Terms and Conditions

Class Blogmeister is a online classroom blogging tool provided free of subscription or purchase charge by The Landmark Project, a consulting firm providing information and services for educator and education agencies.

This blogging service is intended for classroom use. Blog accounts are established and maintained by the classroom teacher. Teachers may use this service for professional blog publishing functions, and to manage and publish student writings intended for assignment-based instructional activities. The teacher is responsible for observing any and all school and district policies regarding student publications and management of student work.

This blogging software service is not intended for students to establish or maintain accounts. Students do not have The Landmark Project's permission to establish Class Blogmeister accounts and The Landmark Project reserves the right to remove any blogging accounts on our system for any reason.

If you are not a teacher, professor, school leader, librarian or professional currently employed by an educational institution, then you may not establish a Class Blogmeister Account.

Students may participate within their educator's blog, provided that the student's instructional supervisor maintains control and responsibility for all student activities, including: blog postings, comments, and any and all other communications.

Educators may add students as classroom users of their classroom blogs. Teachers may not, however, establish students blog accounts, independent of the teacher's control or responsibility.

The Landmark project follows the guidelines of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 2000. Adherence to COPPA requires that students participating within a teacher controlled class blog who are under the age of 13 do not make available any individually identifiable information about the child, including, but not limited to: full name, home address, e-mail address, or telephone number.

The Landmark Project is not responsible or liable for anything posted or information exchanged within your Classroom Blog. The educator agrees to communicate and participate at the educator's own risk.

Educators may allow posting of comments to their site's content. All postedings and comments must be approved or monitored by the educator.

It is the educator's responsibility to ensure personal information is not being used when approving student postings and comments to go "live" on their site. The comments feature on each Community site asks for users to leave their name if they post a comment. As a registered user it is the educator's responsibility to have students use pseudonyms or other non-identifying techniques. Educators should not post content that might solicit private information from students. (See COPPA Guidelines).

Security

The Landmark Project has taken reasonable steps to assure the security of all content entered into Class Blogmeister.

No computing environment can be 100% secure. Therefore, use Class Blogmeister at you own risk. The Landmark Project provides no warranty and assumes no liability.

Take every precaution to protect your login information and your personal data. Do not share your access codes with others. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

All text, files, images, videos, music, sounds, software, logos, charts, layouts, designs, and information, as well as the underlying coding associated with each web page found on Class Blogmeister are the intellectual property of The Landmark Project, unless otherwise noted.

By accepting these conditions and using Class Blogmeister, you agree that The Landmark Project and other intities associated with Class Blogmeister are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special or exemplary damages (including for example, lost profits and damages from loss of use) resulting from using Class Blogmeister, unless the exclusion of such damages is precluded by law. By accepting these conditions, you agree to assume all risk and liability resulting from the use of Class Blogmeister, including the risk of breach in the security of our system.

Conduct on our Sites

You are responsible for your behavior and conduct and the behavior and conduct of your students while using any aspect of Class Blogmeister. The Landmark Project retain the right to edit or delete any part of the content that is published, displayed or distributed on the site. You also agree that neither you, nor your students, will

harass or stalk other users, that is, you won't insult them or send them unwanted messages,
impersonate any other person or identify yourself as anyone else,
use vulgar, abusive or offensive language while using Class Blogmeister,
post material that could reasonably be considered defamatory, libelous, threatening, obscene or vulgar, offensive to racial or ethnic sensibilities or otherwise objectionable,
use Class Blogmeister to gather any type of personal information from other people, such as, for example, email addresses, or use Class Blogmeister to post advertising, promotional or solicitation material. In addition, The Landmark Project will not permit any conduct that it believes will keep others from using or enjoying the site.

Using Class Blogmeister indicates that you accept these terms. If you do not accept these terms, do not use this service. The Landmark Project reserves the right to add, renew, or change these terms at any time.

These Terms take immediate effect to any educator who currently holds an account on Class Blogmeister, even if the educator is not aware of these terms.

Contact david@landmark-project.com for other information. Mailing address is:

The Landmark Project
PO Box 19637
Raleigh, NC 27619