Terms of Use
Last updated: September 2026
1. Acceptance
By accessing or using OMYSSEY (the "Service"), you agree to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree, you must not use the Service.
2. Description of the Service
OMYSSEY is an interactive educational platform for the gradual teaching of programming and bioinformatics. Courses may include lessons, exercises, assessments, browser-based laboratories, progress tracking, and guided sessions through external video-conferencing services.
3. Enrollment and external payments
OMYSSEY is not a payment gateway. The platform does not request, process, or store card numbers, bank-account details, banking credentials, or other financial data for course payments. Promotion, contact, enrollment confirmation, and, when applicable, payment for the service take place through channels external to the platform.
Once enrollment has been confirmed externally, the administrator may create or enable an account and assign the applicable courses. Commercial conditions, including price, payment method, access period, cancellations, or refunds, must be communicated to the learner before enrollment is confirmed.
4. Account and access
When OMYSSEY user accounts are enabled, access will be personal, limited to assigned courses, and non-transferable. Users must keep credentials under their control and must not share accounts with third parties. The administrator may suspend or revoke access when the authorized access period ends, the course is completed, a valid request is made by the account holder, or use contrary to these Terms is detected.
5. Permitted use
Access to the Service grants only a limited right of personal educational use. You agree not to:
- share credentials or allow unauthorized access
- attempt to bypass access controls, module locks, or authorization mechanisms
- automatically extract, systematically harvest, or republish protected content
- interfere with the operation, security, or availability of the Service
- use OMYSSEY materials to create, copy, or commercialize a derivative course or platform without written authorization
6. Intellectual property
Except for expressly identified third-party components, OMYSSEY's original source code, educational text, lesson structure, exercises, assessments, diagrams, visualizations, documentation, original designs, and other proprietary materials are protected by applicable copyright and intellectual-property law. All rights not expressly granted are reserved.
Access to the platform, classroom presentation, evaluation by a teacher or institution, temporary hosting on third-party infrastructure, or technical collaboration with third parties does not transfer ownership or grant exploitation rights over OMYSSEY. Any institutional license, assignment, collaboration, or exploitation authorization must be expressly agreed in writing.
Read the OMYSSEY intellectual-property notice
7. Third-party components
OMYSSEY uses open-source components including Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, CodeMirror, Pyodide, and Lucide. Each third-party component remains governed by its own license. OMYSSEY's proprietary license does not limit rights granted directly by those third-party licenses.
8. Code execution
In the current Python course, learner code runs in the browser through Pyodide and WebAssembly. The platform does not provide learners with access to the server shell. The behavior of future R, alignment, docking, or other laboratories will be documented before those features are enabled.
9. Video-conference sessions
Live sessions, when offered, will be conducted through an external video-conferencing platform. OMYSSEY does not store audio or video from those sessions by default. If a session is to be recorded in the future, participants will be informed in advance and the applicable privacy conditions will apply.
10. Privacy
OMYSSEY does not process payments or banking data within the platform. Processing of personal data required for accounts, course assignment, security, and progress will be subject to the applicable privacy notice.
11. Educational scope
OMYSSEY provides private educational training. Unless expressly stated otherwise through applicable official documentation, completing a course does not constitute a professional degree, academic degree, or official recognition of studies.
12. Availability and liability
The Service is provided for educational purposes and may be updated, suspended, or modified for technical, academic, or security reasons. Nothing in these Terms is intended to exclude rights that applicable law makes non-waivable for consumers or personal-data holders.
13. Governing law
These Terms are interpreted under the applicable laws of the United Mexican States, without prejudice to rights and jurisdiction established by mandatory law.
14. Changes
OMYSSEY may update these Terms. When a change is material to account holders, reasonable efforts will be made to communicate it before or when it takes effect.