Membership Terms

Membership Terms & Confidentiality

These terms govern membership in the League of Industrial Operators, a professional-development program of Apex 8 Publishing. You accept them when you enroll. They are written to be read, not to be survived.

1. Membership and enrollment

Membership is individual and held in your name. It is open to people working in or around industrial operations — operators, technology companies serving them, and services partners. There is no application. There is one class of membership; every member has the same standing, the same curriculum, and the same certificate track.

Membership is not transferable, and login credentials are not to be shared. If your employer pays your dues, the membership still belongs to you and travels with you when you change employers.

For team enrollments of five or more, the League will issue a single invoice against a written enrollment schedule naming each seat. Seats may be reassigned to a different person once per membership year on notice to the membership office.

2. Dues and billing

Dues are $38 per month, $88 per quarter, or $288 per year, in U.S. dollars.
Promotion codes, where the League offers them, apply on the terms stated with the code and do not change these terms otherwise.
Dues are charged automatically at the start of each billing period and renew until cancelled.
Payment is processed by Stripe. The League does not store your card details.
You may change your billing cadence, update your payment method, or cancel at any time from the membership portal.
Cancelling stops the next renewal. Your membership runs through the end of the period you have already paid for.
Dues already paid are not refunded, except at the League's discretion where a charge was made in error.
The League may change dues for future periods with at least 30 days' notice to members.

3. Good standing

A member is in good standing while dues are current. If a payment fails, the League will attempt to collect it and will contact you. Access to member material, sessions, the roster, and the members-only space may be suspended while dues are unpaid, and restored when they are current again.

4. Programs, materials and pricing

The League publishes working material to members and offers training programs, boot camps, and events. These are two different things and are governed differently.

Member material. While your membership is current, the League grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to access and use the material it publishes to members — for your own professional development and for use inside your own operation.
Included programs. The League designates certain programs and events as included with membership. Which programs carry that designation is set by the League and changes over time. Membership is not a claim on every program the League offers.
Other programs. Training, boot camps, and events not designated as included are offered at their own published price, with preferred member pricing where the League has set one. Many are taught by independent instructors or partner organizations who set their own price, terms, and schedule.
Sponsored and company-paid seats. Where a sponsor or an employer pays for a seat, the payer's agreement governs that seat. A sponsored or company-paid seat does not by itself create an individual membership.

League-published material remains the property of Apex 8 Publishing. You may not republish, resell, or distribute it outside your organisation, present it as your own training product or consulting methodology, or use it as training data for any machine-learning model. Recording, transcribing, or re-broadcasting a live session requires the League's prior written permission. Applying what you have learned in your own work is the point, and is not restricted by this section.

The League does not warrant that any particular program, session, or material will be available on a given date. Access to member material ends when your membership ends.

5. Certificates

Programs that carry a certificate say so, and the certificate is issued on completion of that program's requirements.

The League of Industrial Operators is not an accredited academic institution. Its certificates are not academic degrees, professional licences, or continuing-education units, and the League makes no representation that any employer, regulator, or accrediting body will recognise them.
Certificates you have earned remain yours after your membership ends. Continued access to member material, sessions, the directory, and the members-only space does not.
The League may revoke a certificate if it was obtained by misrepresentation or by work that was not the member's own.
You may state that you hold the certificate and the program it names. You may not describe yourself as accredited, licensed, or certified by any body other than the League.
The League may verify, on request from a third party you have named, whether a certificate it issued is genuine and current.

6. Confidentiality

What is said in a member session stays in the room. This is the League's central expectation of its members, and it is what makes candour possible.

You will not attribute or repeat outside the League anything another member says in a member session, in the members-only space, or in a member-to-member conversation held under the League's name — not to your employer, not to a client, not publicly.
You will not disclose non-public commercial, technical, or operational information a member shares, and you will not use it for competitive advantage against that member.
You may take away what you learn and apply it in your own operations. Ideas travel; identities and specifics do not.
The roster and members' contact details are for member-to-member contact. They are not a prospecting list, and they are not to be exported, resold, or loaded into an outbound campaign.
These obligations survive the end of your membership.
They do not apply to information that is already public, that you already held independently, or that you are legally required to disclose.

7. Conduct

Members treat one another as peers. Selling is welcome at the League when it is honest and invited; it is not welcome disguised as a question. Vendors and services partners participate on the same footing as operators, and are expected to say plainly who they work for.

The League may suspend or end a membership for conduct that breaks these terms or that makes the room unusable for others. Where a membership is ended by the League for reasons other than a breach, unused prepaid dues are refunded pro rata.

8. What the League is not

The League teaches, convenes peers, and circulates working material. Independent instructors and partner organizations are responsible for their own programs; the League is not the employer or agent of an independent instructor. It does not provide legal, financial, engineering, or safety advice, and nothing shared through the League is a substitute for professional judgement or for your own organisation's controls. Members remain responsible for what they do inside their own operations.

Material shared by members in a session remains theirs. Nothing in the curriculum is a substitute for your own testing, validation, and sign-off before an advanced-intelligence system touches production, safety, or quality.

9. Privacy

The League collects the name, email, company, and role you provide at signup, and the billing records Stripe returns. It uses them to run your membership and to communicate with you about the League. It does not sell member data. See the Privacy Notice.

10. Changes

The League may update these terms. Members will be notified of material changes at least 30 days before they take effect, and continued membership after that date constitutes acceptance.

11. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Nevada, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Apex 8 Publishing LLC is organised in Nevada, and any dispute a conversation cannot settle belongs in the state or federal courts sitting in Clark County, Nevada, to whose jurisdiction both sides agree. None of this removes a consumer-protection right your home state gives you that cannot be waived by agreement.

12. Contact

Questions about these terms, your dues, or your standing: membership@leagueofoperators.org.