Terms and conditions

By agreeing to our terms and conditions you agree to not distribute this website’s copyrighted material outside of the terms of the subscription held, or otherwise make unlawful copies of any materials viewable or downloadable from the website.

You agree not to share your login credentials with unregistered parties, and parties whose access falls outside of the terms of your or your institution’s subscription.

These terms and conditions (‘Terms') apply to the www.chasingtimeenglish.com website (the ‘Website'). The Website is provided by Chasing Time English Ltd. whose registered office is situated 48 Pulham Crescent, Hamilton 3210, New Zealand.

Please read these Terms carefully. These Terms are not negotiable. If you do not agree to them, you must stop using the Website immediately. By using the Website you are agreeing to these Terms.

Chasing Time English’s Intellectual Property Rights

This Website and its Online Content and Resources are protected by copyright, database rights, trademarks and other Intellectual Property Rights. All Intellectual Property rights in the Website and its content is owned by us and no right to use or licence of any of those Intellectual Property Rights is granted except as explicitly set out in these Terms.

Subscription Plans

The Terms below apply to all Chasing Time English Subscription Plans

By submitting your order, you are agreeing that we may process your subscription and begin the service. Once we have done so, you will not be able to cancel the order and receive a refund of the fee paid.
The Subscription Plan is valid for the period listed at the time of purchase.
Once your order has been processed, you are granted access to the teaching and learning content available on the Website, including digital/online resources, pdf worksheets, audio files and video files. Teachers may download and make photocopies of files indicated on the Website as being available for this purpose for pedagogical purposes with a class.
The Subscription Plan is solely for use by teachers and administrators of your school, institution, or business as defined in the parameters of use on subscribing.
We reserve the right to monitor usage of the Subscription Service using your personal login details and/or website analytics. In the event that unauthorized users are accessing the Subscription Service using your unique details then we reserve the right to charge you an amount equal to the charges which would have been payable had each unauthorized user subscribed for the Subscription Services themselves.
Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the Website will be investigated, and appropriate legal action will be taken, including without limitation civil, criminal and injunctive redress.

Registration and “My Account”

Any Visitor can view the Website, but in order to participate fully in all activities on the Website and to access the Online Content and Resources, you must register for an account on the Website by completing the registration process as a school/institution or individual teacher. You agree that you will never divulge or share access or your access information to your User Account with any third party for any reason.

The registration processes on our Website requires you to create a password to enable you to access your account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your username and password and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. You agree to (a) immediately notify us of any unauthorised use of your account and any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. We will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with these obligations.

You undertake to us that all information provided by you in relation to your User Account is and will continue to be accurate, current and complete at all times and that you will maintain and update your information to keep it accurate, current and complete.

Licence to Use

You agree that you will not use our Website and Online Resources to:

reproduce, copy, modify, create derivative works from or communicate or make available to third parties any of the content of our Website or Resources other than your legitimate registered students without Chasing Time English’s prior consent.
collect or store personal data about other users.

You must abide by all copyright notices or restrictions contained on the Website or the Online Content and Resources. You may not delete any attributions, legal or proprietary notices on content from the Website and Resources.

Institution Use

An educational “Institution” means any establishment that provides teaching and learning curriculum up to 3000 registered students as its core functional remit and existence such as, without limitation, schools, local authorities, school groups, further education colleges and higher education universities.

If you are engaged in the activity of packaging, copying, adapting or bundling education content to distribute in a commercial setting including, without limitation, if you are a publisher whether online or in print, a provider of Online Programme Management, Online learning platforms, MOOCs, Learning Management Systems, Content Management Systems, Education Portals, Learning Pathways and related products which programmatically manage student experience as service supplied directly to clients or learners, you are not permitted to register with Chasing Time English in order to deliver your service. You will cancel your registration and MUST approach us to negotiate a licence as a publisher or distributor.

You agree not to use or access the Website or Online Content and Resources for commercial resale including:

The sale of access to the Online Content and Resources or any associated content;
the solicitation of business in the course of trade or in connection with a commercial enterprise unless without specifically crediting Chasing Time English as the business benefit you are providing in your trade or enterprise.

You will not copy, reproduce, create derivative works of, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, repackage, load or embed to other websites, or otherwise exploit any content contained on the Website (including without limitation the Online Content and Resources) for any other purpose other than as permitted by these Terms without our prior written consent;
You agree not to stream, submit page requests, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with these Terms.

You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that we have no responsibility to you or to any third party for) any breach of your obligations under the Terms and for the consequences of that breach (including, but not limited to, any loss or damage which we or any third party may suffer).

Our Liability to You

The Website and the Online Content and Resources are provided to you “as is” and we make no warranty or representation to you with respect to them.

We exclude all representations, warranties, conditions and terms expressed or implied by statute, common law or otherwise to the fullest extent permitted by law. We accept no liability for any special, indirect, incidental, consequential or economic loss, or any other losses, howsoever caused arising out of or in connection with these terms. This includes (without limitations):

any loss of profit (directly or indirectly)
any loss of goodwill; and
any loss of opportunity.

We accept no responsibility for any loss or damage incurred by you as a result of:

any reliance placed by you on the completeness, accuracy or existence of any information on the Website or the Resources;
any changes which we make to the Website and Resources, or for any temporary interruptions in the provision of the Website or Online Content and Resources;
your failure to provide us with accurate account information; or
your failure to keep your account details secure and confidential.

We may terminate your User Account or access/use of the Website with immediate effect:

if we reasonably believe you or any User you are connected with are in breach of any of these Terms;
in order to prevent any fraudulent, unlawful or abusive activity; or
if it is necessary to prevent or stop any harm or damage to us, other Users of the Website or the general public

Changes to the Website and these Terms

We may update or amend these Terms (as well as our Policies) from time to time to comply with law or to meet our changing business requirements. When we update our Terms or Policies, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make. Any updates or amendments will be posted on the Website.

For any operational, regulatory, legal or other reason, we reserve the right to modify, suspend or discontinue all of the Online Content and Resources with or without notice to you and we will not be liable to you or any third party for any such modifications, suspension or termination. By continuing to use the Website, you agree to be bound to the terms of these updates.

Maintenance of the Website

Making your use of the Website enjoyable means we need to fix bugs, install updates and do general diagnosis and maintenance of the Website, which may make the Website less accessible or available for your use during those times.

We also need to be able to do emergency maintenance and/or suspend access to the servers where, in our reasonable discretion, we see the need to do that. We will try to have the Website available again as soon as we think it is safe to do so.

Termination

This Agreement will terminate if you or we are in material breach of any of its terms and if the breach is not remedied within the period of twenty working days after written notice of it has been given to the party in breach. If we are in material breach as a result of circumstances within our control, you will be entitled to pro-rata return of the applicable charges.

On termination of this agreement for any reason:

(a) all licences granted under this agreement shall immediately terminate;

(b) subject to the exceptions in this sub-clause, you will take reasonable steps to delete our content from your electronic media, including your intranet and electronic storage devices so that you no longer have an electronically functional copy of the content. However, you are not required to delete or destroy printouts containing our content that were made prior to termination, or copies of such printouts;

(d) termination shall not affect or prejudice the accrued rights of the parties as at termination, or the continuation after termination of any provision expressly stated to survive or implicitly surviving termination.