User Comment Terms and Conditions
Certain parts of the platform offer the opportunity for users to post and exchange opinions, information, material and data (“Comments”) in areas of the platform. You may post Comments on the platform, and such Comments shall be in accordance with these User Comment Terms and Conditions.
Terms relating to user comments
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You warrant and represent that:
- you are entitled to post the Comments on the platform and have all necessary licenses and consents to do so;
- the Comments do not infringe any intellectual property right, including without limitation copyright, patent or trademark, or other proprietary right of any third party;
- the Comments do not contain any material which is defamatory, offensive, inappropriate, indecent, an invasion of privacy, in contempt of court or otherwise unlawful;
- the Comments do not bully, insult, intimidate, threaten, harass or humiliate others, they do not promote violence or discrimination of any kind and do not contain private information about individuals, including their personal data;
- the Comments do not contain any contaminating or destructive features or devices such as viruses, time bombs or coding designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of the platform or any of the platform’s user’s computer equipment or software; and
- you are not using the Comments to solicit or promote business or custom or present commercial activities or unlawful activity.
- All warranties and representations provided herein also apply to any links or URLs contained in any Comment. You warrant that any links or URLs to third party sites shall be relevant and appropriate, shall not contain any sensitive media, including but not limited to graphic violence, adult content or any other content that is offensive in any way. The Service Provider shall not be responsible for the contents of any third-party sites through links or URL’s contained in any Comment.
- You hereby grant to the Service Provider a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license in perpetuity to use, reproduce, edit and to authorize others to use (with a right to sub-licence), reproduce and edit any of your Comments in any and all forms, formats or media whether now known or later developed.
- The Service Provider reserves the right to screen all Comments before they are published online and thereafter monitor all Comments. Any Comment found to be in breach of these Terms and Conditions, if prior to its publication, will not be published on the platform; or, if after its publication, may be removed from the platform by the Service Provider in their sole discretion; and the user’s access to the platform may be either restricted or removed at Open Research Europe’s sole discretion.
- You hereby agree to indemnify and keep indemnified the Service Provider, its affiliates, contractors and agents from and against any and all losses (including without limitation direct, indirect and consequential loss), costs, claims, damages or expenses of whatever nature and howsoever caused arising directly or indirectly from any breach of these Terms and Conditions or arising from the Comments posted on the platform or content contained in any email sent using the facilities provided by the platform by you including without limitation as a result of any infringement of any intellectual property or other proprietary rights, defamation, obscenity or the Comments being otherwise unlawful.
- To the extent permitted by applicable laws, the Service Provider shall not be responsible or liable for the Comments or for any loss, cost, liability, damages or expenses caused and or suffered as a result of any use of and/or posting of and/or appearance of the Comments on the platform.
- The Comments do not reflect the views or opinions of the Service Provider, its agents or affiliates. Comments reflect the view and opinion of the person who posts such view or opinion.