The terms of this site.

What this is

The Cornwall Collaboratory is a volunteer community initiative of Culture Design, LLC, facilitated by Jason Burnham at no cost to Cornwall. This website describes it and lets you bring an issue forward.

What the Collaboratory is not

It is not a government body. It holds no office, no seat and no standing before any board. It decides nothing. What comes out of a workshop is a written summary and a proposed plan, and it carries exactly the weight the people in the room gave it. Every board, committee and organization keeps all of the authority it had before.

Bringing an issue

Anyone may bring an issue forward. Bringing one does not guarantee a workshop. The Cornwall Collaboratory decides which issues make for a viable and productive workshop, and says so in writing either way. The Guidelines page sets out what can and cannot be taken on, and that page is part of these terms.

What you agree to when you use this site

Give us accurate information. Do not submit anything defamatory, unlawful, or about a named person or business as a complaint. Do not use the form for campaigning, fundraising or advertising.

Taking part in a workshop

Everyone at a workshop agrees out loud to the eight things on the Guidelines page. A facilitator may end a workshop if those stop holding, and will say so plainly and why. Whether a workshop is recorded, livestreamed or shared afterward is the sponsoring organization's decision, not ours.

What we publish

Written summaries and proposed plans are published on this site and stay up. Where a Collab did not agree, that is published with the same care as where it did. Participants read a summary before it goes up and may flag anything that got their words wrong. We fix what was wrong. We do not remove a conclusion because somebody would rather it were not there.

Your words

By taking part in a workshop, you allow us to publish what the group produced, including your contributions as recorded in the summary, and to name you in the participant list.

No warranty, and limits

This site is offered as it is. We do not promise it will always be available or free of errors. Nothing here is legal, financial or professional advice. To the extent the law allows, Culture Design, LLC is not liable for any loss arising from use of this site or from anything a Collab recommends.

Other people's sites

We link to other websites from time to time. We are not responsible for what is on them.

Outside Cornwall

Organizations based outside Cornwall can hire Jason Burnham to facilitate, and can rent the Storm King Theater separately. Those are ordinary commercial arrangements with no connection to anything on this site.

Which law applies

These terms are governed by the law of the State of New York.

Changes

We may update these terms and will post the change here.

Questions

info@cornwallcollab.com