Please take a moment to acquaint yourself with these important Terms of Use and guidelines.
This Agreement is between You (the “User”) and the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA)
Welcome to www.ippa.flywheelstaging.com. The https://www.ippa.flywheelstaging.com website and digital assets (the “Site,” and collectively, the “Sites”) is comprised of web pages, accounts, and assets owned, operated, managed, supported, accessed, or maintained by the International Positive Psychology Association (“IPPA”). This website (https://www.ippa.flywheelstaging.com) is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the “Terms”). Your use of this Site and any of the Sites constitute your agreement to all such Terms. Please read these terms carefully and keep a copy of them for your reference.
https://www.ippa.flywheelstaging.com is a Site operated by IPPA with support of third-party suppliers and providers, and delivers information, resources, promotions, research, and a discussion area on the Site, plus links to information related to the field of positive psychology and wellbeing. IPPA is a membership group with members who work across disciplines, around the world. Information on this Site and other Sites operated by IPPA, or elsewhere, related to products, services, events, benefits, or offerings shall not be considered an endorsement of any such information displayed.
Privacy
Your use of https://www.ippa.flywheelstaging.com is subject to IPPA’s Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs the Site and Sites and informs users of our data collection practices.
Electronic Communications
Visiting https://www.ippa.flywheelstaging.com or sending emails to IPPA constitutes electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Site or Sites, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
Your Account
If you use this site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You may not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or entity. You acknowledge that IPPA is not responsible for third party access to your account that results from theft or misappropriation of your account. IPPA and its affiliates, service providers, partners, staff, and associates reserve the right to refuse or cancel access, terminate accounts, or remove or edit content in our sole discretion.
(See Code of Conduct for additional information)
Children Under Thirteen
IPPA does not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personal information from persons under the age of thirteen. If you are under 18, though, you may use https://www.ippa.flywheelstaging.com and our Sites only with permission of a parent or guardian.
Links to Third Party Sites/Third Party Services
https://www.ippa.flywheelstaging.com may contain links to other websites (“Linked Sites”). The Linked Sites are not under the control of IPPA and IPPA is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. IPPA is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by IPPA of the site or any association with its operators.
Certain programs or services made available via https://www.ippa.flywheelstaging.com are delivered by third party sites and organizations. By using any product, service, program or functionality originating from the https://www.ippa.flywheelstaging.com domain or the IPPA Sites, you hereby acknowledge and consent that IPPA may share such information and data with any third party with whom IPPA has a contractual relationship to provide the requested product, service, program, or functionality on behalf of https://www.ippa.flywheelstaging.com users and customers, members and affiliates.
No Unlawful or Prohibited Use/Intellectual Property
You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use https://www.ippa.flywheelstaging.com and the IPPA Sites strictly in accordance with these terms of use. As a condition of your use of the Sites, you warrant to IPPA that you will not use the Sites for any purpose that is unlawful, unethical, or prohibited by these Terms. You may not use the Sites in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Sites or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Sites. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Sites.
All content included as part of the Service, membership, or Sites, such as text, graphics, logos, images, as well as the compilation thereof, and any software used on the Sites, is the property of IPPA or its suppliers and protected by copyright and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes thereto.
You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on the Sites. IPPA content is not for resale. Your use of the Site or Sites do not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and in particular you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your personal use, and will make no other use of the content without the express written permission of IPPA and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of IPPA or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these Terms.
Use of Communication Services
The Sites may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, “Communication Services”). You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service.
By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not: defame, abuse, bully, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others; publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information; upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents; upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer; advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such Communication Service specifically allows such messages; conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters; download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner; falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded; restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services; violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service; harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent; violate any applicable laws or regulations.
IPPA has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, IPPA reserves the right to review materials posted to a Communication Service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. IPPA reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.
IPPA reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in IPPA’s sole discretion.
Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any Communication Service. IPPA does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Service and, therefore, IPPA specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Service. Managers and hosts are not authorized IPPA spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of IPPA.
Materials uploaded to a Communication Service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you upload the materials.
Materials Provided to https://www.ippa.flywheelstaging.com or Posted on Any IPPA Web Page, Site, or Sites
IPPA does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to https://www.ippa.flywheelstaging.com (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any IPPA Site or our associated services (collectively “Submissions”), unless otherwise noted. However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you are granting IPPA, our affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, promote, translate and reformat your Submission; and to publish your name, image, and/or affiliations in connection with your Submission.
