Welcome to ProgressiveU.org ("Site"). Because we want this Site to be a space where you and your peers feel comfortable expressing your ideas sharing and opinions, we ask you to abide by a few policies. In return, we make certain promises to you about what you can expect from us.
These Terms of Use set forth the conditions for your use of this Site, including our Privacy Policy. By using this Site, you agree to be legally bound by and comply with them. If you are under eighteen, then you and your parent or legal guardian acting on your behalf are deemed to have consented to these Terms of Use when you use our Site. If you do not agree to comply with these Terms of Use, you are not authorized to use this Site.
ProgressiveU.org ("ProgressiveU," "we" or "us") may modify these Terms of Use in the future, so please check this page regularly. If you continue to use the Site after we post a change, we understand that you agree to the new terms.
Blog Posts, Comments, and Forums
Our Site includes blog posts, comments, forums, and other messaging features (collectively, "blogs") that allow you to communicate with other visitors to the Site. Messages distributed through the blogs on the Site represent the views of participants and visitors, and not those of ProgressiveU.
The content you post on the Site is not private or confidential. Please read our privacy policy for advice on keeping your information and personal account safe. By posting content on the Site, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free unrestricted license (with the right to sub-license) to reproduce, modify, translate, transmit, or distribute in whole or in part any message file, data or other communication you post on the site in any form now known or later developed.
We welcome active debate but in order to ensure a safe and civil online environment, ProgressiveU reserves the right to remove any content you post on the Site or terminate your participation. To maintain that safe and civil environment, you agree not to upload, post, display, distribute, transmit or otherwise publish on the Site any material that:
(1) is libelous, obscene, pornographic, harassing, invective, or abusive;
(2) is violent, hateful, or threatening to anyone or any group;
(3) infringes any copyright, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary right of another;
(4) violates anyone's right of privacy or publicity or is otherwise illegal;
(5) contains code that can disrupt or damage the Site, its underlying software or any hardware or computer equipment, including viruses, bugs, worms, or trojan horses; or
(6) sells or promotes any products or services.
You may not use this Site while impersonating any other person or entity, to collect or use any information about other participants for any purpose, or to distribute chain letters, junk mail, "spam" solicitations, commercial advertising, or other bulk communications of any kind.
Multiple accounts may be issued to one user under certain restrictions and in specific situations. You may not register more than one account under the same IP address unless given express permission by an officer, director or employee. Any multiple account registrants will not be eligible for any contest awards offered unless otherwise notified.
Copyright
The content on this Site is licensed under a Creative Commons License, except where otherwise noted.
Except for the foregoing, you may not copy, distribute, transmit, display, modify, create derivative works from, enter into a database, or in any way exploit any existing part of our Site, including computer programs and other coding.
Disclaimers
Our Site is available "as is" and "as available." We do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted or error-free. There may be delays, omissions, interruptions and inaccuracies in materials available through our Site. We do not make any representations or warranties about the accuracy, completeness, timeliness or reliability of any statement or information displayed or distributed on the Site or available through links on the Site. We reserve the right to correct any errors or omissions in the Site. If you rely on our Site and any materials available through it, you do so solely at your own risk.
To the maximum extent permitted under law, we deny all express or implied warranties with respect to the Site or any information that is available through the Site, including without limitation fitness for a particular purpose.
Although we intend to take reasonable steps to prevent the introduction of destructive materials to our Site, such as viruses, worms, and "trojan horses," we do not guarantee or warrant that our Site or materials that may be downloaded from our Site are free from such destructive features. We are not liable for any damages or harm attributable to such features.
Limitation of Liability
We and our officers, directors, and employees are not liable for any claim, loss or injury based on errors, omissions, interruptions or inaccuracies in our Site, including claims, loss or injury that result from your breach of any provision in these terms of use.
We are not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, or exemplary damages (including lost revenues or profits, loss of business, or loss of data) arising out of or in connection with our Site, Site services, Site materials, or these terms of use, regardless of whether such liability is based in tort, contract or otherwise. Some states do not allow the limitation of liability for these kinds of damages, so these limitations or exclusions may not apply to you.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify us against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, we incur as a result of your violation of this Agreement. We have the right, but not the obligation, to take over the exclusive defense of any claim for which we are entitled to indemnification. You agree to provide us with whatever cooperation we reasonably request.
