Legal Terms
Effective date: October 15, 2026
1. Agreement
These terms govern your use of BITS. By creating an account or using the service you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use BITS.
2. Who we are
BITS is operated by MICROPUE, the personal brand behind micropue.com.cn. The service is available at bits.micropue.com.cn. You can reach us at [email protected].
3. The service
BITS is a community for publishing, sharing, reusing and discovering code snippets. It is under active development: features may be added, changed or withdrawn, and content may occasionally be unavailable. We may set reasonable limits on usage (for example, on storage or on request rates) to keep the service healthy.
4. Your account
- You must provide an email address you control. We verify it with a one-time code before the account exists.
- Depending on how you sign up (for example with GitHub), we may ask you to set a password so that you can always sign in.
- Keep your password and passkeys safe. You are responsible for activity that happens through your account — if you think someone else has access, change your password and revoke the device from the devices screen.
- An account is for one person. A GitHub account can be linked to only one BITS account.
- You can delete your account at any time (see section 8).
5. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- publish content that is illegal, malicious, or designed to harm others — including malware and destructive code;
- infringe anyone's intellectual property, privacy or other rights;
- harass, threaten or impersonate other people;
- spam, mass-register accounts, or abuse rate limits and other technical protections;
- attack, probe or disrupt the service, or try to access data that is not yours; or
- scrape the service in a way that burdens it or bypasses these terms.
We may remove content or suspend or terminate an account that breaks these rules, and we may report unlawful activity where required.
6. Your content and copyright
You keep your rights. The snippets, groups and other material you publish remain yours. So that we can run the service, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store, reproduce, display and distribute your public content on BITS and in its normal operation, including the technical copies needed for caching and backups. Private and unlisted content is only shown to those you allow.
You confirm that you have the right to publish what you upload, and that it does not infringe anyone else's rights. We are not required to review content before it appears.
Other people's snippets. Public snippets can be read and copied for your own use. Unless an author states a licence for their work, we cannot grant you any rights to it — if you reuse someone's code beyond what the law allows, the responsibility is yours. Be generous with credit.
Copyright complaints. If you believe content on BITS infringes your rights, email [email protected] with the URL of the content, a description of the work you own, and a statement that the use is not authorised. We will review the report and may remove the content.
7. Service availability, changes, and liability
The service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that content will be preserved — keep your own copy of anything important.
Code snippets are shared by users and are not reviewed by us. Reading and running other people's code is at your own risk. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, lost data, lost profits, or any harm resulting from your use of the service or of code obtained through it. Where liability cannot be excluded, it is limited to the amount you have paid us for the service.
We may update these terms as the service evolves. The effective date at the top will change, and significant changes will be announced on the site. Continuing to use BITS after a change means you accept the updated terms.
8. Account deletion
You may request deletion at any time by writing to [email protected] from your registered email address. We will verify the request, then remove your account and your published content within 30 days. After deletion your content is no longer reachable through the site, your public links stop working, and your email address and username become free to register again.
We may keep the minimum records necessary for security, fraud prevention or legal compliance, and residual copies may remain in encrypted backups until they expire on their normal cycle. See the Privacy Policy for details.
9. Children
BITS is not intended for children under 14. If you are under 14, please use BITS only with the consent and supervision of a parent or guardian. If we learn that an account was created by a child under 14 without such consent, we will remove it.
10. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by the laws applicable at the operator's place of establishment, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. If a dispute arises, we will first try to resolve it through good-faith discussion — please contact us before taking any other step. If that fails, the dispute may be submitted to the courts with jurisdiction at the operator's place of establishment. Nothing in these terms limits any rights you have under mandatory consumer protection law in your country of residence.