Terms of use

Welcome to the Media4Change Community!

These Terms of Use regulate the relations between the National Institute for Social Integration and visitors/registered users on the Media4Change Community online platform (the Platform).

Any visitor of the Platform is entitled to access the information published on it under the conditions set forth. By browsing it, you (as visitor) agree to provisions of these Terms of use concerning visitors. If you do not agree with the provisions of this document, please do not access and/or use the Platform.

If you are about to complete your registration on the Platform, you need to explicitly agree to these Terms of Use, in order to use the services accessible to registered users. Once you complete your registration you will enter into a contract with the National Institute for Social Integration for the services provided on the Platform in accordance with the provisions of these Terms of Use.

Visitors have access only to information and materials that have been made publicly available by managers or users of the Platform.

Registered users are entitled to maintain public profiles; participate in conversations and discussions by posting and deleting their own proposals and comments; suggest new topics, media pieces, or resources on interactive maps; access the collaboration space; receive badges for their activities; use other interactive features of the Platform.

All services provided on the Platform are free of charge, unless stated otherwise. We do not bear responsibility if you cannot access the Platform due to problems, which are not in our control.

Account and use of the services

To create a user account, you need to fill in the registration form by completing at least the mandatory fields and by agreeing to the current Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Once you submit the form, you will receive an email to activate your account.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account. The access to your account shall be suspended under the condition provided for in these Terms of Use.

Your rights and obligations

All visitors are entitled to access the content available on the Platform for learning, awareness raising, professional development, and other non-profit purposes, as long as the usage of the information and materials respects the intellectual property rights over it. Unless stated otherwise, usage of the Platform with commercial purpose is not allowed.

All registered users are entitled to access and use the Platform for learning, awareness raising, professional development, networking, collaboration, production, and publishing, as long as the usage of the information and materials respects the intellectual property rights over it.

Registered users undertake not to use the Platform to create and/or publish content that:

is unlawful, misleading, discriminatory, or fraudulent;
contains pornographic or sexual character;
violates or breaches someone else's rights, including their intellectual property rights and legitimate interests;
is harmful to the good name, honour or dignity of someone else;
violates the applicable laws including these Terms of use;
encourage unlawful behaviour which calls for violence, humiliation, hatred, terrorism, or any other undemocratic ideology;
contain political or religious propaganda;
violates Code of conduct of Media4Change Community.

We can remove any content that is in breach of these provisions.

You must not perform any malicious action that may compromise the functioning of the Platform, including uploading viruses or malicious code, or do anything that could disable, overburden or impair the proper working of the Platform.

You have the right to deactivate your profile, without any explanation or prior notice, through the profile functions at your disposal.

You have the right to request a termination of your registration, which will lead to the anonymization of all the content posted, uploaded or shared by you.

You have all the rights, as listed in our Privacy policy.

Confidentiality

In certain explicit cases, registered users agree to keep information and resources obtained through the Platform as confidential. This is particularly applicable to the collaboration space.

Protection of sources of information

The Media4Change Community stands for both transparency and reliability of the sources of information and respect for safety of those sources. Therefore, if any user of this platform cooperates with another user as a source of information, they have the right to choose whether their name can be published, or not. The user, who is a journalist, media maker, or publisher has the obligation to respect the decision of the user who is a source of information. Users that breaches this obligation would be expelled from the Community. By ticking this field you agree with this approach and these conditions. This agreement cannot be revoked later.

Our rights and obligations

Representatives of the National Institute for Social Integration have the right and responsibility to administer the Platform.

We do not guarantee that all information accessible on the Platform is accurate, correct, and errorless.

We may terminate your registration without prior notice and at our sole discretion if we consider that your behaviour violates the current Terms of Use or the applicable law or in case we receive information that your behaviour in the use of our services may constitute a crime or an administrative violation. In the latter case, we are entitled to approach the competent state authorities and to provide them with the necessary cooperation. Super admins and Admins shall suspend the access to your user account as well as shall have the right to delete or anonymise any content posted, uploaded or shared by you via this account.

If we receive a claim from a third person that a content uploaded on the Platform violates their intellectual property rights, we may suspend the access to such content until the settlement of such dispute or the receipt of an order from a competent state authority.

We reserve the right to restrict or suspend the provision of particular services, accessible through the Platform by giving a notice on the relevant web page at the Platform.

We can add references and links to external resources (websites), which are out of our control. In such cases, we do not accept responsibility for the availability, quality of the external content, truthfulness and conformity with the law of such websites and resources.

External resources

As you have access to various contents and resources, external to the Platform, the intellectual property rights on these materials are subject to protection pursuant to the applicable law and are held by the respective holder. The reference to those resources cannot be deemed as granting any right to use such resources in violation to their copyright license.

Liability

We will exercise due diligence in providing our services to you and will apply appropriate measures for keeping a safe and error-free functioning of the Platform. We do not accept responsibility for any damages that might be incurred by you in the course of the use of the services, unless such losses are caused by us intentionally or due to gross negligence. We do not accept responsibility for losses caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

You (regardless of being visitor or registered user) agree to indemnify and hold harmless the National Institute for Social Integration as a whole, its members and representatives, and all Super Admins, Admins, and Editors of the Platform from any and all claims or demands, including penalty payments, reasonable attorneys fees, made by any third party related to your breach of these Terms of Use or the applicable laws or violation of the rights of any third party. This obligation shall remain in effect even after the termination of registration, including after the termination of the activity and existence of the Platform itself.

Personal Data Protection

In order to complete your registration, you need to read and agree with our Privacy policy. Please refer to it, for any issues related to data protection.

Account termination. Termination of the Contract

Besides the cases stipulated in the present Terms of Use, the contract between the parties shall be terminated under the following circumstances: the support of the Platform is ceased; upon mutual consent of the parties - you are entitled to terminate your registration; in other cases, as provided by law.

Updating our Terms of Use

In case improvements of the Platform or changes in the applicable law necessitate the update of present Terms of Use, we shall inform you about any introduced amendments via email and by publishing the new version on the Platform. We will only make changes if the provisions are no longer appropriate or if they are incomplete. Such notifications will be sent no later than 7 days as of the date of the adoption of the amendments. Once any updated Terms are in effect, you will be bound by them if you continue to use our services. If not specified otherwise, the new Terms shall enter into force 20 days after the update notification, unless the changes are required by law. You will have the right to terminate your contract with the partnership respectively.

Additional provisions

The Terms of Use shall be governed by Lithuanian and European law and for all matters not settled by the present Terms of Use, the provisions of the Lithuanian and European legislation in force shall apply. You agree that any dispute or claim relating in any way to your use of our Platform will be resolved amicably and in good faith, through negotiations and mutual concessions. If an agreement cannot be reached you agree that the dispute shall be resolved by binding arbitration rather than in court.

The present Terms of Use are adopted by the National Institute for Social Integration.

Date of the latest version – 30.08.2024.