CNVC Privacy and Cookie Policy

1. Who we are

This is the website for the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC), a global organization that supports the learning and sharing of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and helps people peacefully and effectively resolve conflicts in personal, organizational, and political settings.

CNVC is strongly committed to internet privacy. The type and amount of information we receive depends on how you use the site. This page describes how the CNVC gathers and uses your information and data for this web site.

CNVC is a not-for-profit organization registered under United States law. In this policy, whenever you see the words ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’, it refers to this organization, which is a Data Controller.

Data Protection Notice

CNVC has adopted this high standard of personal data protection so that our website and online practices reflect our own values and standards. This page has the information to help visitors become informed users, and help us be a safe and secure place for people around the world to connect with us and with each other.

Some of the services offered on our website require the processing of your personal data. In such cases, links are available on those pages directing you to the specific information about the processing contained in the relevant data protection notices.

Your personal data and our website:

• We collect your personal information only to the extent necessary to fulfill a precise purpose related to our tasks;
• We will use your personal data for purposes you have explicitly agreed to;
• We do not reuse the information for another purpose that is different to any you have designated;
• We put in place measures to guarantee that our databases containing your personal data are kept up-to-date and processed securely; 
• Under certain conditions outlined in law, we may disclose your information to third parties, (such as the European Anti-Fraud Office, the Court of Auditors, or law enforcement authorities) if it is necessary and proportionate for lawful, specific purposes;
• You have the right to access your personal information, to correct it or have it corrected if necessary;
• You have the right to recourse at any time if you believe your data protection rights have been breached;
• We do not keep your personal information for longer than necessary for the purposes for which we collected it;
• However, we may keep your information for a longer period for historical, statistical or scientific purposes with the appropriate safeguards in place.

2. Why we collect information

For a future where human relations and social systems value human needs

To build this kind of future, we need to have effective communications. By understanding more about how people use the information we provide, we can improve how we communicate information that we believe is relevant and meaningful to you.

To deliver important information about NVC in the world

We consider talking to you directly - via this website, its community platform or our newsletter - is more effective and efficient than reaching you anywhere else. This helps us steward the integrity of the NVC process and reach the right audiences with the right message. 

To save money

We strive to use the money that has been entrusted to us effectively, so we consider how to communicate with our stakeholders in the most cost-effective ways.. Collecting information about you and what grabs your attention allows us to work out the most efficient way to do things so that more funds can be directed into allowing more people to learn NVC.

3. What types of information do we collect?

The information we may collect may include any of the following:

• Images, photographs or video if you take part in an event with us
• Details of your visit to our websites, including technical information such as the IP address you use to access the website, your device, browser type and version

If you choose to provide it, we can collect the following types of personal information from you:

• Your name, email address, country of residence, languages you speak, phone number, along with your preferences on topics, communications you want to receive and how we should contact you in the future
• Credit card details
• Information you enter onto our website
• Any other details which you give us 

We do not collect any other information without the visitor’s knowledge and permission.

4. How do we collect your data? 

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

• When you create a personal account on this website
• When your sign up for our trainings, gatherings, or other events
• When you become a Certification Candidate, Certified Trainer or Supporting Member
• When you sign up to our newsletter or update your emailing  preferences
• When you make a donation to us
• When you participate in other online campaigns or activities 
• When you apply for a job or volunteering opportunity with us

We may collect information about you by:

• Direct interaction
• Automated technologies or interactions, for example when you receive an email, open it, don’t open it, select a link, browse our website,
• Social media (Facebook, X Twitter, Instagram or Linkedin), depending on your settings or the privacy policies of these social media services. To changes your settings on these services, please refer to their privacy policies which will tell you how to do this.

Those who self-identify as local NVC supporters, local NVC groups or local NVC web sites, or who have a role with the CNVC’s organization (certified trainers, organizers, board members, IIT Resource Team, Educational Resource Team, and designated CNVC staff) can be seen on our site. Users who choose to be visible will also have the option to be contacted through the website forms, rather than make their email address public.

We ask for only the basic information necessary if you wish to be found in relevant searches, it is up to each user to designate what is private and public within your own account settings. You are also responsible for keeping your account information up to date, to remove it if your wishes change, and to delete your account completely.

There are two levels of access for a person’s contact information. The CNVC staff has access to all contacts in the Private section of your Information Profile. That’s the first level.

The second level is for the general public. CNVC does not make personal contact information available to the general public for an individual without the individual’s consent. If you want the public to have your contact information enter it in the Public section of your Profile Information. Contact information for people in certain positions (certified trainers, local NVC supporters, board members, and local NVC groups and web sites) is shown to the general public ONLY if the person has indicated that she or he is willing to be listed and has specified the information she or he wants shared with the public.

5. How will we use your data?

We use personal data for a number of different processing activities which includes:

• Providing you with the information you have requested
• To administer your membership as one of the stakeholders
• Providing you with updates about the work we are doing
• Keeping a record of your relationship with us
• Asking for non-financial or financial support
• Processing donations that we receive from you
• Managing your communication preferences, including marketing preferences
• Understanding how we can improve our services, or information
• Sending you tailored communications and displaying relevant adverts which we think will be of interest to you
• Sending you marketing materials including campaigning and events
• Inviting you to events and to take part in campaigns and support our work
• Analyzing our database for statistical purposes, and to better communicate with you about things we think will be of interest
• Administering and progress your applications for employment or volunteering opportunities with us
• Fulfilling any legal obligations

6. How do we store your data?

CNVC does not keep your personal information for longer than necessary for the purposes for which we collected it;

However, we may keep your information for a longer period for historical, statistical or scientific purposes with the appropriate safeguards in place.

7. Legal basis of processing

Data protection law requires us to have a legal justification to process your personal information. We use the following depending on the type of data and the type of processing:

Consent
We require your consent to send you our communications for example to send you emails to update you on our work and our campaigns and to request donations. We will only process your information in this way if you consent. If you fill in our forms or apply for a job with us and provide us with sensitive personal information (including details of your race, ethnicity, gender) we will only process that information with your consent.

Legitimate interest
We sometimes share your personal information with Certified Trainers of your region of residence or who speak your language, if you agreed to share it. This is done to fulfill our legitimate interest in promoting our organization as effectively as possible and enabling our message to reach people who may be interested in Nonviolent Communication.

To fulfill a contractual obligation
If you donate to us or express an interest in joining us we will process the personal data you provided to process that donation or action your membership request.

Legal obligation
We will process your personal information to fulfill any legal obligations placed upon us, such as the prevention of fraud or money-laundering. We will also process your personal information if lawfully required to do so by a legal authority or a court of law (such as the European Anti-Fraud Office, the Court of Auditors, or law enforcement authorities) if it is necessary and proportionate for lawful, specific purposes.

Necessity
For example where you are applying for an employment or volunteering opportunity with us, processing certain information is necessary for employment purposes.

Security

We take appropriate measures to ensure that we keep your information secure, accurate and up to date. We also ensure that we have secure systems for processing payments through our payment services provider. This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. However, your confidential use of this site cannot be guaranteed by CNVC. The Center for Nonviolent Communication shall not be responsible for any harm that you or any person may suffer as a result of a breach of confidentiality in respect to your use of this site or any information you transmitted to this site.

8. What are your data protection rights?

CNVC would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

• The right to access – You have the right to request CNVC for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that CNVC correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request CNVC to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that CNVC erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that CNVC restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to CNVC’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability – You have the right to request that CNVC transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have 30 days to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: [email protected]

Call us at: +1 (505) 244-4041

Post address: The Center for Nonviolent Communication

1401 Lavaca Street, Pmb 873

Austin, Texas 78701-1634 United States

9. Cookies

Cookies are short text files stored on a user’s device (such as a computer, tablet or phone) by a website.

Cookies are used for the technical functioning of a website or for gathering statistics.

Cookies are also typically used to provide a more personalized experience for a user for example, when an online service remembers your user profile without you having to login.

When you visit our website, we may collect some data on your browsing experience such as your IP address, the website page you visited, when you visited and the website page you were redirected from.

This information is used to gather aggregated and anonymous statistics with a view to improving our services and to enhance your user experience.

