EXISTING PLATFORM PROVIDED BY HOMESCHOOL LIFE
TERMS OF SERVICE
Homeschool Family
Introduction:
This document outlines the Terms of Service for using Homeschool-Life.com™. By accessing or using Homeschool-Life.com you are agreeing to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth below. This agreement is between the homeschool group leadership and site administrators that sign up to use Homeschool-Life.com for their group website (the “Subscriber”) and Life-Sites.com, developer of Homeschool-Life.com (the “Provider”). The goal of this document is to outline the expectations and acceptable use of Homeschool-Life.com.Use of Homeschool-Life.com does not require a long-term contract. The agreement is annual. We are confident that any homeschool group leadership and/or site administrators that use the system will be extremely pleased with its capabilities and flexibility to allow almost anyone to manage website content and functionality.
1. Purpose of Agreement:
Subscriber desires to utilize Provider's Web services for the purpose of maintaining a presence on the Internet. Provider will provide services according to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
2. Services to be Provided:
Provider agrees to provide Subscriber with family access to Homeschool-Life.com for the purpose of joining their respective homeschool group website. Homeschool-Life.com will provide all the necessary system requirements to run this application on the World Wide Web.
3. Payment:
Subscriber agrees to pay annual fees specified by Homeschool-Life.com management. Price per family is established annually. Additional, per-family fees may be charged when families are added between annual renewal dates. Provider reserves the right to suspend or discontinue service for any Subscriber who is more than 21 days past due for services rendered.
4. Termination:
Homeschool-Life.com retains the right to terminate the service of any client who infringes or violates any terms of service listed here.
5. Subscriber Obligations:
The Subscriber agrees to use the system as defined by this agreement. The Subscriber recognizes Homeschool-Life.com’s need to uphold the law and website standards set forth in this agreement. The Subscriber therefore agrees to the following:All content uploaded to the Subscriber's website is the property of the Subscriber's homeschool group, or the Subscriber has obtained official permission from the content's rightful owner to display the content. This 'content' includes, but is not limited to: copyrights, trademarks, patents, graphics, photos, logos, intellectual property, written articles, or text of any kind that was taken from a third-party source. Provider is not responsible for copyright infringements or other violations committed by the Subscriber.The Subscriber will adhere to all Federal, State, and Local laws concerning the collection and dissemination of personal information taken from users through Subscriber's site.Will not use any of Homeschool-Life.com™ to send unsolicited emails, otherwise known as spamming.Will not post any content that is considered illegal under the law.Will not post any content that can be considered obscene, profane, libelous, or racist in nature.Will not post any content that is pornographic.Will not post any programs or files that are protected by copyrights against duplication.Will not post any programs that are malicious in nature, i.e. virus, worm, etc...
6. Ownership:
The System - The Provider owns all rights to all files, technology, and branding that comprises the Homeschool-Life.com application and any associated graphics or graphical templates.The Content - The Subscriber owns any content that is input to the Homeschool-Life.com application by the user. The Subscriber is therefore liable for all content on the site.Both the Provider and the Subscriber agree to protect the information and rights each has in regards to The System and The Content. The Subscriber further agrees that Homeschool-Life.com, its structure and applications, are the sole property of Life-Sites.com and that the Subscriber will not use its own access or give access to any third party to view Homeschool-Life.com to reverse-engineer any portion, in part or in whole, of Homeschool-Life.com.
7. Limited Warranty and Liability:
Your use of the Provider Service is at your sole risk. Homeschool-Life.com is provided 'as is' without any warranties and on an “as available” basis. Life-Sites.com is not liable for any network, hardware, or software failures. If a Subscriber is dissatisfied with the service, the Subscriber can cancel the service with written notification to the Provider. The Provider will not refund the service fees for any prepaid months. Other than the foregoing, no warranty is made by Life-Sites.com regarding any information, service or product provided through, in connection with, or located on the computers of LifeSites.com, and Life-Sites.com hereby expressly disclaims any and all warranties, including without limitation: (i) any warranties as to the availability, accuracy, or content of information, products, or services, and (ii) any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
8. Prohibition of Illegal Content and Activity:
Subscriber agrees to abide by all copyright, obscenity, and other laws governing content of publications in the United States of America and the State of Colorado. Furthermore, Subscriber agrees that Provider shall in no way be liable or held legally accountable for the content of Subscriber's materials or information stored on or transmitted from Provider's computers. If in the opinion of Provider's legal counsel, Subscriber's materials or information violate federal or state law, said materials may be removed or the website shutdown without warning or compensation.
