Terms of Service

0. SMS Messaging Terms & Compliance

0.1 Program Description

Obatala's Children, a nonprofit organization, may use SMS messaging to communicate with individuals who provide valid consent. Message types may include, but are not limited to:

• Program updates, event information, volunteer opportunities, and donation drives
• Reminders, confirmations, and follow-up information related to programs, services, or registrations
• Occasional organizational announcements and impact updates

By checking the applicable consent box or otherwise affirmatively opting in on our website, forms, or other approved channels, you agree to receive SMS messages from Obatala's Children at the mobile number you provide. Consent to receive SMS messages is not a condition of accessing our programs or services.

0.2 Opt-In Consent

You may opt in by:

• Selecting the SMS/Text consent checkbox on our website, forms, or digital applications; or
• Submitting your mobile number where it is clearly indicated that you agree to receive SMS communications from Obatala's Children.

By opting in, you represent that you are the owner or authorized user of the mobile number provided and that you have the authority to consent to receive messages at that number.

0.3 Opt-Out / Cancellation Instructions

You may cancel SMS messages at any time by texting "STOP" in reply to any message you receive from us.

After you send "STOP," you will receive a one-time confirmation message, and you will no longer receive SMS messages from Obatala's Children at that number unless you opt in again.

0.4 Support & Help

If you need assistance regarding our SMS program, reply "HELP" to any message, email us at info@obatalaschildren.org, or call us during normal business hours.

0.5 Message Frequency & Rates

Message frequency may vary based on your interaction with our programs and services. Message and data rates may apply according to your mobile service plan. Please contact your wireless provider for details.

0.6 Carrier Liability

Mobile carriers do not guarantee timely delivery and are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

0.7 Supported Carriers

Our SMS program is supported by major U.S. carriers (including but not limited to AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, and others), as well as many regional carriers. Availability may vary by provider.

0.8 Age Requirements for SMS Participation

Participation in our SMS messaging program is intended for individuals 18 years or older, or for minors where a parent or legal guardian has provided or approved the mobile number and consent.

0.9 Privacy

Personal information collected for SMS messaging (such as your mobile number) will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy. For more information on how we collect, use, and protect your data, please review our Privacy Policy.

1. Obatala's Children Services

• Create, design, customize products that are listed for sale.
• Buy products that are listed for sale.
• Save and share designs that you may have created.
• Use our fun picture and design tools.
• Save created images and designs into public and personal galleries.
• Post your created images to social networks or blogs that you have the legal right to do so.
• Registering to subscribe to special offers and use of galleries.

2. Using Our Obatala's Children Services and Website

In consideration of the promises and obligations given and assumed herein, and intending to be legally bound, these Terms of Use provide as follows.

2.1 Eligibility — Children Under 18

Obatala's Children will only knowingly provide products or services to persons who can lawfully enter into and form contracts under applicable law.

If you are under the age of 18, but at least 13 years of age, you may order products or services only under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian who agrees to be bound by these Terms of Use.

Children under the age of 13 may view the Website but MAY NOT ORDER PRODUCTS OR SERVICES.

2.2 Definitions and Interpretation

In these Terms of Use, unless the context indicates a contrary intention:

• Intellectual Property Rights means all industrial, commercial and intellectual property rights (including equivalent, neighbouring or proximate rights anywhere in the world that currently exist or are recognised in the future).
• A person means any form of legal entity as well as any quasi-legal entity.
• A User means any person using the website and/or services provided by Obatala's Children.
• A reference to any document, material, information or data includes that document, material, information and data howsoever stored, recorded or embodied, including in any electronic or digital media or otherwise.
• The word includes in any form is not a word of limitation.

3. User's Obligations

3.1 Responsibilities

Users are and shall be wholly and exclusively responsible, at their own cost, for:

• All telecommunications lines, modems, communication controllers, routers, multiplexers, terminals and all other equipment, hardware and software necessary to access and use the Website and services;
• The use that it makes of the Website, including any article, material, literary or artistic work, design or other matter that they author, invent, create, develop or produce;
• Complying with all laws, regulations and rules in the user's country or jurisdiction;
• Complying with any recommendations or guidelines issued by Obatala's Children with respect to the use of the Website and/or services; and
• Ensuring that all electronic or other media it uses in connection or in conjunction with the Website and the services provided complies with these Terms of Use and all applicable laws, regulations and rules.

3.2 Restrictions on Users

Users shall not and have no right to either:

• Reproduce, publish, distribute, sub-license and/or resell either the Website and/or service to any person; or
• Use either the Website to supply any service to any person; or
• Modify, adapt, disassemble, recompile and/or reverse engineer either the Website or service;
• Access or use either the Website and/or service to create, author, design, manufacture, market, publish, transmit, broadcast, distribute or sell any article, product, material or other matter that either:
  • Infringes the rights of any person, including, without limitation, Intellectual Property Rights, trade secrets, rights of privacy and publicity;
  • Is libellous, defamatory or slanderous;
  • Condones, promotes, contains or links to adware, cracks, hacks or similar utilities or programs;
  • Contains explicit sexual content;
  • Does or may denigrate or offend any ethnic, racial, gender, religious or other group;
  • Is designed to or does harass, threaten, defame or abuse others;
  • Exploits images or the likeness of minors;
  • Encourages the use of drugs or the under-age use of alcohol or cigarettes; or
  • Is generally offensive or in bad taste;
• Use "Spam", "blast-faxes" or recorded telephone messages to market or sell any products or services;
• Use, transfer or implant a virus, routine or any computer program or technology that disrupts, disables, interferes with or otherwise has a detrimental effect on the Website;
• Take any action that imposes any unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Website or the Service;
• Use a robot, spider or other device or process to monitor the activity on or copy pages from the Website or the Service;
• Collect electronic mail addresses or other information from our Website;
• Impersonate another person or entity;
• Engage in any activity that interferes with any person's ability to use or access the Website and/or services; or
• Assist, procure or aid any person to engage in any activity prohibited by these Terms of Use; or
• Frame or link or otherwise use or display the Website in such a manner so that it appears to be part of its own or someone else's website, without specific agreement.

USER ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT OBATALA'S CHILDREN MAY IN ITS SOLE AND UNFETTERED DISCRETION, UNILATERALLY AND WITHOUT NOTICE, TERMINATE THESE TERMS OF USE, DISABLE AND DENY ACCESS TO THE USER TO THE WEBSITE AND THE SERVICES, AND TAKE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST ANY USER WHO ENGAGES IN ANY ACTIVITY OR CONDUCT THAT IS PROHIBITED BY THESE TERMS OF USE AND/OR BY ANY RELEVANT LAW, REGULATION OR RULE.

4. Obatala's Children Obligations

4.1 Access to and Use of the Website and Services

Subject to user complying with and discharging each of its obligations under these Terms of Use, Obatala's Children shall allow user to access and use the Website and the services.

4.2 Privacy

Obatala's Children may collect personal data concerning the user in the course of and incidental to user's use of the Website and services. Obatala's Children shall comply with, and user hereby consents irrevocably and unconditionally to Obatala's Children's collection, use and disclosure of such data in accordance with, its Privacy Policy (the terms of which may be accessed through the link on the Website).

4.3 Training

User acknowledges that Obatala's Children has no obligation to user to provide any training or other support in relation to the use or operation of the Website and/or services.

4.4 Modification of the Website

Obatala's Children reserves the right to modify the organization, structure, content or "look and feel" of the Website and/or the services, and may change, suspend, or discontinue any aspect of the Website and/or the service at any time without notice or any liability to user or any person. Obatala's Children shall have complete discretion over the features, functions and other terms and conditions on which the Website and the service is made available.

5. Intellectual Property Rights

5.1 Reservation of Title

User acknowledges that these Terms of Use do not convey and that it derives no right, title or interest in or to any Intellectual Property Rights that vest or subsist in or relate to the Website and/or the services provided other than pursuant to the express authorisation set out in clause 4.1. Obatala's Children grants user a limited revocable licence to access and use the Website and the service for its intended purposes, subject to user's compliance with these Terms of Use.

This licence does not include the right to collect or use information contained on the Website for purposes prohibited by Obatala's Children; to compete with Obatala's Children; to create derivative works based on the layout or design, look-and-feel, or structure of the Website; or download or copy the Website (other than page caching). If user uses the Website in a manner that exceeds the scope of this licence or if it breaches these Terms of Use, Obatala's Children may revoke the licence and deny access to and use of the Website.

5.2 Prohibition on Infringement

User acknowledges and agrees that Obatala's Children does not permit, authorise or condone and hereby expressly prohibits user from accessing or using the Website and/or the services in a manner that infringes, or is likely to infringe, the Intellectual Property Rights, or any other rights or privileges, of any person anywhere in the world.

5.3 Derivative Material

Subject to clause 5.2, user shall own any Intellectual Property Rights in any original material that it authors, designs or creates using the functionality provided by the Website. If the user chooses to add any item to a public gallery, in consideration of the authorisation granted under clause 4.1, User hereby grants to Obatala's Children an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, world-wide licence to do all acts and things (including to authorise other persons to do all acts and things) comprised within the said Intellectual Property Rights.

6. Registration

User Account, Password, and Security

You will receive a password and account designation upon completing the Site's registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account.

You agree to (a) immediately notify Obatala's Children of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. Obatala's Children cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this Section 6.

