User Agreement for SeekersGuidance Global Courses
Welcome to SeekersGuidance.org
This User Agreement (the "Agreement") describes the terms and
conditions on which SeekersGuidance Global (a.k.a. SeekersGuidance or SeekersGuidance)
offers you to be a participant in the Distance Learning course on the website.
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS. AFTER READING THESE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS, & YOU HAVE UNDERSTOOD AND ACCEPTED THEM, FEEL FREE TO
PARTICIPATE IN THE FORUM AND DOWNLOAD THE AUDIO; THEREUPON, YOU WILL BE DEEMED
TO HAVE AGREED TO BE BOUND BY THE SAID TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND TO FAITHFULLY
COMPLY WITH THE SAME. However. if you have any questions about this Agreement,
email SeekersGuidance at help@SeekersGuidance.org
1. Registration. Information required upon registration for each participant on
SeekersGuidance.org must be accurate and complete. You must update such
information as needed in order to ensure that the information remains to be
accurate and complete.
2. Use of Member ID and Password. SeekersGuidance assumes that all activities
made using your Member ID and password are by you. Do not allow others to access
your account.
3. Posting of Messages. Upon registration of a course on SeekersGuidance, SeekersGuidance
allows you to post a message in the SeekersForum in a number of forms, such as
your opinion about any of the topics in the SeekersForum, questions about the
course content, and comments to other people's questions or messages.
4. License. By participating in the SeekersForum, you agree that SeekersGuidance
shall have complete ownership of and unlimited and irrevocable rights
(including economic, moral and all other rights that may exist in such
material) and license to use, display, publish or communicate to the public,
permit others (including without limitation SeekersGuidance co-brand partners)
to publish, the Messages, online and offline, for a fee or otherwise, in whole
or in part, throughout the world and in any form, media, or technology now
known or later developed without need of any notice, remuneration,
compensation, royalties or attribution to you. Nothing herein, however, shall
permit SeekersGuidance to use the name of the user, or the title of his work,
or otherwise to make use of his reputation with respect to any version or
adaptation of his Messages which, because of alterations therein, would
substantially tend to injure his literary or artistic reputation, or to use the
name of the user with respect to a Message he did not create or post.
5. User Conduct
a. You agree not to provide any Messages to the SeekersForum that (a) infringes
any third-party intellectual property or publicity/privacy rights, (b) is
knowingly false, and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful,
harassing, obscene, profane, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or
otherwise violative of any law or regulation, (c) contains any viruses, Trojan
horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or other computer programming routines
that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously
intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information, and (d) promotes
piracy.
b. As each forum is specifically tailored to address certain course material,
you are responsible for identifying in the title which audio your question is
regarding. You should stay on-topic at all times, and clearly identify what
requires further clarification.
c. You agree not to post several questions within the body of one email message
to the forum. Please also create a separate thread for each question that you
have regarding the course material.
d. You agree not to disrupt the normal flow of dialogue or “flood,” cause a
screen to "scroll" faster than other users of the Service are able to
type, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users' ability
to engage in real time exchanges during live sessions.
e. You agree not to use the SeekersForum to either advertise or promote
commercial endeavors, which includes direct posts as well as active links to
other sites on the Internet, without permission from the SeekersGuidance
Administrator. All such requests for permission should be directed through
help@seekersguidance.com You may, however, include URLs or active links to
commercial sites, reasonable in number, only for the sole purpose of expanding
on comments or providing additional information as part of regular forum
interactions.
f. You agree that you will not incorporate any word in your name, Message ID or
custom user title that is defamatory, obscene or profane, or which violates any
trademark, service mark, or other proprietary/intellectual property rights of
any third party, including, without limitation, that of SeekersGuidance.org
g. "Impersonation," or assuming the character of another member by
copying his username and manner of writing, is not allowed.
h. "Flaming," or lashing out at other participants is strictly
forbidden. Proper etiquette/ adab is required for participation in SeekersGuidance.org
i. "Spamming," or sending unsolicited electronic junk mail or junk
newsgroup postings, in any form, is strictly forbidden.
j. "Trolling," or posting insulting or deliberately divisive
threads/replies for the purpose of (1) harvesting retaliatory insults and
flames, or (2) throwing off the balance of the forum, is also disallowed.
k. Posting in textspeak or SMS lingo is strictly prohibited. Members must spell
their words completely and correctly.
l. Students agree to abide by the copyright over all audio posted for this
course: © Copyright 2008: SeekersGuidance.org (www.SeekersGuidance.org)
Support Islamic media & scholarship. This audio is protected by copyright.
Please don't reproduce, transmit, or distribute in any way without explicit
written permission. Jazakum Allahu khayr.
6. Content Filtering.
a. SeekersGuidance reserves the right to edit, delete, or prune any and all
Messages which, in its sole opinion, violates any of the terms and conditions
of this Agreement.
b. SeekersGuidance may elect, at its sole discretion, to monitor some, all, or
no areas of SeekersGuidance.org for adherence to these terms and conditions or
SeekersGuidance.org policies and guidelines. Moderators of SeekersGuidance
control individual forums. Questions about a particular forum should be
directed to the respective forum moderator or course instructor.
Any user who feels that a Message is objectionable may request SeekersGuidance
to delete said Message by email through help@SeekersGuidance.com. Upon receipt
of such a request, SeekersGuidance will determine, in its sole opinion, if such
deletion is necessary. If deemed necessary, SeekersGuidance will make every
effort to do so, within a reasonable period.
d. SeekersGuidance does not endorse or recommend any of the opinions or ideas
contributed by its users. However, SeekersGuidance permits others to make
judgments about your Messages.
e. SeekersGuidance is not responsible for any and all Messages expressed in the
SeekersForum. SeekersGuidance does not attempt to control or validate any
comments or recommendations provided by the participants and is not responsible
for any inaccuracies in the Messages. Therefore, you bear the risk associated
with, the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of the Messages.
f. Information contained in the SeekersGuidance Forum, including but not
limited to those relating to law or medicine or other fields, is not intended
to substitute for the advice or opinion of your own lawyer or physician or
professional/ religious adviser. You agree not to rely solely on any of the
advice or opinion expressed. Under no circumstances, including but not limited
to negligence, shall SeekersGuidance be liable for any reliance on any such
information, nor shall SeekersGuidance be liable for any direct, incidental,
special, consequential, indirect or punitive damages that result from the use
of, or inability to use, the information in SeekersGuidance.org
7. User Privacy.
a. SeekersGuidance.org collects information during the registration process to
operate the site ("Registration Information"). It collects
non-personally identifiable information (often referred to as demographic
information). You may update your Registration Information any time by clicking
the "Settings" link found on the horizontal black bar on the upper part
of any SeekersGuidance page.
b. Your Registration Information is used only for demographic statistics. SeekersGuidance
keeps all of your Personal Information private and does not share it with any
third parties. SeekersGuidance will not disclose your Personal Information
unless acting under a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1)
conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process; (2) protect and
defend the rights or property of SeekersGuidance; (3) enforce the User
Agreement; or (4) act to protect the interests of its members or others.
c. SeekersGuidance will not send you any unsolicited information, including
e-mail, unless you choose otherwise. SeekersGuidance may also send periodic
member letters to announce important service changes, new features, and
technical issue updates.
d. If at any time you believe that SeekersGuidance has not adhered to these
principles, please notify us by e-mail at help@SeekersGuidance.org and we will
use all reasonable efforts to promptly determine and correct the problem. If
you have questions about this policy, please e-mail us at
help@SeekersGuidance.org
8. Parental Supervision. SeekersGuidance encourages parents to monitor their
children who are under 16 years of age. While content is moderated to filter
objectionable posts, some topics may still not be suitable for children.
9. Limitation of Use. SeekersGuidance reserves the right to limit the use of
SeekersForum to any individual or group at any time.
10. No Warranty.
a. SeekersGuidance disclaims any and all responsibility or liability for the
accuracy, content, completeness, legality, reliability, or operability or
availability of information or material in the SeekersForum.
b. SeekersGuidance disclaims any responsibility for the deletion, failure to
store, misdelivery, or untimely delivery of Messages.
c. SeekersGuidance disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from
downloading or accessing any information or material through SeekersGuidance.org
d. The SeekersGuidance.org web site and services are provided "as
is," and SeekersGuidance and its co-brand partners expressly disclaim all
warranties or conditions of any kind (whether express, implied or statutory),
including without limitation the implied warranties of title, non-infringement,
and fitness for a particular purpose. Without limiting the foregoing, SeekersGuidance
does not promise or warrant to you that any aspect of the web site and system
will work properly or will be available continuously.
11. No Liability. In no event shall SeekersGuidance be liable to any party for
any loss or damage, including but not limited to lost revenues or profits or
special, indirect, incidental or consequential damages (howsoever arising,
including negligence) arising out of or in connection with the SeekersGuidance.org
website, its services or this Agreement.
12. Access Limits. Without the prior written consent of SeekersGuidance, you
may not (a) use any automated means to access the site or collect any
information from the SeekersGuidance.org website (including without limitation
robots, spiders or scripts), or (b) frame the site, place pop-up windows over
its pages, or otherwise affect the display of its pages, (c) reprint, reproduce
or use the forum messages or course audio in part or as a whole.
13. Services, Fees and Charges. SeekersGuidance reserves the right to modify
the services offered by SeekersGuidance.org from time to time, with or without
notice, including the right to terminate such services.
14. Amendments. SeekersGuidance reserves the right to amend any of the terms
and conditions of this Agreement at any time. Such amended terms and conditions
shall be effective when posted at the SeekersGuidance.org website.
15. Termination. SeekersGuidance reserves the right to terminate your use of
the forum itself on SeekersGuidance.org at anytime, with or without notice.
Following termination, at its sole option, SeekersGuidance may remove some or
all of your Messages from the SeekersGuidance.org website or leave it available
for public review, without need of notice or approval from you.
16. Copyright. Students are not permitted to make copies (for other than their
own personal use) of the mp3 files they download from SeekersGuidance, nor are
they permitted to upload the files to any other website/ program. Do not
distribute the audio to others, whether they be friends or family. Please
respect the copyright rules of SeekersGuidance.org