TERMS AND CONDITIONS SOKONI LINKS E- MARKETING PLATFORM
The word Sokoni is a Swahili word that means “The Market Place”. This directly means an online space where teachers and students meet to share the learning experience through interactive processes.
SOKONI LINKS E-learning platform is an online learning platform run under the domain E-learning Uganda. The platform facilitates learning through direct video and audio tutorial and distribution of teacher’s content to targeted learners across all levels of education in Uganda following the national curriculum standards delivered by trained professional teachers who provide guided learning to students with possibility to assess students upon request.
The aim of this platform is to interlinking students to teachers and course facilitators during these times of COVID-19 when the future of physical classroom remains uncertain.
Users can subscribe and download education content with a click of a button. We offer convenient education services at the comfort of your homes. Joining us allows students to continue learning during and after this lockdown through direct contact with our teachers using online channels. In this era, IT education services are needed more than ever before and those who fail to adapt may end up being left behind and will create a human resource gap in our country. The concept of “STUDY AND GROW FROM HOME”. Has been shaped by COVID-19.
These general terms and conditions shall apply to users of our education platform and shall govern our use of our services.
By using our e-learning platform, you accept these general terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these general terms and conditions or any part of these general terms and conditions, you must not use our E-learning platform. If you use our E-learning platform in the course of your learning or other education programs and projects, then by so doing you:
confirm that you have obtained the necessary authority to agree to these general terms and conditions; bind both yourself and the person, company or other legal entity that requires information from our e-learning platform, to these general terms and conditions; and
agree that "you" in these general terms and conditions shall reference both the individual user and the relevant person, company or legal entity unless the context requires otherwise.
REGISTRATION AND ACCOUNT
(1.) You may not register with our e-learning platform if you are under 3 years of age which is deemed to mean the beginning of the learning process, in these circumstances parents will take the leading role in ensuring registration of their child. by using our e-learning platform or agreeing to these general terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are a parent or at least 18years of age).
(2.) You may register for an account with our e-learning platform by completing and submitting the registration form on our E-learning platform.
(3.) You represent and warrant that all information provided in the registration form is complete and accurate.
(4.) If you register for an account on our e-learning platform with our e-learning platform, you will be asked to provide an email address.
(5.) Notify us in writing immediately (using our contact details provided.
(6.) Be responsible for any activity on our e-learning platform arising out of any failure on part, and that you may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.
(7.) Your account shall be used exclusively by you and you shall not transfer your account to any third party. If you authorize any third party to manage your account on your behalf this shall be at your own risk.
(8.) We may suspend or cancel your account, and/or edit your account details, at any time in our sole discretion and without notice or explanation, providing that if we cancel where you have not breached these general terms and conditions, we will refund you in respect of the same.
(9.) You may cancel your account on our e-learning platform by contacting us as provided.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE
You acknowledge and agree that: the e-learning platform provides an online location learners and teachers to facilitate the learning process; SOKONI LINKS E-learning platform ensure smooth facilitation of the teacher student relationship.
Subject to these general terms and conditions, the learner’s terms of for acquiring the service shall govern the contract for delivery of education services
Making Payments
You must make payments due under these general terms and conditions in accordance with the Payments Information and Guidelines on the e-learning platform.
Rules about your content
In these general terms and conditions, "your content" means: all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our E-learning platform for storage or publication, processing by, or onward transmission.
(1.) All communications on the E-learning platform, including product reviews, feedback and comments.
(2.) Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these general terms and conditions, must be accurate, complete and truthful.
(3.) Your content must be appropriate, civil and tasteful, and accord with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behavior on the internet, and must not be offensive, obscene, indecent, pornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;
(4.) Depict violence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner; or be blasphemous, in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;
(5.) Be deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person; or constitute spam.
(6.) Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, infringe any person's legal rights, or be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law). Your content must not infringe or breach: (7.) any copyright, moral right, database right, trademark right, design right, right in passing off or other intellectual property right;
(7.) Any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation; any contractual obligation owed to any person; or (9.) any court order.
(8.) You must not use our E-learning platform to link to any website or web page consisting of or containing material that would, were it posted on our E-learning platform, breach the provisions of these general terms and conditions.
(9.) You must not submit to our E-learning platform any material that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint. (12.) The review function on the E-learning platform may be used to facilitate education reviews on service. You shall not use the review function or any other form of communication to provide inaccurate, inauthentic or fake reviews.
