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Terms of use.
The plain-English rules for using Hillside Spanish — what's allowed, what isn't, and where you stand on copyright.
About these terms
These terms apply to your use of hillsidespanish.com (the "site"). The site is built and maintained by Mr M. Cosgrove of the Modern Foreign Languages department at Hillside High School, Bootle, Merseyside ("we", "us"). By visiting or using the site you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't use the site.
Who the site is for
The site is intended primarily as a free educational resource for pupils studying Spanish at Hillside High School. Parents, carers and other teachers are welcome to use it too. The site does not require an account, does not ask for personal details, and is free to use.
Acceptable use
You may use the site for personal, non-commercial, educational purposes — for example, revising for a lesson, completing homework set by your teacher, reading articles or playing the activity games. You may share links to pages on the site with classmates, parents or other teachers.
You agree not to: use the site for any unlawful purpose; attempt to disrupt or interfere with the site's operation; attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the site or its hosting infrastructure; scrape, harvest or systematically copy content for re-publication elsewhere; or use any of the site's content in a way that misrepresents who created it.
Content and copyright
Original written content, page layouts, illustrations and games on this site are © 2026 M. Cosgrove / Hillside High School Spanish Department, unless otherwise marked. Some materials draw on published sentence-builder methodology by Conti & Smith, on freely available stock illustrations, and on standard GCSE specification content from AQA. Where third-party material is used, it is used for non-commercial educational purposes in line with fair-dealing exceptions under UK copyright law.
Teachers at other schools are welcome to link to any page on this site. If you would like to reuse or adapt a specific resource for your own pupils, please get in touch via the school first.
External links
The site links to external resources — for example BBC Bitesize, Duolingo, Quizlet, SpanishDict, YouTube and others. We don't control these third-party sites and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, privacy practices or availability. Linking to a site is not an endorsement, and external links are provided for convenience only.
No warranty
The site is provided "as is" for free. We make every effort to keep the content accurate and the site available, but we don't guarantee that the information is free of mistakes, that the site will always be available, or that it will be free of errors or interruptions. You should always check your work against your teacher's lessons, your exam board's specification, and other trusted sources before relying on it for assessment.
Pupil conduct & safeguarding
Pupils using this site are expected to follow Hillside High School's Acceptable Use policy for IT and online resources. There are no user accounts, no comments, no chat features and no user-generated content on this site, so pupils cannot post or share anything publicly through it. If you have any safeguarding concern about content on the site, please report it to a teacher or to the school's safeguarding lead.
Changes
We may update these terms from time to time to reflect changes to the site or to relevant law. The most up-to-date version will always be at this URL, with the "last updated" date below.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales.
Contact
If you have a question about these terms, contact the MFL department via Hillside High School: hillsidehigh.co.uk.