Terms of Use - Global CARE

Terms of Use

By accessing this web site, you are agreeing to be bound by these web site Terms of Use, which represent a legally binding agreement made between you (“you”) and Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Inc. (“CARE”) concerning your access to and use of the global.care.org website (the “Site”). You agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable laws and regulations, including country, state, territory, or local laws, that may govern use of this Site. If you do not agree with any of these terms, please do not use or access this Site.

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or delete portions of these Terms of Use at any time without further notice. If we do this, we will post the changes to these Terms of Use on this page and will indicate the date these terms were last revised. Your continued use of the materials contained in this Site (“Materials”) or Site after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms of Use. It is your responsibility to regularly check to determine if there have been changes to these Terms and to review such changes.

Last modified: 15 February 2023

Your User Warranties

By using this Site you warrant to CARE that:

  1. all information you submit is true, accurate, current, and complete;
  2. you have the legal capacity to access this Site and agree to comply with these Terms of Use;
  3. your access and use of the Site will be in strict compliance with these Terms of Use;
  4. you will not access the Site through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise;
  5. you will not use the Site for any illegal or unauthorized purpose; and
  6. your use of the Site will not violate any applicable law or regulation.

Permitted Uses

Use of the Site is for your own personal purposes. The Materials are protected by applicable copyright, trademark and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws. These Terms of Use permit you to use the Materials for your personal, non-commercial use only. You must not download, save, modify, redistribute, republish, or otherwise disseminate any of the Material on our Site without express consent from CARE. If you wish to make any use of Materials on the Site, please address your request to info@global.care.org.

Prohibited Uses

By using our Site, you expressly agree that you will refrain from the following activities:

  1. use our Site in any way that is fraudulent, criminal, or that otherwise violates any local, state, federal, or international law, regulation, or ordinance;
  2. impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself, or your affiliation with any person or entity;
  3. upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available:
    • any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, or any other form of solicitation;
    • any private information of any third party, including, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and credit card numbers;
    • content that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party, or that would otherwise create liability or violate applicable law;
    • content that, in the sole judgment of CARE, is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Materials, or which may expose CARE or its users to any harm or liability of any type; and
    • any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
  4. intimidate or harass another; and
  5. use data collected from our Site to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.

Additionally, you agree not to:

  1. upload, post, transmit, share or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
  2. use our Site in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the Site or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the Site;
  3. hack, tamper with, or in any way disrupt the normal traffic and functioning of our Site or servers;
  4. probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our Site without our permission;
  5. circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our Site;
  6. use our Site to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;
  7. decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our Site without our permission;
  8. conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our Site without our express written consent;
  9. access or otherwise interact with our Site using any robot, spider or other automated means;
  10. use the Materials for data mining, robots or similar data gathering or extraction methods; or
  11. use the Materials in any unlawful manner or in any other manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair them.

Site Management

We reserve the right to monitor the Site for violations of these Terms of Use and to take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates the law or these Terms of Use, including without limitation, reporting such user to law enforcement authorities. We further reserve the right to manage the Site in a manner designed to protect our rights and property and to facilitate the proper functioning of the Site, which may include (in our sole discretion and without limitation, notice, or liability) to remove from the Site or otherwise disable all files and content that are excessive in size or are in any way burdensome to our systems.

Maintenance and other unexpected problems are unavoidable, and we cannot and do not guarantee the Site will be available at all times. Maintenance, hardware, software, or other problems may result in interruptions, delays, or errors to the Site and your service. We reserve the right to change, revise, update, suspend, discontinue, change, or otherwise modify the Site at any time or for any reason without notice to you. You agree that we have no liability whatsoever for any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused by your inability to access or use the Site during any downtime or discontinuance of the Site. Nothing in these Terms of Use will be construed to obligate us to maintain and support the Site or to supply any corrections, updates, or releases in connection therewith.

Disclaimer of Liability

THE MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND AS AVAILABLE BASIS, AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW. CARE DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE MATERIALS INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THEIR COMPLETENESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, WHETHER THE MATERIALS OR THE SERVER ARE FREE OF VIRUSES, COMMUNICATION LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, OR USE OF RECORDS OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. INFORMATION IN THE MATERIALS, OR THE SITES OF ANY CARE ENTITIES, IS PROVIDED WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT CARE ENTITIES ARE NOT RENDERING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE OR RECOMMENDATIONS. YOU AGREE THAT YOU WILL NOT RELY ON ANY INFORMATION ON THESE PAGES TO REPLACE CONSULTATIONS WITH QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALS TO MEET YOUR INDIVIDUAL NEEDS. YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND OUR SERVICES WILL BE AT YOUR SOLE RISK.

Limitations on Liability

IN NO EVENT WILL CARE OR ITS DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PERSON FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING FOR ANY LOST REVENUE, LOST DATA, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SITE, MATERIALS, ANY PLATFORM APPLICATIONS, ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE, OR ANY OF THE MATERIALS, EVEN IF CARE IS AWARE OR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, CARE’S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER, AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO CARE FOR A PRODUCT OR SERVICE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IF NO PURCHASE OF A PRODUCT IS INVOLVED AND/OR NO FEES ARE PAID TO CARE FOR A SERVICE, YOU SHALL BE LIMITED TO INJUNCTIVE RELIEF ONLY, UNLESS OTHERWISE PERMITTED BY LAW, AND SHALL NOT BE ENTITLED TO DAMAGES OF ANY KIND FROM CARE, REGARDLESS OF THE CAUSE OF ACTION.

Indemnification

You shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless CARE and our affiliates, including our directors, officers, employees, and agents, and their third party content providers (“CARE Entities”) from any claims, losses or expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) arising from or in connection with your use of the Site, your use of the Materials, any violation or breach of this Agreement, including any of the representations and warranties set forth herein, or of any law or the rights of any third party, including intellectual property rights.