Last Updated on February 27, 2020

The rules below (“rules,“ “community guidelines”), as an extension to our Terms of Service, are what govern your use of the GRACENOTES website as a registered user to our (“GRACENOTES, INC”) platform at https://www.leavegracenotes.com AND as a member of the online Gracenotes community (“Legacy Makers”).

SUBMISSION & REVIEW PROCESS

Registration to the GRACENOTES website is through invitation-only by means of submitting a “Gracenote”. A Gracenote is a first-person account or “snapshot” of a person’s life expressed in personal essay and/or memoir format accompanied by visual media such as photographs or video.

Each new user’s submission is carefully reviewed by GRACENOTES staff and manually approved/disapproved.

Our review process is guided by our Web Policies and outcomes of that process (i.e., approval/disapproval) are made at our sole discretion. We have the right to deny any/all submissions for any reason.

However, if a user’s submission is approved, a user registration will be created for that user to make use of our platform, whereby they will receive an invitation to log into the website so they can publish and manage their Gracenote(s) submission(s).

USE CASES

The purpose of this website is to act as a Arts & Humanities hub (“catalog,” “blog”) for individual people to publicly or privately share their life stories. Therefore, all actions taken by users are governed to that end, which include (but are not limited to) these Core Activities:

  • Publishing new Gracenotes
  • Managing individual Gracenotes attributed to that specific Author to include Edit and Delete capabilities, along with options to publicly or privately publish.
    Commenting on other user’s public Gracenotes
  • Participating in the Private Forums (i.e. Private Facebook Group, Subreddit, etc.)

 

From time to time, users may be granted special privileges within the community, at the discretion of GRACENOTES staff. Some capacities include, but are not limited to:

  • Site Editor
  • Private Group Moderator
  • Store Manager
  • Affiliate / Ambassador
  • Etc.

 

Special permissions are given out rarely, and are invite-only. Users of our platform are therefore expected to act in accordance with the three Core Activities listed above. Any user seen or suspected of operating outside of these Core Activities will be subject to dismissal of our platform.

RESTRICTIONS

Here is a non-exhaustive list of activities that are not permitted on our platform:

  • Harassment
    Users are expected to treat each other with kindness and respect. We are all here to share and learn from one another. Disagreements are fine as long as they don’t get heated or devolve into personal attacks.
  • Discrimination
    We have a zero tolerance policy against discrimination based on someone’s race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, or disability.
  • Hate Speech and/or “Manifestos”
    Any content suspected of promoting hate speech or declaring harmful policies or aims against others will be removed from the site, the offending user will be banned permanently, and if necessary, will be reported to the authorities.
  • Links and/or Spam
    Absolutely no hyperlinks or spamming posts/comments with off-topic or misleading content designed to solely benefit the poster in ways that are not aligned with the registered user’s Core Activities listed above (i.e. SEO traffic, product/service offerings, etc.)
  • Custom Code Injections
    The means to edit and publish Gracenotes (“life story submissions”) on the website is governed by a rich-text editor that also accepts HTML and CSS. While custom formatting of posts with HTML and CSS is okay (and subject to review by our staff), we will not accept any custom PHP or JavaScript injections into the site. Anyone who is suspected of doing so will be banned permanently from the website and will be reported to the authorities for cybercrime, in addition to being subject to legal action for any/all damage caused to the website due to malicious or malfunctioning code.

 

SUMMARY

The primary purposes of this website are to a) record individual life stories in written, photographic, and videographic form, and to b) build a community around what it means to live a meaningful life/legacy. We assume that your wishes to use the website are in good faith and that you will contribute meaningfully to these purposes. Therefore we ask, as a trusted user to our platform, do remember to be kind and respectful to other the community members and staff. We are trusting you to use the platform as intended to preserve life stories and legacies– if you violate that trust, you will be banned from the site and will not receive any further communications from GRACENOTES, INC unless compelled by law.