Last updated: 31 March 2022

TERMS OF WEBSITE USE

These terms of use explain the terms on which you are permitted to use https://www.lanterna.com. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use our site. By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not accept these terms of use, you must not use the site. 

OTHER APPLICABLE TERMS

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site:  

• Our Privacy Policy (https://lanterna.com/privacy-policy/), which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.   
• Our Cookie Policy (https://lanterna.com/cookie-policy/), which sets out information about the cookies on our site.   

If you purchase services from our site, our Terms of Service (https://lanterna.com/terms-of-service/) will apply to the services.   

INFORMATION ABOUT US

https://lanterna.com is a site operated by Lanterna Education Ltd. (we, our or us). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 06835000 and have our registered office at 1 Cottesbrooke Park, Heartlands Business Park, Daventry, Northamptonshire, England, NN11 8YL. Our main trading address is Lanterna Education C/O Merryhill, 1 Cottesbrooke Park, Daventry, NN11 8YL, UK. Our VAT number is 974 7693 54. The individual who uses the site is referred to as you.  

If you have any questions concerning these terms of use, please feel free to contact us at info@lanternaeducation.com.  

CHANGES TO THESE TERMS

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. Please check this page when using this site to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.  

CHANGES TO OUR SITE

We may update our site from time to time and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.  

ACCESSING OUR SITE

Our site is made available free of charge.  

We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period regardless of reason.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

YOUR ACCOUNT AND PASSWORD

To create an account on our site, you must be either at least 18 years old or a parent or guardian of the student that will receive the tutoring services. If you are a parent or guardian, you are responsible for the student’s use of the site. 

If you create an account on our site, you must keep any user identification code and/or password confidential and must not disclose it to anyone else.  

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password at any time if, in our reasonable opinion, you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.  

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at info@lanternaeducation.com.  

USE OF MATERIAL ON OUR SITE

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it.  Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved. You must always acknowledge our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site.  

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may alert others to content posted on our site.  

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.  

You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors. If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

NO RELIANCE ON INFORMATION

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.  

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.  

LIMITATION OF OUR LIABILITY

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law.  

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations, or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied.  

We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with: (1) use of, or inability to use, our site; or (2) use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.  

If you are a school user, please note that in particular, we will not be liable for: (1) loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue; (2) business interruption; (3) loss of anticipated savings; (4) loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or (5) any indirect or consequential loss or damage.  

If you are a consumer user, please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.  

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.  

We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.  

Different limitations and exclusions of liability as set out in our Terms of Service will apply to any sale of services to you. 

UPLOADING CONTENT TO OUR SITE

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in the Acceptable Use paragraph below.  

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.  

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of the Site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties. The rights you license to us are described in the next paragraph (Rights you licence).  

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.  

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our site.  

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in the Acceptable Use paragraph below.  

The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.  

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.  

RIGHTS YOU LICENCE

When you upload or post content to our site, you grant the following licenses:

• A worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that content in connection with the services provided by our site and across different media and to promote the site or services; and
• A worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to allow third parties to use the content for their purposes.

Unless a court or other regulator orders us to disclose them, we will only ever use your materials to carry out your instructions to us.

ACCEPTABLE USE

You must not use our site:  

• In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation or is otherwise unlawful or fraudulent.
• For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
• To upload terrorist content.

Further, you must not access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt: any part of our site; any equipment or network on which our site is stored; any software used in the provision of our site; or any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.  

Any contribution to our site must not:  

• Be inaccurate (where it states facts) or not genuinely held (where it states opinions) or likely to deceive any person.
• Promote any illegal content or activity.
• Be defamatory of any person.
• Be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory.
• Bully, insult, intimidate or humiliate, be threatening, abuse or invade another’s privacy or be likely to harass or upset any person.
• Promote sexually explicit material or include child sexual abuse material.
• Promote violence.
• Promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
• Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of, or otherwise breach any legal duty owed to, any other person.

VIRUSES

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.  

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.  

You must not misuse our site 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 our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.  

You must not rent, lease, sub-license, loan, provide, or otherwise make available our site or services to any person without our prior consent. 

LINKING TO OUR SITE

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.  

You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.  

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.  

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.  

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in the Acceptable Use paragraph above.    

If you wish to make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact info@lanternaeducation.com.  

THIRD PARTY LINKS AND RESOURCES IN OUR SITE

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.  

APPLICABLE LAW

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree to that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. However, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.  

If you are a business, these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.  

Thank you for visiting https://lanterna.com.

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