By using our website, you agree to be bound by our terms and conditions as outlined below:

Last updated: November 21, 2022

OVERVIEW

The terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to LEARNAKAN, the outfit responsible for the websites LEARNAKAN.COM and LEARNAKANDICTIONARY.COM. The term the “website”, “site” and “platform” refers to LEARNAKAN.COM. The term “service” refers to the service offered on this site. The terms “member”, “members”, “user,” “users”, “you,” and “your” refer to site visitors, members, customers, and any other users of the site.

OUR SERVICE

LEARNAKAN.COM a community-based e-learning platform dedicated to helping interested persons around the world to read, write, and speak the Akan language, spoken in most parts of Ghana in West Africa. 

TERMS

Your use of LEARNAKAN.COM is subject to the terms and conditions set forth on this page. This Agreement spells out what is/are allowed when using our site, your rights as a user of our site, the rights we have as owners of the site if you do something that is not allowed on our site; and other such terms. These terms of use is a legal contract between you and LEARNAKAN and it is important that you read it thoroughly. If you do not agree with any of the terms on this page, do not use or access the website. By using the site or service, you consent to these terms fully, and acknowledge reading them.

ERRORS

Information and/or materials provided on the site could include technical, typographical, and/or other errors. We make no warranties, expressed or implied, that the information/materials provided is accurate, complete, reliable, current, does not infringe on any person or body’s intellectual property or any other rights, are without errors. We also do not make any promise regarding the likely results of using our website/service. This disclaimer applies to information/materials on any sites linked to LEARNAKAN.COM.

ACCOUNT CREATION

In order to use the Service, you will be required to provide certain information about yourself including your name, email address, username, password, and other personal information. You agree that any registration information you provide will always be accurate, correct, and up to date. You agree not to impersonate someone else or provide account information or an email address other than your own. Your account must not be used for any illegal or unauthorized purpose.

BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS OTHER MEMBERS

By using this site and its service, you agree to treat all other users of the platform with optimal respect. You shall not make a post, comment, or do anything which violates or infringes on the rights of others, or which is threatening, abusive, defamatory, libelous, invasive of privacy, vulgar, obscene, profane, or objectionable. If a member reports feeling unsafe, disrespected, violated, abused, or less focused due to your engagement in acts such as those listed above, you may be suspended from using the site/service for a period, or indefinitely based on the severity of the act.

FEE AND PAYMENT

You agree that the fee set forth at any point in time covers a period of one (1) month, i.e. payment of the set fee grants you membership access for a month. This fee will be charged on your payment method upon sign up, and on a monthly, recurring basis thereafter until you cancel your subscription.

AUTOMATIC RENEWAL

To ensure uninterrupted service, your subscription to the site/service will automatically renew for successive periods of equal length (monthly) until you cancel.

You may cancel your subscription to the site/service at any time. To cancel, log in and go to your membership account page. Under the subscription tab, locate and click on cancel.

You may also send us a cancellation request email and we will cancel your subscription for you, immediately.

Whether you choose to cancel the subscription yourself or have us do it for you, it is entirely your responsibility to initiate the process in good time should you no longer require the Service and do not wish to be billed further.

Once you cancel your membership, you will no longer have access to the service, including parts of the site’s content, the community resources, courses, etc. Pages such as the homepage will still be available to you should you ever want to re-sign up.

PAYMENT PROCESSING

Everything regarding your payment is handled by Stripe. None of your payment details, including your credit card, bank information, as well as billing addresses is stored on this website. We do not have access to any such details as they are securely processed externally by this very well-known payment processor. You agree, therefore, not to hold us liable in the RARE instance of a payment processing related mishap. We will do our best in any such instance to help you resolve the issue, but we are not under obligation to do so under these terms.

REFUNDS

We offer a 14-day full money back guarantee should you be unhappy with the Service in your first month of membership. To request a refund please first cancel your subscription in your account page (or email us to do it for you), and send us a refund request email via [email protected].

MATERIAL YOU SUBMIT TO THE SITE

You shall not upload, post or otherwise make available on the Site any artwork, photos, or other materials (collectively “Materials”) protected by copyright, trademark, or other proprietary right without the express written permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark, or other proprietary right, and the burden of determining that any Materials are not so protected rests entirely with you. You shall be liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, trademarks, or other proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such a submission. For all Materials submitted by you to the Site, you automatically represent or warrant that you have the authority to use and distribute the Materials, and that the use or display of the Materials will not violate any laws, rules, regulations, or rights of third parties.

CERTIFICATES OF COMPLETION

You get a certificate for every course level you complete. The certificates are generated automatically with your name and date of completion on them. They come in PDF format and can be downloaded, printed, framed, hanged, and/or viewed on your devices. Feel proud and share them with your friends and family.

DISCLAIMER ON CERTIFICATES OF COMPLETION

LEARNAKAN certificate is just something tangible that you receive at the end of a course level to demonstrate your accomplishment, and to encourage you on. Please note that LEARNAKAN is not an accredited institution and, as such, our certificates cannot, and should not, be used for any formal engagement. They should be seen just like a certificate from Udemy, for example. 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS TO YOUR MATERIALS

We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you supply to LEARNAKAN. You retain copyright and any other rights you may rightfully hold in any content that you submit through the site or service. Content you submit to LEARNAKAN remains yours to the extent that you have any legal claims therein. You agree to hold us harmless from and against all claims, liabilities, and expenses arising out of any potential or actual copyright or trademark misappropriation or infringement claimed against you. By posting material on the site, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, irrevocable license to use the material for promotional, business development, and marketing purposes.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS TO THIRD PARTIES

The site and/or service may contain photographic, textual, video, audio, and other materials that are not owned by us. All such materials are solely the properties of their respective owners, stated or otherwise. We do not claim intellectual property rights over any such materials.

If you feel any photographic, textual, video, audio, or any other material used on our site infringes your intellectual property rights, please contact us and we will have it removed.

OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

The site and service contain intellectual property owned by us, including videos, audio files, texts, proprietary information, and other intellectual property. LEARNAKAN‘s copyrighted and original materials are provided to you as part of the service for your individual use only and a single-user license. All intellectual property, including LEARNAKAN’s copyrighted materials shall remain the sole property of LEARNAKAN. No license to sell or distribute our materials is granted or implied.

You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, create derivative works from, distribute, display, reproduce or perform, or in any way exploit in any format whatsoever any of the site or service content or intellectual property, in whole or in part, without our prior written consent. This includes but is not limited to sharing material with others, posting excerpts of material on any social media, blogging about the material, or in any other way that would reasonably appear to share the site or service’s information with a non-member. We reserve the right to immediately remove you from the Service, without refund, if you are caught violating this intellectual property policy.

THIRD PARTY RESOURCES

The site/service may contain links to third party websites and resources. You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible or liable for the availability, accuracy, content, or policies of third party websites or resources. Links to such websites or resources do not imply any endorsement by or affiliation with LEARNAKAN. You acknowledge sole responsibility for and assume all risks arising from your use of any such websites or resources.

REFUSAL OF SERVICE

We reserve the right to refuse service to any individual, group, or body, without any obligation to assign a reason for doing so.

SERVICE INTERRUPTIONS

You agree that the site/service may at times be influenced and affected by third parties that we use to provide the service such as web hosting, membership site themes and plugins, etc.), causing varying degrees of interruptions and disruptions. You agree not to hold us liable for such interruptions/disruptions in service.

MODIFICATION/TERMINATION OF SERVICE

We reserve the right to change, modify, or discontinue any aspect or feature of the site or service at any point in time. We also reserve the right to shut down the site, and discontinue the service at any point in time. We will make reasonable efforts to provide notice of any such modifications or termination, but we are not required to do so under the terms of this agreement. 

CHANGE OF TERMS

We may, at any point in time, amend these terms without notice to you. It is your responsibility to check the terms of use page from time to time to stay up to date with any such amendment. By using the site, you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these terms.

CONTACT

If there is any part of these terms and conditions that you do not understand or are unclear about; if you have any questions at all regarding these terms, please don’t hesitate to contact us and we will be happy to help.