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Dibber app Terms and Conditions 

Terms and Conditions

These terms and conditions ("Terms and Conditions") govern access to and other use of the Dibber app and constitute a binding legal agreement between a User and Dibber and the Dibber Education Services Provider (the "Agreement"). By installing or using the Dibber app in any manner, the User confirms that the User has read, understood and accepted the content of these Terms and Conditions and the legal notices for the Dibber app made available on www.dibber.com.

1. Definitions

In addition to other definitions made in these Terms and Conditions, these definitions apply:  

 

"Additional Caretaker" means any caregiver or contact person for a child additional to a Caregiver, as appointed by a Caregiver.

"Caregiver" means a guardian or other legally designated caregiver, natural or legal, of a child (including a parent) receiving education services from a Dibber Education Services Provider.

 

"Dibber" means the owner, operator and licensor of the Dibber app: Dibber AS, a Norwegian private limited liability company, having the organisation number 998 831 067, and any successors and assigns.

 

"Dibber app" means the software(-as-a-service) provided by Dibber and a Dibber Education Services Provider delivered through browsers or dedicated applications developed for Android OS, iOS, macOS and Microsoft Windows and any other means to the User.

 

"Dibber Education Services Provider" means the legal entity in the Dibber Group or, as applicable the Extended Dibber Group, that is the provider of education services to the User through a Dibber Education Unit in the individual instance.

 

"Dibber Education Unit" means the unit through which the Dibber Education Services Provider is providing its education services in the individual instance (for example a kindergarten or school).

 

"Dibber Group" means Dibber AS and the entities that are directly or indirectly controlled (including jointly controlled) by Dibber AS or self-owned but incorporated by the former group of entities to serve its purpose. 

 

"education services" means all types of education services, such as for early childhood development those operated under the labels kindergarten, nursery, daycare, childcare centre, creche, pre-school and pre-primary school, play school and before-and-after programmes and other services and for later childhood development those provided under the labels school and before-and-after programmes and other services and other services as well as associated services.

"Extended Dibber Group" means the Dibber Group together with Dibber Education Services Providers that are not part of the Dibber Group but associated with the Dibber Group by way of a collaboration or cooperation, such as in a joint-venture or franchise.

 

"Intellectual Property" means any and all intellectual property and intellectual property rights (and any right to apply for the registration of such rights and all renewals and extensions), throughout the world, whether industrial or copyright or other, existing now, registered or registerable, and includes but is not limited to the property and rights in respect of or associated with: company and other entity names; trade names; logos; characters; trademarks; service names; service marks; domain names; innovations; patents; industrial designs and other designs; trade secrets (comprising, inter alia, such as strategy, tactics, systems, documentation, policies and codes of conducts, manuals knowledge, know-how, skills, practices, processes, concepts, developments, methodologies, improvements and confidential information in general); software, computer programs, applications, source code, object code; copyrights (including future copyrights and rights in the nature of or analogous to copyright) and goodwill.

 

"User" means a Caregiver, any Additional Caregiver, employees of Dibber and any other Dibber Education Services Provider or any other user of the Dibber app.

 

"User Data" means information uploaded onto the Dibber app by any User, including information about a child or a User, and such information in another way collected by Dibber or a Dibber Education Services Provider.

2. Access and use of Dibber app

The User has a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and otherwise use the Dibber app on the device of the User, limited by and subject to the Agreement and the specific user rights granted at any time by Dibber and the Dibber Education Services Provider. The Dibber app shall be used for interactions between the User and the Dibber Education Unit as well as associated services. The User shall not attempt to access or access data about other users of the Dibber app, except where this is permitted. The User shall not use the Dibber app for any unlawful or unauthorized purposes or activities or engage in unethical activities or behaviour in or associated with the Dibber app. Dibber and the Dibber Education Services Provider may suspend or terminate the User’s access to the Dibber app for any reason at any time.

3. Intellectual Property 

All Intellectual Property in the Dibber app and other materials relating to the Dibber app are owned by Dibber. Without limitation, this means that the User may not sell, export, license, modify, copy, distribute or transmit the Dibber app (or any part of it) or any material provided through the Dibber app without Dibber’s prior written consent. To the extent relevant, Dibber has an assignable, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide, non-exclusive, sub-licensable license to copy, make adaptations from, distribute, archive, communicate and otherwise disseminate User Data. Specifically, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Dibber and the Dibber Education Services Provider is entitled to anonymize the User Data and use these alone or in an aggregate form for the purposes of improving data privacy, gaining User insight, software development, improving resource allocation, improving quality of services and improving the User experience of the Dibber app.

4.  Personal data and data protection

You can read about our processing and protection of personal data in our personal data notice (privacy policy) made available at www.dibber.com.

5. Disclaimers

The Dibber app is provided on an “as-is” and “as-available” basis, with no representations or warranties or other promises of any kind, express or implied, given as to the operation of the Dibber app or the information, content, materials or products included in or provided through the Dibber app. To the fullest extent permitted by law, in no event shall Dibber or any Dibber Education Services Provider, be liable for loss and damages of any kind.

6. Changes

Dibber may make changes and updates to these Terms and Conditions. Dibber will notify the User of any such amendment in the Dibber app or via any other appropriate channel of communication.

7. Governing law and legal venue 

The rights and obligations of Dibber and the User under this Agreement and anyone else are exclusively and exhaustively governed by Norwegian law. Disputes shall be resolved before the Norwegian courts of law, with Oslo tingrett as legal venue in the first instance.

8. Contact

If you have any questions about these Terms and Conditions or the use of the Dibber app, please contact us at: dibberapp@dibberfamily.com

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The date of version of the Terms and Conditions is 1st March 2024.

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