NOTICE TO ALL USERS: BY ACCESSING THIS SITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE TO COMPLY WITH THE CENTRAL VIRGINIA CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACADEMY'S TERMS OF USE POLICIES PUBLISHED BELOW OF ONLY OPENING ONE ON-LINE COURSE AT A TIME TO LEARN. OPENING UP MULTIPLE COURSES AND WORKING ON THEM SIMULTANEOULY IS PROHIBITED AND IS CONSIDERED A FORM OF CHEATING. IF YOU REFUSE, ARE UNABLE TO OR OTHERWISE FAIL TO ACCEPT/ABIDE BY THESE TERMS OF USE, THE CENTRAL VIRGINIA CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACADEMY WILL DEEM YOUR AUTHORIZATION TO ACCESS THIS SITE AS NULL AND VOID.

TERMS OF USE POLICIES

I. THIS SITE CONTAINS INFORMATION OF A SENSITIVE NATURE AND/OR OTHER GRAPHIC CONTENT INTENDED SPECIFICALLY FOR THOSE PERSONNEL EMPLOYED BY A CRIMINAL JUSTICE AGENCY. THE CENTRAL VIRGINIA CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACADEMY WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIVIDUALS ACCESSING THIS SITE AFTER NOTICE IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF THIS POLICY.

II. TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

NOTE: The courses provided on this site through this portal are intended for hi-speed internet delivery. Users who access the modules via dial-up, may experience some delays during the presentation and/or video portions of these course lessons.

III. TERMS OF SERVICE

The following will constitute the Terms of Service for The Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy for all use, services or products and information available through or at the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy website @ www.cvcja.org

This Agreement will serve as a binding and legal agreement between you the subscriber (end user) and the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy, hereinafter referred to as CVCJA, The Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy, Academy, or www.cvcja.org.

These Terms of Service will provide access and govern all information, products and online and interactive services, as well as all content provided by the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy. Unless stated to the contrary in the following Terms of Service, all inquiries and communications with The Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy should be directed to CVCJA at 1200 Church Street, Lynchburg, VA 24504 attention, Ron Staton, Executive Director.

REGISTRATION

Registration shall be required for all users to participate in the on-line training sessions provided through the CVCJA site. Member agencies of the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy register their personnel by completing the registration form and faxing or sending the form by mail to the Academy. Non-member agencies that wish to enroll their personnel into on-line training must submit the registration form to the academy of which they are member. Their academy will then forward the form to the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy. Once the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy receives the enrollment form, the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy will create a username and password for the individual and will forward the information to the individual's department or academy.

TESTING

• FOR A STUDENT TO RECEIVE CREDIT FOR A COURSE, THE STUDENT MUST ACHIEVE MINIMUM PASSING SCORE OF 70% ON THE TEST FOR THE COURSE.
• ALL TESTS ARE LOCKED OUT AND MAY NOT BE ATTEMPTED UNTIL ALL COURSE MATERIAL HAS BEEN READ OR VIEWED AND THE COURSE EVALUATION HAS BEEN SUBMITTED.
• ALL TESTS ARE TIMED. ONCE THE STUDENT BEGINS A TEST, THE TIMER BEGINS RUNNING AND CANNOT BE PAUSED OR STOPPED. IF A TEST IS NOT SUBMITTED BEFORE THE TIMED PERIOD HAS ELAPSED, THE TEST WILL BE SUBMITTED AUTOMATICALLY AND GRADED. QUESTIONS WITH NO ANSWER CHOSEN WILL BE MARKED AS INCORRECT.
• STUDENTS ARE ALLOWED A SECOND ATTEMPT AT A TEST IF AT THE INITIAL ATTEMPT THE STUDENT FAILS TO ACHIEVE A MINIMUM SCORE OF 70%. A THIRD ATTEMPT AT A TEST CAN ONLY BE GRANTED BY THE CVCJA DIRECTOR AT THE REQUEST OF THE STUDENT'S AGENCY HEAD.

ACCESS TO SERVICES

• ONE INDIVIDUAL SHALL BE PERMITTED TO ACCESS THE SERVICE WITH A SPECIFIC USER NAME AND PASSWORD.
• INDIVIDUALS SHALL BE RESTRICTED TO ONLY ONE USER NAME.
• INDIVIDUALS MAY NOT SHARE THEIR USER NAME OR PASSWORD.
• REGISTERED USERS WILL BE RESTRICTED TO ONLY ACCESS THE ON-LINE TRAINING WEB SITE FROM ONE COMPUTER AT ANY GIVEN TIME.
• ANY ATTEMPT TO LEAVE THE TRAINING SITE WHILE LOGGED INTO A COURSE WILL CAUSE THE COURSE TO STOP AND WILL GENERATE A LOG OF THE ATTEMPT.
• VIOLATION OF THESE SPECIFIC POINTS WILL CAUSE THE USER TO BE REMOVED FROM THE SYSTEM. CVCJA WILL NOTIFY THE USER'S DEPARTMENT OF THE VIOLATION AND MAY DENY THE USER CREDIT FOR COURSE COMPLETION.

CONTENT LICENSE AND REQUIREMENTS

The Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy's online educational website content is the sole property of the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy and is protected by copyright and intellectual property laws of the United States; and shall remain the property of the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy and the individual contributing authors. Users are not permitted to print any of the course content available in the on-line training web site for any purpose. Course content maintained on The CVCJA on-line training website shall not be: retransmitted, redistributed, reused, rebroadcast or republished in any form whatsoever, in print or electronic form or elsewhere, unless permission has been granted in writing from an authorized representative of the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy.

Users shall agree that the use of the content, material, products and services provided by the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy shall fully comply with all applicable laws, rules and local customs in the respective jurisdiction of the user, including use restrictions on laws concerning copyright and intellectual property.

As aforementioned, users shall not permit any other persons to access content, material and/or services provided by the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy with their User ID and password.

RIGHT TO MODIFY TERMS OF SERVICE AND/OR TERMINATE SERVICES

The Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy reserves the right and maintains sole discretion to terminate and/or modify any of the terms of this Agreement and Terms of Services, including but not limited to content and types of services, upon notice to the registered user. Notice is given when the user logs into the online training session. Therefore, In the event of any change, you, the registered user, shall reserve the right to terminate this Agreement and any provided services offered by the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy but only upon written notice to the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy.

The Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy shall post any and all changes concerning this Agreement and Terms of Service on the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy web site and may provide information concerning any and all changes via e-mail when practical.

This Agreement shall terminate automatically if you fail to comply with any term within or in the Terms of Service.

NOTICE SPECIFIC TO MATERIALS AND LINKS

Applicable law prohibits the utilization of any materials protected by Copyright, including but not limited to graphics, text, photos, and sounds. Violations of such may expose the offender to severe criminal and civil sanctions. It shall be the express policy of the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy may prosecute violators to the maximum extent possible by law.

Links to third party sites will permit you to depart the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy site and you must be cognizant of the fact that any linked site shall not come under umbrella of control of the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy. Likewise, the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy shall not become responsible for any content of any linked site or any link contained in any additional or collateral linked site so and so on. It MUST be understood that any link contained within the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy site is provided to you, the end user merely as a convenience for you and shall never constitute any endorsement of the linked site by the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy.

IV. PRIVACY

Any personal data you provide to the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy will be governed by the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy. Your decision to utilize any of the services indicates your agreement to accept the terms of the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy Privacy Policy. It is strongly recommended that you carefully review the Privacy Policy, and should you have any questions, concerns and/or comments about the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy security of personal information you provide to immediately contact a Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy representative.

To briefly restate key elements of the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy Privacy Policy, information gathered in the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy accounts most likely will include names, e-mail address, location information, product and access information, systems information, content preferences and access times and dates. This data will be stored locally in cookies on the end user's personal computer as well an being stored on the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy's servers. This data will also be transmitted electronically to such servers as part of routine communications.

Utilization of Information declaration:

• Will verify rights of access rights to services;
• To permit you access to services;
• For the reporting of completion or non-completion of courses;
• To assist the technical team of the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy to:
  • Fully understand how all services are being used;
  • Monitor internet and site traffic patterns;
  • Monitor actual dates, times and duration of log ins;
  • Generate a total amount of time attempting to complete courses for each session.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES

CHOICE OF LAW - CHOICE OF FORUM - WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. The laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the United States, shall govern all agreements within this document. Any legal dispute or lawsuit pled against the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy that has reference to this agreement or that arises in any other manner from the utilization or operation of the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy website shall be brought solely in a court of the Commonwealth of Virginia or the Fourth Federal Circuit Court unless the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy has consented in writing to a different legal forum. It MUST also be agreed that any and all parties to such a pending cause of action shall agree to waive their respective legal right to a trial by a jury in any and all such causes of action that has been pled.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE. Copyright (c) 2007, by the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

TRADEMARKS. The Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy web site and logo are trademarks of the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy. Any and all other respective product and company names disclosed anywhere within the Central Virginia Criminal Justice Academy website may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Any and all rights not expressly granted herein are expressly reserved.