Terms and Conditions

NACAC Engage Terms and Conditions

This document was last updated on April 24, 2024.

Thank you for being part of our community. To ensure the best possible experience for all members, we have established basic guidelines for participation.

By joining and using this community, you agree that you have read and will follow these rules and guidelines. You also agree to help us foster an engaged online community, with fruitful discussions and helpful content that is best suited to the medium.

Please take a moment to acquaint yourself with these important guidelines. If you have questions, contact the NACAC Engage support team via the Contact Us link on this site. To preserve an environment that encourages civil dialogue, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate membership in this community for anyone who violates these rules.

General Guidelines:

  • Treat others online with patience and kindness.
  • Be tolerant toward other’s viewpoints; respectfully disagree when opinions do not align.
  • Respect the privacy and personal information of other members.
  • Communicate with courtesy and respect.
  • Content should focus on the college admission counseling profession and related topics.

Please do not:

  • Make personal attacks on other community members.
  • Use defamatory remarks, profanity, or make false statements against others.
  • Bully or make inflammatory remarks to other community members.
  • Post spam or advertisements.
  • Post copyrighted information or materials for which you do not own the copyright.
  • Copy content/posts from this community and post elsewhere.
  • Promote fee-based services, events, or programs.

Community Rules

  • Relevance: Content posted in this community should be related to college admission counseling.
  • Respect the purpose of the community. The goals of this community are to assist NACAC members in their professional pursuits, to help maintain connections between colleagues, build strong and mutually beneficial ties between all members, and increase opportunities for engagement. To meet the goals of this community, it is important for members to feel like they are in a safe place populated by people with shared goals and mutual respect.
  • Use caution when discussing products or sensitive topics. Information posted on the discussion groups and in the libraries is available for all to see, and comments are subject to libel, slander, and antitrust laws. Please adhere to best practices and regulations with respect to student information.
  • Post your message or documents only to the most appropriate communities/threads. This helps ensure all messages receive the most relevant responses.
  • Wrong or irrelevant information will be removed. Information that is false or not applicable to the topic being discussed will be deleted. Posts that are off-topic may also be removed. (Examples; viral videos, celebrity news, etc.)
  • Views expressed on NACAC Engage are solely that of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of NACAC.

Member Directory: Using personal contact information made available through the Member Directory —including names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, social media accounts, employment information—for any commercial, advocacy, promotional, or political purpose is prohibited. Prohibited activities include solicitations for business or personal services, fundraising, cold-calling of any kind, mass-mailings, broadcast e-mails, and posting links to lead magnets or forms that collect email addresses.

Library: The NACAC Engage Library is a collaborative repository of information uploaded by members. NACAC cannot guarantee the accuracy or validity of documents, links, or other information uploaded to the library. However, we do monitor the contents and reserve the right to delete content.

Discussion Group Etiquette

  • Consider the diverse experiences, perspectives, and cultural backgrounds of the NACAC member community. Do not assume that others have the same values or norms.
  • State concisely and clearly the topic of your comments in the subject line. This allows members to respond appropriately to your posting and makes it easier for members to search the archives by subject.
  • Do not send administrative messages, such as “remove me from the list,” to the group. Instead, use the web interface to change your settings or to remove yourself from a list. If you are changing email addresses, you do not need to remove yourself from the list and rejoin under your new email address. Edit your username to change your email address.

Data Privacy & Program Promotion:

NACAC Engage is meant for public discussion, so you may not disclose or solicit anyone's private information or disclose confidential information. You are responsible for the use by third parties of any private or personal information disclosed by you on the Engage platform.

Upon our consent, certain NACAC members/partners may be permitted to include a link to a registration form or marketing funnel, which another user may click to leave Engage and obtain or share additional information.  You are responsible for the private/business information you share with our partners via these links. All other weblinks that lead to registration forms, contact forms, funnels, or any technology used for the collection of personal or private information are prohibited.

You are not permitted to sell, rent, lease, assign, sublicense, distribute, transmit, broadcast, commercially exploit, grant a security interest in, or otherwise transfer any right in NACAC Engage or the content therein.  You may not (directly or indirectly) use Engage content in a manner that:

  • discloses or solicits the private information of any person;
  • uploads files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another person's computer;
  • harvests or otherwise collects information about others, including e-mail addresses, via website links, registration funnels, QR codes, or any other means

We may immediately suspend use of the NACAC Engage, without notice, for actual or suspected violations of these terms. 

Legal Information

This site is provided as a service for the members of National Association for College Admission Counseling. National Association for College Admission Counseling is not responsible for the opinions and information posted on this site by others. We disclaim all warranties with regard to information posted on this site, whether posted by National Association for College Admission Counseling or any third party; this disclaimer includes all implied warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event shall National Association for College Admission Counseling be liable for any special, indirect, or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data, or profits, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of any information posted on this site.

Do not post any defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal materials.  Do not post any information or other material protected by copyright without the permission of the copyright owner. By posting material, the posting party warrants and represents that he or she owns the copyright with respect to such material or has received permission from the copyright owner. In addition, the posting party grants National Association for College Admission Counseling and users of this site the nonexclusive right and license to display, copy, publish, distribute, transmit, print, and use such information or other material.

Messages should not be posted if they encourage or facilitate members to arrive at any agreement that either expressly or impliedly leads to price fixing, a boycott of another's business, or other conduct intended to illegally restrict free trade. Messages that encourage or facilitate an agreement about the following subjects are inappropriate: prices, discounts, or terms or conditions of sale; salaries; profits, profit margins, or cost data; market shares, sales territories, or markets; allocation of customers or territories; or selection, rejection, or termination of customers or suppliers.

Consequences:

We will take appropriate action when we see someone violating these rules and guidelines. That may mean giving a warning or deleting content; other times it may mean revoking certain privileges or accounts entirely. Administrators reserve the right to decline or remove content with or without explanation. All community members can flag content that they deem inappropriate. This will be reviewed by the NACAC Engage team and appropriate next steps will be taken. We appreciate our  members’ support in ensuring we foster a safe, collegial, and positive environment. If you have questions regarding moderation on the platform, please reach out to the team at engagesupport@nacacnet.org.

Privacy Policy

NACAC’s privacy policy is located here: https://www.nacacnet.org/privacy-policy/

Agreement:

By logging onto the community and activating your profile, you are considered to be in agreement with the terms and conditions listed above.