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PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS WEBSITE. BY USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE.

  1. General.

Welcome to booksoasis, an online service provided through booksoasis DeLearning Centre Nigeria Plot 42 Olabanji Olajide street, Lekki phase 1 105102, Etiosa in Nigeria booksoasis. Provides users with access to discover, read and purchase literary works from content providers through booksoasis website.

By registering with, accessing or using the Service you signify that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by these terms of use (these “Terms of Use” or this “Agreement“), whether or not you are a Customer (as defined in Section 4 below) of the Service. You are only authorized to use the Service (regardless of whether your access or use is intended) if you agree to the terms of this Agreement. booksoasis reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or delete these Terms of Use at any time without any notice. We will post the changes to these terms and conditions on the website. Your use of the Service after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised terms and conditions.

If you do not comply with this Agreement at any time, booksoasis reserves the right to immediately cancel or terminate your access to the Service (or any part thereof) and/or your Customer account.

You agree that any termination or cancellation of your access to, or use of, the Service may be effected without prior notice. If you do not abide by the terms of this Agreement, you agree that we may immediately deactivate or delete your Customer account, if any, and all related information and/or files in your user account and/or bar any further access to such information and/or files and/or the Service (or part thereof). Further, you agree that booksoasis shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination or cancellation of your access to, or use of, the Service. You acknowledge that your only right with respect to any dissatisfaction with any modification or discontinuation of or to the Service, or any policies or practices by booksoasis in providing the Service, including without limitation any change in content, is to cease using the Service and cancel or terminate your subscription or Customer account, as applicable.

  1. Digital Content.

All literary works on the Service (each, “Digital Content”) are the exclusive property of the publisher or its licensors and are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws. The download of, and access to any Digital Content is available only to Customers and is intended only for such Customers’ personal and non-commercial use. Any other use of Digital Content downloaded or accessed from the Service is strictly prohibited. Customers may not modify, transmit, publish, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the content of any Digital Content, in whole or in part. By downloading or otherwise accessing Digital Content from the Service, the Customer hereby acknowledges and agrees to these terms.

Membership Cancellation

You may cancel your membership by using the “Cancel my subscription” button on the booksoasis “My Subscriptions”. Except as otherwise set out in these Terms, and booksoasis’s Terms of Sale, if you cancel your membership, you will not receive a refund of any membership fees already paid. When your membership is cancelled, the Digital Content associated with your subscription account will be removed from your devices and applications.

  1. Payment Methods.

Only Customers may purchase Digital Content on the Service.

The Service accepts the following credit cards: Visa and MasterCard.

When a credit card is being used for a purchase, booksoasis may obtain a pre-approval from the credit card company for an amount up to the amount of the order. Billing to the credit card occurs at the time of purchase, or shortly thereafter.

  1. Customers.

The Service is open to the public but certain portions, components, content and features of the Service are only available to individuals who enter into a contract with booksoasis for the provision of the Service by registering with booksoasis, creating a customer account on the Service, and agreeing to these Terms of Use and booksoasis’s Privacy Policy at the time the booksoasis account is created (each, a “Customer“). As long as the individual remains a Customer and their account is active, Customers will have ongoing access to and will be able to continuously receive, amongst others, the following additional services and functionality of the Service:

  • the ability to access the Customer’s account and purchase Digital Content (including a listing of Customer’s literary works) via one of booksoasis applications across multiple platforms, including on the Customer’s devices such as eReaders, tablets, mobile phones, and personal computers (“Devices”) and via booksoasis website;
  • the ability to purchase, access, view, download, store, and read Digital Content on the Customer’s Devices from within the Customer’s account while utilizing a booksoasis application;
  • unlimited storage of Digital Content purchased or downloaded via the Customer’s account on booksoasis systems, which can be accessed at all times when the Customer is logged into their account and using a booksoasis application; and
  • the ability to access certain functionality within Digital Content such as highlighting, in-book dictionary, bookmarking, and annotations.

If you are a Customer then you agree to the following:

(i) in consideration of your use of the Service, you represent that you are of the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which you reside, or 18 years old or older up to the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which you reside with the express written consent of your parent or legal guardian, and are not a person barred from receiving services under the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada or other applicable jurisdiction. You also agree to:

(a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by any registration form(s) on the Service, including your geographical location and billing address (the “Registration Data“); and

(b) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, booksoasis has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof);

(ii) Customers will receive a password and account designation upon completing the registration process. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and account and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. You agree to:

(a) immediately notify booksoasis of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security; and

(b) ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session.

Any personal information you provide in the registration form will be collected in accordance with, and for the express purposes set out in our Privacy Policy..

  1. Restrictions on Use.

These terms apply to all users of the Service, whether or not you are a Customer.

  1. You shall use the Service for lawful purposes only.
  2. All content on the Service, including but not limited to designs, text, graphics, pictures, video, information, applications, software, music, sound and other files, and their selection and arrangement (“Site Content”), are the proprietary property of booksoasis or its licensors with all rights reserved. No Site Content may be modified, copied, distributed, framed, reproduced, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted, transmitted, or sold in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, without booksoasis prior written permission. Provided that you are eligible for use of the Service and subject to these Terms of Use, you are granted a limited license to access the Service and the Site Content and to download or print a copy of any portion of the Site Content to which you have properly gained access solely for your personal, non-commercial use, provided that you keep all copyright and other proprietary notices intact. You may not upload or republish Site Content on any Internet, Intranet or Extranet site or incorporate the information in any other database or compilation, and any other use of the Site Content is strictly prohibited. The foregoing license is subject to these Terms of Use and does not include use of any data mining, robots or similar data gathering or extraction methods. Any use of the Service or the Site Content other than as specifically authorized herein, without the prior written permission of booksoasis, is strictly prohibited and will terminate the license granted herein. Such unauthorized use may also violate applicable laws including without limitation copyright and trade-mark laws and applicable communications regulations and statutes. Unless explicitly stated herein, nothing in these terms and conditions shall be construed as conferring any license to intellectual property rights, whether by estoppel, implication or otherwise. This license is revocable by booksoasis at any time without notice and with or without cause.
  3. You may not obscure or misrepresent your geographical location, forge headers, use proxies, use IP spoofing or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any message or transmittal you send on or through the Service. You may not pretend that you are, or that you represent, someone else, or impersonate any other individual or entity.
  4. You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Service, including, without limitation:

(a) accessing data not intended for you, including logging into a server or account which you not authorized to access;

(b) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization;

(c) using any “deep-link”, “page-scrape”, “robot”, “spider” or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Service or any Site Content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Service or any Site Content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Site;

(d) taking any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of the Service or booksoasis systems or networks, or any systems or networks connected to the Service or to booksoasis’

(e) taking any action in order to obtain services to which you are not entitled.

Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. booksoasis will investigate occurrences which may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting any user (whether or not a Customer) who is involved in such violations.

  1. Disclaimer of Warranty; Limitation of Liability.
  2. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. NEITHER booksoasis, ITS AFFILIATES NOR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, THIRD PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS OR LICENSORS WARRANT THAT THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE; NOR DO THEY MAKE ANY WARRANTY AS TO THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM USE OF THE WEBSITE, OR AS TO THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY INFORMATION, SERVICE OR MERCHANDISE PROVIDED THROUGH THE WEBSITE.
  3. THE WEBSITE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ADDITIONALLY, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES AS TO THE RESULTS OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE WEBSITE.
  4. IN NO EVENT WILL booksoasis, OR ANY PERSON OR ENTITY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING OR DISTRIBUTING THE WEBSITE OR THE CONTENT INCLUDED THEREIN, BE LIABLE IN CONTRACT, IN TORT (INCLUDING FOR ITS OWN NEGLIGENCE) OR UNDER ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY (INCLUDING STRICT LIABILITY) FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, CONSEQUENTIAL OR SIMILAR DAMAGES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS OR REVENUES, LOSS OF USE OR SIMILAR ECONOMIC LOSS, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE. YOU HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY TO ALL USE OF AND CONTENT ON THE WEBSITE.
  5. THE ABOVE DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY APPLIES TO ANY DAMAGES OR INJURY CAUSED BY ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INACCURACY, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS, COMMUNICATION LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, OR USE OF THIS WEBSITE, WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTIOUS BEHAVIOR (INCLUDING STRICT LIABILITY), NEGLIGENCE, OR UNDER ANY OTHER CAUSE OF ACTION. YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT booksoasis IS NOT LIABLE FOR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF OTHER USERS OR THIRD-PARTIES AND THAT THE RISK OF INJURY FROM THE FOREGOING RESTS ENTIRELY WITH YOU.
  6. Indemnification.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless booksoasis and its affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims, actions, demands, damages, costs, liabilities, losses and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of your use of the Service.

  1. Trademarks.

booksoasis, booksoasis.com and related words, domain names and logos are trade-marks and the property of booksoasis. All other trade-marks, product names and company names or logos cited herein are the property of their respective owners.

  1. Third Party Content.

booksoasis has no more editorial control over content than does a public library, bookstore, or newsstand. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including content, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not of booksoasis. In many instances, the content available through the Service represents the opinions and judgments of the respective content provider. booksoasis neither endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made on the Service by anyone other than authorized booksoasisemployee spokespersons while acting in their official capacities.

  1. Public Domain.

Some of the literary works offered on the Service have been identified as being in the public domain by certain content providers. booksoasis does not verify the accuracy of public domain designations and is not liable for any damage that may result from the downloading or other use of such literary works by you. If you do not reside in the relevant jurisdiction for which the public domain designation has been made, it is your responsibility to check the laws of your country of residence prior to downloading or accessing such literary works.

  1. Miscellaneous.

Rakuten booksoasis. controls the Service from its offices within the Province of Ontario, Canada. The Service can be accessed from all provinces and territories of Canada and from other countries around the world. As each of these jurisdictions have laws that may differ from those of the Province of Ontario, by accessing the Service, if you are located outside of Europe, you agree that all matters relating to access to, or use of, the Service, or any other hyperlinked website, shall be governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein. You also agree and hereby submit to the non-exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the courts of the Province of Ontario and acknowledge that you do so voluntarily and are responsible for complying with all local laws.

With respect to Customers who utilize a booksoasis device, booksoasis reserves the right to display advertisements and offers on your device. These advertisements and offers may be displayed when the device is powered off or in sleep mode, at the bottom of the home screen, as a screensaver, or through other areas in the user interface as booksoasis may choose.

booksoasis reserves the right to alter the software of any booksoasis device, including enhancements, bug fixes, etc., at any time and in booksoasis sole discretion.