LAST UPDATE: 05.11.2024
General Provisions
- Accessing our services: negotiation and payment; delivery; cancellation and return of services sold.
- Personal Information and Confidentiality
- Intellectual Property
- Security
- Links to Other Websites
- Use of the Website www.civicresearch.center
- Termination of Terms and Conditions
- Acceptance of Terms
- Force Majeure
1. General Provisions
1.1. Please read the presented Terms and Conditions carefully, as by visiting and/or using the website www.civicresearch.center you agree to these terms and conditions. We recommend you re-read the Terms and Conditions of use at certain intervals, as the Center reserves the right to modify their content without prior notice. In the relationship between you and the owner of this website is the legal entity with the following identification details: Association Center for the Study of Democracy, hereinafter referred to as ACSD, located in Cluj-Napoca, str. Câmpului nr. 242, ap. 6, 400686, with fiscal code 31226300, bank account IBAN: RO32BTRLRONCRT00R5050301, opened at Banca Transilvania, represented by president Jiglău George. 1.2. We will notify you of any changes to the Terms of Use by displaying a notification on our website. The changes thus made are considered accepted by the user if they continue to use the service after their display on the web page, in the Terms and Conditions section. 1.3. Your use of the applications, services, software applications, and websites owned by the Center (collectively referred to in this document as “Services” and excluding any services provided to you under a separate written agreement) is governed by the terms of this document. 1.4. Unless otherwise agreed in writing with us, your contract with us will always include, at a minimum, the Terms and Conditions provided in this document. These are hereinafter referred to as “Terms and Conditions.” 1.5. The Research Center for Civil Society is a brand of a non-governmental organization, registered in the Registry of Associations and Foundations of Romania, in accordance with the applicable legislation, under the name Association Center for the Study of Democracy. This website and the services offered (except for the partner sites linked) are the property of the Center and are exclusively controlled by the ASSOCIATION CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRACY, the ASSOCIATION owning the the Research Center for Civil Society brand, a Romanian legal entity based in Romania. Any dispute related to accessing and using this site is subject to Romanian law and falls exclusively within the jurisdiction of the courts on the territory of Romania.
2. Accessing our services: negotiation and payment; delivery; cancellation and return of services sold.
NEGOTIATION AND PAYMENT:
2.1. The user will be able to choose from the services displayed on the website www.civicresearch.center, the service to which they wish to subscribe as a client, by contacting us at the email address or phone number indicated on the contact page of this website, or by directly purchasing a service, individual or group, respectively membership, by adding it to the shopping cart and completing the sale by card payment through the intermediary service Stripe/EuPlatesc/Netopia. If the user does not wish to access card payment, they can contact our representatives through the form displayed on the website, by email or phone, to establish other payment methods. 2.2. The user can also choose any of the services offered according to this website, by contacting the our team, for negotiating a contract for the provision of these services or customized services. The Research Center for Civil Society offers services to both individuals and legal entities. The prices displayed on the website www.civicresearch.center are not negotiable.
DELIVERY:
2.3. If the user adds any of the offered services to the cart and then completes the payment, they will be contacted by our representatives to send the service contract/automatically receive the fiscal invoice by email/a confirmation notification in the case of membership. 2.4. If the user requests a personalized offer, they will be contacted by our team for negotiations, payment, and delivery of services.
CANCELLATION AND RETURN OF PURCHASED SERVICES:
2.6. If a user pays on this website for any of the services offered by us, they can receive a refund within a maximum of 48 hours from payment if requested. The refund request is made by sending an email to [email protected]. In case of non-performance, we will proceed to refund the full amount paid by the client. 2.7. The RETURN of purchased services is not possible due to their nature. However, the cancellation of a membership can be done at any time, at the user’s discretion. In the case of courses or training offered by our team, the return can be made before the commencement of their provision.
3. Personal Information and Confidentiality
3.1. We respect the applicable legislation regarding the collection and processing of personal data and will use the information collected from the website www.civicresearch.center only for the declared purposes. 3.2. The Privacy Policy & GDPR represents the way we use the personal data received from you when you visit our website. To obtain information about what data we collect from users through the website www.civicresearch.center and how it is stored and processed, please refer to the Privacy Policy & GDPR of our brand.
4. Intellectual Property
4.1. The content of this website, in all aspects, is the property of the Center or its partners, and the information present on our website is subject to internal or international intellectual property protection laws. 4.2. Unless otherwise agreed in writing with us, no provision of the Terms and Conditions will grant you the right to use any of the trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and any other distinctive signs of the our brand. 4.3. If you have been granted an explicit right to use any of these distinctive signs of the brand within a separate written agreement with us, you agree that your use of these signs will be in accordance with that agreement and the provisions of this policy. 4.4. It is forbidden to copy, modify, create derivative works, perform reverse engineering, decompile or attempt in any other way to extract the source code of the site www.civicresearch.center, the Software Application, or any part of it, unless you are allowed or requested to do so by law, or unless the Center has specifically instructed you to do so in writing.
5. Security
5.1. We collect and process personal information and data in accordance with the Privacy Policy & GDPR, which can be consulted on our website.
6. Links to Other Websites
6.1. This website may contain links to other sites of our Research Center for Civil Society or its partners. 6.2. Our Center is not responsible for the usage policy of these websites, this statement only refers to the Terms and Conditions of use of the website www.civicresearch.center
7. Use of the Website www.civicresearch.center
7.1. Any visitor/user of this site may visit, copy, print, or distribute information and documents published through this site, provided it is for personal use; it is not for commercial activity, it is for informational purposes, and the source – The Research Center for Civil Society (www.civicresearch.center ) is obligatorily mentioned, regardless of the mode of use. 7.2. The visitor/user understands and agrees to use the website www.civicresearch.center
only for legal purposes. The visitor/user undertakes to use this site without modifying, copying, distributing, transmitting, publishing, granting licenses, creating derivative works, transferring, or selling any information, products, or services obtained from or through this site. The visitor/user also undertakes not to use and not to allow any third party to use this website to receive or transmit material that contravenes any law or legal provision in force, is obscene, threatening, aggressive, defamatory.
8. Termination of Terms and Conditions
8.1. If you wish to terminate the contract with us, you can do so by (a) sending a notification at any time in accordance with the contract concluded between you and us, and (b) closing your accounts for the Services you use, if The Center has granted you this option. Your notification must be sent to [email protected]
9. Acceptance of Terms
9.1. By effectively using our Services, you are deemed to have read, understood, and accepted these Terms and Conditions. You also confirm and accept that we will consider your use of the company’s website as an acceptance of this policy from the moment of access. 9.2. The website www.civicresearch.center is constantly updated to offer the best services to its users. You confirm and accept that the form and nature of the Services offered by us may change from time to time without prior notice. 9.3. We also may modify, revise, improve, or discontinue the provision of information, products, or services presented on this site or any of the documents included on this site without prior notice. The Center reserves the right to modify – add, delete, complete, update – in whole or in part these Terms and Conditions without prior notice. These changes take effect when they are published on the site www.civicresearch.center and are considered accepted by the Visitor/User by continuing to use this site.
10. Force Majeure
Force majeure exempts from liability for non-compliance with these Terms and Conditions and for any other responsibilities that we might have through the publication of this site. Force majeure means any cause beyond our control and includes, but is not limited to: fortuitous events, pandemics, unfavorable weather conditions, actions or inactions of the government, other companies, or competent authorities for which The Center is not responsible.
If you have any uncertainties or additional questions regarding the present clarifications in the policy related to Terms and Conditions, do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected]