Proprietary Rights in Content

The Foundation does not claim ownership rights to Content posted by a User to the Foundation’s Website. After posting Content to the Website, the User maintains ownership rights of such Content. By publishing Content on the Website, User grants to the Story of My Life Foundation a limited license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content solely on and through the Foundation’s Website.

The license User grants to the Story of My Life Foundation is non-exclusive where the User is not restricted in licensing Content elsewhere, is duty-free and royalty-free to the Foundation, is sublicensable to appropriate service providers, and international.

User agrees and warrants that all Content posted to the Foundation Website is owned by the User (subject to such third party rights as User may have granted and as are acceptable to Foundation) and does not violate any copyrights, fees, or other ownership claims and the Foundation is not held responsible for any fees, dues, royalties or other owed by any third party for Content posted by User. If any Content posted to the Foundation Website by the User is subject to third party rights acceptable to Foundation, User agrees and represents that such Content has been posted in accordance with, and does not violate, any such third party rights.

It is the intention of the Foundation to make the permanent Stories available in perpetuity through its Website or otherwise, and the Foundation shall take reasonable measures to protect and preserve the content submitted by User.

All intellectual property rights in and relating to the Foundation Website and the content displayed on the Website (other than contributions of Users) are owned by the Foundation or by the Foundation’s third-party licensor.

User warrants that all personal information about persons other than User that User posts is posted with the full consent of those others and that such posting is otherwise lawful in all respects.

User’s profile must describe User, an individual person. Examples of inappropriate profiles include, but are not limited to, profiles that purport to represent an animal, place, inanimate object, fictional character, or real individual who is not the User.

User is solely responsible for all content that User posts to the Website. User may not post, and the Foundation may in its absolute discretion remove, any content that the Foundation believes:

• constitutes pornography or is otherwise obscene, indecent, sexually explicit, morally repugnant, or harmful to minors;
  
  
• is defamatory of a real or legal person, or of goods or services;
  
  
• violates a person's privacy or other rights relating to personal information;
  
  
• depicts violence, incites violence, threatens violence, contains harassing content, hate speech, or incites racial or ethnic hatred;
  
  
• is blasphemous or incites religious hatred;
  
  
• impersonates or falsely attributes material to any person or entity;
  
  
• discloses confidential or proprietary information of another person;
  
  
• is discriminatory in any way, including by way of sex, race or age discrimination;
  
  
• might infringe another person's copyright, trade or service mark, patent, or other intellectual property right;
  
  
• creates a risk to safety or health, or compromises national security or official secrets;
  
  
• deems to be, offensive, immoral or illegal;
  
  
• is otherwise malicious, fraudulent, or may result in the reputation of the Website or the Foundation being damaged;
  
  
• is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to User or to the Foundation;
  
  
• otherwise violates the Terms of Use.
  
  

The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Web site. The Foundation reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action in its sole discretion against anyone who violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Website and terminating the membership of the violators. It includes Content that:

• is patently offensive to the online community, such as Content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
  
  
• harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
  
  
• involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming";
  
  
• promotes information that the User knows is false, misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
  
  
• promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;
  
  
• contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
  
  
• displays pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind;
  
  
• provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
  
  
• provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
  
  
• solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users; and
  
  
• engages in commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes;
  
  

User must not upload, post or otherwise transmit to the Websites any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs that might interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or do any other act which causes or contributes to the same.

Upon submission of content to the Website by User, the text may be automatically screened using dictionary software for detecting indecent or offensive words.

Any content submitted by User that is deemed to be in breach of the Terms of Use will result in the content being removed, even if User has made the requisite contribution to the Foundation for perpetual storage of Content.

Activity that is brought to the Foundation’s attention, which appears in its sole judgment to violate the law, may be brought to the attention of the proper authorities.