PLA eVerification API

Thank you for using PLA’s APIs. By accessing or using our APIs, you are agreeing to the Terms below. Please read all the Terms carefully. If you use the APIs as an interface to, or in conjunction with other PLA services, then the Terms for those other services also apply.

Section 1: Definitions

a. Definitions: The following definitions apply throughout the Terms, excluding documents incorporated by reference:

(i) “Terms” means the terms below and any documents incorporated therein.

(ii) “PLA” means the Indiana Professional Licensing, a governmental agency created under the laws of the State of Indiana, including any usage of as "we", "our", or "us" in the Terms below.

(iii) “You” means the individual accessing the APIs, or any other entities or individuals on whose behalf the APIs are being accessed by that individual.

(iv) “API Client(s)” means your websites and applications.

(v) “APIs” means any Application Programming Interface (API), including any associated software or services, that is created, hosted, maintained, or made available by PLA, including any API, software, or service created, hosted, maintained, or made available by or through another source at PLA’s direction.

(vi) “HIPAA” means the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, as amended.

(vii) "Use" means use, host, store, modify, communicate, and publish.

Section 2: Account and Registration

a. Accepting the Terms. You may not use the APIs and may not accept the Terms if: (a) you are not of legal age to form a binding contract; or (b) you are a person barred from using or receiving the APIs under the applicable laws of the United States or other countries including the country in which you are a resident or from which you use the APIs.

b. Entity Level Acceptance. By accessing the APIs, you represent and warrant that you have authority to bind and are binding to the Terms any entity on whose behalf you are accessing the APIs.

c. Registration. In order to access certain APIs you may be required to provide certain information (such as identification or contact details) as part of the registration process for the APIs, or as part of your continued use of the APIs. Any registration information you give to PLA will always be accurate and up to date and you'll inform us promptly of any updates

Section 3: Using Our APIs

a. Your End Users. You will require your end users to comply with (and not knowingly enable them to violate) applicable law, regulation, and the Terms.

b. Compliance with Law, Third Party Rights, and Other Terms of Service. You will comply with all applicable law, regulation, and third party rights (including without limitation laws regarding the import or export of data or software, privacy, and local laws). You will not use the APIs to encourage or promote illegal activity or violation of third party rights. You will not violate any other terms of service with PLA.

c. Permitted Access. You will only access (or attempt to access) an API by the means described in the documentation of that API. You will not misrepresent or mask either your identity or any other identity when using the APIs.

d. API Limitations. PLA may set and enforce limits on your use of the APIs, in our sole discretion. You agree to, and will not attempt to circumvent, such limitations documented with each API. If you would like to use any API beyond these limits, you must obtain PLA’s express consent.

e. Communications. Any communications between PLA and you regarding or relating to the APIs, may be used by PLA without obligation to you.

f. Data Security. You are obligated to comply with all applicable data security laws, regulations, and standards with respect to data received through the APIs.

Section 4: Your API Clients

a. API Clients and Monitoring. The APIs are designed to help you enhance your websites and applications. YOU AGREE THAT PLA MAY MONITOR USE OF THE APIS TO ENSURE QUALITY, IMPROVE PLA SERVICES, AND VERIFY YOUR COMPLIANCE WITH THE TERMS. This monitoring may include PLA accessing and using your API Client. PLA may use any technical means to overcome such interference. PLA may suspend access to the APIs by you or your API Client without notice if we reasonably believe that you are in violation of the Terms.

b. Security. You will use commercially reasonable efforts to protect user information collected by your API Client, including personal data, from unauthorized access or use and will promptly report to your users any unauthorized access or use of such information to the extent required by applicable law.

c. Ownership. PLA does not acquire ownership in your API Clients, and by using our APIs, you do not acquire ownership of any rights in our APIs or the content that is accessed through our APIs.

Section 5: Prohibitions and Confidentiality

a. API Prohibitions. When using the APIs, you may not:

(i) Sublicense an API for use by a third party. Consequently, you will not create an API Client that functions substantially the same as the APIs and offer it for use by third parties.

(ii) Perform an action with the intent of introducing to PLA any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses, malware, or any items of a destructive nature.

(iii) Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, or threaten others.

(iv) Interfere with or disrupt the APIs or the servers or networks providing the APIs.

(v) Promote or facilitate unlawful or disruptive content.

(vi) Reverse engineer or attempt to extract the source code from any API or any related software, except to the extent that this restriction is expressly prohibited by applicable law.

(vii) Use the APIs for any activities where the use or failure of the APIs could lead to death, personal injury, or environmental damage.

(viii) Remove, obscure, or alter any PLA terms of service or any links to or notices of those terms.

(ix) Unless otherwise specified in writing by PLA, PLA does not intend use of the APIs to create obligations under HIPAA, and makes no representations that the APIs satisfy HIPAA requirements. If you are (or become) a "covered entity" or "business associate" as defined in HIPAA, you will not use the APIs for any purpose or in any manner involving transmitting protected health information to PLA unless you have received prior written consent to such use from PLA.

b. Confidential Matters. Credentials (such as passwords, keys, and client IDs) are intended to be used by you and identify your API Client. You will keep your credentials confidential and make reasonable efforts to prevent and discourage other API Clients from using your credentials. Our communications to you and our APIs may contain PLA confidential information. PLA confidential information includes any materials, communications, and information that are marked confidential or may be considered confidential under Indiana’s confidentiality laws and regulations. If you receive any such information, then you will not disclose it to any third party without PLA’s prior written consent. You may disclose PLA confidential information when compelled to do so by law if you provide us reasonable prior notice.

Section 6: Content

a. Content Accessible Through our APIs. Our APIs may contain some third party content. This content is the sole responsibility of the person that makes it available. We may sometimes review content to determine whether it is illegal or violates our policies or the Terms, and we may remove or refuse to display content. Finally, content accessible through our APIs may be subject to intellectual property rights, and, if so, you may not use it unless you are licensed to do so by the owner of that content or are otherwise permitted by law. Your access to the content provided by the API may be restricted, limited, or filtered in accordance with applicable law, regulation, and policy.

b. Submission of Content. Some of our APIs may allow the submission of content. PLA does not acquire any ownership of any intellectual property rights in the content that you submit to our APIs through your API Client, except as expressly provided in the Terms. For the sole purpose of enabling PLA to provide, secure, and improve the APIs (and the related service(s)) and only in accordance with the applicable PLA privacy policies, you give PLA a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, sublicensable, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to Use content submitted, posted, or displayed to or from the APIs through your API Client. Before you submit content to our APIs through your API Client, you will ensure that you have the necessary rights (including the necessary rights from your end users) to grant the license.

c. Retrieval of Content. When a user's or licensee’s non-public content is obtained through the APIs, you may not expose that content to other users or to third parties without explicit opt-in consent from that user or licensee.

d. Prohibitions on Content. Unless expressly permitted by the content owner or by applicable law, you will not, and will not permit your end users or others acting on your behalf to, do the following with content returned from the APIs:

(i) Scrape, build databases, or otherwise create permanent copies of such content, or keep cached copies longer than permitted by the cache header;

(ii) Copy, translate, modify, create a derivative work of, sell, lease, lend, convey, distribute, publicly display, or sublicense to any third party;

(iii) Misrepresent the source or ownership; or

(iv) Remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices; or falsify or delete any author attributions, legal notices, or other labels of the origin or source of material.

Section 7: Publicity and Privacy

a. Publicity. You will not make any statement regarding your use of an API which suggests partnership with, sponsorship by, or endorsement by PLA without PLA’s prior written approval.

b. Promotional and Marketing Use. In the course of promoting, marketing, or demonstrating the APIs you are using, PLA may produce and distribute incidental depictions, including screenshots, video, or other content from your API Client, and with prior written approval may use your company or product name. You grant us all necessary rights for the above purposes.

c. Privacy Policies. By using our APIs, PLA may use submitted information in accordance with all applicable laws, regulations, standards, and State or PLA policies.

Section 8: Termination

a. Termination. You may stop using our APIs at any time with or without notice. Further, if you want to terminate the Terms, you must provide PLA with prior written notice and upon termination, cease your use of the applicable APIs. PLA reserves the right to terminate the Terms with you or discontinue the APIs or any portion or feature or your access thereto for any reason and at any time without liability or other obligation to you.

b. Your Obligations Post-Termination. Upon any termination of the Terms or discontinuation of your access to an API, you will immediately stop using the API and delete any cached or stored content that was permitted by the cache header under Section 6. PLA may independently communicate with any account owner whose account(s) are associated with your API Client and developer credentials to provide notice of the termination of your right to use an API.

c. Surviving Provisions. When the Terms come to an end, those terms that by their nature are intended to continue indefinitely will continue to apply, including but not limited to: Sections 5b, 6, 8, 9, and 10.

Section 9: Liability for our APIs

a. WARRANTIES. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THE TERMS, NEITHER PLA NOR ITS SUPPLIERS, VENDORS, OR DISTRIBUTORS MAKE ANY SPECIFIC PROMISES ABOUT THE APIS. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON'T MAKE ANY COMMITMENTS ABOUT THE CONTENT ACCESSED THROUGH THE APIS, THE SPECIFIC FUNCTIONS OF THE APIS, OR THEIR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. WE PROVIDE THE APIS "AS IS". EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED FOR IN THE TERMS, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE EXCLUDE ALL WARRANTIES, GUARANTEES, CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, AND UNDERTAKINGS.

b. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. WHEN PERMITTED BY LAW, PLA, AND ITS SUPPLIERS, VENDORS, AND DISTRIBUTORS, WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUES, OR DATA; FINANCIAL LOSSES; OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE TOTAL LIABILITY OF PLA, AND ITS SUPPLIERS, VENDORS, AND DISTRIBUTORS, FOR ANY CLAIM UNDER THE TERMS, INCLUDING FOR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES, IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US TO USE THE APPLICABLE APIS DURING THE SIX MONTHS PRIOR TO THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE LIABILITY. IN ALL CASES, PLA, AND ITS SUPPLIERS, VENDORS, AND DISTRIBUTORS, WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY EXPENSE, LOSS, OR DAMAGE THAT IS NOT REASONABLY FORESEEABLE.

c. Indemnification. Unless prohibited by applicable law, you will defend and indemnify PLA, and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, and users, against all liabilities, damages, losses, costs, fees (including legal fees), and expenses relating to any allegation or third-party legal proceeding to the extent arising from: (1) your misuse or your end user's misuse of the APIs; (2) your violation or your end user's violation of the Terms; or (3) any content or data routed into or used with the APIs by you, those acting on your behalf, or your end users.

Section 10: General Provisions

a. Modification. We may modify the Terms or any portion to, for example, reflect changes to the law or changes to our APIs. You should look at the Terms regularly. We'll post notice of modifications to the Terms within the documentation of each applicable API, to the PLA website. Changes will not apply retroactively and will become effective no sooner than 30 days after they are posted. But changes addressing new functions for an API or changes made for legal reasons will be effective immediately. If you do not agree to the modified Terms for an API, you should discontinue your use of that API. Your continued use of the API constitutes your acceptance of the modified Terms.

b. General Legal Terms. We each agree to contract in the English language. If we provide a translation of the Terms, we do so for your convenience only and the English Terms will solely govern our relationship. The Terms do not create any third party beneficiary rights or any agency, partnership, or joint venture. Nothing in the Terms will limit either party's ability to seek injunctive relief. We are not liable for failure or delay in performance to the extent caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control. If you do not comply with the Terms, and PLA does not take action right away, this does not mean that PLA is giving up any rights that it may have (such as taking action in the future). If it turns out that a particular term is not enforceable, this will not affect any other terms. The Terms are the entire agreement between you and PLA relating to its subject and supersede any prior or contemporaneous agreements on that subject.

c. Choice of Law. Except as set forth below: (i) the laws of Indiana will apply to any disputes arising out of or related to the Terms or the APIs and (ii) ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE TERMS OR THE APIS WILL BE LITIGATED EXCLUSIVELY IN THE FEDERAL OR STATE COURTS OF MARION COUNTY, INDIANA, AND YOU AND PLA CONSENT TO PERSONAL JURISDICTION IN THOSE COURTS. If you are accepting the Terms on behalf of a United States federal government entity, then the following applies instead of the above: the laws of the United States of America, excluding its conflict of laws rules, will apply to any disputes arising out of or related to the Terms or the APIs. Solely to the extent permitted by United States Federal law: (i) the laws of the State of Indiana ;and (ii) FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE TERMS OR THE APIS, THE PARTIES CONSENT TO PERSONAL JURISDICTION IN, AND THE EXCLUSIVE VENUE OF, THE COURTS IN MARION COUNTY, INDIANA. If you are accepting the Terms on behalf of a United States city, county, or state government entity, then the following applies instead of the paragraph above: the parties agree to remain silent regarding governing law and venue.