7. Warranties

7.1

Obatala's Children warrants that it will use reasonable endeavours to make the Website and the services available to user in accordance with these Terms of Use.

7.2

User warrants that it will comply with all of its obligations under these Terms of Use and all applicable laws, regulations and rules.

7.3

User acknowledges and agrees that the Website and the services are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.

7.4

Obatala's Children does not warrant that the Website or the services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, or that defects will be corrected.

7.5

Save as expressly set out in these Terms of Use, all warranties, representations, conditions and all other terms of any kind whatsoever implied by statute or common law are, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, excluded from these Terms of Use.

8. Exclusion and Limitation of Liability

8.1

Nothing in these Terms of Use excludes the liability of Obatala's Children for death or personal injury caused by Obatala's Children's negligence or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

8.2

Subject to clause 8.1, Obatala's Children shall not be liable to user, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

8.3

Subject to clause 8.1, Obatala's Children shall not be liable to user, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, for any indirect or consequential loss arising under or in connection with these Terms of Use.

8.4

Subject to clause 8.1, Obatala's Children's total liability to user in respect of all losses arising under or in connection with these Terms of Use, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, shall in no circumstances exceed the amount paid by user to Obatala's Children in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

8.5

User acknowledges and agrees that the limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this clause 8 are reasonable having regard to the circumstances and that Obatala's Children would not have entered into these Terms of Use without these limitations and exclusions.

9. Termination

9.1

Obatala's Children may terminate these Terms of Use and user's access to the Website and the services immediately and without notice if user breaches any provision of these Terms of Use.

9.2

Upon termination, user's right to access and use the Website and the services shall cease immediately. Termination shall not affect any rights, remedies, obligations or liabilities of the parties that have accrued up to the date of termination.

10. General

10.1 Entire Agreement

These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between the parties and supersede and extinguish all previous agreements, promises, assurances, warranties, representations and understandings between them, whether written or oral, relating to its subject matter.

10.2 Variation

Obatala's Children reserves the right to vary these Terms of Use from time to time. Such variations become effective immediately upon the posting of the varied Terms of Use on the Website.

10.3 Waiver

A waiver of any right or remedy under these Terms of Use or by law is only effective if given in writing and shall not be deemed a waiver of any subsequent right or remedy.

10.4 Severance

If any provision or part-provision of these Terms of Use is or becomes invalid, illegal or unenforceable, it shall be deemed deleted, but that shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the rest of these Terms of Use.

10.5 Governing Law

These Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the applicable laws of the jurisdiction in which Obatala's Children operates.

Obatala's Children values the users of our website obatalaschildren.org (the "Website"). Your privacy and trust are very important to us. We recognize that you may be concerned about our collection, use, and disclosure of the personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") that we collect when you use the Website and the services offered on the Website ("Obatala's Children Services"). This Privacy Policy describes the information that we collect from you, how we collect this information, and what we do with it after we collect it. By using the Website you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email at info@obatalaschildren.org.

Program Description

Obatala's Children may send text messages to participants, donors, volunteers, and subscribers who have affirmatively opted in. Typical messages include:

• Program updates, event reminders, and volunteer coordination notices
• Donation drive alerts or thank-you messages
• Service notifications and organizational announcements

You will receive messages only after providing explicit consent via a website form, paper form, or text-to-join keyword.

Opt-In & Consent

By submitting your mobile number through any authorized Obatala's Children form, you consent to receive SMS messages from us at that number. Participation is voluntary and not a condition for donating or receiving services.

Opt-Out Instructions

You may cancel messages at any time by replying "STOP" to any message. After you send STOP, you'll receive one final confirmation message and then no further texts unless you opt in again. All opt-out requests are processed within 24 hours.

Help & Support

For assistance, reply "HELP" to any message, email us at info@obatalaschildren.org, or call during regular business hours.

Message Frequency & Rates

Message frequency varies based on your relationship with Obatala's Children. Standard message and data rates may apply according to your mobile plan. Please contact your carrier for details.

Carrier Liability

Mobile carriers are not responsible for delayed or undelivered messages.

Supported Carriers

Our program is compatible with major U.S. carriers including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and most regional carriers. Availability may vary.

Age Restrictions

Participation in our SMS program is limited to individuals 18 years or older or to minors whose parents or legal guardians have provided consent.

SMS Data Protection

SMS data is secured through encrypted storage and restricted access. Your mobile number and consent records are never shared with outside parties except for (1) vendors who deliver messages on our behalf under strict confidentiality agreements or (2) legal requirements such as court orders.

Your Rights & Choices

You may at any time:

• Access, update, or delete your Personal Information by contacting us at info@obatalaschildren.org
• Opt out of marketing emails by using the "unsubscribe" link in those emails
• Opt out of SMS communications by replying "STOP"
• Request a copy of the data we maintain about you and how it is used