Terms & Conditions

Professional Training Association Terms & Conditions

Welcome to Professional Training Association’s (PTA’s) website. The following terms and conditions, together with any documents referred to in them, apply to your use of the Websites, including any content, functionality and services offered on or through the Websites, whether as a guest or a registered user, or through mobile or desktop application versions of the Websites.

Please read these Terms & Conditions, also referred to as “Terms of Use”, carefully before using the Websites. Additionally, please review our “Privacy Policy”, “Purchase, Refunds, & Cancellation Policy”, and “Copyright Policy” to understand our practices.

By using the Websites you signify your consent to these Terms of Use and our “Privacy Policy”, “Purchase, Refunds, & Cancellation Policy”, and “Copyright Policy”, incorporated here by reference. If you do not want to agree to these Terms of Use or the “Privacy Policy”, “Purchase, Refunds, & Cancellation Policy”, and “Copyright Policy”, you must exit the Websites.

PTA reserves the right to change the terms and conditions under which this site is offered. Said changes are effective immediately upon posting. The person accessing and viewing our website is responsible for regularly reviewing our terms and conditions. Your continued use of this site constitutes your agreement to all such terms and conditions.

We have taken every reasonable effort to ensure the accuracy of the information throughout this Website. However, schedules and other facts may change without notice.

We encourage readers to contact the PTA or appropriate office to get the most current information.

 

Liability & Indemnification

The content on our Websites is for information purposes only and you agree that your use of and browsing in the Websites is at your risk. In no event shall Professional Training Association, its subsidiaries or affiliates and their officers, directors, employees or agents be liable to you for any direct, indirect, special, punitive or consequential damages resulting from any (i) errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content, (ii) personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to and use of the Websites, (iii) any unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers and/or any and all personal information and/or financial information stored therein and whether or not PTA is advised of the possibility of such damages.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Professional Training Association against all third party claims, actions or demands, liabilities, and settlements, including, without limitation, reasonable attorney’s fees, arising in connection with your use of the Websites or resulting from, or alleged to result from, your use of the Websites or your violation of these Terms of Use.

PTA’s websites may contain interactive features that allow you to post, submit, publish, display or transmit to other users (hereinafter “post”) content or materials (collectively, “User Contributions”) on or through the Websites. Any User Contribution you post to the websites will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute and disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose. You represent and warrant that you own or control all rights in and to the User Contributions and have the right to grant Professional Training Association the license granted in this paragraph. You represent and warrant that all of your User Contributions do and will comply with these Terms of Use, and you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless PTA and its licensors from any breach of this representation and warranty. You understand and acknowledge that you are responsible for any User Contributions you submit or contribute, and you, not Professional Training Association, have full responsibility for the legality, reliability, accuracy, and appropriateness of such content. Any content and / or opinions submitted to the Websites, and all articles and responses to questions and other content, other than the content provided by PTA, are solely the opinions and the responsibility of the person or entity submitting them and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of PTA. We are not responsible or liable to any third party for the content or accuracy of any materials posted by you or any other user of the websites. We have the right to:

  • Remove or refuse to post any User Contributions for any or no reason in our sole discretion.

  • Take any action with respect to any User Contribution that we deem necessary or appropriate in our sole discretion if we believe that such User Contribution violates the Terms of Use, infringes any intellectual property right or other right, threatens the personal safety of users of the websites and the public or could create liability for the Company.

  • Disclose your identity to any third party who claims that material posted by you violates their rights, including their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.

  • Take appropriate legal action, including without limitation, referral to law enforcement, for any illegal or unauthorized use of the websites.

  • Terminate your access to all or part of the websites for any or no reason, including without limitation, any violation of these Terms of Use.

  • Without limiting the foregoing, we have the right to fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity of anyone posting any materials on or through the websites. You waive and hold harmless Professional Training Association from any claims resulting from any action taken by PTA during or as a result of its investigation and from any actions taken as a consequence of investigations by either Professional Training Association or law enforcement authorities. However, we do not undertake to review all material before it is posted on the websites, and cannot ensure prompt removal of objectionable material after it has been posted. Accordingly, we assume no liability for any action or inaction regarding transmissions, communications or content provided by any user or third party. We have no liability or responsibility to anyone for performance or non-performance of the activities described in this paragraph.

Professional Training Association assumes no responsibility and shall not be liable for any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the websites or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video, or audio from the websites.

The websites may contain links to other websites operated by third parties other than Professional Training Association. Such links are provided for your convenience only. PTA does not control such websites and is not responsible for their content. The fact that the websites contain links to sites operated by third parties other than Professional Training Association does not mean that PTA approves of, endorses or recommends those sites, nor does it imply any association with their operators. Your linking to any other off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk. Professional Training Association disclaims all warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy, legality, reliability or validity of any content on any other site and disclaims all responsibility for any loss, injury, claim, liability or damage of any kind resulting from any third party websites or content therein directly or indirectly accessed through links in the websites.

 

Applicable Law

By accessing the websites, you agree that the laws of the State of Washington, without regard to the conflict of laws and principles thereof, will apply to all matters relating to the use of the websites. You also submit to the personal jurisdiction of Washington and the venue of the state and federal Courts of Washington.

The illegality or unenforceability of any provision of these Terms of Use shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any legal and enforceable provisions of these Terms of Use.

 

Entire Agreement

These Terms and Conditions, together with Professional Training Association’s purchase & refund policy, privacy policy, and other rules and policies posted on PTA’s website, which are hereby incorporated in this Agreement, constitute the entire agreement between you and Professional Training Association. Any rights not expressly granted in this Agreement are reserved.