Terms of Use

1. Age Restrictions

Use of Chestnut website is restricted to those individuals over 18 years of age, emancipated minors, or those who possess legal parental or guardian consent, and are fully able and competent to enter into these terms, conditions, affirmations, representations and warranties herein. If you are under the age of 13, you may not use the Chestnut website without consent or approval from your legal parent or guardian.

2. Modification of These Terms of Use

Chestnut reserves the right to change, at any time, in its sole discretion, the Terms under which Chestnut is offered. Your continued use of Chestnut constitutes your agreement to all such Terms. You are responsible for reviewing these Terms on a regular basis.

3. Intellectual Property Rights

The Chestnut website is owned and operated by Chestnut. Chestnut is the owner of the compilation of data, images, software, documentation, text, audio and audio-visual materials and other intellectual property (the “Materials”) hosted on this site. However, Chestnut does not necessarily own each component of the content included in the Materials. While some content may be owned by Chestnut or the original Chestnut authors, other content may be owned by third-party rights owners (i.e., individuals or organizations not affiliated with Chestnut). In some instances, Chestnut has secured permission from third-party rights owners to use content. In other instances, content may be in the public domain or Chestnut has relied on fair use. Chestnut does not warrant that use of any content displayed through Chestnut will not infringe the rights of third parties.

4. Disclaimer and Warranty

Chestnut makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, Chestnut hereby disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose, non-infringement, accuracy or the presence or absence of errors.

By using materials from the Chestnut website, you agree and warrant that your use will not violate the rights of Chestnut or any other person or entity.

5. Copyright Complaints

Chestnut respects the intellectual property of others, and requires that users of this material do the same. With respect to copyrighted material owned by third parties, Chestnut has obtained permission to use this content from the copyright owner or has proceeded with use under the fair use doctrine.

7. Purpose

Chestnut website does not grant degrees or certificates. Nor does it offer direct access to Chestnut faculty.

8. Privacy

Chestnut is committed to protecting your privacy. Chestnut does not collect personally identifiable information unless it is voluntarily provided. If you voluntarily provide contact information such as an email address, Chestnut might use it to inform you of changes or to survey use or opinion of the site. At your request, Chestnut will remove contact information from its files.

Chestnut also uses “cookies” to collect certain anonymous information to evaluate use of and access to the Chestnut website and its content and to improve the site. However, cookies are not required to use this web site. Disabling cookies will not affect access to Chestnut and its content.