Terms of Use

Terms of Use

Access to and use of www.copenhagenclimatecouncil.com both within Denmark and internationally is provided by the Copenhagen Climate Council on the following terms:

1. By using copenhagenclimatecouncil.com you agree to be bound by these terms, which shall take effect immediately on your first use of copenhagenclimatecouncil.com. If you do not agree to be bound by all of the following terms please do not access, use and/or contribute to copenhagenclimatecouncil.com.

2. The Copenhagen Climate Council may change these terms from time to time and so you should check these terms regularly. Your continued use of copenhagenclimatecouncil.com will be deemed acceptance of the updated or amended terms. If you do not agree to the changes, you should cease using this website. If there is any conflict between these terms and specific local terms appearing elsewhere on copenhagenclimatecouncil.com then the latter shall prevail.

Use of copenhagenclimatecouncil.com

3. You agree to use copenhagenclimatecouncil.com only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else's use and enjoyment of copenhagenclimatecouncil.com. Prohibited behavior includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within copenhagenclimatecouncil.com.

Intellectual Property

4. All copyright, trademarks, design rights, patents and other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) in and on copenhagenclimatecouncil.com and all content (including all applications) located on the site shall remain vested in the Copenhagen Climate Council or its licensors (which includes other users). You may not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use copenhagenclimatecouncil.com content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any copenhagenclimatecouncil.com content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of copenhagenclimatecouncil.com content requires the prior written permission of the Copenhagen Climate Council.

5. The names, images and logos identifying the Copenhagen Climate Council or other third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright, design rights and trademarks of the Copenhagen Climate Council and/or other third parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring any license or right to use any trade mark, design right or copyright of the Copenhagen Climate Council or any other third party.

Contributions to the Copenhagen Climate Council

6. By sharing any contribution (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) with the Copenhagen Climate Council you agree to grant to the Copenhagen Climate Council, free of charge, permission to use the material in any way it wants (including modifying and adapting it for operational and editorial reasons) for Copenhagen Climate Council services in any media worldwide (including on the Copenhagen Climate Council's site accessed by international users). In certain circumstance the Copenhagen Climate Council may also share your contribution with trusted third parties. In the case of news-related material please note that this may be shared with the Copenhagen Climate Council's foreign partners.

7. Copyright in your contribution will remain with you and this permission is not exclusive, so you can continue to use the material in any way including allowing others to use it.

8. In order that the Copenhagen Climate Council can use your contribution, you confirm that your contribution is your own original work, is not defamatory and does not infringe any Danish or international laws, that you have the right to give the Copenhagen Climate Council permission to use it for the purposes specified above, and that you have the consent of anyone who is identifiable in your contribution or the consent of their parent / guardian if they are under 16.

9. We normally show your name with your contribution, unless you request otherwise, but for operational reasons this is not always possible. The Copenhagen Climate Council may need to contact you for administrative or verification purposes in relation to your contribution, or in relation to particular projects.

10. Please do not endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or break any laws when creating content you may share with the Copenhagen Climate Council.

11. If you do not want to grant the Copenhagen Climate Council the permission set out above on these terms, please do not submit or share your contribution to or with copenhagenclimatecouncil.com.

CopenhagenClimateCouncil.com Communities

12. In order to participate in and contribute to selected copenhagenclimatecouncil.com communities you may be required to register with copenhagenclimatecouncil.com.

13. You agree to use copenhagenclimatecouncil.com communities (including message boards) in accordance with the following Community Rules. These apply across all copenhagenclimatecouncil.com community sites and services.

(i) About your posts:

• Contributions must be civil and tasteful.
• No disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour: contributions must be constructive and polite, not mean-spirited or contributed with the intention of causing trouble.
• No unlawful or objectionable content: unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable.
• Be patient: users of all ages and abilities may be taking part in the relevant copenhagenclimatecouncil.com community.
• No spamming or off-topic material: we don't allow the submission of the same or very similar contributions many times. Please don't re-submit your contribution to more than one discussion, or contribute off-topic material in subject-specific areas.
• No advertising or promoting.
• Contributions containing languages other than English may be removed.
• No impersonation.
• No inappropriate (e.g. vulgar, offensive etc) user names.
• Deliberate misuse of the complaints facility is not permitted. If you persist in doing this, action may be taken against your account.

(ii) Your Copenhagen Climate Council Account:

If you use multiple logins for the purpose of disrupting a community or annoying other users you may have action taken against all of your accounts.

All accounts must be registered with a valid personal email address that you access regularly so that moderation emails can be sent to you. Accounts registered with someone else's email address, or with temporary email addresses may be closed without notice. We may require users to re-validate their account if we believe they have been using an invalid email address.

The Copenhagen Climate Council reserves the right to close accounts if any user is seen to be using proxy IPs (Internet Protocol addresses) in order to attempt to hide the use of multiple Copenhagen Climate Council accounts, or if user disrupts any of our services in any way.

(iii) Safety:

We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone number, postal address, home address or email address or any other details that would allow you to be personally identified) in any Copenhagen Climate Council community.

(iv) Legal requirements:

• You may not submit or share any defamatory or illegal material of any nature in copenhagenclimatecouncil.com communities. This includes text, graphics, video, programs or audio.
• Contributing material to a copenhagenclimatecouncil.com community with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act is strictly prohibited.
• You agree to submit to or share with copenhagenclimatecouncil.com communities only contributions which are your own original work. You must not violate, plagiarise, or infringe the rights of the Copenhagen Climate Council or third parties including copyright, trade mark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights.

(v) If you're under 16:

• Please get a parent's or guardian's permission before taking part in any copenhagenclimatecouncil.com community.
• Never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example, school, telephone number, your full name, home address or email address).

(vi) If you breach these Community Rules:

If you fail to abide by these Community Rules when taking part in a copenhagenclimatecouncil.com community, you will be sent an email which informs you why your contribution has been refused or edited. This email will also include a warning that continuing to break the rules may result in action being taken against your account or accounts.

This action may include any content posted by you being checked before allowed to go on the site or a temporary or permanent suspension of your ability to participate in any or all of copenhagenclimatecouncil.com community areas.

If you submit or share offensive or inappropriate content to or with any copenhagenclimatecouncil.com communities or anywhere else on copenhagenclimatecouncil.com or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on copenhagenclimatecouncil.com, and the Copenhagen Climate Council considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, the Copenhagen Climate Council may use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop any further such infringements. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school or email provider about the infringement(s).

The Copenhagen Climate Council reserves the right to delete any contribution, or take action against any Copenhagen Climate Council account, at any time, for any reason.

Disclaimers and Limitation of Liability

14. The majority of content posted in copenhagenclimatecouncil.com communities is created by its private members. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the Copenhagen Climate Council. The Copenhagen Climate Council is not responsible for any content posted by members of the public on copenhagenclimatecouncil.com or for the availability or content of any third party sites that are accessible through copenhagenclimatecouncil.com. Any links to third party websites from copenhagenclimatecouncil.com do not amount to any endorsement of that site by the Copenhagen Climate Council or Copenhagen Climate CouncilW and any use of that site by you is at your own risk.

15. copenhagenclimatecouncil.com content, including the information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to the Copenhagen Climate Council, its products and services (or to third party products and services), is provided "AS IS" and on an "AS AVAILABLE" basis. To the extent permitted by law, the Copenhagen Climate Council excludes all representations and warranties (whether express or implied by law), including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. The Copenhagen Climate Council does not guarantee the timeliness, completeness or performance of the website or any of the content. While we try to ensure that all content provided by the Copenhagen Climate Council is correct at the time of publication no responsibility is accepted by or on behalf of the Copenhagen Climate Council for any errors, omissions or inaccurate content on the website.

16. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes the Copenhagen Climate Council's liability for death or personal injury caused by its proven negligence. Subject to the previous sentence, the Copenhagen Climate Council shall not be liable for any of the following losses or damage (whether such damage or losses were foreseen, foreseeable, known or otherwise): (a) loss of data; (b) loss of revenue or anticipated profits; (c) loss of business; (d) loss of opportunity; (e) loss of goodwill or injury to reputation; (f) losses suffered by third parties; or (g) any indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages arising from the use of copenhagenclimatecouncil.com regardless of the form of action.

17. The Copenhagen Climate Council does not warrant that functions available on copenhagenclimatecouncil.com will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that copenhagenclimatecouncil.com or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to implement sufficient procedures and virus checks (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements for the accuracy of data input and output.

General

18. If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which these terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive and continue to be binding and enforceable.

19. The failure or delay of the Copenhagen Climate Council to exercise or enforce any right in these terms does not waive the Copenhagen Climate Council's right to enforce that right.

20. These terms shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of Denmark which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes.