Welcome to SuperKid Stories, a brand of Books & Books Ltd.
Thank you for wanting to engage digitally with SuperKid Stories. We ask that you take time to read these Terms of Use carefully.
These Terms of Use apply when you use any SuperKid Stories’s Services.
For an explanation of what we mean by SuperKid Stories’s Services, please see our answer to the question ’What are SuperKid Stories’s Services?’ (below).
If you do access or use SuperKid Stories’s Services, it is understood that you agree to these Terms of Use.
Please be aware that if you do not accept these Terms of Use you must not access or use SuperKid Stories’s Services.
- What do these Terms of Use cover?
- What are SuperKid Stories’s Services?
- Who makes SuperKid Stories’s Services available to me?
- What should I do if I have questions, comments or enquiries?
- What are my obligations when using SuperKid Stories’s Services?
- What happens if I do not comply with these Terms of Use?
- What is SuperKid Stories’s Content?
- Who owns the content published on SuperKid Stories’s Services?
- What should I be aware of when using SuperKid Stories’s Content?
- What can I do with SuperKid Stories’s Content?
- Can I contribute my own content to SuperKid Stories’s Services?
- What should I be aware of when I contribute my own content to SuperKid Stories’s Services?
- Will SuperKid Stories’s Services always be available?
- What terms apply to links to websites that are operated by other people or organisations?
- How does SuperKid Stories protect my personal information?
- What happens if anything goes wrong with SuperKid Stories’s Services?
- Which laws apply to my use of SuperKid Stories’s Services?
- What terms will apply if I pay for particular SuperKid Stories’s Services or SuperKid Stories’s Content?
- Will these Terms of Use ever change?
1. What do these Terms of Use cover?
What are these Terms of Use about?
These Terms of Use explain a number of things including, for example, the rules covering your use of SuperKid Stories’s Services.
These Terms of Use also provide information about your rights.
Do these Terms of Use apply if I am using a mobile phone, tablet or laptop?
Yes. These Terms of Use apply regardless of the sort of device you are using to access SuperKid Stories’s Services. This means they will apply whether you are using a computer, laptop, mobile phone, smart phone, tablet, games console or any other device.
Do these Terms of Use apply when I access SuperKid Stories’s Services through social media sites?
Yes. These Terms of Use apply to your use of the SuperKid Stories’s official pages on social media platforms (such as our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SuperkidBooks/) and to your use of social media to interact with SuperKid Stories.
Each social media website may have its own terms of use (and privacy and cookies policies) that will also apply to your use of those sites.
The SuperKid Stories’s principal office is at 27 Stephenson Road, Hanwell, London, W7 1NN, England.
Do these Terms of Use apply to competitions on SuperKid Stories’s Services?
From time to time, we may conduct promotions on or through SuperKid Stories’s Services, including, without limitation, auctions, contests and sweepstakes (“Competitions”). Each Competition may have additional terms and conditions and/or rules which will be posted or otherwise made available to you and, for the purposes of each Competition, these Terms of Use will be deemed incorporated into and form a part of the Competition rules.
Are there any other terms that will apply to my use of SuperKid Stories’s Services?
There may be some SuperKid Stories’s Services which are subject to additional and/or different terms of use. Where this is the case, you will be directed to those terms of use.
2. What are SuperKid Stories’s Services?
When we refer to ’SuperKid Stories’s Services’ we mean any SuperKid Stories internet services or other SuperKid Stories-authorised internet services, websites, products, mobile phone apps and/or software applications that enable you to use, access, view, listen to and/or download SuperKid Stories’s Content or to interact with SuperKid Stories online (or through any other digital means) on any device.
3. Who makes SuperKid Stories’s Services available to me?
SuperKid Stories’s Services are made available to you by Books & Books Ltd, a private limited company incorporated in the UK, registration number 09724829, unless the relevant SuperKid Stories Service makes it clear that is being made available to you by another SuperKid Stories organisation (such as a subsidiary company).
4. What should I do if I have questions, comments or enquiries?
If you have any questions, comments or enquiries about these Terms of Use or SuperKid Stories’s Services, please contact us.
If you think that any particular content should not be appearing on any SuperKid Stories Service then please contact us.
5. What are my obligations when using SuperKid Stories’s Services?
Do I have to be over 18 to use SuperKid Stories’s Services?
Some SuperKid Stories’s Services can only be accessed by registering for a SuperKid Stories’s Services account. You may only register to access SuperKid Stories’s Services if you are at least 18 years old. If you are under 18 years old and would like to access SuperKid Stories’s Services, please ask your parent or guardian to register for that SuperKid Stories Service and confirm that they agree to these Terms of Use, and our applicable Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy.
