Research Publications Terms of Use

Limitations to Rights of Use:

The Bersin & Associates Research Publications consist of proprietary research, analysis, information, and references in e-learning and training.  This information is owned by Bersin & Associates and has been obtained through Bersin & Associates patented research methodologies and research database, unless otherwise stated.  Many of these documents are the result of many months or years of work-effort on the part of multiple people.  All documents, presentations, and advice offered through these publications are provided on an as-is basis and subject to change.  All documents, images, photos, slides, or diagrams in these materials are licensed only to the registered user, and except as listed below, not to be reused, duplicated, sold, distributed, copied, edited, or sent to other parties without express written permission from Bersin & Associates. 

Individuals employed by or working for research analyst firms, industry analyst firms, or benchmarking consulting firms are not entitled to read, download, or use any Bersin & Associates information.  Such individuals and their employers are subject to legal action and severe penalties for damages if they are identified as reading, using, or in any way distributing Bersin & Associates information, methodologies, analysis, or research best practices.

Bersin & Associates is not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of these research documents.  Bersin & Associates in no way warrants the accuracy of information in these documents. 

Rights of Distribution:  

All studies and documents purchased or made available through membership are single-copy versions licensed to the purchaser only.  The purchaser is entitled to make one printed copy and one electronic copy for their own use only.  These documents are not licensed for copying or distribution.  The purchaser does not have rights to post documents on any website, email documents to others, extract graphics, or quote excerpts from these documents unless given explicit written permission by Bersin & Associates.  You may not post any documents, tables, images, or extracted segments from any documents on this site on any other external website without express written permission from Bersin & Associates. 

If you would like to make copies of these documents for internal distribution, you can purchase unlimited distribution rights in either of two ways:

• You can purchase unlimited internal distribution rights to a document for 10X the individual study price of the document (up to 15,000 employees in the organization).
  
  
• You can purchase multiple copies of a document at a discount from the list price.
  
  
• You can join the Enterprise Learning Research Center as an annual subscriber, which enables you to buy multiple user subscriptions to access documents by more than one user.

Research Membership:

Research Members have the rights to distribute PDF or printed versions of Bersin & Associates research under the following conditions:

• Research Members can only distribute materials to a limited number of users, based on the level of membership they purchase:  workgroup, divisional, or enterprise.  Please consult your agreement or talk with Bersin & Associates if you do not understand these restrictions.
  
  
• Research Members may not distribute materials to anyone outside of their organization as defined in their research membership.  For example, if you purchase a workgroup or divisional membership, you may distribute materials within that workgroup or division (to the number of users limited above) but you may not distribute materials to other groups in your enterprise.
  
  
• Because of the nature of electronic materials and the ease of distribution of these materials, we expect Research Members to use care in forwarding materials and notify internal readers of these terms.

Copyright:

All information in these publications are original and copyrighted and owned by Bersin & Associates, unless otherwise noted.   Industry statistics may be quoted only if attributed to Bersin & Associates.  Purchaser has a revocable license to these documents.  If the purchaser violates any of the terms of this agreement this license may be revoked and no refunds will be given.

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