614FileFree Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
Be sure to read the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy below, as they cover the terms and conditions that apply to your use of this website, www.614filefree.org, (the “Website” or “Site”). Nationwide Children’s Hospital may change the Terms of Use at any time. By continuing to use the Site following such modifications, you agree to be bound by such modifications to the Terms of Use.
1. AGREEMENT
This Website and its associated content, blog posts, and newsletters, including but not limited to the Materials, (the “Service”) is an information service provided by Nationwide Children’s Hospital and its partners. Nationwide Children’s Hospital operates the 614filefree.org website, which contains information from various content providers (“Suppliers”). The Service is offered to you, the user of this Service (“you” or “your”), subject to your acceptance of and compliance with the terms and conditions as presented in this Terms of Service Agreement (“Agreement”). The terms “we,” “us,” “our,” “614FileFree,” and “Nationwide Children’s Hospital” refer collectively to the Service offered by Nationwide Children’s Hospital, and are all incorporated by reference to denote Nationwide Children’s Hospital. References to Nationwide Children’s Hospital also include all actions by and through its affiliates, such as parents, subsidiaries, directors, officers, employees, and its representatives. Your use or accessing of the Service constitutes your continued agreement to be bound by this Terms of Use Agreement (”Agreement”). You are not permitted to access the Service if you do not agree to be bound by this Agreement. This Agreement should be read carefully and in its entirety prior to using this site.
2. LICENSE
We may provide educational resources regarding the benefits of filing taxes, available tax credits, and free tax preparation services. Nationwide Children’s Hospital grants you a limited right (“License”) to view, listen, and use any of the information, content, or advertisements (collectively, the “Materials”) contained on, distributed through, linked, downloaded, or accessed from the Service for personal, non-commercial use only, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. You may download or print a copy of the Materials provided in this Service for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided that you retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original Materials on any copies of the Materials. You may not edit, adapt or otherwise modify the Materials in any way, or reproduce or publicly display, publicly perform, distribute, create derivative works from such Materials, or otherwise use them for any public or commercial purpose. Reprinting or electronically reproducing the Materials, in whole or in part, for any other purpose is expressly prohibited. Any use of the Materials on any other website or networked computer environment for any purpose is expressly prohibited. Nationwide Children’s Hospital may, in its sole discretion and without prior notice, terminate or modify the Service or otherwise limit or terminate the License, whether to you individually or the public generally, without incurring any liability to you or any third party. If you violate this Agreement, your authorization to use the Service and the Materials automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed Materials obtained through the use of the Service.
3. TERMS OF USE
3.1. General Purpose of Service
The goal of the Service is to be a resource of timely information for the general public and to educate users about the benefits of filing taxes, available tax credits, and free tax services, but necessarily it is of a general nature. We cannot guarantee that the Materials are comprehensive, complete or include the most recent information available. Neither Nationwide Children’s Hospital nor its representatives and/or partners are engaged in rendering legal services, investment advice/services, or other such advice.
3.2. Proper Use of Materials
You represent and warrant that you will not use the Service or any products, information, or other materials displayed, purchased, or obtained by you as a result of an advertisement or any other information or offer in connection with the Service (the “Products”) for any purpose that is unlawful, contrary to instructions for use, or prohibited by this Agreement. Materials may not be downloaded, reproduced, republished, reprinted, retransmitted, disseminated, or resold in whole or in part, for commercial or any other purposes, and use of the Service to establish independent data files or compendiums of information is strictly prohibited and violators will be prosecuted. Without limiting the foregoing, you are solely responsible for any material that you send to any other person(s) that was made available from the Service.
