and Terms of Use

Introduction

King Faisal University established its electronic portal to be an effective window for acquaintance

with the activities of the university and with whatever service for beneficiaries whether they are

university students, faculty members, and employees as well as other beneficiaries national or

international. The portal administration specified a number of terms and conditions which, taken

together, form a policy for the user that determines the relationship between the portal and

beneficiary users. This ensures the provision of a better service and support for making the most

of what the content of the portal in terms of information. Since this electronic portal of King Faisal

University, referred to as “King Faisal’s Portal” or “the portal’, is made available for your personal

use, your entry and use of it surrenders to the terms and conditions of use whether you are a

registered or non-registered user. This approval is effective as of the date of the first use of this

portal. One of the most important aims of the portal is that it is to be an informative façade of

knowledge, a means of facilitation for beneficiaries in the course of use, a way of increasing

awareness, dissemination of knowledge, ensuring the principle of development and positive

dialogue and reviewing the role of the university in the sustainable development in the kingdom

particularly in the higher education sector. Thus your use of whatever found on the portal certainly

means an academic and cultured gain, and any use of information on the portal is the user’s

personal responsibility. A number of the portal’s terms and conditions is subject to continuous

update and amendments if the need arises. And any update or amendment shall be effective

or approved by the portal administration. This means you are required to constantly review the

means and conditions in order to be well-informed of any change. Your use of this portal indicates

your being informed and your entire approval of any amendment made to the term and conditions

of use, taking into account that these terms and conditions include the property rights and that

the portal administration is not required to advertise any amendments

to be done to the terms.

Restrictions of Use

By using King Faisal University portal, you admit that you will refrain from the following:

• Providing or downloading files containing software, data or any other information

belonging to you or you do not have a license for it.

• Using this portal in any way to send a commercial or undesirable email, or any

misuse of the university portal.

• Providing or downloading files on this portal containing viruses or damaged data.

• Publishing, advertising, distributing or circulating stuff or information that

consists of defamation, violation of law, permission of what is ethically forbidden,

expressive of lewdness or offensive to Islamic teaching and public behavior or

illegal information through the portal

• Participating through the portal in activities that are considered illegal in the

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

• Advertising a product or service, an act that results in making the university

offensive to any law or system applied in any field

• Employing any means, program or procedure to obstruct or attempt to obstruct the

proper operation of the portal

• Employing any procedure that imposes a load which is too large to match the

infrastructure of the university portal

The to-and-fro Portal links

Other links with the university portal

With the exception of the unmentioned, it is forbidden to transfer or copy any of the contents

of the portal or establish any electronic links concerning it or display any of it in a framework.

Links related to the portal can be placed on any other site whose aims and orientation do not

contradict the aims, policies and frameworks of the university portal.

The university is not considered in any way whatsoever a participant nor is it associated with

any commercial or service mark, symbol, slogan or any other means used or that appear on the

websites related to this portal or its contents.

The university reserves its full rights to stop or obstruct any link whatsoever with any site

embodying themes that are inappropriate, sexual, transgressive, lewd, improper, permitting

the morally forbidden, unacceptable, illegal. Also included are names, stuff, information that is

contrary to any law or which violates the rights of intellectual property and the rights of privacy

and publicity. The university reserves the right too to obstruct any unauthorized link whatever,

and does not bear the responsibility of the contents available on any other site accessible

through this portal back and forth.

Links emanating from the University Portal to the Portals of other parties

Links related to portals and/or other websites are provided for the sake of facilitation

for the visitor and the university. The portal administration is not responsible for the

contents and credibility of the portals and/or the sites linked to it, and which we do not

approve of its contents. Therefore, employing any of these links to have access to these

sites or portals will be entirely your own responsibility. We intend to replace the inactive

electronic links on other sites, but we do not have the control over these links. Thus, we

cannot ensure that these links will operate in a state of constant stability.

Protection Against Viruses

The portal administration exerts an effort to examine the contents of the university

portal at all stages of work, and we advise you to steadily set in operation an anti-virus

program for all stuff downloaded from the internet. We are not responsible for any loss,

outstage or damage concerning your data or computer, which is likely to take place in

the course of communicating with this portal or using any items from a certain content

or elsewhere that get into it.

Waiver of Claims

The electronic portal at King Faisal University, the services provided through it, the data, stuff, employments

available on it or accessible through it are all provided for your personal use ‘as it is’ or ‘available as it is’ without

approval, promises or guarantees of any sort. We cannot therefore be held responsible for any interruption in

functioning, errors or excesses resulting from using this portal or its contents or any site linked to it whether

that happens in known or unknown to us. The user does not have the property rights of links or information he

sends through this portal, nor does he have the right of ensuring their confidentiality. Any general or interactive

use specifically embodied by this portal is not meant to guarantee for the user any rights, license or privilege of

any kind. And if the university waivers any right specified within these terms somewhere or on an occasion, it

does not mean at all constant spontaneous waiver of rights on other occasions or in other places.

Scope of Responsibility and its Borderlines

The electronic services provided by the electronic portal of King Faisal University through the worldwide web and

access to information concerning vice-president, administrations, centers, departments, colleges, deanships

and all other various parties of the university are only provided to facilitate the manual procedures. In light of

this, we acknowledge the fact that communication through the worldwide web is subject to intervention and

interception by others. Therefore, the resort to this portal shall remain your personal responsibility, and the

portal is in no way responsible for an loss or damage of any kind done to you resulting from any of the following:

Your use of, or visit to, the portal Your reliance on any statement, view or advertisement displayed on it Delay in

setting in operation Connection impediment Internet logging in problems Equipment and program malfunction

Conduct or thoughts of anyone who logs in to this portal Accordingly, you acknowledge and agree that your only

exclusive means of treating your damage or loss due to your entry or use of the portal is to refrain from using

it, entry into it, or continuity of what you started on it.

Indemnity

You declare herein that you shall not take any action against King Faisal University or

any of its vice presidents, administrations, centers, colleges, deanships or any of its

other parties, and you free from responsibility, the university, its parties, its personnel

responsible for managing, maintaining, updating, or introducing the university portal

with regard to its entire commitments and responsibilities that crop up concerning any

claims resulting from any violation, on your part, of the employment terms applicable in

the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or the place of your residence.

Termination of Use

The portal administration can, at its absolute discretions, terminate, restrict or stop your

right to enter the portal or use it, without notification, or for any reason including the

violation of the conditions and terms of use, or for any conduct that the administration

considers, at its discretion, illegal or harmful to others. In case of termination, you shall

not be authorized to enter the portal.

Property Rights

All contents published on the portal and its sites are subject to intellectual property rights

including texts, drawings, photos, programs, designs, etc.

The portal administration permits users to navigate through the portal pages and printed

pages for personal use.

The Deanship of Information Technology supervises the portal administration technically. It is

one of the deanships of King Faisal University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. All stuff available

on this portal, including texts, graphics, software (contents), designs and so on are copyright

protected, and as well protected according to trademarks or other forms of property rights.

Since one of the chief aims of the portal is the increase of awareness and spread of knowledge

in relation to the users and visitors of the portal, only personal users intending nonprofit

purposes are permitted to benefit from the content of the portal or any information published

on it, on condition that the portal of King Faisal University is to be acknowledged as the source

of the content and of that information.

In the event of personal use, parts of the content can be printed but it is by no means allowed to sell,

license, hire, amend, type, reprint, download, advertise, transfer, distribute, publicly display, edit,

produce work derived from the materials and contents of this portal for the public or for commercial

purposes. In case of general use of any part of the portal content, prior written approval must be

obtained from the administration of the portal of King Faisal University in the Kingdom of Saudi

Arabia, with emphasis on the necessity of compliance with the Saudi Law of intellectual property

protection and with whatever provided for in this document.

Amendment to any part of the portal contents is strictly forbidden. Drawing and

photos on this portal are property right protected. Reproducing or exploiting them

without prior written approval of the portal administration is not allowed.

King Faisal University must be acknowledged to be the source whenever any of

its contents is displayed on its online portal.

Governing Law and Judicial Reference

You hereby agree to your being subject exclusively to the judicial authority in the Kingdom

of Saudi Arabia regarding the entire claims, disputes arising from the use of this portal,

taking into consideration that the Arabic Language shall be the official language of use

of the portal or any of its contents.

General Terms

Materials and information available on the portal are concerned with awareness and

related to the academic field and are nonprofit. Translating is the main language used

on the portal. Translating any of this material is an additional provided service. However,

translation is not to be relied on when interpreting any dispute about what the portal

contains.