Terms of use

Last updated: September 7, 2026

These terms of use are an agreement between you and Team Expansion Evangelistic Ministries Inc, doing business as Team Expansion ("Team Expansion", "we", "us"), about your use of this website: the portal where you apply to serve with Team Expansion and, if you are accepted into a program run through it, take part in that program. By creating an account or using the site you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.

These terms are different from the terms published on our main website at teamexpansion.org, because this site does something different: it collects an application from you, and it may become the place you work from during a program. Where the two differ, these terms govern what you do here.

Who may use this site

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account or apply. You may apply only for yourself: an application must be completed by the person it is about, and the agreements in it must be accepted by that person. Staff may, at your request and with a record of doing so, correct an answer on your behalf; nobody may start or submit an application for someone else.

Your account and signing in

You sign in with your email address and a one-time code we email you. There is no password. That means your email account is the key to your application, so:

keep your email account secure, and tell us straight away if you believe someone else has reached your application;
never forward or share a sign-in code, and never enter a code you did not request;
use an email address that belongs to you and that you will keep. If you need to change it, write to us and staff will change it for you, with a record of the change.

You are responsible for what is done through your account until you tell us it has been compromised. We may sign you out, refuse a sign-in, or suspend an account to protect you or the site.

Your application

Be accurate and complete. Everything you enter must be true and complete to the best of your knowledge, and you must update us if something material changes before a decision is made. Team Expansion relies on what you tell it to make decisions about your safety and the safety of the people you would serve alongside. A false or misleading answer, or an omission, may result in an application being declined, an offer being withdrawn, or participation in a program ending, at whatever stage it is discovered.

Some questions are personal. The application asks about your faith, your history, your health and your family, and for some programs about your finances, criminal history and relationships. You may decline to answer any question or accept any agreement; where an answer or agreement is required for a program, the application will tell you, and the application cannot be submitted without it.

Information about other people. You may enter information about someone else, such as a reference, an emergency contact, your spouse or your children, only if you are entitled to. You confirm that your references and emergency contact know you have named them and are willing to be contacted. Our privacy policy explains how we use their details.

Agreements inside the application. The application asks you to accept specific documents by ticking a box and typing your full legal name: for example a statement of faith, a release for references, a medical and liability waiver, and, where a program requires a background check, an authorization under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Each of those is its own agreement with its own terms. Read each before you accept it. If a document you accept in the application says something different from these terms about the same subject, that document governs for the program it belongs to.

Electronic signatures. Accepting an agreement by ticking the box and typing your name is your electronic signature, and we record the exact text you accepted, your typed name, the time and the internet address you accepted from. Some programs also ask you to sign your completed application electronically through our signature provider. You agree that these electronic signatures and records have the same effect as signatures on paper. If you would rather sign on paper, write to us before you accept, and we will tell you whether that is possible for your program.

No guarantee of acceptance. Submitting an application does not create an offer, an employment relationship, or an entitlement to a place in any program. Team Expansion decides whom to invite at its sole discretion, may decline an application without giving a reason, and may withdraw an invitation if circumstances change. Team Expansion is a religious organization and selects those who serve with it according to its faith and mission.

Withdrawing. You may withdraw an application at any time from your application page or by writing to us. Our privacy policy explains what happens to your information when you do.

Documents you upload

You may upload only documents that you have the right to share and that are what the site asks for: your own transcripts, letters written for you, your own passport, a photograph of yourself. Do not upload anything that contains a virus or other harmful code, anything unlawful, or anything belonging to someone else without their permission. Files are checked for type and size and may be refused.

You keep whatever rights you have in the documents you upload. You give Team Expansion permission to store, copy, view, print and process them for the purposes described in our privacy policy: to evaluate your application, run your program, and keep the records it must keep.

Photographs. Where a program asks for a photograph of you, the upload page tells you, in the same words as the paper form, what it may be used for: for example on our website and on prayer cards, subject to approval. Uploading the photograph is your agreement to that use. If you change your mind, write to us; we will stop new uses and remove the photograph where we reasonably can.

Using the site responsibly

You agree not to:

try to reach anyone else's application, account or information, or any part of the site you have not been given access to, including the staff portal;
probe, scan or test the site for weaknesses, interfere with its operation, or place an unreasonable load on it;
use automated tools to access the site or collect information from it;
impersonate anyone, or misrepresent your connection with any person or organization;
copy, distribute or publish content from the site that is not yours, including program materials, training videos, guidebook pages and, if you are a program participant, the names of the people giving toward your support, which are shown to you so you can thank them and for no other purpose;
use the site for anything unlawful or for any purpose other than applying to and taking part in Team Expansion's programs.

If you discover a security weakness, please tell us at the address below rather than exploring it.

Program participation

If you are accepted into a program run through this site, such as the Pathways internship, the site becomes your program portal: guidebook, forms, checklists, training, schedule, contacts and support-raising progress. Completing those is part of taking part in the program, and the program's own agreements, handbook and staff instructions govern the program itself. These terms govern only your use of the site. Support-raising figures shown on the site are recorded by our finance team and are provided for your information; the finance team's records are authoritative, and an apparent error should be raised with them.

Content and intellectual property

Everything on the site that Team Expansion put there — text, forms, questionnaires, agreements, guidebook pages, training videos, quizzes, graphics, logos and the software itself — belongs to Team Expansion or to those who have licensed it to us, and is protected by copyright and other laws. You may view it and print or save copies for your own use in applying to and taking part in a program. You may not otherwise copy, publish, distribute, modify or make derivative works from it, or use Team Expansion's name or logo, without our written permission.

Communications

Because you use the site, we will email you about your account, application and program: sign-in codes, confirmations, status changes, invitations and reminders. These are part of the service and cannot be switched off while you have an active application or program, though you may withdraw at any time. You agree that we may give you notices about the site and these terms electronically, by email or by posting them here, and that such notices satisfy any requirement that a notice be in writing.

Availability and changes to the site

We work to keep the site available, but we do not promise that it will be available at any particular time or free of faults, and we may change, suspend or withdraw any part of it. Save your work as you go: a draft is saved when you use the save button, and an unsaved page can be lost if your session ends. Where a program has a deadline, the deadline is the program's, and a fault on the site does not by itself extend it — tell us promptly if a fault prevents you from meeting one and we will consider it.

Ending your use

You may stop using the site at any time, and you may withdraw an application or ask us to close your account by writing to us. We may suspend or end your access if you breach these terms, if we reasonably believe your account has been misused, or if the law requires it. Ending your access does not affect a program agreement you have already entered into, and our privacy policy continues to govern the information we hold.

Disclaimers

The site is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, Team Expansion disclaims all warranties about the site, express or implied, including that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure, or that its content is accurate or complete. Nothing on the site is professional advice of any kind. Nothing in these terms limits any right you have under a law that cannot be excluded by agreement.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Team Expansion, its directors, officers, staff, volunteers and agents will not be liable to you for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, opportunity or goodwill, arising out of your use of or inability to use the site, however caused. Our total liability to you for all claims arising out of the site will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars. This section does not limit liability that the law does not allow to be limited, and it does not apply to any program agreement, which has its own terms.

Your responsibility to us

You agree to compensate Team Expansion for losses, costs and reasonable legal fees that arise from your breach of these terms, from information you provided that was false, or from your unlawful use of the site.

Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the federal laws of the United States, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute about the site or these terms that cannot be resolved by talking to us will be brought in the state or federal courts sitting in Jefferson County, Kentucky, and you agree to their jurisdiction. Please write to us first: most concerns can be resolved directly.

General

These terms, together with our privacy policy and the agreements you accept inside the application, are the whole agreement between you and Team Expansion about your use of the site. If a court finds any part of them unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. Our not enforcing a provision on one occasion does not waive it. You may not transfer your rights under these terms to anyone else; we may transfer ours to a successor organization. These terms are written in English, and the English text governs.

Changes to these terms

We may change these terms as the site changes. The date at the top tells you when they last changed. If a change is material, we will tell you by email at the address on your account, or by a notice on the site, before it takes effect. Using the site after a change takes effect means you accept the changed terms.

Contact

Team Expansion Evangelistic Ministries Inc, doing business as Team Expansion

Post: 4112 Old Routt Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40299, United States
Email: info@teamexpansion.org