3.3. Submitting Content
The Service permits the submission of user-submitted text, photographs, images and other communications and content by you and other users (collectively, “User Submissions”). If you post a User Submission on the Service, you agree to all of the following:
- Your content will be available to the public and may be re-shared publicly by other Service users on social networks including, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
- By posting User Submissions to the Service, you automatically grant to Nationwide Children’s Hospital an irrevocable, unrestricted, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, sublicenseable, worldwide and transferable license and right, but not the obligation, to use, edit, alter, copy, reproduce, disclose, perform, display, publish, remove, prepare derivative works from, distribute, exhibit, broadcast or otherwise exploit the User Submissions, in whole or in part, in any form, media or technology, now known or hereafter developed including, without limitation, mailings, brochures, broadcast and cable television, radio, mobile transmission, the Internet and social media, and for any other purpose whatsoever including, without limitation, advertising, promotion, entertainment or commercial purposes, without any payment to or further authorization by you. Such use may cause your User Submissions to appear on other websites, in public displays, in newspaper articles, or television, radio, or Internet news or publicity stories. You waive any right to inspect or approve any material in which Nationwide Children’s Hospital may eventually use your User Submissions and understand that Nationwide Children’s Hospital may crop, shape, or otherwise adjust any User Submission.
- You are the owner of the content in your User Submission.
- Use of your User Submissions on the Service or otherwise by Nationwide Children’s Hospital, in whole or in part, will not (i) infringe, violate, or misappropriate any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral rights, privacy rights, rights of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right; (ii) slander, defame, libel or invade the right of privacy, publicity or other property rights of any person; or (iii) violate any law..
- You have the written consent, release and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in the User Submission to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of the User Submissions in the manner contemplated by the Service and this Agreement without compensation or objection.
- You will not post or transmit any User Content that contains any virus, worm, Trojan horse, or any other contaminating or destructive feature.
3.4. Prohibited User Submissions
Nationwide Children’s Hospital reserves the right to un-publish any User Submissions at any time if Nationwide Children’s Hospital deems the content of the User Submissions inappropriate in any way, including if a User Submission contains any of the following:
- Hate speech, profanity, obscenity or vulgarity;
- Nudity;
- Defamation, name calling and/or personal attacks to a person or people, or to Nationwide Children’s Hospital;
- Spam, such as the same comment posted repeatedly;
- Content that violates the privacy of Nationwide Children’s Hospital patients and their families, employees or volunteers;
- Financial solicitations;
- Endorsements of a political candidate or party;
- Proselytizing;
- Irrelevant content that might include promotion of events, groups, pages, websites, organizations and programs not related to or affiliated with Nationwide Children’s Hospital;
- Any mention of or reference to criminal or immoral activity, including drugs, prostitution, fraud, stalking, extortion, and terrorism; or
- Any third-party trademarked or copyrighted material, or material that is subject to other third-party proprietary rights.
3.5. Contact Us
The Contact Us page is the primary means of communication with Nationwide Children’s Hospital for a website visitor. Website visitors may use the Contact Us page to send content suggestions or questions about the site directly to Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Website visitors may also use this form to ask general questions about the Website or content, submit notification of broken links, communicate privacy concerns, and/or submit praise and/or complaints. We only have access to personal identifying information, like your first name, email address, or phone number, if you voluntarily submit it. We may, unless you indicate otherwise, store, edit, and excerpt your email for use in Q&As, presentations, analyses, and other similar purposes. In these cases, we will delete any content that would specifically identify you as the writer of the email. When you contact us or otherwise post a User Submission on the Service, if you desire to remain anonymous, you should not tell us your name or the names of your friends or any other individuals. To fully protect your privacy, do not provide any information that you think may identify you or others.
3.6. Guidelines
You shall be subject to any guidelines or rules that may be posted by the Service from time to time, and all such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into this Agreement.
3.7. Use of Your Information
We respect your privacy. We may gather and share general information about the areas, topics and communities of interest, zip codes, and products and website or linked services used or accessed by our visitors. Such information, though, would be aggregate — not individual. If you elect to provide additional information about yourself (which may include, but not be limited to, your name, e-mail address, mailing address or other background or contact information), such information may be used for the purpose for which it was given and to enforce this Agreement.
3.8. Privacy
You hereby accept the terms and conditions of the privacy practices for the Service (see below).
3.9. Links
The Service, or third parties linked to the Service, may provide links to other World Wide Web sites or resources, including sponsors. Nationwide Children’s Hospital does not represent that it has investigated the content of any other links, and does not endorse, warrant or guarantee any such opinions, recommendations, products, websites, individuals, organizations, or companies. Nationwide Children’s Hospital has no control over, and is not responsible for, the availability of such external sites. Nationwide Children’s Hospital shall not be liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused by or in connection with use or reliance on any such website.
3.10. Copyrights and Trademarks
The Materials and all other content on the Website, including but not limited, text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, trade names, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, digital downloads, data compilations, software, and the compilation of any of the foregoing, is our property and is protected by United States and international patent, copyright, and trademark laws. The display and availability of the Materials and other content on the Website does not convey or create any license or other rights in the Materials or such content. Any unauthorized copying, reverse engineering, redistribution, reproduction, publication or modification of the Materials or Website content by any person without our prior written authorization is strictly prohibited, may be a violation of federal or common law, trademark, patent and copyright laws and may subject such a violator to legal action. The use of the Materials or other content from the Website on any other website or networked computer environment is similarly prohibited. Requests for permission to reproduce or distribute the Materials or other content found on the Website can be made by contacting us in writing. You are also strictly prohibited from creating works or materials that derive from or are based on the Materials, Website content, or other materials contained in the Website including, without limitation, fonts, icons, link buttons, wallpaper, desktop themes and unlicensed merchandise. This prohibition applies regardless of whether the derivative materials are sold, bartered or given away.
4. Notice of Copyright Infringement Policy
Nationwide Children’s Hospital does not permit copyright infringing activities and infringement of intellectual property rights on its Website, and Nationwide Children’s Hospital will remove User Submissions if properly notified that such User Submission infringes on another’s intellectual property rights. Nationwide Children’s Hospital reserves the right to remove User Submissions without prior notice. Nationwide Children’s Hospital may also terminate a user’s access to its Website if they are determined to be a repeat infringer. A repeat infringer is a user who has been notified of infringing activity more than twice and/or has had a User Submission removed from the Website more than twice.
If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any User Submission, materials or other content infringes upon your copyrights, you may notify us by providing the following information in writing:
- A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
- Identification of the location where the original or an authorized copy of the copyrighted work exists, for example the URL of the website where it is posted;
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and a description of the infringing activity and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
- Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and if available, an e-mail address;
- A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
- A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Our agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on this site can be reached as follows:
Aaron Stenhoff
Senior Director, Digital Engagement
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Columbus, OH 43205
askchildrens@nationwidechildrens.org
614.355.0485
You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with all of the requirements above, your notice may not be valid.
5. DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
5.1. General
The information provided through this Service is for educational purposes only. The Materials provide user-friendly factual information regarding the benefits of filing taxes, available tax credits, and free tax services. However, the information contained within the Website does not constitute medical, legal or other professional advice. The information presented on this website or sent to you electronically in response to a message from you is meant for general educational purposes only. The Materials, content, and/or information that may be displayed, played, or obtained through the Service at any one time may contain only a portion of relevant information.
5.2. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY NATIONWIDE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND NEITHER NATIONWIDE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL NOR ANY OF THE PROFESSIONAL STAFF NOR ANY OTHER PERSON MAKES ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY WITH RESPECT TO THE CONTENTS OF THIS SERVICE OR INFORMATION FURNISHED BY THEM OR OUR AGENTS, EMPLOYEES OR REPRESENTATIVES. NATIONWIDE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW AND NEGATES ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, CORRECTNESS, NONINFRINGEMENT, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR USE, APPLICATION OR PURPOSE. NATIONWIDE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS CONCERNING THE ACCURACY, LIKELY RESULTS, OR RELIABILITY OF THE USES OF THESE MATERIALS ON ITS WEB PAGES, BLOG POSTS, PODCASTS, NEWSLETTERS, OR OTHERWISE RELATING TO SUCH MATERIALS OR ON ANY SITES LINKED TO THESE PAGES. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties. In such jurisdictions, the foregoing disclaimer may not apply to you.
