Terms of Use

Effective date: May 1, 2026
Last updated: August 1, 2026

1. Agreement to these Terms

These Terms of Use govern access to and use of:

  • americanhealthequity.org

  • peopleshealthproject.org

  • American Health Equity Association member services

  • People’s Health Project programs and campaigns

  • AHEA digital tools

  • Forms, surveys, applications, submissions, publications, training programs, campaign actions, merchandise, and other services made available by AHEA

The websites and services are operated by AHEA, PBLLC, an Oklahoma public benefit limited liability company that operates the American Health Equity Association and People’s Health Project (“AHEA,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

People’s Health Project is a program of AHEA. It is not a separate legal entity or a tax-exempt charitable organization.

By accessing or using the websites or services, creating an account, purchasing or activating a membership, completing a form, registering for a program, agreeing through a checkbox, making a submission, taking a campaign action, or purchasing merchandise or another service, you agree to these Terms and AHEA’s Privacy Policy.

AHEA’s Membership Terms also apply to memberships. The Shipping, Returns & Refunds Policy applies to merchandise purchases.

Additional terms may apply to a particular program, transaction, campaign, publication, appointment, or service. More specific terms control for that activity if they conflict with these general Terms.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to:

  • Create or activate an account

  • Purchase, receive, or use a membership

  • Use an AHEA digital tool

  • Complete an AHEA survey

  • Subscribe to AHEA communications

  • Submit personal information or materials

  • Apply for or formally participate in an AHEA or People’s Health Project opportunity

  • Purchase merchandise or another AHEA service

Public website content may be viewed by general audiences.

By using a service requiring legal capacity, you represent that you are at least 18 years old and legally able to agree to these Terms.

3. About AHEA and People’s Health Project

AHEA is a mission-driven public benefit limited liability company.

AHEA is not a:

  • Nonprofit or tax-exempt charitable organization

  • Government agency

  • Health care provider

  • Law firm

  • University

  • Employer or staffing agency

  • Grantmaking institution

AHEA develops member-supported tools, publications, professional-recognition opportunities, leadership pathways, research initiatives, forums, training, and public-interest infrastructure related to health equity.

People’s Health Project is AHEA’s public-facing community-health program. It helps communities bring forward health concerns, connect lived experience with relevant evidence, develop Community Health Impact Reports, and organize focused campaigns.

AHEA and People’s Health Project do not accept charitable donations through these websites. Membership fees, merchandise purchases, training fees, publication charges, and other payments purchase access, products, or services. They are not charitable contributions, and AHEA does not issue charitable-contribution receipts.

A person or organization may purchase an AHEA membership for another adult. That transaction purchases membership services for the recipient and is not a charitable donation.

4. Accounts and account security

Some services require a customer, verified-user, or member account.

You agree to:

  • Provide accurate and current information

  • Create and control only your own account

  • Maintain the security of your credentials

  • Use only an account assigned to you

  • Promptly notify AHEA of suspected unauthorized access

  • Accept responsibility for activity conducted through your account, except to the extent caused by AHEA’s failure to use reasonable safeguards

Accounts, memberships, sponsored memberships, group memberships, free generations, referral credits, platform credentials, and monthly generation allowances may not be sold, shared, transferred, pooled, or made available to another person except as expressly permitted in the Membership Terms.

A person purchasing or sponsoring a membership for another adult may not create the recipient’s account or accept AHEA’s policies on the recipient’s behalf.

AHEA may require email verification or other reasonable steps to confirm identity, eligibility, membership status, access authorization, or account security.

5. Permitted use

You may use AHEA’s public websites, member content, programs, and tools for lawful personal, professional, academic, organizational, research, educational, and community purposes consistent with these Terms.

Unless AHEA gives prior written permission, you may not:

  • Share paid, private, or gated content with unauthorized people

  • Share an account, membership, or platform credential

  • Copy or republish substantial portions of AHEA content

  • Scrape, harvest, index, or systematically download content or data

  • Reverse engineer or attempt to discover proprietary prompts, code, workflows, methods, or security controls

  • Bypass authentication, membership, trial, generation, rate-limit, payment, or access restrictions

  • Use scripts, bots, duplicate accounts, coordinated accounts, or other methods to evade usage limits

  • Overload or interfere with AHEA’s websites, tools, systems, or providers

  • Introduce malware, harmful code, or unauthorized automated requests

  • Impersonate another person or misrepresent an affiliation

  • Engage in unlawful, fraudulent, abusive, harassing, threatening, discriminatory, retaliatory, or deceptive conduct

  • Submit material you do not have the right to provide

  • Collect or use information about members, supporters, applicants, or participants for unauthorized solicitation, surveillance, marketing, harassment, or another unrelated purpose

  • Use AHEA or People’s Health Project names or branding in a way that implies unauthorized endorsement, sponsorship, employment, partnership, approval, or authority

AHEA may investigate suspected misuse and restrict or terminate access when reasonably necessary.

6. AHEA intellectual property

AHEA’s websites and services contain material owned by or licensed to AHEA, including:

  • Names, logos, trademarks, and branding

  • Website designs and layouts

  • Written and visual content

  • Tool interfaces

  • Proprietary prompts, workflows, methods, rubrics, and templates

  • Reports, publications, graphics, and program materials

  • Software and source code

  • Member resources and training content

These materials are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws.

AHEA grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable license to access and use the services for their intended purposes in accordance with these Terms.

This license does not transfer ownership of AHEA intellectual property or authorize commercial reproduction, redistribution, sublicensing, or creation of a competing service.

7. Digital tools and generated content

AHEA’s digital tools may use artificial intelligence, research databases, and automated processing.

Generated content may be:

  • Inaccurate

  • Incomplete

  • Outdated

  • Inappropriate for a particular circumstance

  • Similar to content generated for another user

You are responsible for reviewing, verifying, editing, and deciding whether and how to use any result.

AHEA’s tools do not provide medical, clinical, legal, financial, tax, employment, academic, lobbying, regulatory, or other licensed professional advice.

Results are not a substitute for:

  • Qualified professional judgment

  • Independent research

  • Review of original evidence and sources

  • Advice from an appropriately licensed professional

  • Compliance review by your employer, institution, funder, or other organization

The Evidence in Practice Tool may assist with finding and interpreting relevant research, but it does not guarantee:

  • A comprehensive literature search

  • A systematic review

  • A complete evidence base

  • Clinical appropriateness

  • Accuracy of every citation or conclusion

  • Applicability to a particular person, population, institution, or decision

You remain responsible for:

  • The information you submit

  • Confirming factual claims and citations

  • Reviewing language before sharing or publishing it

  • Protecting confidential and third-party information

  • Complying with laws, professional duties, employer rules, institutional requirements, and funding conditions

As between you and AHEA, and subject to applicable law and third-party rights, you may use generated results for lawful personal, professional, academic, organizational, or community purposes.

AHEA retains all rights in the tools themselves, including their interfaces, prompts, systems, templates, workflows, methods, and underlying content.

8. Tool access, free use, and usage controls

Tool access is subject to:

  • Providing an email address

  • Any required email verification

  • Trial or membership eligibility

  • Applicable generation allowances

  • Short-term rate limits

  • Fair-use and security controls

  • Technical availability

  • Compliance with these Terms

A verified nonmember user may receive up to two free generations during the lifetime of the email address across the complete AHEA tool suite.

The free allowance:

  • Is shared across all AHEA tools

  • Is not two generations per tool

  • Does not reset monthly or annually

  • Is enforced through the email address and related access records

  • May not be recreated through duplicate accounts, alternate email addresses, or other methods intended to evade the limit

Member generation allowances are governed by the Membership Terms.

AHEA may block, delay, or reject requests to prevent automated, abusive, fraudulent, unusually burdensome, or unauthorized use.

9. Sensitive and confidential information

Do not submit through AHEA’s tools, general forms, surveys, or public-facing services:

  • Medical or patient records

  • Individually identifiable clinical information

  • Social Security numbers

  • Complete payment-card or financial-account information

  • Trade secrets

  • Confidential employer, client, student, or institutional records

  • Personal information about another person that you are not authorized to provide

Tool prompts and generated responses are not Public Submissions. AHEA will not publish them merely because a tool was used.

Tool content may be processed by AHEA’s technology providers as described in the Privacy Policy.

10. User submissions generally

You retain ownership of material you submit, subject to the rights granted under these Terms.

You represent that:

  • You created the material or have permission to submit it

  • It does not infringe another person’s copyright, privacy, publicity, contractual, confidentiality, or other rights

  • Information presented as factual is accurate to the best of your knowledge

  • You have authorization before providing identifiable information about another person

  • The material does not contain unlawful, defamatory, threatening, deceptive, or malicious content

  • Submission does not violate an obligation to an employer, client, school, institution, funder, partner, or other person

You are responsible for removing or appropriately protecting confidential and identifying information before submission.

11. Public Submissions and publication authorization

11.1 Public Submissions

A “Public Submission” is material intentionally submitted through a process identified as an opportunity for possible:

  • Publication

  • Professional recognition

  • Credited contribution

  • Public campaign development

  • Public authorship or acknowledgment

  • Another public-facing purpose

Public Submissions may include:

  • Profiles in Health Equity Practice

  • Cases in Health Equity Practice

  • People’s Health Project campaign materials

  • Community Health Impact Reports

  • State of Health Equity in America contributions

  • Contributor biographies and photographs

  • Similar public-facing material

Private support inquiries, payment information, tool prompts, generated results, confidential survey responses, and private application responses are not Public Submissions unless a form clearly states otherwise.

11.2 Internal review

By making a Public Submission, you authorize AHEA to:

  • Receive, store, copy, and review the material

  • Share it with authorized editors, reviewers, council or committee members, contractors, advisers, and administrators

  • Contact you about verification, editing, decisions, or next steps

  • Evaluate it for relevance, quality, accuracy, eligibility, confidentiality, safety, rights, and fit

Submission creates an opportunity for consideration but does not guarantee selection, recognition, authorship, publication, campaign approval, or contributor credit.

11.3 Publication authorization

If a Public Submission is selected, you grant AHEA a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to:

  • Edit it for clarity, length, consistency, accuracy, accessibility, and style

  • Reproduce, publish, display, distribute, archive, and preserve it

  • Adapt its format for websites, email, reports, journals, digital communications, accessible formats, and other AHEA materials

  • Use excerpts, summaries, titles, and images to describe or promote the selected work, program, campaign, People’s Health Project, or AHEA

  • Permit AHEA’s service providers and distribution partners to exercise these rights on AHEA’s behalf

  • Maintain the material as part of AHEA’s institutional and publication record

You retain ownership of the original work unless a separate written agreement provides otherwise.

You also authorize AHEA to publish approved information connected with the selected work, including your:

  • Name

  • Biography

  • Photograph

  • Professional, academic, organizational, or community affiliation

  • Authorship or contributor credit

Unless separately agreed in writing, you will not receive compensation, royalties, or payment for a Public Submission, contributor credit, or related promotional use.

11.4 Editing and withdrawal

AHEA may request revisions or make reasonable editorial changes.

AHEA will not intentionally alter material in a way that materially misrepresents the contributor’s meaning or experience.

You may withdraw a Public Submission before publication by contacting AHEA.

After material has been published, distributed, indexed, archived, incorporated into a report, or relied upon in a campaign or program, withdrawal or complete removal may not be possible.

AHEA will consider reasonable correction or removal requests but is not required to remove accurate material from its institutional or publication record unless applicable law requires removal.

11.5 Information about other people

Your agreement covers only rights you possess.

It does not give AHEA permission to publish another identifiable person’s photograph, story, quotation, health information, or personal information when that person’s authorization is required.

You are responsible for obtaining necessary permission before submitting identifiable third-party material. AHEA may require evidence of permission or a separate release.

11.6 Journal manuscripts

Journal submissions may be reviewed under these Terms, but an accepted manuscript may require a separate author publishing agreement addressing copyright, licensing, authorship, corrections, retractions, and other publication terms.

12. Applications and selected appointments

Applications for leadership, committee, council, editorial, reviewer, campaign, and similar roles are reviewed privately and are not Public Submissions.

If you are selected for a role that AHEA publicly announces or credits, you authorize AHEA to publish approved information reasonably connected with your service, including:

  • Name

  • Biography

  • Photograph

  • Affiliation

  • Assigned title

  • Term or period of service

  • Related contributor information

Peer-review or reviewer service will be publicized only when the applicable program provides for recognition or the reviewer agrees.

Selection does not create employment, compensation, legal authority, agency, or a right to continued appointment.

13. Profiles and Cases

AHEA will make every reasonable effort to publish complete Profiles in Health Equity Practice and Cases in Health Equity Practice that:

  • Meet applicable program requirements

  • Are accurate and complete

  • Are suitable for publication

Operational, editorial, legal, ethical, confidentiality, accuracy, rights, capacity, or other legitimate concerns may prevent or delay publication.

Submission does not guarantee publication.

14. Surveys and confidential participation

AHEA may conduct surveys, including the Health Equity Pulse.

Unless a survey states otherwise, AHEA may analyze responses and report aggregated or de-identified findings.

AHEA will not intentionally publish an identifiable survey response without the applicable permission.

AHEA may reject, exclude, or remove duplicate, fraudulent, abusive, or bad-faith submissions.

Specific permissions selected within a survey govern whether AHEA may contact a respondent, use a de-identified quotation, invite further participation, or send optional updates.

15. People’s Health Project participation terms

15.1 Scope

These People’s Health Project participation terms apply to the extent relevant to anyone who:

  • Supports or responds to a PHP campaign

  • Participates in a PHP program, meeting, training, or communication

  • Applies for or accepts a PHP role

  • Assists with campaign development or implementation

  • Receives access to PHP platforms, materials, supporter information, templates, or branding

  • Is authorized to communicate or act in connection with PHP

For these Terms, a Formal PHP Participant includes an applicant, approved campaign lead, approved campaign-team member, trainee, contributor, adviser, representative, or other person seeking or receiving formal access, responsibility, authority, or recognition through PHP.

Provisions concerning training, organizational authority, platform access, supporter information, branding, campaign approval, lobbying, and formal representation apply only when relevant to a Formal PHP Participant or a person seeking those responsibilities.

Merely viewing, sharing, or supporting a public campaign does not authorize a person to represent AHEA or PHP.

AHEA may require a Formal PHP Participant to affirmatively accept the current version of these Terms before receiving a title, platform credentials, supporter information, training access, branding permission, or authority to act.

15.2 Respectful conduct and nondiscrimination

PHP participants must treat other people with dignity and respect.

Participants may not engage in unlawful discrimination, harassment, intimidation, exclusion, threats, or retaliation based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, socioeconomic status, political viewpoint, medical condition, insurance status, or another characteristic protected by applicable law.

Nothing in this section prevents AHEA from enforcing PHP’s nonpartisan policy, conduct standards, eligibility criteria, campaign requirements, or mission-related decisions.

15.3 Nonpartisan organizational policy

PHP is a nonpartisan public-interest program.

As a matter of AHEA policy, PHP does not support or oppose:

  • A candidate for public office

  • A political party

  • A political action committee

  • A candidate committee

  • An electoral campaign

When participating in or representing PHP, a person may not:

  • Endorse or oppose a candidate, party, PAC, committee, or electoral campaign in PHP’s name

  • Solicit votes, campaign donations, campaign volunteers, petition signatures, or other electoral support for or against a candidate, party, PAC, or electoral campaign through PHP

  • Display or distribute candidate- or party-campaign materials through a PHP program, account, platform, meeting, or communication

  • Use AHEA or PHP names, events, mailing lists, supporter information, websites, social accounts, funds, facilities, materials, or other resources for partisan electoral activity

  • Imply that AHEA or PHP supports or opposes a candidate, party, PAC, committee, campaign, or partisan electoral outcome

  • Coordinate election-related activity in PHP’s name without express written authorization and any required legal review

This policy does not prevent PHP from conducting lawful public education, community organizing, issue advocacy, or nonpartisan civic engagement.

It also does not prevent an individual from engaging in lawful political activity in their personal capacity, provided that the activity remains clearly separate from AHEA and PHP.

15.4 Issue advocacy, lobbying, and formal approval

Public education, community organizing, and issue advocacy may be part of PHP’s work when conducted lawfully, accurately, safely, and consistently with the approved campaign plan.

Communications with lawmakers, agencies, public officials, institutions, or other decision-makers may have legal, lobbying, reporting, funding, employment, or stakeholder implications.

A Formal PHP Participant may not independently:

  • Lobby or claim to lobby on behalf of AHEA or PHP

  • Speak officially for AHEA or PHP

  • Negotiate with a public official, institution, organization, or partner on AHEA’s behalf

  • Commit AHEA or PHP to a position, demand, partnership, expense, event, or course of action

  • Launch or materially change a campaign in PHP’s name

  • Make a formal public statement in PHP’s name

  • Represent that an advocacy action has been approved by AHEA

These activities require prior express authorization from AHEA.

Authorization is limited to the scope, campaign, communication, audience, role, and period identified by AHEA. Approval for one activity does not create continuing or general authority.

15.5 Stakeholder and community responsibility

Formal PHP Participants must:

  • Follow the approved campaign plan and decision-making process

  • Consult the individuals or stakeholders identified by AHEA

  • Disclose known conflicts of interest and material stakeholder relationships

  • Provide material information that may affect campaign approval, accuracy, safety, legality, or community impact

  • Avoid making commitments on behalf of another person, community, organization, or institution without authorization

  • Avoid claiming that a community, organization, stakeholder, or population supports a position without a reasonable basis and appropriate confirmation

  • Avoid treating prior support, informal discussion, or general mission alignment as approval for a particular statement, event, partnership, campaign, or action

AHEA may require additional consultation, review, documentation, or approval before an activity proceeds.

15.6 AHEA’s authority over PHP activities

AHEA retains the right to:

  • Review, approve, reject, revise, pause, or discontinue a PHP campaign or activity

  • Determine whether a campaign, communication, event, partnership, or public statement may be associated with PHP

  • Decide whether and how AHEA or PHP will promote an activity

  • Require additional review, training, documentation, or stakeholder engagement

  • Limit or withdraw a person’s role, access, title, or authorization

  • Decline to provide branding, platform access, staff support, funding, promotion, or other resources

AHEA may make these decisions based on legal compliance, nonpartisan policy, mission alignment, evidence, accuracy, stakeholder readiness, confidentiality, safety, community impact, reputational risk, organizational capacity, resource limitations, or another legitimate concern.

Prior discussion, application, payment, training, informal encouragement, or general mission alignment does not constitute approval.

15.7 Training and fees

AHEA may require designated training for a particular:

  • Campaign

  • Role

  • Leadership pathway

  • Platform

  • Tool

  • Communication responsibility

  • Use of PHP branding or materials

When training is required, the participant must complete it before receiving the related access or authorization.

AHEA may charge separately disclosed fees for training, programs, services, platform access, certificates, or related offerings.

Before registering or paying, participants are responsible for reviewing:

  • The applicable fee

  • Payment terms

  • Refund terms

  • Deadlines

  • Completion requirements

  • Access conditions

Payment or completion of training does not, by itself, authorize a person to:

  • Represent AHEA or PHP

  • Launch or promote a campaign

  • Use PHP branding

  • Access supporter information

  • Make public commitments

  • Receive a certificate

  • Claim that an activity has been approved

Separate express authorization may still be required.

15.8 Use of PHP names, branding, platforms, and resources

A person may use PHP’s name, logo, branding, templates, campaign platform, materials, or internal resources only when and as expressly authorized by AHEA.

Without written authorization, a participant may not:

  • Create a PHP-branded website, account, page, email address, social profile, publication, event, or merchandise

  • Alter or distribute PHP templates or branding

  • Use PHP’s name to solicit funding, sponsorship, participation, media coverage, or organizational support

  • Claim that an outside project, event, employer, institution, or organization is endorsed by or partnered with PHP

  • Continue using a PHP title, platform, data, or branding after authorization ends

  • Share internal materials or credentials with another person

AHEA may withdraw permission at any time. Upon request, the participant must stop using the applicable name, branding, materials, account, title, or platform.

15.9 Supporter and campaign information

A Formal PHP Participant with access to supporter, campaign, applicant, partner, or participant information may use that information only for the specific PHP purpose approved by AHEA.

Unless AHEA gives written authorization, the participant may not:

  • Copy, export, download, or retain supporter information outside approved systems

  • Disclose supporter names, email addresses, telephone numbers, locations, messages, signatures, or activity to an unauthorized person

  • Add a supporter to another mailing list

  • Use supporter information for personal, employer, political, fundraising, commercial, research, or unrelated purposes

  • Contact supporters outside the approved campaign process

  • Sell, exchange, license, or otherwise exploit supporter information

  • Attempt to identify a person from aggregated or de-identified information

  • Retain campaign information after the participant’s role or access ends

The participant must follow AHEA’s Privacy Policy, approved campaign procedures, security instructions, and applicable law.

Access must end immediately when AHEA requests it or the participant’s role ends.

15.10 Organizational affiliation and individual responsibility

Participation may be affected by the rules, policies, obligations, or restrictions of a participant’s:

  • Employer

  • School or university

  • Government agency

  • Professional organization

  • Funder

  • Client

  • Licensing body

  • Partner organization

  • Other affiliated institution

Each participant is responsible for determining:

  • Whether participation is permitted

  • Whether participation must occur solely in an individual capacity

  • Whether the participant may identify an employer, title, credential, or affiliation

  • Whether the participant may speak, advocate, lobby, endorse, organize, or appear on behalf of an affiliated organization

  • Whether approval, disclosure, recusal, or compliance review is required

AHEA does not determine whether participation complies with another organization’s employment rules, contracts, grant conditions, professional obligations, ethics requirements, or internal policies.

Unless properly authorized, a participant may not state or imply that an employer, institution, funder, client, school, or other organization endorses, sponsors, supports, partners with, or is represented by AHEA, PHP, or a related campaign.

Any reference to a title, credential, employer, institution, or affiliation must be accurate, authorized where necessary, and not misleading.

15.11 Personal-capacity activity

Participants remain free to engage in lawful political, advocacy, professional, or community activity in their personal capacity.

Personal-capacity activity must remain separate from PHP unless AHEA has expressly approved the connection.

A participant may not use or imply the use of PHP’s:

  • Name

  • Endorsement

  • Authority

  • Supporter information

  • Platforms

  • Events

  • Funds

  • Materials

  • Branding

  • Other resources

for an unapproved personal activity.

15.12 Accuracy, respectful communication, and confidentiality

PHP participants must communicate honestly, accurately, and respectfully.

Participants may not knowingly:

  • Make a materially false or misleading statement

  • Misrepresent evidence, data, community support, campaign status, or AHEA approval

  • Make an unlawful defamatory statement

  • Disclose confidential, private, or sensitive information without authorization

  • Alter an approved communication in a way that materially changes its meaning

  • Present a personal opinion as an official PHP position

  • Retaliate against a person for raising a concern or declining participation

Participants must promptly notify AHEA when they discover a material error in an approved communication or campaign resource.

15.13 No contractual, financial, partnership, or media authority

Unless AHEA provides prior written authorization, a participant may not:

  • Sign a contract or agreement for AHEA or PHP

  • Incur an expense or promise reimbursement in AHEA’s name

  • Collect or receive money in AHEA’s or PHP’s name

  • Open a bank, payment, fundraising, or merchant account for PHP

  • Seek a grant, sponsorship, donation, or financial commitment in PHP’s name

  • Establish or announce a partnership on AHEA’s behalf

  • Commit AHEA staff, funds, systems, materials, or services

  • Speak to the media as an official representative of AHEA or PHP

  • Hire, supervise, or direct another person on AHEA’s behalf

  • Make a legal, regulatory, lobbying, or compliance filing for AHEA

AHEA and PHP do not accept charitable donations through the websites or through informal participant fundraising.

15.14 Participant responsibility and professional advice

Participation in advocacy, public education, organizing, community engagement, campaigns, communications, meetings, and training may involve professional, legal, reputational, employment, financial, or personal consequences.

Participants are responsible for their own decisions, statements, acts, omissions, and compliance obligations.

PHP provides public-education, organizing, engagement, training, and advocacy-support resources. Unless expressly stated otherwise, AHEA and PHP do not provide legal, tax, lobbying, employment, financial, regulatory, political, or compliance advice.

Participants are responsible for obtaining any professional or institutional guidance they consider necessary.

The disclaimers, limitations of liability, and indemnification provisions elsewhere in these Terms apply to PHP participation.

15.15 Consequences of noncompliance

AHEA may respond to a violation or suspected violation by:

  • Requesting correction or additional training

  • Removing or revising content

  • Limiting or withdrawing authorization

  • Suspending platform, data, brand, or resource access

  • Removing a participant from a campaign, training, role, or activity

  • Withdrawing a title or appointment

  • Ending formal PHP participation

  • Suspending or terminating AHEA membership when appropriate

  • Taking other reasonable corrective, protective, or legal action

Ending a PHP role does not necessarily end the person’s general AHEA membership. Serious or repeated misconduct may result in membership suspension or termination under the Membership Terms.

16. Public campaign participation and New/Mode

Adults may share community experience, support public campaigns, and participate in public-facing PHP actions without becoming AHEA members.

Formal campaign leadership, formal campaign-team participation, Community Health Leadership Training, certificates, platform access, and selected publication roles are available through AHEA membership and may require:

  • An application

  • Approval

  • Additional terms

  • Training

  • A separately disclosed fee

  • Completion of applicable requirements

Membership does not guarantee campaign approval, training completion, certification, publication, platform access, or a campaign outcome.

Public campaign-action forms may be operated through New/Mode.

A campaign form may transmit information identified on the form to:

  • A designated decision-maker

  • An elected official

  • A public agency

  • An institution

  • An organization

  • Another campaign target

Depending on the action, a participant’s name, location, affiliation, message, comment, signature, or other identified information may also appear publicly.

Participants are responsible for reviewing:

  • The disclosures presented with the action

  • The information requested

  • The intended recipient

  • New/Mode’s applicable terms and privacy policy

Submitting a campaign action does not automatically subscribe a participant to AHEA or PHP promotional communications unless the participant separately chooses to subscribe.

AHEA does not guarantee that a campaign will:

  • Be approved or published

  • Receive public attention

  • Attract supporters

  • Influence a particular official or institution

  • Produce a requested policy, program, funding, or practice change

No person may claim to speak for AHEA, PHP, an entire community, or another participant unless expressly authorized.

17. Forums, training, and private discussions

AHEA does not record Member Strategy Forums or Community Health Leadership Training sessions.

AHEA will provide advance notice if a future program or activity will be recorded.

Participants may not record, photograph, transcribe, distribute, or publicly summarize a private forum, training session, meeting, or discussion without AHEA’s permission and any required participant consent.

Participants should not disclose another person’s private, confidential, or sensitive information.

Participation does not create an:

  • Attorney-client relationship

  • Clinician-patient relationship

  • Employer-employee relationship

  • Fiduciary relationship

  • Confidential professional-adviser relationship

AHEA may encourage confidentiality but cannot guarantee that every participant will comply. Participants should use reasonable judgment before sharing sensitive information in a group setting.

18. Merchandise purchases

Merchandise offered through the PHP storefront is sold by AHEA, PBLLC and may be produced and shipped by a third-party fulfillment provider.

Merchandise purchases are subject to:

  • Product descriptions

  • Prices displayed before purchase

  • Availability

  • Shipping limitations

  • Applicable taxes

  • AHEA’s Shipping, Returns & Refunds Policy

  • Any additional terms displayed at checkout

Because products may be made to order, all sales may be final except for qualifying damaged, defective, misprinted, incorrect, lost, or unshipped orders and remedies required by law.

Purchases help sustain PHP but are not charitable contributions or tax-deductible charitable gifts.

19. Third-party websites and services

AHEA’s websites and services may link to or incorporate third-party platforms, payment services, databases, media, campaign technology, fulfillment services, or other resources.

A link or integration does not necessarily mean that AHEA endorses the third party or guarantees its:

  • Information

  • Availability

  • Accessibility

  • Privacy

  • Security

  • Performance

  • Services

Use of a third-party service may be governed by that provider’s own terms and privacy policy.

20. Accessibility

AHEA is committed to improving the accessibility of its websites, tools, publications, forms, account experiences, campaign experiences, and digital programs.

Information about accessibility assistance, alternative formats, and reporting barriers is available in AHEA’s Accessibility Statement.

21. Availability and program changes

AHEA may modify, suspend, limit, replace, or discontinue part of a website, tool, benefit, campaign, program, publication, training, or service.

AHEA does not guarantee that every service will always be:

  • Available

  • Uninterrupted

  • Error-free

  • Secure

  • Compatible with every device or browser

Descriptions of programs in development reflect current intent and do not guarantee:

  • Launch dates

  • Publication schedules

  • Indexing

  • Appointment availability

  • Submission openings

  • Campaign approval

  • Future features

22. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, AHEA’s websites, services, tools, publications, campaigns, merchandise information, and content are provided on an “as available” basis without warranties of any kind, express or implied.

AHEA does not warrant that:

  • Information will be complete, current, or error-free

  • A tool result will be suitable for a particular purpose

  • Participation will produce a professional, career, academic, policy, funding, publication, advocacy, or community outcome

  • A third party will act on information, evidence, communications, or campaign requests

  • A service will operate without interruption or security risk

  • A campaign or publication will continue for a particular period

  • Participation will be permitted by a person’s employer, institution, funder, or professional body

Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty or right that cannot lawfully be excluded.

23. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, AHEA will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages arising from or related to:

  • The websites or services

  • Tools or generated content

  • Programs, forums, or training

  • Applications or submissions

  • Publications or campaign activities

  • Participant communications or conduct

  • Third-party services

  • Reliance on AHEA information or resources

  • Loss of a role, opportunity, appointment, authorization, title, or platform access

To the fullest extent permitted by law, AHEA’s total liability arising from or relating to the services will not exceed the amount the claimant paid directly to AHEA during the 12 months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.

These limitations do not apply where liability cannot legally be limited.

24. Indemnification

To the extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless AHEA and its owners, managers, officers, employees, contractors, advisers, reviewers, volunteers, and authorized representatives from claims, losses, liabilities, damages, and reasonable expenses arising from:

  • Your material violation of these Terms

  • Your unlawful or unauthorized use of the services

  • Material you submit or publish

  • Your infringement of another person’s rights

  • Your failure to obtain required permission for third-party material

  • Your misuse of supporter or participant information

  • Your unauthorized representation that you speak or act for AHEA, PHP, another organization, or a community

  • A contract, expense, commitment, communication, campaign, or other action you undertake without AHEA’s authorization

This provision does not require you to indemnify AHEA for AHEA’s own unlawful conduct.

25. Suspension and termination

AHEA may suspend, limit, or terminate access because of:

  • Nonpayment

  • A material violation of these Terms

  • Account or credential sharing

  • Fraud, abuse, harassment, retaliation, or harmful conduct

  • Security concerns

  • Misuse of personal or supporter information

  • Misuse of AHEA or PHP branding

  • Unauthorized organizational representation

  • Legal requirements

  • Misrepresentation in an application or submission

  • Conduct that threatens AHEA, its members, contributors, reviewers, participants, systems, reputation, or programs

Provisions concerning intellectual property, submissions, publication rights, confidentiality, data use, disclaimers, liability, indemnification, records, and disputes survive termination where their nature requires.

26. Electronic communications and acceptance

You consent to receive agreements, disclosures, notices, and communications relating to your account, membership, transactions, applications, roles, or participation electronically.

Electronic communications may be provided through:

  • Email

  • AHEA’s websites

  • Your customer account

  • A checkout or activation process

  • An application or program form

  • Another reasonable electronic method

You are responsible for maintaining an email address you can access.

AHEA may require a new or repeated electronic acknowledgment when you receive a formal role, platform access, supporter information, branding permission, or another responsibility governed by these Terms.

27. Feedback and suggestions

You may voluntarily provide ideas, suggestions, comments, or feedback about AHEA’s programs or services.

You authorize AHEA to use voluntary feedback to evaluate, develop, and improve its programs and services without an obligation to compensate you.

This provision does not transfer ownership of your underlying copyrighted work or apply to material submitted through a formal publication or contributor process.

28. Copyright and intellectual-property complaints

A person who believes material available through an AHEA website infringes their copyright or another intellectual-property right may contact:

info@americanhealthequity.org

The notice should include:

  • Identification of the protected work

  • Identification and location of the allegedly infringing material

  • The complainant’s contact information

  • An explanation of the basis of the complaint

  • Confirmation that the information provided is accurate

AHEA may request additional information before acting.

29. Assignment

You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without AHEA’s written permission.

AHEA may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, restructuring, financing, transfer, or sale involving all or part of AHEA.

30. No waiver

AHEA’s failure to enforce a provision does not waive its right to enforce that provision or another provision later.

31. Severability

If a provision is found unenforceable, it will be limited or removed only to the extent necessary, and the remaining provisions will remain effective.

32. Entire agreement

These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Membership Terms, the Shipping, Returns & Refunds Policy, and any applicable program-, campaign-, publication-, role-, or transaction-specific terms constitute the agreement between you and AHEA concerning the applicable services.

33. Headings

Section headings are provided for convenience and do not affect interpretation.

34. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Oklahoma, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except where applicable law requires otherwise.

Before filing a legal claim, you and AHEA agree to make a good-faith effort to resolve the matter informally.

A written notice should describe the issue and requested resolution and be sent to:

info@americanhealthequity.org

If the matter cannot be resolved informally, proceedings may be brought in a court of competent jurisdiction in Oklahoma, except where applicable law permits another forum.

35. Changes to these Terms

AHEA may update these Terms as its services, programs, technology, providers, or legal obligations change.

The current version will be posted with a revised effective date.

Material changes may also be announced through:

  • The websites

  • Account notices

  • Member communications

  • Program communications

  • Email

  • Another reasonable method

When affirmative consent is required by law or reasonably appropriate for a formal role or responsibility, AHEA may request it.

36. Contact

Questions about these Terms may be directed to:

AHEA, PBLLC
PO Box 5484
Edmond, OK 73083
info@americanhealthequity.org