At 51edu, our mission is to empower every person on the planet to learn how to do anything. We do this by collaborating to create the world’s most helpful instructions. Before you read our detailed, legally binding Terms of Use, here is a non-legalese summary of some key information about reading or contributing to 51edu:
You continue to own the copyrights of the content you submit to 51edu. That said, by posting your content on 51edu you give us multiple rights to use and change it (see “User Content License Grants” below for details).
Our community of editors (as opposed to the lawyers who wrote the terms of service below) has developed detailed guidelines about how to contribute to 51edu. You can learn more by reading our Writer’s Guide.
We license all user generated content text on 51edu under a Creative Commons license. Read more here. If you want to republish 51edu content under the terms of this license please follow our attribution guidelines. There is a significant amount of content on 51edu that is not user generated, and is therefore not licensed for any purpose.
We value your privacy. Read more at our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.
If you would like to have your 51edu account and all personal data deleted from our site, we will be happy to do so. Just email us with the subject line “Account deletion request” and provide your 51edu user name.
If you have a question, concern or just want to offer a note of thanks, you can email us .
Please see below for our official Terms of Use. We encourage you to read them carefully. Thank you for using and contributing to 51edu. We appreciate your support in promoting our goal of sharing information freely around the world.