Cleapss.org.uk is a site operated by CLEAPSS ("We"). We are an unincorporated association established by local authority members. Our address is: Units 5 & 6, Chiltern Court, Asheridge Road, Chesham HP5 2PX.

This terms of use (together with the documents referred to in it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website cleapss.org.uk (our site), whether as a guest or a registered user. Use of our site includes accessing, browsing, or registering to use our site.

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, you must not use our site.

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:

• Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
• Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site.

If you are an employee or a student of a full member or an associate member of CLEAPSS, our membership charter shall apply to your use of CLEAPSS services, materials and facilities (including material available on our site) in addition to these terms of use. You can view a copy of our membership charter here: CLEAPSS Membership Charter. In the event of any conflict between our membership charter and these terms of use or any of the other applicable terms referred to above, the membership charter shall prevail to the extent of the conflict.

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page.

We may update our site from time to time, and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions

Our site is made available free of charge.

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted and we will not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at science@cleapss.org.uk.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

If you are an employee or a student of a full member or an associate member of CLEAPSS you may download, use, copy and distribute content from our site in accordance with our membership charter.

Other visitors to our site may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for personal use only.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, or (if applicable to you) our membership charter, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

The content on our site is provided for use only by suitably trained and experienced professionals who are employed or engaged by or on behalf of schools and colleges who are members or associate members of CLEAPSS and who have access to additional advice and guidance from CLEAPSS by means of CLEAPSS helpline.

We make reasonable efforts to ensure that the information on our site is accurate, complete and up-to-date. If any applicable guidance or regulations in the UK change, we will take reasonable steps to update the content of our site and inform our members and associate members accordingly.

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied.

We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

• use of, or inability to use, our site; or
• use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

If you are a business user, please note that in particular, we will not be liable for:

• loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
• business interruption;
• loss of anticipated savings;
• loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
• any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

If you are a consumer user, please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

Our site contains links to third party sites and resources that are editorially relevant to the content which they link from and which we believe are suitable for the likely audience. These links are provided for information purposes only. We do not control the content of those other sites or resources and we assume no responsibility for their content. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

You may link to any page on our site, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. However, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

To contact us, please email science@cleapss.org.uk.

Thank you for visiting our site.