{"id":3542,"date":"2023-03-07T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T13:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:28:43","slug":"author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Terms and Conditions of Use"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TDS has grown and evolved a lot over time, and the terms that govern our relationship with contributors have also changed as a result. You can find the most up-to-date version of the these terms here: Author Terms and Conditions of Use\u2014 February 2025<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re a current or prospective author and have any questions about contributing to TDS, we explain how you can reach out here<\/a>. You can also read the previous versions of our Author Terms and Conditions of Use: September 2024<\/a>, August 2023<\/a>, March 2023<\/a>, August 2022<\/a>, July 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have any questions, you can contact us here. You can also find our previous version here:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_member_only":false,"sub_heading":"Stay informed of the rules and details around publishing on TDS","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"coauthors":[15541],"class_list":["post-3542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nAuthor Terms and Conditions of Use | Towards Data Science<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Author Terms and Conditions of Use | Towards Data Science\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"If you have any questions, you can contact us here. You can also find our previous version here:\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Towards Data Science\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-07T16:00:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-08T18:28:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/020lXAbmtKfF8d5Jw-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"TDS Editors\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@TDataScience\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@TDataScience\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"TDS Editors\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"TDS Editors\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f9925d336b6fe962b03ad8281d90b8ee\"},\"headline\":\"Author Terms and Conditions of Use\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-07T16:00:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-08T18:28:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/\"},\"wordCount\":93,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/020lXAbmtKfF8d5Jw-scaled.jpg\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/\",\"name\":\"Author Terms and Conditions of Use | Towards Data Science\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/020lXAbmtKfF8d5Jw-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-07T16:00:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-02-08T18:28:43+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/020lXAbmtKfF8d5Jw-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/020lXAbmtKfF8d5Jw-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1707,\"caption\":\"Photo by Leone Venter on Unsplash\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Author Terms and Conditions of Use\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/\",\"name\":\"Towards Data Science\",\"description\":\"Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#organization\"},\"alternateName\":\"TDS\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Towards Data Science\",\"alternateName\":\"TDS\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tds-logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tds-logo.jpg\",\"width\":696,\"height\":696,\"caption\":\"Towards Data Science\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/x.com\/TDataScience\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/TowardsDataScience\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/towards-data-science\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f9925d336b6fe962b03ad8281d90b8ee\",\"name\":\"TDS Editors\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/23494c9101089ad44ae88ce9d2f56aac\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"TDS Editors\"},\"description\":\"Building a vibrant data science and machine learning community. Share your insights and projects with our global audience: bit.ly\/write-for-tds\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author\/towardsdatascience\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Author Terms and Conditions of Use | Towards Data Science","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Author Terms and Conditions of Use | Towards Data Science","og_description":"If you have any questions, you can contact us here. You can also find our previous version here:","og_url":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/","og_site_name":"Towards Data Science","article_published_time":"2023-03-07T16:00:48+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-02-08T18:28:43+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1707,"url":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/020lXAbmtKfF8d5Jw-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"TDS Editors","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@TDataScience","twitter_site":"@TDataScience","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"TDS Editors","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/"},"author":{"name":"TDS Editors","@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f9925d336b6fe962b03ad8281d90b8ee"},"headline":"Author Terms and Conditions of Use","datePublished":"2023-03-07T16:00:48+00:00","dateModified":"2025-02-08T18:28:43+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/"},"wordCount":93,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/020lXAbmtKfF8d5Jw-scaled.jpg","inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/","url":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/","name":"Author Terms and Conditions of Use | Towards Data Science","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/020lXAbmtKfF8d5Jw-scaled.jpg","datePublished":"2023-03-07T16:00:48+00:00","dateModified":"2025-02-08T18:28:43+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/020lXAbmtKfF8d5Jw-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/020lXAbmtKfF8d5Jw-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1707,"caption":"Photo by Leone Venter on Unsplash"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author-terms-and-conditions-of-use-b9b3935ff999\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Author Terms and Conditions of Use"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/","name":"Towards Data Science","description":"Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#organization"},"alternateName":"TDS","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#organization","name":"Towards Data Science","alternateName":"TDS","url":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tds-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/tds-logo.jpg","width":696,"height":696,"caption":"Towards Data Science"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/TDataScience","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/TowardsDataScience","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/towards-data-science\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f9925d336b6fe962b03ad8281d90b8ee","name":"TDS Editors","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/23494c9101089ad44ae88ce9d2f56aac","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"TDS Editors"},"description":"Building a vibrant data science and machine learning community. Share your insights and projects with our global audience: bit.ly\/write-for-tds","url":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/author\/towardsdatascience\/"}]}},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Towards Data Science","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3542"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3542"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/towardsdatascience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}