Terms of Use

Last Updated: Dec 8, 2022

Run for Ukraine, a Washington State nonprofit corporation, welcomes you. You can access and use our variety of online services, including the R4U mobile app, website and other platforms.

Our services are provided to visitors and registered users subject to the following Terms of Use. We may update the terms of use from time to time without notice. Any updates or revisions to our Terms of Use will be available on our Platform as of the date of effectiveness. The Terms of Use are a binding agreement between you and Run4Ukraine. Your access to and use of Platform constitutes your reading, understanding and acceptance, without limitation, of the terms and conditions of the Terms of Use. You agree to be legally bound by these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to any of these terms, then please do not use the Services or the Platform. Your use of the Platform will constitute your acknowledgment of your consent and agreement to abide by and be bound by these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy.

1. Description and Use of Services

Run4Ukraine’s mission is to generate donations for non-profit organizations assisting with Ukraine humanitarian relief. The non-profits we support assist with a range of programs, including helping orphans, wounded soldiers, displaced families and other projects that help people suffering from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

We provide visitors, and registered users with access to our services as described in this agreement.

Visitors are people who don’t register with R4U but want to view our various website pages, app or other materials to learn about the initiative. No login is required for visitors. Visitors are welcome to view all publicly-available content, make donations to the four non-profits and e-mail us.

Registered Users. A login is required for all registered users. After logging in, they can access and utilize the same functions as visitors. They can also create a team, update their accounts, submit a selfie, sign up for Run4Ukraine’s newsletter, etc.

Run4Ukraine is under no obligation to accept any individual as a registered user. It may accept or reject any registration in its sole and complete discretion. In addition, Run4Ukraine reserves the right to deactivate any individual account, team or sponsor at any time.

Run4Ukraine is also under no obligation to accept the registration of any individual, team, donor or sponsor. It may accept or reject any of the above at its sole and complete discretion.

Team captains also have the right to not accept or to remove any participant who has registered for their team.

2. Community Rules (“Community Rules”)

Run4Ukraine’s community functions best when all users follow a few simple rules. By accessing and/or using the services, you agree to comply with these Community Rules, including when you access Third-Party Applications.

All participants agree to be courteous and treat everyone with respect.
All participants agree not to spam or use the Services to engage in any commercial activities, including, without limitation, raising money; advertising or promoting a product, service, website, or company; or engaging in any pyramid or other multi-tiered marketing scheme;
All participants agree not access or use the Services to collect any market research for a competing business or businesses;
All participants agree not to acquire or attempt to acquire any resources or information through any means not intentionally made through the services; Participants agree not use R4U services for any unlawful purpose;
Participants agree not to upload, post, e-mail, transmit, or otherwise make available any content that:
- infringes any copyright, trademark, right of publicity, or other proprietary rights of any person or entity;
- you do not have a right to make available under any law or under any contractual or fiduciary relationship (such as inside information, proprietary, and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
- is defamatory, libelous, knowingly false, indecent, obscene, pornographic, sexually explicit, invasive of another’s privacy, promotes violence, or contains hate speech (i.e., speech that attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and/or sexual orientation/gender identity); or
- discloses any sensitive information about another person, including that person’s e-mail address, mailing or permanent address, phone number, credit card information, or any similar information.
Participants agree not to “stalk,” threaten, or otherwise harass another User: Visitor or Registered User;
Participants agree not to instigate or encourage others to commit illegal activities or cause injury or property damage to any person;
Participants agree not to gather for the purpose of “spamming” any email addresses that users post in any public posting areas;
Participants agree not to post any off-topic or irrelevant material to the WebsitePlatform;
Participants agree not to violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law;
Participants agree not to manipulate identifiers in a manner that disguises the origin of any content you transmit through any Communications Service;
Participants agree not to impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
Participants agree not to interfere with or attempt to interrupt the proper operation of the Services through the use of any means designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software, hardware, telecommunications, or other equipment, or to cause a security breach of such software, hardware, telecommunications, or other equipment (such as a virus, worm, computer code, file, program, device, information collection or transmission mechanism, software or routine, or access or attempt to gain access to any data, files, or passwords related to the services through hacking, password or data mining, or any other means);
Participants agree not to cover, obscure, block, or, in any way, interfere with any promoted messages and/or safety features (e.g., report abuse button) on the services; and

We reserve the right, in our sole and absolute discretion, to deny you access to the Platform, the Services, or any portion of the Services, without notice, and to remove any content that does not adhere to these guidelines.

