Terms of use

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing our Knook App, its webpage, and associated services. As a condition to and in consideration of receiving and accessing the App, the User agrees to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. Use of or access to this webpage and the App shall constitute acceptance of and concurrence to be bound by this Agreement.

Your agreement to these Terms of Use (“Terms”) takes effect when you access the webpage, download/install the App, and/or checkbox representing these terms. If you are entering into this agreement for an entity, such as the company you work for or act for, you represent to us that you are lawfully able to enter into contracts and have legal authority to bind that entity. In that case, “you” and such entity “your” are bound by this Agreement.

If you do not wish to be bound by this agreement, do not use the webpage or download the App. If you have any questions about this Agreement, please contact us via e-mail at [email protected]

Background

dipoleDIAMOND "DDL" offers Knook ("App") subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

1. License
The App provided for you or your organization is owned by dipoleDIAMOND, and is copyrighted and licensed, not sold. Subject to the terms contained herein, this App is granted specifically for personal use purposes ONLY.

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-transferable, revocable worldwide license for the App, as specified in these Terms of Use. You agree to ensure that anyone who uses the App does so only for your authorized use and complies with these terms, privacy policy and other terms and conditions on our website. You will not be charged for the rights granted to you under this license.

2. Using Knook App
Using the App does not grant you ownership of any intellectual property rights in the App, its software, or any other material supplied with the App or the content you may have access to. The Terms do not grant you the right to use any branding or logos contained in the App and resources except your proprietary information.

Unless otherwise agreed, your participation and use of the App resources is free of charge and exclusively in your Microsoft Teams account/app.

Except for our free App, and associated documentation provided, any cost associated to accessing the App such as hardware, software, internet, personnel or administrative costs incurred by you or your organization shall be your sole liability. dipoleDIAMOND will determine abuse and/or misuse of the App, and reserves the right to withdraw the participation of you, your or any organization.

3. Restrictions
You may not sub-license, distribute, publish, transfer, rent, lease or otherwise make available the App to any third-party. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you may not disassemble, decompile or “unlock”, decode or otherwise reverse translate or engineer, or attempt in any manner to reconstruct or discover any source code or underlying algorithms of the App that is provided to you. Under no circumstances may any portion of the App or the third-party platform’s source code or any modified version of the source code be distributed, disclosed or otherwise made available to any third party.

4. Warranty
- This App is supplied “AS IS” without any warranty, express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties or conditions of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose or uninterrupted or error free use of the App or that defects will be corrected or that the App or the server and platform that makes it available are free of viruses or anything else which may be harmful or destructive.
- The entire risk arising out of the use or performance of the App and any documentation remains with you.

5. Marketing & Promotions
By using the App, you agree that we shall have unrestricted and unlimited right to use you or your organization details such as name, branding, logo, quotes, testimonials, and other information that's not confidential, for use of marketing and promotional purposes. This information can be used in any form or mode of marketing, sales, and promotional efforts.

6. Limited Liability
dipoleDIAMOND will not be liable for:
- loss of, or damage to, your records, or data; or
- any damages claimed by you, or based on any third-party claim.

You agree to indemnify and hold dipoleDIAMOND, its successors, affiliates, employees, representatives and agents harmless to the fullest extent from and against all liabilities, legal fees, damages, losses, costs, and other expenses in relation to any claims or actions brought against us arising out of or in any related to your breach of the Terms of Use or other liabilities arising out of your use of the App, webpage and associated services.

7. Privacy & Data Protection
Any Personal Information collected during use of the App will be handled in compliance with the data protection laws, regulations and implementation framework (including but not limited to the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation 2019) in force in the Federal Republic of Nigeria in the processing of personal data and other relevant data obtained in the course of the performance of their respective obligations under this Agreement. Read our Privacy policy

8. Changes to the Terms of Use
From time to time, we may modify existing Terms and/or update these Terms with additional terms that apply to the App or our webpage and services at dipoleDIAMOND. You should stop using the App if you don’t accept the changes and delete all copies of the App.

9. Termination
The only right with respect to dissatisfaction with any policies, guidelines, or practices of operation of dipoleDIAMOND Website or its owner company, or any change in Content, is for you to discontinue accessing this Website. dipoleDIAMOND may terminate or temporarily suspend your access to all or any part of this Website, without notice, for conduct that we believe is a violation of this Agreement or any policies or guidelines posted by us, or for other conduct which we believe, in its sole discretion, is harmful to us or other Users. We may discontinue operating the Website or App, and terminate this Agreement without notice at any time for any reason in its sole discretion. In the event of termination, you are no longer authorized to access this Website, including the Interactive Areas, and the restrictions imposed on you with respect to Content downloaded from the Website, as well as the disclaimers and limitations of liabilities set forth in this agreement, shall survive.

10. Variation of Terms
a. dipoleDIAMOND Limited reserves the right to change these Terms of Use at any time by posting new terms on the website.
b. You agree to review this Agreement periodically to be aware of such revisions. If any such revision is unacceptable to you, you must discontinue accessing this App. To continue accessing and using this App following notice of any such revision shall conclusively be deemed acceptance of all such revisions.

11. Severability
a. If any provision of this Agreement or any other policy is held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed in accordance with applicable law as nearly as possible to reflect the original intention of the parties and the remaining portions will continue in full force and effect.
b. The provisions of Sections 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,11,12,14 and 15 shall survive the termination or expiration of this Agreement.

12. Trademark
All logos, brand names, products, trademarks and service marks appearing herein may be the trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. References to any trademark, service mark and links to or from this App or website p have been done strictly for clarification and identification and does not constitute endorsement by dipoleDIAMOND Limited of the products, services or information offered by the owner of such trademark, service mark or link or endorsement of dipoleDIAMOND Limited by such trademark, service mark or link owner.

13. Assignment
This Agreement is personal to you and you may not assign your rights or obligations herein to anyone.

14. Jurisdiction
This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the state or province of domicile of dipoleDIAMOND Limited (being Lagos, Nigeria), excluding its conflict of laws rules, and you and this Website each submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that state or province.

15. Governing Law
This Agreement/Terms of Use shall be governed, interpreted, and executed exclusively in accordance with the laws of Nigeria.

The Terms and Conditions is Effective from July 15, 2024