GPA Mobile Application Terms of Use
Terms of Use
These are the terms of use ("Terms") for the Global Parliamentary Alliance Mobile Application (the "GPA Mobile" or "App") which is operated by the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual & Reproductive Rights ("EPF", "we", "us" or "our"). EPF is an international non-profit organisation with its registered office at Rue Montoyer, 23 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
These Terms apply to individual users of the App, e.g. GPA members, assistants, and other partners who have registered to use the App ("user", "you" and "your").
It is important that you take time to read and understand these Terms as they will apply to your use of the GPA Mobile App.
EPF may change or update these Terms from time to time. We will let you know about any significant changes through the App. You will be able to find the most recent Terms on our App.
These Terms were last updated on 13 November 2020.
The GPA App and access
The GPA App is provided to you for informational purposes. When you access the GPA App you will have access to information about:
- news items concerning GPA-relevant themes centred on health, rights, and development issues.
- events hosted by GPA, EPF or by other third parties with whom we are affiliated and which we think may be of interest to you, including scheduling times, presentations and other helpful information;
- petitions and campaigns which may be of interest to GPA members; and
- exclusive in- app community boards and blogs.
The App also allows you to build your network with other GPA members.
When you download the App you agree to use it in accordance with these Terms and such other instructions as EPF may provide to you from time to time.
Access to the App is limited to GPA members and assistants, EPF staff, and selected partners who have been invited and registered to use the App.
Registration and your details
You will be required to register when you download the App.
Your login details (such as a username and password or other identifier) are personal to you and you are responsible for all activities that occur under your log-in ID.
You are responsible for keeping your log-in ID confidential and you must not disclose these details to anyone else or let anyone else use your details.
We may disable your account at any time if, in our opinion, you’ve failed to comply with any of these Terms, or we believe your account may have been compromised.
You must tell us as soon as possible if you think that someone other than you or your authorised representatives has had access to your security details.
Use of the App
You agree that you will:
- only use the App for lawful purposes and comply with all applicable laws, including without limitation, privacy laws and intellectual property laws;
- only contact other App users and member companies whose details are made available to you through the App for the purpose of building your network;
- provide accurate information to EPF when you register including about yourself and any company you represent and keep it updated;
- only provide information about a company where you are an official representative of the company and have authority to do so; and
- use the App in a responsible and professional manner and not in a way that might damage GPA’s/EPF's reputation.
You may:
- use any information or content in the App, including but not limited to any information contained in user profiles or member company profiles in the App's contact directory and any photos, videos or other media included in the App, ("Content") for the internal business purposes of the GPA member you are representing; and
- retrieve, extract, copy or print Content for the internal business purposes of the GPA member whom you are representing.
You are not allowed to:
- remove or change any Content of the App, other than as expressly permitted under these Terms;
- republish, post or otherwise distribute any Content, without EPF's prior written content;
- attempt to circumvent security or interfere with the proper working of the App;
- use or attempt to use another’s log-in ID;
- reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the App that is not open source;
- rent, lease, loan, trade, sell/re-sell or otherwise monetize the App, the Content, or related data or access to the same, without EPF's prior consent;
- develop, support or use software, devices, scripts, robots or any other means or processes (including crawlers or any other technology) to scrape the App or otherwise copy profiles and other data from the App;
- violate EPF's intellectual property rights, including, without limitation, (i) copying or distributing EPF content or other materials or (ii) copying or distributing EPF technology, unless it is released under open source licenses;
- violate the intellectual property rights of others, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets or other proprietary rights. For example, do not copy or distribute the logos of member companies displayed in the App's contact directory;
- encourage conduct that would constitute a criminal offense or that gives rise to civil liability;
- harass, abuse, stalk, threaten, defame, or otherwise infringes or violates the rights of us or any other party (including rights of publicity or other proprietary rights); or
- otherwise violate these Terms.
EPF reserves the right to disable any log-in ID, at any time, if in EPF's opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms or if any details you provide for the purposes of registering as a user of the App prove to be false.
Availability of the App
EPF cannot guarantee the continuous, uninterrupted or error-free operability of the App and the App is provided on an "as available" basis. There may be times when certain parts of the App or the entire App become unavailable (whether on a scheduled or unscheduled basis) or are modified, suspended or withdrawn by EPF, in EPF's sole discretion, without notice to you.
Intellectual property rights
All intellectual property rights in the App and any Content (excluding any user-generated content contained in personal profiles, success stories or member company profiles) are owned or licensed by EPF. Except as expressly set out here, nothing in these Terms gives you any rights in respect of any intellectual property in the App or its Content and you acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights in the App.
When you include any comments on the App community pages or forum boards or submit or upload any other content to GPA Mobile ("User Content"), you grant EPF a royalty-free, fully-paid up, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide licence to use, copy, modify, create derivative works of, adapt, display (publicly or otherwise), distribute, comment on, publish and otherwise exploit any such content you submit through EPF's channels including but not limited to EPF's website, social media accounts or via the App.
You are solely responsible for User Content. This means you, and not us, are entirely responsible and liable for any claims, loss or damages relating to User Content. When you post User Content, you represent and warrant you have permission to do so, including permission from any third parties whose names or likenesses are included.
External links
The App offers links to external sites thereby enabling you to leave this App and go directly to external sites such as LinkedIn and other social media sites for example, via the App's community user profiles, campaigns and petitions, events, and newsfeed feature.
We provide these links and functionality solely as a convenience to you. EPF is not responsible for the content of any linked site or any transmission received from any linked site. EPF does not endorse or approve any linked site or its content.
Your Personal Data
We will use your personal data in accordance with the EPF Privacy Policy:
https://www.epfweb.org/node/18.
We are not responsible for the transmission of data (including your personal data over the internet) and by using the App, you acknowledge and agree that a service provided via the internet cannot be completely secure.
Liability
We provide the App on an ‘as is’ basis and you use it at your sole risk. As such we are not responsible to you, or any third party, for any loss or damage arising from your use of the App, your breach of the Terms or any applicable additional terms as notified to you from time to time, or the negligence, acts or omissions of us, our agents or sub-contractors.
We will not be responsible to you for loss of profits, loss of operations, loss of data, loss of contracts, loss of anticipated savings or benefits, loss of market share, loss of goodwill or increased costs or expenses arising from your use of the App, including the unavailability of the App or any services through the App.
However, nothing in this section limits our liability for fraud, fraudulent concealment or any other matters that cannot be excluded by law.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, EPF will not be liable in contract, tort, negligence or otherwise to you or to any third party for any loss or damage of any kind incurred or arising out of:
- any unavailability, modification, suspension or withdrawal of the App, or any features or Content of the App;
- any use of the App or any Content of the App; or
- any reliance on any Content of the App.
EPF does not make or give any representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, currency, correctness, reliability, integrity, quality, fitness for purpose or originality of any Content.
EPF does not guarantee that the App or any Content will be free from viruses and/or other code that may have contaminating or destructive elements.
When you use the App you agree to these Terms. If you are in breach of any of these Terms, and EPF suffers loss or damage as a result, we will be entitled to claim back from you a reasonable sum to cover our losses.
Terminate
We reserve the right, in our reasonable discretion, to terminate your use of the App, or your user account and to assert our legal rights with respect to content or use of the App we reasonably believe is, or might be, in violation of these Terms. Upon any such termination, you agree to promptly delete all copies of the App from any of your devices on which the App has been installed.
General
You can’t transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms to someone else. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to another organisation, and we will let you know if we choose to do so.
This agreement is between you, as an individual user and us. No one else has any rights under the agreement and no other person has any rights to enforce any of its terms.
Each of the paragraphs of these Terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.
These Terms shall be governed by Belgian law. You agree that any dispute between you and EPF regarding these Terms, the App or the Content will only be dealt with by the Belgian courts.
If you have any questions about these Terms, the App or the Content you can contact us as: GPAapp@epfweb.org or secretariat@epfweb.org.