TERMS AND CONDITIONS -------------------- PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY. By using the website of the partnership between the European Commission and the Council of Europe in the field of youth, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions. If you do not agree with these terms and conditions, you may not access or use a variety of Services. 1. REGISTRATION --------------- Certain of the Services will require the user to register and provide certain data. In consideration of use of such Services, in registering and providing such data, you represent and warrant that: (a) the information about yourself is true, accurate, current, and complete as required by various registration forms (b) you will maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or the EU-CoE Youth Partnership has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, the EU-CoE Youth Partnership has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Services. The EU-CoE Youth Partnership registrations become the exclusive property of the EU-CoE Youth Partnership, its affiliates and subsidiaries. The EU-CoE Youth Partnership reserves the right to use and reuse all registration and other personally identifiable user information subject to the EU-CoE Youth Partnership Privacy Policy. Due to the nature of the Internet, the information or data provided by you may be transferred outside the country. 2. PRIVACY POLICY ----------------- The EU-CoE Youth Partnership is committed to respecting your privacy. We recognize your need to control personal information you share with us. You can edit, update, alter or obscure your personally identifiable information at any time. Any personally identifiable information you share with the EU-CoE Youth Partnership is maintained and accessible only by the EU-CoE Youth Partnership unless specifically stated otherwise. The EU-CoE Youth Partnership requests information from its users so that users can enjoy customized experiences across the EU-CoE Youth Partnership, including personalization services, discussion groups, and much more. These Services are free to you. You may provide the EU-CoE Youth Partnership with your name, postal address, email address, birth date, gender, zip code and other requested information. While not all of this information may be required, the more information you volunteer (and the more accurate it is), the better we are able to understand your needs, provide you with better service and prepare future content based on your interests.. The EU-CoE Youth Partnership will use this information for: " Personal Acknowledgements; " Personalized Messages; " Pre-filled Forms; " Sending targeted e-mails to alert you to activities, new documents, product upgrades, updated information and other new services. If you are not interested in email alerts, you will have the opportunity to decline this service. " Facilitating other users to contact the youth experts (Expert Database) By requesting to have your profile listed in the Expert database, you autorise the EU-CoE Youth Partnership to disclose information or data provided by you in the registration form such as First Name, Last Name, Address, Town/City, Zip/Postal code, Country of residence, Phone numbers, Email, Areas of expertise to other users. The EU-CoE Youth Partnership will not hold such information or data for any longer than is necessary for the above purposes. The EU-CoE Youth Partnership will not sell your personally identifiable information to others. 3.YOUR RESPONSABILITIES ----------------------- Submitters are solely responsible for their own submissions. They may not authorize others to use their account. It is your responsibility to ensure the accuracy of all details (personal or otherwise) provided by you about yourself to us. It is your responsibility to inform us of any changes to personal details or circumstances at the earliest opportunity. You are solely responsible for the content or information you transmit to other of our users. You will not post on our Services, or transmit to others of our members or employees, any defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, profane, offensive sexually oriented, threatening, harassing, racially offensive, or illegal material, or any material that infringes or violates another party's rights (including, but not limited to, proprietary rights, and rights of privacy). You will use our Services in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations. You will not include in your profile any offensive anatomical or sexual references, or offensive sexually suggestive or connotative language, and you will not post any photos containing nudity or personal information. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to reject any profile or photo that does not comply with these prohibitions. You will not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other members to buy or sell any products or services through the Services. You will not transmit any chain letters or junk E-mail to other of our members. You will not post, distribute or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other intellectual property right without first obtaining permission of the copyright owner or rightholder. You accept responsibility for any content or material that you upload to or transmit through a Community Facility. You acknowledge that all Community Facilities are public and not private communications. 4.USER CONDUCT -------------- Upon registering, you will have a password and a user ID. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and ID, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or ID. You agree to (a) immediately notify the EU-CoE Youth Partnership of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. The EU-CoE Youth Partnership cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this requirement. You acknowledge and agree that all information, code, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, pictures, graphics, video, chat, messages, files, or other materials ("Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. This means that you, and not the EU-CoE Youth Partnership, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post, email or otherwise transmit via the Services. The EU-CoE Youth Partnership does not control the user or third party Content posted via the Services, and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such user or third party Content. You acknowledge and Agree that by using the Services, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. The EU-CoE Youth Partnership reserves the right to monitor some, all, or no areas of the Services. You acknowledge and agree that the EU-CoE Youth Partnership shall have the right (but not the obligation), in their sole discretion, to refuse to publish, remove, or block access to any Content that is available via the Services at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all, with or without notice. The EU-CoE Youth Partnership also may suspend or terminate any user account for any Service because of user inactivity. 5.OUR RESPONSABILITIES ---------------------- We reserve the right to reject an application on any basis and without providing a reason. We reserve the right for any reason to remove without notice any contents of the Community Facilities received from users, including without limitation bulletin board postings, and to deny in our sole discretion any user access to these Sites or any portion thereof without notice. We reserve the right to monitor the bulletin boards service and other 'Community facilities' to ensure compliance with these terms and conditions and for ongoing development of the Sites. Private discussion will not be monitored unless ordered to do so under the prevailing law. We reserve the right to modify the Services without giving any prior notice. 6.LIABILITY ----------- " We accept no liability for any of your behaviour or comments or any third parties in the bulletin boards. " Opinions, advice, statements, offers, or other information or content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any such Content, made available through our Services are those of their respective authors and not ours, and should not necessarily be relied upon. Such authors are solely responsible for such content. We do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information on the service and neither adopt nor endorse nor are responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice,or statement made. Under no circumstances will we be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from anyone's reliance on information or other content posted on our service, or transmitted to our members. .IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ: Although the Youth Partnership will take all measures necessary to prevent any illegal use of personal data, it is possible that other of our users (including unauthorised users, or 'hackers') may post or transmit offensive or obscene materials on the Sites and that you may be involuntarily exposed to such offensive and obscene materials. We are not responsible for the use of any personal information that you may choose to disclose on, or as a result of using, our Services. Please carefully select the type of information that you post on the Sites or release to other users. 7.RIGHTS GRANTED / RIGHTS RESERVED ---------------------------------- The content of the site is for your personal use only and you may download the Content onto only one computer hard drive. You agree not to (and agree not to assist or facilitate any third party to) copy, distribute, transmit, reproduce, publish commercially exploit or create derivative works from the Content. 8.AVAILABILITY -------------- You acknowledge that it is technically impossible to provide the Sites free of faults and that we do not undertake to do so; that faults may lead to the temporary unavailability of the Sites; and that the operation of the Sites may be adversely affected by conditions and performances outside our control, including, without limitation, transmission and telecommunications links between us and you and between us and other systems and networks. We and/or our suppliers may make improvements and/or changes in the Sites at any time. 9.LINKS ------- This site may contain hyperlinks to other web sites. The products and services offered by us are sometimes through third party. By using any of these third party, you are agreeing to be bound by, and comply with, their terms and conditions or terms of service. These third party companies are not a part of the EU-CoE Youth Partnership and under no circumstances shall we be liable for any losses or damages caused by a third party. Such limitation shall also apply with respect to damages incurred by reason of other products or services received through by a recommended third party. If you accept any products or services offered by a third party, then all communication must be between the you and the third party. We will not be responsible or liable for any communication or misrepresentation of the third party. 10.European Institutions details -------------------------------- Council of Europe Avenue de l'Europe 67075 Strasbourg Cedex France Tel. +33 (0)3 88 41 20 00 Fax +33 (0)3 88 41 27 45 http://www.coe.int European Commission Rue de la Loi 200 1049 Brussels Belgium Tel: (32-2) 299 11 11 Fax: (32-2) 295 0138/39/40 http://www.europa.eu.int 11.� Copyright Notice. ---------------------- All material on these webSites is protected by copyright. Those wishing to use the material available on these webSites for purposes other than their personal use, notably for commercial purposes, are requested to get prior written permission from the copyright owner. All Sites design, text, graphics, user interfaces, software and their selection and arrangements are � Council of Europe and European Commission, 2005.
