The Art Institute Online, a division of The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, provides its services to you online subject to the following conditions. By visiting The Art Institute Online Web site, you agree to accept these Conditions of Use and the Privacy Notice.

Site Usage

The Art Institute Online offers its enrolled students a limited license to access and make personal use of this site. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of this site or its content; nor any derivative use of this site or its contents; any downloading or copying of documents for the benefit of another merchant or educational provider; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. This site or any portion of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of The Art Institute Online. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing The Art Institute Online name or trademarks. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by The Art Institute Online.

Electronic Communications

When you send emails to The Art Institute Online, you are communicating with us electronically and consent to receive return communications from us electronically. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Comments, Communications And Content Contributions

Enrolled students may post comments, participate in online surveys and other online activities and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation or any form of "spam." The Art Institute Online reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such content, and does not regularly review posted content.

If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant The Art Institute Online and its affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate and display such content throughout the world in any media. You hereby grant to Education Management Corporation (EDMC)(the parent company of The Art Institute Online) and to those whom it may authorize the right to use a reproduction of your artwork (with or without your name), to reproduce, distribute, and display-publicly, including on the Internet-artwork, statements and quotes and to prepare derivative works. You understand that EDMC is not responsible for unauthorized duplication/use by third parties on the Internet. You certify that any electronic communication and its attachments, you submit to The Art Institute Online is yours alone and that you have the sole right to such work and its distribution, reproduction and electronic submission to The Art Institute Online for its use.

Changes To This Policy

We reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, and these Conditions of Use at any time. Please check this Conditions of Use policy periodically for any changes.