Terms of Use

Certain Defined Terms

The following defined terms appear in this Terms of Service.

• "You", "you", “User”, “user”, “Donor” or "donor": An individual or organization that uses this site or the Services (defined below).
• "GiveMore", "Givemore", “givemore”, “Site”, “company” "we", or "us": GiveMore, LLC.
• Charity: A charitable organization that is tax exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code in the United States, or qualifies for a similar status under applicable law outside the United States, and that uses the Service to facilitate Conditional Pledges and Contributions from Donors.
• Conditional Pledge: A Contribution that is conditioned on certain milestones or other conditions being met.
• Contribution: The processing of a payment that result in the debiting or charging of the Contribution Amount to a Donor’s Payment Instrument and the crediting of funds to a Charity.
• Contribution Amount: The dollar amount of Conditional Pledges and Contributions, including any related fees, as applicable.
• Payment Instrument: The credit card or debit card used by a Donor in connection with a Conditional Pledge or Contribution.
• Payment Service Provider: An unaffiliated third party engaged by GiveMore or the Charity to accept payment and facilitate the crediting of funds to a Charity. Paypal and Stripe are the current GiveMore Payment Service Provider.
• Service: The GiveMore service described in this Terms of Service that facilitates the making of Conditional Pledges and Contributions to a Charity.
• Commercial Purpose: means you intend to use, sell, license, rent, or otherwise exploit content for commercial use, in any way

Welcome to GiveMore!

Welcome to GiveMore. By using this website (the “Site”) and services (together with the Site, the “Services”) offered by Givemore, PBC (together with its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, representatives, consultants, employees, officers, and directors — collectively, “GiveMore,” “we,” or “us”), you’re agreeing to these legally binding rules (the “Terms”). You’re also agreeing to our Privacy Policy and agreeing to follow any other rules on the Site, like our Community Guidelines and rules for starting campaigns.

We may change these terms from time to time. If we do, we’ll let you know about any material changes, either by notifying you on the Site or by sending you an email. New versions of the terms will never apply retroactively — we’ll tell you the exact date they go into effect. If you keep using GiveMore after a change, that means you accept the new terms.

Creating an Account

You can browse GiveMore without registering for an account. But to use most of GiveMore’s functions, you’ll need to register, choose an account name, and set a password. When you do that, the information you give us has to be accurate and complete. Don’t impersonate anyone else or choose names that are offensive or that violate anyone’s rights. If you don’t follow these rules, we may cancel your account.

You’re responsible for all the activity on your account, and for keeping your password confidential. If you find out that someone’s used your account without your permission, you should report it to service@givemore.co.

To sign up for an account, you need to be at least 18 years old, or old enough to form a binding contract where you live. If necessary, we may ask you for proof of age and identity.

Things Not to Do

We expect all of users to behave responsibly and help keep this a nice place. Don’t do any of these things on the Site:

• Don’t break the law. Don’t take any action that infringes or violates other people’s rights, violates the law, or breaches any contract or legal duty you have toward anyone.
• Don’t lie to people. Don’t post information you know is false, misleading, or inaccurate. Don’t do anything deceptive or fraudulent.
• Don’t offer prohibited items. Don’t offer any rewards that are illegal, violate any of GiveMore’s policies, rules, or guidelines, or violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance, or regulation.
• Don’t victimize anyone. Don’t do anything threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, tortious, obscene, profane, or invasive of another person’s privacy.
• Don’t spam. Don’t distribute unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional material, or any junk mail, spam, or chain letters. Don’t run mail lists, listservs, or any kind of auto-responder or spam on or through the Site.
• Don’t harm anyone’s computer. Don’t distribute software viruses, or anything else (code, films, programs) designed to interfere with the proper function of any software, hardware, or equipment on the Site (whether it belongs to GiveMore or another party).
• Don’t abuse other users’ personal information. When you use GiveMore — and especially if you create a successful campaign — you may receive information about other users, including things like their names, email addresses, and postal addresses. This information is provided for the purpose of participating in a GiveMore campaign: don’t use it for other purposes, and don’t abuse it.
• Don’t try to interfere with the proper workings of the Services.
• Don’t bypass any measures we’ve put in place to secure the Services.
• Don’t try to damage or get unauthorized access to any system, data, password, or other information, whether it belongs to GiveMore or another party.
• Don’t take any action that imposes an unreasonable load on our infrastructure, or on our third-party providers. (We reserve the right to determine what’s reasonable.)
• Don’t use any kind of software or device (whether it’s manual or automated) to “crawl” or “spider” any part of the Site.
• Don’t take apart or reverse engineer any aspect of GiveMore in an effort to access things like source code, underlying ideas, or algorithms.

