6. Additional Terms Applicable to User Contributed Content

Our Services may include comments, articles, and other content which have been contributed by you or other third parties ("User Contributed Content"). You agree to be personally responsible for any User Contributed Content you submit to us and you agree to comply with the following additional terms applicable to User Contributed Content.

a. Acceptance

Your submission of User Contributed Content constitutes your acceptance, without modification, of these Terms. If you do not agree with these Terms, you should not submit User Contributed Content.

b. License

By posting or submitting content to us, including User Contributed Content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, unrestricted, royalty-free, fully paid-up, transferable license, with the right to sublicense, use, copy, display, distribute, and otherwise disclose to third parties such User Contributed Content, or any portion thereof, and to sell, modify, create derivative works from and/or to incorporate such User Contributed Content, or portions of User Contributed Content, into other works in any form, medium, or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, in each case, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without compensation to you. You agree to waive any moral rights that you may have to your User Contributed Content. The license granted above shall survive termination, cancellation, or expiration of these Terms and/or your subscription.

c. Conduct

When you submit any User Contributed Content to us, you agree to the following:

• You agree to be personally responsible for your User Contributed Content and to communicate your comments and opinions in a lawful and respectful manner;
   

• You agree that any User Contributed Content submitted by you does not defame any person or violate or infringe the intellectual property rights of any person including, without limitation, trade secrets, confidential information, copyrights, trademarks, patents, rights of publicity, or any other proprietary rights;
   

• You agree that any User Contributed Content submitted by you will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary;
   

• You agree not to submit any User Contributed Content which contains advertising, promotional materials, or any solicitation of products or services without our prior written consent;
   

• You agree to submit User Contributed Content that is related to the subject matter of the Site and that complies with applicable law;
   

• You agree not to impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity;
   

• You agree not to use artificial intelligence to generate User Contributed Content, including any data, analysis, text, images, or video (“AI-generated Content) [unless you fully disclose the nature and source of such AI-generated content].
   

• You agree not to use artificial intelligence or other automated methods, including bots, to submit User Contributed Content to us.
   

• You agree not to submit any User Contributed Content that violates any local, state, national, or international law, including but not limited to regulations of the US Securities and Exchange Commission or other securities laws, any rules of any securities exchange, including without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq Stock Market or to engage in activity that would constitute a criminal offense or give rise to a civil liability;
   

• You agree not to submit User Contributed Content which is abusive or harassing to any other person;
   

• You agree not to submit any User Contributed Content which contains nudity, language, or other material that may be considered "adult", obscene, indecent, objectionable, or offensive;
   

• You agree not to harvest, collect, or store personally identifying information about other users of the Site or to otherwise invade anyone's privacy or disclose another person's personally identifiable information in your User Contributed Content;
   

• You agree not to upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any User Contributed Content that contains software viruses, worms, Trojan horses, time bombs, trap doors, or any other computer code, files, programs, or repetitive requests for information designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or to diminish the quality of, interfere with the performance of, or impair the functionality of the Site or any third-party software, site, equipment, or service;
   

• You agree not to engage in any activity which may compromise the stability or availability of the Site or use the Site to compromise the availability or stability of any third-party site or service, including without limitation any denial of service attacks, viruses, or other malicious code;
   

• You agree not to reverse engineer, hack, spam, block, disrupt, or otherwise change or alter, or attempt to change or alter, the Site;
   

• You agree not to circumvent any security measures or any payment collections methods employed on the Site or access the Site or submit User Contributed Content after your account, access, or contributing privileges have been terminated by us; and
   

• You represent and warrant that you own or control all rights in and to the User Contributed Content and have the right to grant the license granted above  to use and our licensees, successors and assigns and that all of your User Contributed Content does and will comply with these Terms.
   

If you are aware of or experience any circumstances that appear to be a violation of these Terms, please inform us by contacting us via email at members@rationaloptimistsociety.com.

 e. Responsibility for User Contributed Content 

Comments and views expressed in User Contributed Content are those of the contributors only and do not necessarily represent our views. We do not endorse and specifically disclaim all responsibility and liability for any User Contributed Content. We have no obligation to pre-screen or monitor User Contributed Content; however, we reserve the right to monitor, delete, move, or edit User Contributed Content, in whole or in part, in our sole discretion at any time without notice to you. We also reserve the right to terminate your access to or ability to submit User Contributed Content at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever.

f. Copyright Infringement Notices 

We respect the intellectual property rights of others and it is our policy to respond expeditiously to claims of intellectual property infringement. We will promptly process and investigate notices of alleged infringement and take appropriate actions under the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and other applicable intellectual property laws.

Upon receipt of notices complying or substantially complying with the DMCA, we will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to any material claimed to be infringing or claimed to be the subject of infringing activity and will act expeditiously to remove or disable access to any reference or link to material or activity that is claimed to be infringing. We will terminate access for subscribers who are repeat infringers.

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please send a written notice to us at the email or mailing address below with the following information:

• A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
   

• Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.
   

• Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material.
   

• Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which you may be contacted.
   

• A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
   

• A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
   

You may submit a notice electronically by emailing us at members@rationaloptimistsociety.com or in writing to:

Rational Optimist Society LLC
1417 Sadler Road
PMB 415
Fernandina Beach, FL 32034