The focus of the myRAFT Community Website (myraft.net) is to help educators communicate and collaborate online about best practices of hands-on teaching.
We welcome content that supports the focus of this RAFT Online Community. That means videos of your cute cat are not appropriate for this website unless, of course, your cat has a great idea for a hands-on learning lesson! Here is the legal language that governs usage:
ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
This Acceptable Use Policy (“Policy”) governs use of the myRAFT Website (the “Website”).
Acceptance
These terms of use, which specifically incorporate the <
Collection of Personal Information
You acknowledge and agree that RAFT may collect personally identifiable information from you and use such information in accordance with the Privacy Policy.
User Content
You acknowledge that you are solely responsible for your content, including: your profile information, ideas, messages, audio, video, photos, text, or any other information that you provide through the use of this Website (collectively, “User Content”). You are not allowed to upload copyrighted content that you do not own.
License
By submitting your User Content, you agree that RAFT may use, copy, modify, distribute and publicly display the User Content, and sub-license all such rights to others, worldwide, for any purpose, in any manner currently known or hereafter discovered, indefinitely, and without compensation to you.
Use Restrictions
You may not post material that is false, misleading, inaccurate, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or other material that would violate any law or which contains any computer programming routine that is intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, or surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data, or personal information.
Own Risk
Content posted to the Website is not pre-screened. RAFT does not have an obligation to monitor the Website; however, it may monitor and remove any content which it feels violates this agreement. You acknowledge that any reliance on User Content, or any third party link, will be at your own risk.
Termination
RAFT may immediately suspend or terminate your access to the Website in its sole discretion, and may retain or delete any content that you provided to the Website. In addition, RAFT may cease to provide and maintain the Website at any time.
Disclaimer and Liability
You should independently confirm the truth and accuracy of all information that you obtain from this Website before relying on any such information.
ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED ON THE WEBSITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITH ALL FAULTS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. RAFT DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THOSE OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OR ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE, OR TRADE PRACTICE.
RAFT SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS OR REVENUES, COSTS OF REPLACEMENT GOODS, LOSS OR DAMAGE TO DATA, OR LOSS OF PRIVACY, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SITE, OR FOR ANY DAMAGES RESULTING FROM USE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE INFORMATION PRESENT, EVEN IF RAFT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITIES OF SUCH DAMAGES. THE MAXIMUM LIABILITY OF RAFT AND ITS LICENSORS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO USE OF THIS WEBSITE, WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT, SHALL NOT EXCEED TEN DOLLARS.
Miscellaneous
If any provision of these terms of use is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be struck and the remaining provisions shall be enforced. Our failure to act with respect to a breach by you or other does not waive our right to act with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.
The term “RAFT” as used in this Policy shall mean, as appropriate, the RAFT Website.
This Website Usage Agreement was last updated on February 29, 2012 and is effective immediately.