Source: http://www.evidenceproject.eu/info/general-terms-and-conditions.html
Timestamp: 2019-04-19 10:16:08+00:00

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The present document contains the general terms and conditions of the Contract for the use of the information services and resources provided by Law and Internet Foundation through the EVIDENCE Website (accessible via www.evidenceproject.eu) and it regulates the relations between Law and Internet Foundation and any user of the services and resources accessible through the EVIDENCE Website.
I.1. “Chance Event” is a circumstance of unusual nature unforeseen at the moment of the contract conclusion which makes the provision of the Services objectively impossible.
I.2. “EVIDENCE Consortium” shall mean the “European Informatics Data Exchange Framework for Courts and Evidence” Consortium formed by the following beneficiaries (partners) acting jointly as a consortium under Grant Agreement No. 608185: National Research Council, Italy, acting in the capacity of coordinator, University of Groningen (the Netherlands), The International Criminal Police Organization (France), Leibniz Universitat Hannover (Germany), Laboratory of Citizenship Sciences (Italy), University of Malta (Malta), Centre of Excellence in Information and Communication Technologies (Belgium), Law and Internet Foundation (Bulgaria) and Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (Belgium).
I.4. “Intranet” is an internal section of the EVIDENCE Website accessible only for Team Members upon their registration.
I.5. “Information system/System” is each particular device or combination of connected or similar devices, which is or one of which is designed to store, send and receive electronic documents.
I.6. “IP address” is a unique identification number associating a device, a web page or a User's resource in a way that allows their localization in the Internet.
I.7. “Law and Internet Foundation” (“LIF”) is a foundation – a non-for-profit legal entity, established and existing under to the laws of Republic of Bulgaria, registered under company file No. 2343/2001 at the Register of the Non-Profit Legal Entities with Sofia City Court, BULSTAT No. 130511877, having its seat and registered address at Bulgaria, Sofia 1303, Vazrazhdane District, 54 Balgarska Morava Str., floor 7. Law and Internet Foundation is registered under the Bulgarian Value Added Tax Act.
I.8. ”Link” is a link (reference) designated in a particular Internet page that allows automatic forwarding to another Internet page, information resource or object using standard protocols.
I.9. “Malicious Actions” are actions or inactions, violating the Internet ethics or causing damages to persons connected to the Internet or associated networks, as well as sending of unsolicited communications (SPAM, JUNK MAIL), flooding, gaining access to resources by using somebody else’s rights and passwords, using system imperfections for own benefit or for gaining information (HACK), committing actions, that can be qualified as industrial espionage or sabotage, damaging or destruction of systems or information massifs (CRACK), sending of “Trojan Horses” or causing installation of viruses or unauthorized remote control systems, disturbance of the other Internet and associated networks user’s normal work, committing any actions that can be qualified as crimes or administrative offences according to the Bulgarian or other applicable legislation.
I.10. “Partner” shall mean each of the beneficiaries within the EVIDENCE Consortium.
I.11. “Password” is a unique combination of letters, ciphers and/or symbols selected by the User which, along with the e-mail address specified by the User upon his/her registration, serves for access to his/her User Account.
I.12. “Registered User” is any User that has successfully passed the registration procedure and has created a User Account, including any User that has created a Team Member Account, in order to use the Services available through the EVIDENCE Website.
I.13. ”Server” is a device or a system of connected devices, on which system software is installed to perform tasks related to storing, processing, receiving or sending information.
I.14. “Services” are the services provided through the EVIDENCE Website.
I.15. “Stakeholder Forum” is a section of the EVIDENCE Website, representing a communication platform aimed at discussion on relevant topics within the scope of the Project.
I.16. “Team Member” shall mean a User, who is a member of a Partner’s team and acts on behalf of the respective Partner when accessing the EVIDENCE Website and using the Services.
I.17. “Team Member Account” is a kind of a User Account registered by a Team Member.
I.18.“The Project” shall refer to any activity carried out and any result achieved within performance of Grant Agreement No. 608185.
I.19. “Unregistered User” is any User not meeting the criteria for a Registered User.
I.20. “User” is any person that uses the information services and resources provided through the EVIDENCE Website.
I.21. “User Account” is a separate section of the EVIDENCE Website, containing information on the Registered User, as required by LIF upon registration and stored on LIF’s server. The access to the User Account by the Registered User is performed by entering the e-mail address and Password specified upon his/her registration. The User Account enables the Registered User to use certain limited-access Services, to configure the use of the Services, to manage and update the information provided by him/her in his/her User Account, to stop the use of the Services, to change the e-mail address specified by him/her upon registration and his/her Password, to post, upload and remove User Content which he/ she has previously posted or uploaded on LIF’s Server, so that it can be accessed through the EVIDENCE Website, etc.
I.22. “User Content” is any text, photo, any other graphical content, multimedia content, video, link or any other material or information, including any opinion or respectively a reply thereto posted or uploaded by a User on LIF’s Server, so that it can be accessed through the EVIDENCE Website.
I.23. “Website” is a specific place in the global Internet accessible through its unified address (URL) under HTTP or HTTPS protocol, containing files, text, programmes (software), sound, picture, image, electronic links or other material and resources.
II.2. Some of the Services provided may be used without necessarily completing a preliminary registration. These Services include, but are not limited to, services connected with searching and acquiring access to information in the form of text, video materials, images, etc. made available for Unregistered Users on the EVIDENCE Website, as well as other services conceded to Unregistered Users.
II.3. Some of the Services provided can be used only after the User completes a preliminary registration and creates a User Account. These Services include, but are not limited to, possibility to post comments and to post and upload other User Content in the Stakeholder Forum, to view information about other Registered Users, to manage and update the information provided by the respective Registered User in his/ her User Account, to change the e-mail address and Password specified upon registration, to send to and to receive personal messages from other Registered Users, etc.
II.5. The Services provided do not include provision of computer or other equipment (terminal devices for Internet access) and connection for transfer of packets between the respective User and the Web Page, necessary for gaining access to the EVIDENCE Website. LIF does not bear responsibility if the User cannot gain access due to problems which are not in the control of LIF (hardware, software issue, problems regarding Internet connection, etc.).
II.6. Due to the fact that the Services provided by LIF are various and are constantly being modified with view to their improvement and tailoring to the aims of the Project, the number and characteristics of the Services as well as the regime of Service provision may be altered at any time by LIF. Notwithstanding the modifications, the provision of the Services remains free of charge and LIF shall not at any time collect pecuniary or other kind of remuneration for the provision of the Services.
IV.2. For being able to complete the registration as per Art. 4.1 and to create a Team Member Account the Team Member shall be automatically provided with a Team Member Code by LIF and shall fill in this Team Member Code in the respective field of the registration form. LIF shall send a Team Member Code to the e-mail address of the respective Team Member as specified by the legal representative or another duly authorised representative of the respective Partner. The Team Member shall not reveal his/her Team Member Code to third parties and shall immediately notify LIF in case of unauthorised access, as well as if there is probability of such to his/her Team Member Code. The Team Member shall be obliged to take all due care and the necessary measures, which are reasonably needed in order to protect his/her Team Member Code and shall be fully liable for all actions performed by him/her or by a third party through the use of the respective Team Member Code.
IV.4. Registration of a Team Member Account shall be done only by a person who is duly authorised to act on behalf the respective Partner with respect to the registration in the EVIDENCE Website and the use of the Services. In the process of registration the Team Member shall declare that he/she is granted with the necessary authorisation to act on behalf of the respective Partner and to commit on behalf of the latter the respective legal and factual actions when using the respective Services available via the Team Member Account. In case a person acts on behalf of a Partner without actually being duly authorised to act in such a manner, this person shall owe compensation for all damages caused to the respective Partner, to LIF, to EVIDENCE Consortium and to any other third party as a result of the actions committed by the person by using a Team Member Account.
IV.5. When filling the fields of the electronic registration form the User is obliged to enter his/her full and true identification data, as well as all other information required by the electronic registration form; any change in the data mentioned above shall be submitted within a 7-day period as of their change. The User guarantees that the data presented at the moment of registration is true, exact and exhaust and in the event of data change the latter shall update them in due term. In cases where false data is presented LIF is entitled to terminate or to suspend immediately and without prior notification the provision of the Services and to block the access to the User Account. In this case, the termination of the provision of the Services shall be considered as an automatic termination of the contract.
IV.6. Prior to the statement under Art. 4.3 the User may without any restriction correct the information which he/ she has entered in the registration form.
IV.7. In case where the User refuses to present the required mandatory information in the electronic registration form, LIF is entitled to decline the registration.
