Terms and conditions

Terms & Conditions
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY. BY USING THIS WEBSITE AND/OR PLATFORM YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL OF THE BELOW TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND PRIVACY POLICY.

Apxic Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (“Company“, “We” or “Us” and their connotations) operates a website (URL: https://code.apxic.com) (together called as “Platform”) which is engaged in the service of online and offline tutoring of computer programming and other subjects to children.

These terms and conditions (“Terms”) describe the terms on which the Company grants end users access to the Platform (hereinafter referred to as “Services”) and shall be read with the privacy policy available on https://code.apxic.com. Anyone below 18 years of age is assumed to be a child (“Child”) and requires parental consent to use the Platform. The parents of the Child or users above 18 years of age are hereinafter referred to as “You”. The term “Users” for the purposes of these Terms shall be read as You and/ or Child.

The Company reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these Terms at any time by posting the amended Terms. Please check these Terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Platform or Services after the posting of changes constitutes your binding acceptance of such changes. In addition, when using any particular services or availing any promotional offer, you may be subject to additional terms and conditions, posted guidelines or rules, as may be applicable to such services and offers. All such guidelines, rules, product requirements or sometimes additional terms are hereby incorporated by reference into the Terms.

1. Terms of Service

By choosing to visit the Platform and/or avail any Services provided by Company, you agree to be bound by these Terms. Please read the following information carefully. If you are a parent or guardian and you provide your consent for your child’s use of the Platform, you agree to be bound by these Terms in respect to their use of the Platform. By your continued access or use of the Platform, you signify your agreement to be legally bound by the Terms set forth herein. If you do not agree to the Terms of this agreement, promptly exit this page and stop accessing the Services.

2. Description of Services

The Company facilitates online and offline computer science education services to children. We aim at providing lessons on programming, coding languages, etc. to the Child. The concept is to create a virtual classroom for online classes, which helps the Child to learn without any restrictions on time and place.

3. User ID and Password

In order to access the Company’s Platform and its services, You may have to create an account and disclose information including, but not limited to, (i) name, e-mail ID, photograph, location and other contact information (ii) gender and other demographics (iii) birth date and year to validate the current age of the Child (iv) your email address to acquire the parental consent. You must be at least 18 years old to register on the Platform. If you are under 18 years old, you are not permitted to register on this site unless such registration is completed by a parent or legal guardian. You acknowledge that your user ID and password (“Participant Account“) is for your exclusive use only. Use or sharing of your Participant Account with another user or person is not permitted and is cause for immediate blocking of your access to the Platform, the Services and the content provided by the Company and shall lead to termination of this Agreement without any notice.

You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Participant Account and for all activities that occur under it. You agree to immediately notify the Company if you become aware of or have reason to believe that there is any unauthorized use of your Participant Account. You also agree to take all reasonable steps to stop such unauthorized use and to cooperate with the Company in any investigation of such unauthorized uses. The Company shall not under any circumstances be held liable for any claims related to the use or misuse of your Participant Account due to the activities of any third party outside of your control or due to our failure to maintain the confidentiality and security of your Participant Account.

4. Trial Classes

We offer One (1) free trial class to our new members so that you get an opportunity to experience the services provided by us. Only one (1) free trial class is permitted per new student. Multiple availment of trial classes by an individual either through his/her own account or through someone else’s accounts, email IDs and/or in any other manner whatsoever, without the prior written permission of the Company is not allowed and shall amount to a breach of the present Terms.

Any free trial class provided by the Company shall also be governed by these Terms.

5. Modules and Curriculum

The Company will have its sets of modules according to which the Child is expected to complete his/her levels. The Company has tutors who will be assisting the Child with their modules.

The Company shall also grant you access to its material, content, curriculum, documents and other information and data (“Curriculum”) which may be in video, audio, written, graphic, recorded, photographic, or any other format in relation to the modules for which you have registered for. The Company reserves the right to amend, revise or update the Curriculum at any time.

6. License to Use

The Company hereby grants You and the Child, the limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive, and revocable license to access, view and use the Platform only for the purposes of accessing, viewing, posting or submitting user material, using the embedded link function, placing store orders or for accessing information, applications and services. The Company reserves the right to suspend or deny, in its sole discretion, your access to all or any portion of the Platform. This license is limited to personal and non-commercial uses by You and your Child. Any rights not expressly granted to You herein are reserved to Company.

You are not allowed to reproduce, transmit, distribute, sub-license, broadcast, disseminate, or prepare derivative works of the Curriculum, or any part thereof, in any manner or through any communication channels or means, for any purpose other than the limited purpose mentioned above, without the Company’s prior written consent.

7. Intellectual Property Rights

You acknowledge that the Company is the sole and exclusive owner of the Platform, the services provided by the Company, the curriculum, and its content and as such the Company is vested with all the Intellectual Property Rights and other proprietary rights in the Platform, the Services, content and the curriculum.

The Company may from time-to-time upload videos, audios/ sound recordings, content and other materials on the website which shall be the exclusive property of the Company. You undertake not reproduce, transmit, retransmit, distribute, publish, post, share or make available the said videos, audios/ sound recordings, content and other materials or any part thereof which are available on the Platform in any manner whatsoever.

Additionally, the Company also retains all rights (including copyrights, trademarks, patents, designs, logos, trade-dress, trade-secrets, know-how as well as any other intellectual property right) in relation to all information provided on or via this Platform, including but not limited to all texts, graphics, photos, illustrations, apps and logos. You shall not copy, download, publish, distribute or reproduce any of the information contained on this Platform or social media in any form without the prior written consent of the Company.

The Company retains all the rights in the video recordings, sound/audio recordings, images, photos, pictures/ images clicked during the classes, lectures delivered by the Company’s tutors, text and other material posted on the Platform and shall be the sole owner of the same. You undertake that you shall not record, make videos or sound/ audio recordings, take screen shots, click pictures and shall not download, publish, transmit, display, reproduce, transmit, distribute, post, share or make copies of any of the classes/ lectures that are conducted by the Company (including the trial classes), video recordings, sound/audio recordings, images, photos, pictures/ images, text or other material, whether in full or in part, unless you obtain prior written approval from the Company. Any recordings, videos, sound/audio recordings, screen shots, pictures, images, material or content which is obtained in any manner without the prior written consent of the Company shall amount to breach of the instant terms and conditions and you shall be solely liable for the said breach under the applicable laws. All other rights are reserved.

8. Use of the Platform by the Child

You expressly acknowledge and undertake that:

A. You are competent and have all the necessary legal rights to enter into this agreement on behalf of the child.
B. You grant your consent to the Company for your child to attend and participate in the classes, courses, tests, sessions and/or any other program conducted and/or organized by the Company on its Platform and in relation to the services provided by the Company. You undertake that the participation of the Child and all the activities done by the Child will be under your direct and constant supervision. You further accept full and complete liability arising out of the child’s acts, whether direct or indirect.

9. Payment and Refund

The Platform is a paid service and the payments made by You shall be according to the plans opted by You through the Platform. You explicitly agree to pay the fees for the courses/ plans that you purchase, and you authorize the Company to charge you as per the applicable payment mode opted by you. All payments shall be through the payment mechanism put in place by the Company and You shall be responsible for paying all fees and applicable taxes in a timely manner as per the mechanism associated with the Plan availed by You. Users have been given various options to choose and proceed with the payment for the Services via payment mechanisms including but not limited to Card Payment facilities, EMI Payment, Online Bank Transfer and Wallet Payment. With reference to Clause 11, the payment gateway mechanisms are governed by the terms and conditions of the third-party providers as listed on the Platform and the User agrees to be bound by those terms.

Valid Credit / Debit/ Cash Card/ online bank transfers and other payment instruments are processed using a Credit Card payment gateway or appropriate payment system infrastructure and the same will also be governed by the terms agreed to between the Users and the respective issuing bank and payment instrument issuing company. We shall not be liable for any unauthorized use, fraud, payment refunds, lost amount etc. in the transaction. The amount of refund payable shall only be limited to the amount paid by the User for Services which were not rendered to the User by Us. In case of refund of EMI transactions, User will be charged interest as per bank’s regulations.

We attempt to process and complete refund requests within 2 days from the time of receiving the refund request, however, in case there is any delay in refund beyond the period of 72 hours, then you may notify us on code@apxic.com. The refund process may include a feedback call to you and validation of key information that may be required by us to process the refund request.

Any charges related to app publishing (e.g. charges levied by app store, play store) will be incurred by the User.

We reserve the right to change any fees at any time at our sole discretion and any change, update, or modification in the fee shall become effective immediately upon the same being posted/uploaded or notified on our website.

10. Linking

You or the Child may establish a link to one or more site(s), provided that:

A. the link is legal and not detrimental or damaging to and/or does not take unfair advantage of our reputation or business;
B. such linking is not for advertising or promotional purposes (unless We have expressly agreed to it);
C. the link is not from any website which promotes any political or religious views, or promotes or depicts intolerance, hatred, discrimination, violence, pornography or illegal activity;
D. the link does not falsely or misleadingly imply or suggest that We endorse, approve of or are associated with the linked website, its web pages or any of its contents; and
E. framing of any site on any other website is not allowed and You must not provide access to the site or part of it under any other URL.
The Company may withdraw your or the Child’s right to link to any site without notice and at any time (acting in our sole discretion).

Where any site and/or application contain links to other websites, web pages, resources, or mobile services which are proprietary to third-parties, other users, advertisers or sponsors, such websites, web pages, resources and mobile services are provided for your information only and You access them at your own risk. The Company will not be held liable or responsible for the content or operation of third-party websites, web pages, resources or mobile services.

11. Third Party Services

You acknowledge that the Services provided by the Company uses and/or contains certain softwares, products and services which are developed and owned by third parties, the use of which is governed by terms and conditions of such third parties. Please read the User Agreement and Privacy Policy for these sites separately before using the said third party websites. By accessing the said third party websites, you agree to be bound by the respective user agreement and privacy policy of these third parties. Accordingly, you agree that the Company will not be responsible for such Third-Party software, products and services nor for any error, malfunction or defect in the Service resulted therefrom.”

12. Third Party Permission

The Company has subscribed to various third-party service providers and you agree and acknowledge that, while accepting these terms, you explicitly grant permission to these service providers to use your information. In the event of any dispute between the third party and you the company shall not be held liable in any matter whatsoever.

13. User Content

The Child may write and post reviews on the Platform. We do not motivate your Child to post any Personal Information on the Platform and the ill effects of such revelation shall be borne by you. However, you can request the Company via e-mails to delete any such information posted by the Child. For the purpose of verification, the Company will review and scrutinize such emails before responding.

The Company will not be held responsible or liable for any of the User content provided by You on the Company website. You must not attempt to avoid or undermine any protections that the Company may put in place for the security and operation of any website.

You hereby explicitly consent and grant permission to the Company to record, make videos, audio/sound recordings, take screenshots during the classes/ lectures that are conducted by the Company on its Platform to the extent required to improve the services offered by the Company.

All rights, ownership, and intellectual property in the ‘User Content’ created by your child on or by using the platform, during the period of the tutorial classes or the course, shall vest in the Company. You hereby explicitly consent and transfer all such rights, ownership, and intellectual property in the ‘User Content’ to the Company for a worldwide, royalty-free, and perpetual use. The Company shall have the sole and exclusive right to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display any/all such ‘User Content’.

You and your child undertake to use the Company’s platform and intellectual property for only the purposes envisaged in the terms and shall not use the same for any unauthorized or unlawful purpose. Should you and your child use the Company’s platform or intellectual property with any third party’s intellectual property in any manner, then you and your child will be solely responsible to obtain all necessary permissions, authorizations and licenses from the said third party. In the event you and your child use the Company’s platform and intellectual property beyond the limited rights granted to you and your child under these terms, then you and your child shall be solely responsible for the same and shall indemnify the company for all losses, claims and damages in this regard.

You and your child will be solely responsible to ensure that any content or intellectual property created by the child shall not contain any bugs, virus and malware or infringe any third party’s intellectual property rights or violate any applicable laws (including data protection and privacy laws) in any manner.

By uploading, submitting, creating, or publishing your User Content to or through the Services, you represent, and warrant that:

you are the creator and owner of your User Content and that you have the authority to use or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to publish the User Content you submit
your User Content does not and will not
infringe, violate, or misappropriate any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right
slander, defame, libel, or invade the right of privacy, publicity or other property rights of any other person
your User Content does not contain any viruses, adware, spyware, worms, or other malicious code.

14. Intended Purpose of Use

Any application, code or content created using the Company’s platform are intended to be used solely as prototypes and for evaluation of validity and practicability of ideas. All such applications, codes and/or content may be solely created for educational purposes and gathering feedback by the students and are in no way fit for or meant to be used for any commercial use. Any other use of such apps, codes or content, other than the use specified herein is prohibited by the Company and the Company shall not be liable for the same and you and your child shall indemnify the company for any loss, claims or damages suffered by the Company in this regard.

15. Fitness of Use

Any and/or all apps built using the Company platform by the users during the period of their permitted use of the platform are solely meant for educational and evaluation purposes as part of the users training program, and hence the same are expected to have limited functionality and use and are thus not fit to be used commercially or to be adopted for any use as opposed to the intended use prescribed in these terms. The apps might have unresolved technical bugs and security concerns including but not limited to viruses, data safety, account protection, insufficiency of security protocols and non-encryption. Any personal information, passwords and/ or any other details or sensitive data provided might become available to other users of the app.

Any such commercial or non-authorized use of these apps shall be at the sole risk and discretion of the users and third parties and the Company in no way whatsoever promotes or authorizes the same. You and your child shall be solely responsible for any such unauthorized use, promotion and/or commercialization of the app/code/content created by your child or any other user of the Company platform and shall indemnify the Company for all losses, claims and damages in this regard.

16. User Communication

You hereby explicitly consent to receive email, telephone, WhatsApp or text messages from Apxic Technologies Pvt. Ltd., for the purpose of providing alerts and information related to services. Reply ‘STOP’ on the same number to stop receiving any further SMS. Reply ‘HELP’ to get help. Standard data charges are applicable for SMS.

17. Rule of Conduct

Users must comply with the laws that apply to You in the location that You access Company’s Services from. If any laws applicable to You restrict or prohibit You from using Services of Company, You must comply with those legal restrictions or, if applicable, stop accessing and/or using the Services of Company. You promise that all the information You provide to the Company on accessing and/or using the Services of Company is and shall remain true, accurate and complete at all times.

Notwithstanding any other provision of these Terms You agree and undertake not to:

A. Hack, attempt to hack, modify, adapt, merge, translate, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer or create derivative works out of the Service or any part of them (save to the extent which expressly cannot be prohibited in accordance with the applicable mandatory law in your jurisdiction);
B. Remove, disable, modify, add to or tamper with any program code or data, copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices and legends contained on or in the Service;
C. Create software which mimics any data or functionality in the Service;
D. Use or deal in the Service except as permitted by these Terms;
E. Include contact details intended to enable communication outside of the Service, in any Communication;
F. Use your access to the Service, or information gathered from it, for the sending of unsolicited bulk email;
G. Make any public, business or commercial use of the Service or any part of them;
H. Provide hypertext links, URL links, graphic links, hyperlinks or other direct connection for profit or gain to the Service without prior written permission of Company;
I. Make the Service or any part of it available to any third party (please note this does not stop you from fairly and honestly providing links to the Platform, or showing either to other people);
J. Use or process the Service or any part of them unfairly or for any illegal or immoral purpose; or
K. Delete or obscure any copyright or other proprietary notice on the Service.
The Service may only be accessed and used via authorized servers. You must take no action to bypass authorized servers and/or use third party software to modify any aspect of the Service, whether for the purpose of securing an unfair advantage over other users, and You expressly consent to Company’s monitoring your computer’s random access memory for the purpose of identifying said unauthorized third-party programs.

18. Limited Liability

You are held personally liable for any violation of a third party’s rights by You and your Child. You agree to reimburse Company for all damages resulting from the culpable non-observance of the obligations of these Terms. You release the Company from all eligible claims that other users or third parties may file against Company due to a violation of their rights by content posted by the user or due to a violation of other obligations. You shall assume the costs of Company legal defense, including all court and legal fees. This condition does not apply if you are not responsible for the infringement.

The Company undertakes the scrutiny of the curriculum delivered by the tutors however, the Company does not always guarantee the quality of lessons delivered to the Child. At any instance of live interactive classes, if the tutor uses any sexual or abusive language or depicts any forced sexual acts, or pornographic images or does any unethical, unlawful or immoral act, then in such cases, please immediately inform the Company at the contact provided below in Clause 26. The Company will make all efforts to take any and all necessary actions as per the applicable law. However, the Company explicitly disclaims any liability or responsibility in the event of such a circumstance.

Company will not be held responsible for any unethical, illegal acts performed by the Child on the advice of the tutor and it shall be your responsibility to closely monitor the activities of your Child while accessing the Platform.

In no event shall the Company be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, or damages for loss of profits, revenue, data or data use, incurred by you or any third-party, whether in an action in contract or tort, arising from your access to, or use of, the Platform or any content provided on or through the Platform.

The Company facilitates education and information on an “as is” basis and is liable only to provide its services with reasonable skill and care.

The Company’s liability for any and all claims in the aggregate, arising out of or related to your use of the Platform, shall not under any circumstances exceed the amounts actually paid by You to the Company for its Services.

External Sites have not been verified or reviewed by Company and all use and access of External Sites is made at your own risk. “External Sites“ means third party websites and online services to which the Service links. The Company gives no other warranty in connection with the Service and to the maximum extent permitted by law, Company excludes liability for:

A. Any loss or damage of any kind howsoever arising, including any direct, indirect, special, punitive or consequential loss whether or         not such arises out of any problem which Company have been made aware of;
B. The accuracy, currency or validity of information and material contained within any communications or the Service;
C. Any interruptions to or delays in updating the Service;
D. Any incorrect or inaccurate information on the Service;
E. The infringement by any person of any copyright or other intellectual property rights of any third party through any communication or use of the Service;
F. The availability, quality, content or nature of External Sites;
G. Any transaction involving External Sites;
H. Any amount or kind of loss or damage due to viruses or other malicious software that may infect a user’s computer equipment, software, data or other property caused by persons accessing, using or downloading the Service, or any Communication; and
I. All representations, warranties, conditions and other terms and conditions which but for this notice would have an effect
The Company does not warrant that the operation of the Service will be uninterrupted or error-free. The Company will not be liable in any amount for failure to perform any obligation under this agreement if such failure is caused by the occurrence of any unforeseen contingency beyond the reasonable control of Company including Internet outages, communications outages, fire, flood, war or act of God.

Except as provided above there are no other warranties, conditions or other terms and conditions, express or implied, statutory or otherwise, and all such terms and conditions are hereby excluded to the maximum extent permitted by law.

You agree that in relation to your use of the Service You will not in any way conduct yourself in a manner which is unlawful, or which gives rise to civil or criminal liability or which might call Company or the Service into disrepute. You agree that You are and shall remain responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and username and for all activities that occur under your account.

No amendment will take place if such amendment would substantially disrupt the contractual balance between the parties. Users will be informed of any amendments to the general Terms via the Platform or via notice by email or in writingD. 

19. Termination

Without limiting any other rights that Company may have, Company may remove, restrict, cancel or suspend access to and/or use of the Platform, Services provided by the Company and any part of it, if Company considers (in the sole discretion of Company) that You have breached any of these Terms.

You may also terminate your agreement with the Company by ceasing to access the Platform, Service, deleting all copies of the Service or part thereof within your control. Termination shall not affect any rights or remedies, which have accrued up to the time of termination.

20. Severability

If any court or competent authority finds that any provision of these Terms (or part of any provision) is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision or part-provision shall, to the extent required, be deemed to be deleted, and the validity and enforceability of the other provisions of these Terms shall not be affected.

21. Assignment

Any rights and licenses granted hereunder shall not be transferred or assigned by you but, shall be assigned by the Company. Any attempted transfer or assignment in violation hereof shall be considered as null and void.

22. Waiver

No waiver of any terms of this agreement shall be treated as a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term and the Company’s failure to assert any right or provision under this agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

23. Government Laws and Jurisdiction

Any dispute or difference either in interpretation or otherwise, of the Terms and other Policies on the Platform, between the parties hereto, shall be referred to an independent arbitrator who will be appointed by mutually and his decision shall be final and binding on the parties hereto. The above arbitration shall be in accordance with the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 as amended from time to time. The seat of arbitration shall be held in Ambala and the language shall be in English.

The Terms shall be construed in accordance with the applicable laws of India. For proceedings arising therein the Courts in Ambala shall have exclusive jurisdiction.

Without any prejudice to particulars listed in Clause 26 above, the Company shall have the right to seek and obtain any injunctive, provisional or interim relief from any court of competent jurisdiction to protect its trade-mark or other intellectual property rights or confidential information or to preserve the status quo pending arbitration.

24. Entire Agreement

This Agreement, along with the Privacy Policy, Terms of Use, and any additional guidelines, rules, and/or disclaimers posted on the Platform constitutes the entire agreement governing your use of our Website and supersedes any prior agreements, if any, relating to any matter dealt within this Agreement.

25. Contact

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us by email or postal mail on the following address:

Name: Apxic Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

E-mail id: code@apxic.com

Address: SCO-12, First Floor, Opp. D.A.V. Riverside School, Kardhan Road, Ambala Cantt, Haryana – 133001.