General Conditions of Use

The aim of the present General Conditions of Use (hereafter referred to as “GCU”) is to stipulate the contractual conditions of access, use and supply of the products and services provided by FUTURE VOICE gemeinnützige UG (haftungsbeschränkt), especially those accessed through its website www.futurevoice.org. The use of any of the services offered by FUTURE VOICE requires full acceptance of the GCU.

The www.futurevoice.org website is published by FUTURE VOICE, a non-profit organisation registered in Germany. The address of its headquarters is Chausseestrasse 86, 10115 Berlin / Germany. In the event of any questions, requests or complaints, you can contact the publisher by Email at: info(at)futurevoice.org or by post at FUTURE VOICE, Chausseestrasse 86, 10115 Berlin, Germany.

 

Managing Director and Publisher

Manuela Scharifiazad

 

Intellectual Property Rights

Copyright by FUTURE VOICE, All Rights reserved.

All the text, comments, works, illustrations and images reproduced or represented on the FUTURE VOICE website are protected by intellectual property rights, including copyright. Any total or partial reproduction or representation of the FUTURE VOICE site or elements thereof is strictly forbidden without FUTURE VOICEs explicit prior consent. Any withdrawal or any re-use by means of permanent or temporary transfer of all or part of the content of any data on this site, by any means or in any form, is strictly forbidden. FUTURE VOICE is a registered trademark and any use, reproduction or dissemination of these trademark is strictly forbidden without FUTURE VOICE’s explicit prior consent. Other logos and names used on our sites may be trademarks of our partners. No permission is given by us in respect of the use of any such trademarks, names or logos and such use may constitute an infringement of the holder's rights. Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.

Links

Our sites may contain links to third party websites over which FUTURE VOICE has no control. Such links are provided for your convenience only. We do not necessarily control such websites and are not responsible for their contents. The mere inclusion of such links does not imply any endorsement of the material on those websites or any association with their operators. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to or from our websites, you do so entirely at your own risk. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all the time, we have no control over the availability of the linked pages and cannot be held responsible for the content distributed on these sites or for the consequences of its use by the user.

If you wish to link from your website to any pages of our sites you may do so only on the basis that you link to, but do not replicate, the website page, and subject to the following conditions: -The linking text must simply consist of the website address; You do not remove, distort or otherwise alter the size or appearance of any logos on our sites; You do not in any way imply that we are endorsing any products or services; You do not misrepresent your relationship with us nor present any other false information about us; You do not otherwise use the FUTURE VOICE trademark displayed on our sites without our express written permission; You do not link from a website that is not owned by you; and Your website does not contain content that is distasteful, pornographic, infringes any intellectual property rights or other rights of any other person or otherwise does not comply with all applicable laws and regulations. At any time and at our complete discretion we reserve the right to withdraw the permission to make website links to our sites.

 

Using our sites

You agree to only use our sites in a manner that complies with all applicable laws and regulations and is consistent with these Terms and does not infringe the rights of anyone else, nor restrict or inhibit their use and enjoyment of our sites (including, without limitation, by hacking). We reserve the right in our sole discretion to deny any user access to any of our websites without prior notice.

Please note that no action can be taken without this information.

You must not post or transmit to this website any material: - That is knowingly false or misleading, defamatory, illegal, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, liable to incite racial hatred, blasphemous, discriminatory, pornographic, sexually oriented, threatening or invasive of a person's privacy; Which you do not own or for which you have not obtained all necessary licenses and/or approvals; Which is technically harmful (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software or harmful data); or Impersonating any person or entity, or falsely stating or otherwise misrepresenting your affiliation with anyone or any entity;

If you post or transmit to any of our websites any material of the type prohibited under term 5. above and we incur any costs, expenses, liability or losses as a result then you agree to indemnify us for all such costs, expenses, liability or losses. If you post or transmit any material to any of our websites:- You grant us the right to use, reproduce, modify and publish such material elsewhere in our websites and publications;

You grant us the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content; and We shall be entitled to reveal your identity (or any information which we have about you) to any third party who is claiming that any of that material violates any of their rights or to any government or regulatory authority that is entitled to require us to do so. We may remove or edit any material or posting you make on any of our websites at any time.

Disclaimers | Limitation of Liability

The information provided in our websites is intended to provide general information only and, as such, should not be considered as a substitute for advice covering any specific situation. While we endeavour to ensure that the information on our websites is correct, we do not warrant the accuracy and completeness of that information. The material on our websites may be out of date, and we make no commitment to update such material. We may make changes to the material on our websites, or to the products and prices described in them, at any time without notice.

We take every reasonable care to ensure that all personal information and subsequent transactions are conducted via a secure link. However, the security of information via the Internet cannot be guaranteed and as we are not responsible for the operation of the secure link we will not, unless we are negligent, be liable for any loss you may suffer if a third party obtains unauthorised access to any information you provide.

We do not warrant that the functions contained in our sites will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that our sites or the servers that make them available are free of viruses or bugs or represent full functionality, accuracy or reliability of the materials. We will not be liable for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system or any other damages (including amongst other losses, loss of profit or loss of use) arising out of your use or delay or inability to use our sites, their content or any link to another website arising in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise except in the case of death or personal injury caused by our negligence.

 

Personal data & Privacy Policy

We are committed to ensuring the privacy of all our users. Your personal data will not be sold or exchanged with third parties.

FUTURE VOICE does not collect personal information (such as your name, address, phone number or e-mail address) on the FUTURE VOICE Website unless you choose to provide it directly to us. In such cases your personal information is stored and processed in accordance with Germany's Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG, Bundesdatenschutzgesetz). The data collected in this context are used and stored to perform the requested service (participation in an event, delivery of publications) and in order to make you aware of the FUTURE VOICE's other events, publications and activities.

Every user who has placed information concerning him or herself on the www.futurevoice.org site has the right  to object to the information, to access it or to rectify it. To exercise this right, you should send an Email to: info(at)futurevoice.org. In this Email you should give your name or the name of your company or organisation, and your physical or electronic address. The requested data or change will be provided within a reasonable period after receipt of the request.

You can unsubscribe to the FUTURE VOICE newsletter at any time via an Email to: info(at)futurevoice.org or via a link provided by FUTURE VOICE in our newsletter.

Our internet offering makes provision for anonymous usage. This website only captures data to the extent that it is technically required and in order to improve the offering. The data are not linked to persons; in other words, there is no way of telling which user retrieved which data. Under no circumstances will the data we collect be sold or made available to third parties for other reasons. The following explanation shows how this protection is enabled and what kind of data are collected and for which purposes. Every time you access or retrieves a file, data about this transaction are temporarily saved and processed. The following data set is saved for each access/download:

Page viewed/name of the retrieved file

Amount of data transferred

Notification about whether the access/retrieval was successful

Browser type / version

Referrer URL (the previous page you visited)

Search terms (when being referred from a search engine)

Date and time of the query

The IP address of the computer sending the query is not saved by us. This means that it is not possible to create user profiles linked to individual persons. The collected data are analysed anonymously, and for two reasons only: for statistical purposes and to improve the offering. The data are not used in any other way or made available to third parties.