Subject and Application of these Terms

The website worldvizfest.com or worldvisualizationfestival.com, along with all its subdomains (collectively referred to as the "Website"), is owned and operated by World Visualization Foundation, based in Gdynia, Poland ("World Visualization Foundation", "we", "us", "our"). These Terms of Use establish the legally binding terms for all visitors or users who access or use the Website.

All references to "You" or "Your" pertain to you as an individual or the entity you represent by accessing the Website. By using the Website or any of the services available on it, You agree to these Terms of Use. If You do not agree to these Terms, You may not use the Website in any capacity. These Terms of Use are published on the Website.

Usage of the Website

You may not use the Website and its services for purposes other than those intended. You are required to comply with all applicable laws and regulations concerning Your use of the Website and its services. You may not use the Website, its services, servers, content, or any other materials or information provided by World Visualization Foundation for illegal, immoral, unlawful, or unauthorized purposes, either by Yourself or through anyone acting on Your behalf.

You may not bypass any measures World Visualization Foundation imposes to prevent or restrict access to the Website or its services, including attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Website, its services, any other World Visualization Foundation services, systems, networks, security measures, or similar.

You must ensure that any content You upload or publish on the Website or any channel owned by World Visualization Foundation is free of third-party rights or that You have obtained and possess the usage rights for such content. You agree to indemnify and hold World Visualization Foundation harmless from any third-party claims arising from the content You upload or publish.

You are prohibited from copying, modifying, altering, adapting, replicating, making available, translating, porting, reverse engineering, decompiling, combining, scraping, systematically downloading, or disassembling any part of the Website, its services, or any World Visualization Foundation software, material, or content.

World Visualization Foundation provides the Website, its services, and any related content to You on an "as is" and "as available" basis, including all errors and defects, without any warranty of any kind. We expressly disclaim all representations and warranties, including any implied warranties of accuracy, completeness, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not guarantee that the Website, its services, or any related content will meet Your requirements and expectations, or that they will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, accurate, or reliable.

Intellectual Property and Usage Rights

The Website, its services, World Visualization Foundation's proprietary assets, and all associated intellectual property rights, including but not limited to inventions, patents, trademarks, trade names, domain names, service marks, copyrightable materials, and trade secrets, whether registered or not (collectively, "Intellectual Property"), are owned by and/or licensed to World Visualization Foundation and are protected by applicable copyright and other intellectual property laws and international conventions. All rights not expressly granted to You herein are reserved by World Visualization Foundation and its licensors.

By submitting any content to World Visualization Foundation, the Website, or its services, You represent and warrant that You own all rights to the content or have the right to grant World Visualization Foundation the license described herein. You further warrant that the content does not infringe on the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, or other legal rights of any third party.

World Visualization Foundation reserves the right to use the content You provide through the Website, its services, and any other medium for marketing purposes. This includes using the content on the Website and in marketing campaigns. World Visualization Foundation is not obligated to host, display, or distribute any of Your content and may refuse to accept or transmit the content, or may remove or delete any portion of the content from the Website at any time. You waive and agree to never assert any copyrights in and to all of the materials licensed in this section.

If You provide any feedback, comments, or suggestions to World Visualization Foundation (the "Feedback"), World Visualization Foundation shall have an exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid-up, worldwide, perpetual, and irrevocable license to incorporate the Feedback into any current or future World Visualization Foundation products, technologies, or services and use it for any purpose, all without further compensation to You and without Your approval. You agree that all such feedback shall be deemed non-confidential and warrant that it is not subject to any license terms requiring World Visualization Foundation to comply with additional obligations regarding current or future products, technologies, or services that incorporate the feedback.

Any information or content made available by a third party or any other visitor or user of the Website or its services is that of the respective party, visitor, user, or author and not of World Visualization Foundation. We do not endorse nor are we responsible for the accuracy of any information, content, statement, or similar provided by You or any third party on the Website.

Links to Third-Party Websites

Certain links on the Website may lead You to third-party sites or services. These linked sites and services are provided solely as a convenience to You. They are not under the control of World Visualization Foundation, and World Visualization Foundation is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or services, nor does it endorse or is responsible for any content, advertising, products, or other information available from such linked sites and services. Your access to, use of, and reliance upon any such sites, services, and content, and Your dealings with such third parties, are at Your own risk and expense. World Visualization Foundation reserves the right to terminate any link at any time. You acknowledge and agree that World Visualization Foundation is not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any services, content, products, or other materials available on or through such linked sites or services. Most linked sites and services provide legal documents, including terms of use and privacy policies. It is always advisable, and we encourage You, to read such documents carefully before using those sites and services.

Changes to the Website and Website Services

World Visualization Foundation reserves the right to modify, correct, amend, enhance, improve, make any other changes to, or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Website or its services, or any part thereof, including content, without notice, at any time. Additionally, You acknowledge that the content provided under the Website or its services may be changed, extended, or removed at any time without notice to You. World Visualization Foundation shall not be liable to You or any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of the Website, its services, or the content included therein.

Indemnification

You agree to defend and indemnify World Visualization Foundation from and against any third-party claims, including reasonable attorney’s fees, legal fees, non-court and court costs, settlements, and disbursements, arising from or relating to Your content, Your use of the Website and its services, Your violation of the Terms of Use, Your violation of any law or legal regulation, Your violation of any third-party rights, or similar.

Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

All legal disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms of Use and the legal relationship between World Visualization Foundation and You shall be governed by and construed under the laws of Poland, without regard to its conflict of law rules and the UN Sales Convention. World Visualization Foundation and You agree that the respective court in Gdynia shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any suit, action, or proceedings, and for such purposes, irrevocably submit to the jurisdiction of such courts.

Final Provisions

Should any provision of these Terms of Use (or any part thereof) be invalid, the validity of the other provisions shall not be affected. The invalid or ineffective provision shall be replaced by such valid and effective provision that most closely corresponds to the economic purpose of the invalid or ineffective provision.

World Visualization Foundation is entitled to use the data produced through your usage of the Website in an anonymized form for analytical purposes and to publish such anonymized data.

World Visualization Foundation reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change or modify parts of these Terms of Use at any time without further notice. We will post changes to the Terms of Use on the Website and will indicate the date of the last update at the bottom of the page where the Terms of Use are posted. Your continued use of the Website or its services after such changes constitutes Your acceptance of the updated Terms of Use.

Last update: 26.06.2024