Wuhan I Coach U Science & Technology Co., Ltd., China ( I Coach U Sci-Tech) hereby requests you( User) to read this user agreement carefully before you register as a user and to make sure that you fully understand the terms and conditions in this agreement. Please read this agreement thoroughly and then decide whether or not to accept it. You are not allowed to register on, log in, or use the I Coach U App and its website and the services that are provided on these platforms unless you accept the terms and conditions. Your registration, login, and use of this app and the website indicate that you have accepted this agreement and will abide by the terms and conditions in this agreement.
This agreement defines the obligations and rights of I Coach U Sci-Tech and its users with regard to utilization of I Coach U software. By ‘user’, we mean any individual or organization that registers on, logs in, and uses the software and its service. I Coach U Sci-Tech will upgrade this agreement from time to time and when an upgraded version is published, the previous one is duly replaced. The upgraded version is available on I Coach U App and its website. When refusing to accept the revised terms and conditions, such a user is required to suspend the use of the software and its service. Otherwise, it is understood that the user has accepted the revised version of the agreement.
1.1. The user is required to create an I Coach U account before using I Coach U service. The user should use a mobile phone number to register. If the mobile phone number has already been used for the same purpose or has been recorded by I Coach U as a suspected number, the registration will not be accepted. I Coach U Sci-Tech has the right to change registration mode based on users’ demands and product development without advance notice.
1.2. As soon as you finish registration as a user, you will own an account and a password. Then you will be responsible for all the activities and behaviors undertaken in your account. If you lose control of your account and password for your own reasons, you will bear the consequences of any loss or damages thus caused to you, I Coach U Sci-Tech, and any third party.
1.3. When the user completes registration, they become an official user of I Coach U. Then, we will carry out authentication process so that the user may have the valid status of being an English teacher or coach on I Coach U platform. In doing so, the user must provide electronic or scanned copies of their identification and qualification materials including, but not limited to, ID card or passport, teaching certificate, and diploma. I Coach U Sci-Tech does not warrant the truthfulness of the materials provided by the user.
1.4. When a user registers for or use I Coach U service, I Coach U Sci-Tech is obliged to collect the user’s identity and personal information in order to contact the user when necessary and to offer better using experience. The personal information required for such purposes will include, but not limited to, user’s name, gender, age, date of birth, ID card number, passport number, address, schools, companies, profession, hobbies, specific needs, etc.. I Coach U Sci-Tech has the obligation to use the above information in accordance with its Privacy Policy.
2.1. The user is allowed to download I Coach U software from any legal channel to any legal terminal. The user is not allowed to change, copy, or sale I Coach U software in any manner.
2.2. Once the user opens I Coach U on any of their terminals, it is regarded that I Coach U is under their use. To realize all the functions of I Coach U, the user needs to connect their terminal to Internet.
2.3. All I Coach U users have permanent, non-negotiable, non-exclusive, non-commercial rights to use the service of the software. However, I Coach U Sci-Tech is eligible to recall the above privileges when necessary.
2.4. There is no need for a user to register each time to use certain parts of I Coach U service. However, to be an official user or teacher and publish courses on the platform, the user must go through the authentication procedure and obtain I Coach U’s approval. After registration and authentication, the user has full access to all the functions and services when logging in with their own account and password.
3.1. To use I Coach U, the user is required to abide by the law of the People’s Republic of China and the law of their governments. Users are not allowed to use I Coach U to undertake any activities against law and to infringe any others’ legal rights.
3.2. The user is not allowed to employ any plug-ins, tag-ons, or other software tools to intercept, spoil, modify, or affect normal operation of I Coach U.
3.3. The user is not allowed to undertake harmful activities or inflict damage to any computer network and I Coach U through using I Coach U. The prohibited activities include, but not limited to, the following:
a. to use unpermitted data or get into unpermitted server or account;
b. to get into public computer networks or other people’s computer systems to remove, change, add, or store data, without permission;
c. to try to detect, scan, or test the system of I Coach U and to inflict any similar undesirable and harmful damage to the network;
d. to inflict damage to the system of I Coach U App and its website, to upload malicious program or virus to intercept its service;
e. to forge TCP/IP, including the parts or the full descriptions of ICU data package.
f. Under any circumstances, when I Coach U Sci-Tech believes that a user’s behavior is or will probably be against the above restrictions, it will stop or terminate service to such a user without advance notice.
4.1. When registering, or using I Coach U, the user is required to provide certain personal information. To meet the legal requirement, you must give real personal information. If the personal information required is not fully provided, the user may not enjoy all the functions or services provided by I Coach U or may be restrained from utilization.
4.2. The user may browse and modify their personal information anytime, but for safety and identity authentication (e.g. account appeal), you may not alter the original information or data you provided upon registration.
4.3. I Coach U Sci-Tech will use various security technologies, programs, and management measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized visits, use, or exposure. However, it is understood that, with the rapid development of IT technologies and due to the openness of Internet, any uncontrollable leakage of personal information is beyond I Coach U Sci-Tech’s liability, and could only be handled by the public security authorities.
4.4. I Coach U Sci-Tech will not transfer or expose your personal information to any irrelevant parties unless:
a.the transfer and exposure are in accordance with the law, or requested by the court or government.
b.for purposes of cooperate merge, division, acquisition, or asset surrender.
c.to satisfy your need for better individual service.
4.5. The user should not expose or leak their financial information and passwords including those of their bank accounts, credit cards, third party payment accounts. I Coach U Sci-Tech will not bear any consequences of such exposure and leakage. The user should not publish, upload, or spread any information of their privacy.
4.6. I Coach U Sci-Tech has the right to use the user’s personal information in the following cases:
a. I Coach U Sci-Tech may cooperate with a third party to provide network service. In this case, if the third party agrees to protect the user’s personal and private information, I Coach U Sci-Tech will share it with the third party.
b. Given that the user’s personal information is not under exposure, I Coach U Sci-Tech has the right to analyze the user’s data and utilize them for commercial purposes.
c. I Coach U Sci-Tech will use the user’s email address to send notifications or other necessary information to the user. Their email address information will not be shown to or shared with any other parties without the user’s consensus.
5.1. The content refers to the materials the user creates, uploads, pastes, publishes and spreads on I Coach U, including, but not limited to, profile photo, nickname, title, profile description, authentication documents, texts, audio-clips, pictures, video-clips, graphs, replies, pre-set automatic replies, links, and other materials resulting from utilization of I Coach U platform.
5.2. The user may not create, upload, paste, publish, spread such materials that forbidden by the law and government regulations as follows:
a. against the principles specified by the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China;
b. harmful to national security, concerning state secrets, sabotage, and subversion;
c. inflicting harm to national dignity and interests;
d. instigating ethnic hatred, discrimination, and national unity;
e. instigating geographical discrimination and hatred;
f. instigating religious hatred and discrimination, and promoting or spreading heretic beliefs and superstitions;
g. spreading rumors, disrupting social order, and causing damage to social stability;
h. spreading materials of pornography, gambling, violence, murder, terror, and abetting crime;
i. insulting or slandering other people, infringing other people’s rights;
j. horrifying other people, threatening to use violence, cyber man-hunting;
k. publishing a minor’s (under the age of 18) personal information without their parents’ or guardian’s written consensus;
l. spreading filthy speeches, spoiling social norms;
m. breaching copyrights;
n. spreading commercials or ads;
o. using languages unaccepted on I Coach U app or its website;
p. irrelevant remarks or comments;
q. intentionally putting in digits, letters, numbers, or signs to avoid authentication;
r. messages or materials forbidden by the law and government regulations
6.1. The user owns exclusive copyright of all the courseware, drafts, or works that they create on or upload to I Coach U app or its website. If such publication induces complaints, claims, or disputes from a third party, the user per se will hold the responsibility for the consequences.
6.2. I Coach U Sci-Tech reserves all the copyright of any content created by itself including, but not limited to, webpages, texts, pictures, audio or video clips, and graphs. Without our written consensus, the user may not arbitrarily utilize them or generate derivations out of the above-mentioned contents.
6.3. Without our written consensus, the user may not, for any reason, or by any means, take the liberty to utilize any parts of the contents copyrighted by I Coach U Sci-Tech as well as its logo, and may not copy, revise, spread them or bind them with other materials. The user may not employ I Coach U content with intention of confusing and misleading other users, and may not degrade or distort the content in various commercial situations or services.
6.4. Besides the above claims, the copyright, patent, and intellectual property of the software, on which this agreement is uploaded and published, all exclusively belong to I Coach U Sci-Tech.
The user may hold the responsibility or claim damages from other parties than I Coach U Sci-Tech, if causes are irresistible and losses do not result from I Coach U Sci-Tech performances. The conditions include, but not limited to, the following items:
a. suspension of service caused by irresistible forces;
b. data missing or leakage caused by computer virus, Trojan horses, malicious programs, hanker attackers;
c. the user’s incorrect operation; error from the user’s software, system, or hardware; or transmission line fault;
d. failure in login, incomplete material coordination, slow page opening due to poor or instable network transmission;
e. risks and consequences of reposting or copying of the user’s works by others;
f. other causes beyond control of I Coach U Sci-Tech.
g. If a pause of service is necessary due to maintaining and upgrading the system, I Coach U Sci-Tech will issue a notice in advance on its website and apps.
8.1. The execution and explanation of the agreement is within the jurisdiction of the People’s Republic of China.
8.2. Any dispute, when occurring between the user and I Coach U Sci-Tech, should be settled through mutual discussion and friendly negotiation between the two parties. If such measures fail, either party has the right to submit the dispute to the People’s Court of Wuhan East Lake Hi-Tech District for legal settlement.
9.1. Whereas there are special occasions in network service, the user understands and agrees that I Coach U Sci-Tech reserves right to change, suspend, or terminate its service (including fee charging) partially or fully whenever necessary. In doing so, I Coach U Sci-Tech will notify its users in advance and offer alternative service to the users thus affected. If a user refuses to accept the alternative service and has already finished certain payment to I Coach U Sci-Tech, the user will be paid back the remaining amount excluding the fees that has already been consumed before the change, suspension, and termination.
9.2. When the following cases occur, I Coach U Sci-Tech has the right to change, suspend, or terminate its free or paid services without holding responsibility to the user or a third party:
a. the user’s personal profile information is not true, or not consistent with the information submitted at registration, and the user fails to provide authenticate documents to clarify the inconsistence;
b. the user breaches the law or fails to comply with the terms and conditions specified by this agreement;
c. by the order of the court or government;
d. for safety reasons and other unavoidable circumstances.
10.1. This agreement comes into effect on the date when the user registers on I Coach U App or its website.
10.2. I Coach U Sci-Tech has the right to interpret this agreement within the scope of law.