Solution Exchange - Terms and Conditions for Membership
Solution Exchange is a voluntary Knowledge Management Platform initiated by the United
Nations Country Team in Bhutan designed to enable individuals working in the
development sector to share useful knowledge, best practices and learn from each other in
a spirit of collaboration.
Your use of the Solution Exchange website and /or your membership to the Solution
Exchange mail-group is governed by the following terms and conditions.
You hereby agree that to become a member of the Solution Exchange network, you have
read, understood and agree to comply with the terms and conditions of membership.
Membership to the mail-group within the Solution Exchange is available only to individuals,
and not to organizations.
1. Registration and Membership
1.1 This agreement binds all registered members of Solution Exchange, and to the
extent applicable, to all general users of the Solution Exchange website.
1.2 Some or all of the pages on the Solution Exchange website may be accessed only
by use of a password, which will be provided to you after registration. The
information supplied by you in connection with your registration is subject to
Solution Exchange’s privacy policy. You agree not to share your password with
anyone and to take reasonable care to protect your password from unauthorized
disclosure. You agree promptly to report to the Moderator of Solution Exchange any
known, suspected, or anticipated compromise of your password.
1.3 In the event that you are employed by an organization, you hereby warrant that
you are authorized under the terms of your employment or contract to enter into
this agreement.
1.4 Solution Exchange may amend these terms and conditions at any time simply by
posting an amended version on this site and may make any amendment effective as
it deems appropriate. It is your responsibility regularly to review these terms and
conditions and to acquaint yourself with any changes. If you do not agree with
these terms and conditions, do not participate in Solution Exchange.
1.5 Registration or usage of the site constitutes an irrevocable waiver of any claim
that you did not read, understand, or agree to these terms and conditions.
2. Rights and Obligations of Membership to Solution Exchange
2.1 By registering as a member with Solution Exchange and by agreeing to the terms
and conditions, you will be entitled to participate in the Solution Exchange
Knowledge Sharing Network.
2.2 Only members shall be entitled to post queries to the mail-group, whose
moderator shall at their absolute discretion forward the query to the entire mailgroup.
Members shall also be entitled to reply to queries in the form of sharing their
experiences, examples, insights, best practices, offering suggestions and providing
additional knowledge and / or information and resources.
2.3 Solution Exchange hereby reserves the absolute right of editorial discretion in the
creation of a compilation of relevant answers known as a “Consolidated Reply”
which shall then be posted to on the Network and retained on Solution Exchange’s
website.
3. Copyright
3.1 In keeping with the spirit of voluntary information exchange, all materials and
information available in Solution Exchange shall be governed by the terms and
conditions laid out in the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share
Alike Agreement Ver. 2.5 (“Creative Commons License”). The Creative Commons
license grants all users the right to use, distribute, modify and redistribute the
information, for non-commercial purposes, and provided that adequate credit is
given to the author of the work.
3.2 Any person posting either a query or a reply, or any other information to the site
shall retain their copyright over such information, but explicitly agree that by
posting any information to Solution Exchange, the information is licensed under the
terms and conditions of a Creative Commons License.
3.3 It shall be the duty and obligation of every member posting either a query or a
reply to read and understand the Creative Commons license, and your participation
and/ or use of the site shall imply that you have read and agreed to be bound by
the Creative Commons license, in relation to any material or information posted by
you.
3.4 In the event that any member has a doubt about the terms and conditions laid
down by the Creative Commons license it shall be his/ her duty to ensure that they
seek a legal opinion or clarification about the same. All the terms and conditions of
the Creative Commons license shall be construed as being supplemental to this
agreement and shall be interpreted harmoniously with this agreement.
3.5 In the event that Solution Exchange uses any material or information posted by
any member it shall provide adequate credit to the member. Members also agree
that Solution Exchange will invest a lot of skill and judgment and value in creating
the Consolidated Reply, and shall accordingly be the owner of the copyright in the
Consolidated Reply.
3.6 In the event that any member uses or distributes any Consolidated Reply in its
totality, it shall provide Solution Exchange full credit in the manner prescribed by
Solution Exchange. Specifically, Re-users of this material must cite as their source
Solution Exchange as well as the item’s recommender, if relevant, and must share
any derivative work with the Solution Exchange
4. Obligations of Members
4.1 Members agree that Solution Exchange is designed to provide you and other
members an opportunity to exchange ideas and information. By posting or
submitting material to Solution Exchange, you represent that you have all
necessary rights in and to such material and that such material will not infringe on
any personal or proprietary rights of any third parties. You hereby agree to
authorize the right to view, use, and distribute such material in any manner and in
any medium, in perpetuity and as per Clause 3 of this agreement.
4.2 Members agree that they shall not post, transmit, or otherwise distribute on or
through this site any material that may be unlawful, obscene, offensive,
defamatory, threatening, or infringing of any copyright or other rights of others.
4.3 Members may not post, transmit or otherwise distribute any virus, worm, or other
code that may be damaging to software or hardware.
