Introduction
These terms and conditions govern your use of the following websites:
* please go direct to website for terms and conditions as these sites are run jointly with other organisations.
Please read through them carefully as they affect your rights and liabilities under the law. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not register for, purchase from, or use the above websites. Please contact the web manager should you have any queries, comments or concerns about these sites. Email: webmanager@ssatrust.org.uk
Address: Web manager,Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, 16th Floor Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, London, SW1P 4QP.
The websites are provided to you free of charge for your personal use subject to the terms and conditions. By using the websites of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (‘SSAT’, ‘we’ or ‘us’) you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust is registered in England, company register number 02124695 (VAT number 628225639) registered office Bucklersbury House, 83 Cannon Street, London, EC4N 8PE. Charity number 296729.
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust has a number of sites including the SSAT's corporate website, iNet (international branch), schools network, ICT (Information Communication and Technology) Register, and the joint English-French project. All these websites and services are governed by these terms and conditions.
Please note that Teachnet website is jointly operated with Citigroup and the Dance network website is jointly operated with the Youth Sports Trust and are subject to Terms and Conditions available on the www.teachnet-uk.org.uk website and the www.dancenetwork.org.uk website.
These terms and conditions do not affect your statutory rights.
We suggest you read our privacy policy as they also form part of our terms and conditions.
Copyright
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust wishes to promote educational innovation and good practice wherever possible. Hence, unless otherwise stated, all materials other than SSAT or third party logos or trade marks on this site may be copied for non-commercial educational purposes provided that all copyright and other intellectual property notices are retained, that the materials are not modified and that the source is acknowledged on every occasion.
You do not need to request permission to create a text link from your site to any of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust's web pages for non-commercial educational purposes. However, we would ask you where ever possible to notify us of such linking and not to frame our pages within your own portal navigation, as this approach can prove confusing for the end user. Please do not incorporate our logo into your pages, as this may confuse the viewer as the source of your material. You have no right to use any SSAT materials (including intellectual property rights) except expressly granted by us.
Schools affiliated to the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust are authorised to use the various Specialist Schools and Academies Trust logos. Schools that are a recognised specialist school are authorised to use the specialist schools logos and those schools are registed on the ICT Register are authorised to use the ICT logos. When using logos you must follow the appropriate style guides. To download logos, visit www.schoolsnetwork.org.uk and select 'Resources and logos' from the left hand menu. (You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader Plug-in - Download for free at www.adobe.com). By using this site, you agree to the foregoing.
Intellectual property / trademarks
The content of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust's websites is protected by copyright, trade marks and other intellectual property rights. All these rights in the material contained in these websites belong to the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.
Liability
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust’s websites are provided by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust without any warranties or guarantees. You must bear the risks associated with the use of the internet.
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust websites may provide content from other Internet sites or resources and while the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust tries to ensure that material included on the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust websites is correct, reputable and of high quality, it cannot accept responsibility if this is not the case. The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust will not be responsible for any errors or omissions or for the results obtained from the use of such information or for any technical problems you may experience with our websites. If the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust is informed of any inaccuracies in the material on our websites we will attempt to correct the inaccuracies as soon as we reasonably can.
In particular, we disclaim all liabilities in connection with the following:
- Incompatibility of our websites with any of your equipment, software or telecommunications links
- Technical problems including errors or interruptions of the websites
- Unsuitability, unreliability or inaccuracy of the websites
- Inadequacy of the websites to meet your requirements
To the full extent allowed by applicable law, you agree that we will not be liable to you/or any third party for any consequential or incidental damages (including but not limited to loss of revenue, loss of profits, loss of anticipated savings, wasted expenditure, loss of privacy and loss of data) or any other indirect, special or punitive damages whatsoever that arise out of or are related to the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust’s websites.
Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall exclude the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust’s websites liability for personal injury or death caused by its negligence.
Our acceptance of an order takes place on dispatch of the order, at which point the purchase contract will be made and you will be charged for your order.
Your conduct
You must not use the website in any way that causes, or is likely to cause, the website or access to it to be interrupted, damaged or impaired in any way.
You understand that you, and not our websites, are responsible for all electronic communications and content sent from your computer to us and you must use the website for lawful purposes only.
You must not use the website for any of the following:
- For fraudulent purposes, or in connection with a criminal offence or other unlawful activity
- To send, use or reuse any material that is illegal, offensive, abusive, indecent, defamatory, obscene or menacing; or in breach of copyright, trademark, confidence, privacy or any other right; or is otherwise injurious to third parties; or objectionable; or which consists of or contains software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any ‘spam’
- To cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety
Please see our editorial policy for our policy and guidance on writing content for our websites.
Links to other websites
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust websites contain many links to other sites. The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust is not responsible for the privacy practices or for the validity or content of such websites. Please check with those sites to determine their privacy policy. The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust does not share any of the individual personal information that you provide with the sites to which our site links and nor do we accept responsibility or otherwise endorse any information contained in the sites linked from within these pages.
Third party contributions
Some pages on the site may contain articles or issues contributed by third party authors - any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.
Website security
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust has in place and maintains physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your information and our websites. We arrange for our network traffic to be monitored, to investigate or detect unauthorised users and attacks on the websites. We have taken precautions to minimise the risk of transmitting software viruses, but we strongly advise that you carry out your own virus checks on downloadable files available on the site. We cannot accept liability for any loss or damage caused by software viruses that may have been encountered during use of this site, or any related site.
When registering to the site you must be aware that the information you submit will be insecure and could be observed by a third party while in transit. Do not submit information you would like to keep private.
Applicable law
This agreement is deemed to be made in England and is subject to English law and the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts. Any disputes that arise will be decided only by the English courts.
International use
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust makes no promises that materials on its websites are appropriate or available for use in locations outside the United Kingdom, and accessing the websites from territories where its content are illegal or unlawful is prohibited. If you choose to access this site from locations outside the United Kingdom, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws. The exception is the iNet website, which is our international resource.
Matters beyond our control
Neither party is liable for any breach of this agreement that is caused by a matter beyond its reasonal control, including acts of God, fire, lightning, explosion, war, flood, industrial disputes, sabotage, extremely severe weather or act of local or central government or other competent authorities.
Changes to the privacy statement
We may change our privacy statement from time to time. If it does change in anyway, then we will replace this page with the new version. You may wish to review this page to ensure you are up to date with what personal information we collect and why.
Comments or feedback
We would be happy to deal with any concerns, comments or suggestions about our websites. Please contact the webmanager@ssatrust.org.uk, or write to: Web Manager, Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, 16th Floor Millbank Tower, 21-24 Millbank, London, SW1P 4QP.
Your account
If you use the website, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer to prevent unauthorised access to your account. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. You should take all necessary steps to ensure that the password is kept confidential and secure and should inform us immediately if you have any reason to believe that your password has become known to anyone else, or if the password is being, or is likely to be, used in an unauthorised manner.
Please ensure that the details you provide us with are correct and complete and inform us immediately of any changes to the information that you provided when registering. You can access and update much of the information you provided us with in the login area of the website.
We reserve the right to refuse access to the website, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders at our discretion. If we cancel an order, it will be without charge to you.
Chat rooms / discussion forum rules
We offer our subscribers access to the chat rooms / discussion forums. The chat rooms / discussion forums are a place where subscribers can post and read messages. There is no extra charge for using the chat rooms / discussion forums. You may use the chat rooms / discussion forums to ask questions on educational issues and get answers from other subscribers. Subject to the following restrictions, you will be free to post messages about issues of interest and/or concern.
If you choose to post a message you may disclose personal data about yourself to other subscribers in the discussion (who may be outside the European Economic Area), but you must not, through using the chat rooms / discussion forums, collect, store, or otherwise process personal data about other subscribers to our websites. We reserve the right to remove any message posted on the chat rooms / discussion forums.
If, while using our chat rooms / discussion forums, you discover anyone in breach any of clauses, you shall inform us straight away.
The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust shall not have any liability to you in respect of any messages posted by other subscribers to our websites.
Your obligations
You must comply with any laws local to you wherever you are physically present when you access the chat rooms / discussion forums or post or read a message.
You must treat everything you read or post as private and confidential to the chat rooms / discussion forums and other subscribers to our websites.
You are responsible for ensuring that any message that you post on the chat rooms / discussion forums is free from any error.
Prohibitions
You must not publish, post, distribute, disseminate, or otherwise transmit anything that: offends common standards of courtesy or decency; is reasonably likely to breach technology export restrictions or financial services laws or to be invasive of privacy; is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, blasphemous, seditious, objectionable; or is unlawful, offensive, or regarded as such for racial, ethnic, or sexual reasons.
Advertising, chain messages, spam, and press releases are prohibited on the chat rooms / discussion forums. You must not use the chat rooms / discussion forums to infringe the rights of any third party, including, but not limited to, any patent or trade mark or trade secret, or to break any copyright restrictions on anything said or repeated on the chat rooms / discussion forums.
You must not use the chat rooms / discussion forums to: access and/or use confidential information; attempt to discover and/or use the password and account details of another subscriber; or attempt to impersonate any other person.
Name
You confirm that you are the owner of, or that you have been authorised by the owner to use, any trade mark or name requested by or allocated to you.
We cannot guarantee that any name requested by you will be available or approved for use.
If we have reasonable grounds for thinking that the name you have chosen is in breach of clause 13.1 above, we may ask you to choose a replacement name.
Duration of service
Your use of our websites shall continue until terminated by either you or us, giving at least seven days' notice to the other. Any notice of cancellation you send us takes effect on the last day of the month it is received by us.
Assignment
You shall not assign or otherwise transfer this agreement to any other person without obtaining our prior written consent. We reserve the right to assign all or part of this agreement at any time to any company or person.
e-shop ordering
If for any reason a customer is unhappy with their purchase, they can return it to us in original condition within 30 days of receipt and we will issue a full refund.
Refunds will be made in the same form of payment originally used for purchase within three weeks of receiving the return.
If a customer receives an item that is incorrect, damaged, damaged or defective, we will reimburse costs incurred by returning it to us and offer a refund or exchange.
We will check all items returned as damaged or defective. In the event we find no fault, we reserve the right to re-charge for the item(s) and to recover our fees and expenses.
By law, customers located within the European Union also have the right to withdraw from the purchase of an item within seven working days (known as ‘cooling off’ period) of delivery.
This will not affect a customer’s statutory rights.
Events bookings
Cancellations made more than 8 weeks before the event incur a 50% cancellation charge.
Cancellations made less than 8 weeks before the event incur 100% of the event charge.
Where an event is free of charge, cancellation charges for any hotel accommodation associated with the event, may be incurred in accordance with the general cancellation policy.
All cancellations must be made in writing.
Replacement delegates may be nominated in writing at any time prior to the start of the event.
If, for any reason, the SSAT needs to cancel the event, delegates will be notified in writing and events fees will be fully refunded.
Web Manager
Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
