Terms and Conditions of Website Use

01Agreement to these terms#

These terms are an agreement between you and the International Insignia of Certified Technical Practitioners (“IICTP”, “we”, “us”). If you use the site for an organisation, you confirm that you may bind that organisation, and “you” then includes it.

02Definitions#

Words in quotation marks have the meaning below wherever they appear in these terms and the related documents. Defining them removes room for argument later about what a word was meant to cover.

03Who may use the site#

The site is open to anyone who can form a binding agreement under the law where they live. Students and early-career technologists below that age may use it with a parent’s or guardian’s permission where the law requires. You are responsible for using it lawfully in your country, and for any local rule that restricts what you may view or do.

04What the site is, and is not#

The site describes IICTP, its credentials and its standard, lets you check a credential in the registry, and helps you see where your experience might lead. It provides general information.

• It is not professional, legal, financial, employment or career advice, and no adviser–client relationship arises from using it.
• It does not promise any exam result, certification, job, promotion or salary.
• IICTP is not accredited under ISO/IEC 17024:2012. Where the site mentions that standard, it names it only as a reference, and no statement on the site says or implies that IICTP or its credentials are accredited by any body.
• Sample records, sample questions and sample cases are labelled as samples and are illustrations, not real data.

05The eligibility guide#

The Check your experience page applies published rules to the answers you give and suggests a route. It is a guide.

• It does not decide eligibility, award a credential or reserve an exam place.
• Its dates are estimates based on your answers and on the assumptions stated on the page.
• The calculation runs in your browser. We do not receive your answers, so we cannot reproduce or confirm a result you saw. Keep your own note if you intend to rely on it.
• IICTP decides eligibility when you apply, using the published requirements and, where relevant, an equivalency review.

No reliance. You should not pay a fee, resign, enrol in training or take any step you cannot undo in reliance on the guide alone. If you do, IICTP is not responsible for the outcome, to the extent the law allows.

06Exams and certification#

Sitting an exam, holding a credential, renewing it and using it are governed by a separate certification agreement and the published candidate rules, which apply together with these terms. They are not created by anything you read on the site.

07Fees and figures#

Fees, durations, prerequisites and other figures shown on the site are given in good faith and may change. The figures that apply to you are the ones in force when you apply or book, and we will show them to you before you pay. Training fees are set by each Authorized Training Partner and are not part of IICTP’s exam fees. Prices are shown in US dollars and rupees for convenience and may be converted at the time of payment, so the amount charged can differ with exchange rates. Taxes are added where the law requires.

Error in a price. If a figure on the site is plainly wrong, for example a typing error, we will tell you and give you the choice to proceed at the correct figure or withdraw before you have paid anything.

08Using the credential registry#

You may use the registry to check a credential. Detailed rules, including what you may do with registry data, are in the Registry and Data Policy. In particular you may not scrape it in bulk, build lists from it for marketing, or present its data in a misleading way. A registry result shows the status of a record at the moment you looked; it is not a guarantee about the person.

09Messages you send us#

Where the site opens your email application to send us a message, the message is yours until you send it. When you send it you confirm that it is accurate, that you are entitled to share what it contains, and that we may use it to reply and to deal with your request, as the Privacy Policy describes. Email is not a secure channel. Do not send identity documents or other sensitive data unless we have asked you to and given a secure way to do so.

10Intellectual property and permitted use#

The content, the TPBOK™, the site design and the IICTP names, marks and badges belong to IICTP or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark and other law. Using the site does not transfer any right in them to you, other than the limited licence below.

11Feedback#

If you send us ideas or comments about the site or the standard, you give us a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free licence to use them, without obligation to you and without naming you, unless you ask us not to and we agree in writing. Nothing you send us in this way is treated as confidential unless we agreed that in writing before you sent it.

12Acceptable use#

You agree to follow the Acceptable Use Policy. Do not break the law, interfere with the site or its security, claim a credential you do not hold, or misuse exam content.

13Other sites and providers#

The site links to and loads resources from other parties. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content, availability or handling of data. A link is not an endorsement. Authorized Training Partners are independent; any contract for training is between you and the partner.

14Availability and changes to the site#

We work to keep the site accurate and available, but it may be unavailable from time to time, and we may change, suspend or remove any part of it. We are not liable for interruptions beyond our reasonable control, such as network failure, a provider outage or an attack, provided we take reasonable steps to restore it.

15No warranty#

To the extent the law allows, the site is provided “as is” and “as available”. We do not promise that it will be complete, error-free or uninterrupted, or that any estimate or guide it gives is correct for your case. This does not remove any guarantee that the law gives you as a consumer and that cannot be excluded.

16Limitation of liability#

A limit on liability is enforced only where it is clear, fair and does not reach what the law forbids it to reach. We have therefore written the limit narrowly and put the exceptions first.

17Your responsibility#

If you break these terms or misuse the site, and that causes loss to IICTP or to others, you are responsible for that loss to the extent the law allows. We do not ask a consumer to indemnify us for our own fault.

18Suspension and termination#

We may restrict or end your access to the site, or part of it, if you break these terms or the Acceptable Use Policy, or if we must to meet a legal duty or protect the site. Before we end access we will usually tell you why and give you a chance to respond, unless the law, safety or an urgent attack prevents it. Ending access does not affect rights that have already arisen, or terms that by their nature continue, such as intellectual property, liability and disputes.

19Governing law and jurisdiction#

This section must name a law and a forum to be usable. They are not yet chosen, because they depend on where the legal entity is established. They are left open here rather than guessed.

20General legal provisions#

• Whole agreement. These terms, with the documents listed above, are the whole agreement about the site and replace anything said earlier about it.
• If part is unenforceable. A court may strike or narrow it. The rest stays in force.
• No waiver. Not enforcing a term at once does not mean we give it up. A waiver is valid only in writing.
• Transfer. We may transfer our rights and duties to a successor body that takes over the registry and agrees to honour these terms. You may not transfer yours without our written consent.
• No third-party rights. Only you and IICTP can enforce these terms, except where the law gives a right to someone else.
• Language. If a translation differs from the English text, the English text applies, except where the law of your country says your language prevails.
• Notices. We may notify you by posting on the site. You may notify us at legal@iictp.org and, for formal notices, by post at the address we send you on request. A notice by email takes effect when sent unless it bounces.
• Force majeure. Neither side is in breach for delay caused by events beyond its reasonable control.

21Changes to these terms#

We may update these terms. The date and version at the top show the latest one, and the table at the foot lists earlier versions so that the text that applied on any date can be shown. A change applies from the date it is posted and does not alter a dispute that had already begun. If a change is material and affects a right you already hold, we will give notice on the site before it takes effect. If you keep using the site after that date, you accept the new terms; if you do not accept them, you should stop using the site.

22Contact#

Questions about these terms go to legal@iictp.org. For a postal address for formal notices, write to us and we will send it.

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