Terms of service

1. Use of material appearing on the Kidadl Site

You acknowledge that, as between Kidadl and you, except for user content and advertisements (as discussed below), Kidadl is the sole owner or the licensee of all content on the Kidadl Site, including, without limitation, all applicable copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, trade names, logos, and other intellectual property rights thereto, as well as text, images, graphics, logos, audio, video, URLs, metadata and other material appearing on the Kidadl Site (“Kidadl Content”). the Kidadl Site and the Kidadl Content are protected by the copyright laws and other intellectual property laws of the United Kingdom and are protected globally by applicable international copyright treaties.

Your use of the Kidadl Site and Kidadl Content is for your own personal and non-commercial use only. You may download and print extracts from the Kidadl Content for your own personal and non-commercial use only, provided you maintain and abide by any author attribution, copyright or trademark notice or restriction in any material that you download or print.

Without limitation, you shall not use (and you shall also not facilitate, authorise or permit the use of) the Kidadl Site and/or any Kidadl Content (including, any caption information, keywords or other associated metadata) for any other purpose without our prior written approval - this includes, without limitation, that you shall not use, copy, scrape, reproduce, alter, modify, collect, mine and/or extract the Kidadl Content: (a) for any machine learning, machine learning language models and/or artificial intelligence-related purposes (including the training or development of such technologies); (b) for any text and data aggregation, analysis or mining purposes (including to generate any patterns, trends or correlations); or (c) with any machine learning and/or artificial intelligence technologies to generate any data or content or to synthesise or combine with any other data or content; or (d) for any commercial use.

Other than as expressly set out in these terms and conditions, or otherwise approved in writing by Kidadl, you shall also not use, or facilitate, authorise or permit the use of, any (i) “robot”, “bot”, “spider”, “scraper”, “crawler” or (ii) other automated devices, program, technique, tool, process, algorithm or method (whether for data gathering, mining, collection, reading, scraping, extraction or other purposes), in each case, on or in relation to the Kidadl Site and/or the Kidadl Content.

You shall not use any service, software, device, tool, method, program, technique, algorithm or process to circumvent any restriction, condition, protection or technological measure that controls access to the Kidadl Content in any way, including bypassing or circumventing any access controls or use limits of the Kidadl Content (including, by way of example, robots.txt internet protocols or similar or successor protocols).

For the avoidance of doubt, Kidadl reserves all rights in the Kidadl Content, (including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC) and similar reserved rights in other jurisdictions, in each case, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable laws.

Except as expressly authorised by Kidadl, you are not allowed to create a database in electronic or paper form comprising all or part of the material appearing on the Kidadl Site.

If you wish to use our content other than as permitted by these terms and conditions please contact us at hello@Kidadl.com.

2. Disclaimer of liability

To the extent permitted at law, we do not accept any responsibility for any statement in the Kidadl Content. Nothing in the Kidadl Content is provided for any specific purpose or at the request of any particular person. For the avoidance of confusion, we will not be liable for any loss caused as a result of your doing, or not doing, anything as a result of viewing, reading or listening to the Kidadl Content or any part of it. You can access other sites via links from the Kidadl Site. These sites are not under our control and we are not responsible in any way for any of their contents.

We give no warranties of any kind concerning the Kidadl Site or the Kidadl Content. In particular, we do not warrant that the Kidadl Site or any of its contents is virus free. You must take your own precautions in this respect as we accept no responsibility for any infection by virus or other contamination or by anything which has destructive properties.

Although we will do our best to provide constant, uninterrupted access to the Kidadl Site, we do not guarantee this. We accept no responsibility or liability for any unavailability, interruption or delay.

If you are accessing the Kidadl Site from the United States or Australia, the additional disclaimers and limitations of liability in Sections 14 onwards apply.

3. Third party advertising on the Kidadl Site

You will see advertising material submitted by third parties on the Kidadl Site. Each individual advertiser is solely responsible for the content of its advertising material. We accept no responsibility for the content of advertising material, including, without limitation, any error, omission or inaccuracy therein.If you want to advertise on the Kidadl Site, please contact the sales team via advertise with us.

4. Data protection

To find out what personal data we collect and how we use it, please visit our privacy policy.

5. Changes to these terms and conditions of use

Please note that we may change these terms and conditions from time to time at our sole discretion and we reserve the right to do so without your consent. Any revised terms and conditions will be applicable at the time of posting on the Kidadl Site. Please ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use the Kidadl Site after it has been posted.

6. Governing law & jurisdiction

These terms and conditions are governed by English law and the parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.

7. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Kidadl, its parents, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and each of their respective officers, directors, and employees, in full from any and all damages, losses, demands, claims, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including, but not limited to, loss of profits, loss of revenue and attorneys’ fees and expenses), arising out of, or in connection with, a breach by you or any user of your account of: (i) these terms and conditions or privacy policy or (ii) your obligations, representation and warranties under these terms and conditions.