Terms of use

Who can use the platform

Accounts are issued through participating schools for use on this programme. Your school decides who gets an account and can ask us to close one.

Your account is yours alone. Keep your password to yourself, do not sign in as anyone else, and do not let anyone else use your account. If you think someone has your password, change it and tell your teacher.

Anything done through your account is treated as done by you, so this matters.

What the platform is for

Schoolwork on this programme. It is not a general-purpose chatbot, a social network, or a place to store things unrelated to your lessons.

You may use the material here for your own study. You may not copy the lesson decks, worksheets, question banks or other teaching materials out of the platform and republish or distribute them. Those materials belong to the University and its partners.

Rules you have to follow

Do not use the platform to bully, harass, threaten or insult anyone. Comments you leave on other students' work are visible to teachers.

Do not type anyone's personal details into the platform, including your own. That means no ID card numbers, phone numbers, home addresses, or photographs of people who have not agreed to it.

Do not ask the AI for sexual, violent, hateful or illegal content, and do not try to talk it around the safety limits. Attempts are logged.

Do not generate images of real people, including classmates and teachers.

Do not try to break into the platform, get at other people's accounts or data, disable safe mode, run automated tools against the site, or interfere with how it works for other people.

Do not upload anything unlawful, or anything you do not have the right to upload.

Do not use the platform to break your school's own rules.

The AI can be wrong

Every AI feature here produces text, marks, images or speech by prediction. It can be confidently wrong. It can invent a fact, misread your Chinese, mishear your English, or give you a band that a human marker would not give.

Treat what it says as a first opinion, not an answer. Check anything that matters with your teacher. Do not rely on it for medical, legal, financial, or safety information, and do not treat AI feedback as your final grade. Your teacher marks your work.

Pronunciation and speaking scores are indicative. When acoustic scoring is not switched on for your school, a pronunciation band is the model's impression of your speech and not a measurement of it, and the platform says so on screen when that is the case.

Academic honesty

The point of this programme is to learn to work with AI, not to have AI do the work. Use it the way your teacher tells you to use it for each task.

Handing in AI-written work as your own, where your teacher has not allowed it, is dishonest and is dealt with under your school's rules, not ours.

The platform keeps an AI Logbook of the prompts you write and the features you use, and your teacher can read it. This is not a trap. It is there so your teacher can see how you worked, which is part of what is being taught and assessed.

Your work, and what we may do with it

Your work stays yours. Nothing here transfers ownership of what you write or make.

By handing work in, you give the University permission to store it, show it to your teacher and school, and use it to run the programme. You also give permission to use it, with your identity removed, to evaluate the programme and to report on it, including to the funder. The privacy notice explains how identities are removed.

If you put something in a class gallery or a shared activity, your classmates in that class can see it. Do not share anything there you would not want them to read.

Work generated with AI image tools may need your teacher's approval before it counts as submitted. Where a limit on the number of generations applies, it is shown on screen.

Recording your voice

Speaking and recitation activities record your voice and convert it to text. Recordings and transcripts are used to give you feedback, to let your teacher mark the work, and for the programme evaluation described in the privacy notice.

Record only yourself. Do not record classmates, teachers, or anyone else without their agreement.

Availability

This is a pilot platform under active development. Features change, and parts of it may be unavailable while we fix or improve them.

We do not promise the platform will always be available or free of faults. Keep a copy of anything you cannot afford to lose, and do not leave work until the last minute on the assumption the site will be up.

The AI features depend on outside services. If one of those is down or refuses a request, that feature will not work until it recovers.

Suspending or closing an account

We may suspend or close an account that breaks these rules, that puts other users at risk, or that threatens the security of the platform. Where it is sensible to do so, we tell the school first.

Your school can also ask us to close your account, for example when you leave the school or the programme ends.

Serious misuse is reported to your school and handled under its own discipline rules.

No warranty, and limits on responsibility

The platform is provided as it is, for education, without any warranty. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted, error free, or fit for any particular purpose, and we do not warrant that anything the AI produces is accurate, complete or suitable for what you want to use it for.

To the extent the law allows, the University, the CLAP-TECH Centre, and their staff and partners are not liable for loss of data, loss of work, marks awarded or not awarded, or any indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of the platform or from anything an AI feature produced.

Nothing here limits any liability that cannot be limited by law.

Changes, law, and language

These terms may be updated. The date at the top shows when they last changed, and continuing to use the platform after a change means you accept the updated version.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the courts of Hong Kong have jurisdiction.

If there is any difference between the English and Chinese versions, the English version applies.

Questions about these terms go to your teacher, or to the CLAP-TECH Centre at Hong Kong Baptist University through your school. Questions about your personal data are covered in the privacy notice.