Terms and Conditions
Introduction
This page sets out the terms and conditions of use (the “Terms of Use“) on which this website www.nadianevala.com (the “Site“) is made available to you. Please read this page carefully. By accessing the Site you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the Terms of Use. You should keep a copy of this page for future reference.
Please note that the Terms of Use do not apply to any of our other websites or any third party websites which are linked to by the Site.
Your promise to us
You promise that you will comply with the restrictions on your use of the Site as set out in these Terms of Use.
User conduct
You agree that in using the Site you will not:
- use the Site or any of its Content (as defined below) for any unlawful purpose or in any way that may lead to the encouragement, procurement or carrying out of any criminal activity;
- transfer files which contain viruses, trojans or other harmful programs or use the Site or any of its Content (as defined below) in any way that interrupts, damages, impairs or renders the Site less efficient; or
- use the Site for any purpose other than your personal or not-for-profit educational use.
Rights granted and rights reserved
All content available on the Site including, but not limited to, text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio and video clips, data compilations and software, and the compilation thereof (the “Content“) is the property of us, our affiliates, our partners or our licensors, and may be protected by the United States and international copyright and other similar laws. Your use of the Site and the Content grants no rights to you in relation to our or any third party’s intellectual property rights in the Site and the Content.
You may not copy, reproduce, republish, download, print, post, perform, broadcast, record, transmit, commercially exploit, edit, communicate to the public or distribute in any way the Site pages, any Content, Images, or computer codes of elements comprising the Site. You may however view the Site and access its Content in an unaltered form (for the avoidance of doubt, alterations shall include stretching, compressing, coloring, cropping or altering in any other way so as to distort Content from its original proportions or format) for personal or not-for-profit educational use and make temporary downloads of its Content solely for the purpose and duration of viewing and (where applicable) listening to the Content, provided that you keep intact all copyright notices and otherwise acknowledge the copyright in such Content. We may withdraw this right on notice to you at any time.
Any use which is not permitted by these Terms of Use may only be undertaken with our prior express written consent.
Emails from us
Your use of any information or other content contained in emails received from us will be subject to these Terms of Use.
Submissions
We welcome inquiries or feedback in relation to the Site and/or its Content. However, it is our policy to decline unsolicited suggestions and ideas. Notwithstanding this policy, any inquiries, feedback, suggestions, ideas or other information you provide us (collectively, “Submissions”) will be treated as non-proprietary and non-confidential.
If you make a Submission, you promise that you own or otherwise control the rights to your Submission. You further promise that such Submission does not constitute or contain software viruses, chain letters, or any form of “spam”. You may not use a false email address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead us as to the origin of any Submission. You agree to compensate us in full for any third party claim which is related to any Submission you provide.
Links to and from other websites
You may establish links to the Site provided you:
- do not remove or obscure any copyright notice or other notices on the Site;
- immediately stop providing such links upon request from us; and
- do not establish embedded links (i.e. direct links to Content on the Site which do not show the rest of the page(s) on which such Content would normally be seen on the Site).
Links within the Site may lead to third party websites which are not under our control. These are intended for your ease of reference and convenience only. We do not control or endorse such websites and are not responsible for their contents. We assume no responsibility for and shall not be liable for any loss or damage which you may suffer by using such websites. You agree that you will not involve us in any dispute between you and any third party in respect of such websites.
Limits on Liability
We are not responsible for: (i) losses not caused by our breach of the Terms of Use; (ii) indirect losses which means loss to you which is a side effect of the main loss or damage and where you and us could not have reasonably anticipated that type of loss arising at the time of entering into these Terms of Use; or (iii) failure to provide the Site or to meet any of our obligations under these Terms where such failure is due to events beyond our control (for example a network failure).
We do not accept any liability for damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from your use of the Site and we cannot guarantee that any files that you download are free from viruses, contamination or destructive features.
Whilst we use reasonable endeavours to correct any errors or omissions as soon as practicable once they have been brought to our attention, we do not promise that the information on the Site itself will be free from errors or omissions. We do not promise that the Site will be available uninterrupted and in a fully operating condition.
Access to the Site or any part of it may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons reasonably beyond our control.
Compensation
You agree to compensate us in full for any loss, damages or costs, including reasonable legal fees, which arise if you breach our or any third party’s intellectual property rights in connection with your use of the Site and/or any Content, or which result from your use of software robots, spiders, crawlers or similar data gathering and extraction tools, or from any other action you take that imposes an unreasonable burden or load on our infrastructure.
General
If you breach the Terms of Use and we take no action against you, we will still be entitled to use our rights and remedies in any other situation where you breach the Terms of Use.
If we take legal action against you for any breach of the Terms of Use and a court makes an award in our favor, you will be responsible for all costs allowable by the courts. In addition, you agree to compensate us for any claim or legal proceedings brought against us by any other person as a result of your breach of the Terms of Use.
If any part of the Terms of Use is disallowed or found to be ineffective by any court or regulator, the other provisions shall continue to apply.
These Terms of Use are not intended to give rights to anyone except you and us.
Changes to Terms of Use
We may make changes to these Terms of Use from time to time, in which case any changes will be published on this page. By continuing to use the Site, you shall be deemed to agree to be bound by those changes and revised terms.
Privacy Policy
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
This page was last updated on June 11, 2021.