Terms of Use1. Copyright Please read these Terms of Use (hereinafter the "Terms") carefully before accessing the www.columbiaacademyus.com website (hereinafter, the "Site"). By using and participating in this Site, you signify that you have read these Terms and agreed to be bound by and comply with them. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms, please exit the Site immediately. Columbia Academy, LLC (hereinafter "we" or "us") reserves the right to change or modify these rules and regulations at its sole discretion at any time without prior notice. In the case of any violation of these rules and regulations, we reserve the right to seek all remedies available by law and in equity for such violations. By continuing to access the Site you signify your agreement to be bound by them. Copyright © 2012 - 2013 Columbia Academy, LLC, www.columbiaacademyus.com. All rights reserved. By your use of or entry into this Site, you acknowledge and agree that the information and entire content of this Site is the intellectual property of Columbia Academy, LLC. Copyright laws and other intellectual property laws of the United States and other countries protect the information presented on this Site. We retain any rights, including any copyright or other intellectual property rights, that we may have in any data, files, or images contained in the Site. The information on this Site may not be copied in any form or by any means, redistributed either in whole or in part, modified, transmitted, reused, reposted, or otherwise used, including text, images, audio, and video files without our express prior written consent. Unauthorized use of any of the information or materials contained on this Site is expressly prohibited by law, and may result in civil and criminal penalties, including fines and imprisonment. It is your responsibility to determine and satisfy copyright or other restrictions when using the information and materials in this Site. The product names used on this Site are for identification purposes only. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. SAT and PSAT are registered trademarks of the College Entrance Examination Board. ACT is a registered trademark of ACT, Inc. The College Entrance Examination Board and ACT, Inc. were not involved in the production of, and do not endorse these programs and/or courses. All of the information, instructions, and recommendations on this Site, as well as all our services are offered and provided on a strictly "as is" or "as available" basis without warranty of any kind, either express or implied. We hereby disclaim all warranties, expressed or implied including, without limitation, those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement or arising from a course of dealing, usage, or trade practice. In no event shall we or any of our directors, managers, officers, employees, agents, contractors, suppliers, agents, affiliates, subsidiaries, successors, assigns or attorneys be liable for any indirect, punitive, special, consequential, or incidental damages, whether foreseeable or unforeseeable, including, without limitation, lost profits or revenues, costs of replacement goods, loss or damage to data arising out of the use or inability to use this Site or any our services, links to other sites, damages resulting from the use of or reliance on the information presented, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages, or other losses of any kind or character, arising out of the use of or inability to use our services. We do not warrant that the Site will operate in an uninterrupted or error-free manner or that the Site is free of viruses or other harmful components. We make no commitment to update the information on this website. Use of information obtained from or through the Site and our services are at your own risk. You agree to indemnify and hold us or any of our directors, managers, officers, employees, agents, contractors, suppliers, affiliates, subsidiaries, successors, assigns or attorneys harmless from any claims, loses, indirect, punitive, special, consequential, or incidental damages, whether foreseeable or unforeseeable, including, without limitation, lost profits or revenues, costs of replacement goods, loss or damage to data arising out of the use or inability to use this Site or any our products or services, links to other sites, damages resulting from use of or reliance on the information presented, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages, or other losses of any kind or character, arising out of the use of or inability to use our products or services. We endeavor to offer you competitive tuition and fess on our educational services. We reserve the right to change tuition and fees for our educational services at any time without prior notice, and do not provide price protection or refunds in the event of a price drop or promotional offering. All prices are in the U.S. Dollars. The tuition balance is due by the beginning of the course/program. If a student has an unpaid tuition balance after the course/program begins his/her place in the class may be forfeited. Students may be required to purchase a textbook or other instructional materials. These fees can be paid when students purchase their books. We accept checks, cash, and money orders. Personal checks are accepted in payment of your balance. All checks and money orders must be in U.S. dollars drawn on a U.S. bank to be accepted. They should be made payable to the Columbia Academy, LLC, and should include the student's name on the front of the check. In the event your personal check is returned to us unpaid by your bank, you will be assessed a $35 service charge. We make every effort to provide our customers with the highest quality educational services that meet individual needs, requirements, and expectations of every student. If a student withdraws in the first half of his/her program, a refund of 25% of the remaining balance will be granted. No refunds will be granted after a student has completed half of his/her program. We may provide links to other websites or resources. Links to external, third-party websites or links to this site by any other sites, do not signify or imply our endorsement of or relationship with, or acceptance of any responsibility for their content or use. We have no control and make no representations as to the content, quality, suitability, functionality or legality of any sites you can access deliberately or inadvertently from the Site and to which we may provide links and we are not responsible for their content or polices. You hereby waive any claim you might have against us with respect to such sites and their operators. While you may order goods and/or services through the links to third-party websites all matters concerning such goods and/or services, including, but not limited to, purchase terms, payment terms, warranties, guarantees, maintenance and delivery, are solely between you and the third-parties with whom you have chosen to do business. We make no warranties or representations whatsoever with regard to any goods and/or services provided by those third-parties. In particular, external sites are not bound by our online privacy policy; they may have their own policies or none at all. The laws of the State of New Jersey shall apply to all Site content and transactions. You are responsible for complying with local laws, should they be different from the laws governing the Site. Your privacy is very important to us. We make every effort to ensure security for visitors of http://www.columbiaacademyus.com. However, since data transmission over the Internet cannot be totally guaranteed to be secure, we cannot ensure the absolute security of the information that you transmit or provide to us. There are four types of information that this site may collect during your visit: network traffic logs, web visit logs, cookies, and information voluntarily provided by you. We may engage third parties to track and analyze non-personally identifiable usage and volume statistical information from visitors to our website to help us administer the site and improve its quality. This site and/or such third parties may use cookies. A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site's computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Browsers are usually set to accept cookies. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you may alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of this site will not function as effectively when viewed by the users. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive or pass on computer viruses. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not intentionally store any personal information that your browser provided to us in your cookies. Logs may be kept of the I.P. (Internet Protocol) addresses, country of the computer visiting the site, the page visited, the type of browser used, the operating system of the computer from which the website was accessed, and the volume and timing of access to our website by collecting information on the date, time and website pages accessed by visitors to the website. As has been noted above, that information may be used for market research purposes only so we can improve the content of our website. We may also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our site. These companies may use information, not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number, about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Google, as a third party vendor, may use cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit(s) to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy which can be found at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html We do not collect and keep any personal information about you, such as individuals’ names, addresses, e-mail addresses or phone numbers when you visit our website unless you affirmatively choose to make such information available to us. When you contact us - either by mail, e-mail, fax, or by phone to request information we may ask you for certain information so we may send you an application or other material to fulfill your specific request. This information may include your name, telephone numbers, mailing address, e-mail address and credit card information. Any personally identifiable information you provide us with will be used only for the purpose indicated. We will not sell, exchange or otherwise distribute your personally identifiable information without your consent, except to the extent required by law. We do not retain the information longer than necessary for normal operations. We may need to share personal information with third parties in limited circumstances. For instance, we may release personal information to third parties for normal business practices such as: to deliver packages (shipping and delivery companies) or to process credit card payments (Credit Card companies). We may also share your name and address to third parties who we use for marketing opportunities on our behalf. This does include using your email address to send out our email newsletters and to respond to emails. Under no circumstances we will sell the information you provided to us to anyone else. You can choose not to receive messages in the future by following the "unsubscribe" instructions located near the bottom of each e-mail or by e-mailing us at info [at] columbiaacademyus.com (where the [at] should be replaced with the @ symbol). We may also disclose your personal information became available to us, as required by federal, state or local law and only in the extent required by federal, state or local law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with federal, state, and local laws. For instance, we may be required to provide personal information in response to a valid court order, subpoena, government investigation, or as otherwise required by law. We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we, in good faith, believe to be unlawful. We also reserve the right to disclose certain personal information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to take precautions against liability; protect Columbia Academy, LLC from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; to assist government enforcement agencies; to protect the security or integrity of the Website; or to protect the rights, property, or our personal safety, our users, students, or others. If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to email us at: info [at] columbiaacademyus.com (where the [at] should be replaced with the @ symbol). We are committed to the preservation of online privacy for all of its Web site visitors, including children. In accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, we will not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 without first obtaining parental consent. Prior to providing any personally identifiable information (child’s name, email address, address, phone number, etc.), children under the age of 13 must obtain parental consent. Please note that we intend the term “parent” to include guardians. Other than personally identifiable information, which is subject to the Privacy Policy of the Site, any material, information, suggestions, ideas, concepts, know-how, techniques, questions, comments or other communications and transmissions relating to your use of this site, other than an actual enrollment into a class or program will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. Such User Communications shall be deemed an assignment thereof to us and we retain the right to use any or all User Communications for any purpose whatsoever, including, without limitation, reproduction, transmission, disclosure, publication, broadcast, development, and/or marketing in any manner whatsoever for any or all commercial or non-commercial purposes. However, we will not use your full name in any promotional material without your consent and permission. We shall have no obligations to use, return, review, or respond to any User Communications. We will have no liability related to the content of any such User Communications, whether or not arising under the laws of copyright, libel, privacy, obscenity, or otherwise. We retain the right to save certain types of communications on file for promotional and marketing purposes, but we are not required to and do not retain every communication we receive. The Site may contain errors and omissions relating to description of the services we offer, tuition and fees, and availability. We reserve the right to correct errors and/or omissions without prior notice. We also reserve the right to cancel any offered services (classes, programs, etc.) in the event of an error or omission in the description, including tuition and fees, unavailability, or other reason. You may use the Site for legal purposes only. The Site may not be framed within another Web site. We reserve the right to change the Terms of Use at any time. Students, their parents and guardians, and other users are encouraged to review the Terms of Use on a periodic basis for modifications. |
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