T&C
Orbis Business School
Sales Terms & Conditions
You must read these terms and conditions carefully. When placing an order through the website, you will be asked to confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to the terms and conditions in their entirety. If you do not agree to these, you must not order any product(s) or service(s) through this website.
1. Definitions
“Confidential Information” means information provided by one party to the other in written, graphic, recorded, machine readable or other form concerning the business, clients, suppliers, finances and other areas of the other party’s business or products, including, without limitation, the Course Materials, but does not include information in the public domain other than through the default of the party disclosing the information, information required to be disclosed by any court or regulatory authority, or any information already in the possession or control of the disclosing party.
“Course Materials” means the information provided by Orbis Business School to accompany a course provided as part of the Services in hard copy or electronic form.
“Fees” means the fees paid by you to Orbis Business School for the Services.
“Intellectual Property Rights” means copyright, rights in or relating to databases, patent rights, performers’ rights, designs and registered designs, trademarks, rights in or relating to Confidential Information and other intellectual property rights (registered or unregistered) throughout the world.
“Online Course” means the delivery by us of an online course pursuant to which you learn course materials through our online platform.
“Taught Course” means a course taught by us in a live online or physical classroom setting to which you attend in person.
“Services” means the provision of the Online Course and/or the Taught Course and/or the Course Materials together with such other services as agreed from time to time and purchased by you through the Website or by written agreement.
“Website” means https://orbis.mba
“You” and “Client” means the individual purchasing the Services or the company purchasing the Services on behalf of the individual.
2. The Services
2.1. A description of the Services together with the dates on which the Services will begin are available on our Website. We will provide the Services with reasonable care and skill in accordance with the description set out on the Website.
2.2. We reserve the right to vary or withdraw any of the Services described on the Website without notice.
2.3. We expect you to confirm that the Services you are purchasing will meet your needs. We do not make any guarantee to you that you will obtain a particular result, professional qualification or employment opportunity from your purchase and completion of any of the Services.
2.4. We may assign, transfer, sub-contract any of our rights or obligations to any third party at our discretion.
3. Ordering services
3.1. In order to purchase any of the Services on-line you must register for an account with us via the Website. If you already have an account with us you can log into your account using your user name and password.
3.2. A legally binding agreement between us and you shall come into existence when we have : (a) accepted your offer to purchase Services from us by sending you an email confirming the purchase; and (b) received payment of the relevant Fees from you in accordance with clause 5 below.
4. Cancellation and Variation
4.1. Subject to clause 4.2 below, where we have accepted / confirmed the Services being purchased by you and formed a legally binding agreement with you in accordance with clause 3.2 above, then you are permitted within 14 working days starting on the day after the date we have concluded our agreement in accordance with clause 3, to cancel your purchase of the Services.
4.2. If you have purchased an Online Course and have already accessed, downloaded all or part of the Online Course and/or started to use that Online Course then you shall have no right to cancel your orde
4.3. Notwithstanding clause 4.1 there is no other right to cancel or vary your purchase of Services and any other cancellation and / or variation of course dates will be at the entire discretion of Orbis Business School.
5. Fees
5.1. The Fees for the Services shall be as set out on the Website or as agreed with you at the time you placed an order for them.
5.2. Unless otherwise specified at the time you purchase the Services the Fees are exclusive of VAT or other local taxes and any delivery costs payable in respect of the delivery of hard copy Course Materials to you (if any). Each of these costs will be set out in the Website or have been agreed upon prior to your purchase of the Services.
5.3. Fees for the Service selected by you on the Website shall be debited from your credit / debit card at the time of purchase or via bank transfer as specified on the invoice.
5.4. Where your order consists of multiple Courses, fees must be either paid in full or in instalments prior to commencement of each individual course. Instalment schedules and fees are specified by Orbis Business School upon confirmation of the order.
5.5. In case of payment in instalments, the proportional amount paid equals the number of Courses that can be attended and/or accessed.
5.6. At any time, Orbis Business School holds the right to revoke Online Course access and/or deny Taught Course attendance if instalments have not been paid before the due date(s) as specified in the instalment schedule.
6. Liability
6.1. Although Orbis Business School aims to provide the Services to the highest standards of the industry, neither it, nor its trainers accept any liability for (i) any inaccuracy or misleading information provided in the programmes or Course Materials and any reliance by Client on any such information, (ii) any loss or corruption of data, (iii) any loss of profit, revenue or goodwill, or (iv) any indirect, special or consequential loss arising from any breach of the terms of this Agreement.
6.2. Except to the extent that they are expressly set out in these terms and conditions, no conditions, warranties or other terms shall apply to the Services. Subject to clause 6.4 no implied conditions, warranties or other terms apply (including any implied terms as to satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose or conformance with description).
6.3. Subject to clause 6.4 below, Orbis Business School’s total liability arising from or in connection with these terms and conditions and in relation to anything which we may have done or not done in connection with these terms and conditions and the delivery of the Service (and whether the liability arises because of breach of contract, negligence or for any other reason) shall be limited to the Fees received by us in connection with the relevant Online Course or Taught Course in relation to which a dispute has arisen.
6.4. Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude or limit Orbis Business School’s liability for (i) death or personal injury caused by negligence, (ii) fraudulent misrepresentation or (iii) any other matter which under English law may not be limited or excluded.
6.5. No claim may be brought more than six months after the last date on which the Services concerned have finished or ceased to be provided by us.
7. Intellectual Property
7.1. All Intellectual Property Rights in the Course Materials, Online Courses and the speeches made by trainers at the Taught Courses are, and remain, the intellectual property of Orbis Business School or its licensors, whether adapted, written for or customised for the Client or not.
7.2. You are not authorised to:- (i) copy, modify, reproduce, re-publish, sub-licence, sell, upload, broadcast, post, transmit or distribute any of the Course Materials without prior written permission; (ii) record on video or audio tape, relay by videophone or other means the Online Course or Taught Course given (iii) use the Course Materials in the provision of any other course or training whether given by us or any third party trainer; (iv) remove any copyright or other notice of Orbis Business School on the Course Materials; (v) modify, adapt, merge, translate, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer (save to the extent permitted by law) any software forming part of the Online Courses. Breach by you of this clause 7.2 shall allow us to immediately terminate these terms and conditions with you and cease to provide you with any Services, including but not limited to access to the Online Courses.
7.3. In consideration of the Fees paid by you, we grant to you a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive licence to use the Course Materials and the software in respect of the Online Course for the sole purpose of completing the Online Course and / or attending the Taught Course.
8. Confidentiality
8.1. Each party shall keep the other party’s Confidential Information strictly confidential and not use it otherwise than for the purposes of these terms and conditions, and shall return it on demand and not retain copies of it.
8.2. Either party may disclose Confidential Information to its legal and other advisors for the purposes of obtaining advice from them.
8.3. This clause shall continue notwithstanding termination of these terms and conditions.
9. Termination
9.1. We shall be entitled to terminate these terms and conditions and cease to provide you with any Services with immediate effect in the event that you: (a.) fail to pay when your Fees are due; (b.) act in an aggressive, bullying, offensive, threatening or harassing manner towards any employee or student of Orbis Business School; (c.) cheat or plagiarise any work which you are required to prepare or submit in connection with the Services or during any examination taken in connection with the Services; (d.) act in fraudulent or deceitful manner towards our employees or any other students ; (e.) intentionally or recklessly damage our property or intellectual property or reputation; (f.) are intoxicated through alcohol or illegal drugs while on our premises or while attending our live online classes; (g.) commit any criminal offence where the victim is our employee or student; (h.) are in breach of these terms and conditions.
9.2. On termination clause 6 (liability), 7 (intellectual property rights), 8 (confidentiality) shall continue notwithstanding such termination.
10. Assignment
10.1. Any Services provided by us under these terms and conditions are personal to you and cannot be transferred or assigned to any other person.
11. Entire Agreement
11.1. These terms and conditions, together with the Website Terms of Use and Course Specific Terms and Conditions are the entire agreement between the parties and supersede any prior agreements and arrangements, whether written or oral. You confirm that you have not relied on any representations in entering into these and any other terms and conditions with us. Nothing in this clause or terms and conditions shall limit liability for any fraudulent misrepresentation.
12. Force Majeure
12.1. Orbis Business School shall not be liable to you for any breach of its obligations or termination under these terms and conditions arising from causes beyond its reasonable control, including, but not limited to, fires, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes and other Acts of God, terrorism, strikes, delay caused by transport disputes, failure to provide a course caused by a death in the trainer’s family, illness of the trainer, Government edict or regulation.
13. Data Protection
13.1. The nature of the Services provided by us means that we will obtain, use and disclose (together "Use") certain information about you ("Data"). This statement sets out the principles governing our Use of Data. By purchasing the Services you agree to this Use.
13.2. When you register with us you will need to provide certain Data such as your contact details and demographic information. We will store this Data and use it to contact you, provide you with details of the Services you have purchased and otherwise as required during the normal provision of the course.
13.3. We may also use the above Data, and similar Data you provide us in response to surveys, to aggregate user profiles and, unless you click on the relevant button on the Registration Form, provide you with communications. We will not pass any personal data onto anyone outside of Orbis Business School.
13.4. To enable us to monitor and improve our Services, we gather certain aggregated information about you, including details of your operating system, browser version, domain name and IP address, the URL you came from and go to and the parts of the Website you visit.
13.5. We use information such as your User ID, session identifiers and password to enable us to identify whether you are using our services, assist with the provision of services and to ensure that you have access to relevant products. We will only read cookies from your cookie file placed there through your web browser's interaction with the Website.
13.6. Our products may link to third party websites and we are not responsible for their data policies or procedures or their content.
13.7. Orbis Business School endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect your personal Data including the use of encryption technology, but cannot guarantee the security of any Data you disclose. You accept the inherent security implications of being and transacting on-line over the internet and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security.
13.8. If you wish to change or update the data we hold about you, please e-mail info -at- orbis.mba
14. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction