I - ABSTRACT
The terms of use of the website will define the use modalities of the various website www.HBB4ALL.eu services and categories. The access and/or the use of www.hbb4all.eu suppose the unconditional acceptance and the respect of all the terms of the following conditions.
The terms of use establish a contract between the website owners and the user. If the user does not want to accept all or a part of those use conditions, he’s asked to not use the www.HBB4ALL.eu website and/or its services.
II - LEGAL NOTICES
2.1 Hosting:
The HBB4ALL website is hosted by: UAB: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; CAIAC, Edifici MRA 126 – Campus UAB 08193 Bellaterra Barcelona
2.2 Creation & Management
The website users must be informed that the creation, the publishing and the management of the HBB4ALL website are under the responsibility of HBB4ALL and its partners:
- Technical infrastructure creation: Javier S. Garcia, UAB; Ammar Hamilcar Tijani, Peoples Play Ground
- The logo: was designed by Das Illustrat GbR (http://www.das-illustrat.de/)
- Responsible of publication: Hadmut Holken, Holken Consultants & Partners
- Webmaster: Nada EL Haouaji, Holken Consultants & Partners
- HBB4ALL project coordination: Pilar Orero (content) Juan F. SANGÜESA FERRER (administration), UAB
- The owners: The European Commission holds 50 % of the HBB4ALL project. The other part returns to the partners committed in the realization and the management of the project
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| Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) |
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| Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) |
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| Institut Fuer Rundfunktechnik (IRT) |
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| Rádio e Televisão de Portugal SA (RTP) |
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| Televisió de Catalunya SA (TVC) |
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| Schweizerische Teletext AG (SWISS TXT) |
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| Vsonix Gmbh (VSX) |
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| Fundación Centro de Tecnologias de Interacción Visualy Comunicaciones (Vicomtech) |
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| Screen Subtitling Systems Ltd (SCREEN) |
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| Holken Consultants & Partners (HC) |
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| People’s Playground BV (PPG) |
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| Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) |
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III - SERVICE ACCESS
The website is free of charge for every user having an access to internet.
The owners implement all the reasonable ways at their disposal to assure a quality access to the website. The owners cannot be held responsible for any dysfunction of the network or for the servers or for any other event escaping the reasonable control, which would prevent or would degrade the access to the website services.
The owners save for themselves the possibility of interrupting and/or suspending, for a moment, the access to all or part of services; to assure the maintenance, or for any other reason. The interruption cannot be subjected to a legal procedure and / or compensation.
IV – PRIVACY AND PERSONAL DATA
To respect and protect the user’s personal data, the owners are committed that the collection and the treatment of personal information – collected by the website – are made according to the European Directive 95/46/CE relating to data, files and freedoms.
According to the European Directive, the HBB4ALL website gives to the user the right of opposition, access and rectification of specific data concerning him.
The user has the possibility of exercising this right:
- By using the form contact,
- By contacting the following address:
V – INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The HBB4ALL partners are the owners of intellectual propriety, and they are the only to have the rights of usage of all website contents, mainly: the texts, the logos, the pictures, the images, the links, the graphics, the boards, the videos and the sound.
Any modification, publication, adaptation or reproduction of all or part of the website contents, is forbidden, except with written authorization from: The project coordinator. Any unauthorized exploitation of the website or of any of its contents, will be considered as essential of an imitation and will be pursued; according to provisions of the articles of the Code of Intellectual property.
VI – DISCLAIMERS
The owners cannot be held responsible for direct and/or indirect damage consecutive to the use of the HBB4ALL website. The owners cannot be held responsible for direct and/or indirect damage caused to the equipment of the user, during the access to the site.
Interactive spaces are at the disposal of the users via social networks (like Twitter). The owners reserve the right to ask the concerned social network to delete, without formal demand, any contents put down in this space which would violate the applicable legislation in Europe, in particular relative to the data protection. Where necessary, the owners save themselves the possibility of questioning the civil and/or penal liability of the user, in particular in case of message with racist, offensive, slanderous or pornographic character, whatever is the used support (text, sound, image, etc.).
VII - HYPERTEXT LINKS & COOKIES
The HBB4ALL website contains a hypertext links from other websites, set up with permission of the owners. However, the owners can’t verify the content of the each website, and therefore do not take the responsibility of their contents.
Using the HBB4ALL website may cause the installation of cookies on the users’ computers. A cookie is a small file which does not allow the identification of the user, but which records information about the navigation. The data obtained are intended to facilitate subsequent browsing of the website, and also enable various measures of attendance.
Refusing to use a cookie may complicate the access to some services. However, users may configure their computers in the following manner, to refuse the use of cookie:
- Internet Explorer: tool tab / Internet Options. Click Privacy and go to Setting, select Block All Cookies. Press Ok
- Firefox: the top of the browser window, click the Firefox button, and then go to the Options tab. Click the Privacy tab. set the rules on conservation: Use custom settings for history. Finally uncheck it to disable cookies.
- In Safari: Click on the top right of the browser on the icon menu. Select Settings. Click Show Advanced Settings. In the “Privacy” section, click Content settings. In the “Cookies” section, you can block cookies.
- Google Chrome: Click in the upper right of the browser on the icon menu. Select Settings. Click Show Advanced Settings. In the section “Privacy”; click preferences. In the tab “Privacy”; you can block cookies.
VIII – GOVERNING LAW & JURISDICTION
Those terms of use shall in all respects be governed by, and construed and interpreted in accordance with, the European Lows. In case of litigation with any user(s), the owners make exclusive attribution of jurisdiction for the competent European courts.
IX – TERMINOLOGY
Those definitions help to fix some wording of the use conditions:
- User: defines every person who uses the website and/or the website services.
- User content: defines the user contributions communicated by the user through the www.HBB4ALL.eu website and/or by the HBB4ALL social network profiles.