Terms of Use
These Terms explain the conditions for using DTPAI.org and its educational information. They are intended to protect the Institute while keeping the rules understandable to ordinary visitors.
Acceptance of These Terms
By accessing or using DTPAI.org, you agree to use the website in accordance with these Terms of Use. If you do not agree with these Terms, you should discontinue use of the website.
Educational Purpose
DTPAI.org provides educational information and personal-advocacy learning resources. The website is intended to help visitors strengthen understanding, preparation, organization, communication, questioning, and informed participation.
The website does not provide individualized professional advice, professional representation, or case management. The Educational Disclaimer & Professional Boundaries forms part of the conditions under which DTPAI information should be used.
Permitted Use
You may access, read, and use DTPAI.org for lawful personal, educational, and informational purposes. You may reference DTPAI information in a manner that does not falsely suggest sponsorship, endorsement, professional representation, or an official relationship with DTPAI.
Prohibited Misuse
You may not use DTPAI.org to interfere with the website, attempt unauthorized access, introduce malicious code, scrape or reproduce substantial portions of the website in a manner that violates applicable rights, impersonate DTPAI, misrepresent DTPAI materials, or use the website for unlawful, deceptive, abusive, or harmful activity.
Informational Reliance and Visitor Responsibility
DTPAI works to present useful educational information, but general information cannot account for every visitor’s circumstances. Visitors remain responsible for evaluating information, checking current requirements where necessary, meeting applicable deadlines, and obtaining individualized professional guidance when a situation requires it.
No educational material on DTPAI.org guarantees a particular decision, benefit, approval, response, outcome, or result.
Intellectual Property and Institutional Names
Unless otherwise identified, DTPAI website content, original educational materials, page design, institutional names, logos, and other original materials are owned by or used with authorization by DTPAI and are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.
The names The Darlene D. Thompson Personal Advocacy Institute™, DTPAI™, and associated institutional identifiers may not be used in a way that falsely implies authorization, affiliation, endorsement, or sponsorship.
Website Availability and Changes
DTPAI may update, correct, reorganize, add, suspend, or remove website content when reasonably necessary. The Institute does not promise that every page, resource, link, or feature will remain available at all times.
Third-Party Content and External Links
DTPAI.org may link to outside organizations or information for educational convenience. DTPAI does not control those external websites. Inclusion of a link does not automatically mean that DTPAI endorses, guarantees, or has verified every statement, service, practice, or outcome associated with the third party.
Additional details appear in the External Resources & Third-Party Links Policy .
Reasonable Limitation
To the extent permitted by applicable law, DTPAI is not responsible for losses or harm resulting solely from a visitor’s decision to treat general educational information as individualized professional advice, from a third party’s actions or content, or from interruptions or technical conditions outside DTPAI’s reasonable control.
Nothing in these Terms is intended to exclude a responsibility that cannot lawfully be excluded.
Changes to These Terms
DTPAI may revise these Terms as the website develops. The current version posted on DTPAI.org will govern use of the website from its stated effective date.
Questions About the Terms
Questions about these Terms may be submitted through the DTPAI Contact page .
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