Updated 12 February 2025
Welcome to Kialo Edu! Glad to have you.
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) apply to your use of Kialo Edu’s website and services (kialo-edu.com). Please read them carefully because by using Kialo Edu, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you’re using Kialo Edu on behalf of an Educational Institution, you agree to these Terms on behalf of that Institution.
All terms are as defined in our Privacy Policy.
Content
Your Contributions. Your contributions on Kialo Edu are yours. By contributing on Kialo Edu, you agree to give us a limited purpose license (i.e., a right) to use your contributions to operate and improve our services as set forth in our Privacy Policy and in accordance with your or your Institution’s settings and instructions.
As a collaborative platform, you understand that other participants in discussions in which you contribute can view and use your contributions. Participants who are Editors, Admins, and Owners can also edit your contributions. Once participants have access to your contributions, we do not control what they do with them.
Owners and Admins can adjust participant roles, permissions, and sharing settings at any time. Each discussion has one Owner, whose role cannot be changed by other participants. As such, the Owner is the one who ultimately controls all content in a discussion.
You are solely responsible for your contributions on Kialo Edu and assume all risks associated with them, including intellectual property or other legal claims. By contributing content, you represent that you have the necessary rights to that material, and that doing so does not conflict with other agreements you have made.
We do not screen anyone’s contributions, but we have the right—though no duty—to review and remove them if they are found to be in violation of these Terms. We assume no liability for content that you or others post on our site.
Kialo Edu’s Content and Brand Features. Kialo Edu is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws.
Kialo Edu gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-transferable and non-sublicensable, simple and non-exclusive right to use our services for educational purposes. This license (i.e., right) is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use Kialo Edu as permitted by these Terms. If you violate these Terms, we may terminate this license (i.e., right) and you will not be permitted to use Kialo Edu.
You may not use any of Kialo Edu’s trademarks, logos, domain names, or other distinctive brand features without our explicit prior written permission, except as otherwise permitted by law.
Community Guidelines
Kialo Edu strives to provide a great service. To that end, we ask that you respect these rules, and we reserve the right to terminate your account if you don’t follow them.
- Don’t use Kialo Edu in a manner that violates any laws, regulations, ordinances, or directives.
- Don’t use Kialo Edu contrary to our policies.
- Don’t use Kialo Edu to do anything threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, tortious, obscene, profane, or invasive of another person’s privacy.
- Don’t interfere with the proper functioning of any software, hardware, or equipment on Kialo Edu or Kialo more generally.
- Don’t engage in any conduct that inhibits anyone else’s use or enjoyment of Kialo Edu, or which may harm Kialo Edu, Kialo, or our users.
- Don’t impersonate others on Kialo Edu in a manner that is intended to or actually does confuse, deceive, or mislead other people.
Crawling and Exporting Kialo Edu
Crawling Kialo Edu for indexing purposes is allowed in accordance with our robots.txt instructions. Do not crawl, scrape or download Kialo Edu in any automated or manual fashion for any other purposes.
You are free to download your own private discussions for educational purposes via our export functionality.
Our public discussions and other educational resources (collectively, “educational resources”) are published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. We grant you a limited license (i.e., a right) to use our educational resources as follows:
- You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests Kialo endorses you or your use.
- You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
- If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as we have granted you. You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.
For the above purposes you may download our educational resources using our export functionality.
If your intended use case is not covered by the aforementioned license or by standard fair use, contact support@kialo-edu.com to receive written permission for your use case. For clarity, we consider taking and using screenshots of Kialo discussions, including those published by us, to fall within fair use provisions.
Our Rights
We are always working to improve Kialo Edu, so we reserve some rights. We reserve the right to change our services from time to time, and modify, suspend, or terminate user accounts in our sole discretion at any time for any reason. Kialo Edu is not liable for any damages as a result of these actions.
Other Sites and Services
Kialo Edu contains links to websites and other services that we neither own nor control. We don’t endorse or assume responsibility for any third-party sites, information, materials, products, or services.
Privacy
Our Privacy Policy governs our collection and use of your personal information, which is incorporated via these Terms.
Security
We take the security of Kialo Edu very seriously and work hard to protect your content and account, but we can’t absolutely guarantee that third parties won’t be able to defeat our security measures. Please let us know immediately if you discover any compromise or unauthorized use of your account by contacting security@kialo.com.
Children
Individuals under the age of 13 in the United States, or the age where school or parental consent is required to use Kialo Edu under the applicable law of your jurisdiction (individually, a “Child,” and collectively, “Children”) are not permitted to use Kialo Edu unless enrolled by their legal guardian or Educational Institution.
Copyright
Kialo Edu’s copyright policy complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. For more information, see our Copyright Policy.
Account Termination
You can delete your Kialo Edu account by contacting your Educational Institution or, if you are using Kialo Edu independently of an Institution, by sending an email to support@kialo-edu.com. The account deletion process will take place as described in the Privacy Policy.
Disclaimers
Kialo Edu is provided “as is” without any warranties, express or implied.
Kialo Edu disclaims all warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
(Some states don’t allow these disclaimers, so this provision might not apply to you.)
Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent allowed by law, Kialo Edu shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, any loss of profits or revenues, or any loss of data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses resulting from (A) your access to, use of, inability to access, or inability to use Kialo Edu; (B) any third-party conduct or content on Kialo Edu, including any defamatory, offensive, or illegal conduct of third parties; or (C) any unauthorized access, use, or alteration of your content.
(Some states don’t allow these limitations, so this provision might not apply to you.)
Dispute Resolution
We’d like to resolve any disputes fairly and quickly. Toward that end, if you have any issue with Kialo Edu, please contact us via support@kialo-edu.com and we’ll work with you in good faith to try to resolve the matter. We do not use the European Court of Arbitration.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms will be governed by the laws of Germany, unless, and to the extent that (i) applicable federal, state, international, and/or provincial law of the jurisdiction in which you or your institution is located requires governance of the law of another jurisdiction, or (ii) is required by contract.
Entire Agreement and Severability
The Terms, and the other materials incorporated by reference, constitute the full and entire agreement between you and Kialo Edu. If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect.
No Waiver
No waiver of any provision of these Terms shall be a further or continuing waiver of that term. Kialo Edu’s failure to assert any right or provision under these Terms does not constitute a waiver of that right or provision.
Modification
We may revise these Terms from time to time. If we make material changes to these Terms, we will notify you when you next access your Kialo Edu account via a popup. You will need to explicitly agree to these. If you do not wish to accept the changes, you can always stop using our Services and delete your account.
The most recent version of our Terms will always be at https://www.kialo-edu.com/terms.
Contact
We welcome all questions, concerns, and feedback you might have about these Terms. If you have suggestions for us, let us know via support@kialo-edu.com.