Terms of Use

General Information

Welcome to www.brive.com (the "Website")! The following text describes the terms and conditions for use of the Website and the Services related to it. Please read these terms carefully. By using Brive or signing up for an account, you are agreeing to these Terms, which will result in a legal agreement between you and Brive (“Agreement”). Note that registration and use of the Website and its Services is free. However, we expect you to abide by our rules and regulations as detailed below and to visit this page periodically to review the text, as it may be revised and updated at any time.

Brive’s mission is to connect users with universities all over the world. We enable anyone anywhere to create a profile and to enroll in universities/Educational centers programs. We need rules to keep our platform and services safe for you, us, and our Universities/Educational centers community. These Terms apply to all your activities on the Website.

 

Acceptance of Terms of Use

Users may register and create a personal account to be provided with more personalized information and have access to our Services. By registering an account on the Website, or otherwise accessing or using any Services of the Website you accept these terms and conditions and agree to be bound by them. The established agreement shall be referred to in these Terms of Use as (“Agreement”).

 

Services

Brive’s services described in this Section (collectively referred to as the “Services”) consist of the following:

• Brive will provide access to certain information, material or content (including, pricing, features, promotion and information of third parties) contained on or provided through the Brive website (the “Content”) to provide information to assist you through the process of becoming a student at certain Brive Partners, including Program information.
• Brive will provide you with the ability to input Your Data into the Website and will act as an intermediary to pass Your Data to the applicable Brive Partners in order to enable you to apply to Programs offered by such Brive Partners (each, an “Application”).
• Brive will facilitate an Application by, on a case-by-case basis, assisting you with communications with the applicable Brive Partners, passing through Application fees and other payments associated with an Application, and providing guidance and advice associated with an Application.

Please note that the Services, as described above, are subject to the terms of use in this Agreement, and in particular the “Disclaimers” set out below.

 

License to Use the Website

Subject to the terms of use in the Agreement and any restrictions contained in the Content, Brive hereby grants you a personal, non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable license to access the Website solely for the purposes of using the Services, view the Content, and submit an Application to Brive Partners.

 

Brive Account

Some of our services require you to create a personal account profile to have access to most activities on our Website. If you choose to become a registered user of our platform, you agree to provide us with true, accurate, and current information and need to update your information regularly. If we need to contact you but your contact information is invalid, then any consequences of that failure will be your responsibility.

You are also responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the user ID and password and you have full responsibility for all activities that occur under your account. You must not let anyone else use your account and keep your password somewhere safe. If you are aware of any unauthorized use of your account, you must let us know, as soon as possible.

You must have reached the age of consent for online services in your country to create an account on Brive and use our Services. If you are younger than the required age, we encourage you to invite a parent or guardian to open an account and help you enroll in courses/programs that are appropriate for you.

When you sign up for an account and agree to the Terms of Use, the Agreement between you and Brive is formed. You may terminate the Agreement at any time and for any reason by terminating your Brive account. If you want your account permanently deleted with no option for recovery, go to your profile settings. When your account has been deleted, Brive will use reasonable efforts to remove your Content from the Website.

 

Responsibility of Registered Users

By creating an account on the Website, you are solely responsible for maintaining the security of the account, the data and the content that you submit, use, display, or share on or via the Website. This means that you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken regarding the content and the provided data.

The Content

You must not submit, upload, post, display or share any Content that you do not have the right to copy, use or share for the purpose of your use of the Services. You must not describe or assign keywords to the content in a misleading or unlawful manner. Please, note that Brive may change or remove any description or keyword that is considered inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to harm Brive’s reliability.

If you choose to provide Content, you agree that you will provide accurate, complete, and up to date information. In case of noticing any unauthorized uses of the content, the account, or any other breaches of security, you must immediately notify Brive.

By providing Content, you represent and warrant that:

• the Content does not contain anything that could harm, threaten, promote the harassment of, promote the intimidation of, promote the abuse of, or promote discrimination against others based solely on race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, disease, or immigration status.
• the downloading, copying and use of the Content does not violate, misappropriate, or infringe on the rights of any third party, including, without limitation, privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark, and/or other intellectual property rights.
• you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms.
• the Content does not contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, cancelbots, corrupted files or other computer programming routines or engines that are intended to damage, disrupt, or otherwise impair or interfere with a computer's functionality or the operation of the Website.
• the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing).
• the Content does not contain pornography or threatening, blasphemous or objectionable messages or incite violence towards individuals or entities and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party.
• the Content is not getting advertised via unwanted electronic messages such as spam links on newsgroups, email lists, other blogs and web sites, and similar unsolicited promotional methods.
• you are not forging headers or otherwise manipulating identifiers to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Website.

Any violation of the above terms may lead Brive suspend or terminate your account. By accepting these terms, you acknowledge and agree that reserves the right in its sole and final judgment to refuse, move, edit, or delete any Content that is available via the Website. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with the use of any Content, including any reliance on its accuracy, completeness, or usefulness.

Your Data

Your Data must be complete and accurate.

In particular, to use our Services, you must:

• provide up-to-date complete and accurate Personal Information and other data submitted by you to the Website or otherwise provided to Brive, including name information, contact information, citizenship and legal status, gender, date of birth, email address, telephone number, home and mailing address, marital status, emergency contact information, financial information, education qualification, employment information, educational information, transcript, Foreign Language test scores, passport and/or other identification details, information required for visa application, including financial and medical information (“Your Data”), as requested by Brive on Brive’s website, and as required to process your Application.

Ownership of Your Data

Nothing herein transfers any ownership of Your Data to Brive in its original form.

Quality of Your Data and Feedback

Without limiting the foregoing, Brive does not assess Your Data for quality or otherwise. Brive, Brive Partners and other third parties to whom Brive is permitted to pass Your Data under this Agreement, may rely on the accuracy of Your Data provided by you to the Website.

Any feedback that you receive respecting Your Data is not the result of any specific examination of the data by Brive, or any judgment exercised by Brive respecting Your Data, but rather is solely based on the compliance requirements of Brive Partners.

Right to Edit and Remove Your Data

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, Brive reserves the right to review Your Data stored in files or programs on Brive’s servers to verify your compliance with this Agreement. Brive has the right to edit or remove any of Your Data that, in Brive’s sole discretion, Brive believes may be unlawful, obscene, abusive, or otherwise objectionable.

Consent to Processing of Your Data

An integral part of the Website entails the collection, processing, transmission and disclosure of Your Data by Brive, Brive Partners and their service providers, and you hereby specifically consent to:

• Brive’s provision of Your Data to any Brive Partner, visa agencies, Foreign Language test score organizations, professional bodies, service providers to Brive (including our hosting providers and payment processors) as part of the provision of the Website to you, and Governmental or Regulatory Authorities.
• Communications from Brive (including e-mail communications, both marketing and informational) respecting the Website, and Brive’s products and services.
• Collection, use and other processing activities as set out in Brive’s Privacy Policy.

Your Personal Information will be handled in accordance with Brive’s Privacy and Cookies Policy accessible via the following links:

• https://brive.com/privacy-policy/ (the “Privacy Policy”)
• https://brive.com/privacy-policy/?s=cookie (the “Cookies Policy”)

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Brive reserves the right at all times to disclose any Personal Information as it deems necessary to satisfy any Applicable Law, legal process or requirements of a Governmental or Regulatory authority.

 

Limitation of Liability

While we make every effort to keep the Website up to date, we do not provide any guarantees, conditions, or warranties that the Content will be current, secure, accurate, complete, or free from bugs or viruses. We have not reviewed, and are not able to review, all the Content posted on the Website and we do not control or guarantee the accuracy of information posted by users. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the Website’s content, use or effects. By accepting these terms, you acknowledge that the opinions and recommendations contained in this website are not necessarily those of Brive or endorsed by Brive. The Website may also contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content with technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. Under no circumstances should Brive be liable for any direct, indirect, or consequential damages resulting from your use or inability to use this Website.

 

Reporting Errors

If you have located any actual or apparent errors, problems, nonconformities or other difficulties with the Website or Services, or any material or content on the Website that violates the privacy, publicity rights, or any other of the above listed terms, you are encouraged to notify Brive promptly and accurately by sending your feedback. Brive will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing/changing that kind of content or material.

You are also encouraged to provide any other information reasonably requested by Brive to aid in resolving such errors, problems, nonconformities or other difficulties. By doing so, you consent to the collection, processing, transmission and disclosure of such information by Brive for the purposes of Brive’s internal use to improve the Website, our Services or other Brive products.

 

Student Application

By submitting an application for a course via our Website you acknowledge and consent to the below:

• Brive reserves the right to review your Application and contact you for additional information, in case of incorrect entries or in case of missing data.
• Brive reserves the right to submit your Application to the Agent’s portal provided to Brive by each university.
• Brive grants access to partner universities to review and collect student data and applications via Brive’s portal. Each partner university reviews and collects data of students interested in their programs and only.
• Only certain Brive Partners have agreements with Brive to enable you to make an Application to such Brive Partners through Brive’s Website and Services, and that not all educational study programs of such Brive Partners may be offered as being Programs available to you using Brive’s Website and Services.
• Brive has no control over Brive Partners or any other entity granting visas, admissions, permits or other authorizations in connection with the Application; you acknowledge that the success of your Application is solely within the control of such third parties, not Brive, and therefore release Brive from all liability in relation to your Application.
• Brive is not responsible in any way for your Application, mistakes in Your Data, or your failure to obtain entrance to your selected Program(s) or Brive Partner(s).
• All issues respecting Applications, Programs, and your failure to comply with Brive Partner policies, are solely as between you and the applicable Brive Partner, and Brive bears no responsibility or liability in relation to such matters.
• You will comply with any Brive Partner policies and procedures applicable to your Application.

Please note that students Application are subject to the terms of use in this Agreement, and in particular the “Disclaimers” set out below.

 

Course Enrollment

By enrolling in or registering for a course via our Website, you give us the right to contact you for additional information. After collecting all the necessary information, you grant us the right to enroll you in a program or course on behalf of you. The Service is available for your personal, non-commercial use.

Our Service can provide you program and/or course recommendations based on your location, preferences, compatibility, educational background etc. We have not no control over, and assume no responsibility for the programs and courses that are available on the Website and, as such, do not guarantee in any manner the reliability, validity, accuracy, or truthfulness of the program. If you enroll in a program, you rely on any information provided by the institution or organization you have applied to. You should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any enrollment or application.

Tuition fees for each educational program refer to the exchange value that is calculated at the given time. Please note that, at the start date of each program, fees and additional costs may vary slightly, depending on the exchange rate difference.

 

Brive Student Day signup/attendance

By signing up for an event and receiving a QR code for entry, you agree that sharing your QR code with exhibitors grants them access to certain information that you have provided during the sign-up process. This information may include your name, contact details, and any additional details voluntarily provided. Exhibitors may use this information solely for the purpose of facilitating their participation in the event and engaging with you after the event.

You consent to the use of photographic and video material in which you appear or captured during the event for promotional purposes related to the exhibition and/or the platform, without any requirement for compensation or other consideration. You also understand that this material may be used across different media, including websites, social networks, and promotional materials.

 

Reward Points

The User may collect reward credits (Points) from various actions on our Website. Twenty (20) Points account for 1€. The amount of reward credits that the User may redeem derives from the following function:

Redemption Points = Achievement Points + Program points.

The User may redeem the collected Points, only by being accepted in a program. Redemption points are refunded in the form of cash back after the start of your studies.

 

Promotional Codes & Credits

Brive or our partners (Partners) may offer at a limited time promotional codes and credits to students. Certain codes and credits may be redeemed for Points applied to your Brive account, which then may be used as a discount on a program that you got accepted, based on our Loyalty Program and Credits policy.

These codes and credits, as well as any promotional value linked to them, may expire if not used within the period specified in your Brive account. Promotional codes and credits offered by Brive cannot be refunded for cash. Promotional codes and credits offered by any of our Partners are subject to our Partner’s refund policies.

 

Partners

We enable and encourage any University or Educational Center anywhere to be a Brive’s Partner.

By submitting or posting programs and other content on or through the Website, Partners grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, sublicensable, and non-transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, market, display, publish, perform, transmit, distribute, and/or authorize the use of their Content, for the purpose of executing or performing our Services.

Partners will remain at all times the owners of their Content and all intellectual property rights therein, and we will not acquire any interest therein by reason of this Agreement.

 

Advertisements

Brive reserves the right to display advertisements or featured programs on the Website and your Content. Brive does not represent or endorse the truth or accuracy of the description of any ads, links, content, advice, opinion, offer, proposal, statement, other information from any third party products/services that is displayed or distributed through the Website.

 

Changes in Terms of Use

Brive reserves the right at all times to vary, change, alter, amend, add to, or remove any of these Terms of Use. A 30 days’ notice will be provided regarding any modifications, which will also be binding upon pre-existing User Agreements. Within such period Brive will give serious consideration to the objections of the Users and may decide to revoke or amend the changes. If Brive rejects an objection or the User does not agree with the new Terms, the latter is entitled to terminate the Agreement at the end of this notice period, by disabling their account. If the User continues to have access to or use the Website or the Services after any changes to these Terms of Use, that will indicate the User’s acceptance of such changes.

 

Changes to the Brive Website and Services

Brive reserves the right to change, suspend or discontinue the Website at any time, including the availability of any Content and Services at any time, and from time to time, without notice offered by Brive.

 

Termination of the Agreement

This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Website and its Services. Termination of the Agreement by either party will result in a ban or the deletion of the User’s account. If a User violates these Terms of Use, Brive reserves the right at any time and without prior notice or liability, to terminate the User’s account. If a User no longer agrees to be bound by these Terms of Use, may at any time give notice of the termination of the Agreement and request a ban or deletion of their account. These notices and requests are accepted only when received through the Brive’s contact form.

 

Violation of the Terms of Use

If any violation of these Terms of Use is detected, no matter how minor, Brive reserves the sole right to terminate any account on the Website or deny access to or restrict the use of the Services to any individual or entity that had breached these terms, at any time without prior notice. Moreover, violations can result in the issuing of official warnings or (temporary) bans to the account of the User.

 

Intellectual Property

Brive’s Website and Services are by Brive or its third-party licensors, who retain all right, title and interest therein. Brive’s Website and Services are protected by Greek and international copyright laws. In addition, other intellectual property laws (including patent laws) and treaties may protect Brive’s Website and Services. You do not acquire any intellectual property or other proprietary rights under this Agreement, including any right, title or interest in and to patents, copyrights, trademarks, industrial designs, confidential information, or trade secrets, whether registered or unregistered, relating to the Brive’s Website and Services, or any part thereof. Any rights not expressly granted under this Agreement are reserved to Brive or its third-party licensors.

 

Disclaimers

Brive does not represent or warrant that the Website will operate uninterrupted or error-free, or that the Website or the server are free of computer viruses or other harmful devices. All content of this website is provided "as is" without any warranties of any kind, including warranty of merchantability, fitness for particular purpose and non-infringement.

Brive is not responsible for any delay or failure of the Website’s performance of any of the Services caused by events beyond our reasonable control, like an act of war, hostility, or sabotage; natural disaster; electrical, internet, or telecommunication outage; or government restrictions.

Brive may decide to cease making available certain features of the Services at any time and for any reason, with or without prior notice.

You are solely responsible for fulfilling any entry requirements necessary to gain admission into the country where your Program is located in compliance with Applicable Law and any requirements of Governmental or Regulatory Authorities.

Although Brive has made reasonable efforts to verify that its agreements with its service providers are reasonably protective of Your Data, you acknowledge that Brive has no liability for any acts or omissions of third parties in relation to such servers and the data stored on them. You therefore hereby release Brive from all liability for any governmental or third party action taken in such jurisdictions with respect to such information and data or the servers on which Your Data resides, and you acknowledge that you retain sole responsibility to back up and retain copies of such information and data.

The downloading and viewing of Content is done at your own risk. Brive cannot and does not guarantee or warrant that the Website or the Content are compatible with your computer system or that the Website, or any links from the Website or the Content, will be free of viruses, worms, trojan horses or disabling devices or other code that manifests contaminating or destructive properties. You are responsible for implementing safeguards to protect the security and integrity of your computer system, and you are responsible for the entire cost of any service, repairs or connections of and to your computer system that may be necessary as a result of your use of the Website.

By accepting these Terms of Use, you accept that you will not have any recourse against us if any of the above types of cases arise.

 

These Terms of Use were last updated on September 4, 2023.