terms and conditions
Please read the following terms and conditions carefully before using the site:
Introduction
The terms of use (along with the documents referred to in this document) include the necessary guidelines on how to use and benefit from our site, whether as a visitor or a registered user. The usage guidelines include login procedures, browsing, or registering to use the site.
Please read the terms of use below very carefully before you start using the site, and we recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference if needed.
By using our site, you confirm your acceptance of these terms of use and agree to comply with the provisions contained herein.
If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use the site.
Additional Terms
The terms of use also include the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:
Our privacy policy, which outlines the terms under which we process any personal data we obtain from you, or that you provide to us, and by using our site, you agree to this processing and warrant that all data you provide is accurate and correct.
Modifications to the Terms
We may modify these terms of use at any time by amending this page.
Please review this page from time to time to see any modifications we may have made, as they will be binding on you.
Modifications to the Site
We may update our site from time to time, and we may change the content at any time; however, please note that any content on the site may become outdated at any time, and we are not obligated to update it.
We do not guarantee that the site, or any of its content, will be free from omissions or errors.
Access to the Site
Access to our site is available to the public free of charge.
However, we do not guarantee that our site, or any of its content, will be available at all times without interruption; access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we may suspend, withdraw, discontinue, or change all or any part of our site without notice, and we will not be liable if our site is unavailable at any time or for any period for any reason.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.
You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and comply with them.
Account and Password
If you choose, or are provided with, a user account and password or any other information as part of our registration or security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential and must not disclose it to any third party. When creating your user account, you may be asked to provide additional optional information (such as your address), and by doing so, you acknowledge that all information provided by you is accurate and up to date, and you agree to maintain and update this information to keep it accurate and current.
We have the right to disable any user account or password, whether chosen by you or allocated to you by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
If you know or suspect that someone other than you knows your user account or password, you must notify us immediately via the contact form.
Intellectual Property Rights
As the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site and the materials published therein, it is noted that such works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world, and therefore, all these rights are reserved.
Unless expressly stated otherwise, the texts, tests, videos, images, and other educational materials contained in the programs provided on our site are for your personal use only in relation to those programs. Some reference documents and digital study programs, articles, and other information on our site are used with permission from third parties, and the use of this information is subject to certain rules and conditions that will be published with that information, and by using our site, you agree to comply with these rules and conditions in full, and you hereby agree to retain all copyright and other notices related to any content you obtain from our site, and all rights in our site and its content, unless expressly granted to you, are reserved.
You may print one copy, and you may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use, and you may draw the attention of others within your organization to content published on our site.
You must not modify the printed copies or any digital copies of materials you have printed or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, images, videos, audio, or any sequence of graphics separately from any accompanying text.
You must always acknowledge our rights (and the rights of any contributors identified) in the content published on our site.
You must not use any part of the content published on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a license to do so from us or from the parties that license us.
If you print, copy, or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately, and we may require you to return or destroy any copies of materials you have obtained in this way.
Reliance on Information
The content on our site is provided for general information purposes only, and it does not constitute professional advice on which you should rely, and you should obtain professional advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the information available on our site.
Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information published on our site, we make no representations, warranties, or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content published on our site is accurate, complete, or up to date.
We do not guarantee that the programs or content published on our site will meet your needs or expectations. We also do not provide any warranty regarding the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or quality of our site or any programs or content, or regarding the continued availability of any specific programs or content.
Limits of Our Liability
The terms of use do not exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation by us, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under the provisions of applicable international laws and regulations.
To the extent permitted by law and regulation, we exclude all terms, warranties, representations, or other provisions that may apply to our site or any of its content, whether express or implied.
We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable and arising under or in connection with the following:
Use, or inability to use our site;
Use or reliance on any content displayed on our site;
If you are a business user, please be particularly aware that we are not responsible for the following matters:
Loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue.
Business interruption.
Loss of anticipated savings.
Loss of business opportunities, or goodwill or reputation.
Any indirect or consequential loss or damage.
And if you are an individual user, please note that we provide our site for home and personal use only, and therefore, you agree not to use our site for any commercial purposes or activities, and we do not accept any liability to you for any loss of profits, or business interruption, or loss of job opportunities.
We do not accept any liability for any loss or damage caused by a virus, or a distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data, or other materials belonging to you as a result of your use of our site or your downloading of any content from our site, or from any other site linked to our site.
We also do not accept any liability for the content of sites linked to our site, and such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us, and therefore, we do not accept any liability for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of those links or sites.
Internet usage rules
You agree to take responsibility for your own use of our site, and for any content you upload, or any communication you establish with other users and for your user posts (including all content submitted, advertised, published, or distributed on our site by you or other users of our site, including, but not limited to, all discussions and questions and comments and video recordings and file uploads), and therefore, you agree when using our site to comply with applicable terms of use at all local, regional, national, and international levels, and other applicable rules and regulations, including copyright laws and any laws related to the transfer of technical data exported from your country of residence.
You hereby undertake to be responsible to us for any use or sharing that does not comply with those standards, and to indemnify us for any breach of this undertaking, and if you are an individual user, this means that you will be responsible for any loss or damage incurred by us as a result of your breach of this undertaking.
Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary information, with your right to retain all ownership rights in your content, but you will be required to grant us and other users of our site a limited license to use, store, copy, distribute, and make available this content to third parties.
We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who claims that any content posted or uploaded by you on our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or their right to privacy.
And we are not responsible, to any third party, for the accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our site.
We will have the right to remove any content you have posted on our site if it appears, in our opinion, that any content you have posted does not comply with these terms of use.
It should be noted that the opinions and views expressed by other users on our site do not necessarily represent our views or values.
Prohibited uses
You may use our site only for lawful purposes, and you may not use our site:
In any way that breaches any applicable local, national, or international law or regulation.
In any unlawful or fraudulent manner, or for any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way
Knowingly sending, receiving, uploading, downloading, using, or reusing any material that does not comply with our content standards as set out below;
Transmitting, or procuring the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
Knowingly transmitting any data, sending or uploading any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any software or computer.
You also agree to:
Refrain from reproducing, duplicating, copying, or reselling any part of our site in contravention of the provisions of these terms of use
Refrain from unauthorized access, interference with, damaging, or disrupting:
Any part of our site.
Any equipment or network on which our site is stored.
Any software used in the provision of our site.
Any equipment, network, or software owned or used by any third party.
You must not use our site in any way that is intended to damage, disable, overburden, or impair any server or network (networks) connected to our server or interfere with any other party's use of our site, and you must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to our site, or to any other accounts, computer systems, or networks connected to our server through hacking, password mining, or any other means. You must not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information stored on our site, or on our servers or computers connected to them, through any means not intentionally made available through our site.
You agree not to delete, or otherwise download in bulk, any content from our site, including, but not limited to, any user list or directory uploaded to the system, prescribed electronic books, and user publications or user information. You also agree not to impersonate or attempt to impersonate your identity while using our site.
Interactive services
We may from time to time provide interactive services on our site, including, but not limited to:
Online programs.
Chat rooms.
Bulletin boards.
Discussion forums.
(collectively referred to as "interactive services").
In the event of providing any interactive service, we will provide you with clear information about the type of service offered, and if it is moderated in any way (whether on a human or technical level), we will do our utmost to assess any potential risks to users (especially children) that they may be exposed to by third parties when using any interactive service on our site, and we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation in providing the relevant services (including any type of moderation methods to be applied) in light of those risks. However, we are not obligated to supervise, monitor, or review any interactive service we provide on our site, and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage resulting from the use of any interactive service by any user in violation of our approved content standards, whether that service is supervised for moderation purposes or otherwise.
The use of any of our interactive services by a minor is subject to parental or guardian consent, and we advise parents who allow their children to use the interactive service that it is important to communicate with their children to ensure their safe use of the internet, as moderation is not guaranteed. Minors using any interactive service should be aware of the potential risks they may face.
When we do take any action to moderate the provision of any interactive service, we will provide you with contact details for the moderation supervisor in case you encounter any difficulties or concerns.
Content standards
These content standards apply to all materials you contribute to our site ("submissions"), and to the interactive services associated with them.
You must adhere to the spirit and letter of the following standards, which apply to every part of any submission and to all submissions in general.
Submissions must:
Be accurate (where they involve giving facts).
Be made honestly and sincerely (where they involve expressing opinions).
Comply with the provisions of the laws and regulations in force in any country from which they are published.
Submissions must not:
Include any defamatory material about any person.
Include any obscene, offensive, or hate-inciting or provocative material.
Include any material related to partisan political activities.
Include any advertisements or any form of commercial solicitation.
Include any explicit sexual material.
Encourage violence.
Encourage discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, or age.
Infringe any copyright, database rights, or trademarks of any other person.
Involve deception of any person.
Involve the breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidentiality.
Encourage any illegal activity.
Involve threats, abuse, or invasion of others' privacy, or cause annoyance, harassment, or unnecessary anxiety.
Involve harassment, confusion, embarrassment, alarm, or annoyance of any other person.
Be used to impersonate any person, or misrepresent their identity or affiliation with any person.
Give the impression that they emanate from us, if that is not the case.
Solicit, encourage, or assist in any unlawful act such as infringement of copyright or misuse of computers.
Comment and termination
We will determine, at our discretion, whether there has been a breach of the terms of use through your use of our site. If a breach of this policy is found, we may take the actions we deem appropriate against you.
Non-compliance with the terms of use may result in us taking all or any of the following actions:
Immediate withdrawal, temporarily or permanently, of your right to use our site.
Immediate removal, temporarily or permanently, of any postings or materials you have uploaded to our site.
Issuing a warning to you.
Taking legal action against you to recover all costs (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach of the terms.
Taking further legal action against you.
Disclosing information to the relevant law enforcement authorities as we see fit.
