Acceptable use
Acceptable Use Policy
The short list of things schools and staff must not do with Bell Path, and what the school agrees to look after.
- Operator
- Dimitrios James Gregory Hooke ABN 59 429 101 462 trading as Bell Path Timetabling
- Effective date
- 20 September 2026
Purpose
Bell Path is for school timetabling, school operations planning and the support and administration around them. This policy sets out the uses that are not allowed. It forms part of the Terms and Conditions.
What you must not do
- Use Bell Path for anything unlawful, harmful, misleading, abusive or unauthorised.
- Enter information you do not have authority to provide, including student-identifying, health, disciplinary or other sensitive information that the work does not need.
- Try to get into another school’s workspace, someone else’s account, or any system, database, infrastructure or administration area you have not been given access to.
- Share accounts, work around role restrictions, scrape the service, reverse engineer the software, or try to copy the solver or how the platform works.
- Slow the service down for others, overload the timetable generator, send automated abusive requests, or attempt a denial-of-service attack.
- Use several workspaces, school accounts or artificial splits of school data to avoid the correct pricing tier, or run timetables for one school across accounts without the right subscription.
- Remove notices from outputs, misrepresent a timetable Bell Path produced, or present Bell Path as the one making staffing, legal, industrial or educational decisions for the school.
What the school agrees to do
- Keep the list of users current and remove people who no longer need access.
- Check every timetable before publishing it.
- Handle exports, screenshots and diagnostic files with care, because they can contain school information.
- Tell Bell Path promptly if you suspect unauthorised access, misuse or a security problem.
What happens if this policy is breached
If we reasonably believe this policy has been breached, or we need to act to protect a school, a user, the service or the public, Bell Path may investigate and may suspend, limit or end access.