The rules for using this Rice Purity Test site, written to be readable.
The rules for using this Rice Purity Test site, written to be readable. By using the site, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the site. We have kept the language as plain as we can, because terms nobody can read protect nobody.
This site provides the Rice Purity Test, related personality quizzes, and a journal of articles about the test, its history, and its scores. The test is a decades-old student tradition provided here for entertainment and self-reflection. A score is not a medical result, a psychological assessment, a background check, or a measure of anyone's character or worth, and it must never be presented or used as any of those things.
The site is open to a general audience, and taking the test requires no personal information from anyone. Some features, such as accounts and the newsletter, are intended for adults and older students. If you are under the age of majority where you live, use those features only with the knowledge of a parent or guardian. By creating an account you confirm that the details you give are accurate and that the account is yours.
Accounts are optional. If you create one, you are responsible for keeping your login details safe and for everything that happens under your account. Choose a password you do not reuse elsewhere. Tell us through the contact page if you think your account has been accessed by someone else, and we will help you secure it. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms, that are used to misuse the site, or that appear to be abandoned and compromised, and we will try to give a fair explanation where that is reasonable.
You may use the site for your own personal, non-commercial purposes: taking the tests, reading the journal, sharing your own results, and linking to our pages. Please do not misuse it. In particular, do not attempt to break, overload, probe, or gain unauthorised access to the site, its data, or other people's accounts. Do not scrape the site in a way that harms the service or other visitors. Do not use the site to harass, threaten, or impersonate anyone. Do not submit false contact messages at scale, spam the newsletter, or use automated tools to distort the anonymous statistics the site publishes, because those statistics are only worth showing if they are honest.
The questions, articles, design, graphics, and text on this site belong to us or to the people who licensed them to us. The Rice Purity Test itself is a traditional checklist with a long history, and our presentation of it, including our wording, explanations, and guides, is our work. You may share your own results and link to our pages freely. Please do not republish our articles or pages as your own, copy the site's design or text in bulk, or remove notices that identify the source of the material.
If the site lets you post comments or send content to us, you keep ownership of what you write, and you give us permission to store it, display it on the site where relevant, and moderate it. Do not post anything unlawful, abusive, defamatory, infringing, or misleading, and do not post other people's personal information. We may remove content that breaks these terms or that we reasonably believe puts the site or its visitors at risk, and we do not owe anyone a platform for content we have removed. Messages sent through the contact form are private correspondence, not public content, and we treat them that way.
Articles on this site sometimes link to other websites for background, sources, or further reading. Those sites are not ours, we do not control them, and we are not responsible for their content, their accuracy, or their privacy practices. Following a link is your choice, and the terms and policies of the site you land on will apply there.
We work to keep the site online, fast, and accurate, but we cannot promise that it will always be available, that every page will always load, or that everything on it will always be free of errors. The internet, hosting providers, and our own maintenance occasionally get in the way. We may update features, questions, wording, or these terms over time as the site develops. If a change to these terms is significant, we will note the new date on this page, and continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated terms.
The site is provided as is and as available. Test results are generated from your own answers and are provided for amusement and reflection only. We make no promise that any score, statistic, or article is suitable for any decision about any person, and you should not rely on them for one. To the extent the law allows, we exclude implied warranties about the site, its availability, and its fitness for a particular purpose.
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or unexpected losses arising from your use of the site, from relying on a test score, or from the site being unavailable. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law, including liability for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence. If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest of the terms continue to apply.
Questions about these terms, or about anything on the site, go through the contact page. We actually read every message, and if your question shows us a genuine problem with these terms or the site, we would rather hear it from you than from anyone else. If a court or authority ever finds part of these terms unenforceable, that part will apply as narrowly as possible and the rest of the terms will continue in full, because the agreement between us is the whole document, not any single clause.