(10.) You acknowledge that all users of the E-learning platform are solely responsible for interactions with other users and you shall exercise caution and good judgment in your communication with users. You shall not send them personal information including credit card details.
(11.) We may periodically review our content and we reserve the right to remove any content in our discretion for any reason whatsoever.
(12.) If you learn of any unlawful material or activity on our E-learning platform, or any material or activity that breaches these general terms and conditions, you may inform us by contacting us as provided.
OUR RIGHTS TO USE YOUR CONTENT
You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content across our E-learning platform and any existing or future media.
(1.) You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under section 7.1.
(2.) You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed as permitted by the applicable law.
(3.) By applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
(4.) Without prejudice to our other rights under these general terms and conditions, if you breach our rules on content in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached our rules on content, we may delete, un publish or edit any or all of your content.
USE OF WEBSITE AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS
In this section, words “E- learning Platform” and "website” shall be used interchangeably to refer to SOKONI’s websites, all electronic and mobile applications. You may:
(1.) View pages from our website in a web browser;
(2.) Download pages from our website for caching in a web browser;
(3.) Print pages from our website for your own personal and non-commercial use, providing that such printing is not systematic or excessive and is subject to the other provisions of the general terms and conditions.
(4.) Stream audio and video files from our website using the media player on our website subject to the other provisions of these general terms and conditions.;
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(5.) Use our E-learning services by means of a web browser, subject to the other provisions of these general terms and conditions.
(6.) Except as expressly permitted herein or by other provisions of these general terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer.
(7.) You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes in respect of selling or purchasing education material on the E-learning platform.
(8.) Except as expressly permitted by these general terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website.
(9.) Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not: re publish material from our website (including republication on another website);
(10.) Sell, rent or sub-license material from our website; (11). Show any material from our website in public; exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or redistribute material from our website.
(11.) Notwithstanding the aforementioned, you may forward links to products on our website and redistribute our newsletter and promotional materials in print and electronic form to any person.
(12.) We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to areas of our website and/or to functionality upon our website. We may, for example, suspend access to the website during server maintenance or when we update the website. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the website.
You must not:
(1.) use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the website;
(2.) Use our website in any way that is unethical, unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
(3.) Hack or otherwise tamper with our website; probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our website without our permission; (4.)circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our website;
(4.) Use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;
(5.) Impose an unreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity and processing capacity);
(6.) Decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission;
(7.) Conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;
(8.) Access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;
(9.) Use our website except by means of our public interfaces;
(10.) Violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website;
(11.) Use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing); or (13.) do anything that interferes with the normal use of our website.
COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARKS
Subject to the express provisions of these general terms and conditions:
We, together with our license, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved.
SOKONI’s logos and our other registered and unregistered trademarks are trademarks belonging to us; we give no permission for the use of these trademarks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights.
The third party registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks on our website are the property of their respective owners and we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any license to exercise such rights.
DATA PRIVACY
Buyers agree to process of their personal data in accordance with the terms of SOKONI’s Privacy and Cookie Notice.
SOKONI LINKS Ltd shall process all personal data obtained through the E-learning platform and related services in accordance with the terms of our Privacy and Cookie Notice and Privacy Policy.
Sellers shall be directly responsible to buyers for any misuse of their personal data and SOKONI LINKS Ltd shall bear no liability to users in respect of any misuse of their personal data.
DUE DILIGENCE AND AUDIT RIGHTS
We operate an anti-money laundering compliance program and reserve the right to perform due diligence checks on all users of the E-learning platform e.
(1.) You agree to provide to us all such information, documentation and access to your business premises as we may require:
(2.) In order to verify your adherence to, and performance of, your obligations under this Agreement;
(3.) For the purpose of disclosures pursuant to a valid order by a court or other governmental body; or (4.) as otherwise required by law or applicable regulation.
SOKONI’S ROLE AS AN E-LEARNING SPACE:
You acknowledge that:
(1.) We do not confirm the identity of all E-learning platform users, check their credit worthiness or bona fides, or otherwise vet them;
(2.) We do not check, audit or monitor all information contained in listings; we are not party to any contract for the sale or purchase of products advertised on the E-learning platform;
(4.) We do not warrant or represent, the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our E-learning platform; that the material on the E-learning platform is up to date, that the E-learning platform will operate without fault, or any service on the E-learning platform will remain available.
