Terms & Conditions

Last updated: 4th December 2007

Welcome to schooble!
Thanks for joining. We hope that you enjoy schooble, and that you will benefit from using our services to teach children about the internet in a controlled environment. As a schooble user (a schoobler), you will have a space within the schooble domain in which to make a page for your school. This page will be available to anyone with internet access. Behind your school page is an area in which you can create pages for groups (classes or clubs). It is very important that you read these Terms & Conditions before you begin schoobling.

Acceptance of the Terms & Conditions
In joining schooble, you (the user) accept the Terms & Conditions as stated on this page and in doing so, you enter into a contract with us (Simon Dutton Associates Ltd) based on these. We may update and modify these from time to time, so it is important that you review them regularly; the �Last updated� date at the top of this page lets you know when the most recent changes were made. We will notify you of important changes by means of an announcement on the schooble homepage which will remain in place for 30 days. Your continued use of schooble indicates that you agree to the Terms and Conditions at the time of use. If you do not agree to the Terms & Conditions specified on this page, you should stop using schooble.

Your Information
Upon joining schooble, you will be asked to enter some information about your school. At present, this information is as follows:

• School Name
• Country
• County/State/Region
• Email address
• Number of pupils in school
• Number of teachers in school
• Age of youngest pupil in school
• Age of eldest pupil in school

Your email address will be used to verify your registration and we may use it to inform you of changes to schooble; we will not display it on your web pages.

If you add groups to your school, you will be asked to enter the following information about each group:

• Group name
• Age of youngest pupil in group
• Age of eldest pupil in group
• Number of pupils in group

We do not ask for a street address, telephone number, or for the names of any persons. We will never ask you for this information and we do not advise that you make such details available on your schooble pages. Please remember that all of the information you add to your pages can be seen by anybody using the internet.

Although users must join schooble, we cannot guarantee their integrity. It is in your interest not to give street addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and surnames on your schooble pages. Should we change our data requirements, you will be informed. It is your responsibility to maintain this information, to ensure that it is always true and accurate. We will not be held responsible for any issues that may arise as a result of your information being incorrect.

Security
Reasonable measures are taken to ensure the safety of the data that you submit to schooble. Your information is stored securely and it will not be passed on to third parties. We will, however, release your personal information if required to do so by law. Employees of Simon Dutton Associates Ltd may be granted access to your information if their job requires it; under no circumstances will they misuse your information.

Your schooble Content
In joining schooble, users accept full responsibility for all content that features on their web pages. In adding content to your schooble pages, you grant us permission to modify, display and create new material for future marketing and promotion of schooble.

If you upload photographs, we assume that you have obtained the permission of any persons featured in these. If you upload anyone else�s work, we assume that you have obtained their permission before doing so.

We reserve the right to remove your content without warning and at our discretion.

Our schooble Content
All designs, text, software and graphics used in the making of schooble are the intellectual property of Simon Dutton Associates Ltd. The publication, sale or redistribution of this material in any form is prohibited, and cannot be performed without our prior written consent.

The Law
You must not use schooble for illegal purposes or to send material that is illegal, slanderous, abusive, harassing or invasive of another person�s privacy. You must not infringe the Copyrights or other Intellectual Property rights of other people.

Inappropriate Content
Users are strictly forbidden from uploading or otherwise adding inappropriate content to schooble. Content is deemed inappropriate on grounds of its being offensive, threatening, abusive, discriminatory, misleading, pornographic or otherwise obscene. If content of this nature is found anywhere on schooble, the user responsible for posting it will be in breach of these Terms and Conditions. Any user found to be posting inappropriate content on schooble will have their registration terminated with immediate effect, and will, to the maximum extent possible, be prevented from re-joining.

If inappropriate use of the site is found to be illegal, information regarding the user in question will be passed on to the authorities.

It is impossible for content posted by users is to be screened or monitored before it is added to schooble. Whilst we cannot prevent users from uploading inappropriate content, we do have reasonable measures in place to monitor schooble. One of these is a team of spiders that constantly crawl through schooble, looking for words and phrases that we consider to be inappropriate.

Report Abuse
On all school and group pages, buttons are available for users to report abuse. If you find that another user is abusing schooble by posting content that infringes these Terms and Conditions, please report it by clicking on the �Report Abuse� button.

Passwords
Upon joining schooble, you (the school) set your own password. There is one password per school, and we must explicitly state that it is the sole responsibility of the school to ensure that this password does not fall into the hands of anyone who may misuse it. We do not advise that passwords are revealed to any child attending your school. Schools joining schooble assume sole responsibility for the security of their passwords. Under no circumstances will we be held responsible for any issues that arise as a result of your password falling into the wrong hands.

Use by Children
We do not recommend that children use schooble unsupervised. Schools accept sole responsibility for the content on their pages, and for the manner in which their schooble pages are used.

Cancelling your Registration
You can cancel your registration by emailing us.

Disclaimer
Simon Dutton Associates Ltd gives no warranty to the user that their software is free from defects or faults. Software is provided "as is" and �as available� without any express or implied warranties. Simon Dutton Associated Ltd makes no representation about the suitability of software for any purpose.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event shall Simon Dutton Associated Ltd and/or its employees be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential loss and/or damages of any kind whatsoever, however these may be caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract or strict liability (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of, misuse of, or inability to use, the software we provide.