Terms and conditions

1.1. Academia Tools, also referred to as Buildner Academia Tools, is operated by BUILDNER, SLU, a company established under the laws of the Principality of Andorra, registration number 715322-T, with its registered address at Carretera Mas de Ribafeta 6, 3-1, Arinsal, La Massana, AD400, Andorra. In these Terms, we, us, and our mean BUILDNER, SLU.

1.2. These Terms apply to the Academia Tools website and the educational resources, competition information, briefs, planning tools, account functions, and related features made available through it, together the Service. References to a particular function apply only when that function is offered. Describing a function does not promise that it will be introduced or remain available.

1.3. Materials means the briefs, teaching resources, drawings, images, maps, datasets, examples, explanatory text, and other content supplied through the Service. A Competition is an architecture, design, or related competition identified through the Service. Competition Rules means the terms, brief, entry requirements, and official amendments applicable to that particular Competition.

1.4. These Terms govern use of Academia Tools. They govern a Competition registration only where they have been expressly incorporated into that registration before it is agreed. Browsing a Competition listing, downloading a brief, or using a resource in a course does not itself enter anyone into that Competition or change an existing registration contract.

1.5. Where a Competition has its own Rules, those Rules govern entry, eligibility, submission, judging, awards, and rights in submitted work. A specific provision validly agreed for a Competition takes priority over an inconsistent general provision here for that subject. A separate written agreement signed by an authorised Buildner representative takes priority for the matters it expressly addresses. Mandatory law always takes priority.

1.6. Other Buildner websites, tools, memberships, courses, and services have their own terms. Shared branding, links, accounts, or ownership do not combine separate services, purchases, or entitlements. These Terms do not retrospectively remove rights under another agreement.

1.7. Personal-data handling is addressed in the privacy notice applicable to the Service. Agreement to these Terms is not consent to unrelated marketing, optional tracking, or publication of private student information.

2.1. By selecting an acceptance control, or using the Service after receiving clear notice of these Terms and a reasonable opportunity to read them, you agree to these Terms to the extent that a binding agreement may be formed in that way under applicable law. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

2.2. The Service is intended for universities, schools, educators, adult students, and other architecture and design users. You must be at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering into this agreement to create an individual account or register independently. Any different arrangement for younger learners requires our prior written agreement and the permissions required by law.

2.3. If you act for an institution, department, employer, or other organisation, you confirm that you have authority to accept these Terms and make the relevant commitments on its behalf. An institutional email address, teaching role, or account title does not by itself establish that authority.

2.4. An institution must ensure that users it authorises are informed of the applicable terms and use the Service within their permissions. An educator's acceptance does not automatically bind students personally, waive their rights, transfer ownership of their work, or authorise disclosure of their personal data. Obtain any separate agreement or authority needed for those actions.

2.5. A Consumer is a person or entity entitled to consumer protection for the relevant transaction under applicable law. A Business User is a user acting for business, professional, or institutional purposes who is not entitled to that protection. Status depends on the law and the circumstances. A student is not treated as a Business User merely because a resource is used for coursework, and an organisation is not denied consumer protection merely because it is an organisation.

3.1. The Service provides optional resources to assist with teaching, learning, design exploration, and the use of Competitions in academic settings. Depending on what is offered, it may help users find briefs, plan studio work, organise participation, or access supporting materials. It is a supplementary resource.

3.2. We do not act as your university, awarding body, course provider, academic supervisor, examiner, accreditation body, architect, engineer, or professional adviser merely because you use the Service. We do not undertake to deliver an institution's curriculum or fulfil its duties to students.

3.3. Unless expressly included in a separate agreement, access does not include individual tuition, curriculum design, marking, moderation, accreditation, institutional reporting, a dedicated jury, a live presentation, a critique session, or personalised support. A reference to a possible activity or future feature is not a booking or a commitment to provide it.

3.4. We do not guarantee educational suitability for a particular class, academic level, country, qualification, timetable, learning outcome, or assessment method. We do not guarantee a grade, credit, award, ranking, admission, scholarship, internship, employment, commission, publication, or professional recognition.

3.5. Using the Service does not create a partnership, endorsement, sponsorship, exclusivity arrangement, or official academic affiliation. A university listing, user account, or participation record does not amount to accreditation or approval of that institution or its courses.

4.1. Institutions and educators are responsible for selecting suitable Materials, evaluating them before use, setting learning outcomes, preparing their teaching, supervising students, providing reasonable adjustments, and complying with their academic, safeguarding, accessibility, and other legal obligations.

4.2. The institution remains responsible for its own admissions, fees, teaching commitments, grades, credits, examinations, progression decisions, and complaints procedures. A Competition result or jury opinion is not an academic grade and does not require an institution to award or withhold credit.

