Assumption of Risk, Waiver, and Release Agreement for Uncivilservants.org
You are completely responsible for any harm that comes to you or others because of your creating content for this website or using this website.
By registering for this website, you agree to this Assumption of Risk, Waiver and Release Agreement, as well as our Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy.
“We,” means Transportation Alternatives, Inc. and other cooperating organizations, including any of our board members, cooperating attorneys, employees or volunteers.
“You,” means you, your personal representatives and next of kin.
We're going to call the text and photographs you provide “content.”
BY REGISTERING FOR THIS WEBSITE:
YOU AGREE THAT YOU ARE FREELY GIVING UP IMPORTANT AND SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS IN EXCHANGE FOR OUR PROVIDING THIS PUBLIC SERVICE FREE OF CHARGE.YOU UNDERSTAND THAT CREATING CONTENT FOR THIS WEBSITE, USING THIS WEBSITE OR POSTING CONTENT TO THIS WEBSITE MAY RESULT IN DEATH, BODILY INJURY, INCARCERATION, PROSECUTION, CONVICTION, PROPERTY DAMAGE, ECONOMIC HARM OR OTHER INJURY.
YOU ASSUME ALL RISKS OF THIS ACTIVITY, INCLUDING RISKS RESULTING FROM OUR NEGLIGENCE. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS AN INHERENTLY DANGEROUS ACTIVITY.
YOU AGREE TO WAIVE ANY CLAIM, RELEASE US FROM ALL LIABILITY, AND PROMISE NOT TO SUE US IN THE EVENT OF ANY HARM ARISING FROM THIS ACTIVITY, EVEN IF CAUSED BY OUR NEGLIGENCE.
YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY US AND HOLD US HARMLESS FROM ANY LEGAL CLAIM OR DEMAND ON US IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS ACTIVITY, INCLUDING THE PAYMENT OF REASONABLE ATTORNEYS' FEES.
Taking pictures of illegally parked vehicles owned or driven by armed individuals who are in a position to seriously mess with your life is an INHERENTLY DANGEROUS ACTIVITY. Posting these pictures to a website run by people who plan to aggressively use those pictures and your comments about them to make those same armed individuals stop parking illegally is EVEN MORE DANGEROUS.
We like to think that police, firemen, court officers and other government workers who park illegally will behave like reasonable adults if they see you taking pictures of their cars. Likewise, we'd hope that they would react calmly and maturely once they learn that you have posted these pictures to a website that publicizes their illegal parking and aggressively brings their behavior to the attention of their supervisors and others.
However, there is nothing we can do to guarantee your safety. While we will take certain steps to protect your identity (see our Privacy Policy), despite our efforts, the targets of your complaints may discover who you are and may retaliate against you. This retaliation could be physical, legal, administrative, psychological or economic.
You should be aware that:
- People taking pictures for this site and for the original study have been detained, questioned, and threatened with arrest.
- Workers in one area distributed threatening posters and engaged in a successful economic boycott of merchants who complained about illegal parking.
- We continue to receive a steady flow of threats of physical violence towards people who participate in this activity.
- We have also received threats of retaliatory enforcement, including with respect to bicyclists, double parkers on alternate side parking days, and ordinary civilian illegal parking.
If you are the victim of retaliation we will be very upset, but we may or may not help you, as we see fit. We are especially unlikely to help you if you unnecessarily provoked someone.
Changes to this Agreement
We may change this agreement from time to time. When we do this, the revised agreement will be posted at this same web page.
