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​General  Terms and Conditions

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Who owns this website and the information contained in it?
This website is owned and operated by Unite and Support Ecology and Economy – USEE, Lda., otherwise known as USEE or USEE Global. These Terms state the terms and conditions under which you may use our website and services as offered by us.


General Information:
By accessing or using USEE’s website and/or social media channels, courses, content, pages and documents, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If any of these terms are unacceptable to you or in the event that any future changes are unacceptable to you, do not use the service. Your continued use of the service, will indicate acceptance and agreement by you. We may not necessarily or explicitly update you on made changes, thus, it is your responsibility to stay up to date on our General Terms and Conditions, our Donation Terms and Conditions and our Privacy Policy. There are no implied licenses under this agreement, nor is any licence necessary to enforce these Terms; your use and/or interaction with our website and/or other USEE channels (incl. but not limited to the ones described above), and/or your public mention of USEE (incl. all related people, activities, projects, products and services) is prove of agreement with our Terms and Conditions.

You confirm that you have the legal authority to enter into this agreement and to be bound by its terms. If you are acting on behalf of a company or entity, you confirm that you have the authority to bind such entity. Provided you comply with our General Terms and Conditions, our Privacy Policy and our Donation Terms and Conditions (when applicable), we grant access to our website and social media pages and/or USEE member pages (if applicable) and other kinds of content such as but not limited to the ones described above for the purpose of viewing and interacting with the provided information, within the parameters of this agreement.

When you create an account, surf on our website, fill a form, donate in some form, interact on our channels and or subscribe to our services, and buy the products we offer we will collect certain information from you, which may include your payment information. To learn how we collect, store, use and share your information, please read our Privacy Policy, the terms of which are hereby incorporated into these Terms by reference.


You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your USEE account and password and for restricting access to your computer. We cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from any unauthorized access or use of your User ID or password, nor from banning you from our channels of interactions should there have been a missuse. All subscriptions are lawfully valid as extensions of this agreement, and untransferable, unless USEE explicitly accepts your request of transfer in writing.


What is offered on this website?
This website offers visitors and users access to research and good practices for solving global challenges, as well as thought-provoking content and insights into our organisation’s development.


We also may display our projects, services and products, like the re-designed socio-economic system USEE is developing as SVARG, and our Online Information Centre, where we store relevant information for our visitors and users to access. Our Engagement Platform and channels also enable you to comment and contribute to USEE’s development, including our projects, services and products. 

We also offer participation methods, such as sponsoring, volunteering, becoming a member of USEE’s Global Community, collaborating, joining the team and donating. By offering your participation in the above-mentioned forms and/or any other forms of collaboration that are not specifically mentioned, you confirm that you are legally allowed to do so; USEE does not take any responsibility for unlawful participation whatsoever. On this website, we also portray our sponsors, partners and heroes; people and/or organisations that believe in our cause, and in some way contribute/d to the establishment of USEE; we do so upon explicit verbal and/or written consent and do not take any responsibility for the information displayed in relation to our participants (collaborators, sponsors, heroes, volunteers, donors, community members, etc.) thereafter. Should you wish to have your information removed, mended or censored, please reach out to us through the contact form on our webpage.


What are the binding terms of this website?
By accessing or using the website, social media pages and our services and/or by participating in any form and/or accessing/using any of our content, pages, courses, documents and similar, you approve that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms.


Who can use this website; what are the requirements to create an account?
In order to use our website and/or receive our services, you must be at least 12 years of age and accompanied or supervised by an adult with parental authority who consents to your usage of this website. If you are below 12 years of age, you must make sure that an adult with parental rights is with you at all times while using our website, not only accompanying and supervising, but explaining the context of information and comments. Please make sure to check on the current legislations of your current place of residence to ensure your use of our Website, and content as well as your participation is legal at your age if you are below 18 years of age. Otherwise, you must be of the legal age of majority in your jurisdiction, and possess the legal authority, right and freedom to enter into these Terms as a binding agreement. You are not allowed to use this website and/or receive services if doing so is prohibited in your country or under any law or regulation applicable to you.


