Terms and Conditions

Please read these terms of service carefully before using the United States Youth Forum website operated by Melissa Ballard and the team. These Terms set forth the terms and conditions under which you may use our website and services as offered by us. This website offers visitors news, resources, and events for youth. By accessing or using the website of our service, you approve that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms.

We will provide our services to you, which are subject to the conditions stated below in this document. Every time you visit this website, use its services, make a purchase, or donation, you accept the following conditions. This is why we urge you to read them carefully.

Before you continue using our website we advise you to read our privacy policy (at the bottom of the page) regarding our user data collection. It will help you better understand our practices.

Content published on this website (digital downloads, images, texts, graphics, logos) is the property of Melissa Ballard and/or its content creators and/or free to use content from Wix, Pexels, and Unsplash and protected by international copyright laws. The entire compilation of the content found on this website is the exclusive property of Melissa Ballard, with copyright authorship for this compilation by Melissa Ballard.

The entire communication with us is electronic. Every time you send us an email or visit our website, you are going to be communicating with us. You hereby consent to receive communications from us. If you subscribe to the news on our website, you are going to receive regular emails from us. We will continue to communicate with you by posting news and notices on our website and by sending you emails. You also agree that all notices, disclosures, agreements and other communications we provide to you electronically meet the legal requirements that such communications be in writing. If you don't want to receive such promotional materials, notices, or communications – please just notify us at any time. 

By visiting this website, you agree that the laws of the United States, without regard to principles of conflict laws, will govern these terms of service, or any dispute of any sort that might come between Melissa Ballard and you, or its business partners and associates.

Any dispute related in any way to your visit to this website or to products and/or services you purchase from us shall be arbitrated by state or federal court United States and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue of such courts.

You agree to indemnify and hold Melissa Ballard harmless from any demands, loss, liability, claims or expenses (including attorneys’ fees), made against them by any third party due to, or arising out of, or in connection with your use of the website or any of the services offered on the website.

We grant you a limited license to access and make personal use of this website. You are not allowed to download or modify it. This may be done only with written consent from us.

We may, without prior notice, change the services; stop providing the services or any features of the services we offer; or create limits for the services. We may permanently or temporarily terminate or suspend access to the services without notice and liability for any reason, or for no reason.

We reserve the right to modify these terms from time to time at our sole discretion. Therefore, you should review this page periodically. When we change the Terms in a material manner, we will notify you that material changes have been made to the Terms. Your continued use of the Website or our service after any such change constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms. If you do not agree to any of these terms or any future version of the Terms, do not use or access (or continue to access) the website or the service.