The following Terms and Conditions of Access and Use are a legal agreement (“Terms” or “Agreement”) between you and WhereToTeach, LLC, its affiliates, employees, members, agents, and partners (collectively the “Company”). By accessing, browsing and/or otherwise using this web site (“Site”), you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by these terms and conditions, and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including U.S. export and re-export control laws and regulations. If you do not agree to all of the terms and conditions contained herein, you may not access, browse and/or use this Site. Any new or different terms supplied by you are specifically rejected by the Company, unless the Company has agreed to them in a signed written document specifically including those new or different terms. The material provided on this Site is protected by law, including, but not limited to, United States copyright law and international treaties.
This Agreement applies to your access to and use of this Site and do not alter in any way the terms and conditions of any other agreement that you may have with Company for products, services or otherwise, unless otherwise directed by Company. If you breach any of these terms and conditions, your authorization to use this Site automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed materials and discontinue use of any hyperlinks to this Site.
The Site includes a variety of features and services, which may include internet-based tools and services for viewing information and posting information and opinions to the Site. The Site also allows our users (“Users”) to create individual profiles, which can include personal information. Please understand that all information submitted on the Site might potentially be publicly accessible. Important and private information should be protected by you. Please review our Privacy Policy which sets forth how we handle and use your information. Except as otherwise set forth in our Privacy Policy, we are not liable for protection of privacy of electronic mail or other information transferred through the internet or any other network provider that you may use.
Copyright. All Site materials, including, without limitation, text, pictures, graphics and other files and the selection and arrangement thereof are copyrighted materials of Company, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, or by the original creator of the material. Permission is granted to display, copy, distribute, and download the materials on this Site for personal, noncommercial use only, provided that you do not modify the materials and that you retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the materials. You may not, however, distribute, copy, reproduce, display, republish, download, or transmit any material on this Site for commercial use without prior written approval of Company. You may not “mirror” any material contained on this Site on any other server without prior written permission from Company. Any unauthorized use of any material contained on this Site may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity and communications regulations and statutes.
Trademarks. The trademarks, service marks, trade names, and logos (the “Trademarks”) used and displayed on this Site may be registered and unregistered Trademarks of Company or of a third party who has granted the Company permission to use the Trademarks. In addition, all page headers, custom graphics, button icons, and scripts are service marks, trademarks and/or trade dress of Company, and may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of Company. You acknowledge that the Trademarks used and displayed on this Site are and shall remain the sole property of Company or the Trademark owner. Nothing in this Agreement shall confer any right of ownership of any of the Trademarks on you. Further, nothing in this Site shall be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise any license or right to use any Trademark used or displayed on the Site, without the express written permission of Company or the Trademark owner. The misuse of the trademarks displayed on this Site, or any other content on the Site, is strictly prohibited.
Hyperlinks. You are granted a limited, nonexclusive right to create a “hypertext” link to this Site provided that such link is to the entry page of this Site and does not portray Company or any of its products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise defamatory manner. This limited right may be revoked at any time for any reason whatsoever. You may not use framing techniques to enclose any Company trademark, logo or trade name or other proprietary information including the images found at the Site, the content of any text or the layout/design of any page or any form contained on a page without Company’s express written consent. Any links to third party sites on this Site are provided solely as convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave this Site. Company has not reviewed all of these third party sites and does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites, their content or their policies, including, without limitation, privacy policies or lack thereof. Company does not endorse or make any representations about third party sites or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to this site, you do so entirely at your own risk. You acknowledge and agree that Company shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by, or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such third party sites.
Limited Access. Except as otherwise expressly permitted by Company, any access or attempt to access other areas of the Company computer system or other information contained on the system for any purposes is strictly prohibited. You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to “screen scrape,” monitor, “mine” or copy the web pages on the Site or the content contained therein without Company’ prior, express, and written permission. You will not spam or send unsolicited e-mail to any other user of the Site for any reason. You agree that you will not use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site. You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on Company’s infrastructure.
Additional Use Restrictions. You shall not post, transmit, e-mail, re-transmit or store material on or through the Site or any of the Services provided by Company which, in the sole judgment of the Company: (i) is in violation of any local, state, federal or non-United States law or regulation, (ii) is threatening, obscene, indecent, defamatory or that otherwise could adversely affect any individual, group or entity (collectively, "Persons") or (iii) violates the rights of any person, including rights protected by copyright, trade secret, patent or other intellectual property or similar laws or regulations including, but not limited to, the installation or distribution of "pirated" or other software products that are not appropriately licensed for use by you. You shall be responsible for determining what laws or regulations are applicable to its use of the Services. In addition, you may only use the Site in a manner that, in the Company's sole judgment, is consistent with the purposes of such Services. If you are unsure of whether any contemplated use or action is permitted, please contact the Company
By way of example, and not limitation, the following uses described below of the Site and Services are expressly prohibited:
If the Company becomes aware of a known, or suspected, criminal offense committed or suspected of having been committed by you on or through our Site, the Company expressly reserves the right to disclose information about you, including your identity and other Personal Information, as defined in the Privacy Policy, to law enforcement authorities, and to immediately suspend or terminate your to access and use the Site.
