Teaching Community Terms and Conditions

These terms and conditions (Terms) govern your access to and use of the EduShare.UK community platform (Community).

The Community is operated by Getech Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 02436537 whose registered office is at Solutions Centre, Knightsdale Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 4JQ (Getech, we, us and our).

By joining, accessing or using the Community, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you must not access or use the Community.

You confirm that you access and use the Community wholly or mainly for purposes relating to your trade, business, craft or profession and not as a consumer.

We may publish community guidelines, acceptable use rules or similar standards from time to time (Community Guidelines). Any Community Guidelines form part of these Terms. If there is any conflict between these Terms and the Community Guidelines, these Terms will take priority.

Additional terms may apply to particular paid, premium or other additional services (Additional Terms). We will make any applicable Additional Terms available before you purchase or use the relevant service. If there is any conflict between these Terms and the Additional Terms, the Additional Terms will take priority in relation to that service.

The Community is designed as a collaborative professional community for teachers and other education professionals. Its purpose is to enable members to:

The Community may include:

The Community operates on a collaborative basis. Where you submit materials to an area of the Community intended for sharing and reuse by other members, those materials will be made available to other members and may be used by them in accordance with section 8 of these Terms.

To become and remain a member of the Community, you must:

Membership is personal to you and is not transferable. You must not permit another person, including any pupil or student, to use your account or access credentials.

You are responsible for keeping your account and access credentials secure and must notify us promptly if you know or suspect that another person has obtained unauthorised access to your account.

You must ensure that any information you provide to us in connection with your membership is accurate and kept reasonably up to date. We may ask you to provide information reasonably required to verify your identity, age or eligibility to use the Community, and we may suspend or restrict your access while we carry out those checks.

We may refuse an application for membership or impose reasonable conditions on access to the Community.

You are responsible for ensuring that your access to and use of the Community complies with any policies, approvals or other requirements of your employer, school, academy trust or other organisation.

The Community is intended to be a supportive and collaborative professional environment. You must treat other members respectfully and use the Community in a manner consistent with that purpose.

You must not use the Community to upload, publish, transmit, communicate or otherwise make available anything that:

You must not:

You must not use the Community to disclose personal or confidential information unless you are lawfully entitled to disclose it and doing so is appropriate to the context of the Community.

In particular, you must not upload or disclose through the Community:

Where materials are based on real-world educational examples, you must ensure that they do not identify, and cannot reasonably be used to identify, any pupil or student before uploading them to the Community.

You are responsible for complying with any obligations you owe to your employer, school, academy trust or other organisation in relation to confidentiality, intellectual property, information security and use of technology.

Content made available in communal areas of the Community should not be treated as confidential. You must not share anything which you do not want other members to access or, where content is submitted as Shared Materials, use in accordance with section 8 of these Terms. We cannot control copies of content lawfully made by other members before that content is removed.

You may upload, submit, post, share or otherwise make available content through the Community, including teaching materials, code, prompts, templates, documents, images, presentations, software, comments, messages and ideas (Member Content).

Some areas of the Community are intended specifically for members to contribute teaching materials, code and other resources for reuse by the wider Community. Member Content submitted through those areas or otherwise clearly identified as being submitted for community reuse is referred to in these Terms as Shared Materials. Comments, messages and other discussion content are not Shared Materials unless clearly identified as being submitted for community reuse.

You retain any intellectual property rights that you own in your Member Content. Nothing in these Terms transfers ownership of your Member Content to Getech or another member.

By submitting Member Content, you warrant that:

Access to material through your employment or another third party does not itself give you the right to submit it to the Community.

By submitting Shared Materials, you instruct us to make them available to other members and grant the licences set out in sections 7 and 8 of these Terms. You must not submit material as Shared Materials if you do not want other members to use it on that basis.

If Shared Materials include material subject to separate third-party, open-source or other licence terms, you must clearly identify those terms when submitting the Shared Materials. You can only grant rights under these Terms to the extent that you are entitled to do so.

By submitting Member Content to the Community, you grant Getech a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, display, transmit, communicate, make available and otherwise use that Member Content to the extent reasonably necessary to:

The licence in section 7.1 of these Terms includes the right to grant Google and our other service providers any limited sublicences reasonably necessary to provide, host, support or secure the Community on our behalf.

The licence in section 7.1 of these Terms allows us to reproduce, display and demonstrate Shared Materials in promotional materials and demonstrations relating to the Community. It does not allow us to sell or license your Shared Materials as a standalone product or use them to advertise or promote any unrelated product or service without your separate permission.

Shared Materials may continue to be available through the Community after you stop using it or your membership ends, unless you remove them using functionality made available for that purpose before your membership ends or we otherwise agree to remove them. Section 18 of these Terms explains what happens to Shared Materials and their attribution when an account is closed or membership ends.

If Member Content is removed from the Community, we may retain copies for a reasonable period in backups or where reasonably required for legal, regulatory, security or record-keeping purposes. Any such retained copies will not continue to be made available to other members unless required by law.

Removal of Shared Materials does not revoke rights already granted to another member under section 8 of these Terms.

By submitting Shared Materials, you grant each member who lawfully accesses those Shared Materials through the Community a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free and perpetual licence to download, reproduce, use, run, modify, adapt and incorporate those Shared Materials into other materials solely for Permitted Educational Use. This licence also permits a member to submit an adapted version of the Shared Materials back to the Community as Shared Materials in accordance with these Terms, including by granting the licences in sections 7 and 8 in respect of that adapted version.

Permitted Educational Use means use by a teacher or other education professional in the ordinary course of:for or within a school, college, academy trust or other educational institution. Such use will not be treated as commercial merely because the relevant institution charges fees, receives funding or otherwise operates on a commercial basis.

Permitted Educational Use does not include the right to:

Rights in any third-party material incorporated into Shared Materials remain subject to the applicable third-party licence terms. The licence in section 8.1 of these Terms only grants rights which the contributor is entitled to grant.

Shared Materials may be made available under separate licence terms, including recognised open-source or Creative Commons licences, where those terms are clearly identified when the Shared Materials are submitted. Where separate licence terms apply, they will prevail over this section 8 to the extent of any conflict.

To the extent that you have any moral rights in Shared Materials, you consent to those Shared Materials being edited, adapted and combined with other materials as permitted by this section 8 and agree not to assert those rights solely to prevent those permitted uses.

If you wish to use Shared Materials outside the licence granted by this section 8, you are responsible for obtaining any additional permission required directly from the relevant rights holder.

All intellectual property rights in materials, content, software, branding, documentation and other resources which Getech creates or makes available through the Community independently of Member Content (Getech Materials) belong to Getech or its licensors.

Subject to these Terms and any specific licence terms applying to particular Getech Materials, we grant you a non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-transferable and revocable licence to download, reproduce, use and run Getech Materials solely for Permitted Educational Use.

The licence in section 9.2 of these Terms does not permit you to:

We may specify different licence terms for particular Getech Materials. Where we do, those specific licence terms will apply to those materials instead of, or in addition to, this section 9 as stated.

The Community may contain Member Content and other materials created wholly or partly using artificial intelligence, including tools provided by Google or other third parties.

If you use an AI tool to create or assist with Member Content, you are responsible for reviewing that content before submitting it to the Community and for ensuring that it complies with these Terms, including the requirements of sections 5 and 6 of these Terms.

You acknowledge that AI-generated or AI-assisted content may be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, unoriginal or subject to third-party rights. You must not assume that the use of an AI tool gives you ownership of, or the right to use or share, its output.

You are responsible for complying with any terms, policies or other requirements applicable to any AI or other third-party tool that you use to create Member Content.

If the Community provides a field, label or other means of identifying material as AI-generated or AI-assisted, you must use it accurately.