9. Agreement Period:
This agreement is in force as long as the Subscriber is using Provider's services. Either party may terminate this agreement by giving 30 days' advance written notice to the other party. If neither party provides the other with a 30-day advance written notice of intent to terminate this agreement, it shall be automatically extended for the next month under the same terms of this agreement. This requirement of written notice shall not apply to termination of service by Provider in case of either late or non-payment as described in section 3 above, or of illegal activity as described in sections 5 and 8 above.
10. Termination of Agreement:a.Each party has the right to terminate this Agreement upon 30 days' written notice to the other party.b.Upon termination of this Agreement for any reason, each party shall be released from all obligations and liabilities to the other occurring or arising after the date of termination.
11. Links:
This service may provide links to third party web sites. Provider has no control over these sites and is not responsible for their availability, does not endorse them, and is not responsible or liable for any content, goods, or services available from these sites. Provider will not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any content, goods, or services available through these sites.
12. Trademarks and Copyrights:
The trademarks, logos, and service marks (“Marks”) displayed on this Site are the property of Homeschool-Life.com. You are not permitted to use the Marks without the prior written consent of Homeschool-Life.com. All information, text, video, audio, and other content on the Site, including all associated intellectual property rights, are the property of Homeschool-Life.com and are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws.
13. Privacy Statement:
Homeschool-Life.com is the sole owner of the information collected on this website. Homeschool-Life.com does not collect personal information about you except in the following circumstances: Information your internet browser may automatically send to us such as your IP address and/or the IP address of the server you linked from. This information is only used for troubleshooting and systems administration purposes. We do not log IP addresses to track your session nor do we link IP addresses to anything that is personally identifiable. This data allows us to evaluate our website usage and make the site more useful to those who visit us. Information you provide to us in an email or attachment. Information you provide to us on a form or website questionnaire. As permitted by law. For example, we may provide the information in response to a subpoena, a law enforcement or governmental agency request, or a court order. The privacy and protection of your personal information is of utmost importance to us. Homeschool-Life.com will make every effort to protect your privacy and use the information collected only for the specific purpose for which it was intended.
14. Indemnity:
Subscriber will indemnify and hold Provider and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of Subscriber’s use of the Service, Subscriber’s violation of the Terms, or Subscriber’s violation of any rights of a third party.
15. General Provisions:a.This Agreement is the sole and entire Agreement between the parties relating to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes all understandings, agreements and documentation relating to such subject matter. Life-Sites.com reserves the right to make amendments to this agreement at its sole discretion.b.If any provision in this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force without being impaired or invalidated in any way.c.This Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of Colorado. The parties herein agree that the proper venue for any dispute shall be Colorado Springs, CO. The Subscriber understands that they are solely responsible for compliance with C.R.S.§ 22-33-104.5 and as such hold Provider harmless for any failure on the part of the Subscriber to comply with such statute or other similar statues in other jurisdictions.d.This Agreement does not create any agency or partnership relationship.
NEW TERMS OF SERVICE ACTIVE SEPTEMBER 2022
1. Identification of the Website Owner
Name of the institution: The Polaris School
– Email: info@thepolaris.school
– URL: www.thepolaris.school
2. Purpose
The purpose of this Website is to offer users access to our educational services.
3. Conditions of Use
Access to the website gives you the status of User, and implies the knowledge and unconditional acceptance of all clauses and conditions of use that are included in the Website Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy pages. These pages aim to inform users of the rights, uses, prohibitions, responsibilities, and other circumstances that govern when browsing the Website.
If you are not satisfied with these clauses and conditions, please refrain from using this website.
Access to this website does not imply, in any way, a business relationship with the person responsible for the website.
4. User Consideration
A User will be defined as the person who accesses, browses and uses the Website, the services and / or the contents housed therein.
Navigation, access and use of the Website does not require prior registration. However, there are certain services offered through it, whose access will necessarily be conditional on the registration and acceptance of the particular conditions that will govern the aforementioned service.
The Owner reserves the right to withdraw any User comments that violate current legislation, injure the rights or interests of third parties, or that, in his opinion, are not suitable for publication.
The Owner will not be responsible for the opinions expressed by users through the comment system, social networks or other participation tools, in accordance with the provisions of the applicable regulations.
Through this website, the Owner facilitates the access and use of various content that the Owner or his collaborators have published. To this end, you are obliged NOT to use any of the contents of the website for illegal purposes or effects; in prohibition of this Legal Notice or current legislation; if harmful to the rights and interests of third parties; or that in any way may damage, disable, overload, deteriorate or prevent the normal use of content, computer equipment or documents, files and all kinds of content stored on any computer equipment owned or contracted by the Owner, other users or any user of the Internet.
The Website owner is not responsible for any misuse that the user may make of the website, or the availability and continuity of access to the contents of the website.
