Intellectual Property Policy

1. Purpose

To explain how we respect the rights in hangel's own content, in content uploaded by users and organisations and in third-party works, and how we handle infringement reports.

2. Scope

The hangel platform's software, design, name and logo; user and organisation content (posts, photos, videos, event and listing texts, presentation files, project drafts); open-source software and third-party content used on the platform.

3. Principles

1. Users keep their rights. Users keep their rights in the content they upload; they grant hangel a non-exclusive right to use, reproduce and display it only for providing the service (Terms of Use, Article 6).
2. Event images. Photos and videos of events and volunteering may be used non-exclusively by hangel and the organising body to promote the activity; separate consent is collected for identifiable people.
3. Upload only what you have rights to. Users and organisations upload only content they own or have permission to use.
4. Respecting licences. We use open-source components in line with their licence terms and publish the list.
5. Project drafts belong to their authors. Drafts prepared in Write Your Project belong to the person or organisation that prepared them; hangel does not use them in applications in its own name.
6. Proper attribution. Other organisations' logos and trademarks are used only with permission or in line with their own usage rules.

4. Roles and responsibilities

• Board of Directors: responsible for protecting the rights in the hangel name, logo and software.
• Super-admins: review infringement reports and remove the content or leave it published.
• Users and organisations: responsible for the rights in the content they upload.

5. How it works at hangel today

• Brand usage: How to use the hangel logo and name is explained at hangel.org/logo-usage.
• Infringement reports: Content that infringes copyright or trademark rights can be reported in the app with "Report" → "Other", or by writing to destek@hangel.org. A super-admin reviews it; if there is an infringement, the content is hidden from the public.
• Software component list: A list of the open-source components used by the web app (SBOM) is generated with every release and published through hangel.org/guvenlik.
• Automatic translation: Organisation content can be translated automatically into the visitor's language; the original text can always be seen with "show original".
• Project drafts: Personal drafts are deleted when the account is deleted; drafts belonging to an organisation stay with the organisation and fields identifying the person are anonymised.

6. Not yet in place and our goals

• There is no separate form or "counter-notice" process for copyright and trademark reports; our goal is to add one to the Content Moderation and Takedown Policy.
• This policy makes no statement about the registration status of the "hangel" name and logo; we do not claim registration.
• There is no separate guide on the rights status of AI-generated text and images (AI Ethics Policy).

7. How to raise a concern

Infringement: "Report" in the app or destek@hangel.org (with information showing you hold the rights and a link to the content). Permission to use the brand: info@hangel.org

8. Review

At least once a year.

9. Related documents

Terms of Use · Content Moderation and Takedown Policy · Open Data and Open Source Policy · hangel.org/logo-usage