3. Permitted and Prohibited Uses

Permitted Uses. You may access and use the platform for the following purposes:

To learn about nonprofit organizations for the purpose of evaluating them as recipients of charitable donations including grants;
To learn more or exchange information about specific nonprofit organizations or general issues of interest to the nonprofit community;
To fulfill your business or organizational mission of making charitable donations to nonprofit entities;
To conduct comparative or other “best practices” research purposes;
For your own internal business use.

Prohibited Uses. You may not:

Use the platform other than as authorized by the Terms of Use;
Use the platform for the benefit of any third party.
Republish or distribute information from the platform without Run4Ukraine’s express written consent;
Modify information from the platform except in connection with a permitted Use;
Disassemble, decode, decompile, or otherwise reverse engineer the platform, including, without limitation, any interfaces or software programs comprising the platform;
Take any action that would impede or interfere with the operation of the platform or alter contents of the platform, or alter or interfere with any other content, website, or software that Run4Ukraine owns or controls;
Use any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction methods with respect to the Platform or any portion thereof; or;
Use the Platform directly or indirectly in competition with Run4Ukraine in any way whatsoever.

4. Restrictions

The Services are available for individuals aged 13 years or older. If you are 13 or older, but under the age of 18, you should review the Agreement with your parent or guardian to make sure that you and your parent or guardian understand it.

5. Sign-In Name; Password; Unique Identifiers

During the registration process for Registered Users, we will ask you to create an account, which includes a sign-in name (“Sign-In Name”), a password (“Password”), and certain additional information that will assist in authenticating your identity when you log-in in the future (“Unique Identifiers”). When creating your account, you must provide true, accurate, current, and complete information. Each Sign-In Name and corresponding Password can be used by only one Registered User. You are solely responsible for the confidentiality and use of your Sign-In Name, Password, and Unique Identifiers, as well as for any use, misuse, or communications entered through the Services using one or more of them. You will promptly inform us of any need to deactivate a Password or Sign-In Name, or change any Unique Identifier. We reserve the right to delete or change your Password, Sign-In Name, or Unique Identifier at any time and for any reason. Run4Ukraine will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by any unauthorized use of your account.

6. Intellectual Property

The Services contain material, such as software, text, graphics, images, sound recordings, audiovisual works, and other material provided by or on behalf of Run4Ukraine (collectively referred to as “Content”). Content may be owned by us or by third parties. Content is protected under both United States and foreign laws. Unauthorized use of Content may violate intellectual property, copyright, trademark, and other laws and/or rights of others. You have no rights in or to Content, and you will not use Content except as permitted under the Agreement. No other use is permitted without prior written consent from Run4Ukraine. You must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original Content. You may not sell, transfer, assign, license, sublicense, or modify Content or reproduce, display, publicly perform, make a derivative version of, distribute, or otherwise use Content in any way for any purpose. The use or posting of Content on any other website, other than through Third-Party Applications, or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is expressly prohibited.

If you violate any part of the Agreement, your permission to access and/or use the Platform, the Content and the Services automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any copies you have made of Content.

The trademarks, service marks, and logos of Run4Ukraine (“Run4Ukraine IP”) used and displayed on the Services are registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks of Run4Ukraine. Other company, product, and service names located on the Services may be trademarks or service marks owned by others (“Third-Party Trademarks,” and, collectively with Run4Ukraine IP, “Trademarks”). Nothing on the Services should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use Trademarks, without Run4Ukraine’s prior written permission specific for each such use. All goodwill generated from use of Run4Ukraine IP inures to our benefit.

Elements of the Services are protected by trade dress, trademark, unfair competition, and other state and federal laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part, by any means, including, but not limited to, the use of framing or mirrors. None of Content may be retransmitted without our express, written consent for each and every instance.

