timothyshek01 wrote:

Is it true if you make a project on the scratch website and you don't share it the Scratch Team can still see it?

Lightnin wrote:

Greetings!
We’ve just added a new Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for Scratch, with links at the bottom of every page. Given that these are new, we thought we should take the time to explain to Scratchers what these pages are, and why we added them.

The Terms of Use is a legal document we created with the help of our friends at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and MIT Legal. We worked through several drafts to come up with language that’s as readable as possible and says, in legal terms, what the rules have always been on Scratch. I’ll summarize these as:

1. Be Nice! (and follow the community guidelines)
2. Everything you share can be remixed (as long as credit is given)
3. Don’t upload projects made with modified versions of Scratch (our server might not know how to play them properly)

The Privacy Policy is mostly a restatement of the privacy section of our Frequently Asked Questions page. It explains what information we gather from Scratchers, how and why we use it, and under what circumstances we will or will not share it. (We don’t sell Scratcher’s information to anyone - never have, and never will.) We added a link to it at the bottom of every page because that’s where most sites put it, and where most people are likely to look for it.

You are invited to read the docs themselves – we kept them as short and readable as we could – and ask any questions you have on this thread!

Scratch On!