How Campaigns Work

Prior to beginning your first campaign you must connect a Stripe Account for payment processing. If you don't already have a Stripe account you will need to create one. You are responsible for all Stripe related fees and disputes including but not limited to transaction fees, chargeback fees, and refunds.

Once your campaign has been named and created, you will need to add content such as the campaign image, summary, and description, along with details related to your goals.

After you have launched your campaign, you will need to market it and spread the word. As you direct your audience to your GiveMore Campaign, some of them will contribute or pledge.

How Funding Works

Contributions are billed immediately while pledges are billed for the amount that has been unlocked weekly, typically on Monday or the day after should that day fall on a holiday.

Funds are deposited directly into your connected Stripe account and GiveMore Fees are automatically deducted.

Stuff We Don’t Do and Aren’t Responsible For

GiveMore isn’t liable for any damages or losses related to your use of the Services. We don't offer refunds. We don’t become involved in disputes between users, or between users and any third party relating to the use of the Services. We don’t oversee the performance or punctuality of campaigns, and we don’t endorse any content users submit to the Site. When you use the Services, you release GiveMore from claims, damages, and demands of every kind — known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, disclosed or undisclosed — arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and the Services. All content you access through the Services is at your own risk. You’re solely responsible for any resulting damage or loss to any party.

Our Fees

Creating an account on GiveMore is free. If you create a campaign that is successfully funded, we (and our payment partners) collect fees. Our partners’ fees may vary based on your location.

We will not collect any fees without giving you a chance to review and accept them. If our fees ever change, we’ll announce that on our Site or with you directly. Some funds pledged by contributors are collected by payment providers. Each payment provider is its own company, and GiveMore isn’t responsible for its performance.

You’re responsible for paying any additional fees or taxes associated with your use of GiveMore.

External Sites and Links

GiveMore may contain links to other websites. (For instance, campaign pages, user profiles, and comments may link to other sites.) When you access third-party websites, you do so at your own risk. We don’t control or endorse those sites.

GiveMore partners with other companies (such as Stripe) for payment processing. When you back or create a campaign, you’re also agreeing to the payment processor’s terms of service.

Your Intellectual Property

GiveMore doesn’t own content you submit to us (your “Content”). But we do need certain licenses from you in order to perform our Services. When you submit a campaign for review, or launch a campaign, you agree to these terms:

• We can use the content you’ve submitted. You grant to us, and others acting on our behalf, the worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable right to use, exercise, commercialize, and exploit the copyright, publicity, trademark, and database rights with respect to your Content.
• When we use the content, we can make changes, like editing or translating it. You grant us the right to edit, modify, reformat, excerpt, delete, or translate any of your Content.
• You won’t submit stuff you don’t hold the copyright for (unless you have permission). Your Content will not contain third-party copyrighted material, or material that is subject to other third-party proprietary rights, unless you have permission from the rightful owner of the material, or you are otherwise legally entitled to post the material (and to grant GiveMore all the license rights outlined here).
• Any royalties or licensing on your Content are your responsibility. You will pay all royalties and other amounts owed to any person or entity based on your Content, or on GiveMore’s hosting of that Content.
• You promise that if we use your Content, we’re not violating anyone’s rights or copyrights. If GiveMore or its users exploit or make use of your submission in the ways contemplated in this agreement, you promise that this will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party, including (without limitation) any privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights, or any other intellectual property or proprietary rights.
• You’re responsible for the stuff you post. All information submitted to the Site, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person from whom that content originated.
• We’re not responsible for mistakes in your content. GiveMore will not be liable for any errors or omissions in any content.

GiveMore’s Intellectual Property

GiveMore’s Services are legally protected in various ways, which may include copyrights, trademarks, service marks, patents, trade secrets, and other rights and laws. You agree to respect all copyright and other legal notices, information, and restrictions contained in any content accessed through the Site. You also agree not to change, translate, or otherwise create derivative works of the Service.

