Project:Terms of Service

Last updated: May 21, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your access to and use of the Miniscope wiki at miniscope.org. By creating or using an account, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not request or use an account.

1. About these Terms and the operator

This wiki is operated by [the Aharoni Lab at the University of California, Los Angeles / Daniel Aharoni, an individual] (the "Operator," "we," "us"). References to "the maintainers" elsewhere on the wiki refer to the Operator. General inquiries may be directed to share.aharonilab@gmail.com.

2. Eligibility

The wiki is intended for use by researchers, professionals, and students aged 18 or older. By requesting an account you represent that you are at least 18. We do not knowingly create accounts for individuals under 18; if we learn an account holder is under 18, we will deactivate the account.

You also represent that you are not located in, organized under the laws of, or ordinarily resident in, any country or region subject to comprehensive U.S. trade sanctions, and that you are not listed on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

3. Accounts

Account creation requires submitting a request, verifying your email address, and receiving approval. Approval is granted at our sole discretion; we may decline a request without stating a reason.

You agree to:

provide accurate identifying information when requesting an account, and update it if it changes;
maintain one account per person; not share account credentials; and notify us promptly if you suspect your account has been compromised;
be responsible for all activity that occurs under your account.

Unregistered visitors may read public content but may not edit any page.

4. Acceptable use

You agree to share only accurate, relevant material that you have the right to distribute. You agree not to use the wiki to:

post material that infringes copyright, trademark, or other intellectual-property rights;
harass, threaten, defame, or doxx any person;
post protected health information, identifiable human-subjects data, or other information whose disclosure is restricted by law or institutional policy;
post advertising or solicitations unrelated to the wiki's research purpose;
post malware, phishing material, or content sexually exploiting minors;
impersonate any person or misrepresent affiliation with any institution;
attempt to access pages, namespaces, or groups for which you have not been granted permission;
engage in automated access (scraping, mass downloading) at a rate that degrades the service for others; routine research use of public content is permitted;
use the wiki to violate any applicable law or regulation.

Administrators may remove content, revert edits, or restrict access without prior notice when they reasonably believe these Terms have been violated.

5. Restricted areas

Some namespaces and pages are restricted to specific groups, including workshop participants, project members, and administrators. Access to those areas may be conditioned on additional terms set by the group, which you agree to upon admission. Do not disclose group-restricted content outside the group.

6. Content and licensing

Text you contribute is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless the page on which it appears clearly states otherwise. Uploaded media keep whatever license the uploader specified; check each file's page before reusing.

By contributing, you represent that you have the right to release the contribution under the applicable license, and you grant the Operator and other wiki users the rights specified by that license. You also grant the Operator a non-exclusive right to display, host, archive, and distribute your contributions in connection with operating the wiki.

Contributions are persistent. Edit history is retained as part of the public record and may be displayed alongside your username.

7. Copyright and takedown

We respond to notices of claimed copyright infringement under 17 U.S.C. § 512. Send written notices to our designated agent:

Daniel Aharoni, DMCA Designated Agent

[Operator]

CHS 74-125, 650 Charles E. Young Dr. E.

Los Angeles, CA 90095

United States

Email: share.aharonilab@gmail.com

A valid notice must include: (a) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed; (b) identification of the material claimed to be infringing, with the URL or sufficient detail to locate it on the wiki; (c) your contact information, including name, address, telephone number, and email; (d) a statement that you have a good-faith belief that the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; (e) a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the rights holder; and (f) your physical or electronic signature.

We may remove or disable access to material that is the subject of a valid notice. If your contribution is removed, you may submit a counter-notice meeting the requirements of 17 U.S.C. § 512(g). Accounts subject to repeated valid infringement notices may be terminated.

Our designated agent is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(2), registration number DMCA-1073113. False or bad-faith notices may subject the sender to liability under 17 U.S.C. § 512(f).

8. Privacy

We collect: information you provide when requesting an account (typically name, email, institutional affiliation); your contributions and edit history; and standard server logs including IP address, user-agent, and timestamps, used for security and abuse prevention.

We use this information to operate the wiki, communicate with you about your account, and detect and respond to abuse. We do not sell personal information, and we do not use it for targeted advertising.

Contributions, edit history, and usernames are public. Email addresses, IP addresses, and account-request details are not displayed publicly and are accessible only to administrators with a legitimate operational reason.

You may request correction or deletion of account-level personal information by emailing share.aharonilab@gmail.com. Public contributions cannot be unilaterally withdrawn from the public record, but author attribution may be anonymized on request.

The wiki is hosted in the United States. By using the wiki you consent to processing of your information in the United States.

9. No warranty; not medical or veterinary advice

Content is provided "as is" for educational and research purposes only. Hardware designs, surgical protocols, and analysis pipelines described here are not medical or veterinary advice and are not a substitute for institutional review, animal-care committee approval, or independent verification.

You must verify the applicability and safety of any procedure or design through your institution's review processes before implementing it. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Operator disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

External links and references to third-party tools, products, or sources are provided for convenience and do not constitute endorsement.

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Operator's aggregate liability arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of the wiki shall not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars (USD $100). The Operator shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or goodwill, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

11. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Operator and its administrators, employees, and affiliated personnel from and against any claim, demand, loss, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from: (a) content you contribute or upload; (b) your violation of these Terms; or (c) your violation of any law or of the rights of any third party.

12. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your account at any time, with or without cause, including for violations of these Terms. Termination does not unwind contributions previously made, which remain licensed under the terms in effect when contributed.

You may close your account at any time by emailing share.aharonilab@gmail.com. Closure does not withdraw past contributions from the public record.

Sections 6, 9, 10, 11, and 12 survive termination.

13. Governing law and venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of the wiki is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Los Angeles County, California, and you consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.

14. Changes to these Terms

We may revise these Terms from time to time. The current version always lives on this page, and the date of the most recent revision appears at the top. We will provide notice of material changes via a banner on the wiki or via the email address on file for your account for a reasonable period before the change takes effect. Your continued use of the wiki after that period constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.

15. Miscellaneous

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with any additional terms for restricted areas, constitute the entire agreement between you and the Operator regarding the wiki and supersede any prior agreements.
Severability. If any provision is held unenforceable, the remainder shall continue in effect.
No waiver. Our failure to enforce a provision does not waive our right to enforce it later.
Assignment. You may not assign your rights under these Terms. We may assign these Terms in connection with a transfer of operation of the wiki.
Contact. Questions about these Terms may be sent to share.aharonilab@gmail.com.