1. Acceptance of Terms

The www.KRIC.edu.pk and all linked web pages are owned and operated by KRIC, a Pakistan based multidisciplinary research center. By accessing the site, viewing any content or using any offers on this site; you are bound to agree to these terms, together with our Privacy policy.

2. Description of Offerings

The website is an online resource facilitating seekers of information regarding knowledge and research to acquire what KRIC provides. The site also elucidates profile of the institution and offers the various researches, theoretical knowledge and training options. Offerings presented include, but are not limited to, materials displayed, transmitted or performed on the Site.

3. Access Rights

The visitor’s access to and use of the website may be interrupted from time to time, which may result due to hardware malfunction, updating, maintenance or repair of the site or due to any other reason within or outside the control of KRIC, Pakistan. The center reserves the sole rights to impose limits, suspend or discontinue the access on any or the entire site and/ or any offerings and/ or remove any content at any time without any prior notice or liability.

4. User Conduct

KRIC, Pakistan’s General offerings are available to all individuals who are at least 14 years of age and have preliminary understanding of the offerings they desire, however specific offerings are available in accordance with various types and levels of membership. Any unauthorized minor accessing the Site or person authorizing such minor is responsible for the online conduct and the consequences of any misuse. As a condition of use, the visitor agrees not to use the www.KRIC.edu.pk for any purpose that is unlawful, prohibited or not intended by KRIC, Pakistan under these Terms. With the exception of accessing RSS feeds no visitor will use any robot, spider, scraper or any other automated means to access the website for any general or specific purpose without KRIC, Pakistan’s written permission. Additionally, agree that you will not: (i) take any action that imposes or may impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (ii) interfere or endeavor to interfere with the proper functioning of the website or any of the activities conducted on the website; or (iii) bypass any of the measures used to prevent or restrict access to the website. KRIC, Pakistan reserves sole rights to change any of mentioned terms of use at any time without any prior notice or liability.

1. Information gathered by KRIC, Pakistan

We receive and store information relevant to the purpose, which you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way of our website or whenever you interact with www.KRIC.edu.pk and its authorized agents they automatically receive and record certain "traffic data". You can choose not to provide us with certain information, however, then you may not be able to gain access of many exceptional features. KRIC, Pakistan collects following types of information from visitors/ clients:

2. Information Protection

This site has security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information. However, no such measures are 100% secure.

3. Use/ Sharing of Information

The information collected may be used for the following purposes in addition to those described above:

a. Crafting the design of the website to improve service, user needs, generate data and reports, improving functioning and security of the website.

b. User information and demographics to evaluate statistics about site usage and behavior of visitors to this website. For this purpose, we may use third-party services to collect such information. At no time do we disclose site usage by individual visitors or by IP addresses.

c. We may provide your personally identifiable information to third parties when we believe that doing so is necessary or appropriate to: satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request; investigate compliance with or enforce our Terms of Use; detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues or protect our rights and safety and the rights and safety of our users or others.

d. During Business Transfers if done, in some cases, we may choose to buy or sell assets. In such transactions, user information is one of the business assets that is to be transferred.

e. KRIC, Pakistan personnel and authorized consultants and/ or contractors may have access to user information in the normal course of business.

4. Contacting This Website

Any of your quarries about this privacy statement, the practices of this site or your interaction with this site, can be mailed to info@kric.edu.pk.

5. Changes to this Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we change the policy, we will post the modified policy on this page.

6. Effective Date

The effective date of this policy is _____ March 2020.

1. Information Accuracy and Dependability

KRIC, Pakistan endeavors to provide as accurate and current information as possible at its website. However, it is liable to errors of human limitations as well as due to frequent changes in laws, policies and regulations. Therefore, KRIC, Pakistan neither guarantees that the information presented in the website site is current, correct, complete or consistent nor is responsible for and explicitly disclaims all liability for damages of any type that consequences out of the use, reference to, or dependence on any information on the site.

2. Information Safety Assurance

The data received and stored by KRIC, Pakistan is acquired through your online interactions with website or sent by other means such as email, may include your entered personal information or automatically received traffic data or other relevant data may be analyzed for statistical and information assurance purposes of our website and online resources. KRIC, Pakistan neither rents nor trades your personal information to anyone.

