Within the following boundaries, we encourage you to use ideas, stories, explanations, strategies, skills, or other content from our copyrighted program in your own live activities and services, whether you provide them in-person or online, to protect people from harm and empower them with knowledge. You may do this as long as you:

• Do NOT record your live in-person or online activities and services when using our copyrighted content.
• Do NOT use our organizational or program names, copyrighted marketing language, or track record, to describe or promote yourself or as names or promotion for your programs unless you are officially affiliated with our organization.
• DO keep our name with our work by using the “Kidpower” name with the skills, safety rules, techniques, methodology, and strategies from our program.
• DO acknowledge our organization, describe the source of your information in a book or article or workshop, and tell people how to reach us. We can give you specific language depending on the type of use so that you are clear, accurate, and mutually supportive, without giving the impression that you are representing or certified by our organization unless you actually are.
• Here’s an example of an appropriate statement of acknowledgement:“This skill comes from Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International. We thank them for permission to use parts of their [please insert a quality, ex: exceptional] child protection, positive communication, and personal safety curriculum and program in this activity. kidpower.org”

If there is a local Kidpower center within a 2-hour drive of your location, please also add:

“For information about services in _______, contact ________.” 

Please consult our Locations page for specific local Kidpower center service areas and contact information.
 

• DO respect our copyright, if you wish to reprint our materials by following our Permission to Reprint or Publish Requirements so you have prior written authorization BEFORE reprinting, translating, emailing, videoing, broadcasting, putting on a Wikisite, using in a newsletter or book, sharing our content in a written class plan, or otherwise publishing any part of our program in any digital or printed form or format. Please scroll down to see requirements for different types of uses below.
• Please note that permission to use our content verbally in teaching people in person is NOT permission to publish or duplicate any part of our content in any written or digital form in print or online, including in articles, posters, images, lesson plans, research papers, videos, broadcasts, wikisites, blogs, newsletters, books, or other contexts.

If all you wish to do is print one (1) copy of an article or other educational resource from the Kidpower.org online library for your individual use, you can do so directly, using the Print PDF option to download, to ensure that the Kidpower logo, format and copyright is retained, without further explicit permission.

We accept and appreciate donations to help support our free library of resources, however clicking the download link indicates your agreement with our Permission to Use Requirements, and that is all that is required to print one (1) copy of a PDF document from our online library.

• If you would like to reference a single Kidpower article on your website, on your social media channel, or in your email newsletter, you are welcome to include a live link directly to our Kidpower.org webpage containing the article, publication, or handout. No formal permission is required, though we do enjoy hearing from individuals and organizations that choose to link to our website. Please do not use our logo for this purpose. When sharing links that cannot be live, such as on Instagram, then please use Kidpower.org or a simple, memorable redirect, such as Kidpower.org/ECE, Kidpower.org/SLC, Kidpower.org/relationships, Kidpower.org/kids, Kidpower.org/adults. You can ask us for one if you need one.
• If you wish to publish or use our articles or program content in greater quantity or in any other digital, printed, broadcast, presentation or other format: 
  • Please scroll down to see requirements for different types of uses below.
  • Use our Reprint or Use Permission Request Form to explain what articles or other material you want to use and how you want to use them. We normally grant permission for personal and charitable noncommercial purposes as long as our Permission to Use Requirements are followed.
  • Please ASK US FIRST.

If you wish to create your own post using Kidpower content for sharing on your social media channel, please Use our Reprint or Use Permission Request Form below to explain what articles or other material you want to use in your post and how you want to use them. We normally grant permission as long as you submit the proposed post by email for pre-approval and it meets our permission to use requirements, regarding our use of name and logo and it respects our organizational values.

• In order to obtain permission, please Use our Reprint or Use Permission Request Form and specify which articles are of interest, how many copies or people this PDF will be shared with, and for what purpose. For educational or charitable purposes, Kidpower normally gives permission to download and print copies of the PDFs of library articles on our letterhead with no copy changes, bearing Kidpower’s logo, contact information, and copyright notice.
  • For the best-quality hardcopy reprint, use the “print” feature that is available on the article page.
  • Instead of sending or posting individual PDFs of articles electronically, please send out the URL with the title so people can click on it individually. This helps with our website visibility and copyright protection.
• Note that donations to help maintain our free library resources are gratefully accepted. If you have trouble finding the PDFs for the material you wish to copy, please let us know.

