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Terms of use

These terms of use are entered into by and between you and Strada Education Foundation, Inc. (the “Company” or “us,” “we,” or “our”). The following terms and conditions, together with any documents they expressly incorporate by reference (collectively, the “Terms”), govern your access to and use of stradaeducation.org, including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through stradaeducation.org (the “Website”). 

Please read these Terms carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by these Terms and our Privacy Notice, found at stradaeducation.org/privacy-policy, incorporated herein by reference. If you do not want to agree to these Terms, or the Privacy Notice, you must not access or use the Website.

Access and Account Security

We reserve the right to withdraw or amend this Website, and any service or material we provide on the Website, in our sole discretion without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason all or any part of the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict user access to some parts of the Website or the entire Website.

You are responsible for both:

  • Making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Website.
  • Ensuring that all persons who access the Website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and comply with them.

Your right to use the Website is personal to you. You will be solely responsible for your actions and the contents of your transmissions through the Website and your use of any correspondence or other forms provided by the Website or by us. You agree that, despite our reasonable security measures, we cannot guarantee that electronic communications over the internet will be completely secure.

To access the Website or some of the resources it offers, you may be asked to provide certain registration details or other information. It is a condition of your use of the Website that all the information you provide on the Website is correct, current, and complete. You agree that all information you provide to register with this Website or otherwise, including, but not limited to, through the use of any interactive features on the Website, is governed by our Privacy Notice [PRIVACY NOTICE URL], and you consent to all actions we take with respect to your information consistent with our Privacy Notice.  

By using the Website, you are certifying that you are a person permitted to use it under applicable law. You certify that you have authority to view information on this site and agree not to impersonate any person or entity or otherwise misrepresent your identity or affiliation with a person or entity. You also certify that the information you access relates only to a person or entity with an existing relationship to you. Use of this Website in violation of these certifications will be considered a fraudulent act.  

If you are accessing the Website as a representative, employee, agent, or contractor of a distinct corporate or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have the requisite authority to accept the Terms on behalf of such entity, and “you” shall be deemed to include such entity throughout these Terms. You represent and warrant that you (i) have the corporate power to accept the Terms and perform your obligations hereunder, (ii) the acceptance of the Terms by use of the Website creates a legal, valid, and binding agreement between you, us, and our affiliates, enforceable against you in accordance with the terms hereof, and (iii) the acceptance of the Terms and performance of your obligations hereunder will not violate any of your constating documents or any agreement to which you are a party or any applicable law. Use of this Website in violation of these certifications will be considered a fraudulent act.  

Intellectual Property Rights

The Website and its entire contents, features, and functionality (including, but not limited to, all information, software, text, displays, images, video, and audio, and the design, selection, and arrangement thereof) are owned by the Company, its licensors, or other providers of such material and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.

These Terms permit you to use the Website for your personal, non-commercial use only. You must not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store, or transmit any of the material on our site, except as follows:

  • Your computer may temporarily store copies of such materials in RAM incidental to your accessing and viewing those materials.
  • You may store files that are automatically cached by your Web browser for display enhancement purposes.
  • You may print or download one copy of a reasonable number of pages of the Website for your own personal, non-commercial use and not for further reproduction, publication, or distribution.
  • If we provide desktop, mobile, or other applications for download, you may download a single copy to your computer or mobile device solely for your own personal, non-commercial use, provided you agree to be bound by our end user license agreement for such applications.
  • If we provide social media features with certain content, you may take such actions as are enabled by such features.

You must not:

  • Modify copies of any materials from this Website.
  • Use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences, or any graphics separately from the accompanying text.
  • Delete or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices from copies of materials from this Website.
  • Access or use for any commercial purposes any part of the Website or any services or materials available through the Website.

If you print, copy, modify, download, or otherwise use or provide any other person with access to any part of the Website in breach of the Terms, your right to use the Website will end immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. No right, title, or interest in or to the Website or any content on the Website is transferred to you, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved by the Company. Any use of the Website not expressly permitted by these Terms is a breach of these Terms and may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws.

Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, you agree to report any claims of copyright infringement on or through the site to us at: Strada Education Foundation, Inc. Attn.: General Counsel, 10 West Market Street, Suite 1100, Indianapolis, IN 46204. 

Trademarks

The Company name and all trademarks, service marks, and logos of the Company and its affiliates (the “Strada Trademarks”) used and displayed on this Website are registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks of the Company. Nothing on this Website or in these Terms should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use any Strada Trademark displayed on this Website without the prior written consent of the Company specific for each such use. All other names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans on this Website are the trademarks of their respective owners.

User Contributions

The Website may contain interactive features (collectively, “Interactive Services”) that allow users to post, submit, publish, display, or transmit to other users or other persons (hereinafter, “post”) content or materials (collectively, “User Contributions”) on or through the Website.

You represent and warrant that:

  • You own or control all rights in and to the User Contributions and have the right to grant the license granted above to us and our affiliates and service providers, and each of their and our respective licensees, successors, and assigns.
  • All of your User Contributions do and will comply with these Terms.

You understand and acknowledge that you are responsible for any User Contributions you submit or contribute, and you, not the Company, have full responsibility for such content, including its legality, reliability, accuracy, and appropriateness. We are not responsible or liable to any third party for the content or accuracy of any User Contributions posted by you or any other user of the Website.

If you believe that any User Contributions violate your copyright, please report these claims to us at: privacy@stradaeducation.org or Strada Education Foundation, Inc. Attn.: General Counsel, 10 West Market Street, Suite 1100, Indianapolis, IN 46204. It is the policy of the Company to terminate the user accounts of repeat infringers.

Monitoring, Enforcement, and Termination

We have the right to:

  • Take any action with respect to any User Contribution that we deem necessary or appropriate in our sole discretion, including if we believe that such User Contribution violates these Terms, infringes any intellectual property right or other right of any person or entity, threatens the personal safety of users of the Website or the public, or could create liability for the Company.
  • Disclose your identity or other information about you to any third party who claims that material posted by you violates their rights, including their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.
  • Take appropriate legal action, including without limitation, referral to law enforcement, for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Website.
  • Terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Website for any or no reason, including without limitation, any violation of these Terms of Use.

Without limiting the foregoing, we have the right to cooperate fully with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or other information of anyone posting any materials on or through the Website. YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS THE COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSEES, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY ANY OF THE FOREGOING PARTIES DURING, OR TAKEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF, INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER SUCH PARTIES OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.

However, we cannot review all material before it is posted on the Website and cannot ensure prompt removal of objectionable material after it has been posted. Accordingly, we assume no liability for any action or inaction regarding transmissions, communications, or content provided by any user or third party. We have no liability or responsibility to anyone for performance or nonperformance of the activities described in this section.

Linking to the Website and Social Media Features

You may link to our homepage, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part.

This Website may provide certain social media features that enable you to:

  • Link from your own or certain third-party websites to certain content on this Website.
  • Send email or other communications with certain content, or links to certain content, on this Website.
  • Cause limited portions of content on this Website to be displayed or appear to be displayed on your own or certain third-party websites.

You may use these features solely as they are provided by us, solely with respect to the content they are displayed with, and otherwise in accordance with any additional terms and conditions we provide with respect to such features. Subject to the foregoing, you must not:

  • Establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
  • Cause the Website or portions of it to be displayed on, or appear to be displayed by, any other site, for example, framing, deep linking or in-line linking.
  • Otherwise take any action with respect to the materials on this Website that is inconsistent with any other provision of these Terms.

You agree to cooperate with us in causing any unauthorized framing or linking immediately to stop. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

We may disable all or any social media features and any links at any time without notice in our discretion.

Third-Party Links

If the Website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your convenience only. By linking to these sites, the Company does not represent or imply that there is any business relationship between us and these organizations. The Company is not responsible for the content and performance of these sites or for your transactions with them. Furthermore, we strive to keep these links as current and accurate as possible, but we cannot guarantee, and we expressly do not warrant, that they point to the intended third-party site. Links to and from this site do not constitute an endorsement by the Company. If you decide to access any of the third-party websites linked to this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk and subject to the terms and conditions of use for such websites.

Limitation on Liability and Disclaimer of Warranties

You agree that neither the Company nor any of its employees, agents, third-party content providers, or licensors warrant that the services, the Website, or its contents will be uninterrupted, free of viruses or other harmful code, or error free. We make no warranty that any defects in the software used in the site will be corrected. We make no warranties as to the results that may be obtained from use of the services, the site, or its contents, or as to the timeliness, security, sequence, adequacy, accuracy, reliability, or completeness of any information obtained therefrom.

You agree that all access and use of the site and its contents is at your own risk. BY USING THE SITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE COMPANY SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY (WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE) FOR ANY DIRECT, ACTUAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, COMMON LAW, STATUTORY, REGULATORY, CONSEQUENTIAL, COMPENSATORY, EXEMPLARY, LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS, PUNITIVE OR SPECIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE SITE (EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY LIABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH ANY VIRUSES THAT MAY INFECT YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT. THIS SITE, INCLUDING ALL CONTENT, SERVICES, FUNCTIONS, HYPERTEXT LINKS, AND OTHER INFORMATION MADE AVAILABLE ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH THIS SITE, IS PROVIDED “AS IS,” AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SO SOME OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Indemnification

You will reimburse us for all losses, damages, costs, and expenses (including court costs and reasonable legal fees) caused by the negligence or willful misconduct of you or your employees, contractors, or agents including, but not limited to, failure to maintain confidentiality of personal information, the sending of any personal information over the internet without encryption or without other appropriate security protections, or breach of any agreement, representation, warranty, or covenant herein. YOU WILL BE LIABLE AND YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS STRADA AND ITS CURRENT AND FORMER AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, MEMBERS, TRUSTEES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES, SUCCESSORS, AND ASSIGNS (THE “INDEMNITEES”) FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS OF LIABILITY, OBLIGATION, LOSS, DAMAGE, DEMAND, COST, EXPENSE, OR DISBURSEMENT (INCLUDING COURT COSTS AND REASONABLE LEGAL FEES) OF THE INDEMNITEES, ARISING OUT OF OR RESULTING FROM ANY ACT OR OMISSION RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE.

Notices

All notices you give to us shall be in writing and shall be made either via email or conventional mail. In addition, we may post notices or links to notices through the site to inform you of changes to the Terms, the site, or other matters of importance.

Changes to These Terms

The Company reserves the right to change these Terms from time to time, in our sole discretion, with or without notice to you. All changes to these Terms are effective immediately when we post them, and apply to all access to and use of the Website thereafter. You agree to review the Terms periodically to ensure that you are aware of any modifications, as they are binding on you. Your continued access or use of the site after the modifications have become effective shall be deemed your conclusive acceptance of the modified Terms. You will ensure that your agents, contractors, and employees comply with these Terms.

Geographic Limitation

The owner of the Website is based in the United States. We provide this Website for use only by persons located in the United States. We make no claims that the Website or any of its content is accessible or appropriate outside of the United States. Access to the Website may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the Website from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

Additional Terms

These Terms shall be governed in all respects by the substantive laws of the State of Indiana, without regard to its provisions relating to conflict of laws, and you agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts within Marion County, Indiana. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms remain in full force and effect. You agree that, regardless of any law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the site or the Terms must be filed by you within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred. In no event shall we be liable for damages or loss caused by third parties not under our control or by other causes beyond our reasonable control, including, but not limited to, damages or loss caused by third-party telecommunications service providers. You agree that these Terms comprise the entire agreement between you and us and supersede all prior agreements between the parties regarding the subject matter contained herein.

Effective as of Feb. 25, 2025.