Academic terms

The terms you agree to when you use Jotter as an academic.

Version 1.1 · Last updated July 2026

1. About these terms

1.1 These Academic Terms (these Terms) are a legal agreement between you and Uncommon Studios Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 17021009) whose registered office is at 167–169 Great Portland Street, London W1W 5PF, and which trades as Jotter Education (Jotter, we, us or our). They govern your access to and use of the Jotter platform at app.jotter.education and any related applications, content and services we make available to academics (together, the Service).

1.2 By clicking "I accept" (or a similar button), or by creating or using an academic account, you confirm that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, do not access or use the Service.

1.3 You confirm that you are authorised by your Institution to enter into these Terms and to use the Service on its behalf. Where the context requires, "you" includes the Institution on whose behalf you act.

1.4 Students who join your Studies accept our separate Student Terms. You should print or save a copy of these Terms for your records.

2. Definitions

2.1 In these Terms:

• Activity means an interactive teaching item (such as a case, simulation, quiz or walkthrough) made available within the Service.
• Study means a module-and-cohort space you create, into which Activities are added and in which Students participate.
• Student means a person who joins a Study via a link to take part in Activities.
• Institution means the university, college, school or other organisation by which you are employed or engaged and on whose behalf you access the Service.
• Academic Content means any material you upload, create, configure or make available through the Service.
• Student Submission means any answer, question, response, rating or feedback a Student provides through the Service.
• Privacy Notice means our privacy policy, as updated from time to time.

3. How to contact us

3.1 You can contact us at hello@jotter.education. If we need to contact you, we will use the email address associated with your account or contact you through the Service.

4. The Service

4.1 The Service lets you build Studies, fill them with Activities, run sessions with your Students, and see their answers, questions, progress and feedback. We may add, change, suspend or remove features at any time, and will try to give reasonable notice of any material change that adversely affects your use, except where a change is needed urgently (for example for security or legal reasons).

4.2 The Service supports teaching and learning. It is not a system of record for academic results and should not be relied on as the sole record of student performance or assessment.

5. Eligibility, your account and authorised use

5.1 Eligibility. You must be at least 18 years old and lawfully able to enter into these Terms. The information you give us must be accurate.

5.2 Your account. Academic access is by invitation. You are responsible for keeping your credentials confidential, for all activity under your account, and for telling us promptly at hello@jotter.education if you suspect unauthorised use.

5.3 Authorised institutional use. You confirm that you are authorised by your Institution to use the Service, and that you will use the Service solely in connection with your legitimate teaching or professional role at your Institution, and not for any personal or unrelated commercial purpose. The Service is not available to individuals acting otherwise than on behalf of an Institution.

5.4 Under-18 participants. The Service is designed for participants aged 18 or over. If you choose to use the Service with any participant under the age of 18, you are responsible for ensuring that all necessary permissions, consents and safeguarding measures are in place and that such use complies with applicable law and your Institution's policies. We may decline to support, or impose conditions on, the use of the Service with under-18 cohorts.

6. Licence to use the Service

6.1 We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and revocable licence to access and use the Service for your teaching purposes, in accordance with these Terms. This licence gives you no ownership of the Service or the Activities. All rights not expressly granted are reserved by us and our licensors.

7. Acceptable use

7.1 You will not, and will not permit any other person to:

• use the Service in any unlawful, fraudulent or harmful way, or for any unlawful, fraudulent or harmful purpose;
• upload or share any content that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, harassing, discriminatory, infringing of any third-party rights, or otherwise objectionable;
• copy, modify, distribute, sell, rent, sub-licence or commercially exploit any part of the Service or Activities except as expressly permitted by us;
• reverse engineer or attempt to derive the source code of the Service, except to the extent this restriction cannot lawfully be excluded;
• introduce any virus or harmful code, or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service or connected systems; or
• use automated means to scrape or extract data from the Service, or place an unreasonable load on our infrastructure.

7.2 We may investigate and take appropriate action (including removing content and suspending or terminating access) where we reasonably believe this section has been breached.

8. Your content and responsibilities

8.1 You are responsible for the Studies you create, the Activities you add or adapt, the Academic Content you provide, and the way you run sessions with your Students.

8.2 You confirm that you have all rights, licences and permissions necessary to upload and use your Academic Content within the Service, and that it does not infringe the rights of any third party.

8.3 You are responsible for the lawful handling of your Students' personal data within the Service, including giving them appropriate information about how their data is used and obtaining any consents required under applicable data protection law. The roles of you (and/or your Institution) and us are described in section 10 and the Privacy Notice.

8.4 You grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free and sublicensable licence to host, store, copy, reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, display, distribute, communicate and otherwise use your Academic Content, and to make it available to other users of the Service (including other academics and their Students), for the purposes of operating, providing, promoting and improving the Service. You retain ownership of your Academic Content, and because this licence is non-exclusive you remain free to use and license your Academic Content yourself and for any other purpose. This licence survives the closure of your account and the termination of these Terms.