4.3. If you build a course, studio, assessment, or research activity around a Competition, you are responsible for allowing for changes to its brief, jury, timetable, format, or availability. Maintain an appropriate alternative academic activity and your own copies of permitted teaching materials. Adoption in a course does not oblige us to continue a Competition or align its dates with your academic calendar.

4.4. Educators must distinguish their own assignment requirements and adaptations from official Competition requirements. Do not present an adapted brief, internal deadline, tutor interpretation, or classroom award as an official Buildner instruction or award.

4.5. Students remain responsible for meeting their institution's requirements and the separate requirements of any Competition they enter, including originality, collaboration, anonymity, attribution, and permitted use of artificial intelligence. Meeting one set of requirements does not establish compliance with the other.

4.6. You are responsible for your own participation decisions and expenditure, including staff and student time, tuition arrangements, travel, accommodation, visas, software, printing, model-making, and equipment. The allocation of liability for any recoverable loss remains subject to section 21.

5.1. Briefs and supporting Materials may present hypothetical, conceptual, simplified, incomplete, or approximate information for educational and design exploration. They are not a professional survey, feasibility study, specification, legal opinion, site investigation, planning approval, or construction document unless a separate signed agreement expressly states otherwise.

5.2. Subject to sections 20 and 21, we give no warranty that Materials are accurate, complete, current, internally consistent, sufficiently detailed for your intended use, or suitable for a particular academic or professional purpose. They may contain errors, omissions, ambiguities, conflicting information, estimated values, or outdated references. We do not undertake to identify or correct every defect or provide any particular level of detail.

5.3. In particular, a brief does not verify land ownership, boundaries, dimensions, levels, access, utilities, ground conditions, climate data, local customs, budgets, buildability, structural safety, accessibility, environmental performance, planning restrictions, building regulations, or third-party rights. A stated site, sponsor, or project context does not itself confirm permission to develop, enter, survey, or build on a site.

5.4. Photographs, maps, diagrams, sample designs, precedent projects, renderings, translations, and third-party data may be illustrative. Do not assume they are to scale, comprehensive, licensed for every reuse, or representative of current physical conditions. A translation or summary may lose detail; use the official clarification process if a material difference affects your entry.

5.5. You must assess the Materials for your intended use, verify material facts and calculations independently, and obtain appropriate qualified advice before using them for real projects, procurement, construction, safety decisions, or legal compliance. A Competition submission is not permission or approval to carry out the proposed design.

5.6. Check the official Competition page, the applicable brief version, and published amendments before registering and before submitting. A saved copy, classroom adaptation, planning tool, email summary, or cached page may be out of date. Ask about material ambiguities using the Competition's stated process; silence is not approval of your interpretation.

5.7. We may clarify or correct Materials. This does not create an obligation to produce bespoke information, answer every design question, carry out research for you, or validate your proposal. Changes affecting an agreed registration remain subject to sections 6 to 8 and applicable law.

5.8. These limitations describe the nature and intended use of the Materials. They do not authorise misleading descriptions or exclude any duty of accuracy, disclosure, care, or conformity that cannot lawfully be excluded.

6.1. A listing is information about an opportunity available on the terms stated for it. Downloading a brief, assigning it to students, saving a Competition in a planner, creating an institutional account, or receiving a discount code does not reserve a place, pay an entry fee, or complete a submission.

6.2. Each entrant must satisfy the applicable Competition Rules. These may address age, student status, team composition, institution, geographical eligibility, registration category, anonymity, formats, dimensions, language, deadlines, and intellectual property. An educator or administrator registering a team must have the authority needed to do so.

6.3. You must complete the stated registration and submission steps and check any confirmation or receipt provided. A file saved in Academia Tools, a message sent to a tutor, or a support email is not a Competition submission unless the Rules expressly identify that method as valid.

6.4. You are responsible for checking the applicable time zone, preparing readable and complete files, retaining your own copies, and allowing sufficient time to submit. A classroom deadline, calendar reminder, or planning estimate does not extend an official deadline. We do not guarantee that a late, incomplete, corrupted, or non-compliant entry will be accepted.

6.5. We may verify eligibility and investigate suspected plagiarism, undisclosed conflicts, collusion, impersonation, or other rule breaches, and apply the measures allowed by the Competition Rules. Passing a preliminary check does not certify compliance. Restrictions, disqualification, and any associated refund consequences remain subject to the agreed Rules and mandatory law.

6.6. An Academia Tools benefit does not confer priority judging, favourable treatment, a guaranteed shortlist, or an entitlement to a prize. Academic participation and commercial relationships do not themselves change the Competition's published assessment requirements.

7.1. Right to change or cancel. Subject to this section and section 21.1, we reserve the right to withdraw, suspend, postpone, reschedule, replace, or cancel a Competition that we organise at any time, including after registration has opened or work has been submitted. No course adoption, expression of interest, registration, or expenditure guarantees that a Competition will proceed unchanged or be completed.

7.2. For Business Users, we may exercise that right at our discretion for operational, technical, legal, commercial, or organisational reasons, including insufficient participation, loss of funding or partner support, concerns about a site or brief, jury availability, security, misuse, or circumstances affecting the viability or integrity of the Competition. No minimum number of entries or financial threshold is required unless expressly agreed.

7.3. For Consumers, a change or cancellation must be supported by a valid reason and carried out consistently with applicable law. Such reasons may include a material legal or safety issue, loss of essential permissions or a necessary partner, serious technical or integrity problems, insufficient participation making the published format unviable, or events beyond our reasonable control. This is not an unrestricted right to disregard a paid consumer contract for convenience.

7.4. Changes may affect the timetable, submission arrangements, brief, eligibility of future entrants, format, jury, or other operational details. A change to a paid registration must respect its agreed essential characteristics and any legal requirement for notice, consent, an alternative, termination, or a refund. We will not rely on this clause to retrospectively change judging criteria to disadvantage an existing entrant or remove an award already unconditionally due.

7.5. We will communicate a material change or cancellation through the official Competition page and, for registered entrants where contact details are held, an appropriate direct notice. Advance notice may be unavailable where immediate action is reasonably necessary. We do not guarantee that notice will precede your teaching preparation, travel booking, or other expenditure.

7.6. Refund on cancellation. If we cancel a Competition, we will refund the registration fees paid to us for the cancelled registrations in accordance with section 8. The refund obligation applies even where cancellation is caused by a partner, jury member, technical failure, insufficient participation, or an event beyond our reasonable control.

7.7. For Business Users, and subject to section 21.1, that refund is the sole monetary remedy for a lawful cancellation under this section. We do not reimburse preparation costs, staff or student time, lost opportunities, anticipated prizes, course redesign, tuition refunds, travel, accommodation, production costs, or other related losses. Consumers retain all remedies that applicable law requires, including compensation where due; a refund does not remove those rights.

7.8. Postponement will not be used to avoid the cancellation refund. If we discontinue the Competition without a replacement date, the cancellation provisions apply. If a material postponement or replacement changes a paid registration substantially and you do not accept it, you may cancel the affected registration and receive its registration-fee refund. Minor administrative changes do not automatically create an additional contractual refund right, but statutory rights remain unaffected.

7.9. We are not obliged to create a substitute Competition, arrange an alternative jury session, reproduce the original opportunity, or provide compensation in kind unless separately agreed or required by law. No anticipated prize, recognition, or future opportunity becomes payable merely because a Competition is cancelled. Accrued rights and awards already unconditionally due are unaffected.

7.10. Removing a link or listing to an independently organised Competition is not cancellation of that Competition. The identified organiser's contract governs its operation and any entry fees paid directly to it. This does not exclude responsibility for an obligation we have ourselves undertaken.

8.1. Free access to a resource does not mean Competition entry, every feature, or future access is free. Charges, taxes, registration categories, included benefits, and any material purchase conditions will be identified before you agree to a purchase. We will not charge retrospectively for access that was free when used or enrol you in a paid arrangement without your agreement.

8.2. Discounts, fee waivers, complimentary entries, institutional allocations, and promotional benefits apply only on their stated conditions, including eligibility, duration, limits, and eligible Competitions. They are not transferable or redeemable for cash unless expressly stated. We may change future offers; an offer already validly purchased or redeemed remains subject to its agreed terms.

8.3. A cancellation refund covers the full registration amount actually paid to us for the affected entry, including taxes and compulsory registration charges collected by us. A payment collected by a payment provider on our behalf counts as paid to us. We will not deduct our own administration or payment-processing costs. If a discount was applied, the refund is the discounted amount paid. A free entry produces no cash registration refund.

8.4. We will make the refund without undue delay and within any deadline required by applicable law, normally to the original payer using the original payment method. If that is unavailable, we will arrange another lawful method with the payer. We may request information reasonably necessary to locate the payment or return it securely. Refunds will not be made conditional on accepting credit, entering another Competition, or waiving legal rights.

8.5. Where an institution made a group payment, the refund is returned to that payer for the affected paid registrations. The institution is responsible for accounting to students or other contributors for amounts it collected. The same payment is not refundable twice merely because several team members, a student, and an institution are affected.

8.6. Independently charged bank fees, currency-conversion differences, travel, tuition, and other third-party expenses are not part of the contractual registration-fee refund. This does not exclude compensation or reimbursement where mandatory law requires it.

8.7. Where a paid bundle or subscription is involved, the allocation of the price and cancellation treatment must be disclosed before purchase. No allocation may be used to disguise a paid registration as free or defeat a statutory refund. If we discontinue a paid Service, any unprovided portion is subject to the agreed cancellation terms and mandatory refund rights.

8.8. If you withdraw voluntarily, miss a deadline, fail to submit, or are disqualified, any contractual refund depends on the conditions disclosed for that registration before purchase. There is no additional voluntary-withdrawal refund under these Terms. This does not remove a statutory withdrawal right or a remedy for our breach, material change, cancellation, or failure to provide the agreed service.

8.9. Where statutory withdrawal rights apply, the purchase information must explain how and when to exercise them. Accessing a brief, starting work, or accepting these Terms does not by itself waive such rights. Any request for immediate performance, express consent, or acknowledgement required to affect those rights must be obtained separately in the legally required manner.

9.1. All jury participation is subject to availability. An announced, invited, or previously participating jury member, reviewer, speaker, tutor, or guest may become unavailable. Naming a person does not guarantee their participation at every stage, their attendance at an event, or their individual review of every entry.

9.2. We may replace, add, or remove a jury member, revise the panel's composition or size, or adjust review arrangements because of availability, illness, conflicting commitments, conflicts of interest, legal restrictions, or other circumstances affecting the review process. A replacement need not have identical credentials or public profile, subject to any essential characteristic expressly agreed for the offering and applicable law.

9.3. Institutional participation, a paid entry, or a jury announcement does not include personal contact, mentoring, an interview, a presentation opportunity, written comments from a named person, or access to a particular practice. Those activities require an express inclusion in the relevant offering.

9.4. We may use shortlisting, staged review, delegated administrative checks, and different panel arrangements where consistent with the Competition Rules. No representation is made that every juror personally views every submission or that jurors will reach identical opinions.

9.5. A jury change does not by itself entitle a Business User to compensation or a refund where the agreed Competition can still be provided. Any essential contractual commitment and all Consumer rights concerning material changes remain unaffected. If we cancel the Competition, section 8 applies.

9.6. Do not contact jurors to influence an assessment, reveal an anonymous entry, seek confidential information, or arrange preferential treatment. A relationship that may create a conflict must be disclosed through the stated process. Jury involvement does not mean that a juror or their employer endorses a participant, institution, design, or commercial project.

10.1. Design assessment involves subjective professional and creative judgment. Different reviewers may reasonably reach different conclusions. We do not promise that a particular style, methodology, level of effort, expense, academic grade, or compliance with minimum submission requirements will achieve a shortlist, award, or favourable review.

10.2. Judging decisions are final as to artistic and comparative merit within the Competition, subject to its stated correction or review process. This does not prevent complaints about eligibility, conflicts, procedural errors, unlawful conduct, or contractual breaches, or restrict legal remedies.

10.3. Unless expressly included, no entrant is entitled to an individual critique, a complete score breakdown, a comparison with other entrants, jury deliberations, or a reply to each point raised. Published comments and feedback are opinions for the purpose stated, not professional advice, certification, or a complete technical review.

10.4. Awards, prizes, publication, certificates, and other benefits are governed by the Competition Rules and any conditions clearly disclosed before entry. There is no guarantee that you will qualify for or receive a benefit. An award may be withheld, divided, substituted, or reassigned only where the agreed Rules and applicable law allow it. These Terms do not cancel an unconditional payment obligation that has already arisen.

10.5. A Competition may be an ideas exercise. Selection does not guarantee that a proposal will be built, funded, commissioned, purchased, exhibited, published by a third party, or adopted by a landowner, authority, institution, or sponsor. Any later development, licence, or appointment requires its own agreement.

10.6. Rankings, points, badges, participation statistics, and certificates, where offered, reflect the stated methodology or activity. They are not formal accreditation or an independent assessment of an institution's overall educational quality. Future methodologies and presentation may change, subject to existing commitments and applicable law.

11.1. Subject to these Terms and any clearly identified asset-specific restriction, you may access the Service and use Materials intentionally supplied for educational use in your own lawful teaching, learning, and internal academic assessment. You may make the copies reasonably needed for your enrolled class and place those copies in a restricted institutional learning environment.

11.2. Retain copyright notices and identify Buildner as the source. If adaptation is permitted for the Material concerned, label your changes clearly and do not present the adapted version as an official Competition brief. Adaptation for class use does not change the requirements for entering the Competition.

11.3. This permission does not allow you to republish a resource library on a public website, sell Materials as standalone products, sublicense access, white-label the Service, operate a competing resource service, or organise an external competition using our name or protected Materials without separate written permission. Ordinary tuition charged for your own teaching is not, by itself, resale of the Materials.

11.4. Third-party images, maps, datasets, software, and other assets may have separate rights and restrictions. Our permission extends only to rights we are entitled to grant. Copyright exceptions and other rights provided by law are unaffected.

11.5. Buildner's name, logo, interface, original Materials, and other protected assets remain the property of their respective owners. You may describe genuine use of a Buildner resource accurately; you may not imply a partnership, accreditation, endorsement, or permission to use our branding beyond what has been granted.

11.6. If a Competition is cancelled, you may continue the internal educational use of Materials already lawfully obtained for an existing course under this permission, unless their continued use is unlawful, infringes third-party rights, or must cease for a stated legal reason. Cancellation does not guarantee continuing online access, support, updates, or permission for new public distribution.

12.1. You and the relevant rights holders retain ownership of the original work you provide. Uploading student work, using a brief, or receiving feedback does not by itself transfer copyright to us, to a university, or to an educator.

12.2. You must have the rights and authority needed to upload, adapt, share, or submit materials and to grant the permissions required for the chosen use. This includes permissions from students, team members, collaborators, clients, institutions, and owners of third-party content where required.

12.3. To the extent a licence is needed, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free permission to receive, host, store, reproduce, transmit, format, and display your materials only as reasonably necessary to operate the functions you choose, administer the relevant entry, enable authorised review, provide requested support, maintain security, and meet legal obligations. Relevant service providers and appointed reviewers may act within that permission for those purposes.

12.4. A public Competition may require a separate licence for publishing entries, announcing results, exhibitions, archives, or promotion. That licence must be stated in the Competition Rules and agreed before submission. These Terms do not create a blanket right to advertise with unpublished student work or publish private coursework merely because it is stored in the Service.

12.5. You are responsible for resolving authorship, team credit, institutional attribution, confidential information, and disclosure permissions before submission. Do not submit work that a client, employer, collaborator, or institution prohibits you from sharing. A Competition intended for public results is not a confidential submission channel unless expressly agreed.

12.6. We do not guarantee originality, exclusivity, registrability, patent protection, or freedom from third-party rights in a brief, generated output, or submission. Consider intellectual-property advice before publicly disclosing an invention or material for which confidentiality is important.

12.7. Closing an account or cancellation of a Competition does not transfer ownership of your work. Any continuing permission for an existing public results archive depends on the licence actually agreed for that Competition and applicable law.

13.1. Some features may require an account, eligibility verification, or an institutional invitation. Provide accurate information and keep the details needed for security, contact, registration, and payment up to date. Do not impersonate an institution, educator, student, or rights holder.

13.2. Protect sign-in credentials and use the supported access controls. Do not share a personal account, sell access, or use another person's credentials. Tell us promptly at contact@buildner.com if you suspect unauthorised access.

13.3. An institutional administrator may exercise only the management and access powers disclosed for the relevant workspace. Institutions are responsible for authorising appropriate administrators, removing access when appropriate, and informing users about that access. Use of an institutional email domain does not automatically transfer control of a personal account or ownership of student work.

13.4. An account does not guarantee permanent storage, unlimited users, access to every resource, free Competition entries, or future features. Any material allowances and limits form part of the offering described to you.

13.5. You are responsible for activity you authorise and for failures to take reasonable care to the extent the law provides. You are not automatically liable for every action through a compromised account or for a security failure for which we are legally responsible.

14.1. Only provide information and files that you are entitled to use with the Service. Institutions must have the necessary legal basis and provide the required notices before sharing student identities, contact information, assessment data, or other personal information. These Terms do not provide that legal basis on an institution's behalf.

14.2. Do not place passwords, payment-card details, identity documents, sensitive student records, or unrelated confidential information in project files, prompts, or support requests. Use a dedicated verification or payment interface only for its stated purpose.

14.3. Processing may occur in your browser, on our systems, or through service providers, depending on the function. Do not assume that all processing is local, that files are automatically anonymised, or that an upload is private from authorised workspace administrators or reviewers. Check the relevant feature information and permissions.

14.4. Personal-data processing, retention, international transfers, and rights requests are governed by the applicable privacy notice and law. Where an institutional arrangement requires a data-processing agreement, that agreement must be put in place separately. These Terms are not a substitute for it.

14.5. The operational permission in section 12 does not authorise sale of private student work or its use to train a general-purpose AI model. Any additional use requires a separate lawful basis and any necessary licence or consent. No agreement to optional marketing or tracking is inferred from institutional participation.

15.1. If the Service offers calculations, planning assistance, templates, generated content, summaries, or AI features, their results are aids for independent review. They are not official Competition instructions, approved specifications, professional advice, or guaranteed academic assessments unless expressly identified as such in a binding agreement.

