TERMS AND USE

Terms and conditions for using the International Society of Obstetric Fistula Surgeon’s Website.

This contents of this page tell you the terms and conditions of use (“Terms”) on which you may make use of our website: www.isofs-global.org. Please read these Terms carefully before you start to use the Website. The use of our Website is an indication that you accept these Terms and Privacy Policy and that you agree to abide by them.

1. Information about us

www.isofs-global.org is a website operated by International Society of Obstetric Fistula Surgeons. We are registered in the Republic of Senegal as a Foreign Organisation by the Ministry of Interior Directorate of General Affairs and Territorial Administration and granted “Authorization Order for Foreign Partnership” with regards to the Constitution,

 With regards to the code of civil and commercial obligations, specified in article 823 and 824,

With regards to Decree No. 2009-451 of 30th April 2009 authorizing appointment of the Prime Minister

With regards to Decree 2011-1939 of 04th December 2011 authorizing transition of Government, and With regards to the declaring documents guarantee under company number 15481 and have our current Secretariat at

 

National Obstetric Fistula Centre,

KM 86, Enugu-Abakaliki Expressway,

P.O.Box 016, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.

 

2. Access and use of the website

2.(i)      You may only use the Website for non-commercial use and only in accordance with

these Terms.

 

2.(ii)     It is your responsibility to make all arrangements necessary for you to have access

to our Website including ensuring that your computer system meets all the necessary

technical specifications to enable you to access the Website.

 

2.(iii)    When using particular services available on the Website, you may be subject to any rule applicable to such services which may be posted from time to time and such rules take precedence over these Terms. If you do not agree with these Terms and/or any additional rules for specific services and/or are not authorised to do so, you should not continue to access and use the Website or related services.

2.(iv)    We reserve the right to prevent and/or suspend your access to the Website where we reasonably consider that you are in breach of these Terms or any applicable law or regulation.

2.(v)     We cannot guarantee the continuous, uninterrupted or error free operability of the Website. Therefore, you agree that we will not be liable to you if for any reason our Website or any element of it is unavailable at any time or for any period.

2. (vi)               You may only use the Website for non-commercial use and only in accordance with these Terms.   You must only use our Website for lawful purposes.

This implies that you are NOT PERMITTED to:

  • use our Website in any way that breaches any applicable law or regulation; 
  • misuse our Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms or any malicious that can be technologically harmful;
  • gain or attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Website, the server on which our Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Website;
  • attack our Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack;
  • remove or change any content of the Website or interfere, damage or disrupt any part of the Website;
  • store pages of the Website on a server or other storage device;
  • reproduce, extract, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our Website in contravention of the provisions of our Terms;
  • send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with these Terms.

2. (vii) The use of this Website and these Terms are governed first by the laws of the Republic of Senegal, and by laws of the Countries where members operate and will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of these Countries.

 

3. Content & liability

3.(i) You agree that use of the Website is on an ‘as is’ basis and ‘as available’ basis and at your sole risk. Advice, information and/or commentary and other materials posted on our Website are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed and are for guidance purposes only.

3. (ii) We give no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, currency, correctness, reliability, integrity, quality, fitness for purpose or originality of any content of the Website and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, all implied warranties, conditions or other terms of any kind are hereby excluded and we accept no liability for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of you or anyone else using the Website or relying on any of its content.

3. (iii) We cannot and do not guarantee that any content of the Website will be free from viruses and/or other code that may have contaminating or destructive elements. It is your responsibility to implement appropriate IT security safeguards (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements as to the safety and reliability of content.

 

4. Intellectual property & related rights

All intellectual property rights in any content of the Website (including text, graphics, software, photographs and other images, videos, sound, trademarks and logos) are owned by us or our licensors. Except as expressly set out here, nothing in these terms of use gives you any rights in respect of any intellectual property owned by us or our licensors and you acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading content from the Website. In the event you share links, evidence pieces or blogs via Twitter or Facebook, print off, copy or store pages from the Website (only as permitted by these terms of use), you must ensure that any copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property right notices contained in the original content are reproduced.

5. Links to and from our website

If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk. Links to third party websites on this Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, it takes you away from this Website. We will not be responsible for these websites, their content or their availability. We therefore do not endorse or make any representations about them or any material found there or any results that may be obtained from using them. You must not create links to the Website from any other website, without our prior written consent.

6. Your personal information

Use of your personal information submitted to or via the Website is governed by our Privacy Notice and Cookies Notice. We will not share your personal information with anyone outside this organization. Information from card transactions are secure and will never share them with anyone because we (including our website) do not keep such records. You are responsible for the state of security of the browsers you use for accessing such services when making payments for membership dues and conference registration as well as purchase of resources available for sale on our website.

 

7. General

7.(i) If we fail at any time to insist upon strict performance of any of your obligations under these Terms or if we fail to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled under these Terms, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with such obligations. A waiver by us of any default shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent default.

7.(ii) We reserve the right to amend or delete any part of the Website and/or these Terms at any time and without notice. Therefore, we recommend that you review these Terms on a regular basis to ensure that you are kept up-to-date with any such changes.

7.(iii) For contractual purposes, you consent to receiving communications from us electronically and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

 

© International Society of Obstetrics Fistula Surgeons 2019

TERMS AND USE

Terms and conditions for using the International Society of Obstetric Fistula Surgeon’s Website.

This contents of this page tell you the terms and conditions of use (“Terms”) on which you may make use of our website: www.isofs-global.org. Please read these Terms carefully before you start to use the Website. The use of our Website is an indication that you accept these Terms and Privacy Policy and that you agree to abide by them.

1. Information about us

www.isofs-global.org is a website operated by International Society of Obstetric Fistula Surgeons. We are registered in the Republic of Senegal as a Foreign Organisation by the Ministry of Interior Directorate of General Affairs and Territorial Administration and granted “Authorization Order for Foreign Partnership” with regards to the Constitution,

 With regards to the code of civil and commercial obligations, specified in article 823 and 824,

With regards to Decree No. 2009-451 of 30th April 2009 authorizing appointment of the Prime Minister

With regards to Decree 2011-1939 of 04th December 2011 authorizing transition of Government, and With regards to the declaring documents guarantee under company number 15481 and have our current Secretariat at

 

National Obstetric Fistula Centre,

KM 86, Enugu-Abakaliki Expressway,

P.O.Box 016, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.

 

2. Access and use of the website

2.(i)      You may only use the Website for non-commercial use and only in accordance with

these Terms.

 

2.(ii)     It is your responsibility to make all arrangements necessary for you to have access

to our Website including ensuring that your computer system meets all the necessary

technical specifications to enable you to access the Website.

 

2.(iii)    When using particular services available on the Website, you may be subject to any rule applicable to such services which may be posted from time to time and such rules take precedence over these Terms. If you do not agree with these Terms and/or any additional rules for specific services and/or are not authorised to do so, you should not continue to access and use the Website or related services.

2.(iv)    We reserve the right to prevent and/or suspend your access to the Website where we reasonably consider that you are in breach of these Terms or any applicable law or regulation.

2.(v)     We cannot guarantee the continuous, uninterrupted or error free operability of the Website. Therefore, you agree that we will not be liable to you if for any reason our Website or any element of it is unavailable at any time or for any period.

2. (vi)               You may only use the Website for non-commercial use and only in accordance with these Terms.   You must only use our Website for lawful purposes.

This implies that you are NOT PERMITTED to:

  • use our Website in any way that breaches any applicable law or regulation; 
  • misuse our Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms or any malicious that can be technologically harmful;
  • gain or attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Website, the server on which our Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Website;
  • attack our Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack;
  • remove or change any content of the Website or interfere, damage or disrupt any part of the Website;
  • store pages of the Website on a server or other storage device;
  • reproduce, extract, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our Website in contravention of the provisions of our Terms;
  • send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with these Terms.

2. (vii) The use of this Website and these Terms are governed first by the laws of the Republic of Senegal, and by laws of the Countries where members operate and will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of these Countries.

 

3. Content & liability

3.(i) You agree that use of the Website is on an ‘as is’ basis and ‘as available’ basis and at your sole risk. Advice, information and/or commentary and other materials posted on our Website are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed and are for guidance purposes only.

3. (ii) We give no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, currency, correctness, reliability, integrity, quality, fitness for purpose or originality of any content of the Website and, to the fullest extent permitted by law, all implied warranties, conditions or other terms of any kind are hereby excluded and we accept no liability for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of you or anyone else using the Website or relying on any of its content.

3. (iii) We cannot and do not guarantee that any content of the Website will be free from viruses and/or other code that may have contaminating or destructive elements. It is your responsibility to implement appropriate IT security safeguards (including anti-virus and other security checks) to satisfy your particular requirements as to the safety and reliability of content.

 

4. Intellectual property & related rights

All intellectual property rights in any content of the Website (including text, graphics, software, photographs and other images, videos, sound, trademarks and logos) are owned by us or our licensors. Except as expressly set out here, nothing in these terms of use gives you any rights in respect of any intellectual property owned by us or our licensors and you acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading content from the Website. In the event you share links, evidence pieces or blogs via Twitter or Facebook, print off, copy or store pages from the Website (only as permitted by these terms of use), you must ensure that any copyright, trade mark or other intellectual property right notices contained in the original content are reproduced.

5. Links to and from our website

If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked to this Website, you do so entirely at your own risk. Links to third party websites on this Website are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, it takes you away from this Website. We will not be responsible for these websites, their content or their availability. We therefore do not endorse or make any representations about them or any material found there or any results that may be obtained from using them. You must not create links to the Website from any other website, without our prior written consent.

6. Your personal information

Use of your personal information submitted to or via the Website is governed by our Privacy Notice and Cookies Notice. We will not share your personal information with anyone outside this organization. Information from card transactions are secure and will never share them with anyone because we (including our website) do not keep such records. You are responsible for the state of security of the browsers you use for accessing such services when making payments for membership dues and conference registration as well as purchase of resources available for sale on our website.

 

7. General

7.(i) If we fail at any time to insist upon strict performance of any of your obligations under these Terms or if we fail to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled under these Terms, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with such obligations. A waiver by us of any default shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent default.

7.(ii) We reserve the right to amend or delete any part of the Website and/or these Terms at any time and without notice. Therefore, we recommend that you review these Terms on a regular basis to ensure that you are kept up-to-date with any such changes.

7.(iii) For contractual purposes, you consent to receiving communications from us electronically and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

 

© International Society of Obstetrics Fistula Surgeons 2019

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