Terms
of Use

Acceptance of Terms

These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of the Covenant Institute website, online content, forms, educational materials, donation pages, event information, and related digital services. By using this website, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, please discontinue use of the website.

Covenant Institute may update these Terms from time to time. Continued use of the website after updates are posted means you accept the revised Terms.

Mission and Content

Covenant Institute is a religious freedom, civil liberties, anti-hate education, antisemitism education, and faith-community protection initiative. Website content is provided for educational, informational, civic, religious-literacy, donor, and community-engagement purposes.

Our content may address sensitive issues involving faith, civil liberty, antisemitism, anti-hate education, public protest, campus life, religious identity, and community protection. Users are expected to engage the website and any related programs in good faith, with respect for human dignity, lawful expression, and civil discourse.

No Legal, Tax, Security, or Professional Advice

Website content is not legal, tax, accounting, security, law-enforcement, emergency, mental-health, or professional advice. You should consult appropriate professionals for advice regarding your specific circumstances.

Donations and Tax Matters

Donations support the Covenant Institute mission, programs, education, advocacy, faith-community protection, and organizational development. Donation options, including Zelle or other methods, may be described on this website.

Tax treatment of donations depends on applicable law, donor circumstances, and the legal status of the recipient organization at the time of contribution. Donors are responsible for consulting their own tax advisors and maintaining appropriate records. Covenant Institute may provide receipts or acknowledgments when appropriate, but nothing on this website constitutes tax advice.

Unless expressly stated otherwise in writing, donations are not payments for goods or services and do not create ownership rights, voting rights, control rights, employment rights, or any entitlement to direct Covenant Institute operations.

Forms and User Submissions

When you submit a contact form, newsletter form, Faith Protection request, donor inquiry, program inquiry, or other communication, you agree that the information you provide is accurate to the best of your knowledge and that Covenant Institute may use it to evaluate, respond to, route, or fulfill your request.

Do not submit unlawful, threatening, defamatory, harassing, malicious, false, confidential third-party, or sensitive information that you are not authorized to provide. Covenant Institute may decline, remove, ignore, preserve, or report submissions where appropriate.

Faith Protection Requests

Submitting a Faith Protection inquiry does not guarantee acceptance, funding, security coverage, event staffing, emergency response, or availability of services. Covenant Institute may review requests based on mission alignment, capacity, geographic availability, donor funding, security-provider availability, legal requirements, risk factors, and other operational considerations.

Where services are provided, they may be provided through local licensed security providers, venues, consultants, partners, or other third parties subject to applicable law, provider requirements, and separate terms or agreements.

Acceptable Use

You agree not to use this website to:

• Violate any law, regulation, or third-party right.
• Transmit threats, harassment, hate, abuse, defamatory content, malware, spam, or fraudulent communications.
• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website, servers, forms, databases, accounts, or systems.
• Interfere with website operation, security, availability, or integrity.
• Misrepresent your identity, affiliation, authority, or purpose in contacting Covenant Institute.
• Scrape, copy, republish, or exploit website content in a manner inconsistent with these Terms or applicable law.

Intellectual Property

The Covenant Institute name, logo, website design, text, graphics, images, videos, educational materials, program names, slogans, and other content are owned by or licensed to Covenant Institute or its affiliated initiatives, unless otherwise stated. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or publicly display website content except for personal, noncommercial, educational, or fair-use purposes permitted by law.

Permission to quote or link to public website content does not imply endorsement, affiliation, sponsorship, or authorization to use Covenant Institute branding.

Third-Party Services and Links

The website may use or link to third-party services for forms, email, donations, social media, hosting, analytics, security, events, videos, or other functions. Covenant Institute is not responsible for the content, availability, policies, practices, or performance of third-party sites or services.

Disclaimers

The website and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. Covenant Institute does not warrant that the website will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, current, or free of harmful components. We may update, modify, suspend, or discontinue website features or content at any time.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Covenant Institute and its directors, officers, employees, volunteers, contractors, partners, affiliates, and service providers shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from or related to use of the website, reliance on content, third-party services, user submissions, donations, or inability to access the website.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Covenant Institute and its directors, officers, employees, volunteers, contractors, partners, affiliates, and service providers from claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising from your misuse of the website, violation of these Terms, unlawful conduct, or infringement of any rights of another party.

Governing Law

These Terms are intended to be governed by applicable laws of the United States and, where relevant, the state law applicable to Covenant Institute’s operations, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute should first be addressed through good-faith communication with Covenant Institute.