15.2. Outputs may be incorrect, incomplete, biased, outdated, inconsistent, or unsuitable. AI may invent facts, references, requirements, or explanations and may produce similar content for different users. An apparently confident answer does not establish accuracy or authority.

15.3. Check outputs against original Materials, official Competition notices, institutional policies, and reliable independent sources. You remain responsible for decisions, academic integrity, required disclosures, and the material you submit or publish. A generated summary does not amend a brief, grant an extension, or confirm eligibility.

15.4. Do not rely on an automated output as the sole basis for a consequential decision about a student, safety, construction, legal compliance, or a financial commitment. Institutions remain responsible for any assessment process they choose and for complying with requirements applicable to that process.

15.5. Use of an AI feature does not guarantee that AI-assisted work is permitted in a particular course or Competition. Availability of that feature does not authorise breach of the relevant rules or remove third-party rights.

16.1. Subject to sections 20 and 21, the Service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We do not promise uninterrupted access, an error-free system, compatibility with every device, preservation of every file, permanent access to an archive, or availability at a particular teaching or submission time.

16.2. We may maintain, update, replace, limit, or discontinue functions for security, technical, legal, operational, or commercial reasons, subject to existing paid commitments and applicable law. Material limits may include supported formats, file size, storage, user numbers, requests, and processing time.

16.3. Keep independent copies of your own work, permitted Materials, submission records, and payment confirmations. The Service is not your institution's official academic record, permanent archive, or sole backup. We do not promise recovery of deleted, corrupted, overwritten, or inaccessible files unless separately agreed or required by law.

16.4. Where reasonably practicable, we will give notice of a planned material discontinuation affecting stored work and an opportunity to retrieve it. Urgent security or legal action may require immediate restrictions. Any legally required retrieval, notice, export, or refund rights remain unaffected.

16.5. Network failures, maintenance, service-provider issues, malicious activity, or events beyond reasonable control may cause delay or interruption. We are excused from performance only to the extent applicable law permits and the event actually prevents it. This provision does not remove the cancellation refund in section 8 or another mandatory remedy.

17.1. Do not use the Service unlawfully, infringe intellectual-property or privacy rights, harass users or jurors, submit fraudulent information, manipulate judging or rankings, or interfere with another person's access or work.

17.2. Do not bypass access restrictions or payment requirements, misuse discount codes, create accounts to evade limits, scrape restricted content, perform unauthorised security testing, introduce harmful software, or place an unreasonable load on the Service.

17.3. Do not resell access, reproduce the Service as your own, train a competing system on protected Materials without permission, or use our branding to suggest an affiliation that has not been agreed. This does not restrict an activity that applicable law expressly allows and that cannot be contractually prohibited.

17.4. Academic criticism, good-faith complaints, lawful reporting, and exercise of statutory rights are not prohibited by these Terms. Nothing requires you to conceal a defect or provide a favourable review.

18.1. The Service may link to independent organisers, universities, practices, sponsors, software, publications, and other resources. A link, logo, listing, or mention does not itself create a guarantee, endorsement, agency relationship, or obligation to provide a benefit.

18.2. Independent third-party services have their own terms and providers. Check who is contracting with you and who receives a payment. We do not control an independent third party's website, decision, admission process, employment offer, or delivery of a separately contracted benefit.

18.3. We do not guarantee the continuing involvement of a sponsor, institution, client, partner, or other contributor. If their withdrawal affects an obligation we have undertaken, our contractual responsibilities, the change and cancellation provisions, and mandatory law continue to apply.

18.4. This section does not exclude liability for our own conduct or relieve us of responsibility for suppliers we engage to perform our contractual obligations where the law makes us responsible for them.

19.1. We may restrict or suspend access where reasonably necessary to address a material breach, unlawful activity, infringement, security risk, misuse, non-payment of an agreed fee, or legal requirement. Measures may include removing content, disabling a sharing function, limiting activity, or suspending an account.

19.2. We may discontinue free access or an offering for the reasons in section 16. Existing paid access remains subject to its agreed term, applicable change provisions, and any required refund. An institutional course adopting the Service does not create an obligation to continue it for a semester or academic year unless that duration was expressly agreed.

19.3. Where lawful and reasonably practicable, we will explain a restriction and allow a remediable breach to be corrected. Serious or urgent issues may require immediate action. You may request review at contact@buildner.com, and any legally required explanation or appeal process remains available.

19.4. You may stop using free functions at any time and request account closure through the available controls or contact address. Retrieve the materials you need first. Closing an account does not automatically cancel a Competition entry or paid arrangement; use the stated process for that arrangement.

19.5. Ending access does not erase accrued rights, a refund due, an existing claim, or an obligation intended to continue. Ownership, valid continuing licences, confidentiality duties, liability provisions, and dispute terms survive to the extent applicable.

20.1. Subject to section 21.1, we provide no warranty beyond an express commitment validly agreed for the relevant offering and any warranty that the law does not permit us to exclude. In particular, we do not guarantee accuracy, completeness, specificity, fitness for your teaching needs, successful participation, ongoing availability, or an academic, professional, financial, or reputational outcome.

20.2. For Business Users, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, implied warranties, conditions, and terms concerning quality, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, availability, and non-infringement are excluded.

20.3. A resource recommendation, example, proposed calendar, invitation, informal discussion, previous practice, or general support response does not by itself create a bespoke undertaking. A special commitment concerning a course, juror, deadline, outcome, or service level must be expressly agreed by an authorised representative. This clause does not exclude a representation or description that applicable law makes binding.

20.4. We do not undertake to monitor every user's work, detect every infringement, correct every error, update every downloaded file, provide individual feedback, or prevent a loss arising from reliance on the Service.

20.5. For Consumers, statutory requirements concerning truthful descriptions, reasonable care and skill, conformity, security, performance, and remedies remain applicable. Describing the Service as free, educational, experimental, or provided “as is” does not remove those rights.

21.1. Rights and liability that cannot be excluded. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, wilful misconduct, gross negligence, death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability that applicable law does not allow us to exclude or limit. Nothing removes a mandatory consumer right, statutory remedy, or compensation entitlement. Our express obligation to refund a cancelled registration under section 8 is not excluded or reduced by a damages cap. This clause takes priority over every disclaimer, exclusion, limitation, and indemnity in these Terms.

21.2. Matters you control. Subject to section 21.1, we are not responsible for loss to the extent caused by your inaccurate or unauthorised information, unsuitable course design, failure to comply with the applicable Rules, unlawful disclosure, unauthorised modification of Materials, or use outside the Service's stated purpose. This does not transfer responsibility for our own legally actionable conduct to you.

21.3. Business and institutional exclusions. For Business Users, subject to section 21.1 and to the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude liability for losses arising from reliance on Materials or outputs; errors, omissions, insufficient detail, or ambiguity in a brief; unavailability or interruption of the Service; changes to a jury, timetable, format, or offering; and suspension, postponement, withdrawal, or cancellation carried out under these Terms. These exclusions include liability arising from ordinary negligence to the extent it may lawfully be excluded.

21.4. Excluded categories of business loss. For Business Users, subject to section 21.1, we are not liable for indirect, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive losses. We also exclude loss of profit, revenue, funding, grants, anticipated savings, opportunities, prospective awards, business, goodwill, or reputation; loss or corruption of data; interruption of teaching or research; course redesign; staff or student time; tuition reimbursements; travel, accommodation, printing, model-making, or production costs; and claims by students, clients, or other third parties. These listed categories are excluded whether the loss is direct or indirect, to the extent permitted by law.

21.5. Limit on remaining business liability. If liability to a Business User remains after the exclusions above, our total aggregate liability arising from the affected Competition registration is limited to the registration fees actually paid to us for it. For another affected feature of Academia Tools, that aggregate limit is the fees actually paid to us for that feature in the 12 months before the first event giving rise to the claim. Related events are treated together, and the same fee is not counted twice. These limits apply only to the extent legally permitted and remain subject to section 21.1. There is no contractual entitlement to damages for a free feature where liability may lawfully be excluded in full.

21.6. Refunds remain payable. The exclusions and limits above do not allow us to retain a cancellation refund, an unconditionally due prize, or another payment or repayment that remains due under the relevant agreement or mandatory law. A claim for such a payment is not converted into an excluded claim for loss of opportunity.

21.7. Consumers. The Business User exclusions and limits in sections 21.3 to 21.5 do not apply to Consumers. Our liability to Consumers is determined by applicable law. Where that law permits a limitation by reference to foreseeability, we are not responsible for loss that was not reasonably foreseeable. Rights to performance, correction, price reduction, refund, termination, and compensation remain available where applicable.

21.8. Application and mitigation. To the extent permitted by law, valid exclusions and limits apply across contract, tort, negligence, statutory, and other claims and whether or not the possibility of loss was brought to our attention. Each party must take reasonable steps to reduce loss where the law requires it. Nothing reverses a statutory burden of proof, shortens a mandatory limitation period, or makes an institution's acceptance a waiver of a non-party student's rights.

22.1. This section applies only to Business Users. To the extent permitted by law, you will indemnify us against reasonably incurred losses, liabilities, and reasonable legal costs arising from a third-party claim to the extent caused by your material breach of these Terms, unlawful use, infringement of intellectual-property rights, or unauthorised submission or disclosure of another person's materials or data.

22.2. The indemnity does not apply to the extent the claim is caused by our breach, negligence, misconduct, or an unauthorised use or alteration made by us. It does not make you liable merely because someone makes an allegation or because a student complains about a Competition we cancelled.

22.3. We will give reasonably prompt notice, allow reasonable participation in the defence, and take reasonable steps to reduce loss. You are not required to fund a settlement entered into without your consent, which must not be unreasonably withheld. Neither party may impose an admission or non-monetary obligation on the other without agreement.

22.4. Consumers are not subject to this contractual indemnity. Any responsibility they have for unlawful conduct is determined by applicable law.

23.1. Contact contact@buildner.com about the Service, a material error, a suspected rights infringement, account access, or a complaint. Identify Academia Tools, the relevant resource or Competition, and any registration or payment reference. Include only information reasonably needed to explain the issue.

23.2. General support does not include project-specific professional advice, tutoring, confirmation of eligibility, validation of an entry, or an extension of a deadline unless an authorised response expressly grants the relevant approval under the Competition Rules.

23.3. We do not promise a particular response time, live support, or resolution method beyond what has been expressly agreed or is required by law. Complaints and legally valid notices will be handled in accordance with applicable requirements.

23.4. Report security concerns privately and do not access other users' information or disrupt the Service to demonstrate an issue. Reporting a suspected defect does not authorise further testing.

23.5. Contacting us does not prevent you from seeking urgent relief, using an available statutory complaint procedure, contacting a regulator, or bringing a claim. These Terms do not make informal correspondence a condition of exercising a legal right.

24.1. We may update these Terms to reflect changes to the Service, law, security needs, operating arrangements, or drafting errors. The applicable version and date will be identified when the revised Terms are published.

24.2. Material changes affecting an ongoing arrangement will be communicated with the notice and fresh acceptance required by law. Urgent legal or security changes may take effect sooner where permitted. Publishing revised Terms does not itself authorise a charge or remove a right under an existing purchase.

24.3. Changes apply prospectively. They do not retrospectively cancel an accrued refund, transfer ownership of existing work, remove an existing claim, or rewrite the agreed conditions for a Competition already entered.

24.4. If you do not accept a revised version, stop using the affected Service before it takes effect. Continued use constitutes acceptance only where legally sufficient notice has been provided and that method is legally effective. Existing cancellation, refund, and other mandatory rights remain unaffected.

25.1. These Terms and disputes relating to the Service are governed by the laws of the Principality of Andorra, subject to mandatory rules that apply regardless of a choice of law.

25.2. If you are a Consumer, that choice does not deprive you of mandatory protections under the law that would otherwise apply, including protections of your country of habitual residence where applicable.

25.3. For Business Users, the competent courts of Andorra have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes relating to these Terms or the Service, except where a mandatory rule requires otherwise.

25.4. Consumers may bring proceedings in any court available under mandatory law, including courts of their place of residence where applicable. We will bring proceedings against a Consumer only in a court permitted by applicable law.

25.5. These Terms do not require mandatory arbitration, waive a protected right to participate in proceedings, or restrict access to a competent public authority.

26.1. Agreement for this Service. These Terms, properly incorporated Competition Rules or feature-specific terms, and any express written agreement form the agreement for the matters they address. They do not exclude a statement or representation that the law makes binding or replace unrelated contracts.

26.2. Severability. If a provision is invalid or unenforceable, it does not apply to the extent of that invalidity, and the remainder continues where legally possible. An unfair consumer term is not rewritten merely to make an unlawful restriction enforceable.

26.3. No waiver. A failure or delay in enforcing a provision does not waive the right to enforce it later. A waiver of one breach is not a waiver of another.

26.4. Transfer. You may not transfer access rights or registrations except as allowed by the relevant terms or mandatory law. We may transfer our rights and obligations as part of a lawful reorganisation or transfer of the Service, provided this does not reduce the protections owed to you. Notice will be given where required.

26.5. Independent parties. No partnership, agency, employment, joint venture, or academic accreditation is created. Neither party may commit the other to obligations without authority.

26.6. Communications. Operational notices may be provided electronically where legally permitted. Keep relevant contact information current. Operational notices do not constitute permission for unrelated marketing, and legally required delivery methods remain applicable.

26.7. Language. These Terms are issued in English. Any mandatory requirements concerning language, translations, and interpretation remain applicable.

For questions, complaints, permission requests, or notices concerning Academia Tools:

Operator: BUILDNER, SLU
Registration number: 715322-T
Registered address: Carretera Mas de Ribafeta 6, 3-1, Arinsal, La Massana, AD400, Andorra
Contact email: contact@buildner.com

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