Terms

The agreement

By using nextup you agree to these terms. They consist of three pages that belong together: this one, the moderation policy and How it works, which sets out the rules that decide what plays next, how votes and trust count, and the limits and checks against abuse. When one of those pages changes, the terms change, and the rules under "Changes to these terms" apply.

The agreement is with Lans IT. How to reach us is on the contact page. What we do with your data is on the privacy page.

Right now nextup shows one person's picks and nobody else can sign up, so only the parts about watching apply. The parts about accounts, votes and submissions apply from the day nextup opens to members.

Watching

You can watch without an account. Every video plays from YouTube or Vimeo in their own player. We do not host, copy or change the videos, and the rights stay with their makers. Videos can disappear from those sites at any time; when one stops playing, nextup skips it.

Videos from YouTube play through YouTube API Services. By using nextup you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service (opens in a new tab). Videos from Vimeo fall under the Vimeo Terms of Service (opens in a new tab).

If you are under 16, ask a parent before you press Play.

Your account

• You must be 16 or older to have an account. You confirm this when you sign up.
• One account per person. An account needs an email address and a handle, nothing else. You sign in with a link we email you, so keep your mailbox safe and do not pass on sign-in links.
• Your handle is public. It may not pretend to be someone else or be offensive. You can change it once every 30 days.
• While nextup is invite only, you need an invite code from a member. Invite only people you know. If accounts you brought in turn out to be fake or used for vote manipulation, we can suspend the whole group of accounts invited through them, yours included, while we look into it (see invites).
• You can delete your account at any time on your account page, or through a link we email you. It happens at once.

House rules

Do not use nextup to:

• add or link anything illegal, or anything that infringes someone else's copyright, privacy or other rights;
• harass, threaten or insult anyone, or spread hate, in a note, a handle or anywhere else;
• post someone else's personal data, such as their address or phone number;
• spam, advertise, or add videos that are misleading or not what they say they are;
• add videos made for children (YouTube asks sites like ours to treat them differently, and nextup is for people of 16 and over);
• push a video up or down by any means other than honest watching and voting: no second accounts, no buying or trading votes, no coordinated voting, no faked plays, no scripts;
• send reports or messages you know to be false, or so many that they get in the way of real ones;
• break, overload or probe the site, or get around a limit, a block or a suspension.

What you add

Members can add YouTube and Vimeo videos with a short note (at most 280characters) and tags. A video must be playable on other sites and not made for children; we check both when you add it. New videos start in the New lane and reach the main stream only if the community's votes and watching lift them there, under the published rules (see graduation). How many you can add per day depends on your trust (see submissions).

Your notes stay yours. You give Lans IT permission, free of charge, to show them on nextup and to keep them in our moderation records for as long as the law asks. This permission ends when the note is deleted, except for those records. Only add a note you are allowed to share.

Your votes are counted as the published rules say: a vote counts after 24 hours, weighted by your trust, and new accounts start with no weight. Your trust score is not public: only you and the owner who runs the site see it.

How we moderate

A person decides every step taken because something is illegal or against these terms. No computer removes, demotes or suspends anything on those grounds by itself. Two things do happen automatically, under the published rules: a video that no longer plays is skipped and checked again later, and the graduation rule moves videos out of the New lane, up or out, on the community's votes. These are the tools we use:

• Reports. Anyone can report a video, note, tag or account as illegal or against these terms, with or without an account, through the Report link or the contact page.
• Abuse checks. Automatic checks look for voting patterns that suggest manipulation, such as accounts that always vote together or a burst of votes from new accounts. They only raise a flag for a person to review; they never change a vote or an account. The thresholds are on How it works.
• Vote weight. Votes count by trust, a score built from how long you have been a member, how much you watch and how well your votes match the outcome. An upheld removal or abuse flag multiplies it by 0.5 for 90days. The owner can also set a member's trust by hand, with a reason the member sees on their account page. The formula is on How it works.
• The owner's veto. The owner can stop a video in the New lane from reaching the main stream. A veto is logged in public with a reason, and the member who added the video is told.
• Decisions on content: taking a video or note down, or taking a video out of the streams without calling it a removal (for example when it no longer plays).
• Decisions on accounts:suspending an account while we look into it, suspending a group of accounts that came in through the same invites, or banning an account. Trusted-submitter status, which lets a member's videos skip the New lane, can be given and taken back.
• Limits. Every request limit (for example on votes, submissions and reports) is published on How it works.

We act in proportion: a broken video is just taken out, a first small slip gets a removal rather than a ban, and accounts are banned for serious or repeated breaches. When something suggests that a person's life or safety is at risk, we tell the police or the competent authority.

What gets removed

We take down what is illegal, what infringes someone's rights, and what breaks the house rules above. We also take videos out of the streams when they stop playing or turn out not to be what they say they are. Separately, the owner can veto a video in the New lane because it does not fit nextup, which is a matter of taste and is logged as such. nextup aims to be transparent about its choices, not to show everything.

Notices, reasons and appeals

When you report something and give an email address, you get a confirmation and later our decision. When we take down or restrict something you added, or suspend or ban your account, we email you a statement of reasons: what we did, the facts we relied on, the law or the rule in these terms it breaks, that a person decided, and how to appeal. Every removal, restore, restriction, veto, suspension and ban appears on the public moderation log, without names or handles.

You can appeal a decision once, within 183 days, through the link in our email; the person who reported can appeal too. Someone looks at the case again and tells you the outcome. You can always go to court instead. We do not take part in out-of-court dispute settlement under the Digital Services Act.

Ending

You can stop using nextup and delete your account whenever you like. We can suspend or ban an account under the moderation rules above. We can also change nextup or stop running it. If we close it, we tell members by email at least 30 days before, so you can download your data.

No guarantees

nextup is free and offered as it is. The site can be offline, change, or lose a feature. As far as the law allows, Lans IT is not liable for loss caused by using nextup or by the videos it plays. This does not limit liability for loss we cause on purpose or through gross negligence, or any right you have under consumer law.

Changes to these terms

When we change the terms, including the rules on How it works and the moderation policy, we publish a new version with its date and what changed. For a significant change, members see the new version the next time they sign in and must accept it before they vote, add videos, invite people or test new videos again; watching never waits. If you do not accept, you can keep watching or delete your account. We also email members about a significant change before it takes effect.

Law and disputes

Dutch law applies to these terms. If you live in another EU country, you keep the protection its consumer law gives you. A dispute goes to the competent court in the Netherlands, or to the court where you live if you are a consumer. The English text of these terms is the one that counts.