Introduction
By using this website, you accept the following terms and conditions in full. This website does not use cookies at the moment.
License to Use Website
Unless otherwise stated, GEWEX owns the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.
You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.
You must not:
- Sell, rent, or sub-license material from the website;
- Reproduce, duplicate, copy, or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose without written consent from officers of the International GEWEX Project Office.
Acceptable Use
You may not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website, or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
You may not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.
You may not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without GEWEX’s express written consent.
You may not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.
Restricted Access
Access to certain areas of this website is restricted. GEWEX reserves the right to restrict access to other areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at the discretion of GEWEX.
If GEWEX provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.
GEWEX may disable your user ID and password in GEWEX’s sole discretion without notice or explanation.
User Content
In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material, and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.
You grant to GEWEX a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media, subject to GEWEX’s Privacy Policy. You also grant to GEWEX the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or GEWEX or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).
You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
GEWEX reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on GEWEX servers, or hosted or published upon this website.
Notwithstanding, GEWEX, under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.
No Warranties
This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. GEWEX makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.
GEWEX does not warrant that:
• This website will be constantly available, or available at all; or that
• The information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.
Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind.
Limitations of liability
GEWEX will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts, or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:
- To the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
- For any indirect, special, or consequential loss; or
- For any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.
These limitations of liability apply even if GEWEX has been expressly advised of the potential loss.
Exceptions
Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit the liability of GEWEX in respect of any matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for GEWEX to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.
Reasonableness
By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable.
If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.
Other Parties
You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against GEWEX officers, employees, parents, and operators in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website.
You agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect GEWEX’s officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns, and sub-contractors as well as GEWEX.
Unenforceable Provisions
If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.
Indemnity
You hereby indemnify GEWEX and undertake to keep GEWEX indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by GEWEX to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of GEWEX’s legal advisers) incurred or suffered by GEWEX arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.
Breaches of These Terms and Conditions
Without prejudice to other rights of GEWEX under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, GEWEX may take such action as GEWEX deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website, and/or bringing court proceedings against you.
Variation
GEWEX may revise these terms and conditions from time to time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.
Assignment
GEWEX may transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with GEWEX’s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.
You may not transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
Severability
If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
Entire Agreement
These terms and conditions, together with the Privacy Policy and the GEWEX Directory Terms of Use, constitute the entire agreement between you and GEWEX in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.
Law and Jurisdiction
These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with Virginia law, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Virginia.
Credit
This document was created using a Contractology template available at http://www.freenetlaw.com.
