Terms of Use
Children's Terms of Use
We want LearnEnglish Kids to be a fun place for children to learn English, but we also want it to be a safe place. For this reason we ask all members to follow house rules. Please have a look at these rules with your parent, carer or teacher.
We also want this site to help you learn and practise English, and we encourage you to send in your work. Please make sure that any work that you send in is your own work, and that you haven't copied it or taken it from anywhere else without getting permission. This means comments, stories, reviews, poems or any art work. Don't worry if there are mistakes in your work - we do not expect everything to be in perfect English.
It is important that you tell your parent, carer or teacher before becoming a site member. Remember to always follow the house rules when you send comments in to the site. It is very important that you do not give out personal information such as your name, address, phone numbers or email address. It is also very important to be respectful of other site members. If you see or read something that you don't like, please let us know.
Copyright
The copyright for content on LearnEnglish Kids is held by the British Council. Where material has been provided by other organisations, copyright ownership is indicated on the relevant pages. Where indicated, you may print out materials and use for personal use. Teachers may photocopy materials for use with a class. Materials on this site cannot be redistributed or used for commercial purposes. If you wish to link to LearnEnglish Kids, please see the information below.
If you submit a contribution to the site, for instance a book review or poem you have written, you retain the copyright for this work. That means that you may use the same material yourself in another context. You may only submit material that you have written yourself. If your submission makes use of any other printed material, like a quote from a storybook, you must send us full details. The British Council reserve the limited right to use your contributions on their web sites and related publications, and by submitting your work you are deemed to have given permission for such use. If the British Council or another organisation wishes to use your work in an unrelated publication we will seek your permission.
While every effort is made to check copyright prior to publication, if you see material on this site for which you believe you hold the copyright, please let us know immediately.
Linking to our site
You may link to us from your site, as long as our site appears in its normal form, for example, it does not appear inside your own frameset or with any advertising.
Your postings, copyright and the law
You own the copyright in your postings, comments and pictures, but you also agree to grant the British Council a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sublicenseable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, play, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to any such work worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in such content, consistent with privacy restrictions set forth in the British Council’s privacy policies.
If you do not wish to grant such rights to the British Council, it is suggested that you do not submit your contribution to this site.
By submitting your contribution to this site, you also warrant that such contribution is:
- your own original work and that you have the right to make it available to the British Council for all the purposes specified above
- is not defamatory
- does not infringe any law
You also agree to indemnify the British Council against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by the British Council as a result of your breach of the above warranty.
You also agree to waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its submission to and publication on the British Council site and the other purposes specified above.
You may not post any defamatory or illegal material of any nature. This includes text, graphics, video, and/or audio. Posting a message with the intention of committing or condoning an illegal act is strictly prohibited.
You may not violate, plagiarise, or infringe on the rights of third parties including copyright, trademark, trade secret, privacy, personal, publicity, or proprietary rights.
If there is any conflict between these Terms and Conditions and/or specific terms appearing elsewhere on this site relating to specific material then the latter shall prevail.
External links
The British Council is not responsible for the content of external links.
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