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TERMS AND CONDITIONS


The current website is property of International Schools Database, S.L. ("International Schools Database" or "Provider") with Spanish Tax number B56199540, registered office at Avda. Professor López Piñero, 8-28, Valencia, Spain and registered in the Commercial Registry of Valencia in Volume 11428, Folio 121, Inscription 1 with Sheet V-212824. The email address for contacting the company is: andrea@international-schools-database.com

These terms and conditions regulate the service provided by the Provider, which allows the presentation of international schools and interconnection of the supply and demand in the field of school education via the website www.international-schools-database.com (hereinafter as the "Service"). These terms and conditions apply to the use of the Service by Users (hereinafter as the "Terms and Conditions"). Use of the Service by schools or any other relevant facility is governed separately in terms and conditions for the Schools.

  • 1. SUBJECT MATTER OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
    • 1.1. The Provider provides the Service, which includes an internet platform for:
      • 1.1.1. parents and other persons interested in finding a suitable international school for children up to the age of eighteen (hereinafter as the "User"), on the one side, and
      • 1.1.2. providers of school education with the appropriate authorization pursuant to the legislation of the state in which it is established or in which it provides school education, on the other side (hereinafter as the "School")
        • (hereinafter as the "Platform").
    • 1.2. The Provider allows placement of presentations and offers of Schools within the Service to enable the Schools to offer their services to the Users. The Service allows the Users to make comparisons of the Schools, to contact the Schools and make Reviews.
    • 1.3. The Provider declares that they are not a school education provider. The Provider only operates the Platform and offers the Service.
    • 1.4. The Service is provided for Users free of charge and the Provider will not charge any fee or additional remuneration.
    • 1.5. These Terms and Conditions apply also to Users that are accessing the website https://www.international-schools-database.com (hereinafter as the "Website") but do not register within the Service (hereinafter as the "Guest User").
    • 1.6. By accessing the Website, the Guest User agrees to be bound by these Terms of Service accordingly as the User. If the Guest User does not agree with these Terms and Conditions, they are not allowed to use or access the Website.
    • 1.7. Access to certain sections of the Website will require the acquisition of the status of registered user, for which purpose the steps indicated must be followed.
  • 2. REGISTRATION
    • 2.1. The contract on the use of the Service between the Provider and the User (hereinafter as the "Contract") is concluded at the moment when the User registers on the Website by creating an account (hereinafter as the "Account") and agreeing with the Terms and Conditions by ticking the box "I have read and I agree with the Terms and Conditions".
    • 2.2. The User must be at least 18 years old in the moment of registration.
    • 2.3. To create the Account, the User is required to provide their e-mail address (which can also be used for communication between the Provider and the User) and a password for signing into the Account.
    • 2.4. Successful registration and conclusion of the Contract will be notified to the User without undue delay via the e-mail address given by the User during the registration.
    • 2.5. The Provider reserves the right to verify the User’s e-mail and contact information.
    • 2.6. The User provides via Platform also other information like age of their children and personal preferences regarding Schools (area, language of instruction, character of the education etc.). The Provider is enabled to use and process all this information to provide the Service in accordance with the privacy policy available on the Website.
    • 2.7. All information provided in the Account must be correct and true. If the information changes, the User is obliged to update it anytime and without undue delay. The Provider is not liable for any damage caused if the User states incorrect or inaccurate information.
    • 2.8. The User uses the Account in particular to search and compare Schools, manage favourite Schools, submit Reviews, set their personal preferences and requirements for education.
    • 2.9. For an access to the Account the User must enter their logging data. The User is always required to:
      • 2.9.1. protect their logging data, and
      • 2.9.2. prevent any third party from unauthorized access to their logging data and Account.
    • 2.10. The User is responsible for damages resulting from inadequate protection of their logging data or from unauthorized access to the Account. In the event of suspected disclosure or misuse, it is in the User’s own interest to change their logging data as soon as possible.
  • 3. "REVIEW" FEATURE
    • 3.1. Users and Guest Users may use the Service to write and submit a review on a School registered on the Platform (hereinafter as "Review").
    • 3.2. Before submitting the Review, the Users and Guest Users must submit their name, e-mail address, specifying their association with the School (Student, Parent of a Student, Teacher, School Administrator, or Other) and other information specified in the Review.
    • 3.3. By ticking the box "I have read and I agree with the Terms and Conditions", Users and Guest Users are concluding a contract on the use of the Review under this article (hereinafter as the "Reviewers").
    • 3.4. The Provider has the right (but is not obliged) to publish the Review and to make the Review publicly available to any School, User or Guest User of the Website.
    • 3.5. The Reviews may include the name provided by the Reviewer but not their e-mail address, which will remain known only to the Provider. The Provider doesn’t share any additional information with the School which is not published on the Website.
    • 3.6. The Provider reserves the right to use the Reviewer’s e-mail address to verify their contact information, to notify them about the status of their Review, and/or to send them instructions on how to confirm their Reviews.
    • 3.7. The Provider may notify the School being reviewed and that it has a right to reply to the Review. The School has no right to modify the content of the Review.
    • 3.8. The Reviewer agrees to submit only Reviews that are, to the best of their knowledge, truthful and accurate.
    • 3.9. Reviewer shall not submit any Review that:
      • 3.9.1. is libellous, defamatory, threatening, abusive, scandalous, obscene, disruptive, pornographic or unlawful or that encourages a criminal offense;
      • 3.9.2. contains any advertising, promotional, solicitation or other commercial material;
      • 3.9.3. contains material from other copyrighted works without the written consent of the owner of such copyrighted material, other than reasonable excerpts permitted under the copyright doctrine of fair use.
    • 3.10. The Provider reserves the exclusive right not to publish or to delete the Review at their own discretion. In particular if the Review is not in accordance with the law (e.g. its content is somehow violent, abusive, infringes intellectual property rights) or with these Terms and Conditions. The Provider is never responsible for the content of any Review.
  • 4. "CONTACT THE SCHOOL" FEATURE
    • 4.1. Users and Guest Users may contact a School in order to ask for more information relevant to the School’s enrolment process if the School has enabled the "contact the school" feature (hereinafter as the "Contact Form"). Messages sent via Contact Form are private.
    • 4.2. The User or Guest User undertakes to use the Contact Form exclusively to send enquiries (hereinafter as the "Enquiries") to Schools with the view of enrolling a student/User, and for no other purpose.
    • 4.3. By ticking the box "I have read and I agree with the Terms and Conditions", Users and Guest Users are concluding a contract on the use of the Contact Form under this article (hereinafter as the "Enquirer").
    • 4.4. No Enquirer shall send messages via Contact Form including in particular:
      • 4.4.1. advertising, promotional, solicitation or other commercial material; job applications or job enquiries; libellous, defamatory, threatening, abusive, scandalous, obscene, pornographic, or unlawful messages.
    • 4.5. The Enquirer explicitly gives permission to the Provider to forward their Enquiries to the respective Schools.
    • 4.6. The Provider reserves the right (but is not obliged) to use the Enquirers’ e-mail addresses to notify them about the status of their Enquiries.
    • 4.7. The Provider does not guarantee and shall not be responsible for:
      • 4.7.1. reception of the Enquiries by the School,
      • 4.7.2. the Schools replying to the Enquiries,
      • 4.7.3. any results or lack of results from their Enquiries.
    • 4.8. The Provider reserves the exclusive right not to forward or block messages sent via the Contact Form at their own discretion. In particular the Provider is entitled to block messages that are not in accordance with the law (e.g. its content is somehow violent, abusive, infringes intellectual property rights) or with these Terms and Conditions.
    • 4.9. The Provider is never responsible for the content of any of the messages sent via the Contact Form.
  • 5. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE USER
    • 5.1. The User undertakes to use the Service solely in accordance with the legal regulations and these Terms and Conditions. The User is not entitled to use the Service for any other purpose or in any manner other than those set forth in these Terms and Conditions.
    • 5.2. Most importantly, the User hereby undertakes that he will not:
      • 5.2.1. within the use of the Service or as a result of the use of the Service, interfere with the rights of third parties or the Provider,
      • 5.2.2. interfere with the Platform unjustifiably and will not attempt to gain access to the Platform in any other way than using the specified logging data and via the appropriate interface, in particular, will not in any way reproduce, modify, decompile, or otherwise interfere with the Platform, the associated source code and documentation unless expressly authorized to do so,
      • 5.2.3. use the Platform in a way that could damage it (including interference with the software and hardware on which the Platform is made operational),
      • 5.2.4. modify or copy any of the materials or information available in the Service,
      • 5.2.5. use any of the information or the materials available in the Service for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial),
      • 5.2.6. attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on the Website,
      • 5.2.7. transfer the information or the materials available in the Service to another person or "mirror" them on any other server than the Provider’s,
      • 5.2.8. crawl, harvest or scrape the Service or any of its contents, or otherwise access the Service or its contents for any purposes by machine based or automated means or by systematic operations.
      • 5.2.9. carry out any act that may be considered an infringement of any intellectual or industrial property rights belonging to the Provider or third parties.
    • 5.3. The user will be liable for damages of any nature that the Provider may suffer, due to the breach of any of the obligations set out above as well as any others included in these General Terms and Conditions and/or those imposed by law in relation to the use of the Website.
    • 5.4. All underage users must use the Website with the consent of their father, mother or legal guardian, who shall be responsible for any problem that may arise in the use of the Website's services.
  • 6. RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE PROVIDER
    • 6.1. The Provider undertakes to make reasonable efforts to make the Service available and operational. However, the User is aware of the fact that despite this Provider's effort, the Service may not always be fully available, especially due to the necessary maintenance of the Provider’s hardware and software equipment or necessary maintenance of hardware and software of third parties.
    • 6.2. The Provider is not responsible for any damage caused to the User due to the unavailability or malfunction of the Service.
    • 6.3. The Provider may, at any time, without prior notice, make changes to the content of the Website, as well as the Service, to add or remove the functions of the Platform and its components.
    • 6.4. The Provider is not obliged:
      • 6.4.1. to oversee and/or monitor the content stored on the Platform, or
      • 6.4.2. to actively search for facts and circumstances pointing to the illegal content of this information.
    • 6.5. However, the User is aware that the Provider is entitled to delete any data as instructed or permitted by the applicable law if the Provider concludes the data are in any way violating the legal regulations or these Terms and Conditions.
    • 6.6. The Provider reserves the right (but is not obliged) to do any or all of the following:
      • 6.6.1. investigate any allegation that Enquiries or Reviews do not conform to these Terms and Conditions,
      • 6.6.2. monitor, edit or delete any Enquiries, Reviews or Contact Forms that are false, defamatory, abusive, illegal or disruptive, or otherwise fail to conform with these Terms and Conditions without prior notice to the User,
      • 6.6.3. monitor, edit or delete any Enquiries, Reviews or Contact Forms, regardless of whether such content violates the Terms and Conditions.
    • 6.5. The Provider shall at all times ensure respect for the current legal system, and shall be entitled to interrupt, at its sole discretion, the Service or exclude the user from the Website in the event of the alleged commission of any of the crimes or offences defined by the current Criminal Code, or in the event of any conduct that in the opinion of the Provider is contrary to these General Conditions or may disrupt the proper functioning, image, credibility and/or prestige of the Provider.
  • 7. INTELLECTUAL RIGHTS
    • 7.1. The Platform is an author's work according to the Law on Intellectual Property, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 1/1996, of 12 April 1996, as amended (hereinafter as the "Copyright Act"). All intellectual rights based or in connection with the Platform belongs to the Provider.
    • 7.2. The Provider, within the Service, grants a license to the User to exercise the right to use the Platform "as is" available at that particular time on the Website (hereinafter as the "License").
    • 7.3. The License is granted:
      • 7.3.1. as non-exclusive,
      • 7.3.2. free of charge,
      • 7.3.3. for the duration of the Contract, but for no longer than the duration of the Provider's intellectual property rights,
      • 7.3.4. solely for the purposes of using the Platform in accordance with these Terms and Conditions, and only in the appropriate manner,
      • 7.3.5. worldwide.
