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They can now access their course books as per their convenience, from anywhere, on any device.
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If you are agree with all the terms & conditions of this Agreement then click "Accept"/download/copy/install/use/open the Product/Application. Else, if you do not agree to any/all of the terms & conditions of this Agreement, kindly click "decline" button/ do not download/copy/install/use/open the Product/Application or do not conduct any such act which will amounts to be considered as usage of the Product/Application. By downloading, installing, copying, accessing or using the Product/Application, You agree to this Agreement and in the event You are accepting this Agreement on behalf of another person or other legal entity, You represent and warrant that You have full authority to bind that person or legal entity to this Agreement.
By using the Services, you represent that you: (1) have read and understood the terms; (2) agree to use the Services in compliance with this EULA, all applicable local, state, national, and international laws and regulations, and the academic rules or policies of your Institution; and (3) are an Authorized User. You may not use the Services if you do not agree with the EULA or if you are not an Authorized User. If you have any questions about this EULA, please contact us legalteamindia@pearson.com
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term Confidential Information does not include information that is:
Confidential Information shall also include; (i) Proprietary Information and (ii) Intellectual Property provided by one Party to the other for performance of the obligations under this Agreement.
Pearson may make changes to this EULA from time to time for any reason. Typically, these changes are made to conform to current practices, comply with changing regulatory requirements, or other similar purposes. If Pearson modifies this EULA in a manner that materially changes the terms or scope of the Services made available to you ("Service Change"), we will make reasonable efforts to notify you by either contacting you via email or posting reasonable notice in connection with the Services to alert you to such changes. Your continued use of the Services after reasonable notice of such changes to the EULA has been provided will constitute your consent to the revised EULA terms, which shall apply to any use of the Services following reasonable notice. If you deem any Service Change to have a material impact on you, you: (i) must so notify Pearson at legalteamindia@pearson.com within thirty days after receiving notice of such change; and (ii) may terminate your Subscription and your use of the Services. If you have any questions about this EULA, please contact us at legalteamindia@pearson.com
The Services are available only to such End User or individuals, including but not limited to administrators or other representatives of Institutions, and students, who have gained lawful access to the Services directly from Pearson or its Third-Party Service provider or through the Institution with which such individual is affiliated ("Authorized User"). In order to initiate access certain Services, you may be required to register for a user account ("User Account") by providing your first name, last name, age, valid email address (and in the case of Enrollments, your Institution and Course name or code), and designating a secret and unique username and password ("Account Credentials"), as well as any additional information that may be required by your Institution. In some cases, your User Account may already be established for you by your Institution, or by way of direct access from an integrated Third-Party Service, such as a learning management system, each of which may have additional terms of use or req
uirements for account access. Pearson may use your Account Credentials to validate your account prior to providing access to the Services each time you access the Services.
You may have only one active User Account at any given time. You agree to provide accurate and truthful information when creating a User Account and to promptly update such information should it change.
You may not self-register for or otherwise access the Services if you have not attained the age of majority as per the local laws of your jurisdiction or unless your Institution or parent has established an account or registered on your behalf. If you are under the age majority pursuant to the laws in your jurisdiction (typically under the age of 18), you may not register or use the Services without first obtaining permission from your parent or guardian. However, if you are under the applicable age of majority and enrolled at an institution of higher education, you may self-register for the Services.
You understand and acknowledge that the administrators associated with your Institution or a Third-Party Service may have access to your User Account and may suspend, modify or terminate your User Account and/or your access to the Services at any time and for any reason.
By creating, posting, uploading, or linking to User Content, You grant to Pearson a perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide right and license to use, host, license, store, reproduce, display, transmit, adapt, and distribute such User Content and any derivative works created from such User Content (such as those resulting from changes we make so that your User Content works better with the Services) in connection with the Services. Further, you acknowledge and agree that your User Content shall be available to other users on the same terms as granted by you to Pearson under this EULA and specifically this Section 5. Pearson shall not be responsible or liable for the deletion, destruction, damage, loss, or failure to store any User Content. By posting User Content that is owned by third parties, you represent that you have been granted the right to grant to Pearson the right to make such User Content available to users to the same extent as the Materials provided with the Services. You agree to provide proper copyright notices in connection with any User Content in which you or a third party assert a right of copyright. Additional terms and options may be presented through the user interface available on the Services for posting or uploading User Content, which shall supplement and have the same force and effect as the terms of this EULA.
You understand that the Services: (1) need Internet access to work; (2) may occasionally be offline for maintenance or emergencies; and (3) have features and functionality that may change over time. The scope and availability of the Services may vary according to: (1) additional terms presented at the time of purchase or registration; (2) enrollment in or registration for a specific Course or Service; and/or (3) any licensing terms between Pearson and your Institution. Pearson is not responsible for limitations of access resulting from any Third-Party Service or as the result of certain account settings established by your Institution.
You are responsible for obtaining Internet access in order to use the Services. You may access a Course available through the Services only for the duration of the Subscription purchased (typically one or two semesters depending on the Course), whether or not the Services are used, and subject to Pearson's right to terminate access under this EULA. Institution access may be provided for a different time period.
While Pearson makes reasonable efforts to ensure the availability of the Services to Authorized Users with active Subscriptions, the Services may be unavailable for limited periods of time due to scheduled routine maintenance, emergency maintenance or factors beyond Pearson's control, or due to Force Majeure conditions, such as disruptions of Internet services or unforeseen threats to the integrity or security of the Services.
Pearson may at any time, with or without notice to you, restrict the use and accessibility of the Services and/or discontinue any portion, feature, or content of the Services. Pearson will make reasonable efforts to provide Authorized Users with active Subscriptions notice of significant changes to the Services whenever reasonably feasible and provide alternative materials or services if substantial portions of the Services become unavailable.
End User shall use the Product/ Application as per the terms and conditions of the Agreement and of related agreements and shall not:
The price mentioned at the Product/ Application is the Maximum Retail Price (MRP) which is inclusive of all taxes, as applicable at that time. However, imposition of any other charges, in the coming future, by the State/ Central Government on the Product/ Application which is not inclusive in the price mentioned at the Product/ Application shall be borne by the End User and the company shall not be liable for the same. End user shall be responsible to bear any and all other charges in relation to the Product/Application.
It is agreed between the Parties that in the event the performance by the Company is prevented, interrupted or hindered in consequence of an Force Majeure Event, the obligations of the Company under this Agreement shall be wholly or partly suspended during the continuance and to the extent of such prevention, interruption or hindrance and it shall not to be deemed to be breach of this Agreement and/or related agreements by the Company. If the period of prevention, interruption or hindrance exceeds 30 (thirty) days then this Agreement shall automatically stand terminated unless the Parties agree to otherwise in writing. Termination pursuant to this clause shall be without prejudice to any accrued rights or remedies of the Company (including its right to claim and recover money losses/damages and other rights and remedies, which it may have in law or contract) in respect of the exercise of rights and the obligation performed prior to or not in relation to occurrence of such Force Majeure Event.
All disputes, differences, claims and questions whatsoever, which may arise either during the subsistence of this Agreement or afterwards between the Parties hereto and/or their respective representatives or any clause or anything contained herein or otherwise in any way relating to or arising from these presents or the interpretation of any provision contained herein shall be in the first place settled by mutual discussions between the Parties. However, if the Parties fail to settle the dispute, the same shall be referred to and settled by arbitration in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 or any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof (‘Act"’) for the time being in force. The arbitration will be conducted by a sole arbitrator who shall be mutually appointed by the Parties. In case of disagreement over the appointment of the sole arbitrator, the sole arbitrator shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions of the Act. The seat of arbitration shall be held at New Delhi and be conducted in English language. Any award made in such arbitration shall be binding on the Parties. The Parties shall bear the costs of arbitration equally.
