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Amplife Stories | Participation Agreement

Last Updated: July 23rd, 2026

This Amplife® Stories Participation Agreement ("Participation Agreement") contains the terms and conditions that govern your participation in the Amplife® Stories program described in this Participation Agreement (the "Program"). Please read our terms and conditions carefully before you share your Story. These terms and conditions are written in plain language, intentionally avoiding legalese, so that they may be clearly understood and followed by everyone who shares their Story. Thank you.

Definitions

As used in this Participation Agreement:

  1. "We", "us", "our", and "Amplife®" refers to AMPLIFE LLC, a California limited liability company, and "you" and "your" refers to the Participant and, where the Participant is under 18, the parent or legal guardian who accepts this Participation Agreement on the Participant's behalf as described in Section 3.5.4.

  2. "Participant" refers to the individual whose Story is told on an Amplife® Stories Page. Participants are individuals, not companies or other legal entities. Participants under 18 may take part only through a parent or legal guardian, as described in Section 3.5.4.

  3. "Program" refers to Amplife® Stories, the program described in this Participation Agreement, which gives members of the disabled community a free page on amplife.co that tells their Story.

  4. "Story" or "Amplife® Story" refers to the first-person narrative you share with us for the Program. Because a Story tells the story of your life as a member of the disabled community, it often contains deep personal and medical history.

  5. "Amplife® Stories Page" refers to the free page on amplife.co that we build from your submission to feature your Amplife® Story.

  6. "Death Cheater® Day" refers to the date the Participant joined the disabled community.

  7. "Story Content" refers to everything you submit to us for the Program: your Story, your name, information about your disability, your Death Cheater® Day, images, videos, audio, captions, and any other content or information you provide through our submission form or afterward by any means (including email, file-sharing links or folders such as Google Drive or Dropbox, and photo or media libraries such as Flickr, including materials you add to any folder or library you share with us while you participate) in connection with the Program, or publicly available on your website, social media accounts, or other public-facing channels.

  8. "Co-Created Content" means content that Amplife® produces together with or featuring a Participant, such as features, interviews, and major standalone productions such as documentaries and long-form films, as described in Section 3.2.

  9. "Consent Release" means the Amplife® Stories Consent and Likeness Release described in Section 3.5, signed once as part of your submission. For a Participant under 18, "Consent Release" means the parent/guardian-signed minor version of that release.

  10. "Amplife® Owned Channels" means Amplife®'s owned and operated distribution surfaces and content library, including its websites, social media accounts (including Amplife®'s own accounts, channels, and profiles operated on third-party social, video, and streaming platforms), email, applications, and owned video and streaming destinations, in all media now known or later developed, whether offered on a free, public, membership, subscription, or other access-controlled basis.

  11. "Affiliate" means any entity that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with AMPLIFE LLC, where "control" means ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of the voting equity or the power to direct management and policies.

  12. "Website" or "Site" means amplife.co.

You join the Program by completing our submission form on the Website. You accept this Participation Agreement at that time by checking the acceptance box and clicking submit (an electronic click-accept), and you sign the Consent Release as part of the same submission step. We record each acceptance and signature with a timestamp, including the date and which version of this Participation Agreement (identified by its "Last Updated" date) you accepted. If the Participant is under 18, a parent or legal guardian completes the submission, provides verified consent, accepts this Participation Agreement on the Participant's behalf, and signs the minor version of the Consent Release, as described in Section 3.5.4. By accepting this Participation Agreement, or by otherwise participating in the Program, you agree to these conditions. Please read them carefully.

  1. YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT;

  2. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU HAVE INDEPENDENTLY EVALUATED THE DESIRABILITY OF PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM AND ARE NOT RELYING ON ANY REPRESENTATION, GUARANTEE, OR STATEMENT OTHER THAN AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT; AND

  3. YOU HEREBY REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU ARE AN INDIVIDUAL AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD (OR THE PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN OF A PARTICIPANT UNDER 18, WITH AUTHORITY TO ACCEPT THIS PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT ON THAT PARTICIPANT'S BEHALF), THAT YOU ARE LAWFULLY ABLE TO ENTER INTO CONTRACTS, AND THAT YOU ARE ENTERING INTO THIS PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT IN YOUR PERSONAL CAPACITY AND NOT ON BEHALF OF ANY COMPANY OR OTHER LEGAL ENTITY.

1. Description of the Program

Amplife® Stories gives members of the disabled community a place to tell their Story. The Program hosts a free Amplife® Stories Page on amplife.co featuring your name, your disability, your Death Cheater® Day, your Amplife® Story, and your images, videos, audio, and other media.

Participation is free, and the only thing you receive for participating is your hosted Amplife® Stories Page. We may also feature your Story or excerpts of it on the Amplife® Owned Channels (for example, the Website, our blog, our emails, and our social media accounts) in connection with operating and promoting Amplife® and the Program, as described in Section 3.1. We are not obligated to publish, feature, or maintain any Story, Amplife® Stories Page, or Co-Created Content, and we decide what the Program features and when.

If you want to be featured as an ambassador with ambassador benefits, Team Amplife® is a separate program governed by its own participation agreement. You can participate in Amplife® Stories, Team Amplife®, or both. If Amplife® permanently removes you from any Amplife® program for violating that program's terms, that removal applies across all Amplife® programs, including this one.

2. Sharing Your Story; Building and Approving Your Amplife® Stories Page

Here is how the Program works, from start to finish:

  1. You share your Story. You submit your Story Content through our submission form on the Amplife® Stories page. Share only what you are comfortable sharing publicly: what you submit is intended for public display, as described in Section 3.6.

  2. We review your submission. We will review your submission and let you know whether we can accept it. We may decline any submission for any reason, however we encourage you to contact us and appeal that decision if you feel we have incorrect information. Without limiting the foregoing, we reserve the right to decline or remove any submission or Amplife® Stories Page that we determine, in our sole discretion, is not genuinely from a person who is part of, relevant to, or serving the disabled community, or that does not meet the standards in Section 3.4.

  3. We draft your Amplife® Stories Page. We build your Amplife® Stories Page from your submission. We may edit your Story Content for length, clarity, grammar, and format, and we will not change the meaning of your Story or present it in a way that is misleading or disparaging. Drafting times vary.

  4. You approve your Amplife® Stories Page before it publishes. Before your Amplife® Stories Page goes live, we will send the draft to the email address you provided so that you (or, for a Participant under 18, the parent or legal guardian) can review and approve it. We publish only the version you approve.

  5. Your Amplife® Stories Page goes live. Once approved, we publish your Amplife® Stories Page.

  6. After publication. We will not make material changes to your published Amplife® Stories Page without your consent. We may make non-material corrections (for example, fixing a typo, a broken link, or a formatting or technical issue) without asking. You may request updates to your Amplife® Stories Page at any time, and you may request removal at any time as described in Sections 3.5.3 and 6.

Nothing in this Section obligates us to publish, feature, or maintain any Amplife® Stories Page, and nothing in this Section obligates you to keep your Amplife® Stories Page up: either of us can end participation at any time under Section 6. Please keep the contact information you provide us, including your email address, complete, accurate, and up-to-date so that we can reach you about your Amplife® Stories Page.

3. Program Policies

These Amplife® Stories Program Policies are part of this Participation Agreement and describe how your Story Content is used and protected.

3.1 Your Story Content; License to Amplife®

  1. You own your Story Content. Nothing in this Participation Agreement transfers ownership of your Story Content to Amplife®. You retain all ownership rights in your Story, your name, your likeness, and the images, videos, and other materials you submit.

  2. License to Amplife®: You grant Amplife® and its Affiliates a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, distribute, promote, host, display, format, and excerpt your Story Content for any of the following purposes: (a) operating and promoting the Amplife® Stories Program; (b) marketing and advertising Amplife® and its programs on any channel, including social media, email, the Website, the Amplife® Owned Channels, press releases, and investor or grant materials; (c) featuring you and your Story in any Amplife® publication or communication; and (d) creating new works that incorporate your Story Content, such as your Amplife® Stories Page, blog features, email spotlights, social posts, long-form and short-form videos, carousels, newsletters, and similar editorial, Program, and marketing content, and distributing those works on any channel and in any media now known or later developed, including the Amplife® Owned Channels, third-party platforms, press, paid media, and in-person and retail settings. You also grant Amplife® the right to edit, cut, crop, combine, caption, translate, and otherwise modify your Story Content when creating works permitted under this Participation Agreement, and, to the extent permitted by applicable law, you waive any moral rights, rights of attribution, and rights of integrity in your Story Content and in the works Amplife® creates from it. Amplife® will not materially alter the meaning or presentation of your Story in a way that is misleading or disparaging. As between you and Amplife®, Amplife® owns the works it creates under this Section, while your Story Content remains yours and is licensed to Amplife® on a non-exclusive basis. This Section does not cover major standalone productions such as documentaries or long-form films, which are Co-Created Content governed by Section 3.2. Everything we do with your Story Content is subject to your Consent Release, your withdrawal right in Section 3.5.3, the going-forward termination rule in Section 3.1.3, and the no-synthetic-or-AI restriction in Section 3.7.

  3. How the license ends: The license you grant in this Section 3.1 ends on a going-forward basis when your participation ends under Section 6 or when you withdraw consent under Section 3.5.3, whichever happens first. Uses made while your consent was in effect are not undone, as described in Section 3.5.3, and works and Co-Created Content are handled as described in Section 3.2.

3.2 Our Intellectual Property; Co-Created Content

Other than the limited licenses expressly set forth in Section 3, we reserve all right, title, and interest (including all intellectual property and proprietary rights) in and to the Program, the Site, the design, layout, and arrangement of Amplife® Stories Pages, our and our Affiliates' trademarks and logos (including Amplife®, the Amplife® logo, and Death Cheater®), and any other intellectual property and technology that we provide or use in connection with the Program. Participation in the Program does not grant you a license to use our trademarks or logos, and any goodwill generated by any permitted use of them inures to our exclusive benefit.

As between you and Amplife®, Amplife® owns the works it creates from your Story Content under Section 3.1, meaning the finished works it builds and edits, such as your Amplife® Stories Page as assembled and designed. Your underlying Story Content remains yours and is licensed to Amplife® on a non-exclusive basis as described in Section 3.1. Our ownership of these works never gives us rights in your name, image, likeness, voice, or Story beyond those granted in this Participation Agreement and your Consent Release, and all such use remains subject to your withdrawal right in Section 3.5.3 and the no-synthetic-or-AI restriction in Section 3.7.

Co-Created Content. From time to time, Amplife® may produce content together with or featuring you, such as features, interviews, and major standalone productions such as documentaries and long-form films (this is the "Co-Created Content" defined above). Co-Created Content includes such works whether Amplife® newly produces them or assembles them using or derived from your Story Content. Participation is optional: Amplife® will not film or record new footage of you without your agreement to take part.

Ownership. As between you and Amplife®, Amplife® owns all right, title, and interest in the Co-Created Content it produces, including the recordings, edits, and finished works, and may host, reproduce, distribute, display, perform, adapt, create derivative works of, license, and sublicense that Co-Created Content across the Amplife® Owned Channels and otherwise, through Amplife® and its Affiliates, successors, assigns, and designees. You retain all right, title, and interest in your own underlying name, likeness, and pre-existing materials, and Amplife® acquires no ownership of those pre-existing materials.

One release, one review right. Because you sign the Consent Release at submission (Section 3.5.1), Amplife® may produce and publish Co-Created Content featuring you without per-item approval, with one exception. For a major standalone production that identifies you (a documentary, long-form film, or similar major standalone work), you have a pre-publication review right: a reasonable opportunity to review the finished piece before its first publication, with the piece treated as approved if you do not provide comments or objections within ten (10) business days. Amplife® will not present Co-Created Content in a manner that states or implies you endorse a third party's products without your agreement, and will not present it in a manner that is misleading or disparaging of you.

License back to you. Amplife® grants you a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use the finished Co-Created Content for your own non-commercial purposes, including your own communications and personal channels.

Other individuals and minors. Your grant covers your own name, likeness, voice, and content. It does not extend to the personal likeness or voice of any other individual. You are responsible for obtaining the consent of any other person appearing in content you provide, and verified consent from a parent or legal guardian for any minor, before that content is included, and the practice in Section 3.3 for other identifiable individuals also applies.

