Web Site Posting Terms and Conditions

By using the Republican National Committee’s blog and all social properties, including posting videos and comments, you hereby agree to the Terms of Usage set forth below, which shall remain in full force and effect for the duration of your use.

Appropriate Uses

RNC Web site is for individual use only, for the discussion of political issues and related topics of interest. RNC Web site shall not be used for any other purpose, be it personal, commercial, or otherwise.

You agree that all submitted postings will be made in accordance with all applicable laws – federal, state and local. 

Comments should be kept to the topic of the original post and should be constructive and respectful. Offensive, harmful, obscene, indecent, illegal, abusive, libelous and defamatory comments, blog posts, posted videos, or postings, otherwise contrary to these Terms of Usage will not be tolerated.

Postings

The Republican National Committee is in no way responsible for the content of any messages or questions posted by individuals utilizing the RNC Web site. You are solely responsible for the content of any material you submit for posting on, or in any way make available on or through, RNC Web site.

The Republican National Committee retains the right to review and remove any content submitted for posting to RNC Web site that the Republican National Committee, in its sole discretion, deems to be inappropriate, offensive, harmful, obscene, indecent, illegal, abusive, libelous or defamatory, or is otherwise contrary to these Terms of Usage.  The Republican National Committee further reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to remove a user’s privilege to post content on our site.

Intellectual Property Rights

No user may post to, or provide through, RNC Web site any material or content that in any manner violates the copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right of another.

Subsequent Use

By posting any content to RNC Web site, you grant to the Republican National Committee an unrestricted license to use, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, create derivative works of, distribute, transfer or sell any such content, for any purpose, including commercial purposes, without any payment to you, in any type of media or in any form now known or later developed.  In addition, you agree to waive and give up any claim that any use of such content violates any of your rights, including privacy rights, publicity rights, moral rights or any other right, including the right to approve the way GOP.com uses such content.

Termination

The Republican National Committee reserves the right to terminate your use of RNC Web site for any reason.

Liability

Although the Republican National Committee will attempt to remove postings the contents of which are not in accordance with these Terms of Usage, you expressly waive your right to any damages in any way related to exposure to content posted on RNC Web site by any party other than the Republican National Committee. The Republican National Committee will, under no circumstances, be responsible for any loss, damages, or other injuries resulting from any third party’s use of RNC Web site.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold the Republican National Committee harmless from and against any and all liability, loss, claims, damages, costs and/or actions (including attorneys’ fees) based on or arising from any breach by you of your obligations under these Terms of Usage. 

Modifications

The above Terms of Usage may be modified at any time, without prior notice. Such modifications will be effective upon posting by the Republican National Committee to this website.

Privacy Rights

Use of RNC Web site is also subject to the Republican National Committee Privacy Policy.

Children’s Use

In accordance with the Child Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, the Republican National Committee does not ask for any personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13), nor does it knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13).

Termination

Notwithstanding any provision of these Terms of Usage, the Republican National Committee reserves the right, without notice and in our sole discretion, to terminate any and all of the GOP.com service and to block or prevent future access to and use of GOP.com.

Severability

If any provision of these Terms of Usage is held to be invalid, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms of Usage and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

Complaints

To register a complaint about another user’s conduct, please send an e-mail message to community@gop.com or write to New Media Department at 310 First Street SE Washington, DC 20003.