Terms of Service

Effective date: January 27, 2023

Last updated: January 27, 2023

1. Introduction and Acceptance of Terms

Lavatti Union ("we," "us" or "Lavatti Union") provides you access to free IT education services (the "Services") subject to the terms and conditions described in this document (this "Terms of Use"). This Terms of Use also includes our Privacy Policy, incorporated by this reference.

Lavatti Union is an IT education initiative operating in partnership with Misr El-Kheir Foundation (MEK), providing free, high-quality IT education to students across Egypt and the Middle East.

By using this Service, registering a User Account (defined below), or by indicating your agreement to this Terms of Use through a similar mechanism, you are agreeing to be bound by this Terms of Use. If you do not agree to this Terms of Use, do not use the Services.

If you are under the age of 18, but at least 16 years of age, you represent and agree that you possess legal parental or guardian consent to use the Services and are fully able and competent to enter into all of the conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations and warranties set forth in this Terms of Use. The Services are not intended for, nor directed at, individuals under the age of 16; if you are under 16 years of age, do not use the Services.

2. Services

Lavatti Union provides free IT education services through its website located at www.lavatti.com and any other websites and applications owned, operated, or controlled by us (each a "Website" and collectively the "Websites"), including, without limitation, all information, content, services, and materials made available through any Website, social media channels, or other online channels that enable you to participate in any Lavatti Union online educational programs (collectively, the "Online Courses") and related services.

All courses and educational content provided by Lavatti Union are offered free of charge. We do not charge fees for enrollment, access to course materials, or participation in our programs.

Lavatti Union reserves the right, at any time and from time to time, to modify, discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Services provided or any part or portion thereof, with or without notice to you. You agree that Lavatti Union shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modifications, suspensions, or discontinuance of the Services, or any portion thereof.

Lavatti Union and the instructors of the Online Courses further reserve the right to alter, modify or rearrange the schedule of topics for the Online Courses, as well as the point value or weight of assignments, tests, quizzes, exams, projects, and other such evaluations of progress. By attending the Online Courses, Students acknowledge that Lavatti Union and the instructors maintain the right and ability to adapt, modify or revise the Online Courses as Lavatti Union and the instructors deem appropriate.

3. Access and User Accounts

There are different ways in which you may access or use the Services. In each and every instance, you are only authorized to use the Services if you agree to abide by all applicable laws, rules, regulations, as well as this Terms of Use. You may access the Services as:

  • a "Visitor," meaning any individual that browses any of our Services, including, without limitation, through a mobile or other wireless device without being registered;
  • a "Student," meaning that you have created a User Account (defined below) and have enrolled in and are participating in the Online Courses and other Lavatti Union Services and that you intend to complete the applicable program, including the homework assignments and exams, and other requirements related to those individual programs;
  • an "Attendee," meaning that you have created a User Account and that you intend to audit the Online Courses, i.e., attend or view lectures online without accessing final projects or assessments required for certification, or completing the homework assignments, exams or other course work related to assessments for certification.

The term "User" refers to a Visitor, Student, Attendee, or any other person that participates, interacts with, or otherwise makes use of any of the Services and/or any Lavatti Union community.

User Accounts

In order to use, access, or take part in many of our Services, including the Online Courses, you must select a login identification ("User ID") and a unique user password ("User Password") (collectively, a "User Account"). You agree that you will never divulge or share access to your User Account with any third party for any reason.

In setting up your User Account, you may be prompted or required to enter additional information, including, but not limited, to your name and email address. You understand and agree that all information provided by you is accurate, current, and complete and that you will maintain and update your information to keep it accurate, current, and complete. You acknowledge that if any information provided by you is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, we reserve the right to terminate your use of the Services and your enrollment in any Online Courses.

4. Modification of This Terms of Use

We reserve the right to change or modify this Terms of Use at our sole discretion at any time. We will notify you of any material changes to the terms and conditions of this Terms of Use or to any service or other feature of the Services and you must accept such changes in order to continue your use and access thereof. If you do not accept such changes your use and/or access to the Services will be terminated. Any change or modification to this Terms of Use will be effective immediately upon posting by Lavatti Union on its Websites or applications, or as of the date indicated in the updated Terms of Use.

5. Communications

If you are a Visitor, we may contact you through our in-website notification, messaging and chat services while you browse the Services. You consent to receive these notifications and messages. We also provide information on our Websites for you to contact us with questions or comments.

If you are a Student or Attendee, you expressly consent to electronically receive all communications, agreements, documents, notices and disclosures whether transactional or promotional in nature as described more fully in the Privacy Policy. You agree that all notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

6. Privacy

In connection with your use of the Services we may collect, store, use, share, and/or process certain information about you and your interaction with our Services. For further explanation on how we treat information collected and received from you when you use the Services and/or participate in our Online Courses, please see our Privacy Policy.

7. User Conduct Policy

As a condition of accessing or using any of the Services and/or Online Courses, you are prohibited from undertaking, and agree not to:

  • violate any applicable laws, regulations, or rules;
  • set up multiple User Accounts;
  • reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, display, publish, transfer, distribute, create derivative works of, or exploit for any commercial purposes any portion of the Services, the Online Courses, any Content (as defined below), or any other aspect of our operations, other than as expressly allowed under this Terms of Use;
  • reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise access the source code for any software that may be used to operate the Services;
  • use Lavatti Union's name, trademarks, service marks, or other materials in connection with, or to transmit, any unsolicited communications or emails;
  • use any high volume, automated, electronic, or third party means to access the Services including without limitation robots, crawlers, browser plug-ins, browser extensions, spiders, or scripts ("Add-ons");
  • frame the Services, place pop-up windows over its pages, or otherwise affect the display of its pages;
  • falsely state, impersonate, or otherwise misrepresent your identity, including but not limited to the use of a pseudonym or misrepresenting your affiliations with a person or entity, past or present;
  • force headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any communication transmitted through the Services;
  • directly, or through any Add-ons, scrape any part of the Websites and/or Services; and/or
  • interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Services.

In addition, you may not post, upload, or transmit to or otherwise make available through the Services any content, communications, or other information (collectively, "Unauthorized Content"):

  • that is obscene, fraudulent, indecent, or libelous or that defames, abuses, harasses, discriminates against or threatens others;
  • that contains any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or other disabling devices or other harmful components intended to or that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept, or expropriate any system, data, or personal information;
  • that you do not have the right to disclose or make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
  • that infringes the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity, or other intellectual property or proprietary right of any third party;
  • that violates the rights of other Users of the Services; or
  • that violates any applicable local, state, national or international law or otherwise advocates or encourages any illegal activity.

8. Lavatti Union's Intellectual Property Rights

The Services are owned and operated by Lavatti Union and its licensors. All content or other material available through the Services, including, but not limited to, information on the Websites, on-line lectures, speeches, video or other lessons, applications, pre-assessments and assessments, quizzes, presentation materials, homework assignments, programming assignments, programs, code, licenses, and other images, text, layouts, arrangements, displays, illustrations, documents, surveys, materials, audio and video clips, HTML, and files (collectively, the "Content"), are the property of Lavatti Union and/or its affiliates or licensors and are protected by copyright, patent and/or other proprietary intellectual property rights under Egyptian and foreign law.

Lavatti Union logos, trademarks and service marks which may appear on the Website(s), throughout the Services and in Online Courses ("Marks"), are the property of Lavatti Union and are protected under Egyptian and foreign laws. All other trademarks, service marks, and logos used on the Services, with or without attribution, are the trademarks, service marks, or logos of their respective owners.

From time to time, Lavatti Union may include software, code, instructions, or other such information in the Content or materials for the Services; any such information is provided on an "as-is" basis for instructional purposes only and is subject to the Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liabilities sections below and other terms herein. Any use of such information for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited. Lavatti Union and/or its affiliates and licensors reserve all rights not expressly granted herein to the Services, Content, and Marks.

9. License to Use the Services

Subject to your compliance with this Terms of Use, Lavatti Union hereby grants you a freely revocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable limited right and license to access, internally use and display the Services, including the Content, at your location solely as necessary to participate in the Online Courses as permitted hereunder. You must abide by all copyright notices or restrictions contained on the Websites, in any Online Course, or in the Content. You may not delete any attributions, legal or proprietary notices on the Websites, in the Online Courses, or on the Content.

10. User Content

Lavatti Union may provide Users with the ability to upload forum posts, chat with other Users, User discussions as well as post content, discussions, materials, media, and other information through profile pages and throughout the Services for social interaction or for use with the Websites or Online Courses, e.g., questions, hypotheticals, examples, etc. (collectively, "User Content"). Lavatti Union is not responsible for User Content and does not guarantee that any such User Content is accurate, truthful, up to date, reliable, or appropriate and disclaims any and all liability to you to the fullest extent of the law related to such User Content.

With respect to any User Content you submit to Lavatti Union (including for inclusion on the Websites or Online Courses) or that is otherwise made available to Lavatti Union, you hereby grant Lavatti Union an irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such User Content on the Websites or in the Online Courses or otherwise exploit the User Content, with the right to sublicense such rights (to multiple tiers), for any purpose (including for any commercial purpose). Lavatti Union reserves the right to remove any User Content at any time and for any reason.

11. Forum, Blog, and Chatroom Services

You may be able to post messages to, and interact with other Users, Lavatti Union staff, or Lavatti Union service providers through User forums, chat rooms, or blogs within the Services, in connection with your participation in any Online Courses (each a "Forum"). Your use of these Forums is subject to and governed by this Terms of Use. By using any of the communications methods available on the Online Courses, you acknowledge and agree that (a) all communications methods constitute public, and not private, means of communication between you and the other party or parties, (b) communications sent to or received from third party service providers or other third parties are not endorsed, sponsored or approved by Lavatti Union in any manner (unless expressly stated otherwise by Lavatti Union) and (c) communications are not pre-reviewed, post-reviewed, screened, archived or otherwise monitored by Lavatti Union in any manner, though Lavatti Union reserves the right to do so at any time at its sole discretion in accordance with this Terms of Use.

12. Linking to Third-Party Sites and Content

The Websites and/or Online Courses may contain links to pages or content on third-party websites ("Linked Sites"), and those Linked Sites may contain content or offer products and/or services for sale. Lavatti Union does not author, edit, control, or monitor these Linked Sites. You acknowledge and agree that (a) we have no responsibility for the accuracy or availability of information provided by Linked Sites, and (b) we do not control or endorse the sponsors of such Linked Sites or the content, products, advertising, or other materials presented on such Linked Sites. We may remove any Linked Sites from the Websites or Online Courses at any time for any reason or for no reason. LAVATTI UNION WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY TRANSACTIONS CONDUCTED BY YOU WITH THIRD PARTIES THROUGH THE LINKED SITES OR FOR ANY LIABILITY ARISING FROM THE REPRESENTATIONS OR INFORMATION PROVIDED ON SUCH LINKED SITES.

13. Disclaimer of Warranties

YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF ANY OF THE SERVICES AND ALL CONTENT IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND RESPONSIBILITY. THE SERVICES AND ONLINE COURSES (INCLUDING ANY CONTENT) ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITH NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. YOU ASSUME TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE ENTIRE RISK FOR YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, ONLINE COURSES, AND CONTENT.

14. Limitation of Liability

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL LAVATTI UNION BE LIABLE TO THE USER OR ANY THIRD PARTY WITH RESPECT TO ANY SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS TERMS OF USE (INCLUDING ANY BREACH OF SECURITY OR DATA LOSS OR USER'S RELIANCE ON OR USE OF ANYTHING LEARNED IN ANY ONLINE COURSE IN ANY MANNER) UNDER ANY CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHER THEORY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR LOST PROFITS, LOSS OR INACCURACY OF DATA OR DOCUMENTS OR COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS, SERVICES OR TECHNOLOGY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

15. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Lavatti Union, its subsidiaries and affiliates, and each of their officers, directors, agents, employees, and assignees from any and all claims, liabilities, expenses and damages, including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs, made by any third party relating to or arising out of (a) your use or attempted use of the Services in violation of this Terms of Use, (b) your use or attempted use of any code, program, data, information or any other Content provided through the Services in a manner inconsistent with this Terms of Use, (c) your use or your violation of any law or rights of any third party, or (d) your information you post or otherwise make available on or through the Services, including without limitation any claim of infringement of intellectual property or other proprietary rights.

16. Termination of Rights

You agree that Lavatti Union, in its sole discretion, may deactivate your User Account or otherwise terminate your use of the Services, or any part thereof, for any reason or no reason, including, without limitation, if Lavatti Union believes that you have (a) breached this Terms of Use; (b) infringed the intellectual property rights of a third party; (c) posted, uploaded or transmitted Unauthorized Content to the Services; or (d) violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of this Terms of Use or any applicable code of conduct. You agree that any deactivation or termination of your access to the Services may be affected without prior notice to you and that Lavatti Union shall not be liable to you nor any third-party for any termination of your User Account or access to the Online Courses or Services.

17. Copyright Infringement Claims & Dispute Procedure

Lavatti Union respects the rights and intellectual property of others, and we ask our Users to do the same. If you believe that your product or other work has been misrepresented or used in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide Lavatti Union's Copyright Agent with the following information:

  • a description of the product, work or other intellectual property that you claim has been misrepresented or infringed;
  • a description of where and/or specific link to the material that you claim is misrepresenting or infringing your product, work or other intellectual property is located on the Online Courses;
  • your address, telephone number, and email address;
  • a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the owner of the product, work, copyright or intellectual property, or its agent, or applicable law; and
  • a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the product, work, copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on such owner's behalf; and
  • an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the product, copyright or other intellectual property interest.

Lavatti Union's Copyright Agent for notices of disputes or claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement can be reached as follows:

Email: [email protected]

18. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Arab Republic of Egypt, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Any disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use or the Services shall be resolved through good faith negotiations. If such negotiations fail, disputes shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Cairo, Egypt.

19. Miscellaneous Provisions

Lavatti Union may freely transfer or assign any portion of its rights or delegate its obligations under this Terms of Use. You shall not transfer or assign, by operation of law or otherwise, any portion of your rights or delegate your obligations under this Terms of Use without the prior written consent of Lavatti Union.

If any provision of this Terms of Use is found to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from the other provisions herein, and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

This Terms of Use constitutes the entire agreement between you and Lavatti Union relating to the matters set forth herein, and shall not be modified except in writing, as posted on the Services by Lavatti Union.

20. Contact Information

If you have any questions, comments or complaints about these Terms of Use, please contact us:

Email: [email protected]

Address: Cairo, Egypt

Lavatti Union operates in partnership with Misr El-Kheir Foundation (MEK).