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Goodwill of Central Iowa User Generated Content Agreement of Understanding
Updated: 6/6/2024
Goodwill of Central Iowa (GCI) periodically reaches out to social media users (Featured Individual(s)) to seek their permission to use their content in Tangible and Intangible Items without payment or any other considerations.
“Tangible and Intangible Items” include: Pictures, videos, graphics, recordings and other media elements now known and developed in the future, including the likeness and/or voice, written words or stories supplied by, or written about, the Featured Individual(s).”
If you choose to allow us to use your social media content (User Generated Content) by replying to GCI comments or messages asking for permission to use your User Generated Content with the hashtag #DMGoodwillShare, you willingly accept to all terms and conditions laid forth in this User Generated Content Agreement of Understanding.
Terms and Conditions:
You hereby grant GCI and its related companies, agents, licensees, sublicensees, contractors, successors, legal representatives, and third-party service providers, and their respective retail partners, marketing, public relations agencies, and other affiliates (Licensed Parties) a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-compensational, non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable right to use your User Generated Content in any manner to be determined by the Licensed Parties’ sole discretion in Tangible and Intangible Items. The Licensed Parties may use, display, reproduce, distribute, transmit, create derivative works from, combine with other materials, alter, and/or edit your User-Generated Content in any manner at their sole discretion, with no obligation to you whatsoever.
Furthermore, you grant Licensed Parties the right to use your username, real name, image, likeness, descriptions of you, location, or other identifying information, including but not limited to our voice, in connection with any use of your User Generated Content.
Licensed Parties understand that you own the intellectual property rights to your User Generated Content and have obtained rights from any included third parties. You represent and warrant that you have the permission and authority to provide the aforementioned license to Licensed Parties.
Additionally, if other individuals other than you appear in your User Generated Content in any capacity, you represent and warrant that you have permission and consent (or their parent’s or legal guardian’s permission and consent if a minor) to license the right to use their name, image, likeness, voice, and other features contained in the User Generated Content to Licensed Parties.
You release Licensed Parties from any liability, and you promise not to sue or file a claim against GCI for its use of the User-Generated Content as described in this policy.
GCI reserves the right to modify or terminate any User Generated Content or service therein for any reason, and without notice, without liability to you, any other Member, or any third party. GCI also reserves the right to modify these Terms and Conditions for User-Generated Content from time to time without notice. You are solely responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms and Conditions for User-Generated Content for any changes or updates.
Should you have questions or concerns regarding Goodwill of Central Iowa’s User Generated Content Agreement of Understanding, please contact the GCI Marketing Department by email at Marketing@DMGoodwill.org.
