Competition Rules

• Anyone, of any age, with a Brillder student / learner account can enter.
• Data is protected and not shared with other parties.
• Provided, when we award and announce prize winners, your information can be verified.

• Scores are only counted towards prizes if they are from bricks played during the prize period of February 14th - February 27th.
• The scores of you and your partner will be added up and the highest total will be awarded the win.
• Bricks can be played more than once, however,in the event of a tie with other competitors a winner will be decided by first attempt scores, if after that point we can’t decide a winner, leading scorers will be put into a raffle and a winner will be chosen randomly.
• Because bricks contain 2 scores each: (1) the initial score after the investigation phase, and (2) the final score after the review phase, we may also consider the higher initial score on a brick if it is necessary to distinguish competitors.
• We reserve the right to postpone or even cancel in the unlikely event of any technical or production challenges affecting our platform.

• Competition bricks will be released on the 14th of February and will be available until the 27th of February. Winners will be announced on Monday the 28th.

• Your account must be in your own name, with a clear surname and either a full first name or an initial.
• There is no problem with playing with friends or family - especially when you may need help with a subject you are not familiar with. But accounts can only be set up for one user.
• You may not have more than one account.
• Your account must be in the category ‘student / learner’. If you change your user category, you may find that we cannot accept you as a competitor.
• You must be subscribed to Brillder premium in order to be eligible for prizes. We offer exciting discounts (read below.)
• Previous winners of Brillder competitions who have been offered discounted subscriptions will be required to subscribe (at the qualifying discounted rate) before further cash prizes can be awarded to them.
• New winners will be required to subscribe at the discounted rate of £5 per annum (95% off)
• All participants will be entitled to receive a year’s subscription for £25 per annum (75% off)
• Before prizes are announced and awarded, we conduct a verification process, and by entering you agree to letting one of our DBS cleared staff contact you.
• A condition of cash prizes being awarded is that the information about your achievement - including your place of education - can be shared via our social media platforms, on our website and announced in newsletters.
• There is no obligation on your part to agree, however, in the event that a competition is tied, we may announce the winner as the competitor who allows us to disclose such information.
• Competitors may advise us of aliases if they are uncomfortable with disclosing their real name. However (see Requirements above), we only accept competitors who disclose their real names to us; we only award prizes to individuals we can verify as authentic and eligible.
• Poor or disrupted connectivity and Wi-Fi access may affect your ability to participate: these considerations are outside our control.
• We will consider complaints relating to technical flaws which may be our fault. (see below)

• Be aware that once you start a brick, the investigation is timed and cannot be paused or interrupted.
• Brillder is a BETA platform continually undergoing refinement. We recognise that technical problems may arise and that the academic content we publish may be subject to errors. We warmly welcome any feedback or advice, any corrections and any information which may enable us to improve.
• All complaints to be directed to carlo@brillder.com
• All complaints will be reviewed. However, Brillder's decision is final.
• We also like to hear nice stuff if you want to share anything with us.

Prizes

• £300 of prizes are available.
• On Monday 28th of February, prize winners will be announced.
• We reserve the right to create ‘side’ competitions and prizes according to our perception of the interests of existing competitors.
• We reserve the right to award shared prizes as well as increase the prize pot in the event that several competitors excel.
• Previous winners of Brillder competitions who have been offered discounted subscriptions will be required to subscribe (at the qualifying discounted rate) before further cash prizes can be awarded to them.
• New winners will be required to subscribe at the discounted rate of £5 per annum (95% off)
• All participants will be entitled to receive a year’s subscription for £25 per annum (75% off)

Safeguarding Policy

• Brillder is a non-human learning interface through which digital learning units called “bricks” are created and assigned to students, or found by students as individual learners/subscribers. It supports a limited number of human actions and interactions: Teachers or tutors known to students can invite students to join a class. This is done by automated e-mail. Teachers or tutors known to students can add generic comments to a completed assignment. [Functionality not yet live] Users can send links to bricks to each other via a brick’s URL, but only if they know each other’s email addresses. All users can send in a query or problem via the Help function which is answered anonymously by an email from our tech support team.
• Mitigation and Safeguarding Protocols.
• Email records can be retained and accessed within our system but access is restricted to the Chief Technology Officer, Lindsay Macvean, who is DBS checked, and to authorised members of his team. We DBS check all members of our Tech Support team. Email records are not accessed or used for personal communication by Brillder staff except for when an email is supplied in the context of a helpdesk query. There is no live ‘chat’ function to support users, nor are there chat rooms. Generic advisory emails may be sent to all users. These are approved by the CEO, Joe Francis, who is DBS checked. A teacher, tutor or other agent unknown to a student is unable to set content to them. Learner Age The platform is designed primarily for pre-tertiary students in the 16-19 age range, for whom the educational content is designed. The platform has an advisory minimum age of 14 for student users

• Educational materials, especially those aimed at older children, may contain challenging or controversial content and we acknowledge a moral and intellectual responsibility to ensure that content balances the need to be stimulating and accurate with the need to be appropriate.
• Personal vs Public Content
• There are two broad categories of content:
• PERSONAL – created by teachers for personal use with their own classes and not available to other users.
• PUBLIC – created by teachers or subject specialists for public use and available to Brillder does not oversee content which teachers create for personal use and will not censor or moderate such content unless a complaint or concern is brought to us about such content. However, all users (including content creators like teachers who are creating bricks for personal use) sign an Acceptable Use Policy which specifically prohibits the creation or use of inappropriate, inflammatory or indecent content. A student subscriber has access to all subjects and all public catalogue content on the platform.
• The arbitration of what is considered inappropriate, inflammatory or indecent is left to subject specialist editors (called commissioning editors): for example, a brick in History of Politics may contain content which is disputed or potentially inflammatory, but our subject/ commissioning editors are trained to recognise and raise potential concerns or to authorise publication in the interests of intellectual freedom. Likewise it is conceivable that some users may object to content in Biology or English Literature as being sexually explicit: without seeking to inflame or agitate user sensitivities, we robustly defend content which we consider appropriate and necessary. If subject/ commissioning editors and authors are in dispute, the General Editor (currently the CEO) will arbitrate.
• When a teacher, content author, user or parent raises a concern about inappropriate content, we respond rapidly to review and reply to the concern. Further details are available within our Complaints Policy & Procedure. In the event of a complaint about a teacher who has created a brick for personal use we may, on investigation, suspend that teachers account. In the event that a serious concern arises, we acknowledge our responsibility to inform a school or the police.

• In some circumstances we may correspond with children who enter competitions or participate in marketing activity. Such correspondence will be undertaken by DBS checked staff.
• In some cases we may visit schools or participate in public events where children are present. Only DBS checked staff will attend or participate in such events on our behalf.
• Regardless of our DBS status, we will comply as far as we are able to do so with all conditions imposed by organisations with children in their care.

• Even if we have met the terms of our stated policies and practices in relation to safeguarding, we remain open to criticism or guidance regarding any child protection matter which arises in connection with the platform.
• The Directors of Scholar 6 Ltd. take their responsibility for the wellbeing of children seriously and recognise that they are responsible for maintaining this policy and the safeguarding standards it aspires to.