    • 7.4. The User is not entitled to grant a sublicense to third parties or assign the License to third parties.
    • 7.5. The User is not authorized to:
      • 7.5.1. interfere with or modify the Platform in any way,
      • 7.5.2. link it to another work,
      • 7.5.3. include it in a collective work,
      • 7.5.4. complete an unfinished Platform (even by a third party), or
      • 7.5.5. create any copies of the Platform.
    • 7.6. The User is aware that the Platform is provided in a platform as a service mode and therefore does not receive any copy of the Platform. The Platform may only be used via the remote access through the Website in a specific limited manner according to these Terms and Conditions. The costs for accessing the Platform (especially Internet connection fees) are borne by the User.
    • 7.7. The provisions for the use of the Platform shall apply similarly to other intangible property made available by the Provider within the Service (particularly graphics, trademarks, etc.).
    • 7.8. The User and the Provider hereby exclude all legal licenses or free uses for the benefit of the User, which can be excluded by agreement of the parties.
    • 7.9. The User is aware that the rights to the database available on the Platform belong to the Provider as the database maker and is protected under relevant legislation. Infringing rights to the database (copying its content, abuse of the data, publishing via own sites etc. contrary to law) constitutes Provider’s right e.g. to seek remedy, claim damages and can be also considered a crime.
  • 8. LIABILITY
    • 8.1. To the maximum extent allowed by Spanish law, the Provider will not be liable for any damage incurred by the User in connection with the use of the Service.
    • 8.2. In particular, the Provider is not obliged to compensate the User for damages incurred:
      • 8.2.1. as a result of the inability to use the Service or the features of the Service,
      • 8.2.2. by changing these Terms and Conditions,
      • 8.2.3. by loss, theft, disclosure, or misuse of the User's logging data,
      • 8.2.4. due to the use of the Service in violation of these Terms and Conditions or the legal regulations of Spain,
      • 8.2.5. as a result of such use of the Service, which is by nature dangerous,
      • 8.2.6. as a result of the use of a service or product provided by a third party,
      • 8.2.7. independently of the Provider's will.
    • 8.3. The User is aware that the Provider provides only a Platform for interconnection of the Users' demand and the Schools’ supply and is not responsible for:
      • 8.3.1. the accuracy, completeness, truthfulness, and timeliness of the information provided within the School’s account,
      • 8.3.2. for any liabilities between the School and the User arising from or with using the Service,
      • 8.3.3. the functionality of the User's data network, the functionality of the User's hardware equipment, the status of the User's software, the possible interference of third parties in the User's software,
      • 8.3.4. providing the User with access to the Service,
      • 8.3.5. any contract or negotiation between the User and the School.
      • 8.3.6. of the contents of those pages that users can access from links included on the website.
    • 8.4. Similarly, the Provider excludes any liability for damages of any kind that may be due to the presence of viruses or the presence of other harmful elements in the contents that may cause alterations in the computer systems as well as in the documents or systems stored therein, for which reason the Provider shall not be liable in any case when they occur:
      • 8.4.1. Errors or delays in the access to the services by the user when entering their/her data in the corresponding form or any anomaly that may arise when these incidents are due to problems in the Internet network, fortuitous events or force majeure and any other unforeseeable contingency beyond the good faith of the Provider.
      • 8.4.2. Failures or incidents that may occur in communications, deletion or incomplete transmissions, so that there is no guarantee that the services of the Website will be constantly operational.
      • 8.4.3. Errors or damage caused to the Website due to inefficient and bad faith use of the service by the User.
      • 8.4.4. Non-operational or problems with the email address provided by the User for sending the requested information.
      In any case, the Provider undertakes to solve any problems that may arise and to offer all the necessary support to the User to reach a quick and satisfactory solution to the incident.
    • 8.5. The Service is provided in the "as is" state. The User waives all claims for defects resulting from the use of the Service to the extent allowed by Spanish law. The User waives all warranties, to the fullest extent permitted by Spanish law.
  • 9. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
    • 9.1. The Provider does not guarantee or assume any type of responsibility for damages suffered by accessing the Services/content of third parties through connections, links or links to the linked sites, nor for the accuracy or reliability of the same. The function of the links that appear on the Provider is exclusively to inform the user about the existence of other sources of information on the Internet, where he/she can expand the Services offered by the Website. The Provider shall in no case be responsible for the results obtained through these links or for the consequences arising from users' access to them. These third-party services are provided by third parties, and therefore the Provider cannot and does not control the legality of the Services or their quality. Consequently, the user must exercise extreme caution in the evaluation and use of the information and services existing in the contents of third parties.
    • 9.2. It is expressly forbidden to introduce hyperlinks for commercial purposes on websites not belonging to the Provider that allow access to this Website without the express consent of the Provider. In any case, the existence of hyperlinks on websites not belonging to the company does not imply in any case the existence of commercial or mercantile relations with the owner of the website where the hyperlink is established, nor the acceptance by the Provider of any of its contents.
  • 10. SUPPORT
    • 10.1. The User is entitled to contact the Provider in order to resolve the functionality of the Service, especially when the Service is unavailable.
    • 10.2. In order to contact the Provider, it is possible to use the email address andrea@international-schools-database.com.
    • 10.3. The Provider will inform the User of the outcome of their request in a manner that the User has used to contact the Provider.
  • 11. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
    • 11.1. The User is committed to confidentiality regarding confidential information. All information that is or may be part of the Provider's business secret and information regarding the User's and the Provider's mutual cooperation is considered to be confidential (the "Confidential Information").
    • 11.2. All Confidential Information shall remain the exclusive property of the Provider and the User shall develop the same efforts for the protection of their confidentiality and for their protection as if they were their own Confidential Information. Except for the extent necessary for mutual cooperation, the User undertakes not to distribute Confidential Information in any manner whatsoever and not to pass it on to third parties. The User also undertakes not to use the Confidential Information otherwise than in order to cooperate with the Provider.
    • 11.3. The provisions of this article are without prejudice to the termination of the Contract for any reason whatsoever and shall expire 10 (ten) years after termination of the Contract.
  • 12. PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION
    • 12.1. The User and the Guest User are aware that any personal data may be processed within the provision of the Service. All information on the processing of personal data by the Provider is provided in a separate document "Privacy Policy and Information on Data Processing" available on https://www.international-schools-database.com/privacy-policy.
    • 12.2. The user will be responsible, in any case, for the veracity of the data provided and may exercise the rights of access, deletion, rectification, opposition, limitation of processing and portability, by writing to the company, either to its registered office or by e-mail to andrea@international-schools-database.com. provided that he/she can prove their/her identity. And in the event that they deem it appropriate, they may go to the Spanish Data Protection Agency.
    • 12.3. For its part, the Provider undertakes to comply with the obligation of secrecy of personal data, and has therefore adopted the necessary measures to avoid its alteration, loss, processing or unauthorised access, taking into account the state of technology at all times.
    • 12.4. On the other hand, the Provider informs you that visiting this Website does not automatically record any personal data that identifies a user, on the other hand there is certain information of a non-personal nature and not identifiable with a specific user that is collected during the live session through devices called "cookies" that allow us to obtain statistical information on the use of the Website in order to be able to make improvements. All users must consult our cookie policy to browse the website.
  • 13. MUTUAL COMMUNICATION
  • 13.1. All communications between the User and the Provider will take place through the Account interface or via the following contact details:
    • 13.1.1. For communication with the Provider, the email addresses gerardo@international-schools-database.com and andrea@international-schools-database.com;
    • 13.1.2. For communication with the User, the contact details provided within the Account.
  • 13.2. All notifications between the parties relating to these Terms and Conditions must be made in written form and delivered to the other party. The written form requirement is also met, even if the notification is made in electronic form via the Account interface or via e-mail at the above e-mail addresses.
  • 13.3. In case the parties change their address or their representative, the party will notify the other party no later than 1 (one) week since the change has been made. The User will do so by updating the contact details in the Account and the Provider shall update the details via the Website.
  • 14. SUSPENSION OF THE PROVISION OF THE SERVICE
    • 14.1. The Provider may, at any time, suspend the provision of the Service under the Contract, even without due reason. In this case, the User is not allowed to use the Service (even in part).
    • 14.2. In the event of a suspension of the provision of the Service, the Provider will send at the User’s e-mail address an information about the reason why the Service is suspended and for how long. Suspension of provision of the Service by the Provider shall not affect the possibilities of its termination under article 15 of the Terms and Conditions.
  • 15. DURATION AND TERMINATION OF THE CONTRACT
    • 15.1. The Contract is concluded for an indefinite period.
    • 15.2. The Provider is entitled at any time to terminate the Contract by written notice sent at the User's email address stated in their Account. The Contract terminates on the date of the notice’s delivery at the User’s e-mail.
    • 15.3. The Provider terminates the Contract typically in cases where the User:
      • 15.3.1. violates these Terms and Conditions, or
      • 15.3.2. has withdrawn the consent to the processing of personal data provided under these Terms and Conditions.
    • 15.4. The User is entitled to terminate the Contract at any time by cancelling their Account; the User can also ask the Provider to cancel the Account; the Provider will cancel the Account upon the User's request without undue delay.
    • 15.5. The User is not entitled to any claims in connection with the cancellation of the Account by the Provider except for those explicitly mentioned in these Terms and Conditions.
    • 15.6. The User acknowledges that he has no right to withdraw from the Contract under Section 103.a) of the Royal Legislative Decree 1/2007, of 16 November, approving the revised text of the General Law for the Defence of Consumers and Users and other complementary laws, as the Service has been completely executed.
    • 15.7. Either party may terminate the Contract as a result of a material breach of the Contract by the other party.
    • 15.8. This article shall be used accordingly to the contract on the use of the Review specified in paragraph 3.3 of these Terms and Conditions.
  • 16. APPLICABLE LAW
    • 16.1. The Contract is governed by the laws of Spain.
    • 16.2. Any disputes between the Provider and the User or the Guest User arising out of or in connection with the Contract and the Service, as well as disputes relating to the alleged invalidity, nullity or ineffectiveness of the Contract, shall be decided by the courts of the domicile of the user with local competence.
    • 16.3. The Parties agree that the court of the Provider shall be the competent court for the resolution of any and all disputes arising out of or relating to the Contract, even if the User is the plaintiff in the proceedings. Finally, for legal purposes, we remind you that the European Commission has created a platform for out-of-court online dispute resolution, which is available at the following link, http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/.
    • 16.4. This article does not affect the rights of consumers resulting from generally binding legislation.
  • 17. FINAL PROVISIONS
    • 17.1. The Contract can be concluded only in English.
    • 17.2. Contracts are archived by the Provider in electronic form. Access to archived Contracts is reserved exclusively by the Provider.
    • 17.3. The User agrees that the Provider has the right to assign rights arising out of the Terms and Conditions to the third party or any part thereof. The User may not transfer, assign, pledge or otherwise burden their claims against the Provider without the written consent of the Provider.
    • 17.4. If any provision of the Terms and Conditions is invalid or ineffective, or becomes invalid or ineffective, instead of such provision a provision which is the closest to the purpose of such invalid or ineffective provision will be used. The invalidity or ineffectiveness of one provision is without prejudice to the validity of the other provisions. Amendments and additions to the Terms and Conditions require a written form.
    • 17.5. The User bears the full cost of the means of distance communication (telephone or internet communication) that will arise to him in fulfilling these Terms and Conditions.
    • 17.6. The Provider is entitled to update these Terms and Conditions at any time. This update will be published on the Website and information about this update will also be sent to the User on its Account’s e-mail address.
    • 17.7. As of the effective date of the new version of the Terms and Conditions, the previous version of the Terms and Conditions is not effective anymore. The User has the right to reject the proposed addition or changes to the Terms and Conditions. In such case, the Provider is entitled to terminate the Contract.
    • 17.8. The Terms and Conditions become valid and effective on the date 6th November 2023.