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Sporteurope.org – Terms of Service
1.- WHAT IS SPORTEUROPE.ORG AND WHO ARE WE?
The www.sporteurope.org website is the official website of the European Olympic Committees (the “EOC”). It is managed and operated by the EOC.
We describe as the “Services” the website, as well as the newsletters or other online resources offered on the www.sporteurope.org and other digital properties operated by the EOC.

2.- WHY SHOULD YOU READ THESE TERMS OF SERVICE?
These Terms of Service aim to inform you, as user of the Services, of the conditions under which you may use the Services to access, use, view and share the EOC Content (as defined below). By accessing and using the Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree with these Terms of Service, do not use the Services.
Specific rules and additional terms may apply due to the nature and purpose of certain Services. This is for instance the case of certain systems for event registration managed by the EOC. In such cases, these specific terms will be brought to your attention before you use the relevant Services and will prevail over these Terms of Service in case of any inconsistency.
Please note that, if you access EOC Content (as defined below) via services operated by third parties, such as social media services, additional terms issued by such third parties may also apply.
We reserve the right to modify the Terms of Service, at any time. When we make changes, we will revise the “last updated” date at the bottom of the Terms of Service and any change will be effective immediately upon posting. We will use reasonable efforts to inform you about any material changes made to these Terms of Service. However, your continued use of the Services following the posting of changes will constitute your acceptance of such changes. We encourage you to review our Terms of Service whenever you use the Services.

3.- WHAT CAN YOU FIND ON THE SERVICES?

3.1 EOC Content

In these Terms of Service, “EOC Content” refers to any audio visual or other content, information or materials accessible through the Services such as texts, illustrations, artworks, graphics, data, moving and still images, sounds, music, or software. The EOC Content is protected by copyright, trademarks, or other proprietary rights and laws. All rights, including all intellectual property rights, or other proprietary rights in the Services, EOC Content, except for Your Content (as defined below), are owned by the EOC, or licensed to us by the respective rights owners. All rights not expressly granted to you under the present Terms of Service are reserved.

3.2 Your Content

Through the Services, you may be offered the possibility to provide feedback and interact with other users, by making comments or by making available other types of content (“Your Content”).
You retain all ownership rights and are solely responsible for Your Content. You grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, transferable, license (with a right to sublicense) to use, reproduce, display, distribute, make available and prepare derivative works of Your Content, in whole or in part, in any media formats and through any media now known or to be known, in connection with the EOC. You also grant each user of the Services a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to access Your Content through the Services and to use it in accordance with the present Terms of Service. All licenses granted to us and the users of the Services in relation to Your Content shall continue indefinitely, unless you request that we remove Your Content from the Services.

4.- WHO CAN USE THE SERVICES?
The Services are intended for users who are 16 years old (or older) and who are either of legal age under the laws of their country of residence or who have obtained the consent of a parent or guardian to use the Services.
Your use of the Services is at your risk and you are responsible for ensuring that your use of the Services complies with applicable laws of your country of residence or use.
We reserve the right to terminate your access to the Services at our discretion, in particular if we believe that you do not comply with these Terms of Service

5.- HOW CAN YOU USE THE SERVICES?
We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sub licensable, license to access and use the Services and EOC Content for informative purposes only, provided that you comply with the Terms of Service and in particular the following conditions:

a) The Services cannot be used for advertising purposes, or in any manner implying an association between a third party, or a third party’s product and services, and the EOC without our prior written authorization.

b) Through available functionalities, you are authorized to share EOC Content for personal and non-commercial purposes only and in a manner otherwise consistent with these Terms of Service;

c) You may not upload or post on the Services any comment or other content that is unlawful, defamatory, violent, obscene, racist, discriminatory against any third party or otherwise contrary to the Olympic values;

d) You may not use, or attempt to use, the Services or the EOC Content to commit any unlawful act or to defame, harass, insult or impersonate other users or third parties;

e) Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Service, you are not authorized to copy, archive, download, reproduce, modify, broadcast, communicate to the public and/or make available, the Services or any EOC Content, without our prior written authorization;

f) You may not transfer, assign or sublicense any rights and licenses granted to you under the Terms of Service, but our rights and obligations may be assigned by us without restriction.

g) You may not alter or modify or circumvent any component of the Services, or attempt to do so, or encourage or assist any other person to do so;

h) You may not launch any automated system, including without limitation, “robots,” “spiders,” or “offline readers,” “virus”, “worms”, “Trojan horse”, having the purpose or effect to detrimentally affect the Services;

i) You may not collect or use any personal information about other users or third parties from the Services, nor use the Services for any commercial solicitation purposes;

j) You may not facilitate or encourage any violation of these Terms of Service by third parties.

6.- WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND HOW DO WE USE IT?
When You access the Services, we will collect certain information about you. Our Privacy Policy provides more about the information we collect and how we use it.

7.- WHAT ELSE SHOULD YOU KNOW?

7.1 You agree to the following:

a) Despite our efforts to provide accurate information and to prevent disruption caused by technical problems, the Services may contain technical mistakes, inaccuracies or typographical errors or be temporarily unavailable to you and we cannot be held liable for such occurrences;

b) Your use of the Services requires one or more compatible devices, internet access and certain hardware and software and may require obtaining updates or upgrades from time to time. You agree that your ability to use the Services may be affected by the performance of such materials and that such system requirements are under your responsibility as well as all costs incurred by their use including your internet or data service providers charges;

c) The Services, including all EOC Content, is provided to you “as is” and, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we (including our officers, directors, employees, agents affiliates and subcontractors) disclaim all express or implied warranties in connection with the Services, EOC Content (including any link to any third party websites, and any offer of service or product made by third parties) and your use thereof. These disclaimed warranties include warranties of availability, fitness for a particular purpose;

d) We reserve the right to modify, improve, update, suspend or terminate any functionality of the Services or any EOC Content, at our discretion and without notice;

e) Except where expressly mentioned otherwise, links provided on the Service to any third party websites or services, or to offers for third party products or services, shall not be interpreted as a recommendation or endorsement by us;

f) Although we make our best efforts to reply to any questions asked or request made to us through the Services in a timely manner, we do not guarantee any specific turnaround time, reserve the right to refrain from answering any communication which does not comply with the present Terms of Service.

 7.2 To the fullest extent admissible under law, we (including our officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates and subcontractors) shall not be liable to you or third parties for damages of any kind arising in connection with:

Your access to or use of Services and any EOC Content, or of the websites linked to the Services;
any unauthorized access or use of our servers and/or any personal information or other information stored therein;
any errors or inaccuracies in the Content;
any delays, interruptions, failure, poor quality or limitations of any kind in transmissions from the Services or in the delivery or in the performance of services offered via the Services; and
any bugs, viruses, or the likes which may be transmitted to or through the Service by any third party.

7.3 You agree to defend, indemnify and hold the EOC (including their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates and subcontractors) harmless from and against any claims or damages (including legal fees) arising in connection with your violation of the present Terms of Service. This defence and indemnification will survive the present Terms of Service and your use of the Services.

7.4 No action from our part, other than written waiver or amendment, may be construed as a waiver or amendment of these Terms of Service. If any provision of these Terms of Service is found invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of these Terms of Service shall remain valid and enforceable to the fullest possible extent under applicable law.

7.5 The Terms of Service shall be governed and interpreted by the laws of Italy, without reference to conflict of laws. Any dispute arising from or in connection with the execution or interpretation of these Terms of Service or breach thereof which cannot be settled amicably, shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of Rome, Italy.

European Olympic Committees
Via della Pallacanestro 19 – 00135 Rome – Italy
Email: [email protected]

These Terms of Services were last updated on 18 April 2024

SPORT EUROPE DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM TERMS AND CONDITIONS

  1. OWNERSHIP

    The European Olympic Committee (“EOC”), is an international non-governmental not-for-profit organisation, with registered office in Via della Pallacanestro, 19, Palazzina CONI – “Villino Giulio Onesti” – 00135 Rgome – Italy, Tel.(+39) 06 36 85 78 28, Fax (+39) 06 36 85 76 66, is the sole owner of the Sport Europe website, subdomains of this website such as the Bakuriani 2025 or Skopje 2025 webpages, the Eurolympics mobile application, and other related mobile applications or platforms. (all hereinafter, the “the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem”).

  2. TERMS OF USE OF THE SPORT EUROPE DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM

    2.1. Lawfulness of the use

    The User commits to use the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem in accordance with the Law, the present Terms and Conditions, and other notices, usage regulations and instructions presented to him/her, as well as with the goodwill and morality commonly accepted and of public order.

    2.2. EOC Content

    In these Terms and Conditions, “Sport Europe Content” refers to any audio, visual or other content, information or materials accessible through the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem such as texts, illustrations, artworks, graphics, data, moving and still images, sounds, music, or software. The Sport Europe Content is protected by copyright, trademarks, or other proprietary rights and laws. All rights, including all intellectual property rights, or other proprietary rights in the Services, Sport Europe Content, except for the User Content (as defined below), are owned by the EOC, or licensed to it by the respective rights owners. All rights not expressly granted to you under the present Terms and Conditions are reserved.

    2.3. User Content

    Through the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem, the User may be offered the possibility to provide feedback and interact with other Users, by making comments or by making available other types of content (“User Content”).

    The User retain all ownership rights and are solely responsible for the User Content. The User grants the EOC a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, transferable license (with a right to sublicense) to use, reproduce, display, distribute, make available and prepare derivative works of the User Content, in whole or in part, in any media formats and through any media now known or to be known, in connection with the EOC. The User also grants each other User of the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to access the User Content through the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem and to use it in accordance with the present Terms and Conditions. All licenses granted to us and the Users of the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem in relation to the User Content shall continue indefinitely, unless the User requests the EOC to remove the User Content.

    2.4. Users of the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem

    The Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem is intended for Users who are 16 years old (or older) and who are either of legal age under the laws of their country of residence or who have obtained the consent of a parent or guardian to use the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem.

    The Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem is at User’s own risk and the User is responsible for ensuring that his/her use of the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem complies with applicable laws of your country of residence or use.

    The EOC reserves the right to terminate access to the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem at its own discretion, in particular if it believes that the User do not comply with these Terms and Conditions.

    2.5. How to use the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem

    The EOC grants the User a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sub licensable, license to access and use the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem and EOC Content included in it, provided that the User complies with the Terms and Conditions and in particular the following conditions:

    A). The Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem cannot be used for advertising purposes, or in any manner implying an association between a third party, or a third party’s product and services, and the EOC without our prior written authorization;

    B). Through available functionalities, the User is authorized to share EOC Content for personal and non-commercial purposes only and in a manner otherwise consistent with these Terms and Conditions;

    C). The User may not upload or post on the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem any comment or other content that is unlawful, defamatory, violent, obscene, racist, discriminatory against any third party or otherwise contrary to the Olympic values;

    D). The User may not use, or attempt to use, the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem or the EOC Content to commit any unlawful act or to defame, harass, insult or impersonate other users or third parties;

    E). Except as expressly provided in these Terms and Conditions, The User is not authorized to copy, archive, download, reproduce, modify, broadcast, communicate to the public and/or make available, the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem or any EOC Content, without our prior written authorization;

    F). The User may not transfer, assign or sublicense any rights and licenses granted under the Terms and Conditions, but the EOC’s rights and obligations may be assigned by us without restriction;

    G). The User may not alter or modify or circumvent any component of the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem, or attempt to do so, or encourage or assist any other person to do so;

    H). The User may not launch any automated system, including without limitation, “robots,” “spiders,” or “offline readers,” “virus”, “worms”, “Trojan horse”, or any other logical device or sequence of characters that cause or are susceptible of causing any type of alteration in the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem, the informatic systems of the EOC or of third-parties;

    I). The User may not collect or use any personal information about other Users or third parties from the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem, nor use the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem for any commercial solicitation purposes;

    J). The User may not facilitate or encourage any violation of these Terms and Conditions by third parties.

  3. RESPONSIBILITY FRAMEWORK

    3.1. Responsibility for the use of the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem

    The User has full responsibility for any infraction that he/she can commit and of the damages caused by the usage of the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem, leaving the EOC exonerated of any kind of responsibilities that can derive from the actions of the User. The EOC will use all reasonable means and efforts to provide updated and reliable information in the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem. However, the EOC does not assume any commitment in relation to the absence of errors, or possible inaccuracy and/or omissions in any of the content accessible through the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem.

    The User is the only responsible against any complaint or legal, judicial, or extrajudicial action, initiated by third persons against the EOC based on the use of the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem by the User. In this case, the User must assume as many costs, expenses and compensations occasioned to the EOC arising from such complaints or legal actions.

    3.2. Responsibility of the functioning of the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem

    The EOC excludes all accountability that can derive from interferences, omissions, interruptions, informatic viruses, telephonic issues or disconnections in the operational functioning of the electronic system unrelated to the EOC. Likewise, the EOC also excludes all accountability that can derive from delays or blocking of the operational functioning of the electronic system caused by deficiencies or overloads in the telephone lines or the Internet, as well as from damages caused by third parties through illegitimate intromissions outside the control of the EOC.

