Terms of Service

These terms govern use of the online community at https://portico.inflexion.org, which includes forums and messaging. To use the online community, you must agree to these terms with Inflexion, the company that runs the community.

The company may offer other products and services, under different terms. These terms apply only to use of the community.

Important Terms

These terms include a number of important provisions that affect your rights and responsibilities, such as the disclaimers in Disclaimers, limits on the company’s liability to you in Limits on Liability, your agreement to cover the company for damages caused by your misuse of the forum in Responsibility for Your Use, and an agreement to arbitrate disputes in Disputes.

Your Permission to Use the Forum

Subject to these terms, the company gives you permission to use the forum. Everyone needs to agree to these terms to use the online community.

Conditions for Use of the Forum

Your permission to use the forum is subject to the following conditions:

1. You must be at least thirteen years old.
2. You may no longer use the forum if the company contacts you directly to say that you may not.
3. You must use the forum in accordance with Acceptable Use and Content Standards.

Acceptable Use

• You may not break the law using the community.
• You may not use or try to use another’s account on the community without their specific permission.
• You may not buy, sell, or otherwise trade in user names or other unique identifiers on the community.
• You may not send advertisements, chain letters, or other solicitations through the community, or use the community to gather addresses or other personal data for commercial mailing lists or databases.
• You may not automate access to the community, or monitor the community, such as with a web crawler, browser plug-in or add-on, or other computer program that is not a web browser. You may crawl the community to index it for a publicly available search engine, if you run one.
• You may not use the community to send e-mail to distribution lists, newsgroups, or group mail aliases.
• You may not falsely imply that you’re affiliated with or endorsed by the company.
• You may not hyperlink to images or other non-hypertext content on the community on other webpages.
• You may not remove any marks showing proprietary ownership from materials you download from the community.
• You may not show any part of the community on other websites with <iframe>.
• You may not disable, avoid, or circumvent any security or access restrictions of the community.
• You may not strain infrastructure of the community with an unreasonable volume of requests, or requests designed to impose an unreasonable load on information systems underlying the community.
• You may not impersonate others through the community.
• You may not encourage or help anyone in violation of these terms.

Content Standards

• You may not submit content to the community that is illegal, offensive, or otherwise harmful to others. This includes content that is harassing, inappropriate, or abusive.
• You may not submit content to the community that violates the law, infringes anyone’s intellectual property rights, violates anyone’s privacy, or breaches agreements you have with others.
• You may not submit content to the community containing malicious computer code, such as computer viruses or spyware.
• You may not submit content to the community as a mere placeholder, to hold a particular address, user name, or other unique identifier.
• You may not use the community to disclose information that you don’t have the right to disclose, like others’ confidential or personal information.

Enforcement

The company may investigate and prosecute violations of these terms to the fullest legal extent. The company may notify and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting violations of the law and these terms.

The company reserves the right to change, redact, and delete content on the forum for any reason. If you believe someone has submitted content to the forum in violation of these terms, contact us immediately.

Your Account

You must create and log into an account to use some features of the community.

To create an account, you must provide some information about yourself. If you create an account, you agree to provide, at a minimum, a valid e-mail address, and to keep that address up-to-date. You may close your account at any time by e-mailing portico@inflexion.org.

You agree to be responsible for all action taken using your account, whether authorized by you or not, until you either close your account or notify the company that your account has been compromised. You agree to notify the company immediately if you suspect your account has been compromised. You agree to select a secure password for your account, and keep it secret.

The company may restrict, suspend, or close your account on the forum according to its policy for handling copyright-related takedown requests, or if the company reasonably believes that you’ve broken any rule in these terms.

Your Content

Nothing in these terms gives the company any ownership rights in intellectual property that you share with the community, such as your account information, posts, or other content you submit to the community. Nothing in these terms gives you any ownership rights in the company’s intellectual property, either.

Between you and the company, you remain solely responsible for content you submit to the community. You agree not to wrongly imply that content you submit to the forum is sponsored or approved by the company. These terms do not obligate the company to store, maintain, or provide copies of content you submit, and to change it, according to these terms.

Content you submit to the community belongs to you, and you decide what permission to give others for it. But at a minimum, you license the company to provide content that you submit to the forum to other users of the forum. That special license allows the company to copy, publish, and analyze content you submit to the community.

You agree not to submit content that you believe might be confidential or proprietary, to you or others.

When content you submit is removed from the community, whether by you or by the company, the company’s special license ends when the last copy disappears from the company’s backups, caches, and other systems. Other licenses you apply to content you submit, such as Creative Commons licenses, may continue after your content is removed. Those licenses may give others, or the company itself, the right to share your content through the community again.

Others who receive content you submit to the community may violate the terms on which you license your content. You agree that the company will not be liable to you for those violations or their consequences.

Your Responsibility

You agree to indemnify the company from legal claims by others related to your breach of these terms, or breach of these terms by others using your account on the community. Both you and the company agree to notify the other side of any legal claims for which you might have to indemnify the company as soon as possible. If the company fails to notify you of a legal claim promptly, you won’t have to indemnify the company for damages that you could have defended against or mitigated with prompt notice. You agree to allow the company to control investigation, defense, and settlement of legal claims for which you would have to indemnify the company, and to cooperate with those efforts. The company agrees not to agree to any settlement that admits fault for you or imposes obligations on you without your prior agreement.

Community Commitment

Portico is a virtual leadership development community. You commit to professionally learning and growing in order to build and sustain environments that are student-centered and provide each student with an education that is engaging and relevant to them.

To do this as a community, you will:

• treat everyone in the Portico community —regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age—with respect, examining and actively working to remove our own judgment or bias;
• actively participate, collaborate, and contribute with others in the Portico community; be eager to grow, innovate, and be vulnerable with each other as we implement best practices and engage our school communities;
• communicate regularly and honestly about any challenges, time commitments, issues including scheduling conflicts, relational conflicts;
• listen and respect what school leaders and coaches share in confidence;
• be transparent and empathetic as we work together through problems of practice and implementing positive change; and
• share accountability for the transformation of our learning environments to ones that provide our students with more power and authority over their educational experience.

Video Consent

You authorize the Educational Policy Improvement Center dba Inflexion, a non-profit center, its affiliates and agents, to use your name, image, and likeness and/or any interview statements from in publications or other media activities (including the Internet).

This consent includes, but is not limited to:

(a) Recording your participation and appearance on video, audio, film, photograph, or any other medium.
(b) Mixing, editing, using, and reusing said products whether whole or in part for educational and promotional purposes including use in print and electronic media including the Internet, and all other forms of media now or hereafter known.
(c) Using your name, likeness, voice, and biographical material in connection with these recordings.
(d) Exhibiting, distributing, duplicating, broadcasting, or transmitting such recordings in whole or in part without restrictions or limitation for any educational and promotional purpose which Inflexion, and those acting pursuant to its authority, deem appropriate.

You waive any right to inspect or approve the finished product. You understand that this consent is perpetual, that you may not revoke it, and that it is binding on your heirs and assigns.

You consent to the release of said video tape, audio tape, film, photograph, or any other medium for the above-stated purposes and in accordance with the terms stated above. You further attest that you have read this consent agreement and fully understand its contents.

Disclaimers

You accept all risk of using the community and content on the community. As far as the law allows, the company and its suppliers provide the community as is, without any warranty whatsoever.

The community may hyperlink to and integrate forums and services run by others. The company does not make any warranty about services run by others, or content they may provide. Use of services run by others may be governed by other terms between you and the one running service.

Limits on Liability

Neither the company nor its suppliers will be liable to you for breach-of-contract damages their personnel could not have reasonably foreseen when you agreed to these terms.

As far as the law allows, the total liability to you for claims of any kind that are related to the community or content on the community will be limited to $50.

Feedback

The company welcomes your feedback and suggestions for the community. See the Contact section below for ways to get in touch with us.

You agree that the company will be free to act on feedback and suggestions you provide, and that the company won’t have to notify you that your feedback was used, get your permission to use it, or pay you. You agree not to submit feedback or suggestions that you believe might be confidential or proprietary, to you or others.

Termination

Either you or the company may end the agreement written out in these terms at any time. When our agreement ends, your permission to use the community also ends.

The following provisions survive the end of our agreement: Your Content, Feedback, Your Responsibility, Disclaimers, Limits on Liability, and General Terms.

Disputes

Oregon will govern any dispute related to these terms or your use of the forum.

You and the company agree to seek injunctions related to these terms only in state or federal court in Eugene, Oregon. Neither you nor the company will object to jurisdiction, forum, or venue in those courts.

Other than to seek an injunction or for claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, you and the company will resolve any dispute by binding American Arbitration Association arbitration. Arbitration will follow the AAA’s Commercial Arbitration Rules and Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes. Arbitration will happen in Seattle, Washington. You will settle any dispute as an individual, and not as part of a class action or other representative proceeding, whether as the plaintiff or a class member. No arbitrator will consolidate any dispute with any other arbitration without the company’s permission.

Any arbitration award will include costs of the arbitration, reasonable attorneys’ fees, and reasonable costs for witnesses. You and the company may enter arbitration awards in any court with jurisdiction.

General Terms

If a provision of these terms is unenforceable as written, but could be changed to make it enforceable, that provision should be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable. Otherwise, that provision should be removed.

You may not assign your agreement with the company. The company may assign your agreement to any affiliate of the company, any other company that obtains control of the company, or any other company that buys assets of the company related to the forum. Any attempted assignment against these terms has no legal effect.

Neither the exercise of any right under this Agreement, nor waiver of any breach of this Agreement, waives any other breach of this Agreement.

These terms embody all the terms of agreement between you and the company about use of the forum. These terms entirely replace any other agreements about your use of the forum, written or not.

Contact

You may notify the company under these terms, and send questions to the company, at portico@inflexion.org.

The company may notify you under these terms using the e-mail address you provide for your account on the community, or by posting a message to the homepage of the community or your account page.

Changes

The company last updated these terms on July 12, 2023, and may update these terms again. The company will post all updates to the community. For updates that contain substantial changes, the company may also announce updates with special messages or alerts on the community.

Once you get notice of an update to these terms, you must agree to the new terms in order to keep using the community.

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Privacy Policy

What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you register on our site and gather data when you participate in the forum by reading, writing, and evaluating the content shared here.

When registering on our site, you may be asked to enter your name and e-mail address. You may, however, visit our site without registering. Your e-mail address will be verified by an email containing a unique link. If that link is visited, we know that you control the e-mail address.

When registered and posting, we record the IP address that the post originated from. We also may retain server logs which include the IP address of every request to our server.

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:To personalize your experience — your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs.

To improve our site — we continually strive to improve our site offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.

To improve customer service — your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs.

To send periodic emails — The email address you provide may be used to send you information, notifications that you request about changes to topics or in response to your user name, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.

How do we protect your information?

We take your information’s security seriously and have implemented measures to keep your personal information safe when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. These include but are not limited to the following:

• Secure Server Room. Our website is hosted in a highly secure server room with strict access controls.
• Regular Updates. We keep our website updated with the latest security enhancements to address vulnerabilities promptly.
• Protection Against Malicious Use. We have safeguards in place to detect and block malicious activities on our site.
• Firewall Protection. Our network and servers are protected by firewalls to prevent unauthorized access.
• Strict Administrative Controls. Access to our servers is limited to authorized personnel, protected by strong passwords.
• Encrypted Communication. We encrypt all communication between you and our website, ensuring that your information remains secure during transmission.

While we prioritize your information’s security, no method is entirely foolproof. We continuously monitor and assess our practices to maintain the highest level of protection.

What is our data retention policy?

We will make a good faith effort to:

• Retain server logs containing the IP address of all requests to this server no more than 90 days.
• Retain the IP addresses associated with registered users and their posts no more than 5 years.

Do we use cookies?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow). These cookies enable the site to recognize your browser and, if you have a registered account, associate it with your registered account.

We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our site, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Third party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our site. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Our site, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older. If this server is in the USA, and you are under the age of 13, per the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), do not use this site.

Online Privacy Policy Only

Your Consent

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our site and not to information collected offline.

By using our site, you consent to our web site privacy policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.

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