As of 22/12/2020
The MedGreenJournalism website (the “website”) is owned by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation (hereafter “IUCN-Med”). IUCN-Med is hereafter referred to as “We” o “Us”.
The Terms and Conditions apply to all persons who visit the website (hereafter referred to as “User” or “Users” or “you”).
Use of this website implies your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions which apply from the date on which you first visit the website.
We reserve the right to modify, update or correct the content of the website and these Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy at any time and without notice.
Changes to these Terms and Conditions
We may update these Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy from time to time, at any time and without notifying you, by posting such changes on the website. We encourage you to review these Terms and Conditions on a regular basis, to stay informed about how we are protecting your information. Regular use of the website following the posting of changes to the Terms and Conditions and/or Privacy Policy will mean you accept those changes.
Copyright, Ownership and Use of material
The general content on the MedGreenJournalism website is owned by IUCN-Med and it contains copyrighted material and/or other proprietary information. Therefore, MedGreenJournalism data is protected by intellectual property agreements, as well as copyright laws and regulations worldwide. IUCN-Med and its collaborators are the sole and exclusive owners of all rights, titles and interests, including trademarks, copyrights, trade names, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights, contained in MedGreenJournalism.
On behalf of these terms and conditions, you agree to not alter or remove any copyright symbol or other identification concerning authorship of any of the material contained on or otherwise made available to you on the website.
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Use of material and content for commercial and non-commercial purposes
Reproduction of the content of MedGreenJournalism website for educational or other non-commercial purposes is authorized without prior written permission provided that the source is fully acknowledged (IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation, MedGreenJournalism, download date dd/mm/yy) and under certain conditions:
• Free distribution;
• Respect for the integrity of the documents reproduced: no modifications or alterations of texts, tables, graphics, images of any kind;
• Clear and visible citation of the information source as indicated.
Reproduction of this information for resale or other commercial purposes without prior written permission is prohibited. Neither (a) MedGreenJournalism data nor (b) any work derived from or based upon MedGreenJournalism data (i.e., “Derivative Works”) may be put to Commercial Use without the prior written permission of IUCN-Med. For the purposes of these Terms and Conditions, “Commercial Use” means a) any use by, on behalf of, or to inform or assist the activities of, a commercial entity (an entity that operates ‘for profit’) or b) use by any individual or non-profit entity for the purposes of revenue generation. If you wish to use the information obtained from MedGreenJournalism for such commercial purposes, please contact IUCN-Med directly using the contact details in the “Contact Us” section of the website.
Third party copyright
To the extent that copyright subsists in a third party it remains with the original owner and written permission shall be required to reuse the material.
Usage of MedGreenJournalism website
• MedGreenJournalism is of free use.
• Data (including all details), which have been submitted by a User, are owned by IUCN-Med and the User/group of Users who submitted the data.
• Submitted data will be used by Us or our Partners only for conservation, educational or scientific and research purposes. In any case, you will be informed of the usage of the data submitted by you, and the source will be fully acknowledged.
• Submitted data will be stored on the IUCN-Med server and can be viewed, accessed and downloaded by the User at all times through its user account on the MedGreenJournalism website. IUCN-Med is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. Any personal information provided to us by you is handled with due care and safety, and will not be used in ways other than as set forth in these Terms and Conditions , or in any site/area-specific policies, or in ways to which you have not explicitly consented.
• Only the details of your records set as “Public by default” are visible to anyone.
• Administrators of MedGreenJournalism will however still have access to all details of these records. Submitted data can be viewed and revised by a MedGreenJournalism Administrator at all times. The Administrator might contact you about a record, for example, for clarification or for conservation reasons.
• Users assume the responsibility not to put themselves and others in danger, neither cause material damage to third parties, harm nature or compromise potential evidences when using MedGreenJournalism.
• Large amounts of data should not be shown and/or made public in other websites or applications without permission of MedGreenJournalism owners. For these cases, please contact us at uicnmed@iucn.org .
• IUCN-Med accepts no liability for any actions resulting from the use of this website. By agreeing to these terms of use, you discharge Us from all forms of liability, whether in the event of injury or loss while using our website, or in the event that your account and user information is accessed by a third party. We are not responsible for information accessed unlawfully from our servers.
• By registering at MedGreenJournalism, you accept these terms of use.
Disclaimers
Regarding frontiers and national boundaries
The designation of geographical entities on the MedGreenJournalism website do not imply the expression of, or represent, any opinion by IUCN or its Partners concerning the legal status of any country, territory or area, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.
Links to other websites
Links to other websites on the MedGreenJournalism website are provided exclusively to provide you with the most complete information. If you follow these links, you will leave MedGreenJournalism. Although we will have checked the destination page of the active link, We do not control or are responsible for these sites or their contents.
For this reason, we decline any responsibility for these sites or information contained herein, the software or other material contained therein or for the consequences of their use. If you decide to access external sites linked to our site, you do so at your own risk.
Security
The user of MedGreenJournalism shall take all appropriate measures to protect its own data and/or software from contamination by viruses circulating on the Internet. We cannot be held responsible for direct or indirect damages resulting from the use of MedGreenJournalism website or other sites linked to them.
MedGreenJournalism website is hosted on IUCN-Med’s server and, therefore, ruled by European regulations.
User communications
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User’s feedback
We seek feedback from our Users in order to improve the service offered. However, you agree not to use the website to transmit any material that is unlawful, harmful, defamatory, abusive, fraudulent, threatening, vulgar or obscene. We record the feedback in a database. The information received will only be used for the purpose for which it was requested and will not be distributed further, or disclosed, without your consent.
Use of personal data
The personal information provided when registering as a User gives us a better profile of our user community and some idea of how the MedGreenJournalism website is being used. The registration form enables us to correct and improve the information presented. We may use your personal data to contact you about any feedback you have provided, or to follow-up on particular data exports which you may have requested, but we will not share nor sell your information to any third party.
Privacy Policy
The applicable Privacy Policy is available here.
Contact Information
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