General terms

Your use of this website and the services provided are contingent upon these terms. If you do not agree with any part of the Terms of Service, you must immediately exit the website and refrain from using any of the services provided.

These Terms of Service are a legal contract between you and OpenVerseChallenge.com. By using OpenVerseChallenge.com you agree that you are bound by these Terms of Serivce.

Website Content

All content contained at OpenVerseChallenge.com ("website") is hosted under Section 107 of the Copy Right Act and offered free of charge without any warranty of any kind. Other licenses may be declared by each respective member posting content to the website. Regardless, all content that is made accessible through this website is free for distribution and may be used for contributed works as the originating artist's CC license permits. In other words, as long as the content is accessible through this website all visitors are free to download, modify, change, and redistribute the content providing the originating artist's CC license remains in place.

Deleting your open verse challenge removes it from the server and revokes the CC license only as it relates to OpenVerseChallenge.com. It is your responsibility to reach out to each artist who were granted a CC license using this website, to revoke that license.

Changing the CC license of your OVC only applies to OpenVerseChallenge.com and does not include any third-party or artist who produced derivative works based on your OVC. It is your responsibility to reach out to those artists, if any, to inform them that you have changed your grant of the CC license. Unedited copies may still exist on other platforms of which OpenVerseChallenge.com has no right or authority to effect. It will then be your responsibility to track down all copies and to inform the artists who created derivative works, in response to your OVC, that you have changed or revoked your grant of the CC license.

Deleting your video will not remove any challenge(s) posted in response to your open verse challenge. It only revokes the license as it relates to OpenVerseChallenge.com. Under this condition, it will be your responsibility to notify each respective artist who created a derivative work in response to your OVC.

If you do not agree to these terms, you are not permitted to use this platform.

You must agree to and abide by all Terms of Service in place at this website, to include any additional terms related to browser technologies.

You must agree to protect, defend, hold harmless, and indemnify (collectively "Indemnify" and "Indemnification") OpenVerseChallenge.com, its subsidiaries, and its and their respective successors, assigns, directors, officers, employees, agents, and affiliates (collectively, "Indemnified Parties") from and against all claims, demands, actions, suits, damages, liabilities, losses, settlements, judgments, costs, and expenses of or by a third party OR whether or not involving a claim by a third party, including but not limited to reasonable attorneys' fees and costs (collectively, "Claims"), actually or allegedly, directly or indirectly, arising out of or related to (1) any breach of any representation or warranty of OpenVerseChallenge.com contained in this Agreement; (2) any breach or violation of any covenant or other obligation or duty of OpenVerseChallenge.com under this Agreement or under applicable law; (3) any third party Claims which arise out of, relate to or result from any act or omission of OpenVerseChallenge.com; and (4) in each case whether or not caused in whole or in part by your negligence in this use of this website, or any other Indemnified Party, and whether or not the relevant Claim has merit.

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Introduction

Historically, music has always played a vital role in the social and cultural contexts of changing societies. Time and again, it has proven itself to be a powerful human activity that is interrelated with cultural policy, education, conflict, resolution, health, sustainability, or advocacy for change.

Respect and appreciation for artist expression is the bottom line.

What is Encouraged

Cooperative participation, especially when it is:

• Inclusive
• Community-oriented
• Active
• Considerate
• Respectful
• Collaborative
• Authentic

What is Discouraged

Persistent and undesired intrusive harassment that disrupts the personal space of another:

• Direct verbal abuse
• Bullying, stalking, intimidating
• Dehumanizing, demeaning, degrading, or threatening language

Unwanted intrusion in public or private atmospheres:

• Spam
• Commercialism

Political, social, or economic domination, such as threatening to or non-consensually revealing another's personal information to the following:

• An employer or potential employer
• A government, an agency empowered by the government, or an agent or police officer empowered by the government
• Any censuring organization, such as religious, social, cultural, economic, or political institutions, such as family, friends, churches, newspapers, publishers, radio stations, etc.
• Any third party without their direct consent

Authoritarianism, or the spread of behavior that is designed to abridge the standards described so far, such as attempts to advance, support, or aid any of the following:

• Regulation of artistic expression
• Suppression of the press in the dissemination of artistic expression

Advocating for or encouraging any of the above.

How Community Standards are Enforced

Reports of abuse are skeptically reviewed within the standards described above, and with strong consideration for the scope of the right to press.

Administrative actions taken in response to abuse may include one or more of the following:

• Warning
• Involuntary application of filters affecting visibility in search results
• Involuntary change of view settings
• Involuntary removal of content from the server
• Temporary ban
• Permanent ban

Licensing of this Document

This document is released under the Creative Commons License.

Your respect of these Guidelines is greatly appreciated.

Session cookies and local storage must be enabled to use OpenVerseChallenge.com. This page describes what these are and how they are used, in addition to important information related to your privacy on this platform. By using this website you indicate that you agree to this policy. You must immediately stop using the website if there is any part of the policies in place at OpenVerseChallenge.com that you do not agree with.

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy ("policy") will help you understand how OpenVerseChallenge.com ("website", "us", "we", "our") uses and protects the data you provide through the website when you visit and use the services provided.

We reserve the right to change this policy at any given time, of which you will be promptly updated the moment you log into your account immediately after any change has been published. If you want to make sure that you are up to date with the latest changes, we advise you to frequently log into your account.

What User Data We Collect

When you visit the website, we may collect the following data:

1. Your IP address.
2. Your contact information and email address.
3. Other information such as interests and preferences.
4. Data profile regarding your online activity.
5. Personal profile data used to create your online portfolio
6. Limited personal information such as date of birth, primary spoken language, and geographical region.

Why We Collect Your Data

We are collecting your data for several reasons:

1. To better understand your needs.
2. To improve our services.
3. To customize our services according to your preferences.

Safeguarding and Securing the Data

OpenVerseChallenge.com is committed to securing your data and keeping it safe. We are continually doing all within our power to prevent data theft, unauthorized access, and disclosure by implementing the latest server-side defensive technologies and software, which help us safeguard all the information we collect online.

Our Privacy Policy

Once you agree to allow our website to use cookies, you also agree to use the data it collects regarding your online behavior (analyze web traffic, web pages you visit and spend the most time on).

The data we collect by using cookies is used to customize our service to your needs. After we use the data for statistical analysis, the data is completely removed from our systems.

Please note that cookies don't allow us to gain control of your computer in any way. They are strictly used to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not so that we can provide you with a better experience.

If you want to disable cookies, you can do it by accessing the settings of your internet browser. You can visit https://www.internetcookies.com, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers and devices.

What Are Cookies

Cookies are small bits of data stored in a text file on your computer within a web browser. They allow websites to remember information about your visit, to enhance functionality, and to substantially improve the user experience while using the website.

By themselves, cookies are harmless; they cannot harm your computer. However, this does not mean they are not danger because they are.

If you are not careful, cookies can be used to store sensitive, personal information across platforms. These, in turn, can be used to track your movements on the internet and discover your habits. OpenVerseChallenge.com believes these types of cookies should be banned from the internet and therefore assures its users that only temporary cookies containing senseless information that only the website itself can understand are being used.

Restricted Session Cookies (temporary)

A session cookie is a simple text file that OpenVerseChallenge.com installs on its user's device for temporary use. It helps track real-time changes in the visitor's activity through the website, such as voting and keeping a footprint of the challenges the user visits while surfing the website. OpenVerseChallenge.com has session cookies enabled by default, as it helps the web pages load faster and makes navigation easier. These cookies also help to enhance the user experience and provide additional layers of security protecting the website from malicious use.

Also known as a transient cookie or a temporary cookie, a session cookie is only active during each browsing session and is programmed to be automatically deleted at the end of each browsing session when the user exits their web browser. Users can also restrict the use of session cookies during their browsing sessions manually. However, this will effectively disable much of the website and make it unavailable to the user.

Local Storage

Local Storage, though the same as cookies, means the data stored persists even after the user closes the browser or restarts the computer. The only way to remove data from your browser's local storage is by manually deleting the records using the settings in your browser, or a browser plug-in that manually clears all footprints from your browser's history.

OpenVerseChallenge.com uses local storage to save images for transport from the webpage to the database server. Local storage may also be used to store temporary encryption keys, protecting your data and enhancing the security of the website.

Links to Other Websites

OpenVerseChallenge.com may contain links that lead to other websites. If you click on these links, OpenVerseChallenge.com is not held responsible for your data and privacy protection. Visiting websites using external links provided on the website is not governed by this privacy policy agreement. Make sure to read the privacy policy documentation of the website you are visiting after following a link from our website.

Restricting the Collection of your Personal Data

OpenVerseChallenge.com does not share its user data, nor do we maintain records in a manner that is not intended by the services provided through the website. Only you can share your personal information.

At anytime you no longer want to share the information you provide on the website; you may edit your account information whenever you please or delete your account altogether. Deleted account are permanent and cannot be restored.

OpenVerseChallenge.com affirmatively agrees that it will not lease, sell or distribute your personal information to any third parties without your express permission using the forms provided at this website. However, we might have to surrender your account information if the law forces us through competent jurisdiction that have legal force under the laws of the State of Colorado and the United States of America. Your personal contact information, such as your email address and/or cellular number, will be used by the website to send you notifications. When you visit the website after responding to a notification you may be presented with promotional materials on the page you are directed to.