Information about us

http://sandpit.cc is a site (site) operated by Crowdfnd Campus Limited (we). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 09119767 and have our registered office at Spring Bank, Ewyas Harold, Hereford, HR2 0JD. We are a limited company.

Our service

We offer access to and use of a platform (the Service) where Users can create and present ideas to other Users and attract votes in order to assess the popularity of their ideas. Users are typically students on an educational programme whose educator (Administrator) has requested the use of the Service. The Administrator will provide Users with access to the Service, where the User is able to create an account and consent to these Terms of Use.

We offer access to and use of a platform (the Service) where Users can create and present ideas to other Users and attract votes in order to assess the popularity of their ideas. Users are typically students on an educational programme whose educator (Administrator) has requested the use of the Service. The Administrator will provide Users with access to the Service, where the User is able to create an account and consent to these Terms of Use.

Users have the ability to contribute, add, create, upload, submit, distribute, facilitate the distribution of, collect, post, or otherwise make accessible (Submit) Content. User Submissions means any Content Submitted by Users.

The Service is only available to individuals who are at least 18 years of age (and at least, the legal age in your jurisdiction). You represent and warrant that if you are an individual, you are at least 18 years old and of legal age in your jurisdiction to form a binding contract, and that all registration information you submit is accurate and truthful. Crowdfund Campus reserves the right to ask for proof of age from you and your account may be suspended until satisfactory proof of age is provided. Crowdfund Campus may, in its sole discretion, refuse to offer the Service to any person or entity and change its eligibility criteria at any time. This provision is void where prohibited by law and the right to access the Service is revoked in those jurisdictions.

We reserve the right to change, suspend, or discontinue the Service (including, without limitation, the availability of any feature, database or content) at any time, for any reason. We may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or all of the Service, without notice or liability to you.

Crowdfund Campus shall not be liable for any damage or loss incurred that relates any use of the Service. Crowdfund Campus shall be under no obligation to become involved in disputes between any Users, or between Users and any third party arising in connection with the use of the Service. Crowdfund Campus does not oversee the performance or punctuality of Crowds in Sandpit. Crowdfund Campus does not endorse any User Submissions. You release Crowdfund Campus, its officers, employees, agents, and successors in rights from claims, damages, and demands of every kind, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, disclosed or undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and the Service.

Sandpit account set up

Information provided on account set-up may be assessed by a Crowdfund Campus administrator and/or additional information or actions may be requested by us, before an account is activated and can be used. Following any assessment or requests for additional information or action, we reserve the right to refuse, at our sole discretion, any account request.

If an account request is refused you may not use an account or the Service and should contact us on support@crowdfundcampus.com, should you have any questions regarding the refusal.

We may disable any user name, password or account you have been given for any purpose, at any time if you have failed to comply with these terms.

Software licence terms

Software means the computer programs which may be the platform and all user documentation in respect of such programs and any upgrade, maintenance release or new version thereof.

By using the Software you agree to be bound by these terms. If you do not agree to these terms, do not use the Software.

In consideration of you agreeing to abide by these terms, we hereby grant to you a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the Software in the UK on the basis of these terms. You may use the Software for your internal business purpose.

We warrant that:

  1. the Software will, when properly used, perform substantially in accordance with the functions described in the user documentation; and
  2. the user documentation correctly describes the operation of the Software in all material respects for a period of 90 days from the date of first use of the Software (Warranty Period).

If, within the Warranty Period, you notify us in writing of any defect or fault in the Software as a result of which it fails to perform substantially in accordance with the user documentation, we will, at our sole option, either repair or replace the Software, provided that you make available all the information that may be necessary to assist us in resolving the defect or fault, including sufficient information to enable us to recreate the defect or fault.

The warranty does not apply:

  1. if the defect or fault in the Software results from you having altered or modified the Software; or
  2. if the defect or fault in the Software results from you having used the Software in breach of these terms.

You acknowledge that the Software may not be free of errors or bugs and you agree that the existence of any minor errors shall not constitute a breach of these terms.

Authorised and prohibited use

You are responsible for all of your activity in connection with the Service and/or the Software and your use of the Service and/or the Software may be subject to other guidelines that we issue from time to time. We will inform you when any such guidelines are published and how you may obtain access to them.

You warrant that you will not, and will not permit any third party using your account to, take any action, or Submit Content, that:

  • infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other right of any other person or entity, or violates any law or contract;
  • you know is false, misleading, or inaccurate;
  • is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, tortious, obscene, offensive, profane, or invasive of another’s privacy;
  • constitutes unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any junk mail, spam, or chain letters;
  • contains software viruses or any other computer codes, files, or programs that are designed or intended to disrupt, damage, limit, or interfere with the proper function of any software, hardware, or telecommunications equipment or to damage or obtain unauthorised access to any system, data, password, or other information of Crowdfund Campus or any third party;
  • is made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence; or
  • impersonates any person or entity, including any employee or representative of Crowdfund Campus.

When you use our site you warrant that you will not and will not allow a third party to:

  • send, knowingly receive, upload, download use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards outlined above;
  • advertise, or use any other form of solicitation on our site, unless authorised by us;
  • attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to our site;
  • knowingly introduce viruses or other malicious code to our site;
  • any action that might disable, overburden, alter or impair the function of, or content on, our site;
  • disclose any user name, password or any other piece of information given to you as part of our security procedures to any third party;
  • link to our site unless it is to a complete contents page, is a link to a site owned by you, and does not suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists or damage or take advantage of our reputation; or
  • frame our site.

Except as expressly set out in these terms or as permitted by any local law, you undertake:

  • not to permit the Software or any part of it to be combined with, or become incorporated in, any other programs;
  • not to disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer or create derivative works based on the whole, or any part, of the Software nor attempt to do any such things except to the extent that (by virtue of section 296A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988) such actions cannot be prohibited because they are essential for the purpose of achieving inter-operability of the Software with another software program, and provided that the information obtained by you during such activities:
  1. is used only for the purpose of achieving inter-operability of the Software with another software program;
  2. is not unnecessarily disclosed or communicated to any third party without our prior written consent; and
  3. is not used to create any software which is substantially similar to the Software;
  • to keep all copies of the Software secure and to maintain accurate and up-to-date records of the number and locations of all copies of the Software; and
  • not to provide, or otherwise make available, the Software in any form, in whole or in part (including, but not limited to, program listings, object and source program listings, object code and source code) to any person without prior written consent from us.

When you use our site and/or the Software you warrant that you will and will ensure that your employees and representatives will:

  • use our site and/or the Software in a professional manner;
  • make all arrangements necessary, at your own cost, to have access to our site and/or the Software;
  • comply with all applicable local, national and international laws and regulations.
  • ensure you and all people who access our site through your internet connection and/or access the Software, are aware of these terms and comply with them; and
  • not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, sub-license, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer or sell any part of our site and/or the Software, (except for content uploaded by you on our site), in any form (electronically or otherwise), unless it is used for a personal and non-commercial use or a non-commercial educational use, or is authorised by us in accordance with these terms.
 

Intellectual property

All Software and contents of our site, logo, copyright and any software on the website, are protected by intellectual property rights and other related rights around the world that are owned by Crowdfnd Campus Limites or its licensors. No part of our Software or site may be reproduced in any form (electronically or otherwise) or used other than as expressly set out in these terms, without our prior written consent.

By Submitting User Submissions on the site or otherwise through the Service, you agree to the following terms:

  • We will not have any ownership rights over your User Submissions. However, Crowdfund Campus and its affiliates need the following license to perform and market the Service on your behalf and on behalf of its other Users and itself:
  • You shall grant Crowdfund Campus and its affiliates a royalty-free, worldwide, irrevocable and transferable licence to:
  1. perform and market the Service on your behalf and on behalf of Crowdfund Campus’s other Users; and
  2. fully use all and any User Submissions and trademarks.
  • You are publishing your User Submission, and you may be identified publicly by your name or User ID in association with your User Submission.
  • You grant to each User a non-exclusive license to access your User Submissions through the Service, and to use, edit, modify, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform such User Submissions solely for personal, non-commercial use.
  • You will pay all royalties and other amounts owed to any person or entity based on your Submitting User Submissions to the Service or Crowdfund Campus’s publishing or hosting of the User Submissions as contemplated by these Terms of Use.
  • Crowdfund Campus shall have the right to delete, edit, modify, reformat, excerpt, or translate any of your User Submissions.
  • All information publicly posted or privately transmitted through the site is the sole responsibility of the person from which that content originated.
  • Crowdfund Campus will not be liable for any errors or omissions in any Content.
  • Crowdfund Campus cannot guarantee the identity of any other Users with whom you may interact while using the Service.
  • All Content you access through the Service is at your own risk and you will be solely responsible for any resulting damage or loss to any party.

Crowdfund Campus will terminate User accounts that infringe the intellectual property rights of others.

Our liability

We shall not be held responsible for content posted on any account by an account holder and the views expressed shall be those of the account holder and not of Crowdfnd Campus Limited. You acknowledge that the Software has not been developed to meet your individual requirements and that it is therefore your responsibility to ensure that the facilities and functions of the Software as described in the user documentation or demonstrated to you meets your requirements.

We exclude all liability and responsibility for any loss or damage (including any indirect, special or consequential losses or any loss of profits, revenue, contracts, data or goodwill) that may result to you or a third party (whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise) arising from your use of the Service and/or Software or any content on any account or any websites linked to any account, subject to the clauses below.

The content we provide as part of the Service is provided on an ‘as is’ basis without any guarantees as to its accuracy and to the extent permitted by law and (except as otherwise provided in these terms) we exclude all representations and warranties (whether express or implied by law).

Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor for any other matter for which it would be illegal for us to limit, exclude or attempt to limit or exclude our liability

You shall indemnify us for all loss or damage (including any indirect, special or consequential losses or any loss of profits, revenue, contracts, data or goodwill) that may result to us or a third party (whether in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise) from your failure to comply with these terms of use.

Suspension and termination

We will determine, in our sole discretion, whether there has been a breach of these terms through your use of our site. Where a breach of these terms has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate, including without limitation:

  • immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our site and/or any services on it;
  • immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our site;
  • limiting your use of our site, and/or any services on it;
  • issuing you with a warning;
  • taking legal proceedings against you; and
  • disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.

We may terminate your licence to use the Software immediately by written notice to you if you commit a material or persistent breach of these terms which you fail to remedy (if remediable) within 14 days after the service on you of written notice requiring you to do so. Upon termination for any reason, all rights granted to you under these terms shall cease and you must cease all activities authorised by the Software licence.

Where we withdraw your right to access our site or any services offered on it, you will remain bound by the terms under the following sections: Intellectual Property Rights; and Our Liability.

Contact

If you experience any problems with, wish to make a complaint or have any questions about your account or the Service please contact support@crowdfundcampus.com and we will respond to you within 2 working days.

If you would like to close your account at any time, please contact support@crowdfundcampus.com

Other

If any part of these terms is unenforceable, this will not affect the enforceability of any other part. These terms, together with any document referred to in these terms, constitute the whole agreement between you and us.

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation, but this will not affect your rights or our obligations under these terms. You may only transfer your rights or obligations under these terms to another person if we agree in writing.