Overview
Batterjee Medical College has established this electronic portal to be an effective window to learn about the college and the services it provides to beneficiaries, including college students and staff, as well as any other beneficiaries at the local and international levels. The portal administration has set a number of terms and conditions that together constitute a user charter framing the relationship between the portal on one hand, and the beneficiary users on the other hand; which ensures the provision of better service and helps achieve greater benefit from all the information contained in the portal. Since this electronic portal of Batterjee Medical College (referred to herein as the "Batterjee Medical College Portal" or the "Portal") is available for your personal use; your access and use of this portal is subject to these terms and conditions of use and the laws of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, your access to and entry into this portal is considered an unconditional consent to the terms and conditions of use, whether you are a registered user or not, and this consent is effective from the date of your first use of this portal. As is clear from the portal's vision and mission, one of its most important goals is to be an informative and cognitive interface for the college and a tool to facilitate beneficiaries of its services by providing smooth electronic services, in addition to increasing awareness, spreading knowledge, emphasizing the principle of participation and constructive dialogue, as well as showcasing the college's role in the sustainable development march in the Kingdom in general, and the development of the higher education sector and its arrival at distinguished ranks in particular. On this basis, your use of everything stated in the portal is intended for scientific, cognitive, and cultural enrichment, which makes the use of any information contained in the portal the personal responsibility of the user. The use of the portal includes a number of terms and conditions that are subject to continuous updates and changes as needed. Any modification or update to any of these terms and conditions becomes effective immediately upon its approval by the portal administration; which requires you to continuously review the terms of use and disclaimer principles to be aware of any updates made to them; as your continued use of this portal means that you have read and fully accepted any modification made to the terms and conditions of use. Please note that these terms and conditions include property rights, and the portal administration is not required to announce any updates made to these conditions.
Usage Restrictions
By using the Batterjee Medical College portal, you agree to refrain from the following:
· Providing or uploading files that contain software, materials, data, or other information that you do not own or for which you do not hold a license.
· Using this portal in any way to send any commercial or unsolicited email, or any such abuse of the college portal.
· Providing or uploading files to this portal that contain viruses or corrupted data.
· Publishing, advertising, distributing, or circulating materials or information containing defamation, violation of laws, pornographic or obscene materials, or materials contrary to Islamic teachings or public morals, or any illegal materials or information through the Batterjee Medical College portal.
· Participating through the Batterjee College portal in illegitimate or illegal activities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
· Advertising - on the Batterjee Medical College portal - any product or service that places the college in violation of any law or regulation applied in any field.
· Using any means, software, or procedure to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper operation of the college portal.
· Taking any action that imposes an unreasonable, massive, or disproportionately heavy load on the infrastructure of the college portal.
Links (to and from the portal)
Links from other entities' portals to the college portal. Except as set forth below, it is prohibited to transfer or copy any of the contents of the college portal, create any electronic links to it, or display any of it in a frame. · Links to the Batterjee Medical College portal can be placed on any other sites that do not conflict in their goals and general orientation with the goals, policies, and frameworks of the college's electronic portal. · Under no circumstances shall the college be considered participating or associated in any way with any trademarks, logos, commercial or service symbols, or any other means used or appearing on websites linked to this portal or any of its contents. · The college reserves its full rights to stop and obstruct any link in any form from any site containing inappropriate, scandalous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, unacceptable, or illegal topics, names, materials, or information that violates any law or infringes upon any intellectual property rights, privacy rights, or publicity rights. · The college reserves the right to disable any unauthorized link in any form and assumes no responsibility for the contents available on any other site accessed through this portal or accessing this portal.
Links from the college portal to other entities' portals
Contact links to other portals and/or websites are provided for the convenience of the visitor. The college, as well as the portal administration, are not responsible for the contents or credibility of the portals and/or sites to which we link, and we do not endorse their contents. Therefore, the use of any of these links to access those sites or portals is entirely at your own risk. As we aim to replace broken electronic links - that do not work - with other sites, and since we do not have control or mastery over those links; we do not guarantee in any way that these links will work permanently.
Virus Protection
The portal administration makes every effort to check and test the contents of this portal at all stages of work. We advise you to always run an anti-virus program on all materials downloaded from the Internet. We do not bear any responsibility for any loss, interruption, or damage to your data or your computer device that may occur while connecting to this portal or when using any materials from its content or anything else stated therein.
Waiver of Claims
The Batterjee Medical College portal, the services provided through it, and the information, materials, and functions available on it or accessible through the portal are provided for your personal use "as is" and "as available" without any acknowledgment, promises, or guarantees of any kind. We cannot guarantee or assume responsibility for any interruptions, errors, or breaches that may arise from the use of this portal, its contents, or any site linked to it - whether with or without our knowledge. Any communications or information that the user may send through this portal will not grant them the right to ownership or the right to guarantee its confidentiality. Moreover, any general or specifically interactive use included in this portal does not guarantee or intend to guarantee the user any rights, licenses, or privileges of any kind. In the event that the college waives any right available to it and specified within these terms in one place or on one occasion, this does not mean in any way an automatic and permanent waiver of any rights in other places and occasions.
