Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute

TERMS OF SERVICE

Updated July 15, 2024

This website is operated by Sarah Lawrence College. Sarah Lawrence College offers its learn.slc.edu platform (the “Site”, together with all information, tools and services available on this Site, the “Service(s)”), to you the user, on your acceptance of all terms, conditions, policies and notices stated herein. The terms “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Sarah Lawrence College. The terms “you” and “user” refer to you.

By visiting our Site and/or registering for one of our online learning programs, you engage in our Services and agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions, as may be amended from time to time (“Terms of Service” or “Terms”), including those additional terms and conditions and policies referenced herein and/or available by hyperlink. These Terms of Service apply to all users of the Services.

Please read these Terms carefully before accessing or using our Services on the Site. By accessing or using any part of our Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to the Terms, then you may not use our Services or access the Site. If these Terms of Service are considered an offer, acceptance is expressly limited to these Terms of Service.

Any new features or tools which are added to the Services are subject to the Terms of Service. We reserve the right to update, change or replace these Terms of Service in whole or in part by posting updates and/or changes to our Site. It is your responsibility to check the Terms of Service periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Services following the posting of any changes to the Site constitutes your acceptance of those changes.

SECTION 1 – AGE RESTRICTION

Only individuals thirteen (13) years of age or older may access the Site and use the Services. By agreeing to these Terms of Service, you represent that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age, or if you are between thirteen (13) and eighteen (18) years of age, that you have reviewed these Terms with a parent or legal guardian and the parent or legal guardian acknowledges and agrees to these Terms on behalf of their minor dependent.

SECTION 2 – COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION

You acknowledge, agree and consent that we may, directly or indirectly through the services of third-parties, collect and store data you provide through use of the Services and the Site, including personal information. You further acknowledge, agree and consent that we may use such information with artificial intelligence, including third-party generative artificial intelligence products, models and algorithms, and for any purpose related to the Services, the Site or our general business purposes.

With the exception of credit card information which is always encrypted during transfer over networks, you understand that your content (not including credit card information), may be transferred unencrypted and involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.

Your submission of personal information through the Services is governed by our Privacy Policy, as may be amended from time to time. To view our Privacy Policy, please see https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/gdpr/.

SECTION 3 – USE RESTRICTIONS

You are responsible for your conduct and activity when using the Services. You must ensure that you do not, either directly or indirectly:

• use the Services for or in connection with any illegal or unauthorized purpose or in a manner that: (a) infringes, violates or misappropriates any rights of any person, including intellectual property, confidentiality or privacy rights, (b) is harmful, fraudulent, deceptive, misleading, threatening, harassing, defamatory, offensive, biased, obscene, vulgar, indecent, menacing, tortious or otherwise objectionable as determined by us in our sole discretion, (c) attempts, in any manner, to obtain the password, account, or other security information from any other user, (d) violates the security of any computer network, or crack any passwords or security encryption codes, (e) submits false or misleading information or (e) violates any laws, rules or regulations in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright, data protection and privacy laws) as well as the laws of the State of New York;
• reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decrypt or otherwise attempt to discover the code or underlying structure, ideas, know-how or algorithms relevant to the Services or access the Services, or write or develop any program based on the Services or any portion thereof, in order to build a similar or competitive product or service or copy any ideas, features, functions, or graphics of the Services;
• circumvent or attempt to circumvent any limitations imposed on your account including any license, timing or use restrictions that are built into the Services;
• lend, sell, resell, lease, sublicense, transfer, assign, distribute, grant a security interest in, or otherwise use the Services for the benefit of a third party, unless we have given you prior written authorization;
• modify, translate, or create derivative works based on the Services or any software, hardware, documentation or data related to the Services, in whole or part, or reproduce, duplicate, copy, or exploit any portion of the Services in whole or in part;
• upload, transmit, disseminate or use the Services to send or store malicious code, including any worms, viruses, Trojan horses, or any other software or code of a destructive nature;
• use the Services to collect or store any sensitive information (“Sensitive Information”) including, but not limited to personal health information, banking and credit card information, and if you do use the Service to collect, store or otherwise process any Sensitive Information you do so at your own risk and you are responsible for ensuring compliance with all applicable laws;
• use the Services other than in accordance with our product documentation;
• permit the Services to be used by anyone other than yourself; 
• use the bandwidth and storage resources provided by us in an unreasonable and disproportionate manner. We monitor usage to ensure fair distribution of resources among all of our users. In the event that your bandwidth or storage usage exceeds what we view in our sole discretion is reasonable and proportionate, we reserve the right to take appropriate measures, including but not limited to implementing bandwidth throttling, imposing storage limits, suspending or terminating your access to the services, in whole or in part, without liability;
• circumvent or otherwise interfere with any authentication or security measures of the Services, or otherwise interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Services, including doing anything to, or using the Services in a way that may, cause the Services to be interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient or such that the effectiveness or functionality of the Services is in any way impaired, including overloading, flooding, spamming, mailbombing or crashing; or
• use any robot, spider, device, technology or process to monitor or copy any data or pages within the Services without our prior written consent.

We reserve the right to terminate your use of the Services for violating any of the prohibited uses.

SECTION 4 - ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS AND TIMELINESS OF INFORMATION

We are not responsible if information made available through the Services is not accurate, complete, or current. The material provided through the Services is for general information only and should not be relied upon or used as the sole basis for making decisions without consulting primary, more accurate, more complete, or more timely sources of information. Any reliance on the material made available through the Services is at your own risk.

The Services may contain certain historical information. Historical information, necessarily, is not current and is provided for your reference only. We reserve the right to modify the contents of the Services at any time, but we have no obligation to update any information in the Services. You agree that it is your responsibility to monitor changes to the Services.

SECTION 5 - MODIFICATIONS TO THE SERVICE AND PRICES

Prices for our Services are subject to change without notice. We reserve the right to modify or discontinue the Services (or any part or content thereof) without notice at any time.

We will not be liable to you or to any third-party for any modification, price change, suspension, or discontinuance of the Services or any part thereof.

SECTION 6 - ACCURACY OF BILLING AND ACCOUNT INFORMATION

We reserve the right to refuse any order for Services you place with us. We may, in our sole discretion, limit or cancel the Services. In the event that we make a change to or cancel an order, we will notify you by contacting the e-mail and/or billing address and/or phone number provided at the time the order was made. We reserve the right to limit or prohibit orders that, in our sole judgment, appear to be placed by dealers, resellers or distributors.

You agree to provide current, complete, and accurate purchase and account information for all purchases made on our Site for our Services. You agree to promptly update your account and other information, including your email address and credit card numbers and expiration dates, so that we can complete your transactions and contact you as needed.

SECTION 7 – THIRD PARTY TOOLS AND LINKS

We may provide you with access to third-party materials, content, products and tools (“Third-Party Materials”) over which we neither monitor nor have any control nor input. Third-party links made available through the Services may direct you to third-party websites (“Third-Party Websites”) that are not affiliated with us. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating the content or accuracy and we do not warrant and will not have any liability or responsibility for any Third-Party Materials or Third-Party Websites.

You acknowledge and agree that we provide access to such Third-Party Materials and Third-Party Websites “as is” and “as available” without any warranties, representations or conditions of any kind and without any endorsement. We shall have no liability whatsoever arising from or relating to your use of Third-Party Materials or Third-Party Websites. Any use by you of the Third-Party Materials or Third-Party Websites offered through the Services is entirely at your own risk and discretion and you should ensure that you are familiar with and approve of the terms on which Third-Party Materials and Third-Party Websites are provided by the relevant third-party provider(s). Complaints, claims, concerns, or questions regarding Third-Party Materials or Third-Party Websites should be directed to the relevant third-party.

SECTION 8 - USER COMMENTS, FEEDBACK, GRANT, AND CONDITIONS

If you choose to provide feedback including any ideas, suggestions, concepts, processes, techniques, questions, answers, codes/scripts, and other comments related to our Services, Site, proposed services, documentation or business (“Feedback”), we will own and may use such Feedback without any restrictions and obligations to you, and you hereby waive any claim you have to ownership, compensation, monetary or otherwise.

You represent and warrant that your comments will not violate any right of any third-party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, personality or other personal or proprietary right. You further represent and warrant that your comments will not contain libelous or otherwise unlawful, abusive, or obscene material, or contain any computer virus or other malware that could in any way affect the operation of the Service or any related website. You may not use a false e-mail address, pretend to be someone other than yourself, or otherwise mislead us or third-parties as to the origin of any comments. You are solely responsible for any comments you make and their accuracy. We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any comments posted by you or any third-party.

We may, but have no obligation to, monitor, edit or remove content that we determine in our sole discretion to be unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party’s intellectual property or these Terms of Service.

You grant us a non-exclusive right to use your trade-names, trademarks, service marks, trade dress and logos to promote our Services.

SECTION 9 - ERRORS, INACCURACIES AND OMISSIONS

Occasionally there may be information in the Service that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies or omissions. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions, and to change or update information or cancel orders if any information in the Service or on any related website is inaccurate at any time without prior notice (including after you have submitted your order).

We undertake no obligation to update, amend or clarify information in the Service or on any related website, including without limitation, except as required by law. No specified update or refresh date applied in the Service or on any related website, should be taken to indicate that all information in the Service or on any related website has been modified or updated.

SECTION 10 - DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

We do not guarantee, represent, or warrant that your use of the Services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free. We do not warrant that the results that may be obtained from the use of the Services will be accurate or reliable.

The services are provided to you "as is" and with all faults and defects without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, we, on our own behalf and on behalf of our affiliates and our and their respective licensors and service providers, expressly disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, with respect to the services, including all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement, and warranties that may arise out of course of dealing, course of performance, usage, or trade practice. Without limitation to the foregoing, we provide no warranty or undertaking, and make no representation of any kind that the services will meet your requirements, achieve any intended results, operate without interruption, meet any performance or reliability standards or be error free, or that any errors or defects can or will be corrected.

In no event will our directors, officers, employees, affiliates, agents, contractors, interns, suppliers, service providers or licensors be liable for any injury, loss, claim, or any direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, special, or consequential damages of any kind, including, without limitation lost profits, lost revenue, lost savings, loss of data, replacement costs, or any similar damages, whether based in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability or otherwise, arising from your use of any portion of the Services, or for any other claim related in any way to your use of the Services, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of the Services or any content (or product) posted, transmitted, or otherwise made available via the Services, even if advised of their possibility.

In no event will our directors, officers, employees, affiliates, agents, contractors, interns, suppliers, service providers or licensors collective aggregate liability under or in connection with this agreement or its subject matter, under any legal or equitable theory, including breach of contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, and otherwise, exceed the total amount paid to use the Services pursuant to these Terms and under the order form for the online learning course that is the subject of the claim.

Because some states or jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or the limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such states or jurisdictions, our liability shall be limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

SECTION 11 - INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Sarah Lawrence College and our affiliates, partners, officers, directors, agents, contractors, licensors, service providers, subcontractors, suppliers, interns and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, made by any third-party due to or arising out of your breach of these Terms of Service or the documents they incorporate by reference, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third-party.

SECTION 12 - SEVERABILITY

In the event that any provision of these Terms of Service is determined to be unlawful, void or unenforceable, such provision will nonetheless be enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and the unenforceable portion shall be deemed to be severed from these Terms of Service, such determination shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any other remaining provisions.

SECTION 13 – PAYMENT; REFUNDS

All Fees are payable in advance. All sales are final.

SECTION 14- TERMINATION

The obligations and liabilities of the parties incurred prior to the termination date will survive the termination of this agreement for all purposes.

These Terms of Service are effective unless and until terminated by either you or us. You may terminate these Terms of Service at any time by notifying us that you no longer wish to use our Services, or when you cease using our Site.

If in our sole judgment you fail, or we suspect that you have failed, to comply with any term or provision of these Terms of Service, we also may terminate this agreement at any time without notice and you will remain liable for all amounts due up to and including the date of termination; and/or accordingly may deny you access to our Services (or any part thereof).

SECTION 15 - ENTIRE AGREEMENT

These Terms of Service, together with any order form under which the Services are purchased and any policies or operating rules posted by us on this Site or in respect to the Services, constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between you and us and govern your use of the Services, superseding any prior or contemporaneous agreements, communications, and proposals, whether oral or written, between you and us (including, but not limited to, any prior versions of the Terms of Service).

Any ambiguities in the interpretation of these Terms of Service shall not be construed against the drafting party.

SECTION 16 - GOVERNING LAW

These Terms of Service and any separate agreements whereby we provide you Services shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.

SECTION 17 - CHANGES TO TERMS OF SERVICE

You can review the most current version of the Terms of Service at any time at https://learn.slc.edu/pages/terms.

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to update, change or replace any part of these Terms of Service by posting updates and changes to our website. It is your responsibility to check our website periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to our website or the Service following the posting of any changes to these Terms of Service constitutes acceptance of those changes.

SECTION 17 - CONTACT INFORMATION

Our contact information is posted below:

Sarah Lawrence College

1 Mead Way

Bronxville, NY 10708

Attention: General Counsel

SECTION 18 – MISCELLANEOUS

The headings used in this agreement are included for convenience only and will not limit or otherwise affect these Terms.

The failure of us to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Service does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

In the future, we may offer new Services and/or features through the website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or Services will be subject to these Terms of Service.