Terms & Conditions

1. Accepting these terms

These terms are the agreement between you and the National Energy Foundation ("NEF", "we") for the use of the Take Action! website and the program it supports. Using the site means you accept them.

Take Action! is sponsored by Demo Sponsor and administered by NEF. If you do not accept these terms, please do not use the site.

2. Who may use this site

Teachers and school administrators register classes and request materials. Students and families use the resources their class was given. Anyone may read the public pages.

Children under 13 should use this site through their school or with a parent. Registration and any submission of information is for adults (a teacher, an administrator, or a parent) acting on a student's behalf.

Registration information must be accurate. Registering a class you do not teach, or a school you are not affiliated with, is grounds for cancelling the registration.

3. Program participation

Take Action! is available to eligible schools in Demo Sponsor's service area, in the spring and fall. Eligibility, grade band, and availability are set by the sponsor and confirmed by NEF after you register.

Materials are supplied while funding and inventory last. We may limit quantities per classroom, per school, or per district, and we may end or change the program at any time.

Scheduling a classroom presentation depends on educator availability in your area. We will tell you promptly if we cannot serve a registered class.

4. Using the Take Action Kit safely

The Take Action Kit contains real energy- and water-saving devices meant to be installed at home. They are for household use, by or with an adult.

• Read the instructions supplied with each item before installing it, and follow them.
• An adult should install every item, and should supervise any student who helps.
• Do not install an item into wiring, fixtures, or plumbing that is damaged, or that the instructions do not cover.
• Some homes, fixtures, and appliances are not compatible with a given item. If something does not fit or does not work as described, remove it rather than forcing it.
• Renters should check with their landlord before making a change to a fixture.

The kit is not a substitute for a licensed electrician or plumber. NEF and the sponsor are not responsible for damage caused by installation that does not follow the supplied instructions, or by work a household was not qualified to do.

5. Savings figures and estimates

Energy and water savings shown on this site, in program materials, and in worksheet results are estimates. They are calculated from standard assumptions about typical households and typical use.

Your actual savings depend on your home, your equipment, your rates, your weather, and your habits. Nothing here is a guarantee of a particular saving, a particular bill amount, or a particular return on the time you spend.

6. Program materials and copyright

The Take Action! curriculum, worksheets, presentations, videos, illustrations, and this website are owned by NEF or its licensors. The Demo Sponsor name and logo are owned by Demo Sponsor.

Teachers and families may print, copy, and adapt the program materials for classroom and home educational use, keeping the credit lines intact. That is what they are for.

You may not sell them, charge for access to them, repackage them as your own, or use the NEF or sponsor marks to suggest an endorsement that does not exist. Uses beyond classroom and home education need our written permission.

7. Acceptable use

Use the site as it is meant to be used. Do not try to break into it, scrape it in bulk, disrupt it for other people, submit false registrations or worksheet data, upload anything harmful, or use it to collect information about students.

We may suspend access, cancel a registration, or remove a submission when a use breaks these terms.

8. Third-party sites and services

Some parts of the program run outside this site: class registration, the online worksheet form, and the teacher portal among them. Those services have their own terms and privacy policies, which govern your use of them.

Links to a sponsor's site, a partner's site, or an outside resource are provided for convenience. We do not control them and are not responsible for their content.

9. Disclaimers and limits

The site and the program materials are provided as they are, without warranties of any kind, to the fullest extent the law allows. We do not promise the site will be uninterrupted or without errors, or that every piece of content is current.

To the fullest extent the law allows, NEF and the sponsor are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from use of this site or the program materials. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

10. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The current version is always the one on this page, with its date at the top. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the updated terms.

11. Contact and governing law

Questions about these terms can go to the National Energy Foundation, 5505 South 900 East, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84117, 800-616-8326.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Utah, where the National Energy Foundation is located, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules.