Terms and Conditions

The Pass Functional Skills Platform is an online teaching and learning aid, which is used to facilitate self study, tutoring and teaching in secondary schools.

These terms apply to the use of the Pass Functional Skills Platform by all user types, including students, teachers, tutors and parents.

Student Terms (Under 18's)

The following terms apply to those who are under 18. The terms have been written in a way to make them easiest to understand. Under 18’s are still subject to the wider terms of service.

Students can use the Pass Functional Skills Platform to help with revision.The following points describe what you are and are not allowed to do whilst using the PFS service.

  • The questions and content inside the Pass Functional Skills Platform is owned by PFS. You must not share the content from this Revision Platform including sharing images or pictures on social media unless you have been given permission from the PFS service.
  • If you decide to purchase our premium subscription or a product from our shop, you must have permission from the bill payer, parent or guardian before doing so.
  • You must only submit errors if you genuinely think you have found an error. You won’t receive any confirmation that your submission has been acted upon.
  • The Pass Functional Skills Platform is designed to support you with your studies, but it is not intended to replace your school work.
  • The Pass Functional Skills Platform works best when students follow the topics in the order they are given. This is because the order has been designed so the later topics build on the knowledge of the earlier topics.
  • We will do our best to ensure that access to PFS is available all of the time, outside of planned maintenance. However, we can not guarantee that you will be able to access the service when events occur that are outside of our control.
  • The general terms of service relating to the PFS website can be found here: https://passfunctionalskills.co.uk/terms-and-conditions

All Users

Use of the Pass Functional Skills Platform constitutes acceptance of our terms of service. Use of our Revision Platform also constitutes acceptance of our privacy policy and the right for us to use your data in ways which are GDPR compliant. Please see our data handling policy and privacy policy for further details on data handling and GDPR compliance.

The following terms outline the conditions relating to use of the Pass Functional Skills Platform. There are further terms of service relating to the wider use of the PFS website and service which can be found here https://passfunctionalskills.co.uk/terms-and-conditions

Content and Intellectual Property

  • All content within the Pass Functional Skills Platform is protected by copyright. All content has been created and is therefore owned by the parent company.
  • Under no circumstances should PFS content be used, shared or distributed outside of the Pass Functional Skills Platform.
  • No one is permitted to use any of the content within the Pass Functional Skills Platform for any purpose other than revising or teaching. Working with the content must always be completed whilst logged into the Revision Platform.
  • The software and its features have been built by our in-house team and therefore we own all intellectual property rights to it. This includes our content, our technical infrastructure, our databases, code and algorithms and the way in which we process data.
  • If you upload anything to PFS resulting in an infringement of any third party’s intellectual property rights, you will indemnify us and take entire responsibility for any liability so that no liabilities, costs or other expenditure are incurred by us.

Sign up and Login

  • In signing up to the Pass Functional Skills Platform you are in acceptance of our terms and conditions set out here but also in our general website terms and conditions.
  • Users should not share their login details with other users, unless a student is sharing them with a parent, guardian or teacher for the purposes of help and support.
  • You must be 18 or over, or have permission from a parent or guardian
  • Premium logins are intended for use by 1 learner per account.

Premium Membership

  • Premium memberships are charged on a monthly basis, unless expressly stated otherwise.
  • The subscription will be renewed on the day of purchase each month
  • Cancellation requests must be emailed to help@passfunctionalskills.co.uk
  • Cancellation requisitions must be made with 14 days notice from the next payment date. If the subscription is cancelled with less than 14 days notice, the subscription will be cancelled for the following month.
  • Premium upgrades are able to be cancelled within 14 days or purchase, provided you have not started using the content, this includes but it's not limited to: logging into the revision platform and viewing any of the content.