GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE OF CIMBAA WEBSITE


GENERAL: Access to and use of this web site are subject to the following conditions. Please do not use this web site unless you agree with these conditions. This website has been developed by the Collaboration on Insect Management for Brassicas in Asia and Africa (CIMBAA) consortium in conjunction with LCCC Pty. Ltd. and is administrated by the same. We reserve the right to discontinue or to make partial or complete modifications to this website or to these general terms and conditions. Please note that we may make such changes at our own discretion and without prior announcement. We must therefore ask you, next time you visit this web site, to view the conditions again and to note any changes or amendments that may have been made.

PURPOSE, DISCLAIMER AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: This web site and the information it contains is provided as a service by the CIMBAA consortium and its corporate partners. Opinions expressed on this web site are those of the CIMBAA consortium and do not necessarily reflect the views of the individual corporate partners. The web site is monitored to ensure proper operation, to verify the functioning of applicable security features, and for other purposes related thereto. Anyone using this system expressly consents to such monitoring and these conditions. Unauthorized attempts to modify any information on this web site, to defeat or circumvent security features, or to utilize it for other than its intended purposes are prohibited and may result in civil and/or criminal prosecution.

RESTRICTION OF LIABILITY: The information on this site is supported by research and is believed reliable. Notwithstanding the aforementioned the CIMBAA consortium and/or its corporate partners make no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this web site and expressly disclaim any and all liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this web site. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents of this web site or its hyperlinks to other Internet resources. Reference in this web site to any specific (commercial) products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public only, and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favouring by CIMBAA or its participants.

OWNERSHIP: Information presented on this web site basically is considered to be public information and may be distributed or copied, with the exception of any trademark, patent or any other intellectual property right of CIMBAA and/or its corporate partners. You are only permitted to display, store and/or reproduce items from this web site for personal use or non-commercial and informational purposes, subject to the following conditions:

- no part of this web site may be distributed or sold for commercial gain or for political purposes;
- no part of this web site may be modified in any respect or incorporated in any other material, whether in hard copy or in electronic format.

Unless otherwise indicated, all the trademarks displayed are owned by or have been licensed to CIMBAA and/or its corporate partners. Nothing on this web site should be construed as granting any license or right in or to any trademark, patent or any other intellectual property right of CIMBAA and/or its corporate partners. Further all information submitted to the CIMBAA consortium and/or its corporate partners via this web site shall be deemed and remain the property of the CIMBAA consortium and/or its corporate partners, except those submissions made under separate legal contract. The CIMBAA consortium and/or its corporate partners shall be free to use, for any purpose, any ideas, concepts, or techniques contained in information provided to the CIMBAA consortium and/or its corporate partners through this web site.

PRIVACY NOTICE: We collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, we collect and store certain information automatically. Here is how we handle information about your visit to our website.

What We Collect and Store Automatically: If you visit the web site, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:
1. The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;
2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
3. The date and time you access our site;
4. The pages you visit; and
5. If you linked to our website from another website, the address of that website.


We use the information we collect to count the number and type of visitors to the different pages on our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors like you.

If You Send Us E-mail: You may choose to provide us with personal information, as in e-mail with a comment or question. We use the information to improve our service to you or to respond to your request. Sometimes we forward your e-mail to others who may be better able to help you. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, we do not share our e-mail with any other outside organizations.

Link Policy: Our website has links to our corporate partners. In a few cases we link to public organizations. When you link to another site, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the (privacy) policy of the new site and you will use this link solely for your won risk. CIMBAA and/or its corporate partner disclaim any responsibility for the content of such other sites. Links to the CIMBAA web site are only acceptable with notification of CIMBAA. However, such links are not allowed to be located on the home page of non-CIMBAA partners or organizations without written permission from CIMBAA.

APLLICABLE LAW: This website can be accessed from various countries around the world. As each of these countries has laws that may differ from those of the Netherlands, by accessing this website you agree that the laws of The Netherlands shall apply to all matters arising from or relating to the use and contents of this website or information provided to you via this website. You also agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of The Netherlands with respect to such matters.
Severability: If these Web site terms & conditions are or become partially void, the parties will continue to be bound by remainder of the same. The parties shall replace the void part by provisions that are valid and have legal effect that correspond with those of the void part as much as possible, taking into account the content and purport of these terms & conditions.

Copyright
All content © CIMBAA, 2006
Version 1.0/ 2006