Terms & Conditions


TayoCloud School Management – Terms & Conditions

Last Updated: 19 may 2021

These Terms & Conditions ("Terms") govern access to and use of TayoCloud School Management, including its website, school management platform, mobile applications, APIs, modules, support services and related services ("Service").

By creating an account, purchasing a subscription, signing an order form, paying an invoice, or continuing to use TayoCloud, the school or organisation ("School", "Customer", "you") agrees to these Terms.

If an individual accepts these Terms on behalf of a School, that individual confirms that they are authorised to bind that School to these Terms.


1. TayoCloud Service

TayoCloud provides cloud-based school management functionality that may include:

  • Student and parent management
  • Staff and teacher management
  • Attendance
  • Examination and results management
  • Finance and fee management
  • Timetables and academic administration
  • Reports
  • Communication tools
  • Mobile applications
  • Other features made available by TayoCloud

Features available to a School may depend on the subscription plan purchased.

TayoCloud may improve, replace, modify or discontinue individual features where reasonably necessary, provided that the overall core functionality of the subscribed Service is not materially reduced without reasonable notice.


2. School Accounts and Authorised Users

The School is responsible for:

  • Providing correct registration and billing information.
  • Ensuring only authorised staff, teachers, students, parents and other approved users have access.
  • Assigning appropriate permissions to users.
  • Protecting usernames, passwords and other login credentials.
  • Promptly disabling accounts belonging to people who are no longer authorised.
  • All activity occurring through accounts controlled by the School.
  • Ensuring its users comply with these Terms.

Login credentials may not be shared between unrelated users unless TayoCloud specifically permits a shared-account arrangement.

The School must immediately notify TayoCloud if it becomes aware of unauthorised access or a suspected security incident.


3. Subscription Plans

Access to TayoCloud may be provided under:

  • A free trial;
  • Monthly subscription;
  • Annual subscription;
  • Multi-year subscription;
  • Fixed-term agreement; or
  • Another subscription period stated in an order form, invoice, proposal or written agreement.

The applicable subscription price, number of users or students, included services, billing frequency and subscription period will be stated when the School subscribes or in the applicable quotation, order form, invoice or agreement.

If there is a conflict between these Terms and a separately signed agreement or order form, the specifically agreed commercial terms in the signed document will take priority.


4. Billing and Payment

Subscription charges must be paid according to the payment schedule stated in the School's subscription, invoice, quotation or order form.

Unless expressly stated otherwise:

  • Subscription charges are payable in advance.
  • The School is responsible for applicable taxes, bank charges and transaction costs.
  • Failure to use the Service does not remove the School's payment obligation.
  • A reduction in students, teachers, staff or system usage does not automatically reduce agreed subscription fees.
  • The School may not withhold payment because it has stopped using some or all of the Service.

An annual subscription that is invoiced monthly remains an annual commitment if it was sold as an annual subscription. Monthly instalments in such a case are a payment arrangement and do not convert the agreement into a month-to-month subscription.


5. Late or Failed Payments

If an invoice becomes overdue, TayoCloud may send a payment reminder and may restrict or suspend access until payment is received.

TayoCloud may suspend the School's Service where an undisputed payment remains overdue after reasonable notice.

Suspension does not cancel the subscription or remove outstanding payment obligations.

The School remains responsible for:

  • Outstanding subscription fees;
  • Applicable taxes;
  • Reasonable collection expenses; and
  • Other amounts legally recoverable under the agreement.

TayoCloud may permanently terminate an account for repeated or substantial non-payment.


6. Cancellation by the School

6.1 Monthly Subscriptions

A genuine month-to-month subscription may be cancelled by the School at any time.

Cancellation becomes effective at the end of the current paid billing period, unless otherwise agreed.

The School will continue to have access until the effective cancellation date, subject to these Terms.

No partial or prorated refund will be issued for the remaining days of a billing period.


6.2 Annual or Fixed-Term Subscriptions

An annual, multi-year or other fixed-term subscription is a commitment for the agreed subscription period.

The School may notify TayoCloud that it does not wish to renew the subscription, but cancellation normally becomes effective only at the end of the existing committed term.

