Terms of Service

Updated April 2026

USE OF SERVICE AND ACCEPTANCE
1. If the user (“you”) chooses to use or visit www.tapestryofny.org (the “Website”), related or affiliated mobile sites and applications (collectively, with the Website, the “Services”), you agree to abide by all of the terms and conditions of these Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy (incorporated herein by reference) between you and Thirteen Productions LLC and its affiliates (collectively referred to as “THIRTEEN”, “us” or “we”).
2. We may change, add or remove portions of these Terms of Service at any time, which shall become effective immediately upon posting. It is your responsibility to review these Terms of Service prior to each use of the Services and by continuing to use the Services, you agree to any changes.
3. We may change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Services at any time.
4. The Services shall be used by you only in a noncommercial manner. You shall not, without the express approval of THIRTEEN, use, distribute or publish any material from the Website or utilize the Services in a manner involving any solicitation of funds, advertising or solicitation for goods or services. You may not use spiders, robots, data mining techniques, or other automated devices or programs to catalog, download, or otherwise reproduce, store, or distribute content available on the Website. Further, you may not use any such automated means to manipulate the Website, such as automating what are otherwise manual or one-off procedures. You may not take any action to interfere with, or disrupt, the Website or any other user’s use of the Website, including, without limitation, via means of overloading, “flooding,” “mailbombing,” or “crashing” the Website, circumventing security or user authentication measures, or attempting to exceed the limited authorization and access granted to you under these Terms of Service. You may not frame portions of the Website within another website. You may not resell use of, or access to, the Website to any third party without our prior written consent. You may not collect or harvest, in any manner, any personally identifying information from the Site for any purpose.
5. You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age, be an emancipated minor, or, if under 18 years old, you must have the permission of a parent or legal guardian, to utilize certain features of the Website including submitting any Content (defined below) or personally-identifying information on or through the Site. If you are under 13 years old, please do not send or submit any information about yourself, including your name, address or email address. Instead, please work with an adult to complete your submission. If we discover that we have collected any personally identifying information from a child under the age of 13 without the consent of their parent or legal guardian, we will remove that information from our database as soon as possible.
CONTENT AND SUBMISSIONS
1. The contents of the Services, including the Website, are intended for your personal, educational, and noncommercial use. All materials published on or through the Services, including, but not limited to text, photographs, images, illustrations, audio clips or programs and video clips or programs (the “Content”) are protected by copyright and owned or controlled by THIRTEEN or the party credited as the provider of the Content. You shall abide by all applicable copyright laws and additional copyright notices, information, or restrictions contained in any Content accessed through the Service. You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create new works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the Content or the Services (including software) in whole or in part, except as provided in Sections 2.2 and 2.3 of these Terms of Service. Without THIRTEEN’s prior written consent, you may not use the Content or the Services for the development of any software program, including, but not limited to, training a machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI) system.
2. Submitted Content. You may provide certain original Content to THIRTEEN via the online submission process. You remain the copyright owner of any Content you submit. By completing the submission process, you automatically grant THIRTEEN a gratis, non-exclusive, revocable license to display your submitted Content on the Website and credit you in accordance with the Privacy Policy . You further represent that (i) you are legally permitted to grant such permission; (ii) the Content is an original work and description created by you that complies with the requirements set out in the Call for Submissions; (iii) the Content was not created using artificial intelligence (AI); and (iv) you have obtained permission from the appropriate rights holders for any third-party rights and likenesses incorporated into the Content (for more information on permissions see here). You also agree that the submitted Content complies with the submission process set forth in the Call for Submission. Submitted Content may be displayed or not displayed, removed or edited for any reason in THIRTEEN’s sole discretion.
3. THIRTEEN reserves the right to change, discontinue temporarily or permanently delete any Content or Services available through the Website, at any time for any reason without notice. THIRTEEN will not be liable to you or any third party for any such modification, discontinuation or deletion.
