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The portal and/or website and/or it’s owners operate and /or control this portal and/or website from its Registered offices in New Delhi and the portal and/or website and/or it’s owners make no representation that the access and /or the materials on the portal and/or website are available and/or appropriate for use in any other location worldwide what so ever. As the user of this portal and/or website and/or the links of it’s partners and/or advertisers that use this portal and/or website from any other locations worldwide the responsibility rests on you to ensure that you are compliant with all applicable local laws including but not limited to the content regulations import export regulations or any other kind of regulations governing the usage of the internet and all related services thereof of any other countries worldwide.

Any kind of dispute that may arise at any time what so ever are and will be subject to arbitration in and by competent arbitration authority in New Delhi India and the courts and sole jurisdiction of the courts in New Delhi India at all times regardless of the physical address and/or territory and /or country where any such dispute may arise at any time what so ever. The Portal owners reserve the right to shift arbitration and / or Jurisdiction to a competent arbitration and / or legal authority acceptable to the portal owners in Singapore and / or United Kingdom at its sole discretion.

Additional Conditions governing usage of Portal and/or website:

The portal and/or website and/or it’s owners take every care to ensure that the content is appropriate and accurate to the best of it’s ability. However, the portal and/or website and/or it’s owners do not accept any responsibility of any kind what so ever at any time what so ever for any faults and / or defects and / or any inaccuracies in any data and / or information and / or facts stated in the portal and / or website that may become apparent and / or be spotted and these could include unintended inaccuracies and/or typographical and/or data and/or information and or human errors committed by employees of the owners of the portal and / or through inputs of any users of the portal and / or website.

The portal and /or website and/or it’s owners reserve absolute rights to make any changes of any kind what so ever and/or improvements and/or changes in the products and/or services and/or graphics and/or images and/or information and/or programs and/or prices and/or specials and/or discounts described in this portal and/or website and/or of it’s partner links and/or it’s advertisers and further it should be noted that such changes are periodically made as a matter of course and are within the operational framework of the portal and/or website and/or those of it’s partners links and /or of the advertisers links and/or messages posted by its users etc.

All of the information, material, data, content, processes, links, connections, presented on and by this portal and / or website is for the use of its users and is of a general nature only and is intended to be an aid and is under no circumstances intended to substitute the specific needs, circumstances, requirements, or any other aims of any particular individual or entity. Although all care is exercised no guarantee is implied or given that any of the material, information, links, and content presented on and by this portal and / or website is totally accurate, relevant, comprehensive, timely, sufficient, complete, and / or up to date for any particular purpose and / or use for the user of the portal and / or website even though all attempts are made to present accurate and holistically connected information and / or advice at all times. The information, material, links, and content presented on and by this portal and / or website should not be considered as substitution of information, data, processes, actions that would be otherwise made by the user directly with any entity related to the users specific needs and nor does the advice, information or data on the portal and / or website constitutes legal, professional, business, investment, or financial, purchasing advice and under all circumstances it is the responsibility of the user to verify, confirm, any information, data, advice, deadlines etc. for any specific action that the user needs to take related to any need or purpose or actions from relevant entities as applicable and the user should consider consulting a suitably qualified professional individual and / or company.

This portal and / or website is at various times and in various ways also linked and / or connected to external entitie’s electronic data bases and / or websites and / or sources of information including but not limited to libraries, individuals, organizations etc. through their world wide web or other electronic media and it is expressly stated that the portal and / or website and the owners of the portal and / or website have no control and assume no responsibility under any circumstances whatsoever, and are in no way acting as a publisher of material, information, links, and content contained on external linked websites and it is further informed and stated by the portal and / or website and its owners that any and / all of such links may expire, become invalid, or may become misdirected at any time due to any factors or reasons. All links to and within the portal and / or website are provided to the user as a service and convenience and do not necessarily constitute, signify, or otherwise imply an endorsement by, or an endorsement for, or a relationship with, or connection to the portal and / or its owners at any time whatsoever.

The information and / or data and / or advice provided, and / or statements expressed on any and all external linked data bases and / or websites are not those of the portal and / or website and / or its owners and all users are advised that the portal and its owners do not maintain any kind of control including editorial control over any of the external linked websites and / or information and / or data sources and that all of these are determined by the linked websites and / or sources and / or by the owners of such linked sources including the appropriateness regarding any of the links, material, information, and content contained on external linked websites.

The portal and / or website will have people from all over the world including India using this portal and / or website and in order to ensure consistency in the enforcement and / or interpretation and of these Terms, the Portal and / or Website deem and declare that your use of the Portal and / or Website will be governed in all respects by the laws of India and further that the jurisdiction is of New Delhi courts as the owners are domiciled in New Delhi, India all applicable international laws apply to the governance and use of this portal and / or website however for the purpose of clarity the laws of India are the overriding laws that govern the usage of this portal and / or website.

This agreement and these terms are the entire agreement relating to the use of the portal www.connectuniversities.com and supersede all prior agreements or understandings, if any, perceived or otherwise with regard to the use of the portal and / or website www.connectuniversities.com and the portal and its owners can modify these Terms at any time without notice or consent by simply updating this posting.

Any subscriber availing the services on mobile platforms such as mobile phones, I Pads and such other devices as may become available from time to time that are available or offered in or through the portal www.connectuniversities.com and it’s owners, shall deem to have consented to be bound by all the terms and conditions of governing such services including but not limited to all government rules and regulations or those of statutory bodies that regulate all such services and it is the users responsibility to find out and be aware of all such rules and regulations for the purpose of ensuring the user’s compliance of such rules and laws.

The owners of the portal reserve the right to withdraw, change, transform, cancel, discontinue or extend this service or any part thereof including charges, at its sole discretion at anytime.

All decisions of the owners of this portal with respect to any and all transactions under this service are final and binding and the portal shall entertain no correspondence and its owners admit no liability of any kind in this regard at any time what so ever.

By using such mobile services as provided or facilitated by the portal or its owners you give free and unfettered permission in that your mobile phone number (MSISDN) can, may and / or will be used for and during transmission of text messages through the mobile service provider's servers for SMS Service.

The mobile service is subject to the rules, regulations, guidelines, and directives as issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India or any other statutory government body or authority at any time.

The user shall use SMS Services at his/her discretion and such services shall be availed or used in such a way as are made available by the owners and / or partners and / or associates of this portal from time to time.

SMS or its contents once sent for availing the SMS services are deemed to be final and subsequent to being sent these cannot be withdrawn, recalled, changed or retrieved under any circumstances what so ever and at any time what so ever.

Your access to our WAP Services may be dependent on the wireless Device you use to access the applicable WAP services.

WAP Services enable you to access the Services provided by the portal and / or its partners and / or associates to receive and / or submit content through your wireless Devices. It is your responsibility to ensure full and total compliance with all applicable laws including those pertaining to slander, defamation, libel and such others that may be applicable from time to time. You agree to indemnify the portal and its owners and any group company against any damages that may be claimed by any user whose legal rights have been compromised by you and /or your access or usage of the portal or website.

Subscription services have been and are created to provide you with access to content that is or may be paid for you to access and use for what may be a pre defined period of time that will be as chosen by you prior to your purchase of such service. The frequency with which you will receive the subscribed service will be as per the terms and conditions of the subscribed service as set by the services provider(s).

You consent and agree that you are not permitted to and will not post or transmit any content that is obscene or sexually oriented or racial or abusive and / where applicable by law of and in certain countries against national interest of nations where you reside, or otherwise unacceptable by law or accepted social mores, and the portal and its owners reserve the right to discontinue or suspend your account if any disagreeable or excessive or unreasonable content is found and may further initiate appropriate legal proceedings against you if you are in breach of these terms.

The portal and / or its owners and / or partners and / or associates and / or suppliers from hereon in and hereby disclaim all guarantees and / or warranties and / or conditions with regard to this software, information, services, related graphics, products, including any and all implied warranties and / or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, effort, title and non-infringement what so ever. The portal and its owners shall not be responsible or held responsible or liable for any resultant damages arising thereto to the user whose responsibility it is to check and verify the authenticity or usefulness or accuracy or any product claim, service delivery or content of any kind what so ever.

All software, products, information, services and / or related graphics are provided on an as is where is basis without any promise or assurance or guarantee or warranty of any kind what so ever.

The portal and / or its owners and / or partners and / or suppliers and / or associates make no clam or representation of any kind what so ever about the suitability, reliability, fitness, availability accuracy of information, products, services and related graphics contained and lack of viruses or other harmful components and software, within the, portal and / or associated sites and / or services for any reason at any time what so ever.

The subscriber warrants that where applicable and required by the service he / she will and must maintain such minimum balance in his / her prepaid account where and as applicable as is specified by the portal for availing the particular option offered under these services. All taxes/ levies or costs, if any, related to the Value Added Services shall be entirely borne by the customer.

The users specifically undertake and agree that any part of the content or service or part thereof etc. may be withdrawn, withheld, varied, added or suspended by the portal and its owners at their sole discretion without prior notice to the users and that his shall not be cause for any complaint of any nature what so ever.

Subscribing or using various paid and / or free services of the portal on SMS/Voice/WAP either directly or indirectly doesn't in any manner guarantee the user any performance of any service offered at or on the portal and / or website.

The user warrants and guarantees that he / she is and shall remain solely responsible for all data, information, content etc that originated from the user and is or was transmitted via the portal and / or Service, content, and the user absolutely shall indemnify the portal and / or its owners and / or its partners and / or service providers, against all claims including third party claims relating to the users content or due to the users act, negligence or omission at any time what so ever.

The portal shall not be liable for any damage or costs, loss whether direct or indirect or for loss of revenue, of profits or any consequential loss of any kind whatsoever as a result of the user using the Services provided by this portal.

No reversal of deducted charges or paid for by the user shall be sought for services bought or subscribed to or allowed under any circumstances at any time what so ever.
The user accepts and agrees that he / she is bound by the terms and conditions as stipulated and laid out in this entire and / or part thereof of this document and as stated on the portal and / or site.

Delivery of messages is conditional to Mobile operator's technical infrastructure and its network uptime and the portal and / or website has nothing what so ever to do with the performance thereof at any time what so ever.

By using various SMS based services from the portal you agree to receive messages including phone calls, etc. from www.connecectuniversities.com or its partners

By registering at the www.connectuniversities.com mobile alerts, the user allows the portal and its owners to get in touch with him/her from time to time on streaming information on any events or offers regarding careers, admissions, jobs and other related or supplementary services on any available mobile platform. This can include offers, information, as well as promotions of all kinds.

The user and / or subscriber shall be required to comply with all directions / instructions etc. issued by the portal and its owners and / or service provider company relating to the services, network and any and all matters connected therewith and provide the portal and / or its partners and / or service provider Company all other and further information and co-operation as the Company may require from time to time.

This service is live globally wherever permitted to be so

The portal reserves the right to modify/delete any of the account contents at its discretion and without any prior notice if any of the contents are deemed unfit for broadcast at any time what so ever.

Additional services offered by the portal and the use of these additional services that may be added from time to time are reliant on the operator owning the network to facilitate such service (Operator), for which www.connectuniversities.com does not accept any responsibility for any kind of breakdown of such network transmission and / or failure of any message transmission for any reasons whatsoever. The portal may change or include additional services and / or features from time to time.

LICENSE DISCLAIMER

Nothing on any www.connectuniversities.com portal or website shall be construed as conferring any license under any of the portal and its owners or any third party's intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, implication, or otherwise.

CONTENT AND LIABILITY DISCLAIMER

www.connectuniversities.com shall not be responsible for any errors or omissions contained on any of its pages or website, and reserves the right to make changes anytime without notice. Any mention of non-portal products or services is provided for information purposes only and constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation by the portal or the owners of the portal. All www.connectuniversities.com and third-party information provided on any www.connectuniversities.com portal or website is provided on an "as is" basis.

Views expressed by the users are their own www.connectuniversities.com and its owners do not endorse the same. No claim as to the accuracy and correctness of the information on the site is made although every attempt is made to ensure that the content is not misleading. In case any inaccuracy is or otherwise improper content is sighted on the website, please report it to administrator@connectuniversities.com that is a part of www.connectuniversities.com

The portal and its owners do not admit to and disclaim all warranties, expressed or implied, with regard to any information (including any software, products, or services) provided on the portal www.connectuniversities.com , including the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Purchasing and Ordering Disclaimer

You agree and Unconditionally Accept that You Are Making Your Own Choices and Decisions:

You should look at all aspects of a product and where possible as well as actual demo model of any product or service that you are considering purchasing. Whether personal or business decisions, before making your planning or purchasing decisions contact the suppliers, service providers, store, manufacturer etc. as applicable and get full information for your self regarding any product of service and seek a demonstration thereof where possible. All decisions made would be entirely your choice and prerogative and www.connectuniversities.com does not claim to offer any advice, either legal or financial in this purchase decision of any kind what so ever.

You agree and accept that you have Read These Terms and Conditions While making your decisions and In Purchasing A Product You Understand And Agree To The Terms Laid out hereon in. If You Do Not Understand And Agree With These Terms Then Do Not Place An Order For A Product or service offered at this portal as neither the Portal nor its owners accept any responsibility of any kind what so ever or endorse or lay claim of any kind as to the product or service on offer on this portal.

All Prices Are Subject To Change Without Notice. Every Effort Has Been Made To Ensure Accurate Pricing Of The Products Featured On the Portal by the suppliers featured but In The Event A Part Or Accessory Is Ordered And The Listed Price Has Changed, You Will Be Notified Prior To your Processing Your Order. However the portal is not responsible in any way shape or form if a supplier fails to do this and the portal bears no responsibility or liability of any kind.

PURCHASE "AS IS." YOU AGREE THAT ALL PRODUCTS PURCHASED BY YOU THROUGH THIS Portal ARE on a as is where is basis and are PROVIDED UNDER WARRANTIES, IF ANY, OF THE MANUFACTURER ONLY, AND NOT BY the portal. ALL PRODUCTS ARE PROVIDED BY the portal are ON "AS IS" BASIS WITH NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND FROM www.connectuniversities.com.

Your responsibility; damage limits

You have sole responsibility for use of the products/services you purchase through this website. In no event shall the portal www.connectuniversities.com be liable to the user in relation to the products/services, or your use, misuse or inability to use the products, for any indirect, punitive, special, exemplary, incidental, or consequential damage (including loss of business, revenue, profits, use, data or other economic advantage); or direct damages in excess of the amount you paid www.connectuniversities.com for the applicable product.

YOUR REPRESENTATIONS

You represent that you are not a minor and that you are not under any legal or other disability, which limits your ability to comply with these Terms or to install and use the products, you purchase with minimal risk of harm to you or others. You further represent that you are not purchasing the products/services for resale to others and will not do so without www.connectuniversities.com prior written consent.

Use of Website

You represent, warrant and covenant that your use of the Website shall not violate any applicable local, provincial, state, national or international law, statute, ordinance, rule or regulation; interfere with or disrupt computer networks connected to the Website; impersonate any other person or entity, or make any misrepresentation as to your employment by or affiliation with any other person or entity; forge headers or in any manner manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any user information; upload, post, transmit, publish, or distribute any material or information for which you do not have all necessary rights and licenses; upload, post, transmit, publish or distribute any material which infringes, violates, breaches or otherwise contravenes the rights of any third party, including any copyright, trademark, patent, rights of privacy or publicity or any other proprietary right; interfere with or disrupt the use of the portal www.connectuniversities.com by any other user, nor "stalk", threaten, or in any manner harass another user; upload, post, transmit, publish, or distribute any material or information which contains a computer virus, or other code, files or programs intending in any manner to disrupt or interfere with the functioning of the Website, or that of other computer systems; use the portal in such a manner as to gain unauthorized entry or access to the computer systems of others; upload, post, transmit, publish or distribute any material or information which constitutes or encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to other liability, or otherwise violate applicable law; upload, post, transmit, publish, or distribute any material or information that is unlawful, or which may potentially be perceived as being harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, obscene, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable; reproduce, copy, modify, sell, store, distribute or otherwise exploit for any commercial purposes the portal, or any component thereof including but not limited to any materials or information accessible through the portal; use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Portal; or take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the portal infrastructure.

Usage of this portal and / or website is your own responsibility and is done at your own risk and www.connectuniversities.com and its owners will not be held liable by you at any time what so ever for any consequences to you or your assigns or your agents or representatives due to any kind of inaccuracies or errors or faults or omissions or exclusions that may be creep in or are contained in this portal and / or website at any time what so ever.

Under no circumstances or event, shall www.connectuniversities.com and its owners be held liable by you or any of your assigns or representatives for any unusual, extraordinary, major or minor, consequential, direct or indirect damages, or any kind of damage whatsoever that may result from loss of data or use, or profits whether due to inattention, negligence of any kind of contract or any tort action arising in connection with or out of the use or performance of the information stored and /or presented and / or obtainable or available from www.connectuniversities.com and it’s owners.

Consent to use of data

By registering with www.connectuniversities.com – powered by The Chopras, you hereby give your consent to Connect Universities using the information provided to improve and develop our services, for internal analysis. You also agree that Connect Universities shall communicate with you through text messaging, email, telephonic calls and such other modes of communication, including but not limited to social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. for updates and other matters of relevance to your study plans.


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Terms, Conditions and Consent

www.connectuniversities.com and its owners provide their services to you on terms and conditions set out in this document. Due to the nature of services provided you need to consent for us to carry out actions and to do certain things on your behalf, including passing on relevant information to universities, institutions, visa authorities and other official bodies as may be applicable to achieve closure and results on work that you need to you give us to certain people or organizations for the reasons we explain below. Please read the following carefully, and if you agree with what we have asked, please tick the box to accept these terms and conditions. If you have any questions about the contents of this document, please do not accept but send an e-mail to queries@conncetuniveristies.com or seek independent advice.

Your responsibility and obligations:

You agree that:

All information you supply will be complete, accurate and truthful;

Any essay questions or other written statements you need to do as part of any application process will be completed by you alone;

You will directly notify both www.connectuniversities.com its partners and the academic institution you are applying to immediately should any information you give us cease to be complete, accurate and truthful;

You will only use our system for the purpose of assisting with your applications to study. This includes not doing anything to interfere with the functioning of our system or anyone else's applications within the system; and

www.connectuniversities.com retain ownership of the software behind our system and that you will not take any steps to reverse engineer, decompile, translate, disassemble or discover the source code of all or part of our software.

You acknowledge that you are solely responsible for the completeness, accuracy and truthfulness of all information that you give to us.

If you are offered and accept a place on a course, you undertake to obey the Rules, Regulations, Statutes and Ordinances of the academic institution, and to ensure payment of all fees and other liabilities for the course you apply to. You understand that you are solely responsible for paying any applicable fees or other liabilities involved in applying to or undertaking the courses you choose and, in particular, that we cannot be responsible for any changes to course or fee details.

Rules governing Discussion Forum

Registration allows you to post comments on the discussion forum and we encourage you to ask questions and share experiences, good and bad, so that everyone else can learn. We do, however, insist that you abide by the rules and policies detailed below.

Although the administrators and moderators of the www.connectuniversities.com Discussion Forum will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, and neither the owners of www.connectuniversities.com or discussion forum providers of www.connectuniversities.com will be held responsible for the content of any message.

By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are blatant promotion that adds no value to the www.connectuniversities.com Discussion Forum, defamatory, motivated by racial hatred, obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise in violation of any laws.

The owners of the www.connectuniversities.com Discussion Forum reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is respected by us and the information, including personal information about you, your country of origin and first language, qualifications, profile that you provide to us will only be provided to the authorized users and partners of the portal. To the academic institutions you have nominated, to enable your application for entry to be considered by those academic institutions;

To those academic institutions referred to or to other organizations or individual research workers for statistical or research purposes, but only in an anonymous form so that you cannot be individually identified;

To any of the academic institutions referred to enable that institution to initiate your student record;

To any employer, company, institution, or authority you may have listed, to enable us or any of the academic institutions referred to in any section to verify details of your qualifications, employment or other experiences that you have described to us;

To any government agency or other party, as required by law.
In meeting any of the purposes described above, you acknowledge that we may need to send your information to other countries around the world.

If you don't supply all of the details we ask of you, we may not be able to process your applications.

You agree that we can ask any academic institution (and if requested, that you will instruct that institution) to which you are accepted, to send us information about when you commence an initial and any subsequent course of study with that institution.

If you would like to verify any of the information we hold about you, or if you have any general privacy concerns, please send an e-mail to apply@connectuniversities.com, and label the message "Attention: Privacy executive".

If at any time after we have sent your application forms to the academic institutions you have nominated, you wish to verify the information those institutions hold about you, you will need to contact the relevant institutions directly.

Liability

You acknowledge that we:

have no control over the decision of an academic institution to accept or reject your application, and we are not liable for any decision an academic institution makes about your application;

Are not responsible for the failure of any institution to consider your application promptly, properly or at all;

Cannot promise that if we enter any data for applications on your behalf, that all data we enter will be error-free or free from delays;

Cannot promise that that the web site used to submit your applications will operate error-free, or that the web site and its server are free of computer viruses or other harmful mechanisms.

In any event, to the extent permitted by law and subject to sub-clauses www.connectuniversities.com shall not be liable for any damages whatsoever resulting from the supply of our services to you or the products used to supply those services, whether based in contract, tort or any other legal theory, and regardless of any notice we have given about the possibility of such damage.

If any legislation implies terms into the supply of our services that cannot be excluded, then our liability for breach of those terms is limited to supplying our services to you again, or paying the cost of having those services supplied to you by someone else.

Jurisdiction and Disclosure

The laws of India shall apply to these terms, conditions and consent. If a dispute arises that we are unable to resolve to our mutual satisfaction, then either party may commence an action in a court of law in New Delhi India.

If we have assisted you with an application that leads to you commencing a course of study with an educational institution, that institution may pay www.connectuniversities.com a commission to help cover our costs in providing you with this service but this commission will in no way impact on your pricing.

Indemnity: The portal user and/ or his agent indemnifies the portal without limitation from any damages that may result from his / her actions and / or inputs into the Portal, including punitive damages resulting from any action or input of any kind by or of the user including advice and / or data and / or information and /or claim into the portal that may be deemed illegal and / or otherwise damaging according to the laws of India and / or the home country or adopted country or country of residence of the user and /or his / her agent. While the Portal allows for inputs by its users it is the responsibility of the user to ensure that any and all such inputs are accurate, useful, intended to benefit users and are within the laws and are not defamatory or damaging in any way shape or form.

Acceptance by the User

I agree to be bound by the terms and conditions contained on this form, and I give the consents which have been sought in this form, including consent to deal with my personal information in the ways described in this form.

In the event that any or a part of the provisions of these Terms and conditions are held unsound, or invalid, illegal or otherwise unenforceable by a Court of Law, such provision shall be deemed amended such that it is held to be valid, legal and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, and the remaining provisions of these Terms shall remain in full force and effect. These Terms are binding upon you and your assigns, successors, representatives and heirs. The headings of the several articles and subdivisions of these Terms are inserted solely for the convenience of reference and shall have no further meaning, force or effect. No third party shall be a beneficiary of any provision of these Terms, except with the express written consent of the owners of the portal.