Membership

MASPA offers membership opportunities to eligible individuals, organizations, and companies. Membership categories, eligibility, benefits, dues, and terms may vary by membership type and may be changed by MASPA from time to time.

By submitting a membership application, registration form, renewal form, sponsorship form, exhibitor form, or other MASPA approved request for participation, you agree to the applicable membership terms, payment obligations, and program requirements stated by MASPA.

Professional membership

Professional membership in MASPA is available to active school personnel whose assigned work is primarily concerned with personnel or human resource functions in public schools or public charter schools.

MASPA may offer different professional membership levels based on a member's role, access needs, event participation, resources, or other criteria established by MASPA. Members should select the membership level that best matches their role and the MASPA events, resources, and services they intend to access.

Questions about the appropriate professional membership level may be directed to [email protected].

By submitting a professional membership application, renewal form, registration form, or other MASPA approved request for participation, the member and, when applicable, the member's employing organization agree to the applicable membership terms, payment obligations, eligibility requirements, and program requirements stated by MASPA.

The MASPA membership year for professional members is September 1 through August 31, unless MASPA states a different term in writing.

Payment is due upon submission or acceptance of the professional membership application, renewal, registration, or other MASPA approved request, unless MASPA states a different payment deadline in writing.

Professional membership fees are generally paid by the member's employing organization. When a membership is paid by an organization, MASPA may allow the membership to be reassigned within the same membership year to another eligible employee of that organization.

Membership reassignment is not automatic. A request to transfer or reassign a professional membership should be submitted to MASPA in writing. MASPA may approve or decline a transfer request based on eligibility, membership level, payment status, access needs, and administrative requirements.

A professional membership may not be transferred to an individual who does not meet MASPA's professional membership eligibility requirements.

Professional membership benefits may include access to member resources, communications, professional development opportunities, events, listservs, directories, or other services identified by MASPA. Access to some benefits may depend on membership level, payment status, eligibility, event capacity, registration requirements, or other MASPA requirements.

Professional membership fees are not refundable once MASPA has accepted the application, processed the renewal, provided access to member resources, registered the member for member benefits, or otherwise begun providing professional membership benefits.

A member's decision not to use all available benefits does not reduce or cancel the payment obligation for the applicable membership year or term.

Members are responsible for maintaining accurate contact information in their MASPA member profile, including email address, job title, employer, interests, and other relevant information. Members may update their contact information from the member profile screen when logged in to mnaspa.org.

MASPA may make reasonable changes to professional membership levels, benefits, event formats, communication methods, resources, or access requirements when necessary for operational, scheduling, financial, program, or governance reasons.

MASPA may suspend or withhold professional membership benefits if payment is not received, eligibility requirements are not met, contact information is inaccurate, or the member fails to comply with MASPA requirements. MASPA may also decline future participation by an individual or organization with unpaid fees.

Questions about transferring a professional membership may be directed to [email protected].

Business membership

A company may request MASPA business membership by submitting a business membership application or other MASPA approved registration form. MASPA may accept or decline any application at its discretion.

By submitting a business membership application, the company agrees to pay the applicable business membership fee for the membership year or other stated term. Payment is due upon MASPA's acceptance of the application, unless MASPA states a different payment deadline in writing.

The person submitting the application represents that they are authorized to act on behalf of the company and to commit the company to the applicable payment obligation.

MASPA may begin providing business member benefits after receiving or accepting an application. Benefits may include, but are not limited to, directory listing, recognition, promotion, event access, communications, sponsorship visibility, or other opportunities identified by MASPA.

Business membership fees are non-refundable once MASPA has accepted the application and begun providing business member benefits. A company's decision not to use all available benefits does not reduce or cancel the payment obligation.

A company may request to withdraw from business membership by providing written notice to MASPA. Withdrawal does not cancel any payment obligation for a membership term after MASPA has accepted the application and begun providing benefits.

MASPA business membership provides access to membership benefits and visibility opportunities. MASPA does not guarantee sales, leads, referrals, contracts, meetings, or any specific business outcome.

MASPA may make reasonable changes to business membership benefits, event formats, communication methods, or recognition opportunities when necessary for operational, scheduling, financial, or program reasons.

MASPA may suspend or withhold business member benefits if payment is not received. MASPA may also decline future participation by a company with unpaid fees.

Website

The following terms and conditions govern your use of this website; by using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this website.

This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our MASPA's use of cookies in accordance with the terms of MASPA's privacy policy.

License to use website

Unless otherwise stated, MASPA and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

• republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
• sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
• show any material from the website in public;
• reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;
• redistribute material from this website, except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.

Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed to active MASPA school members.

Acceptable use

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without MASPA's express written consent.

You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without MASPA's express written consent.

Restricted access

Access to certain areas of this website is restricted. MASPA reserves the right to restrict access to other areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at MASPA's discretion.

If MASPA provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.

MASPA may remove your user account access from this website at MASPA's sole discretion without notice or explanation.

User content

In these terms and conditions, "your user content" means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to MASPA a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to MASPA the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or MASPA or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

MASPA reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on MASPA's servers, or hosted or published upon this website.

No warranties

This website is provided "as is" without any representations or warranties, express or implied. MASPA makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, MASPA does not warrant that:

• this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
• the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind. If you require advice in relation to any legal or financial matter you should consult an appropriate professional.

Limitations of liability

MASPA will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:

• to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
• for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or
• for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if MASPA has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Exceptions

Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit MASPA's liability in respect of any:

• death or personal injury caused by MASPA's negligence;
• fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of MASPA; or
• matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for MASPA to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.

Reasonableness

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable.

If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

Other parties

You accept that, as a limited liability entity, MASPA has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and workers. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against MASPA's officers or workers in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website.

Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect MASPA's officers, workers, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as MASPA.

Unenforceable provisions

If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforce-ability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.

Indemnity

You hereby indemnify MASPA and undertake to keep MASPA indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by MASPA to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of MASPA's legal advisers) incurred or suffered by MASPA arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions[, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions].

Breaches of these terms and conditions

Without prejudice to MASPA's other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, MASPA may take such action as MASPA deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Variation

MASPA may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

Assignment

MASPA may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with MASPA's rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

Severability

If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Entire agreement

These terms and conditions, together with the privacy policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and MASPA in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

Law and jurisdiction

These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with U.S. law, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Minnesota.

MASPA's details

The full name of MASPA is The Minnesota Association of School Personnel Administrators. MASPA wholly operates the State Negotiators organization.

MASPA's federal tax number is 26-2135974.

MASPA's address is PO Box 4485, Saint Paul, MN 55104.

You can contact MASPA by email to [email protected].