ICAway Terms of Service for Individuals (Updated September 2025)

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: September 10, 2025



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:



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. License to your writings
 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), 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. 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.


XII. Content Enrollment and Access 

When you enroll in a course or other content, you get a license from us to view it via ICAway Services for the access period associated with your enrollment, and no other use. Content is licensed, not sold, to you.

You may not resell, share, or distribute course content in any manner. Lifetime access does not extend to instructor availability, Q&A services, or add-on features; access to these may be limited or discontinued at ICAway’s discretion.




XIX. Case Studies, Testimonials, and Promotional Materials 

Case Studies and Testimonials
Most case studies and testimonials are shared in anonymous or aggregated form. With your explicit prior consent, you may grant ICAway the right to feature your name, likeness, feedback, or success story in ICAway promotional materials, case studies, research publications, or presentations. Providing such consent is voluntary. You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting ICAway at [email protected]. Withdrawal of consent will apply to future use only and will not require ICAway to remove or retract materials already published or distributed.