By visiting our website, you agree to these terms
Terms of Use
Swansea Virtual School assists both the local authority and schools in Swansea by strengthening and improving the signposting and provision of resources for distance and blended learning for young people and school staff — in return this improves the outcomes for our city and county.
Introduction
These terms and conditions shall govern your use of the Swansea Virtual School website.
Swansea Virtual School is operated by the Education Directorate at Swansea Council, whose registered office is at Swansea Guildhall, Swansea, SA1 4PE (‘City and County of Swansea’, ‘Swansea Council’, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’).
Please read these terms and conditions (the “Terms”) before using Swansea Virtual School. These Terms apply to the use of the Swansea Virtual School (‘Swansea Virtual School’, ‘this website’) and any associated service:
Should you wish to contact us with regard to these terms and conditions, you may do so by:
- e-mailing us at [email protected], or
- writing to us at Stakeholder and School Support, Education Directorate, Swansea Guildhall, Swansea, SA1 4PE.
By using this website, and in consideration of Swansea Council allowing you access to it, you accept and agree to be bound by these terms and conditions (‘Terms’, ‘Terms of Use’). From time to time we may modify these Terms, so please continue to review them whenever accessing or using the website. You may only use this website if you agree to these terms and conditions and by continuing to use this website you are agreeing to these terms and conditions.
If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use the Swansea Virtual School website.
If you are acting in the course of your employment by or representing another legal entity, you personally warrant and represent to us that you have the authority to accept these terms and conditions on behalf of that entity, and you undertake to abide by these terms and conditions insofar as they are applicable to you as an individual user.
The Swansea Virtual School website and services are designed for the education sector in Wales, a part of the United Kingdom. You must not use our website to enhance any commercial business offerings, or artificial intelligence or language learning models, without our prior written consent.
Consent to use of Website
These provisions apply to use of Swansea Virtual School, some portions of which may be available to non-authenticated visitors and others to authenticated users when logged in to our website.
You may:
- View pages from our website and submit forms on our website using a web browser;
- download pages from our website for caching in a web browser; and
- where authorised by us – use, modify, and maintain the data contained within as part of your employment at or involvement with Swansea Council;
- subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.
You must not:
- Republish material from Swansea Virtual School (including republication on another website);
- sell, rent or sub-license material from our website or services;
- exploit material from this website for a commercial purpose; or
- make use of material from this website for the purposes of training artificial intelligence or language learning models; or
- redistribute material from Swansea Virtual School except where directly related to education, non-profit, and inline with data protection laws as they apply in Wales,
- unless expressly permitted by these terms and conditions.
We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of Swansea Virtual School and related services, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.
Except to the extent required by applicable law, you must not reverse engineer, or attempt to reverse engineer, the software elements of the Swansea Virtual School website.
No Reliance
While Swansea Council has endeavoured to ensure the material accuracy of the information available on Swansea Virtual School, Swansea Council does not guarantee or give any warranty as to the accuracy, timeliness or completeness of any information or material on Swansea Virtual School.
As individual contributors are responsible for informing our staff of any changes to content they have provided to us for display on Swansea Virtual School, Swansea Council cannot accept responsibility if such information is out of date or inaccurate, but will endeavour to correct mistakes in a timely manner.
Swansea Council disclaims all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on resources, information, or materials, by any user or visitor of the Swansea Virtual School website and related services.
We advise you to verify the accuracy of any information before relying on it.
We do not warrant or represent:
- the completeness or accuracy of the information published on this website;
- that the material on this website is up to date; or
- that this website or any service on this website will remain available.
The software that we use to provide Swansea Virtual School is complex. You acknowledge that complex software is never wholly free from bugs, and we give no warranty that our software will be wholly free from such bugs.
We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of this website, and to stop publishing this website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any web application services, or if we stop publishing Swansea Virtual School.
Authorised Users
Parts of the Swansea Virtual School website are restricted to authorised users. Unless you are an authorised user, you have no right to access those parts of the website or services. Any access gained by you may constitute a criminal offence pursuant to the Computer Misuse Act.
Should you access restricted parts of the site by accident, please e-mail us at:
Authorised users may include employees of Swansea Council’s Education Directorate.
