Terms and Conditions

Welcome to Collaborative for Change (“we”, “us”or “our”). Collaborative for Change is a collaborative website created and operated by Collaborative for Change, INC. We are a California nonprofit, tax-exempt charitable organization. Collaborative for Change serves as a facilitator where ecorestoration projects and funders converge. By adhering to our suggested criteria, projects on our platform are able to showcase their comprehensive ecological insights, through a clear and impactful framework. This serves to potentially attract funders.Our forum allows members to showcase their projects, and asks that they do it in a clear and concise manner for collaboration and/or the potential to attract funders.

Collaborative for Change is a collaborative database, built from ongoing effort by both our editors and a growing community. You and others work together, to create the content on our site.

Privacy Policy. Collaborative for Change is committed to protecting your privacy. Please review our Privacy Policy which discusses how we collect, use and disclose information from our users. You acknowledge and agree that your use of the Services is subject to our Privacy Policy.

This Terms of Use And Conditions Agreement, as may be modified from time to time,

(“Agreement”) constitutes legally binding terms and applies to your use of Collaborative

for Change. By accessing our Collaborative for Change website, mobile services, or any

software provided on or in connection with them (“Services”), you agree to be bound by

this Agreement whether you are a visitor or a Member (both “Users”).

You are authorized to access Collaborative for Change only if you agree to abide by all

applicable laws, rules, and regulations and the terms of this Agreement.

Collaborative for Change reserves the right to modify this Agreement from time to time,

and by accessing the Services you agree to be bound by these modifications. If you do

not agree to be bound by this Agreement or an updated version, you must discontinue

use of Collaborative for Change.

Eligibility

You represent and warrant that:

(a) all member information you submit is truthful and accurate;

(b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information;

(d) your use of Collaborative for Change does not violate any applicable law.

Your Membership or access to the site may be terminated without warning if we believe

that you are under 13 years of age or have otherwise falsified your age.

Terms

This Agreement and any modifications thereof shall remain in full force and effect while

you use Collaborative for Change. You may terminate your Membership at any time, for

any reason, by following the instructions on the Member’s Account Settings [inserL]t UR

page. Collaborative for Change may terminate your Membership at any time, for any or

no reason, with or without prior notice or explanation, and without liability. Collaborative

for Change also reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or

remove any posting by you, or to deny, restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all

or any part of the Collaborative for Change website at any time, for any reason or no

reason, or if it decides, in its sole discretion, that you have violated this Agreement or

pose a threat to Collaborative for Change, its employees, business partners, Users

and/or the public, with or without prior notice or explanation, and without liability.

Membership

Membership is optional. Visitors are welcome to view Collaborative for Change without

becoming members. However, Visitors may not be able to participate in many of the

Collaborative for Change Services.

Each Member is given the ability to post content to our Forum, including comments on

other Member posts.

Things Members can do:

post original content to the Forum

post comments to other Members’ posts on the Forum

re-post other Members’ posts on the Forum, with appropriate attribution

create a login profile (you will need this to interact with the site)

Member Profile. When you sign up to become a Member, you will create an account and

provide certain information about yourself (“Member Profile”). Your account is for you or

your organization’s own use. We ask that you provide complete and accurate

information about yourself so that your contributions will be credible. You may not

impersonate someone else, create or use an account for someone else, provide an

email or other contact information that is not your own, or create multiple accounts. If

you choose to use a pseudonym, understand that you may still be identifiable from other

information you share on the site.

Password. When you sign up to become a Member, you will also be asked to choose a

password. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your

password. You agree not to use the account, username, email address or password of

another Member at any time or to disclose your password to any third party. You agree

to notify Collaborative for Change immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of

your account or access to your password. You are solely responsible for all use of your

account.

Member Guidelines

Members are encouraged to:

Post your own content. We ask that you don’t share photos taken by someone else, or

depicting other people, without permission. Also, you should only post text that you have

written. The exception is that you may repost content originally posted by other Members

on our site, with appropriate attribution.

Post content that is safe for people of all ages. Your posts are visible to people as

young as 13 years old. Please do not post nudity or mature content of any kind.

