By using this website (FreedomToDream), you agree to abide by the following simple rules and guidelines;
We reserve the right to edit any and all content that has been placed on FreedomToDream.
We reserve the right to modify these Terms of Service from time to time without notice and are retro active.
General Rules
- You certify that you are 13 years of age or over. All those individuals under 13 years of age will need a full release form from their parents before posting any material. This is in compliance with the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act of 2000 (COPPA).
- All content posted at this site are the sole opinion and responsibility of the poster.
- When you add any content to our system, you are granting a soft license to the site to use it - this is non-exclusive, you reserve all rights for any other use of your material.
- You should hold the right to post any content in any form on our system, this means that if you are not the copyright holder of the content (photograph, text, etc) you must ensure that it is content in the public domain, or that you have permission to use the content.
- Personal exposure. Anyone posting another members personal details or electronic details (emails, social networking links, etc) without permission will be banned.
- All material may be moderated or removed for foul language and commercialized promotional posts.
- Always be respectful of other users, the system, and the moderators.
- Links to adult content, pages with links to adult content, conterfeit documents or material describing anything against internationally accepted laws will be removed as soon as appropriate.
- You agree not to hold FreedomToDream or it's members liable for anything stated within the forums, site pages, or blog posts.
- In the event of a court order or request from legitimate authorities, FreedomToDream will co-operate and will divulge information such as IP address and email address. In other cases, FreedomToDream will protect its members and their privacy as much as possible.
- You are responsible for your story submissions, you are responsible for any repercussions faced within the content of your submission.
- FreedomToDream is not liable for loss of content and strongly recommend having a backup of photos and written content prior to uploading it onto the site.
- Claims of action, flames, and calls to action against any company or person may be removed - again on a case-by-case basis.
- FreedomToDream does not allow any direct 'relationship' requests - there are many 'dating websites' available specifically for this purpose.
- Do not post email addresses in story submissions or comments (moderators will remove these when seen) - this is for your benefit not ours. Email addresses are harvested from web pages by spammers and unfortunately placed on multinational spam databases - protect your privacy!
- Commercial or self-promotion (i.e. backlinks, logos as profile photos, or the like) may be blocked depending on whether such promotion lends to or detracts from the site as a whole, and such content is ultimately at the complete discretion of volunteer moderators and FreedomToDream administrators.
- Insults and/or exposure of personal information should not be made where the individual is identifiable - anywhere on FreedomToDream i.e. do not upload photos of people and negatively comment on them if that person is identifiable. Do not post the full name (or give information that would make them easily identifiable) of someone and then proceed to insult or reveal details of their private lives (without permission).
- Do not post content that is patently derogatory or demeans another person’s race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or other status.
- For the best experience, we highly recommend using Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or IE9 onward as we do not test earlier versions of IE. We cannot guarantee that you are receiving the highest quality experience if you are using an alternate browser.
Photos and Videos
- You may only submit media to the FreedomToDream website where the you are the owner or copyright holder of the media or have explicit permission from the copyright holder.
- Photos should not be uploaded if they are of other people in compromising situations (unless with permission).
- Nude or pornographic or explicit images should not be uploaded. Photos which break these rules will be removed at the moderators discretion.
- Photos of people with insulting or inflammatory captions should not be added. Moderators may remove such photos without notice.
Copyright and Ownership
- Posting on FreedomToDream grants us a non-exclusive royalty free right to display your photos and story entries.
- You maintain copyright of all your photos and text. This means they can be republished where and when you choose.
- You maintain the right to request for a removal of a post that displays your content at any time.
- You may only upload media to the FreedomToDream website where the you are the owner or copyright holder of the media or have explicit permission from the copyright holder. Fair-use laws apply for public domain and summarized versions of content.
- We will not sell your content beyond the FreedomToDream website without your expressed permission - For example if we have plans for a book, calendars or more.
- You grant FreedomToDream a non-exclusive, royalty-free, license to redistribute and publish on the FreedomToDream website, and to share and promote content on third-party sites like Facebook, Instagram, and similar social media to benefit both users and site. In each instance, we give due credit to storyteller.
- We will occasionally use screen shots of your content for promotional purposes both online and offline - where possible we will attribute as appropriate.
- We reserve the right to distribute content uploaded to FreedomToDream to other limited partner sites - we will list those partner sites here; (currently none) and will ensure that you (the account posting the content) is credited correctly - with your chosen display name.