BPP College of Professional Studies Virtual Learning Environment Terms and Conditions of Use

Introduction

BPP College of Professional Studies (The College) Virtual Learning Environment (‘VLE’) is part of the College’s information systems. These terms and conditions are applied in conjunction with the College’s IT Regulations, Copyright policy, Data Protection policy, VLE Code of Conduct and General Academic Regulations. Staff use is governed by the Employment Handbook.

Conditions of Use

1. By registering on the VLE, each user accepts and agrees to abide by the conditions set out below. The College, through the Director of Knowledge Services, reserves the right to exclude anyone from the VLE who fails to comply. Use of the VLE is subject to the College’s rules relating to the use of computers as described in the IT regulations.

2. The VLE is provided for education, research, and administration. Users are personally responsible for their contributions to the system and shall indemnify the College against any liability incurred by the College (including liability in defamation and for breach of copyright and any other intellectual property rights), which arises out of any such contribution.

Copyright

3. Unless otherwise indicated, this VLE and its contents are the property of the College.

4. The College maintains the VLE for learning and teaching purposes. You may access those parts ("modules") of the VLE that you are enrolled in and you may download or copy the available learning and teaching material for private study that constitutes as non-commercial use. Without prior approval, copying, distributing or use of the materials contained on the VLE for any commercial purpose is not permitted.

5. Any copyright in the material contained on the VLE belongs to the copyright holders.

Disclaimers

6. The College makes no warranty that information contained on the VLE is complete, accurate or up-to-date. The College takes no responsibility for the results of reliance on any such information.

7. The College reserves the right to vary, change, alter, amend, add to or remove any material on the VLE.

8. The College makes no warranty that use of the VLE will be uninterrupted, virus-free or error-free; or that use will not affect other software or operating systems used to access the VLE.

9. The College makes no warranty that use of VLE will not infringe the rights of any other person or organisation; or that it is of reasonable quality or fit for any particular purpose, even if the College received notice of an intention to use the VLE for that purpose.

10.The College accepts no liability for any loss or damage suffered by other parties as a direct or indirect result of using the VLE , including loss of profit, loss of opportunity, loss of business, and consequential loss, to the extent permitted in law.

11. You may contribute to any communication facilities (e.g. discussion boards or chat sessions) that you have access to on the VLE, provided you follow the Code of Conduct for the College's Virtual Learning Environment; your use is only authorised on that basis. Persons submitting material other than members of staff of the College to this VLE are solely responsible for the material and any claims relating to its content, whether made against the College or otherwise. The opinions of such persons are those of the individuals making them, and not of the College. The College accepts no responsibility for such opinions or any claims resulting from them.

12. While the College does not exercise editorial control over any content posted to the VLE by users, the College reserves the right at its sole discretion to remove any content that it considers objectionable. The College shall be the sole arbiter as to whether content is objectionable. In addition, the College reserves the right to review, edit or delete any comments posted by users deemed defamatory, unlawful, threatening or otherwise objectionable. The College accepts no responsibility or liability for any material communicated by third parties by means of the VLE, to the extent permitted in law.

13. Contributions must not consist of, or contain, illegal or offensive material; any material which is considered by the College to be illegal or offensive may be removed from the system. For this purpose the expressions illegal and offensive include (without limitation) material the publication of which is defamatory or would infringe copyright of a third party or which contravenes Data Protection legislation or the Telecommunications Act and material which constitutes incitement to racial hatred or which is offensive or obscene.

14. Each user of the College's VLE confirms that he or she will not hold the College liable for any material contributed to a discussion board or synchronous chat by another person, which is defamatory of that user.

Prohibitions and Regulation of Use

15. Subject to the above, those gaining access to this VLE are authorised to make use of the VLE and of any interactive facilities available through it, for any lawful purposes. The following is a non-exclusive list of uses which are expressly prohibited:

  • using the VLE to commit or encourage unlawful acts;

  • misrepresenting the user's identity or authority;

  • distributing any virus or other device intended to cause nuisance, loss or corruption of any information on the VLE or accessed through it, or of any systems used to operate the VLE or any systems accessed through it;

  • tampering with communications that are not the user's, or making any alteration to any information on the VLE;

  • accessing or attempting to access other user accounts;

  • any misuse, including hacking, or attempting to hack, any part of the VLE, system used to run it, or system accessed through the VLE;

  • disrupting the flow of communications in interactive areas (this includes making contributions that are, or can be seen as, either harassment, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually orientated, racially offensive, or otherwise objectionable or links to such material);

  • storing personal data derived from the VLE;

  • posting material that is deemed objectionable for one of the reasons in the non-exclusive list under point vii.

16. Use of the VLE by members of the College is subject to the College’s IT Regulations.

General

17. Nothing in these Terms and Conditions of Use is intended to, nor shall it, confer any benefit on any third party.

18. No failure or delay by the College to enforce any right against you shall operate as a waiver of such right or preclude its further exercise at any time.

Jurisdiction

19. These Terms and Conditions of Use are governed by and interpreted in accordance with the Laws of England & Wales.

20. If a court having competent jurisdiction finds any of these terms illegal or unenforceable, the invalidity of that provision will not affect the validity, legality, and enforceability of the remaining terms.

Comments and Enquiries

21. The College aims to make the VLE accessible to as many people as possible, including people with special needs. If you have any comments or suggestions as to how we may improve the VLE to make it more accessible to you, please contact the Knowledge Services team.

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