Terms and Conditions

These terms are an agreement between you and Baltimore Families for Safe Streets, a program of Bikemore (“we,” “us”) covering your use of baltimorefss.org and anything you do through it. Baltimore Families for Safe Streets is a chapter of the national Families for Safe Streets movement and a program of Bikemore; Bikemore is the legal entity behind this site. Our Privacy Policy is part of these terms.

The short version above is a summary, not the agreement. Where the two differ, what follows governs.

Accepting these terms

By using this site you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site — but do still call us if you need help. Support after a crash has never been conditional on anything, and it is not conditional on this.

Who may use the site

Anyone may read this site. To submit a form, give money, or sign up for messages you must be at least 18, or have a parent or guardian do it with you. We do not offer accounts to the public; the only accounts on this site belong to the small number of people who edit it, and those are governed by the separate arrangement we have with them.

What this site is, and what it is not

This site describes traffic violence in Baltimore, what we are asking the city and state to do about it, and how to reach us for support. It is advocacy and peer support.

• It is not legal advice. Nothing here is a substitute for a lawyer, and we are not your lawyers. We can sometimes point you toward one.
• It is not medical or mental-health advice or treatment. Our gatherings are peer support facilitated by people who have been through this. They are not therapy, and no one at them is acting as your clinician.
• It is not an emergency service. If someone is in danger, has been hurt, or is thinking about ending their life, call 911, or call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Our phone line is answered by one organizer and is not monitored around the clock.
• It is not a crash record. Where we publish figures we cite where they came from, and public crash data is often incomplete or revised later.

Donations

• Donations are processed by EveryAction and its payment processors. We never see your card number.
• Gifts are generally final and nonrefundable. If you were charged twice, entered the wrong amount, or set up a recurring gift you did not intend, contact us within 30 days and we will make it right.
• A recurring gift continues until you cancel it. You can cancel any time by emailing or calling us, and we will confirm in writing.
• Your gift may be tax-deductible. Donations to Baltimore Families for Safe Streets are received by Bikemore, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and may be deductible to the extent the law allows. We will send you a receipt you can keep for your taxes. If we ever give you something in return for a gift — an event ticket, merchandise — only the amount above its value is deductible, and we will tell you so at the time. For your own situation, ask your tax advisor rather than relying on us.
• We spend what you give on this program: the organizer, gatherings, materials, and the campaigns members choose. We do not pay for a gift to be reallocated to a memorial family without telling that family first.

Gatherings and support

Our gatherings are open to anyone affected by traffic violence. Two rules make them work, and we enforce both:

• What is said in the room stays in the room. Do not repeat, record, photograph, or post what someone else said or who was there.
• Nobody has to speak, and nobody has to advocate. Coming once and never coming back is a complete and acceptable use of this organization.

We may ask someone to leave a gathering, or decline to have them back, if they harass, threaten, or endanger another person there. That decision is ours to make and we will make it in favor of the people in the room.

What you send us

If you send us your story, your testimony, a photograph of the person you lost, or anything else:

• We publish it only with your permission.
• You can withdraw permission at any time. We will remove it from everything we control and ask partners who reshared it to do the same. We cannot recall something already copied elsewhere on the internet, and we will tell you so plainly rather than promise otherwise.
• Please only send us material you have the right to send. If a photograph belongs to a photographer or a newspaper, tell us and we will seek their permission rather than assume it.
• Ideas and suggestions you send us about our campaigns or this site we may use freely and without payment. That does not extend to your story.

Messages from us

If you opt in, we may email and text you about gatherings, hearings, deadlines, and campaigns — roughly two texts a month, more in the week of a hearing. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to stop texts and HELP for help; use the unsubscribe link in any email. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. Consent to messages is never required to receive support from us.

Our content and our marks

The words, photographs, graphics, and code on this site belong to us or to the people who made them and are protected by copyright. You may read, print, quote, and share them for noncommercial advocacy, education, and news, with credit to Baltimore Families for Safe Streets. You may not sell them, or use them to suggest we endorse something we have not endorsed.

The Baltimore Families for Safe Streets badge, the Families for Safe Streets name, and the Bikemore name and marks are not covered by that permission. The badge is supplied to this chapter by the national Families for Safe Streets office and may not be redrawn, recolored, taken apart, or combined with another organization’s mark. Ask us before using any of them.

A memorial graphic is not campaign material. Please do not reuse one for anything other than the vigil or remembrance it was made for, and never with a fundraising ask attached.

If you believe something on this site infringes your copyright, write to amril@bikemore.net with the work, the URL, your contact details, and a statement that you believe in good faith the use is unauthorized. We respond to notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and we will take down anything we should not have posted.

Using the site properly

Please do not:

• submit someone else’s name, contact details, or story as if they were yours, or sign anyone else up to anything;
• harass, threaten, or impersonate anyone through our forms, including the families we work with;
• scrape, overload, probe, or interfere with the site or the forms on it, or try to reach parts of it that are not public;
• submit anything unlawful, or anything designed to damage a computer;
• use the site to raise money or campaign for anything but us.

We may block access, remove submissions, or refer conduct to the authorities where any of that happens.

Other people’s services and links

The forms on this site are EveryAction’s, an Instagram feed where shown is Instagram’s, and we link out to the city, the state, partner organizations, and news coverage. We do not control any of them, we are not responsible for them, and their terms and privacy policies apply once you are using them.

Availability

We run this site on a small budget and we make no promise that it will be available without interruption or free of errors. The site and everything on it are provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or noninfringement, to the fullest extent the law allows. We may change or remove any part of it at any time.

Limits on our liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither we nor Bikemore nor our staff, board members, or volunteers are liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of your use of this site, including lost data or lost profits, even if we were warned they were possible. Our total liability for any claim relating to this site is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim, or one hundred dollars.

Some states do not allow those limits to be applied to certain claims. Where that is the case, they apply only as far as the law permits, and nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.

Maryland law, and how we handle disagreements

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Maryland, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute that cannot be resolved between us belongs in the state or federal courts sitting in Baltimore, Maryland, and we each consent to those courts.

Talk to us first. Before anyone files anything, email amril@baltimorefss.org and give us 30 days to fix it. Almost everything is a misunderstanding, and we would rather fix it than argue about it. There is no arbitration clause here and no waiver of your right to a jury.

Changes to these terms

We may change these terms. The date at the top will change with them, and if a change is significant we will say so on the site and tell the people on our email list at least 30 days before it takes effect. Continuing to use the site after that means you accept the new terms.

The rest

If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, that part is narrowed only as far as necessary and the rest continues to apply. If we do not enforce something right away, we have not given up the right to enforce it later. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about this site.

Contact us

Baltimore Families for Safe Streets, a program of Bikemore
2209 Maryland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21218
amril@baltimorefss.org
443-475-0350