Terms & conditions
NATIONAL STEM CENTRE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE OF WEBSITE
The following terms and conditions apply to your use of all and any materials, content and information on the National STEM Centre website:
(i) References to "National STEM Centre" and "Centre" mean the National STEM Centre, which is operated by Myscience.co Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with company number 05081097 and whose registered office is at National Science Learning Centre, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, and such references are deemed to include Myscience.co Limited. References to "National STEM Centre website" and "this website" are to the website at www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk, operated by the National STEM Centre. References to "you" are to you, as user of this website, and includes any person who accesses the website using your login and password details.
(ii) The material featured on this website is subject to copyright protection unless otherwise indicated.
CATEGORY ONE MATERIALS
Quick glance for teachers: You are free to download individual copies of this material for personal use. You may also reproduce this material, providing you credit the source appropriately and subject to the terms of the Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike Creative Commons license.
Individuals may download this material under the terms and conditions of the Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike Creative Commons license. The full text of this licence is available here. Use of this material is also subject to the National STEM Centre terms and conditions of use, which apply to all materials on this website. These terms and conditions are available on this page. By accessing any materials on this website you agree to comply with and adhere to the terms and conditions set out in the Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike Creative Commons license and the National STEM Centre terms and conditions of use.
CATEGORY TWO MATERIALS
Quick glance for teachers: You are free to download individual copies of this material for personal use. You may reproduce this material in limited circumstance, provided this would not constitute a Derivative Work under the terms of the Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Creative Commons license.
Individuals may download this material under the terms and conditions of the Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Creative Commons license. The full text of this licence is available here. Use of this material is also subject to the National STEM Centre terms and conditions of use, which apply to all materials on this website. These terms and conditions are available on this page. By accessing any materials on this website you agree to comply with and adhere to the terms and conditions set out in the Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Creative Commons license and the National STEM Centre terms and conditions of use.
CATEGORY THREE MATERIALS
Quick glance for teachers: You are free to download individual copies of this material for personal use. You may not reproduce this material. It may not be stored on other websites, shared networks, virtual learning environments (VLEs) or any other repository.
Use of this material is subject to the National STEM Centre terms and conditions, which apply to all materials on this website. These terms and conditions are available on this page. By accessing any materials on this website you agree to comply with and adhere to the National STEM Centre terms and conditions of use.
CATEGORY FOUR MATERIALS
Quick glance for teachers: This material may be used directly from this website by teachers for personal use in their school or college. The material may not be downloaded.
Use of this material is subject to the National STEM Centre terms and conditions, which apply to all materials on this website. These terms and conditions are available on this page. By accessing any materials on this website you agree to comply with and adhere to the National STEM Centre terms and conditions of use.
(iii) You must not reproduce, distribute or communicate material on this website which is identified as being the copyright of a third party, unless and to the extent that the same is permitted under the Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Creative Commons license or Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Creative Commons license to which it is subject, and provided always that you have accepted the terms of such license. If you wish to reproduce, distribute or communicate any third party material which is not subject to such a license, you must obtain prior written consent from the copyright owner concerned.
(iv) You are permitted to download files from this website to your personal computer only, except where it is expressly stated on a specific electronic file that you are not permitted to do so. However, you must not use such downloaded files on any other website, network, repository or virtual learning environment without the prior written consent of the National STEM Centre. Systematic downloading of files is strictly prohibited.
(v) If you wish to include material from this website on another website you may only link to this website with the prior written consent of the National STEM Centre and must not reproduce the relevant material on such website. In all cases, you must fully credit the resource producer, this website, and the copyright status of the relevant material.
(vi) The names, images and logos identifying the National STEM Centre are proprietary marks of the Centre or its licensors. Other names, images and logos identifying third parties and their information, products and services are the proprietary marks of third parties.
(vii) Copying or use of the National STEM Centre's logos and/or any third party logos accessed via this website is not permitted without the prior written approval of the relevant trade mark and/or copyright owner.
(viii) All copyright and other intellectual property rights in the design and content of the pages on this website belong to the National STEM Centre unless specified otherwise and you must not copy such design or content without the prior written consent of the National STEM Centre.
(ix) You acknowledge that any breach by you of these terms and conditions of use is likely to cause Myscience.co Limited significant and irreparable damage and, accordingly, you agree that you will indemnify and hold harmless Myscience.co Limited and its officers, employees and agents against all and any losses, damages, claims and/or expenses suffered by them as a result of a breach of these terms and conditions and, without prejudice to the foregoing, in the event of any breach by you of these terms and conditions, Myscience.co Limited shall be entitled to immediately suspend your access to the website and shall further be entitled to injunctive or other equitable relief.
Website content
The content, information or material contained in the National STEM Centre website may be out of date or include omissions, inaccuracies or other errors. All content, information and material is provided 'as is' and on an "as and when available" basis. The National STEM Centre does not guarantee the availability of any content, information or material on this website or that there will be uninterrupted access to content, information or material.
Any use of a resource that includes a practical activity must include a risk assessment, and is subject to the contents of the National STEM Centre Health and Safety Statement. The Health and Safety Statement is available here. The risk assessment is the responsibility of the user, and the National STEM Centre does not accept any responsibility and shall not be liable to you or any third party for any losses, damages, claims, expenses or outcomes resulting from the use of material included or referred to on this website.
This website provides access via hypertext links to resources in other web sites for browsing only and in doing so the National STEM Centre is not endorsing entities nor authorising any act that may be in breach of copyright or any third party rights that are protected in law or by international treaties worldwide.
The National STEM Centre does not accept any responsibility and shall not be liable to you or any third party for any losses, damages, claims, expenses or outcomes resulting from your use of any of the material contained on any third party website. Copyright of externally hosted items belongs wholly to the publisher of those resources.
When digitising 'orphan works', being works which are subject to copyright but where the rights holder cannot be traced, we use our reasonable endeavours to trace the rights holder before uploading material to our website.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the National STEM Centre hereby excludes all warranties, express or implied, and makes no representation in relation to, the content, which also includes factually incorrect comments, information and material made available on this website or via any hypertext link to other websites.
Nothing in these terms and conditions shall operate to exclude liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or for death or personal injury caused by the negligence of the National STEM Centre.
Acceptable use
You agree not to create any content or otherwise transmit any information or material that: is factually incorrect, defamatory, false or misleading; is harassing or invades another's privacy, harms minors in any way; promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual; is obscene; infringes another's rights, including but not limited to intellectual property rights; or constitutes spam. The National STEM Centre reserves the right to lock your user account and prevent you from accessing this website in the event that you breach these terms. The National STEM Centre shall not be responsible for any such statements made by any user of this website.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password you use for the National STEM Centre website, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password.
Take down policy
To accommodate the possibility that a previously unknown copyright holder may come forward and request the removal of content from this website, the National STEM Centre uses the following take down policy:
Where the copyright holder is not known, the National STEM Centre makes reasonable efforts to obtain copyright holders' consent to publish the material represented on this website.
The National STEM Centre aims to resolve any issues promptly and amicably with the complainant and to the satisfaction of both parties, with the following possible outcomes:
* The material remains on this website unchanged.
* The material is replaced on this website with changes.
* The material is permanently removed from this website.
However, if the National STEM Centre and the complainant are unable to settle a solution, the material will remain unavailable through this website until a time when a resolution has been reached.
If you have found material which you consider illegally held or published on this website, please contact us stating your contact details and full details of the material.
The National STEM Centre reserves an absolute right to exercise their discretion in the removal and / or editing of any defamatory or factually incorrect statements made on their website. The National STEM Centre shall use reasonable endeavours to remove the offending material from the site as soon as reasonably practicable upon the National STEM Centre becoming aware of the same.
How we protect your information
The National STEM Centre takes the care of your personal data very seriously. The details that you provide when subscribing to the National STEM Centre website will be used to send you information about the National STEM Centre, the Centre's activities, and the activities of other Myscience.co Limited programmes of a similar nature which may be of interest to you. Myscience.co Limited may also use your information for research and statistical purposes. The information produced for these purposes will not include any details that could be used to identify you. Personal details collected from you will not be used for any other purpose.
If you would like to opt out of registration at any time, you can do so by e-mailing enquiries@nationalstemcentre.org.uk, stating your email address and quoting 'National STEM Centre opt out' in the subject line.
Revisions to terms and conditions
From time to time, if the National STEM Centre changes the way in which it uses your information or changes these terms and conditions of use of the website, the National STEM Centre will amend these terms and conditions of use and will publish notice of any such changes on this website.
General
The validity or enforceability of the remaining terms of these terms and conditions of use shall not be affected by the holding of any provision of it to be invalid or enforceable.
These terms and conditions of use shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and the Courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction.
Use of cookies by this website
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
A number of the cookies that we use on the National STEM Centre website are essential for parts of the site to operate and some have already been set. You may delete and block all cookies from the site, but parts of the site will not work.
The following cookies are used by this site:
'PHPSESSIONID' is used to maintain your session as you browse around the site. This cookie is deleted when you quit your browser.
'elibrary' is the session cookie for the elibrary section of the site, and is used to keep you logged in as you browse. This cookie exists even if you have not logged in or registered on the site. In this case, your session will be anonymous, but is required for certain areas, such as building breadcrumbs. This cookie is deleted when you quit your browser.
'elibrary-loggedin' is used to store a true or false value of whether you are logged in or not. This ties together your session between the elibrary and other areas of the National STEM Centre website. The cookie only exists if you log in and is deleted when you quit your browser. It is also deleted if you logout from your account.
'utma', 'utmb', 'utmc' and 'utmz' are all Google Analytics cookies. These are used to collect information about how visitors use the site. We use this information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where vistors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited. These cookies are long-lived, with the exception of 'utmc' which is deleted when you quit your browser.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.