Disclaimer

User Terms and Conditions for St George's School for Girls Website, Secure Areas and Educational VLE operated by St George's School for Girls, (hereinafter referred to as "St George's Online" or "S.T.G.O").

Please read these user terms and conditions carefully. They set out the terms under which S.T.G.O services are provided to you by St George's School for Girls, Garscube Terrace, Edinburgh EH12 6BG (hereinafter referred to as "us" or "we"). By accessing the S.T.G.O services you agree to be bound by these user terms and conditions.

Registration

The details provided by you on registration are important and should be correct and complete. If we believe that you have provided false information we reserve the right to terminate your participation in S.T.G.O without notice.

Your Personal Information

We will respect your personal information and undertake to comply with all applicable UK data protection legislation. When you register as a user of S.T.G.O, we will collect the information necessary to provide the S.T.G.O services which includes, as a minimum, your name and your e-mail address. You may also be asked to provide personal details if you require services from S.T.G.O. We will also collect information from you if you complete any other forms on our site or if you contact us with comments or specific requests. The information (including any sensitive personal information) you submit will be stored on computer. By accepting these user terms and conditions you consent to us using the information you submit to operate the S.T.G.O service. S.T.G.O is a FREE service provided by St George's School for Girls.

We may use cookies to collect information about your use of the S.T.G.O services in order to make visits to S.T.G.O more efficient. This helps us follow browsing preferences, make improvements to S.T.G.O services and personalise your experience of S.T.G.O. Cookies do not contain personal information about the user. Your personal information will not be passed onto other bodies for direct marketing purposes, but may be used for marketing and statistical purposes within the school. Personal information collected from previous students will be stored on our alumnae register and passed on to the St George's Old Girl's Association, unless specific request is made otherwise. We do not authorise advertisers or members to send unsolicited commercial emails (SPAM). If you receive any such e-mail please inform us by e-mail at the supplied contact address.

Your Obligations to Us

You agree that you will only use S.T.G.O in a manner that is consistent with these user terms and conditions and in such a way as to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. Your use of S.T.G.O carries with it no rights in relation to copyright, trade and service marks or other intellectual property rights in S.T.G.O or any other intellectual property rights owned by or licensed to St George's School for Girls. You agree not to display or use in any manner the S.T.G.O trade and/or service marks or otherwise infringe any intellectual property rights owned by or licensed to St. George's School for Girls. You agree not to use S.T.G.O or the services made available to you on S.T.G.O such that you cause the whole or part of S.T.G.O to be interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient or in any way impaired. We do not exclude any liability for death or personal injury due to our negligence.

Access to S.T.G.O and Content

We agree to use our reasonable endeavours to maintain S.T.G.O services in fully operational condition. However we cannot guarantee that this will always be the case and access to S.T.G.O may be suspended, restricted or terminated at any time. We reserve the right to change, modify, substitute or remove without notice any information on S.T.G.O from time to time. Any pages in, or any information derived from the S.T.G.O service (including emails and downloaded files) may contain links to other web-sites or resources. We are unable to accept responsibility for these nor can we be deemed to have endorsed their content. In order to maintain the integrity of S.T.G.O, we reserve the right to forward details of any information provided by you or concerning your use of S.T.G.O to the Police, or other Regulatory Authorities where requested to do so. We may also forward contact details where a complaint arises concerning your use of S.T.G.O and where the use is deemed by us to be illegal or inconsistent with these user terms and conditions.

Exclusions of Liability

We use reasonable endeavours to ensure data or information posted by us on S.T.G.O is accurate and to correct any errors or omissions as soon as practicable after being notified of them. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude liability for any defects or faults that may exist in or on S.T.G.O. or for loss of data, arising from your use of, or inability to access S.T.G.O or any of its services even where any such loss arises through our negligence. We give no warranty or representation regarding the value and integrity of goods and services offered by third parties over or through the S.T.G.O service. Your dealings with, and interest in goods and services found via S.T.G.O are solely between you and the third party supplier of such goods and services. The suppliers will supply on their own standard terms and conditions and you should check that you agree to such terms and conditions before placing an order. We can accept no liability for any goods or services provided by third party suppliers. We will not be responsible for any loss or damage that may arise from any such dealing even where such loss or damage arises from our negligence, save where such loss or damage cannot be excluded by law. We reserve the right at any time and without any notice or explanation to suspend, restrict, reduce or terminate your access to S.T.G.O for any reason.

We may modify or discontinue the S.T.G.O service temporarily or permanently, with or without notice to you Any loss or liability arising out of the suspension, restriction, reduction, termination, modification or discontinuance of the S.T.G.O service or for any deletion or corruption of any data contained in the S.T.G.O services, even where such suspension, restriction, reduction, termination, modification or discontinuance is due to our negligence, is excluded to the fullest extent permissible by law. To the extent permitted by law, you specifically agree that we are not responsible for or liable to you or anyone else for any threatening, defamatory, libellous, obscene, offensive or illegal conduct of any other party or you or any infringement of another's rights, including intellectual property rights. We do not give any warranty that S.T.G.O is free from viruses or anything else which may have a harmful effect on any technology. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we hereby confirm that, other than expressly stated, S.T.G.O is provided without any warranties or guarantees. In no event shall we be liable for any loss of profit, revenues, goodwill, opportunity, business, anticipated savings or other indirect or consequential loss of any kind in contract, delict (including negligence) or otherwise arising out of any use of S.T.G.O, save where such liability cannot be excluded by law. We do not exclude any liability for death or personal injury caused through our negligence.

Copyright

We respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask our users to do the same. If you believe that a copy of your work is available on the S.T.G.O service without your consent or that a copyright infringement has otherwise occurred, please supply us with the following information:- A description of the copyright protected work in which you claim the copyright has been infringed; Details of where the alleged infringing material is located on the S.T.G.O service; Your address, telephone number and email address; A statement by you that you believe in good faith that the use of the work on the S.T.G.O service is not authorised by the copyright owner or any person entitled to act on their behalf or by law; An affidavit executed by you that the information you provide concerning the copyright infringed is accurate.  Please deliver this information to St George's School for Girls, Garscube Terrace, Edinburgh EH12 6BG.

General

We may modify these user terms and conditions from time to time by publishing the modified user terms and conditions on the S.T.G.O service web-site. Any modifications shall take effect 3 days after posting on such web-site. If any provision of these terms and conditions is held to be unlawful, invalid or unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed severed and the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of these user terms and conditions shall not be affected.

Any notice sent to us should be sent by email to: webmaster@st-georges.edin.sch.uk, unless otherwise provided in these user terms and conditions.

Governing Law

These user terms and conditions are governed by and to be construed in accordance with the laws of Scotland. Any dispute arising out of the interpretation, validity or performance of, or otherwise in connection with these user terms and conditions shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Scottish courts. In using the site I have read and I agree to be bound by the S.T.G.O user terms and conditions.

Company Registration

Head: Anne Everest

Tel: 0131 311 8000 Fax: 0131 311 8120

St George's School for Girls Registered Office: 61 Dublin Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6NL Tel: 0131 558 5800

A Charitable Company Limited By Guarantee Registered No: SC012632