By using the Our Duty website you agree to the following Terms and Conditions:
Copyright
This Web site and its contents are copyright Our Duty, all rights reserved. Reproduction of all or any substantial part of the contents in any form is prohibited. No part of the site may be distributed or copied for any commercial purpose without express approval.
Community Registration
Should you create a personal profile in our community (Registration) these additional conditions apply:
You affirm that you are either:
- A parent or guardian of a person who currently or historically identifies as transgender or suffers from mental anguish around their sexed identity.
- Committed to helping the Our Duty achieve its aims.
You will choose a username that you are happy to be known by in conversation (we recommend your given name plus just an initial for your surname, alternatively a nickname that people actually use for you).
You will use your real name in your private profile.
You accept that the Community contains pages, groups and profiles that are private to members and you warrant that you shall not share any member’s information derived from such private spaces.
You will not post anything that is defamatory or will bring the Group into disrepute.
You will not attempt to disrupt the normal operation of this website.
We may now or in the future permit users to post, upload, transmit through, or otherwise make available on the site (collectively, “submit”) messages, recipes, text, illustrations, files, images, graphics, photos, comments, sounds, music, videos, information, content, and/or other materials (“User Content”). We have the right to publish, edit or reject any User Content that you send us either via email, via the site or in writing via post for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without payment to you – unless we have specifically agreed otherwise in writing prior to submission.
By submitting User Content to us, simultaneously with such posting you automatically grant to us a worldwide, fully-paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully sublicensable, and transferable right and license to use, record, sell, lease, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works based upon (including, without limitation, translations), publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, publish and otherwise exploit the User Content (in whole or in part) as Our Duty, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate. We may exercise this grant in any format, media or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such User Content.
Subject to the rights and license you grant to us under these Terms of Use, you retain all your right, title and interest in your User Content submissions. This means that copyright in your User Content will remain with you and that you can continue to use the material in any way, including allowing others to use it.
You agree that you will not submit any User Content protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, or other intellectual property, personal, contractual, proprietary or other right owned by a third party without the express permission of the owner of the respective right. You are solely liable for any damage resulting from your failure to obtain such permission or from any other harm resulting from User Content that you submit. You represent, warrant, and covenant that you will not submit any User Content that:
- violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, including, but not limited to, any copyright, trademark, moral right, or other third party right of any person or entity;
- impersonates another or is unlawful, threatening, abusive, libellous, defamatory, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, obscene, harassing or otherwise objectionable;
- contains a formula, instruction, or advice that could cause harm or injury;
- the licensed use by us hereunder would result in us having any obligation or liability to any party.
We rely on you to present us with User Content that contains accurate and factual material. We assume no responsibility for the accuracy of information provided on Our Duty.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, you waive any and all claims you may now or later have in any jurisdiction to so-called “moral rights” with respect to the User Content.
We reserve the right to display advertisements in connection with your User Content and to use your User Content for advertising and promotional purposes.
Data protection and information gathering
Our Privacy Policy sets out how Our Duty uses and protects any information you give us when you use this website. As a rule, we do not disclose any personal information to third parties, unless we have your permission or are specifically required to by law. However, on rare occasions where there appears to be a clear need to safeguard the welfare of an Our Duty member and/or his/her family, it may be necessary to contact relevant authorities about a clearly identifiable member and his/her posts on Our Duty.