b>4/15/20.</b> Updated "Member accounts" section to reflect free memberships.</p> <p> <b>3/27/20.</b> Added clarifying language to the section "Freedom of discussion and personal attacks."</p> <p> <b>12/16/19.</b> Added clearer language that "flagging is not a weapon."</p> <p> <b>9/18/19.</b> Added to picture-uploading rules.</p> <p> <b>5/29/19.</b> Added personal groups rule.</p> <p> <b>6/8/18.</b> Changes related to the Member Privacy Center going live.</p> <p> <b>6/6/18.</b> Additions and minor changes integrating TinyCat-specific provisions into the LibraryThing TOS.</p> <p> <b>5/24/18.</b> Considerable changes, especially relating to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). See here for previous version.</p> <p> <b>5/14/18.</b> Added Account ownership section.</p> <p> <b>1/11/18.</b> Added Mobile Apps section.</p> <p> <b>11/30/16.</b> Added HIPAA Compliance and Patron Privacy section.</p> <p> <b>09/8/16.</b> Added DMCA section.</p> <p> <b>06/25/15.</b> Added "topics" to Other Rules section on "pointless" groups.</p> <p> <b>12/29/14.</b> Added "Member recommendations" section to Terms of Use. These are long-standing rules that simply needed to be added here.</p> <p> <b>8/12/14.</b> Added equal opportunity employer statement.</p> <p> <b>5/1/14.</b> Added suggestive images of minors bullet.</p> <p> <b>1/27/11.</b> Major design changes to page. No textual changes.</p> <p> <b>6/24/10.</b> Made significant changes, especially to order and style. See old version , Wiki page , tracking changes and Talk topic.</p> <p> <b>5/27/10.</b> Added plagiarism bullet.</p> <p> <b>12/15/08.</b> Added "Disclaimers/Attributions" section.</p> <p> <b>3/25/08.</b> Added "Review integrity" section.</p> <p> <b>10/31/08.</b> Fixed a spelling error.</p> <p> <b>3/2/08.</b> Fixed a spelling error.</p> <p> <b>2/29/08.</b> Added italics, capital letters.</p> <p> <b>2/28/08.</b> Clarified posting rules, which have been on and off this document and elsewhere on the site. Edited don't-dos to include impersonating someone else.</p> <p> <b>8/11/07.</b> Reordered a bit. clarified that authors promoting their books is commercial.</p> <p> <b>7/12/07.</b> Added prohibiton against duplicative or nonsense groups.</p> <p> <b>7/1/07.</b> Added prohibition against reposting flagged content.</p> <p> <b>1/2/07.</b> Added "Participating in Translation" link. Reordered items a bit.</p> <p> <b>12/17/06.</b> Added "sock puppets" to "shell accounts." Edited some of the "don't be a jerk," for brevity not content.</p> <p> <b>12/11/06.</b> Added "Participating in Talk and Groups." Removed "Intellectual Property and Reverse Engineering" clause.</p> <p> <b>9/11/06.</b> Added part about use by booksellers to "Individual accounts".</p> <p> <b>8/21/06.</b> Updated "Individual accounts" section to link to information about organizations.</p> <p> <b>4/3/06.</b> Added section on "Automated Input and Retrieval," and second paragraph of "Individual accounts."</p> <p> <b>11/8/05.</b> Added IP and reverse engineering clause.</p> <p> <b>11/8/05.</b> Made it clearer that your username can't be an insult, general or specific, or use a term that suggests you run the website.</p> <p> <b>10/3/05.</b> Added rule about empty libraries.<br> Added rule about couples and other family groupings not being considered organizations