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- Introduction
Website Standard Terms and Conditions written on this webpage shall manage your use of this website. These terms will be applied fully and will affect your use of this website. By using this website, you agree to accept all terms and conditions written here. You must not use this website if you disagree with any of the following Website Standard Terms and Conditions.
- Intellectual Property Rights
Other than the content you own, under these terms, EdPrograms and/or its licensors own all the intellectual property rights and materials contained in this website.
You are granted limited license only for purposes of viewing the material contained on this website.
- Restrictions
You are specifically restricted from all of the following:
- publishing any website material in any other media;
- selling, sublicensing, and/or otherwise commercializing any website material;
- publicly performing and/or showing any website material;
- using this website in any way that is or may be damaging to this website;
- using this website in any way that impacts user access to this website;
- using this website contrary to applicable laws and regulations, or in any way may cause harm to the website, or to any person or business entity;
- engaging in any data mining, data harvesting, data extracting or any other similar activity in relation to this website;
- using this website to engage in any advertising or marketing.
Certain areas of this website are restricted from being access by you and EdPrograms may further restrict access by you to any areas of this Website, at any time, in absolute discretion. Any user ID and password you may have for this Website are confidential and you must maintain confidentiality as well.
- Your Content
In these Website Standard Terms and Conditions, “Your Content” shall mean any audio, video text, images or other material you choose to display on this Website. By displaying Your Content, you grant EdPrograms a non-exclusive, worldwide irrevocable, sub licensable license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute it in any and all media.
Your content must be your own and must not be invading any third-party’s rights. EdPrograms reserves the right to remove any of your content from this website at any time without notice.
- No warranties
This website is provided “as is,” with all faults, and EdPrograms express no representations or warranties, of any kind related to this website or the materials contained on this website. Also, nothing contained on this website shall be interpreted as advising you.
- Limitation of liability
In no event shall EdPrograms, nor any of its officers, directors and employees, shall be held liable for anything arising out of or in any way connected with your use of this website whether such liability is under contract. EdPrograms, including its officers, directors and employees shall not be held liable for any indirect, consequential or special liability arising out of or in any way related to your use of this website.
- Indemnification
You hereby indemnify EdPrograms to the fullest extent from and against any and/or all liabilities, costs, demands, causes of action, damages and expenses arising in any way related to your breach of any of the provisions of these terms.
- Severability
If any provision of these terms is found to be invalid under any applicable law, such provisions shall be deleted without affecting the remaining provisions herein.
- Variation of Terms
EdPrograms is permitted to revise these Terms at any time as it sees fit, and by using this Website you are expected to review these Terms on a regular basis.
- Assignment
The EdPrograms is allowed to assign, transfer, and subcontract its rights and/or obligations under these Terms without any notification. However, you are not allowed to assign, transfer, or subcontract any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms.
- Entire Agreement
These terms constitute the entire agreement between EdPrograms and you in relation to your use of this website and supersede all prior agreements and understandings.
- Governing Law & Jurisdiction
These terms will be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois, and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Illinois for the resolution of any disputes.
Welcome to the www.edprograms.org website (the “Website”). The terms “we”, “us”, “our”, “EdPro”, “EDP”, and “EdPrograms” refers to EdPrograms INC, a United States of America corporation, and all associated, affiliated, and related companies, foundations, and charitable organizations. The term “you” refers to the customer visiting the Website and/or contributing content on this Website. This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for EdPrograms INC. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact our Customer Service Department by email.
EdPrograms is committed to protecting the privacy of our online users and to process your personal data in compliance with applicable privacy and data protection legislation. We would like to share our online information practices and make clear the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, it is available via the “Legal Notices” link at the bottom of every page and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested. This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the edprograms.org website.
When visiting other websites linked from edprograms.org, submitting personally identifiable information is subject to that site’s privacy policies. This applies to any external links from our site. We encourage users to check for privacy policies of any sites that collect personally identifiable information.
- Collection of Personal Information
On our site, you can order products and materials, make payments on your account, and sign up to lead or travel on a tour. We might ask you for personal information, which includes your name, address, email address, phone number, date of birth, emergency contact information and financial data such as credit/debit card and/or checking account numbers. This information may be collected by EdPrograms both within and outside the United States of America, primarily to complete your transactions and to provide efficient, customized and meaningful experiences online. If you request our catalog or updates about our products and services, then we may also use that information to inform you of new offers, products and services which may be of interest to you. We maintain the confidentiality, security, and integrity of personal information that we obtain from our users. We do not sell, rent, trade, license or otherwise disclose your specific personal information or financial information to any third parties, except when necessary to complete your order or provide services to you.
- Collection of Browsing Information
We collect information about IP addresses, types of web browsers and devices, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), referring and exit pages, operating systems, date/time stamps, search terms, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movement, and gather demographic information. We use this information for marketing purposes to better track what products and services our customers prefer, so that we can tailor your user experience to those preferences.
- Use of “Cookies”
“Cookies” are pieces of information that a website transfers to your computer’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes. We use both session and persistent cookies. The use of cookies is an industry standard, used to provide useful features for customers. Cookies by themselves, do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user’s computer. We may append contact information gathered from third parties to cookie data that we collect. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent that. If you do so, however, you may not be able to take full advantage of our website. For example, the complete online reservation process can only be accessed if you accept cookies.
- Protection of Information
We do not share the information we collect from you when completing an order with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete your reservation. When necessary, we may share that information with our corporate affiliates, claims handlers and business partners both within and outside the United States of America.
We exercise great care in providing secure transmission of our users’ financial information from their computers to our servers by using encryption technology. We use secure online forms and store all information in protected operating environments inaccessible to the public.
We may provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics will include no personally identifying information.
- Our Commitment to Privacy of Minors
Protecting the privacy of minors is especially important. For that reason, we comply in all respects with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and do not knowingly solicit, request or collect personal information from individuals under the age of 13. We require parental consent from users under 18 who wish to make a reservation. A minor’s personal information will be used to complete a reservation but it will not be used in circumstances outside of what is required to operate the business or site.
Parents can review, make changes or delete their child’s information by following the instructions outlined in “Reviewing or Changing Your Information”.
- Reviewing or Changing Your Information
You can access personal information online by providing your customer number and password when prompted at the login. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.
You can correct the majority of factual errors in your personal account directly online up to your final payment date. You can request these changes via email at info@edprograms.org , by calling our number at +1-312-918-1110 or by sending mail to:
EdPrograms INC
230 E Ohio Street
Suite 410 1941
Chicago, IL 60611
United States
To delete or deactivate your account, please call +1-312-918-1110
To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
- Your Consent
By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of this information by www.edprograms.org. We reserve our right not to respond to any requests to change information collected other than as indicated in “Reviewing or Changing Your Information”. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post any changes on this page, so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy from time to time, so you will know if the Privacy Policy has been changed or updated.
- Tell Us What You Think
We welcome your questions and comments about privacy. Should you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policies, please call us at +1-312-918-1110 or send us an email at info@edprograms.org .
EdPrograms understands that participants may be forced to cancel their reservations for a variety of reasons. For all cancellation reasons, EdPrograms terms and conditions for refunds are as follows:
- If you are denied the program country’s visa 90 days prior to the start of the program, student is eligible for a 100% refund.
- If you have received the visa for the country of the program through facilitation of EdPrograms and wish to cancel your participation for the program, there will absolutely be no refund of any fees irrespective of the time table below.
- All other cancellations must be received in writing and can only be on the following terms:
| Period before start date | Total refunded |
| 90 days | 100% |
| 45-89 days | 50% |
| 0-44 days | 0% |
- All refunds shall be net of any foreign exchange losses and net of any credit card or other banking or transfer charges and of any similar expenses incurred by EdPrograms INC.
- Cancellations or terminations on or after the program start date, where a cancellation or termination of a program occurs on or after the start date for any reason and whether by the Student or EdPrograms, the Student shall receive no refund of any course fees already paid or incurred.
- Please note the below exceptional circumstances, where the request for a refund will be considered on a case-by-case basis:
- You can demonstrate extenuating personal circumstances which prohibit you from coming traveling to the host country. (For example, illness and bereavement.) Please note that supporting evidence will be requested.
Refund processing
In the event that a refund is successfully requested, you will be reimbursed using the same means of payment as you used to make the payment to us, unless you have explicitly agreed otherwise. In any event, you will incur any applicable fees if EdPrograms was charged for any applicable fees as a result of the reimbursement.
EdPrograms understands that all registered University participants may be forced to cancel their reservations for a variety of reasons:
- An official refund request shall be made to finance@edprograms.org only by the applicant who initially applied.
- Refunds will be processed only on the following terms:
| Period before Tour start date | Total Refunded |
| 90 days | 100 % |
| 46 – 89 days | 50 % |
| 30 – 45 days | 25 % |
| 0 – 30 days | 0 % |
- In the event that a refund is successfully requested, you will be reimbursed using the same mode of payment as was made to apply for the EdTour Program
- In any case a Refund processing fee is applicable
- In terms of a tour cancelation, EdPrograms reserves the sole right to determine the credit amount given to an institution towards a future EdTour or a Refund amount.
- Refund processing fee is inclusive of but not limited to credit card, other banking or checking fees and transfer charges as well as of any other traveling, cancellation and re-booking incurred to EdPrograms Inc.
- Please note the below exceptional circumstances may be allowed for a refund and will be considered on a case-by-case basis:
- You can demonstrate unique personal or official circumstances which prohibit the applicant from attending EdTour Program.
(For example, illness and bereavement.) - Please note that supporting evidence may be required.
- You can demonstrate unique personal or official circumstances which prohibit the applicant from attending EdTour Program.