Terms of Service
(last updated Jan 2008)

1.Acceptance of Terms:
Welcome!  School Loop, Inc. ("School Loop" or "us" or "we") welcomes you to our website at www.schoolloop.com.  We provide an online application that is designed to help teachers, students, school staff, and parents share information about student homework assignments, grades, and other school-related information.  We refer to our online application and our website together as the "Service."

By using or accessing any part of the Service, you are agreeing to these Terms of Service and all other policies or notices posted by us on our website.

If you don't agree to these Terms of Service, please don't use the Service.  We can change these Terms of Service at any time.  If we make any changes, we will note that changes to the Terms of Service have been made in the "news" that we publish as part of the Service.  Thereafter, it will be your responsibility to review the new Terms of Service to see if you agree with the new terms as it creates a binding legal agreement between you and School Loop.  If you use the Service after we've changed any of the Terms of Service, you are agreeing to all of the changes.  Again, if you do not agree, please don't use the Service.

2.Permission to Use the Service

• You have our permission to use the Service, but only if:
• you have the permission of your school or school district to do so (each school or district sets its own policies on use of the Service, so you should ask your school about the conditions for becoming a user of the Service and whether any approval is required for special rights, like viewing grades);
• you are using the Service for your own personal school-related purposes and not for commercial purposes;
• you do not copy the Service or any part of the Service;
• you do not modify the Service or any part of the Service;
• you follow all the rules and restrictions we've spelled out in these Terms of Service.

3.Accounts; Passwords; Security
You will need an account in order to use the Service.  You may not use someone else's account without permission.  When you are setting up your account, you must give us accurate and complete information.  This means that you cannot set up an account using someone else's name or contact information, or a phony name or phony contact information.  You have complete responsibility for your account and everything that happens on your account.  This means you need to be careful with your password.  If you find out that someone is using your account without your permission, you must let us know immediately.  We are not liable for any damages or losses caused by someone using your account without your permission.  However, if we (or anyone else) suffer any damage due to the unauthorized use of your account, you may be liable.  We can terminate your account at any time without notice to you.

4. Personal Use Only
We are making the Service available to you for your information and your personal school-related use only.  You may not (and you agree not to) use, copy, distribute, transmit, broadcast, sell, or do anything else with the Service for any other purpose.

If you are a student or a parent, you may electronically copy and print, in hard copy form, information made available by the Service for the sole purpose of reviewing your (or your child's) personal school data, school notices, school homework assignments, or any other documents posted to the Service for your use.  Any other use of materials on this Service, including reproduction for purposes other than those noted above, modification, distribution, or re-publication, without the prior written permission of School Loop or the applicable teacher or school administrator is strictly prohibited.

We reserve the right to discontinue any aspect of the Service at any time.

5.Intellectual Property Rights in User Content
You are solely responsible for any User Content you post to the Service, and the consequences of posting or publishing it.   By "User Content", we mean any Content you post to the Service.  "Content" means information, data, text, graphics, messages, interactive features, or any other materials.  Examples of User Content are teaching materials prepared by teachers, homework turned in by students, and e-mail messages among students, teachers, parents, and school administrators.  These are just a few examples and are not meant to limit what we mean by User Content.  When we say "post", we include posting, uploading, sharing, submitting or otherwise providing User Content in any manner in connection with the Service.

If you post User Content, you are making a guarantee to us that you either own all the Content you are posting, or you have the right to post the Content.  Furthermore, you are guaranteeing that you have the right to allow us to make your User Content available for others to view and use as part of the Service (subject to the privacy restrictions in the Service).  If you do not have these rights, do not post the Content.  By posting your User Content, you do not lose any ownership rights you may have to it.  However, you do grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform your User Content only in connection with the Service. 

This grant includes the right to aggregate your User Content with other User Content for the purpose of compiling information regarding users of the Service as a whole.  For example, the Service may include a search engine that returns search results based on the number of times that teachers and administrators have posted links to these sites in the Service.  In order to provide this search engine, School Loop must aggregate information regarding the links that teachers and administrators have posted and the context in which the links were posted (such as assignments, courses, grade level, etc.).  In aggregating this information, unless you permit us to identify you, School Loop will remove any personally identifying information, such as who posted the link.

You also grant each user of the Service a non-exclusive license to access your User Content through the Service and to use, copy, print, distribute, display and perform your User Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service (subject to the privacy restrictions in the Service and any copyright notices you include in your User Content) and under these Terms of Service.  Once you remove your User Content from the Service (which you have the right to do at any time), these licenses will no longer apply.  The only exception is that if someone made or distributed a copy of your User Content while it was still on the Service, that person will still be allowed to use the copy.

6.     Some User Content You Share May Become Public
Some users of the Service may use the Service to host forums for online discussion or message posting about issues important to your community or school.  The organizer of the forum will determine how these online forums are used.  These are public forums, and information that users post may be available to other members of the school community, and in some cases even other schools or on the Internet.  Your individual school will decide how it wishes to use online discussion and message boards. 

In addition, the Service allows your individual district or school to make certain information that you post available on the internet.  Your individual district or school will decide what kinds of information to make public on the Internet, but this information may include information posted by teachers about their course descriptions, syllabi, and assignments, as well as general information about the school, school news and school events.  Your individual school or school district is responsible for ensuring that its decision regarding the information it makes available on the Internet is consistent with its own privacy policies and applicable law.

If you are a parent, you agree that the practices described in this Section 6 are acceptable to you, as well as to any of your children that use the Service.  If you are a teacher, you agree that the practices described in this Section 6 are acceptable to you as well as any of your students that use the Service.

7.     Restrictions on User Content and Your Conduct
You may not: (i) use our Service for any illegal purpose;

(ii) use our Service to harm minors in any way, including posting User Content that violates child pornography laws, child sexual exploitation laws, or any other laws protecting children;

(iii) submit User Content that you don't have the right to submit, unless you have the owner's permission; this includes someone else's private information (such as passwords, home addresses, personal phone numbers), as well as material covered by someone else's copyright, trade secret, privacy, publicity, or any other proprietary right;

(iv)publish or distribute pictures of others or yourself without appropriate permission;

(v) forge headers or manipulate other identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any User Content you submit;

(vi)  submit any User Content that contains lies, falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage us or anyone else;

(vii) submit User Content that is illegal, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate;

(viii) transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitation;

(ix)impersonate anyone else or lie about your affiliation with another person or entity;

(x)use meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing any of our or our suppliers' product names or trademarks;

(xi) upload, launch, post, email or transmit any material (including any bot, worm, scripting exploit or computer virus) that is likely to harm or corrupt our Service, or harm or corrupt our or anyone else's computer systems, or data;

(xii) collect or gather other people's personal information (including account information) from our Service;

(xiii) submit User Content which disparages or our partners, vendor or affiliates; or

(xiv) solicit, for commercial purposes, any users of our Service.

We have the sole right, but not necessarily the obligation, to delete at any time any User Content that violates these rules or that we believe to be inappropriate for any reason.  Furthermore, if you violate any of these rules, we may terminate your account and access to the Service and take any other action against you that we think is necessary.

8. We Are Not Responsible for User Content
We generally do not review any of the User Content posted by our users.  We do not endorse any User Content or support any views, opinions, recommendations, or advice that may be in user submissions.  User Content comes from a variety of sources, and we make no promises about the reliability of any source or the accuracy, usefulness, safety, or intellectual property rights of any user submission.  You may be offended by User Content that you see on the Service.  You may find some of it to be inaccurate, offensive, indecent, or objectionable.  However, you agree not to hold us responsible in any way for your use of our Service, including your exposure to User Content.

9.     Proprietary Rights
School Loop and its suppliers retain all right, title and interest (including all copyright, trade secret, patent and other rights) in and to the Service (including its interface and any underlying software or technology) and Content which is included in the Service (other than User Content).  We reserve all rights in and to the Service unless we expressly state otherwise.  The Service contains proprietary and confidential information that is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws.

The Service may include text, images, and other Content of School Loop or third-parties ("Licensed Content") which you are permitted to use in connection with the Service; you may use such Licensed Content only in connection with use of the Service and only as expressly permitted and you may not otherwise remove, copy, use or distribute any such Licensed Content apart from the Service.

You may not decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce the Service to a human-perceivable form, except and only to the extent that such activity is expressly permitted by applicable law notwithstanding this limitation.  You may not modify, sell, rent, lend, lease, transfer, resell for profit, distribute or create derivative works based upon the Service.

All brand, product and service names used in the Service which identify School Loop or its suppliers and their proprietary products and services are the trademarks or service marks of School Loop or its suppliers.  Nothing in this Service shall be deemed to confer on any person any license or right on the part of School Loop or such supplier with respect to any such image, logo or name.

10.  Keeping Copyright Notices and Security Features Intact
If you download or share a copy of anything on or created using the Service, you must not delete, erase, or remove any logos or notices (such as copyright notices) that are on the item you download.  You also understand that certain items may not be reprinted without the permission of the author.  Similarly, you agree not to disable, interfere, or try to get around any of the features of the Service related to security, preventing or restricting use or copying of any Content, or enforcing the limits on the use of the Service or the Content on the Service. 

11.  Enforcement of Copyrights
We respect the intellectual property rights of others.  You may not use our Service to infringe anyone else's copyright or other intellectual property right.  If we find out that you are infringing, we will remove your User Content.  We do not have to give you notice that we are removing your User Content.  We may also terminate your account if we decide that you are a repeat infringer.  We consider a repeat infringer to be a user who has been notified of infringing activity more than twice or who has had User Content removed from our Service more than twice.

12.  Notify Us of Infringers
If you believe that something on our Service violates your copyright, notify our copyright agent in writing.  The contact information for our copyright agent is at the bottom of this section.

(i)  provide your physical or electronic signature;

(ii)  identify the copyrighted work that you believe is being infringed;

(iii) identify the item on our Service that you think is infringing your work and include sufficient information about where the material is located on our Service (including which website) so that we can find it;

(iv) provide us with a way to contact you, such as your address, telephone number, or e-mail;

(v) provide a statement that you believe in good faith that the item you have identified as infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law to be used on our Service; and

(vi) provide a statement that the information you provide in your notice is accurate, and that (under penalty of perjury), you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner whose work is being infringed.

Here is the contact information for our copyright agent:

Copyright Enforcement

School Loop, Inc.

1605 Easton Drive

Burlingame, CA 94010

Phone:  (650) 351-5060

E-Mail:  copyright@schoolloop.com

Again, we cannot take action unless you give us all the required information.

13.  How to Communicate with Us
Only notices about copyright infringement should go to our copyright enforcement department.  If you have anything else to communicate with us (like feedback, comments, requests for technical support), you should contact us through our customer service department at support@schoolloop.com. 14.  Our Storage Policy