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General Terms

By accessing the SPBTS website, you confirm that you are in agreement with and bound by the terms of service contained in the Terms & Conditions outlined below. These terms apply to the entire website and any email or other type of communication between you and SPBTS.

Under no circumstances shall the SPBTS team be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages, including, but not limited to, loss of data or profit, arising out of the use, or inability to use, the materials on this site, even if SPBTS team or need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment or data, assume any costs thereof.

SPBTS will not be responsible for any outcome that may occur during the curse of our resources. We reserved the right to change and revise the resources usage policy at any moment.

License

SPBTS grants you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license to download, install and use the website strictly following the terms of this agreement. These Terms & Conditions are a contract between you and SPBTS ("we," "our," or "us") grants you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license to download, install, and use the website strictly following the terms of this Agreement.

Definitions and key terms

For this Terms & Conditions:

• Cookies: small amount of data generated by a website and saved by your website and saved by your web browser. It is used to identify your browser, provide analytics, remember information about you such as your language preference or login information.
• Company: when this policy mentions “Company,” “we,” or “our,” it refers to Southern Philippines Baptist Theological Seminary, Inc., Puan, Davao City, Philippines that is responsible for your information under this Privacy Policy.
• Country: where SPBTS or the owners/founders of SPBTS are based, in this case, in the Philippines. Customer: refers to the company, organization, or person who signs up to use the SPBTS Service to manage the relationship with your consumers or service users.
• Device: any internet-connected device such as a phone, tablet, computer, or any other device that can be used to visit SPBTS and use the services.
• IP address: Every device connected to the Internet is assigned a number known as an Internet protocol (IP) address. These numbers are usually assigned in geographic blocks. An IP address can often be used to identify the location from which a device is connecting to the Internet.
• Personnel: refers to those individuals who are employed by SPBTS or are under contract to perform a service on behalf of one of the parties.
• Personal Data: any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information— including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
• Service: refers to the service provided by SPBTS as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this platform.
• Third-party service: refers to advertisers, contest sponsors, promotional and marketing partners, and others who provide our content or whose products or services we think may interest you.
• Website: SPBTS’s site, which can be accessed via this URL: https://spbts.ph.
• You: a person or entity that registered with SPBTS to use the Service.

Restrictions

You agree not to, and you will not permit others to:

• License, sell, rent, lease, assign, distribute, transmit, host, outsource, disclose or otherwise commercially exploit the service or make the platform available to any third party.
• Modify, make derivative works of disassembling, decrypt, reverse compile, or reverse engineer any part of the service.
• Remove, alter or obscure any proprietary notice (including any notice of copyright or trademark) of its affiliates, partners, suppliers, or the licensors of the service.

Your Suggestions

Any feedback, comments, ideas, improvements, or suggestions (collectively, "Suggestions") provided by you to us concerning the service shall remain the sole and exclusive property of us. We shall be free to use, copy, modify, publish, or redistribute the Suggestions for any purpose and in any way without any credit or any compensation to you.

Your Consent

We've updated our Terms & Conditions to provide you with complete transparency into what is being set when you visit our site and how it's being used. By using our service, registering an account, you hereby consent to our Terms & Conditions.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain like to other websites that are not operated by Us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review any third-party sites or services' Terms & Conditions or practices.

Cookies

We use "Cookies" to identify the areas of our website that you have visited. A "Cookie" is a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. We use "cookies" to enhance the performance and functionality of our service but are non-essential to enter your login details every time you visit our platform as we would not be able to remember that you logged in previously. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of "Cookies". However, place Personally Identifiable Information in Cookies.

Changes To Our Terms & Conditions

You acknowledge and agree that we may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the Service. You acknowledge and agree that if we disable access to your account, you may be prevented from accessing Service, your account details, or any files or other materials which are contained in your account. If we decided to change our Terms & Conditions, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Terms& Conditions modification date below.

Modifications to Our Service

We reserve the right to modify, suspended, or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the service or any service to which it connects, with or without notice and without liability to you.

Updates to Our Service

We may from time to time provide enhancements or improvements to the features/ functionality of the service, which may include patches, bug fixes, updates, upgrades, and other modifications ("Updates"). Updates may modify or delete features and/or functionalities of the service. You agree that we have no obligation to (i) provide any Updates, or (ii) continue to provide or enable any particular features and/or functions of the service to you. You further agree that all Updates will be (i) deemed to constitute an integral part of the service, and (ii) subject to the terms and conditions of this agreement.

Third-Party Service

We may display, include, or make third-party content (including data, information, applications, and other products services). You acknowledge and agree that we shall not be responsible for any Third-Party Services, including their accuracy, completeness, timeliness, validity, copyright compliance, legality, decency, quality, or any other aspect thereof. We do not assume and shall not have any liability or responsibility to you or any other person or entity for any Third-Party Services. Third-Party Services and links thereof are provided solely as a convenience to you and you access and use them entirely at your own risk and subject to such third parties terms and conditions.

Term and Termination

This Agreement shall remain in effect until "Terminated" by you or us. We may, in its sole discretion, at any time and for any or no reason, suspend or terminate this Agreement with or without prior notice. This Agreement will terminate immediately, without prior notice from us, if you fail to comply with any provision of this Agreement. You may also terminate this Agreement by deleting the service and all copies thereof from your computer. Termination of this Agreement will not limit any of our rights or remedies at law or in equity in case of breach by you (during the term of this Agreement) of any of your obligations under the present Agreement.

Copyright Infringement Notice

If you are a copyright owner or such owner's and believe any material from us constitutes an infringement on your copyright, please contact us setting forth the following information: (a) a physical or electronic signature the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on his behalf; (b) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing: (c) your contact information, including your address, telephone number, and email; (d) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that use of the materials not authorized by the copyright owners; and (e) the statement that the information in the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold us and our parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, employees, agents partners, and licensors (if any) harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, due to or arising out of your: (a) use of the service; (b) violation of this Agreement or any law or regulation; or (c) violation of any right of a third party.

No Warranties

The service is provided to you "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" and with all and defects without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, we, on our own behalf and behalf of our affiliates and our respective licensors and service providers, expressly disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory, or otherwise, concerning the service, including all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and warranties that may arise out of course of dealing, course performance, usage or trade practice. without limitation to the foregoing, we provide no warranty or undertaking, and make any other software, websites, systems, or services, operate without interruption, meet any performance or reliability standards or be error-free, or that any errors or defects can be corrected.

Without limiting the foregoing, neither we nor any provider makes any representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied: (i) as to the operation or availability to the service, or the information, content, and materials or products included thereon; (ii) that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free; (ii) as to the currency of any information or content provided through the service; or (iv) that the service, its servers, the content, or e-mails sent from or on behalf of us are free of viruses, scripts, trojan horses, worms, malware, timebombs or other harmful components. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of or limitations on implied warranties or the limitations on the applicable statutory rights of a consumer, so some or all of the above exclusions and limitations may not apply to you.

Limitation of Liability

Notwithstanding any damages that you might incur, the entire of us and any of our suppliers under any provision of this Agreement and your exclusive remedy for all of the foregoing shall be limited to the amount actually paid by you for the service. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall we or our suppliers be liable for any special, incidental, indirect, or consequential damages whatsoever (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, for loss of data or other information, for business interruption, for personal injury, for loss of privacy arising out of or any way related to the use of or inability to use the Agreement), even if we or any supplier has been advised of the possibility of such damages and even if the remedy fails of its essential purpose. Some states/ "Jurisdictions" do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you.

Severability

if any provision of this Agreement is held to be unenforceable or invalid, such provision will be changed and interpreted to accomplish the objectives of such provision to the greatest extent possible under applicable law and the remaining provisions will continue force and effect.

This Agreement, together with Privacy Policy and any legal notices published by us on the Services, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us concerning the Services. If any provision of this Agreement is deemed invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any term of this Agreement shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term, and our failure to assert any right or provision under this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. YOU AND US AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OR RELATED TO THE SERVICES MUST COMMENCE WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES. OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.

Waiver

Except as provided herein, the failure to exercise a right or to require performance of an obligation under this Agreement shall not affect a party's ability to exercise such right or require such performance at any time thereafter nor shall be the waiver of a breach constitute waiver of any subsequent breach.

No failure to exercise and no delay in exercising, on the part of either party, any right or any power under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver of that right or power. Nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right or power under this Agreement preclude the further exercise or other terms, the terms of this Agreement shall govern.

Amendments to this Agreement

We reserve the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace this Agreement at any time. If a revision is a material we will provide at least 30 days' notice before any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion. By continuing to access or use the Service after any revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If do not agree to the new terms, you are no longer authorized to use our service.

Entire Agreement

The Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and us regarding you and us regarding your use of the service and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous written or oral agreements between you and us. You may be subject to additional terms and conditions that apply when you use other services from us, which we will provide to you at the time of such use.

Updates to Our Terms

We may change our service and policies, and we may need to make changes to these Terms so that they accurately reflect our Service and policies. Unless otherwise required by law, we will notify you (for example, through our service) before we make changes to these Terms and allow you to review them before they go into effect. Then, if you continue to use the Service, you will be bound by the updated Terms. If you do not want to agree to these or any updated Terms, you can delete your account.

Intellectual Property

Our platform and its entire contents, features, and functionality (including but not limited to all information, software, text, displays, images, video and audio, and the design, selection, and arrangement thereof), are owned by us, its licensors, or other providers such material and are protected by the Philippines and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual proprietary rights laws. The material may not be copied, modified, reproduced, downloaded, or distributed in any way, in whole or in part, without the express prior written permission of us, unless and except as is expressly provided in these Terms & Conditions. Any unauthorized use of the material is prohibited.

Agreement to Arbitrate

This section applies to any dispute EXCEPT IT DOESN'T INCLUDE A DISPUTE RELATING TO CLAIMS FOR INJUNCTIVE OR EQUITABLE RELIEF REGARDING THE ENFORCEMENT OR VALIDITY OF YOUR OR 's INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. The term "dispute" means any dispute, action, or other controversies between you and us concerning the Services or this agreement, whether in contract, warranty, tort, statute, regulation, ordinance, or any other legal or equitable basis. "Dispute" will be given the broadcast possible meaning allowable under law.

Notice of Dispute

In the event of a dispute, you or must give the other a Notice of Dispute, which is a written statement that sets forth the name, address, and contact information of the party giving rise to the dispute, and the relief requested. You must send any Notice of Dispute via email to: seminary@spbts.ph, We will send any Notice of Dispute to you by mail to your address if we have it, or otherwise to your email address. You and us will attempt to resolve any dispute through informal negotiation within sixty (60) days from the date the Notice of Dispute is sent. After sixty (60) days, you or we may commence arbitration.

Binding Arbitration

If you and us don't resolve any Dispute by informal negotiation, any other effort to resolve the dispute will be conducted exclusively by binding arbitration as described in this section. Your dispute shall be settled by binding arbitration following the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. Either party may seek any interim or preliminary injunctive relief from any court of component jurisdiction, as necessary to protect the party's rights or property pending the completion of arbitration. Any legal, accounting, and other costs, fees, and expenses incurred by the prevailing party shall be borne by the non-prevailing party.

Submissions and Privacy

In the event you submit or post any ideas, creative suggestions, designs, photographs, information, advertisements, data, or proposals, including ideas for new or improved products, services, features, technologies, or promotions, you expressly agree that such submissions will automatically be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary and will become the sole property of us without any compensation or credit to you whatsoever. We and our affiliates shall have no obligations concerning such submissions or posts and may use the ideas contained in such submissions or posts for any purposes in any medium in perpetuity, including, but not limited to, developing manufacturing, and marketing products and services using such ideas.

Miscellaneous

If for any reason a court of computer jurisdiction or portion of these Terms & Conditions to be unenforceable, the remainder of these Terms & Conditions will continue in full force and effect. Any waiver of any provision of these Terms & Conditions will be effective only if in writing and signed by an authorized representative of us. We will be entitled to injunctive or other equitable control of our Service from our offices in the Philippines. The Service is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation. Accordingly, those persons who choose to access our Service from other locations do their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. These Terms & Conditions (which include and incorporate our Privacy Policy) contain the entire understanding, and supersedes all prior understandings, between you and us concerning its subject matter, and cannot be changed or modified by you. The section headings used in this Agreement are for convenience only and will not be given any legal import.

Disclaimer

We are not responsible for any content, code, or other imprecision. We do not provide warranties or guarantees. In no event shall we be liable for any special, indirect, consequential, or incidental damages or any damages whatsoever, whether in an action of contract, negligence, or other torts, arising out of or in connection with the use of the Service or the contents of the Service. We reserve the right to make additions, deletions, or modifications to the contents of the service at any time without prior notice.

Our Service and its contents are provided "as is" and "as available " without any warranty or representations of any kind, whether express or implied. We are a distributor and not a publisher of the content supplied by third parties; as such, our exercises no editorial control over such content and makes no warranty or presentation as to the accuracy, reliability, or currency of any information, content, service, or merchandise provided through or accessible via our Service. Without limiting the foregoing, we specifically disclaim all warranties and representations in any content transmitted on or in connection with our service or on sites that may appear as links on our Service, or in the products provided as a part of, or otherwise in connection with, our Service, including without limitation any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement of third party rights. No oral advice or written information was given by us or any of its affiliates, employees, officer, directors, agents, or the like to create a warranty. The availability information is subject to change without notice. Without limiting the foregoing, we do not warrant that our Service Will be uninterrupted, uncorrupted, timely, or error-free.

Contact Us

Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

• Via Email: seminary@spbts.edu