    The EOC is entitled to suspend temporarily and without previous notice the access to the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem for reasons of maintenance operations, repairs, updates or improvements. In the case the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem contains any hyperlinks to other Sport Europe Digital Ecosystems or websites not managed by the EOC, the EOC declares that it does not have any control over such places neither is responsible for the content included in these. The links that the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem could include will be offered only with informational purposes, without any evaluation of the content, owners, services or products offered in them. In any case, the EOC exonerates itself from any responsibilities in relation to the services provided by the mentioned third parties against all complaints of any nature and demands that can be related to them.

    3.3. Limitation of responsibility of the EOC

    Neither the EOC nor any other person or entity involved in creating, producing or delivering Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem and the Contest will be liable for any incidental or consequential damages, including lost profits, loss of data or loss of goodwill, service interruption, computer damage or system failure, or for any damages for personal or bodily injury or emotional distress arising out of or in connection with these Terms and Conditions or from the use of or inability to use the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem or participate to the Contest, or from any communications, interactions or meetings with other Users of the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem, persons with whom you communicate or interact as a result of your use of the services whether based on warranty, contract, tort (including negligence), product liability or any other legal theory, and whether or not the EOC has been informed of the possibility of such damage, even if a limited remedy set forth herein is found to have failed of its essential purpose.

  4. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

    The Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem and its content, including but not limited to the EOC Content, the graphic design, font and source codes, logos, texts, graphics, illustrations, photographs, and other elements that appear in the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem are the sole and exclusive property of the EOC. Likewise, all commercial names, brands or distinctive signs in the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem are protected by the Law. The EOC does not award any type of license or authorization of personal use to the User regarding its intellectual property rights or over any other right related to the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem and the services offered in it.

    Consequently, the User acknowledges that the reproduction, distribution, commercialization, transformation, and in general, any other form of exploitation, by any procedure, of all or part of the content of the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem constitutes an infringement of the EOC’s intellectual property rights. The User, solely and exclusively, can use the material present in the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem for its personal and private use, being forbidden its use with commercial purposes or to incur in illicit activities.

  5. CHANGES TO THE TERMS

    The EOC can change these Terms and Conditions at any moment. When the Terms and Conditions are substituted or modified, they will be published in the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem and/or the user will be notified by e-mail. If the User continues using the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem, that will mean acceptance of the alterations introduced unless the User’s explicit acceptance or consent is required by the applicable law.

    If the User does not agree with the modifications introduced, he/she can unsubscribe following the established procedure. It is recommended that the User periodically checks the Terms and Conditions, as they can be modified. The User can review the most updated version in the section “Terms and Conditions” on the landing page of the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem.

  6. RIGHT TO MAKE MODIFICATIONS IN THE SPORT EUROPE DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM

    The EOC reserves its right to carry out, without previous notice, the modifications in the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem that it considers appropriate.

    The User accepts that the EOC can terminate, suspend or interrupt unilaterally, at any moment and without previous notice, the availability of the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem, without the possibility to demand any compensation by the User.

  7. TERMS OF INTERNATIONAL USE

    The Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem regulated under the present Terms and Conditions is managed by the EOC, which is established in Italy. Although the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem can be accessed from outside of Italy due to the inherent nature of non-territoriality of Internet, the User accepts that the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem is meant to be used by any person or entity of any country or jurisdiction in which its use is not contrary to the local laws or regulations that apply at the time.

    Consequently, if any or all of the elements in the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem are considered illegal in other countries, it is prohibited to access it, and its use by the User is exclusively under the User´s responsibility.

    Likewise, the User is informed that it is possible that some the functionalities of the Sport Europe Digital Ecosystem may not be available and/or function properly in every country due to technical and/or legal limitations.

  8. APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION

    The established relationships between the EOC and the User will be governed by the regulations in place regarding applicable legislation and competent jurisdiction. Nevertheless, for the cases where the regulations contemplate the possibility of the parts to select the applicable law and the location of the court, this Terms and Conditions are governed by the Italian law. The EOC and the User commit to submit any applicable controversies and/or litigation to the knowledge of the Courts of the city of Rome, Italy, with explicit renounce to any other alternatively competent court.