User Name/Password. You may be required to register to use certain features of the Site. Upon your successful registration with the Site you will be provided with a unique password that will permit you to access certain areas of the Site. You agree that all databases will be accessed and used solely by you, with your unique user name and password. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your user account, profile and passwords. You agree not to provide your password or otherwise permit access to the Site by any third party. You hereby agree to protect and keep your password confidential, to change your password regularly, and to maintain appropriate and regularly updated malware scanning and cleaning tools on your network and individual computer(s) utilized to access the Site. You may not share your password or other account access information with any other person or entity, temporarily or permanently, and you shall be responsible for all uses of your user names and passwords, whether or not authorized by you. You will be held responsible for any purchases made within your account, unless you provide proof that you have filed a criminal complaint.
Limited License. The Company grants you a limited non-exclusive license to use the Site and user content for your internal use only. You may not sell, transfer or assign any of your rights hereunder to any third party without the express written authorization of the Company. You agree that you are solely responsible for the content of any data, information, or document that you post to the Site or that you give to the Company that is to be placed in the public domain and any consequences arising from such posting. The Company reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access and use of the Site and user content at any time if the Company determines that you are in breach of these Terms.
Registration Representations. The Company is concerned about the safety and privacy of all its users, especially children. For this reason, user accounts are exclusively limited to people over the age of 13. You represent, warrant and agree that you are at least 13 years of age or older. In consideration of your use of the Site, you represent that you are not a person that has any criminal intent or that is barred from receiving information or services from the Site under the laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdiction. You also agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Site’s user registration forms (the "Registration Data") and (b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or the Company has reason to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, the Company has the right to freeze or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Site (or any portion thereof).
No Obligation to Monitor; Right to Remove Content. You acknowledge that the Company may not, nor does it have any obligation to, pre-screen or monitor any user content, and the Company cannot ensure prompt removal of objectionable material after it has been posted. The Company assumes no liability for any action or inaction regarding transmissions, communications or content provided by you, any user or third party. Notwithstanding, the Company and its designees shall have the right, but not the obligation, in its sole discretion, for any reason whatsoever, to post, remove or edit, in whole or in part, any user content, including but not limited to, free or paid advertisements or listings, on or from the Site, or refuse to do the same. The Company and its designees shall have the right to remove any user content that violates these this Agreement or is otherwise objectionable as determined in the sole discretion of the Company. Without limiting the foregoing, the Company and its designees shall have the right to edit or remove any user content that is inaccurate, incomplete or is otherwise objectionable. You also acknowledge that the Company shall have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who claims that material posted by you violates their rights, including their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy and to take appropriate legal action, including without limitation, referral to law enforcement, for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Site. You understand and agree that you bear all risks associated with the use of any user content accessed via the Site, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any user content found on the Site. You expressly understand and agree that you may not rely on any content created by the Company or submitted to the Site, including without limitation information in message boards, or communications or advertisements that you receive from the Company and/or our partners and/or our vendors.
You acknowledge, consent and agree that the Company may access, retain and disclose your account information and user content if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such retention or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with legal process; (ii) enforce the Terms; (iii) respond to claims that any user content violates the rights of any third party; (iv) respond to your requests for customer service; or (v) protect the rights, property or personal safety of the Company, its users and/or the public.
You waive, and hold harmless the company from, any claims resulting from any action taken by the company during or as a result of its investigation and from any action taken as a consequence of any investigation by either the company or law enforcement authorities
Third Party Links/Advertisements/Sponsors. Certain areas of the Site and various third parties, may provide links to third party web sites or resources solely as a convenience to you and not as an endorsement by the Company of the contents of any third-party web sites. The Company has no affiliation with such third parties, nor does the Company endorse any of the products and services offered by such third parties. If you choose to use the products or services of these third parties you do so at your own risk. Without limiting any of the other disclaimers of warranty set forth in these Terms, the Company does not make any representations, guarantees or any warranties regarding and is not liable for the content, advertising, quality, reliability, accuracy, speed, nature, or fitness for any purpose of or any other aspect of any of content of such third-party web site or the products or services provided by any third party. If you seek any kind of guarantee or warranty for a third party’s products or services please contact the third party directly.
