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Agreement between User and Social Learning Lab website
The Social Learning Lab website is comprised of various web pages operated by Wenger-Trayner. The Social Learning Lab website is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. Your use of the Social Learning Lab website constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices.
Modification of these terms of use
The Social Learning Lab reserves the right to change the terms, conditions, and notices under which the Social Learning Lab website is offered, including but not limited to the charges associated with the use of the Social Learning Lab website.
Links to third-party sites
The Social Learning Lab website may contain links to other websites (“Linked Sites”). The Linked Sites are not under the control of Social Learning Lab and Social Learning Lab is not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. Social Learning Lab is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any Linked Site. Social Learning Lab is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Social Learning Lab of the site or any association with its operators.
No unlawful or prohibited use
As a condition of your use of the Social Learning Lab website, you warrant to Social Learning Lab that you will not use the Social Learning Lab website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may not use the Social Learning Lab website in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Social Learning Lab website or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Social Learning Lab website. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Social Learning Lab website.
Use of communication services
The Social Learning Lab website may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, “Communication Services”), you agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not:
Social Learning Lab reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in Social Learning Lab’s sole discretion.
Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any Communication Service. Social Learning Lab does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Service and, therefore, Social Learning Lab specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Service. Moderators and organizers are not authorised Social Learning Lab spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of Social Learning Lab.
Materials uploaded to a Communication Service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you download the materials.
Materials provided to Social Learning Lab or posted at Social Learning Lab website
Social Learning Lab does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to Social Learning Lab (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Social Learning Lab website or its associated services (collectively “Submissions”). Social Learning Lab may ask you for your permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; and to publish your name in connection with your Submission.
No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission, as provided herein. Social Learning Lab is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide and may remove any Submission at any time in Social Learning Lab’s sole discretion.
By posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting your Submission you warrant and represent that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission as described in this section including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit the Submissions.
Liability Disclaimer
The information, software, products, and services included in or available through the Social Learning Lab website may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the information herein. Social Learning Lab and/or its suppliers may make improvements and/or changes in the Social Learning Lab website at any time. Advice received via the Social Learning Lab website should not be relied upon for personal, medical, legal or financial decisions and you should consult an appropriate professional for specific advice tailored to your situation.
Social Learning Lab and/or its suppliers make no representations about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, and accuracy of the information, software, products, services and related graphics contained on the Social Learning Lab website for any purpose. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, all such information, software, products, services and related graphics are provided “as is” without warranty or condition of any kind. Social Learning Lab and/or its suppliers hereby disclaim all warranties and conditions with regard to this information, software, products, services and related graphics, including all implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall Social Learning Lab and/or its suppliers be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential damages or any damages whatsoever including, without limitation, damages for loss of use, data or profits, arising out of or in any way connected with the use or performance of the Social Learning Lab website, with the delay or inability to use the Social Learning Lab website or related services, the provision of or failure to provide services, or for any information, software, products, services and related graphics obtained through the Social Learning Lab website, or otherwise arising out of the use of the Social Learning Lab website, whether based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, even if Social Learning Lab or any of its suppliers has been advised of the possibility of damages. Because some states/jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to you. If you are dissatisfied with any portion of the Social Learning Lab website, or with any of these terms of use, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Social Learning Lab website.
Service contact: admin@social-learning-lab.com
Termination/access restriction
Social Learning Lab reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Social Learning Labwebsite and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice.
Use of the Social Learning Lab website is unauthorised in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these terms and conditions, including without limitation this paragraph. You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Social Learning Lab as a result of this agreement or use of the Social Learning Lab website. Social Learning Lab’s performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of Social Learning Lab’s right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Social Learning Lab website or information provided to or gathered by Social Learning Lab with respect to such use.
If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect. Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and Social Learning Lab with respect to the Social Learning Lab website and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and Social Learning Lab with respect to the Social Learning Lab website.
A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish to the parties that this agreement and all related documents be drawn up in English.
Copyright and Trademark notices
All contents of the Social Learning Lab website are subject to Wenger-Trayner Unip Lda, registration number DMCA-1045226 in the U.S. Copyright Office’s DMCA Designated Agent Directory.
Trademarks
The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
The example companies, organisations, products, people and events depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organisation, product, person, or event is intended or should be inferred.
Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
We are Beverly and Etienne Wenger-Trayner. Our website address is: https://wenger-trayner.com. We also run an online community website for our events and related groups here: https://www.social-learning-lab.com.
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If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
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