QEF’s Terms of Use

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These Terms of Use (“Terms of Use”) apply to the QEF websites located at qef.org and other websites, software, platforms, mobile applications, social media profiles/accounts, content, products, and services branded Quality Engineering Foundation, QEF and any language versions thereof (collectively “the Services”). The Services, excluding the integrated products (defined below), are owned by QEF (“QEF,” “us,” or “we”). Access to and use of the Services is subject to these Terms of Use and all applicable laws. These Terms of Use govern your use and posting on QEF’s social media pages/profiles.

Please read these Terms of Use and any supplemental terms (defined below) carefully before using the Services. By accessing, using, registering for, or posting any content on the Services, you (“you,” “your,” “User,” or “Users”) accept and agree to these Terms of Use and any supplemental terms. If these Terms of Use are not acceptable to you, do not use or access the Services. You must be 16 years of age or older to use the Services. Your use of the Services is also governed by QEF Privacy Policy (embed the hyperlink of Privacy page).

Terms / Agreement

These Terms of Use are a contract between you and Quality Engineering Foundation, a non-profit community, and its affiliates.

These Terms of Use govern the Services generally. More specific and/or supplemental terms and agreements may apply to certain products, services, software, platforms and applications (“supplemental terms”). These supplemental terms are in addition to these Terms of Use. If there is a conflict between these Terms of Use and any supplemental terms, the supplemental terms will control.

QEF may change, add, modify or remove portions of these Terms of Use at any time and the new or updated Terms of Use will become effective immediately upon posting. It is your responsibility to review these Terms of Use prior to each use of the Services. By using the Services, you agree to any changes in the Terms of Use and the supplemental terms. QEF may change, suspend, interrupt, terminate operation or access to, or discontinue the Services or any portion of the Services at any time, without notice. QEF may also impose limits on the Services or restrict your access to the Services or parts thereof without notice or liability.

Accounts

You may be required to set up an account to use the Services. All information you provide must be accurate, current, and complete. You agree not to misrepresent yourself or provide false information, including for a parent/guardian. You are fully responsible for use of your account and any actions or activities that take place using your account. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the information associated with your account, including any passwords. Notify QEF immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or password. See QEF’s Privacy Policy for more information.

Any violation of these Terms of Use, including, but not limited to, your fraudulent, abusive or illegal activity on the Services may be grounds for termination of your account or access to the Services. QEF reserves the right to verify the accuracy of the information provided and terminate accounts, in its sole discretion.

You consent to receive notices, including agreements and other communications electronically from QEF at the email address you have provided when setting up an account. These electronic notices satisfy any legal requirements that such communications be in writing. If you communicate with QEF via text or access the Services through a mobile device or mobile network, standard text/messaging, calling, data and other rates may apply.

Not all Services may be available through your device or network provider.

Third-party Services and Apps

The Services may contain links to third party websites, products, and services. Links are provided as a convenience and linking does not indicate QEF’s endorsement, sponsorship of, or affiliation with the third party or its products and services.

The Services may integrate, be integrated into, or be provided in connection with websites, software, services, applications, platforms, and/or content owned by third parties (“integrated products”). You may be required to create an account for and login to these integrated products. Please read the terms of use agreements and privacy policies that apply to these integrated products. QEF has no control over, makes no representations or warranties about and accepts no responsibility for the security, legality, quality, availability, reliability, accuracy or content of the integrated products and any other third-party website, products or services.

QEF makes mobile applications (“apps”) available for your use. When using these apps, you may grant QEF, the third-party app owner and other members permission to access certain personal data and other location information; review the apps permission settings. By downloading, installing or using these apps, you agree to receive automatic software updates (as applicable).

Copyright Ownership

The Services, including, but not limited to, information, text, articles, graphics, public service announcements/campaigns, illustrations, artwork, photographs, images, audio, videos, recordings, software, databases, code, trademarks, logos, promotions and other website content published or displayed on the Services are owned by Quality Engineering Foundation or QEF’s licensors. The Services are legally protected, without limitation, by the copyright, trademark, and other laws relating to the protection of intellectual property of the United States and foreign laws. QEF is, also, the owner of the compilation of the websites located at qef.org websites and the design and look and feel of the Services.

