, requires subscription, or does not properly acknowledge Supported Source as the source. Proper acknowledgment includes a well-formed HTML link tag, if the medium makes such inclusion possible. You may not knowingly give content, sell content, or encourage or aid an improper third-party disseminator of content.

7. Representations and Warranties

You hereby represent and warrant that your user information is truthful, accurate, and up-to-date. You further acknowledge that you will not impersonate, either actively or passively, someone else. Passive impersonation includes remaining silent or failing to answer inquiries. You further acknowledge that you have the necessary power and authority to enter into this agreement.

8. Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

You acknowledge that use of Supported Source is at your own risk. Supported Source is provided on an "as is" basis without any warranties, either express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Supported Source does not claim to represent the opinions or content provided by its users and cannot be held liable in connection with any posting, content, image, or implication provided by its users. Supported Source does not monitor content. You acknowledge that Supported Source is not liable for damages, harm or defamatory, offensive, or illegal content posted by its users.

Supported Source makes a good-faith effort to protect personally identifiable information about you, as explained in the associated Privacy Policy, but Supported Source disclaims any and all liability for any unauthorized access to or use of your personally identifiable information. By accessing Supported Source, you acknowledge and agree to Supported Source's disclaimer of any such liability.

9. Termination and Suspension of Services

Supported Source reserves the right to terminate or suspend your account at any time, for any reason, in its sole discretion, and without providing any explanation or notice. This may include deletion or altering of content or user information. Termination or suspension of any account does not constitute monitoring on the part of Supported Source. Supported Source explicitly does not monitor content but may respond to inquiries which require actions such as termination or suspension. If terminated or suspended, you consent to simply move on and not hold Supported Source liable for any harm or damages.

10. Agreement to Arbitrate All Disputes and Legal Claims

You and Supported Source agree that any legal disputes or claims arising out of or related to this agreement (including but not limited to the use of the Services, or the interpretation, enforceability, revocability, or validity of this agreement, or the arbitrability of any dispute), that cannot be resolved informally shall be submitted to binding arbitration in the state in which this agreement was performed. The arbitration shall be conducted by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules (a copy of which can be obtained here), or as otherwise mutually agreed by you and Supported Source. Any judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. Claims shall be brought within the time required by applicable law. You and Supported Source agree that any claim, action or proceeding arising out of or related to the Agreement must be brought in your individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, or representative proceeding. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of a representative, collective, or class proceeding.


YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU AND SUPPORTED SOURCE ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS ACTION OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.

11. Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy

Supported Source and its agents do not accept or consider unsolicited materials about the service, website, content, and products, including but not limited to feedback, comments, suggestions, ideas, concepts, plans, notes, drawings, original or creative materials, or other information. Please do not send any submissions to Supported Source or its agents. If you fail to follow this instruction and do send submissions, we will not treat your submissions as confidential nor proprietary. In the case of such submissions that Supported Source accepts inadvertently or contrary to the above policy, you hereby grant Supported Source a permanent, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free and fully sublicensable license to use in any way, or create derivative works with the submissions, without giving you acknowledgement or compensation.

12. Feedback

You acknowledge and agree that any materials, including but not limited to feedback, comments, suggestions, ideas, concepts, plans, notes, drawings, original or creative materials or other information, provided by you in the form of email or other submissions to Supported Source in response to a request for such materials are non-confidential and shall become the sole property of Supported Source. This paragraph is not intended to apply to personal information about you, such as your name and email address, the use of which is described in the Privacy Policy.

13. Indemnification

Your views, opinions, and ideas as expressed on Supported Source are your own. You agree to indemnify Supported Source and its employees, partners or employees of partners, from any liabilities or harms relating to such content. This agreement indemnifies Supported Source from any damages or liabilities. Actions taken or threatened against Supported Source, by you or a third party acting by cause of you, possibly with or against you, may result in processing or lawyer fees. You agree to pay any such fees incurred by Supported Source in such an instance.

14. Entire Agreement

This ToS constitutes the entire service agreement between you and Supported Source, superseding any other agreements or contracts such as a prior ToS. You may however be subject to further agreements or terms for further products or services not covered by this ToS.

15. Statute of Limitations

You agree that any legal claim, benefit, notice, or cause of action arising or related to the use of Supported Source must be filed within one (1) year after the first occurrence of a relevant action relating to the claim, benefit, notice, or cause of action. You further agree that if you do not file such claim, benefit, notice, or cause of action within one (1) year of such occurrence, you shall be thereafter barred from making such claim, benefit, notice, or cause of action, regardless of any statute or law to the contrary. You consent to provide Supported Source with due notice of at least two (2) weeks before filing any such claim, benefit, notice, or cause of action. You agree that failure to provide proper notice will disqualify you from receiving any benefits or awards, or from proceeding with such claims.

16. Jurisdiction

You agree that any difference of understanding will be resolved under the jurisdiction of Santa Clara County, in the state of California, United States, or a jurisdiction to be decided by Supported Source at the time of filing, regardless of your place of residence or operation. Any legal claims, filings, proceedings or litigation arising in connection with this ToS will be brought solely in either Santa Clara County or the jurisdiction decided upon by Supported Source at the time of filing, and you consent to the jurisdiction of such courts.

17. Waiver and Severability

No waiver by Supported Source of any term or condition set forth in ToS shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or a waiver of any other term or condition, and any failure of Supported Source to assert a right or provision under ToS shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.


If any provision of ToS is held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent such that the remaining provisions of ToS will continue in full force and effect.

18. Copyright Infringement and Compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Supported Source will respond to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe that a copyright has been infringed on Supported Source, please contact us through the information provided on the Supported Source website. If you wish to respond to a claim of infringement, please contact us through the information provided on the Supported Source website.