Draft for the team. Plain-language wording to review before real clients use Rebuild. A lawyer hasn’t checked it yet.
Terms
The short version: Rebuild is free, your site is yours, and you decide when it goes online.
What Rebuild is
A free service that rebuilds websites for small businesses and nonprofits. It's made by a student team at Dartmouth, with volunteers who help owners.
Using it
Use Rebuild for a website you own or run, or one you have permission to change. Don't use it to copy someone else's site, for anything illegal, or to mislead people.
Your site is yours
Your words, photos and the new site belong to you. You let us copy your current site's public pages and use what you send us, only to build your site and help you with it.
Check it before it goes online
We ask you when we're not sure about a fact, but please read your new site before you put it online, especially opening hours, prices and addresses. Nothing goes online until you say so.
Your own accounts
Your new site runs in your own free accounts, like Vercel, and their terms apply there. You don't have to keep using Rebuild, and your site keeps working if you stop. Signing in to your site's editor goes through Rebuild, so it works only while Rebuild is running.
No guarantees
Rebuild is offered as it is, with no promise that it always works or has no mistakes. As far as the law allows, we aren't responsible for losses from using it. Volunteers help when they can.
Changes
We may change these terms or stop offering Rebuild. If we stop, your site stays online, because it's in your accounts. To keep editing it, someone who knows websites would need to set up signing in on your own account.
Questions
Ask a person and a volunteer will write back.