Terms and Conditions | Privacy Policy

Student Terms and Conditions

Effective from 1 August 2023

1. Introduction

1.1. These terms and conditions (these “Terms”) apply to (a) the courses, programmes, modules and services provided by Admittedly Legal (“AL”) (each referred to in these Terms as a “Course” and together, the “Courses”); and (b) the use of all websites, communities and other related services owned, operated and provided by AL (the “Services”).

1.2. Your continued enrolment in the Course and use of the Services are conditional on you complying with these Terms.

1.3. By reserving a place on one of the Courses or using one of the Services you enter into a legally binding contract with AL which can only be varied by agreement in writing. You accept and agree to be bound by these Terms. We reserve the right to vary these Terms from time to time.

2. Policies

By reserving a place on the Course or the Services you accept and agree to be bound by and comply with all policies that we publish and update on our website from time to time (including but not limited to any policies concerning cookies, privacy, data protection, data retention, terms and conditions of website use, etc).

3. Course fees

3.1. Course fees include fees and/or charges that you pay for the subscription plans, Courses, Services and other learning resources. All payments including applicable taxes must be made in any currency that we may specify. For the avoidance of doubt, if we do not receive payment for any charges due, we may immediately suspend your rights in relation to the relevant Course or Service.

3.2. Course fees are likely to increase for every new academic year and for new intakes. Please be aware that you may be charged different fees for subsequent years of your Course or Services.

3.3. Course fees must be paid online at the time of registration. Please note that even if someone other than you makes any payment, or agrees to make any payment on your behalf, you remain liable for full payment until the AL has received cleared funds. Any rights AL may have against the payer are not affected.

4. General

4.1. AL will act reasonably in delivering the Course or Service in accordance with the Course or Service description given on its website as at the Course or Service start date. However, AL may need to make variations to your Course or Service that it considers to be necessary including (but not limited to) to reflect changes in an area of law, law firm practices, commercial updates, or other changes around the subjects.

4.2. Changes may include changes to the content and structure of the Course or Service as well as the dates, times and method of its delivery.

4.3. Use of website and Course / Service content

4.3.1. All rights in and to the Course / Service content and the websites belong to AL are protected by international intellectual property laws. You may use the Course / Service content and the websites solely for your personal use and benefit and not for resale.

4.3.2. You must not disseminate any Course / Service content or websites content. You must not licence any third party to make use of the Course / Service content or websites content.

4.3.3. You may only use the Course / Service content or websites content for lawful purposes. In particular you may not, on our platform or websites:

4.3.3.1. transmit any content that is disruptive, uncivil, abusive, vulgar, obscene, hateful, fraudulent, threatening, unlawful, harassing, defamatory, which would encourage the commission of a criminal offence or which discloses private or personal matters concerning any person;

4.3.4.2. transmit any material that you do not have a right to transmit under law (such as copyright, trade secret or securities) or under contractual or fiduciary obligations;

4.3.4.3. transmit any file that contains viruses, corrupted files or any other contaminating or destructive features that may damage someone else's computer or our systems; or

4.3.4.4. use any automated means, including without limitation, agents, robots, scripts, or spiders, to access, monitor, copy or harvest data from any part of the websites.

4.3.5. You acknowledge that we accept no liability for any Courses, Services or other material provided to you through the websites, including but not limited to where such Services and/or material are provided by third parties and hypertext linked from the website.

4.3.6. Any request for permission to republish, reprint or use any content for any purpose should be sent to admittedlylegal@gmail.com

4.3.7. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless from and against all claims, losses, expenses, damages and costs including reasonable legal fees, resulting from any violation of these Terms by you or arising from or related to any postings uploaded or submitted by you.

4.3.8. For the avoidance of doubt, we reserve the right at our discretion to refuse to provide access to the Courses and Services if a user is found to be misusing content (see further at paragraph 5 below).

5. Cancellation by AL

5.1. Cancellation of this contract occurs when AL cancels this contract for the circumstances specified below.

5.2. AL reserves the right to suspend or cancel your access to any Course, services or content for any of the following reasons:

5.2.1. if you breach any of these Terms;

5.2.2. if you have not paid any sums you owe to us, including any fees in respect of any Courses or Services;

5.2.3. if you are paying by credit card or direct debit and the credit or direct debit payment is cancelled or fails;

5.2.4. if you fail to supply upon request a valid passport or other acceptable form of ID to verify your identity;

5.2.5. if you are found to have committed misconduct or found guilty of a criminal offence;

5.2.6. if you have, in our reasonable opinion, provided us with information which is inaccurate, incomplete and/or misleading;

5.2.7. if you have, in our reasonable opinion, misappropriated or misused content from the Course or Services;

5.2.8. if there are not enough students confirmed on your Course; and

5.2.9. if the running or continuation of the Course or Service becomes commercially unviable or practically impossible for AL.

5.3. If AL is unable to run your Course or cancels your place for the reasons listed in sub-paragraphs 5.2.8 or 5.2.9 above, or if there is a premature cessation of the Course, it will refund all the fees of your cancelled Course or Service that you have already paid within three months. However, we will be entitled to deduct from that refund the cost of any materials / Service already provided to you or if you have attended any part of the Course, a proportionate amount of your course fees to reflect your attendance on that Course or Service up until the time it was cancelled.

5.3.1. AL cannot be held responsible for any remedy, damages or compensation beyond the refund set out in this paragraph 5.3.

6. No cancellation, refunds, deferrals, transfers or sharing of access by students

6.1. Your contract begins when you pay for your place as we have detailed in paragraph 1.

6.2. This contract and the subscription cannot be cancelled or deferred by you. At the end of the subscription period the online access will expire. A renewal of the Course is subject to a separate contract.

6.3. You have no right to transfer any Course or Service to another user or to share the content of any Course or Service with another user.

6.3.1. When you register, you will be given one or more usernames and passwords, as appropriate for your registration or subscription to the relevant Course or Service.

6.3.2. The following are not permitted:

6.3.2.1. any subscriber or user under any subscription sharing their username and password with any other person or entity, including with any agent of such user; nor

6.3.2.2. access through a single username and password being made available to multiple users on a network.

6.4. Notwithstanding the restrictions in this clause, you are responsible for all access and use of any website or service by you or anyone else using any of your usernames and passwords and for preventing unauthorised use of any of your usernames and passwords. You must notify us of any breach of security (such as disclosure, theft or unauthorised use of any user name, password or any payment information).

7. Submitting text for publication on the webpages

7.1. Users of the website may submit postings in various areas of the site, including our community and comment sections. We accept no liability in respect of any postings published by you and we are not responsible for its content and accuracy.

7.2. If you want to submit materials for publication on the site, you may do so on the following terms and conditions:

7.2.1. Publication of any material you submit to us will be at our discretion. We reserve the right to make additions or deletions to the text or graphics prior to publication, or to refuse publication.

7.2.2. You grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to use, edit, alter, adapt, translate, copy, publish, continue to publish or republish the unedited, adapted or translated version of it and/or to sell or otherwise communicate or distribute the postings as part of an edited compilation or in any way howsoever. The licence is capable of sub-licence unlimited in the use to which we may put the postings and exist whether or not the author is a subscriber. If you wish to reproduce any postings which we have altered or edited we reserve the right to make a charge.

7.2.3. You warrant to us that the postings is your own original work, unless otherwise stated and that you own the copyright and any other relevant rights.

7.2.4. You warrant that the postings is not obscene, offensive, defamatory of any person or otherwise illegal or in contravention of any applicable laws.

7.2.5. You agree not to post material which is deliberately intended to upset other users.

7.2.6. We reserve the right to remove your access to any Services completely if we believe you are abusing the Services in any way.

8. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise noted, the content of the Courses and Services, including all images, illustrations, designs, icons, photographs, video clips and written materials are protected by copyright, trade marks, database and other intellectual property rights. You may not reproduce, modify, copy or distribute or use for commercial purposes any of the materials or content (or downloaded from the websites) without our written permission.

9. Limitation of liability

9.1. Content provided in the Courses and Services is not intended to and does not constitute legal advice. We do not warrant or guarantee the accuracy, adequacy of the content. Your use of the content or materials is at your own risk.

9.2. No party shall be liable, for any loss or damage which may be suffered by another party due to any cause beyond a party's reasonable control (force majeure) including without limitation any power failure and the actions of internet service providers and users.

10. Governing law and dispute resolution

10.1. These Terms are governed by Hong Kong law.

10.2. Any dispute, controversy, difference or claim arising out of or relating to this contract, including the existence, validity, interpretation, performance, breach or termination thereof or any dispute regarding non- contractual obligations arising out of or relating to it shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration administered by the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC) under the HKIAC Administered Arbitration Rules in force when the Notice of Arbitration is submitted. The law of this arbitration clause shall be Hong Kong law. The seat of arbitration shall be Hong Kong. The number of arbitrators shall be three. The arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in English.

10.3. AL may transfer its rights and obligations under these Terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.

10.4. Even if AL delays in enforcing these Terms, AL can still enforce them later. Any failure by AL to exercise or enforce any right conferred shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any such right nor operate so as to bar the exercise or enforcement thereof or of any other right on any later occasion.

10.5. Nobody else has any rights under this contract. This contract is between you and AL. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms.

10.6. If a tribunal finds part of this contract illegal, the rest will continue in force. Each of the paragraphs of these Terms operates separately. If any tribunal or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.

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Effective from 1 August 2023

AL is committed to protecting and preserving the privacy of our visitors when visiting our site or communicating electronically with us.

This policy sets out how we process any personal data we collect from you or that you provide to us through our website. Please read the following to understand what happens to personal data that you choose to provide to us, or that we collect from you when you visit this site.

By visiting our websites, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

PERSONAL INFORMATION STATEMENT

Under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO) (Cap. 486), users have the right to request access to and correction of their personal data held. Should you wish to access your personal information held by AL, please send your request by email to admittedlylegal@gmail.com.

TYPES OF INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information about individuals who visit and use our website:

Information you supply to us. You may supply us with information about you by filling in forms on our website. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone numbers.

Information our website automatically collects about you. With regard to each of your visits to our website we may automatically collect information including the following:

technical information, including a truncated and anonymised version of your Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, operating system and platform;
information about your visit, including what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got to the site (including date and time); page response times, length of visit, what you click on, documents downloaded and download errors.

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

HOW WE MAY USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We use the information in the following ways:

Information you supply to us. We will use this information:

to provide you with information and/or services that you request from us;
to update our records from information you provide.

Information we automatically collect about you. We will use this information to, for example:

administer our site including troubleshooting and statistical purposes;
improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer; and
keep our site safe and secure.

This information is collected anonymously via the platform provider.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

Any information you provide to us may be stored by AL.

We do not rent, sell or share personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies. However, AL may disclose some of the data to third parties such as agencies (including the Hong Kong government), service providers and contractors (whether within or outside Hong Kong) to undertake some of its academic, marketing and administrative functions.

Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk.

RETENTION OF INFORMATION

AL will retain your personal data collected for a period no longer than necessary for the fulfilment of the purposes for which it is or is to be used. Different retention periods apply to the various kinds of personal data collected and held by AL.

NOTICE ON DIRECT MARKETING

Occasionally, we may use your personal data (including your name and contact details) to send you marketing communications or emails containing information relevant to you from AL, that we have received your consent to do so. You can opt-out from receiving communications at any time, by:

a. following any opt-out instructions contained in the communications; or
b. writing to admittedlylegal@gmail.com.

THIRD PARTY LINKS

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the third party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

YOUR RIGHTS - ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL DATA

You have the right to ensure that your personal data is being processed lawfully. Your subject access right can be exercised in accordance with data protection laws and regulations. Any subject access request must be made in writing to admittedlylegal@gmail.com. We will provide your personal data to you within the statutory time frames. To enable us to trace any of your personal data that we may be holding, we may need to request further information from you.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to admittedlylegal@gmail.com.

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