Terms and Conditions of Use

By browsing and using this website, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following Terms and Conditions of use, which govern The Chinese Staffroom relationship with you in relation to this website.

The Site is owned and operated by Bamboo Learning Ltd (company number 5638420), whose registered office is at Regent House, 316 Beulah Hill, London, SE19 3HF.

The term "The Chinese Staffroom" refers to Bamboo Learning Ltd. The term "you" refers to the user or viewer of this website.

The use of this website is subject to the following terms of use:

The content of the pages of this website is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without notice.

Neither The Chinese Staffroom nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website for any particular purpose. You acknowledge that such information and materials may contain inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude liability for any such inaccuracies or errors to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Your use of any information or materials on this website is entirely at your own risk, for which the Chinese Staffroom shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements.

This website contains some materials which are owned by or licensed to. Reproduction is prohibited other than in accordance with the strict Creative Commons Licenses  (Link http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/) , which form part of these Terms and Conditions.

Unauthorized use of this website may give rise to a claim for damages and/or be a criminal offence.

This website also includes links to other websites. These links are provided for your convenience to provide further information. They do not signify that The Chinese Staffroom endorses the website(s). The Chinese Staffroom has no responsibility for the content of the linked website(s).

Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of such use of the website is subject to the laws of England and Wales.

Intellectual property

The contents of this web site are protected by international copyright laws and other intellectual property rights. The owner of these rights is The Chinese Staffroom or other third party licensors. All product and company names and logos mentioned in our web site are the trade marks, service marks or trading names of their respective owners including us. Any material or information downloaded from this website is subject to Copyright Terms detailed here (link). You may not modify, copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute, by any means or in any manner, any material or information downloaded from this website without acknowledging The Chinese Staffroom as the source of such material or information.

Availability of the website

The Chinese Staffroom will try to make the website available but cannot guarantee that the website will operate continuously without interruptions or be error free and can accept no liability for its unavailability.

You must not attempt to interfere with the proper working of the website and, in particular, you must not attempt to circumvent security, tamper with, hack into, or otherwise disrupt any computer system, server, website, router or any other internet connection device.

Sharing and uploading your own resources in the Sharing Zone

Registered Users making contributions to the website agree not to use this service to:

• upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
• advertise any external websites or pages, businesses, organizations or groups without prior permission from The Chinese Staffroom;
• impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, Chinese Staffroom staff  or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
• orge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Service;
• upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
• upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights ("Rights") of any party;
• upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation without prior permission of The Chinese Staffroom;
• upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, damage, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
• The Chinese Staffroom shall have the right to remove any Content that violates these terms and conditions or is otherwise objectionable. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. In this regard, you acknowledge that you may not rely on any Content created by The Chinese Staffroom or submitted to The Chinese Staffroom.

You acknowledge and agree that the Chinese Staffroom may preserve Content and may also disclose Content: (a) to its affiliated companies worldwide for the purpose of providing the Content to you in an efficient manner, (b) for the purpose of properly administering your account in accordance with the standard operating procedures of the Chinese Staffroom, and/or (c) if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that any such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with legal process; (ii) enforce these terms and conditions; (iii) respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; or (iv) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of the Chinese Staffroom, its users and the public. You acknowledge that the technical processing and transmission of the Service, including your Content, may involve transmissions over various networks and changes to adapt to technical requirements.

Liability

The Chinese Staffroom will do its utmost to ensure that all materials and information published on this website are accurate, but please note that the Chinese Staffroom excludes all express or implied terms, conditions, warranties, representations or endorsements whatsoever with regard to the content of the website.

You are responsible for ensuring that your computer system meets all relevant technical specifications necessary to use the website and is compatible with our web site. You also understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that any material available for downloading from our web site will be free from infection, viruses and/or other code that has contaminating or destructive properties. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the accuracy of data input and output.

Copyright information

You acknowledge that ownership of the Website and all intellectual property or other proprietary rights therein, shall remain with the Chinese Staffroom.   You acknowledge that you have no right to use the Content other than as set forth in this Agreement. All rights not expressly granted are reserved to Bamboo Learning Limited

Much of the resource material displayed on the Site ("Content") belongs to the Chinese Staffroom. Subject to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike license, you can print copies, store the files in electronic form on disk, and store the files on a closed school/organisation network for your own personal, educational, non-commercial purposes only.  Uploading the Content to a public website, even if it is not charged for explicitly, is considered a breach of these terms.  Content on the Website is provided to you “AS-IS” for your personal, educational use only and may not be copied, distributed, broadcast, displayed, sold, licenced, de-compiled, or otherwise exploited for any other purposes whatsoever without the Chinese Staffroom’s written permission.

Certain Content is used under licence from third parties ("Third Party Content") and will be marked with the copyright notice of those third parties. Some of the Third Party Content will be subject to additional restrictions - the relevant copyright notice will make it clear where that is the case. You must comply with such restrictions.

You may not (without prior written permission from the Chinese Staffroom):

1. redistribute any of the Content or supply it to other people outside of your organisation;
2. remove the copyright or Creative Commons attribution, or remove the Chinese Staffroom’s  link on the first page of the file;
3. create a database in electronic or structured manual form by systematically downloading and storing all or any of the Content;
4. except as expressly set out above, modify, reproduce or in any way commercially exploit any of the Content.