Ground rules for interaction on this website and/or USEE’s social media pages and channels
•    Be thoughtful and gentle in your ways; you don’t know who is on the other end!
•    All USEE Channels are equally committed to creating a safe, harmonious and welcoming environment; by participating in our activities, you commit to ensuring your interactions are appropriate for this environment.
•    We encourage friendly conversations, confrontations and debates on any topic, but please accept other people’s opinions and points of view, and be respectful at all times. When in doubt or when the situation heats up, you may agree to disagree and move on or find a common ground for a friendly and mature conversation, up to you! Every member of our Global Community belongs here as much as you do, we are all on the same side, even if our opinions may differ on specific topics, and that’s fine! Noone thinks 100% like you, not your family, not your friends, nor anyone else. Please keep that in mind and respectfully convey your message or contribution without personally (explicitly or inexplicitly) attacking anyone.
•    If you make a scientific claim, please provide a source to back it up. Otherwise, other members of our Global Community and USEE itself may expect you to provide such source upon request.
•    We do not tolerate bullying nor threats to others, not even if they are portrayed as humorous; not about doxing, physical harm, sexual harassment/rape, people dear to a community member (like their mamas) and/or otherwise.
•    We do not tolerate deceit and/or impersonating others, other than yourself, should we suspect impersonation, we will take action as deemed appropriate.
•    If you leave a comment, you are expected to stand by it. If you at any point realise that it wasn’t appropriate, you can make an additional comment excusing yourself for any made transgression; substantially altering and/or deleting a comment in retrospect to avoid confrontation is not allowed. You are expected to take responsibility for what you “say”. USEE retains the right to delete comments and handle disputes as we see fit, to offer a safe and harmonic environment where everyone is welcome.
•    Swearing, slurring, hurtful and or dehumanising speech, as well as racism and sexism will not be tolerated; again, we expect you to take responsibility for what you “say” and everybody is welcome here as we unite for a higher purpose.
•    Spamming, shitposting, excessive trolling and/or similar practices are not tolerated.
•    If there is a dispute, please, calmly bring it to our attention. We are here to help, but we can’t be everywhere at once.
•    If you want to be part of our community and/or interact on our platforms, you are expected to commit to all of these rules.

Any transgression may be grounds for suspension or result in banning, so please be aware of your behaviour and take responsibility for your actions. In other words, be a role model for newer members to follow.


Key commercial Terms offered to customers
When buying an item (product or service), you agree that: (i) you are responsible for reading the full item listing before making a commitment to buy it: (ii), when you commit to buy an item and you complete the check-out payment process, you enter a legally binding contract to purchase an item.

The prices we charge for using our services and/or for our products are listed on the website. We reserve the right to change our prices for products displayed at any time, and to correct pricing errors that may inadvertently occur. Additional information about pricing and sales tax is available on the payments page itself, which opens during the acquisition process.

The fee for our paid subscription services and any other charges you may sustain in connection with your use of our services, such as taxes and possible transaction fees, will be charged on a one-time, monthly or annual basis to your payment method should you subscribe to our paid services. 

We try to be accurate in our product and service and descriptions. However, we do not warrant that our product and/or service descriptions are 100% accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. If a product is not as described, you may return it in unused condition for a full refund (to the extent that such product is eligible for a refund, e.g. sales for mini courses, live interactive offerings or products where hygiene principles may be compromised are final). Except where explicitly mentioned, the price displayed for products and services is the full retail price. It may not include any applicable sales or other taxes that we may be required to collect, depending on your location.


Return and refund policy
For any undamaged product, simply return it with its included accessories and packaging along with the original receipt (or gift receipt) within 14 days of the date you receive the product, and we will exchange it or offer a refund based upon the original payment method. In addition, please note the following: (i) Products can be returned only in the country in which they were originally purchased; and (ii) the following products are not eligible for return: mini courses, live interactive offerings, products where hygiene principles may be compromised and similar.


Retention of right to change offering
We may, without prior notice, change the services; stop providing the services or any features of the services we offer; revisit the terms of use; and/or create limits for the services. We may permanently or temporarily terminate or suspend access to the services without notice and liability for any reason that may or may not be disclosed, this may include temporary website downtime for which we do not take any liability.


Warranties & responsibility for services and products
We don’t provide any kinds of warranty with our services and products, but should you receive a damaged product, or should the product break and be rendered unusable within an unreasonable amount of time (individually defined by USEE) and through reasons that do not include personal negligence, please reach out to us right away. We will then get in touch with you to analyse the situation and decide whether the product should be repaired or replaced. We retain the right to make our decision based on our own terms, our understanding of the circumstances, your sincerity and your cooperation.
If we decide to comply with your request, and are unable to repair or replace the product within a reasonable time, our customers will be entitled to a full refund upon the prompt return of the product to us. We will pay for shipment of repaired or replaced products, while our customer will generally be responsible for the return shipment of the product to us.
We cannot always foresee or anticipate technical or other difficulties which may result in failure to obtain data or loss of data, personalization settings, or other interruptions. We cannot assume responsibility for the timeliness, accuracy, deletion, non-delivery or failure to store any user data, communications or settings.


