Terms and conditions

Access to the Website is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on the Website without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Website. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Website through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

Unless otherwise stated, we are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in the Website, and in the material published on it. For the purposes of these terms and conditions, “material” means material including, without limitation, text, graphics, images, video and sound material. Those works are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may download and print extracts from material on the Website for your own personal and non-commercial use only. You must not download or print the material or extracts from it in a systematic or regular manner or otherwise so as to create a database in electronic or paper format comprising all or part of the material appearing on the Website. You may not distribute, transmit or disseminate any part of the material on the Website without our prior permission.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way or create derivative versions of such materials, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

You must retain all its copyright and other proprietary notices appearing on the Website and you must not use any part of the materials on the Website for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to wol@iza.org

If you print off, copy or download any part of the Website in breach of these terms of use, your right to use the Website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

The names, images and logos (“Trade Marks”) identifying Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA) or other third parties and their products and/or services are subject to copyright, design rights and trade mark laws. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as conferring any right to use any such Trade Marks.

While we endeavour to ensure that the information provided on the Website is accurate and up to date, the material displayed on the Website (whether provided by us or a third party) is made available without any guarantees, conditions, warranties or representations as to its accuracy, completeness or reliability. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:

• All conditions, warranties, representations and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
• Any responsibility or liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage (including without limitation loss of business, business opportunity or profits) incurred by any user in connection with the Website or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of the Website, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it (whether caused by tort, breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable)

You hereby expressly agree that you use the Website ‘as is’ and at your own risk and that any damage or loss arising from your use of it and/or any reliance placed on its contents are your sole responsibility.

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.

These standards apply to each part of any contribution as well as to its whole.

• Be accurate (where they state facts)
• Be relevant
• Be genuinely held (where they state opinions)
• Be original to you
• Comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they are posted.

Contributions must not:

• Be obscene, offensive, hateful, threatening, racially offensive, inflammatory, incite violence or contain sexually explicit material
• Advocate, promote or assist any illegal activity of any kind
• Be defamatory of any person or violate another person’s privacy rights or otherwise contain unlawful material
• Infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person or party
• Be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence
• Be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person
• Give the impression that they emanate or are endorsed by us, if this is not the case
• Constitute spamming, advertising or promotion of goods or services
• Viruses, hacking and other offences.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs, spyware, adware or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful or designed to adversely affect the operation of the Website or of any computer software or hardware. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Website, the server on which the Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Website. You must not attack the website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use the Website will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the Website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to implement sufficient procedures and virus checks to protect your computer equipment, software, data or other proprietary material.

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact wol@iza.org

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