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Internet User Agreement,
Privacy Policy, and Community Guidelines
User Agreement
Please carefully review our User Agreement before you begin using the
site. Thank you.
A. Your Acceptance
Welcome to goIAM.org. By using and/or visiting this Website, you
signify your agreement to (1) these terms and conditions (the "User
Agreement"), (2) IAM's Privacy Policy, incorporated here by
reference, and (3) IAM's Community Guidelines, also incorporated here by
reference. If you do not agree to all of the terms and conditions
contained in this User Agreement, the Privacy Policy, or Community
Guidelines, you are not authorized to use the Website.
Although we may attempt to notify you when major changes are made to
this User Agreement, you should periodically review the most up-to-date
version. IAM may, in its sole discretion, modify this User Agreement at
any time. By continuing to use this website following our posting of such
changes, you agree to be bound by this User Agreement, as modified.
Through our sites, IAM provides users with access to a rich array of
educational resources, including personalized content. We hope you find
our sites useful. We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue
the Website or any related sites, or any part of them, at any time, for
any reason without prior notice to you. You agree that we shall not be
liable for any such modification, suspension, or discontinuance.
Your registration information, as well as other personally identifiable
information that you provide us about yourself on our sites, is subject to
our Privacy Policy. Click here to read our Privacy Policy.
B. General Use of the Website -- Permissions and Restrictions
IAM hereby grants you permission to access and use the Website as set
forth in this User Agreement, provided that:
1. You do not collect any personally identifiable information of
others, including user names or email addresses, from the Website.
2. You do not use the Website for any commercial purposes without the
prior written authorization of IAM. You agree not to transmit or otherwise
make available any unsolicited advertising, promotional information, bulk
e-mail or other solicitation. You
agree not to solicit, for commercial purposes, any users of the Website
with respect to material they post on the Website.
3. You do not use or launch any automated system, including without
limitation, "robots," "spiders," or "offline
readers," that accesses the Website in a manner that sends more
request messages to the IAM servers in a given period of time than a human
can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional online
web browser. Notwithstanding the foregoing, IAM grants the operators of
public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the
site for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for
creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not
caches or archives of such materials. IAM reserves the right to revoke
these exceptions either generally or in specific cases.
4. You do not transmit or otherwise make available any content
containing any "virus," "worm," "trojan
horse," or any other computer code, file, or program designed to
interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or
hardware or telecommunications equipment.
5. You do not alter or modify any part of the Website.
6. You do not circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with
security-related features of the Website or our sites or servers (or
networks connected to our Website).
7. You do not harass, threaten, embarrass, or cause distress, unwanted
attention, or discomfort to a person or entity on or through the Website
or its communication systems.
8. You do not transmit or otherwise make available on or through the
Website any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive,
harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically,
or otherwise objectionable, as solely determined by IAM.
9. IAM reserves the right to suspend or terminate a user's access to
the Website, without prior notice and at IAM's sole discretion.
10. This list of permissions and restrictions, along with the other
terms discussed below, is not intended to be complete, but merely
illustrative. We reserve the right in our sole and final judgment to
determine whether conduct violates conduct requirements for the Website.
C. IAM Registered User Accounts
In order to access some features of the Website, such as, for example,
interactive blogs, you have to become a Registered User, which will also
create a user account. As a Registered User, you agree to be bound by the
following terms:
1. When creating or modifying your account, you must provide accurate,
current, and complete information. We reserve the right to disallow use of
any user name that we deem offensive or inappropriate. You will be
responsible for preserving the confidentiality of your password and for
all actions of persons accessing the Website through any username/password
assigned to you. You must notify IAM immediately of any breach of security
or unauthorized use of your account. You may never use another's account
without permission.
2. As a Registered User you may submit comments on various IAM blogs or
other material (collectively, "User Content") to the Website.
IAM reserves the right, but does not assume the obligation, to delete,
move, condense, or edit such User Content for any reason and without prior
notice. IAM also reserves the right to suspend or terminate a Registered
User's access for posting User Content.
3. You are solely responsible for your own User Content and the
consequences of posting or publishing it. You affirm, represent, and/or
warrant that: you own, or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents,
and permissions to use and authorize IAM to use, all patent, trademark,
trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to all User
Content you submit to enable inclusion and use of such User Content in the
manner contemplated by the Website and these Terms of Service.
4. You retain all of your ownership rights in your User Content.
However, by submitting User Content to IAM, you hereby grant IAM a
worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable, perpetual, and
transferable license to use, reproduce, store, distribute, prepare
derivative works of and display your User Content (and your user name) in
any medium in connection with the activities and operations of IAM, its
affiliated entities and successors. You also hereby grant each user of the
Website a non-exclusive license to access your User Content through the
Website, and to use, reproduce, and distribute such User Content for such
user's personal, non-commercial purposes. You understand and agree that
IAM may retain, reproduce, distribute and otherwise use for any purpose
copies of User Content that has been removed from the Website. The above
licenses granted by you are perpetual and irrevocable.
5. IAM does not endorse, authorize or ratify any User Content, or any
opinion, recommendation, or advice expressed therein, and IAM expressly
disclaims all liability in connection with User Content. IAM does not
permit copyright infringing activities and infringement of intellectual
property rights on its Website, and IAM reserves the right, but does not
assume the obligation, to remove any content from the Website if notified
that such content infringes on another's intellectual property rights.
D. Your Use of Content on the Site
In addition to the restrictions above, the following restrictions and
conditions apply specifically to your use of content on the Website.
1. The content on the Website (other than your User Content), including
without limitation, the text, software, scripts, graphics, photos, sounds,
music, videos, interactive features and the like (collectively, "IAM
Content") is owned by or licensed by IAM. Similarly, the trademarks,
service marks and logos contained on the Website are owned or licensed by
IAM ("IAM Marks"). Except as otherwise provided in this User
Agreement or elsewhere on the website (e.g., in the description of a
campaign), the IAM Content and the IAM Marks may not be downloaded,
copied, reproduced, distributed, transmitted, broadcast, displayed, sold,
licensed, or otherwise exploited for any purpose whatsoever without the
prior written consent of IAM. IAM reserves all rights not expressly
granted in and to the IAM Content and the IAM Marks.
2. The Website is made available for your personal, non-commercial use
only. As part of such use, you may display, download and/or print pages
from the site; you may link to the Website; and you may forward Website
materials to others for personal, non-commercial uses that are reasonably
related to the Website's purposes.
3. You understand that when using the Website, you will be exposed to
IAM Content, User Content, and other third-party content from a variety of
sources, and that IAM makes no warranty about the accuracy, usefulness,
safety, or intellectual property rights of or relating to such IAM
Content, User Content, or other third-party content. You further
understand and acknowledge that you may be exposed to User Content that
may be inaccurate, offensive, indecent, or objectionable, and you agree to
waive, and hereby do waive, any legal or equitable rights or remedies you
have or may have against IAM with respect thereto.
4. The Website may contain links to third party websites that are not
owned or controlled by IAM. IAM has no control over, and assumes no
responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any
third party websites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave the
Website and to read the terms and conditions and privacy policy of each
other website that you visit.
E. Digital Millennium Copyright Act
If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any
IAM Content or User Content infringes upon your copyright, you may submit
a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA")
by providing IAM's Copyright Agent with the following information in
writing ( see
17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) for further detail):
Identification of the copyrighted work
claimed to have been infringed;
Identification of the material that is
claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and
that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled and information
reasonably sufficient to permit IAM to locate the material;
A statement that you have a good faith
belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not
authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
A statement that the information in the
notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are, or
are authorized to act on behalf of, the owner of an exclusive right that
is allegedly infringed;
Your name, mailing address, telephone
number, and e-mail address; and
A physical or electronic signature of
the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed, or that of
the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner.
IAM's designated Copyright Agent to receive notifications of claimed
infringement can be reached at copyright@goIAM.org. You acknowledge that
if you fail to comply with all of the above requirements, your DMCA notice
may not be valid.
For clarity, only DMCA notices should go to the Copyright Agent. Please
use the Contact Us form for any other feedback, comments, requests for
technical support, or other communications with IAM.
