Terms of service

We are excited that you are using Tech Concierge, either in English at techconcierge.com and in Japanese at techconcierge.jp. By using either site, you agree to our terms. We might change our Terms every once in a while and we will post the updates here. You’re responsible for keeping up to date.

Some content may be too mature for children, so you must be an adult to use our site. If you login via Facebook or Google, we can access information that you have in those profiles. If you think someone else is using your account, let us know. Don’t post things you shouldn’t.

If you buy a course, only you can view it. We can end your ability to view it if you violate these terms.

If you submit content to Tech Concierge galleries or the Site generally, we can use it and information about you that you’ve given us access to for promotional purposes. We don’t own it and can’t sell it but we may use it or change it and we may keep it after you delete it from your account.

Don’t share your login information, post porn and any other obscene material, embed bad, broken or malicious links, violate others’ property rights, or generally be a jerk or bully.

Don’t steal or improperly use content that belongs to us or our users. We respect IP rights and you should, too.

Third party links may take you off of a Tech Concierge site. Those links are intended to lead to awesome things, but if they do not we are not responsible.

If someone infringes on your IP rights, drop us a line with the information listed here and we will investigate.

Tech Concierge — terms@techconcierge.com

We value your feedback so much that we want to use it on our site and we just might! If you submit content that violates these terms, we can get our terminator on as needed and deny your access to our site.

If you use an Apple-enabled mobile application to access the Service, you agree to Apple’s Usage Rules and App Store Terms of Service, and you acknowledge that Apple is not responsible for the function or content of the Service.

We work hard to provide you with an awesome service, but we’re not liable for these various things.

We’re not responsible for your use of the site. If you think we are, then let’s work it out within one year arbitration style.

These terms are governed by Japan laws; these terms are the deal and you cannot modify them; we can’t waive these terms; and if one section is not great, the rest still counts.

— Promote love and acceptance always. —

Community Standards

Tech Concierge is a global, learning-focused community created to help everyone embrace their full creative potential. Learning puts us in an inherently vulnerable space and creation can often be messy and iterative. Our standards were designed to help further our goal of creating a diverse, positive, safe, interesting, constructive, valuable and overall enjoyable space for our community to actively learn, share information and be more creative.

As such, we are committed to enforcing these standards, as well as the Tech Concierge Terms of Use. Violations of any of the below guidelines may result in a warning, temporary suspension or, with repeated violations, banishment from the use of Tech Concierge's social features.

Our community standards

Be kind — No harassing, threatening, libelous, racist, abusive, hateful, violent or obscene language, behavior or photos.

Be clean — Any posts, user names, photos or other content that are profane, sexually graphic, or offensive are not allowed.

Be lawful — Do not participate in, suggest or encourage any illegal or unethical activity. Do not violate or encourage others to violate our terms of use.

Be on-topic — Do not spam or solicit or post commercial advertising. This includes repetitive or irrelevant content.

Diversity statement

Access and positivity are core values of Tech Concierge. As a global, learning-focused and creative community, we welcome and embrace a diverse group of people with varied worldviews arising from differences of culture and circumstance. We believe all students learn better in a diverse educational environment and that they should have access to multiple points of view. Such differences include race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio economic background, age, physical and learning ability, national origin or religion.

We also respect the rights of all instructors, guests and students to maintain their own beliefs and points of views on all issues. Tech Concierge’s primary goal is to create a positive, learning-focused environment where a diverse, global community can share, learn and create together. We do not allow harassing, offensive or intolerant behavior and all members of our community are required to follow our Community Standards and Terms of Use.

Basic critique guidelines

Tech Concierge was created to support our community along its learning journey. As such, we encourage our community to actively share creative processes and completed works. We also encourage feedback, support and critique from the community. Any feedback should take into consideration the Community Standards and help the creator improve the overall quality of their work. When giving feedback to other members of the community, here are a few guidelines to keep in mind:

Feedback is honest, but polite: be constructive, but also friendly.

Feedback is balanced: point out both what works, and what doesn't.

Feedback is specific: focus on the work, not the creator. Examples of specific things to give feedback on: composition, technical quality, story, impact, lighting, etc.

Feedback is important to the creative process – let’s make it honest, but polite; balanced; and specific.

You can submit your content to our galleries. You keep ownership rights to the content, but we can use it. We won’t sell it.

You are representing that you own the content that you submit. You are responsible for the content and will back us up if we’re sued because of it.

PLAY NICE. Everyone hates spam, so don’t send it. Don’t do other sketchy things, please!