Important legal notice

These Terms and Conditions (Terms) apply to the entire contents of this website under this domain name (Website) and to any correspondence by e-mail between us and you. Please read these terms carefully before using this Website. Using this Website indicates that you accept these terms regardless of whether or not you choose to register with us. If you do not accept these terms, do not use this Website. This Website is owned and operated by CfBT Education Trust (Companies House registration number 867944) (Company).

  1. Introduction

    1. You may access certain areas of this Website without registering your details with us. Certain other areas of this Website are only open to you if you register.
    2. By accessing any part of this Website, you are deemed to have accepted these Terms in full. If you do not accept these Terms in full, you must leave this Website immediately.
    3. The Company may revise these Terms at any time by posting changes online. You should check this Website from time to time to review the then current Terms, because they are binding on you. Certain provisions of these Terms may be superseded by expressly designated legal notices or terms located on particular pages at this Website.

  2. Use of the website

    1. You are not permitted to copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public or otherwise use Website 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 Website content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of Website content requires the prior written permission of the Company.
    2. You agree to use the Website only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else’s use and enjoyment of the Website.
    3. Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on this Website (including without limitation photographs and graphical images) are owned by the Company or its licensors. For the purposes of these Terms, any use of extracts from this Website other than in accordance with term 2.1 above for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of these Terms, your permission to use this Website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from this Website.
    4. Subject to paragraph 2.1, no part of this Website may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without the Company’s prior written permission.
    5. Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.

  3. Visitor material and conduct

    1. Other than personally identifiable information, which is covered under the Privacy Policy, any material you transmit or post to this Website shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. The Company shall have no obligations with respect to such material. The Company and its designees shall be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use such material and all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.
    2. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Website any material:
      1. that is threatening, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory, menacing, scandalous, inflammatory, blasphemous, in breach of confidence, in breach of privacy or which may cause annoyance or inconvenience; or
      2. for which you have not obtained all necessary licences and/or approvals; or
      3. which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party, in the UK or any other country in the world; or
      4. which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data).
    3. You may not misuse the Website (including, without limitation, by hacking).
    4. The Company will fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing the Company to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material in breach of paragraph 3.2 or paragraph 3.3.

  4. Links

    1. Links to third party websites on this Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you leave this Website. The Company has not reviewed all of these third party websites and does not control and is not responsible for these websites or their content or availability. The Company therefore does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.
    2. Links to the Website are not permitted except with prior written permission from CfBT.

  5. Registration

    1. Each registration is for a single user only. The company does not permit you to share your username and/or password with any other person nor with multiple users on a network.
    2. Responsibility for the security of any passwords issued rests with you.

  6. Disclaimer

    1. While the Company endeavours to ensure that the information on this Website is correct, the Company does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material on this Website. The Company may make changes to the material on this Website, at any time without notice. The material on this Website may be out of date, and the Company makes no commitment to update such material.
    2. The material on this Website is provided “as is” basis, without any representations, conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Company provides you with this Website on the basis that the Company excludes all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms (including, without limitation, the conditions implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security, accuracy and the use of reasonable care and skill) which but for these Terms might have effect in relation to this Website.
    3. The Company does not warrant that functions contained in Website content will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected or that the Website or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs. Access to this Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond the Company’s control.
    4. Extracts from this Website may be reproduced for non-commercial research, education or training purposes on the condition that the source is acknowledged as Crown copyright, the publication title is specified, it is reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading context.
    5. The Company wishes to make it clear that the Department and its agents accept no responsibility for the actual content of any materials suggested as information sources in this Website.

  7. Liability

    1. The Company, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering this Website), and any of the Company’s group companies and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in connection with this Website in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of this Website, any websites linked to this Website or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing this Website or your downloading of any material from this Website or any websites linked to this Website.
    2. Nothing in these Terms shall exclude or limit the Company’s liability for:
      1. death or personal injury caused by negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977); or
      2. fraud; or
      3. misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter; or
      4. any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
    3. If your use of material on this Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof.

  8. General

    1. If any of these Terms (or part of any term) is found by any court or other authority of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that term or part of that term shall, to the extent required, be deemed not to form part of these Terms, and the validity and enforceability of the other terms shall not be affected.
    2. The Privacy Policy forms part of these Terms and by your use of this Website you are regarded as having accepted it.
    3. These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law. Disputes arising in connection with this legal notice shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
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