CRICK SOFTWARE LIMITED
TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE LEARNINGGRIDS SERVICES AND WEBSITE
1.
Definitions
“Account(s)” shall be a LearningGrids account held
by any User. Access to the account shall be controlled by a login and password
known to the User. The account shall provide the User with access to the
Services.
“Agreement” shall mean the agreement between the Parties
set out in these Terms and Conditions.
“Educational Support Service” means a Local Education
Authority or School District service working across a number of schools which
provides its Students with Accounts.
“Managed
Student(s)” shall mean a Student for whose Account a particular Teacher is
responsible.
“Part(y)(ies)” shall mean a Site Manager and/or a
Teacher and Crick Software Limited as appropriate.
“Organization” shall mean the school, college or (where
agreed with Crick Software Limited) the Educational Support Service at which
the Site Manager and/or Teacher whom is subject to this Agreement is employed.
“Organization Account” shall mean an Account providing
shared storage space for Teachers which is specific to a particular Organization.
“Services” shall mean the services detailed in clause
2.2 of this Agreement.
“Site” shall be the LearningGrids Website.
“Site Manager” shall be the designated person in charge
of the provision of the Services within the Organization.
“Student(s)” shall mean a User appropriately registered
as studying at a school or college or where appropriate a User registered as supported
by an Educational Support Service.
“Teacher(s)” shall be a teacher, tutor or lecturer
employed in this role within the Organization.
“Terms and Conditions” shall be this document.
“Third Party User(s)” shall be holders of LearningGrids
accounts at organizations other than that at which the Site Manager or
Teacher is employed.
“User(s)” shall be the holder of any Account at the Organization
including the Organization itself the Site Manager (the) Teacher(s) and (the)
Student(s).
2.
Introduction
2.1 This Site is operated by Crick Software Limited a company
registered in England under
registration
number 03263172 whose registered office is at Crick House, Boarden Close,
Moulton Park, Northampton NN3 6LF. Crick Software Limited is referred to in
these Terms and Conditions as “we” and “us”.
2.2 This Site offers services that
provide the ability to view share upload copy and store electronic
files of various formats for educational purposes (for
the avoidance of doubt this shall include where appropriate providing access to
Accounts and Organization Accounts) and allowing Teachers to be able to set
work online and for Students to be able to complete the work online (the “Services”). These Terms and Conditions are a legal document
which sets out the Site Manager’s and Teachers’ rights and obligations and
those of us in relation to this Site and the Services provided by us through
it. The Site Manager and Teachers must take the time to read and understand
these Terms and Conditions before registering for the Services. By registering
the Site Manager and Teachers accept that they are entering into an Agreement
with us on the basis of these Terms and Conditions and that they shall be
personally liable for breaches of these Terms and Conditions.
2.3
By registering Teachers also accept
responsibility for the actions of their Managed Students and the Teachers shall
enforce these Terms and Conditions in respect of their Managed Students and
they shall promptly notify us of any breaches of these Terms and Conditions.
2.4
The Site Manager and Teachers should be aware
that these Terms and Conditions may
change from time to time in accordance
with clause 18 below.
3. Registration
3.1 Teachers and the Site Manager must be over the
age of 18.
3.2 When setting up Accounts the Site Manager must provide
true and accurate registration details and they must ensure that this
information is accurate at all times.
3.3 The Site Manager and Teachers must provide a valid e-mail
address and we will use this to communicate with them.
3.4 The Site Manager and Teachers must each provide a user
name and password on completion of the registration of their Account.
3.5
Users must keep their own user name and password
confidential and the user name and password of any additional Accounts to which
they have access. Teachers shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that their
Managed Students keep their own user name and password confidential.
3.6
Users shall only utilise the Services using
their own user name and password and shall not permit any other person to use their
user name or password and where appropriate the passcode of the Organization
Account, whether directly or indirectly and Teachers shall ensure that their
Managed Students adopt the same policy.
3.7
The Site Manager and Teachers shall not permit
any person to use the passcode of the Organization Account who is not a Teacher
or the Site Manager at the Organization.
3.8
The Site Manager shall not register an Account
for anyone who is not a Teacher or Student at the relevant Organization.
3.8.1
The Site Manager shall immediately close
Accounts of any Users who are no longer Teachers or Students at the relevant Organization.
3.9
Teachers must notify us immediately of any
unauthorised use of their or their Managed Students’ user name and password or
if they or one of their Managed Students believe such user names or passwords
are no longer confidential.
3.10
The Site Manager must notify us immediately of
any unauthorised use of their personal user name and password or the passcode
of the Organization Account or if they believe the user name, password or
passcode are no longer confidential.
3.11
We reserve the right to change Users’ user names
and passwords and the passcodes of Organization Accounts if we believe they are
no longer secure.
4
Prohibitions
4.1
The Site Manager and Teachers are solely
responsible for all electronic files (and the materials contained therein) that
they view copy share upload or store using the Services and Teachers are
additionally responsible for all electronic files (and the materials contained
therein) that their Managed Students view copy share upload or store using the
Services.
4.2
The Site Manager and Teachers are responsible
for their own and in the case of Teachers their Managed Students’ adherence to
the following prohibitions:
4.2.1
Users must have the
legal right to copy and display every part of each electronic file that they
copy upload share copy or store. This includes each and every image sound or
video contained within the electronic files
4.2.2
Images that are made
available through websites magazines books or other resources are protected by
copyright and are strictly prohibited from being uploaded shared copied or
stored using the Services and failure to comply with this clause 4.2.2 shall
constitute a breach of these Terms and Conditions and an infringement of such
third party owner’s intellectual property or other rights
4.2.3
The Services shall not
be used:
4.2.3.1 to view copy store share upload or
otherwise transmit any material that is obscene, offensive, false, misleading,
blasphemous, pornographic, unlawful, threatening, menacing, abusive,
discriminatory, unreliable, harmful, defamatory, libellous, indecent,
fraudulent, vulgar, illegal, an invasion of privacy or publicity rights or
otherwise reasonably objectionable;
4.2.3.2 to copy store share upload or otherwise
transmit any material that you do not have any legal right to copy store share
upload or transmit or which infringes any copyright trade mark patent or other
intellectual property right or any moral right of any third party;
4.2.3.3 to view copy store share upload or
otherwise transmit any material which is likely to cause harm to us or our
computer systems or any third party’s computer systems including but not
limited to that which contains any virus macro virus trojan horse code worm
data or other electronic file(s) or program(s) designed to damage interrupt
disrupt or interfere with the normal operation of this Site and the Services or
allow unauthorised access to the Services or the Site;
4.2.3.4 for any unlawful purposes whatsoever;
4.2.3.5 for any commercial purpose.
5
Liability and Obligations
of the Site Manager and Teachers
5.1
The Site Manager shall be responsible for all
actions undertaken on their own Account and the Organization Account. The
Teachers shall be responsible for all actions undertaken on their own Account
and the Accounts of any of their Managed Students and by using the Site and the
Services the Site Manager and Teachers agree to accept such risks.
5.2
In the event of a breach of these Terms and
Conditions by any User coming to the attention of the Site Manager or a
Teacher, that Site Manager or Teacher must immediately notify us of that breach
by contacting us at support@cricksoft.com
or such other email address as we shall notify to the Site Manager and Teachers
from time to time. The Site Manager or Teacher must provide us with sufficient
details of the nature of the alleged breach of these Terms and Conditions and
the identity of the User concerned to enable us to take action if we so decide.
5.3
The Teachers are
responsible for monitoring the Accounts of their Managed Students to ensure
that these Terms and Conditions are not breached.
6
Copyright
6.1
WriteOnline, Clicker,
ClozePro, Wordbar and Jigworks files are designed for use with our products and
must not be copied for any other use without the author's prior written
permission.
6.2
Other than as provided
in clause 6.1 above all Services and materials contained in this Site remain
the intellectual property of the author who is identified with each resource
title.
7
Trademarks
7.1
All brand products and
service names used in the Services and/or the Site which identify LearningGrids,
us and our products or third parties and their products are the
proprietary marks of us and/or the relevant third parties. Nothing in this Site
or the Services shall be deemed to confer on any person any licence or right
with respect to any such image logo or name.
8
Intellectual
Property Rights
8.1
We do not claim
ownership rights in any work contained in Accounts or Organization Accounts.
8.2
For the sole purpose of
enabling us to display electronic files which Users contribute to the public
LearningGrids site through the Services you grant to us a non-exclusive
royalty-free perpetual irrevocable licence to use copy distribute and display
those electronic files for other Users and Third Party Users of the Services
and this Site.
9
Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights
9.1
If a User believes the
intellectual property rights in their own work have been infringed through this
Site or the Services or their Managed Students contact them to express this
concern then they must contact us immediately at support@cricksoft.com or such other
email address as we shall notify to the Site Manager or Teachers from time to
time. We must be provided with the following information which we may then
forward to the alleged infringer at our absolute discretion:
9.1.1
details sufficient to
identify the material on this Site which the Site Manager or Teacher believes
infringes their own work or a Managed Student’s work;
9.1.2
confirmation that the
Site Manager or Teacher has a reasonable belief that the disputed use is not
authorised by themselves or where appropriate a Managed Student as the
intellectual property owner their agent or the law;
9.1.3
confirmation that the
information the Site Manager or Teacher has provided to us is accurate as far
as they can be reasonably certain and that they or a Managed Student are the
owner of the intellectual property rights involved or that they are authorised
to act on behalf of that third party owner;
9.1.4
the Site Manager’s or
Teacher’s address, telephone number, email address and signature.
9.2
Upon receiving the Site
Manager’s or Teacher’s complaint we shall at our absolute discretion remove any
content specified in clause 9.1.1 above. We may also at our absolute
discretion terminate the Account of any User or the account of any Third Party
User who is responsible for the infringing work being part of the Service
and/or Site.
10 Suspension and Termination
10.1
We reserve the right at
any time and at our absolute discretion to:-
10.1.1 refuse to accept a registration application
to become a User of the Services
10.1.2 move or suspend any part of the Services or
Site;
10.1.3 terminate an Account and delete any content
stored in that Account if these Terms and Conditions are not complied with or
if we are required to do so by a competent regulatory authority; or
10.1.4 to suspend an Account.
10.2
Any User whose Account
has been suspended or terminated must not re-register for or re-access the
Services and/or Site without our prior written consent.
11 Availability
11.1
Notwithstanding that we
shall use our reasonable endeavours to ensure that the Services and the Site
are available 24 hours a day 7 days a week there will be occasions when the
Services or the Site will be interrupted for maintenance upgrades or emergency
repairs or due to failure of telecommunications links or equipment that are
beyond our reasonable control. Every reasonable step will be taken by us to
minimise such disruption where it is within our reasonable control to do so.
11.2
We shall not be liable
to any User for any interruption suspension modification or discontinuance of
the Services or this Site whatsoever.
12 Additional Services
12.1
We may offer new or
additional services through this Site from time to time. A User’s use of those
new or additional services shall be subject to these Terms and Conditions and
any supplementary terms and conditions or rules of use which we may post on
this Site from time to time and with which you must comply.
12.2
Any failure to comply
with such supplementary terms and conditions or rules of use shall constitute a
breach of these Terms and Conditions.
13 Provision of Services
13.1
We reserve the right to
charge a fee for the Services and/or access to the Site.
13.2
If an Account becomes
inactive for a period of 24 months we reserve the right to terminate access to
the Account altogether (including deletion of all electronic files contained
therein or any Account information held by us) at our absolute discretion.
14 Disclaimer of Warranty
14.1
We warrant that the Services
will be provided with professional and reasonable skill and care.
14.2
The warranties set out
in this clause 14 are in place of all other express or implied warranties of
satisfactory quality and fitness for a particular purpose as far as is legally
possible. We do not warrant that the Services will meet your requirements or
that the Services and/or Site will work effectively or in deed at all in
conjunction with your computer hardware or software nor that the Services
and/or Site will be uninterrupted or error free. No oral or written
communications by or on our behalf shall create a warranty or in any way
increase the scope of the warranties given by us.
15 Limitation of Liability
15.1
We do not control the
information provided to the Services or the Site or the content of the Account
of any User or the Account of any Third Party User of the Services or the Site
and we do not have any obligation to monitor such content for any purpose.
15.2
We will only be liable
to a User for loss of or corruption of any files that we are storing or
transmitting (howsoever) for a User if that loss or damage is caused by our
acknowledged failure to use reasonable skill and care in providing the Services.
