CODE OF CONDUCT
We are excited that you are joining us for our virtual Technology & Innovation Camps! To take full advantage of this opportunity, individuals must review and agree to the following rules.
Guiding Principles:
To ensure that the rights of all individuals are protected while attending the Program;
To establish the safest and best possible learning environment for all participants; and
To ensure that breaches of the rules and Code of Conduct are treated in a fair and consistent manner.
Expectations:
All parents and participants have the responsibility to treat one another and Program staff with respect;
All parents and participants have the responsibility to act and behave in a way which does not endanger, intimidate or interfere with the participation of others;
Participants have the responsibility to follow the instructions given by Program staff; and
All parents and participants have the responsibility to behave according to this Code of Conduct.
In connection with your use of the online platform (“Platform”) and ability to provide or upload creative suggestions, ideas, notes, concepts, information, content, audio recordings, videos, photographs, graphics, artwork or other copyrighted works and materials (“User Content”), you agree that you will not, nor permit anyone else to, indirectly or directly:
record, print screen, photograph, or capture the image, audio or likeness of any participants;
upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any User Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as proprietary or confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
submit information that includes non-public personal or identifying information (including personal data) about another person without that person’s explicit consent, where that person is specifically aware that University will process their information for the purposes envisaged by your disclosure;
upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any User Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
restrict or inhibit any other visitor or member from using the Platform, including, without limitation, by means of “hacking” or defacing any portion of the Platform;
access or attempt to access parts of the Platform for which you are not authorized by University, circumvent or attempt to circumvent any security or password protection on the Platform, access the Platform by any means other than through the interface that is provided and authorized by University;
modify any software for the Platform in any manner or form, nor use modified versions of such software, including (without limitation) for the purpose of obtaining unauthorized access to the Platform;
use the Platform or information and materials provided on or through the Platform, including any content, data, text, designs, graphics, images, photographs, illustrations, audio and video clips, logos, icons and links (“materials”) for any unlawful purpose;
express or imply that any statements you make are endorsed by us, without our prior written consent;
impersonate any person or entity, whether actual or fictitious, including any employee or representative of University;
forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any User Content transmitted through the Platform;
transmit (a) any content or information that is unlawful, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, hateful, vulgar or otherwise objectionable, or infringes our or any third party’s intellectual property or other rights; (b) any material, non-public information about companies without the authorization to do so; (c) any trade secret of any third party; or (d) any advertisements, solicitations, chain letters, pyramid schemes, investment opportunities or other unsolicited commercial communication (except as otherwise expressly permitted by us);
use the Platform to harm minors in any way;
engage in spamming or flooding;
transmit any software or other materials that contain any viruses, worms, Trojan horses, defects, date bombs, time bombs or other items of a destructive nature;
modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Platform or otherwise attempt to derive any source code or underlying ideas or algorithms of any part of the Platform;
remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained on the Platform;
“frame” or “mirror” any part of the Platform;
“stalk” or otherwise harass another;
link to any page of or content on the Platform without written authorization;
use any robot, bot, spider, offline reader, Platform search/retrieval application or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, data mine, scrape or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Platform or its contents without our prior written consent, including with respect to any CAPTCHA displayed on the Platform. Notwithstanding the foregoing, University grants the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the Platform for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials. University reserves the right to revoke these exceptions either generally or in specific cases;
harvest or collect information about Platform visitors or members without University's express consent (which may be contingent upon you obtaining the consent of any such Platform visitors or members, in the terms stipulated by University);
take any action that imposes or may impose (in University’s sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load of data, information, or queries on our (or our third-party providers’) infrastructure;
share use of your password or use any passcode or password, regardless of whether or not such passcode or password is unique, to participate in any offer on the Platform if you are not the original recipient of such passcode or password;
provide material support or resources (or to conceal or disguise the nature, location, source, or ownership of material support or resources) to any organization(s) designated by the United States government as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant to Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act; and/or
violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law.
For minors under the age of 18 in the Program, it is the responsibility of the parent/legal guardian to supervise the minor to ensure compliance with the Code of Conduct.
Participation in the Program is contingent upon compliance with the Code of Conduct. The University in its sole discretion may suspend or remove a Participant from the Program for any violation of the Code of Conduct. No refund will be provided. Violation(s) may also affect admission to Kent State University.