Playbook Terms of Use

Last updated: 4 September 2026

Publication note: Version 1.2 clarifies Playbook's approach to user-submitted material, lawful uses, and intellectual-property rights. Playbook does not ordinarily require documentary proof of rights before publication, while preserving its ability to respond to specific rights complaints and legal obligations.

1. About Playbook

Playbook is a platform for publishing, preserving, collecting, and discovering human-made creative and cultural work.

Playbook is currently operated by Jubryl Al-Jabane and Asad Al-Jabane, acting as individuals (together, “Playbook,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

You can contact us at:

Email: hello@playbook.cam
Phone: +973 3444 0587

Playbook also maintains a public Legal & Regulatory Contact page for legal, regulatory, privacy, safety, intellectual-property, illegal-content, and moderation matters.

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Playbook mobile applications, websites, services, features, and related systems (the “Service”).

By creating an account or otherwise accepting these Terms, you agree to them.

If you do not agree, do not create an account or use the Service.

2. Who May Use Playbook

You must be at least 16 years old to create or use a Playbook account.

You must also be legally permitted to use the Service under the laws that apply to you.

If the law where you live requires the consent of a parent or legal guardian for you to enter into these Terms, you may use Playbook only where that required consent has been obtained.

Some laws may continue to treat users aged 16 or 17 as children for particular privacy or online-safety purposes. Nothing in these Terms removes protections that apply to those users under applicable law.

You may not use Playbook if your use of the Service is prohibited by applicable law or if we have previously terminated your account for serious or repeated violations and have not authorized your return.

You are responsible for providing truthful information about your eligibility to use Playbook.

3. Your Account

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and login credentials.

You must provide accurate account information and keep information that is material to your account reasonably current.

You may not:

• impersonate another person or organization;
• create accounts for fraudulent, abusive, deceptive, or unlawful purposes;
• sell, transfer, rent, or improperly share access to your account;
• use another person's account without authorization;
• attempt to evade an account restriction, suspension, or enforcement decision.

You are responsible for activity performed through your account unless that activity occurred because of a security failure attributable to Playbook.

If you believe your account has been compromised, contact hello@playbook.cam.

4. Playbook Is a Human-Made Archive

Playbook is designed for human-made creative and cultural work.

Content submitted to Playbook must comply with the current Human-Made Content Standard.

Generative or synthetic content that is prohibited by that Standard may not be submitted merely because it resembles human-made work.

The Human-Made Content Standard explains how Playbook treats matters such as generative AI, synthetic imagery, generative fill, AI-assisted editing, enhancement tools, procedural work, 3D workflows, restoration, denoising, upscaling, and similar technologies.

You must not knowingly misrepresent AI-generated or synthetic content as human-made.

Automated detection systems can make mistakes. A moderation signal, including an AI-detection signal, is not itself a claim that a person intentionally violated these Terms.

Where appropriate, Playbook may use human review before making or reconsidering a moderation decision.

5. Contributions and User Content

“User Content” means content you submit, upload, publish, or otherwise provide through Playbook.

This may include artwork or reference images, photographs, titles, descriptions, stories, creator or maker information, dates, countries or places of origin, cultural context, profile information, profile images, revisions, and other material you provide.

You retain ownership of the intellectual-property rights you hold in your User Content.

Playbook does not acquire ownership of your work merely because you upload it.

You are responsible for ensuring that you have the rights necessary to submit and publish your User Content.

You must not knowingly provide false or materially misleading claims regarding authorship, ownership, creator identity, provenance, date, origin, attribution, or rights.

Playbook may distinguish between the person who contributes an item to the archive and the original creator, artist, maker, photographer, designer, author, or other rights holder.

6. The Licence You Give Playbook

To operate the Service, you grant Playbook a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, process, format, resize, display, transmit, and distribute your User Content only as reasonably necessary to provide, secure, moderate, improve, and operate Playbook.

This licence allows us, for example, to:

• store uploaded images;
• generate or serve display versions of images;
• show published work in feeds, search, profiles, categories, recommendations, and archive pages;
• make content available through Playbook sharing or linking features;
• process content for safety, moderation, rights enforcement, and technical operation;
• maintain temporary technical copies necessary for backups, security, delivery, and system integrity.

The licence is not an assignment of ownership.

The licence you grant Playbook does not authorize Playbook to use your User Content to train generative AI models or to sell your User Content as generative-AI training data.

Except where necessary to operate the Service or where you separately authorize it, Playbook does not obtain the right to sell your artwork as its own work.

Other Playbook users do not acquire ownership of, or a copyright licence to, your User Content merely because they can view, save a reference to, or share a link to it through Playbook.

