Terms of Use

01Purpose and acceptance

These terms govern access to the Spectrum Education platform and the use of its features, whether you browse without an account or contribute to it.

Browsing the site means accepting the rules that apply to visitors. Creating an account means accepting the whole document. Anyone who does not accept these terms must refrain from using the platform.

02The service

Spectrum Education provides a library of past exam papers and their solutions, a search engine, collection and favourite tools, and community spaces: proposed answers, syntheses and comments.

Browsing is free. Some features — contributing, commenting, saving a collection — require an account.

03User account

• The information given at sign-up must be accurate and kept up to date.
• An account is personal. Sharing it, transferring it, or opening several to bypass a sanction is not allowed.
• You are responsible for keeping your password confidential and for what is done from your account. Tell us without delay if you suspect unauthorised access: Profile › Sessions lets you close a session remotely.
• You may delete your account at any time; the effects of deletion are described in the privacy policy.

04Your contributions

You keep the rights to what you publish. By uploading content, you grant Spectrum Education a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to host it, display it, convert it into another technical format and make it available to users, for as long as it stays online.

That licence has one purpose: running the platform. It does not allow us to resell your contribution or exploit it outside that scope.

By publishing, you warrant that you hold the necessary rights and infringe none belonging to a third party.

05Exams, solutions and third-party rights

Exam papers come from institutions, schools and examination boards which retain the rights to them. They are made available for strictly educational and documentary purposes.

Any rights holder who considers that content infringes their rights may write to [email protected] identifying the content and the grounds of the request. The content is provisionally withdrawn while the request is reviewed.

06Prohibited uses

The following are prohibited, among others:

• Publishing unlawful, defamatory, hateful, violent or sexually explicit content, or content unrelated to the educational purpose of the site.
• Mass-extracting the platform's content, by script or otherwise, or rebuilding a copy of it.
• Disrupting the service: circumventing technical limits, intrusion attempts, code injection, uploading malicious files.
• Impersonating a third party, a teacher or an institution.
• Using the platform for commercial purposes without our written agreement.

07Moderation

We may remove content, suspend access to a feature or close an account where these terms or the community rules are not respected.

Except in urgent cases or serious breaches, the measure is notified with reasons and may be challenged at [email protected]. The detailed procedure is set out in the community rules.

08Availability of the service

The platform is provided "as is". We do our utmost to keep it available, without guaranteeing uninterrupted service: maintenance, a provider outage or a network incident may interrupt it.

We may change, suspend or discontinue a feature. A lasting shutdown of the service would be announced with reasonable notice allowing users to retrieve their contributions.

09Accuracy of content

Solutions, syntheses and comments are produced by the community or automatically reconstructed from source documents. They may contain errors.

They replace neither a teacher nor an official document: nothing published here guarantees a result in an examination.

10Liability

Spectrum Education is not liable for content published by its users, each of whom is responsible for their own, nor for indirect damage — data loss, loss of profit, academic prejudice — arising from use of the platform.

Nothing in this document excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

11Third-party services

The platform relies on third-party services, in particular Google reCAPTCHA to protect its forms. Their use is subject to the terms and privacy policies of their respective publishers.

Outbound links to third-party sites are provided for information only: we control neither their content nor their practices.

12Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by [to be completed: chosen governing law, consistent with the publisher's registered office].

In the event of a dispute, the parties first seek an amicable solution by writing to [email protected]. Failing agreement within two months, the dispute is brought before the competent court [to be completed].

13Changes to these terms

These terms may be amended. The applicable version is the one published on this page, with its update date at the top. Any substantial change is signalled to registered users; continuing to use the platform after that notice means accepting the new version.