The NATO MP COE Terms of Use
1. CONSENT:
a) The website www.mpcoe.org is the official website of the NATO Military Police Centre of Excellence (the “NATO MP COE”). The NATO MP COE administers this Website to make information available to the public.
b) By accessing this website, including without limitation to its related pages or any other content (collectively known as the “NATO MP COE Website” or “Website”), you (the “User”) are agreeing to the following Terms of Use (known as “Terms”). If you do not agree to these Terms, you are not authorized to use the Website and should immediately terminate such usage.
c) The NATO COE reserves the right, at its discretion, to change or modify all or any part of the Website at any time, including but not limited to the Terms and/or content of the Website. The Terms may be updated from time to time without notice. Your continued use of this Website constitutes your binding consent for any such changes to the Terms of Use. If at any time the Terms are no longer acceptable to you, you should immediately cease all use of the NATO MP COE Website.
2. PRIVACY POLICY
a) This Website contains links to other external websites over which the NATO MP COE does not exercise control. The NATO MP is not liable or responsible for the content, opinions, or policies of third party websites. It is your responsibility to access and abide by the policies and terms of any third party websites.
b) Your privacy is very important to us. NATO MP COE reserves the right to gather and process all personal data of users that communicate or interact in any way (either through the website or otherwise) with the Centre. Personal data process takes place in accordance with NATO MP COE’s Data Protection Procedures.
Accordingly, we have developed this personal data protection general principles in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate and disclose and make use of personal information. The following outlines our privacy policy.
- Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the specific purposes for which information is being collected.
- We will collect and use personal information solely with the objective of fulfilling those purposes specified by us and for other compatible purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
- The processing of personal data shall be limited to the minimal amount necessary to achieve the specific purposes.
- We will only retain personal information as long as necessary for the fulfillment of the specific purposes.
- We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
- Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
- We will protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles, in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.
3. COPYRIGHT POLICY
Unless noted otherwise, all Materials of the Website are protected by copyright belonging to the NATO MP COE. All rights are reserved.
The content of the Website, including but not limited to the text, graphics and files (known as the “Content”) must not be reproduced, copied, distributed, transmitted, broadcasted, sold, licensed, or exploited in any way without the prior written permission of the NATO MP COE. This restriction does not apply to:
- creating digital or hard copies of the Content for internal use within the NATO MP COE, and
- for personal or educational use providing it is non-profit and non-commercial and the source of information is mentioned.
4. USER CONDUCT AND CONTENT
a) The NATO MP COE is a multinational entity designed to provide independent analysis and views on specific issues. The views expressed here do not represent the views of NATO. The NATO MP COE website contains only non-sensitive information on the institution itself, its ongoing courses and related topics.
b) The NATO MP COE may correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions found within the Website, Content, or User Submissions at any time without prior notice.
c) The NATO MP COE reserves the absolute right, in its sole discretion, to pre-screen, refuse, correct, edit, move, or remove any material posted to or submitted via the Website without notice to any party.
5. INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
The NATO MP COE reserves the right to access, read, preserve and disclose information that is reasonably necessary to:
- enforce the Terms, including investigation of potential violations hereof;
- detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues;
- respond to user support requests;
- protect the rights, property or safety of the NATO MP COE, its users and the public; or
- respect any applicable local laws.
6. TRADEMARKS
References to other parties’ trademarks on this Website are solely for identification purposes and do not imply endorsement by those parties of this Website or its content. These Terms of Use do not provide any rights to use the trademarks of other parties.
Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use or as expressly authorized in writing by the relevant trademark owner, User shall not use NATO or NATO bodies’ logos or names either alone or in combination with other words or design elements, including in any press release, advertisement, or other promotional or marketing material or media, whether in written, oral, electronic, visual, or any other form.
7. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
No guarantees. The Materials available on this Website are provided “as is,” without any guarantees of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of completeness, merchantability, accuracy, timeliness, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. Without limiting the foregoing, it is not warranted that this website will be secure, error-free, free from viruses or malicious code, or will meet any particular criteria of performance or quality. Materials may periodically be added, changed, improved, or updated on the Website without prior notice.
Limitation of liability. Use of this Website is at the User’s own risk. The NATO MP COE shall not be held liable for any loss, damage, liability, or expense that is claimed to result from the use of this Website, including but not limited to any faults, errors, omissions, interruptions, or delays.
Advice, opinion, statement or other information use. This Website may include statements from various information sources. It is neither guaranteed nor endorsed the accuracy or reliability of any statement, or other information provided by any information source, other individual, entity or third party websites. User who relies on such statement or information do so at their own risk.
Hold harmless. As a condition for using this Website, the User agrees to hold harmless and indemnify the NATO MP COE from any and all actions, claims, losses, damages, liabilities, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) resulting from the User’s use of this Website.