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Terms of Service
These terms govern institutional use of the Career Readiness Report ("the Service"), operated by Champlin Enterprises, LLC ("we", "us"). By creating an institutional account you agree to them on behalf of your institution.
They are written to be short and readable. Where a clause is unusual, we say why.
1. The Service is free
There is no fee, no per-student charge, no minimum commitment, no paid tier and no upgrade path. We will not introduce a charge for an institution's existing use of the Service. If we ever offer a paid add-on, everything described at the time you signed up stays free.
We do not accept payment for the Service, and nothing here creates a payment obligation for either party.
2. Who may use it
Accredited post-secondary institutions, and departments or programs within them. You must be authorized to accept these terms for your institution.
You are responsible for the accounts you create, for the accuracy of the roster you import, and for having whatever internal approval your institution requires before sending us student records.
3. Your data is yours
You retain all rights in the data you and your students put into the Service. We claim no ownership of it.
You grant us only the limited license needed to host, process and display that data in order to operate the Service for you, and to compute anonymized aggregate benchmarks as described in the Privacy Policy. That license ends when you delete the data.
You may export your data at any time and delete your account at any time.
4. Our platform is ours
We retain all rights in the Service itself: the software, interfaces, documentation and branding. You may not copy, reverse engineer, resell or offer it as a service to third parties.
The NACE Career Readiness Competency framework is the intellectual property of the National Association of Colleges and Employers. The Service is an independent implementation and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by NACE. Your own use of the framework is between you and NACE.
5. Acceptable use
Do not use the Service to store data you have no lawful basis to hold, to attempt to access another institution's data, to probe or attack the infrastructure, or to circumvent access controls or rate limits.
Do not use it to make consequential decisions about an individual, such as admission, employment, discipline, financial aid or academic standing, on the basis of competency scores alone. The instrument is not validated for that purpose, and using it that way is outside the scope of this license.
We may suspend an account that is causing harm to the Service or to others. Where practical we will contact you first.
6. Availability, and what happens if we stop
We do not promise any particular uptime, and there is no service level agreement. This is a free service and we will not pretend otherwise.
We do commit to the following, because "free" should not mean "could vanish tomorrow":
- Ninety days' notice to institutional administrators before we would discontinue
the Service.
- Export remains available for the whole notice period, in open formats.
- We will not hold your data hostage or degrade export in order to encourage a
migration to anything.
7. Disclaimer of warranties
The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.
We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure against every threat, that results will be accurate or fit for any particular decision, or that any defect will be corrected.
In particular, we make no warranty that use of the Service will satisfy any accreditation standard, regulatory requirement or institutional policy. Accreditation outcomes depend on your evidence, your analysis and your narrative. The Service supplies data. It cannot supply a conclusion, and no reviewer should be told otherwise.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.
8. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost goodwill, or business interruption, arising from or relating to the Service, on any theory of liability, even if we have been advised of the possibility.
Because the Service is provided at no charge, our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to it is limited to one hundred United States dollars (US $100).
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, including liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, gross negligence, willful misconduct, or death or personal injury caused by negligence. We also do not disclaim our obligations under the Privacy Policy, which are given separately and deliberately.
9. Provisions for public institutions
Standard software terms routinely contain clauses that a public college or university is legally prohibited from accepting. Rather than force your counsel to negotiate them out one at a time, we disapply them here.
If you are a public institution, an agency or instrumentality of a state, or are otherwise legally restricted from agreeing to the following, then as to you:
- No indemnification obligation. You are not required to indemnify, defend or hold
us harmless. Many state laws prohibit it; we do not ask for it.
- Governing law and venue yield to yours. Section 12 does not apply. These terms are
governed by the law of your state, and venue lies where your law requires.
- No waiver of sovereign or governmental immunity. Nothing here waives any immunity
or defense available to you, and no clause should be read as attempting to.
- No binding arbitration and no class-action waiver. Neither is required of you.
- No automatic acceptance of future changes. Material changes take effect for you
only on your affirmative acceptance, or on renewal, whichever your policy requires.
- Public records law prevails. Nothing here restricts a disclosure you are required
to make under your state's public records or open meetings law.
This section controls over anything inconsistent elsewhere in these terms. We would rather be adoptable than maximally protected.
10. Term and termination
You may stop using the Service and delete your account at any time, for any reason, without notice to us.
We may terminate an account for a material breach of Section 5 that is not cured within thirty days of notice, or immediately where continued operation would be unlawful or would harm other institutions. On termination for any reason you keep export access for at least thirty days.
Sections 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 13 survive termination.
11. Changes to these terms
We will give institutional administrators at least thirty days' notice by email before a material change takes effect, and post the new effective date here. Continued use after that date constitutes acceptance, except where Section 9 applies to you.
We will not apply a change retroactively to data already collected in a way that reduces its protection.
12. Governing law
Except as modified by Section 9, these terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois, without regard to its conflict of law rules, and the state and federal courts located in Illinois have exclusive jurisdiction.
13. General
These terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between us regarding the Service, and supersede prior discussions. If a provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in force and the unenforceable provision is limited to the minimum extent necessary. A failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms without our consent; we may assign them to a successor in connection with a merger or sale of substantially all assets, on notice to you.
Where your institution requires its own agreement, a data processing agreement, a security review, or a signed FERPA addendum, contact us. We will sign a reasonable one.
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Champlin Enterprises, LLC, Illinois, United States