These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of Fort School‘s web application, located at https://platform.fortschool.co.ke/ and the application on Play Store.
By accessing this website we assume you accept these terms and conditions. Do not continue to use Fort School if you do not agree to take all of the terms and conditions stated on this page.
The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Statement and Disclaimer Notice and all Agreements: ‘Client‘, ‘You‘ and ‘Your‘ refers to you, the person log on this website and compliant to the Company‘s terms and conditions . ‘The Company‘, ‘Ourselves‘, ‘We‘, ‘Our‘ and ‘Us‘, refers to our Company. ‘Party‘, ‘Parties‘, or ‘Us‘, refers to both the Client and ourselves. All terms refer to the offer, acceptance and consideration of payment necessary to undertake the process of our assistance to the Client in the most appropriate manner for the express purpose of meeting the Client‘s needs in respect of provision of the Company‘s stated services, in accordance with and subject to, prevailing law of Kenya. Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalization and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to same.
Our service allows students to watch, discover and share educative video content published by teachers signed up on our platform. The service also involves attending to virtual classes scheduled, attempt automatically marked quizzes, ask questions and get answers from teachers as well as viewing other asked questions.
TeacherOur service allows you to publish video content for our learners, schedule classes and respond to student’s questions. You can also invite students to join your invites community.
InstitutionOur service allows institutions to set up virtual schools where they will invite students and teachers, publish private content and virtual classes, manage expired subscriptions for your learners.
You must be above 13 years to be able to use the services in your respective categories. However, anyone below this age can use the service with the help of their parents/guardian.
Permission from ParentIf you are less than 18 years, you must acquire permission from your parent/guardian to use our services.
Your InformationOur Privacy Policy explains how we process and handle your personal data and protect your privacy when you use our service.
Permissions and RestrictionsYou may access and use the Service as made available to you, as long as you comply with this Agreement and the law. You may view or listen to Content for your personal, non-commercial use.
The following restrictions apply to the use of our service. You are not allowed to:
a) Reproduce, download, distribute, sell, license, any part of the service or any video content except:c) Collect or use any information that might identify a person unless permitted by that person or with prior permission from Fort School.
d) Use our services to unsolicited promotional content or unwanted spams.
e) Cause or encourage any inaccurate measurements of genuine user engagement with the Service, including by paying people or providing them with incentives to increase a video’s views, likes, or dislikes, or to increase a channel’s subscribers, or otherwise manipulate metrics
f) Use the service to:Fort School is constantly improving the user experience on our platforms and this includes modifying part or all services, adding new services or removing other services. In event of modifications which affect the terms on this document and which would require modification of this agreement, we will always notify the users prior and after updating our terms and conditions except for urgent situations such as addressing a security issue, preventing abuse or responding to legal obligation.
Content and ConductFor teachers and Institutions, you may upload video or any other form of content to the Fort School platform under two categories: private and public as described hereunder. Fort School is constantly reviewing every upload made to protect our users, and in the event of any violation we may pull the content down or permanently ban the user from the platform based on the scenario.
PrivatePrivate content is only accessible to the audience you choose either by inviting them or sharing the access code with them
PublicPublic content is publicly available to our users and will be retrieved by our search algorithm. If you don’t want your content to be retrieved by these algorithms, you can flag it as private.
The content you choose to upload must meet the requirements stated below:You grant Fort School the right to monetize any uploaded content including charging users a fee for access. This agreement does not entitle you to any payment. However, you might be entitled to get payment from any other agreement with the company for example; pay per views.
Deletion of your ContentYou may delete your content from our platform any time. You must delete the content of you no longer have the rights required by these terms.
We will notify you when such decision to pull down your content is made.
Account Termination & SuspensionLosses or harm that were not caused by Fort School or its affiliates
Content submitted by any user, or defamatory, offensive or illegal conduct of any user.
CookiesWe employ the use of cookies. By accessing Fort School, you agreed to use cookies in agreement with the Fort School‘s Privacy Policy. Most interactive websites use cookies to let us retrieve the user‘s details for each visit. Cookies are used by our website to enable the functionality of certain areas to make it easier for people visiting our website.