Source: https://goresponsa.com/en/terms-and-conditions
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 04:10:05+00:00

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Responsa Srl, based in Roncade (TV), Via Sile, 41, shared capital Euro 30,000, CF and IVA 04446680268, registered at the Business Register of Treviso with n. 04446680268 (hereinafter "Responsa"), is the owner of the www.goresponsa.com (hereinafter the "Platform") that provides users with an encyclopedia where users can freely search and browse the questions posed by other users (hereinafter the "Service").
Responsa has developed a software (hereinafter "Software") under which, upon registration on the platform the registered user (hereinafter the "Registered User"), may provide their own website (of hereinafter the "Website") with the application software Responsa (hereinafter the "Widgets"). In this way the questions and answers provided by a Registered User will be automatically transferred from the Web site also on the platform.
Responsa’s Terms of Service and Use of Widgets (hereinafter the "Terms of Service and Use") apply to Registered Users of the platform and regulate the relationship between those users and Responsa in order to provide information about the processing of personal data of Responsa, web page www.goresponsa.com/en/static/privacy-policy, (hereinafter the "Policy"), which forms part thereof. Using the Platform, the Registered User agrees to the Terms of Service and Use and of Disclosure. If the Registered User does not wish to accept the Terms of Service and Use and of Disclosure, the user must immediately cease use of the Platform.
By accessing the platform, the Registered User declares and guarantees: (i) to have carefully read the Terms of Service and Use and of Disclosure, which forms part thereof, (ii) to agree to be bound by the Terms of Service and Use and give their consent to the processing of his personal data in accordance with our conditions, (iii) to possess the necessary ability to fulfill the Terms of Service and Use and of Disclosure, which forms part thereof, (iv) to commit to comply with the Terms of Service and Use, as well as any legislation applicable to the relationship between the Registered User and Responsa. If the registered user violates these Terms of Service and Use, Responsa reserves the right to remove the account and take any other action necessary to protect individual rights and interests.
1.1. In order to use the platform, the user must register by creating his own account on the same platform. Each registered user can then use his own account to manage and publish information, messages or other materials (hereinafter "Content").
1.2. For registration and account creation, the user is required to disclose some personal data to Responsa. Each user agrees communicate only truthful and updated information.
1.3. The security of the account is the sole responsibility of the Registered User. Registered Users are also responsible for any and all activities that take place in theirown account. The Registered User commits to promptly inform any potential unauthorized access and use of his own account to Responsa.
1.4. Each Registered User can delete their account at any time by contacting Responsa staff at [email protected]. Responsa reserves the right to cancel accounts that are inactive for an extended period of time, and in any case a period that exceeds 365 days.
2.1. Registered Users may elect to provide their website with a Widget developed by Responsa, thus becoming the direct users of the selected widget.
2.2 The Registered User will be able to select the type of widget that he wishes to use for his own website from among those provided on Responsa’s Platform.
2.3. Registered Users will have the option to choose between a Widget(s) whose contents are private (hereinafter the "Private Widgets") or remain publicly accessible (hereinafter the "Public Widgets"), (ii) subject to charges (hereinafter the "Paid Widgets ") or free of charge (hereinafter the "Free Widgets"). 2.4. Responsa is committed to provide a Widget for the Registered User, if the latter so requests, by selecting the appropriate platform Widget which he wishes to use on his Website, a nonexclusive license to use the Widget (hereinafter the "License Agreement Widgets").
3.1 The Registered User agrees not to use the Service for the following purposes: (i) as a substitute for professional advice or opinions; (ii) for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, (iii) in violation of the rights of other Registered Users and / or any third party, (iv) to falsify his identity, (v) to use the personal data of other Registered Users without their explicit consent to do so, (vi) to upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail", "spam", chain mail, or any other form of unauthorized or unwanted solicitation, (vii) to transmit worms and other viruses and / or any code of a destructive nature or otherwise capable of interfering with the operation of the platform, (viii) for commercial or purposes other than those permitted under these Terms of Service and Use or otherwise in violation of these Terms of Service and Use or any applicable rule of law.
3.2 The Registered User will be able to provide the visitors of his own website with a Widget selected from the Platform.
3.3 The Registered User must select the type of Widget he wants to use from among those provided by Responsa. If the Registered User chooses to use the Widgets in the paid version, he must pay the fee, determined by the type of Widget the Registered User selects for himself, according to the terms specified below in article. 9.
3.4 The Registered User will install the Widget into the Website. In any case, the Software and the Widget will remain on the server of Responsa.
3.5 The Registered User agrees to use the Widget and / or any of the possible updates (as defined below) according to the technical instructions provided by Responsa.
3.6 The Registered User acknowledges and accepts that the visitors of his website that will want to use the Widget must register on the Responsa platform. It is understood that the Registered User is and will remain responsible for the legality of the content generated from the visitors of his website who use the Widgets and nothing can be claimed in this regard from Responsa.
4.1 Responsa will mantain the Widget, and all its possible new versions and / or updates made during the period covered of the license agreement of the Widget (Updates below), so that the Widget installed on the website of the Registered User is always up to date.
4.2 Responsa is committed to eliminate as soon as possible any "bug" and / or malfunction of the Widget itself that is identified and / or reported by the Registered User.
5.1 For the duration of the Widget’s License Agreement, Responsa is free to assign, license or otherwise make Widgets available to third parties and / or otherwise enter into agreements similar in content to the License Agreement of the Widget with any subject.
6.1 For the sole purpose of the Service, Responsa grants the Registered User a personal, nontransferable, nonexclusive, revocable license to use the Service. In case of the violation of the Terms of Service and Use, the above license shall be immediately revoked. 6.2 With the exception of Content supplied by the Registered User, all of the contents that are part of the Platform (including text, graphics, images, drawings, icons, photographs, video clips, audio clips, interfaces, software, logos, titles, names as well as the Platform itself) are the sole property of Responsa (hereinafter "Contents of Responsa") and are protected under the copyright law and intellectual property law. In the absence of the express authorization by Responsa a Registered User shall not use, reproduce, copy,modify, adapt, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, download, insert into a database, create derivative works, decrypt, transfer, distribute or sell the Content of Responsa, in whole or in part. The commercial use of the contents of Responsa is also banned.
6.3 With regards to the contents of Responsa, the Registered User will and must be confined to their display on the platform. The Registered User acknowledges that he is only authorized to keep a copy of the webpages of the Platform for personal use. 6.4 The industrial property rights relating to or connected with the Software, as well as the Widgets and / or its updates are the exclusive property of Responsa. The registered user acknowledges that, as of now, he has nothing to claim from Responsa regarding any reason or cause whatsoever.
6.5 Any reproduction, modification, creation of derivative works, redistribution or retransmission of the Software, Widgets and / or Update is expressly prohibited and will result in severe civil and criminal penalties. The Software, Widgets and Upgrades, their structure, sequence, organization and source code are the exclusive property of Responsa and are therefore considered trade secrets.
6.6 Clauses 6.4 and 6.5 shall survive the termination for any reason, of the Contract of the Widget’s License Agreement and, therefore, the Registered User will be held fully liable in case of infringement of the abovementioned clauses, even if the facts, actions or omissions therein mentioned will be carried out by the Registered User in the course of 5 (five) years after the termination of the License Agreement of the Widget, for any reason.
6.7 When using the service, if the Registered User shares contents owned by other Registered Users and / or third parties, the Registered User declares and guarantees that he has obtained permission to share the contents from the rightful owner, and commits to grant a license to Responsa that is free, irrevocable, nonexclusive, and sub-licensable that is free to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, display the Content (in whole or in part) throughout the world and / or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology already developed or developed in the future.
6.8 The Registered User shall not upload, post, transmit or distribute in any way Content that is not owned either by him or that is shared with the Registered User but of which has not previously been authorized by the rightful owner, and the Registered User agrees not to publish and / or share Content (i) that is or may be, in any way, inappropriate, offensive, discriminatory, obscene, vulgar, and / or sexually explicit or otherwise violate or infringe the rights of other Registered Users and / or third parties, and / or (ii) that is of advertising or commercial in nature, which violate the Terms of Service and use.
6.9 The Content is (and will remain at the end of the License Agreement of the Widget) owned by the Registered User. By signing the License Agreement of Widgets, the Registered User grants Responsa a free license, which is perpetual, irrevocable and it’s content is unrestricted both in any space and time (the License).
6.10 The contents of the License will be different according to the type of Widget selected by the Registered User.. The contents of the license allow Responsa (i) if the Registered User has selected the Public Widget, to publish and / or make the Contents visible to any third party, and this circumstance cannot be in any way challenged by the Registered User or (ii) if the Registered User selects a Private Widget, to hold the contents on the Responsa server, without the latter being published and / or visible to any third party content.
6.11 In either case, this License is valid even in the event of termination, for whatever reason, of the Contract of the License Agreement of the Widgets and, therefore, Responsa is entitled to the Content, freely and without any limitation of time and space, and also if the License for the Public Widget publishes such content without restriction of time and space.
7.1 The Registered User acknowledges that Responsa assumes no responsibility for the use and availability of the Service and does not guarantee that the Service will be provided uninterrupted, timely, secure and / or error free, nor that any errors in the Service will be corrected. Responsa also excludes any guarantees of marketability, or suitability for particular purposes or for quality of service.
7.2 The Registered User acknowledges that all Content, publicly posted or privately transmitted through the Service, are the sole and exclusive responsibility of the Registered Users from whom such Content originated. The Registered User is therefore solely responsible for any Content uploaded, posted, sent via e-mail or transmitted in any other way through the Service.
7.3 The Registered User acknowledges that, notwithstanding the provisions of article 6.8 of the Terms of Service and Use, Responsa does not and cannot control the content transmitted or distributed through the Service and that, consequently, the Service may contain facts, opinions, advice, statements and recommendations that may be purely personal without any scientific authority, accuracy and / or reliability. The registered user acknowledges that Responsa will be in no way responsible for the accuracy of the answers provided by the Service, and that the usage of such responses is solely at the Registered User’s own risk and peril.
7.4 The Registered User acknowledges that, while using the Service, despite the provisions of Responsa, he may encounter Content that is offensive, indecent or otherwise not exempted from censorship, for which Responsa can not in any way be held liable.
7.5 Notwithstanding the above, Responsa reserves the right to remove any Content that violates the Terms of Service and Use or that is in violation of any law applicable to the relationship between the registered user and Responsa.
7.6 The Registered User declares and agrees: (i) to hold harmless Responsa, as well as the subjects related to or under its control, including its representatives, employees and its business partners and not from any liability, legal expenses included, which may result from Content transmitted or sent by Registered users through the Service and, in general, from any use of the Service by Registered Users, any breach of the rules governing their use and / or any rights violations committed by third parties, resulting from the Registered User’s Service, (ii) that Responsa, as well as subjects related to or under it’s control, its representatives, employees and his business partner will not be responsible for any possible direct damage.
7.7 The Registered User acknowledges that Responsa will not be held responsible for any damage, data loss, malfunction or other fact or circumstance involving the malfunction, block or crash of the operating system of the Registered User and / or of the website of the Registered User, which is the direct or indirect consequence of the Widget and / or any of its updates, subject to the intentional or gross negligence of Responsa.
8.1 The License Agreement of the Widgets has an indefinite duration, subject to the right of termination on the part of both parties, to be communicated in writing by sending a notice of termination at least 15 (fifteen) days prior to the effective termination.
8.2 The agreements remain valid and binding that by nature and / or the will expressed by the Parties, between themselves have value beyond the termination of the License Agreement of the Widget. In the event of termination of the License Agreement of the Widget, this does not entail, however, the revocation of the License and any use of the Content by Responsa.
9.1 If the registered user chooses to use the Free Widgets, the Registered User owes no payment to Responsa. Registered Users, however, shall pay all of the necessary costs to access the Internet (including of tools for connecting to the Internet, including those of a computer, a modem and anyything else necessary for the web link), required to access the Service.
9.3 The payment must be made through the platform via the payment system prepared by Responsa. Unless otherwise stated, the payment made will be in Euros (€) and without any applicable taxes. The Registered User will be solely responsible for paying any tax, duty and / or other rights as may be requested by the relative tax authorities or administrators. A VAT will be applied only if required by the law of Registered User’s country.
9.4 If the Registered User should choose to use the Paid Widgets, he will have the opportunity to choose the subscription plan for the payment from those available on the Web page www.goresponsa.com/static/it/plans_and_pricing prepared by Responsa (hereinafter the "Paid Plan"). Each Paid Plan is formulated based on the features available in each of the Paid Widgets, which vary according to level of service. The Service and its Paid Plan therein may be modified at the discretion of Responsa at any time by written notice sent to the Registered User by Responsa.
9.5 In order to subscribe to a Paid Plan, the Registered User will be required to disclose personal data necessary for billing, and credit card information or other form of payment to Responsa. The Registered User agrees to communicate truthful, updated and complete information to Responsa.
9.6 Except where the Registered User has previously made payments confirmed by Responsa, the Registered User authorizes Responsa to automatically and immediately charge the mode of payment chosen by the Registered User at the time of subscribing to a Paid Plan. The Registered User accepts full responsibility for charges even if these objections for any reason fail.
9.7 If the Registered User subscribes to a Paid Plan in order to use a Paid Widget that provides an initial free trial period, if the Registered User provides no written notice of cancellation, and has not provided payment, the Paid Plan to use a Paid Widget will be converted into a subscription plan to use a Free Widgets, or alternatively will be suspended or cancelled at the discretion of Responsa.
9.8 In the event that the payment method selected by the Registered User is invalid, or the payment is not carried out for any reason beyond the control Responsa, or if the Registered User fails to make the payment within the agreed term, the Paid Plan to use a Paid Widget will be converted to a subscription plan to use a Free Widget, or alternatively will be suspended or cancelled at the discretion of Responsa.