8.5 Shared Library. Activities you create and complete in the Service may be made available to other academics through the shared Library, so that they may access, use and adapt them for their own teaching within the Service. This sharing forms part of the licence in clause 8.4. You may ask us to withdraw one of your Activities from the shared Library at any time and we will do so within a reasonable period, but the licence in clause 8.4 continues in respect of copies made and uses commenced before that withdrawal.

9. Intellectual property

9.1 The Service, the Activities we provide, and all associated software, content, design, branding and trade marks (excluding Academic Content and Student Submissions) are owned by or licensed to us and protected by intellectual property laws. Jotter and our logos are our trade marks and may not be used without our prior written permission.

9.2 Except for the limited licence in section 6, nothing in these Terms transfers any intellectual property rights to you. If you give us feedback or suggestions about the Service, we may use them without restriction and without any obligation to you.

9.3 Commissioned Activities. If, at your request, we create, develop or build any Activity for you or your Institution (a Commissioned Activity), all intellectual property rights in that Commissioned Activity belong to us. You assign to us, with full title guarantee and (to the extent any such rights do not yet exist) by way of present assignment of future rights, all intellectual property rights in each Commissioned Activity immediately on their creation, and you waive any moral rights in it to the fullest extent permitted by law. This does not affect your ownership of any pre-existing Academic Content you supply for incorporation into a Commissioned Activity, which remains Academic Content licensed to us under clause 8.4. We will make each Commissioned Activity available to you within the Service on the same basis as other Activities, so that you may use it for your teaching under the licence in section 6. You agree to do all things and execute all documents we reasonably request to give effect to this clause.

10. Data protection and privacy

10.1 We process personal data in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation, the Data Protection Act 2018 and other applicable law. Our Privacy Notice explains what we collect, how we use it, and the rights available to individuals.

10.2 Depending on the context, we may act as a controller (for example, for academic account data) or as a processor on behalf of you or your Institution (for example, for certain Student data within a Study). Where we act as a processor, we will process personal data in accordance with the relevant data processing terms and the documented instructions of the controller. Each party will comply with its respective obligations under applicable data protection law.

11. Availability and support

11.1 We aim to make the Service available at all times but do not guarantee that it will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free. Access may be suspended temporarily for maintenance, updates or reasons beyond our reasonable control. We provide support on a reasonable-endeavours basis via hello@jotter.education.

12. Fees

12.1 No fees are payable by you for access to the Service under these Terms. Where fees are payable for the Service, they are payable by your Institution under a separate agreement between us and your Institution, and these Terms do not make you liable for those fees. If we introduce any charge that would apply to you directly, we will give you reasonable advance notice and the opportunity to stop using the relevant feature before any charge applies.

13. Disclaimers

13.1 The Service and the Activities are provided for educational purposes only and do not constitute professional, financial, legal or other advice. To the fullest extent permitted by law, they are provided "as is" and "as available", and we exclude all warranties, conditions and representations not expressly set out in these Terms, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

13.2 We do not warrant that the content of any Activity is accurate, complete or up to date, or that it is suitable for any particular teaching, assessment or learning outcome. You are responsible for exercising your own professional judgement in how you use the Service.

13.3 No guaranteed outcomes. We do not warrant or guarantee that use of the Service, any Activity or any Commissioned Activity will achieve any particular educational, teaching, learning or assessment outcome, or any specified level of student engagement, attainment or results. The effectiveness of the Service depends on factors outside our control, including how it is used and the participation of those involved.

14. Our liability

14.1 Liability we do not exclude. Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.

14.2 Losses we are not liable for. Subject to clause 14.1, we will not be liable for any loss of profits, business, goodwill or data, or any indirect or consequential loss, whether arising in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, even if foreseeable.

14.3 Cap on our liability. Subject to clause 14.1, our total liability to you arising out of or in connection with these Terms or your use of the Service, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, is limited in aggregate to £100 (one hundred pounds).

15. Suspension and termination

15.1 You may stop using the Service at any time and may ask us to close your account by contacting hello@jotter.education.

15.2 We may suspend or terminate your access immediately if you materially breach these Terms, if required by law, or if necessary to protect the Service, other users or third parties.

15.3 On termination, your licence ends and you must stop using the Service. Provisions that by their nature should survive (including those on intellectual property, disclaimers, liability and governing law) will continue to apply. We will handle Academic Content and Student data after termination in accordance with the Privacy Notice and applicable law; you are responsible for retaining your own copies of any Academic Content you wish to keep.

16. Changes to these terms

16.1 We may update these Terms from time to time. If we make a material change, we will take reasonable steps to notify you (for example, by email or through the Service) and, where required, ask you to accept the updated Terms. Your continued use of the Service after an update takes effect means you accept the updated Terms.

17. General

17.1 Assignment. You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent. We may transfer ours to a successor or group company, provided this does not reduce your rights.

17.2 Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Notice are the entire agreement between you and us in relation to the Service and supersede any prior arrangements on the same subject.

17.3 Severance and waiver. If any provision is found to be unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in full force. If we do not enforce a right, that is not a waiver of it.

17.4 Third parties. A person who is not a party to these Terms has no rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any of them.

17.5 Events beyond our control. We are not liable for any failure or delay in performing our obligations caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

18. Governing law and jurisdiction

18.1 These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them (including non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach in your country of residence or any other relevant country.