Terms and Conditions

The ICPED Consortium (“www.icped.org”) owns and operates this Website. This document governs your relationship with www.icped.org (“Website”). Access to, and use of, this Website and the services available through this Website (collectively, the “Services”) are subject to the following terms, conditions and notices (the “Terms of Service”). By using the Services, you are agreeing to all of the Terms of Service, which may be updated by us from time to time. You should check this page regularly to review any changes we may have made to the Terms of Service.

Access to this Website is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the Services without notice. We will not be liable, if for any reason, this Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts or all of this Website.

This Website may contain links to other websites (the “Linked Sites”) operated by organizations other than www.icped.org. www.icped.org has no control over the content or function of Linked Sites and accepts no responsibility for them, or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. Your use of the Linked Sites will be subject to the terms of use and service contained within each such site.

Our privacy policy, which sets out how we will use your information, can be found at www.icped.org/privacy-policy. By using this Website, you consent to the processes described therein.

You must not misuse this Website. You will not: commit or encourage a criminal offense; transmit or distribute a virus, trojan, worm, logic bomb or any other material that is malicious, technologically harmful, in breach of confidence or in any way offensive or obscene; hack into any aspect of the Service; corrupt data; cause annoyance to other users; infringe upon the rights of any other person; send any unsolicited advertising or promotional material, commonly referred to as “spam”; or attempt to affect the performance or functionality of any computer facilities of, or accessed through, this Website. Breaching this provision would constitute a criminal offense and www.icped.org will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and disclose the offender's identity.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of this Website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

The intellectual property rights to all software and content (including photographic images) made available to you on or through this Website remain the property of www.icped.org or its licensors and are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved by www.icped.org and its licensors. You may store, print and display the content supplied for your own personal use or for use by your organization or institution. You are not permitted to publish, manipulate, distribute or otherwise reproduce, in any format, any of the content or copies of the content supplied to you or that appears on this Website for the purpose of generating revenue or making profit.

The material displayed on this Website is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the fullest extent permitted by law, unless expressly stated to the contrary, www.icped.org hereby expressly excludes all conditions, warranties and other terms that might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity, and shall not be liable for any damages whatsoever, including, but not limited to, any direct, indirect, special, consequential, punitive or incidental damages, or damages for loss of use, profits, data or other intangibles, damage to goodwill or reputation, or the cost of procurement of substitute goods and services, arising out of, or related to the use, inability to use, performance or failures of this Website or the Linked Sites and any materials posted thereon, irrespective of whether such damages were foreseeable or arise in contract, tort, equity, restitution, by statute, at common law or otherwise.

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

Except where expressly stated to the contrary, all third party trademarks and content, services and/or locations featured on this Website are in no way associated, linked or affiliated with www.icped.org and you should not rely on the existence of such a connection or affiliation. Any trademarks or names featured on this Website are owned by the respective trademark owners. Where a trademark or brand name is referred to it is used solely to describe or identify the products and services and is in no way an assertion that such products or services are endorsed by or connected to www.icped.org.

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless www.icped.org, its directors, officers, employees, consultants, agents, and affiliates, from any and all third party claims, liability, damages and/or costs (including, but not limited to, legal fees) arising from your use this Website or your breach of the Terms of Service.

www.icped.org shall have the right in its absolute discretion at any time and without notice to amend, remove or vary the Services and/or any page of this Website.

If any part of the Terms of Service is unenforceable (including any provision in which we exclude our liability to you) the enforceability of any other part of the Terms of Service will not be affected, and all other clauses will remain in full force and effect. So far as possible where any clause/sub-clause or part of a clause/sub-clause can be severed to render the remaining part valid, the clause shall be interpreted accordingly. Alternatively, you agree that the clause shall be rectified and interpreted in such a way that closely resembles the original meaning of the clause/sub-clause as is permitted by law.

If you breach these conditions and we take no action, we will still be entitled to use our rights and remedies in any other situation in which you breach these conditions.

The above Terms of Service constitute the entire agreement of the parties and supersede any and all preceding and contemporaneous agreements between you and www.icped.org. Any waiver of any provision of the Terms of Service will be effective only if delivered in writing and signed by an authorized representative of www.icped.org.