Donations and Privacy
For any information on the terms and conditions relating to donations, and/or for information relating to our privacy policy, please refer to the designated documents entailing such information, which you can find under their respective links;
Donations Terms and Conditions

Privacy Policy


Ownership of intellectual property, copyrights and logos
Our products (including but not limited to SVARG), services and all materials therein or transferred thereby, including, without limitation, software, images, text, graphics, logos, patents, trademarks, service marks, copyrights, photographs, audio, videos, music and all Intellectual Property Rights related thereto, are the exclusive property of USEE.
Except as explicitly provided herein, nothing in these Terms shall be deemed an authorization to create a license in or under any such Intellectual Property Rights, and you agree not to sell, lease, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works thereof (either in whole or in part) unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by USEE or by the owners of that content, in writing.


You recognize and agree that by uploading and/or sharing any content of USEE’s website and/or other USEE channels, such as social media pages (including, but not limited to designs, images, animations, videos, audio files, fonts, logos, illustrations, compositions, artworks, interfaces, text and literary works) you will directly refer to and tag USEE as owners of such intellectual property. 

This refers to the content that is freely accessible by anyone without registration. Whereas, should you share confidential and/or paid content retrieved or copied from our channels, you will be committing a crime. In which case, we retain the right to take legal action and ban you from our services. You also agree that if and when you share any freely accessible information, documentation and/or material owned by USEE (obtained through channels, such as our website and social media pages) it will be properly accredited with reference to the respective owners of any kind of intellectual property you share. You will also make sure, that any such content creation and/or sharing will be made in good faith, and a respectable context, without harming USEE’s reputation or tainting USEE’s intention. Otherwise, you confirm that you own all the relevant rights or received the appropriate license to upload/transfer/send the content, in writing.

You further agree that you will not submit to USEE material that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third-party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have written permission from their rightful owner to post the material, and to grant us all of the license and ownership rights as foreseen by these Terms. You understand that we may (i) transmit or distribute the content you share in relation to USEE and/or on USEE channels over various public networks and in various channels or media; and (ii) make changes to your content as necessary to conform and adapt that content to the ideology of USEE, technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services, products or media. You agree that you understand and comply with these terms, thus, this license shall permit us to take these actions. As such, you understand and confirm that you are solely responsible for any content you create and/or share, and that USEE will not take any responsibility for that whatsoever. You agree and consent that the content you upload/transfer/share may be publicly displayed at the website and/or any other USEE channel, or media or USEE-appointed third party.

By participating in any public forums made available in connection with the USEE (including, without limitation, AMA’s, podcasts, interviews, e-courses, mini courses, conference calls, webinars, online interactive offerings, conversations, debates, etc.), you give us the right to: (i) record your voice and person by all means of recording technology including video (the results of which shall be deemed the “Recordings”); (ii) edit any such Recordings (in our sole discretion); and (iii) use such Recordings along with your name, photographs, and likenesses, in connection with the USEE and our general business purposes, and all ancillary and subsidiary uses thereof, as well as all advertising and publicity therefor, and to utilise the Recordings and the public forum features in any and all manners USEE sees fit, and in any media of our choice, through media and technology that is known today or hereafter devised, globally, now and in future.

By submitting, posting or displaying content related to USEE, you give us a worldwide, perpetual, fully-sublicensable, irrevocable, royalty-free, and exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, distribute and otherwise utilise any and all content which you submit or post on or through USEE and/or in relation to USEE in any manner or media whatsoever, now known or hereafter developed.

You understand and agree that we may use your feedback, suggestions, ideas and/or the information offered to us, in any way we see fit, including but not limited to; in future modifications of our projects, products and services, advertising or marketing materials. You grant us a complete, exclusive, worldwide, fully transferable, sublicensable, irrevocable, royalty free license to use the feedback, documentation, idea, notes, drawings, graphics, concepts, and any other information you provide us with, in any way we see fit, today and in future, without any form of compensation whatsoever.

You acknowledge and agree that USEE assumes no obligation of confidentiality or nondisclosure (explicit or implied) for any information or documentation you willingly provide us with, except for the personal information regulated by our Privacy Policy. Without limitation, USEE shall exclusively own, and you hereby irrevocably transfer and assign to USEE, all now known or hereafter existing rights in and to the feedback, suggestions, ideas, and any other information, data or similar, and USEE shall be entitled to the unrestricted use of such information, data and/or contribution for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without any form of compensation whatsoever.

