Terms of Submission‍

Overview

By submitting your content to The Positive Effect, you specifically grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to post this content on this public website.

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 does 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’d like. We may edit some stories, just to make things a bit clearer for those reading it. 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;
• 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;
• Please note that unfortunately we are unable to respond to any questions, or offer advice or information in relation to personal matters;
  

If you would like us to remove your previously submitted story from our website please contact us.