Terms of use

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Last changed: 10 November 2026

Handcoded Bits is a community where people build small animations and UI pieces by hand. These are the rules for using it. Creating an account means you accept them.

1. Who runs the site

Handcoded Bits is run by name and postal address of the owner. You can reach us at contact email address.

2. Your account

• You must be 16 or older.
• An account is for one person. Do not share it, and do not keep several accounts to get around a rule, such as the rules on voting.
• Give an email address that reaches you. We use it to recover your account and to tell you about changes to it.
• Keep your password to yourself. You are responsible for what is done with your account.
• Your handle is your public name. Do not pick one that passes you off as someone else or as the site itself. We may take back a handle that does.

3. Written by hand

This is the point of the site. What you make here, you write yourself:

• You type your code in the site's editor.
• You do not have an AI tool write it, and you do not paste or auto-type code from somewhere else.
• The editor records how your code was written, and others can watch it as a replay. That is how hand-written work is shown, and how doubts are settled.

4. Your work

What you make stays yours. To run the site we need your permission to store it and to show it, with its code and its replay, to visitors.

Publishing, remixing and competitions will get their own rules on this page before they open.

5. What is not allowed

• Breaking the law, or helping others to.
• Harassing, threatening or demeaning people.
• Presenting someone else's work as your own.
• Code that tries to harm visitors or the site, to get around its protections, or to collect visitors' data.
• Spam and advertising.
• Rigging votes or results, by any means.
• Copying the site's content in bulk with automated tools.

6. Editors and admins

Admins are the people who run the site. Editors are members whom an admin has trusted with running competitions. Both act for the community, and neither will ever ask for your password.

7. When we remove something

We may remove content that breaks these terms, and suspend or delete an account that does so seriously or repeatedly. Where we can, we tell you what was removed and why. If you think we got it wrong, write to us and a person will look at it again.

8. Leaving

You can delete your account at any time in your settings. It is deleted at once, together with what you made. Results of competitions that have already finished stay, without your name. The privacy policy says more.

9. The service

Handcoded Bits is free to use. We work to keep it running and your work safe, but we cannot promise that it will always be available or free of faults, and we may change or close parts of it. As far as the law allows, we are not liable for losses that follow from using the site. Nothing here takes away rights that the law gives you and that cannot be given up.

10. Changes to these terms

When these terms change in a way that matters, we tell you by email at least 14 days before the change takes effect. If you do not agree, you can delete your account before then.

11. Law

These terms are governed by the law of the owner's country. If you are a consumer, you keep the protection of the law of the country you live in.