Welcome,
Thank you for choosing to visit our website. The Credential Integrity Action Alliance (the “CIAA”, f/k/a Assessment Action Alliance, Inc.) is a not-for-profit Delaware organization formed to advocate for legislative and regulatory changes that protect the integrity of academic and professional credentials. The proliferation of businesses and commercial enterprises that provide cheating services – such as proxy testing, essay writing, and illegal collection and publishing assessment content – undermines the reliability of academic and professional credentials as evidence knowledge and skill attainment. The purpose of CIAA is to promote initiatives and policy changes aimed at preventing the provision of commercial cheating services in the United States.
These website Terms of Use ("these Terms") apply to your access to, and use of, CIAA’s website located at www.credentialintegrity.org and CIAA-sponsored social media pages, if any (collectively, the “Sites”). Please review these Terms carefully as they contain important information regarding your legal rights, remedies and obligations.
Copyrights and limitations on use. Unless otherwise noted, all materials, including images, illustrations, designs, icons, photographs, video clips, and written and other materials contained on any CIAA Site (collectively, the “Contents”), are protected by copyrights, trademarks, trade dress, and/or other intellectual property owned, licensed, or controlled by CIAA or its licensors.
The Contents of our Sites are intended solely for personal, noncommercial (other than for the purchase of merchandise from our Sites, if any) use by the users of our Sites. You may view, copy, and print the Contents displayed on the Sites subject to the following conditions:
- You use the material for noncommercial use only,
- You keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices,
- You make no modifications to any materials, and
- You do not download quantities of materials to a database that can be used to avoid future downloads from the CIAA Sites.
For purposes of these Terms, the use of any such material on any other website or computer environment is prohibited. No right, title, or interest in any downloaded Contents is transferred to you as a result of any such downloading or copying. You may not reproduce (except as noted above), publish, transmit, distribute, display, modify, create derivative works from, sell or participate in any sale of, or exploit in any way, in whole or in part, any of the Contents, the site, or any related software. You may not attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any of the software used by CIAA as part of its Sites.
User comments, feedback, submissions, and postings. CIAA may allow you to communicate, submit, upload, transmit, or otherwise make available text, images, audio, video, product feedback, reviews, suggestions, and other content through the site (collectively, the “Submission(s),” which may also be referred to as “User-Provided Content" when posted by a user to a CIAA Site and which collectively are “Submission(s) including in the form of comments, feedback, submissions, or other information. Unless otherwise provided by another agreement you entered into with CIAA, by transmitting Submissions on or through the Sites, you understand and grant CIAA and its designees a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, assignable, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, incorporate, edit, publish, broadcast, post, copy, perform, store, modify, display, distribute, prepare derivative works based on, and transmit such Submissions, and you waive any and all moral rights and publicity rights in such submissions. CIAA will not be required to treat any Submission as confidential or proprietary and will not be liable for any ideas for its business (including without limitation, product, or promotion ideas) and will not incur any liability as a result of any similarities that may appear in future CIAA business. CIAA will be entitled to use the Submission for any and all purposes, including, commercial, promotional, marketing or other purpose whatsoever, without compensation to you or any other person sending the Submission. You acknowledge that you own whatever material you submit and use of your Submission by CIAA will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party, including copyrights, other property rights, and rights of privacy. Additionally, you agree that CIAA has no obligation to use any idea or material contained in the Submission(s) and you have no right to compel such use.
You may not make any Submissions that (i) are or may reasonably be considered to be, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, bigoted, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise offensive or objectionable, (ii) violate any law, statute, ordinance, or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing export control, intellectual property, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination, or false advertising), (iii) are false, inaccurate, or misleading, (iv)includes personal or sensitive information regarding yourself or another person, (v) result in spam to other users, or (vi) that contain any harmful or malicious software.
The CIAA has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor, screen, block, post, remove, modify, store, and review Submissions or any other communications sent through this website, at any time and for any reason, including to ensure that Submissions conform to these terms, without prior notice to you. We are not responsible for, do not endorse or guarantee, and are not responsible for errors or omissions or the accuracy, integrity, or quality of the opinions, views, advice, or recommendations in any Submissions posted or sent by users.
Disclaimers
Information on our Sites is provided with the understanding that CIAA is not rendering professional advice or recommendations. You should not rely on any information on the Sites to replace consultations with qualified professionals to meet your individual needs. The material in a Site could include technical inaccuracies, typographical errors, or omissions. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update information at any time without prior notice. CIAA reserves the right to modify, suspend, or terminate operation of or access to a Site or any portion of a Site, for any reason without notice.
THE MATERIALS IN THE SITES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, THE CIAA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OR MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE CIAA DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE FUNCTIONS CONTAINED IN THE MATERIAL WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. THE CIAA DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF OR THE RESULT OF THE USE OF THE MATERIAL IN THIS SITE IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE.
