Thank you for choosing Qalort and Welcome. With a mission to make learning and teaching easy and available to everyone anywhere, we consider our platform the best place to receive quality educational material as a student and as an instructor. Certain regulations are needed to keep our platform and services safe both for us and you our users. The regulations are our Terms of Use (TOU or Terms) and Conditions of Use (COU) which you should read in detail prior to registering on our platform (Qalot.com) or accessing and using any portion of our platform including all available material on the platform and other related services. By using our platform and other related services in any way, you agree and accept to be legally bound by the TOU and COU regardless of your registration. You agree to be bound by all applicable laws, local and international, and that you are responsible for compliance. Agreement to these terms guarantees access to the usage of our platform. Any version of these TOU or COU in a language other than English is provided for convenience and you understand and agree that the English language version will be in effect if there is any conflict. All right, title, and interest in and to the Qalort platform and other related services, including but not limited to our website, our existing or future applications, our APIs, databases, and the content our employees or subsequent partners submit or provide through our other related services (excluding content provided by instructors and students) are and will remain the exclusive property of Qalort. Our platforms and other related services are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of both the United States and foreign countries. You may not use the Qalort name, identity, or any trademarks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features. Any feedback, comments, or suggestions you may provide regarding Qalort and other related services relating but not limited to performance and improvement is entirely voluntary and we will be free to use such Feedback as we see fit and without any obligation to you. Information provided is regarding:
User Account
An account is required to become a user and access majority of the material on our platform, including enrollment in a course, payment of a course and or to submit a course and its ensuing materials for publication. In order to create a user account, you must provide your full name, an email address, a public username, and a user password. You agree that you will not divulge or share information of your user account (e.g., password) with any third party for any reason. You have complete responsibility for your account and everything that happens on your account, including any harm or damage (not limited to Banned and Barred content) to us or anyone else caused by someone using your account without your permission. If in the event you contact us to request access to an account following inaccessibility to said account, we will not grant you such access unless you can provide us with the information that we need to prove you are the owner of that account. In setting up your user account, you may be prompted to enter additional optional information (e.g., your year of birth). You maintain that all information provided by you is accurate, complete, and current and will update your information to keep it accurate and current. You are responsible for what happens with your account, and so you may not share your account login credentials with anyone else. In the event that you do and disputes occur between you as students or you as an instructor with a user student or user instructor or a user of the platform, you are aware that we will not intervene. You must notify us immediately upon learning that someone else may be using your account without your permission (or if you suspect any other breach of security) by contacting our Support Team. We may request some information from you to confirm that you are indeed the owner of your account. Students and instructors must be at least 18 years of age to create an account on Qalort and use the platform. If you are younger than 18 but above the required age for consent to use online services where you live (for example, 16 in the U.S.), you may not set up an account, but we do however encourage you to invite a parent or guardian to open an account and help you enroll in courses that are appropriate for you. If you are below the necessary age of consent to use online services, you may not create an account on our platform. If we discover that you have created an account that violates these rules, we will terminate your account immediately and notify the necessary authorities.
Content access and use
Content published on our platform falls under two (2) categories, content directly licensed by Qalort and content Published by instructors licensed to users by Qalort. Following our Instructor Rules, when instructors publish a course on our platform, an accessibility status (license) is created, available and offered to students for the duration of the courses availability and subsequent pay if it is a pay-for-access course. This means that we have the right to sublicense the course to the students who enroll in the course. We reserve the right to revoke any license to access and use courses at any point in time in the event where we decide or are obligated to disable access to a course due to legal or policy reasons (e.g., a copyright complaint, or displaying any form of banned and barred content). As a student, when you enroll in a course, free or paid for, you receive a license to view the course via the Qalort platform, and Qalort is the licensor of record and so unless indicated as being in the public domain, the content on the Qalort platform is protected by United States and foreign copyright laws. Furthermore, unless otherwise expressly stated on the Qalort platform, the texts, exams, video, images, and any other instructional materials provided with the courses and programs offered are for your personal use in connection with those courses and programs alone. Certain reference documents, digital textbooks, articles, and other information used on the Qalort platform may be used with the permission of third parties, and use of that information is subject to certain rules and conditions. Courses are again licensed, and not sold, to you. This license does not give you any right to reproduce, redistribute, transmit, assign, resell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit, create derivative works of, sublicense, or otherwise transfer the course in any manner (including by sharing account information with a purchaser or illegally downloading the course and sharing it on torrent sites). Any such actions stated and otherwise not immediately becomes an infringement on United States and foreign copyright laws.