GiveMore grants you a license to reproduce content from the Services for personal use only. This license covers both GiveMore’s own protected content and user-generated content on the Site. (This license is worldwide, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, and non-transferable.) If you want to use, reproduce, modify, distribute, or store any of this content for a commercial purpose, you need prior written permission from GiveMore or the relevant copyright holder. A “commercial purpose” means you intend to use, sell, license, rent, or otherwise exploit content for commercial use, in any way.

Deleting Your Account

You can terminate your account at any time. All provisions of this agreement survive termination of an account, including our rights regarding any content you’ve already submitted to the Site. (For instance, if you’ve launched a campaign, deleting your account will not remove the campaign from the Site.)

Our Rights

GiveMore reserves these rights:

• We can make changes to the GiveMore Site and Services without notice or liability.
• We have the right to decide who’s eligible to use GiveMore. We can cancel accounts or decline to offer our Services. (Especially if you’re abusing them.) We can change our eligibility criteria at any time. If these things are prohibited by law where you live, then we revoke your right to use GiveMore in that jurisdiction.
• We have the right to cancel any pledge to any campaign, at any time and for any reason.
• We have the right to reject, cancel, interrupt, remove, or suspend any campaign at any time and for any reason.

GiveMore is not liable for any damages as a result of any of these actions, and it is our policy not to comment on the reasons for any such action.

Warranty Disclaimer

You use our Services solely at your own risk. They are provided to you “as is” and “as available” and without warranty of any kind, express or implied.

GiveMore SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND ANY WARRANTIES IMPLIED BY ANY COURSE OF DEALING, COURSE OF PERFORMANCE, OR USAGE OF TRADE. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION (ORAL OR WRITTEN) OBTAINED BY YOU FROM GiveMore SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY.

Indemnification

If you do something that gets us sued, or break any of the promises you make in this agreement, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from all liabilities, claims, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and other legal costs) that arise from or relate to your use or misuse of GiveMore. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to this indemnification clause, in which case you agree that you’ll cooperate and help us in asserting any defenses.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no event will GiveMore, its directors, employees, partners, suppliers, or content providers be liable for any indirect, incidental, punitive, consequential, special, or exemplary damages of any kind, including but not limited to damages (i) resulting from your access to, use of, or inability to access or use the Services; (ii) for any lost profits, data loss, or cost of procurement or substitute goods or services; or (iii) for any conduct of content of any third party on the Site. In no event shall GiveMore’s liability for direct damages be in excess of (in the aggregate) one hundred U.S. dollars ($100.00).

Dispute Resolution and Governing Law

We at GiveMore encourage you to contact us if you’re having an issue, before resorting to the courts. In the unfortunate situation where legal action does arise, these Terms (and all other rules, policies, or guidelines incorporated by reference) will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Oregon and the United States, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law, and without application of the Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act or the United Nations Convention of Controls for International Sale of Goods. You agree that GiveMore and its Services are deemed a passive website that does not give rise to jurisdiction over GiveMore or its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, assigns, employees, agents, directors, officers, or shareholders, either specific or general, in any jurisdiction other than the State of Oregon. You agree that any action at law or in equity arising out of or relating to these Terms, or your use or non-use of GiveMore, shall be filed only in the state or federal courts located in Lane County in the State of Oregon, and you hereby consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of these courts for the purposes of litigating any such action. You hereby irrevocably waive any right you may have to trial by jury in any dispute, action, or proceeding.

Miscellaneous

These Terms and the other material referenced in them are the entire agreement between you and GiveMore with respect to the Services. They supersede all other communications and proposals (whether oral, written, or electronic) between you and GiveMore with respect to the Services and govern our future relationship. If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid under the law, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that the Terms otherwise will remain in full force and effect and enforceable. The failure of either you or GiveMore to exercise any right provided for in these Terms in any way won’t be deemed a waiver of any other rights.

These Terms are personal to you. You can’t assign them, transfer them, or sublicense them unless you get GiveMore’s prior written consent. GiveMore has the right to assign, transfer, or delegate any of its rights and obligations under these Terms without your consent. GiveMore will provide you notice via email, written notice, or by conspicuously posting the notice on our Site.