Terms of Use

General Provisions

The Web is an evolving medium; we may change the terms of this agreement from time to time. By continuing to use this website after we post any such changes, you accept this agreement, as modified. We may change, restrict access to, suspend, or discontinue operation of this website, or any portion of this website, at any time.

We invite you to bring to our attention any material on this website that you believe to be inaccurate. Please forward a copy of the material to our Web Editors along with an explanation of the error.

The material that appears on peoplesclimatearts.org is for informational purposes only. Despite our efforts to provide useful and accurate information, errors may appear from time to time. People’s Climate Arts is not responsible for, and cannot guarantee the performance of, goods and services provided by our advertisers or others to whose sites we link.

Ownership & Permissions

Our License to You. The materials available through peoplesclimatearts.org are the property of People’s Climate Arts, or its licensors, and are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. You are hereby granted a non-exclusive license to use the material on this website for your personal, non-commercial use (including, where available, to e-mail individual stories to friends directly from this site). You are also granted a limited license to print one copy of any material posted on this website, but only for your personal use, provided you keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices that appear on such material. You may not otherwise reproduce or distribute copies of any of the materials on this website in any form (including by e-mail or other electronic means), without the prior written consent of the owner.

Your License to Us. By submitting material to us, you are representing that you are the owner of the material, or are making your submission with the express consent of the owner. By submitting material to any public posting area of this website, such as discussion forums, blogs, chats, webinars, calendars, or comments sections , you agree that we (including our partners, agents, affiliates, and service providers, collectively, “Third Party Providers”), may reproduce, modify, and distribute such material as we see fit in any medium and for any purpose. You also agree that we, including our Third Party Providers, may identify you as the author of any of your postings by name, e-mail address or screen name, as we see appropriate. We also reserve the right (but assume no obligation) to delete, move, or edit any postings that come to our attention that we consider unacceptable, irrelevant, or inappropriate, whether for legal or other reasons. Postings with links attached may be delayed.

Links. You may establish a hypertext link to peoplesclimatearts.org so long as the link does not state or imply any sponsorship of your site by People’s Climate Arts or peoplesclimatearts.org. However, you may not, without the prior written permission of People’s Climate Arts, frame or in-line link any of the content, or incorporate into another website or other service, any material, content, or intellectual property belonging to People’s Climate Arts, its parent or affiliate companies or their licensors. Exceptions can be made by People’s Climate Arts and include RSS-feed widgets and video players that provide an embed code via a share button.

Links to Other Sites

Through this website, People’s Climate Arts has provided links and pointers to Internet sites maintained by third parties. People’s Climate Arts’s linking to such third party sites does not imply an endorsement or sponsorship of such sites, or the information, products or services offered on or through the sites. In addition, neither People’s Climate Arts, nor its parent or subsidiary companies, nor their affiliates operate or control in any respect any information, products or services that third parties may provide on or through this website or on websites linked to from peoplesclimatearts.org.

Disclaimer of Warranties & Liability

THIS WEBSITE AND THE INFORMATION, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OFFERED ON OR THROUGH THIS WEBSITE AND ANY THIRD-PARTY SITES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, People’s Climate Arts DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. People’s Climate Arts DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS WEBSITE OR ANY OF ITS FUNCTIONS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT ANY PART OF THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING BULLETIN BOARDS, OR THE SERVERS THAT MAKE IT AVAILABLE, ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM ANY MATERIAL AND/OR DATA DOWNLOADED FROM OR OTHERWISE PROVIDED THROUGH peoplesclimatearts.org. People’s Climate Arts DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR MATERIALS ON THE WEBSITE, OR ANY THIRD-PARTY SITES IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, TIMELINESS, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE.

Limitation of Liability

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL People’s Climate Arts, ITS SUBSIDIARY AND PARENT COMPANIES OR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, peoplesclimatearts.org, OR ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, OR MATERIALS MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH peoplesclimatearts.org, EVEN IF People’s Climate Arts IS ADVISED BEFOREHAND OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. (BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MANY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, THE LIABILITY OF People’s Climate Arts, ITS SUBSIDIARY AND PARENT COMPANIES AND AFFILIATES IS LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY SUCH STATE LAW.) YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT People’s Climate Arts IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY USER OF peoplesclimatearts.org. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY peoplesclimatearts.org MATERIAL, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES, OR WITH ANY OF peoplesclimatearts.org’S TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THIS WEBSITE.

Termination

People’s Climate Arts may restrict or terminate your right to use this website or any part of this website at any time for any reason without notice. The restrictions imposed on you with respect to material downloaded from this website, and the disclaimers and limitations of liabilities set forth in this User Agreement shall survive the termination of this agreement or your access to our site.

Interactive Features

This website may include a variety of features, such as discussion forums, blogs, chats, webinars, calendars, and comment sections, which allow feedback to peoplesclimatearts.org and real-time interaction between users. People’s Climate Arts also uses social media services, including but not limited to Twitter and Facebook, to enable feedback and real-time interaction. Responsibility for what is posted on forums, discussions, blogs, and other public posting areas on this website and related social media lies with each user—you alone are responsible for the material you post. As a condition of your use of these features, you warrant to People’s Climate Arts that you will not use them for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by this User Agreement. Except as otherwise permitted in this User Agreement, you may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, services, software, or benefits obtained from these features.

In addition, you may not use these features to:

  • Defame, abuse, harass, threaten, or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others;
  • Conduct or forward illegal contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, unsolicited e-mail or multi-level marketing campaigns;
  • Publish, post, distribute, disseminate, or link to any:
    (i) profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, material or information;
    (ii) software or other material protected by intellectual property laws, rights of privacy or publicity, or other proprietary rights, unless you own, control such rights or have received all necessary consents for your use of such software and other materials;
    (iii) software or other material that contains viruses, corrupted files, or that may or are intended to damage the operation of another’s computer (e.g., “cracks” or other programs written to defeat the security measures of any computer, system or programs);
  • Distribute, promote, or link to any sites for the marketing, sales, or distribution of any service or product;
  • Harvest or otherwise collect information about third parties, including e-mail addresses, without the express consent of such third parties;
  • Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying its rights in the features offered on this website;
  • Impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
  • Gain unauthorized access to this website, or any account, computer system or network connected to this website, by means such as hacking, password mining or other illicit means;
  • Interfere with or disrupt the operation of this website or any servers or networks; or,
  • Violate any applicable laws or regulations.

Comments posted on peoplesclimatearts.org should show up immediately. Comments do not require approval before posting. If you receive a notice that your comment is awaiting approval, it is the result of a technical issue. Please contact [email protected] for help with troubleshooting.

Copyright Complaints

People’s Climate Arts respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. People’s Climate Arts may, at its discretion, terminate the use of these services by users who violate any of the terms of this User Agreement, or infringe the intellectual property rights of others.

If you are the owner of intellectual property who believes that your intellectual property has been improperly posted or distributed via our website, please provide People’s Climate Arts’s Copyright Agent the following information in a signed notice:

  • A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
  • A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on our website;
  • Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
  • A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
  • A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.

Note: Only copyright complaints should be sent to this address. No other communications will be accepted or replied to.

Registration

To access certain features of this website, People’s Climate Arts may ask you to provide certain information including your name, address, and job function. You agree to provide true, accurate, current, and complete information about yourself as prompted by this website’s registration form, and that you will not register under the name of, or attempt to enter this website under the name of another person. If People’s Climate Arts has reasonable grounds to suspect that any registration information that you provide is untrue, inaccurate, or incomplete, People’s Climate Arts has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of this website (or any portion thereof) by you.

Subscriptions

You agree to pay the subscription fees and any other charges incurred in connection with your User Name and Password for a subscription at the rates then in effect when the charges were incurred. We will bill all charges to your credit card or we will mail you an invoice (where this option is offered). Subscription fees will be billed at the beginning of your subscription or any renewal. Fees for monthly subscriptions are non-refundable; annual subscription refunds will be pro-rated based on the unused portion of your subscription. We may change the fees and charges then in effect, or add new fees or charges, by giving you notice in advance.

If you do not already have a print subscription to Education Week, your subscription will renew automatically unless we terminate it or you notify Customer Service by telephone (843-216-1183) or e-mail ([email protected]) of your decision to terminate your subscription. If your subscription is annual, you will receive a reminder of your renewal at least 30 days before billing takes place. You must cancel your subscription before it renews in order to avoid billing of subscription fees for the renewal term.

Passwords

To use certain features of this website, you will need a user name and password, which you will receive through this website’s registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password, and are responsible for all activities (whether by you or by others) that occur under your password. You agree to notify People’s Climate Arts immediately of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security of which you become aware, and to ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. People’s Climate Arts cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to protect your password or account information. People’s Climate Arts reserves the right to disallow the use of any user name that People’s Climate Arts deems offensive or inappropriate.

Miscellaneous

The staff of peoplesclimatearts.org does its best to ensure that information we post to this site is both timely and accurate. However, reports that were accurate when posted may become outdated over time. We may post follow-up reports, and we may also continue to provide access to the original report, in our online archive, for example. But, we do not revise the original report to reflect new developments. If you are looking for the most recent information we have on a given subject, and not a historical view, be sure you’re not looking at an out-of-date report.

User-submitted content is public and permanent. However, it may be removed at People’s Climate Arts’s discretion, particularly if it violates this agreement or presents a credible threat to personal or public safety. Postings with links attached may be delayed.

You may not send any unsolicited e-mail message, commercial or non-commercial, to any e-mail address you have gathered from this site.