Welcome to the Special Olympics Learning Management System. The Learning Management System is owned and operated by Special Olympics, Inc. (SOI), an international non-profit organization incorporated in Washington, D.C., USA.
The terms and conditions below govern your use of the Learning Management System. Please read these carefully before using the Learning Management System. Your use of the Learning Management System indicates that you accept these terms. If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use the Learning Management System.
SOI owns or is licensed to use all intellectual property rights in and to the Learning Management System and all technical infrastructure (the software) relating to it. If you breach any of these terms your permission to use the Learning Management System and any materials or content included in it, automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloads or printed extracts from the Learning Management System.
In accessing any part of the Learning Management System, you agree:
• Not to use the Learning Management System in such a way that disrupts, interferes with or restricts the use of the Learning Management System
by other users;
• Not to upload, display or transmit any materials through the Learning Management System which are false, offensive, defamatory, threatening,
obscene, unlawful or which infringe the rights of any other person anywhere in the world;
• Not to reverse engineer, decompile, copy or adapt any software or other code or scripts forming part of the Learning Management System or
attempt to transmit to or via the Learning Management System any information that contains a virus, worm, trojan horse or other harmful or
disruptive component; and
• Not to change, modify, delete, interfere with or misuse data contained on the Learning Management System and entered by or relating to any
third party user of the Learning Management System.
If you are granted permission to log-in and access the Learning Management System to download information (the Material), you may do so only for purposes authorized in advance in writing by an authorized representative of SOI or another Special Olympics organization (the Purpose).
Material must not be reproduced or exploited for commercial gain but only in pursuance of the Purpose. All other rights are reserved and users must seek SOI’s permission before making any other use of Material contained in the Learning Management System.
Your use of the Material shall not be derogatory to or critical of Special Olympics, Special Olympics athletes or people with intellectual disabilities, or any officer, director, agent, employee, or affiliate of SOI. The Material shall not be altered in any fashion except as expressly authorized by SOI or another Special Olympics organization in writing.
You shall indemnify and hold harmless SOI and all other Special Olympics organizations, their officers, directors and employees from all loss, cost, damage, liability and expense, and reasonable attorneys’ fees that they may incur by reason of your use of the Material in any manner not authorized by these Terms of Use.
You shall have no rights to the intellectual property or the software, or any enhancements or modifications thereto, provided to you in order to access the Learning Management System Material. You may not sublicense, assign or transfer any licenses granted by SOI, and any attempt at such sublicense, assignment or transfer shall be null and void.
SOI may at its discretion allow users to upload or post content to individual user pages or to certain areas of the Learning Management System (each a Submission). SOI may in its sole discretion decide whether or not to use a Submission. SOI is hereby licensed to edit, change and remove all content posted to the Learning Management System. You represent, warrant and agree that you will not provide any Submission which is subject to the rights of another person without first obtaining their express authorization and that you are responsible if your Submission injures another person.
The Learning Management System has been designed with the aim of providing education and training opportunities to Special Olympics volunteers and participants.
Owing to the nature of the Internet we cannot guarantee that the Learning Management System or the web sites to which it is linked will always be available to users. You should ensure that you have appropriate protection against viruses and other security arrangements in place while using the Internet.
Although every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that the information on the Learning Management System was accurate at the time of publication, it is subject to variation at any time without notice and we do not give any warranty that any such information will be accurate or complete at any particular time or at all.
The Learning Management System and any information or other material contained in it are made available strictly on the basis that you accept it on an 'as is' and 'as available' basis. Where you rely on any information or other material contained in it, you do so entirely at your own risk and you accept that all warranties, conditions and undertakings, express or implied, whether by common law, statute, trade usage, course of dealings or otherwise in respect of the Learning Management System are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. We exclude all liability whatever, to the fullest extent permitted by law, in respect of any loss or damage resulting or arising from any non-availability or use of the Learning Management System or of any other Web site linked to it, or from reliance on the contents of the Learning Management System or any material or content accessed through it.
In consideration of your use of the Material, you agree to provide and maintain accurate registration details and complete these in any registration forms on the Learning Management System (Registration Data) and to maintain the security of your password and identification. You acknowledge and agree that you are fully responsible for all use of your account and for any actions taken through your account.
Links from the Learning Management System are provided for information and convenience only and we have no control over and cannot therefore accept responsibility or liability for the content of any linked third party Web site. We do not endorse any linked Web site, or any products, services or companies described in such links.
These terms of use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Washington, DC where SOI is incorporated. Any dispute arising out of the accessing or use of the Learning Management System shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Washington, DC courts.
