General Terms of Use for Flowers Website

REPRESENTATIONS


COPYRIGHT

Flowers School of Technology and Management and its international academic units appreciate your interest in its learning projects and other innovative developments and your visit to this website. The text, images, graphics, designs and their arrangement on the Flowers website are all subject to copyright and other intellectual property protection. These objects may not be copied for commercial use or distribution, nor may these objects be modified or reposted to other sites. Some of Flowers and associated websites may contain images whose copyrights are attributable to third parties.


FLOWERS FUNDAMENTAL INFORMATION

This Website and associated websites are maintained by Flowers School of Technology and Management.


DATA PROTECTION

Our websites are maintained for worldwide viewing and are intended for interested visitors worldwide. We do not collect your personally identifiable information. However, any personal information provided will be stored in strictest confidence and used in accordance with the laws. Click here to read more on Data Protection.


TRADEMARKS

Unless otherwise indicated, all trademarks on this website are subject to trademark rights of Flowers School of Technology and Management and its international academic units and partners, including marks, model names, logos, and emblems.


WARRANTIES, LIABILITIES

The information on this and related websites is provided “As Is” and without warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, including (but not limited to) any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for any particular purpose, or non-infringement of third party rights. While the information provided is believed to be accurate, it may include errors or inaccuracies. In no event shall Flowers and or its partners be liable to any person for any special, indirect or consequential damages relating to this material, unless caused by gross negligence or intentional misconduct. Flowers is not responsible for the contents of websites that are maintained by third parties and therefore waives its liability for any links from this website to other websites.


LICENCES

Flowers and partners have sought to achieve an innovative and informative website. However, you also need to understand that Flowers and partners must protect their intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Accordingly, please appreciate that no license to use the intellectual property of third parties has been granted by this website.



FRAUD ALERT AND POLICY


FRAUD POLICY STATEMENT AND RESPONSE PROCEDURES
Flowers School of Technology and Management considers the act of fraud as a very serious matter and as such the Institution is committed to set out a strategy that is designed to frustrate any attempted act of fraudulent or corruption within the Institution or from outside.


DEFINITION OF FRAUD

Fraud is defined as dishonest, irregular acts, illegal acts, deliberate intent to embezzle, false representation, issuance of false cheque, acts of money laundering or related act, concealment, 4-1-9 or related schemes, furnishing false information with intent to deceive or cause loss to the School, misappropriation of the Institution’s assets including information and intellectual property, diversion of resources or related act for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals at a consequent loss to the institution.


The above is not to be construed as an exhaustive definition of the term.



FLOWERS ONLINE LEARNING PORTAL


By signing up or self-registering for any Flowers Online Learning Portal online course as well as subscribing to forums and other interactive platforms within the Flowers Online Portal, you acknowledge by confirmation that you are legally over 18 years of age (if 14 years of age, parental assistance is required) and have read the Flowers Online Portal Terms of Use and agree the Terms constitute a binding agreement between you and Flowers Online Portal and Flowers School of Technology and Management for which you agree to be bound and abide with the Terms of Use. Should you not wish to comply with the Terms of Use, please do not access the webpages and or unenrol from any courses you may have registered before reading the Terms of Use.


RIGHT OF MODIFICATION
The Flowers School of Technology and Management strongly believes in coevolving with the changing environment and requirements. To satisfy this trend, we reserve the right to both modify the Terms of Use and the Flowers Online Portal at our sole discretion at any time we deem appropriate with or without advanced notice. This could also lead to adding, removing and or rescheduling courses as we may find necessary.


FORUM POSTINGS
The Flowers Online Portal Administrators and Flowers School of Technology and Management encourage course participants to interact by discussing various topics in the forum. However, we are not obliged to moderate, screen, review, endorse or approve individual postings. On this note, you agree that we reserve the right to remove any content deemed inappropriate and or unenrol the individual. You also agree that you will not use the forum or platform to deliberately incite violence; threaten; defame another person’s character; organise political activities; discuss illegal activities; spam; spread virus; plant/distribute malware; infringe upon others’ trademarks; intellectual properties, and the like; promote your business products or services by placing related weblinks, etc., within the forums, etc. Flowers Online Portal is mainly a resource for learning and not a platform for your personal commercial or business agenda or solicitations.


MISREPRESENTATION
You agree not to attempt to access the Flowers Online Portal webpages using another user’s account access keys (Username and Password) or by false identification. This is an illegal activity and if we find out, we shall use our own discretion to take an appropriate action. Under this note, you also agree not to create multiple user accounts or share your Username and Password with others.



DISCLAIMER

DISCLAIMER OF STUDENT-FLOWERS RELATIONSHIP

We expect your fair use of any courses we offer through our websites. Do not intend or attempt to commercialize and profit from the courses or works derived from them. Commercialization is strictly prohibited. You may not use the Flowers name or associated names or logo in any of its forms as well as the name of course authors for promotional or business purposes that in Flowers’ sole discretion gives the impression of a relationship with or endorsements by Flowers or course author. You may not contact any course author by any means regarding free online course materials and related articles. Self-registering to take any free course via the Flowers websites does not turn you into a fully-fledged registered student of Flowers. Unless otherwise advertised, Flowers will not issue certificates or diplomas for free online courses. Where a non-relationship exists between Student and Flowers, the Flowers Online Portal course tutors are not obliged to assess any assignments, quizzes, examinations, projects, etc.