Terms of Use

Version 1.0 from 6 April 2025.

The purpose of RxLaboratorio is the share, promotion and development of tools, content, resources, ideas and suggestions, working towards openness, independence and transparency for the freedom and emancipation of people.

We invite you to join our community, get the tools, content and resources available on our platform, help translating some of them, chat with the creators and users, support the development and tell everybody to visit our site and social media.

Read attentively our Terms and Conditions and The Codes of Conduct we follow: the Contributor Covenant and the Netiquette.

By browsing this web site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agreed with the following Terms and Conditions, which are related to all the activities of the association, shared content, downloads, creation and use of personal accounts, product orders, communication and chat platforms, social media, all online existing and future domains belonging to RxLaboratorio: rxlaboratorio.org, rxlab.info, rxlab.guide, rxlab.io and rxlab.dev.

This Terms and Conditions are addressed to:

all visitors and users of the aforementioned websites and platforms, social media and all online and real interaction places and situations related to RxLaboratorio,
all natural or legal person developing a program that connects to all API or website belonging to RxLaboratorio,
all the members of the association on a virtual or real basis, interacting on behalf of RxLaboratorio.

If you have any comments or questions about the present Terms of Use, please send us a message through our contact form.

RxLaboratorio’s Terms of Use are separated on two parts :

one for Users of the content, services and platforms of RxLaboratorio,
one for the Creators of content and services shared by RxLaboratorio through our distribution platform, specially the website rxlaboratorio.org

Terms of Use for RxLaboratorio’s Users

Code of Conduct

In short: We all commit to be respectful to one another, under any circumstance and preventing any discrimination whatsoever.

You are required to respect the integrity of the other users and the content creators. In the same way, you engage yourself to not use this service to illegal or unauthorized ends. Any attempt that may jeopardize RxLaboratorio, its members, users, platforms and derived services, are an infraction to the law. No abusive, harmful, violent, defamatory, threatening, derogatory, harassing, intolerant, racist, sexist, criminal or reprehensible language of any kind will be permitted.
In case of non-compliance of the present Terms of Use, RxLaboratorio reserves the right to disable the access to your account and to refuse any use of the service, if the association’s Collegial Council determines that it’s necessary.

Websites, responsibility and warranties

In short: RxLaboratorio is not responsible for the content produced by the creators. We do our best so everything runs properly, however don’t get mad if you find bugs or issues, instead report them through the official channels: the forum or the repository.

RxLaboratorio’s community do its best to guarantee the continuous proper operation of its websites, platforms and API, however RxLaboratorio cannot guarantee the absence of breakdowns or any other problems that may arise.
The use of RxLaboratorio’s websites and platforms is made under your own risks. RxLaboratorio cannot be held liable for any direct, indirect, or incidental damages that may result from the use or inability to use this service.
The content shared by RxLaboratorio remains the solely responsibility of its creators. RxLaboratorio doesn’t assume any guarantee of the content operation. The license under which the content is published is mentioned and will provide you all the details regarding the guarantees (or lack of guarantees) given by the creators, as well as everything that you are allowed to do whit those contents.
RxLaboratorio doesn’t warrant that its services will meet your specific needs, or that they will be uninterrupted or bug-free.
RxLaboratorio reserves the right, at any time, to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, its services with or without previous notice.
RxLaboratorio will not be held accountable to you or any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of its services.

Licenses, copyright, intellectual property…

In short: We respect copyright and intellectual property.

You agree to respect the licenses and more generally the copyright of the products, tools, documentation, tutorials and all content available on all RxLaboratorio’s platforms.
You’re not allowed to sell, trade, resell, or exploit for any unauthorized commercial purpose any service or content distributed by RxLaboratorio.

Your personal data and your account

In short: Rxlaboratorio protects your private life, we’ll never share your personal data. You must ensure though the security of your own private account and password.

You are responsible for maintaining the security and confidentiality of your account and password.
In accordance with the law n° 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedoms, RxLaboratorio guarantees your right of access, opposition and rectification of personal data concerning yourself. You can exercise this right by using the contact form available on rxlaboratorio.org.
- In order to use some of RxLaboratorio’s services, you must create an account. RxLaboratorio asks for certain personal information: a valid email address and a password that is used to protect your account from unauthorized access. The “Last name” and “First name” fields, as well as a postal address and a telephone number may be required for the proper functioning of the services, invoicing and the shipment of any orders including physical goods.
- As any other online provider, RxLaboratorio may automatically record certain information about your use of the service such as account activity (e.g., storage space occupied, number of entries, actions taken), data viewed or clicked (e.g., links, user interface elements), and other information that may identify you (e.g., browser type, IP address, date and time of access, referrer URL).
- We use this information internally to improve the user interface for RxLaboratorio’s services and to maintain a consistent, reliable, and secure user experience.
- Data relating to orders placed on the site (billing and delivery addresses, invoices, quotes) are necessary for accounting purposes, the application of taxes and any other applicable law.
- This data is not sold or passed on to third parties.
You are free to close your account whenever you wish, either by using the option in the account settings or by notifying us via the contact form available on rxlaboratorio.org.
RxLaboratorio reserves the right to close your account if you do not log in for a period longer than 24 months. In this case, a notification will be sent to you by e-mail one month in advance.

For members

According to the statutes of RxLaboratorio, no member is personally responsible for the engagements established by the association.
L’association RxLaboratorio commits to helping its members to choose their fair amount of contributions according to their own income.

Legal

You must not break the laws of your country.
These RxLaboratorio’s Terms of Use are ruled by French law. Notwithstanding any translations that may be made, signed or not, the authentic language for the interpretation or execution of these Terms of Use is French.
RxLaboratorio reserves the right to update and modify all or any part of these Terms of Use without previous notice. We recommend you to check our Terms of Use from time to time to be kept updated of any changes. To continue using our sites, after the modification of these Terms of Use, represents their acceptance. If you no longer agree with RxLaboratorio’s Terms of Use, you must immediately discontinue the use of the websites and the services provided by the association.
To return a product or get a refund, or if you have any question about the shop, contact us using this form. Find the complete Shop’s Refund and Returns Policy here.
In accordance with the provisions of the Consumer Code concerning “the process of mediation of consumer disputes”, after having contacted us and in the absence of a satisfactory response, you have the possibility to contact our mediator CM2C free of charge, who will try to find an amicable solution.

Terms of Use for RxLaboratorio’s Content Creators

General

As creator of free and open source software or any kind of computer program or learning resource, accepted by the association’s Collegial Council, RxLaboratorio allows you to promote your contents on RxLaboratorio’s platforms. Those contents are uploaded by the Tekniko committee, which will provide the necessary support for this purpose. Nevertheless, the proper operation of your contents and services, as well as the consequences occurring from them, remain of your entire responsibility.
RxLaboratorio’s Collegial Council decides to accept or refuse the distribution of your content, in accodance with the public relations committee. To be accepted, your content must be sufficiently recent, useful, open and emancipating. The Collegial Council could request advice from the Tekniko or Etiko committee if necessary. In some justified cases, the Collegial Council may propose you to distribute your content completely free of charge, although we favor paying creators for their content.

Licenses, copyrights, intellectual property…

In short: You remain the owner of your content and you are accountable to it. The distribution via RxLaboratorio’s platform is non-exclusive, it means that you are free to manage your own content. RxLaboratorio and its community commits to respect copyright and intellectual property.

We’ll not use your content for any purpose other than its distribution. Your content belongs to you (and we encourage you to publish it under a free or creative commons license). RxLaboratorio will never claim any rights to your data: text, images, sound, video, or any other element, that you distribute on our platform. You retain ownership of the rights to all of your products and services and you may withdraw them at any time by simply requesting the Administrado Committee or the Collegial Council.
You are not allowed to use RxLaboratorio’s platform to add, market or promote any service, information, data or content other than those accepted by the Collegial Council.
You certify that you own all the rights to distribute any products and services shared through RxLaboratorio’s platforms.
The distribution of your content on RxLaboratorio’s platforms is not exclusive, however you are not authorized to use RxLaboratorio’s logos and trademarks (other than to link your content to the association’s websites), nor to publish them on any other site or platform, in order to avoid any confusion or misrepresentation of a false bind with RxLaboratorio. The trademarks, logos, and service marks (“Marks”) displayed on the Association’s websites and social media are the property of RxLaboratorio or other duly registered parties. In the same way, the names assigned to your content, distributed by the association, should never start with the letters “Rx” to avoid any confusion with the content belonging or shared by RxLaboratorio itself, which has chosen those letters as the first letters of their tool’s names.
You must never share content or services that infringes the copyright, intellectual property, or patents of any person, legal entity or individual. Any published content that doesn’t belong to you, but for which you hold the distribution rights, must be informed to the Collegial Council and properly identified.
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes an infringement of your copyright, intellectual property or any of your patents, you must notify the Administrado Committee, and provide the corresponding evidence in writing.

Payment

In short: You can be rewarded for the content you share on RxLaboratorio’s platform. This monetary contribution is not based on a fixed amount (nor on the level of success of your content), but on its social utility (tools or learning resources), and it takes into account the time you’ve spent on the development, support and maintenance of the content.

RxLaboratorio can give you a retribution for the content you share on the distribution platform (although we also encourage you to give free access to some of your content if you can). This remuneration is based on a calculation made monthly, according to the association’s income. The method of calculation is validated by the association’s Etiko Committee, and the implementation of the formula is monitored by the Administrado Committee. You can access the details of the calculation at any time on request to the Administrado Committee or via the contact form available on the association’s website.
Each month, an available financial “envelope” is calculated. As stipulated by the association’s Rules and Regulations, the Administrado Committee estimates then the part used to remunerate the creators of the products and services distributed by the association. This share is divided between each creator according to a points-based system, assigned to each content that is distributed by the association, in accordance with the following terms:
- some points are assigned by the Collegial Council and the Publikaj Rilatoj Committee once the content is agreed for distribution, based on the volume of work already done by the creator, or its dimension, or its relevance. This amount of points decreases gradually over time,
- some points are assigned by the Collegial Council and the Publikaj Rilatoj Committee according to the social dimension of the content, which may be reassessed at the beginning of the year or as deemed necessary by the committees.
- some points are assigned by the Publikaj Rilatoj Committee depending on the amount of work done by the creator throughout the distribution of its content by the association (user support, bug reports and feature requests replies and solutions, maintenance, updates…),
- some points are assigned in proportion to the number of downloads or users of the content.

Technical requirements, support and IT security

In short: To assure the proper distribution of your content, we apply some technical requirements, and we can help you setting things up. You must engage to get actively involved and support the rest of the community helping users, fixing bugs, providing updates, etc.

In the event of distribution of computer programs:
- You must have a public code deposit (i.e. on github, gitlab, codeberg…) containing :
  - a manifest including the metadata necessary for distribution via the association’s platforms,
  - a “README” file including the description and presentation of the program,
  - and the program’s license.
- You undertake not to damage in any way the operation of RxLaboratorio’s platforms through the content of these three files, which are automatically read.
- You agree to have the right to publicly distribute anything available on the public repository, which must not have any illegal content.
- You commit to having an active ticket system (where you are able to receive bug reports and feature requests from the users of your programs).
- The Tekniko committee of the association will be able to help and advise you in managing these different elements.
You agree to have an account on the public discussion platform chosen by the association and to log in regularly, and/or to be able to be reached via a contact form on the association’s website.
You also agree to answer any questions left by users on the respective pages of your contents, distributed by the association patforms.
You must not misuse RxLaboratorio’s websites or access to the association’s APIs and platforms. You agree not to distribute or disseminate any content that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, abusive, fraudulent, infringing, obscene or objectionable somehow.
You must not transmit any file, data or file containing viruses, malware, content prohibited by law, or any other component that is harmful to the association, its members and the users of its websites.
RxLaboratorio reserves the right, if necessary, to withdraw or suspend the dissemination of any content from its platforms, which does not comply with these conditions.

End of RxLaboratorio's **Terms of Use**.

Prices

Aware that not everyone has the same means, but refusing to let these inequalities to be an obstacle to access to knowledge and techniques, the prices of the services offered by the association must be able to match everyone’s income.

In that sens, as often as possible, you have the freedom to choose your own price. To help you make your choice, the association offers recommended rates, but may also be required to establish a minimum price that allows the association and the content creators to continue to offer their services and products.

The association may also be required to set a defined price for certain products in order to comply with the existing French laws. This is particularly the case for the price of books.

The following grid shows an estimation of how the association establishes these different values. These rates are set in euros (€) all taxes included.

Type of product or service	Minimum price	Suggested Price
Computer program	0 €	Donate or become a member
Digital User Guide	Free	Free
Long or complex tutorials, price per hour	2,5 €	7 €
Monthly subscription to all tutorials	10 €	10 €
Annual subscription to all tutorials	100 €	100 €
Short technical tutorials	0 €	Donate or become a member
Books	–	Depending on the book

These prices are given as an estimation but may vary depending on the products or services concerned.

Finally, to thank the members of the association, the membership offers a 20% discount on all minimum rates, except for books and other products or services where a discount would not be possible for technical or legal reasons.

Donations and memberships

In order to allow the association to continue its missions, we encourage you to make a donation or to become a member.

Making a regular donation (monthly or annual) is a great way to sustain what we do.

As well as the prices of the contents distributed by the association, you can choose the amount of your donations and memberships.

Donations

In order to cover the costs associated with donations (payment providers, administrative processing, etc.), we cannot accept an amount less than 2€ (whether it’s a recurring or one-time donation).

Memberships

Memberships are defined by the association’s Rules and Regulations. Here is a summary table of the amounts :

Membership	Minimum amount	Suggested amount
Individual, annual	20 €	100 €
Individual, monthly	2 €	10 €
Team, annual	100 €	200 €
Team, monthly	10 €	20 €
Solidarity annual (low-income individuals)	10 €	10 €

We recall that to thank the members of the association, the membership offers a 20% discount on all minimum prices for the association’s products and services, except for books and other products or services where a discount would not be possible for technical or legal reasons.