The Company provides users certain resources and data collected from third parties and tools and search services through its network of sites which may be accessed through any various medium or device now known or hereafter developed (referred to as the "Services"). You also understand and agree that the Services may include advertisements and that these advertisements are required and necessary for the Company to provide its Services. You also understand and agree that the Services may include certain communications from the Company such as service related announcements, administrative messages, and account maintenance related messages and that these communications are considered part of your registration with the Site and you will not be able to opt out of receiving them. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features that augment or enhance the current Services shall be subject to these Terms. You understand and agree that the Company assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mistaken delivery or failure to store any user data, communications or personalization settings. You understand and agree that you are solely responsible for obtaining access to the Site, and that access may involve third-party fees and all equipment necessary to access the Site (such as Internet service provider or airtime charges and access to a computer, monitor, and any necessary peripherals). You are responsible for the associated costs to access the Site. You understand and agree that the technical processing and transmission of data, including your content, may require (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your username(s), password(s), and your account(s), as well as all activities that occur under your account(s). You hereby agree to indemnify, defend, and hold the Company, its licensors, licensees, distributors, agents, representatives and other authorized users, and all of the foregoing entities' respective officers, directors, owners, employees, agents, representatives and assigns (collectively, the "Indemnified Parties") harmless from and against any and all losses, damages, liabilities and costs (including settlement costs and any attorney fees, expert witness fees or other fees and expenses for investigating or defending any actions or threatened actions) incurred by the Indemnified Parties, including but not limited to those in connection with any claim arising out of any breach by you of this Agreement or claims arising from your use of the Site, your account(s), user content that you submit, post, transmit, modify or otherwise make available through the Site, the Services and/or your use of any other services or products provided hereunder. You shall cooperate with us in the defense of any claim.
Your rights may vary. some states or other jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the below exclusions may not apply to you. depending on your state you may have other rights.
This Site, including all software, functions, materials, information and the Services are provided “AS IS” without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. Company is not qualified to, nor does the Company provide any business or financial advice and by using the Site you agree you are not relying on any such advice. Company disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, warranties of quiet enjoyment and non-infringement and implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, title, quiet enjoyment, merchantability of computer programs, data accuracy, system integration, and informational content. Company does not warrant or make any representations regarding the operation of this Site, the security of any data posted to the Site, the use, validity, accuracy or reliability of, or the results of the use of the materials on this Site, including any business or financial information, or any other sites linked to this Site. The materials of this Site may be out of date, and Company makes no commitment to update the materials at this Site. Company shall not be liable for and does not and cannot guarantee or warrant that the files available for downloading from this Site, if any, will be free from infection, viruses, worms, Trojan horses, or other code that manifest contaminating or destructive properties. Company does not warrant that this Site, software, materials, products, or services will be uninterrupted or error-free or that any defects in this Site, software, materials, products, or services will be corrected. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints for anti-virus protection, to ensure the accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to the Site to recover any lost data. Company makes no representations, warranties or guarantees that the Site will meet your requirements or achieve any particular results. Your use of this Site shall be solely at your own risk.
In no event will Company, its suppliers or other third parties mentioned at or in this Site be liable for any damages, including, without limitation direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages, death, dismemberment, injury, damages resulting from lost profits, lost data or business interruption arising out of or relating to the use, inability to use, or resulting from the use of the Services, the Site, any web sites linked to this Site, the materials, software or other information contained in any or all such sites, whether based on warranty, contracts, statutes, regulations, tort (including but not limited to, negligence) or any other legal theory and whether or not advised of the possibility of such damages. If your use of the Services, materials or information from this Site results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment or data, you assume all costs thereof. Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. You understand and agree that there are inherent risks with providing or posting your personal data on any website and that if you chose to do so sharing and your posting of your personal data is at your own risk. These limitations and exclusions apply without regard to whether the damages arise from (1) breach of contract, (2) breach of warranty, (3) negligence, or (4) any other cause of action, to the extent such exclusion and limitations are not prohibited by applicable law. if you do not agree with any part of this agreement, or you have any other dispute or claim with or against company with respect to this agreement or the company’s services, then your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the site and services.
In no event shall the Company’s aggregate liability to you or any third party, for all causes of action and theories of liability whatsoever, exceed $1,000 USD.
You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Services or Site must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or it shall be forever barred.
Company may revise this Agreement at any time in its sole discretion without notice by updating this link. All changes are effective immediately when the Company updates the link and apply to access and use of the Site thereafter. By using this Site you agree to be bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this Site and link to these Terms and Conditions of Access and Use to determine the then current terms and conditions of use to which you are bound.
Any material, information or idea you transmit to or post on this Site by any means will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary and may be disseminated or used by Company or its affiliates for any purpose whatsoever. The Company does not accept or consider and will not compensate for creative ideas, suggestions, inventions or user content, unless the Company has specifically requested them and agreed in advance in a written and signed agreement to provide compensation. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Site any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, profane material or any other material, including but not limited to any material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under both domestic and international law.
You hereby grant us and our licensees, agents, representatives and other authorized users, a perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable, fully-paid, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable (in whole or part) worldwide license under all copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, privacy and publicity rights and other intellectual property rights you own or control to use, reproduce, transmit, display, exhibit, distribute, comment on, modify, create derivative works based upon, perform and otherwise exploit such submissions, in whole or in part, in all media formats and channels now known or hereafter devised for any and all purposes without further notice to you, with or without attribution, and without the requirement of any permission from or payment to you or to any other person or entity.
You represent and warrant that you own or have the necessary rights, licenses, consents and permissions, without the need for any permission from or payment to any other person or entity, to exploit, and to authorize us to exploit, such submission in all manners contemplated by these Terms. You represent and warrant that your submissions do not contain confidential or proprietary information; the Company is not under any obligation of confidentiality, express or implied, with respect to the submissions; the Company shall be entitled to use or disclose (or choose not to use or disclose) such submissions for any purpose, in any way, in any media worldwide; your submissions automatically become the property of the Company without any obligation of the Company to you; and you understand and agree that you are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement of any kind from the Company under any circumstances.
Owners of copyrighted works who believe that their rights under U.S. copyright law have been infringed may take advantage of certain provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the "DMCA") to report alleged infringements. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our copyright agent the written information specified below. Please note that this procedure is exclusively for notifying us that your copyrighted material has been infringed.
Our Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on the Site can be reached as follows: [email protected]. Please include “Notice of DMCA Claim” in the subject line of your claim. If you fail to comply with all of the requirements of notice, your DMCA notice may not be effective. Please be aware that if you knowingly materially misrepresent that material or activity on the Site is infringing your copyright, you may be held liable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) under the DMCA.
You may terminate your user account, any associated email address, and access to the Services and Site at any time by submitting such termination request to the Company. You agree that the Company may, without prior notice, immediately terminate, limit your access to, or freeze your account, any associated email address, and access to the Site or Services, at its sole discretion. The Company may also terminate the Site at any time or may offer to migrate your account and any of your content to a new site. You must explicitly opt in to any migration of your account in advance of any announced migration date.
If any provision(s) of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be contrary to law, then such provision(s) shall be construed, as nearly as possible, to reflect the intentions of the parties with the other provisions remaining in full force and effect. Company’s failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision unless acknowledged and agreed to by Company in writing. The section titles in this Agreement are solely used for the convenience of the parties and have no legal or contractual significance. This Agreement may be assigned in whole or in part by Company. This Agreement may not be assigned in any manner by you without the express, prior written permission of Company. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Maryland notwithstanding any conflict of laws provisions. You irrevocably and unconditionally (i) consent to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal courts of Maryland and the state courts located in Howard County, Maryland (the “Maryland Courts”) for any litigation or dispute arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the Services, (ii) agree not to commence any litigation arising out of or relating to this Agreement or the Services except in the Maryland Courts, (iii) agree not to plead or claim that such litigation brought therein has been brought in an inconvenient forum, and (iv) agree the Maryland Courts represent the exclusive jurisdiction for all disputes relating to this Agreement or the Services. You agree that the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act, Annotated Code of Maryland, Commercial Law § 22-101 et seq. (“UCITA”), shall not apply to this Agreement to the extent allowable by law. The Parties agree that the Company shall be entitled to the use of self-help, including electronic self-help as those terms are defined in UCITA.
Notwithstanding, if you are located, or your use of the Site is, or the infringing act occurs, outside of the United States of America, the Company may elect to proceed by arbitration in its sole an absolute discretion. Upon such election by the Company, arbitration shall be conducted in Columbia, Maryland by the rules of the American Arbitration Association (the "AAA") or the International Centre for Dispute Resolution ('ICDR'), at Company’s sole discretion, by a single arbitrator knowledgeable in the Company’s industry, and in accordance with the rules thereof then pertaining. This section shall not, in the event arbitration is chosen, prevent Company from instituting litigation, in order to obtain standing, and seeking injunctive relief from any United States state or federal court under any law or ordinance or from any other tribunal which may have jurisdiction over the parties.
If you have any questions or comments, you may reach a Company representative at [email protected].