Terms of Use for HMH
Riverside Insights Publishing Company ("HMH," "we" or "us") provides educational content, educational assessment and related services for grades
The websites for our
�Provide authorized educational institutions and their district and school administrators and teachers and other authorized parties with
�Permit educational institutions to give their students
�Provide general content and informational services to visitors to our sites who are interested in learning more about our
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY.
BY BROWSING OUR GENERAL INFORMATION AND ACCESSING OUR PLATFORMS, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE REVIEWED AND AGREE TO ABIDE BY ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH BELOW. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ABIDE BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE
1.Navigating our Terms. To assist you in understanding our Terms, we have divided these Terms into numbered sections, and provide a set of definitions to allow easy reference to key concepts. See Section 9 (Definitions).
2.Password Protected Pages and Open Pages. Websites that host our
3.Relationship with Your School. HMH enters into relationships with Schools and other Educators, whereby HMH agrees to provide their Administrators, Teachers, Students and other associated individuals with access to its Platforms. These Terms address such access.
4.Use of Our Platforms.
4.1Student Platform Users; School's Registration Responsibilities. Educators select the Students (and, where applicable, the parents or legal guardians) who will have access to the
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4.3School Code of Conduct. The School is responsible for the conduct of its Students in connection our
4.4Nature of
4.5Use of Passwords. Once registered, you will receive or otherwise have the opportunity to create a user name and password (your "Password"). The Platform Website at issue will guide you as to requirements concerning the needed "strength" of this Password. Your Password gives you access to Password Protected Pages (the extent of this access may be set by your
5.Technical Support. We offer certain technical support for our
Attention: Tech Support Phone:
Email: [email protected] http://customercare.hmhco.com
6.Intellectual Property Rights.
6.1HMH Ownership of Platform Websites and General Information; Grant of Rights to Site Visitors. The
6.2Ownership of User Content. Where applicable, certain features of a Platform (where applicable, "Interactive Features") provide Educators and Students the ability to create, upload or post User Content. We do not claim ownership in User Content. We expect each user of our Platforms to act responsibly, and to respect the rights of others. We seek to protect the integrity and security of our computing systems, and the right to protect our community of users from claims of intellectual property infringement and other claims or threats. Toward these ends, we reserve the right in our sole discretion (i) to monitor your use of the Platforms, and your User Content, (ii) to restrict or foreclose access to certain areas of the Platforms or other resources, and (iii) to take other actions we deem necessary to protect our community of users and our resources. To the extent User Content constitutes (in whole or in part) a Student Record, such Student Record shall be the property of and under the control of the School. For so long as a Student is a Platform User, the Administrator can obtain a copy of User Content by using the download feature available through the Platform, or if such features are not available, by contacting us in accordance with Section 10 (Contact Us).
6.3Limited Operations Use. Although we hold no ownership rights in your User Content, as provided in Section 6.2 (Ownership of User Content), in order to provide to you (and your Educators, Teachers, Students, and your associated School) the Interactive Features that permit creation and use of that User Content, the Platform must necessarily use and distribute that User Content and you agree to permit us and grant such required operations use.
6.4Contact for Alleged Copyright Infringement. HMH respects the intellectual property rights of others and requires that its users do the same. If you believe that content available on a Platform Website constitutes infringement of a work protected by copyright, please notify our agent, designated under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. �512) (the "DMCA") to respond to such concerns, as follows:
Riverside Insights Publishing Company 222 Berkeley Street
Boston, MA 02116
Attn: DMCA Agent, Legal Fax:
Email: [email protected]
Your notice must comply with the DMCA. Upon receipt of a compliant notice, we will respond and proceed in accordance with the DMCA.
7.Submission of Feedback. If you choose to provide us with feedback or ideas on our Platforms or Online Educational Content, (collectively, "Feedback ") you acknowledge and agree (i) that you have no expectation of review, compensation or consideration of any type for the Feedback; and (ii) we will be free to use and exploit such Feedback in our discretion and without compensation or obligation to you.
8.Protection of Student Personal Information. Please see our Privacy Policy for information about (i) our practices related to collection, use and deletion of Personal Information, including how Students or their parents/legal guardians can access, review, and update Personal Information, (ii) the security measures we have in place designed to safeguard Student Records, including employee training, (iii) our procedures for responding to a security breach, and (iv) how we work with Schools to comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, including the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment ("FERPA"). Our Privacy Policy is available at:
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/7ccb1d_8d82de8feb354463a3842dc6c6d783ee.pdf
9. Definitions. For your ease of use, the following is a list of defined terms, as used above:
9.1"Administrator" means School official, IT personnel, or other
9.2"Documentation" means technical descriptions of the features and functions of a
9.3"Educators" means (i) Schools, (ii) Administrators, (iii) Teachers, or (iv) other authorized individuals.
9.4"General Information" means information and associated informational services, made available via a Platform Website, that describe or illustrate HMH�s Online Educational Content.
9.5"HMH" means Riverside Insights Publishing Company
9.6"HMH Intellectual Property" means intellectual property rights owned by HMH (or its licensors) that are embodied in the
9.7"Interactive Features" means those features of a
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9.9"Online Educational Content" means the electronic textbooks, assessment, reports, graphics, animations, video recordings, audio recordings, artwork, and other educational content HMH makes available through a
9.10"Open Pages" means those pages of a Platform Website that are made available without password requirements.
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9.12"Platform Users" means (i) Schools; (ii) Administrators; (iii) Teachers; (iv) Students and (v) other authorized users .
9.13"Platform Website" means a website that hosts a
9.14"School" means (i) an educational institution in a contractual relationship with HMH regarding one or more
tutoring centers and other formal and informal learning programs and authorized entities that similarly have entered into a contractual relationship with HMH regarding one or more
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9.16"Site Visitors" means visitors viewing or interacting with a Website Platform's Open Pages.
9.17"Student" means an individual receiving educational instruction via our learning platform. The term "student" includes individuals within the
9.18�Student Records� has the same meaning as �Pupil Records,� as defined in Section 49073.1 of the California Education Code.
9.19"Teachers" means those teachers or other authorized individuals of a School who hold authorized access to Online Educational Content via a
9.19"Technical Support" means the support we provide for our
9.20"Terms" means these Terms of Use for
9.21"User Content" means information, assignments or other
9.22"We" or "Us" means HMH.
9.23"You" means a Site visitor or Platform User.
10.Contact Us. You may contact us with questions concerning these Terms at the following address: http://customercare.hmhco.com/contactus/contact_us.html
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