Termination
We reserve the right to terminate the Site and its Terms of Use at any time without notice for any reason, including your violation of any of the provisions of the Terms of Use. The Limitation of Liability and Governing Law Sections of these Terms of Use, and the restrictions imposed on you with respect to material you download from the Site survive any such termination, as does your license to ProgressiveU of any content you provide to us on the Site.
Governing Law
These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of the State of California applicable to contracts made and performed there without regard to its conflicts of law principles.
Severability
If any provision of these Terms of Use is deemed unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision will be considered severed and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
PRIVACY POLICY
ProgressiveU is committed to maintaining the privacy of personal information you provide to us when you use our Site. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect and use your information. This Privacy Policy is part of the Terms of Use, which you consent to when you use our Site.
Who Can Participate?
You must be fourteen years of age or older to register or post content on this Site. We do not knowingly collect any information from anyone under age fourteen.
Collection of Your Personal Information
ProgressiveU collects personal information from you when you register or participate in a ProgressiveU contest, such as your name, gender, age, certain address information (city, state and country), email address, college or university, topics of interest to you, and a short bio about yourself ("Personal Information"). We also ask you to respond to questions about your opinions and preferences from time to time as well as surveys about the Site. Your bio is available to all Site users.
We collect your Personal Information so that we can learn who is participating, to enable us to create diverse communities for online discussions. It also helps us evaluate whether this Site is doing its job: giving you access to news about current events and the tools you need to analyze what you read and take advantage of digital media. We may also use your email address to contact you directly with information such as newsletters.
Anonymous Information
We may also collect information about Site users that is not associated with any information that identifies you to help us evaluate how the Site is used, to facilitate use of the Site, to analyze user interests, and for systems administration purposes. This type of information includes the user's IP address, browser type, and Site usage data, such as what pages are visited and time intervals between Site visits and individual web page visits ("Anonymous Information").
ProgressiveU collects Anonymous Information by using "cookies." A cookie is a string of information that is sent by a web site and stored temporarily in your computer's memory. Although you are not required to accept the use of cookies, your participation in the Site will be easier if you have not disabled the cookie technology on your browser.
Sharing With Third Parties
We treat your contact information as private and confidential. We will not provide your contact information to any other organization unless you specifically authorize us to do so.
We treat your name, city, state, and comments as public information. We may, for example, make your comments along with your city, state, and country available to the press and public online.
We will send you updates by e-mail. We will do our best to respect your time and attention. You can remove yourself from the mailing list at any time.
Security
We store your Personal Information and Anonymous Information in a secure manner and safeguard it from unauthorized access in a secure, restricted-access database. However, no data transmitted over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Therefore, you provide us with your Personal Information and use our Site at your own risk.
Keeping your information secure is also your responsibility. You should take action to protect your anonymity when you use this Site. Please do not share your password with anyone and change it when prompted by us. After you have finished using the Site, log off and exit your browser so that no unauthorized persons can use the Site with your name and account information. When you post messages, do not give your full name, telephone number, or home address. Keep identifying information to a minimum. Please notify us immediately at info@progressiveu.org if you suspect that anyone may have gained unauthorized access to your Personal Information or account.
Review and Update Your Personal Information
Please contact ProgressiveU at info@progressiveu.org or at the address listed below with respect to any inquiries about our Privacy Policy, our Site, or if you wish to update, correct, or delete any information you have provided to us either online or offline. If you have registered on the Site you may change certain Personal Information you have provided to us by accessing the My Account portion of our Site. If you request any changes that cannot be made in the Preferences section of our Site, we will contact you by email to confirm those changes.
ProgressiveU.org
3182 Campus Drive
San Mateo, CA 94403-3123
http://www.progressiveu.org or info@progressiveu.org
Links to Other Web Sites
We may make content or services from other web sites available to you from links located on our Site. When you click on these links, you are leaving our Site for others that are governed by their own terms of use and privacy policies. Please read the terms of use and privacy policies of third-party sites that you visit. We have no control over these other sites or their content. Except for information or services clearly identified as being supplied by ProgressiveU, we do not in any way review, operate, or control any material, information, products or services on other sites. Because we are not responsible for and cannot control these outside resources or their content, you should direct any concerns regarding a linked site to the administrator or webmaster of that site.
