These Terms of Service for Individuals apply to individual users. By visiting and using any of the products and services (sometimes referred to as Website or Program) created or sold by ICAway, you agree to the following terms of service, including the Code of Conduct, below, and Privacy Policy (collectively, the ”Terms”). If you do not agree with these Terms or are unable or unwilling to follow the Code of Conduct, do not use our Website. If you have any questions about these Terms, or difficulty with the Website, by all means, contact us.
Last updated: March 3, 2024
Who We Are
In these Terms, the words ”you”, “your”, “member”, and “user” refer to you and your heirs and personal representatives. The words ”we”, “us”, “our”, and “ICAway” refer to International Career Advisory, Inc., an S corporation in Chicago, Illinois, and its owners, officers, employees, agents, representatives, successors, and assigns. We may be contacted as follows:
Email: [email protected]
Courses: https://courses.icaway.com
Code of Conduct By accessing or using the Website, you agree to abide by the following Code of Conduct:
I. Indemnification:
You agree to indemnify and hold ICAway harmless from and against all liabilities, losses you may realize, and costs. You also agree to indemnify and hold ICAway harmless from any expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, asserted by any third party that in any way are realized from your speaking with a Coach or Coaches or from using the Website, including, without limitation, any results from any conversations you have with a coach regardless of the communication form (phone, Zoom, in-person etc.) or from any email answers provided to you from a coach via the Website. Your agreement to indemnify and to hold ICAway harmless extends to any and all subsidiary and affiliate organizations, parent, officers, directors, shareholders, agents, employees, successors, consultants and Coaches.
II. Confidentiality.
ICAway protects individual member confidentiality in a number of ways, most notably by protecting the Forums and other members-only areas from search engines (see the Privacy Policy for details). Likewise, you are expected to protect the confidentiality of other members. You hereby irrevocably represent and warrant: that you shall not “out” anyone as a member of the ICAway community; that you shall not share postings with non-members; and that you shall not harvest other members’ information for any purpose.
III. Tone.
The tone of the Website is helpful and supportive. Please be collegial with each other even in disagreement. No flaming, trolling, constant negativity, or harassment, intimidation, abuse, or defamation of others, whether or not they are Website users, is tolerated. Any such offensive behavior or activities shall subject you to immediate and permanent termination of your access to this website, without notice.
IV. Truthfulness.
Please speak the truth as you know it. Do not make things up or spread information you know to be false. When registering as a member, please provide only truthful information; you can control what other members see by maintaining your profile to your liking. Our hope is that, by creating as confidential and supportive an environment as possible, most members will feel comfortable using their real names as their display names, which will make the discussions more credible and also help you network with other members. That said, if you’re not comfortable using your real name as your display name, you don’t have to, but you must still register with us using your real name.
V. Relevance.
Please post only relevant material. Do post personal stories of your own professional work experiences; thoughts, questions and reflections about professional careers; helpful, supportive responses to others; and professional job announcements. Note: please post job announcements on the Jobs page, not in the Forums. Do not post irrelevant material (examples: spam, virus warnings, faculty position announcements). Commercial advertisements are not permitted except with our prior express written permission.
VI. Respect for Intellectual Property.
Do not post copyrighted material unless you own the copyright or have express permission from the copyright holder; otherwise, just link to it rather than post full text. Do not post material found on the Website on any other site or in any print publication or even share it privately with non-members without express written permission of the author. Collections of writings by multiple authors on the Website (for example, Forum topics) are the intellectual property of The ICAway and may not be republished or excerpted anywhere without our prior express written permission. Do not misappropriate the name “The ICAway”, our logo, or the Website’s predecessor’s names, or confusingly similar variations or derivations of these names or our logo, or copyrighted material belonging to us – except with our prior express written permission.
VII. Limited License, General Usage Rules, Dispute Resolution, and Miscellaneous Provisions
1. Limited license.
a. If you are a person eighteen years of age or older accessing the Website from a jurisdiction where the Website complies with all local laws, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited, and revocable license to use the Website at your own expense, subject to these Terms, including the Code of Conduct.
b. You may not use the Website in a manner that exceeds the rights granted for your use of the Website, including permitting use by minors under the age of eighteen, unauthorized copying or distribution of any of the content displayed or used on the Website, and creating an unauthorized derivative work.
2. Legal use of Website.
You agree to use the Website in good faith and in compliance with all applicable laws. You agree not to disrupt, modify, or interfere in any way with us, our Website, our servers, or any of our vendors, and you agree not to impede or interfere with others’ use of the Website. You further agree not to alter or tamper with any data, code, information, or materials on or associated with the Website.
3. Only you are responsible for your career.
Any advice you may receive through this Website, whether from us or your fellow members, is only opinion and information and may or may not pertain to your particular situation. Results are not guaranteed, and the views expressed on the Website are not even necessarily ours. You agree never to hold ICAway, any subscribing institution with which you are affiliated, or your fellow members responsible for any outcomes that are unsatisfactory to you as a result of following any such advice.
We do not provide any financial, legal, medical, or psychological services or advice. None of the content on the website prevents, cures, or treats any mental or medical condition. You are responsible for your own financial, legal, physical, mental, and emotional well-being, decisions, choices, actions, and results. We disclaim any liability for your reliance on any opinions or advice contained in the ICAway program. We are not intended to be a substitute for professional advice that can be provided by your own accountant, lawyer, financial advisor, or medical professional. You should consult with a professional if you have specific questions about your own unique situation.
4. You control your profile.
You acknowledge and agree that you have control over how much information you reveal about yourself on the Website. All responsibility for controlling this information rests with you and requires you to take the time to learn how our Website works and make sure your profile settings are set and maintained to your liking.
5. We may remove your postings and/or remove you from the community.
You acknowledge and agree that we have the right to remove from the Website any of your postings at any time for any reason. Additionally, if in our sole discretion we deem that you have violated or threatened to violate the Code of Conduct or any of these Terms, or interfered or threatened to interfere with the Website or your fellow members, you may be suspended from or removed from the ICAway community. If you disagree with our judgment, you may email us to discuss the matter, but we are the final arbiter.
6. ICAway is a socially positive business.
You acknowledge and agree that ICAway is a business, with a mission to help international students envision, prepare for and excel in professional careers, and generates revenue from user-written content.
7. Specifically, you acknowledge and agree that: Your writings are yours, but you grant ICAway a license to store and display them. Though you retain the copyright to everything you write for the Website, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, assignable, sub-licensable, and irrevocable license to store and display your writings on the Website, and to make whatever “copies” we deem necessary to archive your writings or to publish them on the Website.
8. ICAway has the right to benefit from your postings on the Website.
While we do not resell your postings singly to others or republish them elsewhere (with the exception of those contributed to Panel Discussions, see below), ICAway does benefit from them indirectly because regular ongoing discussions in the Forums serve to enrich the quality and credibility of the Website as a whole, which in turn leads to subscriptions and other business.
9. ICAway has the right to use the recordings. We can choose to record meetings, group coaching sessions, webinars, and events. By using the Services, you are giving ICAway consent to store recordings for any or all meetings, group coaching sessions, webinars, or events that you join, if such recordings are stored in our systems. You will receive a notification (visual or otherwise) when recording is enabled. If you do not consent to be recorded, you can choose to leave the meeting, webinar, or event.
10. Any other intellectual property rights not specifically granted to you in these Terms are reserved by ICAway.
11. Respect for Website content. You agree that the Website contains proprietary and confidential information that is protected by U.S. and international intellectual property laws. Except as expressly authorized by us in these Terms or in other written communications from us to you, you agree not to sell, rent, rewrite, copy, modify, redistribute, create derivative works, or otherwise misappropriate any part of the Website or any information presented to you through the Website.
12. Content Enrollment and Lifetime Access
When you enroll in a course or other content, you get a license from us to view it via ICAway Services and no other use. Don’t try to transfer or resell content in any way. We generally grant you a lifetime access license, except when we must disable the content because of legal or policy reasons or for enrollments via Subscription Plans.
As a student, when you enroll in a course or other content, whether it’s free or paid content, you are getting a license from ICAway to view the content via the ICAway platform and Services, and ICAway is the licensor of record. Content is licensed, and not sold, to you. This license does not give you any right to resell the content in any manner (including by sharing account information with a purchaser or illegally downloading the content and sharing it on torrent sites).
In legal, more complete terms, ICAway grants you (as a student) a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and view the content for which you have paid all required fees, solely for your personal, non-commercial, educational purposes through the Services, in accordance with these Terms and any conditions or restrictions associated with the particular content or feature of our Services. All other uses are expressly prohibited. You may not reproduce, redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit, create derivative works of, sublicense, or otherwise transfer or use any content unless we give you explicit permission to do so in a written agreement signed by an ICAway authorized representative. This also applies to content you can access via any of our APIs.
We generally give a lifetime access license to our students when they enroll in a course or other content. However, we reserve the right to revoke any license to access and use any content at any point in time in the event where we decide or are obligated to disable access to the content due to legal or policy reasons, for example, if the course or other content you enrolled in is the object of a copyright complaint, or if we determine it violates our Trust & Safety Guidelines. This lifetime access license does not apply to enrollments via Subscription Plans or to add-on features and services associated with the course or other content you enroll in. For example, instructors may decide at any time to no longer provide teaching assistance or Q&A services in association with the content. To be clear, the lifetime access is to the course content but not to the instructor.
Instructors may not grant licenses to their content to students directly, and any such direct license shall be null and void and a violation of these Terms.
VIII. Intellectual property infringement policy.
1. If you believe that any materials accessible on the Website infringe your copyright (or trademark or other legal rights), you may request removal of those materials from our Website by contacting our officer, Kwan Segal, in writing, at Email: [email protected], with the following information:
a. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
b. Identification of the copyrighted work or other material claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works;
c. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;
d. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and an electronic mail address at which you may be contacted;
e. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the owner, its agent, or the law; and
f. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
2. We shall then expeditiously investigate and, if warranted, take down or disable access to the material from the Website and notify the original poster of the notification of allegedly infringing material received and of the takedown/disabling, at which point the poster may file with our copyright agent a counter-notification, in writing, as above, with the following information:
a. A physical or electronic signature of the poster;
b. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
c. A statement under penalty of perjury that the poster has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; and
d. The poster’s name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the poster consents to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the subscriber’s address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which we may be found, and that the poster will accept service of process from the complaining party or an agent of such person.
3. In our discretion, we may also take down or disable access to material during our investigation. It is our policy to provide for the termination, in appropriate circumstances, of posters who repeatedly violate this policy or are repeat infringers of copyrighted works, trademarks, or any other of our or third parties’ intellectual property. While notifications under this policy must be made in writing, you may contact our officer by telephone at (773) 980-9164.
IX. Disclaimer of Website warranties.
THE WEBSITE IS PROVIDED TO YOU “AS IS”. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE WEBSITE IS OR ALWAYS WILL BE VIRUS-FREE OR ERROR-FREE OR THAT YOU WILL ALWAYS BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE WEBSITE AT TIMES OR LOCATIONS OF YOUR CHOOSING. WE MAKE NO EXPRESS WARRANTIES OR GUARANTEES ABOUT THE WEBSITE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES THAT THE WEBSITE, OR THE PREMIUM CONTENT OR ANY OTHER PORTION OR AREA OF IT, IS MERCHANTABLE, OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, ACCURATE, FIT FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NEED, OR NON-INFRINGING. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT ANY SPECIFIC RESULTS WILL BE OBTAINED FROM YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE, OR THAT THE CONTENT WILL BE RELIABLE, ACCURATE, OR MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS. WE HAVE NOT REVIEWED THE CONTENT OF ALL SITES LINKED TO OR FROM OUR WEBSITE, AND WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OR OPERATION OF ANY OF THOSE SITES AND DO NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEM OR ENDORSE THEM. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY OUR REPRESENTATIVES SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY.
X. Limitation of liability.
WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE. THESE EXCLUSIONS APPLY TO, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY CLAIMS OF LOST INCOME, LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE, COMPUTER MALFUNCTION, OR ANY OTHER PERSONAL OR COMMERCIAL DAMAGES OR LOSSES, EVEN IF WE OR OUR AGENTS OR SERVICE PROVIDERS KNEW OR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN THE EVENT THAT THESE LIMITATIONS, OR ANY OF THEM, ARE INEFFECTIVE, OUR LIABILITY TO YOU IN ALL INSTANCES SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (I) ONE U.S. DOLLAR, (II) THE TOTAL AMOUNT YOU HAVE ACTUALLY PAID TO US FOR ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE AND PREMIUM CONTENT, OR (III) THE MINIMUM AMOUNT PERMITTED BY LAW.
XI. Communication between you and ICAway.
Any direct communications taking place between you and us are considered confidential under normal circumstances, but non-confidential for legal purposes. Although we strive to keep the Website Forums private (for more information, see our Privacy Policy), postings to the Website Forums and premium content contributions are inherently non-confidential by their nature.
XII. Suspension and termination.
You agree that we may, without prior notice, discontinue, suspend, or modify, temporarily or permanently, the Website or any part thereof (for example, the Website may be shut down temporarily to install a software upgrade, or a new feature). We may suspend or terminate your right to access the Website when, in our sole discretion, you have violated or threatened to violate these Terms or disrupt the Website, our vendors, or your fellow members.
XIII. Interpretation.
These Terms shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois and of the United States of America, without reference to conflicts of law provisions. If any provision of these Terms is deemed to be illegal or unenforceable, such provision shall be deemed stricken from these Terms, and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. Except as otherwise mutually agreed in a formal written agreement between us, these Terms represent our entire understanding with respect to its subject matter and supersede all prior agreements and understandings between us with respect to its subject matter.
XIV. Dispute resolution.
Any dispute arising from or related to these Terms, the Website, any services we provide, our or your intellectual property, or any other dispute between you and us shall be resolved by binding arbitration in Cook County, Illinois, before one arbitrator, to be administered by JAMS, unless the matter involves claims for equitable relief or damages in excess of $30,000, in which case the matter shall be heard by a panel of 3 arbitrators. The dispute shall be subject to and governed by the laws of the State of Illinois without regard to its conflict of law principles. Judgment upon any award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. You hereby irrevocably and unconditionally consent to this jurisdiction. Each party shall initially bear its own attorneys’ fees and costs, including costs of arbitration. The prevailing party in any legal proceeding shall be entitled to an award of its attorneys’ fees and costs, including costs of arbitration.
XV. Notice.
Any notice required or allowed to be given to any other party under these Terms shall be effective only when given in writing (including email) and when actually received by a party.
XVI. Changes to These Terms.
These Terms may be changed from time to time without notice other than the new version being posted on the Website, which shall be considered effective notice when posted. If significant changes are made, we may elect to mention these in the Forums, but it is your responsibility to check for updates.
XVII. Notice to Visitors Outside the United States.
You should be aware that the United States and other countries have not harmonized their privacy regulations. Because ICAway and its servers are located in the United States and our services are directed towards the United States market, our Privacy Policy has been prepared to comply with applicable United States regulations. By accessing and/or using the Site or our services and providing personal information to us through the Site, you consent to the terms set out in our Terms of Service and the level of privacy protection set out in this Privacy Policy. If you do not wish to consent to the Terms of Service or the Privacy Policy, please do not use the ICAway website.
XVIII. Registration, Passwords and Responsibilities
You are responsible for keeping your information and passwords up to date and confidential.
You are solely responsible for the confidentiality and use of and access to ICAway Content and the Site and/or Digital Applications using your user name and/or password. You agree to immediately notify ICAway if you become aware of the loss, theft, or unauthorized use of any password, the user ID or e-mail address, or of any ICAway Content. You will provide ICAway with accurate, complete registration information and inform ICAway of any changes to such information. For the purpose of confirming your compliance with these Terms, ICAway reserves the right to monitor and record activity on the Site and Digital Applications, including access to ICAway Content.
Each registration and subscription is for the personal use of the Registered User or subscriber-only. You may not share your login details or password with any other person. You may not share or transfer your subscription. ICAway does not allow multiple users (networked or otherwise) to access the Site and/or any Digital Application through a single name and password and may cancel or suspend your access to the Site and/or a Digital Application if you do this, or breach any of these Terms without further obligation to you.
Payment Plans: If you choose the payment plan option, you will be responsible for completing all 7 payments. Failure to do so will result in your unpaid balance being transferred to a collection agency. You will also lose all access to the ICAway program, its contents, and materials, or any events, coaching calls, private student community, the courses, or further job search support from ICAway.
Refund: If you go through the ICAway program, apply the strategies, and participate in the ICAway program, you will get results. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase but we also want you to take full responsibility and give your best effort to apply all of the strategies. We do not provide refunds.