Authorized Training Partner Licence Agreement

01What this agreement is#

This is the licence between the International Insignia of Certified Technical Practitioners (“IICTP”, “we”, “us”) and the training organization named in the Order Form (“Partner”, “you”). Together with the Order Form (Schedule A) and the Mark and Badge Rules (Schedule B) it is the “Agreement”.

It takes effect on the date both parties have signed the Order Form, and not before. Applying, receiving a reference number or being in correspondence with us does not make you a partner and gives you no licence.

02Definitions#

03The licence we give you#

From the start date, and for the term in the Order Form, we give you a licence that is:

• non-exclusive: we may license other partners, including in your territory;
• non-transferable and non-sublicensable: it is yours alone and cannot be passed to an affiliate, a franchisee or a reseller;
• limited: to describing yourself as an IICTP Authorized Training Partner, using the Licensed Marks under Schedule B, and teaching the Credentials listed in the Order Form against the TPBOK™.

Everything not granted here stays with IICTP. The licence is a permission to describe yourself in a particular way. It is not an accreditation by any accreditation body, and you must not say or imply that it is.

04What you agree to do#

05Keeping the exam separate#

IICTP’s exams are trusted because the people who sell Training do not mark or influence the exam. You therefore agree that you will not:

• ask for, receive, copy, share or use Exam Materials, or teach to specific live exam questions;
• sit on, or influence, any panel that sets, marks or reviews exams, for your own Learners;
• proctor, or help another person proctor, an exam for your own Learners unless IICTP has agreed in writing;
• help any candidate cheat, or tell a candidate in advance what the exam will contain.

You must tell us if you learn that Exam Materials have been exposed. IICTP does not sell training itself, and it will not give a Partner’s Learners any advantage in the exam.

06What we agree to do#

• Publish the TPBOK™ syllabus and exam blueprint for each Credential, and give reasonable notice before a syllabus change takes effect.
• List you in the public partner directory while you are in good standing, with the approval date.
• Supply the badge files and the current Schedule B rules.
• Answer a question about the programme or a possible breach, and give you the chance to respond before we suspend or end the Agreement, except where Section 12 allows immediate action.

07Using our name and badge#

You may use the Licensed Marks only as Schedule B allows. Downloading a badge file from our website does not give you the right to show it: that right starts when this Agreement starts and ends when it ends. The goodwill from your use belongs to IICTP.

You may not register or use any IICTP name or mark, or anything confusingly similar, in a company name, product name, domain name or social-media handle.

08Content and materials#

You own the Training materials you create. We own the TPBOK™, the exam blueprints, Exam Materials and our site content. You may quote and cite the TPBOK™ to teach it and may link to our pages. You may not reproduce or republish it, or sell a copy of it, without our written permission.

Do not describe your Training as “official IICTP courseware” or “IICTP-approved” unless we have reviewed that specific course and said so in writing.

09Fees#

Any fee payable to IICTP, and when it is due, is stated in the Order Form. If the Order Form states none, none is payable. Fees are stated without tax unless the Order Form says otherwise. We do not take payment through the application form.

Exam fees paid by candidates go to IICTP under the certification agreement, not under this one. We do not pay or receive commission on Training unless the Order Form says so.

10Personal data#

You and IICTP each decide how and why you use the personal data you hold, and each is responsible for that data under the law that applies to it. You are the controller of your Learners’ data. We are the controller of candidate and credential data.

We will use the contact and business details you give us to run the programme, to list you in the directory, and to contact you. Do not send us Learner data unless the Learner has agreed or a law allows it. Our Privacy Policy describes what we do with it.

11Confidentiality#

Each of us keeps the other’s non-public information confidential and uses it only for this Agreement. This does not cover information that is public, already known to the receiver, or required to be disclosed by law. Proposed syllabus changes and Exam Materials are confidential until we publish them.

12Term, review and ending#

13Responsibility and limits#

• We give the licence “as is”. We do not promise that the programme will bring you Learners, income or any particular result.
• You are responsible for your Training, your claims to Learners and your staff and instructors.
• You will cover our reasonable losses from a third party’s claim that arises from your breach of this Agreement or a false claim you made about IICTP.
• Nothing limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for fraud or death or personal injury caused by negligence.
• Otherwise, each party’s total liability under this Agreement is limited to the amount in the Order Form, and neither is liable for indirect or consequential loss or lost profit.

Nothing here makes either of us the other’s agent, employee, partner in the legal sense, or franchisee. You have no authority to bind IICTP.

14General#

• Whole agreement. This Agreement, the Order Form and Schedule B are the whole agreement about the programme. If they conflict, the Order Form wins, then this text, then Schedule B.
• Changes. We may update Schedule B or the badge on 30 days’ written notice. Any other change needs both of us to sign.
• No assignment. You may not transfer this Agreement without our written consent. If you are sold or merged, tell us; we may end the Agreement.
• Notices. To us: legal@iictp.org, copied to partners@iictp.org. To you: the contact in the Order Form.
• Governing law and disputes. As set out in the Order Form. We will first try to settle a dispute by talking.
• If part is unenforceable, the rest continues. If we do not enforce a right at once, we have not given it up.

ASchedule A: Order Form

One Order Form is completed for each Partner. This is the form we will send; nothing in it is agreed until both parties sign.

BSchedule B: Mark and Badge Rules

These rules say how a Partner may show that it is an IICTP Authorized Training Partner. They add to Trademark and Brand Use, which covers everyone else.

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