No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. IPPA is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and may remove any Submission at any time in IPPA’s sole discretion.
By posting, accessing, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.
Third Party Accounts
From time to time, you may be able to connect your IPPA account to third party accounts. By connecting your IPPA account to your third party account, you acknowledge and agree that you are consenting to the continuous release of information about you to others (in accordance with your privacy settings on those third party sites). If you do not want information about you to be shared in this manner, do not use this feature or connect accounts.
International Users
The Service is controlled, operated and administered by IPPA from our offices within the USA. If you access the Service from a location outside the USA, you are responsible for compliance with all local, regional, national, and international laws. You agree that you will not use the IPPA Content, Sites, or other IPPA digital assets accessed through https://www.ippa.flywheelstaging.com or the Sites in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions or regulations. No Service or any software from this Site may be downloaded or otherwise exported or re-exported into any country which the USA has embargoed goods, or to anyone on the USA’s list of Specially Designated Nationals or the Table of Deny Orders. By using the Service and the Sites, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless IPPA, its officers, directors, employees, suppliers, subsidiaries, agents and third parties, from and against any claims, actions, demands, losses, costs, liabilities, settlements, and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s and accounting fees) relating to or arising out of your use of or inability to use the Site or Sites, or Service, any user postings made by you, your violation of any terms of this Agreement or your violation of any rights of a third party, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations. IPPA reserves the right, at its own cost, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with IPPA in asserting any available defenses.
Liability Disclaimer
THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE OR SITES MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. INTERNATIONAL POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE SITE AND SITES AT ANY TIME, AND WITHOUT NOTICE.
INTERNATIONAL POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION, ITS STAFF AND OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AFFILIATES, AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE SITE OR SITES FOR ANY PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND. INTERNATIONAL POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION, ITS STAFF AND OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AFFILIATES, AAND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL INTERNATIONAL POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION, ITS STAFF AND OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AFFILIATES, AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE OR SITES, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SITES, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF INTERNATIONAL POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE SITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITES AND SERVICES.
Termination/Access Restriction
IPPA reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Sites and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice. To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Minnesota and you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Minnesota in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Sites. Use of the Sites is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms, including, without limitation, this section.
You agree that no joint venture, partnership, contractor, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and IPPA as a result of this agreement or use of the Sites. IPPA’s performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of IPPA’s right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Site or information provided to or gathered by IPPA with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect.
Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and IPPA with respect to the Sites and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and IPPA with respect to the Sites. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that this agreement and all related documents be written in English.
Health and Medical Disclaimer
This Site (www.ippa.flywheelstaging.com) and all IPPA related Sites do not provide medical or health advice. All information on this Site or the Sites including, without limitation, text, graphics, recordings, statements, and other material are for informational purposes only. No material you read or access, in any way, through this Site or the Sites shall be intended as a substitute for professional medical, mental health, or healthcare related diagnosis or treatment. It is recommended you always seek advice or treatment of a qualified health care provider if you have any questions regarding a condition, and you should never delay treatment or care because of material that you accessed through the Sites. IPPA, our affiliates, staff, directors, officers, and those individuals and groups featured on this Site or the Sites or in any IPPA material are not providing medical, mental health, or related advice, and are not attempting to diagnose, treat, prevent or cure any physical, medical, and/or mental health issues, complaints, or concerns.
Miscellaneous and Changes to Terms
Section names and titles of this Agreement are for convenience purposes only and have no effect on the meaning of this Agreement. You understand and agree that IPPA may from time to time establish and revise practices and limitations concerning the Sites and your use of the Sites. You agree that IPPA shall have no liability for the deletion or failure to store any messages and other communications or other Content or User Content maintained on this Site or the Sites or transmitted using this Site or the Sites. IPPA reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which https://www.ippa.flywheelstaging.com is offered. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions. IPPA encourages you to periodically review the Terms to stay informed of our updates.
Contact Us
IPPA welcomes your questions or comments regarding the Terms:
International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA)
14607 Felton Court, Suite 116
Apple Valley, Minnesota 55124 USA
Email Address: info@ippa.flywheelstaging.com
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Effective as of 26 February, 2023
