Agape Divinity School is an affordable, online center of quality theological education. All of our programs are offered completely by distance and require no coursework. Each degree program consists of required independent research and the writing of an original thesis.
We are an international divinity school and accept students from all over the world. ADS is a non-discriminatory institution of theological education accepting students of all ethnic and religious backgrounds.
ADS is not affiliated with any particular religious denomination, but does consider itself ecumenically and evangelistically Christian in outlook and philosophy. However, many of our students are from faith traditions other than Christianity.
Terms of Use
Please read these terms of use, "Terms" before you, "User", use the ADS website, "Site" or "Sites." 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 exit all sites immediately. ADS 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.
1. Disclaimers
1.1. Honest Communications
ADS strives to communicate its programs and policies honestly in all of its
publications. Every effort has been made to ensure that this publication
contains only clear, accurate, and current information. Readers are invited to
bring errors and suggestions for improving this publication to the attention of
the webmaster. To the extent an inconsistency is found to exist between the
information in this publication and the actual policy or procedure, the actual
policy or procedure governs.
1.2. Non-binding Communications
No oral or written communication made by any employee of ADS, including
faculty, shall be binding on ADS without the express approval of the Board of
Trustees and no contract is expressed or implied by this publication or any
other ADS informational publication.
1.3. Changes to Operations
ADS reserves the right to change at any time and without notice any aspect of
its operations, including changes to personnel, programs, costs, policies, and
procedures. Changes may affect faculty, staff, enrolled or prospective
students, or some combination thereof, as the administration determines, and
will be published as soon as practicable.
1.4. Links to External Web Sites
The ADS web site may contain links to other sites on the Internet that are
owned and operated by parties not under the control of ADS. Links are provided
for convenience only and are not intended as a warranty or endorsement of any
type regarding the products, services, or information offered on linked sites.
Any use made of the products, services, or content found through any external
Web site is the user’s responsibility. ADS and its employees shall not be held
responsible or liable in any way for such use.
1.5. Academic Resources
By its nature the education process sometimes requires consideration of
alternate points of view, an understanding of views believed false, or honest
inquiry into subjects incompletely understood. Therefore, the requirement or
recommendation that students use a publication as part of their course of study
does not constitute endorsement of its content by ADS. Likewise, the presence
of a publication in the library does not constitute endorsement by ADS of its
content.
1.6. Warranty; Limitation of Liability
User expressly agrees that the use of ADS Website is at the user’s sole risk.
Neither ADS, its Board, employees, nor affiliates, agents, or third party vendors
imply any warranty that its site/service will be uninterrupted or error free.
THESE SITES AND ANY INFORMATION, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES THEREIN ARE PROVIDED
"AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR USE OF A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NONINFRINGEMENT.
This disclaimer applies to any damages or injuries to person or property caused
by any failure of performance, error, omission, computer virus, technology
interruption, transmission delays, theft, illegal access, negligence, or any
other cause of action.
2. Rules for Online Conduct
You agree to use the Sites in accordance with all applicable laws. Because ADS is a religious organization, you agree that you will not use the Site for organized partisan political activities. You further agree that you will not e-mail or post any of the following content anywhere on the Site, or on any other ADS computing resources:
- Content that defames or threatens others
- Statements that are bigoted, hateful or racially offensive
- Content that discusses illegal activities with the intent to commit them
- Content that infringes another's intellectual property, including, but not limited to, copyrights, trademarks or trade secrets
- Material that contains vulgar or obscene language or images
- Advertising or any form of commercial solicitation
Copyrighted material, including without limitation software, graphics, text,
photographs, sound, video and musical recordings, may not be placed on the Site
without the express permission of the owner of the copyright in the material,
or other legal entitlement to use the material.
Finally, you agree that you will not access or attempt to access any other
user's account, or misrepresent or attempt to misrepresent your identity while
using the Sites.
3. Permission to use Materials
In consideration for your agreement to the terms and conditions contained here, ADS grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use the Sites. User may download material from the Sites only for User's own personal, non-commercial use. User may not otherwise copy, reproduce, retransmit, distribute, publish, commercially exploit or otherwise transfer any material. The burden of determining that use of any information, software or any other content on the Site is permissible rests with User.
4. Limitations of Use
You may use Sites for legal purposes only. Furthermore, you agree that, if a third party claims that any material you have contributed to a Site is unlawful, you will bear the burden of establishing that the material complies with all applicable laws. Although ADS does not monitor the content of the Sites, ADS has the right to remove material from the Sites, block access, or take other action with respect to the Material in its sole discretion, although ADS is under no obligation to do so. You may not use ADS computing resources or Sites to disseminate unsolicited advertising or promotional material of any kind.
5. Copyright
Copyright © 2012 Agape Divinity School. All rights reserved.
5.1. Copyright Rules
ADS Web site contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other proprietary
information, including, but not limited to, text, software, photos, video,
graphics, music and sound, and the entire contents of ADS Web site are
copyrighted as a collective work under the pertinent copyright laws. ADS owns a
copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of such
content, as well as in the content original to it. User may not modify,
publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative
works, or in any way exploit, any of the content, in whole or in part. User may
download copyrighted material for User's personal use only. Except as otherwise
expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution,
retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of downloaded material
will be permitted without the express written permission of ADS and the
copyright owner. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or
publication of copyrighted material, no changes in or deletion of author
attribution, trademark legend or copyright notice shall be made. User
acknowledges that it does not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyrighted
material.
5.2. Trademarks
The logo, name and all graphics on the Sites of ADS, or any of their
affiliates, are trademarks of ADS or its affiliates. Use, reproduction, copying
or redistribution of trademarks, without the written permission of ADS or its
affiliates is prohibited. All other trademarks or copyrights appearing on the
Site are the marks of their respective owners.
6. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold ADS and its subsidiaries harmless from any claims, losses or damages, including legal fees, resulting from your violation of these Terms, your use of a Site or your placement of any content onto a Site, and to fully cooperate in ADS’ defense against any such claims.
7. Your Privacy
ADS is committed to respecting your privacy. You can visit official ADS Web
sites without revealing any personal information. Should you choose to provide
us with any personal information, you can be assured that it will only be used
by ADS to conduct official Seminary business and personal information will
never be disseminated to any unaffiliated third party.
7.1. Personal Information
ADS collects two kinds of information on this site: information that is
voluntarily supplied by visiting the site and enrolling in programs and
information that is automatically collected as you navigate this site. ADS does
not share personal identifiable information unless we believe release is
appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our privacy policy; or
protect the rights, property, or safety of ADS, our users, or others.
Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or
otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for
commercial purposes. Information that you share with us via forms and emails
through the website are only used to ensure you get the information and service
you have requested.
7.2. Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and
alteration of the information under our control.
7.3. FERPA
ADS complies with the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which
generally prohibits the release to third parties of non-directory personal
information from student education records without student permission.
7.4. E-Commerce
Several sites within ADS enable you to pay for products or services online with
a credit card. Unless otherwise noted these transactions are encrypted. It is
Seminary policy that confidential information you enter in the transaction is
used only for the purposes described in that transaction, unless an additional
use is specifically stated on that site.
