This website and the publications therein are provided by the Distance Education Accrediting Commission (“DEAC”). By accessing the DEAC website (the “Site”), you are indicating your acknowledgement and acceptance of these Terms of Use. These Terms of Use are subject to change by DEAC at any time in its discretion. Your use of this Site after such changes are implemented constitutes your acknowledgement and acceptance of the changes. Please consult these Terms of Use regularly.
Restrictions on Use
All material included on this Site, and any other Site owned, operated, licensed or controlled by DEAC, such as text, graphics, logos, images, photographs, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations and software (the “Content”), is the property of DEAC, and is protected by United States and international copyright laws. Modification or use of the Content except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use violates DEAC’s intellectual property rights.
The Content may not be copied, distributed, republished, uploaded, posted or transmitted in any way without the prior written consent of DEAC, except that:
- You may download, print, distribute and use pages from the Site for your own informational, non-commercial purposes, but not for commercial use or general distribution.
- Any copies of documents or pages from the Site must not alter the original Site content and must include the DEAC copyright notice: © 2018 DEAC. All Rights Reserved.
Users of the Site must not:
- Monitor, gather or copy any Content on this Site by using any robot, “bot,” spider, crawler, spyware, engine, device, software, extraction tool or any other automatic device, utility or manual process of any kind.
- Frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark or other proprietary information (including, without limitation, any images, text or page layout).
- Engage in any activities through or in connection with this Site that seek to attempt to harm minors or are unlawful, offensive, obscene, threatening, harassing, abusive or that violate any right of any third party.
- Attempt to circumvent the security systems of the Site.
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to services, materials, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to any DEAC server.
- Attempt to use the Site for any purposes other than those intended by DEAC, as determined by DEAC in its sole discretion.
- Upload or submit any data or information that contains viruses or any other computer code, corrupt files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality or disrupt any software, hardware, telecommunications, networks, servers or other equipment.
- Engage in any activity that interferes with a user’s access to this Site or the proper operation of this Site. You also agree that, in using this Site, you will not impersonate any person or entity.
The Content and the functionality of the Site may be updated or changed at any time without prior notice. In addition, if DEAC becomes aware that you are copying, modifying or distributing the Content of the Site other than for the permitted uses of the Site, DEAC reserves the right to revoke your right to these permitted uses.
Proprietary Information Consent
If you wish to use material contained on this Site other than for your individual review and individual educational purposes, and the copyright ownership of such material is held by a third party, then you must secure the permission of such third party in order to use such material. If you are not a customer of DEAC and wish to download and use any information contained in this Site other than for your individual review and individual educational purposes or in connection with your customer relationship or potential customer relationship with DEAC, send a request with your proposed use to info@deac.org, so that the administrator may evaluate your proposed use of DEAC’s Site Content.
DEAC shall have the right to monitor use of this Site to determine compliance with these Terms of Use, revoke its consent at any time and you shall immediately cease any further use of the DEAC Site Content. The foregoing consent does not include permission to copy the design elements, look and feel or layout of DEAC’s Site. Subject to the further terms set forth above, you assume all risks concerning the suitability and accuracy of the information within DEAC’s Site which you propose to use, subject to DEAC’s consent.
Disclaimer
DEAC cannot guarantee that the Site or its content is error free. Any issue of technical accuracy or functionality is inadvertent and is subject to immediate review and corrective action as required.
Limitation of Liability
Neither DEAC, any of its directors, officers and employees, nor any other party involved in creating, producing or delivering the Site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, the Site or the operation of the Site or failure of the Site to operate.
Intellectual Property
You should assume that everything you see or read on the Site is proprietary information protected by copyright or trademark unless otherwise noted and may not be used except as provided in these Terms of Use or with the written permission of DEAC.
Linked Sites
This Site may link to or be linked from other websites that are not maintained by, or related to, DEAC. DEAC does not endorse, and is not responsible for, the content of any of those third-party websites.
International Use
DEAC makes no representation that materials on this Site are appropriate or available for use in locations outside the United States. Access to this site from countries or territories where such access is illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access this Site outside the United States do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.
Governing Law
You agree that your use of this Site, this Agreement and any disputes relating thereto shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the District of Columbia. Any dispute relating to this Agreement shall be resolved solely in the state or federal courts located in Washington, DC.
