This is a legal agreement between ATLANTIC BRIDGE CORPORATION, a California corporation (“ABC”), and you (“you” or “User”), the user of the website, blog(s) mobile application, or similar service, product, or platform associated with these Terms of Use (“Site”). By accessing, browsing, or using the Site, you acknowledge that you: (i) have read, understand, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and ABC’s Privacy Policy; and (ii) must comply with all applicable laws and regulations related to your use of the Site.

THESE TERMS OF USE CONTAIN WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS AND OTHER PROVISIONS THAT LIMIT ABC’S LIABILITY TO YOU. PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE IN THEIR ENTIRETY. BY USING THE SITE IN ANY MANNER, YOU WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE ACCEPTED AND AGREED TO THESE TERMS OF USE AND ABC’S PRIVACY POLICY.

Your use of the Site is at your own risk. If you are dissatisfied with these Terms of Use, ABC’s Privacy Policy, the Site’s content, or other aspects of the Site, your sole remedy is to stop using the Site.

SERVICE DESCRIPTION

1. ABC’s service allows you to submit your application for admission to our affiliated educational institutions.
2. You can submit your application for admission through the Site, and once completed and paid, we will forward your application for admission to our affiliated educational institutions that you have selected.
3. Application fees may only be paid by using PayPal or a Credit Card.
4. ABC’s service is available on any compatible web browser.

CREATION OF ABC SERVICE ACCOUNT

You can register and create your personal account (“ABC Account”) on the Site by entering your email and creating a password. The Site will then prompt you for information to complete your application(s).

CONTENTS OF ABC ACCOUNT

Your ABC Account contains your personal information, which may include: your name, address, phone number, email address, fax number, age, date of birth, gender, occupation, marital status, number of children, spouse’s name and occupation, parents’ names, occupations, and contact information, criminal history, academic transcripts and information, medical records and information. All information pertaining to your application submissions and application fees is maintained by ABC for a period of seven (7) years, including without limitation, your name, the date and time each of your applications are submitted, details of your applications, frequency of your applications, application fee amounts, and your mobile phone number.

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR ABC ACCOUNT

You are solely responsible for all activities that take place with your email and password (“Credentials”), and you are responsible to ensure that you and only you use your Credentials to access your ABC Account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Credentials and are similarly responsible for all uses of your ABC Account with such Credentials whether or not such uses are authorized by you. You must immediately notify ABC by email at admissions@atlanticbridge.com if the security of your ABC Account has been compromised in any way. ABC is not required to confirm the identity or the access right of any individual who uses your Credentials to access your ABC Account. Non-personal and commercial accounts are prohibited under the ABC Service.

DURATION/TERMINATION

Subject to the provisions hereof, once the ABC Account is created by you, you will be able to access and use your ABC Account until you decide to terminate your ABC Account. ABC may cease providing you with its services: (i) if you do not comply with these Terms of Use; (ii) if termination or suspension is necessary to prevent threats to the privacy, security, and integrity of your data or the data of other users or to the performance or availability of ABC’s services; (iii) to comply with any applicable law or court order; and/or (iv) ABC discontinues the provision of its services. You may terminate these Terms of Use and terminate your ABC Account at any time by sending an email to admissions@atlanticbridge.com. Upon termination of your ABC Account, ABC will maintain a copy of your ABC Account for a period of one (1) year from your last transaction or from the creation of your ABC Account, as the case may be, subject to ABC’s standard back-up procedures.

MODIFICATION OF THESE TERMS OF USE

ABC may modify or revise these Terms of Use at any time by updating this webpage. Any alteration to the Terms of Use will be effective immediately upon posting, unless expressly stated otherwise. By using the Site after any modification or revision, you agree to be bound by the Terms of Use as modified or revised. You should visit this webpage periodically to review these Terms of Use.

THIRD PARTY AND USER CONTENT

The Site may contain content or links posted by you, other users, or third parties (“Unaffiliated Content”). ABC is not responsible for monitoring the Unaffiliated Content, but ABC reserves the right to monitor and remove the Unaffiliated Content in its sole and absolute discretion. All Unaffiliated Content you submit to the Site will be considered part of the public domain. You will be solely responsible for all Unaffiliated Content that you submit, including its accuracy, timeliness, and completeness, and for any claims of infringement concerning that Unaffiliated Content. By submitting Unaffiliated Content, you automatically grant ABC an unlimited, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, fully transferable and sublicensable, worldwide license to use, copy, distribute, display, create derivative works from, sell, sublicense, and otherwise use or exploit the Unaffiliated Content in any manner that ABC determines in its sole discretion. If you do not agree to the foregoing, you should not submit any Unaffiliated Content to the Site.

Neither ABC nor any of its affiliates, predecessors, successors, heirs, assigns, agents, employees, officers, directors, managers, owners, representatives, attorneys, or any persons acting by, through, under, or in concert with any of them (collectively, “Affiliates”) makes any representations or gives any warranties or guaranties concerning any Unaffiliated Content, and neither ABC nor any of its Affiliates will be liable for any damage or injury arising from any Unaffiliated Content. The presence of any Unaffiliated Content on the Site is not to be considered an endorsement by ABC or any of ABC’s Affiliates of any person providing Unaffiliated Content, the views expressed in any Unaffiliated Content, or any products or services related to any Unaffiliated Content. Neither ABC nor its Affiliates is responsible for the content provided by any user of the Site and/or the conduct of any user, whether online or offline. Your use of or reliance on any Unaffiliated Content is at your own risk. By accessing the Site, you acknowledge that ABC merely acts as a passive conduit of the information made available by you, other users, or third parties. By accessing or otherwise using the Site, you acknowledge and assume all risks of harm, loss, or damage related to your use of the Site, and you hereby waive all claims and/or causes of action related to your use of the foregoing against ABC and its Affiliates.

USER REQUIREMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

In using the Site you shall not:

• Send, post, transmit, or upload material or content that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, slanderous, or libelous;
• Send, post, transmit, or upload material or content that is obscene or pornographic;
• Send, post, transmit, or upload material or content that infringes on any trademark, copyright, or other intellectual property right;
• Send, post, transmit, or upload, without proper authorization, information that you know or should know to be confidential, sensitive, or in breach of the law, including personally identifiable information;
• Send, post, transmit, or upload viruses or other harmful, disruptive, or destructive files;
• Send, post, transmit, or upload “spam” or “junk mail”;
• Intentionally make false, deceptive, or misleading statements;
• Advertise any product or service;
• Use any Intellectual Property (as defined below) from the Site for a commercial purpose, including making any collection or use of any listings, descriptions, prices, or images of products;
• Navigate or search the Site by using any program, software, tool, or other device with the purpose of mass-collecting data, including by using a data scraper, miner, spider, robot, or script;
• Frame, mirror, or use any other framing programs on the Site;
• Use any meta tags or other hidden text on the Site using ABC’s Intellectual Property;
• Take any action that will interfere with the proper functioning of the Site; or
• Employ automated means to access or use the Site.

You shall comply with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and ordinances related to your online conduct and your use of the Site.

You shall not copy any of the Site’s content or reverse engineer or break into the Site.

SITE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

All of the Site’s content (including text, trademarks, service marks, logos, music, sounds, videos, software, scripts, graphics, interactive features, or any downloadable content [collectively, “Intellectual Property“]) is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, trade dress, and other laws in both the United States and elsewhere. You may not use, sell, modify, reproduce, display, distribute, create derivative works from, or otherwise exploit any of the Site’s content or any other intellectual property related to the Site without the prior written consent of ABC or the content’s owner. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not use ABC’s name, logo, trademark, or service mark in any manner without ABC’s prior written consent.

Pursuant to these Terms of Use, ABC provides you with a limited, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to use such Intellectual Property on an AS-IS basis. Furthermore, the license granted herein is personal and may not be used, copied, reproduced, distributed, broadcast, displayed, sold, licensed or otherwise exploited for any other purposes whatsoever without the prior written consent of the respective owners. ABC reserves all rights not expressly granted in and to the Site and the Intellectual Property. By accessing the Site, you hereby agree not to engage in the unauthorized use, copying or distribution of any of the Intellectual Property without the express written consent of ABC. You agree not to circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with security related features of the Site or features that prevent or restrict use or copying of any Intellectual Property or enforce limitations on use of the Site or the Intellectual Property therein. If you download or print a copy of the Intellectual Property for personal use, you must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained therein. Nothing contained in these Terms of Use is to be construed as conferring upon you any license, title, or ownership interest in any of the Site’s content or any other intellectual property of ABC or any third party, whether by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, except as stated hereinabove.

COMMUNICATIONS

Any unsolicited material that you submit to ABC, including suggestions on how to improve the Site, will be considered non-proprietary, public information that may be used by ABC for any purpose, as determined by ABC in its sole discretion, without any compensation to you. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all information submitted to ABC will be handled in accordance with its Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms of Use by this reference.

By submitting information to ABC electronically, including by email, you are consenting to receiving communications from ABC electronically, including by email. Should you elect to opt out of the receipt of electronic messages, simply send an email to admissions@atlanticbridge.com.

APPLICATION SUBMISSION

Any payment of application submission fees shall be in accordance with the amounts set forth at the time of submission of your completed application form. All fees displayed on the Site are quoted in U.S. Dollars. You agree to pay all submission fees listed at the time of submitting your complete application to ABC.

ABC may use the services of third parties to perform certain vital functions, including handling payments for the application submission fees discussed herein and hosting the Site. These third parties will only have access to the aspects of your personally identifiable information that are necessary to perform their respective services. Although you may be required to provide credit/debit card information when you make a purchase, we immediately transmit this information to our payment gateway service provider. Payments through PayPal are subject to PayPal’s terms and conditions.

We utilize commercially reasonable and industry standard measures and protocols to secure your financial information. However, we cannot guarantee that third parties will not illegally circumvent such security measures to gain access to your financial information.

NO WARRANTIES

YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR ANY OF ITS CONTENT IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE CONTENT, MATERIAL, AND ANY INFORMATION OR SERVICES PROVIDED ON THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THERE IS NO WARRANTY AGAINST INTERFERENCE WITH YOUR ENJOYMENT OF ANY MATERIAL, INFORMATION, OR SERVICES (INCLUDING ANY DATA, TEXT, IMAGES, SOUNDS, OR COMPUTER PROGRAMS (INCLUDING COLLECTIONS AND COMPILATIONS OF THEM)) OR AGAINST INFRINGEMENT OF ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT. ABC AND ITS AFFILIATES ALSO DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES CONCERNING THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE, INCLUDING THOSE REGARDING ANY VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

The above disclaimers are made to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

IN NO EVENT WILL ABC, OR ANY OF ABC’S AFFILIATES, BE LIABLE TO ANY USER OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES OR LOST PROFITS) RESULTING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR THE SITE’S CONTENT, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT ABC OR ANY OF ABC’S AFFILIATES IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, AND IN ANY EVENT THE TOTAL CUMULATIVE AMOUNT WHICH YOU CAN RECOVER SHALL NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO ABC IN APPLICATION SUBMISSION FEES. ABC IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY INCORRECT INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY YOU AND HAS NO CONTROL OVER, OR LIABILITY FOR, THE INDEPENDENT DECISIONS OF OUR AFFILIATED ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS IN DECIDING TO ACCEPT OR DENY YOUR APPLICATION FOR ADMISSION.

ABC provides you with access to this Site in its sole discretion and reserves the right to modify or discontinue any aspect of the Site, including your ability to access the Site, at any time without notice. ABC will not be liable to you or any third party for any modification or discontinuance of any aspect of the Site or your ability to access the Site. Certain services offered through the Site may not be available in your area, and ABC will not be responsible for any such unavailability.

INDEMNITY

You shall defend, indemnify, release, covenant not to sue, and hold harmless ABC and its Affiliates from and against any and all claims, causes of action, lawsuits, arbitrations, proceedings, liabilities, damages, judgments, costs, or expenses (including attorney’s fees) asserted by third parties, including other users of the Site, arising out of or related to your use or alleged use of the Site, including any of the Site’s content, or your breach or alleged breach of these Terms of Use.

DISPUTES

All legal issues arising from or related to the use of the Site or to the subject matter of these Terms of Use are to be governed by, construed in accordance with, and determined by the laws of the State of California, without regard to any conflict of law principle that will cause the substantive law of another jurisdiction to apply. The exclusive venue for the resolution of all disputes, lawsuits, arbitrations, proceedings, or other actions arising out of or relating to the Site, these Terms of Use, or ABC’s Privacy Policy is Orange County, California, and User and ABC each hereby submit to personal jurisdiction to that forum and waive any claim or defense that it is an inconvenient forum.

SEVERABILITY

If an authority of competent jurisdiction determines that any provision of this Agreement is invalid or unenforceable, that provision is to be severed from this Agreement, and the remainder of this Agreement is to remain in full force and effect.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT

These Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy contain the entire agreement between you and ABC concerning your use of the Site, superseding any previous negotiations, understandings, or agreements between you and ABC, whether written or oral.

ASSIGNMENT

You may not assign any rights, duties, obligations, or claims under, arising out of, or relating to these Terms of Use without ABC’s prior written consent. ABC’s rights, duties, obligations, and claims under these Terms of Use are freely assignable.

CONSTRUCTION

As used in these Terms of Use, the masculine, feminine, or neuter gender, and the singular or plural number, include the others whenever the context so indicates. The use of “including” in these Terms of Use is for purposes of example and illustration, and not for purposes of restriction or limitation.

NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

Under California Civil Code Section 1789.3, California users are entitled to the following consumer rights notice: If you are charged for services, products, content, or information, pricing will be posted as part of the ordering process. If you have a question or complaint regarding the Site, please send an email by using the contact information below. Alternatively, California residents may reach the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs by mail at 1625 North Market Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (916) 445-1254 or (800) 952-5210.

NOTICES & CONTACT

All notices and contact concerning this Agreement and the Site should be sent to ABC at admissions@atlanticbridge.com.