The Institute for Applied Development Terms and Conditions

Please read these terms and conditions (“terms and conditions”, “terms”) carefully before using www.I-AD.org website (“website”, “service”) operated by the Institute for Applied Development, a division of EACC (“us”, ‘we”, “our”).

CONDITIONS OF USE
By using this website, you certify that you have read and reviewed this Agreement and that you agree to comply with its terms. If you do not want to be bound by the terms of this Agreement, you are advised to stop using the website accordingly. The Institute for Applied Development only grants the use and access of this website, its products, and its services to those who have accepted its terms.

PRIVACY POLICY
Before you continue using our website, we advise you to read our privacy policy [link to privacy policy] regarding our user data collection. It will help you better understand our practices.

ASSESSMENT USAGE
We intend that all the assessments offered at I-AD be used as tools to broaden awareness and produce dialogue, versus tools to evaluate an individual’s ability or lack thereof.

ASSESSMENT CODES
Assessment codes don’t expire. Assessment codes are randomly generated and not recoverable if lost or forgotten by the purchaser. Assessment codes can only be used once.

AGE RESTRICTION
You must be at least 18 (eighteen) years of age before you can use this website. By using this website, you warrant that you are at least 18 years of age and you may legally adhere to this Agreement. The Institute for Applied Development assumes no responsibility for liabilities related to age misrepresentation.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
You agree that all materials, products, and services provided on this website are the property of the Institute for Applied Development, its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, suppliers, or licensors including all copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks, patents, and other intellectual property. You also agree that you will not reproduce or redistribute the [company name]’s intellectual property in any way, including electronic, digital, or new trademark registrations.
You grant the Institute for Applied Development a royalty-free and non-exclusive license to display, use, copy, transmit, and broadcast the content you upload and publish. For issues regarding intellectual property claims, you should contact the company to come to an agreement.

USER ACCOUNTS
As a user of this website, you may be asked to register with us and provide private information. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of this information, and you are responsible for maintaining the safety and security of your identifying information. You are also responsible for all activities that occur under your account or password. If you think there are any possible issues regarding the security of your account on the website, inform us immediately so we may address them accordingly. We reserve all rights to terminate accounts, edit or remove content, and cancel orders at our sole discretion.

APPLICABLE LAW
By using this website, you agree that the laws of the [your location], without regard to principles of conflict laws, will govern these terms and conditions, or any dispute of any sort that might come between the Institute for Applied Development and you, or its business partners and associates.

DISPUTES
Any dispute related in any way to your use of this website or to products you purchase from us shall be arbitrated by state or federal court Oneida, New York and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue of such courts.

INDEMNIFICATION
You agree to indemnify [company name] and its affiliates and hold the Institute for Applied Development harmless against legal claims and demands that may arise from your use or misuse of our services. We reserve the right to select our legal counsel.

LIMITATION ON LIABILITY
The Institute for Applied Development is not liable for any damages that may occur to you because of your misuse of our website.

The Institute for Applied Development reserves the right to edit, modify, and change this Agreement at any time. We shall let our users know of these changes through electronic mail. This Agreement is an understanding between the Institute for Applied Development and the user, and this supersedes and replaces all prior agreements regarding the use of this website.

The Institute for Applied Development Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy practices of the Institute for Applied Development at https://I-AD.org. For this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to “I-AD ” include online learning.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE GATHER ABOUT YOU?
We collect information from you when you access and when you subscribe to our platform, the Institute for Applied Development.

WHAT DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION FOR?
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website by identifying (1) which parts of our site are most heavily used, and (2) which portion of our audience comes from within I-AD. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that user sessions will be tracked, but the users will remain anonymous. The email address you provide may be used to send you information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.

User information may be shared with third-party partners to the extent necessary to provide and improve web services or other communications to users. Any third parties who receive user information for this purpose are prohibited from using or sharing user information for any purpose other than providing services to users.

We may also provide your information to third parties in circumstances where we believe that doing so is necessary or appropriate to: satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request; detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or others.

DEVICE INFORMATION COLLECTED BY US
We may collect non-personal information about the computer, mobile device or other device you use to access www.i-ad.org, such as IP address, geolocation information, unique device identifiers, browser type, browser language or other information of this nature. We use this information in an aggregate fashion to track access to I-AD. At no time do we disclose site usage by individual IP addresses. Web server logs are retained on a temporary basis and then deleted from our systems.

COOKIES
Cookies are small files that are stored on your computer (unless you block them). We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

THIRD-PARTY COOKIES
Cookies may be set by an organization other I-AD. These “third-party cookies” may, for example, originate from websites such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus or other social media services for which I-AD has implemented “plug-ins.” Since the cookie policies of these sites change over time, you should determine their policies by visiting the privacy policy pages of these sites directly.
You may disable cookies through your individual browser options. If you would like to learn more about cookies please refer to the following website: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
We may provide hyperlinks to third-party websites as a convenience to users of I-AD. I-AD does not control third-party websites and is not responsible for the contents of any linked-to, third-party websites or any hyperlink in a linked-to website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of third-party websites.

EMAIL POLICY
We will not share, sell, rent, swap, or authorize any third party to use your email address for commercial purposes without your permission.

INFORMATION PROTECTION
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the appropriate use of information we gather about you, we have taken commercially reasonable steps to protect the information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
The latest change to I-AD privacy policies occurred on June 19, 2024.