Getech does not warrant the accuracy, originality or ownership status of any AI-generated or AI-assisted content made available through the Community.

We operate moderation processes to support the Community standards set out in these Terms. Shared Materials will be reviewed before they are made available to other members, and we may also moderate discussions, other Member Content and member activity.

Where required by applicable law, our moderation processes are designed to minimise the time for which:and to swiftly remove illegal content where we are alerted to it or otherwise become aware of it.

We do not undertake to review every item of Member Content before it is published and do not guarantee that inappropriate, unlawful or otherwise non-compliant content will not appear on the Community.

We may:

We may take action under section 11.4 of these Terms where we reasonably consider that:

Our review, moderation or decision to allow Member Content to remain available does not mean that we:

Members remain responsible for their own Member Content at all times.

Members and other persons affected by content or activity on the Community may report content or activity which they believe:by flagging the relevant content as inappropriate through the Community or emailing the site administrators at mhutchings@getecheducation.com and mwadmin@getecheducation.com.

Reports should include sufficient information to allow us to identify and assess the relevant content or activity and understand the concern being raised.

We may investigate a report, request further information and take such action as we reasonably consider appropriate, including any action described in section 11.4 of these Terms.

Members and other persons affected by content or activity on the Community may raise a complaint by emailing Qualitycompliance@getech.co.uk if they are dissatisfied with how we have dealt with a report or consider that we have not complied with our legal obligations relating to illegal content, reporting or complaints. Members may also complain about a moderation decision affecting them or their Member Content.

We will operate our reporting and complaints processes in accordance with applicable law. We may not always be able to provide full details of an investigation or outcome where doing so could prejudice another person's rights, confidentiality or safety, or an ongoing investigation.

We may preserve, disclose or report Member Content or information relating to member activity to law enforcement, a regulator or another competent authority where we consider this appropriate or are legally required to do so.

If a matter involves an immediate risk of harm or a safeguarding emergency, you should use the appropriate safeguarding or emergency channels rather than relying solely on the Community reporting process.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, Getech does not approve, endorse or verify Member Content and does not guarantee that it:

You are responsible for reviewing and assessing any materials before relying on or using them, including determining whether they are suitable for your intended purpose.

You are responsible for reviewing, testing and taking appropriate security precautions before running or deploying any code, scripts, software or other technical materials obtained through the Community. We do not guarantee that such materials are free from defects, vulnerabilities, malicious code or other security risks merely because they have been made available through the Community.

The Community and its materials are intended to support, and not replace, your professional judgment or any applicable safeguarding processes, educational policies or institutional requirements.

The Community may operate using or integrate with services provided by Google and other third parties (Third-Party Services).

Your access to or use of Third-Party Services may be subject to separate terms and policies between you and the relevant provider.

To the extent permitted by law, we are not responsible for the availability, security, functionality or performance of Third-Party Services where these are outside our reasonable control.

We may change the technology or Third-Party Services used to provide the Community from time to time. The availability or functionality of the Community may be affected if any Third-Party Service is changed, restricted, withdrawn or otherwise becomes unavailable to us.

We process personal data in connection with the Community in accordance with our Privacy Notice, available through the Privacy link on the Community.

Certain profile and Community activity information, including your display name, contributions, comments, stars or votes, activity points, badges and leaderboard position, may be visible to other members by default. Where profile settings allow, you may hide selected profile details, but this will not remove Member Content which you have published.

We may send you service communications reasonably necessary to administer your membership or operate the Community. These are separate from marketing communications.

We will only send you marketing communications, including invitations to Getech events, where you have consented to receive them.

You may change your marketing preferences or withdraw your consent at any time using the method stated in the relevant communication. This will not affect service communications which are reasonably necessary to administer your membership or operate the Community.

We do not guarantee that the Community will always be available or that access to it will be uninterrupted or error-free.

We may develop, change, add to, restrict, suspend or remove features or functionality of the Community from time to time, including for:

We may discontinue all or part of the Community by giving members reasonable notice where reasonably practicable.

