Privacy & Terms of Use Policy
Terms of Use and Privacy Statement
Welcome to 72project.com (hereinafter, the “website”). By using the website, you accept the terms of this Terms of Use and Privacy Statement. This is a legally binding agreement between you and 72 Project, Inc. (hereinafter, “’72 Project,” “we,” and “us”), the owner and operator of this website. Please read it carefully.
Your use of the website serves as your acceptance of the Terms of Use and Privacy Statement. If you do not agree to be bound by this Terms of Use and Privacy Statement, you may not use the website. From time to time, we may amend any part of the Terms of Use and Privacy Statement. We’ll post the changes to this Terms of Use and Privacy Statement on this website and update the reference to the effective date to reflect the date of the amendment. Your continued use of the website after any such amendment shall indicate your acceptance of the amended Terms of Use and Privacy Statement. ’72 Project may change, restrict access to, suspend, or discontinue this website, or any portion of this website, at any time.
Privacy Statement
’72 Project respects your privacy. Please read this Privacy Statement carefully so that you understand what information we collect through this website and what we do with that information. This Privacy Statement applies only to information collected online through this website and does not describe the ways in which we may collect or use information obtained offline or through any means other than this website. If you have questions about this Privacy Statement, please email your questions to support@72project.com.
Email Addresses. If you provide us your email address, we may email you about the website or to inquire about your experience using the website.
Cookies. To help us tailor the website to the needs and interests of our visitors, we may keep track of the pages visited by our users by placing a cookie, a small entry in text file, on your hard drive. The cookie contains an ID number that allows us to track the pages you’ve visited. We may aggregate this data with data on the pages visited by other users to track overall visitor traffic patterns. We use this information to improve our site by making it more responsive to the needs of our users. Cookies don’t reveal personal information; the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. Cookies can’t read unrelated data off your hard drive. Our advertisers and those who provide products and/or services through our site may also assign their own cookies, a process we don’t control. We don’t have access to these cookies or to any information they contain. The help function on most web browsers contains information on how to set your browser to notify you before accepting a cookie or to disable cookies entirely.
Use and Disclosure of Information.’72 Project understands the importance of privacy and confidentiality to users of the website. Your personal information collected through this site is used solely for the purpose of providing you with the information and services you request, including, without limitation, providing you with access to inspirational stories and/or videos. Your personal information collected through this site will not be sold to any marketing companies. Also, your personal information collected through this site will not be disclosed to third parties except as described in this Privacy Statement. ’72 Project will not share personal information you submit through this site with companies not affiliated with ’72 Project.
Other Disclosures. We may occasionally release information about our visitors when release is appropriate to comply with law, to enforce this Terms of Use and Privacy Statement, or to protect the rights, property or safety of visitors to our site, the public or ’72 Project. As our business grows, we may buy or sell various assets. In the unlikely event that ’72 Project or substantially all of its assets is acquired by another company, information on our visitors would be among the transferred assets. When we use other companies to help us operate our site or improve the content and services we offer to you, we may provide them with information about our visitors that is necessary for them to perform their services. We require that these companies commit to use the information only to perform the services that we request.
Security. Information we gather on our website is stored within ’72 Project-controlled databases (or databases hosted on our behalf) on servers maintained in protected environments. However, no physical or electronic security system is impenetrable. We cannot and shall not guarantee the security of our servers or databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won’t be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a video, testimonial or story may become available to anyone with Internet access.
Terms of Use
We invite you to bring to our attention any material on our site that you believe to be inaccurate. Please forward a copy of the material by email to support@72project.com, along with an explanation of your objection. If you are an owner of intellectual property who believes your intellectual property has been improperly posted or distributed via this website, please notify us by sending an email to support@72project.com.
User Submissions. We may now or in the future permit the submission of stories, statements, videos and/or photographs submitted and posted by you and other users (hereinafter, “User Submissions”) and the hosting, sharing, and/or publishing of such User Submissions on the website. You understand that whether or not such User Submissions are published, we do not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any submissions.
You will be solely responsible for your own User Submissions and the consequences of posting or publishing them. In connection with User Submissions, you affirm, represent, and/or warrant that: (i) you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize us to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all User Submissions to enable inclusion and use of the User Submissions in the manner contemplated by this website and this Terms of Use and Privacy Statement; (ii) you agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person by reason of any User Submission that you submit to us for publication and (iii) you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in the User Submission to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of the User Submissions in the manner contemplated by ’72 Project and this Terms of Use and Privacy Statement. By submitting the User Submissions to us in any way, you grant us, and anyone authorized by us, a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the website and our business and successor’s business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also grant each user of the website a non-exclusive license to access your User Submissions through the website, and to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform such User Submissions as permitted through the functionality of the website and under this Terms of Use and Privacy Statement.
In connection with User Submissions, you further agree that you will not: (i) submit material that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the material and to grant ’72 Project all of the license rights granted herein; (ii) publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage ’72 Project or any third party; (iii) submit material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate; (iv) post advertisements or solicitations of business; or (v) impersonate another person. ’72 Project does not endorse any User Submission or any opinion, recommendation, or advice expressed therein, and ’72 Project expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with User Submissions. ’72 Project will remove a User Submission if properly notified that such User Submission infringes on another’s intellectual property rights. ’72 Project reserves the right to remove User Submissions without prior notice for any reason or for no reason at all. ’72 Project also reserves the right to decide whether a User Submission is appropriate and complies with this Terms of Use and Privacy Statement for violations other than copyright infringement and violations of intellectual property law, such as, but not limited to, pornography, obscene or defamatory material, or excessive length.
Links to Other Sites. For your convenience, we may make available a variety of links to other websites that we don’t operate where you can obtain related information, products and services. Although we encourage you to consult such websites, we cannot guarantee the prices, terms, quality, reliability or performance of the information, products or services provided by these websites and/or vendors. ’72 Project is not responsible for the information, products or services these websites and/or vendors provide. You release ’72 Project and its affiliates from any damages that you may incur, and agree not to assert any claims against them, arising from your purchase or use of third-party supplied information, products and services.
Ownership and Permissions. The website is made available for your personal, non-commercial use only. The materials on this site are the property of ’72 Project or its licensors, and are protected by United States copyright laws, other copyright laws, and international conventions. Except as explicitly provided in this agreement, you may not distribute, transmit, display, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, or otherwise exploit any of the materials on this site. You may display and occasionally print a single copy of any page on the site for your personal, non-commercial use, but you may not otherwise reproduce any material appearing on this site without the prior written consent of the owner. You may not store any significant portion of, nor distribute copies of, materials found on this site, in any form (including electronic form), without prior written permission from the owner. Requests for permission to reproduce or distribute materials found on the website should be sent by email to customerservice@72project.com.
You are free to establish a hypertext link to this site so long as the link does not state or imply any endorsement or sponsorship of you, your company, or your site by ’72 Project or any of its affiliates. However, without the prior written permission of ’72 Project, you may not frame any of the content of 72project.com, nor incorporate into another website or other service any intellectual property of ’72 Project or its licensors. Requests for permission to frame our content may be sent by email to support@72project.com.
The 72project.com™ and the 72project.com logo are trademarks of ’72 Project. The names of other products and services referred to on the site may be the trademarks of their respective owners. You may not use any trademark or service mark appearing on this website without the prior written consent of the owner of the mark.
Disclaimer of Warranties, Limitation of Liability, and Indemnification. IF YOU RELY ON THIS WEBSITE OR ANY INFORMATION, PRODUCT, OR SERVICE AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THERE MAY BE DELAYS, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS, INACCURACIES, AND/OR OTHER PROBLEMS WITH THE INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES PUBLISHED ON OR PROMOTED OVER THIS SITE. THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED TO YOU “AS IS.” ’72 PROJECT AND ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS, CANNOT AND DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, CURRENTNESS, NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF THE ADVICE, OPINIONS, STATEMENTS OR OTHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS WEBSITE (OR ANY INFORMATION, GOODS OR SERVICES THAT ARE REFERRED TO, ADVERTISED OR PROMOTED ON, OR SOLD THROUGH THIS WEBSITE). NOR DO WE OR THEY GUARANTEE THAT THE WEBSITE WILL BE ERROR FREE, OR CONTINUOUSLY AVAILABLE, OR THAT THE WEBSITE WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL ’72 PROJECT OR ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY DAMAGES OTHER THAN DIRECT DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE LINKED TO FROM OR ADVERTISED OR PROMOTED ON THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, OR OTHER DAMAGES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING LOST REVENUES OR PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR LOSS OF DATA), EVEN IF WE ARE ADVISED BEFOREHAND OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOU HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT USE OF THIS WEBSITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, SOME OF THESE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS ’72 PROJECT, ITS EMPLOYEES, OWNERS, REPRESENTATIVES, AND LICENSEES AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, OF WHATEVER NATURE, THAT ARISE OUT OF ANY BREACH BY YOU OF THIS AGREEMENT OR YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE.
Miscellaneous. This Terms of Use and Privacy Statement has been made in, and will be construed in accordance with the laws of, the State of North Carolina. By using the website, you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts in Raleigh, North Carolina in all disputes arising out of or relating to this Agreement or use of this website.
Effective: September 13, 2011
