User contribution policy

Overview

This User contributions policy together with the Terms, provide the rules for your participation in tagging, sharing, messaging, submitting, writing, and/or posting photographs, video, your social media handle, and/or any other content posted to our Website, ecommerce site, and/or on social media platforms, such as:

Instagram,

Facebook,

Youtube,

Pinterest,

Twitter,

TikTok,

Snapchat and

all other social media platforms.

Additionally, the Website may contain quizzes, comment sections, reviews, social media sharing buttons and other interactive features (collectively, "Interactive Services") that allow users to post, submit, publish, display or transmit to other users or other persons (hereinafter, "post") content or materials (collectively, "User Contributions") on or through the Website.

Any User Contributions you post to the site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. By providing any User Contributions on the Website, you grant us and our affiliates and our respective licensees, successors and assigns the royalty-free right to use, reproduce, republish, modify, perform, display, distribute and otherwise disclose to third-parties any such material for any purpose. You specifically grant us the right to republish reviews posted on the Website on social media or other third-party platforms.

You represent and warrant that:
You own or control all rights in and to the User Contributions and have the right to grant the license granted above to us and our affiliates and service providers, and each of their and our respective licensees, successors and assigns. All of your User Contributions do and will comply with the Terms.

You understand and acknowledge that:

You are responsible for any User Contributions you submit or contribute and you, not Botanical Hydration LLC (“Company”), have full responsibility for such content, including its legality, reliability, accuracy and appropriateness. 

We are not responsible or liable to any third-party for the content or accuracy of any User Contributions posted by you or any other user of the Website.

Monitoring and enforcement

We may remove any content, at any time, without notice, and at our discretion. Furthermore, we have the following rights:
Take any action with respect to any User Contributions we deem necessary or appropriate in our sole discretion, including if we believe that such User Contributions violate the Terms, including the Content Standards, infringes any intellectual property right or other right of any person or entity, threatens the personal safety of users of the Website or the public, or could create liability for the Company.

Take appropriate legal action, including without limitation, referral to law enforcement, for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Website.

Terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Website, including without limitation, any violation of the Terms.

Without limiting the foregoing, we have the right to cooperate fully with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or other information of anyone posting any materials on or through the Website.

You waive and hold harmless the company and its affiliates, licensees and service providers from any claims resulting from any action taken by any of the foregoing parties during or taken as a consequence of, investigations by such parties or law enforcement authorities.

However, we do not undertake to review all material before it is posted on the Website, and cannot ensure prompt removal of objectionable material after it has been posted. Accordingly, we assume no liability for any action or inaction regarding transmissions, communications, or content provided by any user or third-party. We have no liability or responsibility to anyone for performance or nonperformance of the activities described in this section.

By sharing a User Contribution you agree that:

You are the sole author and owner.

For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post.

You have permission from any other person(s) featured in your submission.

All "moral rights" that you may have in the User Posting have been voluntarily waived by you.

All content that you post is accurate.

You are at least 13 years old.

Use of the content you supply does not violate our Terms or Privacy Policy.

As required by FTC, you will disclose any material connection to Company including receipt of free product samples for review purposes or other compensation or affiliation.

Content standards

These content standards apply to any and all User Contributions and use of Interactive Services. User Contributions must in their entirety comply with all applicable federal, state, local, and international laws and regulations.

Without limiting the foregoing, User Contributions must not:

Contain any material that is defamatory, obscene, indecent, abusive, offensive, harassing, violent, hateful, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable. 

Promote sexually explicit or pornographic material, violence, or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age. 

Infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other intellectual property or other rights of any other person. 

Violate the legal rights (including the rights of publicity and privacy) of others or contain any material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under applicable laws or regulations or that otherwise may be in conflict with these Terms and our Privacy Policy. 

Be likely to deceive any person. 

Promote any illegal activity, or advocate, promote, or assist any unlawful act. 

Cause annoyance, inconvenience, or needless anxiety or be likely to upset, embarrass, alarm, or annoy any other person. 

Impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or organization. 

Involve commercial activities or sales, such as contests, sweepstakes, and other sales promotions, barter, or advertising. 

Give the impression that they emanate from or are endorsed by us or any other person or entity, if this is not the case. 

Unless, you are a blog contributor, then you shall not post any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers for you or anyone else. 

Post any material that contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.

You agree to indemnify and hold Company, its parent company, as well as, its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees, and third-party service providers harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

By submitting User Contributions, you agree that Company may use your content and/or Social Media User name to contact you regarding your User Contributions and for other purposes consistent with our Privacy Policy.

Reliance of information posted

This Website includes content provided by third parties, including materials provided by other users, bloggers, and third-party licensors, syndicators, aggregators, and/or reporting services. All statements and/or opinions expressed in these materials, and all articles and responses to questions and other content, other than the content provided by the Company, are solely the opinions and the responsibility of the person or entity providing those materials. These materials do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Company. We are not responsible, or liable to you or any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials provided by any third parties.

Copyright infringement

If you believe that any User Contributions violate your copyright, please email us at info@botanicalhydration.com. It is the policy of the Company to terminate the user accounts of repeat infringers.

Last updated: September 18, 2022