Parkland Cares’ Terms, Conditions and Privacy Policy and its practices are modeled on transparency, accountability and choice regarding the collection and use of your personal information. This disclosure covers the website www.parklandcares.org and our mobile applications.
Welcome to the private website for Parkland Cares, a nonprofit organization created and led by several Parkland community members whose friends and loved ones were impacted by the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL on February 14, 2018. Parkland Cares mission is: Provide immediate and long-term funding and awareness for mental health counseling for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting survivors, their families, and the community-at-large.
This website and our mobile applications refer to the two organizations collectively under our name, Parkland Cares.
Users of this website and our mobile applications, including guests and donors, are subject to the provisions of these Terms, Conditions and Privacy Policy (“Terms”). By using this website and our mobile applications or viewing the content herein you accept and agree to be bound by the Terms and each of its provisions. This is a legally binding agreement between you and Parkland Cares, so please read it carefully. If you do not agree to the Terms, do not use this website and our mobile applications. For more information on our Terms or if you have questions or complaints regarding our Terms or practices, please contact us at [email protected].
All users of this website and our mobile applications must be 14 years of age or older. If you do not so qualify, do not attempt to use this website and our mobile applications. Your User account and any User-Generated Content (as defined below) may be deleted without warning if we believe that you are under 14 years of age.
To facilitate the purposes associated with this website, Parkland Cares gathers and maintains information about you that it may use to build support for common sense solutions that help prevent similar tragedies from happening again. You grant us the right to publish your name, for example, in the form of a list of supporters, but your contact information such as your email will not be shared publicly or with any other organization. At times in the process of using our website you may also have access to or be directed to the websites of other organizations including nonprofit partners, fundraising groups, or those created by the families of the victims. You are advised that these organizations and groups may have different privacy policies and practices, as well as terms and conditions that vary from ours. Information provided on other website by these organizations and groups is updated entirely by these entities and Parkland Cares does not verify this information for accuracy.
Our Website and mobile application use forms in which you give us contact information (including your name, address, telephone number, and email address) so you can place orders, request information and support, and make product suggestions. For certain services, we may also request a credit card number, government identification number, or other financial information. We will then create an account number for you. We receive and store any information you enter on our Website, mobile application, or give us in any other way, including through email, telephone, or other communications with our customer service department. If you contact us for support, we will keep an internal record of what support was given. We use your information to contact you regarding functionality changes to our products, our Website and mobile application, new Parkland Cares services, and special offers we think you’ll find valuable. If you would rather not receive this information, please see the “Updating Your Information” section below on how to change your preferences. We may also use your information to present a co-branded offer with our partners or affiliates. If we collect information from you in connection with a co-branded offer, it will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the information and whose privacy statement applies. We use information gathered about you from our Website or mobile application statistics (for example, your IP address or device operating system) to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Website and mobile application. We also gather broad demographic information from this data to help us improve our Website and mobile application and make your browsing and purchasing experience more enjoyable. This is not linked to any personally identifiable information, except as necessary to prevent fraud or abuse on our system. Our Website and mobile application use cookies to keep track of your shopping cart and receipts. We use cookies to identify you so you don’t need to log in each time you visit our Website or mobile application. The cookies are linked to your customer number, which is associated with the information in your account. Within our mobile application we use tracking technologies such as: CI codes (click tracking), ISC (source tracking), and ITC (item tracking codes, attached to purchases at an item level, used to determine where within the application a product was added). Our mobile application automatically collects the device’s operating system, phone model, app version, and device ID, and the user’s customer number. We report this data back to our Parkland Cares web services. These results are not shared with any third parties and are used solely for deciding when to retire SDKs/OS versions and to identify characteristics of major users so that we may optimize our application for those user types. We do not ask you for, access, or track any location-based information from your mobile device at any time while downloading our mobile application or services. We do not tie any personally identifiable information you submit within our mobile application to any of the tracking technologies that we use.
By registering on this site and using its features, you agree to abide by the terms and conditions and privacy policies of this site, as expressed here, as well as abide by changes to these policies which may occur from time to time with or without notice. You also understand that the information, methods, images, technical elements, and functionality of this site are the protected property of Parkland Cares and are proprietary and in some instances protected by federal copyright and trademark laws. You agree that you will not copy, replicate, duplicate, share, or make use for your own purposes any of the information or elements on this website without the express written consent of Parkland Cares. You are granted the limited right to use this site and its protected information and resources as a registered user in exchange for your agreement to comply fully with the Terms of this site. At any time, Parkland Cares may revoke your rights to use this site at any time and even to permanently ban you from accessing it and its services without notice.
The logos that appear on the site which are the sole property of Parkland Cares and may be subject to federal copyright and trademark laws.
You are permitted, under a limited license granted by Parkland Cares to copy and download these logos for the sole and express use of supporting and promoting in a non-commercial way your participation in the Parkland Cares, or to encourage others to do so. By using these logos in any way, you agree to abide to certain terms and conditions of use, specifically that, (1) you will not modify these elements in any way except in terms of sizing, for instance, you cannot change colors or typeface, nor can you add any new information, text or images to these logos, (2) you will not place any other logos too close to our logos, such that this might be interpreted that our logos are owned or part of any other organization or program, and (3) you will not use these logos in any way to sell items. In other words, you may not use our information or logos for any commercial gain or in concert with product or service offers without the express written permission of Parkland Cares. Questions regarding the use or modifications of the Parkland Cares branded elements shall be directed to Parkland Cares, at [email protected]. Parkland Cares reserves the right to terminate rights to use its branded identities at any time and without notice.
Our website may in the future allow its users to share and comment upon content and communicates in many ways utilizing audio, video, instant messaging, email and text message.
To have the full Parkland Cares experience and to access some features on the Website, you may have to create a User account. In creating a User account, we ask that you must provide complete and accurate information about yourself to bolster your credibility as a contributor to the Website. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you may not misidentify as someone else (e.g., assume the identity of a neighbor, celebrity or stranger), provide an email address other than your own, or create multiple User accounts and profiles.
If you have created a User account with Parkland Cares, you are responsible for the security of your account and password, if one is assigned to you by us. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur in connection with your account, whether or not the use is unauthorized. In addition, you agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account. We reserve the right to close your account and remove any content submitted by you at any time for any or no reason.
We grant you a limited license and permission to access and make personal use of our website but not to download or copy any portion of its content for any commercial purpose or to modify any portion of it, except as noted under our Limited Rights of Use, or with our written or e-mailed consent. This license does not include any collection or use of “User-Generated Content” (as described below); any derivative use of our website or its contents; or any use of data mining, robots or similar data gathering or extraction tools or processes; and you agree not to do any of the foregoing. Except as explicitly provided in these Terms, you agree not to store in any form, distribute, transmit, display, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, sell or otherwise exploit any of the content of any portion of this website and its contents for any commercial purpose. You may display and occasionally print a single copy of pages of Parkland Cares for your personal, non-commercial use, but you may not otherwise reproduce any material appearing on this website (other than your own “User-Generated Content,” as described below) without our prior written consent. Requests for permission to reproduce or distribute materials found on the Website should be sent to [email protected].
Except as provided under or Limited Rights of Use, you may not use our name nor any misspelling or typographical variation of Parkland Cares or our other logos and identities, whether alone or in conjunction with any other word or phrase, trademarks or service marks in any manner (including use in any metatags or any other “hidden text”) without our prior written or e-mailed consent. Any violation of the foregoing will terminate the permission and license granted by us to access and make use of this website.
Users of this website may, upon reviewing and accepting the Terms of this website, submit video, audio, photographic and textual content as a Tribute (collectively “User-Generated Content”). You understand that whether or not such User-Generated Content is published, Parkland Cares does not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any User-Generated Content. You agree that your User-Generated Content intended for display on parklandcares.org and on other web properties we may operate will not include any content that is illegal, indecent, profane (including masked profanity where symbols, initials, intentional misspellings or other characters are used to suggest profane language), defamatory, invasive of privacy or otherwise injurious to third parties; and that it will not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any form of “spam.” You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of your User-Generated Content. In additional to the restrictions described above, you may not submit User-Generated Content that infringes in any manner on the copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights of any person or entity, or that contains any confidential or proprietary information of any person or entity, or that otherwise violates the legal rights of any person or entity. Parkland Cares will remove all User-Generated Content if properly notified that such User-Generated Content infringes on another’s intellectual property rights.
Furthermore, you cannot use this website to threaten, stalk, defraud, incite, harass, or advocate the harassment of another person, or otherwise interfere with another User’s use of the Website; promote bigotry or discrimination against protected classes; transmit or post pornography or illegal content; use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other automated device, process or means to access, retrieve, scrape, or index the Website or any content on this website; take any action that imposes or may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on this website or Parkland Cares’ technology infrastructure; or violate any applicable laws.