(5.) We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our E-learning platform, and to stop publishing on our E-learning platform, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any E-learning platform services, or if we stop publishing the E-learning Platform.
(6.) We do not guarantee any commercial results concerning the use of the E-learning Platform.
(7.) To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to the provisions under the terms and conditions, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these general terms and conditions, our E-learning platform and the use of our E-learning platform.
LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS OF LIABILITY
Nothing in these general terms and conditions will:
Limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or exclude any liabilities or statutory rights that may not be excluded under applicable law.
The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this section and elsewhere in these general terms and conditions are subject to clause 1. Here under, and govern all liabilities arising under these general terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these general terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these general terms and conditions.
In respect of the services offered to you free of charge we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage of any nature whatsoever.
Our aggregate liability to you in respect of any contract to provide services to you under these general terms and conditions shall not exceed the total amount paid and payable to us under the contract. Each separate transaction on the e-learning platform shall constitute a separate contract for the purpose of this section.
Notwithstanding any provisions aforementioned, we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage of any nature, including in respect of:
(1.) Any losses occasioned by any interruption or dysfunction to the website;
(2.) Any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control;
(3.) Any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill;
(4.) Any loss or corruption of any data, database or software; or
(5.) Any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.
(6.) We accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the E-learning platform or these general terms and conditions (this will not limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).
(7.) Our E-learning platform includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations. We have no control over third party websites and their contents, and we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
INDEMNIFICATION
You hereby indemnify us, and undertake to keep us indemnified, against:
Any and all losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to any third party in settlement of a claim or dispute) incurred or suffered by us and arising directly or indirectly out of your use of our e-learning platform or any breach by you of any provision of these general terms and conditions or the SOKONI codes, policies or guidelines; and
Any VAT liability or other tax liability that we may incur in relation to any sale, supply or purchase made through our e-learning platform, where that liability arises out of your failure to pay, withhold, declare or register to pay any VAT or other tax properly due in any jurisdiction.
BREACHES OF THESE GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
If we permit the registration of an account on our E-learning platform it will remain open indefinitely, subject to these general terms and conditions.
If you breach these general terms and conditions, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these general terms and conditions or any SOKONI codes, policies or guidelines in any way we may:
(1.) Temporarily suspend your access to our E-learning platform;
(2.) Permanently prohibit you from accessing our E-learning platform;
(3.) Block computers using your IP address from accessing our E-learning platform;
(4.) Contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our E-learning platform ;
(5.) Suspend or delete your account on our E-learning platform; and/or (6.) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise.
(6.) Where we suspend, prohibit or block your access to our e-learning platform or a part of our e-learning platform you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).
ENTIRE AGREEMENT
These general terms and conditions and the SOKONI codes, policies and guidelines (and in respect of sellers the seller terms and conditions) shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our E-learning platform and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our E-learning platform.
Hierarchy
Should these general terms and conditions, the seller terms and conditions, and the SOKONI codes, policies and guidelines be in conflict, these terms and conditions, the seller
terms and conditions and the SOKONI codes, policies and guidelines shall prevail in the order here stated.
Variation
We may revise these general terms and conditions, and conditions, and the SOKONI codes, policies and guidelines from time to time.
The revised general terms and conditions shall apply from the date of publication on the E-learning platform.
Severability
If a provision of these general terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.
If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these general terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
Assignment
You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these general terms and conditions.
You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these general terms and conditions.
Third Party Rights
Contract under these general terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.
The exercise of the parties' rights under a contract under these general terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.
Law and Jurisdiction
These general terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the territory.
Any disputes relating to these general terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the territory.
OUR COMPANY DETAILS
The E-learning platform is operated by SOKONI LINKS Ltd and run under the domain E-learning Uganda. We are registered in Uganda and our registered office is P.O Box 955 Mukono Uganda. You can contact us by using our E-learning platform Emails, address and phone numbers below:
P.o. Box 955 Mukono,
Seeta, Namiliyango Rd,
website: sokoni-links.com,
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Blog: www.sokoni-links.com/index.php/blog
Phone: +256772426451, +491788362947, +256787559952, +256772478238,
