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Institutional Terms of Service

Welcome to Darasani.com, a website and online service owned and operated by AKIBA INVESTMENTS COMPANY. ("Darasani" "we," or "us") and its subsidiary companies established across the Americas, EMEA & APAC regions serving a Global audience in facilitating the delivery of real time information amongst peers, mentors and their protégé.

This page explains the terms by which you may use our service. By accessing or using the Darasani services, website, applications and software provided through or in connection with the service, including through a mobile device ("Service"), you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement"), whether or not you are a registered user of our Service.

We reserve the right to amend this Agreement at any time and without notice. If we do this, we will post the amended Agreement on this page and indicate at the top of the page the date the Agreement was last revised. Your continued use of the Service after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms of Use. If you do not agree to any of these terms or any future Terms of Use, do not use or access (or continue to access) the Service. This Agreement applies to all visitors, users, and others who access the Service ("Users").

Use of Our Service

Darasani provides a platform for institutions to market and publish their courses. The specific features and functionalities available to Institutions are accessible here.

Darasani grants you permission to use the Service as set forth in this Agreement, provided that:

You will not copy, distribute, or disclose any part of the Service in any medium;
You will not alter or modify any part of the Service other than as may be reasonably necessary to use the Service for its intended purpose;
You will otherwise comply with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

You will need to register with Darasani and create an Institution account. Your account gives you access to the services and functionality that we may establish and maintain from time to time and in our sole discretion.

All active institution accounts are vetted prior to activation. When creating your account, you must provide accurate and complete information. You are solely responsible for the activity that occurs on your account, and you must keep your account access secure. You must notify Darasani immediately of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account. Although Darasani will not be liable for your losses caused by any unauthorized use of your account, you shall be liable for the losses of Darasani or others due to such unauthorized use.

You may use your Account Settings to control your Institution Profile. By providing Darasani a primary notification email address you consent to our using the email address to send you service-related notices, including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail. You may use your Notifications Settings to opt out of many Service-related communications. We may also use your email address to send you other messages, including changes to features of the Service and special offers. If you do not want to receive such email messages, you may opt out by changing the preferences in your Notifications Settings. Opting out may prevent you from receiving email messages regarding updates, improvements, or offers.

You agree not to use or launch any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," "offline readers," etc., that accesses the Service in a manner that sends more request messages to the Darasani servers than a human can reasonably produce in the same period of time by using a conventional on-line web browser. You agree neither to collect or harvest any personally identifiable information, including account names, from the Service nor to use the communication systems provided by the Service for any unauthorized commercial solicitation purposes. You agree not to use any portion of the Service as a destination linked from any unsolicited bulk messages or unsolicited commercial messages.

Darasani may permanently or temporarily terminate, suspend, or otherwise refuse to permit your access to the Service without notice and liability, if, in the company’s sole determination, you violate any of the Agreement, including the following prohibited actions:

Attempting to interfere with, compromise the system integrity or security or decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Service;
Taking any action that imposes, or may impose at our sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
Uploading invalid data, viruses, worms, or other software agents through the Service;
Impersonating another institution or otherwise misrepresenting your affiliation with an entity, conducting fraud, hiding or attempting to hide your identity;
Interfering with the proper working of the Service; or, bypassing the measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to the service, including, but not limited to, registering for the Service with an un-official email address. Upon termination for any reason, you continue to be bound by this Agreement.

Darasani reserves the right to offer alternative and/or additional Services to certain administrative users that may not be offered to general Users. You acknowledge that Darasani may charge a fee for the use of any Services, provided that Darasani notifies you of any such fee before you incur it. Subject to the foregoing, you agree to pay any fees incurred by you.

Reporting Procedures

If you learn that a User is not authorized to administer and institution or is otherwise violating this Agreement, we encourage you to notify us immediately via support.darasani.com. You agree you will not accuse any User of being unauthorized or of violating this Agreement unless you have actual knowledge.

Use of Our Service

Users agree to access and use the Service in compliance with the Acceptable Use Policy and other terms and conditions set forth in these Terms.

Darasani will not review, share, distribute, or reference any unauthorized institution owned content except as provided herein or in our Privacy Policy or as may be required by law.

By utilizing the Service, you agree to have your institution listed on the Darasani website in a company directory listing (“Directory”). Customers (as defined below) who do not want to be included in such published Directory may raise a ticket request to support.darasani.com to remove their company, school, or organization name from the Directory.

