Terms and conditions of use:
The use of the website of the European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA) is governed by the following terms and conditions. By accessing this website these terms and conditions are accepted by the user of the website.
Copyright notice:
Unless otherwise stated, all information including but not limited to text, data, images, screens, web pages or other materials (hereinafter referred to as the "Materials") displayed on this website are the exclusive property of ECTA or other respective owners as indicated. In case Materials from this site are copied, copying being restricted for personal or educational use only, each copy has to include any copyright or trade mark notice as they are displayed on the copied pages. Other use of the Materials (by e.g. copying, displaying, download, modifying etc) for public or commercial purposes is prohibited unless expressly foreseen in these terms and conditions or with the prior written permission of ECTA. Nothing on this site shall be construed as conferring any license of any intellectual property rights, whether by estoppels, implication or otherwise.
Trade mark notice:
ECTA is the owner of the figurative Community Trade Mark ECTA N° 2. All other trade marks appearing in the website’s pages are the property of their respective owners and are used solely to refer to those owners’ goods and services. The use of the ECTA figurative trade mark without express prior written consent of ECTA is not authorized. If you wish to use ECTA’s trade mark or copyright please contact:
ECTA - European Communities Trade Mark Association
Anne-Laure Covin Legal Co-ordinator
18-24 Rue des Colonies
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Disclaimers of warranties:
ECTA does not warrant the uninterrupted or error-free function of this website or that this website will be free of viruses or other harmful elements. ECTA does also not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information provided on this website. In cases where this website contains third party’s information, ECTA does not warrant their accuracy of completeness. Please seek professional advice before basing business or legal decisions upon information from this website. Country specific laws and regulations may apply. Limitation of liability: Neither ECTA nor any of its Management Committee members and of its employees can be held liable for any kind of damages arising out of or in connection with the use of this website or any information contained herein.
Links:
Websites being accessed by links on this website are not under the control of ECTA. ECTA is therefore not responsible for the content of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site and using the links is at the users’ own risk. ECTA may not be held liable for any kind of damages arising out of the use of such links. For more information please refer to the ECTA’s website linking policy.
Privacy policy:
Please refer to the ECTA’s website privacy policy.
Governing law:
These terms and conditions will be governed by the laws of Belgium and any conflicts arising out of these terms and conditions are under the sole jurisdiction of the court of Brussels.
Complete agreement:
These terms and conditions represent the entire understanding relating to the use of the website. ECTA reserves the right to revise these terms and conditions at any time without notice.
Inquiries:
Thank you for visiting www.ecta.eu. Should you have any questions concerning any of our policies, we ask you to contact the Secretariat at ecta ecta.eu.
ECTA may at its own discretion provide links from its website to other websites. By doing so ECTA cannot be held responsible for the contents of such linked sites or any link contained in a linked site. All links are solely provided as a support to our website users and do not mean that these links are in any way endorsed or recommended by ECTA. Linking from ECTA’s website to any other website is done at users own risk.
In case you are of the opinion that a link on ECTA’s website or any linked website be objectionable for any reason, a request that the link be removed from ECTA’s website should be sent to the Secretariat at ecta ecta.eu. It is in ECTA’s sole discretion to remove such link(s).
Links from ECTA’s website to users’ websites:
In case you want to have a link installed on ECTA’s website to your own website, please let us know by sending an email to the Secretariat at ecta ecta.eu including your name, your company name, contact details and the URL of the site ECTA’s link should be directed at. It is in ECTA’s sole discretion to allow such link or to uphold such link.
Links from users’ websites to ECTA’s website:
In case you want to establish a link from your own website to ECTA’s website the following policy applies. Please send an email with your request to the Secretariat at ecta ecta.eu including your name, your company name, contact details and the URL of your website as well as the URL(s) of ECTA’s website(s) you intend to link to. It is in ECTA’s sole discretion to allow such link. Such link may be granted under the following terms and conditions:
- Such links may be set-up by using the ECTA’s acronym or ECTA’s full name ("European Communities Trade Mark Association") but do not include the ECTA’s figurative trade mark.
- Such links maybe directed to ECTA’s home page or any other page permitted by ECTA.
- In no way any rights other as the ones mentioned above will be granted to users. In particular, ownership of the ECTA’s trade mark remains with ECTA.
- Such links must not create the impression that ECTA is in any way linked to the owner of the website the link is originating.
- ECTA shall have no responsibility or liability for any content appearing on your website. You agree to indemnify and defend ECTA against all claims arising out of or based upon your website.
- In no way any such link is permitted containing content or materials that may be interpreted as libellous, obscene or criminal, or which infringes, otherwise violates, or advocates the infringement or other violation of, any third party rights.
- ECTA reserves the right at any time and in its sole discretion to request removal of any or all links to ECTA’s website from your site.
All such above link is granted by ECTA in form of a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license. Any other use of ECTA’s trade mark for any other reason is not allowed unless expressly permitted in written form. This license may be terminated by ECTA at any time without giving reason. Upon termination all links to the ECTA website will be immediately removed by the user.
By using the ECTA website, you accept our privacy policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use this site. ECTA respects your concerns regarding privacy and will protect your personal information. Please read this policy carefully and regularly since changes to this policy may needed from time to time.
Online information gathering:
This website may collect two types of information namely:
Personally identifiable information:
Such information indicates to ECTA details about who you are, such as your name or addresses and/or information about your views and preferences as they relate to issues regarding this website. The choice of what of your personally identifiable information is disclosed to ECTA is at your discretion only. The only way we know something about you is when you use a personalized service, such as the “Members” area, or you voluntarily disclose your information such as addresses, phone or fax numbers, credit card numbers or other personal and financial information. Some of this information may become available to other members or to the public. You should be aware that by voluntarily disclosing such information that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from others. Please note that if you are an active member of ECTA, you may have been assigned a membership id and password to be used for accessing the “Members” area of our site. This information is maintained by ECTA and is used solely to allow you to access the “Members” area.
Anonymous information:
Such information cannot be linked to a specific individual. By using ECTA’s website certain data are collected and stored for statistical reasons including but not limited to the number of users of the website, the requests for particular files, the server locations for such requests. Such statistical data are used for internal purposes of ECTA but may also be provided to others.
Non-disclosure:
ECTA does not provide your personally identifiable information to marketers. In cases of ECTA being required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide personally identifiable information ECTA will provide this information but only to an appropriate extent.
Links:
Links from our website to other sites are checked from time to time but final and continuous control of the contents on such linked sites cannot be guaranteed. All links are solely provided as a support to our website users and do not mean that these links are in any way endorsed or recommended by ECTA. For more information please refer to the ECTA’s website linking policy
Cookies:
Cookies are unique identification number assigned by ECTA’s server to your browser and stored in a file on your computer. Cookies by themselves cannot be used to find out the identity of any user but to identify the browser to our computers whenever you interact on our website.
COPYRIGHT PERMISSIONS
Any request to make use of any ECTA specific content should be emailed to the Secretariat at ecta ecta.eu including:
- Title;
- Author or section;
- Citation for the article;
- Specific purpose of the reprint;
- Approximate number of distribution copies.
You will receive a reply to your request by the appropriate body within ECTA.