Terms and Conditions
At Fish Alabama, we believe that the lakes of the Alabama Bass Trail and the memories made on its waters and banks are definitely keepers! Alabama is proud to share its legendary fishing traditions with visitors young and old, experienced or not, from across the country.
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we and you are agreeing to the following:
Must Be the Age of Majority to Participate: By submitting your User Content, you confirm that you are at least the age of majority in your state of residence (which is eighteen (18) in most states but is nineteen (19) in Alabama and Nebraska and twenty-one (21) in Mississippi).
You will retain ownership of all comments, photos, videos and other digital materials (referred to as “User Content”) that you post and permit us to use.
You grant Alabama Bass Trail (ABT), Fish Alabama, and its affiliated brands, a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual right and license to reproduce, edit, reformat, publish, broadcast, distribute and otherwise utilize your User Content in connection with ABT’s advertising, publicity, promotional and marketing activities. This includes, but is not limited to, those directed to the public and existing and prospective customers on this and other social media channels, websites, newsletters, and emails. Alabama Bass Trail’s use of your User Content may be viewed by you and others. We may elect to display or utilize your handle, your byline or associated geographic or location information when we use your User Content.
The nonexclusive nature of our license to your User Content means that you may continue to use the User Content for your own purposes and let others use your User Content. Other than your name or handle, and other information that you elect to provide, Fish Alabama will not collect personal information from you. Fish Alabama will maintain the confidentiality of any personal information that you provide, in accordance with our company’s Privacy Policy. The royalty-free nature of our license to your User Content means that we do not owe you any compensation or fees in connection with our use of your User Content or in connection with any revenue or business advantage that we might enjoy as a result of such use. The license provides us with the right to utilize your User Content anywhere in the world. Finally, the perpetual nature of the license means that it does not expire.
You will have the right to request that we cease all further use of your User Content, which you may request by notifying us at info@fishalabama.org and providing the following information: First Name, Last Name, email address, content origin, social platform and user handle and media content description. Fish Alabama will take commercially reasonable, good-faith steps to cease further use by Fish Alabama of specifically-identified User Content within five (5) business days thereafter. However, Fish Alabama may not be able to eliminate uses of your User Content that are in the process of production or distribution, and not all User Content is capable of being completely or permanently removed. We may remove User Content from any use or material for any reason and at any time, without notice. Lastly, Fish Alabama shall not be responsible for any other parties’ use of your User Content, even if such third party use originated with or is derived from our use.
You represent to Fish Alabama that:
- You are at least eighteen (18) years old;
- you own all rights to your User Content or, alternatively, you have the right to grant Fish Alabama the rights and license described above;
- you have paid and will pay in full any fees or other payments that may be related to the production or use of your User Content;
- each individual whose image or likeness is captured in your User Content has granted you the right to use his or her image or likeness for the purposes set forth in these User Generated Content Terms of Use. Otherwise, you hold the right to make such use of his or her image or likeness on the basis of your legal relationship with each such individual, including, but not limited to, your status as the individual’s parent or legal guardian; and
- your User Content does not infringe the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, or other legal rights of any third party, and does not contain any offensive, unlawful or obscene material.
You acknowledge that Fish Alabama has reasonably relied on the above representations and that you shall be responsible for and indemnify Fish Alabama against any claims and liabilities that may result from the inaccuracy of these representations or from the content of your User Content.
These User Generated Content Terms and Conditions shall for all purposes be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of the United States without regard to any conflict of laws provisions, and any dispute relating thereto shall be subject to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the United States.
These User Generated Content Terms and Conditions were most recently updated on January 29, 2019. Please refer back to these User Generated Content Terms and Conditions in order to review the most current version each time that you grant us permission to use your User Content.