You agree not to post content that:

May create a risk of harm, loss, physical or mental injury, emotional distress, death, disability, disfigurement, or physical or mental illness to you, to any other person, or to any animal;
May create a risk of any other loss or damage to any person or property;
May constitute or contribute to a crime or tort;
contains any information or content that is unlawful, harmful, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, defamatory, infringing, invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, harassing, humiliating to other people (publicly or otherwise), libelous, threatening, or otherwise objectionable;
contains any information or content that is illegal;
Contains any information or content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships; or
Contains any information or content that you know is not correct and current. You agree that any User Content that you post does not and will not violate third-party rights of any kind, including without limitation any Intellectual Property Rights (as defined below), rights of publicity and privacy. You understand that publishing your content on the service is not a substitute for registering it with any International Copyright Office, the Writer’s Guild of America, or any other rights organization.

For the purposes of this Agreement, “Intellectual Property Rights” means all patent rights, copyright rights, mask work rights, moral rights, rights of publicity, trademark, trade dress and service mark rights, goodwill, trade secret rights and other intellectual property rights as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, and all applications therefore and registrations, renewals and extensions thereof, under the laws of any state, country, territory or other jurisdiction.

Darasani takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content that you or any other users or third parties post or send over the Service. You understand and agree that any loss or damage of any kind that occurs as a result of the use of any content that you send, upload, download, stream, post, transmit, display, or otherwise make available or access through your use of the service, is solely your responsibility. Darasani is not responsible for any public display or misuse of your content. You understand and acknowledge that you may be exposed to content that is inaccurate, offensive, indecent, or objectionable, and you agree that Darasani shall not be liable for any damages you allege to incur as a result of such content.

You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Darasani Users. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Users.

Institution Administration

General

Each institution may have one or more individuals who are responsible for administering their institution account.

From time to time, institution administrators may be asked to verify their institution account by providing valid registration documents for purposes of maintaining platform integrity. If such account is not verified, the account may be de-activated to prevent exploitation of the platform users. In addition accounts which have been flagged for verification but have not been verified will be de-activated after exactly one month.

Users belonging to an Institution should follow their particular company’s policies, guidelines, and procedures concerning the content they post to the service. Institution admins may delete the User Content of one or more Users posted under their institution accounts.

Mobile Use

General

Institutions may opt in to receive regular short message service (“SMS”) alerts of updates on the darasani service through mobile telephone device carriers that may be supported via Darasani SMS. You may receive help for SMS content delivery via SMS contacting Darasani customer service at support.darasani.com.

Opt-in/Opt-out

Institutions may elect to receive SMS alerts of Darasani updates. To opt-in to SMS updates, you will sign up on the web at Darasani.com, register your mobile device, and receive a PIN number to your registered mobile device. After receipt of the PIN, you will then enter the PIN on the Darasani website to receive SMS alerts. When you register to receive the mobile alerts, you warrant that you are the legal owner of the mobile device which you registered to receive mobile alerts messages and that you are authorized to incur any charges that may result from receiving mobile alert messages.
You may discontinue receipt of mobile alert messages by text messaging “STOP” or “QUIT” to Darasani short code. You may also opt-out of SMS alerts at the Darasani website by changing your preferences under your account notification Settings.

Text Message Content and Delivery

Darasani forwards the information that you have requested in the form of text messages. Darasani is not responsible for the contents of any information that is sent to your mobile device, since it is not the originator of this content. Darasani can make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or reliability of the contents and accuracy of that information.

Darasani does not warrant that the text messaging service will be uninterrupted or error free. We shall not be liable for any delay in performing or failure to perform any obligation hereunder by circumstances beyond our reasonable control including (without limitation) any technical problems beyond the control of Darasani such as (for example) defects, congestion or failures of capacity or otherwise in the public data or telephone or mobile carrier Darasa or caused by atmospheric interference, your mobile device being turned off for an extended period of time so that messages are not retained, or your being unable to obtain mobile Darasa coverage.

License Grant

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you are hereby granted a non-exclusive, limited right to use the Service. Darasani reserves all rights not expressly granted herein in the Service and the Darasani Content (as defined below). Darasani may revoke this right at any time for any reason or no reason.

