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does not amend and is subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use of GradeGuru
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A. Treat others with respect
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helping each other. Please treat your fellow site users and members with respect.
Do unto others…
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Post only what you
create and own. Notes and materials created by your university, college,
school, professors, lecturers, tutors, or other publishers are not yours to
give. Posting the work
of others as if it is your own is theft – this is a black and white issue as
far as GradeGuru is concerned. Don’t do it. Including some lines from a
Shakespeare sonnet in an English poetry essay is OK. Borrowing material chunks of your English
lecturer’s detailed handout on Shakespeare’s poetry isn’t. GradeGuru can’t
lecture You on international copyright law – You know if you are doing
something wrong.
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research use
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GradeGuru seeks to raise the educational playing field, not level it.
You agree that we may supply Your Content (including that supplied prior to
the version date of these Terms) to providers of anti-plagiarism tools at our
discretion, so that such providers may, amongst other things, check the integrity of Your Content.
Content posted by Users is only the start of your course and revision work, not
an end in itself. Cheap plagiarism of material portions of essays and course
work etc (a) is not the goal of GradeGuru (b) will not help you
learn more, better or faster and (c) may be spotted by us and by teachers and
examiners who use increasingly sophisticated anti-plagiarism tools (d)
undermines the serious educational purpose of GradeGuru Services and (e)
is a waste of your time. GradeGuru is not the lazy path to qualifications. It
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just look better educated. GradeGuru does not want to alienate schools and
teachers. We hope to earn their respect and
participation.
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it is not up to quality standards or it is in breach of these Community Standards.
If we remove all or part of Your content, you can ask why, but please accept
our explanation. When Users alert GradeGuru to inappropriate Content, we
examine it and reach our own conclusion.
F. We’re not responsible for
what others post
GradeGuru is not responsible
for Content posted at GradeGuru, even if from time-to-time GradeGuru monitors
the site. Please use your judgement.
G. Don't Mess With GradeGuru or its members
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telephone numbers, street addresses, names and, obviously, no nudity,
obscenity, defamatory, libelous or violent postings. Sometimes
GradeGuru must report to the Police or other public authorities the posting of
certain Content, whether we like it or not.
GradeGuru aims to promote advances in education, not to shock, degrade
or upset people, nor to change governments or public policy. GradeGuru respects
and promotes free speech, but, there are limits to what GradeGuru can or will
publish. If your grandmother would be upset by seeing it stuck on the front of
her house, don’t post it on GradeGuru.
H. Don’t Look for Loopholes
Please accept our
Terms and respect their purpose. Don’t seek loopholes. If GradeGuru finds You
using loopholes, GradeGuru will shut Your account & amend the Terms to
close the loophole.
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GradeGuru is a
community for students (and those who teach them) to publish their work and to
improve the quality of their studies and the quality of what is taught to them
in the long run. GradeGuru Users can
improve GradeGuru continually if they behave as a proactive community. You may
receive rewards for the Content you post if it is viewed and rated by other
Users but you could also lose your rewards if we feel we have to remove your
Content and/or end your membership. Please use the site for educational
purposes only.
J. Don’t
Just Sit There
Share and share
alike There's a lot here to see, and lots of Users posting great notes - You
can be one of them. Don’t just sit there using what others have posted, return
the favour by posting high quality content that will stimulate and help others.
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it, tell us (nicely!). GradeGuru will take it on board to continuously develop
and improve GradeGuru. Similarly, we expect your peers will welcome
constructive feedback.
L. Report Abuses – If Content offends You or
if
you see others breaking the Terms, please immediately contact reportdisrespect@gradeguru.com.
We
won’t identify you to anybody else. We are grown ups. We will look at the
Content and reach our own decision.
M. No second chances: GradeGuru has
the right to terminate your access for any or no reason, with or without
notice.
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1. GradeGuru is an online educational
community where students publish their educational course and revision work to
others (all together “Users”). The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (of 1221
Avenue of the Americas New York New York 10020-1095 USA) trading as GradeGuru ("GradeGuru") offers the GradeGuru.com
website ("GradeGuru Website")
and other features, content, or applications offered from time to time in
connection with the GradeGuru Website (collectively, "GradeGuru Services").
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of Use. By (and in consideration
of) using GradeGuru Services, You agree to be bound by these terms of Use (“Terms”)
and our Privacy Statement. Read these
Terms carefully and save them. You can obtain a copy of these Terms by emailing
us at: communitystandards@gradeguru.com.
If You disagree with them, please immediately stop using GradeGuru Services.
3. GradeGuru may require You to download
software or content to enable you to use some GradeGuru Services and/or therefore
agree to more terms and conditions: these will become part of these Terms.
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occasionally, by posting changes on the GradeGuru Website. You will be bound by
any such changes if you use the GradeGuru Services after they have been
posted. You must review the posted Terms
regularly to be updated about changes.
5. Fees.
GradeGuru is entitled to charge at any time for GradeGuru Services (for
example, by way of a subscription fee or by charging You to view other Users Content
and other Users to view Your Content) and to change its fees from time to time
at its discretion. If GradeGuru ends your membership, you are not entitled to a
refund of any unused portion of any fees and you may forfeit any points you may
have earned under any reward scheme.
6. Your
Profile. You must ensure that your GradeGuru profile and all information
about You excludes telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, and
anything which breaches Clause 22
below.
7. Content
and use. GradeGuru assumes no
responsibility or liability for any material provided by Users (in Profiles or
Content), so it may contain material which is inaccurate, incomplete,
inappropriate, offensive or sexually explicit. If you learn of misuse of the
GradeGuru Services by anybody, please immediately contact GradeGuru or click on
the "Report Abuse" link at the bottom of any GradeGuru page.
8. GradeGuru can, in its sole discretion,
reject, refuse to post or remove all or any part of any Content and/or posting
(including private messages) by You, or restrict, suspend, or terminate Your
access to all or any part of GradeGuru Services at any time, for any or no
reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability.
9. Rewards. GradeGuru
may offer reward schemes to reward You according to (i)
the number of Users who view
your Content and/or (ii) how well Users rate your Content and/or (iii)
how well GradeGuru rates Your
Content. These rewards will be entirely at GradeGuru’s discretion and can be
revoked at anytime, if for example, all or part of your Content breaches these Terms or our
Community Standards or is not up to quality standards. In such cases you will forfeit any points You may have
earned under any reward scheme and You will not receive any future points for
any Content that remains on the GradeGuru Website, however GradeGuru will do
its best to recognise any points You may have earned in circumstances where it
feels you have properly earned such points and you are not at fault. If you
receive any rewards they will be forwarded to the contact
details you provide, so You need to make sure they are up to date.
10. Eligibility. Use or membership of GradeGuru Services is
void where prohibited by law. By using GradeGuru Services, You represent and
warrant that (a) all registration information You submit is true and
accurate; (b) You will maintain the accuracy of such information; (c)
You are at least sixteen
16 years of age; and (d) Your use of the GradeGuru Services does not
breach any applicable law or regulation.
11. Term. You may end
your membership at any time for any reason, by following the instructions at
the User Profile Screen. Ending your
membership means that You will not be able to access the GradeGuru Services and
post more Content, however, the Content that you have already posted will
remain on the GradeGuru Website unless we, in our sole discretion, decide to
remove it. Even after membership ends, these Terms therefore remain in effect.
12. Password. You must keep
Your password secret. You must not use the account, username, or password of any
other User at any time or to disclose Your password to anybody else. You must
tell GradeGuru immediately if You suspect any unauthorized use of or access to
Your account and/or password. You alone are responsible for any and all use of
Your account.
13. Non-commercial Use. GradeGuru Services are for
Your personal use only. You must not use them for any commercial purpose.
Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the GradeGuru Services, including collecting
information about Users by any means in order to send unsolicited email and/or
unauthorized framing of or linking to the GradeGuru Website is prohibited.
