Terms and Conditions
By using any Hope in a Box materials, including curriculum guides and any other materials on this web domain (www.hopeinabox.org), you are consenting to be bound by this agreement. If you do not accept all of this agreement’s terms, you are not authorized to use any materials on this site.
Ownership
All materials on this website are the property of Hope in a Box, Inc. The only exceptions are copyrighted images and other materials owned by others, which are so indicated. This agreement gives you no ownership rights to any of these materials.
Copyright Laws
This site and all materials on it are protected by United States copyright laws, which give creators of original works of authorship the exclusive right to use their works for a limited period of time. With certain exceptions, copyrighted materials may not be used or copied without the express written consent of the copyright holder (Hope in a Box). This agreement describes the uses that you are permitted to make of the materials on this site.
License to Use
You are licensed by Hope in a Box, Inc. to use materials on this site for non-commercial, educational and personal purposes only. You may download and/or copy these materials for personal or professional use, provided the copies retain all applicable copyright and trademark notices. This license is not exclusive to you, and you may not transfer it. Items such as curriculum guides, media releases, op-eds, classroom handouts, and all other Hope in a Box documents on this site, if reproduced in compliance with these Terms of Use, must be credited to Hope in a Box, Inc., and to the author(s) (if named).
License Period for Curriculum and Conditions for Termination
The license granted for materials labeled “Curriculum” (e.g., “Curriculum Guides”) shall be effective until July 1, 2022, unless terminated sooner by Hope in a Box, Inc. for breach of the terms herein. In addition, Hope in a Box, Inc. also reserves the right to terminate the license prior to July 1, 2022 for the purpose of offering updated/amended version(s) of the materials herein licensed. Future licenses will be governed by their own Terms of Use.
Prohibited Uses
Any commercial use of the materials on this site is strictly prohibited. You may not sell, assign, sublicense or otherwise transfer these materials; copy them for other than approved uses (see "License to Use" above); publish them on other Web sites, in other media, or for personal gain; or remove any copyright or trademark notice, without Hope in a Box, Inc.’s express written permission.
No Warranty
All materials on this site are made available to you as-is. Hope in a Box, Inc. makes no warranty, express or implied, as to these materials, their title, accuracy, non-infringement of third party rights, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose, or the performance or results you may obtain from their use.
Limitation of Liability
Under no circumstances shall Hope in a Box, Inc. be liable for any direct, incidental, special, consequential, indirect or punitive damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the materials on this site or materials provided via our services (including but not limited to book donations, curriculum guides, classroom handouts, and any community channels such as private online groups). This limitation of liability includes any damages related to links to other sites posted on our website. Links do not imply endorsement or responsibility for their contents or use. If you are dissatisfied with any such materials or these terms and conditions, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using or visiting this site and/or using the materials provided by Hope in a Box, Inc.
Submissions
Any suggestions, creative ideas, inventions or other materials that you submit to this site shall become the property of Hope in a Box, Inc. Hope in a Box, Inc. may disclose or use any such submissions for any purpose without your consent or compensation therefore.
Information Collected & Stored Automatically
During your visit, as you browse through the web site, read pages, or download information, we reserve the right to automatically gather and store certain information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally. We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors by learning about the number of visitors and the technology in use.
Security
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, Hope in a Box, Inc. may use software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1001 and 1030. Information also may be used for authorized law enforcement investigations. Except for the above purposes, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
Arbitration and Class Action Waiver
By using the services, you agree that disputes between you and us will be resolved by binding, individual arbitration and you waive your right to participate in a class action lawsuit or class-wide arbitration.
Questions and Requests for Permission to Use
Any questions regarding the terms of this agreement or requests for permission to use materials on this site for any commercial or personal purpose should be directed to our staff on our Contact page.
Revised: August 2020