Welcome to GoPledge LLC’s website. Your use of the GoPledge LLC website is subject to the following terms and conditions (“Terms”).

Please read these Terms carefully before using our website or using our services.

Your use of our website and/or our services is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms.

These Terms apply to all visitors, users, and others who access or use our website and/or our services.

By accessing our website and/or our services, you agree to be bound by these Terms.

If you disagree with or do not accept any part of these Terms, please immediately discontinue your use of our website and do not use our services.

The GoPledge LLC website provides an online platform for certain charities, organizations, groups, and other entities (referred to herein as “Fundraisers”) to raise funds through the sale of goods or services and/or to solicit donations and services related thereto (collectively the “Services”).

Visitors (“Users”) of the GoPledge LLC website wishing to make purchases from or to make donations to a Fundraiser (“Supporters”) interact directly with the Fundraiser. The Services including such transactions are governed by these Terms.

In the course of your use of the GoPledge LLC website, you may be asked to provide certain information to us. You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for the accuracy and content of such information.

Our use of any information you provide via the GoPledge LLC website shall be governed by our Privacy Policy available at www.gopledge.com/privacy.

All website content and services offered and sold by GoPledge LLC, such as text, graphics, names, logos, button icons and images, and the like, is proprietary to GoPledge LLC and protected by United States and international intellectual property laws.

Under no circumstances shall you use any intellectual property of GoPledge LLC without prior written consent from GoPledge LLC. For inquiries on obtaining written consent from GoPledge LLC, email info@gopledge.com.

License from GoPledge: GoPledge LLC grants to you a limited, revocable license to access and make personal use of the GoPledge LLC website and the Services subject to your compliance with these Terms and our Privacy Policy.

This limited, revocable license does not grant you the right to download (other than page caching) or modify the GoPledge LLC website, or any portion of it, except with prior written consent from GoPledge LLC.

This limited, revocable license does not include any resale or commercial use of its website; any collection or use of service listings, descriptions, or other information; any derivative use of the GoPledge LLC website or intellectual property; any use whatsoever, including copying, of information for the benefit of any third party; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.

This website or any portion thereof shall not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any purpose without prior written consent from GoPledge LLC.

You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) without prior written consent from GoPledge LLC.

You may not use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing the name GoPledge LLC or anything confusingly similar thereto or any logos of GoPledge LLC without prior written consent from GoPledge LLC.

Any unauthorized use by you or done at your direction shall immediately revoke and terminate your limited license.

Eligibility: Users of the GoPledge LLC website must be 18 years of age or older. The GoPledge LLC website is not directed at children under the age of 18 and does not knowingly collect information from minor children.

By accessing the GoPledge LLC website and using the Services, you represent that you are over the age of 18 years.

License from Users to GoPledge LLC: Each User of the GoPledge LLC website grants GoPledge LLC a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display any content that they post on the GoPledge LLC website throughout the world in any media.

The Services are provided as a platform only. The GoPledge LLC website is offered only to provide technology to allow Fundraisers and Supporters or other Users to connect.

GoPledge LLC’s role is expressly limited to making the GoPledge LLC website available and maintaining the GoPledge LLC website and Services for Fundraisers, Supporters and Users.

GoPledge LLC is a platform and not an agent, consultant, professional fundraiser, broker, financial institution, charity or fiduciary for any Fundraiser, Supporter or User for any purpose.

GoPledge LLC is not responsible for the sale of items offered by Fundraisers and does not control the information provided by Fundraisers.

GoPledge LLC is not responsible for any content posted by any Fundraiser, Supporter or other User, including the accuracy of any description or the timeliness or reliability of any information or content provided by Fundraisers, Supporters or other Users.

GoPledge LLC is not a payment processor, money services business, or other financial institution. Payments made to a Fundraiser are processed using a third-party payment processor (“Payment Processor”). All Users acknowledge and agree that the use of Payment Processors is essential to the Services and that GoPledge LLC exchanges information with Payment Processors to facilitate the Services provided.

GoPledge LLC does not engage in any solicitation activities on behalf of any individual, entity, organization, or charity.

GoPledge LLC does not intend to and does not post information to provide financial, legal, tax or other professional advice. Before making any payment to any Fundraiser through the Services, you should consult your own financial, legal, tax or other professional advisor as you deem appropriate. Users acknowledge that all information and content they access is at their own risk.

GoPledge LLC has no control over the conduct of or any information provided by any Fundraiser, Supporter or other User and expressly disclaims all liability to the fullest extent permitted by law, as more specifically described below. GoPledge LLC is not responsible for and does not endorse any Fundraiser, Supporter or other User and does not guarantee or warrant, expressly or impliedly, that any information provided through the Services is accurate or how the funds raised by any Fundraiser will be used.

GoPledge LLC may, but is not obligated to provide intermediary services to assist Fundraisers and Supporters in resolving disputes between them with the agreement of all parties. In the event GoPledge LLC elects, in its sole discretion, to provide such services, then our decision is final and binding on all parties and cannot be appealed, challenged or reversed.

Fundraisers may have the opportunity to provide GoPledge LLC with enhanced information about their IRS status and their organization to earn a Verified Account status once GoPledge LLC has verified their information. GoPledge LLC uses best efforts in this process but does not guarantee or warrant a Fundraiser’s legitimacy or its status when it is given a Verified Account status.

Fundraisers are required to create an account in order to use the GoPledge LLC website. Fundraisers are required to provide certain validation information and to select a username and password for access to their account. Account access credentials should be kept safe; any instructions we receive using account credentials will be considered to be authorized by the Fundraiser. Fundraisers may log into their account to view and edit their profile and transaction information. Accounts are subject to these Terms and may be canceled or suspended by us at any time in our sole discretion if we believe these Terms have been violated.

Supporters and other Users are not required to create an account in order to use the GoPledge LLC website. Information that is provided by Supporters and other Users to Fundraisers is collected by the Fundraiser as well as by GoPledge LLC. GoPledge LLC uses this information in accordance with its Privacy Policy.

GoPledge LLC may from time to time offer Fundraisers the ability to send communications to Users, Supporters, and/or other Fundraisers on the GoPledge LLC website using GoPledge LLC facilitated emails or direct messages. These are offered free of charge, but may have limitations on the number of communications that may be sent during any specific period.

Fundraisers using such features acknowledge and agree that they, and not GoPledge LLC, are solely responsible for complying with all applicable laws, including without limitation the Consumer Telephone Protection Act, CAN-SPAM, the Children’s Internet Protection Act (“CIPA”), the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (“COPPA”), and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”) and for obtaining the consents required by law before sending communications and/or collecting any personal information.

GoPledge LLC does not participate in the communications; it does not determine when a communication is sent, to whom it is sent, the content of the communication, and does not participate in any way in the initiation or sending of the communication other than to provide a channel through which the communication may be transmitted.

You may submit to GoPledge LLC reviews, suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the submission is not illegal, obscene, threatening, harassing, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious or harmful to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of “spam.”

You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of the submission. Should any such submission be publicly viewable, GoPledge LLC reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such submission.

If you do post content or submit any material to GoPledge LLC, and unless GoPledge LLC indicates otherwise, you grant to GoPledge LLC a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such content throughout the world in any media.

You grant GoPledge LLC and its sublicensees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you post or submit to GoPledge LLC; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury or harm to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify GoPledge LLC for all claims resulting from content you supply to GoPledge LLC.

GoPledge LLC has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content on its website. GoPledge LLC takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.

All payments made through the Services are at the User’s/Supporter’s own risk. It is the User’s/Supporter’s responsibility to investigate the Fundraiser and to understand how any payment made to the Fundraiser will be used. GoPledge LLC is not responsible for any offers, promises, or promotions made by any Fundraiser. GoPledge LLC is not responsible for the accuracy of the information that Fundraisers supply and does not guarantee that payments Users/Supporters make will be used in accordance with promises made by Fundraisers or applicable law.

If a User/Supporter believes that a Fundraiser is not raising or using funds for their stated purpose or is otherwise committing fraud or some illegal act through its use on the GoPledge LLC website, please contact GoPledge LLC at info@gopledge.com.

GoPledge LLC does not make any representation about the tax deductibility or treatment of payments made by Users/Supporters. GoPledge LLC does not make any representation about the tax status or charitable status of any Fundraiser, including those with Verified Accounts. Fundraisers, and not GoPledge LLC, are solely responsible for providing Users/Supporters with receipts acknowledging receipt of funds from the User/Supporter.

Information provided by Users/Supporters through the Services is shared with the Fundraiser to whom a payment is made and may be used by such Fundraiser in accordance with its own privacy policies. GoPledge LLC is not responsible for any Fundraiser’s use (of any kind) of a User’s/Supporter’s information.

Users/Supporters are responsible to determine what, if any, taxes or tax exemptions apply to payments made to Fundraisers. If a User/Supporter purchases items from a Fundraiser, the User/Supporter is responsible for payment of all applicable sales and use taxes.

Users/Supporters who bid on an item or “buy now” are agreeing to pay for the item if your bid is accepted as the winning bid. Auction payments are non-refundable, and GoPledge LLC does not make any guarantees on the condition or delivery of items won or purchased by Users/Supporters. GoPledge LLC makes no claims on the tax-deductibility of an item listed by a Fundraiser.

GoPledge LLC respects the intellectual property rights of others. It is GoPledge LLC’s policy to respond to any claim that content posted on its website infringes a copyright or other intellectual property infringement of any person.

If you are a copyright owner, or authorized on behalf of one, and you believe that your copyrighted work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement that is taking place through the GoPledge LLC website, you must and shall submit your notice in writing to the attention of our copyright agent via email at info@gopledge.com and you must and shall include in your notice a detailed description of the alleged infringement.

You may be held accountable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) for misrepresenting that any content is infringing your copyright. In the event of violation of this provision, your immediate termination of your account or use of the GoPledge LLC website may occur and/or legal proceedings may be brought against you. In the event that legal proceedings are brought against you, you agree to indemnify GoPledge LLC and hold GoPledge LLC harmless and pay any attorneys’ fees GoPledge LLC may incur in relation to such proceedings.

You may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by providing our Copyright Agent with the following information in writing (see 17 U.S.C 512(c)(3) for further detail):

• An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright’s interest.
• A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, including the URL (i.e., web page address) of the location where the copyrighted work exists or a copy of the copyrighted work.
• Identification of the URL or other specific location on the GoPledge LLC website where the material that you claim is infringing is located.
• Your address, telephone number, and email address.
• A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.

You can contact our copyright agent via email at info@gopledge.com. Upon receipt of a notification, GoPledge LLC will take whatever action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate, including removal of the challenged content from the Service.

You agree to comply with all applicable domestic and international laws, statutes, ordinances, and regulations regarding your use of the GoPledge LLC website. GoPledge LLC reserves the right to investigate complaints or reported violations of our Terms and to take any action we deem appropriate, including but not limited to canceling your access to and use of the GoPledge LLC website, reporting any suspected unlawful activity to law enforcement officials, regulators, or other third parties, and disclosing any information necessary or appropriate to such persons or entities relating to your profile/account, email addresses, usage history, posted materials, IP addresses and traffic information.

GoPledge LLC attempts to be as accurate as possible. However, GoPledge LLC does not warrant that third-party listings made on its website or their descriptions or other content is accurate, complete, reliable, legitimate, current, or error-free. If a listing is inaccurate in any way, your sole remedy is to report it to GoPledge LLC, after which, GoPledge LLC may, but not shall, remove any inaccurate content according to its policies in place at the time the report is made. If you have concerns about a third-party listing on the GoPledge LLC website, email a link and explanation of your concern to info@gopledge.com.

The GoPledge LLC website may contain links to third party websites. These links may be provided by GoPledge LLC and/or by a third-party using the GoPledge LLC website in its third-party listing. Regardless of who provides or posts the link, it is provided solely as a convenience to you. By linking to these websites, GoPledge LLC does not assert that it has created or has any affiliation with, sponsorship for, or endorsement of any such third party websites or the information contained thereon. The inclusion of links within the GoPledge LLC website does not constitute any endorsement, guarantee, warranty, or recommendation of such third party websites. GoPledge LLC has no control over the legal documents and privacy practices of third party websites; as such, you access any such third party websites at your own risk.

When you use the GoPledge LLC services, You expressly authorize GoPledge LLC’s service provider, Frost Bank, to originate credit transfers to your financial institution account that you provided to GoPledge LLC for that purpose. You authorize GoPledge LLC to collect and share with Frost Bank your personal information including full name, email address and financial information, and you are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of that data. Frost Bank’s Privacy Policy is available here https://www.frostbank.com/agreements-disclosures/consumer-privacy-statement.

THIS WEBSITE AND ALL INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED IN WRITING. WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THIS WEBSITE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED IN WRITING. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.

TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, GoPledge LLC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THIS WEBSITE; INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THIS WEBSITE; THEIR SERVERS; OR E-MAIL SENT FROM US ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR FROM ANY INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS (INCLUDING SOFTWARE) OR SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED IN WRITING.

CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.

All pages within the GoPledge LLC website and any materials made available for download on the GoPledge LLC website are the property of GoPledge LLC, or its licensors/suppliers. The GoPledge LLC website is protected by U.S. and international copyright and trademark laws. The contents of the GoPledge LLC website, including without limitation, all data, files, documents, text, photographs, images, audio, and video, and any materials accessed through or made available for use or download through the GoPledge LLC website (“Content”), may not be copied, distributed, modified, reproduced, published or used, in whole or in part, except for purposes authorized by these Terms or otherwise approved in writing by GoPledge LLC. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose, or deep link to, any name, trademarks, service marks, logo, Content or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of GoPledge LLC without its prior express written consent.

Users are responsible for any User Generated Content posted to the Site. “User-Generated Content” means any comments, ideas, suggestions, information, files, videos, images, or other materials a User provides to GoPledge LLC or posts on the GoPledge LLC website. GoPledge LLC is not responsible for the personally information you choose to submit as User-Generated Content, and GoPledge LLC reserves the right to remove any User-Generated Content generated by any User at its sole discretion. By posting to the GoPledge LLC website, you understand that once you post User-Generated Content, it becomes public. GoPledge LLC is not responsible for keeping any User-Generated Content confidential, so if you do not want anyone to read or see your User-Generated Content, do not submit or post it to the GoPledge LLC website.

Each User represents and warrants that such User owns or otherwise controls all of the rights to the content that such User posts; that such content is accurate; that use of such content does not violate these Terms or any law or regulation; and such content will not cause injury to any person or entity. GoPledge LLC has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content from the GoPledge LLC website. User-Generated Content comes from a variety of sources. GoPledge LLC does not endorse or support any views, opinions, recommendations, or advice that may be in User-Generated Content, nor does it vouch for its accuracy, reliability, usefulness, or safety or the intellectual property rights of any User-Generated Content. GoPledge LLC takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any User-Generated Content posted by any User or any third party.

All Users agree that they will abide by the Community Guidelines set forth below.

The GoPledge LLC website may be used only for lawful purposes by individuals using authorized Services of GoPledge LLC...

• Providing to GoPledge LLC, posting, or publicly sharing any information which is incomplete, false, inaccurate or not your own;
• Impersonating another person;

Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability...

• Accessing data not intended for you or logging into a server or account that you are not authorized to access;

In the event access to the GoPledge LLC website or a portion thereof is limited requiring a username and password...

All transactions and payments made on the GoPledge LLC website are between the Fundraiser and Supporter...

Payment Processor provides all financial services for payments made to Fundraisers through the GoPledge LLC website...

You represent and warrant that if you are making payments...

• Any credit card, debit card, or bank account information you supply is true, correct and complete;

In connection with payments to Fundraisers...

• Review and clearly accept the agreement to be entered into with Payment Processor...

By using the GoPledge LLC website and/or using GoPledge LLC services, you agree that the laws of the state of Texas...

Any dispute relating in any way to your visit to the GoPledge LLC website or to services sold...

GoPledge LLC reserves the right to make changes to its website, policies, and these Terms at any time...

Any notices (i) to GoPledge LLC shall be given by postal mail addressed to GoPledge LLC at...

You are solely responsible for compliance with all applicable laws in relation to your use of the Services...

The following are examples of User-Generated Content and/or use that is illegal or prohibited by GoPledge LLC...

Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to use the Services to raise funds or establish or contribute to any campaign with the implicit or explicit purpose of or involving: