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// CUT/SEW User Generated Content Terms of Use

CUT/SEW Patternmaking LLC (“CUT/SEW”) reaches out to social media users to seek their permission to feature our favorite content on our website, various social channels, and promotional materials. You are reading this because CUT/SEW has requested your permission to use your social media content in this way.

 

If you choose to allow us to use your social media content (“User Content”) by replying with the hashtag #cutsewphoto, you agree to these Terms of Use.

 

CUT/SEW reserves the right to alter these Terms of Use without advance notice by posting a revised Terms of Use. Accordingly, you should review the Terms of Use each time you grant permission or authorization to feature your User Content.

 

// USER CONTENT LICENSE

You hereby grant to CUT/SEW and its related companies, agents, licensees, sublicensees, contractors, successors, legal representatives, assigns, and third-party service providers, and their respective retail partners, marketing or public relations agencies, and other affiliates (the “Licensed Parties”) a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully-paid, non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable right to use your User Content in any manner to be determined in the Licensed Parties’ sole discretion, including but not limited to on webpages and social media pages operated by the Licensed Parties, in promotional e-mails and advertisements, and in any and all other marketing, promotional and advertising initiatives, and in any media now or hereafter known. The Licensed Parties may use, display, reproduce, distribute, transmit, create derivative works from, combine with other materials, alter and/or edit your User Content in any manner in their sole discretion, with no obligation to you whatsoever.

 

You grant the Licensed Parties the right to use your username, real name, image, likeness, descriptions of you, location or other identifying information, including but not limited to your voice, in connection with any use of your User Content.

 

The User Content that you submit is deemed non-confidential and the Licensed Parties have no obligation to maintain the confidentiality of any information, in whatever form, contained in any submission, except pursuant to the Licensed Parties’ respective privacy policies. By using this Site or the Services, you are consenting to the Licensed Parties’ collection of any personal information you provide for the Licensed Parties’ use and disclosure in connection with the use of your User Content as described herein. If you do not agree to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in this way, please do not use this Site or the Services or otherwise provide the Licensed Parties with personal information. Your personal information may be transferred to servers located outside the country in which you live or to third parties in other countries so that they may process personal information on the Licensed Parties behalf. By using the Site or the Services or otherwise providing the Licensed Parties with personal information, you agree to the foregoing collection, use, disclosure, transfer and processing of your information in accordance with the terms of these Terms, the Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws and regulations.

 

// REPRESENTATION OF OWNERSHIP

You acknowledge and agree that:

- You are not a minor;

- You have the full right, power and authority to grant the rights described in these Terms of Use;

- The User Content was created by you or you own or control all rights in such User Content, such that you have all necessary licenses, rights, consents and permissions to publish the User Content and to grant the rights granted herein, including permission from all person(s) appearing in your User Content;

- The exercise by CUT/SEW of its rights under these Terms of Use will not violate the rights of any third party or any applicable laws, rules or regulations, including, without limitation, consumer protection, privacy, copyright, trademark and trade laws;

- The User Content is not, in CUT/SEW's reasonable discretion, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, indecent, threatening, harassing, hateful, or offensive or otherwise unlawful.

 

// RELEASE

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold CUT/SEW, its agents, suppliers, licensees, successors, or assigns, and/or its and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors and agents (collectively, the "Indemnified Parties") harmless from and against any and all damages, liability, claims, actions, demands and costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of settlement) arising out of any breach by You of these Terms of Use.

 

Without limiting anything set out above, You hereby release each of the Indemnified Parties from all damages, liability, claims, actions, demands and costs of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with these Terms of Use.

 

If You are a California resident, you expressly waive California Civil Code §1542, which says: "A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR."

 

You irrevocably and unconditionally waive (and agree not to enforce) all rights in the User Content, including without limitation any moral rights or equivalent rights which You may otherwise have under any laws now existing or which become law in the future in any part of the world.

If requested, You will sign any documentation in such manner and at such location as may be required to protect, perfect or enforce any of the rights You have granted to CUT/SEW under these Terms of Use.

 

Last updated: October 25th, 2019

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