You are solely responsible for and assume all risks associated with your User-Generated Content. This includes any reliance on its accuracy, completeness or usefulness by others, or any disclosure by you of information in your User-Generated Content that makes you personally identifiable. You represent that you own, or have the necessary permissions to use, and authorize Parkland Cares to use your User-Generated Content as described herein.
Parkland Cares does not endorse any User-Generated Content, or any opinion, recommendation, or advice expressed therein, and Parkland Cares expressly disclaims all liability in connection with User-Generated Content. You may not imply that your User-Generated Content is in any way sponsored or endorsed by Parkland Cares or its partners and contributors identified on this website. You understand further that Parkland Cares does not screen or filter User-Generated Content and may entirely at its discretion remove or not remove such content even if flagged by another user as inappropriate, offensive, or allegedly in violation of the Terms.
You agree that, by submitting any User-Generated Content to Parkland Cares, you are granting to Parkland Cares a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, and display that User-Generated Content in connection with the this Website and Parkland Cares’ (and its successors’ and affiliates’) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of this Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.
You also hereby grant each User of this website a non-exclusive license to access your User-Generated Content through the Website, and to use, reproduce, distribute and display such User-Generated Content as permitted through the functionality of the Website and under these Terms.
The above licenses granted by you terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete your User-Generated Content videos from this website. You understand and agree, however, that Parkland Cares may retain, but not display or distribute, server copies of this User-Generated Content that have been removed or deleted. The above licenses granted by you with respect to your User-Generated Content comments are perpetual and irrevocable.
Parkland Cares may or may not use your User-Generated Content in its sole discretion. For example, we may choose not to publish your User-Generated Content if we believe it violates the Terms. In addition, please note that we have no obligation to retain or provide you with copies of your User-Generated Content, nor do we guarantee any confidentiality with respect to your User-Generated Content.
Parkland Cares and its partners, licensees and funders may display advertisements and other information adjacent to or included with your User-Generated Content on the Website and other media. You are not entitled to any compensation for such advertisements. The manner, mode and extent of such advertising are subject to change without specific notice to you.
Parkland Cares may display targeted offers to our customers based on the products currently owned by the customer. These offers will display as varying product banners. There is no personal or geolocation information collected within these product banners to build a profile about your activities or that is shared with third party advertising companies. Tell-A-Friend If a user elects to use our referral service to inform a friend about our Website or mobile application, we ask the user for the friend’s name and email address.
Parkland Cares will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit our Website. Parkland Cares stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email. The friend may contact Parkland Cares at [email protected] to request the removal of this information from our database.
We may at times provide information about you to third parties to provide numerous services on our behalf, such as processing credit card payments, serving advertisements, conducting contests or surveys, performing analyses of our products or customer demographics, shipping of goods or services, and customer relationship management. We will only share information about you that is necessary for the third party to provide the requested service.
These companies are prohibited from retaining, sharing, storing or using your personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes. If we use third party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf, these companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gift or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous.
This website is used by Parkland Cares to enable individuals to make online donations to support our work. Parkland Cares is in the process of becoming a 501(C)(3), nonprofit, tax exempt entity. In the interim, Parkland Cares is operating as a fund of the nonprofit Broward Education Foundation, a section 501(C)(3) organization. Contributions to the Foundation are tax deductible.
Parkland Cares reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability. Parkland Cares expressly reserves the right to remove your User account and/or restrict, suspend, or terminate your account and your access to any part of the Website if it determines, in its sole discretion, for example, that you breached the Terms or are suspected of involvement in illegal activity.
You may request that your information on our website be removed at any time, for any reason, by sending an email to [email protected], Subject: REMOVE MY INFORMATION. In the event we choose to remove all or a portion of the information you have provided to us using this website, this Terms shall remain in effect.
When your Parkland Cares account is cancelled (either voluntarily or involuntarily) all your personally identifiable information is placed in “deactivated” status on our relevant Parkland Cares databases.
However, deactivation of your account does not mean your personally identifiable information has been deleted from our database entirely. We will retain and use your personally identifiable information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements.
You may alter your account information or opt out of receiving communications from us and our partners at any time. We have the following options for changing and modifying your account information or contact preferences. You may send an email to [email protected].
