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Terms of Use and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities

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Accepting the Terms of Use and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities

In order to use the services provided by the site, you must first agree to the Terms of Use and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. The failure to accept these guidelines will result in the forfeiture to use the services.

You can accept the Terms of Use and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities by:

Clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, where this option is made available in the user-registration interface or by actually using the services. It is understood and agreed that Edudaris® will treat the use of the services as acceptance of the Terms of Use and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities continuing from that point.

You may not use the site services and may not accept the Terms of Use and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities if you are not at least 13 years of age.

Before you continue, we advise that you print or save a personal copy of the Terms of Use and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities for your records.

The selected users and organizations participating on Edudaris® understand and agree to the general principles outlined in the Privacy Policy, Terms of Use and Statement of Rights & Responsibilities. They also understand and agree that while the aforementioned guidelines are fully applicable, some specific features outlined below are currently being developed and may not be fully functional or available. Nonetheless, both the intrinsic design of the site and maintenance assure that user privacy, safety, and security of personal information is safeguarded and maintained as the highest priority by company staff at all times.

Terms of Use and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities

 

The Terms of Use and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities governs our relationship with all users and other entities who interact with Edudaris®. Through the use or the accessing of Edudaris®, you agree to all stated Terms.

Privacy



Your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal information is of utmost concern to us. We encourage you to read our Privacy Policy, and to use its guidelines to assist you in making wise decisions regarding the use of the site.

Sharing Your Content and Information



You own all of the content and information you post on Edudaris® and you can control how it is shared and with whom it is shared.

In Addition, regarding any content that is covered by intellectual property rights, such as photos, you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your granting to us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Edudaris® ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.

After actively deleting IP content, it will then be deleted in a manner analogous to emptying the recycle bin on a computer interface. You should also understand that any and all removed content might continue to remain in backup copies for a reasonable period of time, but may not be made available to others.

Publishing content or information using the “all” of "everyone" privacy setting signifies that you are possibly allowing everyone on Edudaris®, and perhaps including people not on Edudaris®, to access and use that information, and to associate it with you (i.e., your name and personal profile picture).

We warmly welcome any feedback or suggestions about Edudaris®, but the user understands that we may implement suggestions without any obligation to remit financial compensation or any other type of reward or recognition to you. As we constantly conduct internal studies as to how to best improve the site, some ideas and suggestions may overlap between site users, company officials, and website design staff.

Safety



While we always strive to do our absolute best to keep Edudaris® safe for all users, we cannot fully guarantee it. You use this site at your own risk. We try to keep Edudaris® up 24 hours per day and 7 days per week year-round, bug-free, and safe through the use of the latest technology and the highest quality of staff. We are providing Edudaris® “as is” without any express or implied warranties.

In order to achieve the highest standards of service to you, the user, we ask that you agree to the following commitments:

You will refrain from transmitting or otherwise posting unauthorized commercial communications (i.e., “spam”) on Edudaris®.

You will refrain from the collection of other users' content or information, or otherwise access Edudaris®, using any degree of automated means (i.e., harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our full, express permission.

You will refrain from engaging in any type of unlawful multi-level marketing, or fraudulent act, such as a pyramid scheme, on Edudaris®.

You will refrain from uploading, sending, spreading, or creating viruses or other malicious code.

You will refrain from soliciting login information from other users or accessing an account belonging to someone else.

You will refrain from egregious acts, such as bullying, cyberbullying, intimidating, or otherwise harassing any other user.  It is our duty to report any inappropriate behaviors if they become known.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Together we can make the Internet a safe place for all users. For more information on cyber bullying please visit http://www.cyberbullyinglaws.net.

We want all users to be viewed in a positive light, so that you are eligible for as many opportunities as possible. This includes appropriate photo head shots and language, correct grammar, and spelling.

You will refrain from posting content generally deemed to be: hateful, threatening, or pornographic; inciting of violence; or containing nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence. The same applies to written or otherwise allusions to the aforementioned prohibited items as well.

You will refrain from the development or operation any third-party application containing alcohol-related or other content (including advertisements) deemed “mature” or “adult” without appropriate age-based restrictions.

You will refrain from offering any contest, giveaway, or sweepstakes ("promotion") on Edudaris® without our prior, express, written consent from Edudaris®.

