Terms of Use

Please read the fol­low­ing state­ment care­ful­ly. By access­ing the Annie E. Casey Foun­da­tion web­site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, which incor­po­rate the Annie E. Casey Foun­da­tion Pri­va­cy State­ment. Par­tic­u­lar ser­vices offered through this web­site may include addi­tion­al terms and con­di­tions gov­ern­ing their use. In the event of a con­flict between such addi­tion­al terms and these Terms of Use, then such addi­tion­al terms will govern.

Copy­right

Text

Copy­right of the text mate­ri­als con­tained in this web­site is owned by the Foun­da­tion. Any use should include the fol­low­ing notice: © 2014 The Annie E. Casey Foun­da­tion. The text mate­ri­als in the web­site may be used, down­loaded, repro­duced or reprint­ed pro­vid­ed that the mate­ri­als are not mod­i­fied in any way and that appro­pri­ate acknowl­edg­ment appears in all copies. Such use, down­load, repro­duc­tion or reprint must be for non­com­mer­cial edu­ca­tion­al or per­son­al use only. You may not use or mis­rep­re­sent our name, logos, trade­marks, oth­er intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty or mate­ri­als for your own use or to imply endorse­ment, spon­sor­ship or affil­i­a­tion with the Foun­da­tion in any manner.

Pub­li­ca­tions

Pub­li­ca­tions con­tained in this web­site are either pub­lished or fund­ed by the Foun­da­tion or affil­i­at­ed with our work. These pub­li­ca­tions are pro­tect­ed by copy­right. Pub­li­ca­tions post­ed on this web­site may be used, down­loaded, repro­duced or reprint­ed in accor­dance with the Foundation’s Copy­right, Cita­tion and Usage Pol­i­cy, which is incor­po­rat­ed in these Terms of Use, pro­vid­ed that such pub­li­ca­tions or their con­tent are not mod­i­fied in any way and that appro­pri­ate acknowl­edg­ment appears in all copies in accor­dance with such Pol­i­cy. Such use, down­load, repro­duc­tion or reprint must be for non­com­mer­cial edu­ca­tion­al or per­son­al use only.

Graph­ics

All rights in pho­tographs, illus­tra­tions, art­works and oth­er graph­ic and audio­vi­su­al mate­ri­als pub­lished on this web­site, includ­ing in pub­li­ca­tions, are reserved to the Foun­da­tion and/​or the copy­right own­ers. You must obtain pri­or writ­ten per­mis­sion to use, repro­duce, or reprint any pho­to­graph, illus­tra­tion, art­work, or oth­er graph­ic mate­r­i­al from the copy­right own­er, regard­less of intend­ed use, includ­ing those con­tained in such publications.

Notice of Pro­ce­dure for Claims of Infringement

If you believe that your rights under copy­right law or oth­er intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty laws are being vio­lat­ed by any con­tent post­ed on or trans­mit­ted through this web­site, please email the Foun­da­tion’s copy­right agent. Please include the sig­na­ture of the per­son autho­rized to act; a descrip­tion of the copy­right­ed work or intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty that is claimed to be infringed; a descrip­tion of the con­tent claimed to be infring­ing, includ­ing where the con­tent is post­ed on this web­site; your con­tact infor­ma­tion; a state­ment that you have a good faith belief that the dis­put­ed use is not autho­rized by the copy­right or intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty own­er, its agent, or by applic­a­ble law and a state­ment, under penal­ty of per­jury, that you are the copy­right or intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty own­er or are autho­rized to act on behalf of such own­er and that the infor­ma­tion you sub­mit­ted to us is accu­rate. The Foun­da­tion reserves the right to remove or block from the web­site the con­tent in question.

The Foundation’s copy­right agent for notice of claims of copy­right or oth­er intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty infringe­ment can be reached as follows:

Email: CopyrightAgent@​AECF.​org or

Attn: Copy­right Agent
Legal Department
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
701 St. Paul Street
Bal­ti­more, Mary­land 21202–3211.

Links

Links to oth­er web­sites with relat­ed infor­ma­tion are pro­vid­ed sole­ly as a con­ve­nience to users of the Foun­da­tion’s web­site. The Foun­da­tion makes no guar­an­tees as to the con­tent of those sites. The linked sites are not under Foun­da­tion super­vi­sion and it is not respon­si­ble for the con­tents of any linked site or link con­tain­ing a linked site. The inclu­sion of any link does not imply an endorse­ment or sanc­tion by the Foundation.If you link to the Annie E. Casey Foun­da­tion web­site, your website:

If you link to the Foun­da­tion web­site, your website:

• Should not imply that the Foun­da­tion is endors­ing you or your products.
• Should not imply an affil­i­a­tion between your orga­ni­za­tion and the Foun­da­tion with­out pri­or writ­ten con­sent of the Foundation.
• Should not mis­rep­re­sent your rela­tion­ship with the Foun­da­tion or present false or mis­lead­ing impres­sions about the Foundation’s activ­i­ties, pub­li­ca­tions, pro­grams or services.
• Should not con­tain mate­ri­als that may be inter­pret­ed as dis­taste­ful or offensive.
• Should have mate­ri­als appro­pri­ate for all ages.
• Before link­ing to the Foun­da­tion web­site, please con­tact our web admin­is­tra­tor.

Dis­claimer and Lim­i­ta­tion of Liability

The Foun­da­tion’s web­site and the mate­ri­als there­in are pro­vid­ed ​“as is” to vis­i­tors. Any infor­ma­tion or advice obtained through use of this web­site is pro­vid­ed with­out war­ran­ty. The Foun­da­tion does not guar­an­tee access to or avail­abil­i­ty of this web­site. While the Foun­da­tion takes mea­sured steps to ensure the cor­rect­ness of the resources pro­vid­ed, the Foun­da­tion does not guar­an­tee the accu­ra­cy, cur­ren­cy or com­plete­ness of any infor­ma­tion on the web­site. The Foun­da­tion is not respon­si­ble for direct, indi­rect, con­se­quen­tial, exem­plary or inci­den­tal dam­ages of any sort aris­ing from access­ing or using the web­site or reliance on the infor­ma­tion avail­able on the website.

Access­ing this web­site or down­load­ing mate­ri­als is done at your own risk. Although the Foun­da­tion takes pre­cau­tions, it does not guar­an­tee that mate­ri­als from this web­site are free from destruc­tive fea­tures, such as virus­es, worms or Tro­jan hors­es. The Foun­da­tion shall not be liable for any dam­ages, harm to com­put­er sys­tems or loss of data result­ing from access­ing or down­load­ing any materials.

You agree to indem­ni­fy the Foun­da­tion for any loss­es or expens­es it incurs as a result of your vio­la­tion of these Terms of Use or oth­er­wise aris­ing from or relat­ing to your access to or use of this website.

Sub­mis­sions

Except as oth­er­wise express­ly pro­vid­ed in the sep­a­rate­ly post­ed Pri­va­cy State­ment, any com­mu­ni­ca­tion or mate­r­i­al you trans­mit to the Foun­da­tion by elec­tron­ic mail or oth­er­wise, includ­ing with­out lim­i­ta­tion any con­test or sweep­stakes entries, images, pho­tographs, video files, audio files, essays, ques­tions, com­ments, sug­ges­tions, any ideas for ser­vices or fea­tures, mod­i­fi­ca­tions, enhance­ments or refine­ments to them or to this web­site, or any relat­ed doc­u­men­ta­tion, art­work, com­put­er code, dia­grams, or oth­er mate­ri­als (col­lec­tive­ly, ​“Sub­mis­sions”), is and will be treat­ed as non-con­fi­den­tial and non-pro­pri­etary and may be used by the Foun­da­tion, its affil­i­ates and their respec­tive con­trac­tors and sup­pli­ers for any pur­pose, includ­ing with­out lim­i­ta­tion repro­duc­tion, mod­i­fi­ca­tion, dis­clo­sure, trans­mis­sion, pub­li­ca­tion, dis­play and post­ing, and for adver­tis­ing, pub­lic­i­ty, or pro­mo­tion­al pur­pos­es in any media with­out fur­ther per­mis­sion, con­sent, pay­ment, or oth­er con­sid­er­a­tion, unless pro­hib­it­ed by law. The Foun­da­tion has no oblig­a­tion to review your Sub­mis­sion, or to return any Sub­mis­sion to you for any reason.

Changes

Infor­ma­tion, poli­cies and dis­claimers con­cern­ing access to and use of this web­site may be changed or sup­ple­ment­ed at any time with­out pri­or notice. You are respon­si­ble for review­ing any changes or sup­ple­men­tal terms and agree to be bound by the most recent ver­sion of these Terms of Use each time you vis­it this website.

Gov­ern­ing Law

This web­site is con­trolled by Foun­da­tion, which is head­quar­tered in the State of Mary­land, Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca. You and the Foun­da­tion agree that the statutes and laws of the State of Mary­land, with­out regard to con­flicts of law prin­ci­ples there­of, will apply to all mat­ters aris­ing from or relat­ing to use of this web­site. Sole and exclu­sive juris­dic­tion and venue for any action or pro­ceed­ing aris­ing out of or relat­ed to your use of this web­site shall be in the state or fed­er­al courts locat­ed in Bal­ti­more Coun­ty, Maryland.

Min­i­mum Age

This web­site may be accessed and used only by indi­vid­u­als who are at least 13 years of age.

Terms of Use last updat­ed April 18, 2018