This Intellectual Property Policy was last updated on October 31, 2021.
The GroKool platform is available to communities as a private labeled enterprise platform. Compared to boot-strapping various point applications to achieve a similar purpose, GroKool provides a private, secure, and branded environment in one integrated platform, providing a richer and simplified user experience, enabling a holistic environment to serve an association's needs for
We do not review or edit the content for legal issues, and we are not in a position to determine the legality of posted content. However, it is important to us that users posting content on GroKool respect the intellectual property of others. When You post content on the platform, You make the promise that You have the necessary authorization or rights to use all the content contained in posting.
Infringing activity is not tolerated on or through our platform.
This policy addresses what we do in the event of copyright infringement reports from content owners and trademark infringement claims from trademark owners with respect to the content on the GroKool platform. The policy also addresses what we do when GroKool users are copied on third-party platforms without their consent.
GroKool’s policy is to remove Activities from our service when they are reported as infringing in a copyright infringement notice received from the owner of the original content. It is also our policy to remove all Activities or Participation in Activities from any Coach, Learner, Parents / Guardians who are determined to be a repeat infringer (for whom GroKool has received more than two valid takedown notices). We reserve the right to terminate a Coach’s, Learner’s, Parent’s / Guardian’s account at any time, including when they post content in violation of the copyrights of others.
If you would like to report content on the GroKool platform and if you are the owner or the designated agent of the owner of the rights to the content that you believe the content is infringing, please email support@grokool.com.Before you submit a copyright infringement report, please remember these important things:
Before you submit a copyright claim, make sure that use of the content copied in the GroKool content does not qualify as fair use.
If we receive a valid copyright violation report, we will send a copy of that report to the user who posted the reported content along with a notification that 1) the content was reported for copyright infringement and 2) we are removing the content or specific contents from the GroKool platform. We will also ask that the user send back to us to submit a counter-notification. If your content has been reported for copyright infringement and removed from the GroKool platform, and if you believe we made a mistake or that you have permission from the owner of the reported content to use such content in your Activity, then you may send us a counter-notification.
The best way to provide us with a counter-notification is to email support@grokool.com. To be effective, a counter notification must be in writing and include the following information:
Knowingly submitting a false or misleading counter-notification to a claim of infringement is illegal and you could be held liable and have to pay damages as a result. GroKool reserves the right to seek damages from any party that submits a counter-notification of claimed infringement or counter-notification in violation of the law.
We understand that when you post and make available your contents on the GroKool platform, you want to make sure that you will not find your related content offered on another platform without your permission.
In the event you find your content available on another platform without your permission, please email us at support@grokool.com. Please keep in mind that since GroKool doesn’t control the content on other sites, we may not always be successful, especially if your content is on a site outside of the US or EU. Certain countries take different approaches to copyright law; as such, we cannot guarantee the infringing party or hosting site will comply with our notices and remove the infringing content from their platform.
GroKool’s policy is to remove contents from our service when they are reported as infringing a third-party trademark. We also reserve the right to terminate a user’s account at any time, including when they post content in violation of the trademark rights of others.
This means your communication must include substantially the following:
GroKool’s Designated Agent for notices of reported infringement can be contacted in the following manner: