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Welcome to the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation's Website located at www.GDDF.org (the "Website"). The Website is owned and operated by the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation (the "Foundation," "we," or "us"). The following are the Terms and Conditions of Use for the Website (the "Terms and Conditions").

BY USING THE WEBSITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND ARE LEGALLY BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE WEBSITE AND EXIT IMMEDIATELY. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MODIFY OR AMEND THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FROM TIME TO TIME WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE WEBSITE AND ANY AFFILIATE WEBSITES FOLLOWING THE POSTING OF CHANGES TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS WILL MEAN YOU ACCEPT THOSE CHANGES.

Compliance with Law
Users of the Website shall abide by all applicable international, federal, state and local laws, including, but not limited to, those pertaining to libel, slander, defamation, trade libel, product disparagement, harassment, invasion of privacy, and copyright and trademark infringement.

Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability
THE CONTENT PROVIDED ON THE WEBSITE IS PRESENTED AS A COURTESY TO BE USED ONLY FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND IS NOT REPRESENTED TO BE ERROR FREE. THE FOUNDATION MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WITH RESPECT TO THE WEBSITE OR ITS CONTENT, SUCH REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES BEING EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. THE FOUNDATION DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVER(S) THAT MAKE THE WEBSITE AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

MOREOVER, THE FOUNDATION DOES NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT THAT THE CONTENT OF THE WEBSITE IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE OR CURRENT FOR ANY SPECIFIC OR PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR APPLICATION. THE WEBSITE IS NOT INTENDED TO PROVIDE, NOR SHOULD ANYONE CONSIDER THAT THE WEBSITE PROVIDES, LEGAL, ACCOUNTING, TAX OR OTHER ADVICE. IN ADDITION, THE FOUNDATION IS NOT ENDORSING OR RECOMMENDING THE USE OF THE MEANS OR METHODS CONTAINED ON OR THROUGH THE WEBSITE FOR ANY SPECIAL OR PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IN NO EVENT WILL THE FOUNDATION OR ANY OF ITS OFFICERS, TRUSTEES, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS OR CONTRACTORS (COLLECTIVELY, "REPRESENTATIVES") BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES-WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, GENERAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, FOR ALLEGED LOST PROFITS OR OTHERWISE-THAT MIGHT RESULT FROM ANY USE OF OR RELIANCE ON MATERIALS OR LINKS MADE AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THE WEBSITE.

Intellectual Property
Copyright and Ownership. All of the content featured or displayed on the Website, including without limitation text, graphics, photographs, images, moving images, sound and illustrations (collectively, "Content"), is owned by the Foundation, its licensors, vendors, agents, and/or content providers, as applicable. All elements of the Website, including without limitation the general design and the Content, are protected by trade dress, copyright, moral rights, trademark and other laws relating to intellectual property rights. The Foundation reserves the right to track the usage of Content.

Except as may be otherwise indicated in specific documents within the Website, you are authorized to view, play, print, and download documents, audio and video found on the Website for personal, informational and noncommercial purposes only. You may not modify any of the materials, and, except as set forth below, you may not copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer or sell any information or work contained on the Website. You will not remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices from Content found on the Website.

Text materials on the Website may be used, downloaded, reproduced, publicly displayed or reprinted for personal or noncommercial purposes provided that the following attribution appears in all copies: "Reproduced with permission of the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Chicago, IL" Permission to reproduce text materials for commercial application (e.g., book publishing) must be obtained from the Foundation in writing.

Unless we have expressly made a file available for download, prior permission to use, download, reproduce, publicly display or republish any of the non-text materials on the Website (e.g., software, graphic images, video and audio files) must be obtained from the Foundation or any other designated copyright owner, as applicable.

In using Content in accordance with these Terms of Use, you may not (1) state or imply that the Foundation is endorsing you, your viewpoints or any of the products or services that you or your organization may provide, or (2) represent that you or your organization has a relationship with the Foundation or any of the events, products or services that the Foundation provides unless that relationship is the subject of a written agreement that has been signed by the Foundation.

You will not access any Content from the Website through any technology or means other than the pages of the Website itself, the Embeddable Player (as defined below), the Widgets (as defined below) or such other explicitly authorized means as the Foundation may designate.

Trademarks. All trademarks, service marks and trade names of the Foundation used in the Website (including, but not limited to, the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation name and the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation logo) (collectively, the "Marks") are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Foundation or its licensors, vendors, agents and/or content providers. You may not use, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit, distribute or modify the Marks in any way, including in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of materials on the Website, without the Foundation's prior written consent. The use of the Marks on any other Website or network computer environment is not allowed.

Embeddable Player and Widgets
To the extent that the Foundation makes available to you through the Website (or otherwise) an embeddable player for viewing video and playing audio Content from the Website (the "Embeddable Player") and/or "widgets" to obtain access to Content from the Website ("Widgets"), you agree as a condition to accessing and using such items that:

• You will not alter or modify any part of the Embeddable Player, the Widgets or any of their related technologies.
• You will include a prominent link back to the Website on the pages containing the Embeddable Player and/or Widgets, and you may not modify, build upon or block any portion of the Embeddable Player and/or Widgets in any way.
• You will not use the Embeddable Player and/or Widgets for any commercial use, without the prior written authorization of the Foundation. Prohibited commercial uses include any of the following actions taken without the Foundation's prior written approval:
  • sale of access to the Website or its related services (such as the Embeddable Player and Widgets) on another Website; an
  • use of the Website or its related services (such as the Embeddable Player and Widgets), for the primary purpose of gaining advertising or subscription revenue.

Third-Party Intellectual Property Rights
If you believe that your copyright in any material has been infringed on this website, please provide our Copyright Agent with all of the following information in the form prescribed by Section 512 of Title 17, United States Code:

• a description of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed,
• a description of the material that you claim is infringing, identified with sufficient detail for us to locate it on the website,
• your address, telephone number and e-mail address,
• a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized,
• a statement by you declaring under penalty of perjury that the above information is true and that you are the owner of the copyrighted interest or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf, and
• a physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner’s interest.

The Foundation’s Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on its Website can be reached as follows:
Copyright Agent  
Susan Clark
susan@gddf.org 

You understand and agree that: (1) the Foundation assumes no liability or responsibility for any third party content or material of any kind that is submitted to or posted on the website by you or by any other users or third parties and (2) the Foundatoin is a publisher of any such content, and is acting solely as an Internet Website Provider as such term is defined in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

Services
On the Website we may offer blogs, online communities, and other services that provide an opportunity for you to post comments and other content to Website (collectively, the "Services"). The use of the Services is subject to these Terms of Use and any additional provisions that may be specified as a condition to using the Services.

Member Account, Password and Security. Some of the Services may require that you create/receive a password and account designation before using the Services. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any such password, account, and information displayed in the account profile.  You are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. If you allow third parties to access the Services through your username and password, you will defend and indemnify the Foundation and its trustees, employees, agents, affiliates, successors and assigns from and against any liability, costs or damages arising out of claims or suits based upon or relating to such access and use. You agree to immediately notify the Foundation of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security related to the Services of which you are aware.

Unlawful or Prohibited Use. As a condition of your use of the Services, you will not use the Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use or is otherwise prohibited under applicable law. You may not use the Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Services or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the

Services. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any Services.

Use of the Services. All users of the Services agree to act responsibly. The Foundation does not control the content posted through the Services and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity, quality or availability of such content.

Although we do not actively review the content being posted, we reserve the right to not post, or to remove after its posting, any content which in our sole discretion we deem to violate our guidelines. Such content may be removed immediately and without prior notice, and further postings by the individual may be blocked. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos, documents, etc., you grant the Foundation a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any content that you post on or in connection with the

Services.
Use of the Services is subject to these rules:

1. As a private foundation, the Foundation is prohibited from supporting attempts to influence the outcome of any election for public office or engaging in lobbying activity. Accordingly, these types of content are prohibited:

• Content that expressly or impliedly endorses or opposes any candidate for public office; and
• Content that encourages others to contact a government official to express support for, or opposition to, any legislation, including a specific legislative proposal that has not yet been introduced.
• In addition, hyperlinks to Website pages that contain these types of content, or which direct users to such materials, also are prohibited.

Be respectful of others -- do not post:

• Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, sexually explicit, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
• Content that falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your identity, affiliation with the Foundation, or any person or other entity;
• Confidential business or personal information, or content that infringes any trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
• Content that makes available unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, sweepstakes, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any similar form of solicitation;
• Content that is fraudulent, false, inaccurate or misleading;
• Content that violates any law, ordinance or regulation; that promotes illegal activities; that is harmful to minors; or
• Links to files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer or property of another;

Access and Interference
You agree not to circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Website or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any content or enforce limitations on use of the Website or the Content therein.

You agree that you will not use any bot, crawler, harvester, indexer, robot, spider, scraper or any other automated means to access, compile, read or gather content from the Website automatically.

Additionally, you agree that you will not: (a) take any action that, in our sole discretion, imposes, or may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (b) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website or any activities conducted on the Website; or (c) bypass any measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the Website.
Indemnification

YOU AGREE TO DEFEND, INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS THE FOUNDATION, ITS AFFILIATES AND THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, REPRESENTATIVES, EMPLOYEES, CONSULTANTS, AND AGENTS FROM AND AGAINST ANY CLAIMS, ALLEGATIONS, DAMAGES, LOSSES, LIABILITIES OR EXPENSES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO ATTORNEYS' FEES) THAT SUCH PARTY MAY SUFFER OR INCUR AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OR MISUSE OF THE WEBSITE, ANY USE OR MISUSE OF THE WEBSITE IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USER INFORMATION OR LOGIN INFORMATION (IF APPLICABLE), YOUR INFRINGEMENT OF ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR OTHER RIGHT OF THE FOUNDATION OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY, OR ANY VIOLATION OF THIS AGREEMENT.

Release
In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other users of the Website, you release the Foundation and Representatives from any and all claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.

Applicable Law and Jurisdiction
The site is controlled and operated from the Foundation's offices in the State of Illinois. By accessing the site, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement which is governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, without giving effect to any conflict of laws principles. All activity occurring in connection with the site (including, but not limited to, accessing pages, downloading materials, etc.) is presumed to occur in the State of Illinois.

In connection with any suit, action or proceeding arising from or relating to these Terms and Conditions, you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal and state courts within the State of Illinois.

Electronic Communications; Binding and Entire Agreement
You agree that (a) these Terms and Conditions constitute an agreement "signed by you" under applicable law; (b) any notices or other communication regarding your use of the Website may be provided to you electronically (by posting on the Website, by e-mail, and other electronic formats) and will be considered received upon posting or other distribution. These Terms and Conditions (including the Privacy Policy) constitute the entire agreement between you and the Foundation and supersede all other agreements, oral or written, concerning its subject matter. You consent to the use of the English language in these Terms and Conditions and all documents or notices relating to them and your use of the Website.

Severability
If any of these Terms and Conditions is determined to be invalid, void or unenforceable for any reason, then the unenforceable provision will be deemed amended in a manner that will most nearly carry out the intent of the provision to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law or deleted if amendment is not possible, and the remaining Terms and Conditions will be enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.

No Waiver
The Foundation's failure to enforce these Terms and Conditions in every instance in which they might apply is not a waiver of any of the Foundation's rights, and the Foundation reserves its right to take all legal steps available to enforce these Terms and Conditions.

Termination
We reserve the right to terminate the Website and/or these Terms and Conditions at any time without notice for any reason, including, in the case of these Terms and Conditions, for your violation of any of its provisions. The Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability, Indemnification, Release and Applicable Law and Jurisdiction provisions of these Terms and Conditions shall survive any such termination.

Contact Us
If you have any questions about these Terms and Conditions please contact us at susan@gddf.org.