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1. Terms used in this document:
‘We', ‘us’,’ our’ and ‘Mediaedu.co.uk’ refer to the service provider Mediaedu.co.uk. Mediaedu.co.uk is a web based facility owned by Edusites Limited [company number 6190475, Managing Director and principal shareholder Richard Gent] whose address is Orchard House, Golf Lane, Church Brampton, Northampton NN6 8AY.
‘You’ and your’ refer to you, a person who has initiated and followed the online subscription process to the point of payment.
‘Service’ refers to the facility we provide in maintaining this web based service providing staff and students with teaching, learning and revision materials for Media Studies at Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5 and in granting you access to the subscribers’ area.
‘Subscription’ is the annual or other amount payable for access to the service.
‘Fee’ is the annual amount currently payable for the level of service you select.
2.
The contract.
The
contract between you and Mediaedu.co.uk comes into being when we
receive your subscription. From that point the relationship between
you and Mediaedu.co.uk is defined by these Terms and
Conditions.
These Terms and Conditions are the current terms and conditions
covering subscriptions to Mediaedu.co.uk and supersede any previous
terms and conditions. They may be superseded or amended in future
without prior consultation. In the event of such supersession or
amendment at least one calendar month’s prior notice will be
given to our established subscribers.
If any part of this contract is held by any competent authority to
be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part this shall not
affect the validity of the other provisions of this contract, or
the remainder of the provision in question. English law shall apply
to the contract and the parties agree to submit to the jurisdiction
of the English courts.
3.
What we need from you.
To
use Mediaedu.co.uk’s services you will need already to have a
computer, an internet connection, and the necessary software to
browse the internet and access emails. Mediaedu.co.uk is designed
for and tested on Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 and all aspects
of our service run in its default settings. Performance on other
applications cannot be guaranteed.
To
activate our service and gain access to the restricted areas of the
site, in addition to paying the appropriate subscription fee, you
must provide an active email address capable of receiving emails
from Mediaedu.co.uk, and evidence that you are able to receive
emails sent to it, either:
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by clicking the link provided in the welcome email sent to your email address upon receipt of your subscription payment;
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by entering the account activation code also sent in this email in the appropriate form on the website;
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or by sending an email from the account (clearly stating the purpose of the email) which is then received by us.
To access the site you must have provided to us evidence in one of the above ways that the email address you have given is capable of receiving emails.
As
you register, you are asked to choose an appropriate username. You
must never give your username or password out to any person other
than a member of the Mediaedu.co.uk or Edusites Limited staff. You
also agree to never use another person's account for any reason.
You are advised to use a complex and unique password for your
subscription account, to prevent account theft.
4.
Subscriptions.
In
subscribing to Mediaedu.co.uk you will have elected to pay by
PayPal, credit / debit card or cheque. If you have requested PayPal
to transfer the appropriate fee to us from your elected credit or
debit card. It is also possible to make payment using a
debit/credit card.
Online payment is available to individuals purchasing a Student
Subscription and/or Teacher Subscription. Mediaedu.co.uk is at no
time made aware of your card details, and as such is unable to make
direct charges to your card.
Fees may be subject to price changes, but you will be notified in
advance of any alterations and given the opportunity to cancel your
subscription should you so wish.
The fee options are:
Student
Subscription:
£5 per annum per person giving 12 months access to the site. This
subscription is suitable for one-off subscriptions for individual
students. This subscription is an automated process and can be
completed online. This subscription begins with a 24-hour trial
period. It can be cancelled within this time frame on
request.
Teacher
Subscription:
£30 per annum for set up and account management. This subscription
includes one teacher account and a class set of 30 student
accounts, each with it's own username and password. This
subscription includes access to teacher-only
material.
You may cancel your subscription at any time within 14 days of
first activation by logging into Mediaedu.co.uk and clicking the
button/link provided for this purpose. Likewise, you can notify
Mediaedu by email of your cancellation notice within this
period.
Annual
subscriptions terminate after 12 months and need to be renewed by
the account holder at the end of this period should you wish your
access to Mediaedu.co.uk's service to continue. This payment will
not be transferred from your card automatically. It is therefore
your responsibility to contact Mediaedu.co.uk and inform us that
you wish a renewal to be processed. This notification needs to
include all information relevant to the subscription process.
You will receive an email to remind you that your account needs to
be renewed.
When renewing a Student or Teacher Subscription it is, of course,
your responsibility to ensure that sufficient funds are available
in your selected credit/debit card
account.
5.
Account activation and use.
On
receipt of your subscription payment Mediaedu.co.uk will provide
you with the means of activating the service. This will normally be
done by sending an activation code to the email address provided
containing the usernames and passwords you need to access the site.
Activation codes will normally be sent out on receipt of
payment.
In the event that you do not receive the email containing the
activation code we will make every reasonable effort to activate
your access to the service manually for you within five working
days of notification of your problem, combined with proof that the
email address you have provided is capable of receiving emails. To
provide this help we will need a clear and detailed account of the
problem you have experienced.
While your account is open and not contravening any of the terms
laid out in this agreement Mediaedu.co.uk will grant you access to
the subscribers' area of Mediaedu.co.uk via a unique username and
password. While every effort is made to ensure that the site is
available at all times there may be occasions when, due to
unforeseen technical difficulties that may affect the server, the
internet in general, your ISP or other equipment, the site
(including the subscribers' area) may be unavailable to you.
Mediaedu.co.uk makes no representation that the subscribers' area
will be available at all times and accepts no liability for any
temporary unavailability.
After you register and login to the discussion board, you will be
able to fill out a detailed profile.
As part of Mediaedu.co.uk’s ongoing security measures, we
advise all discussion board users to select the ‘hide email
address from public’ feature in Account Related
Settings’ within the ‘Modify Profile’ section of
the discussion board administration area. Acceptance of these Terms
and Conditions confirms that you have read and understood this
advice.
It is your responsibility to present proper and accurate
information. Any information Mediaedu.co.uk or its staff determine
to be inaccurate or vulgar in nature will be removed, without prior
notice.
If
you advise us of difficulty in accessing some or all of the areas
of the site, for which you have subscribed, Mediaedu.co.uk will
test your account, normally within five working days of receipt of
communication from you outlining your problem and providing your
correct username and email address.
In testing your account, Mediaedu.co.uk is obliged to verify that
the restricted area of the site can be accessed over an open
internet connection using your login details when submitted using
Microsoft's Internet Explorer run in its default settings. It must
be recognized that Mediaedu.co.uk cannot offer support or accept
liability for access problems arising from the settings and
configurations of your own software, internet connection and/or
computer.
Once Mediaedu.co.uk has verified that your chosen level of service
can be accessed using the appropriate software and settings it is
your responsibility to ensure that you have the necessary equipment
and configuration to use your account.
No representation is made that accounts can be accessed from any
combination of computer, software, and settings and no subscription
refund can be given for any problems encountered due to the use of
inappropriate software/settings. If your account is tested and
found to be working then any problem you continue to encounter is a
problem with your own equipment and not the responsibility of
Mediaedu.co.uk.
Mediaedu.co.uk will take all reasonable precautions to ensure that
your subscription account is secure and that your personal details
are not accessible to any third party operating in the normal
course of business. Your payment card details, will be held
securely by your elected payment processor, and will not be
available via the Mediaedu.co.uk site. All financial information
exchanges including your card details will be carried out over
secure connections.
Your Mediaedu.co.uk username and password may be sent to you by
standard email. Details of account status and date of termination
can be obtained with your username and password only. Your
Mediaedu.co.uk username and password will not allow any other
subscriber or third party to see your card details, or initiate any
payment on your card.
Mediaedu.co.uk cannot accept responsibility for any unauthorized
access to your subscription details arising from third party
negligence and/or illegal acts including, (but not limited to)
hacking.
Mediaedu.co.uk accepts no responsibility for and cannot be held
liable to you or any third party for any losses including (but not
limited to) any consequential losses arising from loss of data or
the compromising of sensitive data as a result of actions beyond
its control, including (but not limited to) hardware failure,
software failure, or malicious attacks by third parties.
Mediaedu.co.uk will not knowingly discuss or disclose your
subscription account or any of your personal details with or act
upon any request made in relation to your account by any person who
does not provide your full username and password as proof of
identity or subscriber authority.
Mediaedu.co.uk will monitor activity on your account, and if this
activity suggests that your password may have become compromised
access will be suspended to protect your personal details.
Mediaedu.co.uk will then issue you with a new password and
reactivate your account within five working days.
6.
Accuracy of information.
Mediaedu.co.uk
undertakes to provide information that is correct to the best of
its knowledge, information and belief and to follow up any
notifications of errors in a reasonable time frame. However,
Mediaedu.co.uk cannot be held liable to you or any third party for
any errors or inaccuracies in its databases, or any loss that may
arise from a user acting on information provided by Mediaedu.co.uk,
in both cases including (but not limited to) any consequential
losses. Any action you undertake in relation to any information
provided by Mediaedu.co.uk is undertaken entirely at your own
risk.
Accuracy and Intellectual Property Protection
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It is essential that any material or idea you contribute to
Mediaedu.co.uk is checked thoroughly by you prior to submitting it
for publication in electronic or print format in order to avoid any
accidental or intentional inaccuracy, legally actionable defamation
or intellectual property infringement. Any liability arising from
subscriber contributions is entirely the responsibility of the
contributor. Mediaedu.co.uk and Edusites Limited will not accept
responsibility for any inaccuracies, defamation or breach of
intellectual property rights arising as a result of third party
negligence or error.
Account
Misuse -
Mediaedu.co.uk reserves the right to close without warning any
subscription accounts being used for any other purpose than for the
provision of information held in the subscribers' area to the
individual subscriber. Possible forms of misuse include, but are
not restricted to the following:
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Data theft - information provided is for the benefit of the individual subscriber only, and must not be shared, published, or otherwise disseminated in any way;
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Password-sharing - the sharing of login details is strictly prohibited. Our system will detect and automatically suspend accounts being accessed from more than tthree separate locations and/or IP addresses in any given 8 hour period. In such a situation your account will be suspended but your subscription will remain active, and you will be supplied with new login details. Should the situation recur your account will be closed and your subscription may be cancelled;
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Incorrect information - if the information you provide about yourself is false or incorrect you may be denied access to your account or your account may be closed;
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Inappropriate use of Mediaedu.co.uk’s blogs and/or discussion board.
You agree, through your use of Mediaedu.co.uk’s blogs and
discussion board, that you will not post any material which is
false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing,
obscene, profane, promiscuous, sexually oriented, threatening,
invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise in violation of
English law.
You also agree not to contribute any copyrighted material unless
you own the copyright or are able, if required, to provide to us
written consent to that publication from the owner of the
copyrighted material. Spam, flooding, advertisements, chain
letters, pyramid schemes, and other material capable of causing
nuisance to other users of the service, are also forbidden.
It
is not possible for the staff or the owners of
Mediaedu.co.uk’s discussion board to confirm the validity of
posted material. We do not actively monitor the posted messages,
and are not responsible for the content contained within.
We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any
information presented. The posted messages express the views of the
author, and not necessarily the views of Mediaedu.co.uk board, its
staff or subsidiaries. Anyone who feels that a posted message is
objectionable should notify Mediaedu.co.uk promptly.
Mediaedu.co.uk reserves the right to remove objectionable content,
within a reasonable time frame if we consider that removal is
necessary. This is a manual process; please realise that we may not
be able to remove or edit particular messages immediately. This
policy also applies to member profile information.
You remain solely responsible for the content of your posted
messages. Furthermore, you agree to indemnify Mediaedu.co.uk, its
staff, and its subsidiaries in the event of a formal complaint or
legal action arising from any situation caused by your use of this
discussion board. In the event of any compliantaint or threat of
legal action, Mediaedu.co.uk reserves the right to reveal your
identity and any other related information collected on this
service.
With each post, your IP address is recorded, for use in the event
that we need to contact your ISP or to ban you from this discussion
board. The latter will only happen in the event of a major
violation of this agreement. The
software uses a session - a server technology capable of keeping
you logged in from page to page.
7.
Subscription refunds
No refunds will be given for any accounts closed due to
misuse.
Refunds will only be given at the discretion of the company
management, and in circumstances where Mediaedu.co.uk has
significantly failed to fulfill its obligations as laid out in this
agreement. Applications for refunds must be made by email from your
registered email account.
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