Association Guidelines for Vendor Endorsements and
Off-Schedule Vendor Events
Vendors or other organizations involved with NASTD activities shall be specifically instructed not to use the NASTD name or logo without permission of the Executive Board and NASTD staff. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Advertising and promotional items
- Event invitations
- Email addresses from the association’s database
- Event registration
Off-schedule vendor events should not conflict with scheduled NASTD agenda items. Events should finish no later than 30-minutes prior to the first scheduled event agenda item and should be scheduled no earlier than 30-minutes following the last event agenda item.
NASTD Corporate Affiliate Committee leaders (chair, vice chair and secretary) may not coordinate in their CAC leadership roles or leverage their leadership roles to organize, advertise, fund or promote off-schedule vendor events.
NASTD state member representatives and staff may not coordinate or be leveraged to organize, advertise, fund or promote off-schedule vendor events.
Vendors organizing/hosting off-schedule events are advised to add disclaimer language stating that their event is not affiliated with NASTD. The association will assume no liability for these events.
NASTD reserves the right to suspend or revoke the membership privileges of any entity and its agents found to be in violation of the terms and conditions outlined above.