greenhorizon-online.com

Friday, June 5, 2003

Welcome to greenhorizon-online.com, a digital news and information website published by The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC). Views and opinions expressed in the pages of this website are not necessarily those of the REC.

All contents of the website are made available free of charge, though users may register by providing a user name and password. Users must register to post comments on greenhorizon-online.com.

If you have registered with us and subsequently change your details, you should notify us of any changes by emailing the user support team at subscribers@greenhorizon-online.com.

Any changes we make to the terms and conditions will be reflected on this page.

1. Registration

When you register, you are registering as a personal user of greenhorizon-online.com. Access to registration areas is via your email address and password.

We allow you access to the registration areas of the site on the basis that:

• Your email address and password are personal to you and may not be used by anyone else to access to greenhorizon-online.com;

• You will not do anything which would assist anyone who is not a registered user to gain access to any registration area of greenhorizon-online.com;

• You do not maliciously create additional registration accounts for the purpose of abusing the functionality of the site, or other users; nor do you seek to pass yourself off as another user;

• You comply with these terms and conditions.

If, for any reason, we believe that you have not complied with these requirements, we may, at our discretion, cancel your access to the registration areas of greenhorizon-online.com.

2. Use of material appearing on greenhorizon-online.com

For the purposes of this agreement, "material" means, without limitation, text, video, graphics and sound material appearing on this website.

You may download and print extracts from the material and make copies of these for your own personal and non-commercial use only. You are not allowed to download or print the material, or extracts from it, in a systematic or regular manner or otherwise so as to create a database in electronic or paper form comprising all or part of the material appearing on greenhorizon-online.com.

You must not reproduce any part of greenhorizon-online.com or the material or transmit it to or store it in any other website or disseminate any part of the material in any other form, unless we have indicated that you may do so.

We may be prepared to allow you to distribute or reproduce parts of greenhorizon-online.com in certain circumstances. If you wish to apply for permission to do so, please make your request to editor@greenhorizon-online.com.

3. Disclaimer of liability

IMORTANT: The views and opinions expressed in the pages of this greenhorizon-online.com are not necessarily those of the Regional Environmental Center and/or its partner organisations.

You can access other sites via links from greenhorizon-online.com. These sites are not under our control and we are not responsible in any way for any of their contents.

We give no warranties of any kind concerning greenhorizon-online.com or the material. In particular, we do not warrant that greenhorizon-online.com or any of its contents is virus free. You must take your own precautions in this respect as we accept no responsibility for any infection by virus or other contamination or by anything which has destructive properties.

4. Third party material on greenhorizon-online.com

You will occasionally see advertising material submitted by third parties on greenhorizon-online.com. Unless advertising material has been developed with the authorised assistance of the REC's Publishing Department, individual advertisers are solely responsible for the content of advertising material which they submit to us, including ensuring that it complies with relevant legislation. We accept no responsibility for the content of advertising material, including, without limitation, any error, omission or inaccuracy therein.

If you want to become a sponsor or advertise on greenhorizon-online.com, please contact us at advertise@greenhorizon-online.com.

5. Submitting graphical material and photography for publication on greenhorizon-online.com

When you send a photograph or other graphical material to us you do so in accordance with these Terms of Use.

Selected photographs and graphical material will be published at the discretion of the editor and you will not be paid, even if your photograph(s) is (are) published.

We may cut, edit, crop or arrange your photograph(s) or graphic as we think fit to appear on the guardian.co.uk web site, and we may remove your photograph(s) or graphics at any time.

Your name will be published alongside your photograph(s) or graphic, but we may edit or delete any comments which you submit along with your photograph(s) or graphic.

IMPORTANT: You or the owner of the photograph(s) still own the copyright in the photograph(s) sent to us and are free to republish the photograph(s) wherever you or the owner wish and in whatever medium you or the owner want.

6. Submitting text for publication on greenhorizon-online.com

Registered users of our site may submit comments for publication in various areas of the site. We accept no liability in respect of any material submitted by users and published by us and we are not responsible for its content and accuracy.

If you want to submit comments:

• Publication of any material you submit to us will be at our sole discretion. We reserve the right to make additions or deletions to the text or graphics prior to publication, or to refuse publication;

• You grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, worldwide licence to republish any material you submit to us in any format, including without limitation print and electronic format;

• You warrant that the material you submit is not obscene, offensive, defamatory of any person or otherwise illegal;

• You agree not to post material which is deliberately intended to upset other users;

• We reserve the right to remove your access to individual services completely if we believe you are abusing the services in any way.

7. Variations

These terms may be varied from time to time. Please ensure that you review these terms and conditions regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted a variation if you continue to use the site after it has been posted.

8. Force majeure

Although we will do our best to provide constant, uninterrupted access to greenhorizon-online.com, we do not guarantee this. We accept no responsibility or liability for any interruption or delay.