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Introduction

These terms and conditions govern your use of this website; by using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full.   If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this website.

License to use website

Unless otherwise stated, GiveWell Community Foundation and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website.  Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

• republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
• sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
• show any material from the website in public;
• reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;

Acceptable use

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without GiveWell Community Foundation’s express written consent.

You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

Restricted access

Access to certain areas of this website is restricted.  GiveWell Community Foundation reserves the right to restrict access to areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at GiveWell Community Foundation’s discretion.

If GiveWell Community Foundation provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.

GiveWell Community Foundation may disable your user ID and password in GiveWell Community Foundation’s sole discretion without notice or explanation.

User content

In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to GiveWell Community Foundation a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media.  You also grant to GiveWell Community Foundation the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or GiveWell Community Foundation or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

GiveWell Community Foundation reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on GiveWell Community Foundation’s servers, or hosted or published upon this website.

Notwithstanding GiveWell Community Foundation’s rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, GiveWell Community Foundation does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.

No warranties

This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied.  GiveWell Community Foundation makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, GiveWell Community Foundation does not warrant that:

• this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
• the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind.  If you require advice in relation to any legal or financial matter you should consult an appropriate professional.

Limitations of liability

GiveWell Community Foundation will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:

• for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or
• for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if GiveWell Community Foundation has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Exceptions

Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit GiveWell Community Foundation’s liability in respect of any:

• death or personal injury caused by GiveWell Community Foundation’s negligence;
• fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of GiveWell Community Foundation; or
• matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for GiveWell Community Foundation to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.

Reasonableness

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable.

If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

Other parties

You accept that, as a limited liability entity, GiveWell Community Foundation has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees.  You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against GiveWell Community Foundation’s officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website.

Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect GiveWell Community Foundation’s officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as GiveWell Community Foundation.

Unenforceable provisions

If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.

Indemnity

You hereby indemnify GiveWell Community Foundation and undertake to keep GiveWell Community Foundation indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by GiveWell Community Foundation to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of GiveWell Community Foundation’s legal advisers) incurred or suffered by GiveWell Community Foundation arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.

Breaches of these terms and conditions

Without prejudice to GiveWell Community Foundation’s other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, GiveWell Community Foundation may take such action as GiveWell Community Foundation deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Variation

GiveWell Community Foundation may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time.  Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website.  Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

Assignment

GiveWell Community Foundation may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with GiveWell Community Foundation’s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

Severability

If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.  If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Entire agreement

These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and GiveWell Community Foundation in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

Law and jurisdiction

These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with Florida and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Florida

PRIVACY STATEMENT

Your privacy is important to GiveWell Community Foundation.  This privacy statement provides information about the personal information that GiveWell Community Foundation collects, and the ways in which GiveWell Community Foundation uses that personal information. 

Personal information collection

GiveWell Community Foundation may collect and use the following kinds of personal information:

• information that you provide using for the purpose of registering with the website (including name, address, and phone number;
• information about transactions carried out over this website
• any other information that you send to GiveWell Community Foundation.

Using personal information

GiveWell Community Foundation may use your personal information to:

• administer this website;
• personalize the website for you;
• enable your access to and use of the website services;
• publish information about you on the website;
• send to you products that you purchase;
• send to you statements and invoices;
• collect payments from you; and
• send you marketing communications.

Where GiveWell Community Foundation discloses your personal information to its agents or sub-contractors for these purposes, the agent or sub-contractor in question will be obligated to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy statement.

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere above, GiveWell Community Foundation may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.

Securing your data

GiveWell Community Foundation will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

GiveWell Community Foundation will store all the personal information you provide on its secure servers.

Information relating to electronic transactions entered into via this website will be  protected by encryption technology.

Cross-border data transfers

Personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available around the world.  You agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information.

Updating this statement

GiveWell Community Foundation may update this privacy policy by posting a new version on this website.

You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes.

Other websites

This website contains links to other websites.

GiveWell Community Foundation is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.

Contact GiveWell Community Foundation

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or GiveWell Community Foundation treatment of your personal information, please email info@givecf.org.