4.4 Members may not advertise or solicit on these pages without Solution Exchange’s
express permission.
4.5 If you breach any of these terms and conditions, you are obligated to hold
Solution Exchange harmless from, and to indemnify it against all liabilities and costs
of any and every sort resulting from your breach.
4.6 Solution Exchange reserves the right to remove any content from the site at any
time, for any reason (including, but not limited to, upon receipt of claims or
allegations from third parties or authorities relating to such content or if Solution
Exchange is concerned that user may have breached the immediately preceding
sentence).
5. Representations, Warranties and Disclaimers
5.1 All members of the Solution Exchange hereby expressly agree that Solution
Exchange is a voluntary platform for sharing knowledge of different individuals, and
is not intended to provide prescriptive advice or consultancy services. The
knowledge that is shared or made available on the site shall not be construed
directly or indirectly as prescriptive advice or consultancy.
5.2 While Solution Exchange shall use all reasonable endeavours to ensure that the
information available in the Consolidated Reply is accurate and useful, it shall not
be liable for any loss or suffering caused as a result of relying on such information.
5.3 Members agree that Solution Exchange will not be able to monitor, verify or
endorse all information or material submitted as a query or a reply, by any
member. Members should therefore be aware that such information may be
inaccurate, incomplete or out of date.
5.4 We hereby disclaim all warranties and representations (whether express or
implied) as to the accuracy of any information contained on the website or posted
through a Consolidated Reply. We do not guarantee that such information will be
fault free and do not accept liability for any errors or omissions.
5.5 In no event shall Solution Exchange be liable for any loss of profit, revenues,
goodwill, opportunity, business, anticipated savings or other indirect or
consequential loss of any kind in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise
arising out of use of either the website or information posted in the Consolidated
Reply. The subscriber acknowledges that use of the data requires the subscriber to use
of its own skill and judgment.
5.6 Solution Exchange disclaims all liability for any losses suffered or claims arising
from an inability to access the website for any reason whatsoever.
5.7 All members warrant that they have all the necessary skill and judgment required to
understand the information and material available on the website or posted to them,
and undertake at all times to exercise their own judgment in the use of such
information and shall be solely liable for all decision, opinions, recommendations,
forecasts or comments made or any action taken in reliance on such information.
5.8 The ideas and information posted by members and used by Solution Exchange in
its Consolidated Reply do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of Solution
Exchange.
5.9 Solution Exchange reserves the absolute right, which it may or may not exercise,
to review, edit, or delete any material that it deems to be inappropriate or in
violation of these terms and conditions. It further has the absolute right, in its sole
discretion, to deny or to withdraw access to anyone who violates these terms and
conditions.
5.10 Solution Exchange may provide through the site or the Consolidated Reply
hypertext links to other internet sites. By providing or permitting such a linking
service, Solution Exchange is not undertaking any responsibility or liability for any
third party information or publications available on the internet, even if accessed
through Solution Exchange.
5.11 Members agree that these links are being provided as a convenience and for
informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval
by Solution Exchange of any of the products, services or opinions of the corporation
or organization or individual. Solution Exchange bears absolutely no responsibility
for the accuracy, legality or content of the external site or for that of subsequent
links. It shall be the obligation of the member to contact the external site for any
clarifications or answers to questions regarding its content.
5.12 In the event that any members redistribute any Consolidated Reply or any part
thereof, it shall be their duty to inform all third parties about the terms and
conditions that apply to such information from this agreement as well as those
arising out of the creative commons license.
5.13 Members hereby represent that they shall not post any information or idea for
which they intend to seek a patent. Members warrant that they are aware that in
the event that they do post any such information, it may be construed as prior
publication for the purpose of patent law, thereby affecting their chances of being
granted a patent.
6. Miscellaneous
6.1 Solution Exchange may impose limits on certain features and services or restrict
user's access to parts or all of the services without notice or liability.
6.2 Solution Exchange shall not be liable in any way for failure, interruption, delay or any
other matters of the nature whatsoever arising out of war, rebellion, civil commotion,
strikes, lock-outs and industrial disputes; fire, explosion, earthquake, acts of god,
flood, drought or bad weather; the failure of the system or the equipment or software;
interruption to the data or problems associated with transmission or access by/to the
system; the unavailability of material, information or data for or to update the
database, system or software.
6.3 In the event that any or any part of the terms, conditions or provisions contained in
this agreement is be determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or
unenforceable to any extent, such term, condition or provision shall to that extent be
severed from the remaining terms and conditions which shall continue to be valid and
enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.
6.4 Members hereby agree that Solution Exchange shall not have any special
relationship of agency with, or any fiduciary duty to the Member or User. Members
and Users acknowledge that they shall not be entitled to use any Trademark, any
sign or symbol of Solution Exchange without the prior written permission of
Solution Exchange, except to provide credit while using or distributing any material
or information, as mandated by this agreement.