Terms and Conditions

The IUCN Congress website and the related interactive platform (hereafter referred to as “Congress Website”) is owned by IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (hereafter referred to as “IUCN” or “we”). The Congress Website provides information about the IUCN World Conservation Congress. The Terms and Conditions apply to all persons visiting the Congress Website (hereafter referred to as “Visitor” or “Visitors” or “you”). The terms and conditions specified in section 7. Account Holder apply to all Visitors creating or logging in to their account (hereafter referred to as “User” or “Users”).

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updated 31 July 2019

1. Changes to these Terms and Conditions

IUCN may update these Terms and Conditions from time to time, at any time without notice to you, by posting such changes on the Congress Website. IUCN encourages you to periodically review these Terms and Conditions to be informed of how IUCN is protecting your information. Your continued use of this account following the posting of changes to this Policy will mean you accept those changes.

2. Copyright and Use of Materials

Content on the Congress Website is owned by IUCN.

You agree to not alter or remove any copyright symbol or other identification concerning authorship of any of the material contained on or otherwise made available to you from this Congress Website.

3. Images 

Images may not be reproduced in any form without the explicit written permission of IUCN. To obtain such permission, please contact:

social media (a) iucn.org

Note that any image that is credited with the term “CC BY” (“Creative Commons Image”) is licensed under creative commons terms and conditions. The details of the relevant licence conditions are available on the Creative Commons website accessible under https://creativecommons.org/

4. Textual content

Textual Content can only be partially reproduced in a summary format for all non-commercial purposes. You should provide attribution to the author and link back to the original source.

5. Videos

Videos may not be reproduced in any form without the explicit written permission of IUCN. To obtain such permission, please contact:

social media (a) iucn.org

IUCN videos can be shared via the YouTube link.

6. Third Party content 

To the extent that copyright subsists in a third party it remains with the original owner and written permission shall be required to reuse the material.

7. Account Holder 

By creating an account (“Congress Account”) for or logging into the Congress Website with your IUCN credentials, you accept and consent that certain of your personal information  are used to create your account. This personal information is processed in accordance with the Privacy Policy. Additional information, e.g. upload a photo, may be requested in order to perform some specific services such as registration or participant networking. 

IUCN is committed to ensure that Users’ personal information is processed for the specified purpose(s) and is stored securely. By submitting information through this Congress Website, Users consent that such information is collected and processed by IUCN in accordance with the Privacy Policy.

 

Services available for Account Holders

By logging into your account, you will have access to the various services (“Services”) offered by the Congress Website, such as but not limited to:

  • Submission of proposals for the Forum
  • Signing up as volunteer for the Forum
  • Registration for the Congress
  • Reservation of excursions and accommodation
  • Submission of social events
  • Managing of accepted sessions (organisers of accepted sessions only)
  • Participant networking
  • Exercising rights as a Member such as but not limited to submission and discussion of motion, accreditation, discussion of the IUCN Draft Programme, nomination of candidates, submission of statutory reforms

The respective Services may only be available during certain period of times. Some of the Services are provided by third parties and the Congress Website includes links to such third-party online systems. These systems are not under the control of IUCN, and therefore, whilst we check the links for suitability and initial availability, we cannot guarantee the availability of such sites, as they may change over time.

 

Collection of Personal Information

IUCN collects the following personal information (“Account Data”) in order to create your Congress Account on the Congress Website or upon first login with an existing IUCN username (items with * are mandatory fields):

  • First name*
  • Last name*
  • Preferred email address*
  • Country of residence*
  • Gender*
  • Organisation*
  • Category of organisation*
  • Date of birth*
  • Additional email address
  • Photo
  • Job title
  • Phone number
  • Language preference
  • IUCN Role(s) (if applicable)
  • IUCN Member ID (if applicable)
  • Role(s) in Member organisation (if applicable)

IUCN will not and cannot create an account for Users without the provision of the mandatory information.
 

Use of Personal Information

IUCN uses the Account Data in order allow Users to access the various Account Holders. 

IUCN may use the Account Data to contact Users about Congress-related information and announcements that IUCN thinks may be of interest to them and to request User participation in surveys or other activities related to IUCN or Congress activities or other projects with which IUCN is involved.

