1. General Notes

1.1 Your On-Line Responsibility Code ("YORC") sets forth how AASI will operate the AASI World Wide Web site, and how AASI members may use this website. Please read this document carefully, and refer to it as necessary.

1.2 The purpose of YORC is to make the AASI website informative, interesting, interactive, and even entertaining. We want to foster a free exchange of ideas concerning AASI, teaching, snowboarding, skiing, and outdoor recreation which incorporates respect for agencies, businesses, associations, and individuals.

2. Accessing and Using the AASI Website

2.1 Access

2.1.1 Equipment. Each person who accesses the AASI website is solely responsible for the equipment used to provide such access. AASI does not have the expertise or the staffing to respond to technical questions regarding difficulties in obtaining access to this site. Those having such difficulties should contact their hardware or software vendor, online service provider, or Internet service provider.

2.1.2 Access Charges. Each person who accesses the AASI website is solely responsible for any telephone charges, online service charges, or other expenses in obtaining access to the site.

2.2 Security

2.2.1 Access Rights. Access to certain portions of the AASI website is limited to AASI members. The right to access these portions is demonstrated through the use of the Member's name and AASI membership number (which can be found on the registration card and/or on The Professional Skier mailing label).

2.2.2 Assumption of Public Knowledge. Those who post materials and information to the AASI website must assume that these things can be accessed and reviewed by anyone who has access to the World Wide Web. While AASI has taken reasonable precautions to limit unauthorized access, please remember that there are those with a lot of talent and time who can hack into even the best maintained systems. DO NOT POST ANYTHING WHICH MAY LATER PROVE AN EMBARRASSMENT TO YOU!

3. Online Conduct

3.1 Code of Conduct and Grievance Procedures.

3.1.1 Code of Conduct. All acts and postings by AASI Members to this website are subject to this AASI on-line Code of Conduct (YORC). While Members are subject to the Code, no proceedings under the Code of Conduct are required to suspend, terminate, or otherwise limit a Member's privileges on the AASI website. A Member aggrieved by any such suspension, termination, or limitation may appeal such a decision to the AASI President.

3.2 General Guidelines. The AASI website is a service for the membership of AASI, and is conducted pursuant to the AASI Mission Statement and Strategic Plan. Our goal is to provide an interesting, stimulating and entertaining place for all Members to exchange thoughts and ideas concerning AASI, teaching, snowboarding, skiing, and outdoor recreation. Using vulgar, abusive or hateful language undermines this goal and is not allowed. Please use best judgment, be civil and polite, and be respectful of other Members. If a Member or other user uses vulgar, or abusive language online, even if masked by symbols or other characters, that person may be subject to disciplinary action.

3.3 Limitations. Without limiting the application of the Code of Conduct and YORC, no person may use or post materials to this website to:

3.3.1 harass, threaten, embarrass or cause distress, unwanted attention or discomfort upon another Member or user of this website or other person or entity. When a Member targets another individual or entity to cause distress, embarrassment, unwanted attention, or other discomfort, this is harassment. AASI does not condone harassment in any form and may suspend or terminate the privileges of any Member who harasses others. People may have a disagreement with someone's point of view -- we encourage lively discussion in our electronic forums -- but personal attacks, or attacks based on a person's race, national origin, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability, or other basis prohibited by law or the Code of Conduct, are prohibited. Those who disagree with someone's point of view must address the subject, not the person.

3.3.2 post or transmit sexually explicit images or other content which is deemed by AASI to be offensive. AASI prohibits the transfer or posting on this website of sexually explicit images or other content deemed offensive by AASI.

3.3.3 transmit any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable Content.

3.3.4 impersonate any person, including but not limited to, a AASI official or an information provider, forum leader, guide or host, or communicate under a false name or a name that the user is not entitled or authorized to use. This can involve the portrayal of another person or entity, such as the impersonation of AASI directors, officers, members, or staff, or an information provider, authorized guide or host, or communication under a false name or a name that a user is not authorized to use. Members must avoid the deceptive portrayal of AASI personnel or other persons in all forms of online communication, including, without limitation, message postings.

3.3.5 post or transmit chain letters or pyramid schemes. Transmission of chain letters and pyramid schemes of any kind is not allowed on this website. This material places an unnecessary load on the AASI website system and is considered a nuisance by many Members. Certain chain letters and pyramid schemes are illegal. Letters or messages that offer a product or service based on the structure of a chain letter are also of questionable legality. At minimum, they are a waste of resources and are not permitted on the AASI website.

3.3.6 post or transmit any unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, or other forms of solicitation to other Members, individuals or entities. Users may not use the AASI website to send unsolicited advertising, promotional material, or other forms of solicitation to other Members. No one may use the AASI website to collect or "harvest" names or other information concerning Members without the expressed prior permission of the Member. AASI reserves the right, but does not assume the obligation, to block or filter mass e-mail solicitations on or through the AASI website.

3.3.7 intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including but not limited to any regulations having the force of law.

3.3.8 post or transmit defamatory material, or material which invades the privacy of another.

3.4 Reporting Violations. If a Member witnesses activity in a forum that he or she thinks may violate the AASI YORC, the Member is requested to send an e-mail detailing the possible violation to web@aasi.org.

4. Content

4.1 AASI Role.

4.1.1 Limits on AASI Role. AASI Members recognize that communication on this website is posted on one of the website's electronic forums, and AASI cannot, and does not intend to, screen communication in advance. Moreover, because AASI encourages open and candid communication, it cannot determine in advance the accuracy, or conformance to the AASI YORC of Content posted or transmitted on the AASI website. AASI is not responsible for screening, policing, editing, or monitoring such Content. If notified of Content which is alleged not to conform to the AASI YORC, AASI may investigate the allegation and determine in good faith and in its sole discretion whether to remove or request the removal of such Content from the AASI website. AASI shall have no liability or responsibility to anyone in respect of performance or non-performance by AASI of such activities.

4.1.2 Material Not Verified. The material posted and opinions expressed by Members and others on the AASI website are not checked for accuracy, and are not necessarily those of AASI, its directors, officers, or staff.

4.2 Use of Judgment. All Members must use their best judgment in evaluating all information contained or opinions expressed on the AASI website. Those who access the AASI website should be no less careful in their evaluation of such information and opinions as they are in everyday life. It is AASI's policy not to endorse, oppose, or edit any opinion expressed by a Member or information or material provided by such Members or others, or other independent party, so long as they conform to YORC.

4.3 Copyright

4.3.1 Content Copyrighted. All Content is protected by copyright pursuant to U.S., international conventions, and other copyright laws as a collective work and/or compilation, and AASI owns a copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of such Content. Users may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce (except as provided below), create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display or in any way exploit, any of the Content, in whole or in part; provided that if no specific restrictions are applied directly or indirectly in relation to a particular item of Content, a user may make a reasonable number of copies of such item, including copyright material, provided that the copies are made and used only for the user's personal use and that the user ensures that any notices contained in the Content such as all copyright, trademark, and other proprietary rights notices are reproduced in an unmodified form in all such copies.

4.3.2 Postings. Members may post to the AASI website only Content that is not subject to any copyright or other proprietary rights protection (collectively, "Public Domain Content"), or Content in respect of which the holder of any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights ("Rights") has given expressed authorization for distribution on the AASI website without any restriction whatsoever, and in respect of which any moral rights of any person or entity have been completely and irrevocably waived. Any copyright Content submitted with the consent of a copyright owner should contain a phrase such as "Copyright owned by (name of the owner); Used by Permission." The unauthorized submission of copyright or Content which is otherwise subject of any third party Rights constitutes a breach of the AASI YORC, and may also render the submitted liable to the holder of such rights. The poster, not AASI or its affiliates or independent contractors, is exclusively responsible for any liability resulting from infringement of Rights arising from such submission or transmission.

4.3.3 Assignment of Rights by Posting. By submitting Content to any "Public Area" (Public Area(s) are those areas of the AASI website that are generally accessible to others, such as forums), those who post information are deemed automatically to grant -- and/or warrant that the holder of any Rights or Moral Rights in such Content has completely and effectively waived all such Moral Rights and expressly, validly and irrevocably granted to the poster the right to grant -- AASI the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right (including any moral rights) and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display the Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any Rights that may exist in such Content. The rights acquired also permit any person to access, view, store and reproduce the Content for personal use. Subject to the foregoing, the owner of Content placed on the AASI website retains any and all rights which may exist in such Content.