Globethics.net Library Terms of Service Agreement
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1. About this document
1.1. Your use of Globethics.net's products, services and the Website(s) - referred to as the "Service" in this document - is subject to the terms of a legal agreement between you and Globethics.net. Globethics.net means and refers to the organization whose principal seat of business is at 150, route de Ferney, CH-1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland. "The Website" means the website http://www.globethics.net. "Service" means the Service rendered by Globethics.net or part of it.
1.2 This document entitled "Globethics.net Library Terms of Service Agreement" is the legal basis of the relationship between the User (You) and Globethics.net, the organization and the Service provider.
2. Globethics.net Library
2.1 Globethics.net Library (hereafter referred to as the Library) is part of the Globethics.net Website. The Library is a Service provided by Globethics.net, which means and refers to the organization whose principal seat of business is at 150, route de Ferney, CH-1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland.
2.2 The Library is available and accessible over the Internet at the website http://www.globethics.net. The Library itself is a Service and has many component Services, referred to as the Service hereafter in this document.
3. Acceptance of the Terms
3.1 Globethics.net requires you to accept the Terms of Service (hereafter referred to as Terms) in order to use the Service of Globethics.net. You may not use the Service if you do not accept the Terms of Service.
3.2 You can accept the Terms by:
a) Clicking to accept or agree to the Terms where such an option is provided to you by Globethics.net while avoiding any particular Service and/or all the Services as a whole;
b) actually using the Service or part of it by which usage you indicate your understanding and agreement that the usage shall be treated by Globethics.net as your acceptance to the Terms from that point onwards.
4. Language of the Term
4.1 Whereas it is Globethics.net's endeavour to provide you with translations of the English language version of this Term, it must be noted that the English language version of the Term will govern your relationship with Globethics.net.
5. Provision of Services of Globethics.net Library
5.1 Globethics.net has entered into partnership agreements - commercial and non-commercial in nature - with institutions and individuals to develop and deliver various Services to You through the Library. You understand and agree that those partners are entitled to provide you with the Service on behalf of Globethics.net.
5.2 Since the Service is dependent on many aspects of technical and non-technical performance of the partners, it is unavoidable that there may be occasional failures or other technical difficulties due to the technical performance either on the website of the partner concerned or in the website of Globethics.net. You acknowledge and agree that Globethics.net may not be held responsible for such difficulties, caused by third parties, in providing the Service to You.
5.3 It is the constant endeavour of Globethics.net to deliver to you the best and innovating Service. Globethics.net makes every possible effort to communicate any changes in Service being provided to You in advance, through email and/or posting a notice in the Website; it reserves the right, however, to change the form and nature of the Service on a time to time basis without giving prior notice to you.
5.4 Globethics.net may suspend - temporarily or permanently - the Service or any part of it for innovation, maintenance, upgrading, routine back-up, or any other unforeseen reasons, without giving prior notice to you.
5.5 Globethics.net may stop, disable or terminate at any point of time Your account in the Website, on grounds that the Organisation may deem justified. As a result of that, You may not be able to access your account or any files and content kept in your account in the Website of Globethics.net.
5.6 Whereas it is the sole endeavour of Globethics.net to preserve and maintain the files and content for such a long time, as you desire, Globethics.net retains the right through a stated policy to that effect to either delete or preserve in inactivated form any file you have deposited in the Website.
5.7 Whereas Globethics.net takes every possible step to ensure long-term preservation and archiving of the files and content You have deposited in the Website, Globethics.net cannot be held liable and responsible for accidental deletion of the said files and content.
5.8. Whereas Globethics.net strictly adheres to Your privacy according to the stated Privacy Policy which is part of this Term, the Organisation may choose to retain the file(s) and content You submitted in the Library, even though you may have deleted your account in the Website and choose to withdraw your content from other parts of the Website.
5.9 Globethics.net may, at its own discretion, put an upper limit on the storage space provided and the number of transactions permitted during a given time period for You.
6. Your Privacy and Personal Information
6.1 Information on how Globethics.net collects, stores and uses Your personal information and protects your privacy can be found in the Globethics.net Privacy Policy, available here.
6.2 You agree to the afore-mentioned Privacy Policy by using the Service.
7. Password and your account security
7.1 Globethics.net provides the Service to you in good faith, in accordance with the rules and procedures it applies to conducting its own business and partnership agreements it has entered to bring the Service to you.
7.2 You shall be held liable for any activities that may occur under your account.
7.3 You shall notify Globethics.net immediately of any unwarranted and unlawful access to your account or unauthorised use of your password of your account in the Website as soon as you become aware of it. You can contact Globethics.net at adminweb@globethics.net .
8. Content of the Library Services
8.1 Globethics.net Library shall host multiple types of content, hereafter referred to as "content", in the forms of texts, data files, image files, audio files, video files, etc. from various sources.
8.2 Globethics.net recognises that content available in the Library or other parts of the Website are protected by relevant intellectual property rights by those who provide that content to the Website or any third party. The specific terms and conditions governing the intellectual property rights can be found here website link. In general, content available in the Website is meant for your personal use only. You may not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute such content or create derivative works based on it (either in whole or in part) unless you have been explicitly permitted to do so by Globethics.net, or by the specific conditions laid down in the Intellectual Property law applicable to the content in question, normally mentioned on the document or in the metadata of the document.
8.3 Globethics.net has put in place a mechanism to review the appropriateness of the content available in the Library for our users. Globethics.net, therefore, reserves the right (but shall have no obligation) to pre-screen, review, flag, filter, modify, refuse or remove any or all content from any Service.
8.4 Globethics.net actively prohibits uploading and/or submission of content in the Library that is unlawful in nature according to the law of the country in which you reside. Such content may include, but is not limited to, pornographic materials (including child pornography) per se (that is, not content that is concerned with academic and scientific discussion of pornography in relation to the business of the Service); unauthorized copies of books, music, movies, and other licensed or protected materials including copies without proper attribution. Globethics.net also reserves the right to remove content which proves to be deliberately detrimental to the social, cultural, economic or political standings of individuals and/or groups of individuals. You may notify Globethics.net immediately upon noticing such unlawful activities with Content here website link.
8.5 Globethics.net respects and promotes diversity of opinion and freedom of expression. You may therefore find that part of the content is offensive to you. You agree and understand that you are using the Service by your own choice and that Globethics.net cannot be held responsible for any offense caused to you by the content.
8.6 Globethics.net shall not assume any responsibility whatsoever for the consequences of any content you may submit to the Service.
9. Content License from You
9.1 Copyright to the Content available in the Library is retained by the respective copyright owner who creates or submits the content, as the case may be.
9.2 By submitting, posting or displaying the content in the Library, you give Globethics.net a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to reproduce, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through the Services. Globethics.net also retains the right to revoke the Content to comply with court orders and applicable laws (see Globthics.net Library Copyright) .
9.3 You understand and agree that, unless agreed otherwise in writing, Globethics.net may (a) index, retrieve, transmit or distribute your Content (metadata and/or full text) over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media.
10. Content License from Globethics.net
10.1 Globethics.net gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and nonexclusive license to use the Services as provided to you by Globethics.net.
10.2 You agree and understand that copyright for and other rights to the Content available in the Library is vested in the respective owners. You are responsible for compliance with the applicable legal restrictions and for adherence to the terms and conditions defined by the respective owner. Globethics.net maintains a register of Copyright Information of specific publishers at website link.
10.3 You understand and agree that transmission, reproduction or reuse of protected material, beyond that allowed by the copyright laws applicable in the specific case, requires the written permission of the copyright owners.
10.4 Crawlers and other automated processes may not be used to systematically download Content in batches from the Library.
11. Ending the relationship between the user and Globethics.net
11.1 Globethics.net is entitled to terminate the relationship with the user at any time without advance notice and to remove content submitted by the user from Globethics.net Library.
11.2 The user is entitled to terminate the relationship with Globethics.net at any time without advance notice and to request that content submitted by him be removed from Globethics.net Library. If the user makes no such request within 30 days after he has terminated the relationship, Globethics.net may at its choice either continue to offer the content on or remove it from Globethics.net Library.
Geneva, 1 October 2008