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  1. Use of the Website. The Website, and all of the content on the Website, with the exception of the Responses (“ITHAKA Content”) are proprietary to ITHAKA.  Use of ITHAKA Content is permitted with attribution for non-commercial purposes, under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. You may hypertext link to the ITHAKA Content, so long as the link does not state or imply any sponsorship or endorsement of your site by ITHAKA or any other affiliation with the Website. For further permission to use the Website or its content, please contact us at hepr@ithaka.org.
  2. Submitted Materials. ITHAKA invites the Higher Education in Prison (“HEP”) community at large to engage with, interrogate, and provide feedback on the proposals shared on the Website.  This includes our framing of the issues, our description of HEP research, and our suggested strategies for collaborating around an HEP research infrastructure to promote equitable access and student success. We hope to hear your voice on these ideas. In the course of interacting with the Website, its discussion prompts and comment forms, you may submit content to ITHAKA (including your personal information, written responses, and survey information) (referred to as your “Responses”). You retain ownership of all of your intellectual property rights in your Responses and ITHAKA does not claim ownership over any of your Responses.
    All submitted Responses will contribute to informing and shaping the next phases of ITHAKA’s HEP project, however not all Responses will be published.  We will publish a variety of salient Responses that are targeted to HEP research and use respectful language. You grant ITHAKA a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free and fully transferable and sublicensable right and license to use, copy reproduce, distribute, modify, adapt, publish create derivative works, make publicly available and incorporate in other works your Responses, for the limited purpose of running the Website and/or facilitating ITHAKA’s HEP research.
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Last updated on June 7, 2021