Roku Website Terms of Use

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Roku Community sharing is allowed only if it follows the Community Guidelines and applicable law

The Roku Community provides information about Roku products and features and lets users share information about Roku products and support issues, but only so long as what they share complies with the Roku Community Guidelines and all applicable laws and regulations.

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and allows users to share information about Roku products and support issues, so long as it complies with the Roku Community Guidelines and all applicable laws and regulations.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The condition attaches to sharing information about Roku products and support issues in the community.
• Compliance is required with both the Roku Community Guidelines and all applicable laws and regulations.

Not stated here

• The Roku Community Guidelines text is linked, not included in this document.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

You are responsible for what you post and must have the right to publish it

You are responsible for the content you post, including its legality, reliability and appropriateness, and for your conduct when using the community services. For content you post, you also represent that it is either created by you or that you have the right to use and publish it, and that it does not violate these terms.

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You are responsible for the content that you post, including its legality, reliability, and appropriateness, and for your conduct when using our community services.

For the content that you post, you represent that it is either created by you or you have the right to use and publish it and that it does not violate these terms.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Responsibility covers legality, reliability and appropriateness of posted content, and your conduct while using community services.
• The representation is that the content is created by you or you have the right to use and publish it, and that it does not violate these terms.

Cross-references

• qualified by (model-proposed): Posting content gives Roku a perpetual, sublicensable, worldwide licence to use it and your posting name — The same act of posting that triggers the licence also carries your responsibility for the content and your representation that you created it or have the right to publish it, so the licence is granted over content the document asks you to warrant you may publish.

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

Posting content gives Roku a perpetual, sublicensable, worldwide licence to use it and your posting name

By posting content on the website you give Roku a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable right and licence to use, reproduce, store, modify, adapt, publish, perform, translate, create derivative works from, distribute and display that content throughout the world in any media, together with the right to use the name you used when posting it. The grant is triggered by posting, not by any separate agreement, and it is not limited to the community area in which the content was posted.

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By posting content on our website, you give us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, store, modify, adapt, publish, perform, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media, along with the right to use your name that you used when posting such content.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The licence arises by posting content on the website.
• It is nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable.
• Use, distribution and display are worldwide and in any media.
• It includes creating derivative works and translations, and modifying and adapting the content.
• It also covers the right to use the name you used when posting the content.

Cross-references

• qualifies (model-proposed): You are responsible for what you post and must have the right to publish it — The same act of posting that triggers the licence also carries your responsibility for the content and your representation that you created it or have the right to publish it, so the licence is granted over content the document asks you to warrant you may publish.

Content & IP Rights · Company practice

Roku may review and delete or modify your content based on its own assessment

Roku may review any or all portions of your content and delete or modify any of it from the website if Roku believes the content violates these terms or the Community Guidelines, threatens the safety of or harms any other person, or creates liability for Roku or any other person.

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We may review any or all portions of your content and delete (or modify) any of your content from our website if we believe your content violates our terms or the Community Guidelines, threatens the safety of, or harms any other person, or creates liability for us or any other person.

Qualifications & exceptions

• Review may cover any or all portions of your content.
• Deletion or modification depends on Roku's belief that the content violates the terms or Community Guidelines, threatens the safety of or harms any other person, or creates liability for Roku or another person.

Cross-references

• qualifies (model-proposed): Roku may investigate, suspend or terminate accounts, or report users, without any stated obligation — The power to review, delete or modify content is exercised under a right the document states carries no obligation, so moderation is discretionary rather than promised.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Copying or redistributing certain content is prohibited and you agree not to circumvent DRM

Copying or redistribution of certain content is stated to be strictly prohibited. Digital rights management or other technologies may be used to prevent or restrict copying or redistributing any content, and you agree not to try to circumvent or avoid them.

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Copying or redistribution of certain content is strictly prohibited, and digital rights management or other technologies may be used to prevent or restrict any copying or re-distributing of any content, which you agree not to try to circumvent or avoid.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The copying and redistribution prohibition is stated for certain content, not necessarily all content on the site.
• The undertaking not to circumvent covers digital rights management or other technologies used to prevent or restrict copying or redistributing any content.

Not stated here

• The document does not identify which content is subject to the copying and redistribution prohibition.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Linking to or framing the Roku website requires Roku's written permission

You may not link to or frame the Roku website on any website or service that you own, operate or control unless you have Roku's written permission.

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You may not link to or frame the Roku website on your website or service that you own, operate, or control unless you have our written permission.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The restriction covers linking to or framing the Roku website.
• It applies to websites or services you own, operate or control.
• The exception requires Roku's written permission.

Content & IP Rights · Procedure

Reported infringement or prohibited content can be flagged through a content takedown notice

If you believe in good faith that content appearing on the Roku website or through Roku's products and services infringes your copyright or other proprietary rights, or contains prohibited or illegal content, the document directs you to send a content takedown notice. It describes a reporting route rather than an outcome: it does not say what Roku will do with a notice or how quickly.

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If you believe in good faith that certain content appearing on our website or through our products and services infringes upon your copyright, other proprietary rights, or contains prohibited or illegal content, send us a content takedown notice.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The reporting route requires a good-faith belief.
• It covers content appearing on the website or through Roku's products and services.
• It covers three grounds: copyright infringement, infringement of other proprietary rights, and prohibited or illegal content.
• What the notice must contain is set out in the linked content takedown notice page, not in this document.

Not stated here

• This document does not describe what information the notice must include, how Roku handles it, or any counter-notice process.
• The linked content takedown notice is not supplied here, so the notice requirements, any takedown process and any counter-notice route are not established by this document.

Content & IP Rights · Context

All website content is proprietary to Roku or its licensors and legally protected

All content on the Roku website is proprietary to Roku and/or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark and other laws of the United States and other countries, with all rights reserved by Roku or the applicable licensors.

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All content on the Roku website is proprietary to Roku (and/or its licensors) and protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of the United States and other countries. All rights are reserved by Roku (or its applicable licensors).

Qualifications & exceptions

• Ownership extends to Roku's licensors as well as Roku itself.
• Protection is stated under United States law and the laws of other countries.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

You may not remove or obscure proprietary rights notices on website content

You may not remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices that appear on or accompany any content, or any portion of it, on the Roku website.

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You may not remove, alter, or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices appearing on or accompanying any content on (or any portion of) the Roku website.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The restriction covers removing, altering and obscuring.
• It applies to copyright, trademark, service mark and other proprietary rights notices appearing on or accompanying content, including any portion of the website.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

Permitted use of Roku trademarks is subject to separate trademark guidelines

Any permitted use of Roku's trademarks is subject to the Roku Trademark Guidelines. This document does not itself grant trademark permissions; it routes them to that separate document.

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Any permitted use of Roku’s trademarks is subject to the Roku Trademark Guidelines.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The condition applies to any permitted use, so the document does not state here what uses are permitted.

Not stated here

• The Roku Trademark Guidelines text is linked rather than supplied, so the permitted uses it sets out are not established by this document.
• The linked Roku Trademark Guidelines are not supplied here, so which trademark uses are permitted and on what conditions is not established by this document.