7. User Submissions; Licenses

As noted above, the Services provide Visitors and Registered Users the ability to post and upload user content (“User Content”). You expressly acknowledge and agree that once you permit your User Content to be viewed by others, it will be accessible and viewable by them.

You retain all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in and to your own user content. You do, however, hereby grant Run4Ukraine a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, sub-license license to modify, compile, combine with other content and data, copy, record, synchronize, format, and index your user content and display, perform, sub-license, commercialize, and make it available to others in all media now known or hereafter devised, including, without limitation, through the platform.

If you submit user content to us, each such submission constitutes a representation and warranty to Run4Ukraine that such user content is your original creation (or that you otherwise have the right to provide the user content), that you have the rights necessary to grant the license to the User Content under the prior paragraph, and that it and its use by Run4Ukraine does not and will not violate our community guidelines, will not infringe upon any third party’s intellectual property rights, and is in conformity with all applicable laws.

8. Communications With Us

Communications From Run4Ukraine. You understand and agree that, as part of your registration process for and use of the platform, Run4Ukraine may send to you certain communications from time to time, including announcements concerning modifications, enhancements, and/or upgrades to the platform; (b) service announcements, including but not limited to announcements regarding conditions or other possible interruptions that may affect use of and/or access to the platform and/or any services or other products offered by Run4Ukraine; and (c) other administrative updates. You further understand and agree that your agreement to receive such communications is a condition of your use of the platform as a registered user. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new feature that enhances or supplements the platform shall be subject to this agreement.

Communications to Run4Ukraine. Although we encourage you to contact us, we do not want you to, and you should not, send us any content that contains confidential information. As outlined in community rules, you should not send us any content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under any contractual or fiduciary relationship (such as inside information, confidential and proprietary information, learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements). With respect to all communications you send to us, including, but not limited to, feedback, questions, comments, suggestions, and the like, we shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in your communications for any purpose whatsoever, including but not limited to, the development, production, and marketing of products and services that incorporate such information without any payment or obligation to you.

9. No Warranties; Limitations of Liability

WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE CONTENTS OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, CONTENT (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY REVIEWS, RATINGS, OR FINANCIAL DATA), OR USER CONTENT. WE SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO LIABILITY FOR ANY DELAYS OR INTERRUPTIONS OF THE SERVICES FROM WHATEVER CAUSE. YOU AGREE THAT YOU USE CONTENT, THE SERVICES, AND USER CONTENT AT YOUR OWN RISK.

WE ARE HUMAN. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL OPERATE ERROR-FREE OR THAT THE SERVICES, ITS SERVERS, ITS CONTENT, OR USER CONTENT ARE FREE OF COMPUTER VIRUSES OR SIMILAR CONTAMINATION OR DESTRUCTIVE FEATURES. IF YOUR USE OF CONTENT, USER CONTENT, OR THE SERVICES RESULTS IN THE NEED FOR SERVICING OR REPLACING EQUIPMENT OR DATA, WE SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THOSE COSTS.

THE CONTENT, THE USER CONTENT, AND THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTY OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTIES’ RIGHTS, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IN NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) RESULTING FROM THE USE, INABILITY TO USE, DISCLOSURE, DISPLAY, OR MAINTENANCE OF ANY CONTENT, USER CONTENT, OR THE SERVICES, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, OUR LIABILITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

THE SERVICES MAY CONTAIN TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS OR OMISSIONS. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY SUCH TYPOGRAPHICAL, TECHNICAL, OR OTHER ERRORS LISTED ON THE SERVICES. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES, CORRECTIONS, AND/OR IMPROVEMENTS TO THE SERVICES AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE

10. External Sites

The services may contain links to external third-party websites. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by us of the content on such external sites. The content of such external sites is developed and provided by others. You should contact the site administrator or webmaster for those external sites if you have any concerns regarding such links or any content located on such external sites. We are not responsible for the content of any linked external sites and do not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of materials on such external sites. You should take precautions when downloading files from all websites to protect your computer from viruses and other destructive programs. If you decide to access linked External Sites, you do so at your own risk.

11. Representations; Warranties; and Indemnification

(a) You hereby represent, warrant, and covenant that:

You own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to all trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary, privacy, and publicity rights in and to your User Content and any other works that you incorporate into your User Content, and all the rights necessary to grant the licenses and permissions you grant hereunder;
Use of your User Content in the manners contemplated in the Agreement shall not violate or misappropriate the intellectual property, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other rights of any third party; and
You shall not submit to the Services any User Content that violates our Community Guidelines set forth above.

(b) You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us and our officers, directors, employees, successors, licensees, and assign harmless from and against any claims, actions, or demands, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising or resulting from: (i) your breach of the Agreement; (ii) your access to, use, or misuse of the Platform, the Content, User Content, or the Services, and (iii) your violation of any third-party right, including without limitation any copyright, trademark, property, or privacy right. We shall provide notice to you of any such claim, suit, or proceeding and shall assist you, at your expense, in defending any such claim, suit, or proceeding. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter that is subject to indemnification under this section. In such case, you agree to cooperate with any reasonable requests assisting our defense of such matter.

12. Compliance With Applicable Laws

R4U and its services are based in the United States and intended for use in the United States. We make no claims concerning whether content and/or user content may be downloaded, viewed, or be appropriate for use outside of the United States. If you access the Services, Content, or User Content from outside of the United States, you do so at your own risk. Whether inside or outside of the United States, you are solely responsible for ensuring compliance with the laws of your specific jurisdiction.

13. Termination of the Agreement

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to restrict, suspend, or terminate the agreement and your access to all or any part of the platform and the services, at any time and for any reason without prior notice or liability. We reserve the right to change, suspend, or discontinue all or any part of the services at any time without prior notice or liability.

14. Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Run4Ukraine respects the intellectual property rights of others and attempts to comply with all relevant laws. We will review all claims of copyright infringement received and remove any content or user content deemed to have been posted or distributed in violation of any such laws.

Our designated agent under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (the “Act”) for the receipt of any Notification of Claimed Infringement which may be given under the Act is as follows:

Run for Ukraine, a Washington nonprofit corporation

Attention: DMCA

If you believe that your work has been copied on the Services in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our agent with notice in accordance with the requirements of the Act, including (i) a description of the copyrighted work that has been infringed and the specific location on the Services where such work is located; (ii) a description of the location of the original or an authorized copy of the copyrighted work; (iii) your address, telephone number and e-mail address; (iv) 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; (v) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf; and (vi) an electronic or physical signature of the owner of the copyright or the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest.

15. Miscellaneous

The Agreement is governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of Washington, without respect to its conflict of laws provisions. You expressly agree: (i) to submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the State of Washington; and (ii) that the Services shall be deemed passive that do not give rise to personal jurisdiction over Run4Ukraine, either specific or general, in jurisdictions other than Washington. YOU AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SERVICES MUST COMMENCED BY YOU WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES, OTHERWISE SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION IS PERMANENTLY BARRED. If any provision of the Agreement is found to be invalid, or otherwise contrary to the law or equity, by a court of competent jurisdiction or terminated in accordance with the Termination provision above, you and Run4Ukraine agree that such provision shall be automatically severed and the remainder of the Agreement that can be given effect shall continue to be given effect to reflect the parties’ intent to the maximum extent permitted by law. The invalidity or termination of such provision shall not affect the validity of any other provisions outlined in the Agreement so long as the material benefits and burdens of the parties hereto remain in full force and effect.

Our failure to act on or enforce any provision of the Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of that provision or any other provision in the Agreement. No waiver shall be effective against us unless made in writing, and no such waiver shall be construed as a waiver in any other or subsequent instance. Except as expressly agreed by us and you in writing, the Agreement constitutes the entire Agreement between you and us with respect to the subject matter, and supersedes all previous or contemporaneous agreements, whether written or oral, between the parties with respect to the subject matter. The section headings are provided merely for convenience and shall not be given any legal import. The Agreement will inure to the benefit of our successors, assigns, licensees, and sub-licensees.