Last Updated: July 7, 2020
Please read these Terms of Service (“Terms”, “Terms of Service”) carefully before using our InspirED™ platform, and affiliated online services (collectively known as the platform) operated by Tower Education Technologies, LLC (Tower, us, we, or our), a for profit organization headquartered in Florida. All content on Tower's InspirED platform is copyrighted and belongs to Tower Education Technologies and our subsidiaries. Certain features of InspirED and supporting services (services) could be subject to additional guidelines, rules, or terms, which will be posted on the platform in connection with such features. All additional guidelines, rules, and terms are incorporated by reference into these terms.
These terms of service set forth the legally binding terms and conditions that govern your use of the platform.
By accessing or using the InspirED platform, you are accepting these terms (on behalf of yourself or the entity that you represent), and you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority, and capacity to enter into these terms on behalf of yourself or the entity that you represent. If you do not agree with all of the provisions of these terms, do not access or use the InspirED platform.
The terms include an arbitration agreement which will, with limited exceptions, require disputes between us to be submitted to binding and final arbitration. Unless you opt out of the arbitration agreement.
You will only be permitted to pursue claims and seek relief against us on an individual basis, not as a plaintiff or class member in any class or representative action or preceding; You are waiving your right to seek relief in a court of law and to have a jury trial on your claims.
To use certain features of the InspirED platform, you must possess an account and provide certain information about yourself as prompted by onboarding. You represent and warrant that.
All required registration information you submit is truthful and accurate.
You will maintain the accuracy of all submitted information.
You may delete your account at any time for any reason, by
following the instructions on the platform. Tower may suspend or
terminate your account if you are not compliant with these Terms of
Service.
You are fully responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account login information and for all activities that occur under your account. You agree to immediately notify Tower of any unauthorized use or suspected unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. Tower will not and cannot be liable for any loss or damage resulting from your failure to comply with the above requirements.
Tower reserves the right, at any time, to modify, suspend, or discontinue the InspirED platform (in part or in whole) with or without notice to you. You agree that Tower will not be liable to you or to any third party for discontinuation, modification, or suspension in connection within the InspirED platform.
You acknowledge and agree that Tower will have no obligation to provide you with any support or maintenance in connection with the InspirED platform.
Excluding any user content that you may provide (defined below), you acknowledge that all the intellectual property rights, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets, in the platform and its contents are owned by Tower. Neither these terms (nor your access to the platform) transfers to you or any third party any rights, title, or interest in or to such intellectual property rights, except as provided via global privacy compliance requirements. Tower reserves all rights not granted in these terms. There are no implied licenses granted under these terms.
User content is defined as any and all information that a user submits to, or uses with, the platform (e.g., content provided in the user's profile, information in Forums or Projects, class assignments). You are exclusively responsible for your user content. You accept all risks associated with the use of your user content, including its accuracy, completeness or usefulness by others, or any disclosure of your user content that personally identifies you to a third party. You hereby represent and warrant that your user content does not violate Tower's Acceptable Use Policy. You may not represent or imply to others that your user content is in any way provided, sponsored, or endorsed by Tower. You are exclusively responsible for your user content. Tower is not obligated to back-up your user content, and your user content may be deleted at any time without prior notice. You are exclusively responsible for creating and maintaining your own backup copies of your user content.
You hereby grant, represent, and warrant that you have the right to do so, to Tower an irrevocable, nonexclusive, royalty-free, and fully paid, worldwide license to reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, incorporate into other works, and otherwise use and exploit your user content, and to grant sublicenses of the foregoing rights, solely for the purposes of including your user content in the platform. You hereby irrevocably waive (and agree to cause to be waived) any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to your user content.
Tower reserves the right (but not the obligation) to review any user content, and to investigate and to take appropriate action against you in our discretion if you violate Tower's Acceptable Use Policy or any other provision of these terms or otherwise create liability for Tower or any other person. Such action may include modifying or removing your user content, terminating your account, or reporting you to law enforcement authorities.
Tower welcomes and encourages feedback. If you provide us with any feedback or suggestions regarding the platform, you hereby assign to Tower all rights in such feedback and agree that Tower shall have the right to use and fully exploit said feedback and related information in any manner it deems appropriate. Tower will treat any feedback you provide to it as non-confidential and non-proprietary. You agree that you will not submit to Tower any information or ideas that you consider to be confidential or proprietary.
You agree to pay back and hold Tower (and its officers, employees, and agents) harmless, including costs and attorney's fees, from any claim or demand made by any third party due to or resulting out of your
Tower reserves the right, at your expense, to assume, exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are to repay it, and you agree to cooperate with its defense of these claims. You agree not to settle any matter without the prior written consent of Tower. Tower will use reasonable efforts to notify you of any such action, claim, or proceeding once we are aware of it.
The InspirED platform is provided on an "as-is," "where is," "as available," "with all faults" basis, and Tower expressly disclaims any and all warranties and conditions of any kind, whether expressed, implied, or statutory, including all warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, quiet enjoyment, accuracy, or non-infringement. We (and our suppliers) make no warranty that the platform will meet your requirements, will be available on an uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free basis, or will be accurate, reliable, free of viruses or other harmful code, complete, legal, or safe. If applicable laws require any warranties with respect to the platform, all such warranties are limited in duration to ninety (90) days from the first date of use.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you. Some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts, so the above limitation may not apply to you.
To the maximum extent permitted by the law, in no event shall Tower be liable to you or any third party for any lost profits, lost data, costs of procurement of substitute products, or any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages arising from or relating to these terms or your use of, or inability to use, the platform, even if Tower has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Access to, and use of, the platform is at your own discretion and risk, and you will be exclusively responsible for any damage to your device or computer system, or loss of data resulting therefrom.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, our liability to you for any damages arising from or related to this agreement (for any cause whatsoever and regardless of the form of the action), will at all times be limited to a maximum of fifty US dollars (U.S. $50). The existence of more than one claim will not enlarge this limit.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.
These terms shall be in effect while you use the platform or until you delete your account. Tower may suspend or terminate your rights to use the platform (including your account) at any time for any reason at its sole discretion, including for any use of the platform in violation of these terms. Consequent to the termination of your rights under these terms, your account and right to access and use the platform will terminate immediately. You understand that any termination of your account may involve deletion of your user content associated with your account from Tower's live database. Tower will not have any liability whatsoever to you for any termination of your rights under these terms, including for the termination of your account or deletion of your user content. All provisions of this agreement that by their nature should survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity, limitations of liability, and miscellaneous provisions.
These terms are subject to change. Tower will notify of any changes to its terms by posting the new terms on this platform. The last revision date for the terms is posted at the beginning of these terms. You are responsible for providing Tower with an up-to-date, active, and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting the platform and the terms to check for any changes. Continued use of the Tower InspirED platform following notice of such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.
The communications between Tower and you use electronic means, whether you use the platform or send us emails, or we post notices on the site or communicate with you via email. For contractual purposes you.
Consent to receive communications from Tower in an electronic form.Agree that all terms and conditions, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that Tower provides to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications would satisfy if it were to be in a hardcopy.
These terms constitute the entire agreement between Tower and you regarding the use of the InspirED platform. Tower's failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these terms shall not operate as waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in these terms are for your convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. The word "including" means "including without limitation." If any provision of these terms is, for any reason, found to be invalid or unenforceable, the other provisions of these terms will be unimpaired, and the invalid or unenforceable provision will be regarded as modified so that it is valid and enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law.
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Tower Education Technologies, Inc.
102 NE 2nd Street
Suite 916
Boca Raton, FL 33432
info@TowerEdTech.com
Last Updated: 2020-10-11
Tower Education Technologies, Inc. (Tower) values the privacy of your data, and we are committed to using our best efforts to protect it. Our privacy policy explains what information we collect about you and why, what we do with your information and how we handle your information. Throughout this policy, when we write "Tower" or "we" or "us" or "our," we are referring to Tower Education Technologies, a Florida for-profit organization, and our subsidiaries and other affiliates. When we write "platform" or "InspirED" or "ConnectED" or "BlendED" or "CollaboratED" we are collectively referring to our InspirED platforms, solutions within, and any underlying components.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
As Tower grows, this Privacy Policy may need to be updated to
keep pace with the changes in our platform, applications, solutions,
business, and laws applicable to us and to you. Our first and foremost
goal is to protect and respect your privacy. We will post a notice on
our platform if any material changes are made to this policy, along with
the effective date, in an easy-to-find area of the platform. Note that
your continued use of the Tower InspirED platform after any change means
that you agree with, and consent to be bound by, the new policy. We
reserve the right to modify the Privacy Policy at any time. Please
review it frequently.
When you interact with Tower's InspirED platform, we collect information that, alone or in combination with other data, could be used to identify you (personal data). Some information we collect is stored in a manner that cannot be linked back to you (non-personal data).
When you sign up for use of Tower's services, you voluntarily give us certain personal data including your.
Information Tower Collects
We collect user
content as you use the platform. User content consists of all text,
documents, or other content or documentation uploaded, entered, or
otherwise transmitted by you in connection with your use of the site.
Tower automatically logs information about you and your device. We automatically log your.
Data obtained from cookies are described in Tower's Cookie Policy.
Tower does not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that their child has provided us with information without the consent of the parent or guardian, then the parent or guardian should immediately contact Tower via e-mail or through other written communications. We will delete such information as soon as reasonably possible. If we determine on our own that we have collected personal information from a child younger than 13 years of age, Tower will take reasonable measures to remove that child's information from our system. We strongly encourage parents and guardians to monitor their children's internet usage and to advise their children to never provide personal information through this platform without their permission.
Tower uses, processes, and stores your information in the following ways.
Tower may share your personal information as follows.
Tower does not
Information Storage
Information submitted to Tower is transferred, processed, and
stored in the United States. If you post or transfer any information to
or through our platform, you are agreeing to such information, including
personal data, being hosted and accessed in the United States.
Information Security
Tower is committed to protecting your information and takes
thorough precautions to protect it. However, internet data transmissions
cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secured. Therefore, we cannot ensure
the security of the information you transmit to us including personal
data. Given this information, you acknowledge that you transmit
information at your own risk.
Tower uses industry-standard encryption to protect your data in transit. This encryption is commonly referred to as secure socket layer (SSL) or transport layer security (TLS) technology.
Once Tower receives your data, we protect it on our servers with a combination of logical, physical, and technical security safeguards. The security of the data stored locally in any of our software requires you to be responsible for ensuring the security features on the device are enabled. Tower strongly recommends you take the appropriate steps to secure all computing devices you use in connection with our platform.
If Tower learns of a security breach, we may attempt to notify and provide information on protective steps, if available, through the email address you provide us or by posting a notice on the platform Depending on where you live, you may have the legal right to receive such notices in writing.
Delete Personal Data
You may remove your personal information from Tower by logging
into to your account, accessing the Settings page, and deleting your
account.
Data Retention
Tower retains your personal data for up to thirty (30) days or
for as long as reasonably necessary for legitimate business interests,
including fraud detection and prevention.
Account Closure
If Tower closes your account due to your violation of the Terms
of Service, you may contact Tower to request the deletion of your data.
Tower will evaluate such requests on a case by case basis, pursuant to
our legal obligations.
European Economic Area
Individuals located in the European Economic Area (EEA) have
specific rights in respect to their personal information, including the
right to access, correct, or delete personal data we process through
your use of our site. If you are a user based in the EEA, you may.
Please contact us if you have other questions or do not have a Tower account.
Tower Education Technologies, Inc.
102 NE 2nd Street
Suite 916
Boca Raton, FL 33432
info@TowerEdTech.com