We are not responsible for actions taken in response to breaches of the terms of use. Please note that the responses outlined in this policy are not limited to those mentioned, and we may take any other action we deem appropriate within reason.
User Posts
User Posts Declarations and Commitments
By submitting or distributing your user posts, you confirm, acknowledge, and undertake:
(1) that you have all necessary rights, licenses, approvals, and/or permissions to reproduce and publish your user posts and that you grant us and our users the right to reproduce, modify, publish, and otherwise use and distribute your user posts in a manner consistent with the licenses you grant us as outlined below.
(2) that your submission of your user posts and the use of the licenses granted as outlined below will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party. Therefore, you are solely responsible for your user posts and the consequences of publishing them.
Disclaimer Regarding User Posts
As you know, when using our site, you will receive user posts from a variety of sources and that we or other users are not responsible for the accuracy, usefulness, reliability, or intellectual property rights related to those posts, and you acknowledge and agree that you may be exposed to user posts that are inaccurate, offensive, defamatory, inappropriate, or unwanted and you agree to waive any legal or equitable rights or remedies against us in this regard, and we do not endorse any materials published by users or any opinions, recommendations, or advice contained in those posts, nor do we have any obligation to monitor any materials published by users or any communications from other users made through our site.
However, we reserve the right to review user posts and exercise our sole discretion to modify or remove, in whole or in part, any user posts at any time and for any reason. Without limiting the foregoing, upon receiving a notice from any user or content owner claiming that a user post does not comply with the terms of use, we may investigate this claim and determine at our sole discretion whether to remove the user post, a right we reserve to exercise at any time without prior notice.
License Granted to Us
Once you submit or distribute your user posts, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right and license to host, transfer, display, perform, reproduce, modify, distribute, redistribute, or otherwise use or exploit your user posts, in whole or in part, in any form and by any means in media and across any media channels (now known or hereafter developed).
License Granted to Other Users
Once you submit or distribute your user posts, you hereby grant every user of our site a non-exclusive license to access and use your posts in their use of our site for their personal purposes.
Certificates
General
We and any third parties provide programs on our site for those wishing to obtain a certificate of achievement, and these certificates will be issued by us under the name “APEXSCI International University” and the decision to grant a certificate to a particular student is at the discretion of the granting authority, and we or any concerned third party may choose not to grant a certificate for certain programs.
Registration and Fee Payment
Subject to the foregoing, you may be required to pay a fee to obtain a certificate of completion for certain programs on our site.
Your payment information is processed by a third-party vendor, and you will be redirected to a secure site to complete the payment process, and the privacy statement posted on the landing page of the site operated by the relevant third-party vendor specifies how your payment details are provided and processed, so please review these terms before proceeding with any such transaction.
Once your payment transactions are completed, you will be redirected to a confirmation page on our site and you will receive a confirmation email that includes your name, order number, and the amount paid, so please keep this message for your records.
Verification of Data Accuracy
In order to verify your email address, as stipulated in the terms of use displayed when you first register at APEXSCI International University, you will be asked to enter a username and an active email address, after which an email will be sent to the entered email address with a verification link, upon clicking this link your email address will be verified immediately.
If you do not have an active email address, unfortunately, we will not be able to provide you with an account.
Viruses
We do not guarantee that our site is secure or free from bugs or viruses.
You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs, and platform to access our site, and you must use your own virus protection software.
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs, or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, and you must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to our site, the server on which our site is stored, or any server, computer, or database connected to our site, and you must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack, and we will report any breach of this provision to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will cooperate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them, and in the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
Linking to Our Site
You may link to the homepage of our site, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
You must not establish such a link in a way that suggests any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part where none exists.
You must not create a link to our site from any site that is not owned by you.
You must not frame our site on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the homepage.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
Please note that the site you are linking from must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in these terms of use.
If you wish to use any content on our site other than as set out above, please contact us.
Links and Resources from Third Parties Available on Our Site
If our site includes links to sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only.
We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.
Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless from any damage we and our affiliates, officers, faculty, students, fellows, board members, agents, and employees may suffer, and against any claims, actions, or demands by any third party arising from or related in any way to your use of our site, including any liability or expenses arising from any and all claims, losses, damages (actual and consequential), judgments, and costs of litigation and attorney's fees of any kind and nature, and in such case, we will provide you with written notice of such claim or action or proceeding.
Applicable Laws and Regulations
These terms of use, their subject matter and formation, are subject to the provisions of applicable international laws and regulations, and we agree with you that international courts will have exclusive jurisdiction in this regard.
Trademarks
APEXSCI International University. It should be noted that all trademarks not owned by us that appear on our site are the property of their respective owners, and you may not use any of these trademarks, or any of their various forms, for promotional purposes, which in any way intentionally or unintentionally implies or suggests, in the sole and absolute opinion of the relevant trademark owner, or implies in appearance or gives the impression of a relationship with or endorsement by these institutions.
Our site does not include anything that should be construed as granting, implicitly, or by judgment or otherwise, any license or right to use any of the trademarks displayed on the site without the written permission of the relevant trademark owner.