Trademark Ownership

Many of the names, titles, trademarks, service marks, word marks, slogans, taglines and logos (collectively “trademarks”) that appear on the Services are registered or common law (unregistered) trademarks owned by QEF or third parties. You may not use QEF’s trademarks or any other trademarks appearing on the Services without prior written permission. Nothing on the Services or in these Terms of Use shall be construed as granting any license to use any trademarks.

If you would like to sell or give-away merchandise, with any of QEF’s trademarks, please contact support@qef.org.

Licenses and Restrictions

QEF grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use certain software, platforms, and applications on the Services for your personal, non-commercial use only and only in accordance with these Terms of Use or the supplemental terms or other terms of agreement that apply to those Services.

Some of the content on the Services is not owned by QEF and shall not be downloaded, used, displayed, printed, reproduced, distributed, downloaded, or shared publicly, by any Users including club members. Contact the content owner directly if you would like to use their content.

Users have no right to use, copy, display, reproduce, distribute, download, transmit, transform, create derivative works of, or make publicly available the Services unless otherwise stated below. Contact support@qef.org to request permission to use photography, film, video, recordings and other content owned by QEF in your website, publication or project materials.

User Content

The Services include interactive features, platforms, applications and services in which you can post or submit messages, comments, materials, photos, videos, audio, personal information, service opportunities, etc. (collectively, “User Content”). By posting or submitting User Content on the Services and/or any integrated products, be aware that your User Content may be seen and used by others. You represent and warrant that you own the User Content you post on the Services and are responsible for such User Content.

By accessing or using the Services and/or posting User Content you represent and warrant that: 1) your postings will be consistent with these Terms of Use and do not violate these Terms of Use; 2) you own all of the rights to User Content that you post or share to the Services; 3) your User Content does not violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other personal or proprietary rights; 4) your User Content will not cause injury to any person or entity and does not contain defamatory or otherwise unlawful material; and 5) you will only post images, videos or recordings of individuals with the explicit written consent of the subject (or the parent or legal guardian of a subject under 18 years of age or who lacks legal capacity).

You authorize QEF to use your name, likeness, and any other personal or biographical data or information you share on the Services or in your User Content in connection with your User Content; see QEF Privacy Policy.

QEF welcomes your feedback, but please do not submit any unsolicited ideas, suggestions, original creative works or propriety information (collectively “ideas”) in any form on the Site Services. If you do submit ideas, the following terms shall apply to your submissions: 1) QEF is not under any obligation of confidentiality, express or implied and no confidential or fiduciary relationship is intended or created; 2) QEF may have similar ideas already under consideration or in development; and 3) you grant QEF a worldwide, transferable license to use or exploit your ideas without limitation or any compensation, reimbursement or attribution to you.

The information and opinions expressed in the User Content are not those of QEF or its foundation, affiliates or subsidiaries. QEF is not responsible or liable for any misuse or misappropriation of your User Content or ideas. QEF is not responsible for and assumes no liability for User Content or from any failure or delay in removing any User Content.

Usage Rules

You understand that the Services are for your personal, non-commercial use and intended for informational purposes only. The Services do not constitute legal, financial, professional, tax, medical or healthcare advice and cannot be used for such purposes.

Quality Engineering Foundation celebrates diversity. QEF seeks to foster a positive, welcoming, equitable, inclusive and safe environment on its Services and at its events. Your use of the Services and posting of User Content is subject to the following terms:

Responsibility. Stay on topic. You are solely responsible for the content you post or submit and use the Services at your own risk. Be an ally and advocate for others when you see a need;
Respect Intellectual Property. Only post content that you own or created. You shall not post any content that infringes the copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights of others;
Privacy. Do not post photographs, images or videos of other people without their written consent, or the written consent of the parent or legal guardian of any minors (i.e., under 18 years of age) or individuals who lack legal capacity. Do not post the names or contact or private information of others. Do not collect contact information of other Users or individuals referenced in the Services;
Respect Others. Express yourself in ways that unite. Use respectful language. QEF has zero-tolerance for any form of harassment. Do not post any content that is off-topic, illegal, abusive, threatening, harassing, discriminatory, degrading, intimidating, offensive, insensitive, hateful, cruel, derogatory, false, sexually explicit, pornographic or interferes with, silences or excludes another individual’s use of the Services. Personal attacks will not be tolerated;
Stay on Topic. Only post content that is relevant and on-topic;
No Solicitations. Do not post commercial content, advertising, marketing solicitations, job offers, product announcements or solicitations for services; and
Malware. Do not tamper with, impair or damage the Services or introduce or post content that contains viruses, harmful files, malicious scripts, or files, materials or code intended to harm, damage, create an adverse impact on, or interfere with the Services or QEF’s networks, servers or databases.

You understand that QEF has the right but not the obligation to monitor the Services or monitor, edit or remove any User Content. QEF assumes no responsibility or liability for User Content or any other content on the Services, or from any failure or delay in removing any such content.

QEF reserves the right to delete, remove, modify, refuse or block any content or User Content without notice or your permission for any reason. Any use of the Services or posting of User Content in violation of the terms set forth in this Section or these Terms of Use may result, among other actions, in termination or suspension of your account.

Contests and Promotions

QEF may conduct promotions on or through the Services, including, without limitation, contests and promotions (collectively “Promotions”). Promotions may have additional terms and rules that will be posted on the Services or otherwise made available. You agree to abide by such terms and rules, including representing that you are of a sufficient legal age to participate in any Promotions.

Transactions and e-Commerce

Additional terms and conditions may apply to purchases of products or services, event registrations and donations. The inclusion of any products or services or event registration on the Services does not imply or warrant that such products or services will be available or the event will take place. If you wish to purchase a product or service, register for an event or make a donation, you acknowledge and agree that QEF or Quality Engineering Foundation may provide such information to third parties for purposes of facilitating the completion of the transaction initiated by you, subject to QEF’s Privacy Policy (Enable the Privacy Policy Link). You represent and warrant that you have the legal right to use any credit card(s) or other payment method(s) utilized in connection with your transaction. QEF shall not be responsible or liable for any third-party payment processing, including any related fees or costs.

Copyright and Trademark Complaints

QEF respects the intellectual property rights of others and will take action against infringers, which may include terminating a user’s account. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and other applicable laws, QEF has adopted a policy of responding to claims that User Content infringes intellectual property rights. If you wish to file a complaint for intellectual property infringement or submit a counter-notice, please send your correspondence to support@qef.org.

Written complaints concerning copyright infringement must include:

The full legal name of the owner of the copyrighted work and the name and email address of the complaining party;
Description(s) of the copyrighted work(s) that you claim have been infringed;
Identification of the material claimed to be infringing and description of the location of such material on the Services;
A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in dispute is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law (fair use); and that you declare that the information in your notice is accurate, under penalty of perjury, and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf; and
A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or the person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner’s behalf.

General

These Terms of Use contain the complete agreement between you and QEF with respect to your use of the Services, integrated products, and QEF’s social media pages/profiles and supersede all prior or contemporaneous agreements or understandings, whether oral or written, with respect to the Services, unless otherwise stated in any other supplemental terms or terms or agreements incorporated herein. You will not transfer, sublicense, or assign, any of your rights or obligations under these Terms of Use to anyone else without QEF’s consent. Any failure or delay of QEF to enforce or exercise any term or its rights under these Terms of Use shall not be construed as a waiver of those rights or provisions or a breach of these Terms of Use by QEF. A waiver by QEF of any terms of the Terms of Use in any one instance shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any terms in the future. If any term of these Terms of Use shall be held invalid, unenforceable or illegal, the remaining terms of the Terms of Use will remain valid, legal and enforceable. Any amendment to or waiver of these Terms of Use must be made in writing and signed by QEF. QEF reserves all rights not expressly granted to you.

In the event of termination of your use of the Services for any reason, you agree that the following provisions of these Terms of Use will survive: Terms/Agreement, Copyright Ownership, Trademark Ownership, Licenses and Representations and Warranties, Disclaimers of Warranties and Limitations of Liability, Disputes, Indemnification, and Copyright and Trademark Complaints. If QEF does take legal action against you as a result of your violation of these Terms of Use, QEF will be entitled to recover from you all reasonable fees and costs of such action, in addition to any other relief QEF may have at law or in equity.

If any questions arise about the meaning or interpretation of a language version of these Terms of Use, the English-language version of these Terms of Use is the official text.