Legal Notice

Terms and Conditions of Use

1. General

The information presented within the Site is provided for informative purposes only. The CEB grants permission to Visitors to visit the Site and to download and copy the information, documents and materials (collectively, “Materials”) for the Visitor’s personal, non-commercial use, without any right to resell or redistribute them or to compile or create derivative works therefrom, subject to the terms and conditions outlined below, and also subject to more specific provisions that may apply to specific Material within this Site.

All Material on this Site appears subject to the present Terms and Conditions.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, the findings, interpretations, conclusions expressed in Materials on this Site do not necessarily represent the views of the CEB, its membership, UN system or related organizations, staff, partners or advisers.

The CEB is committed to maintaining Visitor privacy. For more detailed information please refer to the CEB Privacy Policy.

2. Disclaimers

(2.1) Materials provided on this Site are provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, without limitation, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. The CEB specifically does not make any warranties or representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any such Materials. The CEB periodically adds, changes, improves or updates the Materials on this Site without notice. Under no circumstances shall the CEB be liable for any loss, damage, liability or expense incurred or suffered that is claimed to have resulted from the use of this Site, including, without limitation, any fault, error, omission, interruption or delay with respect thereto. The use of this Site is at the Visitor’s sole risk. Under no circumstances, including but not limited to negligence, shall the CEB or its member organizations be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, even if the CEB has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

(2.2) The Visitor specifically acknowledges and agrees that the CEB and its member organizations are not liable for any conduct of any Visitor.

(2.3) This site may contain advice, opinions and statements of various information providers. The CEB does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any advice, opinion, statement or other information provided by any information provider, any Visitor of this Site or any other person or entity. Reliance upon any such advice, opinion, statement, or other information shall also be at the Visitor’s own risk. Neither the CEB nor its members, nor any of their respective agents, employees, information providers or content providers, shall be liable to any Visitor or anyone else for any inaccuracy, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, alteration of or use of any content herein, or for its timeliness or completeness, nor shall they be liable for any failure of performance, computer virus or communication line failure, regardless of cause, or for any damages resulting therefrom.

(2.4) As a condition of use of this Site, the Visitor agrees to indemnify the CEB and its member organizations from and against any and all actions, claims, losses, damages, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of the Visitor’s use of this Site, including, without limitation, any claims alleging facts that if true would constitute a breach by the Visitor of these Terms and Conditions. If the Visitor is dissatisfied with any Material on this Site or with any of its Terms and Conditions of Use, the Visitor’s sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Site.

(2.5) This Site may contain links and references to third-party web sites. The linked sites are not under the control of the CEB nor its members. Therefore, the CEB and its members are not responsible for the content of any linked site or any link contained within a linked site. The CEB provides these links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link or reference does not imply the endorsement of the linked site by the CEB.

(2.6) This Site may contain wikis, chats, Visitor feedback and surveys, contact pages, discussion fora, frequently asked questions (FAQs) and answers, mailing lists, bookmarks, personal member pages, and other similar services. The Visitor agrees to use such services only to send and receive messages and materials that are proper and related to the particular page or section. By way of example and not as a limitation, the Visitor agrees that when engaged in publishing on the Site, he or she shall not do any of the following: (2.6.1) Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others;

(2.6.2) Publish, post, distribute or disseminate any defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful material or information;

(2.6.3) Upload or attach files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy and publicity) unless the Visitor owns or controls the rights thereto or has received all consents as may be required by law;

(2.6.4) Upload or attach files that contain viruses, corrupted files or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer;

(2.6.5) Delete any author attributions, legal notices or proprietary designations or labels in any file that is uploaded;

(2.6.6) Falsify the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded;

(2.6.7) Advertise or offer to sell any goods or services, or conduct or forward surveys, contests or chain letters, or download any file posted by another Visitor of a Forum that the Visitor knows, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner.

(2.7) The Visitor acknowledges that some interactive services are public and not private. Further, the Visitor acknowledges that chats, postings, conferences, e-mails and other communications by other Visitors are not endorsed by the CEB, and that such communications shall not be considered to have been reviewed, screened or approved by the CEB. The CEB reserves the right to remove, for any reason and without notice, any content submitted by its Visitors.

3. Preservation of Immunities

(3.1) Nothing herein shall constitute or be considered to be a limitation upon or a waiver of the privileges and immunities of CEB, which are specifically reserved.

4. General

(4.1) The CEB reserves its exclusive right in its sole discretion to alter, limit or discontinue the Site or any Materials in any respect. The CEB shall have no obligation to take the needs of any Visitor into consideration in connection therewith.

(4.2) The CEB reserves the right to deny in its sole discretion any Visitor access to this Site or any portion thereof without notice.

(4.3) No waiver by the CEB of any provision of these Terms and Conditions shall be binding except as set forth in writing and signed by its duly authorized representative.

5. Official Documents

(5.1) Official documents published on this site are unofficial copies, provided for informational purposes only.

6. Country and Area Nomenclature

(6.1) The designations employed and the presentation of Material in the Site do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the CEB and its members concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The term “country” as used in this Material also refers, as appropriate, to territories or areas.

(6.2) The depiction and use of boundaries, geographic names and related data shown on maps and included in lists, tables, documents, and databases on this web site are not warranted to be error free nor do they necessarily imply official endorsement or acceptance by the CEB or its member organizations.

(6.3) The designations “developed”, “developing” regions and economies “in transition” are intended for statistical and analytical convenience and do not necessarily express a judgement about the stage reached by a particular country or area in the development process.

All other site disclaimers apply.

Disclaimers

This website is maintained by CEB Secretariat.

In addition to presenting its own content, this website serves as a portal to web sites of the United Nations, its funds and programmes, and specialized agencies. It also includes links to key projects and initiatives and to various joint programmes of the UN System. These web sites are administered by their respective organizational units. Questions and/or comments regarding them should be addressed directly to their appropriate site administrator using the contact form provided.

All information presented on this website is offered for general information and navigation purposes only. CEB assumes no liability for the accuracy of information provided. Some content is sourced by third parties and, therefore, may not necessarily reflect the opinion of the CEB nor its membership. This website is maintained by CEB Secretariat.

In line with established Internet usage, any external web site may provide a hyperlink to the CEB web site or to any of its pages without requesting permission. However this use must not infringe CEB's intellectual property rights, in particular relating to its name, emblem, copyright or authors' rights. The UN emblem may not be used in providing a link.

A link to the CEB web site must be used for information only, and not for the promotion of any organisation, product or service. A link to the CEB web site does not, and should not, imply any association between CEB and the owner of the linking site. Hyperlinks to the UN System web site should direct to the CEB homepage page or to complete pages that can be reached via navigation from the CEB home page. Links should not be made to an individual constituent of a page, for example text, picture or graphic. Our preference is that links should not be made direct to files that are available for download, for example pdf files, but to the web page from where you are able to download the files.

Third Party Content

Links from the CEB website are not to be interpreted as an endorsement by CEB of content on the site to which the link leads. CEB does not normally provide such links unless there is a clear association with CEB or UN System activities. CEB accepts no responsibility for the validity or accuracy of content posted on websites to which it links.

This principle extends to include content that is aggregated from UN system organizations and related entities and presented on the CEB website. Third-party content aggregated on the CEB website is published automatically and without editorial intervention. CEB Secretariat is not responsible for the accuracy of third-party content published on the CEB website.

Likewise, the publishing of content aggregated from Social Media platforms does not imply the endorsement of the CEB nor its member organizations of the content posted. Content of this nature is provided as a navigational aid only.

Maps

The designations employed and the presentation of material on this website do not imply the expression of any opinion on the part of the Secretariat of the Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) concerning the legal status of any country, territory, area, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The term “country” as used in this Material also refers, as appropriate, to territories or areas.

The depiction and use of boundaries, geographic names and related data shown on the map and included in lists, tables, documents, and databases on this web site are not warranted to be error free nor do they necessarily imply official endorsement or acceptance by the CEB or its member organizations. CEB is not accountable for the data and can not guarantee that they are correct, accurate or comprehensive. Member organizations are not accountable for any data presented on this page.

Privacy

Visitors are not asked to provide any personally identifiable information to access the Site. Visitors may be asked to share their email address to subscribe to email alerts or when seeking contact with CEB Secretariat. In this event, the CEB Secretariat will store this information securely and will not share, rent or sell it to anyone other than CEB member organizations.

By accessing the Site, certain information such as Internet protocol (IP) addresses, navigation through the Site, the browser used and the time spent, along with other similar information, will be stored on our servers and on a third party analytics software.  This information is treated confidentially. The purpose of this data collection is to understand better the preferences of the CEB website visitors and improve their experience on our pages. This information is never connected with any personal information that visitors supply to us if they register on the CEB website.

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