Terms of Use

The following terms and conditions ("Terms") govern all use of the International Applied Research Learning Network on Poverty and Human Rights ("LEPNet.org" or "LEPNet") website and all content, services and products available at or through the website, including, but not limited to content uploaded by other users, forums, or blogs (taken together, the Website).

Intellectual Property

Content made available through LEPNet.org, including but not limited to course content, publications, blogs, journals, news stories, events listings, forum postings, and comments, are the property of their respective rights holders and are licensed for display, copying, reuse, and distribution according to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license 3.0.

Your Account

By creating an account on this site, you take responsibility for maintaining the security of your username and password, and accept full responsibility for all activities that occur under that username. An "Account" shall constitute a unique username and password registered at LEPNet.org and attributed to Your legal name. You must immediately notify Us of any unauthorized uses of your account, or any other breaches of security. We will not be liable for any acts or omissions by You, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.

Representing material posted in LEPNet.org by another individual as your own work in online or offline settings is strictly prohibited and constitutes grounds for immediate termination of your LEPNet.org account and may lead to civil and/or criminal charges.

Responsibility of Contributors

If you contribute content to this site, comment on content, contribute to forum discussions, post links on the Website, contribute to a wiki page or collaborative document, or otherwise make material available by means of the Website (any such material, “Content”), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio or video file, or computer software. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:

A. You have full rights to the Content, and the Contribution of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;

B. if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content;

C. you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms;

D. the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;

E. the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);

F. the Content is not libelous or defamatory (more info on what that means), does not contain threats or incite violence towards individuals or entities, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party.

Takedown Notice

If you are the owner, or if you represent the owner of copyrighted material that you believe has been illegally posted to this site please notify the site administrator immediately and the content will be immediately removed, and the contributor notified.

Abuse of the LEPNet.org Site

The following list describes activities that are strictly prohibited within LEPNet.org. Attempting or succeeding to allow or commit any of the acts prohibited below constitutes grounds for immediate termination of your LEPNet.org account and may lead to civil and/or criminal charges. Prohibited activities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Links

The Site may contain links to third-party websites or resources. You acknowledge and agree that LEPNet is not responsible or liable for: (i) the availability or accuracy of such websites or resources; or (ii) the content, products, or services on or available from such websites or resources. Links to such websites or resources do not imply any endorsement by LEPNet of such websites or resources or the content, products, or services available from such websites or resources. You acknowledge sole responsibility for and assume all risk arising from your use of any such websites or resources.

Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

This site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the site’s operation or the information, content or materials included on this site. To the full extent permissible by applicable law, We hereby disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose. We will not be liable for any damages of any kind arising from the use of or inability to use this site. The entire liability for any use of any materials available through this site lies with the user of the materials. 

Modification of These Terms of Use

We reserve the right to change, at any time, at our sole discretion, the Terms under which these Services are offered. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms. Your continued use of the Services constitutes your agreement to all such Terms.

License of these Terms