9.9 Unless otherwise stated, the payments made by Registered Users in relation to a Paid Plan to Use Paid Widgets is non-refundable, even if the Registered User terminates his use of the Widgets the expiration of the end of the current billing period.
(c) The Registered User will delete the Widget from the applications of his website.
11.1 The Registered User may not transfer the License Agreement of the Widget, all or in part, without the prior written consent of the other Party.
11.2 Responsa has the right to transfer or subcontract the modification and execution of all or part of, the Software to third parties, without obtaining the prior consent of the Registered User.
12.1 Responsa reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify, suspend and / or terminate these Terms of Service and Use, for the part concerning the use of the Service, as well as to modify, suspend and / or cease the provision of service and / or part thereof at any time for any reason, with or without notice to the Registered User. Responsa will not be responsible for the suspension, modification or termination of service.
12.2 Responsa will notify the Registered User when any substantial changes to these Terms of Service and Use are made, for the part concerning the use of the Service, Responsa will send an e-mail or a notification to the Registered User’s account; nevertheless, the Registered User is required to regularly check the Terms of Service and Use directly on the platform, at the webpage address www.goresponsa.com/en/static/terms-and-conditions.
12.3 The continued use of the Service constitutes your acceptance of any changes to the Terms of Service and Use; if the Registered User does not wish to accept these modifications, he must immediately stop using the Service.
2.4 Responsa reserves the right to unilaterally modify the content of these Terms of Service and Use, for the part concerning the License Agreement of the Widgets, Responsa will communicate the changes that will take place by notifying the Registered User via e-mail at least 15 (fifteen) days before the effect of these changes. The changes will be considered accepted after 15 (fifteen) days of receipt of the previous communication, if the Registered User has not declared its intention not to allow such changes to these Terms of Service and Use for the part concerning the License Agreement of the Widget. In this case, this statement serves as notice of termination under Article 8 above.
12.4 Where Responsa should, in the future, commence the provision of additional services and should provide specific conditions of use, the Registered User who decides to use these services is also subject to the conditions of use, specifically those adopted by Responsa.
13.1 Both of the Parties acknowledge to have complied in oral form, to one another, with their disclosure obligations under the Code for the protection of personal data referred to D. Decree No 30 June 2003. 196 (hereinafter "Code").
13.2 The Registered User shall appoint Responsa as an "external manager" for the processing of the data that it can and / or will acquire in the course of the Registered User’s use of Widgets and / or its Updates on the Website by the Registered User. Responsa appoints the Registered User "external manager" for the processing of the Registered User’s own data that could and / or will be acquired in the course of the use of Widgets and / or its Updates on the Website by the Registered User.
13.3. The features of the processing of personal data carried out by Responsa are described in the following link that describes the processing of personal data of Responsa (www.goresponsa.com/en/static/privacy-policy). Responsa recommends that anyone who wants to create his own account, to first view and carefully read the Information on the processing of personal data (www.goresponsa.com/en/static/privacy-policy).
14.1 Italian Law shall govern these Terms of Service and Use.
14.2 Any dispute concerning the interpretation, execution, inaccuracy, non-performance or invalidity of these Terms of Service and Use shall be the sole responsibility of the Court of Treviso.
15.1 These Terms of Service and Use constitute the only agreement between the Registered User and Responsa relative to the mentioned articles, and supersedes any other agreements, written or oral, that may have intervened earlier in the same subjects.
15.2 The failure or delay in exercising a right conferred by law or conferred by these Terms of Service and Use on the behalf of Responsa shall not constitute any waiver of such right or provision.
15.3 The Registered User gives his consent for Responsa to transfer his obligations to companies or societies belonging or affiliated to the same group, controlled by itself or by a parent company, provided that a notification of such transfer is given beforehand.
15.4 The Registered User may not transfer his obligations to third parties arising from these Terms of Service and Use without prior written permission of Responsa.
Pursuant to and in art. 1341 of the Civil Code, the Registered User expressly accepts and endorses the following articles: Art. 3 (Registered User Duties); art. 7 (Responsa’s Limitation of Liability), art. 8 (Duration, of the License Agreement of the Widget); art. 9. (Compensation and Terms of Payment); art. 11.1 (Prohibition of the Transfer of the License Agreement); art. 11.2 (Responsa’s Right to Transfer the License Agreement for the Widget a), art. 12.2 (Unilateral Changes to the Terms of Service and Usage); art. 14.2 (Exclusive jurisdiction).

References: art. 1341
 Art. 3
 art. 7
 art. 8
 art. 9
 art. 11
 art. 11
 art. 12
 art. 14