TERMS OF USE
AGREEMENT BETWEEN USER AND EC-COUNCIL
Welcome to EC-Council. EC-Council International Limited (“EC-Council”), and/or its affiliates or subsidiaries, provide website features (“EC-Council Website”) and other products and services to you when you visit or shop at EC-Council, use EC-Council products or services, use EC-Council applications, or use software provided by EC-Council in connection with any of the foregoing (collectively, “EC-Council Services”). The EC-Council Website is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance, without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices (“Terms of Use”) contained herein. Your use of the EC-Council Website constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices, as may be notified and changed from time-to-time. These Terms of Use reflect the way EC-Council’s business works, the laws that apply to our companies, and the certain things we believe to be true. These terms help define the relationship between you and EC-Council. You have permission to use our services if you agree to follow these terms, which reflect how EC-Council’s business works and how we earn money. When we speak of “EC-Council,” “we,” “us,” and “our,” we mean EC-Council International Limited and its affiliates.
EC-Council offers a wide range of services, and sometimes additional terms may apply. When you use EC-Council Services (for example: ASPEN, EC-Council Video, iLabs, iClass, iweek etc.) you also will be subject to the guidelines, terms, and agreements applicable to that EC-Council Service (“Service Terms”). If these Terms of Use are inconsistent with the Service Terms, those Service Terms will be applicable.
EC-Council Web-site and Services may include: (a) your use and submission of data, text, audio, video, images, software (including machine images), or other materials (collectively, “Customer Content”) in connection with the EC-Council Web-site and/or Services; and (b) the use of various tools, websites, electronic media and services EC-Council may provide to you in connection with the EC-Council Web-site and/or Services (collectively, the “EC-Council Tools”). If you are entering into this Agreement for a commercial entity, government institution, or any other entity (“Entity”), such as the company or educational institution you work for, you represent that you have legal authority to bind that Entity.
1. AGE AND PARENT/GUARDIAN CONSENT REQUIREMENTS:
- By using EC-Council’s website, you represent and warrant that (a) you are legal age of majority, in your jurisdiction of residence or citizenship and agree to be bound by this Agreement; (b) if you are under 13 years of age, you are not allowed to use this website and access the services (c) if you are of the age of 13 but below the age of majority, you agree to have obtained verifiable consent from a parent or legal guardian; and (c) your use of EC-Council’s website does not violate any applicable law or regulation. Your access to EC-Council’s website may be terminated without warning if we believe, in our sole discretion, that you are under the legal age of majority and have not obtained verifiable consent from a parent or legal guardian. (d) If you are a parent or legal guardian and you provide your consent to your child’s use of EC-Council’s website, you agree to be bound by this Agreement in respect to your child’s use of EC-Council’s website.
- Additionally, the age requirement for attending the training or the exam is restricted to any candidate that is permitted by his/her country of origin/residency. If the candidate is under the legal age as permitted by his/her country of origin/residency, they are not eligible to attend the official training or eligible to attempt the certification exam unless they provide the EC-Council or its representatives, a written consent/indemnity of their parent/legal guardian and a supporting letter from their institution of higher learning. Only candidates from a nationally accredited institution of higher learning shall be considered.
2. PRIVACY
Please review our Privacy Policy located at here, which also governs your use of EC-Council Website and/or Services, to understand our practices.
3. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
When you use EC-Council Services, or send e-mails, text messages, and other communications from your desktop or mobile device to us, you may be communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically, such as e-mails, texts, mobile push notices, or notices and messages on this site or through the other EC-Council Services, such as our Message Centre, and you and we can retain copies of these communications for your records. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
4. USE OF COMMUNICATION SERVICES
The EC-Council Website may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, “Communication Services”). You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not:
- Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
- Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, or unlawful topic, name, material, or information.
- Upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents.
- Upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer.
- Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose unless such Communication Service specifically allows such messages
- Conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters.
- Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner.
- Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.
- Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services.
- Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service.
- Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent.
- Violate any applicable laws or regulations
EC-Council has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, EC-Council reserves the right to review materials posted to a Communication Service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. EC-Council reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.EC-Council reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in EC-Council’s sole discretion.
Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any Communication Service. EC-Council does not control or endorse the Customer Content, messages or information found in any Communication Service and, therefore, EC-Council specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Service. Managers and hosts are not authorized EC-Council spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of EC-Council.
Materials uploaded to a Communication Service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you download the materials.
5. COPYRIGHT
All content included in or made available through any EC-Council Service, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software is the property of EC-Council or its content suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws. The compilation of all content included in or made available through any EC-Council Service is the exclusive property of EC-Council and protected by U.S. and international copyright laws.
All contents of the EC-Council Website are: Copyright 2022 by EC-Council and/or its suppliers. All rights reserved.
6. TRADEMARKS
Click HERE to see a non-exhaustive list of EC-Council trademarks. In addition, graphics, logos, page headers, button icons, scripts, and service names included in or made available through any EC-Council Service are trademarks or trade dress of EC-Council in the U.S. and other countries. EC-Council’s trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not EC-Council’s, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits EC-Council. All other trademarks not owned by EC-Council that appear in any EC-Council Service are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by EC-Council.
The names of actual companies and products mentioned in our websites and electronic assets may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
7. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMPLAINTS
EC-Council respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your intellectual property rights are being infringed, please follow our Notice and Procedure for making claims of copyright infringement.
8. NOTICES AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
We take claims of copyright infringement seriously and will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable law. In accordance with the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) (“DMCA”), we will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using our Services. If you believe any materials accessible on or from the Services infringes your copyright, you may request removal of those materials from the Services by submitting written notification to our Copyright Agent (designated below).
If you are a copyright owner, authorized to act on behalf of one, or authorized to act under any exclusive right under copyright, please report alleged copyright infringements taking place on or through the Site by submitting a written notice (the “DMCA Notice”) to us with the following information:
- Your physical or electronic signature.
- Identification of the copyrighted work you believe to have been infringed or, if the claim involves multiple works on the Service, a representative list of such works.
- Identification of the material you believe to be infringing in a sufficiently precise manner to allow us to locate that material.
- Adequate information by which we can contact you (including your name, postal address, telephone number and, if available, email address).
- A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
- A statement that the information in the written notice is accurate.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
Completed notices should be sent by email to: [email protected]. Upon receipt of Notice as described below, we will take whatever action, in our sole discretion, we deem appropriate, including removal of the challenged content from the Site.
If you fail to comply with all of the requirements of Section 512(c)(3) of the DMCA, your DMCA Notice may not be effective. Please be aware that if you knowingly materially misrepresent that material or activity on the Services is infringing your copyright, you may be held liable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) under Section 512(f) of the DMCA.
9. NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE
As a condition of your use of the EC-Council Website, you warrant to EC-Council that you will not use the EC-Council Website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You shall not use the EC-Council Website in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the EC-Council Website or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the EC-Council Website. You shall not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the EC-Council Website.
10. LICENSE AND ACCESS
Subject to your compliance with these Terms of Use and any Service Terms, and your payment of any applicable fees, EC-Council or its content providers may grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access the EC-Council Website and make personal and non-commercial use of the EC-Council Services only for intended purpose. This license does not include any resale or commercial use of any EC-Council Service, or its contents, or any Customer Content; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of any EC-Council Service or its contents, or any Customer Content; any downloading, copying, or other use of account information for the benefit of any third party; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools. All rights not expressly granted to you in these Terms of Use, or any Service Terms are reserved and retained by EC-Council or its licensors, suppliers, publishers, rightsholders, or other content providers. No EC-Council Service and Website, nor any part of any EC-Council Service and Website, shall be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without express written consent of EC-Council. You shall not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of EC-Council without express written consent. You shall not use any meta tags or any other “hidden text” utilizing EC-Council’s name or trademarks without the express written consent of EC-Council. You shall not misuse the EC-Council Services. You shall use the EC-Council Services only as permitted by law. The licenses granted by EC-Council terminate if you do not comply with these Terms of Use or any Service Terms.
Notwithstanding anything contrary in this Terms of Use and in the foregoing Section, should you wish to partner with EC-Council, please visit https://www.eccouncil.org/about/accredited-training-center-atc/ for more information.
11. YOUR ACCOUNT
You may need your own EC-Council account to use certain EC-Council Services, and you may be required to be logged in to the account and have a valid payment method associated with it. If there is a problem charging your selected payment method, we may charge any other valid payment method associated with your account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your account, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. EC-Council sells products only to adults, who can purchase with a credit card or other permitted payment method. If you are not the legal age of majority and/or within the specified age limit as mentioned under the relevant provisions i.e., “AGE AND PARENT/GUARDIAN CONSENT REQUIREMENTS”, you may use the EC-Council Website and Services only with involvement of a parent or guardian. EC-Council reserves the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, terminate your rights to use EC-Council Website and Services, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in its sole discretion.
12. MATERIALS PROVIDED TO EC-COUNCIL OR POSTED AT ANY EC-COUNCIL WEBSITE
- EC-Council does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to EC-Council (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any EC-Council Website or its associated services (collectively “Submissions”). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission or Customer Content, you are granting EC-Council, its affiliated companies a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, publicly perform, reformat, translate, edit, create derivative works from, distribute, and display such Submissions or Customer Content throughout the world in any media and to publish your name in connection with your Submission or Customer Content. Notwithstanding the foregoing, your Submission and Customer Content is your exclusive responsibility. You represent and warrant that (a) you own or control all relevant rights to Customer Content or Submission that you submit to EC-Council; (b) Customer Content (including, but not limited to, any Personal Information, as defined below) or Submission is accurate, truthful, and up-to-date; (c) any use of Customer Content or Submission will not violate this Terms of Use, infringe a third party’s proprietary rights, or cause injury to EC-Council or to any third person or Entity; and (d) you will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless EC-Council for all claims relating to Customer Content or Submission supplied to EC-Council.
- Further, you agree that you will not submit any Customer Content or Submission that is illegal, profane, obscene, sexually explicit, threatening, libellous, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights (including publicity rights), or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable, and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of “spam” or unsolicited commercial electronic messages. You may not submit Customer Content or Submission containing official personal identification numbers or codes (such as social security number, driver’s license number, passport or national identification numbers, policy numbers, bank account numbers, etc.), or highly sensitive personal information not related to the EC-Council Services and/or Website (such as race, ethnicity, religion, religious/philosophical beliefs, political or union affiliation or opinions, medical or health information, sexual orientation, disability, etc.). You shall not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of the Submission or Customer Content. EC-Council reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such Submission or Customer Content.
- No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission or Customer Content, as provided herein. EC-Council is under no obligation to post or use any Submission or Customer Content you may provide and may remove any Submission or Customer Content at any time in EC-Council’s sole discretion.
- Notwithstanding anything foregoing, you may opt to remove your Submission or Customer Content from the EC-Council Website at any time you wish.
13. DISCLAIMER REGARDING CUSTOMER CONTENT AND SUBMISSION
The EC-Council Website and Services are not storage services, and EC-Council takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for Customer Content or Submission or any Third-Party Content. EC-Council has no obligation to you to store, publish, maintain, or reproduce Customer Content or Submission or Third-Party Content (including any archived copies). EC-Council does not—and has no obligation to—actively monitor Customer Content or Submission; however, EC-Council has the right to monitor, edit, or remove any of Customer Content or Submission for any reason, with or without notice. Because we have no obligation to monitor Customer Content or Submission, it is your responsibility to ensure customer content or submission is accurate and up-to-date, in compliance with the Terms of Use; and you should exercise great caution to not provide EC-Council with any information you believe is sensitive.
14. YOUR SUGGESTION
If you provide any suggested improvements to the EC-Council Service and/or Website, or any features, programs, or offerings offered through the Service or EC-Council Website (“Suggestions”), EC-Council owns all right, title, and interest in and to these Suggestions, even if you have designated them as confidential, and EC-Council will be entitled to use the Suggestions without restriction. You hereby irrevocably assign to us all right, title, and interest in and to the Suggestions, and agree to provide us any assistance we may require to document, perfect, and maintain our rights in the Suggestions.
15. USE OF THIRD- PARTY PLATFORM
- Subject to age and parent/guardian consent requirements, you may connect with us via social media or other online accounts which may be connected with EC-Council. If you log into EC-Council via Facebook or join Whatsapp Group, or another third-party platform or service, you are bound by the terms and conditions of such third-party platform, in addition to our Terms of Use and Terms of Service.
- Notwithstanding anything contrary in this Terms of Use, EC-Council’s Whatsapp group is a closed group and participation in this group is by invitation only. If you are a member of the Whatsapp Group, you agree that you will not (or assist others in using) use the third party platform in ways that: (a) violate, misappropriate, or infringe the privacy, publicity, intellectual property, or other proprietary rights of any other member and/or users; (b) are illegal, obscene, defamatory, threatening, intimidating, harassing, hateful, racially, or ethnically offensive, or instigate or encourage conduct that would be illegal, or otherwise inappropriate, including promoting crimes; (c) involve publishing falsehoods, misrepresentations, or misleading statements; (d) impersonate someone; (e) involve sending illegal or impermissible communications such as bulk messaging, auto-messaging, auto-dialling, and the like; or (f) involve any non-personal use of EC-Council Services unless otherwise authorized by us. The group admin shall have the sole discretion to add and/or remove any member of this group. However, you may exit the Whatsapp Group at any time.
16. RISK OF LOSS
All purchases of physical items from EC-Council are made pursuant to a shipment contract. This means that the risk of loss and title for such items pass to you upon our delivery to the carrier.
17. RETURNS, REFUNDS AND TITLE
EC-Council does not take title to returned items until the item arrives at our center. For more information about our returns and refunds, please see visit https://store.eccouncil.org/terms-and-conditions/ .
18. PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS
EC-Council attempts to be as accurate as possible. However, EC-Council does not warrant that product descriptions or other content of any EC-Council Service is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free.
19. PRICING
With respect to items sold by EC-Council, we cannot confirm the price of an item until you order. Despite our best efforts, a small number of the items in our catalogue may be mispriced. If the correct price of an item sold by EC-Council is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation.
20. SANCTIONS AND EXPORT POLICY
You may not use EC-Council Website or any EC-Council Service if you are the subject of U.S. sanctions or of sanctions consistent with U.S. law imposed by the governments of the country where you are using EC-Council Website or Services. You must comply with all U.S. or other export and re-export restrictions that may apply to goods, software (including EC-Council Software), technology, and services.
21. LIABILITY DISCLAIMER
THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE EC-COUNCIL WEBSITE AND/OR EC-COUNCIL SERVICE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. EC-COUNCIL AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE EC-COUNCIL WEBSITE AT ANY TIME. ADVICE RECEIVED VIA THE EC-COUNCIL WEBSITE SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON FOR CAREER, PERSONAL, LEGAL OR FINANCIAL DECISIONS ETC. AND YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN APPROPRIATE PROFESSIONAL FOR SPECIFIC ADVICE TAILORED TO YOUR SITUATION.
EC-COUNCIL AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE EC-COUNCIL WEBSITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND. EC-COUNCIL AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL EC-COUNCIL AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE EC-COUNCIL WEBSITE , WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE EC-COUNCIL WEBSITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE EC-COUNCIL WEBSITE , OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE EC-COUNCIL WEBSITE , WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF EC-COUNCIL OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE EC-COUNCIL WEBSITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE EC-COUNCIL WEBSITE.
CERTAIN JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS, MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU AND OUR LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
SERVICE CONTACT: [email protected]
22. TERMINATION/ACCESS RESTRICTION
EC-Council reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate, suspend or restrict your access to the EC-Council Website and EC-Council Service or any portion thereof at any time, without notice. In the event of suspension, cancellation, or termination, you are no longer authorized to access the part of the website affected by such suspension, cancellation, or termination. In the event of any suspension, cancellation, or termination, the restrictions imposed on you with respect to material downloaded from the website and the disclaimers and limitations of liabilities set forth in the Agreement, shall survive.
23. DISPUTES
Any dispute or claim relating in any way to your use of any EC-Council Website and/or Service, or to any products or services sold or distributed by EC-Council will be resolved by binding arbitration, rather than in court, except that you may assert claims in small claims court if your claims qualify. The dispute between the parties shall be submitted to the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (“SIAC“) for arbitration in accordance with its rules in force at the time of application for arbitration (“Arbitration Rules“).
24. APPLICABLE LAW
By using any EC-Council Website and/or Service, you agree that the laws of Singapore, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Terms of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and EC-Council. Further, the parties specifically exclude the application of United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.
Use of the EC-Council Website is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these terms and conditions, including without limitation this paragraph. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT, BY ENTERING INTO THE TERMS, YOU AND WE ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION.
25. MISCELLANEOUS
You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and EC-Council as a result of this Terms of Use or use of the EC-Council Website. EC-Council’s performance of this Terms of Use is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this Terms of Use is in derogation of EC-Council’s right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the EC-Council Website or information provided to or gathered by EC-Council with respect to such use. If any part of this Terms of Use is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the Terms of Use shall continue in effect. Unless otherwise specified herein, this Terms of Use constitutes the entire agreement between the user and EC-Council with respect to the EC-Council Website and Services and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and EC-Council with respect to the EC-Council Website. A printed version of this Terms of Use and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this Terms of Use to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that this Terms of Use and all related documents be drawn up in English.
26. MODIFICATION OF THESE TERMS OF USE
Please review our other policies, such as our privacy policy, Trademark Usage policy etc., posted on this site. These policies also govern your use of EC-Council Services. EC-Council reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which the EC-Council Website and/or EC-Council Service is offered, including but not limited to the charges associated with the use of the EC-Council Website.
27. Third-Party Connected Apps and Paid Services
- Introduction The guiding principle of EC-Council Education Content and Labs is simple, we want to provide a safe environment to learn, practice, and assess Cyber Security Skills that directly translate to Job ready skills. We believe in providing our students, educator partners, and professionals with real software and live experiences that behave like those in the “real-world” because they are the actual tools and services used in the field, not simulations.
- Third-Party and Internet Connected resources To provide the most realistic learning experience, EC-Council may employ connections to live networks and services through its labs, and lab platforms. While many software and service providers provide education use licenses, trials, or are Open Source, some require a live account with setup requirements, and agreements you must review and consent to in order to participate in and/or complete the exercises in our Labs.
- Subscription Fees and/or License Fees EC-Council will never ask you for payment details, or sensitive information during our course of learning, however some of our Live Labs connect to third-party services such as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, etc. While many of these service providers allow you to sign up for free tier usage, Education Accounts, or provide promotional credits for trials, many do ask for your credit card during sign-up and may bill for the use of their services, during and even after you have completed your course of study with EC-Council. Be aware, signing up for third party services may incur expenses related to the use of their services. Our labs can be completed without any additional charges unless explicitly marked, but you are ultimately responsible for any services you may intentionally or unintentionally sign up for when connected to those platforms.
- CCSE, AWS, Azure, and GCP CCSE provides labs that utilize three major cloud platforms, AWS, Azure, and GCP. In order to provide a thorough hands-on experience, you must create accounts with each cloud platform. While account creation typically requires a credit card, you do have options to bypass this; ask your school or training center if they are an education partner with these cloud players and complete your signup with an education account, or you can apply directly for a student account with each platform. If you choose to setup a live account with a credit card, be sure to check with each platform how to identify what services are being created that may incur charges. We do provide guides in our programs to check that all services created have been removed, and we do notify you if a lab activity may incur charges if done incorrectly or not terminated, but be aware, you are connecting to live third party services that charge for the use of their platforms if you exceed free tier usage guidelines.
- Alternatives If you are unable to secure and Education/Student account and are not comfortable creating a live account in these platforms, EC-Council provides comprehensive Lab Guides that include full instruction sets with screenshots(images) of each step. EC-Council also provides video-based walk-throughs of each lab for you to follow along without actually creating an account. Though with this method you won’t be creating an account or performing the live configurations, you will still receive adequate exposure to the platforms, configuration steps, techniques, and knowledge elements required for you to prepare for certification, or grasp the knowledge conveyed in the program.
