International Day of Peace Website
Terms and Conditions
1. Your Acceptance
By visiting and/or using any part of this website, you signify your assent to these terms and conditions (the "Terms of Use").
If you do not agree to any of these terms, you should leave the Website immediately.
The term "Website" (with a capital "W") refers to the International Day of Peace Website. The term "User" refers to persons who read or post content on the Website, including event listings and comments in the "News and Updates" section.
These Terms of Use may be changed at any time and without notice. Therefore, it is your responsibility to review these Terms of Use on a regular basis for any changes.
2. International Day of Peace Website
These Terms of Use apply to all Users of the International Day of Peace Website.
The Website may contain links to other websites. Pathways to Peace has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any other website. By using the Website, you expressly relieve Pathways to Peace and its Partners from any and all liability arising from your use of any other, third-party websites, even if there is a link to those websites from the Website.
3. Website Access
A. You are hereby granted permission to use the Website in compliance with these Terms of Use, on condition that:
(i) your use of the Website is solely for your personal, noncommercial use;
(ii) you will not copy or distribute any part of the Website in any medium without prior written authorization from Pathways to Peace.
(iii) you do not alter or modify any part of the Website other than as may be reasonable and necessary to use the Website for its intended purpose.
(iv) User Submissions and Content are provided to you for your information and personal use only.
4. User Submissions
You shall be solely responsible for your own User Submissions (e.g. comments in the "News and Updates" blog and information submitted for the "Events Calendar") and the consequences of posting or publishing them. In connection with User Submissions you submit to the Website, you represent and warrant that you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use the material contained in the User Submissions in the manner stated on the Website and these Terms of Use.
You agree to pay all royalties, fees and other monies owing to any person by reason of your User Submissions.
You retain all of your ownership rights in your User Submissions. However, by submitting the User Submissions to the International Day of Peace Web site, you hereby grant a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, and transferable (including by sublicensees) license to use, reproduce, distribute, excerpt, translate, display and perform the User Submissions in connection with the International Day of Peace Web site, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.
You hereby grant each User of the Website a non-exclusive license to access your User Submissions through the Website, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such User Submissions as permitted through the functionality of the Website and under these Terms of Use.
5. Copyright and Other Rights
In connection with User Submissions, you agree that you will not:
(i) submit material that is protected by copyright, trade secret, trademark, or unfair competition laws or otherwise subject to proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the material and to grant all of the license rights granted herein;
(ii) publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage Pathways to Peace or any third party or expose Pathways to Peace or any third party to liability;
(iii) submit material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that violates any law, or is otherwise inappropriate;
(iv) post advertisements or solicitations of business; or
(v) impersonate another person.
Pathways to Peace reserves the right to remove User Submissions without prior notice, at any time, for any reason or no reason, and without liability.
Pathways to Peace does not endorse any opinions, recommendations or advice expressed in User Submissions.
Pathways to Peace does not condone infringement of copyright or other intellectual property rights. Pathways to Peace also reserves the right to make a determination as to whether a User Submission is appropriate and complies with these Terms of Use or offends another person's rights, such as without limitation pornography, defamatory material, or excessive length.
Although Pathways to Peace has the rights described above, it does not assume any obligation to monitor User Submissions for inappropriate or unauthorized content. Pathways to Peace also expressly disclaims any responsibility for any inappropriate or unauthorized content that may be considered by any Users to be contained in any User Submissions.
Pathways to Peace will remove a User Submission if properly notified that the User Submission infringes on another's intellectual property rights. In particular, if you are a copyright owner and believe that a User Submission infringes your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act by providing our Copyright Agent with the following information in writing:
(i) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
(ii) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
(iii) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material;
(iv) Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an e-mail address;
(v) A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
To reach Pathways to Peace's copyright agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement, please email info@internationaldayofpeace.org with "Copyright Agent" as the subject heading. (See 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(3) for further detail.)
You understand that when using the International Day of Peace Website, you will be exposed to User Submissions from a variety of sources representing many cultures and points of view. You agree that Pathways to Peace is not responsible for the accuracy, usefulness, safety, or intellectual property rights of or relating to such User Submissions. You further understand and acknowledge that you may be exposed to User Submissions that are inaccurate, offensive, indecent or objectionable, and you waive any claims, rights and remedies whatsoever that you have or may have against Pathways to Peace with respect thereto.
6. Community Participation
The goal of permitting posts is to foster dialogue and a free exchange of ideas. Please observe appropriate etiquette and behave in a manner that is respectful of your fellow community members. Personal attacks (including attacks against ethnic, racial or other groups of people), however, are a direct violation of this agreement with you and will result in the immediate removal of any User Submissions by you from the Website.
User Submissions are not the place for commercial postings of any kind (including without limitation advertisements, recruitment efforts, site announcements, and program announcements) and any such postings will be immediately removed. You are welcome to include URLs in your message posts, as long as such messages do not violate these Terms of Use.
If you post a User Submission on the website, you hereby grant Pathways to Peace all rights in and to such posting without limitation. If you post information or comments to other public member services, you hereby grant Pathways to Peace a non-exclusive right to make that information available to the public. You also grant Pathways to Peace the right edit any post for formatting purposes.
In making a post, you accept that Pathways to Peace's decisions relating in any manner to the post are final and not appealable.
7. Warranty Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability
YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE WEBSITE SHALL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK.
PATHWAYS TO PEACE MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE WEBSITE'S CONTENT OR THE CONTENT OF ANY SITES LINKED TO THE WEBSITE AND ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY INJURY OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE WEBSITE.
PATHWAYS TO PEACE ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR:
(i) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR USE OF OUR SECURE SERVERS AND/OR ANY AND ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION AND/OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION STORED THEREIN;
(ii) ANY INTERRUPTION OR CESSATION OF TRANSMISSION TO OR FROM OUR WEBSITE;
(iii) ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, OR THE LIKE WHICH MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH OUR WEBSITE;
(iv) ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE ADVERTISED OR OFFERED BY A THIRD PARTY THROUGH THE WEBSITE OR ANY HYPERLINKED WEBSITE OR ANY BANNER OR OTHER ADVERTISING.
YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT PATHWAYS TO PEACE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR USER SUBMISSIONS OR ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE, OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY AND THAT THE RISK OF HARM OR DAMAGE FROM THE FOREGOING RESTS ENTIRELY WITH YOU.
The Website is controlled and offered by Pathways to Peace from its facilities in the United States of America. Pathways to Peace makes no representations that the content on the International Day of Peace Website is deemed appropriate or is permitted to be accessed in any jurisdiction. Each User is responsible for compliance with the local laws in effect where the User is located. Use of the Website in locations where such use is prohibited is a violation of these Rules.
8. Ability to Accept Terms of Use
You affirm that you are considered an adult (sometimes referred to as having reached the "age of majority") under the law where you live and are therefore fully able and competent under the laws where you live to undertake to be bound by these Terms of Use.
If you have not reached the age of majority under the law of the place where you reside, you affirm that you have shown these Terms of Use to your parent or guardian, who has given you unconditional permission to use the Website in compliance with these Terms of Use and to be bound by these Terms of Use.
9. General
Contact Information:
If you have any questions or comments about these Terms of Use, please contact Pathways to Peace by sending an email to info@internationaldayofpeace.org.