In each such case our whole liability to you will be strictly limited to an amount
equal to any fees paid by the User or on behalf of the User in relation to the
storage or transmission of files which have been lost or damaged.
15.3
Except as provided in
clause 15.2 above we shall in no circumstances whatsoever be liable to the User
in respect of any loss or damage at all or any loss of business capital profit
anticipated savings reputation or goodwill suffered by the User and whether
direct indirect consequential or however else arising out of or in connection
with the Agreement or its subject matter except that nothing in these Terms and
Conditions shall exclude or limit either Party’s liability for fraud or
fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of such Party or personal injury or
death caused by the negligence of such Party or any warranty as to title or
quiet possession implied by statute.
15.4
We shall not be liable for misuse of the Site or
the Services by any User.
16 Indemnity
16.1
The Site Manager or
Teacher agrees to indemnify us against all liabilities claims and expenses that
may arise from any breach of these Terms and Conditions by them or where
applicable a Managed Student or through a machine on which they or where
applicable a Managed Student accesses this Site and the Services.
17 Assignment
17.1
We reserve the right to
assign this Agreement and to assign or subcontract any or all of our rights and
obligations under this Agreement. The Site Manager or Teacher may not without
our written consent assign or dispose of this Agreement.
18 Amendment of these Terms and Conditions
18.1
We reserve the right to
amend these Terms and Conditions at any time and will post the new version on
this Site at which time it shall take immediate effect. We shall notify the
Site Manager and Teachers of any material changes to these Terms and Conditions
by e-mail sent to the address which they have provided to us in accordance with
clause 3.3. If the Site Manager or Teachers continue to use the Services once they
have been notified of the changes to these Terms and Conditions the Site
Manager and Teachers will be deemed to have accepted those changes in their
entirety and the new version will govern this Site and the Services and the
relationship between us and the Site Manager and Teachers.
19
General
19.1
These Terms and
Conditions and any updates posted on the Site in accordance with clause 18.1
above set out the entire agreement and understanding between the Parties in
connection with its subject matter. In particular the Site Manager and
Teachers acknowledge that these Terms and Conditions supersede any previous terms
and conditions and or agreement(s) between the Parties and the Site Manager and
Teachers acknowledge and agree that they have not entered into this Agreement
in reliance upon any representations agreement statements replies to specific
enquires made or alleged to have been made by us at any time PROVIDED that
nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall affect the liability of either Party
in respect of any misrepresentation warranty or condition that it makes
fraudulently.
19.2
These Terms and
Conditions may not be amended modified varied or supplemented by the Site
Manager or Teachers except with our written agreement, which shall be signed by
or on behalf of both Parties.
19.3
Failure by either Party
to exercise or enforce any rights or the giving of any forbearance delay or
indulgence will not be construed as a waiver of its rights under these Terms
and Conditions or otherwise.
19.4
If any part of these
Terms and Conditions shall be found to be unlawful it shall be severed from these
Terms and Conditions and shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the
remainder of these Terms and Conditions.
19.5
Neither Party shall be
liable to the other for any delay in or failure of the performance of its
obligations under this Agreement arising from any cause beyond its reasonable control
and will be entitled to a reasonable time extension for performance. If this
lasts for more than three months this Agreement may be terminated by either
Party without compensation.
19.6
Each Party shall ensure
that in the performance of its obligations under this Agreement it will at all
times comply with the Data Protection Act 1998; the Site Manager shall be
responsible for their own, the Teachers’ and the Organization’s compliance with
the Data Protection Act 1998.
19.7
The provisions of these
Terms and Conditions insofar as they have not been performed at or are capable
of taking effect after shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding termination
and shall not merge on termination.
19.8
Notices under these
Terms and Conditions shall be in writing and delivered personally or sent by
first class pre-paid recorded delivery to the other Party's registered office
or principal trading address (except where stated otherwise). Notices sent in
accordance with this clause 19.8 shall be deemed to be delivered 48 hours
(excluding Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays) after posting.
19.9
Nothing in these Terms
and Conditions shall confer on any third party any right or benefit under the
provisions of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
19.10
This Agreement shall be
interpreted and operated in accordance with the Law of England and the Parties
submit themselves to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
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