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ACHA Content and Communications Policy

ACHA is a non-partisan, non-profit educational organization of college health and well-being professionals serving our nation’s institutions of higher education.

All content and communications on this site are educational in nature.

No content or communications on this site shall constitute legal advice or counsel, nor are any communications intended to promote, nor should they be construed as, a partisan position on any issues discussed.

 

Nature of Our Website


The American College Health Association (ACHA) is proud to be a source of information for the college health community. The content on this site is provided in good faith for informational purposes only. ACHA does not warrant the accuracy, reliability, comprehensiveness, or currency of the content. ACHA disclaims all warranties, express or implied, regarding the content, and further disclaims liability for any consequences, including injury or death, from the use or misuse of the content. This site and its contents are not intended to serve as medical advice nor are they intended to replace the services of a trained health care professional or to be a substitute for the medical advice of physicians or other health care providers. You should consult with your physician or other health care provider in all matters relating to your health, and especially regarding any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical attention. For purposes of the above, ACHA includes the American College Health Association, the American College Health Foundation, and their affiliates, employees, officers, and directors.

 

Links to Other Websites


Sites linked from the ACHA website are not under ACHA control. Such external web addresses contain information posted by institutions or organizations independent of ACHA. ACHA is not responsible for the contents and communications messages of any “off-site” Internet information referenced by or linked to the ACHA website. ACHA does not intend these links to be referrals or endorsements of the linked entities, and they are provided for convenience only. Use of any information obtained from such web sites or web pages is voluntary, and reliance on such information should only be undertaken after an independent review of its accuracy, completeness, efficacy, and timeliness.

 

Endorsements


Any reference to a commercial or non-commercial product, process, service, or company is not an endorsement or recommendation by the American College Health Association (ACHA) unless specifically stated as such. ACHA assumes no liability whatsoever for the use or contents of any product or service mentioned.

 

User Privacy and Confidentiality


The American College Health Association is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust. We maintain the following privacy policy to protect your personal information online:

  • Users to the public areas of the ACHA website browse anonymously. Only aggregate data—such as the number of hits per page or what domain the user came from—are collected. Aggregate data are only used for internal purposes such as market assessment. Aggregate data collected does not provide any personally identifying information.
  • ACHA collects and stores personally-identifiable information that is voluntarily provided. The information we collect can be used to fulfill an information request, support your membership activities, conduct a survey, complete a donation, complete a membership application or event registration, for data and trends analysis, or to contact visitors to support ACHA. If you supply us with your postal address online, you may receive mailings from us with information about programs and services. The personal information you provide is stored in a secure location and is accessible only by appropriate staff.
  • This site uses cookies for storing non-specific information such as aggregate data for Google Analytics, and user-specific information that is essential for site functionality. User-specific information includes storing the contents of the user’s shopping cart and purchase history and remembering preferences, such as user login and preferred language.


Copyright and Trademark Notice


Copyright American College Health Association, all rights reserved. The American College Health Association, its logo, and www.acha.org are registered trademarks of the American College Health Association. The contents of all material on this website, including the design and organization, are copyrighted by the American College Health Association unless otherwise indicated.

Images of American College Health Association (ACHA) products or resources, including content of this website, ACHA corporate or project names (including the acronym ACHA), logos, cover art, or other proprietary images or information belonging to ACHA may not depicted, reproduced, distributed, or transferred in any form or by an means, except with the prior written permission of ACHA (see address below).

Members of ACHA may download pages or other content for their own use, consistent with the mission and purpose of ACHA, as codified in its governing document, on a single computer. However, no part of such content may be otherwise or subsequently reproduced, disseminated, published, or transferred in any form or by any means, except with the prior written permission of ACHA.

For permission to photocopy or otherwise reproduce materials, contact ACHA at Communications@acha.org.

Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement

We respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement and terminate accounts of repeat infringers according to the process set out in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, § 512(c)(2), if you believe in good faith that your copyrighted work has been reproduced and is accessible on the ACHA website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our DMCA Agent with a written communication containing the following information.

  1. identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
  2. identification of the allegedly infringing material that is requested to be removed;
  3. your name, address and daytime telephone number, and an e-mail address if available, so that we may contact you if necessary;
  4. a statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the copyrighted work is not authorized by you or the law;
  5. a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are, or are authorized to act on behalf of, the owner of an exclusive copyright right that is allegedly infringed; and
  6. an electronic or physical signature of you or someone authorized on the copyright owner’s behalf, to assert infringement of copyright and to submit the statement.

Claims of infringement that include the above required information must be submitted via postal mail or e-mail to our DMCA Agent as follows:

DMCA Agent
8455 Colesville Road
Suite 740
Silver Spring, MD 20910
443-270-4560
DMCA@acha.org

We will comply with the Copyright Act and after removing the content, we will provide the rights owner’s name, your email and the details of your report to the person who posted the content you are reporting.

We reserve the right to remove any posted submission that infringes the copyright of any person under the laws of the United States upon receipt of a notice that complies with the requirements of 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3). We have adopted and reasonably implemented a policy that provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of repeat infringers. United States law provides significant penalties for submitting such a statement falsely.