User Generated Content Terms and Conditions

By sharing photos, videos, information, text messages, files, music, sounds, messages or other content or materials (“User Content”) on third party platforms and websites such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Chute (our third party photo sharing software provider) with a hashtag designated by the Gaylord Area Convention and Tourism Bureau (Gaylord CVB), or directly uploading User Content to Gaylord CVB affiliated websites (“website”), collectively referred to as the “Submissions,” you are agreeing to the following:

You own all user content. You grant the Gaylord CVB a license to reproduce, display, perform, distribute and otherwise use your User Content in connection with the website and for other Gaylord CVB marketing purposes, including but not limited to marketing campaigns via any medium including but not limited to social media and print campaigns, customer communications, display materials and signage, social media, and any other form of marketing currently known and used or not yet developed. User Content may also be given to other agencies by the Gaylord CVB for use in marketing directly related to the Gaylord CVB’s mission. The Gaylord CVB may display advertisements in connection with your User Content on pages where your User Content may be viewed publicly, and we may use your User Content to advertise and promote the Gaylord CVB or the website. Our license to your User Content is non-exclusive, meaning you may use the User Content for your own purposes or let others use your User Content for their purposes. Our license to your User Content is royalty free, meaning we do not owe you anything in connection with our use of your User Content. Finally, our license is perpetual, meaning that our license lasts for an indefinite period of time.

You promise that: you own all rights to your User Content or, alternatively, that you have the right to give the Gaylord CVB the rights described above; you have paid and will pay in full any fees or other payments that may be related to the use of your User Content; and your User Content does not infringe the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, or other legal rights of any third party.

The Gaylord CVB may refuse to accept or transmit User Content for any reason, as well as remove User Content from the website for any reason. You may only make a submission if you are 18 years of age or over. If your submission is selected by the Gaylord CVB to be used, it may be displayed for other users to see, with or without your name and associated third party website profile information (such as your handle and profile picture). The Gaylord CVB is under no obligation to display, feature or use any submission, but may do so at its sole discretion. You further irrevocably waive any “moral rights” or other rights with respect to attribution of authorship or integrity of materials regarding any submission that you may have under any applicable law or under any legal theory.