Terms and Conditions

User Agreement

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User agreement
Important:
  • If you are under 13 years old, you must have your parent's or guardian's, or (if you are using this at school) your teacher's, permission to use this site (the "Mangahigh Service") - this means that your parent, guardian or teacher must allow you to do so
  • And if you are under a certain age and use the Mangahigh Service from a specific country (for example, if you are under 13 years old, in the case of the United States), you may be not allowed to register as a User
  • If a parent or guardian is paying for your subscription, or if an institution (such as a school) or another enterprise has obtained Membership for you, then we refer to you as a "Member"
  • If an institution (such as a school) or another enterprise is providing your Membership of the Mangahigh Service, then you must only use your Membership for so long as that institution or enterprise permits you to
  • If you are a representative of an institution or another enterprise, and wish to arrange the purchase of multiple Memberships, then please contact us at sales@mangahigh.com
  1. Introduction.

    This Agreement is a legal document which sets out your rights and obligations, and those of Blue Duck Education Limited, a company registered in England under registration number 6626639 ("Blue Duck", "we" or "us"), in relation to this site and the games and other products and services offered by Blue Duck through it (collectively, the "Mangahigh Service").

    The Mangahigh Service includes all versions of "Mangahigh", and any other online platforms released by Blue Duck from time to time, including all Blue Duck websites used to play the games that we make available. Mangahigh and Prodigi are Blue Duck trademarks.

    You must take the time to read and understand this Agreement before registering for the Mangahigh Service. By registering, you accept that you are entering into a contract with us on the terms of this Agreement. Visitors to the Mangahigh Service who do not register to become a User (see 2 below) similarly affirm that they are bound by this Agreement each time they access the Mangahigh Service.

    You should be aware that this Agreement may change from time to time in accordance with Clause 21 below.

    Important: You must ensure that the email address we hold for you is kept up-to-date and that you have full access to it - we will be sending you important messages there.

  2. Types of membership.

    To use many features of the Mangahigh Service, we require you to register with us.

    If you register for the Mangahigh Service you become a "User". Users divides between those for whom a subscription fee is paid ("Members"), and non-Members. Members' subscriptions can be obtained and paid-for by a parent or guardian, or by an institution (such as a school) or another enterprise.

    If an institution (such as a school) or another enterprise is providing your Membership of the Mangahigh Service, note that you may only use your Membership for so long as that institution or enterprise permits you to do so.

    You can see the benefits of becoming a Member by visiting our Membership page.

    Parents or guardians can also sign-up to pay for a subscription on the Membership page.

    Note that we are not an internet service provider. In order to avail of the Mangahigh Service, you must have internet access and all the software (and skills) required for email and web usage.

  3. Registration.

    When you register to become a User, we ask you to provide some information about yourself (such as your age and email address, and the country where you live). You must be honest about this information.

    You should make sure that your parent or guardian, or (if you are using the Mangahigh Service at school) your teacher, is happy for you to register as a User of the Mangahigh Service. Note that we may prevent you from registering, or may remove your registration, as a User if it appears to us that you were not permitted - by your parent or guardian, your teacher or by law - to do so.

    You must not choose a username that could potentially infringe anyone's rights, which is intended to confuse, or which is offensive, hurtful or otherwise inappropriate, as reasonably determined by us. We may change a username if we think it offends this Agreement.

  4. Privacy policy.

    Blue Duck's Privacy Policy forms part of this Agreement, and by agreeing to this Agreement, you also give your consent to the way we may handle your personal data as detailed in that policy. Given the global nature of the World Wide Web, any posting on the Mangahigh Service (including any which contain personal information) is, of course, accessible to internet users around the world.

  5. Blue Duck's Role.

    We are not and cannot be responsible for the behaviour of Users - whether on the Mangahigh Service or outside of it. In particular, you should be aware that Blue Duck does not generally pre-screen or monitor the material (other than images - see below) contributed by Users.

    We only allow Members to upload images. If you are doing so, you should make sure that your parent or guardian, or (if you are using the Mangahigh Service at school) your teacher, is happy with the image. Note that we may prevent images from being put onto the Mangahigh Service if we think it is problematic in any way - either because it breaches any part of this Agreement, or because we think it is not appropriate.

    You can report all inappropriate communication or behaviour to us at complaints@mangahigh.com.

  6. Games and other software; new services.

    We provide you with access to games and other software ("Software") through the Mangahigh Service. We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited licence to use the Software on any compatible computer from which you access the Mangahigh Service. All Software is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties and is owned by us, our affiliates or licensors. You may not sell or redistribute the Software. You may not incorporate it or any portion of it into another product. You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Software or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, except where expressly permitted by law to do so. You may not modify, adapt or create derivative works from the Software in any way or remove proprietary notices in the Software.

    Blue Duck or its affiliates may offer new or additional services through the Mangahigh Service from time to time. Your use of them may be subject to additional terms and conditions, or rules of use, which you must comply with. Any failure by you to comply with a material provision of the terms or rules governing such additional services will amount to a breach of this Agreement.

  7. Operation of Mangahigh Services.

    Blue Duck reserves the right to withdraw or modify aspects of the Mangahigh Service, or the entirety of it, where we have legal or commercial reasons to do so. There may also be times when the Mangahigh Service becomes inaccessible as a result of technical difficulties experienced by Blue Duck or on the Internet; we will, however, use reasonable skill and care to overcome these difficulties where they are within our control.

    There may be times when we make the Mangahigh Service unavailable so that we can conduct technical work on it. We will try to ensure that this planned downtime occurs only between 7am and 9am on Thursdays or is as otherwise specified in the Frequently Asked Questions section on the Mangahigh Service.

    Note that we will never ask you for your password, and that you are solely responsible for maintaining the safety and secrecy of your password and any additional identifying information. You will be responsible for the activities of anyone who uses your password to gain access to your account. If you think that someone may have obtained your password, you must change it immediately.

  8. Misuse of Mangahigh Service.

    We reserve the right (a) to suspend or terminate any User's access to the Mangahigh Service, or parts of it, and/or (b) to remove, or require the User to remove, material posted on the Mangahigh Service, if the User or material appears to us, or to someone who has complained to us, to be in breach of any provision of this Agreement.

    Any person whose access has been suspended or terminated must not re-register for, or re-access, the Mangahigh Service without our prior consent. You are responsible for everything which is done on or through the Mangahigh Service while your Users account is logged on to the Mangahigh Service, or through your email address(es). In addition, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate any User's access to the Mangahigh Service, or parts of it, if the relevant User is abusive, discriminatory or threatening, or harasses or communicates offensive messages or images to another User, whether or not through the Mangahigh Service.

    For completeness, where we reserve a right in this Agreement, it does not mean we will be obliged to exercise it. Also, given the open-access nature of the Mangahigh Service, note that we cannot prevent determined people whose Users has been suspended or terminated from re-accessing the Mangahigh Service or re-registering as Users, in breach of their obligations under this Agreement.

  9. Relevance. The Mangahigh Service is intended to be used by its Users for the purposes we describe in this Agreement and on the Mangahigh Service itself. Accordingly, Users must not:
    • place material on, or otherwise use, the Mangahigh Service for any business or commercial purpose; or
    • use your access to the Mangahigh Service, or information gathered from it, in connection with the sending of unsolicited bulk email (sometimes known as spam).
  10. Fees.

    If you are (or become) a Member, note that if the subscription paid by your parent, guardian, institution (such as a school) or other enterprise, is not paid or renewed, your Membership will come to an end, and you will only have the ability to access the Mangahigh Service as a User.

  11. Prohibitions.

    You must ensure that any material you post, or which is posted through a machine on which you access the Mangahigh Service, and all your activity and communication on the Mangahigh Service, is not capable of (a) infringing the intellectual property or other rights of any person or entity, (b) breaching any applicable law, whether criminal, tortious or otherwise, (c) appearing to be offensive, threatening, abusive, discriminatory, obscene, pornographic, false, libelous, defamatory, unreliable or misleading, or (d) being perceived as antisocial or disruptive.

  12. Alerting Blue Duck.

    If you see anything on the Mangahigh Service which appears to infringe this Agreement, then please contact us to inform us by emailing us at complaints@mangahigh.com. We rely upon Users to point out material contributed by other Users which may infringe this Agreement.

  13. Disclaimer and Release.

    Blue Duck has no control over or responsibility for the truth or accuracy of any material available on the Mangahigh Service that is provided by Users or others.

    If any third party sites are linked to from the Mangahigh Service, this does not mean that we endorse or have any responsibility for the site in question or anything which appears on it.

    You should exercise no lesser degree of caution in appraising what you see on the Mangahigh Service than you do offline.

    Even though Users are prohibited from doing so, people may provide information, or otherwise behave, in a way that is unreliable, misleading or even illegal. Further, you should note that people may not necessarily be who they say they are.

    Therefore, to the extent that the law permits, you release Blue Duck its directors, contractors and employees from all liability (including in relation to disputes with other Users) arising out of your use of a third party site or arising out of or in connection with the material included on the Mangahigh Service by Users and other third parties.

  14. Intellectual Property.

    You acknowledge that all copyright, trade marks, and other intellectual property rights in and relating to the Mangahigh Service (including the Software and other content that we make available) are owned by Blue Duck its licensors. These rights protect all of the games you see on the Mangahigh Service, including the graphics of those games, their structure, gameplay and their "look and feel". It is easy to copy material which appears on web-sites, but this does not mean it is legal. Therefore, no-one may copy, distribute, show in public or create any derivative work from the Mangahigh Service, or any part of the games or other material which is found on the Mangahigh Service unless properly licensed to do so by us.

    By submitting any material to the content to the Mangahigh Service, you:
    1. are representing that you are fully entitled to do so;
    2. grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, non-terminable licence to copy, modify, distribute, show in public and create derivative works from that material in any form, anywhere; and
    3. authorise us to adapt the relevant material in the course of doing so, and so waive your moral rights to object to any derogatory treatment, or to be identified as the author, of the material in question.
  15. Excluded loss.

    We will not be liable to you or any third party for any loss not reasonably foreseeable by us when this Agreement commences, for any indirect or consequential loss or damage, or for any loss of data, profit, revenue or business, howsoever caused (whether arising out of any negligence or breach of this Agreement or otherwise). Blue Duck will also not be liable for any failure to perform of its obligations under this Agreement caused by matters beyond its reasonable control.

  16. Maximum liability.

    Without limiting the preceding Clause, the aggregate liability of Blue Duck under this Agreement (whether arising in negligence or otherwise) will not under any circumstances exceed an amount equal to (a) the monthly Subscription fee payable by parents or guardians at the time liability arises, or (if greater) (b) the sums that have actually been paid for your then-current Membership.

  17. Non-excluded Liabilities.

    Nothing in this Agreement limits our liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence, or any other liability which may not by law be excluded. Any statutory rights you may have as a consumer remain unaffected.

  18. Indemnity.

    You agree to indemnify us against all liabilities, claims and expenses that may arise from any breach of this Agreement by you or through a machine on which you access the Mangahigh Service.

  19. Assignment.

    We reserve the right to assign this Agreement, and to assign or subcontract any or all of our rights and obligations under this Agreement, but will not do so in such a way as to reduce any guarantees you are given under this Agreement.. You may not without the written consent of Blue Duck assign or dispose of this Agreement.

  20. Entire Agreement.

    This Agreement includes our privacy policy. Together they contain the whole of the agreement between us and you concerning the Mangahigh Service and they replace all earlier agreements and understandings with you, except for any fraud or fraudulent representation by either of us. A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to rely upon or enforce any term of this Agreement.

  21. Changes to this Agreement.

    Blue Duck reserves the right to change this Agreement from time to time, and post the new version on the Mangahigh Service. When we do so, we notify Users of the fact that there are changed terms on the main screen http://www.mangahigh.com/en_us/about/termsandconditions, and post the new Agreement there. This Agreement, and any new version of it in the future, takes effect immediately. However, if you do not wish to be bound by the changes we make in this Agreement (or any new version of it), then you can choose instead to remain bound by the previous Blue Duck Terms and Conditions until:

    • the next renewal date for the subscription fee payable by your parent or guardian, or (if you are using the Mangahigh Service at school) your school, if you are a Member; or
    • one month after the date when we post the new version, if you are a User.
  22. Severability.

    In the event that any term of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable by judicial decree or decision, the remainder of this Agreement shall remain valid and enforceable.

  23. Law.

    This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

  24. Keeping this Agreement.

    We don't separately file the individual Agreements entered into by members when they register for the Mangahigh Service. You can access it at http://www.mangahigh.com/en_us/about/termsandconditions/section/useragreement. Please make a durable copy of this Agreement by printing and/or saving a downloaded copy on your own computer.

  25. Contact.

    You can contact us by post at Unit 4A, Heal's Building, 22-24 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HJ. Please make sure you include your full name and email address with all correspondence. Our VAT number is 944 1933 14

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