Banned and Barred Content
THE FOLLOWING ITEMS ARE BANNED AND BARRED ON QALORT. IT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED TO PUBLISH ANY SUCH CONETNT:
You may not submit, post, publish, share, or otherwise distribute any of the above on Qalort. You may not access or use the services on the platform or create an account for unlawful purposes indirect violation of the applicable local or national laws or regulations of your country and the United States. You must comply and are solely responsible for the knowledge of and compliance with such laws and regulations that are applicable to you and any such user using your credentials in the case of a minor.
Rules for Content and Online Behaviour
You agree that you are responsible for your own use of the Qalort platform and for your viewed and accessed content (“Content”). Content includes but not limited to a list or directory of users on the system, user information, online textbooks, course materials, or trademarks and logos and all content submitted, posted, published, or distributed on the Qalort platform by you as an instructor or other users or viewed by you as a user of the Qalort platform, and may include but not limited to all forum posts, notes, questions, comments, videos, and file uploads or any other related content provided by a third party and regulated by the third party rules. You as a student have been enabled to ask questions to the instructors of courses you are enrolled in, and are encouraged to post reviews of courses. In the event that an instructor may invite you to submit content not limited to an “assignment”, “project”, “homework” or “test” you may not post or submit anything that is not yours. You are encouraged to notify the Support Team in the event an instructor has published a course that infringes your copyright, image rights or trademark rights. You as an instructor may submit courses for publication on the platform, you may communicate with the students who have enrolled in your courses, and you may communicate with other users of the platform. In all cases, you must abide by the law and respect the rights of others: you may not post any course, question, answer, review, or other content that violates applicable local or national laws or regulations of your country. You may not publish content that violates the law or the rights of others (e.g., related to intellectual property, image rights of others, illegal activities, defamation content, and others). You are solely responsible for any courses, content, and actions you post or take via the platform and their related consequences. In the event you violate any such terms and rules in the Instructor Rules, we may remove your content from our platform and or may terminate or suspend your permission to use our platform and any other related services or ban your account at any time, with or without notice You as a user will not in any way send altered, deceptive, or false source-identifying information claiming to be Qalort or disrupt or attempt to, nor attempt to interfere or interfere with or the access of any user, host, or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, or mail-bombing the platform or any related services. You will not use the Qalort platform in any manner intended to damage, disable, overburden, or impair any Qalort server or the network(s) connected to any Qalort server which will interfere with any other party's use of the platform. You may not forcefully and or illegally obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information stored on the Qalort platform, its servers, or associated computers through any means not intentionally made available through the Qalort platform. As a registered user, you may not share your password or let anyone else access or compromise your account as stated in these Terms. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Qalort platform, other accounts, computer systems, or networks connected to any Qalort server through hacking, password mining, scraping, spider, using a robot, or use other automated means of any kind to access the or any other means. You will not tamper with, or use non-public areas of the platform, computer systems, or any of the technical delivery systems. You will not access or search or attempt to access or search our platform by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our currently available search functionalities that are provided nor disable, interfere with, or try to circumvent any of the features of the platform as well as those related to security or probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any of our systems. You will not copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, reverse assemble, or otherwise attempt to discover any source code of content on the Qalort platform or any related services. Furthermore, you agree not to hack, copy, scrape, or otherwise download part of any content or otherwise in bulk any such content on the platform. You agree not to misrepresent or attempt to misrepresent your identity while using the Qalort platform. You agree that you will use the Qalort platform in compliance with these regulations, and all applicable local, state, national and international laws, rules, and regulations, including copyright laws, any laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from your country of residence, and all United States export administration regulations or other applicable regulations. In the event that you violate any such rules, terms, and regulations, we may as aforementioned terminate or suspend your permission to use our platform and other related services or ban your account at any time, with or without notice, for any or no reason. Upon any such termination, we may delete your account and content, and we may prevent you from further access to the platform and any other related services. You are aware that your content may still be available on the platform even if your account is terminated or suspended. You agree that we will have no liability to you or any third party for termination of your account, removal of your content, or blocking of your access to our platforms and other related services.
Payments and Certifications
Payments, refunds, gifts and promotional gifts on the Qalort platform is regulated by Qalort and Qalort and in partnership with instructors and possible third parties. In some instances, the price of a course offered on the platform may differ based on sales and promotions and the format it is promoted in.
Payments
You agree to pay the specified fees for courses that you purchase, and you authorize us to charge your debit or credit card or process other means of payment for such fees. You will be notified of any payments made. In the event that Qalort works with a third party payment processing partner you will be notified and following third party policies and our Privacy Policy we will keep your payment information secure. The price applicable to a course will be the price at the time you complete your purchase of the course (at checkout). Any price offered for a particular course may also be different when you are logged into your account from the price available to users who aren’t registered or logged into their account on the platform. In the event you make a purchase, you agree not to use an invalid or unauthorized payment method. You agree to pay the allocated fees within the specified period. In the event the allocated fees are affected by the exchange rate depending on your method of payment or your region of payment, you agree to pay the allocated fee at that point in time. We will notify you of any price changes based on this fact and rely on you to comply with any such subsequent change and or update. If your payment method fails and you still get access to the course you are enrolling in, you agree to pay us the corresponding fees within thirty (30) days of notification from us. In the event you pay for a course using payment information that does not belong to you, you are made aware that you will be held accountable to the ensuing laws of the United States or country of residency. We reserve the right to disable access to any course for which we have not received adequate payment or have received fraudulent payment. Pricing currency of a course may be based on your location when you created the account or location of residency. In the event that such is not so, the standard price may be in the United States dollar. If you are a student user and or instructor user located in a country where use and sales tax, goods and services tax, or value added tax is applicable to consumer sales, we are responsible for collecting and remitting that tax to the proper tax authorities. Depending on your location, the price you see may include such taxes, or tax may be added at checkout.
Refunds
In the event you realize the course you purchased on the Qalort platform is not what you intended to pay for or are expecting after briefly accessing the course and would like to drop the course, you can request for a refund within 30 days of your purchase of the course. We reserve the right to apply your refunded fees as a refund credit (*), which may be automatically applied towards your next course purchase on our platform, may expire if not used within the designated specified period, and have no cash value unless otherwise required by applicable law, or a refund to your original payment method, at our discretion, depending on capabilities of our third party payment processing partners if in partnership with such or with our own payment platforms. You are made aware that no refund is due to you if you request it after the 30-day guarantee time limit has passed. However, if a course you previously purchased is disabled for legal or policy reasons or is involved in cases of suspected or confirmed account fraud, you are entitled to a refund beyond this 30-day limit. In the event we believe you are abusing our refund policy, such as if you’ve consumed a significant portion of a course that you want to refund or if you’ve previously refunded a course under insincere means, you will not be eligible to receive a refund and we reserve the right to ban your account, and/or restrict or disable all future use of the platform and other related services You are encouraged to follow the steps here to request a refund.
- Promotional Codes
In the event of a course directly promoted or discounted by Qalort or by Qalort in partnership with an instructor(s), certain codes may be applied to such courses and redeemed for a discounted course or promotional credits applied to your account which then may be used to purchase eligible courses on our platform, subject to the terms included with your codes. These codes and credits may expire if not used within the period specified for the promoted or discounted course. They may not be refunded for cash, unless otherwise specified in the terms included with your codes or as required by applicable law. In the event that such codes and credits are offered by a partner, they are subject to that partner’s refund policies. As aforementioned, the price applicable to a course will be the price at the time you complete your purchase of the course (at checkout). Any price offered for a particular course may also be different when you are logged into your account from the price available to users who aren’t registered or logged into an account on the platform. This effect also affects discounted courses and promotions on the platform which are only available to first time users and referrals.
Certification
In the event of whether, after completion of a course, a certificate will be awarded to the student may be, and is subsequent to change, determined by the instructor of the course or any other partner of Qalort with a certified course on the Qalort platform. You will be required to pay a fee for certified courses unless in the case admission to the course is obtained through a promotion. ID verification for the certified course will come into effect and you may be prompted to take a webcam photo of yourself, as well as a photo of an acceptable form of photo ID (including but not limited to a Government or State-issued driver's license, Passport, National ID card and State or Province ID card (including cards issued by motor vehicle agencies). These items will be collected by Qalort in accordance with the TOS and Privacy Policy. As aforementioned, although these items are collected by Qalort in accordance with these TOS and the Privacy Policy, you are aware that in the case of third party users the actual authentication of your identity may be performed by a Qalort third-party service provider. You are made aware that in such event, the information will be used only for the purpose of verifying your identity.
Qalort’s Right to Published Content
While using the Qalort platform and all related services, any content you post as a student or content and course you post as an instructor remains fundamentally yours. However, by posting courses and other content, you authorize Qalort’s access to your content which we may reuse in the form of distributing it and promoting it on any platform and in any media, and to make modifications or edits to it as we see fit. You do not lose any ownership rights you may have over your personal content. Ownership rights may only be revoked if content violates these Terms. However, any content created by a user (instructor) with a member of Qalort becomes joint property of the creator and Qalort. Such content is used depending on a standing agreement between the User and Qalort. If you are an instructor, be sure to understand the course licensing terms and rights that are detailed in the Instructor Rules. In legal terms, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, assignable, fully paid-up (when fee inclusive), perpetual, irrevocable right, and royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to host, use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, edit, publish, transmit, transfer, reproduce, relicense, display, distribute and redistribute, and otherwise use your content (including your name and any associated image) in any and all media or distribution methods (existing now or hereafter developed) by submitting or posting content on or through the Qalort platform and other related services. This includes making your content available to other companies and organizations, and or individuals who partner with Qalort for the syndication, broadcast, distribution, or publication of content on other media, as well as using your content for marketing purposes. You also waive any rights of privacy, publicity, or other rights of a similar nature applicable to all these uses, to the extent permissible under applicable law. You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power, and authority necessary to authorize us to use any content that you submit. You also agree to all such uses of your content with no compensation paid to you.
Content Accessibility and Your Responsibilities
You are made aware that content (“Content”) including but not limited to online textbooks, course materials, or trademarks and logos and all submitted content accessible to users are viewed at user’s risk. Qalort does not review nor have editorial control on all available courses on the platform and, as such, do not guarantee in any manner the reliability, usefulness, validity, accuracy, or intellectual property rights of the courses. You are responsible. If you enroll in a course, you rely on any information provided by an instructor at your own risk. We are not in a position to determine the legality of course content. Qalort does not endorse any posted content or any opinion, recommendation or advice expressed on the platform. Qalort does not have any obligation to monitor any content or user on the platform. However, Qalort reserves the right to review content and to exercise its sole discretion to edit or remove, in whole or in part, any content at any time and for any reason. Qalort may investigate, upon receiving notice from a user or a content owner that a content allegedly does not conform to these Terms, the allegation and determine is in our sole discretion whether to limit or remove the content, which we reserve the right to do at any time and without prior notice. As such you are made aware you may be exposed to content that you consider offensive, indecent, inaccurate, objectionable or defamatory. Qalort (and our subsequent group companies, suppliers, partners, and agents) has no responsibility to keep such content from you and no liability for your access or enrollment in any course, to the extent permissible under applicable law. You agree to waive, and hereby do waive, any legal or equitable rights or remedies you have or may have against Qalort. This also applies to any course relating but not limited to health and wellness which may include any physical movement of your body for example yoga. You acknowledge the inherent risks and dangers in these types of courses, and by enrolling in such courses you choose to assume those risks voluntarily, including risk of illness, damage to property, bodily injury or loss, disability, and or death. You assume full responsibility for the choices you make before, during, and after your enrollment in a course. We will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages (including loss of data, revenue, profits, or business opportunities), which may arise in tort, contract, warranty, statutory, product liability, or otherwise. In the case we’ve been advised of the possibility of damages in advance, this arrangement still stands. Unless indicated as being in the respective public domain, the content on the Qalort platform is protected by United States and foreign copyright laws. The texts, exams, video, images, and other instructional materials provided with the courses and programs offered on the Qalort platform are for your personal educational use in connection with those courses and programs only. Certain reference documents, digital textbooks, articles, and other information on the platform which may be used with the permission of third parties, and use of that information may be subject to certain rules and conditions. The conditions may be posted alongside the course and its content. You agree to retain all copyright and other notices on any content you obtain from the Qalort platform. You are made aware that all rights on the Qalort platform and its content, if not expressly granted, are reserved. Qalort does not directly source out users nor directly hire or employ instructors. As such during any interaction with a student or an instructor, you must be careful about the types of personal information that you share. While we restrict the types of information instructors may request from students, we do not control what students and instructors do with the information they obtain from other users on the platform. You should not share your password, email and or any other personal information about you for your own safety. Qalort is not responsible or liable for any interactions involved between instructors and students nor liable for disputes, claims, losses, injuries, or damage of any kind that might arise out of or relate to the conduct of instructors and or students.
DISCLAIMER
Qalort’s goal is to provide past, current, and future visitors and users of the Qalort platform with the best possible educational experience regardless of their location, language and educational background. As such, viewers and users may not be presented with the same version of a course and its content and may in fact be presented with different versions of course materials and software. We do this to personalize the experience to the individual learner in an aim to assess the learner’s level of ability and learning style, and present the best available materials to improve our users experience and our understanding of the learning process, and to evaluate and improve, yet not limited to, the effectiveness of available course materials, the demand of courses, payment models, and platform features. Unless otherwise permitted under the Privacy Policy and in the event of a publication of results and findings publications or public disclosures will not include your personal information.
Indemnification
We at Qalort aim to give you the best educational experience at the most comfortable pace. However, if you conduct yourself in a way that’s illegal, harmful or disruptive in the full extent of the law upheld in the United States and or foreign countries, we will exercise legal recourse against you. As such you agree to indemnify, defend (if we so request), and hold harmless Qalort, our subsequent group companies and respective subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, faculty, students, fellows, all governing board members, agents and employees and their officers, directors, suppliers, partners, and agents from and against any third-party claims, demands, losses, damages, liabilities or expense arising from any and all losses, claims, damages (actual and consequential), suits, judgments, litigation costs, and attorneys' fees, of every kind and nature resulting from your use of the Qalort platform and other related services, your posted content, your violation of these Terms, and or your violation of any rights of a third party. Your indemnification obligation will survive the termination of these Terms and your use of all-inclusive services.
Additional Legal Terms
- Qalort’s Termination Rights
You agree that Qalort, in its sole discretion, may terminate your use of the Qalort platform, your participation and access to it, for any reason or no reason, upon notice to you. This rule is applicable to users who are repeat copyright infringers and any content which violates Qalorts Banned and Barred content. We (Qalort and our subsequent partners) reserve the right at any time in our sole discretion to cancel, delay, reschedule or alter the format of any course offered through the Qalort platform, or to cease providing any part or all of the Qalort platform content and other related services, and you agree that we will not have any liability to you for such an action. If you no longer desire to use the Qalort platform and other related services, you may terminate your account at any time. The provisions of the Agreements will survive any such termination.
