Terms of Story Submission

‍Overview

By submitting your content to The Positive Effect, you specifically grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free,
perpetual worldwide license to post this content on this public website and on social media pages
(Twitter, Facebook and Instagram) affiliated with The Positive Effect for promotional purposes. We may
also use this content on other REACH Nexus web properties or social media accounts.

We respect other people’s rights and expect you to do the same. You will not post content that infringes
or violates someone else’s rights or otherwise violates the law. This includes posting photos, writing and
art that do not belong to you.

You will not post anyone else’s identification documents or sensitive/personal information.

We can remove any content or information you post if we believe that it violates this Statement or our
policies. Furthermore, if your content violates these rules and results in litigation against The Positive
Effect, you agree to cover any and all resulting costs, fees, and damages.

We invite people to report instances where their Intellectual Property (writing, photos or art) has been
posted without their permission.

If we remove your content for infringing someone else’s copyright, and you believe we removed it by
mistake, we will provide you with an opportunity to appeal.

Guidelines for submission

Just so you know, we won’t share any of your personal information—you can even submit your story
anonymously if you like. We may edit some stories to make things a bit clearer for those reading it. If
our proposed edits are more extensive than minor adjustments to punctuation, we will contact you
for your review and approval before publishing.

Safety and privacy are of the utmost importance. Therefore, please be advised that all posts must
adhere to the following guidelines:

• stories without a personal connection to, or surrounding HIV will not be accepted;
• stories must be no more than 300 words; please only include photographs or other materials
  that you own. If you choose not to include any images, The Positive Effect will choose an image
  that best represents the content in your submission;
• please do not include personal identifiable information, such as phone number, mailing address,
  or email on publicly available portions of submissions;
• posts should not include personally identifying information of individuals associated with the
  story you are sharing;
• the post should not misrepresent data or information; posts should not include broad political
  statements or arguments;
• stories that contain malicious, threatening, illegal, graphic, abusive, offensive or otherwise
  inappropriate content, or that promotes or advocates illegal activity may not be posted;
• posts that contain inaccurate or malicious attacks related to any person, entity, or organization
  will not be posted onto the site;
• you can highlight your foundation or organization’s work, however this page cannot be used to
  solicit donations to fundraising pages of any kind; and
• please note that, unfortunately, we are unable to respond to any questions, or offer advice or
  information in relation to personal matters
  

Despite these licensing agreements, we understand that sometimes over time it can feel less
comfortable to have your story published on a website. While once something is published on the
Internet it can never be fully retracted, we are open to removing your content from our website if you
no longer want it to be live on our property. If you would like us to remove your previously submitted
story from our website please contact us at hello@positiveeffect.org.