These terms apply to the entire content of all msa websites and applications. If you do not accept these terms, please do not use them. The msa university may update these terms from time to time and any changes will be effective immediately on being set out here. Please ensure you are aware of the current terms. Please read these terms of use carefully before accessing or participating in any newsgroup,mailing list, website, application or other on-line services available at msa.edu.eg , or other MSA sites ("alumni" or "portal"). By using and participating in these sites, you signify that you have read these terms and agree to be bound by and comply with them. If you do not agree to be bound by these terms, please promptly exit all sites. MSA university reserves the right to modify these terms at any time and will publish notice of any such modifications on-line at this site or elsewhere on-line. By continuing to access a site after notice of such modifications has been published, you signify your agreement to be bound by them.

Use

Please note that some areas of the website are available only to the University staff, University students, the University alumni and/or other authorised University users.

All text, images and other content on this website is copyright of the University unless explicitly stated otherwise. You may only download or copy it for the purposes of teaching, administration and research within the University, or for personal, non-commercial use. You are required to seek written permission from the University for any other use or purpose. Contact the site administrator in the first instance, otherwise This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Without limitation to any matter set out in the University’s policies you must not use this website, and/or any interactive facilities which are available through it to:

• Commit or encourage unlawful acts or in breach of these terms of use;
• Misrepresent your identity;
• Hack, or attempt to hack, any part of the website or any system used to run it;
• Store personal data derived from the website;
• Post material that is obscene, offensive, or otherwise unlawful;
• Technically harm the website and/or its systems (including, without limitation, computer viruses or malicious software or harmful data).

While the University tries to make this website available 24 hours a day, it reserves the right to suspend or withdraw access, without notice, to either the whole or part of the website, for any reason.  

Academic Programme Information

The University has tried to ensure that the information on this website for prospective students is correct at the time of publication on the site. However, the University reserves the right for any reason without notice to withdraw or change any of the programmes and/or to alter tuition fees, entry requirements and/or the facilities and/or services available from or provided by or on behalf of the University. You should also note that the choice of subjects may be limited by considerations of timetable, staffing and/or available places on a course.  

Disclaimer

While the University tries to ensure that the information on this website is accurate at the time of publication, it does not warrant that this is the case. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the material on this website is provided ‘as is’, and without warranties, conditions or other terms of any kind.

The University permits its students and staff to maintain personal pages on the website. Any views expressed on these pages do not necessarily represent the views of the University.

Nothing on this website constitutes any part of a contract unless otherwise expressly stated.

Any links within this website to third party websites are not checked by the University and the University bears no responsibility for the content of external sites. If you access external sites through this website, you do so at your own risk.

Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the University excludes all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party in connection with the use of this website in any way. Nothing will limit the University’s liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence or for fraud.

Every effort is made to ensure downloadable content is free from viruses. The University accepts no liability for damages resulting from virus infection.

Copyright, trademarks and other intellectual property

Unless stated otherwise, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all text, images and other material on this website are owned by the University, or its licensors.

The trade marks and logos used and displayed on our website are the University’s registered and unregistered trademarks, or those of others. You may not use these trademarks without our prior written consent, or that of the relevant owner.
 

Links to Other Sites.

MSA Website may include hyperlinks to websites maintained or controlled by others. MSA is not responsible for and does not routinely screen, approve, review or endorse the contents of or use of any of the products or services that may be offered at these websites.  

Trademarks.

The logo, name and all graphics on the Sites of MSA University and the MSA Athletic Department are trademarks of MSA. Use, reproduction, copying or redistribution of trademarks, without the written permission of MSA is prohibited. All other trademarks or servicemarks appearing on the Site are the marks of their respective owners.

Accessibility

The University aims to make our sites and the material provided on them accessible to as many people as possible. We endeavour to ensure that our sites have been tested on all commonly used browsers and on a number of screen readers, but please note that you may see inconsistencies in the presentation of pages if you are using an older or deprecated version of a browser.  

Viruses, Computer Misuse and other Offences

You must not misuse our sites by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our sites, the server on which the sites are stored or any server, computer or database connected to our sites. You must not attack our sites via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. The University may report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our sites will cease immediately. 

The University will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programmes, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our sites or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it. You should ensure that you have appropriate protection against viruses and other security arrangements in place when using the internet.

Password

If you choose, or are provided with a password or any other log in details to access any part of our sites, you agree:

• To treat such log in information as confidential and not disclose it to any third party.
• To ensure that any details supplied to us in order to register access are accurate and to advise us promptly in the event that any such details change.

The University has the right to disable any password or log in, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with these terms of use.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our sites. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our sites through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

The MSA University is committed to ensuring the privacy and accuracy of your confidential information. MSA University does not actively share personal information gathered from its Web servers. However, because MSA University is a public institution, some information collected from MSA University websites, including the summary server log information, emails sent to websites, and information collected from Web-based forms, may be subject to the Texas Public Information Act. This means that while MSA University does not actively share information, in some cases may be compelled by law to release information gathered from its Web servers. As part of its commitment to maintain the privacy of its Web users,  MSA University has developed this privacy statement. The statement has two purposes:
 - To educate users about privacy issues.
 - To inform users about specific privacy policies and guidelines employed at  MSA University .

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE GATHER ABOUT YOU?

We collect information from you when you access MSA University and when you subscribe to our email service.
 

WHAT DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION FOR?

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website by identifying (1) which parts of our site are most heavily used, and (2) which portion of our audience comes from within the Harvard network. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that user sessions will be tracked, but the users will remain anonymous.

The email address you provide may be used to send you information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.

User information may be shared with third-party partners to the extent necessary to provide and improve web services or other communications to users. Any third parties who receive user information for this purpose are prohibited from using or sharing user information for any purpose other than providing services to users.

We may also provide your information to third parties in circumstances where we believe that doing so is necessary or appropriate to: satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request; detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or others.

DEVICE INFORMATION COLLECTED BY US

We may collect non-personal information about the computer, mobile device or other device you use to access MSA University, such as IP address, geolocation information, unique device identifiers, browser type, browser language or other information of this nature. We use this information in an aggregate fashion to track access to MSA University. At no time do we disclose site usage by individual IP addresses. Web server logs are retained on a temporary basis and then deleted from our systems.

COOKIES

Cookies are small files that are stored on your computer (unless you block them). We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

Cookies may be set by an organization other than MSA University. These “third-party cookies” may, for example, originate from websites such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus or other social media services for which MSA University has implemented “plug-ins.” Since the cookie policies of these sites change over time, you should determine their policies by visiting the privacy policy pages of these sites directly.

You may disable cookies through your individual browser options. If you would like to learn more about cookies please refer to the following website: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

We may provide hyperlinks to third-party websites as a convenience to users of MSA University. MSA University does not control third-party websites and is not responsible for the contents of any linked-to, third-party websites or any hyperlink in a linked-to website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of third-party websites.

EMAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS

The MSA University allows you to subscribe online, and receive the MSA Today via email. If you no longer wish to receive this email, follow the "unsubscribe" instructions located near the bottom of each email.

If you send us email messages, you should be aware that information disclosed in email may not be secure or encrypted and thus may be available to others. We suggest that you exercise caution when deciding to disclose any personal or confidential information in email. We will use your email address to respond directly to your questions or comments.

EMAIL POLICY

We will not share, sell, rent, swap or authorize any third party to use your email address for commercial purposes without your permission.

USER GENERATED CONTENT (INCLUDING COMMENTS AND PROFILES)

We offer opportunities for you to engage in MSA University news discussions on http://news./, including submitting comments and replies on selected news stories. Any information you disclose in your submission of comments, including name, email, website, and the comment itself is property of MSA University and visible on internal servers. Additionally, information regarding name and comments shall be public on the MSA University news site once a comment or reply is approved for submission on the website. Comments are up to the discretion and approval of MSA University moderators.

If you choose to use http://news. (the "Site"), MSA University’s mobile sites and applications, any of the features of these sites, including but not limited to RSS, API, software and other downloads (collectively, "the Services"), you will be agreeing to abide by all of the terms and conditions of these Terms of Service between you and MSA University (“us" or "we").

MSA University reserves the right to reject or remove thereafter any content from appearing on its site that does not meet its user generated content policy.

USER GENERATED CONTENT TERMS OF USE

You shall not upload to, or distribute or otherwise publish on to the MSA University news website (“Services”) any libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or otherwise illegal material; any comment deemed to contain any of the above following. You agree that you will not deliberately disrupt discussions with repetitive messages, meaningless messages or "spam.” You agree not to use language that abuses or discriminates on the basis of race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual preference, age, region, disability, etc. You may not impersonate another user or a MSA University or MSA Today staff member by choosing a similar screen name. You must disclose conflicts of interest. Any comments deemed containing the above will not be approved for distribution or, if approved, will removed thereafter.

You acknowledge that any submissions you make to the Services (i.e., user-generated comments (each, a "Submission") may be edited, removed, modified, published, and displayed on the MSA website and you waive any rights you may have in having the material altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you. Submissions made to the Services may also be included in our RSS feeds, APIs and made available for republishing through other formats.

MSA University reserves the right to delete, move, or edit Submissions that it deems abusive, defamatory, obscene, in violation of copyright or trademark laws, or otherwise unacceptable.

By making a Submission, you are consenting to its display and publication on the Site and in the Services and for related online uses.

When you share or recommend (with or without adding your own comments) any articles or content from the Services to your Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ profile, that action is governed by their respective Privacy Policies.

INFORMATION PROTECTION

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the appropriate use of information we gather about you, we have taken commercially reasonable steps to protect the information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time. Any such changes will be posted on this page. The effective date of this policy is June 1^st 2015.