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Acceptance of Terms
Welcome to the Forum on Education Abroad website, through which the Forum provides users with access to a variety of helpful resources. The Forum makes these resources available to you subject to the following Terms of Use, which may be updated from time to time. ATTENTION: Your use of this website constitutes your acceptance of these Terms of Use.
We may modify these Terms of Use in our sole discretion, at any time and will post a notice on our home page for thirty (30) days following any such modification. Any modification is effective immediately upon posting on the website. Your continued use of the website following modification of these Terms of Use shall be conclusively deemed an acceptance of such modification.
Proprietary Website
This website is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws and treaties. The website contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other proprietary information of the Forum on Education Abroad and others which may include, but shall not be limited to text, data, photos, video, graphics, images, music, sound and software (“Proprietary Material”). You are hereby granted a non-exclusive license to access this Proprietary Material. You are also granted a limited license to print copies of Proprietary Material available on this website, but only for your personal use. Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use, all other rights are reserved to the Forum on Education Abroad.
Except as provided in this paragraph, you may not reproduce, distribute, modify, adapt, create derivative works of, display or in any way exploit the Proprietary Material available on this website, in whole or in part. Commercial use of any of the Proprietary Material is strictly prohibited. Use of any of the Forum’s trademarks as metatags on other websites is also strictly prohibited. You may not display this website in frames, or any of the Proprietary Material via links, without our express written permission, which may be requested by contacting us.
Your Communications
By uploading files, posting messages, inputting data or engaging in any other form of communication to or with this website (individually or collectively, “Communications”), you represent and warrant that you are the owner of such Communications or have all rights necessary to upload, post, transmit and otherwise use them for your intended purpose. You grant the Forum an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, royalty-free, unrestricted, worldwide license to reproduce, distribute, sub-license, modify, edit, adapt, create derivative works of, publicly perform or display, transmit, broadcast or otherwise exploit all or any portion of your Communications. You waive all rights to any claim against the Forum on Education Abroad for any actual or alleged infringement of any proprietary rights, rights of privacy or publicity, moral rights and rights of attribution in connection with the Communications.
You agree not to post on this website any Communications that (a) violate or infringe upon the intellectual property rights (including copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and patents), rights of privacy or publicity or any other proprietary right of any third party, (b) are unlawful, obscene, pornographic, defamatory, racist, offensive, sexually explicit, profane, threatening or otherwise objectionable, (c) contain a virus or any other harmful component, (d) falsely state or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity or contain false or misleading statements of fact, or (e) contain any advertising or material of a commercial nature.
The Forum on Education Abroad reserves the right at all times to decline to post and to edit, remove, or restrict access to Communications from you that we regard in our sole discretion as objectionable or in violation of these Terms of Use.
Material Posted by Third Parties
The Forum on Education Abroad does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, statement or material displayed or distributed through this website by a third party. You acknowledge that your reliance upon any third party opinion, statement or material shall be at your sole risk. The Forum reserves the right but has no obligation to monitor Communications from others with access to this website, or take any action to restrict access to material displayed or distributed through this website by a third party that violates these Terms of Use.
Digital Millenium Copyright Act
The Forum on Education Abroad expects its users to respect the intellectual property rights of others. We may remove material that appears in our sole discretion to infringe upon the intellectual property rights of others and/or we may terminate the access rights of users who infringe upon the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe a work protected by a U.S. copyright you own has been posted on this website without authorization, you may notify the Forum’s copyright agent, and provide the following information:
- A physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner
- Identification of the copyrighted work or works claimed to have been infringed
- A detailed description of the material you claim is infringing, together with information sufficient to enable us to locate it, including the URL where the infringing material appears,
- Your address, telephone number and e-mail address
- A statement by you that you believe in good faith belief that the copyrighted material identified is being used in a manner that is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law
- A statement by you that the above information is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright allegedly infringed.
The Forum’s copyright agent can be reached at:
Forum on Education Abroad
Dickinson College
P.O. Box 1773
28 North College Street
Carlisle, PA 17013
Phone: (717) 245-1031
Fax: (717) 245-1677
E-mail: info@forumea.org
E-Mail
The Forum on Education Abroad has no responsibility or liability for the deletion of or failure to post or store any Communications from you. You may not use our domain name as a pseudonymous return e-mail address for any communications that you transmit from another location or through another service. You may not pretend to be someone else – or spoof their identity – when using this site or any of the resources available here. You may not transmit to this website e-mail that includes false or misleading information in the return address or in the subject line.
Links
This website may contain links to websites owned and operated by parties other than the Forum on Education Abroad. The Forum has no control over such third party websites, is not responsible for their contents and makes no representations about any material available at such sites. The Forum’s inclusion of links to such websites does not imply sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement of the linked site or any material found there. Once you link to another website, you are subject to the terms of use of that website.
Termination
The Forum on Education Abroad may terminate your right to access this website at any time in its sole discretion, with or without cause, and without notice to you.
Disclaimer of Warranties
THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO (A) ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, CURRENCY, RELIABILITY OR CONTENT OF ANY MATERIAL PROVIDED BY OR THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, AND (B) ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY, ACCURACY, ADEQUACY, COMPLETENESS, CURRENCY, CORRECTNESS OR VALIDITY OF ANY MATERIAL PROVIDED BY OR THROUGH THIS WEBSITE RESTS WITH YOU.
Limitation of Liability
THE FORUM ON EDUCATION ABROAD SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR OTHER DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF THE FORUM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), ARISING OUT OF: (A) THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS WEBSITE, (B) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THIS WEBSITE, OR (C) ANY OTHER CONDUCT, ACT OR OMISSION OCCURRING AT THIS WEBSITE.
Indemnity
You agree, at your expense, to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Forum on Education Abroad, its affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agents from any claim, demand, cause of action, debt or liability (including costs and reasonable attorneys' fees) that arises out of material you access, download, submit, post, transmit or make available through this website, your use of this website, your violation of these Terms of Use, or your violation of any rights of another.
General
These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and the Forum and govern your use of this website, superseding any prior or contemporaneous representations or agreements. All rights not otherwise expressly granted to you by these Terms of Use are reserved to the Forum. All disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use or our operation of this website shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and of the United States without regard to conflict of law principles. You and the Forum agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The failure of the Forum to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms of Use is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, the parties agree that the court should give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in such provision, and the other provisions of the Terms of Use shall remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of this website or the Terms of Use must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred. The section titles in the Terms of Use are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.
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