Terms of Use

Please read these terms carefully. This is a binding agreement between Joyful Liberation Collective, a 501c3 non-for-profit organization (referred to as “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our”) and any person who accesses or establishes a connection to the Services (“you” or “User”). By using or otherwise accessing the Services, or indicating your assent hereto by clicking “I agree” or similarly expressing acceptance where other options exist, you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of this agreement. The Company retains any rights not specifically granted to you in this agreement.

1. ACCESS TO THIS SITE

To access any part of this website, https://www.joyful-liberation.org/ (the “Website”) or other software, resources or services available through the Website (all of the foregoing, the “Services”), you agree to comply with all of the terms of this agreement. In order to use some or all of the Services on the Website, you may be asked to provide registration information. It is a condition of your use of the Services that all the information you provide is correct, current, and complete. If the Company believes the information you provide is inaccurate, the Company may terminate or suspend your access to the Services.

You agree that the Company may, without prior notice for any reason or no reason, immediately terminate your account and access to the Services. You agree that all terminations for cause shall be made in the Company’s discretion and that the Company shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your account.

2. HOW THE SERVICES WORK

We provide a variety of mindfulness content and events, including:

Live Virtual Mindfulness Classes – yoga, meditation, movement
Monthly Themed Community Gatherings – lectures, Q+A’s
Editorial Series – content
GatherSpace – online community space for connection and discussion
GatherSpace – online community space for connection and discussion
Special Events – PridexPurpose, #UnitedWeBreathe

3. FEES; FREE TRIALS AND OFFERS; DONATIONS

Except for free trials or other complimentary offers we may periodically make to allow you to evaluate the Services as a “Trial Member,” the Services requires payment per class or a membership fee and any applicable taxes (the “Charges”). The Charges are stated at the time of purchase, and are due and payable in full at the time you enroll in a class or a membership is commenced.

You acknowledge that you will pay the Company the Charges where enrollment has been made using your credit card, whether by you personally or by someone else in your household or organization on your behalf. By paying for membership with a credit card, you certify to the Company that you are at least 18 years of age and that you are the cardholder of the credit card, or that you are certifiably at least 13 years of age and expressly authorized by the cardholder to enroll in the Services.

You further acknowledge that your obligation to pay the Charges does not depend on use of the Services, and that you remain obligated to pay the Company for the Services regardless of whether or not the Services are used. Unless you enroll as part of a free trial or other complimentary offer, your obligation to pay the Charges begins on the date of your membership registration, not the date of your first use of the Services. Free trial or complimentary offers to use the Services also begin on the date of registration and not on the date of first use of the Services. This agreement, other than payment obligations, applies to Trial Members during any trial or complimentary period offered by the Company.

Whether or not you are a paying Member, we are grateful for any donation you may choose to contribute to our community, at https://www.joyful-liberation.org/donate. By donating to the Company, you agree to these terms of use.

4. AUTOMATIC RENEWAL OF MEMBERSHIP

Your membership will renew automatically at the end of the current term. Membership renewal will be charged at the membership price then in effect (not including any special offers that may be valid for new members or other specific groups), which may be higher than the price in effect during the previous term. You must cancel membership at least seven days prior to its renewal date to avoid incurring further charges. Your credit card will be automatically charged unless you have notified the Company in accordance with Section 5 that you wish to cancel the membership.

5. CANCELLATION

You may cancel your membership during any free trial or complimentary offer without charge. You may also cancel your membership. However, the Company does not prorate any Charges upon termination or cancellation and does not refund any such amounts for any term already charged. You may cancel your account for the Services by completing and submitting a cancellation form at https://www.joyful-liberation.org/cancel-membership or calling Customer Service at (917) 426-3724. Telephone calls are accepted only during business hours and may result in delays of cancellation. To avoid automatic renewal of your membership and further charges, you must submit the cancellation form or call Customer Service at least seven days prior to your account’s renewal date. You may also send a certified letter, return receipt requested, to the Company, Attention: Cancellation, 636 W 174th Street, Apt. 2A, New York, New York, 10033, and your cancellation will be effective upon receipt. Communications other than the foregoing, including notifying your credit card company or bank that you no longer wish to be a member, will not serve as valid means of cancellation.

All provisions of these terms of use which by their nature should survive cancellation of your account shall survive, including, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

6. PRIVACY

The Company’s Privacy Policy, located at https://www.joyful-liberation.org/privacy-policy, describes the Company’s collection and use of your personal and other information.

7. RESTRICTIONS ON USE

You may access the Services only for non-commercial use by you or your organization for personal or internal business purposes. You may not use the Services for any other purpose. You may not, for example, (a) modify, publish, distribute, transmit, systematically download, use automated means to index or extract data from, participate in the transfer or sale or rental of, translate, create derivative works from, frame, co-brand, or in any way exploit any part of the Services other than for personal or internal business use or as specifically permitted in this agreement, without the Company’s written consent, or (b) use the Services in any harmful or illegal manner or interfere with any party’s use or enjoyment of the Services. You agree to cooperate with the Company in causing any of your unauthorized use of the Services to immediately cease.

Further, you may not make, or attempt to make, any solicitation to any customer or other business relation of the Company whose identity became known to you to (x) transfer business away from the Company, (y) purchase any service that is competitive with the Company, or (z) reduce or discontinue its business relationship with the Company.

8. MEDIA RELEASE

You consent to the video or audio recording or photograph of your image or statements in analog, digital or any other format (the “Recording”) by the Company. you grant to the Company the perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free right to use, display, distribute or reproduce any or all of the Recording in any form or medium throughout the world in connection with the services provided by the Company. You acknowledge that you have no ownership rights in the Recording. You waive the right to review the Recording and to approve the Company’s use of the Recording. You consent to the Company’s right to use your name in connection with the Recording.

9. OWNERSHIP

The Company owns all right, title and interest in and to the Services, including all intellectual property rights therein.

The material accessible from the Website, including text, data, images, interfaces, the “look and feel” of the Website, and other materials or works of authorship (the “Content”) is owned or licensed by the Company. You may not copy, distribute, republish, upload, post, or transmit Content in any way without the prior written consent of the Company, except that you may print out limited portions of the Content solely for your personal use. You may not remove or alter, or cause to be removed or altered, any copyright, trademark, trade name, service mark, or any other proprietary notice or legend appearing on any of the Content. The Company has the right to modify, manage or eliminate any Content at any time.

The Company’s name, logos, and other product and service identifiers are the Company’s trademarks. All other trademarks appearing on the Website are the property of their respective owners. No rights are granted to you in these trademarks.

10. USER SUBMISSIONS

A “Submission” means any information, ideas or materials that Users provide to us via any post, upload, input or other submission to the Services. You represent that you own or otherwise possess all of the rights to any Submissions.If you provide a Submission that is posted on the Website, you hereby grant the Company a perpetual, royalty-free, exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, worldwide license to publicly display and use the Submission. If you desire to display or use the Submission elsewhere (“Third-Party Display”), you agree to promptly notify the Company which will receive a percentage of the fee you receive from the Third-Party Display, which such percentage to be negotiated in good faith between you and the Company. You and the Company acknowledge that actual damages likely to result from breach of your obligation relating to a Third-Party Display are difficult to estimate and difficult for the Company to prove as of the date hereof, and thus you and the Company agree that (a) you will pay to the Company liquidated damages, which are not intended to serve as punishment for the breach, in the amount of $200 or 10% of your proceeds from the Third-Party Display (whichever amount is greater), in addition to any royalties you receive from the Third-Party Display, and that (b) your membership with the Company will be cancelled.

You are solely responsible for any violation under any theory of law that may be alleged relating to your Submissions, and any damages resulting therefrom. You may not post, send, submit, publish, or transmit in connection with the Services any material that (a) you do not have the right to post, including proprietary material of any third party, (b) contains information obtained illegally or advocates illegal activity or discusses an intent to commit an illegal act, (c) is vulgar, obscene, abusive or threatening, (d) libels, defames, or invades the privacy of other Users, (e) does not pertain directly to the subject matter of the Services or advertises another product or service, (f) includes programs that contain viruses, worms, or any other malicious computer code, or (g) contains hyperlinks to other sites that contain content that falls within the descriptions set forth above.

Without limiting the foregoing responsibilities of the Users, the Company may monitor use of the Website to determine compliance with this agreement. The Company may remove or refuse Submissions for any reason.

11. HYPERLINKS

The Website may include hyperlinks to other websites that are not owned or operated by the Company. These links are provided for your convenience, and the Company may receive commissions or other financial compensation from the owners of these websites. Hyperlinks are to be accessed at your own risk. The Company may not have reviewed, and does not necessarily endorse, the content of other websites. The Company has no control over other websites and is not liable for any content, advertising, products, services or other materials on or available from those websites. Nonetheless, we wish to protect the Users of the Website, and we therefore invite feedback about websites that are linked from this Website.

12. DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT (“DMCA”) NOTICE TO COPYRIGHT OWNERS

The Company owns, protects and enforces copyrights in its own creative material and respects the copyrights of others. Materials may be made available on the Services, or via the Services, by third parties not within the control of the Company. It is our policy not to permit materials known by us to be infringing to remain on this Website.

In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or “DMCA” (summary here), you should notify us promptly if you believe any materials displayed within the Services infringe your copyright; please send your notice by e-mail for prompt attention. Regardless of whether we are liable for such infringement, our response may include removing or disabling access to material claimed to be infringing activity and/or terminating the alleged infringer’s access to the Website. If we remove or disable access in response to your notice, we will make a good-faith attempt to contact the person who submitted the material so that they may have the opportunity to submit a counter notification.

Please send all notices to the DMCA Agent at dmca@mygoodcounsel.com or 1 S Dearborn St. 20th floor, Chicago, Illinois 60603.

Your notice of alleged copyright infringement should include:

A description of how your copyrighted work or other intellectual property has been infringed;
A description of where the infringing material is located on the Website;
Where we can contact you and, if different, where the allegedly infringing party can contact you;
A statement that you believe that the use of the material is not authorized by the copyright or other intellectual property rights owner, by its agent, or by law;
A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is correct and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is alleged to be infringed; and
Your electronic or physical signature.

Please note that under the DMCA, misrepresentations made in your notices or counter notices can expose you to liability for substantial damages. If you are not sure whether material available on the Website infringes your copyright, or whether material posted by you is infringing, you should seek legal advice.

13. SECURITY AND SECURITY VIOLATIONS

If you are a User who has registered an account for the Services, passwords used to access the Services are for individual use only. You are responsible for the security of your own password and for all activities that occur through the use of your account if accessed with your password, including liability for damages resulting from misuse. If you use a password that the Company considers insecure, the Company may require you to change the password or terminate your account.

You may not attempt to violate the security of the Services, or use the Services to violate the security of other persons or websites or to violate the law, including by: (a) accessing data not owned by or intended for you or logging into an account that you are not authorized to access; (b) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Services or to breach security or authentication measures; (c) attempting to interfere with service to any User, host or network, including without limitation, by submitting a virus to the Services; (d) sending unsolicited e-mail; (e) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail; or (f) attempting to alter, make derivative works of, copy, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software making up any part of the Services.

The Company will take all reasonably necessary steps to investigate suspected violations of this agreement. The Company reserves the right to involve and fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities and comply with court orders requesting or directing the Company to disclose the identity of anyone engaging in conduct that is believed to violate the law. The Company further reserves the right, in its discretion, to release your details to system administrators at other sites in order to assist them in resolving security incidents.

You release the Company from and against any action taken by the Company during or as a result of its investigations and from any actions taken as a consequence of investigations by either the Company or law enforcement authorities.

14. IMPORTANT DISCLAIMERS

Your use of the Services is at your own risk. The Services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. The Company disclaims any warranties, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, or non-infringement, and any warranties arising out of course of dealing or usage of trade.

The Company does not complete background checks on Users or make and representations about the location, safety, or quality of the Users or Services. The Company has no responsibility for your interactions with other Users of the Services. Your interactions with such persons are at your own risk.

By way of illustration, and without limiting the generality of the disclaimer in the paragraph above, the Company disclaims any warranty that:

The Services will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that defects will be corrected;
The Website and the server that makes the Services available are free of viruses or other harmful components; or
The Content is accurate, complete, or free of typographical errors.

The inclusion or offering for sale of any product or service as part of the Services does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the Company, and you agree not to make any claim against the Company relating to the purchase of these products or services.

Updates to the App may not be consistent across all platforms and devices. If you do not refresh the App after an update, the App may not reflect the most recent features, functionality, or Content.

15. LIMITATION ON LIABILITY

The Company, its subsidiaries, affiliates, licensors, service providers, content providers, employees, agents, officers, and directors shall not be liable for any incidental, direct, indirect, punitive, actual, consequential, special, exemplary, or other damages, including loss of revenue or income, physical injury, pain and suffering, emotional distress, or similar damages, even if the Company has been advised of the possibility of such damages. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which states, in part: “A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party.”

In no event will the collective liability of the Company and its subsidiaries, affiliates, licensors, service providers, content providers, employees, agents, officers, and directors to any party (regardless of the form of action, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise) exceed $100.

16. INDEMNIFICATION

To the maximum extent permitted by law, you shall indemnify the Company, its subsidiaries, affiliates, licensors, service providers, content providers, employees, agents, officers, and directors from and against all third-party claims, liabilities and expenses, including legal fees and costs, relating to your use of the Services or your breach of any representation or obligation contained in this agreement. The Company reserves the right, in its sole discretion and at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any claim for which you are obligated to provide indemnification under this section. You shall fully cooperate as reasonably required in the defense of any claim.

17. AMENDMENT

This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter contained herein. The Company may modify this agreement at any time by posting the revised terms on the Website and providing you with the opportunity to accept or reject the modifications during your next sign-on to the Services. If you do not agree to the modifications, you may be required to cease your access to the Services. Continued use or access of the Service after modification will constitute your acceptance of this agreement as modified.

18. DISPUTE RESOLUTION; JURY WAIVER

All disputes relating to the interpretation of this agreement or the rights of the parties hereunder will be exclusively settled by arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Commercial Arbitration Rules. Disputes involving $75,000 or less shall use the AAA’s Expedited Rules. The parties shall mutually agree upon a single commercial arbitrator, and in the absence of agreement, the AAA shall select the arbitrator. The place of arbitration shall be New York, New York. The parties will share equally in the costs of arbitration payable to the AAA, including the arbitrator. The award of the arbitrator will be accompanied by a reasoned opinion. Judgment on an arbitration award may be entered in accordance with the Federal Arbitration Act in any federal court having jurisdiction.

You acknowledge and agree that you and the Company are each waiving the right to a trial by jury or to participate as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class action or representative proceeding. Further, unless both you and the Company otherwise agree in writing, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person’s claims and may not otherwise preside over any form of any class or representative proceeding.

The parties to this agreement may, notwithstanding the above, seek equitable relief in any proper court to enjoin a breach or threatened breach of any obligations under this agreement that might cause irreparable harm (without any requirement to post bond).

19. MISCELLANEOUS

This agreement shall be governed and interpreted pursuant to the laws of the State of New York, United States of America, without regard to its choice of law rules. If any part of this agreement is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. Any notices or other communications permitted or required hereunder will be in writing and given by the Company via e-mail, to the address that you provided when registering for the Services, and will be effective upon transmission.

20. ADA

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities can access the Services. Please provide us with Feedback if you have trouble accessing the Website.

21. CONTACT AND FEEDBACK

We welcome and encourage feedback, comments and suggestions for improvements to the Services (“Feedback”). You may submit Feedback by emailing us at kim@joyful-liberation.org or through the “Help” section of the Website. You agree that all Feedback will become the sole and exclusive property of the Company and you hereby irrevocably assign to the Company all of your right in and to all Feedback.

If you are a resident of California, you may request additional information or submit claims or complaints regarding the Services by calling the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of California Department of Consumer Affairs at (916) 445-1254, or in writing at:

Complaint Assistance Unit
Division of Consumer Services
California Department of Consumer Affairs
1625 N. Market Blvd., Suite N 112
Sacramento, California 95834.

Last updated: August 14, 2023

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