When you visit this website, we will keep the browser history of your visit for a maximum of 13 months. This information will then be deleted.

If you wish to restrict or block cookies you can set your internet browser to do so – click on the following link for more information: www.aboutcookies.org.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA.

On behalf of the website provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, we point out that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

10. Social Media

We use social media to present our work through widely used and contemporary channels. Our use of social media is highlighted on this website.

For instance, you can watch videos, which we upload to our YouTube page, and you can follow links from our website to Google, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

Cookies are not set by our display of social media buttons to connect to those services when our website pages are loaded on your computer (or other devices) or from components from those services embedded in our web pages.

Each social media channel has their own policy on the way they process your personal data when you access their sites. For example, if you choose to watch one of our videos on YouTube, you will be asked for explicit consent to accept YouTube cookies; if you look at our X/Twitter activity on X/Twitter, you will be asked for explicit consent to accept X/Twitter cookies; the same applies for Google, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

If you have any concerns or questions about their use of your personal data, you should read their privacy policies carefully before using them.

11. Changes to this policy 

We may amend or update this policy at any time to take account of any changes to data protection law or other legislation. When further updates to the policy are made they will be posted on this page, so please check back here regularly. 

11. Contact

If you wish to exercise any of your rights or have any questions about this policy you may contact us in the following ways:

By post:

The Center for Nonviolent Communication

1401 Lavaca Street, Pmb 873

Austin, Texas 78701-1634 United States

By email: [email protected]

By telephone:  +1 (505) 244-4041

Complaints

If you wish to lodge a complaint about our handling of your personal data please get in touch with us on the details above with the details of your complaint; we aim to respond to all complaints within 30 days.

The Center for Nonviolent Communication reserves the right to modify the information contained on this site at anytime without notice. This site and all information and materials on it are provided to you “as is” without warranty of any kind.

CNVC Legal Notice & Disclaimers

The technical information contained herein is provided by The Center for Nonviolent Communication^sm(CNVC) to CNVC members and non-members. While CNVC makes every effort to present accurate and reliable information on this internet site, CNVC does not endorse, approve, or certify such information, nor does it guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, timeliness, or correct sequencing of such information. Use of such information is voluntary, and reliance on it should only be undertaken after an independent review of its accuracy, completeness, efficacy, and timeliness. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, service mark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by CNVC.

CNVC (including its employees, members and agents) assumes no responsibility for consequences resulting from the use of the information herein [or from use of the information obtained at linked internet addresses] or in any respect for the content of such information, including (but not limited to) errors or omissions, the accuracy or reasonableness of factual or scientific assumptions, studies or conclusions, the defamatory nature of statements, ownership of copyright or other intellectual property rights, and the violation of property, privacy, or personal rights of others. CNVC is not responsible for, and expressly disclaims all liability for, damages of any kind arising out of use, reference to, or reliance on such information. No guarantees or warranties, including (but not limited to) any express or implied warranties of merchant ability or fitness for a particular use or purpose, are made by CNVC with respect to such information.

Open Source & Copyrights

Materials which are available in their entirety on this internet site are copyrighted by The Center for Nonviolent Communication^sm (CNVC) unless otherwise indicated. Please contact the respective publishers for copyright information about any of the various items offered for sale or copyrighted by anyone else on this internet site.

Your contribution to making people aware of Nonviolent Communication^sm work is appreciated and can be a gift. All of the material on our website is available for public use. It can be downloaded reprinted and distributed freely. We request that you include at the bottom:

The Center for Nonviolent Communication^SM
1401 Lavaca St. #873
Austin, TX 78701-1634
Tel: +1 (505) 244-4041

on any material copied, and give CNVC credit when using any quotes and ideas.

We also request that you include our request for contributions that follows:

"We share our material freely and we appreciate donations. A contribution that reflects your appreciation of what we offer and the value you receive will be used to further the development and distribution of Nonviolent Communication^sm. We hope that you will find enough value to want to support the work we are doing and those of us doing it. There is however no obligation regardless of how many copies you print or distribute unless you are using the information for profit. If you would like to use this information for profit, please contact us regarding licensing the material."

