SPEAK UP™ Participant Code of Conduct

The 30-Day Presentation Transformation

This Participant Code of Conduct ("Code") is incorporated by reference into the Course Services Agreement between you and DigitalThink Educar LLC, doing business as DigitalEducar ("DigitalEducar," "we," "us," "our"). It governs your conduct during all interactions related to the SPEAK UP™ Course, including Live Sessions, the Skool community, instructor messaging, group chat, and any cohort spaces.

By enrolling in the Course, you agree to follow this Code. Material violations are grounds for termination from the Course for cause, without refund, in addition to the remedies in the Course Services Agreement.

1. Why This Code Exists

Public speaking learning requires vulnerability. Participants will share fears, workplace examples, drafts, and on-camera attempts that may be early, rough, or personal. This Code exists so that:

Every participant can show up safely and learn
The instructor can teach effectively without managing disruption
The Cohort feels like a place where it's safe to try, fail, and improve

Read it once before the Course starts. Refer back if anything is unclear.

2. Treat Other Participants With Respect

You will:

Be respectful in all interactions. No mockery, sarcasm at others' expense, or belittling comments about another participant's speech, voice, accent, appearance, profession, or content.
Give peer feedback only when invited. The instructor decides when and how peer feedback happens. Unsolicited critique of another participant's work is not allowed.
Disagree without attacking. You may disagree with ideas, examples, or feedback. Personal attacks, name-calling, or hostile language toward other participants or the instructor is not allowed.
Avoid harassing behavior. This includes repeated unwelcome contact, sexual language or innuendo, threats, slurs, and any conduct that targets a person based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or national origin.

3. Confidentiality of the Cohort

What participants share in the Cohort stays in the Cohort. You will:

Not record Live Sessions (audio, video, screen capture, or transcript) under any circumstances.
Not screenshot or save another participant's speech draft, recording, message, or community post.
Not transcribe, repeat, share, summarize, or distribute outside the Cohort anything another participant says or submits, without that participant's explicit written consent.
Not identify other participants by name in social media, blog posts, articles, or other public content related to the Course.

This obligation continues after the Cohort ends.

What we can and cannot guarantee

DigitalEducar does not record Live Sessions and the instructor will not record or distribute them. However, DigitalEducar cannot fully prevent or guarantee what every participant does. Despite this Code, a bad actor may attempt to record, screenshot, or share content in violation of this Code. We will enforce this Code by removing violators we identify, but we cannot guarantee the conduct of every individual.

You should share in Live Sessions and submissions only what you are comfortable having others potentially see, hear, or repeat. This is not legal advice — it is honest practical guidance for a real risk.

Be careful with workplace and confidential information

Most participants are working professionals, and the natural instinct is to use real workplace examples for your speeches. Be careful with this.

You are responsible for whatever you share. Before using a real example, consider:

Are you under an NDA, employment agreement, or other confidentiality obligation? Sharing your employer's confidential or proprietary information — even for the purpose of practicing a speech — may violate it.
Is the information legally protected? Patient health information (HIPAA), client information protected by attorney-client privilege, non-public financial or securities information, classified information, or student records (FERPA) should not be shared in the Course.
Are you naming real clients, colleagues, patients, customers, or students? If so, anonymize them. "A senior client at a Fortune 500 company" works just as well as a real name for practicing your speech.

When in doubt, leave it out. Anonymize names, generalize details, or use hypothetical examples. The instructor can give you excellent feedback without knowing the actual company, client, or person involved.

DigitalEducar does not review or screen what participants share and is not responsible for confidential or sensitive information you choose to disclose. This is governed by Article 6.4 of the Course Services Agreement.

4. Use Your Real Identity

You will:

Use your real name and accurate professional context
Not impersonate another person, fictional character, or entity
Not create multiple accounts to evade removal or restrictions

5. Enroll in Good Faith

You agree that you are enrolling for genuine personal learning. Enrollment is not appropriate if your purpose is to develop or support a competing course or service, to disrupt the Course or harass other participants, or to gather information about the Course for an undisclosed third party.

If you are professionally involved in speaking training, coaching, communications consulting, or a related field — or if you have any other potential conflict of interest — please disclose this before enrolling by emailing support@digitalthinkeducar.com. Most situations can be accommodated through honest disclosure.

You will use your real name, your own email address, your own billing information, and accurate professional context. You will not impersonate another person or create multiple accounts to evade removal.

Use of "SPEAK UP™" and DigitalEducar branding. SPEAK UP™ is a trademark of DigitalThink Educar LLC. You may truthfully describe your own participation (for example, "I completed SPEAK UP™"), but you may not use the SPEAK UP™ name, logo, or related branding in your own course names, business names, domain names, social media handles, marketing, or product names without prior written permission. See Article 4.6 of the Course Services Agreement for full details.

If we determine, based on a reasonable belief, that you have enrolled or are participating in bad faith, we may remove you from the Course immediately without refund, in accordance with Article 4.3 of the Course Services Agreement.

6. Do Not Use the Cohort to Sell, Recruit, or Promote

You will not:

Sell or promote your own products, services, or business to other participants
Recruit other participants as clients, prospects, employees, or for other ventures
Distribute marketing materials, links, or promotional content to other participants
Use participant contact information (names, profile data, comments) for any purpose outside the Course

Genuinely sharing your professional context in the course of learning is fine. Pitching is not.

7. Use AI Tools Responsibly

The Course is about developing your authentic speaking ability.

You may use AI tools to brainstorm, draft, edit, or refine your speech
You may not submit AI-generated speeches as your authentic delivery; the goal is your voice, not a generated one
If you use AI in drafting, you remain responsible for the accuracy, originality, and appropriateness of what you submit

8. Lawful and Safe Use

You will not:

Use the Course for any unlawful purpose
Upload viruses, malware, or harmful code
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to DigitalEducar systems, the instructor's accounts, other participants' accounts, or any Third-Party Platform used to deliver the Course
Scrape, extract, or systematically download Course content
Share your login credentials or grant access to anyone else

9. Behavior on Third-Party Platforms

The Course is delivered through Third-Party Platforms (Skool, video conferencing, etc.). Each has its own terms of service and acceptable use policy.

You agree to follow each platform's rules in addition to this Code
Violating a platform's rules in a Course-related space is also a violation of this Code
Behavior on those platforms outside the Course is between you and the platform; serious misconduct that affects the Cohort may still be grounds for removal

10. After the Course

After the Cohort ends, you will:

Continue to honor confidentiality of what other participants shared (Section 3)
Not contact other participants for non-Course purposes without their consent
Not engage in retaliatory or harassing conduct toward DigitalEducar, the instructor, or other participants
Not make knowingly false factual statements about DigitalEducar, the instructor, or other participants

Honest reviews, opinions, and feedback are welcome and protected. False factual claims are not.

11. Reporting Violations

If you witness or experience a violation of this Code, contact us promptly:

Email: support@digitalthinkeducar.com
Subject line: "Code of Conduct Report"
Include: what happened, when, and any participants involved

We will review reports and respond reasonably. We may not share details of our response with you, but we take reports seriously.

12. Consequences of Violation

Depending on the severity, a violation of this Code may result in:

A private warning from the instructor
Restriction from specific Course features (chat, Live Sessions)
Removal from the Cohort, with no refund, under Article 16 of the Course Services Agreement
Pursuit of remedies under the Course Services Agreement, including indemnification
Reporting to the relevant Third-Party Platform and/or law enforcement, where appropriate

DigitalEducar has sole discretion to determine whether a violation has occurred and what response is appropriate.

13. Changes to This Code

We may update this Code from time to time. Material changes will be communicated to enrolled participants through the Course platform or by email. Continued participation after a change indicates acceptance of the updated Code.