1. POLICYPRIMER
Terms of Service
(Instagram, 2013)

2. Are you an user?
Have you ever view their
Terms of Use and privacy policy?
(Instagram, 2013)

3. IF YOU DON’T,
these are what you need to know…
(Instagram, 2013)

4. You are SOLELY responsible
for your BEHAVIOUR and the
CONTENT that you submit, post
or display on Instagram.
and…
They DO NOT own or has any
responsibility to remove any
content that you post through
the service.
(Image uploaded to Flickr by: brandy byrd, 2010)
(Image uploaded to Flickr by: brandy byrd , 2010)

5. Therefore, you must make sure that
you own the content posted by you.
Even if you take the pictures from
the Internet, you must own the rights
to that image.

6. „Instagram will not do further action
if any photos were stolen‟
(TheGuardian, 2013)
If you happened to get into
trouble, they will not bear any legal
responsibility.

7. However, they reserved the right to TERMINATE
your account if you harass and spam any
Instagram users or if you post…
Violent
Nude & partially nude
Discriminatory
Unlawful
Infringing
Hateful
Pornography or sexually suggestive
photos via the service
(Instagram, 2013b)

8. “Instagram also reserves the right to remove
users’ content, if the service is
interrupted, WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE and the
content can only be restored with a valid court
order”
(Instagram, 2013b)
Therefore it is your responsibility to maintain a
backup of your content.

9. (Image uploaded on Flickr by: Zoe Cousland, 2012)
To register an
Instagram
account, you
need to be
at least
13 years old.
“Any personal
information
from a child
under the age
of 13 without
parental
consent will to
be deleted
immediately”
(Instagram, 2013a)

10. Instagram also uses cookies or other similar technologies to
record and gather information on how you use Instagram…
(Image uploaded on Flickr by: Magic Theme, 2012)
… then they may share the information with some advertisers
or any third parties in order to deliver targeted
advertisements, which they believe will interest you.

11. Due to the public
misunderstanding of
their intentions in
January 2013,
the co founder of
Instagram,
Kevin Systrom
responded that they
do not make money
from selling users‟
photos, as they do not
claim ownership of
the content.
(Instagram, 2013c)
(Image uploaded on Flickr by: Arnaud Lancelevee, 2012)

12. You can have your
account set to
PRIVATE at privacy
setting if you do not
wish to have your
content distributed
publically.
Then Instagram will
only share the content
with the people you
have approved to
follow.
(Image uploaded to Flickr by: skitch00, 2011)

13. References
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Brandy byrd. (2010). [Image]. Instagram. Retrieved from
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Instagram. (2013c). Updated Terms of Services Based on Your Feedback. Retrieved from
http://blog.instagram.com/post/38421250999/updated-terms-of-service-based-on-your-feedback

14. Magic Theme. (2013). [Image]. Instagram Cookie. Retrieved from
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