TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING THIS WEBSITE YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS BELOW. THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE, FROM TIME TO TIME IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION. WE WILL NOTIFY YOU OF AMENDMENTS TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS BY POSTING THEM TO THIS WEBSITE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS THIS WEBSITE.

 

We reserve the right to revise the following terms at any time, with revisions posted to this Website www.winecampus.org.

You are strictly prohibited from unauthorized use of our systems or this website, including but not limited to unauthorized entry into our systems, misuse of passwords, or misuse of any information posted to this website.

You acknowledge that we may disclose and transfer any information that you provide through this Website if we have a right or duty to disclose or are permitted or compelled to so disclose such information by law. You consent to the transmission, transfer or processing of such information to, or through, any country in the world, as we deem necessary or appropriate, and by using and providing information through this Website you agree to such transfers.

Use of this Website may be monitored, tracked and recorded. Anyone using this Website expressly consents to such monitoring, tracking and recording. You are responsible for being familiar with the current version of these Terms and Conditions posted on the Website during each session.

 

Ownership and Use of This Website

The Website is owned by the representative of WINE CAMPUS™. The term “Website” refers to www.winecampus.org, sub-domains prior to being redirected and its extension or platform.

 

Legal Entity Disclosure

WINE CAMPUS™ is a registered trademark and used as the marketing name for the Mediterranean Wine Campus and its subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. Affiliates, however, operate independently as limited companies as registered by law.

 

Indemnity

Unless students have paid a fee to WINE CAMPUS™ directly, they shall seek indemnity directly from the AFFILIATE to whom they have made a monetary contribution either online, by bank transfer or otherwise, and hold harmless THE PROVIDER, or the course certifying body,  i.e. WINE CAMPUS™  from and against any and all losses, demands, claims, damages, costs, expenses and liabilities suffered or incurred, directly or indirectly, in consequence of any breach, non performance or non observance by the AFFILIATE of any of the obligations on the part of the AFFILIATE contained in the Agreement in general and in respect of furnishing translations of course material from English to any other languages.

 

Use of Website Content

Students that pay a fee do so for the usage of the site, bandwidth, online assistance of tutors and their expertise and knowledge, the sharing of links to resources but not for the material itself unless it is in the public domain and not protected by copyright. The resources on the site are merely share online solely for non-profit educational purposes.

Where material has been be made available for sharing online this has been done without securing copyright permission if the copying is related directly to the educational objectives of a specific course and if the copyrighted material is limited to brief works, or brief excerpts from longer works. Examples include a single chapter from a book, a single article from a journal, or unrelated news articles.

Consequently, users may not sell or modify the Website content or reproduce, display, publicly perform, distribute, or otherwise use the Website content in any way for any public or commercial purpose. The use of the Website content on any other Website or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited.

Copying or adapting the HTML code that WINE CAMPUS™ creates to generate any Website content or the pages making up any WINE CAMPUS™ site is prohibited. It is also protected by WINE CAMPUS ™ copyright. All copyrights, trademarks, service-marks and other proprietary notices contained in the original Website content must be retained on any copy made of the Website content.

Original materials featured on this Website are copyright of WINE CAMPUS™, and are covered by the provisions of the Copyright Act, by Maltese laws, policies, regulations and international agreements. This copyright material may be downloaded, displayed, and reproduced in an unaltered form only (retaining this notice) for personal, non-commercial use or for internal circulation within an organisation. Authorisation to reproduce material from sites linked to this website must be obtained from the copyright holder concerned. To obtain permission to reproduce materials from this website, requests and inquiries please email: registrar@winecampus.org.

 

Limited License

WINE CAMPUS™ grants users a limited license to download the material on this Website solely for personal, non-commercial use. Violation of any provision of these Terms of Use terminates the license to use such material and requires immediate destruction of any copies of any portion of the material.

Materials and information posted on the Website and its extension or platform to which you can gain access may be printed for your use, provided, however, that third party exchange data, if any, may not be downloaded, printed or redistributed for any purposes whatsoever.

Materials and information posted on the Website and its extension or platform to which you can gain access may not be duplicated, copied, re-disseminated or re-distributed to any other person or entity. Re-dissemination and re-distribution includes, without limitation, making any such materials and information available via the Internet or via any other electronic means of access.

You agree that you will not engage in any activities related to this Website and its extension or platform to which you can gain access that are contrary to applicable law, regulation or the terms of any agreements you have with us.

 

Links to other sites

Links to unaffiliated websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to users of this Website, and we have no control over the content on such unaffiliated websites. If you choose to link to a website we do not control, we make no warranties, either express or implied, concerning your use of or inability to use such site, the content of such site, including the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or suitability thereof for any particular purpose, nor do we warrant that such site or content is free from any claims of copyright, trademark, or other infringement of the rights of third parties or that such site or content is devoid of viruses or other contamination. We do not guarantee the authenticity of documents on the Internet. Links to unaffiliated sites do not imply any endorsement of or responsibility for the opinions, ideas, products, information, or services offered at such sites, or any representation regarding the content at such sites and we expressly disclaim any such endorsement or representation. In addition, these third party websites may have a privacy policy or security practices different from this Website so it is important to read the policies of those sites before sharing your personal information.

  

Disclaimer

WINE CAMPUS™ makes every effort to maintain the accuracy of the information on this website but cannot accept responsibility for any prejudice, loss or damage which may occur from use of the information. WINE CAMPUS™ does not provide quality control of external links or sub-domains that redirect to third parties’ sites.

The inclusion of any company’s or trader's name within the pages should not be construed as a recommendation of that company’s or trader's products and/or services unless otherwise stated. If you find anything on this website that causes concern please send an email to registrar@winecampus.org.

WINE CAMPUS™ has taken all reasonable care to check the adequacy of the rights of the third party content providers. If you believe that your or any third party's intellectual property rights have been violated by WINE CAMPUS ™  inclusion of any part of the content on the website, please send the following information to WINE CAMPUS ™ at registrar@winecampus.org:

·         description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property right that you claim has been infringed;

·         description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the website;

·         your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address;

·         a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright or intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law;

·         a statement by you that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf;

 

WINE CAMPUS™ will promptly examine the notice from the perspective of the relevant content provider, including WINE CAMPUS™ when such infringement is with regard to any content provided by WINE CAMPUS™. WINE CAMPUS™ will investigate such issues and will forward your notice to the relevant content provider when required and will remove the content only if satisfied of the claim. It may request additional information before removing the infringing content from the website.

It is WINE CAMPUS™ policy, in appropriate circumstances and at its sole discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts of those users who may infringe the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of WINE CAMPUS™ and/or others.

 

Privacy Policy

1.0 Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting our visitors' privacy and we will not collect any personal information about you as a visitor unless you provide it voluntarily. Any personal information you communicate to us is kept within our own records in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2001.

2.0 The Data Protection Act 2001

The Data Protection Act 2001 has been enacted on the 14th December 2001 and the section concerning the appointment of the Data Protection Commissioner and the Data Protection Appeals Tribunal has been brought into force as from the 22nd March 2002. We therefore consider that we have a legal duty to respect and protect any personal information we collect from you and we will abide by such duty. We take all safeguards necessary to prevent unauthorised access and we do not pass on your details collected from you as a visitor, to any third party unless you give us your consent to do so.

3.0 Information Collected

As a visitor, we collect three types of information on you: Contact or feedback information; Web page download information.

3.1 Contact or Feedback

When you fill the form on the "CONTACT WINE CAMPUS", we use the personal information submitted in the form only to respond to your message. This personal information will not be kept longer than necessary and will be deleted once the feedback requirement is met.

3.2 Download Information

If you read or download information from our site, we automatically collect and store the following non-personal information: The requested web page or download; Whether the request was successful or not; The date and time when you accessed the site; The Internet address of the Website or the domain name of the computer from which you accessed the site; The operating system of the machine running your web browser and the type and version of your web browser.

Please note that this information is strictly for the sole use of winecampus.org and it is not shared, leased, or sold in any manner to any other organisation.

4.0 Links to other Websites

Our site has a number of links to other local and international organisations and agencies. In some cases, for the benefit of the visitor, it may be required that we link to other Websites of other organisations after permission is obtained from them respectively. It is important for you to note that upon linking to another site, you are no longer on our site and you become subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

5.0 Access to your information

You may request us at any time what information is effectively held on you if any, at that particular time. You have the right to have any inaccuracies corrected and where applicable erased, if they are not already deleted.

6.0 Changes to this Privacy Policy

If there are any changes to this privacy policy, we will replace this page with an updated version. It is therefore in your own interest to check the "Privacy Policy" page any time you access our Website so as to be aware of any changes which may occur from time to time.

 

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

BECAUSE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF HUMAN AND MECHANICAL ERROR AS WELL AS OTHER FACTORS, THE WEBSITE (INCLUDING ALL INFORMATION AND MATERIALS CONTAINED ON THE WEBSITE) IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". WE, OUR AFFILIATES, AND ANY THIRD PARTY DATA PROVIDERS:

·         ARE NOT PROVIDING ANY WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE WEBSITE;

·         DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND WITH REGARD TO THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS, FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL CODE, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE;

·         DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY, ADEQUACY, OR COMPLETENESS OF THE INFORMATION AND MATERIALS CONTAINED ON THE WEBSITE AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS LIABILITY FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE MATERIALS AND INFORMATION;  

·         WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DELAY, DIFFICULTY IN USE, COMPUTER VIRUSES, MALICIOUS CODE OR OTHER DEFECT IN THIS WEBSITE, ANY INCOMPATIBILITY BETWEEN THE WEBSITE AND THE USER'S FILES AND THE USER'S BROWSER OR OTHER SITE ACCESSING PROGRAM, OR ANY OTHER PROBLEMS EXPERIENCED BY THE USER DUE TO CAUSES BEYOND OUR CONTROL.

 

NO LICENSE TO THE USER IS IMPLIED IN THESE DISCLAIMERS. NOTHING HEREIN SHALL BE CONSTRUED AS LIMITING OR REDUCING OUR RESPONSIBILITIES AND OBLIGATIONS TO CLIENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATIONS.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST OPPORTUNITY OR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF ANY USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER WE HAVE BEEN APPRISED OF THE LIKELIHOOD OF SUCH DAMAGES OCCURRING AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF ACTION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE.