Terms of Service

Drone Academy – Educational Service Terms of Service

The use of services from or the subscription to Drone Academy will be bound to these Terms of Service.

Account Access Limitations

Drone Academy may revoke your access to Drone Academy if you violate, or assist others in violating, the license limitations set forth below. You agree that you will not, in whole or in part or under any circumstances, do the following:

  • Derivative Works: Copy or reproduce translate, reverse engineer, derive source code from, modify, disassemble, decompile, or create derivative works based on or related to the Drone Academy.
  • Bots: i.e. any code and/or software, not expressly authorized by Drone Academy, that allows the automated control of Drone Academy and/or any component or feature thereof.
  • Hacks: i.e. accessing or modifying the software of Drone Academy in any manner, not expressly authorized by Drone Academy; and/or
  • Any code and/or software, not expressly authorized by Drone Academy, that can be used in connection with the Drone Academy system (e.g. software designed to bypass the video encryption of Drone Academy training videos).
  • Disruption: Disrupt or assist in the disruption of (i) any computer used to support Drone Academy; or (ii) any other student’s learning experience.
  • ANY ATTEMPT BY YOU TO DISRUPT DRONE ACADEMY OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF ANY TRAINING RESOURCES MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS.
  • Violation of Laws: Use Drone Academy, to violate any applicable law or regulation.
  • Assignment and Re-assignment of Accounts:
    • FOR INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS: Only you are allowed to access an account assigned to you. Your account is registered in your name using your email address as the Username. An account is assigned to one, named user, for the entire account, subscription period and cannot be shared.
    • FOR TEAM ACCOUNTS: Licenses may be reassigned to other users in the organization if the original user is no longer in need of the license. Any license may be re-assigned by a Team or Organization Administrator to a different user for the remainder of your organization’s account subscription period. However, licenses cannot be assigned using generic Email Addresses, Usernames, or Login/User ID’s, e.g., “dauser1@companyname.com”, “Building_A_5th Floor” or “Drone_Team_1”, etc.

Acceptable Use

All training videos, materials, and community activity can be used for learning purposes during the period of time the user maintains an active subscription to the Drone Academy site.

During the period of time that the user maintains an active subscription to Drone Academy, the following activities are expressly forbidden:

  • Reselling access to the courses
  • Providing any third party utility, server or application that is not in direct relation to the courses available on Drone Academy
  • Using the Drone Academy Messaging Service as a mail sender
  • Deploying or using an internet proxy server
  • Use or access in or from ANY commercial production environment under any circumstances
  • Download or distribution of site source code
  • Distribution of any Drone Academy downloadable material (including course notes)

Backup and Data Loss

Use of Drone Academy is at the sole risk of the end user. Drone Academy provides no backup facility or process for backing up user files. Drone Academy attempts to moderate all community activities but is not responsible for files and/or data that may be uploaded to the community servers. The subscriber assumes all responsibility for the backup of files and data stored within each instance.

Responsibility

Anything that is done or originates from a user’s account/profile is the sole responsibility of the account holder and Drone Academy will not provide any legal protection or indemnification for any activity that would be illegal in any state, country or province. Additionally, Drone Academy will take immediate steps to remediate reported issues that originate from any user, up to and including any of the following:

  • Shutting off the service causing the issue
  • Removing the user, profile, or material causing the issue

An active Drone Academy subscription does not entitle the end user to site access use if it has been determined that it has been abused. Determination of abuse is at the sole discretion of Drone Academy and can be made at any time for any reason, whether outlined specifically in this agreement or otherwise.

Recurring Billing

Monthly Recurring Billing: Accounts, will be billed on a monthly basis under this plan. The accounts can be canceled at anytime and will remain active for the duration of the subscription and a prorated refund will not be issued.

Quarterly Recurring Billing: Accounts, will be billed on a quarterly basis under this plan. The accounts can be canceled at anytime and will remain active for the duration of the subscription and a prorated refund will not be issued.

Semi-annual Recurring Billing: Accounts, will be billed on a semi-annual basis under this plan. The accounts can be canceled at anytime and will remain active for the duration of the subscription and a prorated refund will not be issued.

Annual Recurring Billing: Accounts, will be billed on a yearly basis under this plan. The accounts can be canceled at anytime and will remain active for the duration of the subscription and a prorated refund will not be issued.

No Refunds

PAYMENTS ARE NONREFUNDABLE AND THERE ARE NO REFUNDS OR CREDITS FOR PARTIALLY USED PERIODS.

You must cancel your membership before it renews in order to avoid billing of the next month’s membership fees to your Payment Method.

When a cancellation request is received and processed, your account will remain active for the duration of the paid period, prorated refunds are not issued.

Trial Accounts

Trial Accounts will automatically upgrade to the subscription chosen during account creation after the trial period. Cancel your account during the trial period and owe nothing. There are no refunds once the trial ends.

MP3 Downloads

ANY DISTRIBUTION OF DOWNLOADED CONTENT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

Drone Academy provides unlimited access to all courses as well as streaming course content. Downloadable Study Guides are available for many courses and should only be used for training purposes. Attempting to resell, distribute, or share these files without express written permission of Drone Academy will result in immediate account termination and criminal/civil charges where applicable.

If it is determined that a student has violated these Terms of Service, their account may be canceled immediately and no refunds will be issued.

Data Protection and Retention

Drone Academy strives to protect all of our student and user data at all times. We only collect and store data that is necessary to supply our products and services. We only do this with the explicit, written consent of our customers.

By accessing or using the Sites in any manner, you also agree to be bound by Drone Academy’s Terms of Service (the “Agreement”). Please read the Agreement carefully. If you do not accept all of the terms and conditions contained in or incorporated by reference into the Agreement, please do not use the Sites.

We are also fully committed to being GDPR compliant for our users who reside in the European Union. You have rights with respect to your personal data. For more information on how we use, store, and process data, and how you can opt-out or delete your data from Drone Academy, please see out privacy policy

SPAM/ADVERTISEMENTS

All posting in Groups, Activity Feed, or Forums is subject to admin approval and posting of promotional items without admin approval is specifically prohibited.

Unauthorized posting of promotional material or spam will result in the post being removed and may result in suspension/cancellation of the poster’s account.

In the event of account cancellation, access will be immediately terminated and there will be no refund granted for any prepaid membership fees.

Last Updated: October 11, 2020

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