F. Warranty Disclaimer
THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS." YOU AGREE THAT YOUR
USE OF THE IAM WEBSITE SHALL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, IAM, AS WELL AS ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND
AGENTS (COLLECTIVELY, THE "IAM PARTIES"), DISCLAIM ALL
WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEBSITE AND YOUR
USE THEREOF. THE IAM PARTIES CANNOT AND DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY,
COMPLETENESS, CURRENTNESS, NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF THE SITE'S CONTENT OR THE CONTENT OF ANY SITES
LINKED TO THIS SITE. NOR DO THE IAM PARTIES GUARANTEE THAT THE WEBSITE
WILL BE ERROR FREE, OR CONTINUOUSLY AVAILABLE, OR THAT THE WEBSITE WILL BE
FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. THE IAM PARTIES DO NOT
WARRANT, GUARANTEE, OR ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE
PROVIDED, ADVERTISED OR OFFERED BY A THIRD PARTY THROUGH THE IAM WEBSITE
OR ANY HYPERLINKED WEBSITE OR FEATURED IN ANY BANNER OR OTHER ADVERTISING.
G. Limitation of Liability
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE IAM PARTIES BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR
ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER, WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE FORESEEABLE, RELATING TO THIS WEBSITE,
INCLUDING ANY DAMAGES RESULTING FROM ANY (I) ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR
INACCURACIES OF CONTENT, (II) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OF ANY
NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF OUR WEBSITE,
(III) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE
OF OUR SECURE SERVERS AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION AND/OR
FINANCIAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN, (IV) INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF
TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM OUR WEBSITE, (V) BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR
THE LIKE, WHICH MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH OUR WEBSITE BY ANY THIRD
PARTY, AND/OR (VI) ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY CONTENT OR FOR ANY LOSS OR
DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF ANY CONTENT POSTED,
EMAILED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE VIA THE IAM WEBSITE,
WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND
WHETHER OR NOT IAM IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOU
SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE IAM PARTIES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR USER
CONTENT OR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE, OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD
PARTY AND THAT THE RISK OF HARM OR DAMAGE FROM THE FOREGOING RESTS
ENTIRELY WITH YOU. CERTAIN STATE LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. TO THE
EXTENT THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OF THE PROVISIONS SET FORTH IN THIS
AGREEMENT MAY NOT APPLY. YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS THE IAM
PARTIES AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, OF WHATEVER NATURE, THAT ARISE OUT OF
YOUR USE OF AND ACCESS TO THE IAM WEBSITE OR YOUR VIOLATION OF ANY OF THIS
USER AGREEMENT. THIS INDEMNIFICATION OBLIGATION WILL SURVIVE THIS USER
AGREEMENT AND YOUR USE OF THE IAM WEBSITE.
H. Ability to Accept User Agreement
You affirm that you are either more than 18 years of age, or an
emancipated minor, or possess legal parental or guardian consent, and are
fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations,
affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in this User
Agreement, and to abide by and comply with this User Agreement. In any
case, you affirm that you are over the age of 13, as the IAM Website is
not intended for children under 13.
I. Miscellaneous
This User Agreement shall be governed by the internal substantive laws
of Washington, D.C., without respect to its conflict of laws principles.
Any claim or dispute between you and IAM that arises in whole or in part
from the Website shall be decided exclusively by a court of competent
jurisdiction located in Washington, D.C. This User Agreement, together
with the Privacy Policy and any other legal notices published by IAM on
the Website, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and IAM
concerning the Website and supersedes prior agreements, if any, between
you and IAM relating to any matter dealt with in the User Agreement. If
any provision of this User Agreement is deemed invalid by a court of
competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect
the validity of the remaining provisions of this User Agreement, which
shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any term of this User
Agreement shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or
any other term, and IAM's failure to assert any right or provision under
this User Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or
provision. This User Agreement, and any rights and licenses granted
hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by you, but may be
assigned by IAM without restriction. This User Agreement and the rights
and obligations created hereunder shall be binding upon and inure solely
to the benefits of the parties hereto and their respective successors and
assigns, and nothing in this Agreement, express or implied, is intended or
should be construed to confer upon any other person any right, remedy or
claim under or by virtue of this Agreement.
You and IAM agree that any cause of action arising out of or related to
the Website must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action
accrues. Otherwise, such cause of action is permanently barred.
This User Agreement is made effective as of June 1, 2014.
Privacy Policy
IAM strongly believes in the importance of your privacy. This Privacy
Policy describes how IAM treats the personal information we collect
through the IAM website (the "Website") and what we do with that
information. By using or accessing the Website, you are accepting the
practices described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Statement applies
only to information collected online through the Website and does not
describe the ways in which we may collect or use information obtained
offline or through any means other than our Website.
How, When, and Why We Collect Information
Activity
That Doesn't Require Registration. You can view
content on the Website without registering or providing any personal
information. When you enter the Website, we collect information such as
your browser and operating system type and IP address to optimize your
experience on the Website and to track aggregate Website usage. In
addition, we use a "session" cookie to identify you while you
are on the Website, if cookies are enabled on your computer. This session
cookie terminates once you finish using the Website and close your
browser.
Mailing
list. You may provide us with your email address
if you wish only to join our mailing list.
Activity
Requiring Registration. Certain activities on
the Website -- for example, posting comments, participating in an advocacy
campaigns or surveys -- require you to register. To become a registered
user, we ask you to provide your name, zip code and email address. If you
decide to register, we use a persistent cookie that stores certain
information to make it easier for you to login when you come back to the
Website. However, none of your personal information is stored in that
cookie. You may also be asked to provide certain additional information to
participate in other activities that we may undertake through the Website.
For example, if you sign up to receive information by mail, we will ask
for your street address. You may update or correct your personal account
information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account
profile page.
Usage
Information. We may record information about
your usage of the Website, such as when you use the site, the areas of the
site you click on and/or participate in, the tags you search for, and
whether or not you subscribe to the RSS feed. If you are logged in, we may
associate that information with your account. A persistent cookie may be
used to track this information. We may use pixel tags and/or trackable
links in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are
opened and/or clicked on by recipients.
Comments
Posted to Site. Any personal information or
content that you voluntarily disclose online becomes publicly available
and can be collected and used by others. Your user name (not your email
address) is displayed to other users when you post comments. When posting
comments, you should exercise caution not to provide any
personally identifying information or other information that you would
not want seen by others. Use of the community functions on the Website is
at your own risk. Community Guidelines
Tell
A Friend Information. If you choose to use our
invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for
information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email
address. We will automatically send your friend a single email inviting
him or her to visit the site.
Polls
and Surveys. From time to time, we may conduct
polls and surveys. Information collected through our polls, surveys, and
questionnaires is used in the aggregate, unless we contact you to request
permission to use your individual responses for a particular purpose.
We do not knowingly collect any
information from children under the age of 13.
Uses of Personal Information
The personal information that IAM
collects on the Website helps us, our state and local affiliates and IAM-related
organizations to efficiently and effectively represent our members, to
pursue our advocacy agenda, and to provide valuable member benefits.
In order to advance these goals and
activities, we may share the personal information that we collect about
you with our state and local affiliates and other IAM-related
organizations, as well as third parties that perform services on our
behalf. Additionally, subject to applicable law, we may share any of the
personal information that we collect about you with certain third parties
that share our interests.
We will use your email address to
communicate with you about IAM's activities and offerings, unless you
opt-out from receiving such messages. We will also use your email address
for administrative purposes, such as notifying you of major Website
changes, sending messages related to actions you have taken on the site or
for customer service purposes. Although we hope you'll find these
communications informative and useful, if you don't, you can always
unsubscribe by following the simple instructions included in each email.
When you send email or other
communications to us, we may retain those communications in order to
process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
We use both your personally identifying
information and certain non-personally-identifying information (such as
anonymous usage data, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.)
to improve the quality of your user experience and the design of the
Website and to create new features, functionality, and services by
storing, tracking, and analyzing user behavior, preferences, trends, and
actions.
Other Disclosures
We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful
requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with
applicable laws. If we receive a subpoena requesting information about you
and if you have provided us with your email address, we will attempt to
notify you of the subpoena at the email address that you have provided.
Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it
is necessary to comply with the law, to protect our interests or property,
to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Website
or using the IAM name, to prevent bodily harm, to enforce our User
Agreement, or to protect the rights, property or safety of visitors to our
site, our members, the public or IAM. In the unlikely event that IAM (or
substantially all of its assets) is merged with another entity,
information on our visitors would be among the transferred assets.
Information Security and Data Integrity
IAM takes security measures to protect against unauthorized access to
or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These
include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing
practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to
guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
More Information
Our Website may also permit you to access non-IAM sites. It is
important to remember that, if you link to a non-IAM site from our Website
that party's privacy policy and its user agreement apply to you. We
encourage you to learn about each third party's privacy policy before
giving personal information to them.
IAM reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. We
will post any changes to this Privacy Policy on this page, so we encourage
you to check this page regularly. Your continued use of this Website
following any changes to this Privacy Policy will constitute your
acceptance of such changes.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the Website, or
your account, please feel free to contact us.
Effective Date: June 1, 2014 |
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