This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of India. Nothing contained in this clause will preclude either Party from applying for and obtaining any injunctive, prohibitory or other similar urgent or interim relief from a competent court of law, for which the courts at New Delhi, shall have exclusive jurisdiction.
This EULA is personal to you, and you may not assign, transfer or delegate your User Account or your rights or obligations under this EULA (also known as "Terms") to anyone. Pearson may assign or delegate its rights or obligations under the Terms, in whole or in part, subject to Pearson's right and obligations under the Terms and any agreement it may have with your Institution. In the event that any provision of the Terms is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason, the remainder of the Terms shall remain valid and enforceable according to its terms. The Terms comprise the entire agreement between Pearson and you with respect to the Services and cannot be modified by you absent a signed written agreement. Section headings and summaries in the Terms are for your convenience only and do not have any legal meaning or effect. If Pearson waives or fails to enforce any term or condition of the Terms on any one or more occasions, whether by conduct or otherwise, its waiver or failure to enforce such terms will not prevent Pearson from enforcing any terms or condition of the Terms at any other time. It is the express wish of the parties that the Terms and all related documents be drawn up in English.
Please read our privacy policy as it explains how your personal information will be used by Pearson.
At Pearson, we know that you care how your personal information is used and we appreciate that you trust us to do that carefully and sensibly.
This Privacy Policy is designed to help you to understand how we and our other group companies collect and use your personal information. We want you to make informed decisions when using our websites and any features on them, including any registration and e-commerce services.
This Privacy Policy applies to all the pages on our sites and any features of them and any e- commerce, purchasing or other areas which require registration. However, it won’t apply to any third-party sites which are linked to our sites. We recommend that you read the privacy policy of any such sites that you visit and intent to use as we are not responsible for them.
When we refer to our website or sites, we mean any of our websites from which you have accessed this Privacy Policy.
We have included full details of who we are at the end of this Privacy Policy.
Our customers are educational institutions, such as schools and colleges, who use our sites or services in their institutions. Our customers choose to let their students/learners and teachers use our sites or services.
Users include, but are not limited to, all customers, students/learners and teachers that access or use our sites or services.
Customers who use our sites or services must give us the necessary consent (in accordance with relevant privacy legislation) to upload personal information about them or their students/learners and teachers to the site or service. Customers must also ensure that any personal information they upload is accurate.
If you have any doubt whether you have consent to upload the personal information, please do not use our sites or services.
If you are a customer, you are also required to maintain appropriate technical and organisational measures against unauthorised or unlawful processing of that personal information and against accidental loss, theft, destruction of or damage to that personal information. Passwords and user names for our sites or services should not be written down or shared.
Legally, Pearson and the customer are both responsible parties in relation to the personal information that is uploaded, collected and used by our sites and services. This means that Pearson and the customer are joint responsible parties. A “responsible party” is “a public or private body or any other person which, alone or in conjunction with others, determines the purpose of and means for processing the personal information”.
Personal information that we collect may include your name, contact details (phone numbers, email addresses and addresses), your date of birth, gender, job, educational institution, course/grade information, academic results, your personal interests, credit card or billing information, shopping selections and data about the pages you visit on our site, as well as any other personal information relating to you or a third party that you supply to us.
We collect your information in three ways:
In a separate automatic operation the web server will collect your IP address and browser type and details of the website, mobile application or email communication you came from before entering our site. This information is used to:
We may from time to time supply this data to third parties in an anonymized form in order to use the same in connection with our site.
We including our group companies may use your personal information to process your online purchases, to inform you about products and services offered by us, to improve the products and services offered to you, for efficacy, performance and/or market research purposes, for marketing, statistical or analytical purposes, and otherwise to better meet the needs and preferences of our customers. We will not allow any unrelated third parties to use your personal information for marketing or any other purpose without your consent.
In particular, we may use your information to:
We also use personal information in aggregate form (so that no individual user is identified by name) to build marketing profiles, audit how our sites are used, and to help with the strategic development of our sites.
Participation in surveys and discussion forums is entirely voluntary. You may unsubscribe from being contacted for these purposes at any time. Survey information will be used for efficacy, performance and/or market research with the aim of improving our services.
We will show your username on any content you submit or post on our sites (including without limitation discussions, bulletin boards and forums).
We will not send you marketing emails unless you have opted in for receiving them. Any marketing emails we send you will include an unsubscribe link at the end of the email. Some Pearson sites also provide contact details you may use if you want to contact us by email, post or telephone in order to unsubscribe. In addition, some Pearson sites have a "My Account" page where you can choose whether or not to receive marketing communications from us.
We seek to protect the safety of all your personal information, provided your browser accepts Secure Sockets Layer encryption, we seek to protect your payment information against unauthorised access through a secure server. Where we use third parties to process personal information, we require them to ensure the safety of your information. We use appropriate security measures on our own systems, but the internet is not a secure medium and we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted via the internet.
Any personal information that you voluntarily post on a public area of our site, such as a bulletin board or discussion forum, or an interactive area requiring registration and/or subscription, may be collected and used by others. Please be careful what personal information you disclose in this way. You understand that we cannot control the actions of other users.
We will never sell your personal information. We may disclose and share personal information with the third parties listed below. Because the internet is a global environment, you accept and agree that this will include the transfer of your personal information to other countries around the world, including countries outside of the Republic of India which may not have the same data protection laws as India. We may share your personal information:
If you are under 18, please be sure to read this Privacy Policy with your parent or guardian and ask them questions about anything you don’t understand and site/services been accessed by them on your behalf.
This Web Site is operated in India however shall be hosted through a hub which can be outside India. If you are located outside India, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to India. By using Pearson portal, participating in any of our services and/or providing us with your information, you are consenting to this transfer.
Any improper collection or misuse of personal information is in violation of this Privacy Policy and of our Legal Notice. Please report it by emailing legalteamindia@pearson.com.
You agree not to misuse any personal information available on our Site or to gather it or use robots or other automated scripts, codes or functionalities to do so.
We may immediately suspend or terminate your access to our site without notice if we become aware that you are in breach of applicable terms and conditions of use or of this Privacy Policy.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will always include the date of a new version so that you know when there has been a change. If you don’t agree to the changes, please don’t continue to use our site or provide us with your personal information.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or the data we hold about you, or you wish to ensure that the data we hold about you is accurate and kept up to date, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
General Counsel: India
Legal and Compliance
Pearson India Education Services Pvt Ltd,
1st Floor, Berger Tower, Plot No. C-001A/2, Sector 16B
Noida, UP- 201301
Email: legalteamindia@pearson.com
References in this Privacy Policy to “Pearson”, “we”, “us”, “our” or similar refer to Pearson India Education Services Private Limited or whichever Pearson group company is operating the relevant website.
This site is owned and operated by Pearson India Education Services Pvt Ltd
and its affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions ("Pearson", "us", "we" and "our"). We have included full details of who we are at the end of these terms and conditions of use (“Terms of Use”).
Copyright in these pages is owned by Pearson India Education Services Pvt Ltd
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These Terms of Use (together with the documents referred to in it) apply to your use of this website and application, its features and contents (“the Site”) and any services provided through the Site (the “Services”). Please read these Terms of Use carefully before using and/or registering on the Site because by accessing or using the Site, Services or any mobile versions of them or by linking to them, you signify that you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by these Terms of Use. These Terms of Use are a legally binding agreement between you and us. If you use the Site in the course of your business or work, you are also agreeing to these Terms of Use on behalf of that business.
You are responsible for bringing these terms to the attention of anyone who may read material on this Site or access the Services as a result of your access to it.
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, add or delete portions of the Terms of Use at any time. If we do this, we will post the changes to these Terms of Use on this page and will indicate at the top of this page the date when these terms were last revised. Your continued use of the Site or Services after any such change, whether or not you received an email from us notifying you of any changes, constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms of Use. If you do not agree to abide by these or any future Terms of Use (or are not authorised to do so on behalf of your business or work), please do not use or access (or continue to use or access) the Site or the Services.
Please note that you may be asked again to accept these Terms of Use and the Pearson Privacy Policy from time to time when you access specific Services, module content or areas within the Site. If you decline, you will not be given access to the Site or relevant Services, content or areas.
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to make any changes to the Site, Services and levels of service offered and to terminate access at anytime.
You must not use data mining, robots, scraping or similar data gathering or extraction methods on any part of this Site or the Services without our express prior written consent.
Please note that the usage and purchase terms and privacy policies of various Pearson products and Services within this Site or linked to this Site may be subject to more specific terms and policies. Please check those terms and policies frequently to determine the terms applicable to such Pearson products and services. If there is a conflict between those more specific terms and conditions and these Terms of Use, then the more specific terms and conditions will apply.
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All information, materials, functions and other content contained on or available through this Site is (unless otherwise stated) owned by and the copyrighted property of Pearson India Education Services Pvt Ltd and/or its licensors.
All rights are reserved.
Users are permitted to view, print and download the material for personal, non-commercial and classroom use only but in so doing are not permitted to remove or amend any trademark, copyright or other proprietary notice. Classroom use refers to non-commercial uses by a qualified teacher or authorised tutors during a class of students/learners registered in a qualified educational institution (“classroom use”).
Users are not entitled to modify the content of this Site or reproduce, republish, distribute, transmit, link, frame or deep-link it on any other website without the express permission of Pearson. Users are not entitled to distribute, transmit, reproduce or publish by electronic or any other means any part of the data without the prior written permission of Pearson. Users are also not entitled to create a database in electronic or structured manual form by systematically downloading and storing all or any of the content. All other rights reserved.
All trademarks, service marks, trade names and logos used on this Site are the property of their respective owners.
The use of any trademark on our Site does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement of our Site by such owners.
Without limiting the foregoing, you may not:
In the event that we make any products, subscription or services available for sale on our Site, please refer to the relevant Purchase Terms, conditions and policies applicable on you on purchase of any products, subscriptions or services from us or our affiliated entities. A link to them will appear when you start the ordering process. By ordering products or services through the Site, you agree to be bound by and accept the Purchase Terms. The Purchase Terms are subject to change from time to time in our (or our affiliated entities') sole discretion, so you should review them each time you make a purchase.
This Site is password protected and offers a subscription service through which various content modules or materials can be accessed from time to time.
In case, where, your educational institution will arrange for a user account to be created for you. You will be supplied with account credentials and a link which will direct you to a login page. You will receive access to the Site for the period we agreed with your educational institution or if no such period is agreed, up to the end of the calendar year in which your account was created, subject to these Terms of Use. At the end of this subscription period access will automatically stop.
You may only use the Site content in accordance with these Terms of Use and with any rules or guidelines determined by your institution.
Please note that your use of the Site may be monitored for system performance, to ensure compliance with these Terms of Use and as otherwise reasonably required in order to operate the Site and for anonymous research. If your institution gives you access to the Site, then your teachers and/or tutors will be able to monitor your performance and any content that you post in the interactive areas of the Site.
The Site hosts all content purchased by you (or by your institution on your behalf) or to which you have otherwise been granted access by your institution. You shall not download or copy content, and shall not make content available elsewhere unless explicitly permitted.
On occasion we may need to remove certain parts of the content from the Site for legal or commercial reasons, which we shall be entitled to do.
When you (or your educational institution on your behalf) register for the Site or for any Services offered on the Site requiring registration, you (or your educational institution) are asked to provide specific information as part of the registration process (“Registration Details”). You must provide (or ensure that your educational institution provide) accurate Registration Details and update your Registration Details as necessary so that they maintain their accuracy. You must keep your password and identification details secure and you are fully responsible for all use of your account and for any actions that take place through or using your account.
You must not allow others to use your Registration Details or account, and you are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your account. You agree to notify Pearson immediately of any unauthorised use of your Registration Details or account. Pearson will not be liable for any losses arising out of the unauthorised use of your Registration Details and/or account and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Pearson or any associated companies, agents, affiliates and/or licensors, as applicable, for unauthorised uses of your account.
We have the right to disable any account, username (or other user identification code) or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Use.
Registration Details or other information provided by you or your educational institution to us as part of our registration process or when using the Site or Services, will be treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy which can be viewed here. By using the Site or Services, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed by us in line with our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms of Use.
The Site, Services and all their features, whether or not requiring password registration or payment, is available for your personal, non-commercial use only. You represent, warrant and agree that no materials of any kind submitted to the Site or Services, including if you registered with us through your account, or otherwise posted, transmitted or shared by you will violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary rights, or constitute hate speech or contain libellous, defamatory or otherwise harmful material. You may not use the Site, Services or any of their features for any illegal or unauthorised purpose. You agree to abide by all applicable local, provincial, national and international laws and regulations and are solely responsible for all your acts or omissions and for all those that occur under your account.
By submitting any material to us, you agree to abide by the following rules. Pearson reserves the right but does not have an obligation to monitor materials or any information which is posted on any part of the Site or Services, any bulletin boards, discussion forums or any tools available on the Site or Services allowing you to post comments, material, views, reviews or comment on material posted by you, us or others or to interact with others or materials in any way (“the Interactive Areas”) and on any part of the Site or Services requiring registration or subscription allowing you to do any of the above.
We also have the right, but no obligation, at any time to delete, remove, or suspend any of the Services, the whole or any part of the materials on this Site or forming part of the Services, or any content posted on them including in any Interactive Areas and areas requiring registration or subscription without notice and without incurring any liability. No part of our Site or Services is meant for you to post third-party copyrighted content. That includes, without limitation, the Interactive Areas including those requiring registration and/or subscription. And it means third party copyright content such as songs, film clips, an episode of a TV programme, parts of books, news articles, illustrations, photos or music videos, and any other third party copyright content.
If you find objectionable or offensive material please let us know as soon as possible at https://in.pearson.com/Support/contact-support-center.html
The views, statements and opinions expressed in any of the Interactive Areas in any form are those of the individual contributors or advertisers and not the statements and opinions of Pearson or its affiliated entities.
By posting your comments or materials on the Interactive Areas, you grant us and our affiliated entities a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, world-wide licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, publish, make available, distribute, include in other works, sub-license and display any content you submit to us in any format now known or later developed. By submitting material you acknowledge that you waive any moral rights you may have in it.
If you do not want to grant us these rights, please do not submit your comments or materials to us.
Please bear in mind that we will identify you with content you submitted and may release that information to a court or other official if ordered to do so.
We may refuse to grant you a username that impersonates someone else, is or may be protected by trademark or other intellectual property rights, is vulgar, offensive or otherwise inappropriate, as determined by us in our sole discretion.
We do not undertake to keep or make available any material that you or anyone else has contributed to the Site for any length of time or at all. We may delete, archive, make unavailable, modify or comment on any material, and close or suspend any discussion topic at any time without notice.
You may not use the words "Pearson", "Longman", "Heinemann", "Addison Wesley", "Prentice Hall", "Maskew Miller Longman" or any other trademark used on the Site or belonging to us or our affiliated entities, in particular in any meta-tags or other “hidden text”, in each case without our express prior written consent.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of the Site. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other users.
You must not misuse the Site or Services by knowingly introducing viruses, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site, the Services or the server on which the Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Site. You must not attack the Site via a denial-of- service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.
By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use the Site and Services will be ceased immediately.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the Site, the Services or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
Although we try to ensure that the information we provide on this Site is correct, it is provided on an 'as is' basis, without warranties of any kind. No warranty, express or implied, is given that any of the content of this Site is accurate, complete or up to date. Pearson does not accept any liability for any error or omission of any content on this Site, including content provided by us or any affiliated entities or by any users or other third parties.
Any and all representations and warranties whether express or implied, including without limitation implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non- infringement, whether implied by statute, common law, custom, trade usage, course of dealing or otherwise are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. We do not exclude any liability in respect of death or personal injury caused by our negligence, liability for our fraud, or any other liability that we cannot exclude by law.
We cannot guarantee and do not promise any specific results from use of the Site or Services.
Use of this Site, the Services and any content on any part thereof, whether requiring registration and/or subscription or not, is at your own risk. Pearson will not be liable to any users of this Site (whether registered users, subscribers or not) and any third parties for any claims or losses of any nature including, but not limited to, loss of profits, direct, indirect, special or consequential damages arising from a user’s or third party's use or inability to use this Site, the Services or any part thereof, including any loss of data or lost profits or wasted time of management or employees or for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by delict (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if Pearson is aware of, has been advised of or should have foreseen the possibility of such damages. Without limiting the foregoing, Pearson’s liability to you for any causes whatsoever, and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to the amount paid, if any, by you to us.
Pearson accepts no responsibility for the content on any website to which a hypertext link from this Site exists or for any use of personal data by the third party operating such a website. The links are provided 'as is' with no warranty, express or implied, for the information provided within them.
All authors or providers of a link into this Site should note that Pearson does not necessarily read, check or edit the content from such links and Pearson accepts such material linked to its Site purely on the basis of an understanding that Pearson is a distributor (not a publisher) of such material and by linking to this Site, the author or provider of the link gives an implied warranty that he/she/it will indemnify Pearson in the event of any action arising as a result of such material appearing on or via this Site. All persons accessing this Site are also put on notice of such fact.
While Pearson makes all reasonable attempts to exclude viruses or other code with contaminating or disruptive properties from the Site, it cannot ensure such exclusion and no liability is accepted for viruses and any computer code/software. You are recommended to take all appropriate safeguards before downloading information from this Site.
Information transmitted via this Site will pass over to public telecommunications networks. Pearson makes no representation or warranty that the operation of this Site will be uninterrupted or error free and disclaims all liability in this respect. The Site may be temporarily unavailable from time to time for maintenance or other reasons.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree that any cause of action you may have arising out of or related to these Terms of Use, the Site and/or the Services must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues; otherwise, such cause of action shall be deemed to have prescribed.
You agree to hold harmless, indemnify, and at our request defend, Pearson, its parents, subsidiaries and other affiliated entities and their respective owners, officers, managers, Partners, agents and employees from and against any third party claim arising from or in any way related to your material, your use of or conduct on the Site, including any liability or expense arising from all claims, liabilities, losses, damages (actual and consequential), suits, judgments,
litigation costs, expenses and lawyers fees, of every kind and nature. In such a case, we will provide you with written notice of such claim, suit or action to the contact details you registered with us.
Pearson may immediately suspend or terminate your access to the Site without notice if any breach of these Terms of Use by you is brought to our attention.
If you breach these Terms of Use and we take no action, we will not be deemed to have waived any of our rights and may still use any rights and remedies that were open to us when you broke them.
Your registration may be terminated and your profile and any content or information that you have posted on the Site may be deleted at any time. We may prohibit you from using or accessing the Site for any reason, at any time in our sole discretion, with or without notice. These Terms of Use shall apply to any use of the Site, also after your registration was terminated.
We reserve the right to deactivate user accounts and user names that have been inactive for more than 180 consecutive calendar days.
By visiting or using the Site you agree that these Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by and shall be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Republic of India.
Nothing contained in this clause will preclude either Party from applying for and obtaining any injunctive, prohibitory or other similar urgent or interim relief from a competent court of law, for which the courts at New Delhi, India shall have exclusive jurisdiction.
All disputes, differences, claims and questions whatsoever, which may arise either during the subsistence of this Terms of use/Agreement or afterwards between the Parties hereto and/or their respective representatives or any clause or anything contained herein or otherwise in any way relating to or arising from these presents or the interpretation of any provision contained herein shall be in the first place settled by mutual discussions between the Parties. However, if the Parties fail to settle the dispute, the same shall be referred to and settled by arbitration in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 or any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof (‘Act”’) for the time being in force. The arbitration will be conducted by a sole arbitrator who shall be mutually appointed by the Parties. In case of disagreement over the appointment of the sole arbitrator, the sole arbitrator shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions of the Act. The seat of arbitration shall be held at New Delhi and be conducted in English language. Any award made in such arbitration shall be binding on the Parties. The Parties shall bear the costs of arbitration equally.
Pearson makes efforts to ensure that its publications, advertising and offers on this Site fully meet the requirements of Indian law and foreign laws of any country where it is intended for such content to be viewed. In the event that a foreign country's law may not be fully complied with, then Pearson shall be deemed not to be directing such content to that particular country.
We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations under a contract that is caused by events outside our reasonable control ("Force Majeure Event"). A Force Majeure Event includes any act, event, non-happening, omission or accident beyond our reasonable control and includes in particular (without limitation) the following:
Our performance is deemed to be suspended for the period that the Force Majeure Event continues, and we will have an extension of time for performance for the duration of that period. We will use our reasonable endeavours to bring the Force Majeure Event to a close or to find a solution by which our obligations under the Contract may be performed despite the Force Majeure Event.
Applicable laws require that some of the information or communications we send to you should be in writing. When using our site, you accept that communication with us will be mainly electronic. We will contact you by e-mail or provide you with information by posting notices on the Site. For contractual purposes, you agree to this electronic means of communication and you acknowledge that all contracts, notices, information and other communications that we provide to you electronically comply with any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.
All notices given by you to us must be in writing and addressed to General Counsel: India, Legal & Compliance, Pearson India Education Services Pvt Ltd at 1st Floor, Berger Tower, Plot No. C-001A/2, Sector 16B, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301. A notice required to be given to us under these Terms of Use shall not be validly given if sent by e-mail. We may give notice to you at either the e-mail or postal address you (or your institution) provided us.
The principles that we follow in our work and expect from our business partners are outlined in the Pearson Code of Conduct. We subscribe to this code and you may access it electronically at www.pearson.com.
The way we work and act and the standards we expect from our business partners is outlined in Pearson’s Anti-Bribery and Corruption Policy, which may be accessed electronically at www.pearson.com.
These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and Pearson relating to the subject matter thereof. Pearson shall be entitled to enforce this agreement on its own behalf and on behalf of and for the benefit of its affiliated entities. Apart from Pearson's affiliated entities who shall be entitled to enforce the terms of this agreement in the same way as Pearson, nothing in this agreement shall confer any right or benefit on any third party.
If any of these Terms of Use are determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such term, condition or provision will to that extent be severed from the remaining terms, conditions and provisions which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.
If we fail to insist upon strict performance of any of your obligations under any of these Terms of Use, or if we fail to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with such obligations. A waiver by us of any default shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent default. No waiver by us of any of these Terms of Use shall be effective unless it is expressly stated to be a waiver and is communicated to you in writing.
: Headings in these Terms of Use shall not affect their interpretation. A reference to a statute or statutory provision is a reference to it as it is in force for the time being, taking account of any amendment, extension, or re-enactment and includes any subordinate legislation for the time being in force made under it.
This site is owned and operated by Pearson India Education Services Pvt Ltd and its affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions. We are registered in Chennai, India under the Companies Act, 1956 (CIN - U72200TN2005PTC057128) and with our registered office at 6th Floor, Tower A, Unit A and B, International Tech Park, CapitaLand, 200 Feet Radial Road, Zamin Pallavaram, Old Pallavaram, Chennai - 600117, Tamil Nadu, India.