TERMS AND CONDITIONS

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to OpticianCertification.org, which will be called “OpticianCertification.org”, “We”, “Our”, “Us” as applicable in these Terms and Conditions located at https://opticiancertification.org/ (which will be called “our website”).

Any mention of “you” and “your” refer to any user of our website or related services. These Terms and Conditions govern your use and access of our website and services (which will all be called “Services”). Therefore, to use our Services, you are required to accept these terms and conditions (including, without limitation, OpticianCertification.org’s Privacy Policy). Ensure you carefully go through the Terms and Conditions before using our Services. If you do not agree to any part of the terms and conditions, then you may not access or use our website or Services. By accepting our Terms and Conditions, you will be bound by these Terms and Conditions anytime you visit the website and use all content, services, and products available at or through the website, and you can use our Services in your country of residence

OpticianCertification.org reserves the right to change, update or modify these Terms and Conditions at any time without prior notice. We may update our Services any time based on sole discretion. Every time you use our Services, it is advisable you review these Terms and Conditions in case of any such updates or modifications.

GENERAL CONDITIONS

By agreeing to the terms and conditions presented here, you consent that you are 18 years old or above, which is the legal age to enter into any form of contract.

You agree not to use our Services for any unauthorized or illegal activity or purpose. Also, you agree not to use our Services to violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including without limitation to copyright laws). You agree not to transmit any virus, worm or any code of a detrimental tendency on or through our website.

Any violation or breach of any aspect of the Terms and Conditions will lead to an immediate suspension or termination of your Services.

We retain the right to decline service to any individual for any reason at any time based on our discretion.

You agree not to duplicate, sell, resell, reproduce, copy, exploit or modify any part or use of, or access to the services, or any contact on our website through which our Services are provided, without prior written permission from us.

The headings included in these Terms and Conditions are based on convenience reason only and will not limit or affect any part of these terms and conditions in any way.

USER ELIGIBILITY AND USER ACCOUNT

To be able to access or use our Services, you must be at least 18 years old or be eligible to enter into legally binding contracts. You are required to register as a user to be able to have access and use most parts of our Services. To register you will be required to provide your email address and a password to complete the registration process. The information we get from you will be used to create an individual user account for you. You are required to provide true, accurate and complete information and update such information when necessary to retain its truth, accuracy, and completeness. We do not allow false or misleading information about your location on the website. Conducting such an act may lead to a suspension or termination of your account

We may reject your choice of username and require that you change any username, password or information while doing your account registration. Your username and password are exclusively for your personal use and should not be shared with or sent to another person.

OpticianCertification.org will in no way be accountable for any loss or damage as a result of your failure to preserve your account confidentiality. You’re required to inform us if you observe any breach in your account. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account and make your registration void anytime, for any reason, at our discretion. We also have the right to release your identity (and any information you have provided to us) whenever a complaint or legal action arises from any activity on the website that demands us to do so.

USER OBLIGATIONS

As a User of our Services, you must acknowledge and accept to obey and act in accordance with these Terms and Conditions (including our Privacy Policy). You should be financially capable and responsible for your usage of our Services.

LICENSE AND USER ACCESS

Based on compliance with the terms and conditions, OpticianCertification.org grants you a limited license to access and, if you are a User, to use our Services internally for ordering and receiving the services available and authorized from us. You must not sell, copy, reproduce, distribute, modify, display, publicly perform, prepare derivative works based on, repost or otherwise use any content of our Services in any way for any public or commercial purpose without first getting the written consent of OpticianCertification.org or the rights holder. You are prohibited from using any content of our Services on any other website, online platform or in any networked computer context for any purpose except your own internal viewing. You will not attempt to reverse engineer or attempt to interfere with the operation of any part of our Services unless expressly permitted by law. The website or any portion of it may not be copied, reproduced, duplicated, sold, resold or in any way exploited for any commercial purpose that is not clearly permitted by OpticianCertification.org.

RESERVATION OF RIGHTS; LIMITED LICENSES

OpticianCertification.org and its licensors retain all of its right, title and interest in and to all patent rights, inventions, copyrights, know-how, and trade secrets relating to our Services. The OpticianCertification.org logo and name are trademarks of OpticianCertification.org, and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other product names, company names, marks, logos and symbols on the website may be the trademarks of their respective owners. Except as expressly stated above, nothing in the Terms and Conditions confers any license under any of OpticianCertification.org’s or any third party’s intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, implication or otherwise.

THIRD PARTY ADVERTISERS

The website contains adverts, and third-party advertisers may collect third-party’s data. We accept no responsibility for adverts contained on the website. If you purchase goods and/or services from any third party who advertises on the website, you agree to do so at your own risk. The advertiser is fully responsible for such goods and/or services. OpticianCertification.org has no say with you relations with the advertiser. If you have any queries or complaints regarding this topic you are strictly advised to contact the advertiser to resolves and clarify issues.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITE

In few occasions, we may include links to third party sites and/or services on our website. We are not responsible for the contents and activities of these linked sites because they have their independent privacy policies.

USER COMMENTS, FEEDBACK, AND OTHER SUBMISSIONS

If you send some specific submissions in line with our request; or without our request, if you send creative or innovative ideas, recommendations, plans, proposals, or other materials and contents, whether online, through email, postal mail, or otherwise (collectively, “comments”), you acknowledge and accept that we retain the unlimited right to, at any time, edit, modify, copy, post, publish, distribute, transmit, translate and otherwise use, in any medium or form, any comments that you send to us. We have no obligation and shall not be liable (1) to keep any comments in confidence or privacy; (2) to pay any reparation for any comments; or (3) to reply or react to any comments.

You warrant that your comments shall not be in violation of any right of any third-party, including trademark, copyright, privacy, or other proprietary rights. You also warrant that your comments will not be unlawful, threatening, offensive, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable, or contain any form of computer virus, worm, or other malware that can, in any way, affect or alter the operation of our services or site. You are exclusively liable for any comments you post and their correctness. OpticianCertification.org shall not in any way be held accountable or liable for any comment posted by you or any third-party.

We may, but without any obligation, edit, remove or regulate any comments or contents that we consider to be unlawful, threatening, offensive, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable or in violation of any party’s intellectual property or these terms and conditions.

INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION

Our Privacy Policy governs your submission of individual information on our website.

ERRORS, INCORRECTNESS, AND OMISSIONS

There may be information or content on our website that may contain typographical errors, incorrectness or omissions as regards product pricing, descriptions, promotions, offers, product shipping charges, transit times and availability. We retain the right to rectify any errors, incorrectness or omissions, and to change, modify or update information or terminate orders if any information on the website or on any linked website is incorrect at any period without any prior notice.

We are not obligated to update, amend, correct, or clarify any information on the website or on any linked website, except as mandated by law. No particular update, amendment or refresh date as regards our Services, or on any linked website, should be seen as an indication that all information regarding our Services or on any linked website has been updated or modified.

We provide resources as well as blog posts of our own to aid each User in attaining success, but we don’t guarantee that the success will certainly happen. In such an event, we shall not be held liable.

Also, we might have guest bloggers, and it is possible for information to be outdated or incorrect within posts. Although this is unlikely, it is still probable. Therefore, if any content on our blog, either by a guest blogger or not, disrupts another copyright, we don’t intend that, and such content should be brought to our attention so that we can correct it.

PROHIBITED USES

You are restricted and prohibited from using our Services or its content, material or information: (a) for any unlawful or illegal purpose or activity; (b) to cause or ask other users or any other individual to execute or engage in any unlawful or illegal activities; (c) to engage in violation or breach of  any international, federal, provincial, state or local laws, regulations, rules, ordinances, or decrees; (d) to engage in infringement or violation of our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of other users or linked websites; (e) to abuse, harass, harm, defame, denigrate, threaten, or discriminate based on race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, age, infirmity, or disability; (f) to send us incorrect or misleading information; (g) to upload, send, post or transmit viruses, worms, or any other type of malwares that can, in any way, affect the operation or functionality of the site, our services, or of any linked website; (h) to gather, monitor or track the individual information of others; (i) to spam, pharm, phish, pretext, crawl, spider, or scrape; (j) for any obscene, inappropriate, or immoral purpose or activity; or (k) to hamper with or sidestep the security features of our Services or any linked website.

We retain the right to suspend or stop your use of our Services, or any linked website for the violation or breach of any of the prohibited uses.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

We do not warrant that your access or use of our Services will be non-stop, error-free, suitable, or safe.

You consent that we may remove the services at any time based on our sole discretion for undefined periods of time, or suspend or terminate the services at any time, without any prior notice to you.

You clearly consent that your access or use of, or inability to access or use, our Services is at your sole risk. All services offered to you via our Services are (unless as expressly stated by us) provided ‘as is’ and ‘as available’ for your use, without any warranties, representations, or conditions of any form, including without limitation to all indirect warranties or conditions of merchantability, merchantable quality, durability, qualification for a precise purpose, and non-infringement.

For no reason shall OpticianCertification.org, our directors, officers, employees, affiliates, interns, agents, service providers, contractors, suppliers, or licensors be held responsible for any damage, injury, claim for losses such as lost profits, lost savings, lost revenue, loss of data, replacement costs, or any similar losses, whether based in contract, tort, negligence, liability or otherwise, which may arise from your use of any of aspect of the website, or services, or for any other claim as regards in any way to your access or use of our website or Services, including, but without limitation to, any errors, incorrectness or omissions in any content or information, or any damage or loss of any form sustained from the use of our Services, or any content or material posted, transferred, or otherwise made available through our Services, even if warned of their possibility. Since some states or jurisdictions do not permit the rejection or the limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages or losses, our liability may be limited to the maximum level permitted by law in such states or jurisdictions.

INDEMNIFICATION

You strongly consent to indemnify, hold harmless and defend OpticianCertification.org and our affiliates, directors, officers, employees, interns, agents, contractors, subcontractors, licensors, partners, service providers, suppliers, from any demand or claim, such as rational attorneys’ fees, made by any third-party owing to or arising out of your breach of these Terms and Conditions (including any other policies incorporated by reference), or your breach of any law or the rights of a third-party.

DISSOLUTION

Any obligations and liabilities incurred before the dissolution date of these Terms and Conditions shall supersede the dissolution of this agreement for all purposes.

These Terms and Conditions remain effective and governing until the dissolution by either you or us. You may dissolute these Terms and Conditions at any period by informing us that you no longer wish or want to access or use our Services, or when you stop using any of our Services.

If based on our sole discretion, you fail or refuse, or we notice or suspect that you have failed or refused, to adhere to any of the provisions made in these Terms and Conditions, we also may dissolute this agreement at any period without prior notice and you will remain legally responsible for all amounts due up to and together with the date of dissolution; and/or consequently may deny you access to any aspect of our Services.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT

The failure or inability of us to execute or administer any right or provision of these Terms and Conditions shall not be deemed a waiver of such right or provision.

These Terms and Conditions (including Privacy Policy) posted by us as regards our Services make up the entire agreement and understanding between you and us, and govern your use of our Services, overriding any prior or concurrent agreements, communications, proposals, or decisions, whether oral or written, directly or indirectly, between you and us (including without limitation to any previous versions of the Terms and Services).

If any provision or portion of the Terms and Conditions herein is proven to be unlawful or unenforceable, such provision or condition shall nevertheless be enforceable to the maximum level as permitted by applicable and appropriate law, and the unenforceable provision or condition may be determined void from these Terms and Conditions. However, such determination shall not alter, modify or affect the validity and enforceability of any other remaining provisions or conditions of these Terms and Conditions.

BREACHES OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

If in any way you breach or infringe on any of the rights or provisions stipulated in these Terms and Conditions, or if we sensibly suspect that you have breached or infringed on any of the rights or provisions stipulated in these Terms and Conditions in any way, we reserve the right to enforce certain consequences, which include to

  • grant you one or more formal warnings;
  • temporarily suspend your access to or use of our Services;
  • permanently disallow you from accessing or using our Services;
  • restrict computers using your IP address from accessing our Services;
  • contact any of or all your internet service providers and request they disallow you from accessing or using our Services:
  • initiate legal action against you, whether for breach / infringement of contract or otherwise; and/or
  • suspend or terminate your account on our Services.

If we suspend or terminate your account or access to or use of our Services, or a part of it, you are not to initiate any action to evade such suspension or termination, which include but not limited to creating and/or using a different account.