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Use of this website is governed by the terms and conditions described below. Please read them carefully. Your use of this website indicates your acceptance of these terms and conditions. zeropoverty.org is operated by Caritas Europa. Caritas Europa reserves the right to make modifications to these Terms & Conditions of Use at any time and without notice to users. We recommend that you periodically check this Site for changes. These Terms and Conditions of Use are referred to hereafter as the “Agreement”.
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE
The term “Service” shall mean the Internet web pages, data, analyses, screens, reports, documentation, spreadsheets, photographs, maps and other information of any kind that are accessible through the zeropoverty.org web application In addition, the meaning of “Service” shall include all correspondence, email, or data sent by Caritas Europa personnel or agents.
You also understand and agree that the Service may include links to third party websites. You also understand and agree that the Service may include certain communications from Caritas Europa, such as service announcements, administrative messages and various emails, which may include attachments.
You understand and agree that Caritas Europa assumes no responsibility for the timeliness, deletion, mis-delivery or failure to store any user communications or personalization settings.
We may modify or terminate our services from time to time, for any reason, and without notice, including the right to terminate with or without notice, without liability to you, any other user or any third party. We recommend that you periodically check this Site for changes. You have the right to terminate your usage and contractual obligation without prior notice, if you are not willing to accept any of such modifications.
You may register websites and public social network accounts onto your profil on zeropoverty.org in order to present your poverty related contents on zeropoverty.org. By registering content sources like RSS-Feeds or Twitter-, Youtube and Flickr-Accounts, you garantee, that you own all contents there and you allow zeropoverty to store them and present them on zeropoverty.org. zeropoverty will name you als source and will link to the registered content source.
OWNERSHIP
User acknowledges and agrees that: the Service, including, without limitation, any modifications, enhancements and updates, and any originals and copies thereof, in whole or in part, and all rights therein, is owned by Caritas Europa and its third party content providers (“Content Providers”). If you contribute to our service by
• RSS-Feeds of websites your own,
• Content feeds from public social network accounts you own
• postings, uploads, or other contributions,
you garantee that you own all rights of these contents and you transfer following rights regarding to such contributions: the right of storing them and of of making these contributions available to the public via the websites of zeropoverty.org, the right to publish these constributions on other websites, as long the original source is named and linked to.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:
YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. CARITAS EUROPA EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
CARITAS EUROPA MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; (ii) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE; (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE; (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION OR OTHER MATERIAL OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS; AND (v) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED.
ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS ACCESSED AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.
NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM Caritas Europa OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE AGREEMENT.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT Caritas Europa SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF Caritas Europa HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE; (ii) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS, DATA, INFORMATION OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE; (iii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iv) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE; OR (v) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SERVICE. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY IS NOT APPLICABLE IN CASES OF WILFULNESS OR GROSS NEGLIGENCE OF CARITAS EUROPA.
NO THIRD-PARTY BENEFICIARIES
You agree that, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, there shall be no third-party beneficiaries to this agreement.
Non-Commercial Use by Members. zeropoverty.org may not be used in connection with any commercial activities or endeavours. The following include Illegal and/or unauthorized uses of the Web site: Collection of usernames and/or email addresses of members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email and unauthorized framing of or linking to the Web site will be investigated thoroughly, and the appropriate legal action will be taken, including without limitation, criminal, civil and injunctive redress.
Certain portions of zeropoverty.org require users to register to obtain certain zeropoverty.org Services. Registration is initially available to anyone of requisite age and citizenship and is limited to one registration per user. By registering for these services, you agree to: (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as requested by the zeropoverty.org registration form (the "Registration Information") and (b) maintain and update the Registration Information to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. In addition to other grounds for suspension or termination of your use of the zeropoverty.org Services, if you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or Caritas Europa has reasonable grounds to suspect that information you have provided is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, Caritas Europa has the right to suspend or terminate your access and refuse you any and all use of relevant Site.
PASSWORDS AND SECURITY
Access to certain zeropoverty.org Services require you to choose a user name and password. If you do so, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account and for logging out of your account at the end of each session. In selecting a user name, you agree that you will not (i) select or use a screen name of another person with the intent to impersonate that person; (ii) use a name subject to the rights of any person without their authorization; or (iii) use a screen name that is offensive to people of ordinary sensitivities, illegal, or infringing. You are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account. You agree (a) to notify Caritas Europa immediately of any unauthorized use of your password or account or any other breach of security, and (b) to ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. Caritas Europa cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this section.
INDEMNIFICATION OF CARITAS EUROPA
You agree to indemnify and hold Caritas Europa harmless from and against any and all liability, losses, claims, demands, disputes, damages or costs of any kind, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees and costs of litigation, resulting from or in any way connected with (a) Postings or other content you submit or that are submitted from your account, (b) your use of or reliance on Caritas Europa Services, (c) your connection to our Sites, (d) your violation of this Agreement, or (e) your violation of any rights of another party.
TERMINATION OF YOUR ACCESS TO ZEROPOVERTY.ORG SERVICES
You agree that Caritas Europa, in its sole discretion, may terminate your access to the zeropoverty.org Services, and/or remove, discard or modify any Postings or content within the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation, for lack of use or if Caritas Europa believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of this Agreement. You agree that any termination of your access to the Caritas Europa Services may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that Caritas Europa may immediately deactivate or delete your account and all related information and files in your account and/or bar any further access to such files or the zeropoverty.org Services. Further, you agree that Caritas Europa shall not be liable to you or any third party for the discontinuation or termination of your access to the Caritas Europa Services, even if advised of a claim for damages.
ZEROPOVERTY.ORG PRIVACY POLICY
Registration Data and certain other information about you is subject to our Privacy Policy. You understand that through your use of the Service you consent to the collection and use (as set forth in the Privacy Policy) of this information.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Policy to be sure you are familiar with the most current version.
To help users understand how they can better protect their privacy online, below are some recommendations:
When using any online service it is recommended that you:
Never display personally identifiable information on your profiles such as home address, phone number, birth date, social security number, or email address.
If you do not want your profile to be indexed by search engines, it is recommended that you make your profile private. Most social networks allow you to make your profile private in their account settings page.
If other search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN) are displaying search results that are inaccurate or reveal personally identifiable information, please work with the search engine directly to remove those results from their index and work with the website where that information is displayed to remove your information.
Never give out personally identifiable information in public online discussion groups, blogs, or chat rooms.
Information we collect and how we use it
When you sign up for a Caritas Europa account, we may collect the following types of information:
Information you provide - When you sign up for an zeropoverty.org account or promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password).
zeropoverty.org cookies - When you visit zeropoverty.org, we send one or more cookies - a small file containing a string of characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user preferences. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some zeropoverty.org features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
Log information - When you use zeropoverty.org services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
User communications - When you send email or other communication to zeropoverty.org, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services. You agree to receive periodic system mails from zeropoverty.org to the adress you have entered.
Other sites - This Privacy Policy applies to zeropoverty.org. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.
Information sharing
Caritas Europa only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Caritas Europa in the following limited circumstances:
We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons, but only for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Caritas Europa, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example. Such information does not identify you individually.
In what other situations may we disclose your information?
Law Enforcement/Legal Requirements. We may disclose your personally identifiable information as well as your IP address and other information to comply with court orders or subpoenas or when required to do so by law. We also may disclose such information in cooperation with a law enforcement or government request or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Service, as necessary to render or conduct a legitimate business activity related to a service we provide, or to comply with legal or regulatory obligations.
Security
We use commercially reasonable security measures to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. However, we cannot guarantee the protection of information against interception, misappropriation, misuse, or alteration or that your information may be not be disclosed or accessed by accidental circumstances or by the unauthorized acts of others. You should be aware that we have no control over the security of other sites on the Internet you might visit, interact with, or from which you buy products or services.
Policy Changes
We reserve the right to change this policy should we deem it advisable to do so. If we make significant changes that affect the use or disclosure of your personal information, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the changes and to give you the opportunity to cancel your registration.
These Terms of Service are governed by the Law oft the Republic of Austria. The rules of conflicts of Laws are excluded. Any disputes between you and zeropoverty.orgshall be settled before the Bezirksgericht Innere Stadt or the Landesgericht für Zivilrechtssachen in Vienna, if you are a consumer, before your ordinary court.
Disclaimer
Caritas Europa makes every effort to ensure, but does not guarantee, the accuracy of the information on its web site. Hyperlinks to other web sites imply neither responsibility for, nor approval of, the information contained in those other web sites on the part of Caritas Europa.
Copyright
All rights reserved.
The information contained on this web site may be freely used for non-commercial purposes, provided that any reproduction of data be accompanied by an acknowledgement of Caritas Europa as the source.
This does not apply to the logo of Caritas Europa and other images/pictures.
The reproduction of information contained on web sites which are hyperlinked to this web site or in documents of other organisations which are published on this web site require acknowledgement/authorisation of the original source.
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