You will refrain from using Edudaris® as a platform or host for anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory.

You will refrain from doing anything that may result in disablement, overburdenment, or impairment of the proper working status of Edudaris®, such as a denial of service attack or any other type of malicious attack.

You will completely refrain from facilitating, aiding or encouraging any such violations and prohibitions outlined in any part of this Statement.

Registration and Account Security

Edudaris® users are asked to provide their legal names and information, and we ask for your assistance in maintaining this standard. Outlined are a list of commitments we kindly ask you to follow related to the registration and maintenance of the security of your personal account:

You will refrain from providing any degree of false or misleading personal information on Edudaris®, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.

You will refrain from setting up more than one personal profile account.

Should we find it necessary to disable and/or deactivate your personal profile account, you will refrain from seeking to create another one without our express granting of permission.

You will refrain from the use your personal profile account for your own commercial gain.

You will not use Edudaris® if you are under 13 years of age.

If you are a minor older than 13 years of age, you will seek parental permission prior to joining or using Edudaris®.

Membership to Edudaris® is not permitted for any convicted sex offender in any state, under any circumstance. You may not join, use, or have any access to Edudaris® if you are a convicted sex offender in any state, under any circumstance.

You will make all efforts to keep your contact information accurate and up-to-date.

You will not share your password or grant any other individual or entity access to your account, or participate in any other activity, online or offline, that might jeopardize the security of your account.

You will in all cases refrain from transferring access to your account to anyone without first securing our written, express permission.

Should you select a username for your account we reserve the full right to remove or reclaim it as we deem it appropriate (such as username which falls under a trademark violation or complaint).

Protecting Other User's Rights



We value the rights of all individual users and user types and expect that you show the highest degree of respect.

You will refrain from posting any content or taking any action on Edudaris® which serves to infringe or violate the rights or privileges of another individual or entity, or which otherwise violates applicable laws.

We reserve the right to remove any content or information you as the user posts on Edudaris® if we have a reason to believe that is violates this Statement either on a legal, moral, or ethical basis, either pertaining to our company or to another individual or entity.

We do not guarantee that Edudaris® will be safe or secure.

Though we take all precautions necessary and follow industry-standard guidelines for both site safety and personal safety, Edudaris® is not responsible for the actions, content, information, or data of third parties, and you release us, our directors, officers, employees, and agents from any claims and damages, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with any claim you have against any such third parties or entities.

We will not be liable to you for any lost profits or otherwise consequential, special, indirect, or incidental damages arising out of or in connection with this Statement, Edudaris®, or Outreach Youth Empowerment, LLC (OYE) even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Our aggregate liability arising out of this statement or Edudaris® will not exceed the greater of five dollars ($5.00) USD.

Archived Courses 

All archived courses will be deleted annually on July 31 of each year. Information and assignments completed will continue to be saved in students' MY FILES.

Right to Change Terms of Use and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities

The fundamental principles of our privacy policy are:
i. Data will be processed fairly and in accordance with all applicable laws.
ii. Data collected is solely for specified and legitimate purposes and will not be further processed in any way that is incompatible with the fully disclosed purposes.
iii. All data collected will be maintained securely, in accordance with industry standards and best practices in order to maintain the security and the protection of data.
iv. Data will never be shared with a third party without the full consent of the owner of the data unless so required in support of the school, or to complete a transaction on behalf of the owner of the data such as a payment transaction, or is required by law, warrant, subpoena or similar legal process.
v. We hold the right to modify the Privacy Policy, when and if deemed necessary. Users will be notified of any changes or modifications to the revised Privacy Policy located on the site. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by publication on this page. Should material changes be made, we will provide you additional, prominent notice as appropriate under the circumstances.
vi. If Edudaris® changes this Privacy Policy, changes will be posted on the website so that you will always know what information is gathered, how that information might be used, and whether we will disclose it to any entity.
vii. By use of the site, you signify your full agreement to the Edudaris® Privacy Policy. Continued use of the site following the posting of any changes to the privacy terms will mean you accept those changes. We reserve the right to modify this policy at any time; please review the Privacy Policy on a frequent basis. Should material changes be made to this policy, we will notify you either by email, by broadcast through our software interfaces, or by means of a notice.

