Terms of Service

These Terms of Service constitute a legally binding agreement between you and Federal College of Education, Obudu. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use this platform. We reserve the right to modify these terms at any time; continued use after changes constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

The FCE Obudu community platform is open to four categories of members:

• Current students enrolled at Federal College of Education, Obudu
• Academic and administrative staff of the college
• Alumni who graduated from FCE Obudu
• Friends of FCE Obudu — members of the public with a genuine interest in the FCE Obudu community, including prospective students, parents, educators, and well-wishers

Students, staff, and alumni may be required to verify their institutional affiliation during or after registration. Friend accounts do not require institutional affiliation but are subject to the same conduct rules as all other members. Accounts found to misrepresent their registration category may be suspended without notice.

When you create an account, you accept the following responsibilities:

• You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account security
• All information provided during registration — including your name, title, and contact details — must be accurate and up-to-date
• You must not impersonate any other person, real or fictitious
• Institutional email addresses (@fceobudu.edu.ng) may only be requested by current students and active staff
• You must notify us immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account

The Discussion Forum is a community space open to all registered members — students, staff, alumni, and friends. By participating in the forum, you agree to:

• Post content that is relevant to the selected category and respectful of all community members
• Not create duplicate or near-identical threads, or flood categories with repetitive content
• Not post personal contact information, unsolicited promotions, or spam in forum threads
• Accept that moderators (admin and super_admin roles) may pin, lock, or delete any thread or post that violates these terms, without prior notice
• Accept that all forum posts are publicly visible to any website visitor unless a category is explicitly restricted by an administrator
• Understand that post likes are attributed to your account and visible to other members

Forum categories are created and managed exclusively by the platform administrator. The college reserves the right to restrict forum access for any user who repeatedly violates these guidelines.

Business pages are a premium paid feature available to all registered members. Subscription fees are based on your account type:

• Student accounts: ₦500/month or ₦5,000/year
• Staff & Alumni accounts: ₦1,000/month or ₦10,000/year
• Friend accounts: ₦2,000/month or ₦20,000/year

• Yearly subscriptions cover 12 months for the price of 10 — equivalent to 2 months free
• Subscriptions do not auto-renew — they lapse at the end of each billing period and must be manually renewed
• Business pages must represent legitimate businesses or professional services associated with the FCE Obudu community
• We reserve the right to suspend or permanently remove business pages that violate these terms, without refund

Advertisements may be displayed across the platform:

• All ads are served directly from our own advertising system — no third-party tracking scripts are used without consent
• Advertisements are selected based on general community relevance, not personal profiling
• Ad visibility on specific profiles may be adjusted at admin discretion for institutional or content-appropriateness reasons
• Businesses wishing to advertise on the platform may apply through the Marketplace section. Each business page applicant has 2 free advertisement slots available throughout their subscription period.

The following are strictly prohibited on this platform:

• Posting false, misleading, or defamatory content about individuals or institutions
• Harassment, hate speech, threats, or abusive behaviour directed at any user or group
• Sending spam, unsolicited commercial messages, or chain communications
• Attempting to circumvent, reverse-engineer, or compromise any platform security mechanism
• Posting content that infringes the intellectual property rights of any third party
• Creating multiple accounts for the purpose of evading a suspension or ban
• Impersonating college officials, staff, or other users
• Misusing the Discussion Forum — including posting deliberately off-topic content, creating threads to discredit other users, or artificially manipulating the post-likes system

Violations may result in immediate account suspension or permanent termination.

You retain full ownership of any original content you post on this platform — blog posts, forum threads, replies, profile information, photos, and other materials.

By posting content, you grant Federal College of Education, Obudu a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to display, reproduce, and distribute that content on this platform and in official college communications.

The college reserves the right to remove any content that violates these terms or that it deems inappropriate, without prior notice or liability.

All payments on this platform are processed securely by Paystack, a PCI-DSS compliant payment processor. We never store card details on our servers.

• Subscription services (Business Pages, No-Ads) begin immediately upon successful payment confirmation
• All payments are non-refundable except where expressly required by the Consumer Protection Council Act or other applicable Nigerian law
• If a payment fails but you are charged, contact us at info@fceobudu.edu.ng within 7 days

Federal College of Education, Obudu reserves the right to suspend or permanently terminate any account that violates these Terms of Service, at our sole discretion and without prior notice.

You may also request deletion of your own account at any time by emailing info@fceobudu.edu.ng. Upon deletion, your profile, forum posts, and content will be removed within 30 days.

The FCE Obudu platform is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, express or implied.

To the maximum extent permitted by Nigerian law, Federal College of Education, Obudu shall not be liable for any:

• Indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from use of this platform
• Loss of data, revenue, or profits caused by platform downtime or errors
• Actions taken by third parties or other users on the platform, including forum content

These Terms of Service shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Any disputes arising from these terms or your use of the platform shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Cross River State, Nigeria.

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