Effective as of July 1, 2014
Date of Last Revision: April 09, 2015
Thank You for your interest in “OnlineIslamicStudies.com”, hereinafter called the OIS. This website is a private non-governmental entity that provides an educational platform for studying Islam at the following address:
“onlineislamicstudies.com” (main address) or “ois.education” (short cut to main address).
The OIS Site contains information, including, without limitation, all text, graphics, photographs, graphs, sounds, data, images, audio, video, page headers, software (including HTML and other scripts), buttons, and other icons, and the arrangement and compilation of this information (collectively, the "Information") that is either owned or licensed by OIS. “OnlineIslamicStudies.com” is an information and education network that provides an online outlet for the production and publishing of the Islamic thoughts and ideas. Members depending on their permissions can listen to podcasts, read texts, and make suggestions for adding new information. The network is designed to encourage Users to participate in interactive learning through discussion groups, Q&A, and other educational services.
OUR Terms of Service is a Legal Contract by which is constituted a legally binding relationship between any User, including, but not limited to, Visitor, Guest, Member, Content Production Team, current and potential Student, Alumni, Employee, Educator, Subscriber, and OIS.
Please read the Entire Legal Contract (hereinafter the Contract), carefully. If You do not accept any or all of the provisions, do not Use OIS and/or its Integrated Services. By any Use of OIS, including, but not limited to, Visiting, Applying, Accessing, Browsing, Downloading, Clicking “Submit,” “Reply,” “Apply,” “I Agree,” “Sign up,” “Sign in” or any similar Terms, or by Using any Service, the User declares that He/She has read, and has understood all of provisions of the Contract, and has declared his/her Express Consent to comply with and to be bound by all of and any of the following: Terms, Privacy Policy, and Disclaimer. “OnlineIslamicStudies.com” reserves the right to specify Additional Terms to supply certain Services and/or in connection with Use of such Services about including, but not limited to, Visitors, Members, Students, Teachers, Educators, Content Production Team and Employees. Any User, by Using such Services declares Express Consent to all applicable Additional Terms. Additional Terms are incorporated within the Contract. If a Parent or a Guardian, for his/her Child, or his/her Student(s), applies to OIS, He/She declares Expressed Consent to comply with and to be bound by the Contract regarding such Person’s Use of OIS.
OIS reserves the right to amend, limit, remove, modify, change, discontinue, restrict, suspend or/and terminate all and/or any contents of the Contract, in particular or in general at any time without prior notice. Users are liable for revisiting the Contract periodically to check for updates. The date of last revision is shown at the top of the Contract. The most current version of the Terms and Conditions can be reviewed by clicking on the "Terms of Use" hypertext link located at the bottom of the OIS Site.
To the following Persons who are granted the right to Access to OIS and its Integrated Services. OIS has specified a number of Users including, but not limited to, Visitor, Guest, Student, and Employee for any of these groups a number of permissions; and rights of Access was defined by OIS.
OIS, without penalty, reserves the right to restrict, limit, reduce, amend, modify, suspend, remove, revise, and terminate the Level of Accessibility and contents of permission, for any Users, with or without notice. By Using OIS, Users declare Express Consent to that any termination of User Access, any User Generated Content, or User Account and/or its content, may be suffered without prior notice, and that OIS will not be liable to any User or any third party for any of such termination(s).
By Using OIS, Users grant OIS a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, unlimited, assignable, sub licensable, and royalty-free right to copy, prepare derivative works of, improve, distribute, publish, remove, retain, add, process, translate, analyze, use and commercialize, in any way now known or in the future discovered, any such information, including, but not limited to, comments, answers, ideas, and other contents posted by Users directly or indirectly, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to User or to any third parties. OIS reserves the right to grant other Users Access to and share such aforementioned posted contents and information in accordance with the Contract.
WITHOUT CONSENT AND APPROVAL FROM HIS/HER LEGAL PARENT AND/OR GUARDIAN, ANY USER WHO IS UNDER THE AGE OF 18, IS PROHIBITED TO APPLY FOR AN OIS USER ACCOUNT. By Using OIS, the User declares that HE/SHE IS EITHER 18 YEARS OF AGES; or has the consent of his/her Parent, Guardian, consented the Use of OIS; and he/she declares Express Consent to that his/her application and his/her Use of OIS is in compliance with any of and all applicable legal rules.
A Parent and/or legal Guardian of a Child may apply as a User of OIS and/or make a User Account on behalf of the child. The Parent User, may apply, manage and approve of such an Account only for his/her own children, or for children for whom he/she is a legal Guardian. OIS may terminate a Parent User Account, along with all associated Child User Accounts, at any time and without prior notice for failure to comply with the Contract herein. By creating a Child User Account, the Parent User understands, declares Express Consent to that the application is presupposed liability FOR ANY CHILD USER, and the PARENT USER REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT SUCH CHILD USER’S LEGAL PARENT OR GUARDIAN AND USER UNDERSTANDS, DECLARES, AND ACCEPTS TO COMPLY WITH AND TO BE BOUND BY THE CONTRACT ON BEHALF OF SUCH CHILD USER, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, BEING LIABLE FOR ALL USE OF OIS BY THE CHILD USER. Hereby, the Parent and/or Guardian declare Express Consent to indemnify, defend and hold harmless OIS against any and all claims, losses, liabilities and expenses, including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or related to:
Users may be asked to provide a Password and Username for their Account. User is solely liable for maintaining the confidentiality of his/her Account and Password and for restricting Access to his/her computer. All Users declare Express Consent to accept liability for all activities that occur under their Account. Any User accepts to provide to OIS, at any time, the true, accurate, current, complete User information. All Users declare Express Consent to ensure that this information is kept accurate and up-to-date at all times. At any situation, User believes in, reasonably, User Account, including, but not limited to, in the event of a loss, theft or unauthorized disclosure or Use of User Account, ID, Password is no longer secure, User declares Express Consent to notify OIS, immediately. Any User is liable for the losses suffered by OIS or others due to any unauthorized Use of User Account OIS reserves the right to deny, at its sole discretion, any application requesting an Account or membership. Active Accounts will be valid until terminated by either OIS or the User upon email notification. OIS Users declare Express Consent to accept that all Content and Opinions posted by other Users are the sole responsibility of the individual who originally made the post, in their individual capacities, and that such individuals do not represent OIS.
By Using OIS, the User declares Expressed Consent to respect to REASONABLE PERSON STANDARD so that do not to send, upload, or distributes, and encourage any defamatory, libelous, inaccurate, objectionable, offensive, indecent, pornographic, harassing, threatening, embarrassing, distressing, vulgar, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, inappropriate, unlawful User Content or any other Unethical Contents and Illegal Ones; and to that do not to commit Fraudulent Behaviors, including, but not limited to, impersonate any person (legal and/or natural), falsely claim an affiliation with any person (legal and/or natural), or Access the Website Accounts of others without permission, forge another person’s digital signature, misrepresent the source, identity, or content of information transmitted via the Website.
By Using OIS, the User declares Express Consent to not Use OIS for any illegal purpose, or in violation of any local, state, national, or international law, including, but not limited to, laws governing Copyrights and other proprietary rights, and data protection and privacy.
By Using OIS, the User declares Express Consent to not Use our name (OIS or “onlineislamicstudies.com”) to endorse or promote any product, opinion, cause, or political candidate. Claiming that individuals’ personal opinions represent and is institutionally endorsed by OIS is strictly prohibited.
By Using OIS, the User declares Express Consent to acknowledge that OIS was designed for Educational and Research Purposes, not for bulk downloads; thus, accordingly users consent to not make more than Ten searches per minute or automated queries from an IP address, to make unsolicited offers, advertisements, proposals, or send junk mail or spam to other Users of OIS, including, but not limited to, unsolicited advertising, promotional materials, bulk mailing of commercial advertising, chain mail, charity requests, and petitions for signatures.
By Using OIS, the User declares Express Consent to obligate the Hyperlinks to OIS do not infringe OIS’ rights, or its Relevant Partners, including, but not limited to, its logo, acronym and Copyrights; and that the Hyperlinks are not used for the promotion of an organization or company, or of any commercial products or services; and to that User has to refrain from creating frames, or using other visual altering tools, around the Web Pages.
By Using OIS, the User declares Express Consent to prohibition of Deep Linking, Mirror Linking to the Contents and the Materials OIS Published by OIS, and/or hosted on OIS. OIS may grant restricted limited permission to link to the page presenting the Content on the condition OIS URL appears clearly. By the mentioned Hyperlink to OIS, that User has to respect all of our conditions, at all times.
By Using OIS, the User declares Expressed Consent to not delete any of the proprietary rights notices, Educational Materials or other Contents, including User Content on OIS.
By Using OIS, the User declares Expressed Consent to not to assert, authorize, assist, or encourage any third party against OIS and/or its Relevant Partners for any Copyright infringement regarding any Contents used, submitted, or otherwise made available on or through OIS.
By Using OIS, the User declares Expressed Consent to not make available, accessible or to sublicense the Contents and Materials on OIS, in any way and under no circumstances, to another carrier, host or publisher. Nothing in the Contract is intended to reduce, limit, or restrict any rights arising from Fair Use, Fair Dealing, Good Faith and other limitations on applicable Copyrights laws.
By Using OIS, the User declares Expressed Consent to not defame, harass, abuse, threaten or defraud Users of OIS, or to collect, or attempt to collect, personal information about Users or third parties without their consent.
By Using OIS, the User declares Expressed Consent to not remove, circumvent, disable, damage or otherwise interfere with security-related features of OIS, any Content, features that prevent or restrict Use or copying of any content accessible through OIS, or features that enforce limitations on the Use of OIS, Educational Materials, Educational Code, or User Content.
By Using OIS, the User declares Expressed Consent to not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of OIS or any part thereof, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation.
By Using OIS, the User declares Expressed Consent not to modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works based upon the Website or any part thereof, except and only to the extent expressly permitted by OIS herein or to the extent the foregoing restriction is expressly prohibited by applicable law.
By Using OIS, the User declares Expressed Consent not to intentionally interfere with or damage operation of OIS or any user’s enjoyment of it, by any means, including uploading or otherwise disseminating viruses, adware, spyware, worms, or other malicious code.
By Using OIS, the User declares Expressed Consent to comply with and to be bound by the Protected Fair Use, and by the Prohibition of any Kind of Abuse of Rights. Any Commercial Usage of OIS, all its Contents and Materials and any of them, in addition to any Kind of Abuse of Rights, are prohibited, so that any User declares Express Consent to refrain from any Kind of Commercial Usage, including, but not limited to, selling, reselling licensing, distributing, copying, modifying, publicly performing or displaying, transmitting, publishing, editing, translating, adapting, creating derivative works from or otherwise making Unauthorized Use of the Materials on OIS.
Any Prohibited Act may be referred to the appropriate law enforcement Authorities. In addition to these remedies, OIS reserves the right to appeal with other suitable legal arrangements at law or in equity. Promptly, OIS reserves the right to terminate, without notice, User Access to OIS, if it is determined that User to be a “repeat infringer.” It should not be presumed that granted rights of Use of services is an absolute right to use all of OIS Contents. For further information, contact OIS.
In addition, any Users previously suspended or removed from the Website by OIS, it is prohibited to Access OIS and its integrated services, or that of its Relevant Partners. By Using OIS, the User Declares and Affirms that He/She have not been previously suspended or removed from by OIS.
OIS, in its sole discretion, for any Reason, including, but not limited to, perpetration of the above mentioned Prohibited Behaviors, or no reason, without penalty, reserves the right to remove, restrict and/or terminate any User Account or any part of that User Account that the User has with OIS, or any Use of OIS, and remove and discard any User Account, part of User Account, and User Profile at any time. OIS reserves the right to, in its sole discretion and at any time, discontinue providing Access to OIS, or any part thereof, with or without notice.
Now, or in the future, OIS may demand fees for Access to and Use of the Website, or certain features thereof.
If any provision of the Contract is held to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision will be limited or eliminated from the Contract to the minimum extent necessary and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
The provisions of the Contract, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by any User, but may be assigned by OIS without restriction. Any assignment attempted to be made in violation of any provision of the Contract shall be null and void.
Upon termination of the provisions of the Contract, any provision which, by its nature or express terms should survive, will survive such termination or expiration, including, but not limited to, provisions regarding Assignment.
