TERMS OF SERVICE

A RULE OF THUMB

Subscriptions: Subscription Plans are subject to automatic re-billing and will automatically renew at the end of the plan’s billing cycle. Users may cancel the Recurring Payment at any time with their account. As we are offering non-tangible digital goods, we do not issue refunds after a subscription purchase or subscription renewal. Once a payment is made, no refunds will be offered. All members receive a weekly email which serves as a reminder of a user’s subscription. In addition, users can see time remaining and all subscription information with their user dashboard.

Sharing materials: All user activity and PDFs can be tracked. Illegal and/or unauthorised use of the Website will be investigated and appropriate legal action will be taken, including without limitation civil, criminal and injunctive redress. Users are not permitted to share ESLPals content . The content is for individual use only. Users are permitted to share answer sheets with students.

Account protection: The website uses device and IP tracking software. If multiple devices / IPs log in to the same account, the account will be blocked. No refunds will be issued.

INTRO

Please read the terms of service carefully before accessing ESL Pals. By visiting the website you are acknowledging that you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by these terms of service. If you do not agree, please do not access the website.

ACCEPTANCE

Welcome to the website and online service of ESL Pals. This is a legal agreement between you and ESL Pals. These Terms of Service govern your use of the eslpals.com. Each time you use the eslpals.com, you signify your acceptance and agreement, and the acceptance and agreement of any person you purport to represent, to be bound by these Terms of Use, whether or not you are a registered user of our website. You must obey ESL Pal’s policies as stated in these Terms of Use as well as all other operating rules, policies and procedures. By entering the site you acknowledge that you have the legal authority to agree to and accept these Terms of Use on behalf of yourself and any person you may represent. If you do not agree with the Terms of Service you are not permitted to enter the site.

CHANGES TO TERMS OF USE

ESL Pals reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, amend, modify, add or remove terms and conditions contained in these Terms of Service, at any time.

ESL Pals will endeavour to inform the account holder within 24 hours of updating the Terms of Service, via email. Your continued use of ESL Pals following the changes will mean that you accept and agree to the changes. If you do not agree to the changes, please stop using the site.

PURPOSE

ESL Pals provide English learning educational content. The use of the content is for individual use only. It is forbidden to share ESL Pals content. You cannot share content with other people via the internet, in-person or any other method. Sharing ESL Pals is forbidden in all circumstances.

OWNERSHIP OF THE SERVICE

The content on eslpals.com is the proprietary property of ESL Pals. ESL Pals is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws.

TRADEMARKS

The name and logos, and any other trademarks, trade dress, designs, trade names, domain names and logos appearing on or in connection with ESL Pals are registered or unregistered trademarks, trade dress, designs, domain names, trade names and logos owned or licensed by ESL Pals. All other trademarks, designs, domain names, trade names and logos not owned by ESL Pals that appear on eslpals.com are the property of their respective owners, who are not affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by ESL Pals. Any use of ESL Pals name, logo, trademarks, trade dress, designs, trade names, domain name, is strictly prohibited. Nothing appearing on eslpals.com or elsewhere shall be construed as granting, by implication, or otherwise, any licence or right to use in any manner any of ESL Pal’s name, logo, trademarks, trade dress, designs, trade names, domain name.

PERMITTED USE OF THE SERVICE

ESL Pals acknowledge that when you obtain access to eslpals.com through buying a membership, it is possible for you to download lesson plans onto your computer. Through purchasing a membership, ESL Pals hereby grants to you a limited personal, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, worldwide, revocable, non-assignable and non-transferable right and licence, to access, read, display on your computer, download and print a single copy of the text and images which are available on eslpals.com, and make photocopies to distribute to your own students only, solely for your personal and non-commercial use. You are not permitted to share content via the internet, in-person, or any other method with other people.

The Licence is personal to you, and may not be assigned, transferred or sub-licensed to any other person. You may not make any commercial use of eslpals.com, include eslpals.com in or with any product that you create or distribute, or copy the eslpals.com onto your, or any other person’s, website. You will keep all copyright and other proprietary notices intact. Your use of eslpals.com does not transfer to you any ownership or other rights related to eslpals.com. You may use eslpals.com only in the manner described expressly in these Terms of Service and subject to all applicable laws. Eslpals.com may NOT be modified, copied, distributed, forwarded, framed, reproduced, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted, uploaded, incorporated, transmitted, sold or exploited in any form or by any means, in whole or in part. Using eslpals.com for any other purpose or in any other manner is strictly prohibited. Eslpals.com retains all rights not expressly granted hereunder. Eslpals.com reserves all rights to terminate any license, at any time, if there is any misuse – misuse is defined by the owners, and only the owners, of ESL Pals (eslpals.com).

ACCOUNT REGISTRATION

All accounts are created with Paypal / Stripe. Please consulate with paypal.com / stripe.com if you have any queries, concerns or doubts connected to the accounts used on eslpals.com. All data, sensitive information and billing information is held by paypal.com. ESL Pals do not, and never have, and never will, store data, sensitive information or billing information.

ESL Pals is not responsible for any password, usernames or other information related to a user’s Paypal account. Please consulate with paypal.com regarding this issue.

You can not transfer or sell your account and account designation to another party. If you are registering as a business entity, you personally guarantee that you have the authority to bind the entity to these Terms of Service. You may not use eslpals.com to direct shoppers to another online selling venue to purchase any products. This includes posting links/URLs or providing information sufficient to locate the other online site. You cannot use your account for the purpose of redirecting traffic to another web location.

Certain aspects or all of the eslpals.com will not be available to temporarily or indefinitely suspended registered users. Eslpals.com reserves the right, in eslpals.com sole discretion, to cancel unconfirmed or inactive accounts. Eslpals.com reserves the right to refuse our content to anyone, for any reason, at any time.

PURCHASE TERMS AND CONDITIONS

All payments, orders, cancellations, errors, misprints, encryption and information related with purchasing a subscription to eslpals.com is the responsibility of PayPal / Stripe.

ESL Pals will endeavour to help all members, but holds absolutely no liability.

RULES OF CONDUCT

You agree that you will be personally responsible for your use of eslpals.com and for all of your communication and activity in using eslpals.com, including anything deemed so by the owners of eslpals.com. By using eslpals.com you agree that eslpals.com is not responsible, or liable for any of your actions, or conduct on eslpals.com. Including, anything you do that is in infringement to intellectual property rights.

As a condition of using the eslpals.com, you agree to all of the following rules of conduct:

  • You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your user name and password. The username and password is created through Paypal.
  • You are responsible for all activity that occurs under your user name.
  • You are solely responsible for your conduct.
  • You will not share any content to, on eslpals.com that is fraudulent, unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, obscene, libelous, slanderous, pornographic, invasive of another's privacy, or hateful.
  • You will not share or distribute any content that infringes or violates a patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual property rights of another person or entity, or that violate any right of privacy, or offer content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships.
  • You will not transmit any worms or viruses, spyware, malware, bugs or any other harmful or destructive code to or through eslpals.com.
  • You will not Distribute to users any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," "affiliate links," or any other form of solicitation.
  • You may not link to or frame eslpals.com, or any portion thereof, except as provided herein. Eslpals.com does not permit activities such as bring-up or presenting content of eslpals.com within another website.
  • You will not use eslpals.com for any illegal or unauthorized purpose or violate any applicable state, provincial, federal or local laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to intellectual property laws, criminal laws against money laundering, or tax laws).
  • You will not "stalk" or otherwise harass anyone on or through eslpals.com.
  • You will not pretend that you are, or that you represent, someone else, or impersonate any other person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
  • You will not access another registered user’s account without that registered user’s permission, nor will you compromise another registered user’s account. You agree that if such acts are brought to the attention of eslpals.com, eslpals.com may (1) immediately terminate your account, if any; and (2) provide all relevant information to law enforcement officials in order to assist in an investigation of your actions.
  • You will not violate nor attempt to violate the security of eslpals.com, including, without limitation:
    • accessing data not intended for you, including logging into a server or account which you are not authorized to access;
    • attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization;
    • using any "deep-link", "page-scrape", "robot", "spider" or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of eslpals.com or any content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of eslpals.com or any content, to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through eslpals.com;
    • Taking any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of eslpals.com or eslpals.com systems or networks, or any systems or networks connected.
    • Conducting a reverse look-up, tracing or seeking to trace any information on any other user to its source, or exploit eslpals.com or information made available or offered by or through eslpals.com, in any way where the purpose is to reveal any information, including but not limited to personal identification or information, other than your own information, as provided for by eslpals.com;
    • attempting to interfere with, disrupt or disable eslpals.com to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of "denial of service" attacks, overloading, "flooding", "mailbombing" or "crashing";
    • disrupting network nodes or network services or otherwise restricting, inhibiting, disrupting or impeding eslpals.com ability to monitor or make it available
    • taking any action in order to obtain services to which you are not entitled.
  • You shall not transmit email or any other content that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent.
  • You shall not transmit email or any other content that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, or constitutes "bait and switch".
  • You shall not sublicense, reproduce, duplicate, copy, rent, lease, sell, resell, exploit, redistribute, modify, create derivative works from, reverse engineer, broadcast, distribute, disseminate, decompile, publish, transmit, translate, adapt or vary any of eslpals.com, or any portion thereof, including but not limited to the site, in any form or by any means whatsoever, be they physical, electronic or otherwise.
  • You shall not remove any copyright, trademark or proprietary notices from any copies of eslpals.com.
  • You shall not create a database in electronic or structured manual form by systematically downloading and storing all or any of eslpals.com.
  • Your use of eslpals.com cannot in any way harm or prejudice the image or perception of ESL Pals to others receiving the information on eslpals.com.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES & RESOURCES

Eslpals.com may contain links to external sites or resources, eslpals.com is not responsible for the content of any of the linked external sites or resources. Eslpals.com only provides these links as a convenience. Eslpals.com does not endorse, accept responsibility, liability for anything contained on the links. You access these linked external sites and resources at your own risk. You may find some content to be offensive, harmful, inaccurate, or deceptive. You agree that eslpals.com shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, products or services available on or through any such external sites or resources. Eslpals.com may contain the opinions, advice, statements and views of other users. Given the interactive nature of eslpals.com, we cannot endorse, guarantee, or be responsible for the accuracy, efficacy, or veracity of any content generated by our users. Any opinions, advice, statements and views expressed or made available by third parties, including registered users and users, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not of eslpals.com.

DISCLAIMERS

ESL Pals assumes no liability or responsibility for any (a) personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to and use of eslpals.com; (b) any unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers and/or any and all personal information and/or financial information stored therein; (c) any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from eslpals.com; (d) any bugs, viruses, trojan horses, or the like, which may be transmitted to or through eslpals.com or any third party; and/or (e) any errors or omissions on eslpals.com and content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use or access of eslpals.com or user content distributed or otherwise made available via eslpals.com.

You have sole responsibility for any decisions you make based on information contained on eslpals.com. if you use eslpals.com, you are agreeing that this limitation of liability is reasonable and in keeping with the nature of eslpals.com.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you acknowledge and agree that your sole and exclusive remedy for any dispute with eslpals.com is to stop using the site and to cancel your account. Eslpals.com will not be responsible for any damages you or any third-party may suffer as a result of the transmission, storage or receipt of confidential or proprietary information that you make or that you expressly or implicitly authorize eslpals.com to make, or for any errors or any changes made to any transmitted, stored or received information.

Eslpals.com total liability to you or any third parties in any circumstance is limited to the greater of (a) the amount of fees you paid to eslpals.com in the 12 months prior to the action giving rise to liability; and (b) $100. some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you. In addition, no advice or information (oral or written) obtained by you from eslpals.com shall create any warranty. You and eslpals.com agree that any cause of action arising out of or related to eslapls.com, any products or services included on or otherwise made available to you through eslpals.com, the content, your access and use of eslpals.com, any sites or resources linked to eslpals.com or these terms of use, must commence and be filed within one (1) year after the cause of action arose; otherwise, such cause of action is permanently barred.

INDEMNIFICATION

By accepting these terms of use, you agree to indemnify and hold eslpals.com harmless from and against any and all actions, claims, proceedings, costs, damages, demands, liabilities, expenses or tax assessments, whatsoever, including reasonable legal fees and disbursements, arising out of, sustained, incurred or paid by us, directly or indirectly, in respect of (a) your use and access of eslpals.com; (b) your actual or alleged breach of these terms of use; (c) your use of any sites or resources linked to eslpals.com; your actual or alleged infringement by you, or any third party using your account or password, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity; (e) any user content you distribute on or through eslpals.com or which is sent to us by e-mail or other correspondence; and/or (f) your actual or alleged violation of any applicable laws, rules, regulations or rights of another.

PRIVACY

ESL Pals does not collect or store any data. All data is stored by Paypal / Stripe. Please contact Paypal / Stripe if you have any privacy questions or concerns. ESL Pals hold no liability or responsibility for your data or privacy because eslapls.com do not collect or store anything.

CONTACT US

Please contact us if you have any further questions, concerns or comments: [email protected]