3. Linked Websites

KRIC, Pakistan web site may contain links providing direct convenient access to other sites; however, KRIC, Pakistan is not liable for the exactness of the information contained in these sites. Such information does not constitute an approval by KRIC, Pakistan of their products and offerings, nor does KRIC, Pakistan investigates claims advocated by any advertiser or promoter. Hence, the product information is based solely on the advertised information from suppliers.

4. Cookies

www.KRIC.edu.pk web site uses "cookies", which are files that may contain and store certain details of other website users necessary to establish continuity between related requests. Cookies remember the preferences of website users to make the website more user-friendly on the next visits to the website. Cookie file also gives details of your IP address, PC platform, browser and domain. This information may be used to track traffic patterns to and from our website such as the pages you visit, time spent on each page, date and time of your visit and referring pages etc. You may have the option to block or delete cookies with your browser, however, it may restrict your access to certain site features only. KRIC, Pakistan is also not responsible for third-party cookies and you should determine their policies by visiting the privacy policy pages of these sites directly.

1. Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property means and includes rights existing from time to time in any applicable jurisdiction, including common law, beneficial, equitable and registered rights to Confidential Information, Knowledge, Inventions, Works, Designs, Trademarks, Trade Names, Technologies, Plant breeders rights, or any other such kind of intellectual property rights, whether registered or unregistered and including all applications (or rights to apply) for, and renewals or extensions of, such rights and all similar or equivalent rights or forms of protection which may now or in the future subsist in any part of the world, including any pending applications, rights to file applications and rights to priority for any of the aforementioned.

2. The Service Platform and Content.

The Service platforms and any trademarks, issued patents, and patent applications, copyrights and copyright registrations and applications, rights in ideas, designs, works of authorship, derivative works, and all other intellectual property rights (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) relating to the Service platforms are proprietary to KRIC, Pakistan. Intellectual Property rights related to the Content provided by KRIC, Pakistan’s participating scholars, libraries, universities, publishers, scholarly societies and other Content contributors are proprietary to them, subject to the rights of third parties.

3. KRIC, Pakistan and Institutional Licensee Trademarks

KRIC, Pakistan’s and Institutional Licensee’s names or trademarks may not be used without permission except:

(i) KRIC, Pakistan may use Institutional Licensees’ names and/ or the names of their libraries alongside the names of other participants in brochures or other materials identifying institutions participating in its Services, and

(ii) KRIC, Pakistan shall use name and logo of affiliated individuals or institutions to announce authorization to use of the Services.

4. Application to Intellectual Property.

This Policy is applicable to all Intellectual Property developed or created in the course of work or study by/ with KRIC, Pakistan. This Policy extends to all KRIC Personnel and Students and applies to all programs, including all campuses, teaching sites and institutions, owned, controlled, managed, affiliated, attached and/ or operated by KRIC, Pakistan, located throughout the world subject to local laws. This Policy shall also apply to all Researchers who have established legal relationship with the KRIC, Pakistan based on which the Researcher is bound by this Policy. Such a legal relationship may arise pursuant to the provision of law, collective or individual agreement. It is the responsibility of the Researcher to ensure that prior to commencing any research activity in collaboration with any third party, the terms and conditions of cooperation be set forth in a written agreement (hereinafter referred to as Research Agreement).

5. Notifications of Violations

If you believe that content/ materials in the KRIC, Pakistan’s website, social media pages or achieves violates your copyright or otherwise violates your rights, please, inform KRIC, Pakistan through email at info@KRIC.edu.pk or postal mail at 9 Noon Avenue, C-Block, Muslim Town, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Please, provide information, consistent with the Copyright Act:

(a) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner;

(b) identification of the copyrighted work(s) claimed to have been infringed;

(c) identification of the infringing material and information that will permit KRIC, Pakistan to locate the material;

(d) information that will permit us to contact you including an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address;

(e) a statement by you that, in your good faith/ belief, use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and

(f) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Once KRIC, Pakistan receives this notification or if KRIC, Pakistan learns of the claim from another source, KRIC, Pakistan may remove such content pending the resolution of the claim.