Terms of Service

Last Modified: August 23, 2024

  1. Acceptance of TermsThis Terms of Service Agreement (the “Agreement”) is a legal agreement between you and Solar Energy Industries Association, Inc. (“SEIA” “we” or “us”) governing your use of SEIA’s websites, mobile applications, and any other SEIA-owned web property (the “Website”).Please carefully read these Terms of Service that apply to your access and to the use of the website. If you do not agree to every provision of these Terms, you may not, and we do not authorize you to, access or use the Site or any features provided on the Site.By accessing or using the Site, you represent and warrant that you have not been previously suspended or removed from the Site, or engaged in any activity that could result in suspension or removal from the Site.We reserve the right to revise these Terms of Service or any portion of them at any time. If we make changes to this Agreement, we will post notice of the modifications to the Agreement on this page. Changes will become effective when they are posted.A current version of this Agreement showing the effective date is always available at this location. Your use of this website is subject to any such revisions and you should periodically visit this page to review the current Terms of Service that apply to your use of this website, or any other SEIA-owned web property. SEIA may also make improvements and/or changes in products described on this Website, add new features, or terminate this Website at any time without notice. If you do not agree to the Agreement as modified, then you must discontinue your use of the Website. Your continued use of this Website will signify your continued agreement to this Agreement as it may be revised.
  2. RegistrationCertain sections and features of this Website are available only to visitors to this Website who have registered for user IDs and passwords (“Registered Users”). There are certain features and sections of the Website which are only available to individuals employed by SEIA members.By creating an account, you agree to (a) provide accurate, current and complete account information, (b) maintain and promptly update, as necessary, your account information, (c) maintain the security of your account credentials, (d) be responsible for the acts or omissions of any third party who has authority to access or use the Website on your behalf, and (e) immediately notify us if you discover or otherwise suspect any security breaches related to the Website or your account. You may only have one active Registered User account on this Website at any given time and only you may use your designated account to access the Website.If you do not comply with these requirements or we have reasonable grounds to suspect as much, we have the right to suspend or terminate your account and your use of this Website.
    We explicitly disclaim liability for any and all losses and damages arising from your failure to comply with this section.
  3. Interactive ForumsWe may host message boards, chat rooms, blogs, and other interactive forums or services (each, a “Forum”) on the Website. Forums are intended to serve as discussion centers. Any user failing to comply with this Agreement may be expelled from and refused continued access to Forums in the future.When using the Forums, you may submit text, links, graphics, photos, or other materials (“Your Content”). By submitting Your Content to the Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, power, and authority necessary to grant the rights to Your Content contained within these Terms. Because you alone are responsible for Your Content, you may expose yourself to liability if you post or share content without all necessary rights.You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant SEIA the following license to use that Content:
    • You grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, distribute, store, perform, and display Your Content and any name, username, voice, or likeness provided in connection with Your Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed anywhere in the world.
    • Any ideas, suggestions, and feedback about SEIA or its services that you provide to us are entirely voluntary, and you agree that SEIA may use such ideas, suggestions, and feedback without compensation or obligation to you.
    • Although we have no obligation to screen, edit, or monitor Your Content, we may, in our sole discretion, delete or remove Your Content at any time and for any reason, including for violating these Terms, violating our Content Policy, or if you otherwise create or are likely to create liability for us.

    You acknowledge and agree that Forums are public spaces and that your participation in such Forums creates no expectation of privacy. We are not responsible for information that you or others choose to communicate in Forums, or for your actions or the actions of other users. IF YOU CHOOSE TO MAKE ANY OF YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE OR OTHER INFORMATION PUBLICLY AVAILABLE IN A FORUM OR OTHERWISE ON OR THROUGH THE WEBSITE, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.

    You understand that SEIA staff, SEIA’s outside contributors, or other users connected with SEIA may participate in Forums or other aspects of the Website. SEIA or its designated agents may remove or alter any information or content posted or otherwise disclosed in any Forum at any time for any reason.

  4. Website SecurityYou are prohibited from violating, or attempting to violate, the security of this Website. Any such violations may result in criminal and/or civil penalties against you. SEIA will investigate any alleged or suspected violations and if a criminal violation is suspected, we will cooperate with law enforcement agencies in their investigations.
  5. Unauthorized Use or Access Unless otherwise expressly authorized in this Agreement or on the Website, you may not take any action to interfere with the Website or any other user’s use of the Website. While using the Website you are required to comply with all applicable statutes, orders, regulations, rules, and other laws. In addition, we expect users of the Website to respect the rights and dignity of others. Your use of the Website is conditioned on your compliance with the rules of conduct set forth in this section. You may not (and you expressly agree that you will not) do any of the following, which violate this Agreement:
    • Post, upload, share, transmit, distribute, facilitate distribution or otherwise make available to or through this Website any unlawful, infringing, harmful, harassing, defamatory, threatening, intimidating, fraudulent, tortious, vulgar or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, including unauthorized or unsolicited advertising;
    • Engage in any unfair or deceptive acts and practices, such as impersonating another person or entity and misrepresenting any affiliations or endorsements;
    • Disseminate on the Website any viruses, worms, spyware, adware, or other malicious computer code, file or program that is harmful or invasive or may or is intended to damage or hijack the operation of, or monitor the use of, any hardware, software or equipment;
    • Use the Website to defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights of others, including without limitation others’ privacy rights or rights of publicity, or harvest or collect personally identifiable information about users of the Website;
    • Interfere with or disrupt the operation of the Website or others’ use of the Website in any way (including without limitation by hacking or defacing any portion of the Website);
    • Reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or otherwise exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of, use of, or access to the Website;
    • Modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the Website;
    • Remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notice from the Website or materials originating from the Website;
    • Use the Website for any fraudulent or unlawful purpose;
    • Violate any applicable laws or regulations; or
    • Assist or permit any persons in engaging in any of the activities described above.
  6. Our Intellectual Property Rights

    You acknowledge and agree that content contained on the Website or information presented to you through the Website may be protected by copyright, trademark, or patent law, or other proprietary rights and laws. Except as expressly authorized by SEIA in writing, you agree not to modify, sell, distribute, copy, reproduce or create derivative works based on the proprietary portions of this Site, in whole or in part.You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Website or its underlying technologies, except to the extent the foregoing restriction is expressly prohibited by applicable law. Those portions of the Website owned by SEIA are the copyright of SEIA. All rights reserved. You agree that all of SEIA’s trademarks, trade names, service marks, logos and service names are trademarks and are property of SEIA (the “SEIA Marks”). You agree not to display or use in any manner the SEIA Marks, without the prior written permission of SEIA.

     

  7. Notice of Copyright InfringementIf you believe that any Content on this Website infringes upon any copyright which you own or control, you may send a written notification to SEIA’s Designated Copyright Agent (the “Designated Agent”) as set forth below.
    Designated Agent Email: webfeedback@seia.org
    If you believe that your copyrighted work is available on the Website in violation of your copyright, you may provide our Designated Agent with a written notice, which contains substantially the following information:

    1. Identify in sufficient detail the copyrighted work or intellectual property that you claim has been infringed so that we can locate the alleged infringing material. If multiple copyrighted works are covered by your notification, you may provide a representative list of such works.
    2. Identify the URL or other specific location on the Website that contains the alleged infringing material described in Item (a) above. You must provide us with reasonably sufficient information to enable us to locate the alleged infringing material.
    3. Provide the electronic or physical signature of the owner of the copyright or a person authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.
    4. Include 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.
    5. Include a statement by you that the information contained in your notice is accurate and that you attest under penalty of perjury that you are the copyright owner or that you are authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.
    6. Include your name, mailing address, telephone number and email address.

    SEIA has adopted a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances and at our sole discretion, users of the Website who are deemed to be repeat infringers.

  8. Links to Third-Party Websites:We have provided links to certain other third party websites solely as a convenience for users of the SEIA website. These websites are maintained on third party servers and are not under the control of SEIA.Any information, statements, opinions or other information provided by third parties and made available on this Website are those of the respective author(s) and not SEIA. We do not guarantee the validity, accuracy, truthfulness, completeness, reliability or usefulness of any opinion, advice, service, offer, statement or other Content on the Website other than those from an authorized SEIA representative acting in his/her official capacity. Under no circumstance will SEIA be liable for or in connection with any loss or damage caused by your reliance on any Content.YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THIRD PARTY WEBSITES AND RESOURCES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION YOUR USE OF ANY CONTENT, INFORMATION, DATA, ADVERTISING, PRODUCTS, OR OTHER MATERIALS ON OR AVAILABLE THROUGH SUCH WEBSITES AND RESOURCES, IS AT YOUR OWN RISK AND IS SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE APPLICABLE TO SUCH SITES AND RESOURCES.

     

  9. Monitoring:You acknowledge and agree that we reserve the right to do one or all of the following, at our sole discretion: (a) evaluate Content before allowing it to be posted on the Website or any Forum; (b) monitor Content; (c) alter, remove, reject, or refuse to post or allow to be posted, without notice to you, any Content, for any reason or for no reason whatsoever; provided, however, that we shall have no obligation or liability to you for failure to do so or for doing so in any particular manner; and/or (d) disclose any Content, and the circumstances surrounding their transmission, to any third party in order to operate the Website; to protect SEIA, and the Website’s users and visitors; to comply with legal obligations or governmental requests; to enforce this Agreement; or for any other reason or purpose.
  10. Social Networking Pages:SEIA maintains a presence on several social networking website, including facebook.com, youtube.com and X.com (formerly known as “Twitter”), (collectively, “Social Networking Pages”) to provide a place for people to learn more about SEIA and to share experiences with our events and services. All comments, visuals and other materials posted by visitors to our Social Networking Pages do not necessarily reflect the opinions or ideas of SEIA. All visitors to our Social Networking Pages must comply with the respective social networking website’s Terms of Use. SEIA reviews some but not all postings to our Social Networking Sites, and we will remove any postings that we have determined are inappropriate or offensive.
  11. Termination:SEIA may terminate your use of this Website or any of its features at any time and for any reason without notice for conduct violating this Agreement. Upon any such termination, you must destroy all Content obtained from this Website and all copies thereof. The provisions of this Agreement concerning Website security, prohibited activities, copyrights, trademarks, user submissions, disclaimer, limitation of liability, indemnity and jurisdictional issues shall survive any such termination. You agree that if your use of this Website is terminated pursuant to this Agreement, you will not attempt to use this Website under any name, real or assumed, and further agree that if you violate this restriction after being terminated, you indemnify and hold us harmless from any and all liability that we may incur therefore.
  12. Disclaimer of Warranty:Although we make a good faith effort to update the content of our website periodically, we do not have a duty to update information contained in our website, and we will not be liable for any failure to update such information. We do not warrant that the functions or informational materials contained in or accessed through our website are free of computer viruses or other harmful components. SEIA DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE, VALIDITY, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY OF, OR OTHERWISE RESPECTING THE CONTENT AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE OR ANY OTHER WEBSITES LINKED TO OR FROM THIS WEBSITE. DOWNLOADING OR OTHERWISE OBTAINING ANY CONTENT THROUGH THIS WEBSITE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE CONTENT OF THIS WEBSITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND ON AN “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT POSSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, SEIA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
  13. Limitation of Liability:Each person assumes full responsibility and all risks arising from access and use of the website. SEIA assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content either of the website or for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger or inaccuracy contained in any information within the website or accessed through the website.SEIA AND EACH OF ITS AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, DIVISIONS, PARENT AND RELATED COMPANIES (COLLECTIVELY, THE “RELEASEES”) WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THIS WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT OR LINKS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DAMAGES CAUSED BY OR RELATED TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS, INTERRUPTIONS, DEFECTS, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, OR ANY COMPUTER VIRUS OR LINE FAILURE. RELEASEES WILL ALSO NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF we have BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONs MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.RELEASEES SHALL NOT HAVE ANY LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY ACTS, OMISSIONS OR CONDUCT OF ANY USER OR OTHER THIRD PARTY.
  14. IndemnificationYou agree to indemnify, defend and hold SEIA and its directors, officers, employees, agents and contractors harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, costs (including without limitation reasonable attorneys’ fees) or other expenses that arise directly or indirectly out of or from (i) your breach of any provision of this Agreement; (ii) your activities in connection with this Website; or (iii) unsolicited information you provide to SEIA through the Website.
  15. Children This Website is intended for use only by persons over the age of 18. SEIA does not seek to collect information about children under the age of 18. If you are under 18 years of age, please do not use or access this Website at any time or in any manner. By using the Website, you affirm that you are over the age of 18.
  16. Severability In the event a court having jurisdiction finds any portion of this agreement unenforceable, that portion shall not be effective and the remainder of the agreement shall remain effective.
  17. Governing Law and Jurisdiction The Website is controlled and operated by SEIA, from our offices within the District of Columbia, United States of America. SEIA makes no representation that materials in the Website are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who choose to access the Website from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. Access to the Website from jurisdictions where the contents of the Website are illegal or penalized is prohibited.You agree that any dispute in connection with the Website, this Agreement or the Privacy Policy will be governed by the laws of the District of Columbia and the United States of America. You also consent to the adjudication of any disputes arising in connection with the Website in the local and federal courts of the District of Columbia.
  18. MiscellaneousThese Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any other agreements expressly incorporated by reference into these Terms, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding your access to and use of the Services. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not operate as a waiver of such right or provision.Headings are used in these Terms for reference only and will not be considered when interpreting them. For purposes of these Terms: (a) the words “include,” “includes,” and “including” will be deemed to be followed by the words “without limitation;” (b) the words “such as,” “for example,” “e.g.,” and any derivatives of those words will mean by way of example and the items that follow these words will not be deemed an exhaustive list; and (c) the word “or” is used in the inclusive sense of “and/or” and the terms “or,” “any,” and “either” are not exclusive.
    No ambiguity will be construed against any party based on a claim that the party drafted the language.
  19. Contact If you have questions about this Agreement, or if you have technical questions about the operation of the Website, please contact us at webfeedback@seia.org.