Terms of Use
Last modified on September 25, 2024
These terms and conditions apply to Services provided by Bring Your Own Laptop (“BYOL” or “we” or “us”) through the website http://www.bringyourownlaptop.com/ (“the Website”).
These terms and conditions are in addition to the
Privacy and Cookie Policy statement and apply to the sale of any Online Course and/or Taught Course. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before purchasing an Online Course and/or Taught Course and print off a copy for your records.
1. DEFINITIONS
Confidential Information: means information provided by one party to the other in written, graphic, recorded, machine readable or other form concerning the business, clients, suppliers, finances and other areas of the other party’s business or products, including, without limitation, the Course Materials, but does not include information in the public domain other than through the de-fault of the party disclosing the information, information required to be dis-closed by any court or regulatory authority, or any information already in the possession or control of the disclosing party.
Course Materials: means the information provided by BYOL to accompany a course provided as part of the Services in hard copy or electronic form.
Fees: means the fees paid by you to BYOL for the Services.
Intellectual Property Rights: means copyright, rights in or relating to databas- es, patent rights, performers’ rights, designs and registered designs, trade- marks, rights in or relating to Confidential Information and other intellectual property rights (registered or unregistered) throughout the world.
Online Course: means the delivery by us of an online course pursuant to which you learn course materials remotely.
Services: means the provision of the Online Course and/or the Taught Course and/or the Course Materials together with such other services as agreed from time to time and purchased by you through the Website or by telephone.
Taught Course: means a course taught by us in a classroom setting to which you attend in person.
Website: means https://www.bringyourownlaptop.com/. “you” means the individual purchasing the Services.
2. THE SERVICES
2.1. A description of the Services together with the dates on which the Services will begin are available on our Website. We will provide the Services with reasonable care and skill in accordance with the description set out on the Website.
2.2. We reserve the right to vary or withdraw any of the Services described on the Website without notice.
2.3. We expect you to confirm that the Services you are purchasing will meet your needs. We do not make any guarantee to you that you will obtain a par- ticular result, professional qualification or employment opportunity from your purchase and completion of any of the Services.
2.4. Our services use third-party resources and services. In this sense, we use Stripe and PayPal as payment third-party processors, Mailchimp to store and manage emails, Mailgun for the automatic email based procedures, Google Pixel and Facebook Pixel to track website interaction.
3. ORDERING SERVICES - REGISTRATION AND ACCOUNT CREATION
3.1. To facilitate the purchase of any of the Services online, it is necessary to complete the registration process and create an account with us through the Website. If you are an existing user, you may log into your account using your username (email address) and password used when setting up your account.
4. CANCELLATION VARIATION
4.1. Right of Cancellation: Subject to clause 4.2 below, upon our acceptance or confirmation of the Services being purchased by you, thus forming a legally binding agreement with you in accordance to Clause 3. Ordering Services, above, you are entitled to exercise your right of cancellation within 14 days from the activation of your membership to BYOL.com, thereby enabling you to cancel your purchase of the Services and receive a full refund of the invoiced membership cost.
4.2. If you have purchased a Membership to BYOL.com and have already accessed, in full, a BYOL Online Course, and/or been awarded a BYOL Certificate within the 14-day period stipulated in Clause 4.1 above, you shall forfeit your right to cancel your order for a full refund. The discretion to permit such cancellations and refunds rests solely with the Bring Your Own Laptop team.
4.3. Notwithstanding the provisions of clause 4.1, no other right to cancel or modify your purchase of Services shall be applicable. Any request for cancellation and/or modification of course dates beyond the scope of clause 4.1 shall be subject to the absolute discretion of the Bring Your Own Laptop team.
5. FEES & REFUND
5.1. The Fees for the Services shall be as set out on the Website or as told to you over the telephone or by email at the time you placed an order for them.
5.2. Unless otherwise specified at the time you purchase the Services the Fees are exclusive of VAT or other local taxes, the cost of some Course Materials and any delivery costs payable in respect of the delivery of Course Material to you. Each of these costs will be set out in the Website, or told to you over the telephone, or via email prior to your purchase the Services.
5.3. Save where specifically stated otherwise on the Website, all Fees shall be exclusive of any amounts payable to any professional body for registration and examination entry. These are payable by you directly to the relevant professional body or examination board and we accept no responsibility or liability for your failure to book your exam with the relevant professional body or examination.
5.4. Fees for the Service selected by you on the Website or purchased over the telephone shall be debited from your credit/debit card, or via PayPal at the time of purchase. Fees must be paid in full prior to accessing any Bring Your Own Laptop Online Course.
5.5. Any fees charged by your debit or credit card provider in connection with your purchase of Services are for your own account and Bring Your Own Laptop shall not be responsible for these fees.
5.6. You shall be responsible for all costs you incur in connection with your access onto any Online Course.
5.7. Payments may be performed using PayPal.
5.8. We extend a time-window of 14 days from the commencement of your membership with BYOL.com for any refund request pertaining to the Services. Subsequent to this period, all refund requests shall be subject to the absolute discretion of Bring Your Own Laptop, in accordance with the details outlined in section 4 (CANCELLATION VARIATION).
6. LIABILITY
6.1. No part of the provision of the Services shall be deemed to be, nor is it intended to be, nor should it be taken to be, the provision of investment advice.
6.2. Although BYOL aims to provide the Services to the highest standards of the industry, neither it, nor its trainers accept any liability for:
(i) any inaccuracy or misleading information provided in the programs or Course Materials and any reliance by Client on any such information;
(ii) any loss or corruption of data;
(iii) any loss of profit, revenue or goodwill, or
(iv) any indirect, special or consequential loss arising from any breach of the terms of this Agreement.
6.3. Except to the extent that they are expressly set out in these terms and conditions, no conditions, warranties or other terms shall apply to the Services. Subject to clause 6.5 no implied conditions, warranties or other terms apply (including any implied terms as to satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose or conformance with description).
6.4. Subject to clause 6.5 below, Bring Your Own Laptop's total liability arising from or in connection with these terms and conditions and in relation to anything which we may have done or not done in connection with these terms and conditions and the delivery of the Service (and whether the liability arises because of breach of contract, negligence or for any other reason) shall be limited to the Fees received by us in connection with the relevant Online Course in relation to which a dispute has arisen.
6.5. Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude or limit Bring Your Own Laptop’s liability for:
(i) death or personal injury caused by negligence;
(ii) fraudulent misrepresentation or,
(iii) any other matter which under English law may not be limited or ex- cluded.
6.6. No claim may be brought more than six months after the last date on which the Services concerned have finished or ceased to be provided by us.
7. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
7.1. All Intellectual Property Rights in the Course Materials, Online Courses and content made by trainers at Bring Your Own Laptop, remain the intellectual property of BYOL or its licensors, whether adapted, written for or customized for the Client or not.
7.2. You are not authorized to:-
(i) copy, modify, reproduce, re-publish, sub-license, sell, upload, broadcast, post, transmit or distribute any of the Course Materials or Online Courses without prior permission having been granted;
(ii) record on video or audio tape, relay by videophone or other means, the Online Course content;
(iii) use the Course Materials in the provision of any other course or training whether given by us or any third party trainer;
(iv) remove any copyright or other notice of BYOL on the Course Materials;
(v) modify, adapt, merge, translate, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer (save to the extent permitted by law) any software forming part of the Online Courses.
Breach by you of clause 7.1 and/or 7.2 shall allow us to immediately terminate these terms and conditions with you and cease to provide you with any Services, including but not limited to access to the Online Courses.
7.3. In consideration of the Fees paid by you, we grant to you a limited, non- transferable, non-exclusive license to use the Course Materials and Online Course content for the sole purpose of completing the Online Course.
8. CONFIDENTIALITY
8.1. Each party shall keep the other party’s Confidential Information strictly confidential and not use it otherwise than for the purposes of these terms and conditions, and shall return it on demand and not retain copies of it.
8.2. Either party may disclose Confidential Information to its legal and other advisors for the purposes of obtaining advice from them.
8.3. This clause shall continue notwithstanding termination of these terms and conditions.
9. TERMINATION
9.1. We shall be entitled to terminate these terms and conditions and cease to provide you with any Services with immediate effect in the event that you:
- a. fail to pay when due your Fees;
- b. act in an aggressive, bullying, offensive, threatening or harassing manner towards any employee of Bring Your Own Laptop, or any Online Course student;
- c. cheat or plagiarize any work which you are required to prepare or submit in connection with the Online Course projects, Services, or during any examination taken in connection with the Services;
- d. steal or act in fraudulent or deceitful manner towards any employee of Bring Your Own Laptop any other Online Course student;
- e. intentionally or recklessly damage our property or the property of our employees or other students;
- g. are in breach of these terms and conditions.
9.2. On termination clause 6 (liability), 7 (intellectual property rights), 8 (confidentiality) and 10 (restrictions) shall continue notwithstanding such termination.
10. ASSIGNMENT
10.1. Any Services provided by us under these terms and conditions are personal to you and cannot be transferred or assigned to any other person. We shall be entitled to assign these terms and conditions to any other company without prior notice to you.
10.2. We may assign, transfer, sub-contract any of our rights or obligations to any third party at our discretion.
10.3. By providing and uploading content (text, images, video) to Bring Your Own Laptop or other platforms where Bring Your Own Laptop course content is hosted, you grant Bring Your Own Laptop a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable licence to use that Content (including to reproduce, distribute, modify, display and perform it) for the purpose of operating, promoting, and improving the Service not limited to: our website, youtube, social media platforms and email communications. You retain all of your ownership rights in your Content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.
11. ENTIRE AGREEMENT
These terms and conditions, together with the
Privacy Policy are the entire agreement between the parties and supersede any prior agreements and arrangements, whether written or oral. You confirm that you have not relied on any representations in entering into these and any other terms and conditions with us. Nothing in this clause or terms and conditions shall limit liability for any fraudulent misrepresentation.
12. FORCE MAJEURE
Bring Your Own Laptop shall not be liable to you for any breach of its obligations or termination under these terms and conditions arising from causes beyond its reasonable control, including, but not limited to, fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and other Acts of God, terrorism, strikes, delay caused by transport disputes, failure to provide a course caused by a death in the trainer’s family, illness of the trainer, Government edict or regulation.
13. LAW & JURISDICTION
This Agreement is subject to English law and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts in connection with any dispute hereunder.
14. PLAGIARISM & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY
As a user of our platform, you are required to ensure that all work submitted under your account is your own, or that you have obtained proper authorization to use the work of others. Any attempt to submit work that has been copied from another user, creator, or any third party without proper attribution will be treated as plagiarism.
14.1. Definition of Plagiarism: Plagiarism is defined as the act of presenting another person’s work, whether written, visual, or otherwise, as your own without proper acknowledgment or permission. This includes, but is not limited to, copying or closely imitating the work of another user and submitting it to BYOL as original content.
14.2. Prohibited Actions Include: a. Submitting any project or content that you did not create, without appropriate permissions and attribution.
b. Passing off another user's project or course work as your own.
c. Engaging in any behavior that violates the intellectual property rights of another person or entity.
14.3. Consequences of Plagiarism:
a. Certificate Revocation: Any certificate or distinction awarded for a project found to be plagiarized will be revoked.
b. Project Removal: Any plagiarized content will be immediately removed from the platform.
c. Account Action: Users will be required to remove all projects that violate this policy. Failure to comply within the specified time frame may result in further actions, including but not limited to temporary suspension or permanent termination of account access.
d. Further Action: Repeat offenses or failure to correct identified issues may result in additional disciplinary measures, up to and including permanent account deactivation.
Reporting and Resolution:
If BYOL identifies or is informed of a potential case of plagiarism, we will notify the user in question and request immediate removal of the infringing content. The user will be given 48 hours from the time of notice to address the issue. Failure to take corrective action within this period will result in further penalties as outlined above.
We encourage all users to take ownership of their work and ensure that any content shared on BYOL reflects their own creativity and effort. BYOL reserves the right to take appropriate actions in cases of intellectual property infringement, including legal recourse if necessary.
For any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact
[email protected].
15. NOTICES
If you have any questions about the Bring Your Own Laptop Terms of Use, please contact us by email at
[email protected].
Bring Your Own Laptop Limited, a company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Ireland, with the registered address at Hazelbrook House, Miltown, Croagh, Co. Limerick V94 NP73.