- Binding Agreement
You understand that by registering and accessing the Qalort platform, or using the platform and any other related services, you are agreeing (constituting an Agreement) to enter into a legally binding contract with Qalort. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and Qalort with respect to your use of the Qalort platform, superseding any prior agreements between you and Qalort regarding your use of the Qalort platform and other related services. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not register, access, or otherwise use the Qalort platform or any of our services. Additionally, as an instructor these Terms (including any agreements and policies linked from these Terms such as the Instructor Rules) constitute the entire agreement between Qalort and you. If on behalf of a company, organization, government, or other legal entity, you are an instructor accepting these Terms and using the Qalort platform and other related services, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so. If any part of these Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable by applicable law, then that provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely reflects the intent of the original provision. The remainder of these Terms will remain in full force and will continue in effect. You are reminded that any version of these Terms in a language other than English is provided strictly for convenience and you understand and agree that the English language will control if there is any conflict.
- Waiver
The failure of Qalort to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Agreements shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. Even if we are delayed in exercising our rights or fail to exercise a right, you are made aware that we do not waive our rights under these Terms, and we may decide to enforce them in the future. If in the case we decide to waive any of our rights at a particular instance, event or situation, you are made aware that this does not mean we waive our rights generally or in the future.
- Dispute Resolution
You agree that the Agreements and any claim or dispute arising out of or relating to the Agreements or any content or service obtained from or through the Qalort platform and other related services will be governed by the laws of [A DETERMINED COURT]. You agree that all such claims and disputes will be heard and resolved exclusively in the federal or state courts located in [A DETERMINED COURT]. You consent to the personal jurisdiction of this court over you for this purpose, and you waive and agree not to assert any objection to such proceedings in this court (including any defense or objection of lack of proper jurisdiction or venue or inconvenience of forum).
DISCLAIMER
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you agree that neither Qalort and all its bodies nor any subsequent affiliate, suppliers, partners, and or agents, of Qalort will be liable to you for any loss or damages, either actual or consequential, arising out of or relating to these Terms (Agreements), subsequent third party(s), or your use of the Qalort platform and other related services whether your claim is based in contract, tort, statutory or other law. The platform, other related services, and content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We (and our subsequent affiliates, suppliers, partners, and agents) make no representations or warranties about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, security, lack of errors, or accuracy of the services or content, nor any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, or non-infringement and expressly disclaim any warranties or conditions (expressed or implied). We (and our subsequent affiliates, suppliers, partners, and agents) make no warranty that you will obtain specific results from use of the platform and other related services. Your use of the platform and other related services (including any content) is entirely at your own will and risk. If in the case you jurisdiction does not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, the above exclusions may not apply to you. We may decide to cease making available certain features of the platform and other related services at any time and for any reason. If such should ensue, under no circumstances will Qalort or its subsequent affiliates, suppliers, partners or agents be held liable for any damages due to such interruptions or lack of availability of such features. In the delay or failure of our performance and execution of our platform and of any of our other related services caused by events beyond our reasonable control which includes but is not limited to war, a coup de tat, government restrictions, hostility amongst borders, or sabotage of any sort, natural disasters, and any electrical, internet, or telecommunication outage, we are not responsible. The rights granted to you during your use of the platform and the relating agreement of the Terms (Agreements) will terminate upon any termination of your right to use the Qalort platform and other related services but the other provisions of the Agreements will survive any such termination.
Terms Updates
Qalort may update these Terms to reflect new or different features or to clarify sections of the Terms. We reserve the right in our sole discretion to modify and/or make changes to these Terms at any time. Modifications and changes will become effective on the day they are posted unless stated otherwise. If we make any substantial change, we will notify you through a notice. Your continued use of the Qalort platform and other subsequent services after modifications and changes become effective shall mean that you accept those changes. Any revised Terms shall supersede all previous Terms.
Contact Us
We’d love to hear any questions, concerns, and feedback you may have about our platform and other related services so do reach out to our Support Team if you do. Thank you again for choosing Qalort!