Contribution Terms of Service

Terms & Conditions

You are being asked to contribute your recollections, photographic images, video, social media postings or other digital content to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Archives, which is creating a digital record of the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on RIT's communities.

You may only submit material created entirely by you and not copied from or based, in whole or in part, upon any other photographic, literary, or other material, except to the extent that such material is in the public domain, or you have permission of the copyright owner, or its use is allowed by “Fair Use” as prescribed by the terms of United States copyright law. If you would like to refer or nominate material which you do not own, please contact us at ritarchive@rit.edu.

You must be 18 years of age or older to submit material. By submitting content through this form, you are granting RIT Archives permission to disseminate, preserve, and use that content in connection with its educational and research mission, including promotional purposes, in all media in perpetuity. You retain ownership of and copyright in the material you share.

If you indicate on the form that your submission is “public,” your material may be published on the web (with or without your name, depending on what you have indicated) as part of RIT Archives digital collections or exhibits. Otherwise, your material will only be available in the RIT Archives reading room.

Submitted material must not violate any confidentiality, privacy, security or other laws. Please be aware that all submissions and any information associated with the submissions (email address, descriptive information, etc.) may be provided to federal, state, or local law enforcement or other government agencies pursuant to a lawful subpoena or otherwise as required by law.

We reserve the right to discard or mark private any submission that RIT Archives staff identify as irrelevant or for any other reason within their professional judgment. RIT Archives is not obligated to include your content in this project or preserve it in perpetuity.

Please note that your personal contact information will not be made publically available.