You agree that we are not responsible for protecting and enforcing any intellectual property rights granted to us by you in connection with this Agreement and these General Terms, and that we have no obligation to do so on your behalf. Thus, we retain the right to use information, documentations and/or material given to USEE as our own, with or without reference to who contributed to obtaining and/or developing such intellectual property.

Should we generate substantial income through one of your ideas and/or contributions, and if we are able to clearly track who is responsible for aiding this process, we may decide to reach out to you and offer you a reward (at USEE’s own discretion), if we so see fit and if we are able to contact you. Overall, you confirm that all your contributions are voluntary, non-confidential, and solely made to advance our cause. Therefore, we retain the exclusive right to all Intellectual Property Rights and thank you for your contribution to a better future for all.


USEE users, visitors and communities
All users that join, interact with and/or subscribe to be a part of USEE’s Global Community in any way, have a public profile that is publicly visible to site visitors and/or visitors of other USEE channels, such as our social media pages. Any of your public activity such as but not limited to posts or comments will be visible to other visitors of the website and/or social media pages and similar USEE channels. As visitor or user of our website and/or social media channels you can always opt-out and exit the community, by unsubscribing and/or requesting so through the contact form on our webpage. Naturally, in such event the user will not be able to use the community features (e.g. liking, commenting or writing posts).


Disclaimer
Despite the constant care and attention we give to the content of our website and our social media pages or channels, USEE and any of its affiliates, hereinafter referred to as USEE, cannot guarantee its completeness or the accuracy of the data. All the references given on our webpage and/or other USEE channels, such as social media pages, articles and studies have been found online, in books or have been given to us by trusted people and entities, and we cannot take any responsibility for the accuracy of such information. Although, USEE makes it a habit to find reliable resources, like scientific publications and peer reviewed ideas.

All information and services are offered “as is”, and without any guarantee or safeguard (implicit or explicit) with regard to their suitability or fitness for any purpose to which they are utilised by any private or legal person. The user of this website and/or our social media channels is also advised to seek independent confirmation for any information obtained here. USEE accepts no liability for any direct or indirect damages of any kind arising from, or in any way connected to this website’s content or accessibility, nor of its social media pages, documents, services and other channels. Furthermore, USEE reserves the right to change, update, or amend the information on this website at any time, as per our own discretion.

Certain statements on this website, including those regarding our projects, our services and products, our timing and capabilities, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, like anything else in life. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations. As a result of unforeseen risk and uncertainty, actual results may differ materially from those projected. USEE gives no guarantee (implicit or explicit) with regard to the success of its projects or services in any way, although, we certainly dedicate ourselves to offering the best possible results.

On this site you may find links to and extracts of other websites and social media pages; USEE is not responsible for the content those websites present, or the manner in which they handle personal information. We strongly recommend that when following links from this website to others you read the privacy policy, disclaimer, copyright notice, and terms and conditions of such pages, before providing your personal information. Statements and opinions expressed on the pages of these website are those of the authors, and not necessarily those of USEE.

You agree that you will not use the website in any unlawful manner, for any unlawful purpose, or maliciously, for example, by hacking into or inserting malicious code, including viruses, or harmful data, into the website or other USEE Channels. You will not engage in any activity intended to interfere with USEE, other users or any other person or activity that amounts to defamation, abuse, harassment, stalking, threatening or otherwise violating or infringing the legal rights of any other person (including any privacy and person security rights). You will not spread fake news. You will not distribute, publish, exhibit, or otherwise use our service, in any manner and for any purpose that is not expressly permitted under this agreement. If you post information or a message on the website and or other USEE pages, you agree that you will not mislead or deceive any person or impersonate any person other than yourself, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person. You will not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose USEE, and/or any person or portion thereof, nor any of its Global Community Members.

You will not exploit USEE or collect any data incorporated in our channels in any automated manner through the use of bots, meta spiders, crawlers or any other automated means, nor unauthorised unautomated means. You will not register as a user of USEE by providing false, inaccurate, or misleading information. You will not post hyperlinks to commercial services or sites, nor to any phishing/scaming site/app/channel. You will not collect personal data about other users of USEE for commercial or any other purposes. You will not post irrelevant content on any of our channels outside of social pleasantries, nor repeatedly post the same or similar content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure and/or personnel. You will not attempt to gain unauthorized access to our computer systems (not that of other community members and users) or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of our website or social media channels and similar.

You will not make available any content that constitutes or contains affiliate marketing, link referral code, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes and/or or unsolicited commercial advertisement, except to the extent such content is provided to you by us or one of our official affiliates for a purpose specifically authorized by us in writing. You will not create or attempt to create multiple user accounts.

You understand that if you do not comply with these terms and/or if we believe that your actions are an attempt to circumvent our controls or if your actions are against the law, we may immediately suspend, restrict or prohibit your access to the website and related pages or deactivate or close your account, as well as take legal action and any other steps against you that we deem appropriate.

Promotional emails and content
You agree to receive (from time to time) promotional messages and materials from us, by mail, email or any other contact form you may provide us with (including your phone number for calls, video, image or text messages). If you don't want to receive such promotional materials or notices – please notify us at any time by reaching out to us through our contact form on our webpage.


Right to suspend or cancel user account
We may permanently or temporarily terminate or suspend your access to the service without notice and liability for any reason, including if in our sole determination you violate any provision of these Terms or any applicable law or regulations. You may discontinue use and request to cancel your account and/or any services at any time. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, with respect to automatically-renewed subscriptions to paid services, such subscriptions will be discontinued only upon the expiration of the respective period for which you have already paid for.


Term and Termination
This agreement is effective until terminated by us or you. We shall have the right to terminate this Agreement including, without limitation, your right to access and use our services, at any time in our sole discretion and without advance notice to you. The licenses granted herein by us shall automatically terminate without advance notice if you fail to comply with any material provision of this Agreement. You may terminate this Agreement at any time by deleting your user account, unsubscribing or requesting as much by contacting our Team through the contact form on our website. Upon termination of this Agreement for any reason, you shall immediately cease using our services.


Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold USEE (and all its affiliates, and/or people and organisations related to USEE) harmless from and against any demands, loss, liability, claims and/or expenses (including attorneys’ fees), made against them by any third party due to, or arising out of, or in connection with your use of the website or any of the services offered on the website, and or our social media pages and channels.


Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall USEE be liable for any indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including without limitation, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses, arising out of or relating to the use of, or inability to use, the service. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, USEE assumes no liability or responsibility for any (i) errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content; (ii) personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to and/or use of our service; and (iii) any unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers and/or any and all personal information stored therein. You, as user, visitor and/or participant are responsible for knowing and understanding the content of our Terms and Conditions and the herein implied Agreement. Should any unclarity arise, please make sure to reach out to us and clarify before using any of our services, platforms or similar, under: mail@usee.global.


Right to change and modify Terms
We reserve the right to modify these terms from time to time at our sole discretion, without any notice. Therefore, you should review these pages periodically. When we change the Terms in a material manner, we will not notify you that material changes have been made to the Terms, unless we see it as strictly necessary to do so. Nevertheless, we change the date of our legal documentation (General Terms and Conditions, Donation Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy) to display when it was last updated, so you may clearly see if changes were made since you last read them. Your continued use of the website, our social media pages and channels, or our service after any such change, constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms. If you do not agree to any of these terms or any future version of the Terms, do not use or access (or continue to access) the website, USEE pages and/or the services.
If you have any concerns in regard, please feel free to contact us anytime through our contact form on our webpage.


Preference of law and dispute resolution
These Terms, the rights and remedies provided hereunder, and any and all claims and disputes related hereto and/or to our products and services, shall be governed by, construed under and enforced in all respects solely and exclusively in accordance with the internal substantive laws of Portugal. Any and all related claims and disputes shall be brought in, and you hereby consent to them being decided exclusively by a court of competent jurisdiction located in Serpa, Beja. The application of the United Nations Convention of Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is hereby expressly excluded, as far as diverting from Portuguese legislation and laws.


Customer support details & contact info
Customer Support:
You may reach out to us and our user/customer support via email through the contact form on our webpage at any given time. We do our best to respond in a timely manner and handle any contact we receive in a satisfactory way.

USEE’s full name and registration address:
Unite and Support Ecology and Economy – USEE, Lda.
Rua do Vice Almirante A. L. P., n° 54
7830-372 Serpa
Portugal

USEE’s Tax Number:
NIF - 516116339

We do not receive uninvited visitors at our registered address under any circumstances, at any time. Should you wish to contact or meet us, please reach out to us through our contact form on our webpage.


These Terms and Conditions and the Agreement therein displayed have been last updated on 04.10.2023

Thank you for your attention and for being a part of USEE.

Together, we can and will make all the difference.

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