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Content Policy

Effective July 29, 2026

This policy applies to everything published on Professor Lockin: community study guides, practice questions, flashcard decks, and anything else you share. For guide authors it is part of the Author Agreement. The short version: teach the material — never reproduce the exam.

1. What’s welcome

• Original study guides — explanations, walkthroughs, mnemonics, diagrams, and study plans written in your own words from your own understanding.
• Original practice questions — questions you wrote that test the same skills an exam tests, without copying or paraphrasing real exam items.
• Honest experience — what the exam format felt like, how you allocated study time, which topics deserved more attention.
• Properly licensed material — content you have written permission to redistribute commercially, with attribution where required.

2. What’s banned

Exam dumps — zero tolerance

Actual exam questions or answers, in original or paraphrased form (“dumps,” “braindumps”), are banned outright. Certification exams are protected by copyright, trade secret, and the NDA every candidate accepts — passing an exam does not give you the right to reproduce its content. A question is a dump if someone who took the exam would recognize it. This is the fastest way to lose writer status permanently, and it exposes you (not just us) to legal action from the certification vendor.

Also banned

• Copyright infringement: substantial copying from books, courses, videos, documentation, or another author’s guide — including lightly reworded copies and unlicensed translations.
• NDA-covered material: anything your candidate agreement, beta program, or employer prohibits you from sharing.
• Plagiarism: presenting others’ work as your own, even from free sources.
• Trademark misuse: you may name the exam a guide prepares for (nominative use, e.g. “AZ-104 study guide”), but may not use vendor logos or imply the vendor endorses or produced your guide (no “Official”, no vendor branding).
• Deceptive claims: guaranteed passes, fake credentials, fabricated scores or reviews.
• Low-value filler: auto-generated or bulk-copied content with no original instructional value.
• Anything prohibited by the Terms: unlawful, harmful, or hateful content, malware, others’ personal data (see Terms of Service §4).

3. How this is enforced

• Pre-publish review: every community guide is reviewed by our team before it goes live. Review is a filter, not an endorsement — responsibility for the content stays with its author.
• Enforcement ladder: depending on severity — changes requested, guide rejected, guide suspended or removed, earnings from infringing content withheld or clawed back, writer status revoked, account terminated.
• Repeat infringers lose their account. Exam dumps skip the ladder: immediate removal and permanent loss of writer status.
• Legal notices: copyright owners can use our DMCA process; we comply with valid takedown notices and legal requests from certification vendors.

4. Reporting content

See something that breaks this policy? Email ProfessorLockin@gmail.com with a link to the guide or deck. Copyright owners seeking removal of infringing material should use the DMCA takedown process. Live party games (Impostor, Liar’s Bluff) also have an in-game Report button on player-written text, alongside this email path.

5. Changes

We may update this policy as the marketplace grows; the effective date above will change and material updates will be announced to authors. Continued publishing after changes means you accept them.