1. Introduction to EduBlock

Welcome to EduBlock. These Terms of Use (“Terms”) are an agreement between you (“you” or “your”) and ThirdBlock (“ThirdBlock” or “EduBlock” or “we” or “our” or “us”) that governs your access to and use of our website, products, and services (collectively, “Services”). By accessing or using our Services in any way, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you should refrain from accessing or using our Services. Please read these Terms carefully, and feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

1. Information about us and how to contact us
   1. EduBlock is a website and mobile application owned and operated by Third Block Technologies Limited. We are registered in England under company number 12918699. Our registered office is at 36 Fifth Avenue Havant Hampshire PO9 2PL.
   2. You can contact by writing to us at info@thirdblock.io or writing to the address in clause 2.1.
   3. If we have to contact you, we will do so by writing to you at the email address, postal address, or telephone number you provided to us.
2. Term

These Terms shall remain in full force and effect while you use our Services. You may stop using our Services at any time, for any reason. EduBlock may terminate your profile and/or membership if you breach these Terms, as determined at our discretion. Failure to correct a breach in terms may lead to us, at our discretion, terminating your profile and/or membership. These Terms will still apply even after your profile and/or membership is terminated.

1. Account, Password & Security
   1. The full use and benefit of using the website will require you to open an account and complete the registration process by providing certain information and registering a username and password.
   2. Occasionally, users may be asked to provide additional information, such as clarification of personal details (for example your address and date of birth information).
   3. Each person or organisation may only register once and have one account. Your full use of the website may only become valid once we have approved your registration and we reserve the right to lawfully refuse registration, which is exercised using our sole discretion.
   4. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the username and password and for all use and activities under your account. You are welcome, in the interest of your personal privacy, to select a username that does not reveal your true identity or is disconnected from your real identity. However, we do not assume liability or responsibility for your identification as a result of your use of EduBlock. We will not be liable for any indirect or consequential loss or damage whatsoever resulting from the disclosure of your username and/or password.
   5. You may not in any way transfer your registration/account or your obligations and we advise you not to allow anyone else to use your account without your express knowledge and permission
   6. You also specifically confirm that you will:

• Notify us immediately of any unauthorised use, including any unauthorised use of your registration/account with the website or any other known or suspected breach of security; and

• Use your own reasonable efforts to immediately stop any such misuse.

1. Rights we grant you

1. You may not use the Services for any other purpose or in any way that breaches these Terms of Use or any other agreement applicable to the Services.
2. Additionally, you will not:

• Archive, reproduce, distribute, modify, display, perform, publish, license, create derivative works from, offer for sale, or use (except as explicitly authorised in these Terms of Use) content and information contained on or obtained from or through the EduBlock Service;

• Circumvent, remove, alter, deactivate, degrade, or thwart any of the content protections in the EduBlock Service;

• Use any robot, spider, scraper, or other automated means to access the EduBlock service;

• Decompile, reverse engineer, or disassemble any software or other products or processes accessible through the EduBlock service;

• Insert any code or product or manipulate the content of the EduBlock service in any way;

• Use any data mining, data gathering, or extraction method;

• Upload, post, e-mail or otherwise send or transmit any material designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment associated with the EduBlock Service, including any software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs;

• Use the Services in any way that violates, plagiarises, misappropriates, or infringes the rights of third parties, including without limitation, rights of copyright, trademark, privacy, or publicity;

• Use the Services in any way that violates, breaches or is contrary to any applicable law, rules, regulation, court order, or is otherwise illegal or unlawful in EduBlock’s reasonable opinion;

• Use the Services to impersonate or attempt to impersonate EduBlock, a ThirdBlock employee, another user or any other person or Entity or otherwise misrepresent yourself. Using a pseudonym to create an account does not violate this provision;

• Use the Services for harassing, unethical or disruptive purposes or use the Services in any way that is indecent, offensive, abusive, libellous, defamatory, obscene, racist, sexually explicit, or in a manner to incite hatred on grounds of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or in any other manner objectionable in EduBlock’s reasonable discretion;

• Post sensitive information via the Services, including, without limitation, your or any other person’s credit card information, social security or alternate national identity numbers, non-public phone numbers, or non-public email addresses;

• Create or submit unwanted email, comments, likes or other forms of commercial or harassing communications (aka. “spam”) to other users of the Services; and

• Exploit the Services for any commercial purpose, including without limitation, the sale of access to the Services or the sale of advertising, sponsorships or promotions placed on or within the Services.

• Share personal contact details through private messaging, including, but not limited to, email and telephone number.

1. Your Content
   1. Some of our Services may enable users to submit, post, publish or otherwise provide content (“User Generated Content”). Each user is solely responsible for all content that they provide on or through our Services.
   2. By submitting, posting, publishing or otherwise providing any User Generated Content on or through our Services, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub licensable right and license to use, host, store, process, reproduce, distribute, publish, adapt, modify, translate, create derivative works from, publicly perform, and publicly display your User Generated Content, in any and all media now known or later developed, for the purposes of operating, distributing, promoting, and improving our Services, and developing new Services. You represent and warrant that: (i) you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your User Generated Content; and (ii) the use of your User Generated Content does not violate these Terms and will not violate any right of, or cause injury to, any person or entity.
   3. We do not endorse or make any representations or warranties of any kind with respect to any User Generated Content and/or any statements, ideas, advice or opinions communicated on, through, or in connection with our Services (whether online, offline, orally, in writing or otherwise) by any user and/or third party, whether with respect to accuracy, completeness, truthfulness, reliability or otherwise. You acknowledge that any use of or reliance on any User Generated Content and/or any such statements, ideas, advice or opinions is solely at your own risk.

1. Mobile Application
   • As part of our Services, we may offer you the use of our EduBlock mobile app.
   • To access and use our app, you will need a compatible device. We can’t guarantee that our application will be compatible with your device. Your standard data and messaging rates will apply, and the rules of the app store where you are downloading from, will also apply.
   • By downloading our application, you expressly agree we may correspond with through your device and certain information about your usage of the application may be communicated to us from your device automatically.
   • Your 14. use of our app is subject to these Terms and any other applicable Terms that we may post on our Services or otherwise make available to you in connection with our app.
   • We may update our app without notice, at any time at our sole discretion, and these Terms will apply to any updated versions.

1. Intellectual Property
   1. You acknowledge that except for any User Generated Content, any and all other software (including source code), logos, icons, the website’s “look and feel”, text, graphics, images, video clips, sound clips, content, notices, data, page layout, selection and arrangement of the content, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, trademarks and other intellectual property rights therein is owned solely and exclusively by EduBlock and/or its licensors and are protected by the United Kingdom and international copyright, trade secret or other intellectual property laws and treaties.
   2. You may not copy, archive, download, upload, distribute, syndicate, broadcast, perform, display, make available, or otherwise use any portion of the Services or the content on the Services except as set forth in these Terms. Additionally, you may not use the Services, any tools provided by the Services, or any content on the Services for any commercial purposes without our consent.
   3. The EduBlock name and logo and all related names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans are trademarks of ThirdBlock, its affiliates or its licensors. Other names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans that appear on the Services are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to or sponsored by EduBlock. You may not use, copy, or imitate any such branding, logos, designs, without the express prior permission of ThirdBlock.
2. Third Party Intellectual Property Rights and Copyright Claims
   1. ThirdBlock respects the rights of intellectual property owners. If you believe that any content infringes your intellectual property rights or other rights, contact us at info@thirdblock.io. If a copyright holder notifies ThirdBlock that any content infringes a copyright, ThirdBlock may in its sole discretion remove such content from the Service or take other steps that ThirdBlock deems appropriate, without prior notification to the user or other party who supplied or posted that content. If such user or other party believes that the content is not infringing, he or she may in certain circumstances submit a counter-notification to ThirdBlock with a request to restore the removed content, which ThirdBlock may or may not honour, in ThirdBlock’s sole discretion.
   2. We reserve the right to remove or disable access to any ThirdBlock content or any other materials posted to or otherwise displayed through the Services, including any ThirdBlock content that violates or otherwise allegedly infringes on the copyright or other intellectual property, proprietary, or other rights of any person, company or other entity. We will not be liable for the removal of or disabling of access to any ThirdBlock content or materials.

       

3. Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy

Use of the Services are also governed by our Privacy Policy – https://edublock.io/privacy-policy/  and Cookies Policy – https://edublock.io/cookie-policy/  which are incorporated into these Terms of Use by this reference.

1. Availability of the Service
   1. EduBlock has taken reasonable steps to ensure the currency, availability, correctness, and completeness of the information contained on EduBlock and provides that information on an “as is”, “as available” basis. EduBlock does not give or make any warranty or representation of any kind about the information contained on EduBlock, whether express or implied.
   2. Use of EduBlock and the materials available on it is at your sole risk. EduBlock cannot be held responsible for any loss arising from the transmission, use of data, or inaccurate content posted by users. You are responsible for taking all necessary precautions to ensure that any material you may obtain from EduBlock is free of viruses or other harmful components.
   3. You accept that EduBlock will not be provided uninterrupted or error free, that defects may not be corrected or that EduBlock, or the server that makes it available, are free of viruses or bugs, spyware, Trojan horses, or any similar malicious software.
   4. EduBlock is not responsible for any damage to your computer hardware, computer software, or other equipment or technology including, but without limitation damage from any security breach or from any virus, bugs, tampering, fraud, error, omission, interruption, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer line or network failure, or any other technical or other malfunction.
2. Third Parties
   1. Our Services may include links and features that enable you to access third party websites or services, and other websites or services may include links to our Services.
   2. Such links and features are for convenience only and do not constitute or imply any endorsement, warranty, or assumption of liability of any kind by us with respect to any such websites or services, or any information, materials, goods or services on or available from any such websites or services.
   3. You are solely responsible for, and assume sole risk arising out of, any use of or reliance on any such websites or services, or any information, materials, goods or services on or available from any such websites or services.
   4. You acknowledge and agree that EduBlock is not responsible and will not be liable for: (i) the accuracy or availability of any such websites or services; or (ii) any information, materials, goods or services on or available from any such websites or services.

       

3. Disclaimer of Warranties

Your use of the Services is at your own risk. We provide the Services “as is” and “as available” without any warranties of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, non-infringement, and fitness for a particular purpose, any warranties arising out of course of dealing or usage of trade, any warranties that the Services will meet your requirements or be available, accessible, uninterrupted, timely, secure, or free of errors, and any warranties that any user will complete any transactions or otherwise perform as promised, all of which EduBlock expressly disclaim to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. In no event will EduBlock be liable or responsible for any errors or omissions in connection with the execution of any transaction (whether online, offline, on the Services, in an email, or otherwise), or for any inability or failure to access the Services, including but not limited to any failures resulting directly or indirectly from any loss of internet or telephone connection or from any breakdowns or malfunctions of the Services or any computer, device or system directly or indirectly affecting the availability or operation of the Services.

1. Limitations of Liability
   1. Nothing in these Terms of Use will: (a) limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury resulting from our or your negligence, as applicable; (b) limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or (c) limit or exclude any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law.
   2. We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of events beyond our reasonable control.
   3. To the maximum extent permitted by law, EduBlock accepts no liability for any of the following:

• Any business losses, such as loss of profits, income, revenue, anticipated savings, business, contracts, goodwill or commercial opportunities;

• Loss or corruption of any data, database or software; or

• Any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

1. Indemnity

You specifically agree to completely indemnify us against all claims, liability, damages, losses, costs and expenses, including any legal fees, known and unknown, arising from or in any way connected with your breach of these Terms of Use or your use of the website, including any upload provided or submitted, posted, or transmitted through the website.

1. General Terms
   1. We reserve the right to modify, amend or change these Terms at any time (a “Change”). If we do this then the Changes will be posted on this page and we will indicate the effective date of the updates at the bottom of the Terms. In certain circumstances, we may send an email to you notifying you of any Change. You should regularly check this page to take notice of any Changes.
   2. If you do not accept any Change to the Terms, you should stop using EduBlock immediately. Your continued use of EduBlock following any Change constitutes your acceptance of the Change and you will be legally bound by the new updated Terms.
   3. If, for any reason, any of the Terms are declared to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by a court of a competent jurisdiction, then to the extent that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from the Terms and the remainder of the Terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.
   4. These Terms, including our Privacy Policy, our Buyers Terms and Conditions of Sale, our Sellers Terms and Conditions for Sale, other applicable agreements, and any other Terms of Use incorporated into these Terms by reference, together with any other written agreements that you may enter into with us regarding our Services, constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between us and you in relation to your use of ThirdBlock and supersedes all previous agreements, representations and arrangements between us (either oral or written). Nothing in this clause shall limit or exclude any liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.
   5. No failure or delay by us in exercising any right, power or privilege under the Terms shall operate as a waiver of such right or acceptance of any variation of the Terms and nor shall any single or partial exercise by either party of any right, power or privilege preclude any further exercise of that right or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege.
   6. Nothing in these Terms shall confer or purport to confer on any other third party, any benefit or the right to enforce any term of the Terms and the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 shall not apply to these Terms.

Last updated: 3 November 2023