Effective Date: September 6, 2026
This User Submission Release (“Release”) applies when a person submitting material through ThereYouAreJesus.com affirmatively chooses to grant Publication Permission and agrees to this Release.
ThereYouAreJesus.com is operated by There You Are Jesus LLC (“There You Are Jesus,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).
This Release is intended to establish clearly the permissions granted by a contributor when submitting material for possible publication, display, distribution, promotion, or other authorized public use by There You Are Jesus.
1. Your Choice: Private Submission or Publication Permission
When submitting material through participating forms on ThereYouAreJesus.com, you may be given a choice concerning how your submission may be used.
If you select Private Submission — Do Not Publish, your submission may be privately reviewed, retained as reasonably necessary, and used to communicate with you, but you do not grant There You Are Jesus publication rights under this Release.
If you select Publication Permission, and affirmatively agree to this Release, this Release applies to the material included with that submission.
Granting Publication Permission gives There You Are Jesus permission to consider and use the Submitted Material as provided in this Release. It does not guarantee publication.
2. Material Covered by This Release
This Release may apply to material you voluntarily submit, including:
- Personal stories, experiences, or testimony;
- “There You Are” moments;
- Written comments, descriptions, observations, or accounts;
- Photographs or images;
- Screenshots;
- Documents;
- Audio or video material, where accepted;
- Captions, titles, explanations, or accompanying information; and
- Other content submitted for possible publication or public use.
Together, material covered by this Release is referred to as the “Submitted Material.”
3. You Retain Ownership
You retain any copyright and other ownership rights that you lawfully hold in your Submitted Material.
This Release does not transfer ownership of your Submitted Material to There You Are Jesus LLC.
Instead, when you select Publication Permission and affirmatively agree to this Release, you grant There You Are Jesus the license and permissions described below.
4. Worldwide License Granted to There You Are Jesus
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you grant There You Are Jesus LLC a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use the Submitted Material for the purposes of There You Are Jesus and its activities.
This license includes permission to:
- Review and evaluate the Submitted Material;
- Reproduce and copy it;
- Publish and publicly display it;
- Distribute and communicate it to the public;
- Quote or excerpt it;
- Archive and preserve it;
- Include it in articles, features, testimony collections, educational materials, research, presentations, newsletters, social-media content, videos, audio programs, digital publications, printed materials, or other There You Are Jesus content;
- Promote and advertise There You Are Jesus content in which the Submitted Material appears;
- Make the Submitted Material available through ThereYouAreJesus.com and other platforms, services, media, or technologies used by There You Are Jesus; and
- Make reasonable editorial, technical, formatting, and presentational changes as described in this Release.
The license applies throughout the world and through media, formats, platforms, and technologies now known or later developed, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
This license applies only to Submitted Material for which you affirmatively grant Publication Permission and agree to this Release.
5. Editing and Presentation
You authorize There You Are Jesus to make reasonable editorial, technical, formatting, and presentational changes to Submitted Material.
These changes may include:
- Correcting spelling, grammar, or punctuation;
- Formatting or reorganizing text;
- Shortening or excerpting material;
- Adding headings, captions, introductory language, or contextual information;
- Adjusting image dimensions, resolution, cropping, or technical presentation;
- Preparing material for different media or platforms; and
- Editing for clarity or readability.
There You Are Jesus will make reasonable efforts not to materially misrepresent the essential meaning of a contributor’s personal account or communication.
If we believe a proposed alteration would substantially change the meaning of a submission, we may seek clarification or additional permission from the contributor.
Nothing in this Release is intended to waive or limit any moral right, attribution right, integrity right, or similar right that cannot lawfully be waived or limited under applicable law.
6. Name, Attribution, and Identification
If you provide your name and grant Publication Permission, you authorize There You Are Jesus to use the name or attribution information you provide in connection with authorized uses of the Submitted Material.
Where appropriate, There You Are Jesus may publish material anonymously, by first name, by initials, or using another attribution agreed upon with the contributor.
If you want your submission considered for publication without your full name being publicly displayed, you should indicate that preference when submitting it.
Where applicable law provides rights of attribution or authorship that cannot lawfully be waived or limited, those rights remain subject to applicable law.
7. Photographs, Voice, Image, and Likeness
If Submitted Material includes your photograph, image, voice, video appearance, or other identifiable likeness, you grant There You Are Jesus permission, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to use that material as reasonably connected with the authorized publication, presentation, distribution, preservation, and promotion of the Submitted Material or There You Are Jesus content in which it appears.
This permission does not authorize uses materially unrelated to the purposes described in this Release.
8. Other People and Third-Party Material
You should not knowingly submit photographs, recordings, private communications, copyrighted works, documents, or other material belonging to or involving another person unless you have the legal right or appropriate permission to provide the material and grant the permissions required by this Release.
If another person is prominently identifiable in Submitted Material, or if Submitted Material incorporates another person’s protected material, There You Are Jesus may request additional permission, documentation, or clarification before publication.
There You Are Jesus may decline to publish or may remove material when ownership, authorization, privacy, intellectual-property rights, or other permissions are unclear.
9. Minors
A person under 18 should not independently grant Publication Permission under this Release.
If Submitted Material was created by, depicts, identifies, or substantially concerns a person under 18, There You Are Jesus may require authorization from a parent, legal guardian, or other person legally authorized to provide consent.
Because the age of legal capacity and requirements concerning minors can vary by jurisdiction, There You Are Jesus may require additional consent or documentation before publication.
There You Are Jesus may decline to publish material involving a minor when appropriate authorization cannot be established.
10. Your Representations
By selecting Publication Permission and affirmatively agreeing to this Release, you represent, to the best of your knowledge, that:
- You have the legal right and capacity to submit the Submitted Material and enter into this Release;
- You own the rights necessary to grant the permissions described here or otherwise have lawful authority to grant them;
- Your submission does not knowingly infringe another person’s copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, contractual, confidentiality, or other legal rights;
- You have not knowingly submitted confidential or restricted information that you are prohibited from disclosing;
- Any permissions from other persons that are legally necessary for your submission have been obtained; and
- Information you present as factual is submitted honestly and in good faith.
You are not representing that every memory, personal interpretation, belief, conclusion, or experience can be independently verified. Personal accounts and testimony may naturally reflect the contributor’s recollection, understanding, belief, and perspective.
11. No Guarantee of Publication
Granting Publication Permission does not obligate There You Are Jesus to publish or otherwise publicly use the Submitted Material.
There You Are Jesus may determine, in its reasonable editorial discretion, whether, when, where, and in what appropriate form Submitted Material will be used.
There You Are Jesus may decide not to publish a submission and may edit, decline, discontinue, or remove previously published material where appropriate, subject to applicable law and any rights granted or retained under this Release.
12. No Compensation, Royalties, or Revenue Participation
Unless There You Are Jesus LLC and the contributor separately agree otherwise in writing, the permissions granted under this Release are royalty-free.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the contributor is not entitled to compensation, royalties, licensing fees, advertising revenue, sponsorship revenue, subscription revenue, proceeds, profits, or other payments arising from or associated with the authorized use, publication, distribution, display, promotion, or monetization of the Submitted Material or There You Are Jesus content in which the Submitted Material appears.
The contributor’s retention of ownership in the Submitted Material does not, by itself, create any ownership, partnership, joint-venture, employment, agency, profit-sharing, or other financial interest in There You Are Jesus LLC, ThereYouAreJesus.com, or any article, compilation, publication, program, website, advertising inventory, sponsorship, or other There You Are Jesus content or business activity in which the Submitted Material appears.
Nothing in this Release prevents There You Are Jesus LLC and a contributor from entering into a separate written compensation, licensing, employment, contractor, or other agreement when appropriate.
13. Commercial and Monetized Uses
You acknowledge that ThereYouAreJesus.com and There You Are Jesus content may contain or be supported by advertising, sponsorships, donations, affiliate relationships, subscriptions, licensing arrangements, promotional activities, or other forms of monetization.
Granting Publication Permission authorizes the Submitted Material to appear in or in connection with There You Are Jesus content that is monetized or commercially supported, to the extent permitted by applicable law and within the scope of this Release.
The presence of Submitted Material in monetized or commercially supported There You Are Jesus content does not create a right to compensation or revenue participation except where separately agreed in writing.
14. Duration and Continued Use
Subject to applicable law and any rights that cannot lawfully be waived or limited, the permissions granted under this Release are intended to permit There You Are Jesus to continue using, maintaining, preserving, and archiving authorized Submitted Material, including material incorporated into previously published or distributed content.
Published material may be copied, shared, indexed, cached, archived, downloaded, quoted, or otherwise preserved by search engines, social-media services, archival services, readers, or other third parties outside the control of There You Are Jesus.
Accordingly, removal of material from ThereYouAreJesus.com cannot guarantee its removal from every third-party location or previously distributed publication in which it may lawfully remain.
15. Requests Concerning Published Material
A contributor may contact There You Are Jesus regarding concerns about Submitted Material that has been published.
There You Are Jesus will consider reasonable requests concerning corrections, attribution, privacy, or removal in light of the circumstances and applicable law.
A request for removal does not necessarily require There You Are Jesus to recall or destroy previously distributed materials, historical archives, backups, records, or third-party copies where retention or continued existence is lawful.
Nothing in this section limits any withdrawal, revocation, deletion, privacy, moral, or other right that cannot lawfully be waived or limited under applicable law.
16. Authorized Use and Release
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you agree that There You Are Jesus LLC and persons acting on its behalf may exercise the rights and permissions expressly granted by this Release without liability to you solely because of an authorized use of the Submitted Material.
This provision does not release or excuse There You Are Jesus from conduct that cannot lawfully be released or excluded under applicable law.
Nothing in this Release authorizes There You Are Jesus to knowingly use Submitted Material materially outside the permissions granted by this Release.
17. Privacy and Personal Information
Information submitted with Submitted Material will be handled in accordance with the There You Are Jesus Privacy Policy and applicable law.
Granting Publication Permission necessarily means that Submitted Material selected for publication, together with authorized attribution or identifying information, may become publicly accessible throughout the world.
You should not include sensitive personal, financial, medical, confidential, identifying, or other information that you do not want publicly disclosed.
There You Are Jesus may withhold, redact, edit, or remove personal information where appropriate before publication.
18. Relationship to the Terms of Use
This Release supplements the There You Are Jesus Terms of Use.
If you make an ordinary submission without granting Publication Permission, the applicable submission provisions of the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy may still apply, but the publication license established by this Release does not.
If you select Publication Permission and affirmatively agree to this Release, the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and this Release apply as appropriate to the submission.
If a mandatory provision of applicable law conflicts with a provision of this Release, that mandatory law will control to the extent required.
19. Electronic Agreement and Record of Consent
This Release may be presented and accepted electronically.
When you affirmatively select Publication Permission and are required to indicate your agreement to this Release before submitting material, your affirmative electronic action is intended to record your consent to and acceptance of this Release.
You should have an opportunity to review this Release before indicating agreement.
There You Are Jesus may retain records associated with the submission and acceptance of this Release, including the Submitted Material, publication-permission selection, acceptance of the Release, date and time of submission, and other reasonably available records associated with the transaction, subject to the Privacy Policy and applicable law.
20. International Contributors and Applicable Law
ThereYouAreJesus.com may be accessed by people in many countries, and contributors may submit material from jurisdictions outside the United States.
This Release is intended to apply to Submitted Material authorized for use throughout the world.
Nothing in this Release is intended to eliminate, waive, restrict, or override any consumer-protection, privacy, moral, authorship, intellectual-property, contractual, or other right that applicable law does not permit a contributor to waive or limit.
Where a provision of this Release cannot lawfully be enforced as written in a particular jurisdiction, that provision is intended to apply to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, without unnecessarily invalidating the remaining provisions.
21. Governing Law
To the extent permitted by applicable law, this Release and disputes concerning it will be governed by the laws applicable to There You Are Jesus LLC in the United States, without overriding any mandatory rights or protections that applicable law provides to a contributor and does not permit the contributor to waive.
Nothing in this section is intended to deprive a contributor of protections that cannot lawfully be excluded by agreement.
22. Changes to This Release
There You Are Jesus may update this Release from time to time to reflect changes in the website, submission practices, technology, business activities, services, or applicable legal requirements.
The version applicable to a particular grant of Publication Permission will ordinarily be the version presented or made available to the contributor when that permission is granted.
Material revisions may be reflected by updating the effective date displayed at the beginning of this Release.
23. Contact
Questions concerning this User Submission Release, Publication Permission, or previously submitted material may be submitted through the contact or “Share Your Thoughts” features provided on the website.
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