If, at our request, you send certain specific submissions (for example contest entries) or without a request from us, you send creative ideas, suggestions, proposals, plans, or other materials, whether online, by email, by postal mail, or otherwise (collectively, 'comments'), you agree that we may, at any time, without restriction, edit, copy, publish, distribute, translate and otherwise use in any medium any comments that you forward to us. We are and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any comments in confidence; (2) to pay compensation for any comments; or (3) to respond to any comments.
We may, but have no obligation to, monitor, edit or remove content that we determine in our sole discretion to be unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party’s intellectual property or these Terms of Service.
You agree that your comments will not violate any right of any third-party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, personality or other personal or proprietary right. You further agree that your comments will not contain libelous or otherwise unlawful, abusive or obscene material, or contain any computer virus or other malware that could in any way affect the operation of the Service or any related website. You may not use a false e‑mail address, pretend to be someone other than yourself, or otherwise mislead us or third-parties as to the origin of any comments. You are solely responsible for any comments you make and their accuracy. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any comments posted by you or any third-party.
9A. Intellectual Property and Course Content
Proprietary Content: All course materials, including but not limited to video content, written materials, journal prompts, exercises, methodologies, frameworks (including The Unfollowing Process and The Five R's), physical product designs, and any other educational content provided through our services are proprietary and protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.
Prohibited Uses of Course Content: Users are expressly prohibited from:
- Recording, screenshotting, or capturing any course content in any format
- Sharing, distributing, or republishing course materials with anyone outside of their personal use
- Using our methodologies, frameworks, or materials for commercial purposes
- Reverse engineering or recreating our physical products for sale or distribution
- Teaching or reselling our methods without explicit written authorization
Personal Use License: By purchasing our products or subscribing to our services, you receive a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use the content solely for your personal, non-commercial use.
Journal Submissions and User Content:
Ownership:
- You retain ownership of your personal journal entries, reflections, and responses (your "User Content")
- Unfollowing, LLC retains all rights to the journal prompts, questions, framework, and methodology that guide your submissions
Storage and Security:
- Journal submissions are stored securely through Fillout, our third-party service provider
- Storage and security are subject to Fillout's security measures and data protection policies
- You may request a copy of your own journal content by contacting help@unfollowing.com
License to Use User Content: By submitting journals or other content through our programs, you grant Unfollowing, LLC a limited license to:
- Access and review your submissions for program verification and guarantee fulfillment
- Use anonymized, de-identified data from your submissions for internal analysis and program improvement
- Store your content in accordance with our data retention policies
Anonymized Data: Any use of your journal content for analysis or internal purposes will be completely anonymized and cannot be linked back to you personally. We will never share identifiable user content without explicit permission.
Case Studies and Testimonials: If we wish to use your story, journey, or specific content as a case study or testimonial (in identifiable form), we will reach out to you separately to request explicit written permission. You are under no obligation to grant such permission.
Enforcement: Violation of these intellectual property terms may result in immediate termination of your access to our services without refund, and we reserve the right to pursue legal action for unauthorized use or distribution of our proprietary content.