Terms and conditions 

 

 

Welcome to linguist.oxfordcrown.ru the online English practice programme. (“Oxford Crown”)

 

This agreement (the “Agreement”) represents the entire contract between you and Oxford Crown with respect to the above mentioned site(s) (the "Site") and the trial and fee-based subscription services therein.

 

By visiting, becoming a member of, using a trial subscription to, or purchasing a paid subscription to Oxford Crown, you agree, without qualification, to be bound by the terms and conditions (the “Terms”) of use set out below.

 

1. Acceptance of the Terms

2. Changes to these Terms

3. Provision of the Services

4. Your Rights

5. Use of the Service

6. Intellectual Property Rights

7. Access and Interference

8. Privacy and Security Policy

9. Community forums, chats, message boards, pen pals, and email conduct

10. Fees and payments

11. Indemnification

12. Miscellaneous

 

1. ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS

By using the information, tools, features and functionality located on linguist.oxfordcrown.ru (together the "Service" or the "Services"), you agree to be bound by this Agreement and the Terms, whether you are a "Visitor" (which means that you simply browse the Oxford Crown website) or you are a "Member" (which means that you have registered with Oxford Crown, for either a trial subscription or paid subscription). The term "you" or "User" refers to a Visitor or a Member. The term "we" refers to  Oxford Crown Education and Training Network. If you wish to become a Member, communicate with other Members and/or make use of the Service, you must read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance during the registration process.

 

If you do not agree with all the Terms, do not use the Site. 

 

Please review all of the Terms carefully before using the Site. 

 

By using the Site, you agree to be bound by the Terms and confirm that you are either: (i) over the age of 16 and able to form legally binding contracts; or (ii) are otherwise able to form legally binding contracts and that this Agreement shall be considered a legally binding contract (e.g. you have parental consent where required). 

 

Before you continue, you should print or save a copy of this Agreement for your records.

 

2. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS

Oxford Crown has the right to modify this Agreement and any policies affecting or pertaining to the Site. Your continued use of the Site following notice of the Agreement modification will be considered an acceptance of the modifications to this Agreement. Your recourse upon dissatisfaction with the modified terms of use is to cancel your membership or subscription by following the instructions set out above. Furthermore, Oxford Crown reserves the right to modify, suspend or discontinue the Site at any time.

 

3. PROVISION OF THE SERVICES

In providing the Services, we may (subject to the terms of our Privacy Policy)  actively monitor the display, transmission and exchange of material that is accessible by means of the Services, however we have no obligation to do so except as otherwise required by the laws of applicable jurisdictions. We expressly reserve the right to monitor the Services for purposes of determining that their usage is in compliance with these Terms and applicable laws. In addition, and as described elsewhere in these Terms, we maintain an absolute and unconditional right to review and remove material accessible by or transmitted through the Services that, in our sole discretion, we believe is in violation of the law of these Terms or is unacceptable to us in our sole discretion.

 

From time to time and without prior notice to you, we may change, expand and improve the Site and Services. We may also, at any time, cease to continue operating part or all of the Services or selectively disable certain aspects of the Services or portions of the Site. Any modification or elimination of the Services will be done in our sole and absolute discretion and without an ongoing obligation or liability to you, and your use of the Site and Services do not entitle you to the continued provision or availability of the Site and Services.

 

4. YOUR RIGHTS

Oxford Crown offers you a non-transferable, non-exclusive, limited right to access, use and display the content of this Site, provided that you comply with this Agreement and the Terms as set out in full. The materials of this Site are provided to you only for your private, non-commercial use. Certain services of this Site are available only to registered members of Oxford Crown and certain other services of this Site are available only to registered members who have a valid paid subscription. 

 

5. USE OF THE SERVICE

Your right to access and use linguist.oxfordcrown.ru and the Service is personal to you and is not transferable by you to any other person or entity. You are only entitled to access and use Oxford Crown for lawful purposes.

 

You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your Oxford Crown account (the "Account"), username and password. You agree to notify Oxford Crown of any unauthorized use of your Oxford Crown Account. In order for the Service to function effectively, you must also keep your registration information up to date and accurate. If you do not do this, the accuracy and effectiveness of the Service to you will be affected.

 

In our sole and absolute discretion, we may terminate your Account, or modify, reclaim or remove any username associated with your Account, for any reason (including for reasons related to unlawful or unauthorized usage) and we are under no obligation to retain a record of your Account or any data or information that you may have stored by means of the Account and/or the Services.

 

Your access and use of linguist.oxfordcrown.ru may be interrupted from time to time for any of several reasons, including, without limitation, the malfunction of equipment, periodic updating, maintenance or repair of linguist.oxfordcrown.ru or other actions that Oxford Crown, in its sole discretion, may elect to take. Oxford Crown is not responsible for any loss resulting from your using any of Oxford Crown's services, software, materials, audio or video files, content, or communications.

Each student using linguist.oxfordcrown.ru may only study one level of the Oxford Crown program per academic year.

 

6. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

All materials of Oxford Crown, including content, text, images, software, audio and video files, documentation, and the Site remain at all time the sole property of Oxford Crown or its suppliers. Such aforementioned materials are protected under international copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws. You may not post, distribute, sublicense, translate or reproduce in any way any copyrighted materials, trademarks or other proprietary information without the prior express written consent of Oxford Crown.

 

7. ACCESS AND INTERFERENCE

You agree that you will not:

  • Use any robot, spider, scraper, deep link or other similar automated data gathering or extraction tools, program, algorithm or methodology to access, acquire, copy or monitor linguist.oxfordcrown.ru or any portion of linguist.oxfordcrown.ru, without Oxford Crown’s express written consent, which may be withheld in Oxford Crown’s sole discretion;
  • Use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent, or other device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatars or intelligent agents) to navigate or search linguist.oxfordcrown.ru, other than the search engines and search agents available through the Service and other than generally available third-party web browsers (such as Microsoft Explorer);
  • Post or transmit any file which contains viruses, worms, Trojan horses or any other contaminating or destructive features, or that otherwise interfere with the proper working of linguist.oxfordcrown.ru or the Service; or
  • Attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse-engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of linguist.oxfordcrown.ru or the Service.

 

Please be aware that your carrier's normal rates and fees, such as text messaging fees, will apply when accessing linguist.oxfordcrown.ru with your portable devices.

 

8. PRIVACY AND SECURITY POLICY

Your use of our Site and any personal information or other information about you collected by linguist.oxfordcrown.ru through, or in connection with, the Site is subject to our Privacy and Security Policy.

 

9. COMMUNITY FORUMS, CHATS, MESSAGE BOARDS, PEN PALS, AND EMAIL CONDUCT

Oxford Crown strives to create a global community of English language learners. As such, Oxford Crown provides users with the ability to post messages on international discussion boards. You are solely responsible for the content of these messages as set out in this Agreement. In addition, by using these services, you agree to not publish, contribute or post any material that:

  • Contains content that is not original or for which you have not received the prior express written consent of the originator of said material.
  • Contains objectionable language or is in any way profane, pornographic, sexually explicit, slanderous or libelous.
  • Attempts to contact a fellow user of Oxford Crown without explicit solicitation by that user.
  • Violates any viable rules, laws or regulations, or infringes on any rights of any third party.
  • Contains viruses or any other code designed to interrupt, destroy or incapacitate the functionality of any software, hardware or telecommunications.
  • Is considered "spamming," such as chain letters, junk mail, or other solicitations.
  • Attempts to impersonate another person or breach the security of Oxford Crown and its users.

 

The opinions and messages posted by users at Oxford Crown do not reflect and are not representative of the views of Oxford Crown or its employees, affiliates, suppliers or partners. Oxford Crown is not responsible for the content of messages sent by users to other users they have located through Oxford Crown.

 

Oxford Crown may remove any posted message at any time. 

 

10. FEES AND PAYMENTS

You will be required to register and create an account with Oxford Crown in order to access certain features of the Site and Services. Information gathered through the registration process and information related to your account will be subject to these Terms as well as to our "Privacy and Security Policy". You represent and warrant that you will not create an Account for anyone other than yourself without permission, that all information provided by you when creating an Account is true, accurate and complete, and that you will maintain, at all times, true, accurate and complete information related to your Account.

 

Certain materials and functionalities of the Oxford Crown Site are available only through the purchase of a paid subscription. Pursuant to this Agreement you are responsible for any charges associated with connecting to the Site. Oxford Crown reserves the right to change the subscription fees in effect or institute new fees at any time, upon reasonable notice posted on the site and emailed to current subscribers.

 

By purchasing a subscription to the Oxford Crown program you agree to be bound to the following terms:

 

 

Billing Policies

Oxford Crown fees are exclusive of any applicable VAT or taxes, interest or installment fees charged by the credit card company, or other fees associated with connecting to the Internet. 

 

You can always find current subscription prices posted in the checkout pages and occasionally in other pages of our website. Your paid subscription to an Oxford Crown Program gives you access to some or all of Oxford Crown’s course services, including all interactive exercises. 

 

All subscription fees are non-refundable after your free trial. If you decide to subscribe after the free trial, we require a minimum study period specified in the checkout pages. After that minimum period, you may cancel at any time.

 

Free trial

Free membership can be accessed at any time with limited access to programme materials. 

 

11. INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Oxford Crown and its affiliates, partners, suppliers, and employees from any and all liability, claims, costs, or damages arising from your use of the Site or your breach of this Agreement and any of the Terms set out herein.

 

12. MISCELLANEOUS

If any portion of this Agreement is deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable by any arbitrator or court of competent jurisdiction, this Agreement as a whole shall not be deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable, but only that portion of this Agreement that is unlawful, void or unenforceable shall be stricken from this Agreement.

 

You agree that if Oxford Crown does not exercise or enforce any legal right or remedy which is contained in the Agreement (or which Oxford Crown has the benefit of under any applicable law), this will not be taken to be a formal waiver of Oxford Crown’s rights and that those rights or remedies will still be available to Oxford Crown.

 

All covenants, agreements, representations and warranties made in this Agreement shall survive your acceptance of this Agreement and the termination of this Agreement.

 

This Agreement represents the entire understanding and agreement between you and Oxford Crown regarding the subject matter of the same, and supersedes all other previous agreements.

 

If you have any questions about this policy statement, or about any of Oxford Crown’s other policies and practices, please contact us at info@oxfordcrown.ru.