Effective date: 2026-06-16. This is policy version 1, generated on 2026-06-16.
These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and Capitol Hill Community Foundation (we refer to ourselves as "Ruth Ann Overbeck Capitol Hill History Project", "we", "us", or "our"). They govern your access to and use of https://www.capitolhillhistory.org and any content, features, or services we make available through it (together, the "site"). Please read them carefully.
Capitol Hill Community Foundation is a company organized under the laws of District of Columbia. By visiting or using the site, you confirm that you have read these terms, that you understand them, and that you agree to be bound by them. If you do not agree, please stop using the site. We may update these terms from time to time, and your continued use after we post a change means you accept the updated version.
We offer the site for general informational and business purposes. We control and operate it from District of Columbia, and we make no promise that its content is suitable or available in every location. You are responsible for following the laws that apply where you are, and you may not use the site anywhere its use would be against the law. If you choose to access the site from another place, you do so on your own initiative.
Nothing on the site is professional advice, and the site is not built to satisfy any rule that applies to a specific regulated profession or industry. If your situation is subject to special legal or regulatory requirements, you should not rely on the site to meet them, and you should seek your own qualified guidance.
Unless we note otherwise, everything on the site is ours or is licensed to us. This includes the text, images, graphics, logos, layout, design, and the software that runs the site. All of it is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. Our name and our logos are our marks, and you may not use them without our written permission.
We give you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable permission to view and use the site for your own lawful, non-commercial purposes. That permission does not let you copy, republish, sell, rent, modify, or create new works from any part of the site, or use it to build a competing product, unless we agree in writing first. We keep every right we do not expressly grant to you.
By using the site, you represent and agree that:
When you use the site, you agree not to:
We may investigate and take appropriate action, including ending your access, if you do any of these things.
The site may let you send us feedback, suggestions, questions, reviews, or other material (we call these "submissions"). You are responsible for what you send, and you promise that you have the right to send it, that it is accurate, and that it does not break any law or harm anyone else. Please do not send us anything confidential or anything you do not have the right to share, because we cannot treat submissions as secret.
When you make a submission, you give us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, and irrevocable permission to use, copy, adapt, publish, and display it in connection with running and promoting our business and the site, in any format and through any channel. You also waive any moral rights in your submission to the extent the law allows. We are free to use any idea or suggestion you send us without owing you anything for it.
The site may link to other websites or include content that other companies provide, such as embedded media. We offer these links and that content as a convenience. We do not own or control those outside resources, we do not review them, and we are not responsible for them or for any harm that comes from using them. When you leave our site, the terms and privacy practices of the other site apply, so please review them.
We may, but do not have to, monitor the site for misuse or for breaches of these terms. We can take any step we think is reasonable to protect the site and our users, including removing content, restricting or ending access, reporting conduct to the authorities, and managing the site so that it keeps working properly. We are not obligated to take any of these steps for you.
We care about your privacy. Our Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have, and it is part of these terms. By using the site, you also agree to the practices described in that policy.
These terms stay in effect for as long as you use the site. We may suspend or end your access at any time, with or without notice, if we believe you have broken these terms or if we simply decide to stop offering the site to you. You may stop using the site whenever you like. Any part of these terms that should reasonably continue after your access ends, such as the sections on our content, disclaimers, liability limits, and indemnification, will continue to apply.
We may change, update, pause, or discontinue any part of the site at any time and without notice. We do not promise that the site will always be available or free of interruptions, errors, or delays, because hardware, software, networks, and maintenance can all cause downtime. We are not liable to you if the site is unavailable for any period, and we may limit how much of the site any person can use.
These terms and any dispute connected to them are governed by the laws of the State of District of Columbia, without regard to its choice-of-law rules. You and we agree that the laws of District of Columbia apply no matter where you use the site from.
If a dispute comes up between you and us, we ask that you first try to work it out with us informally. Email us at info@CapitolHillHistory.org with a short description of the problem and what you would like us to do, and we will try in good faith to resolve it. Many issues can be settled this way.
If we cannot resolve a dispute within a reasonable time, you and we agree that it will be handled exclusively in the state or federal courts located in District of Columbia. You and we consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts and agree not to object to that venue. Each of us keeps the right to seek an injunction or other urgent relief from a court when it is needed to protect our rights.
We work to keep the site accurate, but it may contain mistakes, such as typos, outdated details, or missing information. We may correct any error and update or change the site's content at any time, without notice. We are not obligated to update the site, so please do not treat everything on it as current.
The site is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the site will be accurate, complete, reliable, secure, or free of errors or harmful components, or that any defect will be fixed. Anything you download or rely on from the site, you do at your own risk, and you are responsible for any damage that results.
To the fullest extent the law allows, Capitol Hill Community Foundation and the people who work for it will not be liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any lost profits, lost data, or loss of goodwill, that arise out of or relate to your use of the site, even if we were told such damages were possible. Where a limit of this kind is not permitted, our total liability to you for any claim connected to the site will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us, if any, in the three months before the claim or one hundred U.S. dollars.
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Capitol Hill Community Foundation and its officers, employees, and agents from any claim, loss, liability, or expense, including reasonable legal fees, that arises out of your use of the site, your submissions, your breach of these terms, or your violation of any law or of anyone else's rights. We may take over the defense of any matter you are required to indemnify, at our own expense, and you agree to cooperate with us if we do.
You are responsible for any data you send to or through the site, and for keeping your own backup of anything important to you. While we take reasonable steps to protect the data on our systems, you agree that we are not responsible for any loss or corruption of your data, and that you have no claim against us for any such loss, except to the extent it results from our own failure to meet a duty we owe you under the law.
When you use the site or email us, you are communicating with us electronically, and you agree to receive communications from us electronically too. You agree that any agreement, notice, disclosure, or other record we provide to you electronically satisfies any legal requirement that it be in writing. You also agree that your electronic clicks, submissions, and other actions count as your signature and your consent, and have the same effect as a handwritten signature, to the extent the law allows.
These terms, together with our Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about the site, and they replace anything we discussed or agreed before. If a court finds any part of these terms unenforceable, the rest stays in full effect. Our failure to enforce a term right away does not mean we give up the right to enforce it later. You may not assign or transfer these terms to anyone else, but we may assign them as part of running our business. Nothing in these terms creates a partnership, agency, or employment relationship between you and us.
If you have questions about these terms, please contact us:
