Terms and Conditions of Use

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We want you to enjoy using the EO forums and when using the website, there are simple rules to follow and you could ask your parent or guardian read them with you.

Please don't copy content from this site or give it to anyone else. If you post something like a drawing or story, you must make sure you have done this yourself and you haven't taken it from anywhere else without permission.

Your parent or guardian has given you permission to chat with other children on our message boards. Remember - never be rude in your messages or give out your full name, home address, email address, instant messaging name or mobile/home phone number when you're chatting. If you are worried about something you have read on our site, please talk to your parent or guardian or let us know.

If you want to get in touch with a child you've been chatting with on this board and swap IM id’s or email addresses, then ask your parent to contact a moderator who can help.

All rights, including copyright and database rights, in education-otherwise.org and its contents, are owned by or licensed to EO, or otherwise used by EO as permitted by applicable law.

In accessing education-otherwise.org, you agree that you will access the contents solely for your own private use but not for any commercial or public use. You can use the service on a single CPU at a time and you can print out a single hard copy of any part of the content on education-otherwise.org for your personal use.

Access to and use of 'education-otherwise.org' both within the UK and internationally is provided by the Education Otherwise Association Limited on the following terms:

• By using education-otherwise.org you agree to be bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of the forums. If you do not agree to be bound by all of the following terms please do not access, use and/or contribute to these forums.

• EO may change these terms from time to time and so you should check these terms regularly. Your continued use of the EO Forums will be deemed acceptance of the updated or amended terms. If you do not agree to the changes, you should cease using this website. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific local terms appearing elsewhere on the forums (including board rules) then the latter shall prevail.

• You agree to use education-otherwise.org only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment. Prohibited behaviour includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within education-otherwise.org.

All copyright, trade marks, design rights, patents and other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) in and on education-otherwise.org and all content (including all applications) located on the site shall remain vested in EO or its licensors (which includes other users). You may not copy, reproduce, republish or otherwise use education-otherwise.org content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any education-otherwise.org content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of education-otherwise.org content requires the prior written permission of EO trustees.

The names, images and logos identifying EO or third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade marks of EO and/or third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring any licence or right to use any trade mark, design right or copyright of EO or any other third party.

By sharing any contribution (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) with EO you agree to grant to EO, free of charge, permission to use the material in any way (including modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) In certain circumstances Education Otherwise may also share your contribution with third parties.

Copyright in your contribution will remain with you and this permission is not exclusive, so you can continue to use the material in any way including allowing others to use it.

In order that EO can use your contribution, you confirm that your contribution is your own original work, is not defamatory and does not infringe any UK laws, that you have the right to give EO permission to use it for the purposes specified above, and that you have the consent of anyone who is identifiable in your contribution or the consent of their parent / guardian if they are under 18.

• Contributions must be civil and tasteful.

• No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble.

• No unlawful or objectionable content: unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable.

• Be patient: users of all ages and abilities may be taking part in these forums.

• No spamming or off-topic material: we don't allow the submission of the same or very similar contributions many times. Please don't re-submit your contribution to more than one discussion, or contribute off-topic material in subject-specific areas.

• No advertising or promoting.

• Contributions containing languages other than English may be removed.

• No impersonation.

• No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names.

• URLs (web site addresses) can be posted, but moderators reserve the right to remove these at any time.

• Deliberate misuse of the reporting facility is not permitted. If you persist in doing this, action may be taken against your account.

All accounts must be registered with a valid personal email address that you access regularly so that moderation emails can be sent to you. Accounts registered with someone else's email address, or with temporary email addresses may be closed without notice. We may require users to re-validate their account if we believe they have been using an invalid email address.

EO reserves the right to close accounts if any user disrupts any of our services in any way.

We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone number, postal address, home or email address or any other details that would allow you to be personally identified) in any Education Otherwise forum.

You may not submit or share any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in education-otherwise.org forums. Contributing material to an education-otherwise.org forum with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited.

You agree to submit to or share with education-otherwise.org forums only contributions which are your own original work. You must not violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of Education Otherwise or third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights.

Please get a parent's or guardian's permission before taking part in any education-otherwise.org forum. Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example telephone number, your full name, home address or email address).

The majority of content posted in education-otherwise.org forums is created by members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of Education Otherwise. Education Otherwise is not responsible for any content posted by members of the public on education-otherwise.org or for the availability or content of any third party sites that are accessible through education-otherwise.org. Any links to third party websites from education-otherwise.org do not amount to any endorsement of that site by Education Otherwise and any use of that site by you is at your own risk.

education-otherwise.org content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to Education Otherwise, its products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided "AS IS" and on an "AS AVAILABLE" basis. To the extent permitted by law, Education Otherwise excludes all representations and warranties (whether express or implied by law), including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

Education Otherwise does not guarantee the timeliness, completeness or performance of the website or any of the content. While we try to ensure that all content provided by Education Otherwise is correct at the time of publication no responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of Education Otherwise for any errors, omissions or inaccurate content on the website.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes Education Otherwise's liability for death or personal injury caused by its proven negligence. Subject to the previous sentence, Education Otherwise shall not be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such damage or losses were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of education-otherwise.org regardless of the form of action.

Education Otherwise does not warrant that functions available on education-otherwise.org will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that the server that makes it available is free of viruses or bugs. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to implement sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the accuracy of data input and output.

If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive and continue to be binding and enforceable.

The failure or delay of Education Otherwise to exercise or enforce any right in these terms does not waive Education Otherwise's right to enforce that right.

These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes.