Legal and Terms
The States Project is a joint project between The PAC For America’s Future, The PAC for Minnesota’s Future, and Future Now Action. All electoral work of The States Project is conducted and paid for by The PAC For America’s Future, except in Minnesota where it is conducted and paid for by The PAC for Minnesota’s Future. Such electoral work currently includes Giving Circles and Give Smart. Past electoral work described on The States Project websites and materials were conducted and paid for by The PAC For America’s Future. Policy and advocacy work is conducted and paid for by Future Now Action.
Terms of Use
Future Now Action and The PAC For America’s Future and its affiliates (collectively “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects and is committed to protecting users of our website and other online services (collectively, the “Web Services”). These Web Services are provided by us subject to your agreement to comply with these “Terms of Use” and our “Privacy Policy.” Please read them both and check for future modifications.
By using the Web Services, you agree to be bound by the version of the Terms of Use together with the Privacy Policy then in effect. If at any point you no longer agree to the Terms of Use, please discontinue your use of the Web Services. We may deny service to you at any time, including in the event you do not adhere to the Terms of Use.
Please note that we reserve the right to update or modify the Terms of Use without advance notice by posting a revised Terms of Use to this website. You can determine whether the Terms of Use has been modified since your last visit by checking the “Last updated” legend posted at the end of the Terms of Use.
The Mission
The States Project works to achieve a healthy, sustainable, and prosperous future for all, by activating communities to connect the importance of state legislatures to our everyday lives.
Accordingly, these Web Services are subject to various limits, laws, rules and guidelines to allow The PAC For America’s Future, The PAC for Minnesota’s Future, and Future Now Action to work toward these goals.
Community Guidelines
Our intention is to allow users to use the Web Services to join together and assist in working toward the mission. However, we have no obligation to accept, display, review, monitor, or maintain any content posted to or through any of the Web Services, and do reserve the right to monitor, prohibit, restrict, block, suspend, terminate, delete, or discontinue access to any Web Services, at any time, without notice and for any reason, in our sole discretion. We reserve the right to delete comments, text, posts or other material that we deem are abusive, inflammatory or otherwise inappropriate, conflict with relevant governing laws, rules, or guidelines, or undermine our mission.
Users may not post or transmit any message that is libelous or defamatory, or violates any other person’s copyrights, privacy rights, trademarks, trade secrets, or rights in other confidential information. The User indemnifies us for any and all damages suffered by third parties as a result of the User’s violation of this term.
Users may not post or transmit any message, data, image, or program with the intent to threaten the safety of others and/or with the effect of causing a reasonable person to perceive a threat to his or her safety.
We reserve the right to take such action as we deem appropriate in cases where the Web Services are inappropriately used to disseminate statements or materials that are reasonably construed as abusive, destructive, harmful, or threatening to the safety of others, false or misleading, or in conflict with our mission.
Copyright and Intellectual Property Policies
By submitting any content to or through our Web Services, you warrant and represent that you are the copyright owner of the content or that the copyright owner of the content has granted you permission to use such content consistent with the manner and purpose of your use.
Using our Web Services to distribute unauthorized copies of copyrighted material, including photos, artwork, text, recordings, designs, computer programs or derivative works of such programs is strictly prohibited and subject to removal.
Infringement on any party’s copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, intellectual property, or other proprietary rights, or right of publicity or privacy is strictly prohibited and is your sole responsibility.
Please note that by posting comments, posts, photos, videos, ideas, or any other content through our Web Services or on our social media sites, you are granting us non-exclusive, worldwide rights to republish, redistribute, or otherwise use that content (including your name, profile photo, likeness and social media handle or other publicly shared information) in perpetuity in any way we see fit. This includes, but is not limited to, in promotional and other materials.
You represent that to the best of your knowledge you own or have the permission to post such content and grant the above rights to us.
Therefore, please do not submit any ideas or materials that you wish to keep confidential or for which you expect to receive compensation.
Links
Areas of the Web Services may contain links to other websites. Please note that when you click on any of these links, you are entering another website for which we have no responsibility or control. The inclusion of any link does not imply affiliation, endorsement or adoption by us of the linked site or any medical or other information contained therein. We encourage you to read the terms and conditions, data-gathering practices and privacy policies of all linked sites as they may materially differ from ours. You agree that we shall not be responsible for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as a result of any such links or as the result of the presence of such links on this site. It is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever linked material you select is free of items such as viruses and other destructive items.
DISCLAIMERS
ACCESS TO THE WEB SERVICES AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED THEREIN IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, OPERATOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.
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LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
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UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL OPERATOR, ITS LICENSORS OR SUPPLIERS OR ANY THIRD PARTY WHO PROMOTES THE SERVICE OR PROVIDES YOU WITH A LINK TO THE SERVICE, BE LIABLE FOR ANY PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR SPECIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY PERSONAL INJURY, LOST PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR OTHER DATA ON YOUR COMPUTER OR OTHERWISE) ARISING FROM OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, WHETHER UNDER A THEORY OF BREACH OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, MALPRACTICE OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF WE OR THEY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
YOU HEREBY RELEASE AND HOLD OPERATOR, ITS LICENSORS, SUPPLIERS AND PROVIDERS AND ANY THIRD PARTY WHO PROMOTES THE SERVICE OR PROVIDES YOU WITH A LINK TO THE SERVICE HARMLESS FROM ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, DEMANDS, AND DAMAGES OF EVERY KIND AND NATURE (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ACTUAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL), KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, SUSPECTED AND UNSUSPECTED, DISCLOSED AND UNDISCLOSED, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE. YOU WAIVE THE PROVISIONS OF ANY STATE OR LOCAL LAW LIMITING OR PROHIBITING A GENERAL RELEASE.
Claims of copyright infringement
As required by Section 512(c)(2) of Title 17 of the United States Code, if you believe that any material on our Web Services infringes your copyright, you must send a notice of claimed infringement to our Designated Agent at the following address:
Name of Agent Designated to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement:
Counsel, Future Now Action and The PAC For America’s Future
Full Address of Designated Agent to which Notification Should be Sent:
c/o Future Now Action and The PAC For America’s Future
P.O. Box 15845, Washington, DC 20003
Telephone Number of Designated Agent: 929-777-6241
E-mail Address of Designated Agent: info@statesproject.org
To be effective, notices and counter-notices must meet the then-current statutory requirements imposed by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 and any other applicable laws; see http://www.copyright.gov/ for details.
Miscellaneous
If any provision of these Terms of Use is found to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision will be deemed severable from these Terms of Use and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
These Terms of Use were last updated on December 15, 2021.
