Terms of Service
By accessing and using any of American Association of Teachers of Japanese (“AATJ” or “we”) websites or mobile apps that may be released by AATJ from time to time (“Sites”), you agree to comply with these Terms of Use, AATJ Privacy Policy, and all applicable laws.
American Association of Teachers of Japanese Trademarks
American Association of Teachers of Japanese is the owner of trademark, service mark, and collective membership mark rights in: American Association of Teachers of Japanese and Association of Teachers of Japanese. The marks may not be used without written permission from American Association of Teachers of Japanese. Unauthorized use and misuse of American Association of Teachers of Japanese’s mark is strictly prohibited. American Association of Teachers of Japanese aggressively enforces its intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law.
Copyright
Copyright © 1998-2025 American Association of Teachers of Japanese. All rights reserved.
You should assume that everything you see or read on the Sites is protected by law including, but not limited to, United States copyright and trademark law, as well as other state, federal, and international laws and regulations (unless otherwise noted) and may not be used, except as provided in these Terms of Use or in the text on the Sites, without the prior written consent of American Association of Teachers of Japanese.
All information, documents, and materials posted in the Sites are solely for the use of AATJ users and may not be resold, republished, or copied, without the prior written consent of American Association of Teachers of Japanese. Information, documents, and materials may be reprinted for educational and nonprofit purposes with American Association of Teachers of Japanese’s prior written permission. In order to receive American Association of Teachers of Japanese’s written consent, please contact aatj@aatj.org.
Privacy Policy
For information about AATJ’s collection and use of personal information, please read the Privacy Policy which is incorporated and made a part of these Terms of Use.
Disclaimer
THE MATERIALS AND CONTENT CONTAINED IN THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF JAPANESE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL SUCH REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NONINFRINGEMENT, OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF JAPANESE DOES NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OF COMPLETENESS OF THE INFORMATION, TEXT, GRAPHICS, LINKS OR OTHER ITEMS CONTAINED WITHIN THESE MATERIALS. PLEASE NOTE THAT SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF WARRANTIES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF JAPANESE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO THIS WEBSITE AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE. WHILE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF JAPANESE STRIVES TO KEEP THE INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE ACCURATE AND CURRENT, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF JAPANESE CANNOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR TIMELINESS OF THE INFORMATION. INFORMATION WITHIN AATJ’S WEBSITE MAY CONTAIN TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF JAPANESE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO MAKE CHANGES, CORRECTIONS, AND/OR IMPROVEMENTS TO THE INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN THIS WEBSITE, AT ANY TIME, WITHOUT NOTICE.
Limitation of Liability
YOUR USE OF AND BROWSING IN THIS WEBSITE ARE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
IN NO EVENT SHALL AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF JAPANESE NOR ANY PARTY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, OR DELIVERING THE WEBSITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF JAPANESE OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS PROHIBIT THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS, OUR LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
Links/Third Part Websites/Advertising
For your convenience, AATJ may provide links to various other websites that may be of interest to you. However, American Association of Teachers of Japanese does not control such websites and is not responsible for their content nor is it responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any information, data, opinions, advice, or statements contained within such websites. Furthermore, American Association of Teachers of Japanese’s Privacy Policy is applicable only when you are on our Sites. Once you link to another website, you should read that website’s privacy policy before disclosing any personal information. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to our Sites, you do so at your own risk. American Association of Teachers of Japanese reserves the right to terminate any link or linking program at any time.
American Association of Teachers of Japanese, in its sole discretion, may post the advertisements of third parties on the Sites. Your correspondence or any other dealings with advertisers found on the Sites are solely between you and such advertiser. You agree that American Association of Teachers of Japanese shall not be responsible for any loss oar damage of any sort incurred as a result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on the Sites.
Opening Account/Password Policy
Your use of certain portions of the Sites may require you to become a registered user and enter a password. By agreeing to these Terms of Use, you agree to be solely responsible for the confidentiality and use of your respective password, as well as for any communications entered through the Sites using your password. You agree to provide American Association of Teachers of Japanese with accurate, complete, and updated information.
Limitations on Use
American Association of Teachers of Japanese may from time to time monitor or review discussions, postings, transmissions, and other information or material on the Sties; however, American Association of Teachers of Japanese is under no duty to do so and assumes no responsibility or liability arising from such matters nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, obscenity, pornography, or inaccuracy contained in any such discussion, posting, or transmission.
Furthermore, you agree not to do the following:
1. Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Sites. This includes, without limitation: (a) using, or attempting to use, any account without the owner’s permission, (b) obtaining or soliciting another person’s password or other personal information under false pretenses, or (c) impersonating another user or otherwise misrepresenting yourself to AATJ or other entities.
2. Interfere (or attempt to interfere) with the operation of the Sites. This includes, without limitation, (a) interfering with, defeating, or circumventing any security function of the Sites, or attempting to do so, or (b) accessing, or attempting to access, any portion of the Sites that you are not authorized to access. Unauthorized access (or attempts) may subject you to civil and/or criminal penalties.
3. Post, store, or transmit any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, inflammatory, pornographic, profane, or otherwise objectionable (as determined by American Association of Teachers of Japanese in its sole discretion) information or material.
4. Post, store, or transmit any information or material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law.
5. Post, store, or transmit any advertising, promotion, or solicitation of goods or services for commercial purposes except in any areas of the Sties specifically designated for such purpose (and subject to applicable rules).
6. Use the Sties to post, store, or transmit materials in violation of another party’s copyright, trademark or other intellectual property rights. Youa re solely responsible for determining whether any material you post, store, or transmit is subject to a third party’s rights.
8. Use the Sties for any unlawful purposes.
9. Modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, resell, retransmit, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any portion of the Sites.
Indemnification
To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless American Association of Teachers of Japanese and any affiliates and all of their employees, agents, directors, officers, volunteers, successors, and assigns, from and against any and all claims, proceedings, damages, injuries, liabilities, losses. Costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and litigation expenses), relating to or arising from your use of the Sites, any violation by you of these Terms of Use, or any other matter for which you are responsible under law.
Applicable Law
The Sites are controlled by American Association of Teachers of Japanese, incorporated in the State of Colorado, from its offices in Boulder, Colorado, the United States of America. As such, U.S. federal laws and the laws of the State of Colorado will govern these Terms of Use, excluding any conflicts or rules of law that may direct the application of the law of another state. You hereby irrevocably and unconditionally consent to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the State of Colorado and/or the United States District Court for Denver, Colorado, for any litigation arising out of or relating to the use of Sites, waive any objection to the venue of any such litigation in the State of Colorado courts and agree not to plead or claim in any State of Colorado court that such litigation brought therein ahs been brought in an inconvenient forum.
Waiver and Severability
The failure of American Association of Teachers of Japanese to exercise or enforce any right or provision in these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of these Terms of Use is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable and enforced to the fullest extent of the law and shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any remaining provisions herein.
Updates
American Association of Teachers of Japanese reserves the right to make changes to these Terms of Use at any time by updating this page without notice to you. You should visit this page from time to time to review the then-current Terms of Use because it is binding on you. Your use of the Sites following any such change constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by these Terms of Use as changed. If any change is unacceptable to you, your only recourse is to terminate you use of the Sites.
December 15, 2025
Privacy Policy
Adopted December 15, 2025
American Association of Teachers of Japanese (“AATJ” or “we”) takes many steps to protect your privacy when you visit the www.aatj.org website. In order to advance our advocacy and outreach programs, and to provide you with a better experience while you are on the website, we do allow some tracking to take place. How and when we do so is explained below.
Our Collection and Use of Information About You
Passively Collected Data
Like most websites, we may automatically receive and record information in our server logs from your browser when you visit www.aatj.org . The information that we collect with these automated methods may include your IP address, cookie information, browser type, system type, and the referring URL.
We use this type of information to measure and improve the performance of our site. On occasion we also access this type of information to investigate or maintain the stability and security of our site.
Voluntarily Submitted Data
Certain pages on the American Association of Teachers of Japanese site may invite you to share personally identifying information, such as your name, address, email address, or telephone number. Sharing that information will allow you to join our email list, register for programs, or participate in other similar online activities. We share limited information from the American Association of Teachers of Japanese membership list with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (“ACTFL”) for the sole purpose of allowing AATJ members to register for the ACTFL Convention as part of a Convention Partner Organization. AATJ is an ACTFL Convention Partner Organization.
When We May Share Your Information With Other Organizations
When we give you an opportunity to voluntarily submit information about yourself, we may give you the option of indicating that you permit us to share that data with other organizations. We will not share your data with such parties unless you have indicated that you permit us to do so.
Our Email List
If you sign up for our email list, we may collect data by using an embedded image to track whether you open our email and by using a URL that enables us to identify that you have taken an action, such as clicking a link in an email or signing an online petition.
This allows us to build a more effective advocacy program, to inform you about the issues you care about most, and to make is simpler for you to sign petitions and fill out surveys.
Choice/Opt-out
Users who no longer wish to receive our electronic communications may opt out of receiving these communications by clicking the “Opt-out” or “Unsubscribe” options at the bottom of the email.
How We Work With Third-Party Vendors
To the extent that any vendor has access to personally identifiable data about you, by virtue of the fact that it participates in the operation of American Association of Teachers of Japanese site, we require that vendor through written agreements to keep that data confidential and to use it only for the purpose of carrying out the functions we have engaged it to perform (with a limited exception for certain aggregated data, as described immediately below).
In some instances, we may agree to allow a vendor to take aggregated and anonymized data about activity on the American Association of Teachers of Japanese site and use that data for other purposes such as improvement of the vendor’s products or benchmarking for the vendor’s other clients. But we won’t agree to that unless we believe, in each instance, that the data won’t be recombined with other information to create any record about you as an identifiable individual.
Our Use of Cookies
We use cookies to improve website performance, to remember user preferences and settings, and to collect analytic data. By “cookies” we mean small text files placed on to your computer by websites you visit. “Cookies” may also refer to local storage, which is a mechanism similar to cookies where the information is stored within your web browser. In some instances, we place these cookies ourselves. In other instances, we allow outside service providers to place these cookies, but only if those providers agree to the terms described above under “How We Work with Third-Party Vendors.” We use cookies as follows:
Website Performance
Website performance cookies allow us to make the website easier and more pleasant to use. For example, they may enable us to:
- Determine how often and where you see our “breaking news” alerts or promotions
- Save you time when filling out a form by populating it with information you provided in previous visits.
Analytics
We use analytics tools that place cookies, in order to give us a better understanding of how people engage with our website. That in turn allows us to gauge the current performance of Website features, and to develop better content. Analytics cookies provide us with information like:
- How many individual visitors we have
- How many visitors are new or returning
- How often visitors come to the website
- How visitors interact with particular pages or content
In addition, if you click on a link in an email we send you, a cookie may be generated that enables us to identify that you have used that link.
How Certain Content Hosts May Place Cookies and Gather Information About You
Our site is connected in a variety of ways to content residing on other platforms. We provide links to content on social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn, and to content on other sites, such as articles posted on the sites of news organizations. Our site also features embedded media, such as videos, that are hosted on other platforms (such as YouTube) but viewable directly through the buttons we provide. When you click on links or buttons for any of these types of external content, the providers of that content may place their own cookies on your computer, access existing cookies that were set when you previously visited other websites or otherwise gather information about you as you access their content.
To learn about how those content hosts treat the data they collect through cookies and otherwise, see their respective online privacy policies and other posted guidance.
Security Measures and Data Transmission
We have taken physical, electronic, and managerial measures to safeguard the information we collect. We work to ensure data accuracy and protect against unauthorized access to, and improper use of, information we collect online.
Information that can be readily linked to you personally, such as your name and address, is stored on secure servers and is not publicly accessible (unless, as discussed above, you have chosen to have us disclose information about you). Additionally, all data transmitted to and from our website, including credit card numbers, are encrypted using industry standard measures to provide an additional level of security.
Important Notices to Non-U.S. Residents
It is important to note that the Platform and our servers are operated in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that any Personal Information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By using the Platform and by providing us Personal Information in any manner, you consent to this transfer and our use of the information and data provided by you in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
GDPR Rights for EU Residents
If you are a resident of the European Union, you have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including the right to access, correct, delete, restrict processing of, object to the processing of, and port your personal data. You also have the right to withdraw consent and lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information provided below.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us as described in the “How to Contact Us” section below. We will investigate your questions, respond to your inquiry, and attempt to resolve any concerns regarding your privacy question.
External Websites
The website may contain links to third-party websites. American Association of Teachers of Japanese has no control over the privacy practices or the content of those websites and is therefore not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of those third-party websites. You should check the applicable third-party privacy policy and terms of use when visiting any other websites.
Children
We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13 through the Services. If you are under 13, please do not give us any Personal Information. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children to never provide Personal Information through the Services without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Information to us, please contact us at aatj@aatj.org , and we will promptly delete that information from our databases.
Procedure When We Update This Statement
Our privacy statement may change from time to time. We will post privacy statement changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice on our website. We will also keep prior versions of the Online Privacy Statement available for your review in this section.
Procedure for Updating Your Personal Information or Preferences
If you wish to access, withdraw, correct, or delete personal information you shared with us previously or adjust personal preferences—such as your preferences regarding email lists—you may contact us to update your records. We will respond to your request within 30 days. You have the following options to do this:
- Access your account through the AATJ Member Portal
- Send e-mail to: aatj@aatj.org
- Send mail to our address: UCB366 University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309
To send us any other feedback, please send a message to: aatj@aatj.org .
Acceptance of Terms
By visiting our website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our accompanying Terms of Use.
This Privacy Policy was adopted as of December 15, 2025.