You may use our Services only if you:
- form a binding agreement with Good to Great Schools Australia in relation to these terms
- sign up as an educator working in an Australian school and only access and download our resources in the school for the express purpose of teaching your students or for your own development. Principals and instruction coaches (also known as Head of department/curriculum or Deputy Principal) can also use our school improvement tools to aid their school-wide improvement
- sign up as an industry member (who works in education or education-related fields), which offers certain benefits including access to information, and are kept up to date about new products and the latest version updates
- have another form of approved membership by Good to Great Schools Australia
- comply with these Terms, all applicable laws and eligibility requirements
- adhere to Australian data processing laws.
Any violation of our Terms, applicable laws, or Policies may result in your access to all or part of the Services being suspended, disabled or terminated.
When you create your Good to Great Schools Australia membership, you must provide us with accurate and complete information and agree to update your information to keep it accurate and complete.
Subject to these Terms and our Policies, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable license right to use our Services. The rights granted herein are only for your personal, non-commercial use, unless you obtain our written permission otherwise. You also agree that you will create, access, and/or use only one user membership, unless expressly permitted by Good to Great Schools Australia, and you will not share access to your membership or access information for your membership with any third party. Using our Services does not give you ownership of or any intellectual property rights in our Services or the content you access.
Any use of our Services for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited (this does not include use for education provision in an Australian school). Any commercial use must be subject to a separate agreement with Good to Great Schools Australia. If you are an organisation already using our Services, separate terms apply. These terms do not govern the relationship between your organisation and Good to Great Schools Australia.
Changes to Content Offerings
Good to Great Schools Australia offers courses, resources and content (“Content Offerings”). While we seek to provide world-class Content Offerings, unexpected events do occur. Good to Great Schools Australia reserves the right to cancel, interrupt, reschedule or modify any Content Offerings, or change the point value or weight of any assignment, quiz or other assessment. Content Offerings are subject to the Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability sections below.
You agree not to accept credit for completing a Content Offering unless you have earned a course certificate or other equivalent documentation of your completion of the Content Offering. Good to Great Schools Australia has no obligation to have Content Offerings recognised by any educational institution or accreditation organisation.
The Services enable you to share your content such as homework, quizzes, exams, projects, other assignments you submit, posts you make in the forums, and the like (“User Content”), with Good to Great Schools Australia, instructors, and/or other Users. You retain all intellectual property rights in, and are responsible for, the User Content you create and share. User Content does not include course content or other materials made available on or placed on the Good to Great Schools Australia platform.
How Good to Great Schools Australia and Others May Use User Content
To the extent that you provide User Content, you grant Good to Great Schools Australia a fully transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, sublicensable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to copy, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, publicly display and otherwise use the User Content. Nothing in these Terms shall restrict other legal rights Good to Great Schools Australia may have to User Content; for example, under other licenses.
We reserve the right to remove or modify User Content for any reason, including User Content we believe violates these Terms or other policies including our Acceptable Use Policy and Code of Conduct.
We welcome your suggestions, ideas, comments and other feedback regarding the Services (“Feedback”). By submitting any Feedback, you grant us the right to use the Feedback without any restriction or any compensation to you. By accepting your Feedback, Good to Great Schools Australia does not waive any rights to use similar or related Feedback previously known to Good to Great Schools Australia, developed by our employees, contractors or obtained from other sources.
We care about the security of our Users. While we work to protect the security of your membership and related information, Good to Great Schools Australia cannot guarantee that unauthorised third parties will not be able to defeat our security measures. You must notify us immediately of any compromise or unauthorised use of your membership by emailing info@goodtogreatschools.org.au
Through the Services, you will have the ability to access and/or use content provided by instructors, other Users, and/or other third parties and links to websites and services maintained by third parties. Good to Great Schools Australia cannot guarantee that such third-party content, in the Services or elsewhere, will be free of material you may find objectionable or otherwise inappropriate or of malware or other contaminants that may harm your computer, mobile device or any files therein. Good to Great Schools Australia disclaims any responsibility or liability related to your access or use of, or inability to access or use, such third-party content.
Good to Great Schools Australia respects the intellectual property rights of our Users and other third parties and expects our Users to do the same when using the Services. We act in accordance with applicable law, including the Copyright Act 1968.
Good to Great Schools Australia is committed to advancing the science of learning and teaching, and records of your participation in courses may be used for education research. In the interest of this research, you may be exposed to variations in the Content Offerings. Research findings will typically be reported at the aggregate level. Your personal identity will not be publicly disclosed in any research findings without your express consent.
Certificates and Qualifications
Professional licensure, certification and job requirements for various education professions may vary in each state and country, and job requirements may vary by employer. Good to Great Schools Australia does not guarantee licensure, certification or qualification for any profession or job on the basis of your completion of a Content Offering on Good to Great Schools Australia. You are advised to research, understand and comply with the requirements in the applicable state and/or country in which you work or intend to work, and to investigate whether the Content Offering in which you intend to enrol meets your academic and/or professional needs before enrolling.
Modifying or Terminating our Services
We are constantly changing and improving our Services. We may add or remove functions, features or requirements, and we may suspend (to the extent allowed by applicable law) or stop part of our Services altogether. Accordingly, Good to Great Schools Australia may terminate your use of any Service for any reason. None of Good to Great Schools Australia, its instructors, its contributors, sponsors or other business partners, and their employees, contractors or other agents (the “Good to Great Schools Australia Parties”) shall have any liability to you for any such action. You can stop using our Services at any time, although we will be sorry to see you go.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, the services and all included content are provided on an “as is” basis without warranty of any kind, whether express or implied. The Good to Great Schools Australia Parties specifically disclaim any and all warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement, and any warranties arising out of course of dealing or usage of trade. The Good to Great Schools Australia Parties further disclaim any and all liability related to your access or use of the Services or any related content. You acknowledge and agree that any access to or use of the Services or such content is at your own risk.
The Good to Great Schools Australia Parties shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or any loss of profits or revenues, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or any loss of data, use, goodwill or other intangible losses, resulting from: (a) your access to or use of or inability to access or use the Services; (b) any conduct or content of any party other than the applicable Good to Great Schools Australia party, including without limitation, any defamatory, offensive, or illegal conduct; or (c) unauthorised access, use or alteration of your content or information.
You acknowledge and agree that the Disclaimers and the Limitations of Liability set forth in this Terms of Use reflect a reasonable and fair allocation of risk between you and the Good to Great Schools Australia Parties, and that these limitations are an essential basis.
You agree that any cause of action related to the Services must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues. Otherwise, such cause of action is permanently barred.
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Good to Great Schools Australia Parties from any and all claims, liabilities, expenses and damages (to the extent attributable to you under the applicable law), including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs made by any third party related to: (a) your use or attempted use of the Services in violation of these Terms; (b) your violation of any law or rights of any third party; or (c) User Content, including without limitation any claim of infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property or other proprietary rights.
Except as provided below, the Services are managed by Good to Great Schools Australia Ltd which is located in Queensland, Australia. You agree that these Terms will be governed by the laws of the state of Queensland, excluding its conflicts of law provisions. In the event of any dispute related to these Terms that is not subject to binding arbitration, you and Good to Great Schools Australia will submit to the personal jurisdiction of and exclusive venue in the federal and state courts located in and serving Queensland, Australia as the legal forum for any such dispute.
This section shall not deprive you of any mandatory consumer protections under the law of the country to which we direct Services to you, where you have your habitual residence.
We reserve the right to revise the Terms at our sole discretion at any time. Any revisions to the Terms will be effective immediately upon posting by us. For any material changes to the Terms, we will take reasonable steps to notify you of such changes via a banner on the website, email notification, another method or combination of methods. In all cases, your continued use of the Services after publication of such changes, with or without notification, constitutes binding acceptance of the revised Terms.
If it turns out that a particular provision of these Terms is not enforceable, this will not affect any other terms. If you do not comply with these Terms, and we do not take immediate action, this does not indicate that we relinquish any rights that we may have (such as taking action in the future).
