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    Content License & Acceptable Use Policy

    Effective date: August 23, 2026. Last updated: August 23, 2026.

    1. PURPOSE

    This TSI Content License & Acceptable Use Policy (“Content Policy”) establishes the rights, restrictions, permissions, and conditions applicable to the access, use, reproduction, storage, modification, distribution, disclosure, and exploitation of content provided by Texas Skills Institute (“TSI”).

    This Content Policy forms an integral part of the TSI Terms and Conditions.

    2. DEFINITION OF TSI CONTENT

    “TSI Content” means any material provided, created, developed, acquired, licensed, adapted, produced, commissioned, generated, or distributed by or on behalf of TSI, including:

    • courses;
    • programs;
    • modules;
    • lessons;
    • text;
    • manuals;
    • e-books;
    • PDFs;
    • presentations;
    • videos;
    • audio;
    • voiceovers;
    • narration;
    • avatars;
    • animations;
    • graphics;
    • photographs;
    • diagrams;
    • models;
    • simulations;
    • exercises;
    • assessments;
    • examinations;
    • examination questions;
    • examination answers;
    • question banks;
    • databases;
    • datasets;
    • methodologies;
    • curriculum structures;
    • instructional frameworks;
    • supplementary materials;
    • downloadable materials;
    • on-screen materials;
    • software;
    • interfaces;
    • designs;
    • source code;
    • documentation;
    • AI-generated or AI-assisted content.

    3. OWNERSHIP

    Except where expressly identified otherwise, TSI retains all right, title, and interest in and to TSI Content.

    Where specific content belongs to a third party, TSI owns, licenses, or otherwise has the rights necessary to use such content under applicable agreements.

    4. LIMITED USER LICENSE

    Subject to these Terms, TSI grants an authorized User a limited license to:

    • access;
    • view;
    • study;
    • use;

    TSI Content solely for the authorized educational purpose and within the scope of the program purchased or otherwise authorized.

    5. NATURE OF LICENSE

    The license granted under this Policy is:

    • personal;
    • limited;
    • revocable;
    • non-exclusive;
    • non-transferable;
    • non-assignable;
    • non-sublicensable.

    The license does not constitute a sale or transfer of intellectual-property ownership.

    6. NO TRANSFER OF ACCESS

    A User may not transfer access to:

    • another individual;
    • an employer;
    • a company;
    • an institution;
    • a colleague;
    • a client;
    • a contractor;
    • another third party.

    7. CREDENTIAL SHARING

    Users may not share:

    • usernames;
    • passwords;
    • authentication codes;
    • enrollment codes;
    • private URLs;
    • access tokens;
    • login credentials.

    8. COPYING

    Users may not copy TSI Content outside functionality expressly authorized by TSI.

    9. REPRODUCTION

    Unauthorized reproduction of TSI Content, in whole or in substantial part, is prohibited.

    This includes reproduction through:

    • physical means;
    • digital means;
    • audiovisual means;
    • electronic means;
    • automated means.

    10. DISTRIBUTION

    Users may not distribute TSI Content through:

    • email;
    • messaging applications;
    • social media;
    • cloud storage;
    • educational platforms;
    • websites;
    • forums;
    • private groups;
    • public repositories;
    • torrents;
    • file-sharing services;
    • any other distribution mechanism.

    11. SALE AND RESALE

    Users may not sell, resell, lease, rent, sublicense, or otherwise commercialize TSI Content.

    This includes:

    • courses;
    • PDFs;
    • videos;
    • manuals;
    • examinations;
    • question banks;
    • copies;
    • translations;
    • compilations;
    • derivative products.

    12. THIRD-PARTY RECIPIENTS

    A person who receives TSI Content from another person does not thereby acquire any license or right to use that content.

    Any recipient must refrain from:

    • copying;
    • distributing;
    • selling;
    • publishing;
    • transmitting;
    • commercializing;
    • incorporating;
    • exploiting;

    the content without authorization.

    13. UNAUTHORIZED OR ACCIDENTALLY OBTAINED MATERIAL

    If any person obtains TSI Content:

    • accidentally;
    • through an unauthorized link;
    • through another person’s account;
    • through a leak;
    • through an unauthorized copy;
    • through a third party;
    • through an unintended disclosure;
    • through any unauthorized access;

    such person does not acquire any license, ownership interest, or permission to use the content.

    The recipient must refrain from disclosing, selling, distributing, publishing, or exploiting the content and should notify TSI when reasonably appropriate.

    14. RECORDING

    Users may not record TSI Content through:

    • screen-recording software;
    • cameras;
    • mobile devices;
    • external recording devices;
    • software applications;
    • browser extensions;
    • automated systems.

    15. PHOTOGRAPHY AND SCREEN CAPTURE

    Users may not photograph, screenshot, scan, capture, or otherwise reproduce TSI Content for purposes of:

    • retaining substantial copies;
    • redistributing;
    • commercializing;
    • publishing;
    • creating derivative products;
    • circumventing access restrictions.

    16. TRANSCRIPTION

    Users may not substantially transcribe TSI Content for the purpose of reproducing, distributing, publishing, commercializing, or creating derivative content.

    17. TRANSLATION

    Users may not translate TSI Content for:

    • sale;
    • redistribution;
    • publication;
    • commercial use;
    • creation of competing educational programs;
    • creation of derivative products.

    18. DERIVATIVE WORKS

    Users may not create derivative works that substantially reproduce or appropriate TSI Content without prior written authorization.

    19. COMPETING COURSES

    Users may not use TSI Content to develop educational courses or programs that substantially reproduce:

    • TSI instructional content;
    • course structures;
    • protected materials;
    • assessments;
    • question banks;
    • proprietary methodologies;
    • proprietary instructional systems.

    20. CORPORATE AND INSTITUTIONAL USE

    Individual enrollment does not authorize institutional or corporate training.

    An organization wishing to use TSI Content to train employees, contractors, clients, students, or other groups must obtain an appropriate institutional or commercial license where applicable.

    21. COMMERCIAL USE

    Users may not use TSI Content to provide commercial services substantially based on such content without written authorization from TSI.

    22. QUESTION BANKS

    TSI question banks may constitute valuable proprietary assets.

    Users may not:

    • extract;
    • copy;
    • sell;
    • share;
    • publish;
    • reconstruct;
    • distribute;
    • systematically store;
    • commercially exploit;

    TSI question banks without authorization.

    23. EXAMINATIONS

    TSI examinations may constitute confidential and proprietary materials.

    Users may not disclose, reproduce, record, publish, sell, or distribute examination questions or answers without authorization.

    24. ASSESSMENT ANSWERS

    Users may not distribute assessment answers where such distribution is not expressly authorized by TSI.

    25. AUTOMATED ACCESS

    Users may not use:

    • bots;
    • crawlers;
    • spiders;
    • scrapers;
    • scripts;
    • automated agents;
    • extraction tools;
    • unauthorized APIs;

    to obtain TSI Content.

    26. TECHNICAL ACCESS

    No endpoint, API, URL, platform functionality, browser functionality, or technical mechanism constitutes permission to extract TSI Content unless TSI expressly authorizes such use.

    27. ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE TRAINING

    Unless expressly authorized in writing by TSI, Users may not use TSI Content for:

    • AI training;
    • machine-learning training;
    • fine-tuning;
    • datasets;
    • embeddings;
    • retrieval-augmented generation;
    • AI agents;
    • commercial AI systems;
    • generative AI systems;
    • foundation models;
    • machine-learning models;
    • model evaluation datasets.

    28. PROMPT-BASED EXTRACTION

    Users may not design, deploy, or use prompts, tools, agents, workflows, or systems intended to systematically extract, reconstruct, reproduce, or circumvent access restrictions applicable to TSI Content.

    29. REMOVAL OF PROTECTION MEASURES

    Users may not remove, disable, obscure, bypass, alter, or circumvent:

    • copyright notices;
    • watermarks;
    • identifiers;
    • metadata;
    • legal notices;
    • access controls;
    • technological protection measures.

    30. WATERMARKS

    TSI may use visible or invisible watermarks, identifiers, or other reasonable content-protection mechanisms.

    Users may not remove, alter, obscure, or circumvent such mechanisms.

    31. TRACEABILITY

    TSI may use reasonable technological or contractual mechanisms to identify the source of unauthorized copies or distributions.

    32. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

    Unpublished, internal, restricted, or non-public TSI materials may constitute confidential information where the circumstances reasonably indicate that such information is confidential or restricted.

    33. TRADE SECRETS

    Where specific information satisfies applicable legal requirements to qualify as a trade secret, TSI reserves all rights and remedies available under applicable federal and state trade-secret laws.

    Nothing in this Policy automatically classifies all TSI Content as a trade secret.

    34. CONTRACTUAL PROTECTION

    The restrictions contained in this Policy constitute independent contractual obligations and apply in addition to any rights TSI may have under:

    • copyright law;
    • trademark law;
    • trade-secret law;
    • contract law;
    • confidentiality law;
    • other applicable federal or state laws.

    35. CUMULATIVE RIGHTS AND REMEDIES

    TSI may exercise rights and remedies under multiple applicable legal theories, including:

    • contractual rights;
    • copyright rights;
    • trademark rights;
    • trade-secret rights;
    • confidentiality rights;
    • other statutory or common-law rights.

    36. INFRINGEMENT NOTICES

    TSI may issue or request:

    • copyright notices;
    • takedown requests;
    • cease-and-desist demands;
    • platform complaints;
    • hosting-provider notices;
    • service-provider notices;
    • other legally available enforcement measures.

    37. INJUNCTIVE RELIEF

    TSI may seek temporary, preliminary, or permanent injunctive relief or other equitable remedies to prevent:

    • unauthorized distribution;
    • unauthorized disclosure;
    • unauthorized access;
    • unauthorized copying;
    • commercial exploitation;
    • misappropriation of proprietary materials.

    38. ACCOUNT SUSPENSION

    TSI may immediately suspend an account where there is reasonable evidence of:

    • unauthorized distribution;
    • fraud;
    • account sharing;
    • systematic extraction;
    • unauthorized access;
    • intellectual-property infringement;
    • material violation of this Policy.

    39. TERMINATION

    A material violation of this Policy may result in termination of access to TSI services.

    40. LICENSE REVOCATION

    The license granted to a User may be revoked upon material breach.

    41. CERTIFICATES

    Where access to a certificate was obtained through fraud, impersonation, falsification, unauthorized assistance, or material violation of program requirements, TSI may invalidate the certificate to the extent legally permitted.

    42. USER RESPONSIBILITY

    Users are responsible for complying with this Policy and protecting their account credentials.

    43. THIRD-PARTY DISTRIBUTION

    A person who knowingly or negligently redistributes TSI Content without authorization may be subject to liability under:

    • applicable contract law;
    • copyright law;
    • trade-secret law;
    • intellectual-property law;
    • other applicable laws.

    44. UNAUTHORIZED ORGANIZATIONAL USE

    An organization may not use an individual license to provide group instruction, corporate training, institutional access, or systematic access to its personnel.

    45. CONTRACTORS AND REPRESENTATIVES

    An individual license does not authorize contractors, employees, consultants, agents, or representatives of another organization to access or use TSI Content unless such access is expressly authorized.

    46. NO SUBLICENSING

    No right to sublicense TSI Content is granted.

    47. NO ASSIGNMENT

    No right to assign the license is granted.

    48. RETURN OR DELETION

    When access or the applicable license terminates, TSI may require the User to cease use of TSI Content and delete unauthorized copies, subject to applicable legal retention requirements.

    49. LEGALLY PROTECTED USES

    Nothing in this Policy is intended to prohibit uses of copyrighted or other protected material that are expressly protected by applicable law and cannot lawfully be restricted by contract.

    50. NO WAIVER

    Failure by TSI to enforce a provision immediately does not constitute a waiver of TSI’s right to enforce that provision in the future.

    51. MODIFICATIONS

    TSI may modify this Policy to reflect:

    • new products;
    • technological changes;
    • regulatory developments;
    • new content-protection mechanisms;
    • changes to TSI services.

    52. CONTRACTUAL INCORPORATION

    This Policy is incorporated into and forms part of the TSI Terms and Conditions.

    53. GOVERNING LAW

    This Policy shall be interpreted under applicable federal laws of the United States and laws of the State of Texas, subject to any mandatory law that applies to a particular User or transaction.

    54. CONTACT

    Content, copyright, licensing, and authorized-use inquiries may be submitted through the official contact channels made available by TSI at:

    https://texasskillsinstitute.com

    Texas Skills Institute

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