Authorization to Use Student Images
1. St. Joseph Catholic Church & School engages in various correspondence with parents, students, faculty and members of the community regarding education, the School, its mission and its educational and other activities, including maintaining a website on the Internet; publishing a parish and/or School bulletin and/or newsletter or brochure; publishing articles in community newsletters; producing videos or DVDs; etc. (collectively, "Publication").
2. Parents are the parents or legal guardians of the child, or children, identified below who are students at the School/Parish ("Students"):
3. In connection with the Students' attendance at the School and participation in School/Parish events and activities, or as part of Students' school work or extracurricular activities, Students may create drawings, artwork, etc., stories, essays, poems, reports and other writings or Parents may provide to the School/ Parish, or the School/Parish may create or have created, certain audiotapes, videotapes, photographs, drawings, or other materials which contain the likenesses of the Students (collectively, "Images").
4. Parents authorize the School/Parish to use, display, adapt, copy, modify and post any such Images, now or in the future, as the School deems appropriate, in Publications.
5. Parents understand and agree that there will be no compensation of any kind provided to Parents or Students by the School/Parish, or by any third party, for the Images for this Authorization and rights granted to the School/ Parish by the Parents.
6. Parents or Students may cancel this Authorization at any time by providing written notice to the Parish Office at 2214 Manhattan Street, Erie, MI 48133. In addition, Parents may, at any time, direct the School/Parish in writing at the same address to remove any particular Image from its web site. Within a reasonable time after such direction, the Parish/ School will remove the Images of the Students from its web site and delete them from future Publications.
7. The School/Parish will not be liable to the Parents and/or the Students, regardless of the form of action or theory of recovery, for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or exemplary damages in connection with, or in any way related to, this Authorization or the Parish/School's use of the Images of the Students authorized in this Authorization.
8. Parents have read and understand this Authorization and have made this Authorization based solely on their judgment and not on any representations or promises from the School. This Authorization constitutes the entire agreement with respect to the Parish/ School's use of the Images. This Authorization may be amended or supplemented only by a writing signed by the School/Parish and Parents.
By checking yes, you are authorizing the use of your child's images.