Terms of service

These terms govern an institution’s use of Lecon, the curriculum management service at lecon.app. Where an institution has signed an order, agreement or purchase contract with us, that document and these terms are read together; if the two disagree, the signed document wins.

1. Who you are agreeing with

Lecon is operated by LECON EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY INC., 5307 Victoria Drive #877, Vancouver, BC V5P 3V6, Canada. “We” and “us” mean that company. “You” means the institution that holds the subscription, and everyone it gives an account to.

2. The service

Lecon records an institution’s curriculum — its programs, courses, learning outcomes, approval processes, rubrics, syllabi and accreditation evidence — and publishes the parts the institution chooses to make public. Each institution works at its own address, such as yourcollege.lecon.app, and its records are kept apart from every other institution’s.

We may change how the service works. Where a change removes something you rely on, we will say so in advance by email to your institution admins.

3. Accounts

• Your institution admins decide who has an account and what each role may do. You are responsible for who you give access to and for keeping credentials to yourself.
• Accounts belong to people, not to posts. Sharing one account between several people makes the activity log untrue, which is the part of the record an auditor relies on.
• Tell us promptly if you believe an account has been used by somebody who should not have it.

4. What you may not do

• Break the law with it, or store content you have no right to store.
• Try to reach another institution’s data, or to get around the separation between institutions.
• Probe, scan or load-test the service without our written agreement, or interfere with anyone else’s use of it.
• Resell the service, or give access to people outside your institution except as the service itself provides for.

5. Your content stays yours

Everything your institution puts into Lecon — curriculum records, documents, rubrics, outcomes, the activity log — remains yours. We hold it to run the service for you, and for no other purpose: we do not sell it, we do not use it to train models, and we do not use it to advertise to anyone.

You can export your record at any time from the service itself. If your subscription ends, we will provide an archive of your institution’s data on request, and then delete it as set out in the privacy policy.

6. Our part of the service

The software, its design, and everything we write to run it remain ours. You may use it for as long as your subscription runs. Nothing here transfers ownership of it to you.

7. Connections to your other systems

Lecon can connect to your learning management system, your identity provider and your student information system. When you set one of those up, you are authorising us to exchange data with it on your behalf, within what that connection is for. Those systems are run by you or by your own suppliers, and we are not responsible for how they behave.

8. Availability

We work to keep Lecon available and quick, and we take regular backups. We will give notice of planned maintenance where we reasonably can. Unless your signed agreement sets out a service level, the service is provided as it stands, without a guaranteed level of availability.

9. Fees

Fees, the term and renewal are set out in your order or agreement. Where no signed document says otherwise, subscriptions run for the period paid for and renew only by agreement.

10. Confidentiality

Each of us may learn things about the other that are not public. Neither of us will pass those on, except to people who need them to do this work and are under the same obligation, or where the law requires it.

11. Liability

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. Subject to that, neither of us is liable to the other for indirect or consequential loss, or for lost profits, revenue or data; and our total liability arising out of the service is limited to the fees paid for it in the twelve months before the claim.

Lecon records curriculum and helps you govern it. Decisions about what to teach, what to approve and what to publish remain your institution’s, as does compliance with the rules of your regulator or accreditor.

12. Ending the agreement

• Either of us may end the agreement at the end of its term, on the notice the order sets out.
• Either of us may end it sooner if the other breaks these terms seriously and does not put it right within 30 days of being told.
• When the agreement ends, access ends. We keep your data for 30 days so that you can take an export, then delete it, except for what we must keep by law and what sits in backups until they age out.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If a change matters to you, we will tell your institution admins by email before it takes effect. The date at the top of this page always says when the current wording took effect.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia, Canada, and the courts there have jurisdiction, without affecting any right you have under the law of your own country that cannot be set aside by agreement.

15. Getting in touch

Write to info@lecon.app. If your question is about personal data, the privacy policy says who is responsible for what and how to ask.