You are being asked to contribute your recollections, photographic images, video, social media postings or other digital content to Buncombe County Special Collections (BCSC), which is creating a digital record of the impact of Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina.
By contributing, you acknowledge the following:
1) The submitted material is created entirely by you and not copied from or based, in whole or in part, upon any other photographic, literary, or other material, except to the extent that such material is in the public domain, or you have permission of the copyright owner, or its use is allowed by "Fair Use" as prescribed by the terms of United States copyright law. If you would like to refer or nominate material which you do not own, please contact us at packnc@buncombecounty.org.
2) You are 18 years of age or older (or a legal guardian submitting on behalf of an under-18 creator.)
3) You are granting BCSC permission to disseminate, preserve, and use that content in connection with its educational and research mission, including promotional purposes, in all media in perpetuity. You retain ownership of and copyright in the material you share.
4) Submitted material does not violate any confidentiality, privacy, security or other laws.
5) BCSC may make minor edits to submitted descriptive metadata (e.g. typo corrections; standardization of subject terms).
6) BCSC is not obligated to include your content in this project or preserve it in perpetuity. Decisions to decline submissions will adhere to the guidelines of the institution’s/collection’s collecting policy and deaccession policy.