4. Where explicitly permitted, you may download certain Content from the Website solely for personal use or, if you are a teacher, in connection with utilizing the Services with your students, provided that: (a) you maintain all copyright and other notices contained therein; (b) you do not modify the content; (c) you do not use the content in a manner that suggests THIRTEEN promotes or endorses your, or any third-party’s, causes, ideas, web sites, products or services; and (d) you do not use the content in any way that is unlawful or harmful to any other person or entity. Copying or storing of any Content for other than the uses permitted herein is expressly prohibited without prior written permission from THIRTEEN or the copyright holder identified in the copyright notice contained in the Content.
5. You may link to the Website or the Content contained on the Website on your personal website, blog, or similar application for personal, noncommercial purposes or on your 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation website, blog, or similar application for noncommercial purposes only. You may display or excerpt from the Content provided that you obtain prior written consent, by contacting tapestryofny@wnet.org. Your right to link, and potential right to display or excerpt from the Content, are contingent on abiding by the following provisions: (a) the links must redirect the user to the THIRTEEN Services when the user clicks on them; (b) you do not insert any intermediate page, splash page or other content between the links and the applicable THIRTEEN Services page; (c) the use or display does not suggest that THIRTEEN promotes or endorses any third party causes, ideas, web sites, products or services; (d) the fundamental meaning of the content, including the headlines and summaries, is not changed or distorted; and (e) you do not modify the stories or other content that are linked to by the Content.
6. If you wish to use the Content in any way not enumerated in this Section or elsewhere in these Terms of Service, express prior written consent is required. Requests for information regarding web posting, reprint, transcript or any licensing of Content, should be sent to tapestryofny@wnet.org.
7. THIRTEEN uses Bunny.net to display some of the videos on the Website. By viewing these videos, you may be subject to Bunny.net’s Terms of Service.
8. We do not accept any unsolicited ideas regarding the Services from outside THIRTEEN including, without limitation, suggestions about advertising or promotions, or merchandising of any products, additions to our services, or changes in methods of doing business. We may already be working on or may in the future work on a similar idea. This policy eliminates concerns about ownership of such ideas. If, notwithstanding this policy, you submit an unsolicited idea to us, you understand and acknowledge that such idea is not submitted in confidence and we assume no obligation, expressed or implied, by considering it. You further understand that we shall exclusively own all known or hereafter existing rights to the idea everywhere in the world, and that such idea is hereby irrevocably assigned to us. Without limiting the foregoing, to the extent any such assignment is deemed unenforceable, and or to the extent necessary for THIRTEEN to utilize your submission, you hereby grant THIRTEEN an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide license to use the idea and any associated intellectual property in any manner, in any medium now known or hereafter developed, without compensation to you.
9. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties through the Services, including via submitted Content, are those of the respective author(s) or user(s) and not of THIRTEEN. THIRTEEN neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made on the Services by any third party. By posting third party content on the Website, including submitted Content, or providing links to other sites, THIRTEEN does not guarantee, approve or endorse the information or products available in this Content or at these sites, nor does THIRTEEN’s display of third party content or a link indicate any association with or endorsement by the linked site to THIRTEEN or the Services. Under no circumstances will THIRTEEN be liable for any loss or damage caused by your use or reliance on information obtained through the Services. THIRTEEN is not responsible for any actions or inaction on your part based on the information that is presented on the Services.
PROPRIETARY MATERIALS
1. The trademarks, trade names, slogans, logos, and other symbols or service marks referring to Tapestry of New York, THIRTEEN and any of its affiliates and/or series and programs (the “Marks”) are the sole and exclusive property of THIRTEEN or its affiliates. All rights in these marks are reserved by their respective owners. You may not use any of the Marks without THIRTEEN’s prior written consent.
2. You shall have no rights to the proprietary software and related documentation, or any enhancements or modifications thereto, provided to you in order to access the Services (“Software”). You may not sublicense, assign or transfer any licenses granted by THIRTEEN, and any attempt at such sublicense, assignment or transfer shall be null and void. You may not copy, distribute, modify, reverse engineer, or create derivative works from the Software.
COPYRIGHTS AND COPYRIGHT NOTICES
1. THIRTEEN respects the rights of all copyright holders. If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you may submit a notification to our Designated DMCA Agent (provided below) with the following information required by the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 512:
  - 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 copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site
  - Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material;
  - Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
  - A statement that the complaining party has 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 the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Please direct all copyright infringement notifications to our Designated DMCA Agent at:

Law Department – Attn: DMCA Agent
WNET
825 8th Ave, 14th Fl
New York, NY 10019
(212) 560-1313
copyright@WNET.org

Counter Notice. If we remove your content due to a copyright notice, we will notify you via the contact information that was provided to us. If you believe that your content was removed or access to your content was disabled due to a mistake, misidentification, or that you have authorization from the copyright owner, the copyright owner’s agent or pursuant to the law, to post and use the material in your content, you may send a counter-notice containing the following information, as required by the 17 U.S.C. § 512(g)(3) of the DMCA to the DMCA Agent (as designated above):
- Identification of the allegedly infringing material that was removed and where it had been located;
- A statement under the penalty of perjury that you believe in good faith that the allegedly infringing material was removed as a result of mistake and misidentification;
- Your name, physical address, and phone number;
- Consent to the U.S. federal district court jurisdiction where you are located;
- Consent to service of process; and
- A physical or electronic signature

If a counter-notice is received by the WNET DMCA Agent, THIRTEEN may send a copy of the counter-notice to the original complaining party informing that person that THIRTEEN may replace the removed content and cease disabling it in 10 business days. Unless the copyright owner files an action seeking a court order against the content provider, member, or user, the removed content may be replaced, or access restored, in 10 to 14 business days or more after receipt of the counter-notice, at THIRTEEN’s sole discretion.

Requests for Removal of Submitted Content. If you previously gave THIRTEEN permission to use content that you submitted and you would now like to revoke that permission, please contact tapestryofny@wnet.org.

THIRTEEN takes a “three-strikes” approach for repeat infringers. THIRTEEN will terminate access for users that have been the subject of three (3) separate valid DMCA notices that are not withdrawn or subject to a counter-notification that results in the materials being restored. THIRTEEN reserves the right to terminate user accounts that are the subject of less than three (3) DMCA notices in appropriate circumstances, such as where the user has a history of violating or willfully disregarding THIRTEEN’s Terms of Service.

MISCELLANEOUS
1. THIRTEEN reserves the right to send electronic mail to you via the contact information you provide for the purpose of informing you of changes or additions to the Service.
2. The Services are provided from the United States and all servers that make them available reside in the United States and in other jurisdictions. The laws of other countries may differ regarding the access and use of the Services. We make no representations regarding the legality of the Services in any other country and it is your responsibility to ensure that your use complies with all applicable laws outside of the U.S.
3. Nothing in these Terms of Service will serve to preempt the promises made in the Privacy Policy.
4. The Terms of Services and any rights and license granted herein, may not be transferred or assigned by you. THIRTEEN may assign these Terms of Service, in part or in whole, without restriction.
5. Except as otherwise provided, any claims arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use or the Services will be governed by the laws of New York, other than its conflict of laws rules; all disputes related to these Terms of Service will be brought solely in the federal or state courts located in New York. New York; and you consent to personal jurisdiction in these courts.
6. These Terms of Service, together with the Privacy Policy, any COPPA consent that pertains to your use of the Services, and any other legal notices published by THIRTEEN on the Services, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and THIRTEEN concerning the Services. If any provision of these Terms of Service is deemed invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms of Service, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any term of this these Terms of Service shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term, and THIRTEEN’s failure to assert any right or provision under these Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
California Resident Notice
1. If you would like to request further information regarding the use of the Services or have a complaint, you may contact THIRTEEN at tapestryofny@wnet.org. The Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs may be contacted in writing at 1625 N. Market Blvd., Suite N-112, Sacramento, California 95834, or by telephone at (800) 952-5210. Hearing impaired persons may call (916) 928-1227 or (800) 326-2297 via TTY device.