Respect other users. Collaborative for Change allows people from different

backgrounds worldwide to view and contribute to the site. While this is a great way to

share your views with users from other parts of the world, it also sometimes leads to

unintentional offense. Please be polite and respectful in your actions on Collaborative for

Change. Uphold and respect the original purpose of the service. Collaborative for Change is

meant to be a way to share information and ideas about ecorestoration projects. Self-promotion or commercial solicitation of any kind, in any form, is not usually well-received.

Prohibited Content

You are solely responsible for the content that you post on, through or in connection with

any of the Collaborative for Change Services, and any material or information that you

transmit to other users and for your interactions with other users. Please honor these

Guidelines:

Don’t post content that isn’t yours. Don’t post other people’s texts/posts/photos and/or

materials that you have taken from the Internet. Accounts that solely consist of only this

type of content will most likely be disabled. This includes accounts attempting to pose as

someone else.

Don’t impersonate. Don’t impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your

affiliation with any person or entity.

Don’t post misleading content. Our site relies on honest and accurate information.

Please don’t post false or misleading photos or statements about yourself, anyone else,

or the entities you are discussing. You recognize that any false statements you post may

cause us or third parties substantial economic harm, for which you may be held liable.

Don’t post mature content. Inappropriate behavior is strictly prohibited on

Collaborative for Change. Accounts found sharing nudity or mature content (including a

profile photo) will be disabled and your account with Collaborative for Change may be

Discontinued.

Don’t post illegal content. If you share prohibited or illegal content, including photos of

extreme violence or gore, your account will be disabled and we will take appropriate

action, which may include reporting you to the authorities.

Don’t spam. Self-promotional behavior of any kind on Collaborative for Change is

questionable. This prohibition includes repetitive comments, as well as service

manipulation in order to self-promote, and commercial spam comments, such as URLs

to external websites. We ask that you keep your interactions on Collaborative for

Change respectable to its original purpose.

Don’t be rude. Collaborative for Change is meant to be a safe environment where

users should feel comfortable sharing their experiences. Abuse, attacking, harassing, or

impersonating others will not be tolerated. If we receive a legitimate complaint about your

actions, your account may be disabled.

Don’t promote self-harm. Any account found encouraging or urging users to embrace

anorexia, bulimia, or other eating disorders; or to cut, harm themselves or others, or

commit suicide will result in a disabled account without warning. We appreciate that

communication regarding these behaviors in order to create awareness and lead people

to recovery is important, but Collaborative for Change is not a place to do this.

Collaborative for Change may reject, refuse to post or delete any content for any or no

reason, including, but not limited to content that in our sole judgment violates this

Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights of any person or entity,

or harm or threaten the safety of any person or entity.

Additional considerations

Collaborative for Change is an open community, and it is possible that you will find

things that offend you. If you are offended by content that does not violate any of the

above guidelines, we will consider your concerns, but we may decide in our sole

discretion not to take any action.

If you find that your content has been used without permission on our site, there are

a couple effective ways to resolve this situation. A good idea is to contact the poster

directly and politely ask that they remove such content; it might have been an

unintentional mistake. If that doesn’t work, please file a DMCA notice (see below) so that

we may investigate. Please do not post comments about the offending content, as that

may be classified as harassment, which violates our guidelines.

If you feel you are unable to follow these guidelines, Collaborative for Change may not

be the best choice for you. We must uphold these guidelines, so that they will help keep

Collaborative for Change a safe place for all Users.

Proprietary Rights

Your Content

Collaborative for Change does not claim any ownership rights in the photos or

commentary that you post (“Your Content”) through or in connection with the Services.

You continue to retain all rights that you may have in Your Content, subject to the

following limited license: You hereby grant to Collaborative for Change an irrevocable,

perpetual worldwide license to use, edit, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce,

and distribute Your Content solely on, through or in connection with the Services,

including without limitation, through Collaborative for Change applications, widgets,

websites or mobile, desktop, or other services which are linked with your Collaborative

for Change account, including, without limitation, distribution in any media formats and

through any media channels. This limited license does not grant Collaborative for

Change the right to sell or otherwise distribute Your Content outside of the Services. You

also grant to other Members of our site a limited license to repost Your Content on our

site, with appropriate attribution.