 

Congress Account Statement of User’s Rights and Responsibilities

By accessing or using the Congress Account, you agree to this Statement of User’s Rights and Responsibilities:

  1. Users will not use any false personal information, or create an account for anyone other than themselves without permission.
  2. Users will keep their contact information accurate and up to date.
  3. Users will not upload viruses, corrupted data, other malicious code or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files.
  4. Users will not do anything that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working of this Congress Website, such as a denial of service attack.
  5. Users will not use this Congress Website to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious, or discriminatory.
  6. Users will not use IUCN copyrights, or any confusingly similar trademarks, without IUCN written permission
    (to be obtained via email to logo (a) iucn.org).
  7. Users will not solicit login information or access an account belonging to another user.
  8. Users will not share their password, let anyone else access their account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of their account.
  9. Users will not transfer their account to anyone.
  10. Users will not collect other Users’ content or information, or otherwise access this Congress Website, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers).
  11. When relevant, Users will identify their affiliation with a third party/commercial entity and their area of interest.
  12. Users will not post any confidential or proprietary information
  13. Users are solely responsible for use of the Congress Website and use them at their own risk. 
  14. Users will not post materials that are unlawful, libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, suggestive, harassing, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, fraudulent or otherwise objectionable.
  15. User will not post materials that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party or otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national or international law.
  16. Users will not post materials that may infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual or proprietary right of any party or that impersonate any person or entity or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
  17. User will not post materials that, in the sole judgment of IUCN, are objectionable or which restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Interactive Areas or the Congress Website, or which may expose IUCN or its Users to any harm or liability of any type.
  18. User represents and warrants that:
    1. they own and control all of the rights to materials posted or otherwise have the right to post such materials to the Congress Website;
    2. the materials are accurate and not misleading; and
    3. use and posting of any material supplied do not violate the Terms and Conditions and will not violate any rights of or cause injury to any person or entity.
  19. Users will not facilitate or encourage any violations of this Statement.
  20. IUCN is not liable for any statements, representations or material posted by the User. Although IUCN has no obligation to screen, edit or monitor any of the materials, IUCN reserves the right, and has absolute discretion, to remove, screen or edit any materials posted or stored on the Congress Website at any time and for any reason without notice. 
  21. IUCN does not claim ownership of materials posted by Users. Unless we indicate otherwise, you grant IUCN a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such materials on any IUCN website, platform and other IUCN promotional materials. By posting or submitting materials to the Congress Website, you grant IUCN the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such materials.

IUCN reserves the right to suspend or disable an account as appropriate or even to stop providing all or part of the Congress Website if we believe that a User is violating the Statement of User’s Rights and Responsibilities and/or spirit of this Statement or otherwise creating possible legal exposure for IUCN.

IUCN will then notify the User by email directly or the next time the User attempts to access his/her account. If any portion of this Statement of User’s Rights and Responsibilities is found to be unenforceable, the remaining portion will remain in full force and effect.

IUCN’s failure to enforce any of this Statement of User’s Rights and Responsibilities will not be considered a waiver. Nothing in this Statement shall prevent IUCN from complying with the law. This Statement makes up the entire agreement between the parties regarding the Congress Account and supersedes any prior agreements.

 

Minors

IUCN only allows users who are 18 years of age and older, to create an account. If you are younger than 18 and wish to create an IUCN individual account in order to access the Services (such as registering to the Congress, among others), please download the parental consent form and have your parents or legal guardian fill it out, sign it and send it to congress@iucn.org for processing.

Children under the age of 18 who wish to participate in the Congress as part of a school class or a group, for example, need to contact the registration office directly for processing such requests (email address to be provided once the registration system will be open). Parental consent will have to be provided for such group requests.
 

8. Privacy Policy

The applicable Privacy Policy is available here.

9. Disclaimer

The Congress Website provides information free of charge for the benefit of the public. We monitor the quality of the information available on the Congress Website and update the information regularly.

We do not guarantee, and accept no liability whatsoever arising from or connected to, the accuracy, reliability, currency or completeness of any material included on the Congress Website or on any linked external sites.

We recommend that Users exercise their own skill and care with respect to their use of the Congress Website and that Users carefully evaluate the accuracy, currency, completeness and relevance of the material on the Website for their purposes.

The material on the Congress Website may include views or recommendations of third parties which do not necessarily reflect the views of IUCN or indicate its commitment to a particular course of action.

10. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold IUCN harmless from and against any claims, losses, liabilities and/or damages made or sustained by third parties arising out of or related to your conduct, your use or inability to use the account, your breach or alleged breach of these Terms and Conditions or of the terms of the Creative Commons Licence, or your violation of any other rights.

11. Governing Law, Disputes

Any dispute, controversy or claim arising under or pursuant to these Terms and Conditions shall be settled by mutual agreement between IUCN and the User.

If IUCN and the User are unable to reach agreement amicably, the dispute, controversy or claim shall be submitted to the competent courts of Lausanne, Switzerland. The applicable law shall be Swiss law.

12. Contact Information

If you have any questions about any of these Terms and Conditions please contact us at:

IUCN
Rue Mauverney 28
CH - 1196 Gland
+41 22 999 00 00
+41 22 999 00 02

webmaster (a) iucn.org

 

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