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In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. 
-- Lee Iacocca
Terms of Use
By using our site, you agree to the following terms of use. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use this site.
Copyrights, Trademarks, Accuracy, Areas, Ecommunities, Links, Access, Passwords, Credit, Liability, Data, Spam, Privacy
Purpose
MSTA’s purpose is working to improve and support the teaching profession and
public education by providing a variety of information resources, workshops and
services to teachers, prospective teachers, parents and care-givers of Missouri
students.
Copyrights
This entire site is copyrighted ©2005 by Missouri State Teachers Association.,
407 S. Sixth Street, Columbia, MO 65201
Accuracy
Information on this web site may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors.
Areas, Ecommunities and Links
Different areas contain different information and are available to different
users.
We host a number of e-Communities for members to exchange information and help each other. We are not responsible for the messages posted by others.
Sometimes we provide links to other web sites established by third parties We are not responsible for these links or what is on the other sites
Access and Passwords Access to the public areas is available to anyone. Access to other areas is restricted.
Passwords are just for your use. Do not share them.
Credit, Liability and Data
If you are buying any goods or services from us through this web site, your
purchases are subject to special terms.
If you store any data on our site, there are also special terms and conditions.
Spam
You are not allowed to send spam to our Internet addresses.
Privacy Policy
These terms include our Privacy Policy
Purpose
MSTA provides this website as part of fulfilling our purpose as a not-for-profit association. MSTA’s purpose is working to improve and support the teaching profession and public education by providing a variety of information resources, workshops and services to teachers, prospective teachers, parents and care-givers of Missouri students. MSTA does this by:
- Providing workshops and conferences for prospective teachers, beginning teachers and experienced teachers that address issues related to improving the practice and profession of teaching in Missouri.
- Publishing a quarterly publication, School & Community, that includes education articles of general interest to teachers, prospective teachers, and other public education employees. The publication includes current events, best teaching practices, education policy and profiles of teachers.
- Providing school district financial information, legal services and education policy advocacy for the benefit of Missouri teachers and other public education employees.
Copyrights
This entire site is copyrighted ©2005 by Missouri State Teachers Association., 407 S. Sixth Street, Columbia, MO 65201. All rights are reserved. Elements of this web site are protected by trade dress and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part.
No permission is given to our competitors to copy, publish or republish any material on this site, although they may view the material in our public areas.
Permission is given to members of MSTA interested in obtaining the products that we license and sell to make a reasonable number of copies of information in our public areas to use internally in order to reach their purchase decisions.
Permission is given to current members of MSTA to make reasonable numbers of copies of materials from the public or member areas but only for their own internal use and with the exception that they are not permitted to create manuals, guides or other materials for sale.
Any permitted copying, publication or republication must be done without altering the material quoted or distorting the information quoted or conveying a concept different from what is on the site and must include clear attribution to the Missouri State Teachers Association.
Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. We are liberal about making exceptions, so contact us if you have any doubts.
Trademarks
The names of other companies and their products mentioned on this site are the trademarks of their respective owners.
Accuracy
Information on this web site may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Information may be changed or updated without notice. We have attempted to be as accurate as possible at the time that information is added to this site, but the pace of change in the computer field makes information quickly out of date. Always contact us to verify information before relying upon it, even for planning purposes. We may also make improvements and/or changes in the products and/or the programs described on the site at any time without notice.
Areas - Ecommunities - Links - Demo Sites
Areas
The information in our member areas is provided as a service to assist members.
e-Communities
We host a number of Ecommunities for Members and MSTA Leaders to exchange information and help each other. We are not responsible for the messages posted by others. We may not review them to see if they are technically correct or even if they are offensive. We reserve the right to remove any offensive messages that we do review, but it is our policy not to edit any posting. By using a e-Community, you agree to read and follow the Do's and Don't about postings.
Links
Sometimes we provide links to other web sites established by third parties These links are provided only as a convenience and service to you and we do not make any representations about these sites or the materials available there.
e-Communities
We host a number of e-Communities for Members to exchange information and help each other. We are not responsible for the content of the messages. Use them at your own risk. Goods and services advertised in e-Communities are not endorsed, reviewed or advocated by us. Investigate them thoroughly and buy and use them at your own risk.
We are not responsible for the messages posted on any e-Communities that are not signed by MSTA, as an organization. See our main legal statement for details. We are not responsible for the accuracy, truthfulness, content or use of any message posted on a e-Community. If a message is posted by an MSTA employee that identifies him/her as being an employee but does not say "on behalf of MSTA", then the message is from the person as an individual and not from MSTA as an organization and the reference to MSTA is for identification purposes only.
All messages that you post are assumed to be in the public domain and can be read, copied and republished by anyone without any restrictions. If this is not true for a particular message, you must state so explicitly in the message. All messages that we post, however, are subject to all of the restrictions of this site, including copyright and access
Any information that you post is at your own risk. We do not enforce copyright protection and often posting ideas, lesson plans or similar material may cause you to lose any trade secret protection you had in the ideas. We can make commercial use these ideas, ourselves. If you are selling these goods or services, we do not collect for you nor create or enforce any agreements between you and your prospect or customer.
Most e-Communities have Do's and Don't about postings. By using the e-Community, you agree to read and follow them.
Access and Passwords
Access
Access to the public areas is available to anyone, even our competitors. Access to the member areas is reserved for active members of MSTA and a password is required. Accessing an area for which you are not authorized involves your downloading copyrighted information, violates our copyright and is prohibited. If you need information that is not available in your authorized area, contact us. We can almost always help.