The license you grant to Collaborative for Change and our Members is fully-paid and

royalty-free (meaning that Collaborative for Change is not required to pay you or anyone

else deriving rights from you for the use on the Collaborative for Change Services of

Your Content), and sublicensable and transferable (so that Collaborative for Change is

able to use its affiliates, subcontractors and other partners such as internet content

delivery networks and wireless carriers to provide the Collaborative for Change Services

elsewhere).

We may use Your Content in many ways, including publicly displaying it, translating it,

modifying or reformatting it, incorporating it into advertisements and promotional

materials, allowing third parties to post advertisements alongside it, creating derivative

works with it, and allowing others to do the same with it on other sites and media

platforms.

You represent and warrant that:

(a) you own Your Content, or you have obtained the rights from the owner(s) to grant the

license above; and

(b) use of Your Content on Collaborative for Change or the Services (or others whom we

allow to use it) will not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, contract rights,

trademarks, copyrights or any other rights of any person or entity. You agree to pay all

royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person or entity by reason of the use of

any content you post on Collaborative for Change or the Services.

The Services contain content of others. You may not copy, modify, translate, publish,

broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, sell or otherwise use any content

(except Your Content solely for unrelated services, or allowed re-posting of other

Members’ content on our site) appearing on or through the Collaborative for Change

Services.

Collaborative for Change Content

Collaborative for Change’s own content, including but not limited to our blogs and other

Collaborative for Change text and images, visual interfaces, interactive features,

graphics, design, compilation of user content and other site content, computer code,

products, software, and all other elements and components of the site that we have

generated (“Collaborative for Change Content”) is protected by copyright, trademark,

patent, trade secret and other laws, and Collaborative for Change owns and retains all

rights therein. You may not reproduce, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works based

on, perform, display, publish, distribute, transmit, broadcast, sell, license or otherwise

exploit the Collaborative for Change Content, except that Collaborative for Change

hereby grants you a limited, revocable, nonsublicensable license to reproduce and

display the Collaborative for Change Content (excluding any software code) solely for

your personal use in connection with viewing Collaborative for Change and using the

Services.

The name Collaborative for Change and Collaborative for Change logos are the

exclusive trademarks of Collaborative for Change, INC. You may not use these marks,

or confusingly similar marks or domain names, to promote your business, goods or

services, or in ways that may create the perception that Collaborative for Change

endorses your business, goods or services. In addition, all page headers, custom

graphics, button icons and scripts are service marks, trademarks and/or trade dress of

Collaborative for Change, and may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part,

without prior written permission from us.

Protecting Intellectual Property / DMCA Notices

Collaborative for Change respects the intellectual property of others, and requires that

our users do the same. You may not upload, embed, post, email, transmit or otherwise

make available any material that infringes any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret

or other proprietary rights of any person or entity. It is our policy to terminate, in

appropriate circumstances, the accounts of repeat infringers.

If you believe your work has been copied and posted on or through the Services in a

way that constitutes copyright infringement, please send Collaborative for Change’

information:

(a) the URL or specific identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been

infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a

representative list of such works;

(b) identification of the claimed infringing material and information reasonably sufficient

to permit us to locate such material on Collaborative for Change (providing the URL(s) of

the claimed infringing material satisfies this requirement);

telephone number, and, if available, an email address;

(d) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not

authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;

(e) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your

notification is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on

behalf of the copyright owner; and

(f) your physical or electronic signature. Please notify Collaborative for Change’

Linda Joy Kattwinkel, Esq.

COLLABORATIVE FOR CHANGE DMCA Agent

OWEN, WICKERSHAM & ERICKSON, P.C.

[email protected]

One Concord Center

2300 Clayton Rd., Ste. 1400

Concord, CA 94520

If you receive a notice from Collaborative for Change that we have received an

infringement claim about Your Content, and you believe that the content is not infringing,

or that you have authorization from the intellectual property owner, or pursuant to the

law, to post and use the content, you may send a counter-notice. Our infringement

notice will give you specific guidelines for doing so.

Prohibited Commercial Use

While we welcome content about what you or your organization is doing about climate

change, you may not use our site for overtly commercial purposes, such as to solicit

funds or sell products or services. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the Collaborative for

Change Services, including without limitation, collecting usernames, user ID numbers,

and/or email addresses of Users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending

unsolicited email, or unauthorized framing of or linking to Collaborative for Change, or

employing third party promotional sites or software to promote anything for money, is

prohibited.

You may not post an unauthorized commercial advertisement, or accept payment or

anything of value from a third person in exchange for your posts or for performing any

commercial activity through Collaborative for Change.

Additional Prohibited Activities

Criminal or tortious activity, including, but not limited to, child pornography, fraud,

trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, defamation,

stalking, spamming, spimming, sending of viruses or other harmful files, copyright

infringement, trademark infringement, patent infringement, or theft of trade secrets;

Circumventing or modifying any security technology or software that is part of

Collaborative for Change Services (or attempting or assisting anyone else to do so);

Using viruses, bots, worms, or any other computer code, files or programs that

interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of our Services; or otherwise interfering with,

disrupting, or creating an undue burden on Collaborative for Change Services or our

networks or servers;

Modifying, copying, distributing, downloading, scraping or transmitting in, through, or

in connection with Collaborative for Change Services;

Providing or using “tracking” or monitoring functionality in connection with the

Collaborative for Change Services, including, without limitation, to identify other Users’

views, actions or other activities;

Impersonating or attempting to impersonate Collaborative for Change or a

Collaborative for Change employee, administrator or moderator, another Member, or

person or entity (including, without limitation, the use of email addresses associated with

or of any of the foregoing);

Using the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or

disclosing your password to any third party or permitting anyone to access your account;

Using any information obtained from Collaborative for Change Services to harass,

abuse, or harm another person or entity;

Using invalid or forged headers to disguise the origin of any content transmitted to or

through Collaborative for Change’s computer systems, or otherwise misrepresenting

yourself or the source of any message or content;

Using any automated system, including, but not limited to, scripts or bots in order to

harvest email addresses or other data from Collaborative for Change for sending

unsolicited or unauthorized material;

Using click-throughs generated through any manner that could be reasonably

interpreted as coercive, incentivized, misleading, malicious, or otherwise fraudulent; or

Using Collaborative for Change Services in a manner inconsistent with applicable law.

Removal / Termination for Unauthorized Content or Activity

Collaborative for Change reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal

action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, posts content in violation of these

provisions, engages in any prohibited commercial use or additional prohibited activities,

or otherwise violates these provisions. Violating the policies outlined here may result,

without notice or explanation, in removal of the offending material, suspension of your

access or a disabled account, termination of your account,

and/or reporting such activity to law enforcement authorities.

Collaborative for Change assumes no responsibility for monitoring the Services for

inappropriate content or conduct. Even if Collaborative for Change chooses, in its sole

discretion, to monitor the Services, we assume no responsibility for the content, no

obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate content, and no responsibility for the

conduct of the user submitting such content.

If you become aware of a misuse of the Collaborative for Change Services, please

No Confidentiality

Except as otherwise described in our Privacy Policy, available at [ihttps://www.collaborativeforchange.org/privacy-policy], as between you and Collaborative for Change, Your Content will be non-confidential and non-proprietary and we will not be liable for any use or disclosure of Your Content. You Acknowledge and agree that your relationship with Collaborative for Change is not confidential, fiduciary, or other type of special relationship, and that your decision to submit any content does not place Collaborative for Change in a position that is any different from the position held by members of the general public, including with regard to Your Content.

We do not allow crawling, scraping, caching or otherwise accessing any content on the

Services via automated means, including but not limited to, user profiles and photos

(except as may be the result of standard search engine protocols or technologies used

by a search engine with Collaborative for Change’s express consent); however, we

cannot warrant that unauthorized activities of this sort will not happen.

Advertising / Other Content

Collaborative for Change may display advertisements, promotions, and other information

alongside Your Content, and you will not be entitled to any compensation in connection

with such postings. You acknowledge that we may not always identify paid services or

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