Website & Social Media Privacy Statement

In consideration for the Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau ("AGCCVB"), doing business as Gulf Shores & Orange Beach Tourism (“GSOBT” or “we” “our”, or “us”), permitting any and all users (“you” or “Participant”) to create, upload, display, publish and/or submit their messages, text, posts, Tweets, images, photos, comments, music, videos or other content (collectively, “User Content”) featuring GSOBT visual/digital assets or otherwise mentioning GSOBT or related visual/digital assets, you agree to these Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) of the GSOBT Social Aggregation Tool #ALBeachesYes User Content Submission Program. When you grant permission to GSOBT to use your User Content by interacting with the GSOBT aggregation tool (the “Application”) on social media platforms, including, without limitation, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and/or through utilization of the ‘approval’ hashtag #ALBeachesYes,  you are entering into a binding agreement with GSOBT on the terms set forth below:

• Prohibited User Content: As a Participant, you shall not submit any User Content that:
• is known by you to be false, deceptive, inaccurate, misleading or deceitful;
• infringes, encourages or depicts the infringement of another party’s rights, including, without limitation, any copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
• violates, encourages or depicts the violation of any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing export control, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising) or that encourages or depicts conduct that constitutes a criminal offense or may result in civil liability;
• is, or may reasonably be considered to be abusive, defamatory, libelous, indecent, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, slanderous, indecent, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, pornographic, sexually explicit, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to GSOBT or any third party in any way; or that encourages anyone to break any local, state, national or international law;
• is or contains advertising, promotional material or promotes a product, service or other commercial activity (other than GSOBT), including any “junk mail”, “chain letter” or “spam” or any other similar solicitation;
• includes, demonstrates or encourages the misuse of a product or a hazardous situation;
• impersonates or attempts to impersonate GSOBT or any of its employees, another user, or person or entity (including, without limitation, the use of e-mail addresses associated with any of the foregoing);
• includes any information that references other websites or personally identifiable information (e.g., first and last name, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers);
• contains any computer viruses, Easter eggs, worms, bots, Trojan horses, spyware or other potentially damaging malware, technologies, computer programs or files or malicious code that could impact the operation of the Application or any computer or other device;
• includes the submission of an idea or suggestions of new products;
• sells a product or service of any type, including advertisements of any kind, including competitor advertisements, item sale, solicitation, or self-promotion;
• has been posted by anyone under the age of 13;
• is off-topic or irrelevant;
• is unintelligible; or
• is otherwise objectionable or inappropriate.

If you submit User Content that GSOBT believes violates these Terms, then we reserve the right, but have no obligation, to take any legally available action that we deem appropriate, in our sole discretion, including, without limitation, editing, removing, deleting, taking down or otherwise erasing your User Content, at any time, without notice for any reason whatsoever. However, we are not obligated to take any action not required by law. We are not responsible or liable for the conduct or content of any Participant. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor or become involved in disputes between you and other users. Please exercise common sense and your best judgment in your interactions with others (e.g., when you submit any personal or other information) and in all of your other online activities. For purposes of certainty, other than Participant’s own User Content, Participant may not make any commercial, or any other, use of User Content submitted without GSOBT’s prior written approval. GSOBT reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to remove without notice, or refuse to post in the first instance, any User Content.

Maintain Appropriate Rights in Your User Content: With respect to all User Content that you submit to us, you represent and warrant that the material is either fully original to you or that you have all the necessary rights, licenses, permissions, clearances and consents needed from third parties in order for you to submit your User Content (including, but not limited to, all copyright and right of publicity and privacy rights) for you to comply with the privacy policies.