We are not responsible for any inability to access the Community caused by circumstances outside our reasonable control.

The Community is not intended to be a permanent storage or backup service. You should keep your own copies of any Member Content or other materials which are important to you.

We may introduce different membership tiers, paid or premium services, additional functionality, Getech Materials, support, download or usage limits, credits, tokens or other features or services from time to time.

Access to particular features, Getech Materials or services may depend on your eligibility, membership tier or payment of applicable charges. We may apply reasonable limits to their use, including limits relating to downloads, storage, functionality, support, credits or usage.

Before you purchase or subscribe to a paid or premium service, we will make available details of the applicable:

Any Additional Terms will govern payment, renewal, cancellation, refunds and any other service-specific rights or obligations relating to the relevant paid or premium service.

Nothing in this section 17 revokes any rights already granted to you in Shared Materials under section 8 of these Terms.

You may stop using the Community at any time and start the account deletion process through the Profile page of the Community. We may ask you to confirm your identity and intention before completing the deletion process. If you use a paid or premium service, any cancellation or refund rights will be governed by the applicable Additional Terms.

Following an administrator investigation, where we reasonably consider that you have breached these Terms or the Community Guidelines, we may issue you with a disciplinary strike.

If we issue:

We may suspend or restrict your access immediately while we investigate a matter where we reasonably consider this necessary because:

Following an administrator investigation, we may permanently terminate your membership without first applying the two-strike process where we reasonably consider that the relevant breach or activity is sufficiently serious to justify immediate termination. We may also terminate your membership immediately where required to do so by law or by a competent authority.

If you have not logged into the Community:

We may otherwise terminate or withdraw your membership on reasonable notice, subject to any applicable Additional Terms.

Where your account is closed or your membership ends:

Following a permanent ban for misuse, we may retain the email address used to register your account for up to 24 months solely to prevent re-registration and protect the integrity and safety of the Community. We will not use that email address for marketing, Community participation, profiling or any other purpose. Any retention beyond 24 months will only take place where there is a continuing lawful need and that retention has been documented and reviewed in accordance with our Privacy Notice.

Closure or termination of your membership does not affect any rights already granted under sections 7 and 8 of these Terms.

You will indemnify Getech against any losses, liabilities, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal and professional costs) reasonably suffered or incurred by Getech as a result of a third-party claim arising directly from your breach of any of the provisions of section 6.4 of these Terms.

We will take reasonable steps to notify you promptly of any claim for which we seek an indemnity under this section 19 and to mitigate any losses arising from it.

We will take reasonable account of your views in relation to the defence or settlement of any claim. You must not agree any settlement which imposes an obligation on Getech or includes an admission by Getech without our prior written consent.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability which cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for:

Subject to section 20.1 of these Terms, Getech will not be liable for:

Subject to section 20.1 of these Terms and any applicable Additional Terms, Getech's total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with the Community and these Terms in any period of 12 months will not exceed the greater of:

Nothing in these Terms makes Getech responsible for any obligations which apply to you, your employer, school, academy trust or other educational institution.

We may update these Terms from time to time to reflect:

Where a change materially affects your rights or obligations, we will take reasonable steps to notify you before the change takes effect.

By continuing to use the Community after updated Terms take effect, you agree to the updated Terms. If you do not agree to them, you must stop using the Community.

Changes affecting a paid or premium service may also be subject to any change, cancellation or termination rights set out in the applicable Additional Terms.

Entire Agreement: These Terms, the Community Guidelines and any applicable Additional Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and Getech relating to your use of the Community and any service to which the Additional Terms apply.

No Partnership or Agency: Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, employment or agency relationship between you and Getech.

Assignment: You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms.

No Waiver: A failure or delay in exercising a right under these Terms does not waive that right.

Severance: If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in force.

Third-Party Rights: No person other than you and Getech has any right to enforce these Terms under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction: These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them are governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms.