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<h1>Copyright and Trademark Disclaimer</h1>
<p><strong>Last updated:</strong> June 7, 2026</p>

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    <p>This page explains how Independent Test Prep LMS uses original study content, references third-party exam names, and responds to copyright or trademark concerns.</p>
    <p><strong>Before public launch:</strong> replace this note with the site owner's legal name, designated copyright contact email, business address if required, and any formal DMCA agent details if applicable.</p>
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<h2>Independent Educational Site</h2>
<p>Independent Test Prep LMS is an independent educational resource. The site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, authorized by, or approved by GED Testing Service LLC, the American Council on Education, College Board, or any official test provider.</p>
<p>References to GED&reg;, SAT&reg;, and related exam names are used only to identify the exams and learning goals that students may be preparing for.</p>

<h2>Original Content Statement</h2>
<p>All lessons, examples, explanations, diagrams, visuals, and practice questions created for this site are independently written for study purposes. They are not official GED&reg; or SAT&reg; test questions, official practice tests, official answer explanations, or official exam materials.</p>
<p>The site may teach common academic skills such as fractions, percents, rates, algebra, geometry, reading comprehension, writing, science reasoning, and social studies analysis. These general skills and educational concepts are not owned by any exam provider.</p>

<h2>Trademark Ownership</h2>
<p>GED&reg; and GED Testing Service&reg; are registered trademarks of the American Council on Education and are administered by GED Testing Service LLC under license from the American Council on Education.</p>
<p>SAT&reg; and College Board&reg; are registered trademarks of College Board.</p>
<p>All third-party trademarks, service marks, logos, product names, organization names, and exam names remain the property of their respective owners.</p>

<h2>Use of Third-Party Marks</h2>
<p>Any use of third-party marks on this site is intended to be descriptive, nominative, and educational. The site uses those marks only where needed to identify an exam, learning target, or subject area.</p>
<p>The site does not claim ownership of third-party marks and does not use those marks to suggest official status, sponsorship, endorsement, certification, partnership, or approval.</p>

<h2>No Official Materials</h2>
<p>The site owner does not knowingly publish copied official test questions, copied official practice tests, copied official passages, copied official diagrams, copied official scoring rubrics, or copied official answer explanations.</p>
<p>Users and contributors must not upload, submit, paste, reproduce, summarize, or distribute official exam materials or copyrighted third-party materials unless they have the legal right to do so.</p>

<h2>Logos and Brand Assets</h2>
<p>The site should not display GED Testing Service&reg;, American Council on Education, College Board, SAT&reg;, or other third-party logos unless written permission has been obtained from the rights holder.</p>
<p>Plain-text exam references are preferred over logos or brand-style presentation. Third-party marks should not be used more prominently than the site's own neutral brand.</p>

<h2>Domain, Branding, and Marketing</h2>
<p>The site should not use GED&reg;, SAT&reg;, College Board&reg;, GED Testing Service&reg;, or confusingly similar terms as the product name, company name, domain name, social media handle, slogan, logo, or primary brand identity unless written permission is obtained from the rights holder.</p>
<p>Marketing language should avoid phrases such as "official," "authorized," "approved," "certified," "endorsed," or "guaranteed pass" unless the site owner has written authorization and can substantiate the claim.</p>

<h2>Permitted Study Use</h2>
<p>Learners, parents, guardians, tutors, and educators may use site materials for authorized personal study, parent-guided study, tutoring, classroom preparation, or internal learning support.</p>
<p>Unless written permission is granted, users may not copy, scrape, republish, sell, redistribute, mass-download, translate, adapt, or use site content to build a competing product, dataset, question bank, publication, app, or AI model.</p>

<h2>Third-Party Links and References</h2>
<p>The site may link to official or third-party resources for convenience, reference, or further study. Links do not mean the linked organization sponsors, endorses, authorizes, or is affiliated with this site.</p>
<p>Users should review the terms and policies of any third-party site they visit.</p>

<h2>Copyright Concerns</h2>
<p>The site owner respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe material on this site infringes your copyright, trademark, publicity, privacy, or other rights, please contact the site owner with enough detail to review the claim.</p>
<p>Before public launch, add a dedicated copyright contact email here.</p>

<h2>Suggested Notice Information</h2>
<p>To help review a copyright or trademark concern, please include:</p>
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    <li>Your name, organization if applicable, and contact information.</li>
    <li>A description of the copyrighted work, trademark, or other right you believe is affected.</li>
    <li>The specific URL or location of the material on this site.</li>
    <li>An explanation of why you believe the use is unauthorized or confusing.</li>
    <li>A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorized to act for the rights holder.</li>
    <li>Your physical or electronic signature.</li>
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<h2>Response to Notices</h2>
<p>When the site owner receives a credible rights-related notice, the site owner may investigate, remove or disable access to the material, request more information, restore material if appropriate, terminate repeat infringer access, or take other reasonable action.</p>
<p>The site owner may also reject incomplete, inaccurate, abusive, fraudulent, or bad-faith notices.</p>

<h2>Contributor Responsibility</h2>
<p>Any administrator, tutor, editor, teacher, or contributor who adds content to the site is responsible for ensuring that the content is original, properly licensed, public domain, or otherwise lawfully usable.</p>
<p>Contributors must not copy from official test-prep books, official practice tests, paid question banks, copyrighted worksheets, third-party courses, websites, videos, or AI outputs that reproduce protected content.</p>

<h2>AI and Content Use</h2>
<p>If AI features are added later, the site should not use official GED&reg;, SAT&reg;, College Board&reg;, or other protected third-party content to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or prompt AI systems unless the site owner has the legal right to do so.</p>
<p>Any future AI feature should be reviewed for privacy, copyright, and trademark compliance before public release.</p>

<h2>Updates to This Disclaimer</h2>
<p>This disclaimer may be updated as the site grows, especially before adding paid plans, user-generated content, AI tools, school dashboards, contributor accounts, mobile apps, or additional exam-prep programs.</p>

<h2>Related Pages</h2>
<p>Please also review the <a href="{% url 'courses:terms_of_use' %}">Terms of Use</a> and <a href="{% url 'courses:privacy_policy' %}">Privacy Policy</a>.</p>
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