Welcome to the Ecotenet website (or the "Site"). The following Terms of Service govern use of the website https://www.ecotenet.org and any subdomains. To use the Site, you must agree to these terms with Ecotenet, the nonprofit company that runs the Site. Ecotenet may offer other products and services, under different terms. These terms apply only to use of the Site.
Your Permission to Use the Site
Subject to these terms, Ecotenet gives you permission to use the Site. That permission isn't exclusive to you, and you can't transfer it to anyone else. Others need to agree to these terms for themselves to use the Site.
Conditions for Use of the Site
Your permission to use the Site is subject to the following conditions:
You must be at least 13 years old, unless parental permission has been obtained.
You may no longer use the Site if Ecotenet contacts you directly to say that you may not.
You must use the Site in accordance with Acceptable Use and Content Standards.
Acceptable Use
You may not break the law using the Site.
You may not use or try to use another's account on the Site without their specific permission.
You may not buy, sell, or otherwise trade in user names or other unique identifiers on the Site.
You may not send advertisements, chain letters, or other solicitations through the Site, or use the Site to gather addresses for commercial mailing lists.
You may not automate access to the Site, or monitor the Site, such as with a web crawler, browser plug-in or add-on, or other computer program that is not a web browser. You may crawl the Site to index it for a publicly available search engine.
You may not use the Site to send e-mail to distribution lists, newsgroups, or group mail aliases.
You may not falsely imply that you're affiliated with or endorsed by Ecotenet.
You may not remove any marks showing proprietary ownership from materials you download from the Site.
You may not show any part of the Site on other Sites with using iframes.
You may not disable, avoid, or circumvent any security or access restrictions of the Site.
You may not strain infrastructure of the Site with an unreasonable volume of requests, or requests designed to impose an unreasonable load on information systems underlying the Site.
You may not encourage or help anyone in violation of these terms.
You may not impersonate others through the Site.
Content Standards
You may not submit content to the Site that is illegal, offensive, or otherwise harmful to others. This includes content that is harassing, inappropriate, or abusive.
You may not submit content to the Site that violates the law, infringes anyone's intellectual property rights, violates anyone's privacy, or breaches agreements you have with others.
You may not submit content to the Site containing malicious computer code, such as computer viruses or spyware.
You may not submit content to the Site as a mere placeholder, to hold a particular address, user name, or other unique identifier.
You may not use the Site to disclose information that you don't have the right to disclose, like others' confidential information.
Enforcement
Ecotenet may investigate and prosecute violations of these terms to the fullest legal extent. Ecotenet may notify and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting violations of the law and these terms.
Ecotenet reserves the right to change, redact, and delete content on the Site for any reason. If you believe someone has submitted content to the Site in violation of these terms, please contact us immediately.
Your Account
You must create and log into an account to use some features of the Site.
To create an account, you must provide some information about yourself. If you create an account, you agree to provide, at a minimum, a valid e-mail address, and to keep that address up-to-date. You may close your account at any time by logging into your account and clicking the button on your account dashboard page.
You agree to be responsible for all action taken using your account, whether authorized by you or not, until you either close your account or notify Ecotenet that your account has been compromised. You agree to notify Ecotenet immediately if you suspect your account has been compromised.
Ecotenet may restrict, suspend, or close your account on the Site at any time, without notice to you, if Ecotenet reasonably believes that you've breached these terms.
Your Content
Nothing in these terms gives Ecotenet any ownership rights in intellectual property that you share with the Site, such as your account information or other content you submit to the Site. Nothing in these terms gives you any ownership rights in Ecotenet's intellectual property, either.
Between you and Ecotenet, you remain solely responsible for content you submit to the Site. You agree not to wrongly imply that content you submit to the Site is sponsored or approved by Ecotenet. These terms do not obligate Ecotenet to store, maintain, or provide copies of content you submit.
