Owner and legal review required. This policy has been re-pointed from the platform's previous program to the DMV A|E|C regional calendar. Provisions about the platform operator, moderation authority, and governing law must be confirmed by the owner and legal counsel before publication.
1. About the Platform
DMV A|E|C is a regional events calendar for architecture, engineering, construction, and infrastructure professionals. The Platform is owned and operated by Marketus Aurelius, LLC ("Marketus," "we," "us," or "our").
The Platform covers Washington, DC, Maryland, and the extended Northern Virginia corridor. Listings are informational and are published by participating organizations or by the site administrator.
2. Acceptance of These Terms
By accessing or using the Platform, you agree to these Terms of Use, the Privacy & Cookies Notice, and the Organizer Terms & Community Standards. If you do not agree, do not use the Platform.
You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live, and legally able to enter into these Terms.
3. Account and Organization Access
You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you provide and for keeping your credentials secure. Accounts may not be shared or used on behalf of another person without authorization.
Organizations may register for an account. Organization registration is reviewed by the site administrator before the organization can publish events. Approved organizations may manage their own organization profile and create, edit, and publish events for their own organization, subject to ongoing moderation.
4. Event Listings
Listings are provided by the submitting organization or compiled from publicly available sources and reviewed before publication. Event details, schedules, fees, eligibility requirements, and registration availability can change.
Before traveling, registering, or making plans, verify material details with the event organizer or the linked official event page. Marketus does not guarantee that every listing is complete, current, error-free, or available.
5. Organizer Responsibility
Unless Marketus is expressly identified as the organizer, the identified organizer is solely responsible for the event and its operations, including venue arrangements, staffing, permits, licensing, insurance, safety, security, accessibility, registration, ticketing, payments, refunds, cancellations, communications, and compliance with applicable law.
Listing an event does not mean Marketus sponsors, endorses, guarantees, insures, supervises, or assumes responsibility for the event.
6. External Registration and Payments
The Platform links to organizer-controlled or third-party registration pages. Do not submit payment-card, banking, Social Security, government-ID, or other sensitive financial information to the Platform. Any registration, payment, donation, refund, cancellation, contract, or dispute that occurs on an external service is between you and the applicable organizer or third party. Marketus is not responsible for third-party sites, products, services, privacy practices, security, or transactions.
7. Intellectual Property
The Platform technology, including source and object code, configuration, architecture, database and information organization, workflows, interfaces, visual and interaction designs, reusable components, development infrastructure, documentation, analytics and administrative frameworks, improvements, names, marks, and branding, is owned by Marketus and protected by intellectual property laws.
Organizers and users retain ownership of content they lawfully own and submit, subject to the license described below. Other licensors and third parties retain their respective rights in content and marks. Nothing in these Terms claims ownership of public facts, public-event information, or the independent works of others.
Restrictions. Except where applicable law expressly permits or Marketus provides prior written authorization, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, distribute, sell, lease, sublicense, white-label, or commercially exploit the Platform technology; reverse engineer or derive source code from the Platform; circumvent technical protection measures; remove proprietary notices; or extract non-public data through automated scraping.
8. Submitted Content
When you submit event, organization, image, logo, description, or other content, you grant Marketus a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, format, resize, adapt for accessibility or display, distribute, publicly display, link to, archive, and promote that content in connection with the Platform and reasonable promotion of the listed event or organization.
You represent that you own or are authorized to submit the content and that it does not infringe the rights of others.
9. Moderation and Removal
The site administrator may review, edit for formatting or clarity, merge duplicates, request clarification, decline, unpublish, archive, correct, restrict, or remove content or accounts when reasonably necessary to operate the calendar, enforce Platform rules, respond to legal or security concerns, or protect users and the public.
10. Acceptable Use
You may not use the Platform to submit false, misleading, or unlawful content; impersonate another person or organization; infringe intellectual property; distribute malware; attempt to gain unauthorized access; scrape non-public data; or interfere with the Platform's operation.
11. Privacy
The Privacy & Cookies Notice describes how information is collected and used through the Platform.
12. Disclaimers
The Platform is provided "as is" and "as available." Marketus does not warrant or guarantee any event, organizer, venue, external website, registration availability, attendance, safety condition, accommodation, cancellation policy, or outcome.
13. Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, MARKETUS AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, VOLUNTEERS, CONTRACTORS, AND AGENTS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES; LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, GOODWILL, OR OPPORTUNITY; OR DAMAGES ARISING FROM THIRD-PARTY EVENTS, VENUES, ORGANIZERS, LINKS, REGISTRATIONS, PAYMENTS, CANCELLATIONS, TRAVEL, OR USER CONDUCT.
14. Indemnification
If you create an account, submit content, or use the Platform on behalf of an organization, you agree, to the extent permitted by law, to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Marketus and its officers, directors, employees, contractors, volunteers, and agents from third-party claims, damages, losses, liabilities, and reasonable costs arising from your unlawful conduct, violation of these Terms, infringement of another party's rights, or content you submit.
15. Governing Law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Maryland, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Maryland.
16. Changes and Termination
We may update these Terms and will post the revised version on this page. Continued use after an update means you accept the revised Terms. We may suspend or terminate access for violations of these Terms.
17. Contact
For privacy, technical, accessibility, or Platform-related questions, use the Contact page.