• If you wish to inquire about permission to reproduce, publish, or post any of Kidpower’s content – including, but not limited to: articles, images, posters, handouts, videos, audio, or webpages – on another website, Wikipage, or other online location, please fill out Use our Reprint or Use Permission Request Form. 
• We typically charge a license fee to republish any of our content online; fees may be reduced or waived for nonprofit organizations or noncommercial purposes. We normally grant permission for personal and charitable noncommercial purposes as long as our Permission to Use Requirements are followed. We will respond to your request by email, typically within 3 business days, with any questions or explicit permission guidelines applying to your requested use.

• Kidpower welcomes requests for reprints of original Kidpower content in media outlets, newsletters, magazines, books, flyers, etc. Please fill out our Use our Reprint or Use Permission Request Form. 
• We typically charge a license fee to publish Kidpower content in printed publications. Please fill the form below to inquire about licensing fees; fees may be reduced or waived for nonprofit organizations or for noncommercial purposes. We normally grant permission for personal and charitable noncommercial purposes as long as our Permission to Use Requirements are followed. We will respond to your request by email typically within 3 business days with any questions or explicit permission guidelines applying to your requested use.

• Permission must be obtained using the Use our Reprint or Use Permission Request Form and all of the guidelines below must be followed. This means that, in addition to the traditional way of citing sources in academic projects or papers, ideas from the Kidpower program and educational resources must be acknowledged at the BEGINNING of the use with active links to the Kidpower.org website and the source itself.
  • For example:
    “Ideas from the book Bullying: What Adults Need to Know and Do to Keep Kids Safe, published by Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International, are incorporated into the following paper. Kidpower is a global nonprofit leader in providing child protection education and personal safety skills to people of all ages and abilities since 1989. (Kidpower.org)”

• Kidpower welcomes requests for filming or making other audio-visual or artistic representations of skills, role plays, or key concepts from our program, as long as Kidpower is publicly acknowledged and all of the guidelines below are followed. Please fill out our Use our Reprint or Use Permission Request Form.

• Each of our books, and all of the images we use in books, articles, or anywhere on our website, is subject to copyright protection. If you wish to publish, adapt, re-create, further develop, and/or translate any portion of the Kidpower publications in any form, prior permission and a licensing agreement will be required from the author or her authorized representative. Please fill out our Use our Reprint or Use Permission Request Form.

• Articles must be reprinted in their entirety or authorized excerpts from books or other resources must be reprinted as approved, including the use of our logo, copyright notice, and contact information. Copy changes require prior approval.
• Articles must include Kidpower’s byline under the article title. Byline information includes the author’s name (as posted on our website) and the name of our organization.
• For example, “By Irene van der Zande, Kidpower Founder and Executive Director.” If no author is noted, please use the following generic byline: “Provided by Kidpower.org.”
• Articles must be credited with the following copyright statement at the bottom of each article: “Copyright © [Please Insert Year Listed in Article] Irene van der Zande. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. For more information, visit kidpower.org.”
• When excerpts are authorized as part of a larger publication, acknowledge Kidpower visibly and clearly at the beginning of your article in which there is any use of Kidpower content and tell users how to reach Kidpower both internationally and through any local centers. Please have active links for anything done electronically, include a reference with a link to any specific articles used, and include our logo if you use any kind of graphics from Kidpower or elsewhere in your document.
  • For example, AT THE BEGINNING of any article used or other material that is extensively quoted or paraphrased, please put this acknowledgement as an introductory note or byline:
    “Thank you to Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International and (author’s name) for permission to use this copyrighted article. Kidpower is a global nonprofit leader in providing safety education to prevent and stop bullying, violence, and abuse. For more resources, see www.kidpower.org or contact safety@kidpower.org.“
    [If there is a local center closer to you, and outside of California, please add:  “For information about services in _______, contact ________. ”  See our Locations page for specific local center service areas and contact information.]
• Do NOT use our Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower organizational or program names or copyrighted organizational and program description language for your own marketing or fundraising because this might give a confusing impression that you are part of our organization – unless of course, you actually have developed a partnership with our organization and are receiving training and separate authorization to represent us in your area.
• Do not keep more than two Kidpower articles at a time on your website. We have been advised that it hurts both your and our Google rankings to have too much duplicative material on our websites, so we need to limit the number you use at a time – but you can rotate them if you wish. In fact, many groups send our articles out to their constituents in their newsletters, blogs, and papers.
• Do tell us how use of our program ideas or materials have benefited your readers or the people you serve, including sharing stories and comments.
• Please note that there are a few articles on Kidpower’s websites for which Kidpower has permission to publish, but for which it does not hold copyright. As these articles are not Kidpower’s property, we are unable to grant reprint permission for their use—please reach out to those copyright holders (as noted in the articles) for their own permission to use requirements.