Content you submit to the Site belongs to you, and you decide what permission to give others for it. But at a minimum, you license Ecotenet to provide content that you submit to the Site to other users of the Site. That special license allows Ecotenet to copy, publish, and analyze content you submit to the Site.
When content you submit is removed from the Site, whether by you or by Ecotenet, Ecotenet's special license ends when the last copy disappears from Ecotenet's backups, caches, and other systems. Other licenses you apply to content you submit may continue after your content is removed. Those licenses may give others, or Ecotenet itself, the right to share your content through the Site again.
Others who receive content you submit to the Site may violate the terms on which you license your content. You agree that Ecotenet will not be liable to you for those violations or their consequences.
Your Responsibility
You agree to indemnify Ecotenet from legal claims by others related to your breach of these terms, or breach of these terms by others using your account on the Site. Both you and Ecotenet agree to notify the other side of any legal claims for which you might have to indemnify Ecotenet as soon as possible.You agree to allow Ecotenet to control investigation, defense, and settlement of legal claims for which you would have to indemnify Ecotenet, and to cooperate with those efforts. Ecotenet agrees not to agree to any settlement that admits fault for you or imposes obligations on you without your prior agreement.
Disclaimers
You accept all risk of using the Site and content on the Site. As far as the law allows, Ecotenet provides the Site as is, without any warranty whatsoever.
The Site may hyperlink to and integrate Sites and services run by others. Ecotenet does not make any warranty about services run by others, or content they may provide. Use of services run by others may be governed by other terms between you and the one running the service.
A more detailed disclaimer regarding the accuracy, adequacy, validity, reliability, availability, or completeness of any of the Site's content or any external links they may contain can be found here.
Limits on Liability
Ecotenet will not be liable to you for breach-of-contract damages Ecotenet personnel could not have reasonably foreseen when you agreed to these terms.
In no event will Ecotenet be liable with respect to any subject matter of this Terms of Service under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement or substitute products or services; or (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data. Ecotenet shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond its reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Ecotenet, their contractors, licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising out of your use of the Site, including but not limited to your violation of this Terms of Service.
Feedback
Ecotenet welcomes your feedback and suggestions for the Site. See the Contact section below for ways to get in touch with us.
You agree that Ecotenet will be free to act on feedback and suggestions you provide, and that Ecotenet won't have to notify you that your feedback was used, get your permission to use it, or pay you. You agree not to submit feedback or suggestions that you believe might be confidential or proprietary, to you or others.
Termination
Either you or Ecotenet may end the agreement written out in these terms at any time. When our agreement ends, your permission to use the Site also ends.
The following provisions survive the end of our agreement: Your Content, Feedback, Your Responsibility, Disclaimers, Limits on Liability, and General Terms.
General Terms
If a provision of these terms is unenforceable as written, but could be changed to make it enforceable, that provision should be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable. Otherwise, that provision should be removed.
You may not assign your agreement with Ecotenet. Ecotenet may assign your agreement to any affiliate of Ecotenet, any other company that obtains control of Ecotenet, or any other company that buys assets of Ecotenet related to the Site. Any attempted assignment against these terms has no legal effect.
Neither the exercise of any right under this Agreement, nor waiver of any breach of this Agreement, waives any other breach of this Agreement.
These terms embody all the terms of agreement between you and Ecotenet about use of the Site. These terms entirely replace any other agreements about your use of the Site, written or not.
Contact
You may notify Ecotenet under these terms, and send questions to Ecotenet, at info@ecotenet.org
Ecotenet may notify you under these terms using the e-mail address you provide for your account on the Site, or by posting a message on the Site or in your dashboard notifications.
Changes
Ecotenet last updated these terms on November 27, 2023, and may update these terms again. Ecotenet will post all updates to the Site. For updates that contain substantial changes, Ecotenet agrees to e-mail you, if you've created an account and provided a valid e-mail address. Ecotenet may also announce updates with special messages or alerts on the Site.
Once you get notice of an update to these terms, you must agree to the new terms in order to keep using the Site.