If the School voluntarily:

  • Stops using TayoCloud;
  • Moves to another school management system;
  • Decides that it no longer needs the Service;
  • Experiences a reduction in student numbers;
  • Changes management;
  • Changes staff;
  • Closes a department;
  • Changes its internal processes;
  • Does not fully use the available features; or
  • Otherwise decides to discontinue TayoCloud for its own convenience,

this does not cancel the existing financial commitment.

Amounts due for the committed subscription period remain payable according to the agreed payment schedule.


7. No Refund Policy

Except where required by applicable law or expressly stated otherwise in these Terms:

All subscription payments are final and non-refundable.

TayoCloud does not provide refunds or credits for:

  • Voluntary cancellation by the School;
  • Early discontinuation of use;
  • Unused subscription time;
  • Unused accounts;
  • Unused features;
  • Reduced student numbers;
  • Reduced staff numbers;
  • Staff changes;
  • Management changes;
  • Failure by the School to use the Service;
  • Migration by the School to another system;
  • Temporary suspension caused by the School's breach of these Terms;
  • Account suspension for non-payment;
  • Failure by the School to cancel before a renewal date; or
  • Other circumstances within the School's control.

Stopping use of TayoCloud does not automatically constitute cancellation.

Deleting users, students or school records does not constitute cancellation.

A request to close an account does not remove amounts that became payable before the effective termination date.


8. Exceptional Refunds

Nothing in Section 7 removes rights that cannot legally be excluded.

If TayoCloud materially breaches its contractual obligations and, after receiving written notice, fails to remedy that material breach within a reasonable period, the School may have termination or refund rights to the extent required by the applicable agreement or law.

Any voluntary refund, discount or credit issued by TayoCloud on one occasion:

  • Is provided at TayoCloud's discretion;
  • Does not create an obligation to provide similar refunds in the future; and
  • Does not change these Terms unless agreed in writing.

9. Subscription Renewal

Subscriptions may automatically renew where this was disclosed when the School subscribed or agreed in the applicable order form.

The renewal period and notice requirements will be those stated in the School's subscription or agreement.

If the School does not wish to renew, it must submit its cancellation request before the applicable renewal deadline.

Failure to use the Service is not notice of cancellation.

A verbal statement to an unrelated third party is not notice of cancellation.

TayoCloud may require cancellation requests to be submitted through the account, designated support channel or in writing.


10. Free Trials

TayoCloud may provide a free or discounted trial.

Trial functionality may be limited.

At the end of a trial:

  • Access may expire automatically; or
  • The account may convert to a paid subscription if this was clearly agreed during registration.

TayoCloud may limit repeated free trials for the same School.

Data created during a trial may be deleted after the trial expires if the School does not subscribe.


11. Suspension and Termination by TayoCloud

TayoCloud may temporarily restrict or suspend access where reasonably necessary, including where:

  • Subscription fees are overdue;
  • The School violates these Terms;
  • An account is being used unlawfully;
  • There is suspected fraud;
  • There is unauthorised access;
  • The Service is being attacked or abused;
  • The School attempts to interfere with TayoCloud's infrastructure;
  • The School creates a security risk;
  • Continued access could cause harm to TayoCloud or another customer; or
  • Suspension is required by law or a competent authority.

Where reasonably possible, TayoCloud will give the School an opportunity to resolve the issue before permanent termination.

TayoCloud may terminate immediately for serious abuse, fraud, unlawful conduct, deliberate security attacks or other serious violations.


12. Effect of Termination

When the subscription ends:

  • The School's right to use TayoCloud ends.
  • User access may be disabled.
  • Outstanding invoices remain payable.
  • Termination does not cancel liabilities that arose before termination.
  • Sections that by their nature should survive termination will continue to apply.

Where technically and legally feasible, TayoCloud may provide the School with a reasonable opportunity to export its data following normal termination.

The School is responsible for requesting and saving required exports before its data-retention period expires.


13. School Data

As between TayoCloud and the School, the School retains its rights in the data that it enters into the platform, including student, parent, employee and academic data.

The School authorises TayoCloud to host, process, transmit, back up and otherwise use School data as necessary to:

  • Provide the Service;
  • Maintain the platform;
  • Provide technical support;
  • Maintain security;
  • Prevent fraud or misuse;
  • Perform backups;
  • Comply with legal obligations; and
  • Improve the reliability of the Service.

