Terms of Use

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These terms of use apply to the entire content of the www.roots-ices.org website and to publications downloaded by you or sent to you. We at ROOTS are responsible for this website. You are allowed to access our website if you accept our terms of use. Please read them carefully. If you do not accept these terms of use, then do not use our website. Our terms of use may be changed, so please review them regularly. If you continue to use our website after a change has been made to the terms of use you are deemed to have accepted it.

1) Use of our website

ROOTS owns the copyright and all other intellectual property rights in the material on this website. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, post, broadcast, transmit, adapt or otherwise use any material on our website other than for your own personal non-commercial use. You may not use the website:

• for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any material, the publication, dissemination, use or possession of which infringes the rights of any person or which is unlawful in any other respect;
• in any way which is abusive, defamatory or obscene or which will harass, distress or inconvenience any person or which might restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of our website by any person;
• for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation or commercial exploitation;
• for the posting, uploading, emailing or other transmission of any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
• to create a database (electronic or otherwise) that includes material downloaded or otherwise obtained from our website, without written permission from ROOTS;
• to transmit or re-circulate any material obtained from our website to any third party, without written permission from ROOTS;
• in such a way so as to remove the copyright or trade mark notice(s) from any copies of any material made in accordance with these terms;
• or in any way that might bring ROOTS into disrepute.
  
  You must be at least 12 years of age or be accessing our website with the full consent of a parent or guardian.

2) Removal of Material and Access to our website

• ROOTS shall have the right to refuse to allow you access to our website or any part of it at any time and for any reason without giving you any advance notice.
• ROOTS shall have the right at any time and for any reason to remove from our website any material posted, uploaded, emailed or otherwise transmitted by you without giving you any advance notice.

3) Viruses

• Whilst effort has been taken to ensure that our website is free from viruses, ROOTS gives no warranties that it is indeed free from viruses and you are responsible for ensuring that you have installed adequate virus checking software.
• ROOTS shall not be responsible for any viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, restrict, destroy, limit the functionality of or compromise the integrity of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or other material transmitted with or as part of our website or any other internet site.

4) Links

• Some of the pages on our website include links to external websites, which are for your convenience only. ROOTS does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of these external websites.

5) Intellectual Property Rights

• ROOTS may publish any material you submit, post, upload, email or otherwise transmit to our website at its sole discretion and it shall be entitled to make additions or deletions to any such material prior to publication.
• You hereby grant ROOTS a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual and worldwide licence to republish any material you submit, post, upload, email or otherwise transmit to them or to our website in any format including (without limitation) print and electronic format.

6) Personal Data

You agree to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself in any registration or subscription form you complete ("the tell-a-friend or mail form").

ROOTS will process your personal data in accordance with, data protection legislation

You hereby agree that all submitted information and any other information sent to ROOTS by you or otherwise obtained by ROOTS about you may be processed by ROOTS for the purposes of:

(a) processing your requests;
(b) providing you with information by email or other means;
(c) providing you with information about products and services of ROOTS;
(d) providing a personalised service;
(e) maintaining accounts and records;
(f) statistical analysis and conducting market research surveys;
(g) assessing and evaluating the use that is being made of our website; and
(h) information and databank compilation and administration.

If you have any questions about your personal data, please contact us using the mail form.

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. When you visit our website we may send you a cookie. Cookies may be used in the following ways:

• to help us recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to the website; or
• to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use the website and to help us improve the structure of our wesbite (we cannot identify you personally in this way). Two types of cookies may be used on our website, -session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site, and persistent cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our website if cookies are disabled.

Our website uses cookies for collecting user information and the data collected in this way may be processed in the same way as other data submitted to ROOTS (and outlined above) and for the same purposes.

7) Changes to the Terms of Use

• Our terms and conditions of use may be changed. Please review them regularly. If you continue to use our website after a change has been made you are deemed to have accepted it.

8) Liability

• Whilst every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information on our website, no warranty is given as to its accuracy or completeness.
• ROOTS cannot guarantee that you will have uninterrupted access to our website.
• Notwithstanding anything else in these terms of use, to the fullest extent permitted by law ROOTS excludes all warranties (whether express or implied) and all liability to you in respect of our website, its content and your use of it.

9) Law and Jurisdiction

• These terms and conditions of use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Netherlands. Any disputes arising in relation to our website shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Netherlands.
• If any of these terms or conditions of use should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, it shall be deemed deleted and the remaining terms and conditions of use shall survive and continue to be binding and enforceable.

10) Comments and Complaints

If you have any comments or complaints to make about our website please send them to us, using our mail form.