5.3. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
YOU HEREBY ALSO AGREE THAT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, THE SERVICE, AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AGENTS AND EMPLOYEES, SHALL IN NO EVENT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES, CLAIMS, DEMANDS OR CAUSES OF ACTION, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE, (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF DATA OR PROFIT, OR DUE TO BUSINESS INTERRUPTION), AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SERVICE OR ANY INFORMATION YOU OBTAIN ON IT OR ANY OTHER INTERACTION WITH NATIONWIDE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL’S 614FILEFREE.ORG WEBSITE, ITS WEB PAGES, PODCASTS, NEWSLETTERS, OR ITS SUBSIDIARIES, EVEN IF NATIONWIDE CHILDREN’S HAS BEEN NOTIFIED ORALLY OR IN WRITING OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. IN USING THESE WEB PAGES, BLOG POSTS, PODCASTS, NEWSLETTERS, OR ANY OTHER SERVICES, YOU AGREE THAT YOU ARE WAIVING VOLUNTARILY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY ANY LIABILITY OF NATIONWIDE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, ITS WEB PAGES, BLOG POSTS, PODCASTS, NEWSLETTERS, AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES. In some jurisdictions, limitations of liability are not permitted. In such jurisdictions, the foregoing limitations on liability may not apply to you.
5.4. Non-Endorsement
We do not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any of the Materials, nor the quality of any Products. You acknowledge that any reliance upon any Materials or Products is at your sole risk and you shall exercise your own informed judgment and evaluation on the use of the Products.
5.5. Revisions and Errata
The materials appearing on the Website and other Nationwide Children’s Hospital web pages could include technical or typographical errors. Nationwide Children’s Hospital may make changes to the Materials and other content contained on the Website at any time without notice.
5.6. File Viruses
We do not make any representation or warranty concerning errors, omissions, delays or other defects in the information supplied to you or other users of the Service, regardless of source of the problem, or that any files are free from viruses, worms, Trojan horses or any other code or source that includes or manifests contaminating or destructive characteristics.
5.7. Your Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Nationwide Children’s Hospital, its affiliates and their respective officers, sponsors, directors, agents and employees, harmless from and against any and all claims, demands, or causes of action, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses (including but not limited to attorneys’ fees) arising from (i) any aspect of your use of the Service, (ii) your violation of this Agreement, (iii) your violation of any third party right including, without limitation, any copyright, trademark, trade secret, or privacy right, or (iv) any claim that one of your User Submissions caused damage to a third party. This defense and indemnification obligation will survive termination of this Agreement.
6. MISCELLANEOUS
6.1. Entire Agreement; Amendments
This Agreement takes effect on your first use of the Service and constitutes your entire agreement with Nationwide Children’s Hospital and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications or agreements. It applies to all persons accessing the Service from your computer or any other electronic device. We have the right to amend this Agreement at any time without notice to you by posting the changes or the entire Agreement as revised. You will regularly review this Agreement for any changes and your use of the Service following any changes constitutes your acceptance of the Agreement as changed or revised.
6.2. Dispute Resolution
Any dispute concerning this Agreement or your use of the Service, Materials or Products shall be governed by the applicable federal laws of the United States of America and the laws of the State of Ohio, excluding its choice of law principles, must be brought within 12 months after the claim or cause of action arises, and shall be brought exclusively in the United States District Court for Southern Ohio or the state courts for City of Columbus, Ohio and County of Franklin, Ohio, and you consent to the exercise of jurisdiction over you by such courts. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each party to this Agreement waives its or his right to a jury trial with respect to any action brought under or in connection with this Agreement. In any dispute between us and you concerning the Service, we shall be entitled to recover attorney fees, costs and expenses.
6.3. Agreement Interpretation
The headings used in this Agreement are for convenience only and are not to be used in determining the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. If any provision in this Agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be severed from the Agreement without affecting the enforceability of all remaining provisions.
7. PRIVACY PRACTICES
7.1. Overview
Your privacy concerns are important to Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Our privacy practices are designed to protect your Personal Information (as defined below) while providing the services available on our website. You may use the Service without giving us specific Personal Information that identifies you. “Personal Information” includes, but is not limited to, name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and similar information. Personal Information is collected only if you voluntarily provide it on the website; however, certain information may be required to complete some services provided. If you do not wish to provide the information requested on a screen, or if you have concerns about maintaining the confidentiality of any information, do not provide it. If at any time you do not feel fully confident about the information you are providing, please feel free to contact us.
