Legal
Terms and conditions
Not legal advice — needs your input before publication
The structure and plain-English wording below are drafted, but every commercial term — prices, notice periods, cancellation charges, liability — has to come from you, and the finished terms should be checked by a solicitor. Each gap is marked. These are the terms a school's business manager will hold you to.
Who we are
The Bar Model Company provides maths training and video resources to schools in the United Kingdom. These terms apply when a school books training, takes out a membership, or uses anything downloaded from this site.
The Bar Model Company is a trading name of Bartial Arts Ltd, a private limited company registered in England and Wales (company number 10837281). Registered office: 20–22 Wenlock Road, London N1 7GU.
What we provide
Three things, and they are bought differently:
- In-school training days, booked by a school for its own staff.
- An annual whole-school membership giving every member of staff access to the video library and downloads.
- Free resources, which anyone may download without buying anything.
Booking a training day
A date is held once we have confirmed it in writing. Schools ordinarily raise a purchase order; we invoice the school rather than an individual.
Needed
At what point a booking becomes binding — on written confirmation, on the purchase order, or on payment. Also whether a deposit is taken, and what the school is expected to provide on the day (room, projector, staff list for membership setup).
Payment
Training days are invoiced to the school. Memberships run for twelve months from the date access is granted.
Needed
Invoice payment terms (30 days is usual for schools), whether prices include or exclude VAT, what happens on late payment, and whether travel is charged separately. The training day page currently states that travel is included for mainland UK — that claim was an assumption on my part and needs confirming or removing before it appears in terms.
Cancelling or moving a date
Schools occasionally have to move an INSET day. We would rather move a date than lose a school, but a cancelled day is a day that cannot be sold to anyone else.
Needed
The actual cancellation policy: notice period, any charge for cancelling inside it, how many times a date may be moved, and what happens if we have to cancel. This is the clause schools read most carefully, and a vague one causes disputes.
Membership
A membership covers everyone employed at the subscribing school, including teaching assistants. It is a school licence, not a personal one, so it does not follow a member of staff who moves to another school.
Needed
Whether membership renews automatically, the notice required to cancel, whether refunds are given mid-term, what happens to access when a membership lapses, and how the school notifies us of staff joining or leaving. Also whether a multi-academy trust needs one membership per school.
What you may do with the resources
Within a subscribing school, staff may use the videos in lessons, in staff meetings and in INSET, and may print the downloads as often as they need. What is not permitted is sharing access outside the school — posting videos on a public website, passing logins to another school, or including the materials in something you sell.
Needed
Confirm whether videos may be shown to parents (curriculum evenings are a common request), whether downloads may be sent home with children, and whether trainee teachers or supply staff count as staff.
Intellectual property
The videos, animations, lesson plans and printables remain our property. Buying a membership buys the right to use them, not ownership of them.
Liability
We take care that the training and the materials are accurate and useful, but we cannot guarantee a particular outcome for a particular class.
Needed — must be drafted by a solicitor
Liability wording is the one part of a terms page that should not be adapted from a template. Consumer and business contract law limit what can be excluded, and an unenforceable clause is worse than none. Leave this section to whoever reviews the page.
Changes
If these terms change, the version in force is the one published here on the date your booking or membership was confirmed.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales.
Confirm
England and Wales is the usual choice for a business trading in England, but it should be confirmed rather than assumed — particularly if you train schools in Scotland or Northern Ireland.
Contact
Questions about these terms, invoices or purchase orders can go through the contact page.
Formal notices under these terms should be sent in writing to Bartial Arts Ltd at our registered office: 20–22 Wenlock Road, London N1 7GU.