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Effective: May 1, 2023.
Welcome to OWLearn, the website “owlearn.org” of Prof. Dr. Tobias Guggemos (“OWLearn”, “us”, “we” or “our”). This page explains the terms and conditions (“Terms”) which govern your use of our website, online and other products and services (“Services”). By accessing or using our Services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms. This agreement applies to all users, visitors and others who have access to our Services. Please read these Terms carefully and make sure that you understand each section.
1. Using our Services
OWLearn provides an online interactive learning platform for taking management and business courses including a social platform to interact with other users and course instructors.
Eligibility:
To use our Services, you must:
Any violation of our Terms, applicable laws or policies may lead to suspension, deactivation or termination of your access to our Services.
License:
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a non-exclusive, limited, non-transferable, freely revocable license to use our Services only for your personal, non-commercial use. Using our Services does not give you any intellectual property rights in or ownership of our Services or the content you access. It is not permitted for you to duplicate, copy, distribute, sell, resell, publicly display or otherwise misuse any learning content provided by OWLearn. All materials on this platform, including, but not limited to, the software, design, text, graphics, and other files, are the property of the platform or its licensors and are protected by copyright laws. We may terminate this license at any time for any reason or no reason.
User conduct:
You agree to use our platform only for lawful purposes and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of others or restrict or inhibit their use of the platform. You agree to comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations governing your use of our platform.
User account:
Your OWLearn account gives you access to our Services. You agree that you will not share access to your account or access information for your account with any third party. When you create your user account, you must provide accurate and complete information. You agree to update your information. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account login information. You are solely responsible for all activities that occur under your account. You are required to inform OWLearn instantly of any security breach or unauthorized use of your account. OWLearn will not be liable for any losses caused by unauthorized use of your account.
By providing OWLearn with your email address, you agree that we may use the email address to send you messages related to our Services. If you do not want to receive such email communications, you may opt out. Opting out will prevent you from receiving email notifications about updates, enhancements or offers.
Content:
OWLearn provides multimedia courses and other learning content. We reserve the right to change, cancel, interrupt or postpone any learning offers. We may stop providing our Services without any previous indication.
We are constantly expanding, improving and changing our Services. We may add or remove features and functions on our platform at any time.
You are solely and exclusively responsible for your interactions with other users on this platform. OWLearn is not liable for the actions or inactions of any user.
2. User Content
Our Services allow you to post and share content such as comments, questions, posts you make in the forums, assignments, profile information and similar with course instructors and/or other users (“User Content”). You retain all ownership and intellectual property rights in the User Content that you create and share. User Content does not include course content provided by OWLearn or course instructors. By sharing User Content on the OWLearn platform, you agree on granting other users and course instructors permission to view and share your User Content in compliance with your settings and this Terms. We reserve the rights to publicly display User Content.
You are responsible for the User Content that you create and share. We may remove inappropriate User Content. We also may temporarily or permanently suspend a user’s access to our Services. OWLearn reserves the right, but is not obligated, to remove User Content that violates these Terms. You agree to use our platform only for lawful purposes and in a way that does not infringe the rights of others (other users or any third party) or restrict or inhibit their use of the platform.
We fully support free speech and expression for our users as well as academic freedom for our course instructors. We also want that all our users and course instructors feel safe and comfortable on our platform. You agree not to post User Content that:
3. Research purposes
OWLearn reserves the right to use records of your participation and activities in our courses for educational research. As part of this research, we may suggest different learning content offerings to you. Research results are published on an aggregate basis. Your personal identity will not be publicly reported in the research results.
4. Paid Services
Some of our services may be provided for a fee. OWLearn has the right to add new services for additional fees or to change the fees for our existing Services.
Subscriptions:
Our subscriptions automatically renew using the payment information you have provided for your account. If you buy a subscription, you agree that we are authorized to use the payment information you have provided for the renewal fee. Unless you cancel, your subscription will renew monthly or annually on the same day of the month or year in which you made the initial purchase. You may cancel our paid Services at any time. This will prevent any further subscription fees from being charged to your account.
No refunds:
There are no refunds. In particular, there are no partial or pro-rata refunds in case of cancellation. All cancellations by users will become effective at the end of the current monthly or annual billing period. As you will not receive a refund, you will continue to have access to your subscription for the remainder of the current billing period after cancellation. If OWLearn deactivates, locks or terminates your account due to a breach to these Terms, you agree that you will not receive any refund or exchange for any subscription fees, any content or data related to your account, or anything else.
Payment details:
All information you provide as part of a purchase must be correct, current and complete. You agree that you have to pay all fees at the rates in effect at the time the fees are charged.
5. Disclaimers
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Services are provided “as is” without warranties of any kind, whether expressed or implied. This includes, but is not limited to, all warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of our platform or the information, content, materials, or products included on our platform. You expressly agree that your use of our Services is at your own risk. We disclaim all warranties related to your use of our Services. We do not guarantee that our Services meet your needs, are available at any time and location, are without errors, are secure or free of harmful components such as viruses. Any downloaded content is downloaded at your own risk. You are solely responsible for any damage to your devices or loss of data resulting from downloads or any other use of our Services. Further, we do not guarantee that your use of our Services will lead to your desired learning outcomes.
6. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, OWLearn shall not be liable for any direct or indirect, incidential, special or consequential damages, including, but not limited to, any loss of revenues or profits, any loss of data or other intangible losses arising out of or in any way connected with your use or misuse of our Services.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, OWLearn shall not be liable for any errors of content published on the platform, emailed or otherwise made available via our Services, for any interruption of our Services, for any User Content, or any viruses, trojan horses or similar spread by third parties in the context of our Services.
7. Third-party links and content
Our Services may contain links to third-party websites, including, but not limited to, job and all other advertisements, that are not under the ownership or control of OWLearn. We disclaim any responsibility for these third-party websites or your use of them. If you access a third-party site, you agree that you do so at your own risk.
8. Right of withdrawal for European users
If you have a right of withdrawal according to the relevant laws in your country, including the applicable laws of the European Union, then the following withdrawal policy applies to you:
Right of withdrawal
You have the right to cancel this contract within fourteen days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period is fourteen days from the date of conclusion of the contract.
In order to exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us (Prof. Dr. Tobias Guggemos, OWLearn, owlearn.official@gmail.com) by means of a clear declaration (e.g. an e-mail or via contact form: owlearn.org/contact) of your decision to withdraw from this contract. You can use the model withdrawal form provided below for this purpose, which is, however, not mandatory.
To comply with the withdrawal period, it is sufficient that you send the notification of the exercise of the right of withdrawal before the expiry of the withdrawal period.
Model Withdrawal Form:
Only If you want to withdraw from the contract, please fill out and return this form.
– To [Prof. Dr. Tobias Guggemos, OWLearn.org, owlearn.official@gmail.com]:
– I/we hereby withdraw from the contract concluded by me/us for the provision of the following service
– Ordered on/received on
– Name of the consumer(s)
– Address of consumer(s)
– Signature of the consumer(s) (only in case of notification on paper)
– Date
Consequences of the withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we shall reimburse you for all payments we have received from you, including delivery costs (with the exception of additional costs resulting from the fact that you have chosen a type of delivery other than the most favorable standard delivery offered by us), without undue delay and no later than within fourteen days from the day on which we received the notification of your withdrawal from this contract. For this repayment, we will use the same means of payment that you used for the original transaction, unless expressly agreed otherwise with you; in no case will you be charged for this repayment.
If you have requested that our Services begin during the withdrawal period, you shall pay us a reasonable amount corresponding to the proportion of the services already provided up to the time you notify us of the exercise of the right of withdrawal with respect to this contract compared to the total scope of the Services provided for under the contract.
9. General terms
We reserve the right to review, edit and update these Terms from time to time. Therefore, you should check this page periodically. Any changes made to these Terms will be effective immediately after we publish them. Your continued use of our Services after such changes are published, regardless of whether you are notified or not, will indicate your mandatory acceptance of the updated Terms.
If any specific provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, this invalidity of such provision will not have any effect on the remaining provisions of these Terms. If you do not comply with these Terms and we do not immediately act, this does not mean that we waive any rights (for example, future action).
10. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless OWLearn, its contributors and content providers from and against any and all claims, liabilities, debt, losses, expenses, obligations and damages, including but not limited to attorney’s fees, resulting from or relating to:
11. Governing law
The Services are managed by Prof. Dr. Tobias Guggemos, located in Germany (Stuttgart area as well as Fulda). You agree that these Terms are governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Germany.
12. Entire agreement
These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and us and supersede all prior agreements or understandings, whether written or oral, relating to your use of our platform.
In case of questions or for legal notices please mail us using our contact form (Contact).
Our website address is: https://owlearn.org.
OWLearn provides an online interactive learning platform for taking management and business courses including a social platform to interact with other users and course instructors.
OWLearn was founded and is managed by Prof. Dr. Tobias Guggemos.
For contact, please use the contact form or our email address: owlearn.official@gmail.com.
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
We collect information about you during the course purchase process (PayPal and/or Stripe), as well as information relating to your course progression and quiz performance.
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide email address. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
–Send you information about your account and order
–Create your account for our LMS
If you register a free account then we will store your email address.
We store information about you for as long as your account exists.
We store course progress, including completion status, quiz scores, assignments and/or essay submissions (if applicable).
We will also store comments on courses, lessons, topics, assignments, and essays if you choose to leave them.
Only Prof. Dr. Tobias Guggemos, founder of OWLearn.org, has access to the information you provide us.
We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you.
The company SWEET CODE CHEF SL. GamiPress (“Gamipress”) provides us services to offer leaderboards, points and awards for certain user activities on this platform. Gamipress may collect data related to users’ activities on the website, such as information about their points, ranks, achievements, badges and activities. This includes information about enrolled courses, course progress and activities within the social community for which points are rewarded. This also includes data such as usernames, email addresses, IP addresses.
Please see the Gamipress Privacy Policy for more details.
The company Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (“Zoom”) provides us services to offer webinars and livestreams on our platform. Zoom may collect data related to the participants of such webinars and livestreams, such as display name, picture, email address, stated locale, or other information provided by the participant. This may also include usage information regarding meetings, webinars and messaging.
Please see the Zoom Privacy Statement for more details.
The company Xecurify Inc (DBA miniOrange Security Software Private Limited) (“miniOrange”) provides us services to offer Social Login. Using Social Login, users can log in to our website using their social media accounts such as Google and LinkedIn. The company miniOrange may collect data related to users’ login to our website. This includes personal information for authentication purposes, such as email, first name and last name. This may also include device specific information. Personal data is passed on to Google and LinkedIn for authentication purposes.
Please see the miniOrange Privacy Policy for more details.
The company OneSignal, Inc., (“OneSignal”) provides us services to offer web push notifications. Users can sign up for push notifications. This is done via a visible opt-in popup or notification that asks the user to agree to push notifications. Once a user has agreed to push notifications, OneSignal generates a unique token for that user that is used to deliver notifications. This token is normally captured in the background and sent to the OneSignal server. Once user tokens are captured, notifications can be sent to those users. Push tokens are generally not considered personally identifiable information data since you can’t share a push token with someone else and have it be used to reach that person or to determine anything about that person. However, data is shared with OneSignal for the purposes of sending personalized or targeted notifications. This may include first session time, last session time, session count, total usage duration, device information, time zone and location, amongst others. Please see One Signal Data Collection details for more details. OneSignal does not handle personally identifiable information or EU and UK personal data. OneSignal will not collect IP addresses from all EU and UK users.
Please see the OneSignal Data Handling and Security Policies for more details.
The company Google Ireland Limited (“Google”) provides us the services “Google Analytics” and access to data such as our website’s visitor statistics, search queries, page views and other analytics-related information. We use web analytics to improve our website and Services for a better customer experience. Google may collect the following information: number of users, sessions statistics, approximate location information, browser and device information. This may include without limitations data related to user clicks (when a user clicks on a link to another domain), file downloads of ours users on our website if applicable, first visit of a user on our website, a user starts interacting with or submits a form, page views of a user, a user scrolls the website (a user reaches the bottom of the page for the first time, i.e., a vertical depth of 90% becomes visible), a user starts a session, search results (a user performs a search on our website), user engagement (web page is in focus for at least one second).
Please see the Google Privacy Policies for more details.
Our technological infrastructure and website is built on services provided by the company Aut O’Mattic A8C Ireland Ltd. (“Automattic”). Automattic provides us services for website design and feature creation. This company may collect information that our website visitors provide to our site, such as contact form submission, a search query, site registration, responses to surveys and other information that are required for a poll/survey response, like an e-mail address. Automattic may also collect technical data from our website visitors’ computers and location information, e. g. to tally how many people visit our website from certain geographic regions. We use the services of Automattic to, among other things, create and manage our website, sell our Services, flag and fight comments from spammers and collect information through polls and other surveys. Automattic may also use and share information that has been aggregated or anonymized, e. g., publish aggregate statistics about the use of our Services.
Please see the Automattic Privacy Notice for more details.
We accept payments through PayPal and Stripe. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal or Stripe including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
Please see the Stripe Privacy Policy for more details.
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
We may process and store personal data about your interactions using xAPI. We use the data to learn about how well the interactions are designed and how it could be adapted to improve the usability and your learning outcomes. The data is processed and stored on our platform until further notice.
We may store the results of your interactions on our platform until further notice. The results may contain your score, the maximum score possible, when you started, when you finished, and how much time you used. We use the results to learn about how well you performed and to help us give you feedback.
We may store interactive content that you create on our platform. We also may send anonymized reports about content creation without any personal data to the plugin creators. Please consult the H5P tracking information page for details.
If you use interactive content that contains a video that is hosted on YouTube, YouTube will set cookies on your computer. YouTube uses these cookies to help them and their partners to analyze the traffic to their websites. Please consult Google’s Privacy policy for details. It is our legitimate interest to use YouTube, because we we need their services for our interactive content and would not be able to provide you with their video content features otherwise.
If you use interactive content that contains a Twitter feed, Twitter will set a cookie on your computer. Twitter uses these cookies to help them and their partners to make their advertizing more relevant to you. Please consult Twitter’s Privacy policy for details. It is our legitimate interest to use Twitter, because we need their services for our interactive content and would not be able to provide you with it otherwise.
If you use interactive content that contains speech recognition, Google Cloud will process your voice for converting it to text. Please consult Google’s Privacy policy for details. It is our legitimate interest to use Google Cloud, because we we need their services for our interactive content and would not be able to provide you with speech recognition features otherwise.