By using the site or any of its services, you fully signify your agreement with the Edudaris® Privacy Policy.

Continued use of the site following the posting of changes to these terms will be interpreted as an acceptance those changes on your part. We reserve the right to modify the Privacy Policy, Terms of Use and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. Therefore, it should be reviewed and printed on a frequent basis. Should we make any material changes to our policies, notification will be sent to you either by email, by broadcast through our software interfaces, or by means of a notice.

Use of the Web Site is not a substitute for applying to colleges and universities

Use of the Web Site is not an application to colleges and universities. The Web Site merely assists Users in evaluating alternative colleges and universities as part of the college application process. Students are encouraged to use Edudaris.com as a guide to assist them in determining which schools they should consider applying to.

Disclaimer

Certain portions of the Edudaris® content may indicate to you your likelihood of winning a scholarship, gaining admission to a particular college or university, and/or gaining another opportunity posted by the offers. Such services are intended to be for directional purposes only and should not be relied upon exclusively in your college, scholarships, and opportunity search process of the offers on Edudaris®. No representation or warranties are given that the user will obtain financial assistance or be admitted to the college/university/school of their choice. Any advice, methods, recommendations, and tools given verbally, through the videos, and assignments on the Path to Scholarships® courses are solely the opinion of the authors and should not be interpreted as exhaustive. 

Our listing of scholarships is not exhaustive. We encourage students to also look for scholarships at their high school, colleges, community, churches, clubs, scholarship books, Internet search engines, and other scholarship websites.  We never promise that a student will win a scholarship, but if they follow the five steps by completing the FREE online Five-Step e-Course they can build a strong foundation to highly increase their chances of winning scholarships.

No Resale or Unauthorized Commercial Use

You agree not to resell or assign your rights or obligations under these Terms of Use. You also agree not to make any unauthorized commercial use of any Edudaris® site.

Site License for Unlimited e-Course

The site license is valid from August 1 through July 31 of each year and may be renewed annually.

Annual Verification

All educators and sponsor users will be verified annually to access and use Edudaris®.

Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Outreach Youth Empowerment, LLC , Edudaris®, and its members, officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any claims, actions or demands, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising from or resulting to your use of any Edudaris® site or your breach of these Terms of Use. Edudaris® and Outreach Youth Empowerment, LLC shall provide notice to you promptly of any such claim, suit, or proceeding and shall assist you, at your expense, in defending any such claim, suit or proceeding.

General Terms of Use 

Outreach Youth Empowerment, LLC and Edudaris® makes no claims that the web site or the web Site content may be lawfully viewed or accessed outside of the United States. If you access the Edudaris® from outside of the United States of America, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction.

These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without respect to its conflict of laws principles. Jurisdiction for any claims arising under these Terms of Use or the use of the web site shall lie exclusively with the state or federal courts within Orlando, Florida and by use of the web site you submit to the jurisdiction of these courts. If any provision of these Terms of Use is found to be invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such invalid provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms of Use, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any compliance with these Terms of Use shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term. Except as expressly provided in additional terms of use for areas of the web site, a particular "Legal Notice," or Software License or material on particular web pages, these Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and Outreach Youth Empowerment, LLC and Edudaris® with respect to the use of web site. These Terms of Use may be amended at any time and from time to time, by a revised posting on this page.

We do not undertake any obligation to otherwise notify you of such amendment.

Additional Disclaimers and Terms of Use 

Certain areas of Edudaris® and the other Edudaris® sites are subject to additional terms of use. By using such areas, or any part thereof, you agree to be bound by the additional terms of use applicable to such areas. Without limiting any of the other disclaimers of warranty set forth in these Terms of Use, Outreach Youth Empowerment, LLC and Edudaris® does not provide or make any representations, warranties or guarantees as to the quality or nature of any of the products or services purchased through the web site or any other Edudaris® site. Any such representation, warranty or guaranty would be furnished solely by the provider of the product or service, under the terms agreed to by the provider.

Questions

Should you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, or Statement of Rights and Responsibilities, please contact us by email at info@edudaris.com or P.O. Box 536 Oakland, FL 34760. We value your questions and concerns and will respond in a timely fashion.