Storyshares – User Terms of Use [Last Updated March 10, 2023]
See also: Site Terms of Use
By posting, uploading, inputting, providing, submitting, or otherwise contributing ("Posting") any information, graphical material, comments, ratings, survey responses or any other input to the Website ("Submission"), you affirm your agreement to be bound by these Terms of Use.
The Company is under no obligation to post, maintain, or otherwise use any Submission you may provide. You understand and agree that the Company may, but is not obligated to, review the Website and may delete, remove (without notice) or refuse to post any Submission in its sole discretion, for any reason or no reason, including Submissions that in the Company's sole judgment might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of users or others. You are solely responsible at your sole cost and expense for creating backup copies and replacing any Submissions you post or store on the Website or provide to the Company.
You are solely responsible for any Submission that you Post. You may not Post any Submission that you did not create or that you do not have permission to Post. You represent and warrant that any Submission or other content and information that you submit to the Company or the Website:
(a) is owned or controlled by you and provided without violation of any third party's rights;
(b) does not otherwise violate these terms of use;
(c) does not infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual property right of any party or person; and
(d) does not contain any content that is infringing, harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, lewd, fraudulent, or invasive of privacy or publicity rights or that may expose the Company or any users of the Website or the Website Content to any harm or liability of any type.
You Post content on the Website at your own risk. The Company cannot and does not guarantee that your submissions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
By posting to the Website, you grant the Company a royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use your Submission. This includes, without limitation, the license rights to: copy, distribute, reproduce, modify, edit, publish, transmit, translate, reformat, create derivative works from, display, perform, and otherwise use such Submissions in whole or in part, on a worldwide basis; to incorporate such Submissions into other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed, including for promotional or marketing purposes; to publish your name in connection with your Submission; and the right to sublicense such rights to any user of the Website. No compensation will be paid with respect to the use or license of your Submission, as provided herein.
You maintain the same ownership and rights in all Submissions that you held prior to Posting, subject only to the non-exclusive license granted to the Company as described above in "Rights Granted to the Company."