Terms of Service

Any use or access by anyone under the age of 13 is strictly prohibited. Additionally, you may use our Services only if you: • Can form a binding contract with Ootu Academy • Comply with these Terms, all applicable laws, and our policies • Are over the age at which you can provide consent to data processing under the laws of your country Certain regions and Content Offerings may have additional requirements and/or different age restrictions. Any violation of our Terms, applicable laws, or Policies may result in your access to all or part of the Services being suspended, disabled, or terminated.

When you create your Ootu Academy account, and when you subsequently use certain features, you must provide us with accurate and complete information, and you agree to update your information to keep it accurate and complete. You are responsible for safeguarding your password and for all activities that occur under your account. You should not share your account credentials with others.

Subject to these Terms and our Policies, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license right to use our Services. The rights granted herein are only for your personal, non-commercial use, unless you obtain our written permission otherwise. You also agree that you will create, access, and/or use only one user account, unless expressly permitted by Ootu Academy, and you will not share access to your account or access information for your account with any third party.

Ootu Academy offers courses and content ("Content Offerings") from instructors and educational partners ("Content Providers"). While we seek to provide world-class Content Offerings from our Content Providers, unexpected events do occur. Ootu Academy reserves the right to cancel, interrupt, reschedule, or modify any Content Offerings, or change the point value or weight of any assignment, quiz, or other assessment.

Ootu Academy does not grant academic credit for the completion of Content Offerings. Unless otherwise explicitly indicated by a credit-granting institution, participation in or completion of Content Offerings does not confer any academic credit. Ootu Academy, instructors, and the associated Content Providers have no obligation to have Content Offerings recognized by any educational institution or accreditation organization.

Nothing in these Terms or otherwise with respect to your participation in any Content Offerings establishes any relationship between you and any Content Provider. This includes enrollment or registration in any Content Provider institution.

The Services enable you to share your content, such as homework, quizzes, exams, projects, other assignments you submit, posts you make in the forums, and the like ("User Content"). You retain all intellectual property rights in, and are responsible for, the User Content you create and share.

To the extent that you provide User Content, you grant Ootu Academy a fully-transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, sublicensable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to copy, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, publicly display, and otherwise use the User Content. This license includes granting Ootu Academy the right to authorize Content Providers to use User Content with their registered students or other learners independent of the Services.

Ootu Academy is committed to maintaining the highest standards of academic integrity. Prohibited conduct includes but is not limited to: • Plagiarism: Copying or reproducing words, ideas, or any other materials from another source without giving credit • Unauthorized collaboration: Working together on assignments unless expressly permitted • Contract cheating: Paying or allowing another person to create work for submission • Impersonation: Completing work when logged in as another user • Unauthorized sharing: Making assessment solutions available to anyone else • Fraud: Any misrepresentation about the authorship or conditions under which work was performed

Ootu Academy will determine relevant sanctions based on the kind of misconduct, the severity of the behavior, and any previous history of misconduct. Violations may result in: • Warning or suspension of account access • Removal from courses • Permanent account termination • Loss of certificates or achievements No refunds will be issued in the case of any corrective action for Honor Code violations.