Terms of service

Welcome to Good Story Company! This Agreement is effective as of April 4th, 2023.

These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the participation in any Good Story Company branded webinars or events, hosted on the Good Story Company website (located at www.goodstorycompany.com), or facilitated by teleconferencing services such as but not limited to Webinar Geek and Zoom, or on the Good Story Company community Discord server. If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact support@goodstorycompany.com.

By participating in this event, Good Story Company assumes that you agree with and accept these terms and conditions. Do not continue to participate in this or any Good Story Company events if you do not agree with or accept the terms and conditions stated on this page.

The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Statement and Disclaimer Notice and all Agreements on this page: “client”, “you” and “your” refers to you, the person attending the event and compliant to the Good Story Company’s terms and conditions. “Good Story Company”, “the company”, “ourselves”, “we”, “our” and “us”, refers to Good Story Company, the members, and agents of the company.

Cookies

We employ the use of cookies. By accessing our website or attending one of our events or using one of our websites or one of our events hosted via a third-party service, you agreed to use cookies in agreement with the Good Story Company Privacy Policy.

Most interactive websites use cookies to log the user's details for each visit. Cookies are used by our website to enable the functionality of certain areas to make it easier for people visiting our website. Some of our affiliate/advertising partners may also use cookies, as well as third-party teleconferencing applications where events are hosted.

License

Unless otherwise stated, Good Story Company and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material on Good Story Company and produced by Good Story Company. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may access this from Good Story Company for your own personal use subjected to restrictions set in these terms and conditions.

If you do not have written permission from a member of the company, you must not:

  • Republish material from Good Story Company

  • Sell, rent or sub-license material from Good Story Company

  • Reproduce, duplicate or copy material from Good Story Company

  • Redistribute content from Good Story Company unless sharing on social media (links back to the original content are required)

The following organizations may link to our Website without prior written approval:

  • Government agencies;

  • Search engines;

  • News organizations;

  • Online directory distributors may link to our Website in the same manner as they hyperlink to the Websites of other listed businesses; and

  • System wide Accredited Businesses except soliciting non-profit organizations, charity shopping malls, and charity fundraising groups which may not hyperlink to our Website.

These organizations may link to our home page, to publications or to other Website information so long as the link: (a) is not in any way deceptive; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products and/or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party's site.

We may consider and approve other link requests from the following types of organizations:

  • commonly-known consumer and/or business information sources;

  • dot.com community sites;

  • associations or other groups representing charities;

  • online directory distributors;

  • internet portals;

  • accounting, law and consulting firms; and

  • educational institutions and trade associations.

We will approve link requests from these organizations if we decide that: (a) the link would not make us look unfavorably to ourselves or to our accredited businesses; (b) the organization does not have any negative records with us; (c) the benefit to us from the visibility of the hyperlink compensates the absence of Good Story Company; and (d) the link is in the context of general resource information.

These organizations may link to our home page so long as the link: (a) is not in any way deceptive; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party's site.

If you are one of the organizations listed above and are interested in linking to our website, you must inform us by sending an email to support@goodstorycompany.com. Please include your name, your organization name, contact information as well as the URL of your site, a list of any URLs from which you intend to link to our Website, and a list of the URLs on our site to which you would like to link. Expect to wait two to three weeks for a response.

Approved organizations may hyperlink to our Website as follows:

  • By use of our corporate name; or

  • By use of the uniform resource locator being linked to; or

  • By use of any other description of our Website being linked to that makes sense within the context and format of content on the linking party's site.

  • No use of Good Story Company’s logo or other artwork will be allowed for linking absent a trademark license agreement.

User-Generated Content

Parts of this website, as well as third-party applications, websites, and services where Good Story Company offers events or communities, allow users an opportunity to post and exchange opinions and information. In addition, events include the opportunity for user participation, whether in writing, image, audio, or video. This participation includes but is not limited to a user’s name, avatar, personal likeness, words, and voice.

Good Story Company does not filter, edit, publish or review comments prior to their appearance on the website. Comments do not reflect the views and opinions of Good Story Company, its agents and/or affiliates. Comments reflect the views and opinions of the content creator.

To the extent permitted by applicable laws of the United States of America, Good Story Company shall not be liable for the comments or for any liability, damages or expenses caused and/or suffered as a result of any use of and/or posting of and/or appearance of the comments on this website.

Good Story Company reserves the right to monitor all comments and to remove any comments which can be considered inappropriate, offensive or causes breach of these Terms and Conditions.

You warrant and represent that:

  • You are entitled to post the specific material of your comments on our website or during one of our events and have all necessary licenses and consents to do so;

  • The comments or contributions do not invade any intellectual property rights already in existence, including without limitation copyright, patent or trademark of any third party;

  • The comments or contributions do not contain any defamatory, libelous, offensive, indecent or otherwise unlawful material which is an invasion of privacy

  • The comments or contributions will not be used to solicit or promote business or custom or present commercial activities or unlawful activity.

You hereby grant Good Story Company a non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, edit and authorize others to use, reproduce and edit any of your comments and contributions in any and all forms, formats or media.

Multimedia release

Good Story Company and its members have the right to take photographs, video, audio or digital recordings of users during events, workshops, lectures, and retreats. It is understood that all events that take place using a third-party service with recording capabilities will be recorded. Best efforts will be made to alert users that a session is being recorded whenever possible, though this may not always be possible.

Good Story Company retains full worldwide and all language rights and license to use the recordings created during events via any current medium or any technology not yet invented, in any and all media, for any lawful purpose, in perpetuity. Users grant Good Story Company the right, without compensation to the user, to film, photograph, and/or record the user while participating in any event, workshop, or session hosted by Good Story Company.

The user waives any right for compensation to or credit for any such film, photograph and/or recording. The user hereby releases Good Story Company, its agents, employees, and assigns, all rights to exhibit this recorded material in print, digital and electronic form, in any medium currently available and mediums not yet created, publicly or privately, worldwide and in all languages, for marketing purposes and for the creation of educational resources.

The user hereby waives any right to inspect or approve the finished product or products or the advertising copy or printed matter that may be used in connection therewith or the use to which it may be applied. Good Story Company endeavors to honor intellectual property and confidentiality, and therefore no specific identifying information about individual creative works will be reproduced outside of recordings for private user use. Use of recording equipment by students or other participants (audio or visual) is not permitted without the written permission of Good Story Company.

TESTIMONIALS AND MARKETING

Furthermore, if any feedback provided to Good Story Company may be used for marketing purposes. Feedback will be explicitly requested, and if the user opts to submit feedback at this time, this constitutes permission to use the feedback, the user’s likeness, and any publicly available book deal announcements, press mentions, or cover images, in perpetuity, in any medium currently available and mediums not yet created, in conjunction with Good Story Company’s creation of marketing material around the testimonial. If feedback is offered by the user outside of this formal feedback request process, Good Story Company may also use the feedback for marketing purposes. Whenever reasonably possible, explicit permission will be requested in writing, and the user will be able to choose how their testimonial is attributed (or the designation of "Anonymous" will be used).

The creation of marketing material around this feedback may include the feedback, the user’s likeness, and any publicly available book deal announcements, press mentions, or cover images, in perpetuity, in any medium currently available and mediums not yet created, in conjunction with Good Story Company’s creation of marketing material around the testimonial. The user may request that any marketing material that uses their feedback, attribution, likeness, or any other identifying characteristics, whether given during the testimonial request process or given outside of the testimonial request process, be removed from all of Good Story Company’s channels (currently in use or adopted in the future).

Good Story Company has thirty (30) days to comply and the user understands that complete removal may not be possible for cached versions of websites, email newsletters that have already been sent, podcasts and recorded videos and webinars that have already been produced and published, ebooks and print books that have already been published, or other print and digital artifacts whose distribution is outside of Good Story Company’s direct control.

The disclosure of the user’s feedback about Good Story Company, as well as attribution to the user’s name or likeness or other identifying characteristics shall not be considered breach of these terms and conditions.

iframes

Without prior approval and written permission, you may not create frames around our webpages that alter in any way the visual presentation or appearance of our Website.

Content Liability

Good Story Company shall not be held responsible for any content that appears on your website. As the user, you agree to protect and defend us against all claims that are rising on your website. No link(s) should appear on any website that may be interpreted as libelous, obscene or criminal, or which infringes, otherwise violates, or advocates the infringement or other violation of, any third party rights. (See the LICENSE section, above.)

Reservation of Rights

Good Story Company reserves the right to request that you remove all links or any particular link to our website. You approve to immediately remove all links to our website upon request. We also reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions and its linking policy at any time. By continuously linking to our website, you agree to be bound to and follow these linking terms and conditions.

Removal of Links from Our Website

If you find any link on our website that is offensive for any reason, you are free to contact and inform us via email to support@goodstorycompany.com. We will consider requests to remove links but we are not obligated to or so or to respond to you directly.

Good Story Company does not ensure that the information on this website is correct, nor does it warrant the completeness or accuracy of such information; nor do we promise to ensure that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up to date.

Disclaimer

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to our website and the use of this website. Nothing in this disclaimer will:

  • limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury;

  • limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

  • limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

  • exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

The limitations and prohibitions of liability set in this section and elsewhere in this terms and conditions: (a) are subject to the preceding paragraph; and (b) govern all liabilities arising under the terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort and for breach of statutory duty.

As long as the website and the information on the website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.