17. User Content and Standards
If you provide us with any text, graphics, photos or other materials or content (“User Content”), you grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, transferable, irrevocable, assignable, royalty-free, fully paid up, sub-licensable right and license to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works from, publicly perform, display, store, digitally perform, make or deliver digital audio transmissions, encode, transcode, publish (online, through the Services, on any other website(s), as well as through mobile channels, and offline, in print, radio, television or elsewhere), make, have made, sell, offer for sale, import and commercialize User Content, or any portion thereof, in any manner and context, in any way, in any and all media now known or hereinafter developed and on any device(s), whether or not portable, wired, or wireless, without limitation, throughout the universe. You further agree to waive your right to be identified as the author of User Content and your right to object to derogatory use or treatment of such User Content. If Rivian does decide, in its sole discretion, to attribute User Content to you, you hereby grant Rivian the right to use your name (and/or any user name), image, likeness, and/or photo with respect to such attribution, and you waive any claims (including, without limitation, any privacy or publicity rights claims) with respect to such use of your name, image, likeness and/or photos. You hereby agree to waive all claims of moral rights associated with being the author of User Content, and to consent to Rivian doing all acts that would otherwise constitute an infringement of your moral rights, as well as waive the right to inspect or approve the finished video, photograph, sound track, web site, advertising copy or printed matter that may be used in conjunction therewith or to the eventual use in any media that it might be applied. The rights you grant above are irrevocable during the entire period of the protection of your intellectual property rights associated with such User Content. You agree that Rivian (i) is not under any obligation, whether of confidentiality, attribution or otherwise, and will not be liable for any use or disclosure of any User Content; (ii) is under no obligation to post, display or otherwise use any User Content; (iii) has no obligation whatsoever to provide you any compensation for the use or display of your User Content or otherwise from the exercise of the rights granted under this Section, even if Rivian receives compensation therefrom; (iv) has the right (but not the obligation) to monitor the User Content that you or third parties post, and to alter or remove any such User Content; and (v) has the right to disclose User Content and the circumstances surrounding its transmission to any third party in order to operate the Services, to protect ourselves and third parties, and to comply with legal obligations or governmental requests.
You are prohibited from posting any libelous, obscene, defamatory, offensive, hateful, sexually explicit/pornographic, violent, promoting of discrimination, misrepresentative of actual identity, or other materials that would violate any laws or be deemed inappropriate by Rivian. You shall be solely responsible for your own User Content and the consequences of posting or publishing it. Rivian may take any action Rivian reasonably deems necessary to cure or prevent any violation of these standards, including removal from this Site. In addition, Rivian will fully cooperate with law enforcement authorities requesting us to disclose the identity of any such individuals.
You represent and warrant that any information you provide to us, to other users, or to visitors, including but not limited to User Content, (a) is not false, inaccurate, misleading, obscene or defamatory; (b) is not fraudulent; (c) doesn’t involve the sale of counterfeit or stolen items; (d) doesn’t infringe any third party’s copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, rights of publicity or privacy, or other right; (e) is yours or you have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to such information and to grant the rights and licenses to Rivian under all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary or intellectual property rights in and to any and all such information in the manner contemplated in these Terms; (f) doesn’t violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation, including without limitation those governing consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising; and, (g) doesn’t contain any viruses or any programming that is intended to damage, interfere with, intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information; and (h) is not intended to circumvent or violate the letter and spirit of these Terms and the lawful functioning of Rivian’s websites.
You further represent and warrant that you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every person identified in any information you provide, including but not limited to User Content, to use the name or likeness of such person or, if such persons are minors, the written consent, release, and/or permission of such minor’s parent or legal guardian.
By submitting ideas, suggestions, documents, and/or proposals (“Contributions”) to Rivian, you acknowledge and agree that: (a) your Contributions don’t contain confidential or proprietary information; (b) Rivian isn’t under any obligation of confidentiality, express or implied, with respect to the Contributions; (c) Rivian shall be entitled to use or disclose (or choose not to use or disclose) such Contributions for any purpose, in any way, in any media now known or later developed and throughout the universe; (d) Rivian may have something similar to the Contributions already under consideration or in development; (e) your Contributions, including any intellectual property rights therein, automatically become the property of Rivian without any obligation of Rivian to you; and (f) Rivian is free to use any ideas, concepts, or techniques that you send Rivian for any purpose, including but not limited to, developing and marketing products that incorporate such ideas, concepts or techniques; and (g) you aren’t entitled to any compensation or reimbursement of any kind from Rivian under any circumstances.