Links to Other Internet Sites

This site contains hypertext links to other sites. The Center for Nonviolent Communication is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Such external internet addresses contain information created, published, maintained, or otherwise posted by institutions or organizations independent of CNVC.

CNVC does not endorse, approve, certify, or control these external internet addresses and does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, timeliness, or correct sequencing of information located at such addresses. Use of any information obtained from such addresses is voluntary, and reliance on it should only be undertaken after an independent review of its accuracy, completeness, efficacy, and timeliness. Reference therein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, service mark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by CNVC.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. However, your confidential use of this site cannot be guaranteed by CNVC. The Center for Nonviolent Communication shall not be responsible for any harm that you or any person may suffer as a result of a breach of confidentiality in respect to your use of this site or any information you transmitted to this site.

GUIDELINES FOR SHARING NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION

Financial Assistance for International Intensive Trainings

• Find your training
• Donate to the Financial Assistance Fund

Note: these discounts only apply to tuition payments (not to room & board or other expenses)

10% if you participated in (and paid tuition for) a previous Intensive Training with the Center for Nonviolent Communication 

10% if you have been, or will have been, a Supporting Member of CNVC for 6 months or more before the first day of the IIT

15% if you are a Certification Candidate registered with CNVC. The discount applies only to people who are officially registered candidates.

If you are not sure if you are officially registered as a Certification Candidate, email us at [email protected]. If you're not registered yet, ask your Assessor if it might be possible for you to become registered before the IIT.

If you are not registered as a candidate at the time of payment, you can pay the full price without this discount, and if you become a registered certification candidate by the start date of the IIT, we will refund you the difference (the 15% discount amount).

25% if you are an active Trainer certified with CNVC

The discount applies only to active Certified Trainers. "Active" means that in the last year, you have completed the renewal steps including filling out the Annual Trainer Survey, making an Annual Trainer Contribution, and signing the Trainer Agreement if applicable (if it has been updated).

Note, that there is also a limited number of tuition-free spaces available for Certified Trainers, granted by a committee. For more information, visit this page.

You wanted to attend this event, paid for it, and then something changed in your situation. That is when this Cancellation and Refund Policy becomes important!
We value flexibility and understand that “life happens” and sometimes people need to change their plans. At the same time, we want to acknowledge the financial commitments and other plans made by CNVC, the Organizer, and the venue.

We have established the below policy to take into account all of these needs:

A. If we cancel:

You receive a 100% refund of all tuition and/or room and board payments (alternatively, if you wish, you can apply your money to another CNVC intensive training within 2 years).

B. If you cancel:

Tuition

30 days or more before the start date, you have two options:

1. Transfer 100% of your payment to a future CNVC intensive training within 2 years (starting the date you canceled); or
2. Receive a refund on tuition fee minus a nonrefundable 10% cancellation fee

Between 30 days and 4 days before the IIT start date you have two options:

1. Transfer 75% of your tuition payment to a future CNVC training within 2 years (starting the date you canceled) - we retain 25%; or
2. Receive a 50% refund of your tuition (we retain 50%).

From 3 days before the IIT start date, no refunds and transfers are available.

You will notice that the closer to the start date, the lower your refund.  This is to acknowledge the financial commitments that CNVC makes in the planning process. E.g. We are often required to pay for a venue, whether or not you show up. We also put considerable human resources into the organization of an IIT and some of these costs are not recoverable.

Since last minute cancellations are mostly because of an injury or a health issue, we recommend that participants take their own insurance to cover these cases.

Refunds will be issued within 10 business days after you cancel.

Room and Board

Refund of the hotel costs for food and lodging is dependent upon the unique contractual factors with the venue. Please contact the Local Organizer for details.

We are happy that you will participate in a 9-day Nonviolent Communication training – the International Intensive Training (IIT) sponsored by the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC).

In order to create an environment that is supportive and that offers predictability -- and supports you in making choices for your wellbeing -- we ask you to make a series of agreements.

1. If I complete this training, I will receive a Certificate of Completion, which is different from being authorized or certified as an official trainer of the CNVC. If I share NVC, unless I am already a Certified CNVC trainer, I agree to present myself as a student, supporter, or candidate for certification (if I am a registered candidate for certification) rather than as a CNVC Certified Trainer. Also, I agree to follow the “Guidelines for Sharing NVC for Individuals who are not Certified Trainers.”

2. All materials that I will receive are the property of the Trainers who created them. I agree to use these materials only for my personal use -- and refrain from copying or sharing with others -- unless I receive explicit consent from the creators.

3. I understand that while this training might be healing and therapeutic in nature, it is not a substitute for mental health therapy or psychiatric care.

4. I am responsible for my own behavior the entire time I participate in this event. I understand that some activities could be mentally and emotionally challenging. My level of participation in the activities is entirely my choice, and I can modify or end my participation at any time.

5. I agree to follow the COVID regulations as established by the country or municipality where this IIT will take place. I will follow these regulations and not avoid any of them, and at the same time, I will not expect any additional regulations above and beyond what is required by the country or municipality.

6. If I contract an illness from a virus or other pathogen during this training, I am responsible for the costs of medical care and any other related costs such as changing travel arrangements. I will exercise consideration for others when it comes to contagious illnesses and reach out to the organizer to decide on any actions.

7. Since the program is a closed event and only registered participants are allowed to participate in the sessions, I agree not to bring or invite to the sessions anyone who is not registered. If there are areas or spaces designated for participants of this event, like conference areas or dining areas, I agree not to bring or invite anyone who is not a registered participant to these spaces.

8. I agree to the Photo & Video Agreement which ensures me choice and gives the right to CNVC to gather photos and videos, celebrate, and for YOU to have memories. 

Attending Trainers at IITs

At each of our 9-day International Intensive Trainings (IITs), we reserve three or more spaces for Certified Trainers to attend as participants to continue their own learning and bring support. This is one way that we appreciate and acknowledge our Certified Trainers for their contributions, and to give them an opportunity for their own enrichment and development, as well as an opportunity to contribute their skills to support the training team. 

Definition

Attending Trainers (sometimes referred to as “Supporting Trainers”) are Certified Trainers who participate in an IIT who are not members of the official training team. They receive free tuition and pay for their own travel and accommodation.

Number

For every 20 paid participants, we invite one Certified Trainer to join the IIT tuition-free as an Attending Trainer. For example, if there are 60 paid participants, we make 3 of these spaces available. However, we begin each IIT by allocating three free spaces even before we know whether we will reach 60 paid participants. 

Also, sometimes we get creative when there are even more Certified Trainers who want to participate as Attending Trainers (when space is available). For example, if there are 3 spaces and 6 trainers who want to participate, each of them pays an average of 50% of the tuition fee... and often, they decide among themselves how to distribute the payments! Obviously, with more than 900 Certified Trainers, only a relatively small % can participate as an Attending Trainer each year.

Criteria

Certified Trainers are eligible to be considered for one of the Attending Trainer spaces if all the following things are true -- the trainer has:

1. Participated in a previous IIT.
2. Paid a tuition fee for one or more IITs.
3. Completed the annual renewal steps for Certified Trainers in the past 12 months.
4. Not been an Attending Trainer at an IIT in the past 12 months.

Also, we might prioritize choosing Certified Trainers who have not previously received a free tuition space at an IIT before choosing ones who have. 

How to apply

Fill out the Pre-registration form on the IIT of your choice, which is the same form that everyone fills out who wants to attend the IIT in any role.

Selection Process

The decision about which Certified Trainers we invite to participate tuition-free is made by a 3-person committee consisting of the Organizer of the IIT, one representative of CNVC, and one trainer...the same group that makes decisions about how we allocate our financial assistance.

If you are not selected as an Attending Trainer, you may want to join as a paying participant and pay tuition with a 25% tuition discount.

Financial Contribution

If you find joy in donating to CNVC’s Financial Assistance Fund that would be greatly appreciated -- especially if your financial situation makes that easy to do -- but it is not required or expected.

Suggestions

The suggestions below are for inspiration only -- the final agreements are made between the trainer team and the Attending Trainers. There are several levels of involvement possible depending on the needs and goals of the Attending Trainers, and how that fits with the needs of the training team.

