Content Submission Terms

Updated: February 20, 2025

These terms apply to content and information you submit to us in relation to a quiz that may be published on our site that directly references these terms and not to any user-generated content you provide when you participate to public activities anywhere else on Water Cooler Trivia (as these terms are defined in our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy).

By submitting Your Content to us, you agree that you have read, understand and accept the following terms in relation to the content and information (“Your Content”) you will send to Think Trivia Inc. dba Water Cooler Trivia (“Water Cooler” “us,” or “our”):

1. Subject to the following provisions, and unless specified otherwise in the quiz submission, Your Content may be published in any media or format and/or used for editorial purposes generally.  Your Content (including your name and location) may be published and it could therefore become generally known and available (including on the internet).

2. Your phone number(s) and email address ("Your Contact Details") will not be published by us, nor will they be used or disclosed for any marketing purposes.  

3. Your Contact Details may be used by us to contact you to verify your identity and your submissions.

4. You agree that:

  • You are legally responsible for Your Content.
  • Your Content is not false or libelous and does not infringe the privacy, data protection or confidentiality rights of any third party.
  • Your Content does not plagiarize or otherwise infringe any third party copyright, moral rights or any other intellectual property rights or similar rights.  For example, you must not submit to us any photos, text, artwork, or recordings of any type unless you are the copyright owner or have consent from the copyright owner to submit the Content under these terms.
  • Your Content is not generated or enhanced by artificial intelligence tools.
  • Your Content is truthful and not misleading.  It relates to your own genuine personal experiences and/or is based upon your own knowledge.
  • Your Content is not hateful (including without limitation in relation to race, religion or sexual orientation), harassing, malicious, profane, discriminatory, obscene, sexually explicit, offensive, prejudicial to any active court proceedings or encouraging of violence or criminal action, does not breach any court orders, and is not otherwise unlawful.
  • Your Content does is not to commercial speech or advertising by you and you have clearly and truthfully disclosed your interests in the subject matter (including any potential or actual conflicts of interest) and Your Content.
  • Your Content does not impersonate anyone else or otherwise misrepresents your identity, affiliation or status.
  • Your Content is not technically harmful (including, without limitation, viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software, harmful data or conduct).

5. You retain any copyright you may have in Your Content.  By submitting Your Content to us, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive worldwide license to use, copy, host, index, cache, tag, encode, edit, transmit, adapt, modify, publish, translate, publicly display, publicly perform, create derivative works from, make available, communicate and distribute Your Content (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.  By submitting Your Content, you warrant that you have the right to grant this license.

6. To the extent permitted by law, you waive your moral rights (e.g. the right to be identified as author or to object to derogatory treatment) in Your Content

7. We may edit, add to, remove or otherwise amend Your Content (or any part of it) in any way as we see fit in our sole discretion for our purposes.  We may do any of these things whether or not Your Content has been published.  We are not obliged to do any of these things and we may not.

8. You agree to our general Terms of Service.

9. You have read and understood our Privacy Policy. Please be aware that there may be circumstances in which your agreement to these Content Submission Terms or the exemptions provided under law for journalistic activities or freedom of expression, may override our Privacy Policy.