TayoCloud does not obtain ownership of the School's underlying educational records merely because they are stored on the platform.


14. Responsibility for Personal Data

The School is responsible for ensuring that it has a lawful basis and appropriate authority to collect and enter personal data into TayoCloud.

This may include information relating to:

  • Students;
  • Children;
  • Parents and guardians;
  • Teachers;
  • Employees;
  • Financial records;
  • Attendance;
  • Examination results;
  • Contact information; and
  • Other school administration records.

The School must not upload personal information that it has no legal right or authority to process.

TayoCloud will handle personal data in accordance with its Privacy Policy and applicable data-protection requirements.

Where required, TayoCloud and the School may enter into a separate Data Processing Agreement.


15. Data After Account Closure

After termination or expiry, TayoCloud may retain School data for a limited period for backup, security, legal, accounting or recovery purposes.

After the applicable retention period, TayoCloud may permanently delete School data unless retention is required by law.

Once data has been permanently deleted from active systems and applicable backup cycles, it may no longer be recoverable.

The School is therefore responsible for exporting any information it is legally required to retain before final deletion.


16. Acceptable Use

The School and its users must not:

  • Attempt unauthorised access to TayoCloud systems.
  • Access another School's data.
  • Attempt to bypass access controls.
  • Introduce viruses, malware or malicious software.
  • Perform unauthorised security testing.
  • Reverse engineer the Service except where legally permitted.
  • Copy or redistribute proprietary TayoCloud software.
  • Use the Service for fraud or unlawful activity.
  • Use automated processes in a way that materially disrupts the platform.
  • Tamper with records belonging to another organisation.
  • Resell access without written permission from TayoCloud.

TayoCloud may investigate suspected misuse and take reasonable protective measures.


17. School Administrator Responsibility

The School controls many actions carried out by its administrators, including:

  • Creating users;
  • Deleting users;
  • Assigning permissions;
  • Entering marks;
  • Recording attendance;
  • Recording payments;
  • Creating invoices;
  • Editing student information;
  • Producing reports; and
  • Configuring the School account.

TayoCloud is not responsible for errors caused by authorised School users, including accidental deletion, incorrect marks, incorrect financial entries, incorrect permissions or incorrect information entered by the School.


18. Backups and Data Recovery

TayoCloud may maintain reasonable backup and recovery processes.

However, no electronic system can guarantee that data will never be lost.

Schools should maintain appropriate copies or exports of records that are critical to their operations or legally required to be retained.

TayoCloud does not guarantee that every individual record can always be restored after accidental deletion by an authorised user.


19. Service Availability and Maintenance

TayoCloud aims to maintain reliable access to the Service.

However, uninterrupted or error-free operation is not guaranteed.

The Service may occasionally be unavailable because of:

  • Scheduled maintenance;
  • Emergency maintenance;
  • Internet failures;
  • Hosting-provider incidents;
  • Telecommunications problems;
  • Cybersecurity events;
  • Software defects;
  • Third-party service failures;
  • Power failures;
  • Force majeure events; or
  • Circumstances outside TayoCloud's reasonable control.

Where reasonably possible, planned maintenance that may cause significant disruption will be communicated in advance.


20. Third-Party Services

Some TayoCloud functions may depend upon third-party providers, including hosting, email, SMS, payment, cloud infrastructure, authentication or other external services.

TayoCloud does not control the availability or operation of independent third-party services.

Changes, restrictions or outages affecting those providers may temporarily affect corresponding TayoCloud features.

Additional charges may apply to services such as SMS, payment processing or other externally billed services.


21. Intellectual Property

TayoCloud and its licensors retain all rights, title and interest in:

  • The TayoCloud software;
  • Source code;
  • Platform architecture;
  • Interfaces;
  • Designs;
  • Logos;
  • Branding;
  • Documentation;
  • Reports and report layouts created by TayoCloud;
  • APIs;
  • Proprietary processes; and
  • Other intellectual property associated with the Service.

The School receives only a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service during an active subscription.

No ownership of the TayoCloud software is transferred to the School.


22. Confidentiality

Each party must use reasonable care to protect confidential information received from the other party.

Confidential information must not be disclosed to third parties except:

  • To employees or contractors who need the information;
  • Where necessary to provide the Service;
  • With the other party's permission; or
  • Where disclosure is legally required.

This obligation survives termination where appropriate.


23. Support

Technical support will be provided according to the support level associated with the School's subscription.

Support does not necessarily include:

  • Custom software development;
  • On-site support;
  • Hardware repair;
  • Internet troubleshooting;
  • Third-party software administration;
  • Large-scale manual data entry; or
  • Custom integrations,

unless separately agreed.

Additional work may be quoted separately.


24. Changes Requested by the School

Requests for custom development, integrations, reports, migration, training or other work outside the normal subscription may result in additional charges.

TayoCloud is not required to implement every requested feature.

Any custom work will be subject to the scope and price separately agreed by the parties.


25. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, TayoCloud will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss arising from use of the Service.

This may include, where legally permitted:

  • Loss of anticipated profit;
  • Loss of business opportunity;
  • Indirect financial loss;
  • Loss arising from incorrect information entered by School users;
  • Actions performed by authorised School administrators;
  • Third-party service failures; or
  • Events outside TayoCloud's reasonable control.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot legally be excluded.

Where liability can legally be limited, TayoCloud's aggregate liability relating to the Service will not exceed the amount paid by the affected School to TayoCloud for the applicable Service during the 12 months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim, unless a different mandatory legal rule applies.


26. Force Majeure

TayoCloud will not be responsible for failure or delay caused by circumstances reasonably outside its control.

These may include:

  • Natural disasters;
  • War or civil unrest;
  • Government action;
  • Fire;
  • Flood;
  • Major power outages;
  • Internet or telecommunications failures;
  • Cyberattacks;
  • Hosting-provider outages;
  • Labour disruption;
  • Epidemics or pandemics; or
  • Failure of critical third-party infrastructure.

Performance will resume as reasonably practicable once the relevant event ends.


27. Price Changes

TayoCloud may change subscription prices for future billing or renewal periods.

Price changes will not normally retroactively change fees already paid for an existing prepaid period.

Where reasonable notice is required by the applicable agreement or law, TayoCloud will provide that notice before the new price becomes effective.

Continued use after a valid renewal at the new price constitutes acceptance of that renewal price.


28. Changes to These Terms

TayoCloud may update these Terms to reflect:

  • New functionality;
  • Security requirements;
  • Legal requirements;
  • Regulatory changes;
  • Changes to business operations; or
  • Improvements to the Service.

Material changes will be communicated through reasonable means, such as email, account notification or the TayoCloud platform.

Changes will apply prospectively according to the notice provided and applicable law.


29. Notices

Official notices relating to subscription cancellation, breach, payment disputes or termination should be sent through a communication method designated by TayoCloud.

TayoCloud may communicate with the School using the administrator email address registered to the School's account.

The School is responsible for keeping that email address current.


31. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the applicable subscription, quotation, order form, Data Processing Agreement and Privacy Policy, form the agreement between TayoCloud and the School concerning the Service.

Failure by TayoCloud to enforce a provision on one occasion does not waive its right to enforce that provision later.


32. Severability

If a provision of these Terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in effect to the extent permitted by law.

The invalid provision will be interpreted or replaced as closely as legally possible to achieve its intended commercial purpose.


33. Contact Information

Questions concerning these Terms may be directed to:

TayoCloud School Management

Email: tayocloud@gmail.com

Phone: +31 6 85249569

Website: tayocloud.com


Important Subscription Acknowledgement

Before purchasing a paid subscription, the School acknowledges that:

1. TayoCloud is a paid subscription service.

2. Subscription payments already made are non-refundable except where required by law or expressly stated in these Terms.

3. Cancelling a monthly subscription does not create a refund for the remaining portion of the current billing period.

4. An annual or fixed-term subscription remains a commitment for the agreed term, even when payment is divided into monthly instalments.

5. A School that voluntarily stops using TayoCloud before the end of a committed subscription period remains responsible for the fees agreed for that period.

6. Simply stopping use of TayoCloud does not constitute cancellation.

By purchasing, renewing or continuing a paid subscription, the School confirms that it has read, understood and accepted these conditions.