The Terms were last updated on 16 July 2019. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and username, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or username. By uploading Your Content, however, you grant the Society (which includes its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, joint venturers, and licensees) the following rights: a worldwide, perpetual license to display, distribute, reproduce, and create derivatives of Your Content, in whole or in part, without further review or participation from you, in any medium now existing or subsequently developed, in editorial, commercial, promotional, and trade uses in connection with the NG brand, NG Products, and Society’s branded channels on existing and future social media platforms (such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest, and subsequent new platforms) If you believe that your work has been used in a way that may constitute copyright infringement, please provide the Society’s designated agent the following information:   An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;   A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;   A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Service (such as the URL);   Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;   A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. and   A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.     The Society’s designated agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on the Service is its Executive Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs who can be reached as follows: &nbsp; By mail: Angelo M. Grima&nbsp; Executive Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs&nbsp; National Geographic Society.&nbsp; 1145 Seventeenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20036-4688 &nbsp; By email: infringementnotice@ngs.org&nbsp; This contact information is only for reporting alleged copyright infringements. Although the Society does not routinely monitor the postings to the Service, the Society reserves the right (but assumes no obligation) to delete, move, or edit any Your Content that comes to its attention that Society considers in its sole discretion to be unacceptable or inappropriate, whether for legal or other reasons. Conduct by any user that, at the sole discretion of the Society, restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the Service will not be permitted. The Service may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other sites or resources. Because the Society has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that the Society is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. The Society makes no warranty that the site or any of its functions will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, The Society neither warrants nor makes any representations regarding the use or the results of the use of the site or materials on this site or on third-party sites in terms of their correctness, accuracy, timeliness, reliability or otherwise. Neither post nor transmit any unlawful, obscene, defamatory, threatening, pornographic, Use no automated means, including spiders, robots, offline readers, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download or store data from the Service. You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Society. its affiliates, licensees and partners. and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, members, licensors, representatives, and third party providers of the Service from and against all losses, expenses, damages, and costs, including attorneys' fees, resulting from any violation of these Terms. By registering or participating in services or functions on the Platform, you hereby represent that you are over 18 years of age, an emancipated minor or in possession of consent by a legal parent or guardian and have the authority to enter into the terms herein. In any case, you affirm that you are over the age of 13 as the Site is not intended for children under 13. If you are under 13 years of age, do not use the Site. You may download Course Content identified as available for download only for your own personal, non-commercial use. The Society may, in its sole discretion, utilize, in any manner the Society deems appropriate, all comments and suggestions, whether written or oral, furnished by any Course User to the Society in connection with Educational Opportunities (“Feedback”). Course User assigns to the Society all right, title and interest, including, without limitation, all intellectual property rights, in and to the Feedback. This Agreement, its validity and effect, shall be interpreted under and governed by the laws of the District of Columbia, without regard to its conflict of laws provisions, and you agree that the arbitrator shall award all costs of arbitration, including reasonable attorneys’ fees plus legal rate of interest, to the successful party. No action of the Society may be construed as a waiver of any part of these Terms. Should any of the above paragraphs be unenforceable, the other paragraphs will remain in full force and effect. 

Summary:
There is a date of the last update of the terms. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and for the activities on your account. This service keeps a license on user-generated content even after users close their accounts.. This service employs a broad copyright license over user content including the right to distribute through any media. Provides instructions on how to submit a copyright claim. The service can delete specific content without prior notice and without a reason. Users shall not interfere with another person's enjoyment of the service. This service assumes no responsibility and liability for the contents of links to other websites. The service provider makes no warranty regarding uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free service. The service does not guarantee that software errors will be corrected. The service does not guarantee accuracy or reliability of the information provided. Users agree not to submit libelous, harassing or threatening content. Prohibits the posting of pornographic content. Spidering or crawling is not allowed. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold the service harmless in case of a claim related to your use of the service. This service is only available to users of a certain age. This service is only available for use individually and non-commercially.. If you offer suggestions to the service, they become the owner of the ideas that you give them. The court of law governing the terms is in location X. Failure to enforce any provision of the Terms of Service does not constitute a waiver of such provision. Invalidity of any portion of the Terms of Service does not entail invalidity of its remainder.