Scope and Limitations of Liability
The electronic services provided by the Batterjee Medical College electronic portal via the Internet and obtaining information regarding agencies, departments, colleges, programs, and various entities are provided solely to facilitate manual procedures. By this, you acknowledge your full awareness that communications over the Internet may be subject to interference or interception by third parties. Accordingly, resorting to this portal remains at your own risk, and the portal shall in no way bear responsibility for any loss or damage of any kind that you may incur due to your use or visit to the portal, your reliance on any statement, opinion, or advertisement therein, or what may result from any delay in operation, connection failure, problems accessing the Internet, equipment or software malfunctions, or the behavior or ideas of any person accessing this portal. You hereby acknowledge and agree that your sole and exclusive remedy for any damage or loss that may occur as a result of your access to or use of this portal is to refrain from using it, accessing it, or discontinuing such use.
Indemnification
By this, you agree not to take any action against Batterjee Medical College or its administration and to hold harmless and indemnify the college, any of its affiliates, and any employees or staff responsible for managing, maintaining, updating, or presenting the college portal, from all obligations and responsibilities that may arise in connection with any claims arising from any breach by you of the terms and conditions of use or any of the applicable laws, whether in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or the place where you reside.
Termination of Use
The portal administration may, at its absolute discretion, terminate, restrict, or suspend your right to access and use the portal without notice and for any reason, including violation of the terms and conditions of use or any other conduct that the administration, at its sole discretion, considers illegal or harmful to others. In the event of termination, you will not be authorized to access this portal.
Property Rights
· All content materials published on the portal, as well as its affiliated sites, are subject to intellectual property rights, including texts, graphics, images, software, designs, and others. · The portal administration allows users to view and browse the portal's pages and print a paper copy only once for personal use. The Information and Communications Technology Department technically supervises the portal, and it is a department affiliated with Batterjee Medical College. All materials available on this portal, including texts, infographics, software (contents), designs, and others, are protected by copyrights, trademarks, and other forms of property rights. Since one of the main objectives of the portal is to increase awareness and spread knowledge for portal users and visitors, only personal and non-profit use is allowed to benefit from the portal's content and any information published on it, with the necessity of indicating that the Batterjee Medical College portal is the source of that content and information. In the case of personal use, any parts of the content may be printed only once. On the other hand, it is not permissible in any way to sell, license, rent, modify, copy, reproduce, reprint, upload, advertise, transmit, distribute, publicly display, edit, or create derivative works from any materials or contents of this portal for the public or for commercial purposes. In this case, and for any public use of any parts of the portal's content, prior written consent must be obtained from the portal administration at Batterjee Medical College, emphasizing the need to adhere to the Saudi Intellectual Property Protection Law and everything stipulated within this document. Any modification to any of the portal's contents is strictly prohibited. Also, the graphics and images on this portal are protected by copyrights, and they may not be reproduced or exploited in any way without prior written consent from the portal administration. A reference must be made to Batterjee Medical College when using any content mentioned on its electronic portal.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
By this, you agree to submit exclusively to the judicial authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with respect to all claims and disputes arising from your use of this portal. Please note that the Arabic language will be the official language used to resolve any disputes arising from your use of the portal or any of its contents.
Links from the college portal to other entities' portals
All materials and information available on the portal are for awareness purposes and relate to the academic field.
· Arabic is the primary language for using the portal and benefiting from all materials published on it. The translation of any of these materials aims to provide an added service; therefore, the available translation shall not be relied upon in interpreting any dispute regarding the portal's content.
· All regulations and laws published on the portal, whether pertaining to the college or other entities, may be subject to translation to explain their meanings with the aim of increasing benefit. However, the Arabic text of all these regulations and laws constitutes the primary reference, and accordingly, their explanatory translation cannot in any way be relied upon to derive any information or details.
· The portal includes a number of electronic participation channels and tools, such as forums, opinion polls, comments on everything published, blogs, voting systems, visitor comments, personal subscriptions, and SMS messages around the clock.
· The portal administration has set a number of standards and restrictions for the use of all electronic participation channels, ensuring the achievement of the highest desired benefit from the principle of electronic participation. Your use of these channels is considered a permanent agreement to the standards and restrictions of their use.
· The portal administration has the full right to delete or not publish any comments or posts by portal users that the administration deems inappropriate.
· In case of any inquiries or opinions regarding the privacy terms and disclaimer, you can contact the portal administration via the following email: info@bmc.ac.ae, and the privacy and information confidentiality document can be viewed below.