Our Proprietary Rights

Except for your institution owned content, the service and its materials, including, without limitation, software, images, text, graphics, illustrations, logos, patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, photographs, audio, videos and music (the "Darasani Content"), and all Intellectual Property Rights related thereto, are the exclusive property of Darasani and its licensors. Except as explicitly provided herein, nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to create a license in or under any such Intellectual Property Rights, and you agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from any materials or content accessible on the Service. Use of the Darasani Content or materials on the Service for any purpose not expressly permitted by this Agreement is strictly prohibited.

You may choose to or we may invite you to submit comments or ideas about the Service, including without limitation about how to improve the Service or our products (“Ideas”). By submitting any Idea, you agree that your disclosure is gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction and will not place Darasani under any fiduciary or other obligation, that we are free to disclose the Ideas on a non-confidential basis to anyone or otherwise use the Ideas without any additional compensation to you. You acknowledge that, by acceptance of your submission, Darasani does not waive any rights to use similar or related ideas previously known to Darasani, or developed by its employees, or obtained from sources other than you.

Eligibility

This Service is intended solely for training institutions, and any registration, use or access to the service by any other entity is unauthorized, unlicensed, and in violation of this Agreement unless otherwise granted. Darasani may terminate your account, delete any content or information that you have posted on the Service, and/or prohibit you from using or accessing the Service (or any portion, aspect or feature of the Service) for any reason, at any time in its sole discretion, with or without notice, including without limitation if it believes that you are in violation of our policy.

Data Security and Privacy

The Provider agrees to handle and protect user data in accordance with its Privacy Policy. Users acknowledge and agree to the terms of the Privacy Policy.

Security

We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your information and User Content from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your information and User Content for improper purposes. You acknowledge that you provide your information at your own risk.

Additional Representations and Warranties

The Provider warrants that it has the necessary rights and authority to enter into these Terms. You affirm, represent and warrant, in addition to the other representations and warranties in this Agreement, the following:

You represent a legitimately registered institution fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in this Agreement, and to abide by and comply with this Agreement.
You have the written consent of each and every identifiable natural person in your organization to use such person’s name or likeness in the manner contemplated by the Service and this Agreement, and each such person has released you from any liability that may arise in relation to such use.
Your Content and Darasani's use thereof as contemplated by this Agreement and the Service will not infringe any rights of any third party, including but not limited to any Intellectual Property Rights, privacy rights and rights of publicity.

Third-Party Websites, Advertisers or Services

Darasani may contain links to third-party websites, advertisers, or services that are not owned or controlled by Darasani. Darasani has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party websites or services. If you access a third party website from Darasani, you do so at your own risk, and you understand that this Agreement and Darasani’s Privacy Policy do not apply to your use of such sites. You expressly relieve Darasani from any and all liability arising from your use of any third-party website or services or third party owned content. Additionally, your dealings with or participation in promotions of advertisers found on Darasani, including payment and delivery of goods, and any other terms (such as warranties) are solely between you and such advertisers. You agree that Darasani shall not be responsible for any loss or damage of any sort relating to your dealings with such advertisers.

We encourage you to be aware of when you leave the service, and to read the terms and conditions and privacy policy of any third-party website or service that you visit.

Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless DARASANI and its subsidiaries, agents, managers, and other affiliated companies, and their employees, contractors, agents, officers and directors, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees) arising from:

your use of and access to the service, including any data or work transmitted or received by you;
your violation of any term of this Agreement, including without limitation, your breach of any of the representations and warranties above;
your violation of any third-party right, including without limitation any right of privacy, publicity rights or Intellectual Property Rights;
your violation of any law, rule or regulation;
Any claim for damages that arise as a result of any of your User Content or any that are submitted via your account; or
Any other party’s access and use of the Service with your unique username, password or other appropriate security code.

No Warranty

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, DARASANI, ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AND ITS LICENSORS DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE CONTENT IS ACCURATE, RELIABLE OR CORRECT;

THAT THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE AVAILABLE AT ANY PARTICULAR TIME OR LOCATION, UNINTERRUPTED OR SECURE; THAT ANY DEFECTS OR ERRORS WILL BE CORRECTED; OR THAT THE SERVICE IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. ANY CONTENT DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS DOWNLOADED AT YOUR OWN RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM SUCH DOWNLOAD.

DARASANI DOES NOT WARRANT, ENDORSE, GUARANTEE, OR ASSUME RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE ADVERTISED OR OFFERED BY A THIRD PARTY THROUGH THE DARASANI SERVICE OR ANY HYPERLINKED WEBSITE OR SERVICE, OR FEATURED IN ANY BANNER OR OTHER ADVERTISING, AND DARASANI WILL NOT BE A PARTY TO OR IN ANY WAY MONITOR ANY TRANSACTION BETWEEN YOU AND THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES.

Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL DARASANI, ITS AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, THAT RESULT FROM THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THIS SERVICE. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL DARASANI BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE, LOSS OR INJURY RESULTING FROM HACKING, TAMPERING OR OTHER UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS OR USE OF THE SERVICE OR YOUR ACCOUNT OR THE INFORMATION CONTAINED THEREIN.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, DARASANI ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY 
(I) ERRORS, MISTAKES, OR INACCURACIES OF CONTENT; 
(II) PERSONAL INJURY OR PROPERTY DAMAGE, OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF OUR SERVICE; 
(III) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SECURE SERVERS AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN; 
(IV) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM THE SERVICE; 
(V) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR THE LIKE THAT MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH OUR SERVICE BY ANY THIRD PARTY; 
(VI) ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY CONTENT OR FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE INCURRED AS A RESULT OF THE USE OF ANY CONTENT POSTED, EMAILED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE; AND/OR 
(VII) USER CONTENT OR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE, OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY. IN NO EVENT SHALL DARASANI, ITS AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY CLAIMS, PROCEEDINGS, LIABILITIES, OBLIGATIONS, DAMAGES, LOSSES OR COSTS IN AN AMOUNT EXCEEDING THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO DARASANI HEREUNDER.

THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SECTION APPLIES WHETHER THE ALLEGED LIABILITY IS BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER BASIS, EVEN IF DARASANI HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. THE FOREGOING LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW IN THE APPLICABLE JURISDICTION.

Assignment

This Agreement, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by you, but may be assigned by Darasani without restriction.

General

A. Governing Law. You agree that the Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction in which the contract is entered into.
Any disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms shall be resolved through arbitration.
B. Notification Procedures. Darasani may provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by law or are for marketing or other business related purposes, to you via email notice, written or hard copy notice, or through conspicuous posting of such notice on our website, as determined by Darasani in our sole discretion. Darasani reserves the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to our Users, provided that you may opt out of certain means of notification as described in this Agreement.

C. Entire Agreement/Severability. This Agreement, together with any other legal notices and agreements published by Darasani via the Service, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and Darasani concerning the Service. If any provision of this Agreement is deemed invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect.

D. No waiver of any term of this Agreement shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term, and Darasani's failure to assert any right or provision under this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

Please reach us via Support with any questions regarding this Agreement.

Billing Terms

Institutions have access to the features available here. The fees associated with the use of these tools are available as a subscription based on the plan and duration of access.

The billing contact specified during institution account activation will be responsible for payment of any fees due as a result of the institutions utility of Darasani for institutions products. If there is more than one campus, the parent institution's billing contact will be the billing party of record (the "Customer") unless otherwise changed.

The Customer agrees to pay for all products ordered through the Darasani web site using the payment method indicated, and provides Darasani express authorization to charge said fees to the Customer's payment provider at time of purchase. Fees owed depend on the institution's active plan. Any attorney fees, court costs, or other costs incurred in collection of delinquent undisputed amounts shall be the responsibility of and paid for by Customer. If payment is not current, Darasani may immediately cease to provide any and all services to the customer. The recurrent fees paid for usage are non-refundable, regardless of whether the institution account is suspended prior to the end of the then current billing cycle.

For Post pay accounts, charges will automatically renew using the Customer's current billing data unless Customer cancels their subscription three (3) days prior to the renewal date. All cancellation requests will be processed within five (5) business days. Once the cancellation is processed, a confirmation email will be sent via the customer's email account on record with Darasani. If Customer has a question about a cancellation, Customer should contact Darasani via support.darasani.com. The Company reserves the right to change its fees or billing methods at any time. The Company will provide timely notice to the affected Customers of any such changes.

It is the Customer's responsibility to promptly provide the Company with any contact or billing information changes or updates (including phone number, email address, credit card numbers, etc.). Account updates should be made online via the "Account Settings" section within the institution administration portal. Darasani does not validate all credit card information required by the Customer's payment provider to secure payment.

The Customer must notify Darasani about any billing problems or discrepancies within 60 days after charges first appear on their Account statement. If it is not brought to Darasani's attention within 60 days, customer agrees to waive their right to dispute such problems or discrepancies.