Terms of Use

Unless otherwise indicated, this Web site and its contents are the property of Teachers’ Curriculum Institute and are protected, without limitations, pursuant to U.S. and foreign copyright and trademark laws. By visiting this Web site, you agree to be bound by all of the following terms and conditions. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please cancel this transaction and do not use this Web site.

1. General Terms

You are authorized to download one copy of the material on this Web site on one computer for your personal, non-commercial use only. In doing so, you may not remove or in any way alter any trademark, copyright, or other proprietary notice. Except as allowed in the preceding sentence, you may not modify, copy, distribute, republish, commercially exploit, or upload any of the material on the Web site without the prior written consent of Teachers’ Curriculum Institute. No intellectual property or other rights in and to this Web site or its contents, other than the limited right to use set forth above, are transferred to you.

You further agree not to disseminate, store, or transmit viruses, Trojan horses, or any other malicious code or program or engage in any other activity deemed by Teachers’ Curriculum Institute to be in conflict with the spirit or intent of this Terms of Use Policy. You agree to use the Web site only for lawful purposes.

TEACHERS’ CURRICULUM INSTITUTE MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THIS WEB SITE OR ITS CONTENTS, WHICH ARE PROVIDED FOR USE "AS IS." TEACHERS’ CURRICULUM INSTITUTE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE WEB SITE AND ANY WEB SITE WITH WHICH IT IS LINKED. TEACHERS’ CURRICULUM INSTITUTE ALSO MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES AS TO WHETHER THE INFORMATION ACCESSIBLE VIA THIS WEB SITE, OR ANY WEB SITE WITH WHICH IT IS LINKED, IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, OR CURRENT.

It is your responsibility to evaluate the accuracy and completeness of all information, opinions, and other material on this Web site or any Web site with which it is linked. Price information is subject to change without notice.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable laws, Teachers’ Curriculum Institute and its employees, agents, suppliers, and contractors shall in no event be liable for any claims, charges, and contractors’ damages, liabilities, losses, and expenses of whatever nature and howsoever arising, including, without limitation any compensatory, incidental, direct, indirect, special, punitive, or consequential damages, loss of use, loss of data, loss caused by a computer or electronic virus, loss of income or profit, loss of or damage to property, claims of third parties, or other losses of any kind of character, even if Teachers’ Curriculum Institute has been advised of the possibility of such damages or losses, arising out of or in connection with the use of this Web site, or any Web site with which it is linked.

You assume total responsibility for establishing such procedures for data back up and virus checking as you consider necessary.

2. Postings

To the extent that portions of this Web site (such as "discussion groups" or "blogs") provide users an opportunity to post and exchange information, ideas, and opinions (postings), BE ADVISED THAT TEACHERS’ CURRICULUM INSTITUTE HAS NO OBLIGATION TO SCREEN, EDIT, OR REVIEW POSTINGS PRIOR TO THEIR APPEARANCE ON THIS WEB SITE, and postings do not necessarily reflect the views of Teachers’ Curriculum Institute. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Teachers’ Curriculum Institute shall in no event have any responsibility or liability for the postings or for any claims, damages, or losses resulting from their use and/or appearance on this Site.

Teachers’ Curriculum Institute reserves the right to monitor all postings and to remove any which it considers in its absolute discretion to be offensive or otherwise in breach of these terms and conditions.

You hereby represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights in and to all postings you provide and all material they contain; that your postings shall not infringe any proprietary or other rights of third parties; that your Postings shall not contain any viruses or other contaminating or destructive devices or features; that your Postings shall not contain any defamatory, indecent, offensive, tortuous, or otherwise unlawful material or content; and that your Postings shall not be used to carry out or solicit any unlawful activity and/or be used to make commercial solicitations. You hereby authorize Teachers’ Curriculum Institute to use and/or authorize others to use all or part of your postings in any manner, format, or medium that Teachers’ Curriculum Institute or such other parties see fit. You shall have no claim or other recourse against Teachers’ Curriculum Institute for infringement of any proprietary right in postings.

3. Online Conduct

You agree NOT to use this Web site to:

• upload, post, or transmit any content for purposes of political campaigning or commercial solicitation or that is unlawful, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invades the privacy of another, threatens another person or entity, or is otherwise objectionable;
• impersonate another user of this Web site including an employee of Teachers’ Curriculum Institute;
• intentionally or unintentionally violate any local, state, or federal law;
• upload, post, or transmit any software of files that contain software viruses or other harmful computer code;
• interfere with the operation of Teachers’ Curriculum Institute’s web servers or other computers or Internet or network connections;
• upload, post, or transmit any information, pictures, graphics, or other content that violates the copyright, patent, trademark, or trade-secret rights of another party;
• upload, post, or transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, including spam; or
• alter, damage, or delete any content or other communications that is not your own or otherwise interfere with the ability of others to access this Site;
• post or transmit through this Web site any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, profane, hateful, or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, including, but not limited to, any material that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law.

If Teachers’ Curriculum Institute is notified of any of the above violations, Teachers’ Curriculum Institute may investigate the allegation and determine in its sole discretion whether to remove or request the removal of such content and terminate your use of the Web site. Teachers’ Curriculum Institute may disclose any content or electronic communication of any kind: (i) to satisfy any law, regulation, or government request; (ii) if such disclosure is necessary or appropriate to operate the Web site; or (iii) to protect the rights or property of Teachers’ Curriculum Institute. Teachers’ Curriculum Institute reserves the right to prohibit conduct, communication, or content that it deems in its sole discretion to be harmful to individual users, or any rights of Teachers’ Curriculum Institute. Teachers’ Curriculum Institute shall not assume liability for any action or inaction with respect to any conduct, communication, or content on the Site.

4. Privacy Policy

Teachers’ Curriculum Institute recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of Personal Identifying Information about you as a user of our Web site. We consider the following to be Personal Identifying Information: your name, address, phone number, date of birth, job, personal interests, and credit card information. This Web site does not collect Personal Identifying Information about a user, except for information that is voluntarily provided to our Company so that we can serve the user's needs and our legitimate business purposes. (For example, when the user sends us a message or makes an online purchase, we need to retain certain Personal Identifying Information on the Web site in order to respond). A user's Personal Identifying Information may be used by our company to help us improve the Web site, and also for our company's marketing and promotional purposes. It will be treated confidentially within our company. Our policy is not to share this information with third parties.

Users should be reminded that any Personal Identifying Information that is voluntarily posted by a user to a public area of this Web site (for example, a posting to a bulletin board or blog) may always be collected and used by others. We cannot prevent such uses.

SPECIAL NOTICE TO PARENTS:

We have no intention of seeking Personal Identifying Information about minors who visit this Web site. The same privacy policies will apply to that information. In addition, if we can identify a user as a minor, the Personal Identifying Information will not be used for further marketing and promotion. We encourage you to ask your children to seek your permission before providing information about themselves or their family over the Internet.

SPECIAL NOTICE TO CHILDREN:

Ask your parent or guardian for permission before you send any personal information over the Internet.

Our privacy policies are under frequent review.