You agree not to use or launch any
automated system, including without limitation, "robots,"
"spiders," "offline readers," etc., that accesses the
GradeGuru Website in a manner that sends more request messages to its servers
in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same
period by using a conventional on-line web browser. However, GradeGuru does allow
operators of public search engines to use spiders to copy materials from the
site for the sole purpose of creating publicly available searchable indices of
the materials, but prohibits the creation of
archives of such materials. You agree not to collect any personally
identifiable information, including account names, from the GradeGuru Website.
You shall not transmit any
chain letters or junk email to other Users. You must not use any information
obtained from GradeGuru Services in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or
sell to any User without their prior explicit consent. In order to protect
Users, GradeGuru can restrict the number of emails which Users may send to each
other in any 24-hour period. If You send unsolicited bulk email, instant
messages or other unsolicited communications of any kind through the GradeGuru
Services, You accept that You will cause substantial harm to GradeGuru, but
that the amount of such harm will be very hard to ascertain. As a reasonable
estimate of such harm, You agree to pay GradeGuru 10USD for each such
unsolicited email or other unsolicited communication You send through the
GradeGuru Services.
14. Proprietary Rights in GradeGuru Content. GradeGuru does not claim ownership of the
text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship,
or any other materials (collectively, "Content")
that you may post to the GradeGuru Services. By posting any Content on or
through the GradeGuru Services, you hereby grant to GradeGuru a non-exclusive
worldwide perpetual license to use, modify,
publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute all or part of such
Content on and through the GradeGuru Services and through GradeGuru and its
affiliated entities, other off-line services and products and to charge for
access to and/or use of Your Content. This license granted by You to GradeGuru to
use Your Content (including that supplied prior to the version date of these Terms)
includes (without limitation) the right for GradeGuru supply Your Content to providers
of anti-plagiarism tools at our discretion, so that such providers may, amongst other things,
check the integrity of Your Content.
15. GradeGuru needs this License to provide
GradeGuru Services. Without the right to modify Content, GradeGuru cannot
digitally compress Content or otherwise format Content to satisfy technical
requirements, and without a right to publicly perform Your Content, GradeGuru
cannot allow Users to view/listen to files posted by You.
16. Your license to GradeGuru is (a) subject
to rewards provided by GradeGuru from time to time in its discretion, (b)
sublicensable, so GradeGuru can use affiliates and subcontractors (like
internet content delivery networks and service partners and collaborators) to
provide some or all GradeGuru Services, (c) worldwide (because the
Internet and GradeGuru Services have global reach) and (d) perpetual so
it continues even after you cease to be a registered User.
17. You represent and warrant that: (i) You
created and so You own all Content provided by You to GradeGuru and all rights
in such Content including without limitation copyright and (ii) the
posting of Your Content on or through GradeGuru Services will not breach the
privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other
rights of anybody. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other
monies owing to anybody by reason of any Content provided by You to GradeGuru. You
also agree to pay any charges GradeGuru may request from You for viewing other
Users Content. You will exclude from Content any documents, records or files
made accessible to You by (a) Your school/college or teacher employed by
Your school/college (b) any board of examination or (c) any author or publisher whose
works you have used as part of your studies or (d) any co-student.
18. GradeGuru Services contain material provided
by GradeGuru, excluding the Content of other Users ("GradeGuru Material"). GradeGuru Material
is protected by intellectual property and other laws, and GradeGuru owns and
retains all rights in the GradeGuru Material and GradeGuru Services. GradeGuru grants to You a limited, personal,
revocable, non transferable license to reproduce and display the GradeGuru
Material (excluding any software code) solely for your personal educational
use.
19. GradeGuru Services also contain Content
of other Users and other third parties. Except for Content posted by You, You
agree not to copy, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute,
perform, display, or sell any Content appearing on or through the GradeGuru
Services other than by downloading and printing for Your own personal
educational research use alone.
20. Content Posted. GradeGuru is entitled to delete all or part of
any Content that in its sole discretion breaches these Terms or the Community
Standards, is not up to quality
standards or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the rights, harm or
threaten the safety of any person. GradeGuru is not responsible for monitoring
GradeGuru Services for inappropriate Content or conduct. Even if GradeGuru
chooses to monitor GradeGuru Services, GradeGuru assumes no responsibility for
Content, no obligation to modify or remove inappropriate Content, and no
responsibility for the conduct of any User submitting such Content.
21. You alone are responsible for Content
posted by You on or through any GradeGuru Services, and for any material or
information that you transmit to other Users and for your interactions with
other Users. GradeGuru does not endorse and or control Your and/or anybody
else’s Content. Content is not reviewed by GradeGuru before posting and does
not reflect GradeGuru’s opinions or policies. You cannot remove any Content
once you have posted it, only GradeGuru can do this.
22. Content/Activity Prohibited. Below is a non-exhaustive
list of Content that is illegal or prohibited by GradeGuru from being posted on
or through the GradeGuru Services:
(a) is
offensive or promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind
against any person group or animal;
(b) contains nudity, violence, or offensive
subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;
(c) provides telephone numbers, street
addresses, last names, URLs or email addresses;
(d) promotes information that You know or
have good reason to think is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities
or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libellous;
(e) promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy
of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer
programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent
manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links
to pirated music files;
(f) involves the transmission of "junk
mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing, instant
messaging, "spimming," or "spamming";
(g) contains restricted or password only
access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another
accessible page);
(h) furthers or promotes any criminal
activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal
activities including, but not limited to making or buying illegal weapons,
violating someone's privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
(i) solicits passwords or personal
identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other persons
or from anyone under sixteen (16); and
(j) includes
a photograph of another person without that person's consent.
23. Below is a non-exhaustive list of
activities that are illegal or prohibited on the GradeGuru Website and through
use of GradeGuru Services:
(a) criminal or tortious activity, including
child pornography, fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing,
gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming, spimming, sending of viruses or other
harmful files, copyright infringement, patent infringement, or theft of trade
secrets;
(b) advertising to, or soliciting of, any
User to buy or sell any products or services through the GradeGuru Services;
(c) covering or obscuring the banner
advertisements on your personal profile page, or any GradeGuru page using
HTML/CSS or any other means;
(d) interfering with, disrupting, or
creating an undue burden on the GradeGuru Services or the networks or services
connected to the GradeGuru Services;
(e) attempting to impersonate another
person;
(f) selling or otherwise transferring Your
profile;
(g) using
any information obtained from GradeGuru Services to harass, abuse, or harm
another person; and
(h)
distorting or seeking (Yourself or in conspiracy with
others) to distort of falsify the outputs of GradeGuru systems or processes
designed to determine how many Users use Your Content or how well Users rate
Your Content. Such distortion or efforts to cause distortion may constitute
fraud, attempted fraud or conspiracy to commit fraud.
GradeGuru is entitled to
investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in
GradeGuru’s sole discretion, breaches Clause 22 and/or Clause 23 including
without limitation, removing such material from GradeGuru Services, suspending
or terminating Your access to GradeGuru Services and reporting You to relevant
authorities.
24. Copyright Policy. You agree that
You will not (using GradeGuru Services) post, modify, distribute, or reproduce
in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary
information (“Intellectual Property”)
belonging to others without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of
such proprietary rights. GradeGuru will terminate membership privileges of any
User who infringes the Intellectual Property of others upon receipt of notice
to GradeGuru by or for the rights owner.
25. Disputes. You alone are
responsible for your interactions with other Users. GradeGuru is entitled but
not obliged, to monitor disputes between you and other Users.
26. Privacy. Use of the GradeGuru
Services is also governed by our Privacy Statement, which is incorporated into
this Agreement. Please go to the GradeGuru homepage at www.gradeguru.com and click on the Privacy
Statement link to view our Privacy Statement. By using the GradeGuru Services,
you agree that we may use your information as further set out in the Privacy
Statement and you consent to having your personal data transferred to and
processed in the US,
where GradeGuru services are hosted.
27. Disclaimers. GradeGuru is not
responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted in connection with
the GradeGuru Services, whether caused by users of GradeGuru Services or by any
of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in GradeGuru
Services. GradeGuru does not guarantee that any GradeGuru Material is correct
and accurate and is not responsible for any errors or omissions or for any
consequences of the use of such information. Profiles created and posted by
Users on the GradeGuru Website may contain links to other websites. GradeGuru
is not responsible for the Content, accuracy or opinions expressed on such
websites and inclusion of any linked website on GradeGuru Services does not
imply approval or endorsement of the linked website by GradeGuru. If you access
third-party sites, You do so at your own risk. GradeGuru takes no
responsibility for third party advertisements which are posted on the GradeGuru
Website or through GradeGuru Services, nor does it take any responsibility for
the goods or services provided by its advertisers. GradeGuru is not responsible
for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any User of GradeGuru Services.
GradeGuru assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption,
deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line
failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, any
communication. GradeGuru is not responsible for any problems or technical
malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers
or providers, computer equipment, software, or failure of any email due to
technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or on any of GradeGuru
Services or combination thereof, including any injury or damage to any person's
computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading materials in
connection with GradeGuru Services. Under no circumstances shall GradeGuru be
responsible for any loss or damage, resulting from use of GradeGuru Services,
attendance at a GradeGuru event, from any Content posted on or through
GradeGuru Services (including, without limitation, from any use of or reliance
on any such Content), or from the conduct of any users of GradeGuru Services,
whether online or offline. GradeGuru Services are provided "AS-IS"
and as available and GradeGuru expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for
a particular purpose or non-infringement. GradeGuru cannot guarantee and does
not promise that the GradeGuru Services will always be available and neither
can it guarantee or promise any specific results from use of GradeGuru Services
and in particular does not promise that Users’ educational exam or course work
grades will improve thereby.
28. Limitation on Liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL
GRADEGURU BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL,
EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT
DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, EVEN IF GRADEGURU HAS BEEN
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE
CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, GRADEGURU'S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE
WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE
LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO GRADEGURU FOR GRADEGURU SERVICES
UP TO THE DATE WHEN THE CAUSE OF ACTION FIRST ARISES.
29. U.S. Export Controls. Software
available in connection with GradeGuru Services (the "Software") is further subject to United States
export controls. No Software may be downloaded from GradeGuru Services or
otherwise exported or re-exported in violation of U.S. export laws. Downloading or
using the Software is at your sole risk.
30. Disputes. If there is any
dispute about or involving GradeGuru Services, you agree that the dispute shall
be governed by the laws of the State of New York, USA, without regard to
conflict of law provisions and You agree to exclusive personal jurisdiction and
venue in the state and federal courts of the United States located in the State
of New York, City of New York. Either GradeGuru or You may demand that any
dispute between GradeGuru and you about or involving GradeGuru Services must be
settled by arbitration utilizing the dispute resolution procedures of the
American Arbitration Association (AAA) in New York City, New York, USA,
provided that the foregoing shall not prevent GradeGuru from seeking injunctive
relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.
31. Indemnity. You agree to
indemnify and hold GradeGuru its subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their
respective officers, agents, partners and employees, harmless from any loss,
liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any
third party due to or arising out of your use of GradeGuru Services in violation of this
Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of
Your representations and/or warranties set forth above and/or if any Content
that you post on the GradeGuru Website or through the GradeGuru Services causes
GradeGuru to be liable to another.
32. Other. These Terms and the Privacy Statement
are accepted upon Your use of any GradeGuru Services. These Terms and the
Privacy Statement constitute the entire agreement between You and GradeGuru for
use of GradeGuru Services. The failure of GradeGuru to exercise or enforce any
right or provision of these Terms and the Privacy Statement shall not operate
as a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in these Terms are
for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. GradeGuru is a
valuable trademark of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. for which there
are trademark registrations and/or applications for such registrations in a
number of territories. These Terms and Privacy Statement operate to the fullest
extent permissible by law. If any provision of these Terms and/or Privacy Statement
are unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision is deemed severable from
these Terms and/or Privacy Statement and does not affect the validity and
enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Please
contact us at: communitystandards@GradeGuru.com
with any questions regarding this Agreement.
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