ARCHIVE CONTRIBUTIONS

TERMS OF SERVICE: User Submissions - In the course of using The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), you and other users/contributors may provide, contribute or post certain or specific content or information which may be used by The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), in connection with the membership registration or by the use of a submission form.
You retain all ownership rights you have of any submission made. The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), does not claim any ownership rights of user submissions. However, in order to allow The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), to provide a service to members, contributors, and users, you hereby grant to us a limited, non-exclusive, sublicensable (as necessary to perform the Service of indexing visual, performing, and literary artists, both past and present on The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), locally and worldwide, royalty-free, and transferable (only to a successor) right and license to (i) use, copy, store, distribute, publicly perform and display, modify, and create derivative works (such as changes we make so that your content works better with our Service) such User Submissions as necessary to provide, improve and make the Service available to you and other users, including through any future media in which the Service may be distributed, (ii) use and disclose metrics and analytics regarding the User Submissions in an aggregate or other non-personally identifiable manner (including, for use in improving our service or in marketing and business development purposes), (iii) use any User Submission (including any Education Record) that has been de-personalized for any development, research or other purpose; and (iv) use for other purposes permitted by the The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), Privacy Policy.
We will only share and use your personally identifiable information in accordance with The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), current Privacy Policy.
The license in (i) above will not terminate if and when you delete any User Submissions with intellectual property rights (like photos or videos) (“IP content”), you or your organization (e.g., school, university, or company) (as defined below) deletes any personal information, or you delete your account, unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it or removed your access to it. For example, you may upload an image, or other media, to The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), in which case that colleague (or any person who created and controls that content, within a post or comment, that you contributed your content to) now controls that media, much like sending a document to someone via email. In that case, deleting your own account would not delete that content from our system.
You are responsible for making sure that you have all rights in the User Submissions, including the rights necessary for you to grant us the foregoing licenses to the User Submissions. All information posted or transmitted through the Service is the responsibility of the person that posted it or submitted it, and we will not be liable for any errors or omissions in any content. The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), cannot guarantee the identity of any other users with whom you may interact in the course of using the Service, or the authenticity of any data which users may provide about themselves. You acknowledge that all content accessed by you using the Service is at your own risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage or loss to any party resulting therefrom. We do not guarantee that we will publish any of your User Submissions, and reserve the right to remove User Submissions from the Service at any time for any reason, such as if we receive a notice reports a User Submission infringes someone’s intellectual property rights or violates community guidelines.
With respect to Comments, when a user leaves a comment anywhere within The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), or any forum or discussion space of any kind, user grants the owner of that same forum or The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), the perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Commentary (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed.
Contributions to VoiceThread - By submitting anecdotes, ideas, suggestions, documents, images, audio/video files and/or proposals ("Contributions") to The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), through its suggestion or feedback mechanisms, you acknowledge and agree that: (a) your Contributions do not contain confidential or proprietary information; (b) The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), is not under any obligation of confidentiality, express or implied, with respect to the Contributions; (c) The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), shall be entitled to use or disclose (or choose not to use or disclose) such Contributions for any purpose, in any way, in any media worldwide; (d) The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), may have something similar to the Contributions already under consideration or in development; (e) your Contributions automatically become the property of The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), without any obligation of The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), to you; and (f) you are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement of any kind from The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), under any circumstances.
Copyright (what’s yours is yours) NOTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT OR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT -The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), respects the intellectual property of others and we ask our users to do the same. The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may be repeat offenders. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide The Artists Index Website (www.theartistsindex.com), the following information: (1) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest; (2) a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed; (3) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located in the Service; (4) your address, telephone number, and email address; (5) 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; (6) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf.