Terms & Conditions

Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using this website as they are a legally binding agreement between you and us.

1. What these terms are

These terms and conditions of these Terms of Use (hereinafter referred to as Terms of Use” or “Terms”) provide you with the rules for using our website, email communications, digital platforms and application or any other place within any Social Media provided by us (altogether referred to as “Website”).

Reference shall be made to any User of this Website as “you” or “your”.

2. Who we are

This website is operated by Dodoo Coding Club. Our registered office address is Pokuase Community Library, Pokuase, Ghana Post GPS: GW–0080–2132, Ghana and we are the providers of this Website. To contact us, please email contact@ghanahighschools.com.

3. Conditions for use of our website

These Terms set out all the rules and obligations that apply to your use of this Website and by using our Website, you acknowledge and confirm that you have read and accept these Terms and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not use our Website.

We respect concerns about the privacy of your personal information and we will use your information in accordance with our Website Privacy Policy (hereinafter referred to as the “Policy”). Please review our Policy on how we collect, use, disclose and manage your personal information.

We recommend that you print and keep a copy of these Terms for future reference. They are a legally binding agreement between you and us.

4. Changes to the terms

From time to time when required by us, we may amend these Terms by updating them on the Website or change the content of this Website. We therefore advise that you kindly check these Terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that particular time when you wish to use our Website.

We may suspend or discontinue any aspect of this Website, which may include your access to it.

5. Acceptable use

You accept that you are solely responsible for ensuring that your computer system meets all relevant technical specification necessary to use this Website and that your computer system is compatible with this Website.

You must not misuse our system or this Website. In particular, you must not hack into, circumvent security or otherwise disrupt the operation of our system and this Website, or attempt to carry out any of the foregoing. This includes introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is or could be malicious or technologically harmful. You must not misuse any forms on the Website and any forms you submit must be a genuine enquiry.

You must not use or attempt to use any automated program (including, without limitation, any spider or other web crawler) to access our system or this Website. You must not use any scraping technology on the Website. Any such use or attempted use of an automated program shall be a misuse of our system and this Website. You must not copy content of our Website with the intent of pasting it onto your own websites or publications or otherwise using the content of our website for any commercial purposes. Obtaining access to any part of our system or this Website by means of any such automated programs or using it in such a manner is strictly unauthorised.

You must not upload or use inappropriate or offensive language or content or solicit any commercial services in any communication, form or email you send or submit, from or to the Website.

6. Interactive services and content

Subject to the application of the Policy to personal data, any material you send to this Website shall be deemed non-confidential and non-proprietary. This includes any data, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas or other information, material or property.

When you fill out and submit an enquiry form on our Website, your personal data will be processed in accordance with our Policy.

All content that you upload to our Website will be subject to the terms of our Policy and we have the right to use any such content for any purpose provided our use of same is in accordance with the terms of our Policy. With the transmission of content (e.g. images), you make an offer to us to conclude a contract for the inclusion and provision of the content in the database. We decide on the acceptance of the offer after receipt. Acceptance of the offer is effected by the inclusion of the content in the database.

The views expressed by users on our Website do not represent our views or values unless provided by us categorically.

All content that you upload to our Website must:

a. be accurate (where you state facts);

b. be genuinely held (where you state opinions); and

c. comply with the applicable law of the country from which they were posted.

Your content must not:

a. contain any material which is defamatory of any person;

b. contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful, discriminatory, unethical, immoral or inflammatory; or

c. contain any material which does or could potentially infringe the intellectual property rights of a third party.

We will determine at our discretion whether there has been a breach of this Clause 6. In the event a breach of this Clause 6 has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate. This action may include the following:

a. immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our Website;

b. immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our Website;

c. further legal action against you; and

d. disclosure of such information to law enforcement or authorities as we reasonably deem necessary.

In addition to all of our rights set out above, we reserve the right to take down any content that you upload to our Website at any time without notice and without having to give a reason, and/or to use any uploaded content as content on our website without any compensation/remuneration to you.

In particular, you are responsible for ensuring that the content and communication you submit are not illegal and do not infringe the rights of third parties (e.g. copyrights or trademark rights, personal rights, rights to his/her own image) or offend common decency. We are not obligated to check whether a posted content or communication impairs the rights of third parties or violates legal regulations.

7. Registration

To receive details of any of our business apart from what has already been shared by us on this Website, you must submit a completed registration form to us. If we accept your application for registration, you will be given access at the point of application.

Each registration is for a single user only. You must not share your username and password with any other person or with multiple users on a network.

You undertake that all information provided by you for the purposes of registering with us is accurate and complete.

You accept sole responsibility for all use of and for keeping secret any password that may have been given to you or chosen by you for use on this Website. You will notify us immediately of any unauthorised use of them or any other breach of security of this Website of which you become aware.

We have the right to disable any account or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms.

8. Intellectual property

We (hereinafter referred to as “Content Owner”) own all Website Content with the exception of certain photos and information by third parties for non-commercial purposes. All Website Content provided by us remains the sole property of the applicable Content Owner and is protected under all relevant Copyright, Trademark and other applicable laws. Nothing on the Website should be construed as granting any right to use or distribute any Website Content, without our express written agreement or of the other applicable Content Owner.

The copyright and all other intellectual property rights in this Website (including all database rights, trademarks, service marks, trading names, text, graphics, code, files, links and other materials published on it) belong to us. All rights are reserved.

Subject to Clause 5, you may download material from this Website for the sole purpose of using this Website only in the event where we explicitly provide an option for you to do so. However, you must not copy, transmit, modify, republish, store (in whole or in part), frame, pass off or link to any material or information on or downloaded from this Website without our prior written consent.

The following sources have been used amongst others to derive Website Content:

  • Proprietary database of Ghanaian high schools by Dodoo Coding Club
  • Proprietary photos by Kalabasa Art, William Strongg
  • Publicly available by various photographers using Pexels.com, in particular, Emmanuel Ikwuegbu
  • Publicly available information from a variety of news sources, including in particular the Ministry of Education Ghana Education Service’s Ghana Senior High Schools Annual Digest 2019/2020 and the individual homepages and Facebook pages of schools in Ghana.

If you believe that any of our publicly sourced Website Content infringes upon your own Copyright, kindly contact us at complaints@ghanahighschools.com to enable us to resolve the matter.

9. Warranties

Whilst we endeavour to ensure that any material available for downloading from this Website is not contaminated in any way, we do not warrant that such material will be free from infection, viruses and/or similar code.

Due to the nature of software and the internet, we do not warrant that your access to, or the running of, this Website will be uninterrupted or error free. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our Website without notice. We shall not be liable if we cannot process your details due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control.

The information provided on this Website is for general interest only and does not constitute specific advice. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our Website, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our Website is accurate, complete or up to date.

We give no warranty or guarantee that the Website or information available on it complies with laws other than Ghanaian law.

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our Website or any content on it, whether express or implied.

10. Suspension or withdrawal of website

Our Website is made available free of charge and we do not guarantee that our Website, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our Website for business and operational reasons.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our Website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

We reserve the right to bar users from this Website and/or restrict or disable their access or use of any or all elements of our services, on a permanent or temporary basis at our sole discretion.

11. Non-responsibility for other websites

These Terms relates to your use of our Website (www.ghanahighschools.com) only. Our Website may contain links to other websites. We have no control over their individual content and give no warranties or representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any of the information appearing in relation to any other linked websites.

However, should you use these links to leave our Website, you accept that we do not have any control over these other websites and you do so at your own risk because such websites are not governed by these Terms and we are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide to them when you visit them.

In the event you visit such websites consult their terms of use and privacy policies as appropriate for relevant terms and privacy information relating to them.

12. Rules about linking to our website

You may include links to this Website in any other website without our prior written consent. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice and without giving a reason.

Our Website must not be framed on any other website and You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

13. Responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

We will not be liable for any failures due to software or Internet errors or unavailability, or any other circumstances beyond our reasonable control.

We do not accept any liability for loss of your password or account ID caused by a breakdown, error, loss of power or otherwise caused by or to your computer system.

We may put in place such systems as we from time to time see fit to prevent automated programs being used to obtain unauthorised access to our system and this Website.

We shall not be liable to you for any consequences arising out of or in connection with any such use or attempted use of automated programs to obtain unauthorised access to our system or this Website.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial of service attack or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Website or to your downloading of any content on it, or any website linked to it.

If you choose to contact us using the Website, your details (name, address, including your e-mail address and telephone number) will be sent to us or associated entities that you are enquiring with.

Please note that we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our Website or any content on it.

We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

a. use of, or inability to use, our Website; or

b. use of or reliance on any content displayed on our Website.

In particular, we will not be liable for:

a. loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;

b. business interruption;

c. loss of anticipated savings;

d. loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or

e. any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

14. Indemnification

By using this Website, you agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless us and our associated entities from all damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable lawyers’ fees and costs, arising out of any of the following:

a. Any claims for infringement of intellectual property rights, libel, defamation relating to any materials you send to the Website;

b. Any activity relating to your Internet Account, including negligent or wrongful conduct by you or anyone using the Website through your Internet Account;

c. Your breach of any provisions of these Terms;

d. Any other matter regarding this Website and your use of it.

You agree to use best efforts to cooperate with us in the defence of any such matter. We reserve the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you.

15. Severability

If for any reason, any provision herein is found void or unenforceable, it will be severed to the extent void or unenforceable and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

16. Governing law

These Terms, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by the laws of Ghana. You and we both agree that the courts of Ghana shall have exclusive jurisdiction. Any legal matters pursued shall be handled by the relevant courts in charge of the town of Pokuase.

17. Your feedback and quality

We try to ensure that your feedback is dealt with fairly and consistently, and is properly recorded. We therefore welcome any suggestions that you make about how we may improve our service. Please email us on contact@ghanahighschools.com. We aim to acknowledge all feedback.

Thank you for visiting our Website.

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