Limitation of Liability. Under no circumstances, including but not limited to negligence, shall we be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, special, or consequential damages that result from the use of or the inability to use any CIAA site or a site that is linked to it, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In no event shall our total liability to you for all damages, losses, and causes of action (whether in contract, tort [including but not limited to negligence], or otherwise) exceed the amount paid by you, if any, for accessing this site.
Indemnification. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold the CIAA and our affiliates, subsidiaries, joint ventures, and third-party service providers, and our respective employees, contractors, agents, officers, and directors, harmless from all liabilities, claims, and expenses (including reasonable attorney fees) that arise out of or are related to any User-Provided Content you submit, post, transmit, or make available through the site; your violation of these Terms and Conditions; your misuse of the CIAA Sites that link to these terms; or your violation of any third-party rights.
Links. A Site may be linked to sites and services that are not maintained by CIAA. CIAA is not responsible for the content of those sites. Consequently, we cannot be held responsible for the accuracy, relevancy, copyright compliance, legality, or decency of material contained in sites listed on or otherwise linked to a CIAA Site. The inclusion of any link to such sites does not imply endorsement by CIAA. CIAA makes no representations whatsoever about any other website that you may access through a CIAA Site.
Please exercise discretion while browsing the internet. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, solicit personal information, or contain information that you may find inappropriate or offensive. Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online that information can be collected and used by people you don't know. While the CIAA strives to protect your personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online; you make such disclosures at your own risk.
We reserve the right to disable links from third-party sites to any CIAA Site.
Governing Law; Jurisdiction. These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA. You and the CIAA consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts located in Delaware for any legal action connected in any way to these Terms or use of our Sites. You and the CIAA waive any rights to a jury trial for any claim or cause of action arising out of these Terms or use of our Sites or Services. Any claim under these Terms against the CIAA must be brought within one (1) year after the cause of action arises, or such claim or cause of action is barred.
General Terms. You acknowledge that any breach or threatened breach of these Terms will result in irreparable harm for which damages would not be an adequate remedy, and, therefore, in addition to our rights and remedies otherwise available at law, we shall be entitled to seek immediate equitable relief, including injunctive relief, as appropriate. If we seek any equitable remedies, we shall not be precluded or prevented from seeking remedies at law, nor shall we be deemed to have made an election of remedies. These remedies are in addition to any other remedies the CIAA may have at law or in equity. If the CIAA does take any legal action against you as a result of your violation of these Terms, the CIAA will be entitled to recover from you, and you agree to pay, all reasonable attorney fees and costs of such action, in addition to any other relief granted to the CIAA.
Other than for payment obligations, neither party will be liable for or considered to be in breach of these Terms on account of either party’s delay or failure to perform as required under these Terms as a result of any causes or conditions that (a) are beyond the party’s reasonable control (including but not limited to acts of God, including storms and other natural occurrences; fires; explosions; telecommunications, internet, or other network failures; results of vandalism or computer hacking; national emergencies, insurrections, acts of terrorism, riots, wars, strikes, or other labor difficulties); and (b) the party is unable to overcome through the exercise of commercially reasonable diligence (a “Force Majeure Event”). If any such Force Majeure Event occurs, the affected party will give the other party notice and use commercially reasonable efforts to minimize the impact of any such event.
Any waiver by the CIAA of a breach of any provision of these Terms shall not operate as or be construed to be a waiver of any other breach of such provision or of any breach of any other provision of these Terms. Any waiver must be in writing. Failure by us to insist upon strict adherence to any term of these Terms on one or more occasions shall not be considered a waiver or deprive us of the right to insist upon strict adherence to that term or any other term of these Terms. If any part of these Terms is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions and such severable part shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary and replaced with a valid provision that best embodies the intent of these Terms, so that these Terms shall remain in full force and effect.
Possible evidence of use of the Sites for illegal purposes will be provided to law enforcement authorities.
This is the entire agreement between the parties relating to the use of the Sites.
The CIAA can revise these Terms at any time by updating this posting.
Termination. These terms are effective until terminated by either party.
- You may terminate these terms at any time by discontinuing use of all CIAA Sites and destroying all Contents obtained from any and all such Sites and all related documentation and all copies and installations thereof, whether made under these terms or otherwise.
- The CIAA may terminate at any time your access to any and all CIAA Sites without notice for any reason or no reason, including if in our sole discretion you fail to comply with any term or provision of these Terms. Upon termination by CIAA, you must cease use of the Sites and destroy all Contents obtained from such site and all copies thereof, whether made under these terms or otherwise.
You agree that the CIAA will not be liable to you or to any third party for termination of your access to the website as a result of any violation of these Terms.
Thank you for visiting our Sites. Please see our Privacy Policy, posted at www.credentialintegrity.org/privacy, for information about our collection and use of Personal Data. The Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference into these Terms.