Passwords
If you are using a password to access an area on our site, that password is only for your use and must not be shared with anyone inside or outside your organization. If you have a temporary password, you can only use it to educate yourself about the scope of the services and you agree not to rely on any information you obtain in the process.
Credit, Liability and Data
Credit and Liability
If you are buying any goods or obtaining any services from us (even free services) through this web site, your transactions are subject to the following terms.
(Credit) You will be billed for all charges, either directly or through your charge card and agree to pay all bills within thirty days and not to stop or reverse any payment without our permission.
(Liability and Remedies) Our liability is only for direct damages and not for consequential, indirect or other special damages such as lost profits Your only remedy is to have us to fix the problem or refund to you an amount not to exceed what you paid us for the goods or services in dispute.
Data Stored on our Site
In some cases you may store data on our site and we will backup and guard your data at least as well as we backup and guard our own data. However, you should also backup your data at your own site and review it periodically to make sure that it is not corrupted. Note the limitations on our liability in the Credit section, above, and remember that you are the one primarily responsible for your data.
Spam
Individuals and businesses that send spam should take notice that Missouri State Teachers Association regards spam (and junk faxes) as an interference with our business and reserves the right to initiate legal action against spammers and junk faxers. Anyone sending us spam or junk faxes will be responsible for all business and legal costs associated with that spam, including reasonable attorney's fees.
Notice to junk faxers: Sending unsolicited commercial faxes has been illegal under Federal law since 1991 (47 USC § 227.) We may sue companies and individuals who send us unsolicited commercial faxes. If you send us a junk fax (unsolicited advertisement or promotion) you agree to pay us $500 or $1,500 per fax, in accordance with 47 USC § 227, plus any legal costs we incur.
Notice to spammers: Certain types of spam is prohibited by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Chapter 47 of title 18, United States Code). In such cases, we will notify the State Attorney General as well as the federal authorities and help them to prepare a case against you.
Do we send spam? We do not think so. We only mail to people who have expressed an interest in our services or who are active members of MSTA. If you have received unsolicited e-mail from us that is of no interest to you, please let us know and we will usually take you off of the list we used and try and shield you from future mailings. We comply fully with the CAN-SPAM Act.
OnLine Privacy Policy
By using this site, you agree to the terms of this Online Privacy Policy (including all links) and of our Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use this site. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other web sites to which we may link.
Personal Information
In general, you can visit
the public areas of our site without telling us who you are or revealing any
personal information about yourself.
Confidentiality We consider the contact information that you give us to be some of the most important information that we have and take active steps to keep it confidential.
Use
We collect information for a
variety of reasons, including to promote our products and services to you. If
you give us contact information (phone, fax, e-mail) you are also giving us
expressed permission to use this information to contact you.
Cookies
In a few cases we use
cookies to help you with your shopping and other things.
Ecommunities
If you use our e-Communities or post a message in a public place, you are
giving implied consent for anyone to read, copy, and republish your message or
any part of it.
Surveys
We sometimes conduct surveys
for our own use and we sometimes conduct surveys for other organizations.
Personal Information
In general, you can visit the public areas of our site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. You may request more information be sent to you and, in that case, we will ask you to provide contact information, which may include your name, company, mailing address, e-mail address or other personally identifying information.
When you submit personal information to us, you understand and agree that we and our affiliates may access, store, and use your member profile in any of the areas in which we and our affiliates maintain offices.
Some areas of our site require a password and you have to identify yourself to apply for the password. We should already have information about you and will update that information and record your password.
This site is not designed to be of interest to children and we do not knowingly collect, keep or use any information provided by or relating to minors.
Confidentiality
We consider the contact information that you give us to be some of the most important information that we have and take active steps to keep it confidential. We would appreciate your updating your contact information if it changes by resigning our guest book and telling us in the comment box what you are updating.
If you call us with problems, questions or comments, we may monitor (listen to or record) the conversations for quality assurance reasons. By using this web site, you agree to this monitoring.
If you store data on our web site, there are special terms relating just to that information. See our general Terms of Use.
Use of Information
We collect information about you for a variety of reasons, including to promote our products and services to you. We may selectively provide certain information to other companies or organizations whose products or services we think may interest you and that are related in some way to ours. By giving us your telephone number, your facsimile number or your e-mail address, you give us expressed permission to use that information to contact you.
We do not sell our mailing lists to spammers. If you want to be removed from our database, please let us know by e-mail. If we obtained the contact information solely from your providing it through this web site, we will delete it, but if you were already in our database, we may or may not remove it.
Cookies
We sometimes use cookies to track your visit to and through the site. A cookie, which is small amount of data that is transferred to your browser by our web server and that only has meaning to us, functions as your identification card, recording your passwords and previous access. It cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses. We use it mainly to keep track of items in your shopping cart. This information does not identify you personally and you remain anonymous unless you have otherwise provided us with personal information.
Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it.
e-Communities
If you use our e-Communities or post a message in a public place, you are giving implied consent for anyone to read, copy, and republish your message or any part of it.
When you join an e-Community, your e-mail address is available to other e-Community members and anyone can use it to write to you or to add it to their own mailing list. e-Communities also contain statistics on your use of the e-Community and these are usually available to all e-Community members.
We exercise no control over the use of any of this information.
Surveys
We sometimes conduct surveys for our own use. We will not reveal your answers to survey questions to third parties unless you have given us your consent. We can use the information in the survey any way we like as long as we do not identify you as the person giving a particular answer.