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Membership and Limited Use Rights Policy

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Retention of SFSA materials after discontinuing SFSA membership or leaving an SFSA member company prohibited

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 *SFSA member companies with multiple locations may only share SFSA Wiki contents between company locations that are also SFSA members - transfer of materials to non-member plants is prohibited.
 **For example, if a member company has three locations - Plant 1, Plant 2, and Plant 3, and the company's membership includes Plants 1 and 2, but not Plant 3, SFSA Wiki materials may not be shared with Plant 3 by either Plant 1 or 2.
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 ===Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Prohibited===
-Users of the Wiki may not use any contents of the Wiki, including text, graphics, photographs, other documents found on the Wiki, or any other publications of SFSA as input into any Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) system (for example, but not limited to: ChatGPT, Google Bard, etc.) or cause any such AI system to access the Wiki without the express written consent of SFSA.  Further, Wiki or other SFSA login or access credentials may not be shared with any AI system.
+Users of the Wiki may not use any contents of the Wiki, including text, graphics, photographs, other documents found on the Wiki, or any other publications of SFSA as input into any Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) system (for example, but not limited to: ChatGPT, Google Bard, etc.) or cause any such AI system to access the Wiki without the express written consent of SFSA. In addition, Wiki or other SFSA login or access credentials may not be shared with any AI system.
 ===Membership and Limited Use Rights Policy===

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 *SFSA member companies with multiple locations may only share SFSA Wiki contents between company locations that are also SFSA members - transfer of materials to non-member plants is prohibited.
 **For example, if a member company has three locations - Plant 1, Plant 2, and Plant 3, and the company's membership includes Plants 1 and 2, but not Plant 3, SFSA Wiki materials may not be shared with Plant 3 by either Plant 1 or 2.
 ===Membership and Limited Use Rights Policy===

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 Casteel Technology Associates (CTA) may be authorized individual participation but shall abide by not disclosing information.
-====Retention of SFSA materials after leaving an SFSA member company prohibited====
+====Retention of SFSA materials after leaving SFSA membership prohibited====
 Employees who are no longer at the active steel foundry location shall not retain any SFSA material or benefits. A steel foundry location who does not remain active in the Society, shall be permitted to only retain material published during such timeframe that they were a member in good standing. An individual that is granted participation shall not be permitted to retain any SFSA material unless purchased, openly published, or with written permission when participation is withdrawn. Any person with current or past participation, shall report, destroy or return any member benefit that is not compliant with this policy.
 ===Jurisdiction and Legality of Content===
 Laws in your country or jurisdiction may not protect or allow the same kinds of speech or distribution. SFSA and the Wiki do not encourage the violation of any laws, and SFSA is not responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain or use, reproduce, or republish the information contained herein. This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Illinois and the intellectual property laws of the United States of America, without regard to conflict of law principles. No party to this agreement may bring a legal action under agreement more than one year after the cause of action arose. You waive your right to a jury trial in any resulting litigation.

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 Casteel Technology Associates (CTA) may be authorized individual participation but shall abide by not disclosing information.
-====Retention of SFSA materials after discontinuing SFSA membership or leaving an SFSA member company prohibited====
+====Retention of SFSA materials after leaving an SFSA member company prohibited====
 Employees who are no longer at the active steel foundry location shall not retain any SFSA material or benefits. A steel foundry location who does not remain active in the Society, shall be permitted to only retain material published during such timeframe that they were a member in good standing. An individual that is granted participation shall not be permitted to retain any SFSA material unless purchased, openly published, or with written permission when participation is withdrawn. Any person with current or past participation, shall report, destroy or return any member benefit that is not compliant with this policy.
 ===Jurisdiction and Legality of Content===
 Laws in your country or jurisdiction may not protect or allow the same kinds of speech or distribution. SFSA and the Wiki do not encourage the violation of any laws, and SFSA is not responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain or use, reproduce, or republish the information contained herein. This agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Illinois and the intellectual property laws of the United States of America, without regard to conflict of law principles. No party to this agreement may bring a legal action under agreement more than one year after the cause of action arose. You waive your right to a jury trial in any resulting litigation.

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 **For example, if a member company has three locations - Plant 1, Plant 2, and Plant 3, and the company's membership includes Plants 1 and 2, but not Plant 3, SFSA Wiki materials may not be shared with Plant 3 by either Plant 1 or 2.
-===Membership Policy===
+===Membership and Limited Use Rights Policy===
 The Steel Founders&rsquo; Society of America (SFSA) Board of Directors recently formalized its membership participation. SFSA membership is based on dues paid for the steel foundry production by location. Employees of the steel foundry location are considered able to participate in SFSA. All services including publications shall only be available to a current employee of the member steel foundry location. Access to member services such as the SFSA wiki and SFSA publications are considered proprietary and granted to employees at the steel foundry location of a member in good standing, and shall not be further disclosed in any manner without written permission from SFSA unless openly published by the Society.