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Acceptable Use Policy

Last Updated: August 21, 2025

This Acceptable Use Policy ("Policy") is part of our Terms and Conditions ("Legal Terms") and should therefore be read alongside our main Legal Terms: https://www.skillhero.works/terms-of-service. If you do not agree with these Legal Terms, please refrain from using our Services. Your continued use of our Services implies acceptance of these Legal Terms.

Please carefully review this Policy which applies to any and all:

  • (a) uses of our Services (as defined in "Legal Terms")

  • (b) forms, materials, consent tools, comments, post, and all other content available on the Services ("Content") and

  • (c) material which you contribute to the Services including any upload, post, review, disclosure, ratings, comments, chat etc. in any forum, chatrooms, reviews, and to any interactive services associated with it ("Contribution").

WHO WE ARE

We are the National Center for Construction Education and Research Ltd., doing business as NCCER ("Company," "we," "us," or "our") a non-profit organization registered in Florida, United States at 13614 Progress Blvd., Alachua, Florida 32615. We operate the website https://careerstarter.nccer.org/ (the "Site"), the mobile application CareerStarter (the "App"), as well as any other related products and services that refer or link to this Policy (collectively, the "Services").

USE OF THE SERVICES

When you use the Services you warrant that you will comply with this Policy and with all applicable laws. You also acknowledge that you may not: 

  • Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Services to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us. 

  • Make any unauthorized use of the Services, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email, or creating user accounts by automated means or under false pretenses. 

  • Circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Services, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on the use of the Services and/or the Content contained therein. 

  • Engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the Services. 

  • Trick, defraud, or mislead us and other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information such as user passwords. 

  • Make improper use of our Services, including our support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct. 

  • Engage in any automated use of the Services, such as using scripts to send comments or messages, or using any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. 

  • Interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on the Services or the networks or the Services connected. 

  • Attempt to impersonate another user or person or use the username of another user. 

  • Use any information obtained from the Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person. 

  • Use the Services as part of any effort to compete with us or otherwise use the Services and/or the Content for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial enterprise. 

  • Decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Services, except as expressly permitted by applicable law. 

  • Attempt to bypass any measures of the Services designed to prevent or restrict access to the Services, or any portion of the Services. 

  • Harass, annoy, intimidate, or threaten any of our employees or agents engaged in providing any portion of the Services to you. 

  • Delete the copyright or other proprietary rights notice from any Content. 

  • Copy or adapt the Services’ software, including but not limited to Flash, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, or other code. 

  • Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) viruses, Trojan horses, or other material, including excessive use of capital letters and spamming (continuous posting of repetitive text), that interferes with any party’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the Services or modifies, impairs, disrupts, alters, or interferes with the use, features, functions, operation, or maintenance of the Services. 

  • Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) any material that acts as a passive or active information collection or transmission mechanism, including without limitation, clear graphics interchange formats ("gifs"), 1×1 pixels, web bugs, cookies, or other similar devices (sometimes referred to as "spyware" or "passive collection mechanisms" or "pcms"). 

  • Except as may be the result of standard search engine or Internet browser usage, use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, or offline reader that accesses the Services, or using or launching any unauthorized script or other software.

  • Disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Services. 

  • Use the Services in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations. 

  • Use a buying agent or purchasing agent to make purchases on the Services. 

  • Sell or otherwise transfer your profile.

If you subscribe to our Services, you understand, acknowledge, and agree that you may not, except if expressly permitted:

  • Engage in any use, including modification, copying, redistribution, publication, display, performance, or retransmission, of any portions of any Services, other than as expressly permitted by this Policy, without the prior written consent of NCCER, which consent NCCER may grant or refuse in its sole and absolute discretion. 

  • Reconstruct or attempt to discover any source code or algorithms of the Services, or any portion thereof, by any means whatsoever. 

  • Provide, or otherwise make available, the Services to any third party. 

  • Intercept any data not intended for you.

  • Damage, reveal, or alter any user's data, or any other hardware, software, or information relating to another person or entity.

COMMUNITY/FORUM GUIDELINES

1. Be Respectful – Personal attacks, hateful, racially or ethnically derogatory comments, and harassment against other participants in the community will not be tolerated. You can certainly disagree with another, but be respectful and keep your comments relevant to the topic of conversation.

2. Avoid Nasty Language – Foul, obscene or sexually explicit language or other content that a reasonable person would find objectionable IS NOT PERMITTED.

3. Don't Spam – Advertisements, solicitations or promotions will not be allowed.

4. Use Your Own Words – The distribution of intellectual property not belonging to you is not permitted. Another way of saying it: speak your mind, but use your own words to do so.

5. Make Yourself at Home – Remember, this is your community. Feel free to express yourself, ask questions and mix it up.

6. Discussion and Comment Guidelines – There are a few guidelines we enforce to ensure exchanges that are informative, respectful of diverse viewpoints, and lawful. Contributions to the discussion boards will be posted automatically. Blog comments are moderated and are reviewed by a NCCER editor. NCCER may choose not to post or to remove the comment if it does not meet our comment guidelines. NCCER does not assume any liability for content posted by others. NCCER reserves the right to delete any message under circumstances that, in NCCER 's judgment, are inappropriate, unlawful or otherwise detrimental to the community dialogue, such as the following: Personal attacks, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive or derogatory content, and harassment or threats against other participants of the discussion board, in the blog comments area or featured speakers on the site will not be tolerated. This includes libel or unsubstantiated accusations against another. Foul, obscene or sexually explicit language, and other content that a reasonable person would find objectionable will not be permitted. The distribution of intellectual property not belonging to you is not permitted. You must have the legal right to upload or download any content you upload to or download from the discussion board and/or blog comments. By posting material on the discussion board and/or blog comments you represent that you have the legal right to reproduce, adapt, perform, display and distribute such content to others. Much of the information available on the Internet is protected by the copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights of others. Do not upload or download any information unless you are certain that you have the legal right to do so. No advertisement, solicitation or promotion will be allowed. Illegal behavior of any kind will not be tolerated.

CONTRIBUTIONS

In this Policy, the term "Contributions" means:

  • any data, information, software, text, code, music, scripts, sound, graphics, photos, videos, tags, messages, interactive features, or other materials that you post, share, upload, submit, or otherwise provide in any manner on or through to the Services; or 

  • any other content, materials, or data you provide to NCCER or use with the Services.

Some areas of the Services may allow users to upload, transmit, or post Contributions. We may but are under no obligation to review or moderate the Contributions made on the Services, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage resulting from any of our users' breach of this Policy. Please report any Contribution that you believe breaches this Policy; however, we will determine, in our sole discretion, whether a Contribution is indeed in breach of this Policy.

You warrant that:

  • you are the creator and owner of or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, releases, and permissions to use and to authorize us, the Services, and other users of the Services to use your Contributions in any manner contemplated by the Services and this Policy; 

  • all your Contributions comply with applicable laws and are original and true (if they represent your opinion or facts); 

  • the creation, distribution, transmission, public display, or performance, and the accessing, downloading, or copying of your Contributions do not and will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or moral rights of any third party; and 

  • you have the verifiable consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in your Contributions to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of your Contributions in any manner.