If you visit a website linked to the this Website, you should consult that website’s privacy practices before providing Personal Information to that website. In making your decision whether to provide Personal Information, you should be aware of the general risks of transmitting information over the Internet. While Nationwide Children’s Hospital attempts to prevent unauthorized persons from accessing or tampering with our website, we cannot guarantee that these efforts will always be successful.
BY USING OR ACCESSING OUR WEBSITES OR BY PROVIDING PERSONAL INFORMATION TO US ON OR THROUGH THESE WEBSITES, YOU CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION, USE, TRANSFER AND DISCLOSURE OF THAT INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY AGREEMENT AND APPLICABLE LAW.
7.2. Personal Information We Collect, and Why We Collect It
You do not have to sign up or create an account to use the Website. You do not have to provide us any personal information, unless you would like to voluntarily provide it. We gather and retain personal information about you, including your name, email address, or other personal or background information only when you voluntarily submit it to us in a Contact Form on the Contact Us webpage.
General Cookies:
We may utilize cookies to help customize the Website for return users. For example, if you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Contact Forms:
We use the plugin “Gravity Forms” for our contact and inquiry forms (“Contact Form”). Gravity Forms saves a backup of submitted information in the database of our website before sending us a notification email. If, at any time, you would like us to provide this contact form information (Right to Access) or delete this information (Right to Be Forgotten) from our database, simply contact us and we will be happy to comply. Information submitted to us via a Contact Form is retained indefinitely.
Tax Clinic Locator:
The Website utilizes a plugin to allow users to search for a tax clinic location based on the address or zip code that is voluntarily provided by the user. Additional information regarding this plugin and how it collects, stores, and uses data is available at https://wpstorelocator.co/document/the-general-data-protection-regulation/.
Embedded Content:
The Services and Materials on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website and are beholden to that site’s privacy policy.
Google Analytics Tracking:
We utilize a third-party analytics service called Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google, Inc., to collect information about the use of this site. The tool uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including IP address) is transmitted to and may be stored by Google.
Information collected by Google Analytics includes how often users visit this Website, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they visited prior to coming to this Website. We will only use the information we receive from Google Analytics to improve this Website. Only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information, is collected by Google Analytics. We do not associate any data or information obtained from Google Analytics with any personally identifiable information.
Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process this data on Google’s behalf. Google states that it will never link/combine your IP address with other data held by Google. To learn more about Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics through this Website please visit:
Google Analytics Terms of Use: https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/
Google’s Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
To learn about how to opt out of the Google Analytics services please visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
7.3. With Whom We Share Your Information
Unless doing so is required by law, we will only share identifying information about you when: we have your consent to do so; it is necessary to maintain the integrity of our products; it promotes safety and security; or it protects the well-being of our users. On some of our webpages, we offer interactive forms that let you voluntarily submit personal information (such as your e-mail address and/or name). In those cases, all submitted information is used only for the expressed purposes for which it is intended and is not made available to or sold to any third party.
If you voluntarily provide us with personal information—for example by completed a Contact Form on our Contact Us webpage—we may use that information to respond to your message and/or help us get you the information or services you asked for. Submitting personal information (name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, etc.) is voluntary and is not required to access information on our website.
7.4. How Long Will We Keep Your Information
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Contact Form submissions, as noted above, are also retained indefinitely unless you ask us to delete that information.
7.5. What Rights Do You Have to Saved Data
You may request to receive an exported file of the personal information and data we hold about you, including any information or data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal information or data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
7.6. Information and Data Security
614filefree.org employs reasonable security measures to protect the personal information You submit to it. Such security involves the use of SSL-secured Web forms, firewalls, and other commonly employed security methods. Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible. We also use regular Malware Scanning.
Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
7.7. Children’s Personal Information
We recognize the importance of protecting privacy where children are involved. We will take all reasonable steps necessary to protect the privacy and safety of any child from whom information is collected. This site is not for use by children under the age of 13. Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to provide information on this site. We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under the age of 13. If a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information online, we ask that a parent or guardian contact us at PrivacyOffice@NationwideChildrens.org and that information will be deleted.
7.8. Privacy Contact
If You are concerned about the information You have provided to 614filefree.org or would like to review, update, or delete that information, please contact us at:
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Attention: Privacy Officer
700 Children’s Drive
Columbus OH 43205