Welcome to our platform HTUx. If you continue to browse and use the Platform, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use (“Terms”), which together with our Privacy and Cookie Policy HERE, govern our relationship with you in relation to the Platform. If you disagree with any part of these Terms, please do not use the Platform.

1. About Us

Htux.org is operated by Hussein Technical University (“HTU”, “we”, “us” or “our”). Our registered office is at 21, King Hussein Business Park, Amman – Jordan and our company registration number is (822).

If you have any queries regarding the Platform or any of the information or materials contained on or in it, please contact us by email at [email protected] or by telephone on +962 6 580 8787.  

2. About this Platform

We provide this Platform and the information contained in it on an ‘as is’ basis and we have taken reasonable steps to ensure the accuracy and completeness of its content. However, no guarantee, representation or warranty is made as to its accuracy, completeness or correctness. Should you seek to rely in any way whatsoever upon any content contained on the Platform, you do so at your own risk. It is your responsibility to ensure that any information available through this Platform meets your specific requirements.

We accept no liability for viruses or other computer contaminants. You are recommended to take all appropriate safeguards (such as installing appropriate anti-virus software) and firewalls before downloading information or images from this Platform.

3. LICENSE

Subject to these terms, any of their subsequent amendments, and any of our policies, we hereby grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable, and revocable license to use the Platform and access any of your purchased courses on the Platform. You may not download any content from the Platform.

Other than the content explicitly made available for download, which shall only be made available by us for download for your own personal and non-commercial use. You may not create access and/or use more than one user account registered on the Platform. You may not share access or access information in respect of your account with any third-party.

4. Changes to the Platform

Although we make every effort to, we are under no obligation to ensure the content on this Platform is up to date and current. We may, at our absolute and sole discretion, change, edit, delete or revise the content of this Platform from time to time, including these Terms, to comply with changes in the law, among other reasons. Please check this page for changes which have been made to the Terms. Your use of this Platform after a change has been affected constitutes your acceptance of the amended Terms. [You may access these Terms at any time by accessing the link to them which appears at the bottom of the home page of the platform].

5. Availability and Access

No warranty is given that the Platform shall be available on an uninterrupted basis, and no liability can be accepted in respect of losses or damages arising out of such unavailability. We reserve the right to block your use of the Platform and/or withdraw this Platform entirely.

6. Acceptable Use

You may not:

• Do any act or omission which violates the laws of any country in which the Platform is made available, or which would be in breach of any of your contractual obligations towards HTU.
• Share your account password or permit any other user to access your account.
• Screencast, screen-record, or record via an external camera any content made available to you via the Platform;
• Reproduce, transfer, sell, re-sell, or otherwise misuse any content on or made available via the Platform, or attempt any of the foregoing actions in relation to the Platform and/or any of its content.
• Post, publish, or make available via any means, any content illegally and illicitly obtained from the Platform, even where such content was obtained illegally and illicitly by a third party and whose possession has subsequently been passed to you.
• Access, or attempt to access any non-publicly available area or subdomain of the Platform including by using either legal or illicit methods.
• Interfere, attempt to interfere, or allow to be interfered with, any user, host or network relating to the Platform, for example, by knowingly sending virus-infected documents, overloading, sending spam emails and complaints, etc.
• Break or circumvent or attempt to break or circumvent the security and authentication measures put in place in respect of the Platform by HTU.
• Use and/or access the Platform for any purpose other than for pedagogical and educational purposes.
• Reverse-engineer or attempt to reverse-engineer any functionality, program, or technological concept within the Platform.

Failure to comply with these acceptable use terms constitutes a material breach of these Terms, upon which you are permitted to use our Platform, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

• Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our Platform.
• Issue a written warning to you.
• Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
• Further legal action against you.
• Disclosure of such information to law enforcement and regulatory authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary or as required by law.

We exclude our liability for all action we may take in response to breaches of these acceptable use terms. The actions we may take are not limited to those described above, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

7. Third Party Websites

We may provide links to third party websites or content on our Platform from time to time. The use of third-party websites or content is entirely at your own risk and these Terms apply solely to the Platform and no other website. Links contained in the Platform may lead to other websites not under our control, and we accept no liability for the content of any linked site, or any link contained in a linked site. Links provided on the Platform are provided to you only as a convenience and the inclusion of any link does not imply reliability and endorsement by us of the content of any third party’s website.

You are not entitled (nor will you assist others) to set up any links from your own websites to the Platform (whether by hypertext linking or otherwise) without our prior written consent, which we may grant or withhold at our absolute discretion.

8. Intellectual Property

All intellectual property rights (including, without limitation, copyright, database rights, design rights, patents, trademarks and logos) in all the content, which includes, but is not limited to, all text, images, and software within the Platform, are owned by or licensed to us unless otherwise stated. From time to time, we may permit you to download and view one (1) copy of select content which we provide access for you to download and view. Such content shall be solely for your personal and non-commercial home use, and subject to your compliance with these Terms, and insofar as you are permitted by us to access and use the Platform. For the avoidance of doubt, such download of content authorized by us from the Platform shall not confer on you or any other person any intellectual property rights other than a license for the rights of use as per paragraph ‎3 of these Terms.

For the avoidance of doubt, access and usage of the Platform pursuant to the license granted to you in paragraph ‎3 of these terms shall not grant you ownership or any rights of disposal in relation to the intellectual property rights of the Platform and its contents.

9. Data Protection

Please refer to our Privacy Policy by clicking HERE.

10. No Text or Data Mining or Web-scraping

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our Platform or any services and content provided via, or in relation to, the Platform. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):

• Any “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “scraper” or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the Platform or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.
• Any automated analytical technique aimed at analyzing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

11. No Warranties

We exclude all representations, warranties, conditions and terms (whether express or implied by statute, common law or otherwise) to the fullest extent permitted by law.

12. Liability

There are certain liabilities which we cannot exclude by law and nothing in these Terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or for fraud.

We are only responsible to you for losses that are a natural, foreseeable consequence of our breach of these Terms. We accept no liability for any losses or damages which are not reasonably foreseeable arising out of or in connection with these Terms or your use of this Platform.

We will not be liable to you for any losses related to any business of yours including lost data, lost profits, lost revenues or business interruption.

13. INDEMNITY

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless HTU, its shareholders, directors, employees and agents (“Indemnified Parties”) from any and all claims, liabilities, expenses, and damages (to the extent attributable to you under the applicable law), including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, made by any third party related to: (a) your use or attempted use of the Platform in violation of these Terms; and/or (b) your violation of any law or rights of any third party, including without limitation any claim of infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property or other proprietary rights.

You also agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Indemnified Parties from any and all claims, liabilities, expenses, and damages, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, relating to any breach of attempted breach by you of these Terms.

14. Severability

Where any term or condition in these Terms is deemed unenforceable by a court of comptent jurisdiction or by operation of the applicable law, such finding of unenforceability will not affect the applicability or enforceability of any other term or condition in these Terms.

15. Waiver

A failure or delay by HTU to exercise any right or remedy in respect of any breach by you of these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such breach or any other exercise of other right or remedy, nor shall it prevent or restrict the further exercise of such rights and remedies or any other right or remedy. No single or partial exercise of such right or remedy shall prevent or restrict the further exercise of such right or remedy or any other right or remedy.

16. Third Party Content Providers

Third-party content providers may contribute and provide content to the Platform. For the purposes of these Terms, such third-party content providers shall be deemed as third-party beneficiaries of these Terms and may directly enforce any such provisions of these Terms that directly relate to them.

17. Information and Complaints

If you have a question or complaint regarding the Site, please send an e-mail to [email protected] .

18. General

We will not be liable to you if we are prevented or delayed from complying with our obligations under these Terms by anything you do or fail to do or as a result of events beyond our reasonable control.

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, it will be severed from the rest of these Terms which shall remain unaffected.

No delay or failure by us to exercise any powers, rights or remedies under these Terms will operate as a waiver of them, nor will any single or partial exercise of any such powers, rights or remedies preclude any other or further exercise of them.

Any notice to be given under these Terms must be communicated by email to the address most recently notified by the receiving party. Receipt of notice shall be deemed to occur at the time when the notice would in the ordinary course be delivered or transmitted.

19. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the courts of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan will have non-exclusive jurisdiction with respect to any dispute arising under or in relation to them.

 Last updated Nov / 2022.