Hello and welcome! At Dryft Board, LLC doing business as Dryft1 (“Dryft1”), we’re thrilled to offer you access to our social media platforms, community forums, and related services—collectively known as the “Platform.” These Social Platform and Media Terms (“Terms”) are here to help provide a summary and guide your use of our Platform and complement our Dryft1 Terms of Sale, Terms of Use, App Term of Use (coming soon), Privacy Policy, and other published policies. Please review Dryft1’s published policies carefully as these Terms are meant only to supplement such policies.  Let’s ensure you’re all set to join us!

Eligibility to Use the Platform

We have a few basic requirements for you to get started with our Platform:

• Location and Age: You must reside and be located in the United States and be at least 18 years old, or 19 years old if you are in Alabama or Nebraska, and 21 years old if you are in Mississippi.
• Legal Compliance: Ensure you’re not prohibited from receiving any part of our Platform under applicable laws or engaging in payment-related activities if you’re on any denied party list.
• Account Status: Your account shouldn’t have been disabled by us previously due to policy violations.
• Criminal Background: You must not be a convicted sex offender or have you have been convicted of fraud or any crimes involving the use of the Internet.

Prohibited Conduct and Activities

To keep our community safe and enjoyable for everyone, there are a few things you should avoid:

• Identity & Information: Please provide accurate information. While you don’t need to disclose your identity on the Platform, we need truthful details if required. Impersonating others or creating accounts without permission is prohibited.
• Lawfulness: Avoid any unlawful, misleading, or fraudulent activities. Don’t disrupt or interfere with the Platform’s operation.
• Account Integrity: Creating accounts or collecting information in unauthorized ways, such as automated means without permission, isn’t allowed.
• Transactions: Selling, licensing, or purchasing accounts or data from our Platform is prohibited.
• Privacy & Intellectual Property: Don’t post private or confidential information without permission, and respect others’ intellectual property rights. Use content responsibly and only if you have the rights or permission to do so.

Permissions You Give to Us

We’re excited to offer you our Platform, and in return, we need a few permissions:

• Content License: While you remain the owner of your content, you grant us a royalty free license to use it. This includes hosting, using, distributing, and modifying your content as needed, always respecting your privacy settings.
• Profile Usage: You allow us to display your username, profile picture, and actions (like follows) next to accounts, ads, and sponsored content on our Platform without compensation.
• Updates: You’re okay with us downloading and installing updates to the Platform on your device.

Additional Rights We Retain

We want to make sure everything runs smoothly:

• Username Changes: If your chosen username infringes on someone’s rights or impersonates another, we may change it.
• Our Content:  We retain all rights to our content (like images or designs) and use requires our express written permission.
• Brand Usage: Feel free to refer to us as “Dryft1” or “DRYFT,” but using our trademarks or logos requires our express written permission.

User Generated Content, Reviews, Feedback, and Other Postings to the Platform

If you’re sharing any comments, ideas, suggestions, feedback, information, files, videos, images, or similar content with us or on our Platform (collectively referred to as “User Generated Content”), here are a few friendly guidelines to keep in mind:

1. Please avoid posting anything that’s defamatory, abusive, libelous, unlawful, obscene, threatening, harassing, fraudulent, pornographic, or harmful. We’d also appreciate it if you steer clear of content that could spur criminal or unethical activities.
2. Ensure your content respects privacy and doesn’t infringe on copyright, trademark, trade dress, trade secrets, or any intellectual property rights of others.
3. Say no to viruses! Kindly refrain from sharing any content that might contain or transmit a virus or other harmful components.

We absolutely love feedback and suggestions! However, please remember that we can use them without any restrictions or obligations—this means we will not compensate you for them or keep them confidential.

Our social media and content-sharing spaces are all about building a community around writing, ridership, and Hybrid Cross Board (HBX) culture. It’s best to focus your posts and submissions on these topics.  Content that is political, religious, and commercial solicitations is prohibited.

We ask you not to use the Platform for business or commercial purposes. This means avoiding advertising, marketing, or selling your products or services, or those of third parties, for financial gain.

And please keep it safe! Avoid posting User Generated Content that promotes reckless or dangerous activities.

While we encourage open, honest communications about Dryft1 and its products, we do reserve the right to moderate and remove content deemed false, misleading, or inappropriately disparaging. Plus, since this is a Dryft1-sponsored platform, please refrain from promoting brands, products, or services that compete with ours.

Please do not contact other users through unsolicited emails, calls, or mailings. You are responsible for ensuring you have the legal right to provide all User Generated Content to Dryft1 and that you grant us a royalty-free, irrevocable license to use it however we see fit—including copying, modifying, translating, and distributing it globally.

We might monitor, edit, or remove User Generated Content as needed. Remember, you can’t use a fake email address or impersonate anyone else. You’re solely responsible for your submissions. Dryft1 and its affiliates hold no liability for content submitted by you or others.

By using our Platform, you’re releasing Dryft1 from any claims related to the use of the Platform, including User Generated Content. You also agree to defend and indemnify Dryft1 against any claims related to your content, in accordance with our Site and Dryft App Terms of Use.

Content Removal and Disabling or Terminating Your Account

We reserve the right to delete any content or information shared on the Platform if it violates these Terms of Use or as required by law. We can also terminate or restrict your access to the Platform if you pose risks or legal exposure for us, violate these terms, or repeatedly infringe on others’ intellectual property rights.

If you believe your account was terminated in error or want to delete it, please contact us. We try to process deletion requests within 30 days of acknowledgment and may take up to 90 days or more to complete. During this time, content will be invisible to others but still subject to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Certain situations may extend content retention beyond 90 days, such as when your content has been used by others, technical limitations exist, or when deletion could interfere with legal obligations or investigations.

If your account is disabled or deleted, these Terms will terminate, but this section and the one below titled “Our Agreement and What Happens if We Disagree” will still apply.

Claims of Copyright Infringement

Dryft1 respects others’ intellectual property rights and expects the same from our users. Under the DMCA, we will respond promptly to notices of alleged infringement reported to our Designated Copyright Agent.

To report copyright infringement, follow these steps:

1. Identify the copyrighted works you claim are infringed.
2. Specify the infringing material or link, including the URL on the Platform.
3. Provide your contact details.
4. Include the following statements in your Notice:

• “I hereby state that I have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (e.g., as a fair use).”
• “I hereby state that the information in this Notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I am the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of the copyright or of an exclusive right under the copyright that is allegedly infringed.”

1. Provide your full legal name and signature.

Send your completed Notice to our Copyright Agent:

Thomas (TJ) Romano

Kolitch Romano, Dascenzo Gates

Intellectual Property Attorneys

621 SW Morrison Street #1100 | Portland, OR 97205 USA

Email: TJ@krdglaw.com

No Liability of App Stores and Other Third Parties

Just a quick note about a few things you might be wondering about. When it comes to the app you’re using with our platform, we want to clarify that other folks like your wireless carrier, your device’s manufacturer and retailer, the developer of your device’s operating system, and any app store operators (who we’ll collectively call “Third Parties”) aren’t involved in this agreement with you. They don’t own our app, and they’re not responsible for it. If you have any claims or issues related to the app or your use of it, those are on us, Dryft1, and not the Third Parties.

Now, it’s important to remember that you’re responsible for following all the terms and conditions of the app store or any Third Party involved. And just so we’re clear, these Third Parties don’t offer any guarantees about the app. They disclaim all warranties, whether express or implied, including things like non-infringement, title, merchantability, quiet enjoyment, quality of information, and fitness for a particular purpose.

In terms of liability, if something goes wrong, these Third Parties won’t be liable for any damages, whether they’re direct, indirect, punitive, exemplary, incidental, special, or consequential, even if they’ve been warned about potential issues. If any claims arise, the maximum liability you’ll see from any Third Party won’t exceed $500. And lastly, you’re waiving any claims you might have against these Third Parties related to the app and this agreement. They’re actually intended third-party beneficiaries and can enforce these terms directly if needed.

And one more thing—if there’s a claim that the app infringes on someone else’s intellectual property rights, these Third Parties aren’t responsible for handling it.

Responsibility for Problems, Claims, and Damages

We provide our Platform “as is,” which means we can’t promise it’ll always be perfect and secure. We want to be upfront in saying that we disclaim all warranties, both express and implied, as much as the law allows. This includes warranties like merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.

We also don’t have control over what people do or say on our Platform, and we aren’t responsible for anyone’s actions or content, whether it’s lawful or not. Plus, we aren’t in charge of features and services offered by others, even if you’re accessing them through us.

Our liability is as limited as possible by law. If anything goes awry, including deleting your account or information, we can’t be accountable for any lost profits, revenues, data, or other types of damages. Our total liability won’t exceed the greater of what you’ve paid us over the past year.

We also ask that you defend us, if needed (we’ll ask nicely), and hold us harmless from any claims or damages connected to these Terms or your Platform use. You’ll help us out as needed, and we might take the lead in defense if we choose. If you plan on settling a claim, we need to give written consent first.

Disputes

We always aim to sort out any concerns or disputes (“Disputes”) with you directly. But if we can’t resolve things amicably, we both agree to handle it through mandatory binding arbitration, as detailed in our Terms of Use.

Hope this summary helps make everything clear! We're always here to help if you have any questions.