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Legal Terms for Educators and Institutions

  1. COLLEGE BOARD “RULES OF THE ROAD” FOR EDUCATORS, OTHER THIRD PARTIES, AND INSTITUTIONS
    These legal terms (“Terms”) govern the use of products and services (collectively, “College Board Educator Services”) that College Board (“we,” “us,” or “College Board”) makes available to authorized users of colleges, K-12 schools, school districts, state education agencies, scholarship organizations, certain other education institutions and agencies, and other authorized third parties (collectively, “Entities”). Authorized users are educators, teachers, testing staff for school-day test administrations, and others who use College Board Educator Services on behalf of and with the authorization of their respective Entities (collectively, “Individuals”). Individuals also include employees and agents of service providers to Institutions or College Board who access College Board Educator Services at the direction of and for the sole purpose of providing services to Entities. Entities and Individuals will be collectively referred to in these Terms as “you” or “your” or “their”. College Board Educator Services are made available to Individuals solely in their capacity as authorized representatives of their respective Entities and are not for their personal use. By using College Board Educator Services, you represent that you have been authorized by your current Entity to use College Board Educator Services (including access to student data, where applicable) and you agree that these Terms govern both you and your Entity unless otherwise prohibited by applicable law. If your Entity has a separate contract with us governing the use of one or more College Board Educator Services (a “Negotiated Agreement”), the Negotiated Agreement will control in the event of any inconsistency with these Terms. These Terms replace the “Site Terms of Use.” These Terms also govern testing staff for SAT Weekend test administrations (“Weekend Testing Staff”). Weekend Testing Staff are included in the definition of “you” or “your” or “their”.
     
  2. ADDITIONAL TERMS: SERVICE SPECIFIC TERMS
    Your use of certain College Board Educator Services may require you to agree to additional terms, conditions, and policies (collectively, “Service Specific Terms”) which you will be asked to review and agree to when you register for or participate in such services. These Terms include and incorporate the Service Specific Terms to which you agree. College Board Educator Services that require your agreement to Service Specific Terms include, but are not limited to, AP Classroom, Assessment Reporting for K-12 Educators and Higher Ed Educators, Student Search Service, and PowerFAIDS. If one or more of the Service Specific Terms are inconsistent with these Terms, the provisions of the Service Specific Terms will control.
     
  3. PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTS
    To access College Board Educator Services, you must create a professional account, which is subject to these Terms. Access credentials (such as username and password) for professional accounts must be kept confidential and may not be shared with anyone else. If you are no longer authorized by your Entity to use College Board Educator Services, if you cease to be employed by the Entity you identified when creating your professional account, and/or you cease to be Weekend Testing Staff (and you are not currently using other College Board Educator Services), you must immediately discontinue use of your professional account and notify your Entity so that they may disable your access to College Board Educator Services. You must promptly notify College Board in the event of any unauthorized use or compromise of your account.

    Via your professional account, you may be able to share or delegate access to certain College Board Educator Services to other Individuals (“delegate access”). For example, you may be able to delegate access to other Individuals to view student data of your Institution and/or to allow other Individuals to financially bind your Institution. However, you may delegate access only if you have been so authorized by your Entity, and you may delegate access only to Individuals who are duly authorized by your Entity. If an Individual to whom you delegated access is no longer authorized for such access or is no longer employed by the Entity, you must promptly notify College Board.
     
  4. PROHIBITED USES
    You may use College Board Educator Services only for their intended uses and in compliance with all applicable laws. You may not (i) impair or attempt to impair the performance, availability, or accessibility of College Board Educator Services, (ii) harm, reverse engineer, or gain unauthorized access to user accounts or the technology and equipment supporting College Board Educator Services, (iii) act unlawfully, illegally, fraudulently, or harmfully with respect to College Board Educator Services, (iv) enter or supply incomplete, false, or misleading information; impersonate another person; or misrepresent your affiliation with an Entity, or (v) reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, use, or exploit College Board Educator Services for any commercial purpose or any other purpose outside of its intended use.
     
  5. YOUR PRIVACY
    Our privacy policies (collectively, “Privacy Policies”) are located at https://privacy.collegeboard.org/ and are part of these Terms. By using College Board Educator Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure by College Board of your information, including personally identifiable information, described in the Privacy Policies and in these Terms.
  • You understand and agree that College Board may share information about you with your respective Entity.
  • College Board supports federated login, allowing you to use your College Board account and credentials on certain other sites and platforms. When you choose to use your College Board credentials to sign in to another site or service, you authorize us to share certain, limited information for authentication and account-linking purposes. We do not share passwords. Your use of any third-party service is governed by their privacy policy and terms.
     

  1. COLLEGE BOARD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
    All text, audio and video recordings, images, video, animations, content, materials, data, and other information included in or made available to you through College Board Educator Services (collectively, “Our Content”) is the property of College Board and/or third parties from whom College Board licensed it (“Licensors”) and is protected by United States and international copyright laws. Our Content may not be distributed, downloaded, uploaded, modified, reused, performed, reproduced, reposted, retransmitted, disseminated, sold, published, broadcast, or circulated, or otherwise used in any way whatsoever without our express written permission. You may not attempt to decompile, reverse engineer, scrape, or data-mine College Board Services or Our Content.

    For permission to use Our Content, please complete the Permission Request Form.

    All trademarks and logos included in or made available through College Board Educator Services (“College Board Trademarks”) are owned by us or are used with permission by us from their respective owners. No use of any College Board trademark, or any other trademark set forth in College Board Educator Services, is permitted without our express written consent.

    All College Board Educator Services, Content and College Board Trademarks are owned by College Board and its Licensors. You may not attempt to decompile, reverse engineer, scrape, or data-mine College Board Educator Services.

    Some College Board Educator Services include online or digital services (collectively, “Digital Services”). College Board grants you a limited, nonexclusive, revocable, and nontransferable license to access Digital Services to which College Board has given you access. You are responsible for meeting and maintaining the minimum technical requirements to use Digital Services, such as with respect to devices, operating systems, and browser versions. Access to Digital Services may require internet access for which College Board is not responsible. College Board Educator Services may also be made available to you via a mobile device. Standard messaging, data, and other fees may be charged by your carrier. Your carrier may prohibit or restrict certain mobile features, and certain mobile features may be incompatible with your carrier or mobile device.
     

  2. CONTENT YOU PROVIDE
    Some College Board Educator Services allow you to provide information and content for use in the College Board Educator Services. The information and content you provide (“Institution Content”) is used to provide the College Board Educator Services and for internal and external research, and may also be licensed for use in college costs, savings, and financial aid calculators and other tools. You warrant that the Institution Content is true and accurate, does not include third-party materials, and does not contain material that violates applicable laws, third-party rights, or common decency standards. You grant College Board a limited perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use Institutional Content for the purposes described above.
     
  3. THIRD-PARTY CONTENT
    College Board Educator Services may provide links to other websites for informational purposes only. We are not responsible for the content or operation of other websites, and links from College Board Educator Services to other websites do not imply our endorsement of them.
     

  4. DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT NOTICE
    If you are a copyright owner or their agent and believe that content on collegeboard.org or any of its subdomains, or on any College Board web application or mobile app, infringes upon your copyright, please submit notice, pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512 (c) (3)), to our Copyright Agent listed below with the following information: (i) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright; (ii) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; (iii) the URL of the location containing the material that you claim is infringing; (iv) your address, telephone number, and email address; (v) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and (vi) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.

    Our Copyright Agent can be reached as follows:

    By email*: [email protected]

    By mail: College Board
    Attn: Legal - Copyright Agent
    225 Liberty Street
    New York, NY 10281

    By phone: 212-713-8000

    * Please note this mailbox is monitored only for Digital Millennium Copyright Act notices.
     

  5. GOVERNING LAW, VENUE, AND WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
    These Terms shall be governed by the laws of the state of New York without regard to choice or conflict of law principles. All disputes arising from or related to these Terms shall be resolved exclusively in the state and federal courts located in New York County, New York State, and you and College Board irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of such courts. You and College Board expressly waive any right to a jury trial in any lawsuit arising from or related to this Agreement.
     

  6. NO WARRANTIES/LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
    COLLEGE BOARD MAKES NO WARRANTIES REGARDING COLLEGE BOARD EDUCATOR SERVICES INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION A WARRANTY THAT A TESTING EXPERIENCE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE. YOU ACCEPT COLLEGE BOARD EDUCATOR SERVICES AS IS.

    COLLEGE BOARD WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY OR SPECIAL DAMAGES.
     

  7. SPECIAL CONDITIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL USE AND EXPORTS
    You may not use, export, or re-export any Content or any copy or adaptation of such Content, or any College Board Educator Services, in violation of any applicable laws or regulations, including without limitation, United States export laws and regulations.
     
  8. CHANGES AND SEVERABILITY
    College Board reserves the right to make changes to these Terms at any time. You are responsible for reviewing and becoming familiar with any changes to these Terms. Your use of College Board Services after such changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms. Should any provision of these Terms be held to be void, invalid, unenforceable, or illegal by a proper legal authority, the validity and enforceability of the other provisions shall not be affected and, to the extent possible, the void, invalid, unenforceable, or illegal provision shall be modified so that it is valid, enforceable, and legal, and to the fullest extent, reflects the intention of the parties.
     
  9. FORCE MAJEURE
    College Board shall not be held liable for any delay or failure in performance of any part of College Board Educator Services by reason of any cause beyond our reasonable control, whether specifically listed below or not, and including without limitation, acts of God, acts of civil or military authority, government regulations, embargoes, epidemics, pandemics, public health emergencies, war, terrorist acts, riots, fires, explosions, earthquakes, nuclear accidents, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, major storms, extreme weather events, public unrest, strikes, power or telecommunications outages, ransomware or hacker attacks, website outages or other incidents affecting our facilities, or acts or omissions of our vendors, suppliers, or common carriers.
     
  10. SURVIVAL
    Your obligations under these Terms, which by their nature would continue beyond the termination of College Board Educator Services, will remain in effect even after your access to the College Board Educator Services is terminated, or your use of College Board Educator Services ends.