DEFINITIONS

1. Academic Programme shall mean a programme of courses and/or any other component leading to any of the online certificate courses.

 

1. Student shall mean a candidate admitted to the online certificate courses available on LawSikho.com.

 

ACADEMIC PROGRAMME CONTENT, DELIVERY & DURATION

1. The certificate courses shall comprise of textual/video materials/exams and/or other components as decided by course provider or any university or institution that offers the course.
2. The content of the course shall be delivered online through a secure learning management system (LMS), and will be available for 1 year from the date on which the access will be provided to the student or 1 year after the day on which they successfully complete the course, whichever is later. Beyond this time, a student may retain the content of the course for further use after the completion of the stipulated time by paying a renewal fees to the content provider on an annual basis and as specified from time to time or any such means as decided from time to time. Notwithstanding anything in this Terms and Conditions, the student will pay any reexamination fee, course fee or any other fee as stipulated by a course Provider including any University or Institution, failing which their access to the course can be suspended or permanently terminated.
3. Unless specifically allowed, the content may not be available for download or in hard printed copy, although you may keep your browser tab open for accessing it offline. Some of the material may be made available for a price to be declared if there are enough takers for the same. However, checklists, flowcharts or other actionable documents shall be available in a downloadable and printable form.
4. Any circumvention of technological methods or encryptions or digital rights management system to access, print or download content will be liable to be prosecuted under applicable laws. The content is licensed only to the student of the certificate course, sharing of login details with any other person is not permitted. Any such attempt will lead to immediate disconnection and removal from course notwithstanding anything else in this agreement.  
5. The course provider or any university providing courses on the platform can from time to time devise such measures as necessary to deliver content in a secure manner. The student may be required to use Facebook or Linkedin authentication or OTP connected to a specific phone number to access the course.
6. The student can take the exam any time as stipulated by course provider or the university involved. In case they do not pass the exam and have to take a reexam or reassessment is required, they may have to make a payment if required by course provider or the University. Number of re-exams may be limited as per discretion of the University.
7. University or course providers can adopt such procedures, rules and regulation at any point of time during the course which might be necessary to maintain academic standards and to ensure secured delivery of content, even though it might adversely affect an individual or a certain group of students.

 

ADMISSION

Students must meet the criteria specified by the course provider or University before enrolling. If they enrol when they do not match the criteria, whether their fees will be refunded or not will depend on the practices and policies of the respective university, institution or course provider. In case of any dispute, the student agrees to take such disputes up directly with the university, institute or course-provider involved.

USE OF UNFAIR MEANS

All cases regarding reported plagiarism and use of Unfair Means in the examination shall be referred to the university, institute or the course provider for decision in individual cases, and for recommending penalties, if any.

 

AWARD OF CERTIFICATE

A student shall be awarded the Certificate if;

(a) He/She has enrolled himself/herself has undergone the course of studies, completed the examination as specified in the curriculum within the stipulated time and secured the minimum marks or the grade specified for a course, and

(b) There are no dues outstanding in his/her name, and

(c) The student has sent the hard-copy of documents to the University, institute or course provider where required and in the way specified and the same have been approved and accepted for admission by the University or institute or course provider and required certifications are verified to be genuine.

 

ISSUANCE AND DELIVERY OF CERTIFICATE AND TRANSCRIPTS

(a) All students who meet the criteria for issuance of Certificate will be issued a Certificate. It can take up to 10 months to issue the hard-copy certificate after successful completion of the course.

(b) Students can apply for issuance of transcripts of the program by paying an appropriate fee as notified from time to time.

(c) All certificates will be dispatched through a reputed courier company or India Post. In case a courier is returned, the student may have to pay the cost of re-couriering the documents.

 

RIGHT TO USE AND PUBLISH YOUR INFORMATION

Hereby you are granting iPleaders and LawSikho.com rights to use your name, photograph and any work you produce as part of coursework to promote the course in a reasonable and truthful manner. You are hereby authorising us that the assignments submitted by you, if found to be of a sufficiently high quality, may be published in journals and blogging platforms in your name to showcase the work of our students and alumni. You also agree that iPleaders will have unlimited and unrestricted (in terms of geography and time) license to publish the works produced by you during your participation in the course for promotion of the course.

 

PUBLICATION OF ASSIGNMENTS

You are free to publish any of the course work or assignment that you have written yourself and is an original work in any online or offline publication provided that you specify that the article was produced as a part of the course in concern and a web link (courses.lawsikho.com) of the course is provided along with such clarifications. This will help us to establish that you have submitted original work for assignment and not re-submitted your previous work and also help in enhancing the stature of the course. On such publication you need to inform us through a mail to publicationupdate@ipleaders.in

 

REMOVAL OF DOUBTS

Notwithstanding anything stated in this Regulation for any unforeseen issues arising, and not covered by this regulation, or in the event of differences of interpretation, the CEO of iPleaders may take a decision as he/she may deem fit. The decision of the CEO shall be final.

 

AMENDMENTS

Notwithstanding anything contained herein, LawSikho.com may amend and implement the rules, whenever required, in the interest to maintain standard of academics and any process related to admission or delivery of content.