Intellectual Property Rights Overview

This website located at https://action4cp.org/ (“Website”) is owned and operated by Action for Child Protection, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit corporation, which has its principal place of business located at 8920 Lawyers Road, Charlotte, NC 28227 (“Action”).

References to “our,” “us,” and “we,” on the Website are references to Action.

This Intellectual Property Rights Notice (“Notice”) forms part of the Terms of Use ToU(“ToU”) that govern your use of the Website.  See also https://action4cp.org/terms/.   It is important that you read and understand the ToU before you use the Website.  You can print and keep a copy for your reference.

By using the Website, you indicate that you accept the ToU and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to the ToU, please refrain from using the Website.

Ownership and Control of All Intellectual Property Rights and Content

“Content” means all literary works, visual works, documents, materials, software programs, and content, including but not limited to designs, editorial, text, graphics, audio-visual materials, multimedia elements, photographs, videos, music, sound recordings, reports, software, information, formulae, patterns, data and any other work that appears on the Website.

Content accessed or available through the Website may be owned by parties other than you or us (“Third-Party Content”) and may be protected by applicable copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets or other proprietary rights and laws. Nothing in your use of the Website or in the ToU grants you any right, title or interest in or to this Third-Party Content except for the limited permission to use the Website and the services available on it as specifically stated in the ToU.

  • Action is the owner of all common law rights and applicable registrations and/or applications of the following trademarks as well as all other trademarks used by Action (“Trademarks”):
    • ACTION FOR CHILD PROTECTION®, U.S. Trademark Registration No. 7199128
    • ACTION 4 CHILD PROTECTION MAKING QUALITY CHILD WELFARE PRACTICE POSSIBLE®, U.S. Trademark Registration No. 7795828
    • ACTION 4 CHILD PROTECTION®, U.S. Trademark Registration No. 7795827
    • ACTION 4 CHILD PROTECTION®, U.S. Trademark Registration No. 7429970
    • SAFE SAFETY ASSESSMENT FAMILY EVALUATION™, U.S. Trademark Application Serial No. 97695771
  • Action is the owner of all rights, title, and interest in all copyright rights in our Content including but not limited to the following copyrights (“Copyrights”):
    • “Safety Manager Intervention Manual,” U.S. Copyright Registration No. TX0008275213
    • “South Dakota Child Protection Services Edition Comprehensive Safety Intervention (CSI),” U.S. Copyright Registration No. TXu002397214
    • “Action for Child Protection Safety Assessment and Family Evaluation (SAFE) Model Intervention Manual 2023,” U.S. Copyright Registration No. TXu002393715
    • “Safety Assessment and Family Evaluation – Safe@Home: A Community Based Approach to Safety In-Home Safety Management – Intervention Manual,” U.S. Copyright Registration No.  TXu002306198
    • “Safety Assessment and Family Evaluation – A Safety Intervention Model by Action for Child Protection,” U.S. Copyright Registration No. TXu002306286
    • “Intake Assessment Online Course Desk Guide,” U.S. Copyright Registration No. TXu002429081

Except where expressly stated otherwise, all right, title and interest in and to the Website and all Content, source code, processes, designs, technologies, URLs, domain names, marks and logos forming any part of this Website is fully vested in us, our licensors or our suppliers and are protected by applicable Copyrights, Trademarks, patents, trade secrets or other proprietary rights and laws. You agree that our Content is licensed subject to the, including the disclaimers and limitations of liability herein.

Your Use of Our Content

Nothing in your use of the Website or in the ToU grants you any right, title or interest in or to our Content, Trademarks, or Copyrights, except the limited permission to view the Website as set out in the ToU.  You shall not copy, modify, create derivative works, or otherwise use the Content, Copyrights, Trademarks, or any other intellectual property or works belonging to us.  We may terminate your ability to use the Website at any time with or without notice.

You agree not to:

  • deep link, rent, lease, loan, share, sell, resell or exploit for any purpose, assign, sublicense, grant a security interest in or otherwise transfer any right or interest in our Content, Trademarks, or Copyrights;
  • distribute, redistribute, create a derivative work of, decompile, reverse engineer, reverse assemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code, of our Content, Trademarks, or Copyrights, to the maximum extent that such prohibition is permitted by applicable law;
  • copy, reproduce, broadcast, download, store (in any medium), transmit in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording or otherwise, show or play in public, adapt or change in any way, our Content, Trademarks, or Copyrights, or any other part of the Website for any purpose whatsoever in breach of the ToU;
  • use any data mining, robots or similar extraction methods in relation to our Content;
  • remove any proprietary notices or labels on or in our Content, Trademarks, or Copyrights;
  • use artificial intelligence to scrape, copy, reproduce, train models on, or create derivative works from Content;  or
  • allow any other person or entity to engage in any of the foregoing.

The use and reproduction of all Trademarks, both registered and unregistered is strictly prohibited.  Any application in relation to the licensing of our Content should be addressed to us at eboni.washington@actionchildprotection.org.

We have no responsibility for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from downloading any of our Content.

Updated September 29, 2026