Terms of Service.

Agreement to our legal terms

We are Joseph Spence, trading as GrammarBound, a sole trader based in the United Kingdom ("we", "us", "our"). We operate the website grammarbound.co.uk (the "Site"), together with any related products and services that link to these terms (the "Services").

You can contact us by email at hello@grammarbound.co.uk.

These terms constitute a legally binding agreement between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity ("you"), and Joseph Spence, concerning your access to and use of the Services. By using the Services you confirm that you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by all of these terms. If you do not agree with all of these terms, you must not use the Services.

We may change these terms from time to time. We will tell you by updating the "Last updated" date above, and the revised terms apply to your use of the Services from the date they are posted. Please check this page from time to time. We recommend that you keep a copy of these terms for your records.

The Services are intended for users who are at least 18 years old. If you are under 18 you may not register for an account or buy a plan.

Contents

1. Our Services
2. Informational use only
3. Intellectual property rights
4. User representations
5. User registration
6. Purchases and payment
7. Pro Pass, subscriptions and cancellation
8. Prohibited activities
9. No text or data mining, or web scraping
10. User generated contributions
11. Third-party websites and content
12. Services management
13. Privacy policy
14. Term and termination
15. Modifications and interruptions
16. Governing law
17. Dispute resolution
18. Corrections
19. Disclaimer
20. Limitations of liability
21. Indemnification
22. User data
23. Electronic communications
24. Miscellaneous
25. Contact us

1. Our Services

In short: GrammarBound maps the catchment areas of state grammar schools in England. It is designed for users in the United Kingdom.

GrammarBound is an independent tool that maps the catchment areas of state grammar schools across England, so that parents can check by postcode which schools an address is eligible for. Boundaries are taken from each school's published admissions policy or its local authority's determined arrangements. The Services include free admissions guides, school performance data and a list of the grammar schools near a postcode; paid plans add full catchment boundaries on the map, priority tier analysis, commute estimates, coverage overlays and a downloadable Admissions Index Report.

The Services are designed for people residing in the United Kingdom, and all 163 schools we cover are in England. Content or functionality may not be available or appropriate for use in other locations. Those who access the Services from elsewhere do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with their local laws.

2. Informational use only

In short: everything on the Site is information to help you research. It is not advice, it is not a guarantee, and it is not a substitute for the school's own admissions policy.

GrammarBound is provided for informational purposes only. The catchment boundaries, eligibility indications and any other data displayed are drawn from publicly available admissions policies and are not guaranteed to be accurate, complete or current.

This tool is not a substitute for official admissions guidance. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. Always consult the relevant school's current admissions policy and your local authority, and obtain professional or specialist advice where appropriate, before making any decision about a school application or a property purchase.

Personalised features, including eligibility and tier indications, oversubscription and performance figures, commute estimates (walking, driving and public transport), and the Admissions Index Report, are estimates based on the information you provide and on data drawn from published policies and official sources. They may be incomplete or out of date, and they do not guarantee any admission outcome.

Commute times in particular are modelled routing estimates. Public-transport times assume a fixed weekday-morning departure and depend on third-party timetable data, so actual journeys will vary.

3. Intellectual property rights

In short: we and our licensors own the Site and its content. You may use it for your own personal, non-commercial research.

Our intellectual property

We and/or our licensors own all copyright, trade marks, design rights, database rights and other intellectual property rights in the Services, and in the material and content published on them, including the source code, databases, functionality, software, website design, text, photographs and graphics (the "Content"), as well as the trade marks, service marks and logos contained in them (the "Marks"). All such rights are reserved, and nothing in these terms transfers any such right to you.

Some of the underlying source material is published by third parties, including the Office for National Statistics, the Department for Education, Ofsted and UCAS, and is used under their respective terms. Our compilation, verification and presentation of that material is our own.

Your use of our Services

Subject to your compliance with these terms, including the Prohibited activities and No text or data mining sections below, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access the Services and to print off one copy, or download one digital copy, of any page or extract to which you have properly gained access, solely for your personal, non-commercial use.

Our status, and that of any identified contributors, as the authors of content on the Services must always be acknowledged. You must not modify any copy you have printed or downloaded. You are not permitted to download or reuse any image, video or audio file from the Services independently of its original context.

Except as set out in this section, no part of the Services and no Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without our express prior written permission. To request permission, email hello@grammarbound.co.uk.

If you print off, copy or download any part of the Services in breach of this section, your right to use the Services will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies you have made. Any breach of this section is a material breach of these terms.

Your submissions

By sending us any question, comment, suggestion, idea or other feedback about the Services ("Submissions"), you agree that we may use and share that feedback for any purpose without acknowledgment or compensation to you. You confirm that your Submissions are your own, that they are not confidential, and that they are not illegal, harassing, defamatory, obscene, abusive, discriminatory, threatening or misleading.

4. User representations

In short: the information you give us should be true, and you should use the Services lawfully.

By using the Services you represent and warrant that: (1) all registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current and complete; (2) you will keep that information accurate and update it as necessary; (3) you have the legal capacity and agree to comply with these terms; (4) you are not a minor in the jurisdiction in which you reside, and you are at least 18 years old; (5) you will not access the Services through automated or non-human means; (6) you will not use the Services for any illegal or unauthorised purpose; and (7) your use of the Services will not violate any applicable law or regulation.

You are responsible for ensuring that everyone who accesses the Services through your internet connection is aware of these terms and complies with them.

If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, we may suspend or close your account and refuse any current or future use of the Services.

5. User registration

In short: you can use the map without an account. If you create one, keep your sign-in details safe, and you can delete the account and its data yourself at any time.

You can use the map without an account. Some features, including saved addresses, tracked schools, a priority tier profile and commute settings, require a free or paid account. Accounts are created with an email address and password, or by signing in with Google.

• You are responsible for keeping your sign-in details secure and for activity under your account. You must treat your password as confidential and must not share it, or your account, with anyone else.
• If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your password, tell us promptly at hello@grammarbound.co.uk.
• You agree to provide accurate information and to keep it up to date.
• You must be 18 or over to create an account and to buy a paid plan.
• We may disable any account, suspend or close accounts that are misused, used fraudulently, or used in breach of these terms.

The priority tier profile is a filter for seeing which schools give priority to which circumstances. It does not need to describe a real person. If you do enter details that relate to a real person, you confirm that you are their parent, carer or guardian and are entitled to provide those details.

You can delete your account, and the data it holds, at any time from your account settings. See our Privacy Policy for how we handle your data.

6. Purchases and payment

In short: payments are handled by Stripe, in pounds sterling. We are not VAT-registered.

We accept Visa, Mastercard and American Express. All payments are processed by Stripe; card details are entered on Stripe's own hosted checkout page and are never seen or stored by us.

All prices are in GBP (£). We are not VAT-registered, so no VAT is charged and we cannot issue VAT invoices.

You agree to provide current, complete and accurate purchase and account information, and to update your payment information as needed so that we can complete your transactions and contact you. You agree to pay all charges at the prices then in effect, and you authorise us to charge your chosen payment provider.

We may change our prices at any time; a change will not affect a purchase you have already made, or a subscription period already paid for. We reserve the right to correct any error in pricing, even if we have already requested or received payment, and to refuse or cancel an order.

7. Pro Pass, subscriptions and cancellation

In short: the Pro Pass is a one-off purchase with nothing to cancel. Pro Monthly renews until you cancel it. Either way you have 14 days from purchase to change your mind.

The two paid options

The Pro Pass is a one-off payment of £25 that gives three months of full access. It is not a subscription: it does not renew, and there is nothing to cancel.

Pro Monthly is a recurring subscription of £10 a month. It continues and automatically renews until cancelled, and you consent to our charging your payment method on a recurring basis without requiring your prior approval for each charge. The billing cycle is monthly.

Your 14-day right to cancel

Because you buy from us online, the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013 give you 14 days from the date of purchase to cancel and receive a refund. To cancel, email hello@grammarbound.co.uk from the address on your account, telling us clearly that you wish to cancel. We will refund you within 14 days of being told, using the same payment method. Where you asked us to begin providing the Services during that 14-day period, we may reduce your refund proportionately to reflect the service already supplied.

Cancelling Pro Monthly

You can cancel Pro Monthly at any time through the Stripe Customer Portal, reached from the Manage subscription button in your account. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current paid term: your access continues until the end of the current billing period, and we will not bill you again.

Refunds outside the cancellation period

Outside the 14-day cancellation period described above, the Pro Pass is non-refundable once activated, and Pro Monthly is non-refundable for the billing period already in progress. If you are unsatisfied with the Services, please email hello@grammarbound.co.uk and we will try to put it right.

Fee changes

We may change the subscription fee from time to time and will communicate any price change to you in accordance with applicable law, in time for you to cancel before it takes effect.

8. Prohibited activities

In short: use the Services for researching schools, and do not attack, misuse or strip-mine them.

You may not access or use the Services for any purpose other than that for which we make them available. The Services may not be used in connection with any commercial venture except one we have specifically endorsed or approved. As a user of the Services, you agree not to:

• Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Services to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database or directory, without written permission from us.
• Trick, defraud or mislead us or other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information such as passwords.
• Circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Services, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any Content, or that enforce limitations on its use.
• Attempt to bypass any measure designed to prevent or restrict access to the Services or any part of them, or gain unauthorised access to any account, system, host or network, or attempt to do so.
• Use any information obtained from the Services in order to harass, abuse or harm another person, or to harass, annoy, intimidate or threaten us.
• Make improper use of our support, or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.
• Use the Services in a manner inconsistent with any applicable law or regulation, for any fraudulent purpose, or in connection with a criminal offence.
• Engage in unauthorised framing of, mirroring of, or linking to the Services.
• Knowingly introduce viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful, or upload or transmit any material that acts as a passive or active information collection or transmission mechanism.
• Attack the Services by means of a denial-of-service or distributed denial-of-service attack, or otherwise interfere with, disrupt or place an undue or excessive burden on the Services or the networks connected to them.
• Delete the copyright or other proprietary rights notice from any Content.
• Attempt to impersonate another user or person.
• Copy or adapt the software of the Services, or, except as permitted by applicable law, decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of it.
• Collect usernames or email addresses of users by electronic or other means in order to send unsolicited email, or create accounts by automated means or under false pretences.
• Use the Services as part of any effort to compete with us, or for any revenue-generating venture or commercial enterprise.

Attempting to gain unauthorised access to the Services, the server on which they are stored, or any server, computer or database connected to them, and attacking the Services by means of a denial-of-service attack, are criminal offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and will co-operate with them, including by disclosing your identity. In the event of such a breach, your right to use the Services ceases immediately.

You are responsible for configuring your own technology to access the Services, and for using your own virus protection software. We do not guarantee that the Services will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. Certain features require a minimum specification or commonly available software, and you must ensure you have what is needed to use them.

9. No text or data mining, or web scraping

In short: you may not scrape the Site or mine it to train a model. Search engines and AI assistants may read and cite our public pages, but may not reproduce the dataset.

You shall not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to the Services, or any content, data or services provided via or in relation to them. This includes using, or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of:

• Any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the Services, or any data, content, information or services accessed via them.
• Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information, including but not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.

This includes, for the avoidance of doubt, the use of any part of the Services as training data for a machine-learning or artificial-intelligence model.

The provisions of this section should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of Article 4(3) of the Digital Copyright Directive ((EU) 2019/790).

What this section does not prevent. Nothing in this section prevents a search engine or an AI assistant from accessing, indexing, summarising, citing or linking to our publicly available pages, or the machine-readable summary we publish at /llms.txt, for the purpose of answering a user's query and directing them to us. That permission does not extend to reproducing our catchment dataset in whole or in substantial part, to building a competing compilation, or to using the Services as training data.

This section shall not apply insofar as, but only to the extent that, we are unable to exclude or limit text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract under the laws applicable to us.

If you are in breach of this section, your right to use the Services will cease immediately.

10. User generated contributions

The Services do not offer users the ability to submit, post or publish content. The only material you send us is covered by Your submissions above, and by the information you save to your own account, which is covered by our Privacy Policy.

11. Third-party websites and content

In short: we link out to schools, councils and other sites we do not control. Using our maps also binds you to Google's terms.

The Services contain links to other websites and resources provided by third parties, including schools, local authorities and official data publishers, as well as content originating from third parties ("Third-Party Content"). These links are provided for your information only. Third-party websites and Third-Party Content are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy, appropriateness or completeness by us, and we are not responsible for them. Inclusion of, or linking to, any third-party website or content does not imply our approval or endorsement of it.

If you decide to leave the Services and access a third-party website, you do so at your own risk, and these terms no longer govern. You should review the terms and policies, including privacy and data-gathering practices, of any website you navigate to. Any purchase you make through a third-party website is between you and that third party, and we take no responsibility for it.

Google Maps Platform

GrammarBound uses the Google Maps Platform to calculate journey times. By using GrammarBound you are also bound by Google's Terms of Service, including the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service. How Google handles data is described in its Privacy Policy.

12. Services management

We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to: (1) monitor the Services for breaches of these terms; (2) take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our reasonable opinion, breaches the law or these terms, including reporting them to law enforcement authorities; (3) refuse, restrict access to, or limit the availability of any part of the Services; (4) remove or disable files and content that are excessive in size or burdensome to our systems; and (5) otherwise manage the Services so as to protect our rights and property and to keep them working properly.

13. Privacy policy

We care about data privacy and security. Please review our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these terms. It explains what we collect, why, who else sees it and what you can do about it, and its cookies section explains the cookies we set and how consent works. By using the Services you agree to be bound by it.

The Services are hosted in the United Kingdom, and account data is stored and processed there. If you access the Services from another region with laws governing personal data that differ from those of the United Kingdom, then by continuing to use the Services you are transferring your data to the United Kingdom and consent to it being processed there.

14. Term and termination

These terms remain in full force and effect while you use the Services. Without limiting any other provision of these terms, we reserve the right, in our sole and reasonable discretion and without notice or liability, to deny access to and use of the Services, including by blocking certain IP addresses, to any person who breaches any representation, warranty or covenant in these terms or any applicable law or regulation. We may terminate your use of the Services, or delete your account, at any time.

If we terminate or suspend your account for any reason, you are prohibited from registering a new account under your name, a fake or borrowed name, or the name of any third party. In addition to terminating or suspending your account, we reserve the right to take appropriate legal action.

You may end this agreement at any time by deleting your account from your account settings. Where you have paid for a period of access, ending the agreement does not by itself entitle you to a refund except as set out in section 7.

15. Modifications and interruptions

In short: the Site changes, and sometimes it will be down. We cannot promise it is always available.

We reserve the right to change, modify or remove the contents of the Services at any time and at our discretion. We will try to give reasonable notice of any major change, but we have no obligation to update any information on the Services.

Our system consolidates information from numerous sources. Those sources periodically change the structure of their data, and the schools and local authorities whose policies we map republish those policies on their own timetables. Either may result in occasional delays in updating our information to take those changes into account.

We cannot guarantee that the Services will be available at all times. We may experience hardware, software or other problems, or need to perform maintenance, resulting in interruptions, delays or errors, and we may suspend the Services for repair, maintenance, or to update or upgrade their content or functionality. We will not be liable for any loss, damage or inconvenience caused by your inability to access or use the Services during any downtime or discontinuance. Nothing in these terms obliges us to maintain and support the Services or to supply any correction, update or release.

16. Governing law

These terms, their subject matter and their formation are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England will have non-exclusive jurisdiction, which means that you may also bring proceedings to defend your consumer rights in the country in which you reside. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is expressly excluded.

17. Dispute resolution

If you have a complaint about the Services, please tell us first at hello@grammarbound.co.uk. We will acknowledge it, look into it without undue delay, and explain the outcome. Most problems can be settled this way.

Nothing in this section affects your statutory rights, or your right to bring legal proceedings.

18. Corrections

There may be information on the Services that contains a typographical error, inaccuracy or omission, including in descriptions, pricing and availability. We reserve the right to correct any error, inaccuracy or omission, and to change or update the information on the Services, at any time and without prior notice.

19. Disclaimer

In short: the Services are provided as they are. Where we republish someone else's data, we republish their mistakes too.

The Services are provided on an as-is and as-available basis, and your use of them is at your own risk. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, in connection with the Services and your use of them, including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We make no warranties or representations about the accuracy or completeness of the Services' content, or the content of any website linked to them.

Information republished from other sources

Much of the information we make available is gathered from sources that we believe publish accurate data, and we republish or link to that information without modification. We cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of third-party information made available through the Services, because it is not our own data. If, for example, the Department for Education publishes an incorrect examination result, or Ofsted records an incorrect inspection grade, we will publish the same inaccuracy. If we are not accurately republishing or linking to information, we will endeavour to rectify the problem as soon as reasonably possible. Please tell us at hello@grammarbound.co.uk if you spot something wrong.

20. Limitations of liability

In short: there are things we cannot and do not limit. Beyond those, our liability is capped, and we are not responsible for decisions you take on the strength of our estimates.

We do not exclude or limit our liability to you in any way where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors; for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; and for any breach of your legal rights under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.

Subject to that, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, the exclusions and limits in this section apply to any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

We will not be liable for any business-related loss, including loss of profit, loss of business or loss of business opportunity, or for any indirect or consequential loss. We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability of the Services and will not be liable for any use of, or inability to use, them. We will not be liable for any loss resulting from use of the Services in breach of these terms.

In particular, and subject always to the paragraph above about liability we do not limit, we accept no liability for:

• Decisions made regarding property purchase or rental based on catchment information shown.
• Failed or unsuccessful school applications where the applicant relied on data from the Services.
• Inaccuracies in boundary data caused by changes to school admissions policies not yet reflected in the Services.
• Decisions made in reliance on eligibility, tier, oversubscription, performance, commute or report estimates generated by the Services.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, our total liability to you for any cause whatsoever, and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to the amount paid, if any, by you to us during the six (6) month period prior to any cause of action arising.

21. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify us and hold us harmless from and against any loss, damage, liability, claim or demand, including reasonable legal costs, made by a third party and arising out of your breach of these terms, your use of the Services in a way they do not permit, or your violation of any applicable law or the rights of a third party.

We reserve the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us, and you agree to co-operate with that defence. We will use reasonable efforts to notify you of any such claim on becoming aware of it.

22. User data

We maintain certain data that you transmit to the Services in order to manage their performance, as well as data relating to your use of them. Although we perform regular routine backups, you remain responsible for the data you transmit or that relates to activity you have undertaken using the Services. Except where we are liable under section 20, we have no liability to you for any loss or corruption of such data.

23. Electronic communications

Visiting the Services, sending us emails and completing online forms are electronic communications. You consent to receive communications from us electronically, and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications we provide to you electronically, by email and on the Services, satisfy any legal requirement that such communication be in writing.

24. Miscellaneous

These terms, and any policies or operating rules we post on the Services, constitute the entire agreement and understanding between you and us. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these terms does not operate as a waiver of it. These terms operate to the fullest extent permissible by law.

Transferring this agreement. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens, and we will ensure that the transfer does not affect your rights under the agreement.

We will not be responsible or liable for any loss, damage, delay or failure to act caused by any cause beyond our reasonable control. If any provision or part of a provision of these terms is determined to be unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision or part is deemed severable and does not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions. No joint venture, partnership, employment or agency relationship is created between you and us by these terms or by your use of the Services.

25. Contact us

To resolve a complaint about the Services, or for more information about using them, please contact us at:

General enquiries and complaints: hello@grammarbound.co.uk

Privacy and data protection: privacy@grammarbound.co.uk

Joseph Spence, trading as GrammarBound, United Kingdom.