Intellectual Property
Swansea Virtual School, including (but not limited to) text, content, software, videos, graphics, photographs, illustrations, artwork, photographs, names, logos, trade marks and other material (‘Content’) is protected by copyrights, database, rights in designs, trade marks and/or other intellectual property rights.
Content includes both content owned or controlled by Swansea Council and content owned or controlled by third-parties and licensed to Swansea Council.
All individual elements making up Swansea Virtual School are copyright works. You agree to abide by all additional copyright notices or restrictions contained in Swansea Virtual School and these terms and conditions.
You may not use any of Swansea Council’s trade marks or trade names without Swansea Council’s consent and you acknowledge that you have no ownership rights in and to any of those names and marks. You agree to notify Swansea Council in writing promptly upon becoming aware of any unauthorised access to or use of Swansea Virtual School by any party or of any claim that Swansea Virtual School or any of the Content infringes any copyright, trade mark, or other contractual, statutory or common law rights of any party.
The Swansea Virtual School logo and brand design belongs to Swansea Council and must not be used without prior consent from the Education Directorate. The logo is available in different formats and sizes if required and where consent has been granted.
We make use of open source and public domain / royalty free artwork to improve the look and feel of Swansea Virtual School. We are grateful to the producers of these items and respect their efforts by providing links below:
- Bootstrap and jQuery,
- WordPress,
- Vector Illustrations by Lukasz Adam, and
- Plausible CE.
External Links
Websites or pages to which Swansea Virtual School is linked are for information only and have not been reviewed by Swansea Council.
Swansea Council has no responsibility for the content of the web sites or pages linked or linking to or from Swansea Virtual School (including related services), and Swansea Council accepts no responsibility or liability for any losses or penalties whatsoever that may be incurred as a result of your clicking through to linked web sites or services.
License Rights
Access to the Swansea Virtual School website and related services is provided on a temporary basis and you acknowledge that you acquire no rights or licences in or to Swansea Virtual School and/or the Content other than the limited right to use Swansea Virtual School in accordance with these Terms and to download on the terms set out in these terms and conditions.
If you are provided with a username, passphrase, or other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to deactivate any username or passphrase if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the Terms.
Other than as set out in this section (or provided by applicable law) you may not copy, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, distribute, make available, adapt, upload, or in any other way exploit any part of Swansea Virtual School.
You may only print copies of Swansea Virtual School web pages for use within your employment at Swansea Council, and provided always that such printed copies are necessary and secured in line with data protection laws as they apply in Wales, within the city and county of Swansea. You agree that you will ensure that:
- the need to print such copies is justified versus the cost of printing; and
- you retain on such printed copy all copyright notices and,
- shall remain bound by the terms of such wording and notices.
Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, you may link to Swansea Virtual School royalty-free, provided always that any link to Swansea Virtual School which is restricted to the general public and is only accessible by authorised users, does not make that part of Swansea Virtual School accessible to any person who is not an authorised user. By linking to any restricted parts of Swansea Virtual School you warrant that only authorised users will be able to access that part of Swansea Virtual School.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission at any time and without notice.
Swansea Virtual School and the information contained therein may not be used to construct a database of any kind without prior consent, nor may Swansea Virtual School be stored (in its entirety or in any part) in databases for access by you or any third party or to distribute.
Permissions
If you would like information about obtaining Swansea Council’s permission to use any of the Content or to insert deep links on your web site to the web pages available on Swansea Virtual School other than as permitted by these Terms, please e-mail [email protected].
Artificial Intelligence bots, applications, and organisations may not make use of restricted content without our prior written consent. Non-restricted content may be used as reference material by non-AI and non-LLM (language learning models) providing it is clearly stipulated that Swansea Virtual School.
Swansea Council are not responsible for the output produced by Artificial Intelligence bots, applications, or organisations.
A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit any third party.
Viruses, Hacking, and Other Offences
You must not misuse Swansea Virtual School 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 Swansea Virtual School or the server on which it is stored and you must not attack Swansea Virtual School by way of a denial of service attack or distributed denial of service attack.
Swansea Council will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial of service attack arising following your use of Swansea Virtual School.
No Warranty
Swansea Virtual School, the Content, and related services are provided “as is” excluding any warranties and conditions of any kind, either express or implied, to the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law including (but not limited to) fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement of proprietary or third party rights. Swansea Council further accepts no responsibility or liability for functions contained on Swansea Virtual School and makes no warranties that Arweinwyr will operate uninterrupted or error-free or that defects will be corrected.
Swansea Council does not warrant that Swansea Virtual School is compatible with your computer equipment or that Swansea Virtual School or its server is free of errors. You should ensure that you have installed up to date virus checking software prior to any internet session and Swansea Council is not liable for any damage you may suffer as a result of such destructive features that may infect your computer or data due to your use of Swansea Virtual School or your downloading any Content from it.
Swansea Council shall not be held responsible for Content provided by third parties. Swansea Council is also not responsible for the reliability or continued availability of the telephone lines and equipment you use to access Swansea Virtual School.
Limitation of Liability
You hereby indemnify us, and undertake to keep us indemnified, against any and all losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute) incurred or suffered by us and arising directly or indirectly out of:
- a breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions; or
- any misuse by you of our website or services.
You acknowledge that your use of Swansea Virtual School, related services, and the Content, is at your own risk. If you are dissatisfied with Swansea Virtual School, the Terms or any of the Content your sole remedy is to discontinue use of Swansea Virtual School. Save in respect of fraud and of personal injury or death to the extent it results from Swansea Council’s negligence, in no event will Swansea Council be liable to you or any third party for any direct, special, indirect, consequential or incidental damages, exemplary or lost profits, or any other damages of any kind whether based in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, even if Swansea Council has been advised of the possibility thereof. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability for consequential or incidental damages, so this limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. If your use of material in Swansea Virtual School results in the need for servicing, repair or connection of equipment, software or data, you assume all costs thereof.
Under no circumstances will Swansea Council be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any Content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, e-mailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via Swansea Virtual School.
Local Laws and Regulations
Swansea Virtual School is not directed at any person outside of the City and County of Swansea, within Wales, a part of the United Kingdom. If you are located outside the United Kingdom you should not access Swansea Virtual School or any related services.
Swansea Virtual School is only intended to be used by people within the United Kingdom. Access outside of the United Kingdom to Swansea Virtual School may not always be possible, may be restricted, and is not guaranteed.
Swansea Council does not represent that either the Swansea Virtual School website or the Content are appropriate for use or permitted by local laws in all jurisdictions. Those who access Swansea Virtual School do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws or regulations; legal advice should be sought in cases of doubt.
These terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by the laws of England and Wales as applied in Wales.
The courts of England and Wales sitting in Wales will have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim that arises out of or in connection with these terms.
Termination and Severability
Swansea Council may terminate these Terms with or without cause at any time.
To the extent that any provision in these Terms is held to be void or unlawful, these Terms will apply as if such term had no effect and the remaining provisions of these Terms shall continue to apply.
Changes to the Website
At any time, Swansea Virtual School may contain material which is out of date. While Swansea Council has no obligation to do so, you accept that Swansea Council have the right to change the content or technical specifications of any aspect of Swansea Virtual School at any time at Swansea Council’s sole discretion. You further accept that such changes may result in your being unable to access the Swansea Virtual School website and related services.
Waiver
No waiver by Swansea Council of any breach of any obligation arising under these Terms shall constitute a waiver of any other breach and no failure to exercise or partial exercise by Swansea Council of any remedy shall constitute a waiver of the right subsequently to exercise that or any other remedy.
Privacy and Data Processing
In addition to the Terms contained herein, access to Swansea Virtual School infers agreement with and compliance to our Privacy Policy.
Accessibility Statement
We have tried to make Swansea Virtual School accessible to as many people as possible.
If you have any comments about the accessibility of Swansea Virtual School, please help us make the site even more accessible by emailing your suggestions to [email protected].
Miscellaneous
Swansea Council shall have no liability for any breach of these Terms caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control.
A person who is not a party to these Terms shall have no right under the Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of these Terms.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
The Terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales as applied in Wales and the parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England and Wales sitting in Cardiff, to settle any dispute or claim that arises out of or in connection with the Terms or its subject matter (included any non-contractual disputes or claims).
