Use of IE Class's Service constitutes acceptance and agreement to IE Class's AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) as well as IE Class's TOS (Terms of Service). From herewith in this TOS, AUP, the usage of "us", "we", "our", "ours" shall constitute reference to IE Class, the usage of "you", "your", "they", "them" shall refer to client / customer of IE Class.
IE Class, Inc. shall have the right, at its sole discretion, to modify, add or remove any terms or conditions of these Terms of Service without notice or liability to you. Any changes to these Terms of Service shall be effective immediately following the posting of such changes on this website. The most recent version of these Terms of Service may always be found at http://www.ieclass.com/terms.php. You agree to review these Terms of Service from time to time and agree that any subsequent use by you of this website following changes to these Terms of Service shall constitute your acceptance of all such changes. These Terms of Service were last modified on December 21, 2014.
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Unauthorized Use of Lessons, Labs, Projects, or Exercises
Teachers MUST have a current paid subscription to IE Class, Inc. to use any features on the IE Class website including lessons, labs, projects, or tools in their class or in any other teaching or instructional environment. Teachers who allow their account expire may no longer use any IE Class curriculum materials. Using our labs without a valid paid subscription is a violation of this agreement. We take intellectual property theft very seriously and we have progressive measures built in to identify schools and teachers using IE Class curriculum without a valid subscription.
Teachers and students may report unauthorized use of any IE Class material to comply@ieclass.com. We do provide cash rewards for information on the illegal and/or unauthorized use of IE Class curriculum in the classroom leading to the recovery of damages.
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Usernames and Passwords
All usernames and passwords must be assigned to individuals and kept private. Teachers and students may not post their usernames and/or passwords on any website or distribute usernames and passwords in any way. IE Class, Inc. reserves the right delete, disable, or limit any account, demo, student or teacher account without notice, who's username or password is discovered to have been distributed in any way. Student accounts must be assigned to individual students and used by only by the authorized student. See section VIII for more information.
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Warranties
IE Class, Inc. provides this web site, and its features, "As IS," "WITH ALL FAULTS" and the entire risk as to satisfaction, quality, performance, accuracy, and effort is with the subscriber. Due to the nature of the curriculum being online and printable, no refunds will be given. IE Class offers a demo account for teachers and educators to review, test, and approve prior to purchasing a subscription.
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Network Uptime & Availability
IE Class does not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted or secure access to our service, and operation of our site may be interfered with by numerous factors outside of our control, including your districts network system and proxy server.
Scheduled Downtime is any IE Class scheduled interruption of Services, for the purpose of system upgrades in order to provide for you better service. Scheduled downtime during the hours of 8:AM and 5:00PM CST will occur with as much advance warning as possible via notice on the Teacher Center page, with a minimum of 12- 24 hours notice.
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Special Offers
At times, we will run promotional offers. Only one promotional offer may be used. To be eligible for the advertised promotion, the promotional code must be entered on the IE Class, Inc. web site with the purchase order number.
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Demo Accounts
Teachers interested in evaluating the features on the Teacher Center of IE Class and previewing the lessons are invited to sign up for an IE Class Demo Account. Demo accounts are for the teacher's use only and should not be used as part of the course curriculum. The teacher may create up to 10 student accounts in order to see how to setup classes and create student accounts. The demo student accounts must not be distributed to students. Each school may only create one demo account. Once the demo account has expired, a subscription must be purchased in order to continuing using IE Class. Signing up for multiple Demo accounts for the purpose of avoiding paying for a subscription is a violation of this agreement. Demo accounts that have been expired for 30 days without being upgraded will be removed from the system.
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Paid Teacher Accounts
Each paid subscription will include up to three Teacher Accounts for a single campus. The second and third account will be issued upon request. One account will be designated as the primary account and will be responsible for payments and for approving the addition and/or removal of other teacher accounts. Teachers are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their accounts and passwords and for restricting access to their computer while logged into the IE Class Teacher Center. Teachers also agree to accept full responsibility for all activities that occur on any student account they create.
Accounts are assigned to individual schools, not teachers. Teachers who move to another school that does not currently subscribe to IE Class will not qualify for the renewal rate.
Teacher Account Transfers
Teacher accounts may be transferred to other teachers at the school in which the account is registered. Accounts may not be transferred to any other schools.
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Student Accounts
Student accounts may only be created for High School students. Student accounts are assigned per school, not per teacher. If a school has more than one teacher account, the teachers must inform IE Class via email as to how the allotted student accounts should be divided among the school's teacher accounts. Teachers may create, delete, or reassign student accounts as needed. Under no circumstances may teachers create student accounts for other teachers, parents, or anyone who is not a high school student at the institution subscribing to the service. Student accounts are to only be assigned to a single student at a time and the first name of the student authorized to use the account must be entered in the account profile. Generic accounts may not be created, and two or more students may not share a single account. Student accounts that do not meet these guidelines are subject to suspension or deletion.
Any additional student accounts added to the teacher's subscription will become part of the Basic Subscription and will expire with the teachers subscription regardless of when the additional student account was added.
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Payments
Payments are due in full 30 days from the activation date of the Teacher Account. Accounts not paid within 30 days are subject to suspension until account is paid and a 10% late payment fee. The school agrees to pay all collection expenses, including attorney fees and court costs should IE Class, Inc. be required to collect on their unpaid account.
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Account Renewals
After paying a standard subscription rate, current subscribers are eligible for the renewal rate. The current renewal rates are posted on the Subscribe to IE Class page. The renewal rate does not include additional student accounts that may have been added. An official purchase order muse be received via fax or mail by the account renewal date for the account to remain active. Accounts that have expired and have been deactivated within a year of the renewal date are subject to a $35 reactivation fee. Accounts that have expired and have not been renewed for longer than a year are required to pay the initial registration fee.
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Online Lessons
All IE Class lessons are for the sole use of subscribers. No lessons may be saved, distributed, or copied without the written permission of the IE Class staff. Any saving, distributing, or copying of the IE Class online lessons is a violation of this agreement. Any school found to be using the any portion of the IE Class curriculum without a valid subscription will be invoiced for the full subscription fee. Schools or individuals who continue to use the IE Class curriculum without subscribing are in violation of copyright regulations and appropriate legal action will be taken.
Lesson Plan Manager
The Lesson Plan Manager is provided as a tool to create and plan out lesson plans. Subscribing teachers may create lesson plans online and save them to our system. IE Class Lesson Plan Manager may only be used to plan lessons related to the curriculum provided on IE Class. Lesson Plans saved on on the IE Class system become property of IE Class and they may be used in for demonstration, training, or any other purpose decided on by IE Class without compensation being provided to the author.
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Lab Exercises and Projects
All lab exercises and projects provided by IE Class are the property of IE Class, Inc. Subscribers are given the right to use the lessons, labs, exercises, and projects in their classroom only with a valid subscription. It is the teacher's responsibility to verify that the procedures in the labs, and Llab Code work with the browsers used in the classroom before assigning labs to the students. Lessons may not be provided to any other school or used as examples in any workshop or presentation without the expressed written permission of IE Class, Inc. To use IE Class curriculum in a teacher development workshop, the presenter should send us an email and indicate the nature of the workshop, dates of the workshop, the specific labs you wish to use, a contact phone number, and mailing address. Permission must be received in writing before any labs may be used in any workshop presentations. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES may any lab exercise, worksheet, lesson, or project be posted on a school web site for students to download or any other public domain. The IE Class online lessons may not be copied and / or distributed in any printed or electronic format other than the subscribed teacher's individual classroom. The online lessons may not be copied and / or posted on a school website. Violation of this agreement is a copyright infringement and IE Class, Inc. will take a proactive position to resolve the situation.
Accounts suspended for copyright or TOS violations by the subscribing teacher will be assessed a $50 reinstatement fee that must be paid in full prior to the account being reinstated.
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Quiz Builder
To help customize the IE Class curriculum and activities to the individual teachings and lessons of our subscribers, we have provided teachers the ability to add questions to the Quiz Builder. By adding questions, you agree to assign each question to its appropriate category. Any questions added to the Quiz Builder become property of IE Class and may be used by any subscriber to IE Class. You also agree that any questions you add will be related to the IE Class Web Technologies Curriculum. Questions related to other courses are prohibited. IE Class, Inc. reserves the right to edit or remove any questions they feel are not appropriate, inaccurate, unrelated to the IE Class course, or for any other reason.
Sometimes school network systems, proxy servers, and computer configurations can interfere with the performance of the Quiz Results. Teachers are responsible for testing the Quiz Builder with their classroom computers to verify that it works properly before assigning online quizzes to students.
We make no warranties or promises as to the accuracy of the questions or performance of the Quiz Builder. See item III
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Teacher Contact Information
Teacher names, a working email address, school name, school phone number, and school address is required of all subscribers. You agree to notify the IE Class staff of any changes to your contact information.
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Linking to IE Class
You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a link to the home page of the Site so long as the link does not portray IE Class, Inc., its affiliates, or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any IE Class, Inc. logo or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without express written permission or other authorized affiliate agreement.
IE Class, Inc. does not review or control third-party sites that link to or from the site, and is not responsible for the contents of any third-party sites linked to or from the IE Class web site.
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Loss of Data
Teachers are responsible for printing and keeping hard copies of all quizzes that students take through the IE Class Quiz Builder, and for recording quiz scores in their own off-site records. IE Class, nor anyone associated with IE Class, will backup, or be responsible or liable for any loss of data, including messages, quizzes, quiz scores, teacher accounts, or student accounts. Should a major data loss occur, we will do our best
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Violation of Terms of Use
Subscribers found in violation of this policy may have their accounts suspended or deleted and will forfeit any unused time on their subscription. No refund will be given and possible criminal and/or civil charges filed for unauthorized distribution or use of account information, lab exercises, projects, or online lessons.
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Privacy Policy
IE Class, Inc. does collect and store information entered by the teacher when registering for the account. The collected information is necessary to provide the teacher and school with our services. The information collected will not be distributed or sold to any third parties or any other schools.