Terms of Service
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| 3 | 3 | ## Overview |
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| 5 | This website is operated by Refsnes Data as. Throughout the site, the terms "we", "us" and "our" refer to Refsnes Data as. Refsnes Data as offers this website, including all information, tools and services available from this site to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of all terms, conditions, policies and notices stated here. | |
| 5 | The website and the solutions are operated and managed by separate entities. Refsnes Data offers the website (w3schools.com) including all its content, information, and related tools. The solutions (Such as Spaces, Courses, and My learning) and billing system are operated by W3schools Network. The two entities are separately responsible for the services that they provide, manage and operate. | |
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| 7 | By visiting our site and/ or purchasing something from us, you engage in our "Service" and agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions ("Terms of Service", "Terms"), including those additional terms and conditions and policies referenced herein and/or available by hyperlink. These Terms of Service apply to all users of the site, including without limitation users who are browsers, vendors, customers, merchants, and/ or contributors of content. | |
| 7 | Throughout the site, the terms "we", "us" and "our" refer to Refsnes Data and W3schools Network. | |
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| 9 | Please read these Terms of Service carefully before accessing or using our website. By accessing or using any part of the site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the website or use any services. If these Terms of Service are considered an offer, acceptance is expressly limited to these Terms of Service. | |
| 9 | By visiting our site and/or purchasing something from us, you engage in our "Service" and agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions ("Terms of Service", "Terms"), including those additional terms and conditions and policies referenced herein and/or available by hyperlink. These Terms of Service apply to all users of the site, including without limitation users who are browsers, vendors, customers, merchants, and/or contributors of content. | |
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| 11 | Please read these Terms of Service carefully before accessing or using our website or services. By accessing or using any part of the site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the website or use any services. | |
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| 11 | 13 | Any new features or tools which are added to the current site shall also be subject to the Terms of Service. You can review the most current version of the Terms of Service at any time on this page. We reserve the right to update, change or replace any part of these Terms of Service by posting updates and/or changes to our website. It is your responsibility to check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the website following the posting of any changes constitutes acceptance of those changes. |
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| 15 | 17 | ## Site Usage Terms |
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| 17 | 19 | By agreeing to these Terms of Service, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site. |
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| 19 | You may not use our products for any illegal or unauthorized purpose nor may you, in the use of the Service, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws). | |
| 21 | Access to services may require you to register an account. This could require you to provide information about yourself such as name, email address and credit card details. The account information and the use of data is subject to our Privacy Policy (https://www.w3schools.com/about/about\_privacy.asp) | |
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| 23 | You may not use our products for any illegal or unauthorized purpose nor may you, in the use of the Service, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws). You are responsible for complying with any law, rules, and regulations applicable to you. | |
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| 21 | 25 | You must not transmit any worms or viruses or any code of a destructive nature. |
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| 23 | A breach or violation of any of the Terms will result in an immediate termination of your Services. | |
| 27 | A breach or violation of any of our Terms can result in an immediate termination of your Services. We reserve the right to remove or restrict your account and to remove content such as websites and other user-created data at any time at our sole and absolute discretion. | |
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| 27 | 31 | ## General Conditions |
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| 29 | 33 | We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time. |
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| 31 | You understand that your content (not including credit card information), may be transferred unencrypted and involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices. Credit card information is always encrypted during transfer over networks. | |
| 35 | You understand that your content may be transferred unencrypted and involve (a) transmissions over various networks, and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices. | |
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| 37 | Credit card information is always encrypted during transfer over networks, and are processed and handled by our selected Payment Service Providers. We only preserve the last four-digit and expiry date of your Credit card. This is, among other things, to let you know in advance if your Credit card is soon to expire, so that we can assure the continuous running of your Services with us. | |
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| 33 | 39 | You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service or any contact on the website through which the service is provided, without express written permission by us. |
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| 35 | 41 | The headings used in this agreement are included for convenience only and will not limit or otherwise affect these Terms. |
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| 39 | 45 | ## Fair Use |
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| 41 | Fair use defines Refsnes Data as' exceptions to the rights protected by copyright laws. | |
| 47 | Fair use defines our exceptions to the rights protected by copyright laws. | |
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| 43 | 49 | Fair use of W3Schools includes using copyrighted material: |
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| 45 | 51 | - In research |
| 46 | 52 | - In news reporting |
| 47 | 53 | - In citations |
| 71 | 77 | - Copying large quantities. |
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| 75 | 81 | ## Accuracy, Completeness and Timeliness of Information |
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| 77 | We are not responsible if information made available on this site is not accurate, complete or current. | |
| 83 | We are not responsible if information made available on our sites is incomplete or invalid. | |
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| 79 | 85 | The material on this site is provided for general information only and should not be relied upon or used as the sole basis for making decisions without consulting primary, more accurate, more complete or more timely sources of information. Any reliance on the material on this site is at your own risk. |
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| 81 | 87 | This site may contain certain historical information. Historical information, necessarily, is not current and is provided for your reference only. We reserve the right to modify the contents of this site at any time, but we have no obligation to update any information on our site. You agree that it is your responsibility to monitor changes to our site. |
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| 83 | 89 | If you discover that the site or its contents contains errors, please contact us so these can be corrected. |
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| 85 | 91 | Contact address: |
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| 87 | 92 | help@w3schools.com |
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| 91 | 96 | ## Modifications to the Service and Prices |
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| 93 | Prices for our products are subject to change without notice. | |
| 98 | By agreeing to a subscription price, you will remain on that price for the duration of the payment term. Prices are subject to change at the end of your next payment term, and we will do our best to clearly inform you about any price change in advance of your next billing period. | |
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| 95 | We reserve the right at any time to modify or discontinue the Service (or any part or content thereof) without notice at any time. | |
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| 97 | 100 | We shall not be liable to you or to any third-party for any modification, price change, suspension or discontinuance of the Service. |
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| 101 | 104 | ## Products or Services |
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| 103 | 106 | Certain products or services may be available exclusively online through the website. |
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| 105 | We have made every effort to display as accurately as possible the colors and images of our products that appear at the store. We cannot guarantee that your computer monitor's display of any color will be accurate. | |
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| 107 | 108 | We reserve the right, but are not obligated, to limit the sales of our products or Services to any person, geographic region or jurisdiction. We may exercise this right on a case-by-case basis. |
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| 109 | We reserve the right to limit the quantities of any products or services that we offer. All descriptions of products or product pricing are subject to change at anytime without notice, at the sole discretion of us. | |
| 110 | We reserve the right to limit the quantities of any products or services that we offer. All descriptions of products or product pricing are subject to change at any time without notice, at the sole discretion of us. | |
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| 111 | 112 | We reserve the right to discontinue any product at any time. Any offer for any product or service made on this site is void where prohibited. |
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| 113 | 114 | We do not warrant that the quality of any products, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained by you will meet your expectations, or that any errors in the Service will be corrected. |
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| 145 | 146 | We are not liable for any harm or damages related to the purchase or use of goods, services, resources, content, or any other transactions made in connection with any third-party websites. Please review carefully the third-party's policies and practices and make sure you understand them before you engage in any transaction. Complaints, claims, concerns, or questions regarding third-party products should be directed to the third-party. |
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| 149 | 150 | ## User Comments, Feedback, and Other Submissions |
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| 152 | You are the owner of the content that you create with our services. The content is managed by you and you are responsible for its compliance. This includes copyright responsibility; you must agree that you only will create content that you own and/or have the right to use. We keep the right to change or delete user content at any time. | |
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| 151 | 154 | If, at our request, you send certain specific submissions (for example contest entries) or without a request from us you send creative ideas, suggestions, proposals, plans, or other materials, whether online, by email, by postal mail, or otherwise (collectively, 'comments'), you agree that we may, at any time, without restriction, edit, copy, publish, distribute, translate and otherwise use in any medium any comments that you forward to us. |
