This site (including any content, material, functionality or services provided herein (this “Site”)) is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Utah corporation sole, having its principal offices in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. (the “Church,” “we”, “us” or a similar term). The liability and obligations of the Church in connection with the publishing and other use of any information or materials contributed by you to this Site is strictly limited by this Site’s Terms of Use (the “Terms of Use”) and by this Local Unit Webpage Content Submission Agreement (this “Agreement”). This Agreement restates and/or supplements the Terms of Use; it does not replace the Terms of Use. Both the Terms of Use and this Agreement are incorporated into each other as if explicitly recited, each in the other. By submitting, contributing or posting any information or materials to any portion of this Site, you agree to the Terms of Use and all terms and conditions of this Agreement.
1. You are Responsible for Your Contributed Content.
The decision to upload information, content, images, photos, writings, documents, recordings, discussions, comments or other materials (collectively and individually, “Contributed Content”) to this Site is your responsibility. All Contributed Content that you upload to this Site may be displayed and be available for others to search, view, hear and otherwise use in accordance with the Terms of Use and this Agreement. Do not contribute anything that you do not want to be accessed by others.
2. Right to Submit.
By submitting Contributed Content to this Site, you affirm that you have the full legal right to submit such Contributed Content and that its submission and use in accordance with the Terms of Use and this Agreement will not violate any third party’s privacy rights, publicity rights, contract rights, copyrights, trademark rights, patent rights or other intellectual property or proprietary rights. By affirming your legal right to submit Contributed Content, you accept full legal responsibility for our (and our sublicensees’) use of your Contributed Content.
3. Third-Party Rights.
We respect the copyrights and other intellectual property rights of others. Be aware that content, including photographs and personal experiences, even if submitted to a portion of this Site that is relevant to you, remains the property of the creator or submitter. You should not reproduce or post such content to this Site without express permission to do so from the owner of, and from anyone featured in, such content. In this regard, photographs of living individuals, except your own minor children, must not be posted without their consent. Photographs of living children that are not your own minor children, must not be posted without the consent of that child’s parent or guardian. No minor child’s full name should ever be posted to this Site. When creating an audio/voice recording, the personal content recorded should be your own, or if the creation of another (for example a poem or article), be used with the express permission of the owner.
4. Licenses, Rights and Waivers Granted to Us.
By submitting Contributed Content to this Site, you grant the Church an unrestricted, fully paid-up, royalty-free, worldwide, irrevocable, sublicensable and perpetual license to use any and all Contributed Content that you submit or otherwise provide to this Site, for any and all purposes, in any and all manners and in any and all forms of media that we, in our sole discretion, deem appropriate for the furtherance of our mission. As part of this license, you give us unlimited permission to copy, publicly display, transmit, broadcast, publicly perform, distribute, sublicense, create derivative works from (including, without limitation, by combining all or a portion of your Contributed Content with that of other contributors or by otherwise modifying your Contributed Content), and to otherwise use (and allow others to use) your Contributed Content throughout the world, by any means we deem appropriate (electronic or otherwise, including on the internet). In addition to the foregoing, you agree that you waive any and all rights of privacy and publicity relating to our use of your Contributed Content. Moreover, if you submit any Contributed Content that includes the image, voice or likeness of any identifiable person under the age of 18, then you do hereby grant (if you are the parent or guardian of such person), or you represent and warrant that you have obtained from that person’s parent or guardian, all necessary permissions and waivers that are needed for us and our sublicensees to use your Contributed Content in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Terms of Use.
5. Accuracy of Contributed Data.
You agree to provide true, accurate and complete information to us. If any information you provide is, in our sole and absolute discretion, false or misleading, we will have the right, but not the obligation, to take any remedial or preventative action we deem appropriate in our sole discretion, including restricting access to, deleting and/or editing any of your Contributed Content.
6. Sensitivity to Other Users.
We ask you to be selective in submitting your Contributed Content. We reserve the right to remove any Contributed Content that we believe, in our sole and absolute discretion, (a) is irrelevant, (b) is potentially harmful or embarrassing to any living person, (c) is offensive, indecent, inappropriate, threatening or abusive or (d) otherwise violates this Agreement or the Terms of Use. We may also take any action, including restricting access for violations of this Agreement and notifying law enforcement of any activity that appears, in our sole discretion, to violate applicable law.
7. Automated Screening.
We reserve the right, without obligation, to monitor and edit your Contributed Content for any or no reason. We may use automated filtering tools to suppress Contributed Content that appears in our best judgment to violate the Terms of Use or this Agreement.
8. Care of Submissions.
We intend to use reasonable efforts to preserve the integrity of your Contributed Content and to avoid errors or omissions in the content of this Site. We provide the opportunity to submit Contributed Content subject to the Terms of Use and this Agreement. Such service and this Site are provided “AS IS”, and we will be neither responsible nor liable for errors or omissions in any content you may find on this Site, nor for any loss, damage or corruption of Contributed Content that you submit. You may withdraw any of your Contributed Content from this Site, but we will not be required to remove links or references to withdrawn Contributed Content. Additionally, you acknowledge and agree that once we have sublicensed your Contributed Content to others, we may not be able, and we will have no obligation, to have such sublicensees stop using such Contributed Content. We are not liable for any special or consequential damages resulting from your submission of Contributed Content or our refusal to accept your Contributed Content. Please see the Terms of Use for further information.
9. No Open Source Software.
You agree not to use or link this Site with any other software, including, without limitation, any open source software.
10. Data Protection Laws.
If you are located outside the U.S.A., you consent to the processing in the U.S.A. of any personal data that you submit, in accordance with our Privacy Notice. You also agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of personal information to or from the U.S.A. and the country in which you reside.
11. Code of Conduct.
Please carefully read the Code of Conduct section of the Terms of Use, which, along with all other sections of the Terms of Use, applies to this Agreement.