Survival; withdrawal. Co-Created Content created before the effective date of termination may be retained and continue to be used by Amplife® as set forth in this Section after termination, and Amplife® will not create new Co-Created Content featuring you after the effective date of termination. All reuse rights in this Section remain subject to your withdrawal right in Section 3.5.3, and the no-synthetic-or-AI restriction in Section 3.7 applies to all Co-Created Content.

3.3 Your Representations

You represent and warrant that:

  1. your Story is truthful and is your own genuine experience (or, if you are a parent or legal guardian accepting for a Participant under 18, the Participant's genuine experience);

  2. the information you provide us, including the Participant's name, disability, Death Cheater® Day, and contact information, is accurate and complete;

  3. you own the images, videos, audio, and other media you submit, or you have permission from their owner to submit them for the uses described in this Participation Agreement;

  4. every identifiable individual appearing in the images, videos, audio, and other media you submit has consented to their inclusion (or, for any minor, that minor's parent or legal guardian has consented); and

  5. your Story Content is your original work or was lawfully obtained, and our use of your Story Content as described in this Participation Agreement will not violate any third party's intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights.

Your license and your Consent Release cover you: they do not grant the personal likeness or voice rights of any other individual. Before publishing Story Content that features an identifiable individual other than the Participant, Amplife® may require, or itself obtain, a consent or release from that individual (or a parent or legal guardian for any minor), or may crop, blur, or otherwise exclude that individual.

3.4 Story Standards; No Medical Advice

Your Story must be your own, must be truthful, and must not be defamatory of any identifiable third party. Tell your Story honestly, including the hard parts; just do not make untrue statements about identifiable people or businesses. Your Story Content must not contain, and you must not be engaged in, supporting, encouraging, or promoting: intolerance, discrimination, or discriminatory practices based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age; hate, terrorism, or violence; libelous or defamatory materials; violation of intellectual property rights; or other illegal, deceptive, or misleading activities. Story Content must not be threatening, harassing, obscene, or harmful to minors, and must not contain nudity, pornography, or sexually explicit materials.

Stories are personal experiences, not medical guidance. Your Story may describe your disability, your treatments, and what worked or did not work for you, but it must not tell readers to start, stop, or replace any treatment, medication, or care, and nothing on an Amplife® Stories Page is medical advice. Readers should discuss any medical decisions with their own providers, and we may display a notice to that effect on Amplife® Stories Pages.

3.5 Consent Release; Withdrawal; Children

  1. One signed release at submission. As part of our submission form, you sign the Amplife® Stories Consent and Likeness Release (the "Consent Release"): a single, plain-language release providing your express written consent to Amplife®'s public display and use of the Participant's name, disability, Death Cheater® Day, Story, images, videos, image, likeness, and voice as described in this Participation Agreement. You sign it once. After that, no per-photo, per-video, or per-feature approval is required or will be requested for the uses described in Section 3.1.2, and you keep the pre-publication approval right for your Amplife® Stories Page described in Section 2 and the consent right for material post-publication changes.

  2. Recorded acceptance. Your acceptance of this Participation Agreement and your signed Consent Release are each recorded with a timestamped electronic-signature or acceptance record, and Amplife® retains those records. You may request a copy of your records at any time by emailing hello@amplife.co.

  3. Withdrawal, a permanent right. You (or, for a Participant under 18, the parent or legal guardian) may withdraw consent to future use of the Participant's name, image, likeness, voice, or Story at any time, for any reason, before or after your participation ends, by written notice to hello@amplife.co. Withdrawal works on a going-forward basis: within a reasonable period after we receive your notice, we will unpublish the Amplife® Stories Page, stop making new uses of the Participant's likeness and Story Content, and stop creating new works featuring the Participant. Uses that occurred while consent was in effect are not undone: content already published or distributed before your withdrawal (for example, an email already sent) does not have to be recalled, except as required by applicable law. We may keep records we are legally required to keep in a restricted, internal, non-public archive. This withdrawal right is permanent: it never expires, it survives termination of this Participation Agreement, and exercising it costs you nothing.

  4. Children. Participants under 18 may take part only with the approval and participation of a verified parent or legal guardian. Because members of the disabled community can be any age, the Program is open to minors when a parent or legal guardian participates on the minor's behalf. Before a minor's Story is onboarded or published, a parent or legal guardian must provide verified consent, accept this Participation Agreement on the minor's behalf, and sign the minor version of the Consent Release. For any Participant under 13, Amplife® obtains verifiable parental consent and handles the child's information in accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the Amplife® Stories Privacy Policy. A parent or legal guardian may withdraw consent at any time on a going-forward basis as described in Section 3.5.3. When a Participant who joined as a minor turns 18, they may exercise every right in this Participation Agreement themselves, including the withdrawal right.

3.6 Health Information Acknowledgment

A Story inherently discloses the Participant's disability and health-related information. By participating, you understand and agree that your Amplife® Stories Page, including the Participant's name, disability, Death Cheater® Day, Story, images, and videos, will be displayed publicly, including on the internet where anyone can access it, search engines can index it, and people may copy or share it in ways outside our control, and you expressly consent to that public display. Share only what you are comfortable making public, and you can withdraw consent at any time under Section 3.5.3.

How we collect, use, and protect your personal information, including your health-related information, is described in the Amplife® Stories Privacy Policy and the Amplife® Consumer Health Data Privacy Notice, which apply to your participation in the Program. For a Participant under 18, the parent or legal guardian provides this consent on the Participant's behalf.

3.7 No Synthetic or AI Use

Amplife® will never use your Story Content, Co-Created Content, or any other content or recording obtained in connection with the Program, or any person's name, image, likeness, or voice, to create synthetic or artificial-intelligence-generated depictions of any identifiable individual's likeness or voice. This restriction applies to every individual, is absolute, and applies regardless of how the content was obtained.

You must not submit Story Content that contains a synthetic or artificial-intelligence-generated depiction of any real, identifiable person without that person's consent (or, for a minor, the consent of that minor's parent or legal guardian).

4. Responsibility for Your Story Content; Mutual Indemnification

You are solely responsible for the Story Content you submit and for the actions taken by you or on your behalf in connection with the Program, including:

  1. the accuracy, completeness, and appropriateness of your Story Content;

  2. having the rights, permissions, and consents described in Section 3.3;

  3. compliance with all applicable laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, orders, licenses, permits, judgments, decisions, and other requirements of any governmental authority that has jurisdiction over you;

  4. ensuring that anything you upload is free of viruses, malware, or other malicious or harmful code; and

  5. the acts, errors, omissions, negligence, or misconduct of anyone you authorize to help you prepare or submit your Story Content or manage your participation.

Participant indemnification of Amplife®: You agree to indemnify and hold us, AMPLIFE LLC ("Amplife®"), and our Affiliates and licensors, and our and their respective employees, officers, directors, and representatives, harmless from and against third-party claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) to the extent arising out of or relating to: (a) your breach of this Participation Agreement, including the representations in Section 3.3; (b) your Story Content's infringement or misappropriation of any third party's intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other rights; or (c) your violation of applicable law. This obligation is limited to third-party claims and does not require you to assume Amplife®'s defense where prohibited by applicable law.

Amplife® indemnification of Participant: Amplife® agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold you and your representatives harmless from and against claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including attorneys' fees) arising out of or directly caused by: (a) third-party claims arising out of Amplife®'s material breach of this Participation Agreement; (b) Amplife®'s gross negligence or willful misconduct in the operation of the Program; or (c) Amplife®'s use of your Story Content or Co-Created Content outside the rights granted in this Participation Agreement.

5. Sharing Your Amplife® Stories Page; Public Communications (Optional)

Sharing is entirely optional. Once your Amplife® Stories Page is live, we will send you its link, and you may share it anywhere, with anyone, or with no one at all. You may publicly identify yourself as an Amplife® Stories Participant at any time.

Neither party will make any public statement that is false, misleading, or disparaging of the other party or their respective products, services, leadership, or reputation in connection with this Participation Agreement or the Program. Nothing in this Section or any other part of this Participation Agreement restricts either party from making truthful statements, including honest reviews of products or services (including reviews protected by the Consumer Review Fairness Act), statements or disclosures required by law, or reports to government agencies. Except as permitted above, neither party will issue a formal press release regarding this Participation Agreement without the other party's prior consent.

6. Term and Termination

The term of this Participation Agreement begins when you accept it and ends when terminated by either you or us.

Either you or we may terminate this Participation Agreement at any time, for any reason, with or without cause. Your termination notice is a written request delivered to hello@amplife.co (a request to remove your Amplife® Stories Page counts). Our termination notice is an email to the email address then-currently associated with your participation.

When participation ends, for any reason: we will unpublish your Amplife® Stories Page within a reasonable period; we will stop making new uses of your Story Content and stop creating new works featuring the Participant on a going-forward basis; uses that occurred while consent was in effect are not undone, as described in Section 3.5.3; and we may keep records we are legally required to keep in a restricted, internal, non-public archive. Removal requests are honored within a reasonable period. Nothing is owed by either party to the other upon termination.

The following survive any termination of this Participation Agreement: your withdrawal right under Section 3.5.3 (which is permanent), Sections 3.2 (as to works and Co-Created Content already created), 3.3, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, and 14, and, with respect to uses made while consent was in effect, the license in Section 3.1. No termination relieves either party of liability for any breach of this Participation Agreement occurring before termination. In the event of any conflict between this Section 6 and a survival rule stated within any Section, the more specific internal rule controls.

7. Modification

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to update, change, or replace any part of this Participation Agreement. We will provide you with at least 30 days' advance written notice of any material change by email to the address associated with your participation and/or by posting notice on our Website. Non-material changes (such as formatting corrections, clarifications that do not alter your rights or obligations, or updates to contact information) may be made without advance notice. If we materially change Section 12 (Disputes), you will have a new 30-day opt-out window as described in that Section. Prior versions are available in our version history.

The consent, withdrawal, children, and health-information terms in Sections 3.5 and 3.6, the no-synthetic-or-AI restriction in Section 3.7, and the protective elements of Sections 2 and 3.1 (your pre-publication approval right, your consent right for material post-publication changes, your retained ownership, the non-exclusive character and limited scope of your license, and the commitment not to alter your Story Content in a misleading or disparaging way) are an exception to the foregoing. We will not modify those provisions as to existing Participants in a manner that expands the rights you grant to us, or reduces the protections they provide to you, without your signed written agreement. This exception does not apply to the other terms of the Program, which remain subject to modification on notice as described above.

YOUR CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM FOLLOWING THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH NOTICE WILL CONSTITUTE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE MODIFICATIONS. IF ANY MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOUR ONLY RECOURSE IS TO TERMINATE THIS PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 6 BEFORE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE MODIFICATION.

8. Relationship of Parties

You and we are independent parties, and nothing in this Participation Agreement will create any partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise, sales representative, employment, or endorsement relationship between you and us or our respective Affiliates. You will have no authority to make or accept any offers or representations on our or our Affiliates' behalf, and participating in the Program does not make you an employee, contractor, agent, ambassador, or spokesperson of Amplife®.

9. Limitation of Liability

NEITHER PARTY, AND NONE OF AMPLIFE®'S AFFILIATES AND LICENSORS, WILL BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (INCLUDING ANY LOSS OF REVENUE, PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, OR DATA) ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THIS PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT, THE PROGRAM, OR THE SERVICE OFFERINGS (DEFINED BELOW), EVEN IF A PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF THOSE DAMAGES.

EXCEPT FOR THE EXCLUDED CLAIMS DESCRIBED BELOW, THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF EACH PARTY ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH THIS PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT, THE PROGRAM, AND THE SERVICE OFFERINGS WILL NOT EXCEED ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,000).

"Excluded Claims" means, and the cap above does not apply to: (i) either party's indemnification obligations under Section 4; (ii) a party's breach of the privacy or child-safety obligations in Sections 3.5 and 3.6; (iii) Amplife®'s use of your Story Content or Co-Created Content outside the rights granted in this Participation Agreement; (iv) a party's breach of the no-synthetic-or-AI restriction in Section 3.7; or (v) a party's gross negligence or willful misconduct.

Nothing in this Section 9 limits statutory damages or public injunctive relief that applicable law does not permit to be limited or waived (see Section 12).

10. Disclaimers

THE PROGRAM, THE SITE, STORY PAGES, AND ALL TECHNOLOGY, SOFTWARE, FUNCTIONS, MATERIALS, DATA, IMAGES, TEXT, AND OTHER INFORMATION AND CONTENT PROVIDED OR USED BY OR ON BEHALF OF US IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROGRAM (COLLECTIVELY, THE "SERVICE OFFERINGS") ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE."

WE DO NOT MAKE ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE OFFERINGS. EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE OFFERINGS, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF ANY COURSE OF DEALING, PERFORMANCE, OR TRADE USAGE.

WE MAY DISCONTINUE ANY SERVICE OFFERING, OR MAY CHANGE THE NATURE, FEATURES, FUNCTIONS, SCOPE, OR OPERATION OF ANY SERVICE OFFERING, AT ANY TIME AND FROM TIME TO TIME, INCLUDING THE PROGRAM ITSELF. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE OFFERINGS WILL CONTINUE TO BE PROVIDED, WILL FUNCTION AS DESCRIBED, CONSISTENTLY OR IN ANY PARTICULAR MANNER, OR WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ACCURATE, ERROR FREE, OR FREE OF HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION OBTAINED BY YOU FROM US OR FROM ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY OR THROUGH THE SERVICE OFFERINGS WILL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THIS PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT.

11. Force Majeure

Neither party will be liable for any delay or failure to perform its obligations under this Participation Agreement to the extent such delay or failure is caused by circumstances beyond that party's reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disasters, pandemic, war, terrorism, government action, or widespread internet or infrastructure failure. The affected party must promptly notify the other party and use reasonable efforts to resume performance as soon as practicable.

12. Disputes

Please read this Section carefully. It affects your legal rights, including your right to file a lawsuit in court, and it includes a 30-day right to opt out.

Agreement to arbitrate. Any dispute relating in any way to the Program, your Amplife® Stories Page, or this Participation Agreement will be resolved by binding arbitration, rather than in court, except that (a) either party may assert claims in small claims court if the claims qualify, and (b) either party may bring suit in court to enjoin infringement or other misuse of intellectual property rights, including any breach of the no-synthetic-or-AI restriction in Section 3.7 or other misuse of a person's name, image, likeness, or voice. The Federal Arbitration Act, federal arbitration law, and the laws of the State of California, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern this Participation Agreement and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and us.

There is no judge or jury in arbitration, and court review of an arbitration award is limited. However, an arbitrator can award on an individual basis the same damages and relief as a court (including injunctive and declaratory relief or statutory damages), and must follow the terms of this Participation Agreement as a court would. Nothing in this Participation Agreement, including Section 9, limits the arbitrator's authority to award statutory damages or public injunctive relief where applicable law does not permit those remedies to be limited or waived.

Informal resolution first. Before either of us starts an arbitration, the party with the dispute must send the other a written Notice of Dispute describing the dispute and the resolution requested. Send your notice by email to hello@amplife.co with the subject line "Legal Notice" or by mail to P.O. Box 4041, Antioch, CA 94531, Attn: Legal. We will send any notice to the email address associated with your participation. For 60 days after a Notice of Dispute is received, you and we will try in good faith to resolve the dispute informally, and neither of us may start an arbitration during that period. Any applicable statute of limitations is paused during this 60-day period.

Starting arbitration. If the dispute is not resolved informally, to begin an arbitration proceeding you must send a letter requesting arbitration and describing your claim to our registered agent, California Registered Agent Inc., 1401 21st Street STE R, Sacramento, CA 95811. The arbitration will be conducted by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect. The AAA's rules are available at www.adr.org or by calling 1-800-778-7879.

Fees. For claims seeking $10,000 or less, we will pay all AAA filing, administration, and arbitrator fees beyond the consumer filing fee under the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules, unless the arbitrator finds the claim frivolous. We will not seek attorneys' fees and costs in arbitration unless the arbitrator determines the claims are frivolous.

Format. You may choose to have the arbitration conducted by telephone, by videoconference, based on written submissions, or in person in the county where you live or at another mutually agreed location.

Your right to opt out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement and the class waiver below within 30 days after you first accept this Participation Agreement, or within 30 days after we notify you of a material change to this Section 12, by emailing hello@amplife.co with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out" or by mail to P.O. Box 4041, Antioch, CA 94531, Attn: Legal. Include your name, mailing address, the email address associated with your participation, and a statement that you opt out of this arbitration agreement. Opting out does not affect any other part of this Participation Agreement, and we will never treat you differently for opting out.