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| 153 | We are and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any comments in confidence; (2) to pay compensation for any comments; or (3) to respond to any comments. | |
| 156 | We are and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any user content in confidence; (2) to pay compensation for any user content; or (3) to respond to any comments. | |
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| 155 | 158 | We may, but have no obligation to, monitor, edit or remove content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party's intellectual property or these Terms of Service. |
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| 157 | You agree that your comments will not violate any right of any third-party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, personality or other personal or proprietary right. You further agree that your comments will not contain libelous or otherwise unlawful, abusive or obscene material, or contain any computer virus or other malware that could in any way affect the operation of the Service or any related website. You may not use a false e‑mail address, pretend to be someone other than yourself, or otherwise mislead us or third-parties as to the origin of any comments. You are solely responsible for any comments you make and their accuracy. | |
| 160 | You agree that your user content will not violate any right of any third-party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, personality or other personal or proprietary right. You further agree that your user content will not contain libelous or otherwise unlawful, abusive or obscene material, or contain any computer virus or other malware that could in any way affect the operation of the Service or any related website. This includes any intellectual property, copyrighted material, trademark, patents and privacy rights. | |
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| 162 | You may not use a false e‑mail address, pretend to be someone other than yourself, or otherwise mislead us or third-parties as to the origin of any user content. You are solely responsible for any user content you make and their accuracy. | |
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| 159 | 164 | We take no responsibility and assume no liability for any comments posted by you or any third-party. |
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| 163 | 168 | ## Personal Information |
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| 187 | 192 | ## Disclaimer of Warranties; Limitation of Liability |
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| 189 | 194 | We do not guarantee, represent or warrant that your use of our service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free. |
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| 191 | 196 | We do not warrant that the results that may be obtained from the use of the service will be accurate or reliable. You agree that from time to time we may remove the service for indefinite periods of time or cancel the service at any time, without notice to you. |
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| 198 | You are the creator and owner of your user content and have the sole responsibility for it. You confirm that Refsnes Data is not in any way liable for your user content. | |
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| 193 | 200 | You expressly agree that your use of, or inability to use, the service is at your sole risk. The service and all products and services delivered to you through the service are (except as expressly stated by us) provided 'as is' and 'as available' for your use, without any representation, warranties or conditions of any kind, either express or implied, including all implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, merchantable quality, fitness for a particular purpose, durability, title, and non-infringement. |
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| 195 | 202 | In no case shall Refsnes Data as, our directors, officers, employees, affiliates, agents, contractors, interns, suppliers, service providers or licensors be liable for any injury, loss, claim, or any direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, special, or consequential damages of any kind, including, without limitation lost profits, lost revenue, lost savings, loss of data, replacement costs, or any similar damages, whether based in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability or otherwise, arising from your use of any of the service or any products procured using the service, or for any other claim related in any way to your use of the service or any product, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of the service or any content (or product) posted, transmitted, or otherwise made available via the service, even if advised of their possibility. Because some states or jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or the limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such states or jurisdictions, our liability shall be limited to the maximum extent permitted by law. |
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| 199 | 206 | ## Indemnification |
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| 201 | You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Refsnes Data as and our parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, officers, directors, agents, contractors, licensors, service providers, subcontractors, suppliers, interns and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third-party due to or arising out of your breach of these Terms of Service or the documents they incorporate by reference, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third-party. | |
| 208 | You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Refsnes Data as, owners, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, officers, directors, agents, contractors, licensors, service providers, subcontractors, suppliers, interns and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third-party due to or arising out of your breach of these Terms of Service or the documents they incorporate by reference, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third-party. | |
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| 205 | 212 | ## Entire Agreement |
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| 207 | 214 | The failure of us to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. |