Terms of Use

Updated: Sep 2019  ...

1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

United World Foundation ("Foundation"), provides Services (as defined below) to you through this website, www.MyUWF.org, ("Website") and access to and use of this Website and the Services are provided to you subject to your acceptance of and compliance with the following terms and conditions ("Terms").

By using this Website, you acknowledge that you have read, accepted, and agreed to these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you will not be able to use this Website.

In addition, when using the Services, you will be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such Services which may be posted from time to time. All such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into these Terms. Foundation reserves the right to change these Terms at any time without prior notice and your continued access or use of this Website or the Services after such changes indicates your acceptance of the Terms as modified. It is your responsibility to review these Terms regularly.

If you do not agree with one or more of these Terms, do not access or use this Website or the Services.


2. REGISTRATION OBLIGATIONS

To use certain areas of this Website, you must first complete the registration process to create an account ("Account") and select and register a unique user name and password (collectively, "Credentials"). Your Account and Credentials are specific to you and may not be shared with or transferred to any other person. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Credentials and you will be held responsible for any harm caused by disclosing or resulting from any unauthorized use of your Credentials. You will not permit any other person to use your Account or Credentials, and you will immediately notify Foundation if you know or suspect that your Account or Credentials have been used by any other person.

During the registration process, you will provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Service's registration form (such information being the "Registration Data"). You will also maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or complete, or Foundation has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or complete, Foundation has the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof) by you. Individuals under 13 years of age, cannot register on any portion of this Website.

Foundation may act upon any communication that is given through your Account or by using your Credentials. Foundation is not required to verify the actual identity or authority of a person using your Account or Credentials, but Foundation may in its discretion at any time require verification of the identity of a person seeking to access your Account and may deny access to and use of your Account if Foundation is not satisfied with the verification. If Foundation, in its discretion, considers your Account or Credentials to be unsecure or to have been used inappropriately, then Foundation may immediately cancel the Account or Credentials without any notice to you. You may be required to change your Credentials from time to time.


3. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES

Foundation is offering to persons who have Accounts the tools to donate, fundraise, volunteer or collaborate with the Foundation for charitable causes (the "Services"). The provision of the Services is subject to these Terms, the Services subscription or other terms you accepted when using the Services. We are not at all responsible for anything including other products or services that may belong to any advertisement except our, if any, on the screen.


4. PRIVACY POLICY

Your Credentials, Registration Data and any other information that you provide to us through this Website, as well as certain other information about you, is subject to Foundation's Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy for details.


5. COOKIE POLICY

Your use of the Services is subject to Foundation's Cookie Policy. For more information, please see our Foundation's Cookie Policy for details.


6. USE OF THE WEBSITE

Foundation authorizes you to view, download and print a single copy of materials and content provided on this Website for your personal, non-commercial use only and only in connection with you registering with Foundation or using the Services. You may not remove any trade-mark, copyright or other proprietary notices from such copy nor modify the material or content in any way. Except as otherwise set out in these Terms, any copying or reproduction of this Website's materials or content, in whole or in part, for commercial purposes or distribution, re-transmission, republication, modification, reverse engineering, sale or other exploitation of this Website or this Website materials or content without the prior written permission of Foundation is strictly prohibited.

Foundation reserves the right to take such steps as it deems necessary, including legal action, to restrain such unauthorized and prohibited activity and Foundation reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access to any part of this Website or the Services immediately, without prior notice, at its sole discretion. You are solely and fully responsible for all consequences, however remote, resulting from your use of this Website or the Services.

The product or services and any samples thereof we may provide you on this website are only for the end users for their personal use. The product or services are not for re-sale. The products or services shall not be used for any engineering, processes, mechanism, research, reverse engineering or for any other illegal or commercial purpose.

When you communicate with us through website or via other forms of electronic media, such as e-mail, you are communicating with us electronically. You also agree that we may communicate electronically, subject to local privacy laws, and that such communications, as well as notices, disclosures, agreements, and other communications that we provide to you electronically, are equivalent to communications in writing and shall have the same force and effect as if they were in writing and signed by the party sending the communication.

The website can be used only for lawful purpose and in accordance with the terms of use. You are hereby granted a nonexclusive, non-transferable, revocable, limited license to view, print and distribute content retrieved from the Website for your personal, non-commercial purposes, provided that you do not remove or obscure the copyright notice or other notices displayed on the content. You may not copy, reprint, modify, display, perform, translate, distribute, adapt, broadcast, communicate to the public by telecommunication, circulate, or sell the content retrieved from the Website in any way, for any commercial use or provide it to any commercial source, including other websites, without the prior written permission of Foundation. In addition, you agree not to: (i) use this Website in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, or impair this Website, or interfere with any other use of this Website, including, any user's ability to engage in real-time activities through this Website; (ii) use any robot, spider or other automatic device, process or means to access this Website for any purpose, including to scrape, data mine, monitor or copy any of the material on this Website; (iii) use any manual process to monitor or copy any of the material on this Website, or to engage in any other unauthorized purpose without the express prior written consent of the Foundation; (iv) otherwise use any device, software or routine that interferes with the proper working of this Website; or (v) otherwise attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Website. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.

Foundation has exclusive and reserved rights to interrupt, modify, temporarily or permanently discontinue the website or any part/s thereof without any prior notice. We shall not be responsible at all for any harm or loss you may suffer as a result of such actions. Foundation reserves the right to terminate or restrict your access for temporary or permanent period and to delete your user content without any prior notice. The reasons behind such acts include any unlawful acts, breach of terms of use, privacy policy, other rules, etc. We shall not be responsible at all for any harm or damage caused to you due to such restrictions.


7. TRADE-MARKS AND COPYRIGHT

United World Foundation, www.MyUWF.org, UWF and related words and logos are trademarks or trade-names of Foundation in India and other jurisdictions. Foundation is also the owner in India as well as other foreign jurisdictions of additional trademarks, registered and unregistered. Nothing in these Terms or on this Website will be construed as granting or conferring, either expressly, by implication, by estoppel or otherwise, a licence or other right to you to use any such marks or names or any other intellectual property right of Foundation. The names of other companies, products and services referred to on this Website may be trade-marks or trade-names of their respective owners. Any unauthorized use of the trade-marks or trade-names of Foundation or of third parties is strictly prohibited.

The materials provided on this Website including, without limitation, all portions of this Website, content, site design, text, graphics and the selection and arrangement thereof, are protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Title to the Foundation materials remains with Foundation and any unauthorized use of such materials is strictly prohibited. Foundation reserves the right to take such steps as it deems necessary, including legal action, to enforce its rights under trade-mark and copyright law.

Foundation is having sole possession of all intellectual properties displayed and connected to the website and content of website. You shall not use or display any intellectual properties owned by the Foundation in whatsoever manner without prior written consent and permission of the Foundation.


8. HYPERLINKS

Hyperlinks on this Website are provided for your convenience only. These links do not imply an endorsement of any linked sites or an affiliation with their owners or operators. Foundation has no control over the content of any linked site. This content is the sole responsibility of the owner or operator of the linked site.


9. ACCEPTABLE USE AND RESTRICTIONS

In addition to complying with these Terms, you agree to use this Website, the Services and materials on this Website for lawful purposes only and in a manner consistent with local, national or international laws and regulations. Some jurisdictions may have restrictions on the use of the Internet by their residents.

Potential users of this Website or the Services, in any jurisdiction of the world whose laws would: (i) void these Terms in whole or in any essential part (the essential parts being at least, but not only, the provisions relating to governing law, and limitation of liability); or (ii) render accessing this Website illegal; are unauthorized to use this Website.

You agree not to use the Services or this Website in any manner that: (i) infringes, violates or misappropriates the intellectual property rights of any third party; or (ii) may be considered defamatory, discriminatory or otherwise malicious or harmful to any person or entity.


10. INDEMNITY

You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Foundation from and against any and all losses, damages, costs, expenses (including legal fees), claims, complaints, demands, actions, suits, proceedings, obligations and liabilities (including settlement payments) arising from, connected with or relating to your use of this Website, its content or materials, or the Services, User Content or Feedback, or your negligence, misconduct, or breach of these Terms. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Foundation retains the right to participate in the defence of and settlement negotiations relating to any third party claim, complaint, demand, action, suit or proceeding with counsel of its own selection at its cost and expense.


11. DISCLAIMERS

You understand and agree that:

(a) Use of this Website and the Services is at your sole risk. This Website and the Services are provided on an "as is", "as available" basis. Neither Foundation, its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, nor any of their respective employees, agents, officers, directors or third party service providers (collectively, "Foundation Parties") make any warranty or condition of any kind, whether express or implied, regarding this Website or the Services and Foundation Parties specifically disclaim the implied warranties and conditions of merchantable quality, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement of third party rights, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

(b) Foundation Parties make no warranties or conditions regarding the quality, reliability, timeliness or security of the Services or that the Services will be uninterrupted or errorfree. Foundation Parties assume no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store or access, or to store or access properly, email messages and electronic files. You assume the entire risk in downloading or otherwise accessing any data, files or other materials obtained from third parties as part of the Services, even if you have paid for virus protection services.

(c) The access to and downloading of material from this Website is done at your own risk. Foundation makes reasonable efforts to ensure that this Website is virus-free, but Foundation does not at any time guarantee or warrant that such materials are free of viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other destructive code. You are responsible for implementing safeguards to protect your computer system and data and you are responsible for the entire cost of any service, repairs or corrections necessary as a result of the use of this Website or the Services.


12. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

IN NO EVENT WILL FOUNDATION PARTIES BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, COMPENSATORY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OR LOSSES OR DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF INCOME, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF DATA OR BUSINESS INFORMATION, LOSS OF OR DAMAGE TO PROPERTY AND CLAIMS OF THIRD PARTIES OR OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS, THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR THE SERVICES. FOUNDATION PARTIES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY ACTUAL OR ALLEGED INFRINGEMENT BY ANY THIRD PARTY MATERIALS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICES. IN NO EVENT WILL THE CUMULATIVE LIABILITY OF FOUNDATION PARTIES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THESE TERMS EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU IN THE ONE MONTH IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO ANY CLAIM. TO THE EXTENT THAT SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS ON SOME CATEGORIES OF DAMAGES, THESE EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THE FOREGOING DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY APPLY REGARDLESS OF THE CAUSES, CIRCUMSTANCES OR FORM OF ACTION GIVING RISE TO THE LOSS, DAMAGE, CLAIM OR LIABILITY, EVEN IF SUCH LOSS, DAMAGE, CLAIM OR LIABILITY IS BASED UPON BREACH OF CONTRACT (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, A CLAIM OF FUNDAMENTAL BREACH OR BREACH OF A FUNDAMENTAL TERM), TORT (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY OR ANY OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY, AND EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF THE LOSS, DAMAGE, DELAY, CLAIM OR LIABILITY.

You acknowledge and agree that these Terms present a fair allocation of risk and liability, and that this Section 11 is an essential part of the bargain between the Parties, a controlling factor in setting any fees or other charges, and an inducement to the Parties to enter into these Terms.


13. GENERAL

These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Cookie Policy and all other notices, policies and statements contained on this Website (all as may be amended by Foundation from time to time without prior notice) constitute the entire agreement between Foundation and you. These Terms cannot be modified except as described herein. Anything in this Website inconsistent with these Terms is superseded by these Terms. No waiver of any of these Terms will be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such Term or any other Term. If in any jurisdiction, any of these Terms are held to be unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such Terms will be restricted or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary and the remaining Terms will otherwise remain in full force and effect. The headings used in these Terms are included for convenience only and will not limit or otherwise affect these Terms.

The relationship between Foundation and you will be that of independent contractors, and neither of us nor any of our respective officers, agents or employees will be held or construed to be partners, joint ventures, fiduciaries, employees or agents of the other as a result of these Terms or this Website.

These Terms and the subject matter of these Terms and all related matters will be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of India without reference to its conflict of law provisions. The parties irrevocable consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of Court of Surat, Gujarat, India.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, unless Foundation agrees otherwise, any claim, dispute or controversy, whether in contract or tort, pursuant to statute or regulation, or otherwise, and whether pre-existing, present or future, arising out of or relating to the Services, this Website, these Terms or the Privacy Policy, will be determined by final and bindingarbitration to the exclusion of the courts and will try and resolve it through arbitration before a Sole Arbitrator to be appointed by the Foundation. The venue of arbitration proceedings shall be in Surat, Gujarat, India. The language of the proceedings shall be in English.


14. CONTACT US

We value your visit to this Website and welcome any questions or comments you might have about this Website, these Terms, or any of the products or services offered by Foundation. Please refer to the Contact section of this Website for phone, email addresses and other ways to contact us.