Class waiver. We each agree that any dispute resolution proceedings will be conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class, consolidated, or representative action. If the class waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim, that claim, and only that claim, shall proceed in court, and shall not proceed as a class or consolidated arbitration.

Public injunctive relief. Nothing in this Section waives any non-waivable right to seek public injunctive relief. If a claim for public injunctive relief cannot be arbitrated on an individual basis, that claim shall be stayed and decided by a court after arbitration of all arbitrable claims, and the remainder of this Section remains fully enforceable.

Coordinated filings. If 25 or more arbitration demands of a similar nature are filed against us by or with the assistance of the same or coordinated counsel or organizations, the demands will be administered in batches of 50 (or the number remaining, if fewer than 50) under the AAA's Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules, with one batch proceeding at a time; all other demands will be held in abeyance, and any applicable statute of limitations is paused for demands held in abeyance until their batch begins.

Consumers outside the United States. This arbitration agreement does not apply to consumers in jurisdictions where pre-dispute arbitration agreements are unenforceable against consumers, including consumers in the European Union and the United Kingdom, who may bring disputes in their local courts under their local law.

If any part of this Section 12 other than the class waiver is found unenforceable, the remainder of this Section 12 remains in effect.

13. Governing Law; International Participation

This Participation Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, United States. If you are a consumer in the European Union or the United Kingdom, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence.

Participants may take part from outside the United States. Program information is processed in the United States. For Participants in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, transfers of personal information are protected by appropriate safeguards, including data processing agreements with our service providers that incorporate Standard Contractual Clauses, as described in the Amplife® Stories Privacy Policy.

14. Miscellaneous

Assignment. You may not assign this Participation Agreement, by operation of law or otherwise, without our express prior written approval. We may assign this Participation Agreement, in whole or in part, to an Affiliate or successor without your consent; any assignee remains bound by your pre-publication approval right in Section 2 and the consent, withdrawal, health-information, and no-synthetic protections in Sections 3.5, 3.6, and 3.7. Subject to those terms, this Participation Agreement will be binding on, inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable against the parties and their respective successors and assigns.

No waiver. Our failure to enforce your strict performance of any provision of this Participation Agreement will not constitute a waiver of our right to subsequently enforce such provision.

Severability. If any provision of this Participation Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible, and the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. The dispute-specific severability rules in Section 12 control within that Section.

No third-party beneficiaries. This Participation Agreement is between you and us. No person or entity other than you and us has any right or interest arising out of this Participation Agreement.

Electronic communications and notices. You consent to receive communications and notices relating to the Program and this Participation Agreement electronically, at the email address you provide with your submission. You will be deemed to have received all notifications, approvals, and other communications sent to that email address, even if the email address associated with your participation is no longer current, so please keep it up-to-date. You may send notices to us at hello@amplife.co or by mail to P.O. Box 4041, Antioch, CA 94531, Attn: Legal.

Order of precedence. If the Amplife® Terms of Service or any other Amplife® document conflicts with this Participation Agreement with respect to your participation in the Program, this Participation Agreement controls.

Interpretation. Whenever used in this Participation Agreement, the terms "include(s)," "including," and "for example" mean, respectively, "include(s), without limitation," "including, without limitation," and "for example, without limitation."

Discretion. Any determinations or updates that may be made by us, any actions that may be taken by us, and any approvals that may be given by us under this Participation Agreement, may be made, taken, or given in our sole discretion, except where this Participation Agreement expressly provides a different process (for example, your pre-publication approval right in Section 2, the locked sections in Section 7, and your withdrawal right in Section 3.5.3).

Entire agreement. This Participation Agreement, together with your signed Consent Release, is the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Program and supersedes all prior agreements and discussions regarding the Program. If this Participation Agreement and your Consent Release conflict, the provision more protective of your consent and withdrawal rights controls.

15. Contact

Questions about the Program, your Amplife® Stories Page, or this Participation Agreement? Email us at hello@amplife.co, or write to AMPLIFE LLC, P.O. Box 4041, Antioch, CA 94531.