IV.8. LIF shall have the right, but shall not have the obligation, to undertake and carry out at any time (prior or after the registration) any further actions to check and verify whether a Team Member is duly authorised to act on behalf of a respective Partner. LIF shall have the right to immediately block the access to a Team Member Account and to terminate the contract without any prior notice to the Team Member upon being informed by the legal representative of the respective Partner that the person who uses such Team Member Account on its behalf is not a member of its team. In the latter case the Partner shall have the right to access, manage, use or remove any User Content posted, uploaded or stored by the respective person via his/her Team Member Account by naming another Team Member who will act on its behalf.
VII.1. The User Account is activated and can be accessed by the Registered User by clicking on the confirmation link specified in Art. 5.2.
VII.2. The information provided by the Registered User in his/her User Account shall be true, exact and not misleading.
VII.3. The Registered User undertakes not to reveal his/her Passwords to third parties and to immediately notify LIF in case of unauthorised access, as well as if there is probability of such. The Registered User is obliged to take all due care and the necessary measures, which are reasonably needed in order to protect his/her Passwords and shall be fully liable for all actions performed by him/her or by a third party through their use.
VII.4. LIF shall not verify and shall not be liable for the truthfulness of the information provided by the Registered User upon his/her registration or during the use of the Services, nor whether the username (nickname) indicated by him/her affect any rights of third parties, including any rights on a name or other personal rights, right on a trade name (company name), right on a trademark or any other intellectual property rights.
VIII.1.3. Personal messages section which allows the Registered Users to send messages to other Registered Users and to receive messages from other Registered Users.
VIII.2. The information available in the discussion section under Art. 8.1.1 can be accessed and searched by any User, notwithstanding their registration.
VIII.3. The full set of Services under. Art. 8.1, including the possibility to post comments or other User Content in the discussion section of the Stakeholder Forum is available only upon registration via any kind of a User Account.
IX.1. The User is entitled to online access to the Services, provided through the EVIDENCE Website in compliance with the requirements for access to the respective Services as determined by LIF.
IX.3. The User is entitled to access the User Content, as well as any other content uploaded in the EVIDENCE Website, solely for the aims and purposes set by LIF and by using the regular functionalities of the EVIDENCE Website. Access to multimedia User Content and other content (audio and video records/files) may be carried out only by streaming – transmission of a steady stream of audio and video signals via the Internet from the EVIDENCE Website to the end device of the User, enabling the User to watch and listen to audio and video records online, in real time whereupon no permanent copy remains and no download is possible, unless that is explicitly and unequivocally allowed by LIF, such as indication of a download option (a download button or Link) to the respective content.
IX.4.16. with file size exceeding the maximum size determined on the respective Web Pages at the EVIDENCE Website.
IX.5. The User undertakes not to access the User Content or any other content uploaded on the EVIDENCE Website, by any other technology or device, different from the technologies and devices provided by the EVIDENCE Website and carried out through its regular functionality.
IX.6.7. to notify LIF upon detection of damaged files with a view to their removal.
IX.7. The Registered User may cease at any time at his/her sole discretion the use of the Services provided by LIF by cancelling his/her registration on the EVIDENCE Website. The contract between the parties shall be deemed automatically terminated as of the date of cancelling the registration of the Registered User, as LIF shall suspend his/her access to his/her User Account and shall also be entitled to suspend the access of the rest of the Users to the User Content and to remove from its Servers all User Content uploaded by him/her.
IX.8. The above rule of Art. 9.7, last sentence shall not apply in cases where the Registered Used is a Team Member. In such cases the contract between the parties shall be deemed automatically terminated as of the date of cancelling the registration of the Team Member, as LIF shall suspend his/her access to his/her Team Member Account, but the respective Partner shall have the right to access, manage, use or remove any User Content posted, uploaded or stored by the respective Team Member via the respective Team Member Account by naming another Team Member who will act on its behalf.
X.1. LIF has no obligation or objective ability to control the way in which the User uses the provided Services and is not liable for the User Content, neither for the activity of the User in connection with the Use of the Services. LIF has no obligation to monitor the information stored on its Servers or made accessible by the use of the Services, neither to seek facts or circumstances indicating illegal activity carried out by the User through the use of the Services.
X.2. In compliance with the requirement of the legislation in force LIF stores informational materials and resources, uploaded by the User on the Servers of LIF and shall be entitled to submit them to the competent state authorities in the cases upon proper request in compliance with the relevant procedure.
X.3. LIF undertakes to take due care to enable the User to use the Services normally and undisturbed. Notwithstanding the above, LIF does not guarantee that the information, accessible on the EVIDENCE Website, including the User Content on it, is full, accurate, correct and errorless.
X.6. Upon receipt of claims of third parties that User Content uploaded on the EVIDENCE Website violates their intellectual property rights, as well as in case that the User violates intellectual property rights of LIF, LIF shall be entitled at its sole discretion and without prior warning to suspend the access to such User Content until the settlement of such dispute by an act of a competent state authority. Upon receipt of an order from a competent state authority, concerning the User Content, LIF shall be entitled to suspend the access to the respective User Content without prior warning and to carry out other actions pursuant to the received order.
X.7. LIF is not obliged to store or restore User Content or other information from or for the User, which has been deleted by the User, by LIF, by another Registered User or by a third party, regardless of the reasons for such deletion.
X.9. Whenever LIF receives information, which gives grounds to assume that the User’s behaviour in the use of the Services may constitute a crime or an administrative violation, LIF shall be entitled at its sole discretion to approach the competent state authorities and to provide them the necessary cooperation and all necessary information and material, requested in compliance with the relevant procedure, which could be of help for identifying the perpetrator and proving the committed crime or an administrative violation.
X.10. LIF retains the right to suspend the provision of particular Services, accessible through the EVIDENCE Website, after giving a notice by publishing a communication on the relevant Web Pages at the EVIDENCE Website and/or in the User Accounts of the Registered Users.
X.11. LIF is entitled to place on each of the Web Pages of the EVIDENCE Website, including in the User Accounts Links to Websites out of LIF’s control. LIF is not liable for the content, truthfulness and conformity with the law of such Websites and resources, neither for goods or resources, which have become known to the User in the process of use of the Services, nor for the content, truthfulness and conformity with the law of the information in the opinions uploaded by them and other User Content.
X.12. LIF is entitled to send newsletters to each User who has a subscription to receive newsletter via the “Newsletter Sign-Up” form available on the EVIDENCE Website or via his/her User Account (for Registered Users). By such subscription the User agrees to receive such unsolicited commercial communications from LIF.
XI.3. By uploading any User Content on the EVIDENCE Website, the Registered User agrees and grants to all other Users, including the Unregistered Users, the non-exclusive right to access the uploaded materials, the right to use and reproduce them in the manner provided by LIF through the Services, without due consideration and without territorial limitations (for the whole world). The right under this paragraph shall be granted for the period of time in which the User Content is uploaded on a Server of LIF, as well as for a reasonable term following its removal or deletion. In cases where the access to the User Content is restricted by the respective Registered User to Registered Users only or to Team Members only via the Intranet, the above rights shall be considered granted by the respective Registered User to Registered Users only or to Team Members only.
XI.4. By uploading any User Content on the EVIDENCE Website, the Registered User agrees and grants to LIF the right to visualize the uploaded materials in the User Accounts, created by other Registered Users, as well as to use at its sole discretion graphic images, advertising formats, etc. in the designing of the Web Pages of the EVIDENCE Website, where the User Content is visualized.
XI.7. The Registered User is solely liable for the legitimacy of the User Content posted, uploaded or otherwise made accessible by the him/her through the use of the Services, as well as for his/her actions related to the posting, uploading or otherwise making available such content and the respective consequences.
XI.8. The intellectual property rights on all materials and resources on the EVIDENCE Website, apart from the User Content set by the Users, are subject to protection pursuant to the Bulgarian Copyright and Related Rights Act and/or the Bulgarian Marks and Geographical Indications Act and are held by LIF or the respective holder of the IP right that has granted the right of use to LIF, and may not be used in violation of the legislation in force.
XII.2. LIF shall not be liable for any damages caused on the User’s software, hardware, devices and equipment, neither for any loss of data, arising from any materials or resources uploaded or used in any way through the medium of the Services provided.
XII.3. LIF shall not be liable for non-provision of the Services due to any circumstances beyond its control – in cases of force majeure events, Chance Events, any problems in the global Internet and in the service provision beyond the control of LIF, any problems due to the User’s equipment, as well as in case of unauthorised access or intervention by third parties in the operation of LIF’s Information System or Servers.
XII.5. LIF shall not be liable for the availability, quality of the services or trustworthiness of the external information provided to the User by third parties and indicated in the EVIDENCE Website by means of any reference, including any Link references to external data resources.
XII.6. The parties acknowledge that LIF shall not be liable for the non-provision of the Services or provision of Services with worsened quality as result of tests performed by LIF for examination of the equipment, connections, networks and others, for the purposes of improvement and optimization of the Services provided. In such cases, LIF shall notify the User in advance of the expected temporary non-provision or provision with worsened quality of the Services by publishing a relevant announcement on the EVIDENCE Website or in any other appropriate manner.
XII.7. LIF shall not be liable for the User Content, as well as for the User’s activity related to the use of the Services. Besides, LIF shall not be liable for any damages incurred by other Users as a result of their access to or use of this content provided to them by the User or made accessible through the EVIDENCE Website. LIF shall not be liable before the User and any third persons for any damages incurred and loss of profit arising as a result of the termination, suspension, amendment or limitation of the Services, the deletion, modification, loss, inauthenticity, inaccuracy or incompleteness of messages, materials or information used, recorded or made accessible through the EVIDENCE Website.
XIV.2. LIF shall undertake the due care and shall bear responsibility for protection of the information for the User, which has come to its notion in the conduct of provision of the Services, except in the event of force majeure events, Chance Event or Malicious Actions of third parties.
XIV.4. Beyond the above information, LIF shall have the right (but not the obligation) to automatically save certain information that a computer or other User’s terminal device sends to the LIF’s Servers in connection with the User activity. The information shall be stored in log files on LIF’s Servers and may include information about Web Pages on the EVIDENCE Website visited by the User, websites that have forwarded the User to the EVIDENCE Website, websites visited by the User through Links on the EVIDENCE Website, date and time of these visits, the User IP address, the type of Internet browser the User uses, the User keywords used when searching on the EVIDENCE Website, the number of users who have seen a specific Web Page in the EVIDENCE Website, the number of clicks on Links in the EVIDENCE Website, etc. This information shall not be connected to the information that identifies the Registered User and shall be used for statistical purposes and to improve the offered Services.
XIV.6.6. the right to be notified before his/her data are disclosed for the first time to third parties or used on their behalf for the purposes of direct marketing, and to be provided the opportunity to object against such disclosure or use.
XIV.10.2. Web-analytics cookies – outsourced to Google Analytics and used for statistical and analytical purposes (for detailed information – visit Google Developers Website). LIF does not have access to or control over the use of these cookies.
XIV.11. The User has the right at any time to reject the preserving and/or the access to the information saved on his/her terminal device. The prohibition and/or the erasure of cookies by the User may lead to full or partial impossibility of the User to access the EVIDENCE Website and/or the Services, for which LIF does not take responsibility. The User shall have the right at any time to receive information from LIF about the data preserved on his/her terminal device by sending a question to LIF on the following electronic mail address: office@evidenceproject.eu.
XIV.12.5. adjust the Services and secure automatic showing or hiding of different elements of the EVIDENCE Website in accordance with the User’s preferences and settings.
XV.1. Each Registered User shall be entitled to terminate his/her registration at the EVIDENCE Website by means of the deactivation option provided in the User Account, following the procedure specified therein. The contract with the Registered User shall be deemed automatically terminated as of the date of termination of his/her registration.
XV.2. Upon deactivation of the User Account from the EVIDENCE Website, the User Content published by Registered User through this User Account shall be deleted. In cases of deactivation of a Team Member Account, the respective Partner shall have the right to access, manage, use or remove any User Content posted, uploaded or stored by the via the respective Team Member Account by naming another Team Member who will act on its behalf.
XV.3.3. In other cases as provided by law.
XV.4. In case of termination of the contract between the parties on any grounds, LIF shall be entitled to immediately terminate the access of the respective Registered User to the User Account, to terminate his/her registration and delete from its Servers the whole User Content set by the User, in compliance with the provisions of the applicable law.
XVII.6. All disputes between the parties arising from or pertaining to the contract between them, including those arising from or related to their interpretation, validity, performance or termination, as well as disputes on filling any gaps in the contract or its adaptation to new circumstances, shall be resolved amicably and in good faith, through negotiations and mutual concessions. If it proves impossible to reach agreement, the dispute may be referred for resolution to the competent court in Sofia, in compliance with the Bulgarian legislation in force.

References: Art. 4
 Art. 4
 Art. 5
 Art. 8
 Art. 8
 Art. 9