Terms

1. Your account

Give accurate details when you register, keep your login secure, and don’t share it. You’re responsible for what happens under your account.

2. Using XRHQ

Don’t use automated tools in a way that degrades the service for other people — that includes bulk downloading at a rate that affects performance, and trying to get around rate limits or security measures. Don’t attempt to access parts of the service you’re not entitled to.

Beyond that, you’re welcome to use what you find here. See clause 3.

Submitting a project, or proposing a change to one, is covered by the submission terms below.

3. The data is openly licensed

XRHQ’s project content is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). That licence — not this clause — is what gives you the right to reuse it, including commercially. In short, it asks you to credit XRHQ, point to the licence, and note any changes you made; the licence text is the full picture. This applies whether you read the content signed in or signed out.

Some material on XRHQ isn’t ours to license: photographs and videos supplied by others, quotations from named people, the articles we cite, and XRHQ’s own branding and design. Those aren’t covered. Full detail is on our licence page.

4. What you add to your profile

You keep ownership of what you put on your profile. You’re giving us permission to display it on XRHQ.

5. Accuracy

XRHQ records deployments reported by companies, press and public bodies, and states where each claim came from. We review submissions before publishing, but we can’t independently verify every figure a third party has published, and we don’t guarantee the accuracy of claims made by others. Don’t rely on XRHQ alone for commercial decisions.

6. Ending your account

You can close your account at any time. We can suspend or close accounts that breach these terms.

7. Changes

We may update these terms. We’ll email registered users about material changes, and those changes take effect 30 days after we do. If you’d rather not accept them, you can close your account before then.

1. What counts as your submission

Your submission is whatever you send us: text you write, and also links, documents or other source material you point us to. It includes anything produced from that material — whether you wrote it, we wrote it, or it was generated with the help of AI tools by either of us. These terms apply to the result either way.

2. What you’re giving us permission to do

You keep the copyright in everything you write. You’re giving us permission to publish it, edit it, and authorise everyone else to use it under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY 4.0), which lets anyone reuse it provided they credit XRHQ.

This permission is worldwide, free of charge, and permanent — see clause 6 for what happens if you change your mind. It is not exclusive: you remain free to publish the same work anywhere else you like.

3. What you’re confirming when you submit

By submitting, you’re telling us that:

• You wrote what you’re submitting, or you otherwise have the right to give us all the permissions in clause 2 for it.
• Publishing it won’t breach anyone else’s rights, any confidentiality agreement, or any embargo.
• If you’re submitting on behalf of a company or organisation, you’re authorised to.
• Anything you’ve included that belongs to someone else — an image, a quotation, a document, an article — you have the right to share with us for publication, and you’ve told us where it came from. We won’t treat that material as covered by the CC BY licence unless you tell us it can be.
• If you used AI tools to help produce it, that’s fine — these confirmations still apply to the result, and you’re responsible for it.

4. What we do with it

We review every submission before publishing. We may edit it, ask you for more detail, publish only part of it, or decline to publish it at all. We may also correct, update or remove it later. We’re not obliged to publish anything.

5. Credit

Published submissions are credited to your XRHQ profile, which links to your website if you’ve added one. If you’d rather be credited differently, or not at all, tell us.

When other people reuse XRHQ content under CC BY, the credit they must give is to XRHQ. By submitting, you agree that XRHQ is the name to be credited in that reuse, rather than you individually.

6. If you change your mind

Tell us and we’ll take your submission off XRHQ — we’ll stop publishing it ourselves.

The permission you gave us in clause 2 doesn’t end, though, and it can’t: anyone who received the content under CC BY 4.0 keeps that licence, and copies they pass on carry the same licence onward. Removal changes what XRHQ shows. It can’t recall a licence that’s already circulating.

These permissions also continue if you close your XRHQ account.

7. Images and video you upload

The CC BY licence covers the text of the record. Images and video you upload are displayed on XRHQ with your permission, but aren’t put under that licence.

8. These terms may change

We record which version of these terms applied to each submission. Changes apply to future submissions, not past ones.