When User Content is deleted, this licence ends for that content except to the limited extent that continued processing is reasonably necessary for security, legal compliance, dispute resolution, enforcement records, fraud prevention, backups, or other legitimate retention described in our Privacy Policy.

7. Your Rights and Lawful Basis

Before publishing User Content, you may be required to confirm that you have a lawful basis to submit and publish the material and that the information you provide is yours to share.

Depending on the material and circumstances, a lawful basis may include:

• you created the material or own the relevant rights;
• the rights holder gave you permission;
• you have an appropriate licence;
• the material is in the public domain;
• an applicable legal exception or limitation permits the use, including where relevant fair use, fair dealing, quotation, criticism, review, parody, commentary, or similar lawful uses;
• another basis permitted by applicable law.

Playbook does not ordinarily require contributors to submit documentary proof of ownership, permission, licensing, or other rights before publication. We may, however, request relevant information where a specific rights complaint, dispute, court order, or other legal requirement arises.

The fact that a copyrighted work, trademark, product, building, vehicle, game, film, publication, artwork, or other protected material appears within User Content does not by itself mean that the submission is prohibited or infringing.

Uploading material to Playbook does not change ownership of the underlying work, image, object, design, or other rights involved.

Accurate attribution is encouraged where relevant, but attribution and legal authorization are separate questions.

You remain responsible for making a good-faith determination that your submission has a lawful basis and for not knowingly using Playbook to infringe another person's rights.

8. Community Standards

Everyone using Playbook must comply with the current Community Standards.

The Community Standards form part of the rules governing use of the Service.

Among other things, Playbook may restrict content or conduct involving illegal material, sexual exploitation, child-safety violations, harassment, threats, hate, targeted abuse, severe violence, prohibited sexual content, fraud, impersonation, malicious activity, spam, intellectual-property infringement, manipulation of platform systems, or other conduct identified in our published standards.

Content that may be lawful in one context can still be restricted where it violates Playbook's Community Standards or the purpose and safety of the Service.

Do not attempt to bypass moderation or enforcement systems.

9. Human-Made Content Standard

Publishing to Playbook also requires compliance with the current Human-Made Content Standard.

Where required by Playbook, you must expressly confirm that a submission complies with the current version of that Standard before it can be submitted.

A false human-made declaration may result in rejection, removal, reduced access to publishing features, account restrictions, suspension, or termination depending on severity and history.

Playbook does not promise that automated systems can identify every form of synthetic or AI-generated material.

The Human-Made Content Standard is a platform rule and trust commitment, not a guarantee that prohibited content can never evade detection.

10. Moderation and Enforcement

Playbook moderates User Content to protect users, enforce these Terms and our standards, address unlawful or infringing material, and preserve the integrity of the archive.

Moderation may involve automated tools, third-party content-classification services, rule-based systems, and human review.

Depending on the feature and content involved, automated systems may evaluate images or text for signals associated with prohibited, restricted, unsafe, synthetic, or otherwise reviewable material.

Automated moderation can produce false positives and false negatives.

A submission or account may therefore be:

• approved;
• rejected;
• held for further review;
• removed after publication;
• restricted while a report or rights complaint is evaluated;
• warned, limited, suspended, or terminated where appropriate.

Where appropriate and reasonably practicable, Playbook may provide information explaining the principal reason for a moderation or enforcement decision, subject to legal, safety, security, fraud-prevention, and abuse-prevention limitations.

More information about Playbook's moderation approach is available in the Moderation & Enforcement guide.

Where Playbook uses automated ranking or recommendation systems, those systems are separate from moderation decisions unless expressly stated otherwise.

We may preserve limited moderation and enforcement records where reasonably necessary for safety, legal compliance, abuse prevention, or dispute handling, even where associated public content or an account is later deleted, as described in our Privacy Policy.

11. Reports, Blocking, Safety, and Illegal Content Notices

Playbook provides tools that allow users to report content and block other users or creators.

You may use these tools when you reasonably believe content or conduct violates Playbook rules.

Playbook also maintains a dedicated Illegal Content Notice form for people who believe specific Playbook content is illegal under applicable law. That form is intended to be available without requiring a Playbook account.

A notice should identify the material with sufficient precision and explain why the reporter believes it is illegal. Submission of a notice does not by itself establish that the content is illegal.

You must not intentionally abuse reporting, complaint, blocking, moderation, or enforcement systems to harass another person, manipulate the Service, suppress lawful participation, or overwhelm Playbook's systems.

Repeated submission of manifestly abusive, fraudulent, or bad-faith reports may result in limits or other appropriate enforcement.

Blocking may restrict visibility, discovery, following, profile access, or other interactions between affected accounts.

Playbook may independently investigate reports and is not required to take the action requested by a reporter where we determine that different action, or no action, is appropriate.

12. Recommendation and Discovery Systems

Playbook may use automated systems to organize and recommend published content.

Recommendations may take into account signals such as your interaction with works and creators, the categories you engage with, recency, relevance, diversity, and other product-quality signals.

Playbook may change or refine these systems over time.

No creator or contributor is guaranteed distribution, ranking, recommendation, audience size, placement, impressions, or visibility.

Playbook may also apply diversity, repetition, safety, quality, blocking, or eligibility rules when determining what content is displayed.

13. Our Intellectual Property and Copyright Complaints

The content, features, and functionality of this website are owned by "Playbook" and are protected by international copyright laws.

Unauthorized Use of Playbook Identity

The Playbook name, logo, branding, visual identity, and other proprietary identifiers may not be copied, imitated, reproduced, or used in a manner that falsely suggests affiliation with, endorsement by, or representation of Playbook. Unauthorized or deceptive use may result in enforcement action and, where appropriate, legal remedies under applicable intellectual-property, trademark, unfair-competition, or related laws.

You may not use Playbook to infringe another person's copyright, trademark, publicity rights, moral rights, or other intellectual-property rights.

Playbook may remove or restrict content where we reasonably believe it infringes rights or where we are legally required to act.

Rights holders and their authorized representatives may submit complaints using Playbook's published Copyright & Intellectual Property Policy or by contacting hello@playbook.cam.

A complaint should contain enough information for us to understand the work or right involved, identify the allegedly infringing Playbook content, understand the complainant's authority, and contact the complainant.

Knowingly submitting fraudulent intellectual-property complaints may itself violate these Terms.

We may request additional information before acting on a complaint.

Where appropriate and legally permitted, we may provide affected users with information about a complaint and an opportunity to respond.

Playbook does not claim a formal United States DMCA designated-agent registration or statutory safe-harbour status unless and until the relevant external registration and operational requirements have actually been completed. The current status is stated in the Copyright & Intellectual Property Policy.

14. Content Removal, Account Enforcement, and Review

Playbook may reject, remove, restrict, de-prioritize, disable access to, or otherwise act on User Content when we reasonably determine that the content:

• violates these Terms or another Playbook standard;
• may be unlawful;
• may infringe rights;
• creates a safety or security risk;
• attempts to manipulate Playbook systems;
• must be restricted to comply with legal obligations.

We may warn, restrict, suspend, or terminate accounts for violations.

When determining appropriate action, we may consider factors including severity, context, intent where reasonably ascertainable, previous violations, risks to other users, legal requirements, and whether a violation can be corrected without terminating the account.

Serious violations may result in immediate action. Repeated violations may result in escalating enforcement.

We aim to apply our rules in a reasonable, consistent, objective, and proportionate manner.

If you believe Playbook made an enforcement error, you may use the public Moderation Decision Review route or contact hello@playbook.cam using the subject line Moderation Review.

Playbook may review the original decision, relevant evidence, applicable rules, legal requirements, and information you provide. Where appropriate, an incorrect decision may be reversed or modified.

This review route does not limit any statutory complaint, appeal, out-of-court dispute, judicial, or regulatory rights you may have under applicable law.

15. Prohibited Technical Conduct

You may not interfere with or compromise the operation or security of Playbook.

This includes attempting to gain unauthorized access to accounts, databases, storage, administrative systems, moderation systems, APIs, credentials, or infrastructure.

You may not introduce malware, malicious code, automated abuse, denial-of-service activity, scraping that materially burdens the Service, credential attacks, or attempts to circumvent access controls.

You may not probe, exploit, or publicly weaponize a security vulnerability in a way that risks users, data, or the Service.

Good-faith security reports may be sent to hello@playbook.cam.

16. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains how Playbook collects, uses, shares, stores, protects, and deletes personal information.

The Privacy Policy is separate from these Terms.

By using Playbook, you acknowledge that your personal information will be processed as described in the current Privacy Policy and as permitted by applicable law.

17. Account Deletion

You may permanently delete your Playbook account using the account-deletion functionality provided by the Service.

Deletion is intended to remove your account identity and associated account content from active Playbook systems, subject to limited exceptions described in our Privacy Policy.

Certain limited safety, legal, moderation, fraud-prevention, dispute, rights-complaint, or enforcement records may be retained where permitted or required even after the associated public account or content has been removed.

Account deletion is permanent and may not be reversible.

Playbook also maintains a public Account Deletion resource.

18. Changes to the Service

Playbook is an evolving service.

We may add, remove, modify, suspend, or discontinue features where reasonably necessary for product development, security, moderation, legal compliance, technical operation, or sustainability.

We do not guarantee that any particular feature will always remain available.

Where a change materially affects your legal rights or obligations, we will provide notice where required by applicable law.

19. Availability and Third-Party Services

We aim to operate Playbook reliably, but the Service may occasionally be unavailable, interrupted, delayed, or affected by maintenance, network failures, third-party providers, security events, technical defects, or circumstances outside our reasonable control.

Playbook relies on third-party infrastructure and service providers to operate parts of the Service.

Your use of third-party websites or services that you independently access through links from Playbook may be governed by those third parties' own terms and policies.

20. No Guarantee About Archived Information

Playbook is intended to preserve and contextualize creative and cultural work, but User Content may contain errors, incomplete attribution, disputed history, inaccurate dates, incorrect provenance, or other mistakes.

Unless content is expressly identified as supplied or verified by Playbook, User Content represents information supplied by users.

Playbook does not guarantee that every archived statement, attribution, date, origin, description, or historical claim is accurate.

Users should independently verify information where accuracy is important.

21. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Playbook is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis.

We do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation, preservation of every item indefinitely, any particular level of recommendation visibility, or that moderation systems will identify every violation.

Nothing in these Terms excludes warranties or consumer rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.

22. Limitation of Liability

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability where applicable law does not permit that liability to be excluded or limited.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event shall Playbook or its operators be held liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or purely economic losses arising from the use of, or inability to use, the Service where such limitation is legally permitted. Users are strongly encouraged to exercise their own best judgment when using the Service. Each user is ultimately responsible for their own use of the platform and for ensuring that their conduct complies with applicable law and these Terms. Careless, unlawful, abusive, or deliberately harmful use of the Service, including conduct that causes serious reputational or other harm to Playbook, may be subject to appropriate action or lawful remedies where reasonably necessary and legally permitted.

Playbook is not responsible for losses caused solely by User Content, conduct of another user, or third-party services outside our reasonable control, except where applicable law provides otherwise.

Any limitation in these Terms must be interpreted subject to mandatory consumer-protection and other applicable laws.

23. Your Responsibility for Violations

You are responsible for claims, losses, or liabilities caused by your unlawful use of the Service or your knowing violation of another person's rights.

Nothing in this section requires a consumer to waive protections that cannot legally be waived.

24. Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are governed by applicable law as determined under the relevant rules concerning governing law and jurisdiction.

Nothing in these Terms deprives a consumer of mandatory protections or rights that apply under the law of the consumer's country where those protections cannot lawfully be waived.

Any dispute concerning Playbook may be brought before a court or other competent forum that has jurisdiction under applicable law.

Where applicable consumer law gives you the right to bring proceedings in the courts of the country or place where you live, nothing in these Terms limits that right.

Playbook may update this section in a future version of these Terms if the Service becomes operated through a formally established legal entity.

25. Legal and Regulatory Contacts

Playbook maintains public pathways for different kinds of legal and regulatory matters, including:

• illegal-content notices;
• moderation decision reviews;
• privacy requests;
• copyright and intellectual-property complaints;
• official legal process;
• general legal and regulatory communications.

The current routes are collected at Legal & Regulatory Contact.

Where applicable law requires Playbook to appoint and publish an EU, EEA, UK, Digital Services Act, data-protection, or other statutory representative, verified representative details will be published only after the appointment has actually been completed.

Playbook will not publish placeholder representative information or imply that an appointment exists when it does not.

26. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms when the Service, our policies, applicable law, or our operating practices materially change.

Each published version will have a version number and effective date.

We will provide notice of significant changes where required.

Where renewed acceptance is required, Playbook may require you to accept the new version before continuing to use affected features or before publishing new User Content.

Your historical policy acceptances may be recorded so that Playbook can determine which version you accepted and when.

27. Ending Your Use of Playbook

You may stop using Playbook at any time.

You may also delete your account through Playbook's account-deletion process.

Playbook may end or restrict access where permitted under these Terms and applicable law.

Provisions that by their nature must continue after account closure — including provisions concerning ownership, limited retained records, intellectual property, disputes, and liability — may survive to the extent legally necessary.

28. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the policies expressly incorporated into them, including the Community Standards and Human-Made Content Standard, form the agreement governing your use of Playbook.

The Privacy Policy describes data processing but is not intended to reduce rights you have under applicable privacy law.

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to apply to the extent permitted by law.

A failure by Playbook to enforce a provision in one instance does not permanently waive the right to enforce it later.

29. Contact

Questions about these Terms, moderation, rights, safety, or Playbook generally may be sent to:

hello@playbook.cam

Playbook
Operated by:

Jubryl Al-Jabane
Asad Al-Jabane

Phone: +973 3444 0587

For specialized legal, regulatory, privacy, illegal-content, intellectual-property, or moderation routes, see Legal & Regulatory Contact.

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