The insertion, link or mention of any advertising, directly or indirectly, in the services that the entity makes available to you on this Website is expressly prohibited.
The user will be liable for damages of any kind that the owner may suffer as a result of non-compliance due to malpractice of the services and / or improper use of the contents as well as those derived from legislation, international standards and actions taken in the national and / or international jurisdiction.
Access to the Website by minors will be understood to be expressly authorised by their parents, guardians or their legal representatives, who are deemed responsible for the acts that minors carry out as Users of the Website in accordance with the applicable regulations.
5. Security measures
The Owner is responsible for all technical, organisational and security measures in relation to personal data that you may provide, and guarantees the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information contained therein in accordance with the provisions of Electronic Commerce (Directive 2000/31/EC) and its United Kingdom implementing regulations (the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002).
However, you must be aware that the security measures of computer systems on the Internet are not entirely reliable and that, therefore, the Owner cannot guarantee the absolute impregnability of the Internet network and therefore the violation of data through fraudulent access to them by third parties.
6. Personal data
When it is necessary to provide personal data to access certain content or services, Users will guarantee its truthfulness, accuracy, authenticity and validity. The company will give said data the corresponding automated processing according to its nature or purpose, in the terms indicated in the Privacy Policy section of this website. Personal data will be processed in accordance with the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of April 27, 2016, regarding the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free circulation of these data (GDPR), and the Data Protection Act 2018.
7. Intellectual and Industrial Property Rights
The Website Owner has the corresponding license to use the intellectual and industrial property exploitation rights of the Website, as well as the content available through it. In no case, will it be understood that allowing users to access the Website implies a waiver, transmission, license or assignment, in whole or in part, of said rights by the Owner.
It is expressly forbidden to delete, evade or manipulate any data identifying the rights of the owner of the website or owners of other information incorporated into the content, as well as technical protection devices, or any information and / or identification mechanisms that are incorporated into the content.
Likewise, it is prohibited to modify, copy, reuse, exploit, reproduce, publicly communicate, make second or subsequent publications, upload files, send by mail, transmit, use, process or distribute in any way all or part of the contents included in this Website for public or commercial purposes if you do not have the express written authorisation of the owner or, where appropriate, of the owner of the corresponding rights.The website domain of the owner, as well as associated domains, may not be used in connection with other content, products or services that are not owned by the owner, when such action may cause confusion amongst end users. The owner reserves the right to use the domain in the commercial sphere in which its owner carries out his activities and related fields. In the same way, it reserves the right to prevent the use of domains derived from them that, due to their similarity, may mislead or confuse the signs, names or business origin of the services.
8. Links of interest to other websites
The Owner may provide you with access to third-party websites through links in order to inform about the existence of other sources of information in which you can expand the data offered on the website.
These links to other websites do not suppose in any case a suggestion or recommendation for you to visit the destination web pages, which are beyond the control of the Owner. The Owner is not responsible for the content of the linked websites or the results you get by following the links.
Likewise, the Owner is not responsible for the links located on the linked websites to which it provides access.
The establishment of the link does not imply in any case the existence of relations between the Owner and the owner of the site where the link is established, nor the acceptance or approval by the Owner of its contents or services.
If you access an external website from a link found on the Website, you should read the privacy policy of the other website, which may be different from that of this website.
9. Cookies policy
The owner reserves the right to use “Cookie” technology in the Website, in order to recognise you as a frequent user and personalise the use you make of the Website.
10. Limitation of liability
The information and services included or available through this website may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Periodically, the Owner will incorporate improvements, corrections and updates at any time.
The Owner does not declare or guarantee that the services or contents will always be available or uninterrupted, that they are free of errors, that the defects will be corrected, or that the service or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or other harmful components. This is without prejudice to the fact that the Owner makes every effort to avoid this type of incident.
The Owner declines any responsibility in case of interruptions or a malfunction of the Services or content offered on the Internet, whatever their cause. Likewise, the Owner is not responsible for network outages, business losses as a result of said outages, temporary power outages or any other type of indirect damage that may be caused by actions beyond the control of the Owner.
Before making decisions and / or actions based on the information included on the website, the Owner recommends checking and contrasting the information received with other sources.
11. Jurisdiction
All the Conditions inserted in the Website are governed by England & Wales regulations. All conflicts, controversies or situations derived from these conditions will be submitted to the Courts of England & Wales, the parties expressly waiving their jurisdiction.
12. Contact
In case you have any questions about these Legal Conditions or want to make any comments about this website, you can send an email to the email address info@thepolaris.school
13. Changes to these terms and conditions
Please check these terms and conditions regularly. We can update them at any time without notice.
Last updated August 2022.