If there is no requirement to register to access a SuperKid Stories Service, then SuperKid Stories is happy for you to access that SuperKid Stories Service even if you are under 18.
What must I do when accessing SuperKid Stories’s Services?
You must behave in a respectful way to all other users of SuperKid Stories’s Services.
You must also treat information you obtain from SuperKid Stories’s Services with respect and use it only as permitted under these Terms of Use.
SuperKid Stories has developed a number of policies, including policies on Privacy, Cookies, Equal Opportunity and Diversity and Child Protection and those policies listed on our Policies page. You must respect these policies when you are using SuperKid Stories’s Services.
What must I NOT do when accessing SuperKid Stories’s Services?
You must not:
- use SuperKid Stories’s Services in any way that prevents, disrupts or interferes with any other person’s use of SuperKid Stories’s Services;
- abuse, harass, threaten, impersonate or intimidate any other users of SuperKid Stories’s Services;
- upload or publicise any materials through SuperKid Stories’s Services which are false, offensive, sexually explicit, defamatory, threatening, obscene or unlawful or which infringe intellectual property rights;
- use SuperKid Stories’s Services to break any laws of the country in which you live, or encourage anyone else to break those laws;
- copy SuperKid Stories’s Content unless permitted under these Terms of Use (please see our answer to the question ‘What can I do with SuperKid Stories’s Content?’ (below)) or otherwise infringe intellectual property rights belonging to SuperKid Stories or any of its licensors. Intellectual property rights include, amongst other things, trade marks such as the SuperKid Stories logo, and copyright, which protects the SuperKid Stories’s Content;
- modify, delete, interfere with or misuse data contained on SuperKid Stories’s Services;
- post or send the same, or similar, messages multiple times through SuperKid Stories’s Services;
- share any information which is confidential to any other person;
- attempt to hack into SuperKid Stories’s Services; or
- suggest that SuperKid Stories endorses or approves any product or service (for instance, a personal website) or any non-SuperKid Stories entity or content, or any belief or opinion expressed within a product or service, without our prior written agreement.
What else do I agree to if I register to access any SuperKid Stories’s Services?
Where you are required to use a password to access any part of SuperKid Stories’s Services, you agree to:
- make sure that all details you provide during the registration process (including any details about your age) are truthful and accurate;
- let us know promptly if any of the details you have provided stop being accurate;
- use an appropriate profile name. You must not pretend to be someone else or try to register a profile name which could be considered offensive or defamatory;
- be entirely responsible for any activity that occurs under your profile name;
- keep secret your login details (including your password) – you must change your password if you believe it is no longer secret;
- set up no more than one account for each SuperKid Stories Service; and
- tell us as soon as you can if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account.
6. What happens if I do not comply with these Terms of Use?
If we believe that you have not complied with these Terms of Use, we may:
- refuse your further use of and/or access to SuperKid Stories’s Services; and/or
- delete your account (if applicable); and/or
- remove and/or edit any of Your Content from SuperKid Stories’s Services.
For an explanation of what we mean by Your Content, please see our answer to the question ’Can I contribute my own content to SuperKid Stories’s Services?’ (below).
7. What is SuperKid Stories’s Content?
When we refer to ’SuperKid Stories’s Content’ we mean all text, images, graphics, user interfaces, visual interfaces, audio, trade marks, logos, video media, artwork, designs, pdf documents, articles, lesson plans, teaching resources, forms and other content made available to you by SuperKid Stories through the relevant SuperKid Stories Service.
8. Who owns the content published on SuperKid Stories’s Services?
SuperKid Stories is a brand of Books & Books Ltd and Books & Books Ltd is the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in SuperKid Stories’s Content and in the design, structure, ’look and feel’ and the arrangement of SuperKid Stories’s Services.
SuperKid Stories’s Content may sometimes include content which is owned or controlled by another person or organisation but which the SuperKid Stories has a licence to make available to you through the relevant SuperKid Stories Service. Sometimes the relevant licence will have additional terms and conditions which need to be followed.
9. What should I be aware of when using SuperKid Stories’s Content?
Does SuperKid Stories’s Content always reflect the view of SuperKid Stories?
No. SuperKid Stories encourages freedom of expression, but the views expressed by individuals through SuperKid Stories’s Services may not represent the views of SuperKid Stories.
Will SuperKid Stories’s Content always be accurate?
Although every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that SuperKid Stories’s Content (and all other information on SuperKid Stories’s Services) is accurate at the time of publication, it will not always be kept up to date.
The material displayed on SuperKid Stories’s Services is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy.
10. What can I do with SuperKid Stories’s Content?
We encourage you to access, re-tweet, download and print, view and/or listen to SuperKid Stories Content for your own personal and non-commercial use, provided you credit SuperKid Stories and abide by any notice or restrictions in the material that you re-tweet, download or print.
You must not use SuperKid Stories’s Content or material contained in SuperKid Stories’s Services for any other purpose without our prior written approval, including:
- commercial purposes except as expressly stated by SuperKid Stories in the relevant SuperKid Stories Service;
- republish any SuperKid Stories’s Content on another website (although this does not prevent you from re-tweeting SuperKid Stories’s Content);
- modify SuperKid Stories’s Content in any way;
- use any illustrations, images, video or audio sequences or any graphics within SuperKid Stories’s Content separately from any accompanying text; and
- remove any trade mark, copyright or other proprietary notices contained in or appearing on SuperKid Stories’s Content in whole or in part.
If you wish to make any use of SuperKid Stories’s Content that is not authorised by these Terms of Use, please contact us for permission explaining the purpose of use and full details of any SuperKid Stories’s Content you wish to use.
SuperKid Stories’s Content is protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world.
11. Can I contribute my own content to SuperKid Stories’s Services?
Some SuperKid Stories’s Services enable you to share Your Content with us and with other users of SuperKid Stories’s Services.
When we refer to ‘Your Content’ we mean any content created, developed or in any way added on or to SuperKid Stories’s Services by you or through your password-protected account. For example, Your Content might include stories, comments, articles, photographs, graphics, audios, videos, presentations, images, spreadsheets or details of events you are holding.
Please do not endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or break any laws when creating Your Content or uploading Your Content to SuperKid Stories’s Services.
12. What should I be aware of when I contribute my own content to SuperKid Stories’s Services?
Will my contribution to SuperKid Stories’s Services always be acknowledged?
We normally show your name with your contribution, unless you request otherwise, but for operational reasons this is not always possible.
Will SuperKid Stories moderate my contribution to SuperKid Stories’s Services?
Some SuperKid Stories’s Services are moderated to check that Your Content is consistent with these Terms of Use. We will always try to publish Your Content as soon as reasonably practicable but we cannot guarantee that content you submit for publication through SuperKid Stories’s Services will always be published.
SuperKid Stories reserves the right to remove any of Your Content from SuperKid Stories’s Services if we believe that it does not comply with these Terms of Use.
Will I continue to own content I contribute to SuperKid Stories’s Services?
Provided that Your Content is your original work, you will continue to own Your Content and copyright in Your Content will remain with you. The rights granted to SuperKid Stories to make use of Your Content are not exclusive, so you can continue to use the material in any way, including allowing others to use Your Content.
By uploading or otherwise adding Your Content to any SuperKid Stories’s Services, you confirm that all Your Content is your original work, is not defamatory, does not infringe any laws and that you have the consent of anyone who is identifiable in Your Content (or the consent of their parent/guardian if they are under 18).
What can SuperKid Stories do with my content?
By uploading or otherwise adding Your Content to any SuperKid Stories’s Services, you grant to SuperKid Stories, free of charge, permission to use Your Content (including modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) in any media worldwide for the purposes explained in the relevant SuperKid Stories Service and for encouraging networking and wider conversation about SuperKid Stories’s Services. If you do not want SuperKid Stories to make use of Your Content, please do not upload or otherwise add any content to SuperKid Stories’s Services.
You are advised to keep a copy of all Your Content because SuperKid Stories cannot guarantee to return a copy of Your Content to you at any time.
13. Will SuperKid Stories’s Services always be available?
We use our reasonable endeavours to ensure SuperKid Stories’s Services are available to you.
However, owing to the nature of the internet, we cannot guarantee that SuperKid Stories’s Services or the websites to which they are linked will be available to you. You should ensure that you have appropriate protection against viruses and other malware and other security arrangements in place whilst using the internet.
SuperKid Stories’s Content is selected, edited, updated and made available to all users by SuperKid Stories through SuperKid Stories’s Services at our sole discretion. This means that we can remove SuperKid Stories’s Content from a SuperKid Stories Service at any time.
We have agreements with third parties that own or control parts of SuperKid Stories’s Content, and these agreements permit them to make the content available through SuperKid Stories’s Services. As a result of these agreements, the period of time during which the user may access, view and/or listen to SuperKid Stories’s Content using SuperKid Stories’s Services may vary.
14. What terms apply to links to websites that are operated by other people or organisations?
What links are included from SuperKid Stories’s Services?
SuperKid Stories’s Services contain links to other websites on the Internet that are operated by other people or organisations (‘Third Party Sites’). These Third Party Sites may have their own terms of use, so you will need to be aware of these.
We have no responsibility under these Terms of Use for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality, decency, or any other aspect of the content of any Third Party Sites.
The fact that we have included a link to a Third Party Site from SuperKid Stories’s Services should not be taken as an endorsement of that Third Party Site, or any association with its operators, by SuperKid Stories.
Any purchase of goods or services through a Third Party Site will be subject to the terms and conditions of sale brought to your attention before or at the time of purchase.
Can I post links to SuperKid Stories’s Services or SuperKid Stories’s Content on my website, or other social networking services?
As a general rule, SuperKid Stories will not object if you have a text link from your website, or social media page, to SuperKid Stories’s Services that are accessible free of charge. However, you may not copy any part of SuperKid Stories’s Services into different websites or products without our prior written permission and you may not publish or otherwise use direct links to SuperKid Stories’s Content (without the context of the relevant SuperKid Stories Service) without our prior written permission. Nothing in this paragraph is intended to prevent you from re-tweeting SuperKid Stories’s Content.
You are not allowed to link to SuperKid Stories’s Services if you create or post any illegal, obscene or offensive content, or if the link is likely to have a negative impact on SuperKid Stories’s reputation.
SuperKid Stories will always have the right to restrict the use of links to SuperKid Stories’s Services that require payment to access.
15. How does SuperKid Stories protect my personal information?
How will my personal information be protected?
SuperKid Stories is the data controller of any personal data collected through SuperKid Stories’s Services for the purpose of the UK Data Protection Act 2018.
When you use SuperKid Stories’s Services, any personal data (including sensitive personal data) collected from you will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
When we collect information for a specific product or service, we will explain why we need the information and how it will be used.
You can also request a copy of the information SuperKid Stories holds about you.
Do any SuperKid Stories’s Services use cookies?
Yes. Some SuperKid Stories’s Services use cookies to try to enhance your experience using SuperKid Stories’s Services. For more information on the cookies we use, and to find out how to block cookies, view the Cookies Policy published for the relevant SuperKid Stories Service.
16. What happens if anything goes wrong with SuperKid Stories’s Services?
SuperKid Stories’s Services and any information or other material contained in them are made available strictly on the basis that you accept them on an ‘as is’ and ‘as available’ basis. Where you rely on any information or other material contained in SuperKid Stories’s Services, you do so entirely at your own risk and you accept that all warranties, conditions and undertakings, express or implied, whether by common law, statute, trade usage, course of dealings or otherwise in respect of SuperKid Stories’s Services are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
SuperKid Stories’s Services have been prepared with the aim of providing key information about SuperKid Stories and the work we do, and do not constitute advice in relation to any particular situation.
Consequently, SuperKid Stories and all subsidiary entities of SuperKid Stories, and each of their respective officers, directors, shareholders, employees, representatives and agents, exclude all liability arising from your use of SuperKid Stories’s Services to the fullest extent permitted by law.
17. Which laws apply to my use of SuperKid Stories’s Services?
The laws of England and Wales apply. These Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.
The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, these Terms of Use and/or any SuperKid Stories’s Services. This means that all claims relating to these Terms of Use and/or SuperKid Stories’s Services can be settled by a judge (or a number of judges) in an English court. However, SuperKid Stories retains the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these Terms of Use in your country of residence or any other relevant country.
18. What terms will apply if I pay for particular SuperKid Stories’s Services or SuperKid Stories’s Content?
Some SuperKid Stories’s Services and SuperKid Stories’s Content will only be available if you have paid for access to them. In these circumstances, additional terms and conditions that apply to your purchase of relevant SuperKid Stories’s Services and SuperKid Stories’s Content will be drawn to your attention before you make your purchase, and you will be asked to confirm your agreement to those additional terms. These Terms of Use will also apply to the contract between you and SuperKid Stories for the purchase of any SuperKid Stories’s Services and SuperKid Stories’s Content (unless, and only to the extent, there is any inconsistency with the additional terms that we draw to your attention at the time of purchase).
19. Will these Terms of Use ever change?
The Terms of Use may change from time to time and, if they do, the up-to-date version will always be available on www.SuperKidStories.com (and we will always make the up-to-date version of the Terms of Use available to you through SuperKid Stories’s Services).
We will also indicate at the top of these Terms of Use when they were last updated.
Any revised version of these Terms of Use will be effective immediately when it is displayed on www.SuperKidStories.com.