Parkland Cares owns all of the content that is available on this website, including but not limited to visual interfaces, interactive features, graphics, scripts, photo, sounds, music, videos, design, compilation, computer code, products, software, text, aggregate user review ratings, and all other elements and components of the Website, excluding User-Generated Content and any third-party content. Parkland Cares also owns or has the license for the copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade names, and other intellectual and proprietary rights throughout the world associated with the Parkland Cares Content and the Website, which are protected by copyright, trade dress, patent, trademark laws and all other applicable intellectual and proprietary rights and laws. As such, you may not modify, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works or adaptations of, publicly display or in any way exploit any of the Parkland Cares Content in whole or in part except as expressly authorized by Parkland Cares. Except as expressly and unambiguously provided herein, Parkland Cares does not grant you any express or implied rights. All rights in and to the Website and the Parkland Cares Content are retained by Parkland Cares.
You may not post, modify, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information belonging to others without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. It is Parkland Cares’ policy to terminate a User’s account and privileges of any Parkland Cares User who repeatedly infringes the copyright rights of others upon receipt of proper notification to Parkland Cares by the copyright owner or the copyright owner’s legal agent. Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, if you believe that any of Parkland Cares’ User-Generated Content or other content infringes on your copyright, please provide our Copyright Agent with the following information: (i) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; (ii) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; (iii) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on Parkland Cares; (iv) your address, telephone number, and email address; (v) a written 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; (vi) 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. Parkland Cares’ Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows: [email protected].
ALL MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH PARKLAND CARES’S WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” FOR YOUR USE. ALL MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NONINFRINGEMENT. WE AND THE OTHER ENTITIES FROM WHOM WE OBTAIN CONTENT DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH PARKLAND CARES’S WEBSITE ARE ACCURATE, RELIABLE OR CORRECT; THAT THIS WEBSITE WILL BE AVAILABLE AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME OR LOCATION; THAT ANY DEFECTS OR ERRORS WILL BE CORRECTED; OR THAT THIS WEBSITE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE IS SOLELY AT YOUR RISK. Because some jurisdictions do not permit the exclusion of certain warranties, these exclusions may not apply to you.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL WE OR ANY OF THE COMPANIES WITH WHICH WE DO BUSINESS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE PARKLAND CARES’S WEBSITE. THIS LIMITATION APPLIES WHETHER THE ALLEGED LIABILITY IS BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR ANY OTHER BASIS, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, AND EVEN UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES THAT CAUSE ANY EXCLUSIVE REMEDY UNDER THIS AGREEMENT TO FAIL OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT PARKLAND CARES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR USER SUBMISSIONS OR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE, OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY AND THAT THE RISK OF HARM OR DAMAGE FROM THE FOREGOING RESTS ENTIRELY WITH YOU.
Because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, our liability in such jurisdictions shall be limited to the extent permitted by law.
You agree that you will be responsible for any damages resulting from any violation of these Terms. You further agree to indemnify and hold Parkland Cares, and its owners, affiliates, officers, directors, agents and employees, contributors, and partners harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of these Terms, or any violation of any law or the rights of any third party that occurs in connection with your use of Parkland Cares’ website.
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida, excluding conflicts of law rules. You agree that, unless expressly waived by us, the exclusive jurisdiction for any claim or action arising out of or relating to these Terms or your use of this website shall be in the state or federal courts located in Broward County in the State of Florida, and you further agree and submit to the exercise of personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating any such claim or action. You agree to receive service of process through e-mail, certified mail or by other means sanctioned by law, and you expressly waive any claim of improper venue and any claim that such courts are an inconvenient forum. You also agree that in the event of any action to enforce or interpret these Terms, the prevailing party shall be entitled to collect its reasonable attorney fees.
Parkland Cares reserves the right to make changes to these Terms and our other legal notices at any time without notice to you. By continuing to use this Website following our posting of such changes, you agree to be bound by these Terms as modified. We may change, restrict access to, suspend or discontinue this website, or any portion of thereof, at any time.
Parkland Cares and you are independent entities, and nothing in these Terms, or via use of the Website, will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, or employment relationship between Parkland Cares and you. Any rights and licenses granted under these Terms, may not be transferred or assigned by you, but may be assigned by Parkland Cares without restriction. If any of provision of these Terms shall be deemed invalid, void or for any other reason unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the balance of these Terms. The failure of Parkland Cares to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Terms shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in this Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. This Terms operates to the fullest extent permissible by law.
If you have any questions about these Terms, the practices of this Website or our mobile applications, or your dealings with this Website or our mobile applications, please contact us at: [email protected], or (954) 258-4398 or
Parkland Cares
ATTN: Web Team
3511 W. Commercial Blvd, Suite 302
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
Please contact us at [email protected].