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully, for within this notice, OIS addresses how it Collects, Uses, Secures, Shares, Access, Publicizes, and Discloses User information that may be obtained through the Use of the Website. OIS recognizes the importance of protecting the Privacy of Users’ personal information. The Privacy Policy is applied to any User including, but not limited to, Visitors, Guests, Members, current and potential Students, Alumni, Teachers, Content Production Team members and Employees by OIS. Certain Sites or Services may be subject to additional Privacy Policies or Privacy Disclosures relating to the Services provided on the Site(s).
All Contents, and any parts of them, and other depended entities including, but not limited to, Educational Materials, Trademarks, Service Marks, Trade Names, Logos, Images, Videos, Visual Interfaces, Graphic Designs, Compilation, Information, Computer Codes Products, Software, Services, and all other elements of OIS are proprietary to OIS, and are owned and operated by OIS and/or its Relevant Partners. OIS reserves all rights to the Materials not expressly granted in the Contract.
By Using OIS from any region of the world, User declares Express Consents that he/she is transferring his/her Personal Information to OIS, and that, by providing User Personal Information on OIS, User declares Express Consent to that transfer on the basis of the Contract which governs over any Use of OIS. If the User is using OIS on behalf of another legal entity, the User is nevertheless individually bound by the Contract even if that legal entity has a Separate Contract with OIS.
OIS reserves the right to collect, and to hold the following information:
Collected information by OIS, are stored in databases and files that are protected by Passwords and firewalls. The Contents, including personal information, provide sufficient background for the Users within which any User could achieves novel information, extends his/her intellectual experiences, show his/her abilities, facilitate basic communication with other Users, and with OIS. Considering with purposes, User personal information in OIS database may be publicly available in OIS.
OIS Uses the User information to communicate with them regarding OIS educational programs, Services, and other communications to any User. OIS shares User information with OIS Members who participate within OIS services. The Cookies on OIS are Used by the different analytical services suppliers. They may Use persistent cookies to analyze how Users Use OIS. The information generated by the cookies about any User of OIS (including User IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by the different analytical services suppliers. They will use this information for the purpose of evaluating any User of OIS, compiling reports on the Website activity for Website Operators and providing other Services relating to the Website activity and internet Usage. They may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on the analytical services suppliers’ behalf. Any User may refuses the Use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on his/her browser. If a User chooses the option, the User may not be able to Use the full functionality of OIS. By Using OIS, User declares Express Consent to that the processing of data about User by the different analytical services suppliers in the manner and for the purposes determine above. OIS tracks information through open and click-through responses to HTML email messages using a variety of tools.
OIS uses cookies to better serve the Users. A cookie is a piece of data that is either maintained only for the duration of a particular session visit or is stored on the User's computer to support future visits. OIS uses both types of cookies.
Session Cookie: This type of cookie is Used to enhance and make more efficient the User's experience during a site visit. Once the User closes the browser, the cookie terminates.
Persistent Cookie: This type of cookie stores a small text file on the User's hard drive for an extended period of time to remember visit activity that will help make subsequent visits more efficient. Persistent cookies can be removed by following the User's Internet browser help directions.
Except as Required by Legally Authorized Entities or with Users’ Express Consent, OIS will not intentionally watch any electronic contents sent or received by any User. OIS reserves the right to watch personal information in its database to identify the source of any Abuse of Rights of information resources, including, but not limited to, the aforementioned Prohibited Behaviors.
Any Above Mentioned User, by Using OIS, declares express consent to indemnify OIS and its Relevant Partners and Parties, in full against all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, expenses, demands, actions, penalties and costs, arising out of or in connection with access to or use of OIS and/or its integrated services, negligence, or any omission, act or breach of Contract by the User.
OIS is not liable for any failure to perform its obligations if such failure results from Acts of Gods including, but not limited to, fire, earthquake, storm or other natural disasters, and from wars, acts of terror, riots, government sanctions, embargoes, accidents, labor disputes, strikes, interruption of or failure to receive electricity or Internet service, or any other thing beyond OIS’ reasonable control.
User acknowledges that OIS reserves the right to, and may from time to time, monitor any and all Information transmitted or received through the OIS Site. “OnlineIslamicSudies.com”, at its sole discretion and without further notice, may review, censor or prohibit the transmission or receipt of any Information which OIS deems inappropriate or that violates any term or condition of this agreement.
PLEASE READ OUR DISCLAIMER CAREFULLY, BECAUSE IT IS A BASIC COMPONENT OF THE CONTRACT. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE, WILL OIS OR ITS PARTNERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, RELIANCE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (including without limitation damages arising from any unsuccessful court action or legal dispute, lost business, lost revenues, or loss of anticipated profits OR ANY OTHER PECUNIARY OR NON-PECUNIARY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER) ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE TERMS OR THAT RESULT FROM ANY USING OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE OR ANY REFERENCE SITES, OR ANY OTHER INTERACTIONS WITH THE WEB, EVEN IF AN OIS AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. APPLICABLE LAWS MAY NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO USERS. IN SUCH CASES, OIS’ LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE APPLICABLE LAWS.
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OIS, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAWS, HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCANTABLY AND FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
WITHIN NO SITUATIONS, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE, WILL OIS OR ITS RELEVANT PARTIES BE TOTALLY LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, RELIANCE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (including without limitation damages arising from any unsuccessful court action or legal dispute, lost business, lost revenues, or loss of anticipated profits) OR ANY OTHER PECUNIARY OR NON-PECUNIARY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY NATURE WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY NEGLIGENCE, WARRANTY, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE LEGAL CONTRACT OR THAT RESULT FROM ANY USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE, DEFAULT FOR ANY DELAYS OR FAILURE IN PERFORMANCE OR INTERRUPTION OF SERVICES RESULTING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM ANY CAUSE OR CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND ITS REASONABLE CONTROL, INCLUDING, NOT LIMITED FORCE MAJEURE, OIS OR ANY REFERENCE SITE, OR ANY OTHER INTERACTIONS WITH OIS, EVEN IF AN OIS AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
OIS reserves the right to cancel, limit, remove, modify, change, discontinue, restrict, suspend and/or terminate all and/or any User account or enrollment, in particular or in general at any time without prior notice.
THESE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY User BY REASON OF ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES SOLD OR PROVIDED on any Reference Sites or otherwise BY THIRD PARTIES OTHER THAN OIS AND RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON OIS OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY REFERENCE SITE. Settlement of Disputes By Using OIS, Any User declares Express Consent to that He/ She has waived THE RIGHT TO LITIGATION so that for any dispute and/or claim with OIS, excluding claims for injunctive or other equitable relief, User, first, Must contact OIS and attempt to settle the dispute and/or claim with OIS informally and through friendly negotiations. In the unlikely event that OIS has not been able to settle the dispute and/or claim it has with the User after attempting to do so informally and through friendly negotiations, OIS accepts to settle the dispute and/or claim arising out of or in connection with or relating to the Contract, by binding arbitration. Arbitration must be initiated through an arbitrator agreed upon by OIS, absolutely. Each party will be responsible for paying his/her own arbitration process fees.
All claims any User bring against OIS must be resolved in accordance with this Section. All claims filed or brought contrary to this Section, including, but not limited to, recourse to litigation shall be considered null. Should any user file a claim contrary to this Section, the OIS reserves the right to recover attorneys' fees and costs.
If any provision of the Contract is held to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision will be limited or eliminated from the Contract to the minimum extent necessary and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Any claim arising out of or related to OIS must commence within one year after the cause of claim accrues. Otherwise, such claim is permanently barred.
Any conflict or inconsistency between any of the provisions of the Contract, will be resolved in a manner Most Favorable to OIS and its relevant partners. Conflicts or inconsistencies between any provision of other contracts which are concluded by any User and OIS, and the Contract will be resolved in a manner Most Favorable to OIS and its relevant partners.
No failure or delay by OIS or its Relevant Partners to exercise or enforce any of its rights under the Contract will operate as a waiver of such rights, nor will such failure or delay in anyway prejudice or affect its right at any time thereafter to act strictly in accordance with its rights under the Contract. Any waiver of any provision of the Contract will be effective only if it is in writing and signed by OIS.
In the event that the contracting User of OIS resides in or is a citizen of any country or jurisdiction, OIS reserves all rights and discretion to choose the appropriate venue and jurisdiction as it finds fit, in any country or jurisdiction, wherein the User resides or does not reside and wherein the User is citizen of or is not citizen of, as such, These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the country and jurisdiction chosen by OIS.