The Rochester Area Colleges' Center for Excellence in Math and Science web site and related publications are offered to further STEM education, and fair use is encouraged. In order to manage and sustain these offerings, the following rules govern your use of the web site services and materials.
Interactive Features
This Web site may include a variety of features, such as bulletin boards and blogs, which allow real-time interaction between users. Responsibility for what is posted on bulletin boards, blogs and other public posting areas on this Web site lies with each user—you alone are responsible for the material you post. As a condition of your use of these features, you warrant that you will not use them for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by the site terms. Except as otherwise permitted in these terms, you may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer, or sell any information, services, software, or benefits obtained from these features.
In addition, you may not use these features to:
- Defame, abuse, harass, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others;
Conduct or forward illegal contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, unsolicited e-mail or multi-level marketing campaigns;
Publish, post, distribute, disseminate or link to any:
(i) profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, material or information;
(ii) software or other material protected by intellectual property laws, rights of privacy or publicity, or other proprietary rights, unless you own, control such rights or have received all necessary consents for your use of such software and other materials;:
(iii) software or other material that contains viruses, corrupted files, or that may or are intended to damage the operation of another's computer (e.g., "cracks" or other programs written to defeat the security measures of any computer, system or programs);
Distribute, promote or link to any sites for the marketing, sales or distribution of any service or product;
Harvest or otherwise collect information about third parties, including e-mail addresses, without the express consent of such third parties;
Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying its rights in the features offered on this website;
Impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
Gain unauthorized access to this website, or any account, computer system or network connected to this website, by means such as hacking, password mining or other illicit means;
Interfere with or disrupt the operation of this website or any servers or networks; or,
Violate any applicable laws or regulations.
Plagiarism
If you copy words, images, or other materials from our site and submit them as your own in homework assignments or scholarly papers, or use such materials without clearly acknowledging The Rochester Area Colleges' Center for Excellence in Math and Science as your source, then you have plagiarized -- and may face disciplinary sanctions from your school.
For help recognizing plagiarism and avoiding it, please consult a site such as A Student's Guide to Recognizing It and Avoiding It by Dr. C. Barnbaum, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Valdosta State University.
Permission Requests
Any use, whether in print or electronic format, beyond that specified in the fair use guidelines issued by the U.S. Copyright Office, must have explicit permission and/or licensing from The Rochester Area Colleges' Center for Excellence in Math and Science. All permission requests must be made prior to use. If your request is not covered in the guidelines that follow and if you have any question as to whether your use is fair use, you should contact The Rochester Area Colleges' Center for Excellence in Math and Science for additional information and guidance at the address given below in the section "How to Request Copyright Permission."
Credit and Copyright Notice
A statement such as the following must appear with all material used from The Rochester Area Colleges' Center for Excellence in Math and Science: "Reproduced with permission from The Rochester Area Colleges' Center for Excellence in Math and Science, copyright [year] by The Rochester Area Colleges' Center for Excellence in Math and Science. All rights reserved."
Accompanying that statement of acknowledgement, please clearly display the The Rochester Area Colleges' Center for Excellence in Math and Science RACCEMS.org domain name, and, on web pages, link to it. The statement and link may be combined: for example, "Reproduced with permission from The Rochester Area Colleges' Center for Excellence in Math and Science, copyright [year] by The Rochester Area Colleges' Center for Excellence in Math and Science (/). All rights reserved."
Send (by mail or e-mail) a written request to The Rochester Area Colleges' Center for Excellence in Math and Science, 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618. Your request should include the following information:
- the URL of the web page(s) or identifying citation of the source of the material you wish to use;
the purpose for which you wish to use the material (e.g., for commercial publication, a research article or a school-district curriculum guide);
the number of copies of the material you wish to make.
Requests must contain complete information in order to be processed.
Exclusions
Permission does not automatically extend to any items identified as reprinted by permission of other publishers and copyright holders. Such items must be excluded from any print or electronic reproduction of the material unless separate permissions are obtained.
Authors' Use
The authors of materials published on The Rochester Area Colleges' Center for Excellence in Math and Science web site retain al copyrights to their own work without payment or notice to The Rochester Area Colleges' Center for Excellence in Math and Science of this publication.
User's Obligation to Abide By Applicable Law
In connection with the use of raccems.org, you shall abide by all applicable federal, state or local laws, including those pertaining to such areas as libel, slander, defamation, trade libel, product disparagement, harassment, invasion of privacy, tort, obscenity, indecency, and copyright or trademark infringement ("Applicable Law").
Content of Information
The Rochester Area Colleges' Center for Excellence in Math and Science is not responsible for the technical accuracy of information nor the efficacy of programs or plans displayed on this website. The Rochester Area Colleges' Center for Excellence in Math and Science reserves the right to review any material that is or becomes available on the site and to refuse to post or to remove any material that is, in our sole discretion, unacceptable, undesirable or in violation of these rules.
Limitation of Damages
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, SHALL THE RAC CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN MATH AND SCIENCE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT MAY RESULT FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION USE OF OR RELIANCE ON INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THE RACCEMS.ORG WEB SITE, INTERRUPTIONS, ERRORS, DEFECTS, MISTAKES, OMISSIONS, DELETIONS OF FILES, DELAYS IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, NONDELIVERY OF INFORMATION, DISCLOSURE OF COMMUNICATIONS, OR ANY OTHER FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE.
Release and Indemnity
YOU HEREBY RELEASE AND WAIVE ANY AND ALL CLAIMS AND/OR LIABILITY AGAINST THE ROCHESTER AREA COLLEGES' CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN MATH AND SCIENCE ARISING FROM OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SITE. YOU ALSO AGREE TO DEFEND, INDEMNIFY AND HOLD HARMLESS, THE ROCHESTER AREA COLLEGES' CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN MATH AND SCIENCE, FROM AND AGAINST, ANY AND ALL CLAIMS OR LIABILITY, INCLUDING COSTS AND ATTORNEYS FEES, ARISING FROM OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR FAILURE TO ABIDE BY APPLICABLE LAW.
Modifications
These rules may be modified by the Rochester Area Colleges' Center for Excellence in Math and Science from time to time and such modifications will be binding on you when published on the raccems.org web site.