Attending Trainers might want to be participants like other participants in order to learn, be inspired, and restore their energy. Please make sure that you have expressed the level of engagement that you wish for during the IIT, and that you can confirm this with the trainer team before the start of the IIT. Or, the Attending Trainer might want to be actively involved in some way - see the list below. In this case the Attending Trainer might see themselves more as a support trainer or an assisting trainer depending on the agreement with the team. In all cases, you are registered as a participant free of tuition, and still pay your own travel and accommodation. 

Here is a list of ways that Attending Trainers might help to hold the container for the group, create a safe and joyful space, and offer support to participants. This could include the following:

• Show up fully present in the community meetings, holding the space and presence together with the trainer team.
• Be a “Flying Giraffe,” meaning that you spend time with participants, receiving them empathically, as well as approaching participants that you sense might need some support.
• Offer support in breakout sessions when needed or when asked by a trainer - for instance when one participant encounters something challenging and could benefit from individual support.
• Inform the trainer team when you see/hear things that worry you such as the dynamics in a home group, or conflicts between participants, or the situation of a specific participant.
• Mediate conflicts between individuals and/or in home groups if you encounter difficulties.
• Support Certification Candidates with preparations and being present to provide them  with feedback on their offerings, be a sounding board
• Support people to make sure that daily rememberings are relevant/inspiring and time appropriate.
• Coordinate evening sessions. For example, is it helpful if all candidates who want feedback on their presentation also have one or more CTs with them in their group.
• Track announcements and issues to report in Community Meetings.
• Coordinate volunteers to beautify our spaces with volunteers.

While we are grateful for your presence and support, the trainers’ plates are likely to be full and focused on caring for the group and their sessions… so in most cases, they will not have a lot of availability to hang out with Attending Trainers as much as they might enjoy.  The training team might provide a liaison to connect the two teams (Attending Trainers and the official IIT training team), and there may be a couple of meetings together, and yet in most cases, it will probably not go much beyond that other than impromptu interactions in the natural course of the training.

We also suggest that a few weeks before the IIT, when it's clear who the Attending Trainers will be, that you connect amongst each other to make plans and requests of each other for empathy, a check in about what interests you, and how you might support each other.  We are hopeful that this brings more clarity and predictability to what the experience might be for Attending Trainers at IITs, and helps you make choices to fulfill the goals that you have in joining the IIT in this role.

The Center for Nonviolent Communication would like to use the photos and videos from this event to inform others about what this event is like and to spread Nonviolent Communication (NVC) around the world. In addition, we want to provide memories of the people you met and the experiences that you had. Are you willing to help us with this?

Here is the process that we will follow:

• We will ask that people abstain from taking photographs for the first three days of the event so that everyone can orient themselves to the experience and get to know their fellow participants.
• If I do NOT want my likeness in any photograph or video to be taken, the organizers will describe at the beginning of the event how I can avoid having my photograph taken in the first place.
• Photographs and videos can be uploaded by anyone who was present including participants, trainers, and on-site coordinators within 7 days of the end of the event. You will receive the link on the third day of the IIT.
• After 7 days, we will reach out to everyone who was present, and offer a 2-week review period. We will provide a way for you to tell us if you want your face blurred, or for a photograph or video that you appear in to be deleted altogether.

At the end of this process, three weeks after the end of the IIT, taking into account that all the participants have had the opportunity to request deletion (or blurring their image), any remaining photographs and videos will be covered by this Photo and Video Release Form. 

By signing this agreement, you agree and consent as follows:

1. I consent and authorize the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC), to use my likeness in any photograph or video that is taken at this International Intensive Training, in any and all of its publications, including print or web-based publications such as their website and social media accounts. 
2. I understand and agree that all Photos and Videos are the property of CNVC.
3. I acknowledge that I am not entitled to any compensation or royalties with respect to the use of the Photos and videos.
4. I agree to release and forever discharge CNVC from the claims, liabilities, obligations, promises, agreements, disputes, demands, damages, causes of action of any nature or kind, known or unknown, which I, and anyone claiming on behalf of me, may have or claim to have against CNVC in connection with this Release.
5. I have carefully read and understand the provisions of this Photo Release Form and am freely, knowingly, and voluntarily agreeing.