These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of Transparency International – Lebanon (TI – LB) ‘s Transparent Hearts (TH)’s website located at: (Https://transparent-hearts.org/)
By accessing this website, we assume you accept these terms and conditions. Do not continue to use the TH platform if you do not agree to take all of the terms and conditions stated on this page.

The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Statement and Disclaimer Notice and all Agreements: , “You” and “Your” refers to you, the person log on this website and compliant to TI-LB’s terms and conditions or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the service as applicable “ TI-LB”, “Ourselves”, “We”, “Our” and “Us”, refers to Transparency International - Lebanon Beirut TI - LB “Party”, “Parties”, or “Us”, refers to both the person log on this website and ourselves. Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalization and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to same.

Lebanon.

Third-party Social Media Service means any services or content (including data, information, products or services) provided by a third-party that may be displayed, included or made available by the service. Website refers to Transparency International - Lebanon (TI-LB) accessible from: (Https://transparent-hearts.org/)

We employ the use of cookies. By accessing (Https://transparent-hearts.org/), you agree to use cookies in agreement with Transparency Lebanon TI - LB Privacy Policy.
Most interactive websites use cookies to let us retrieve the user's details for each visit. Cookies are used by our website to enable the functionality of certain areas to make it easier for people visiting our website. Third-party web sites or services may also use cookies.

You should be able to control how and whether cookies will be accepted by your web browser. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the "Help" section of the toolbar. If you reject our cookies, many functions and conveniences of this may not work properly.

When users come to our Site, we may track, collect and aggregate Non-Personal Information indicating, among other things, which pages of our Site were visited, the order in which they were visited, when they were visited, and which hyperlinks were "clicked." We also collect information from the URLs from which you linked to our Site. Collecting such information may involve logging the IP address, operating system and browser software used by each user of the Site. Although such information is not Personally Identifiable Information, we may be able to determine from an IP address a user's Internet Service Provider and the geographic location of his or her point of connectivity.

Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the different ways the TH uses the information that we gather.

1. We use Non-Personal Information to build higher quality, more useful services by performing statistical analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of our users, and by measuring demographics and interests regarding specific areas of our Site.


2. We use Personally Identifiable Information collected when you sign-up for our various email or update services to send you the messages in connection with the Site or an Online Course. We may also archive this information and/or use it for future communications with you.


3. Our operations and maintenance contractors may have limited access to your Personally Identifiable Information in the course of providing products or services to us. These contractors may include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, and/or content related to the operation and maintenance of the Site or the Online Course. Access to your Personally Identifiable Information by these contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the contractor to perform its limited function for us.


4. We may offer you the ability to receive updates either via email or by posting on portions of the Site only accessible to registered users. In order to subscribe to these services, you may be required to provide us with Personally Identifiable Information such as your name and email address.

For your convenience we may provide links to sites operated by organizations other than TI-LB ("Third Party Sites") that we believe may be of interest to you. We do not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to these Third-Party Sites without obtaining your consent. We do not endorse and are not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third-Party Sites. If you choose to click on a link to one of these Third-Party Sites, you should review the privacy policy posted on the other site to understand how that Third Party Site collects and uses your Personally Identifiable Information.

Https://transparent-hearts.org/ informs its users that many elements of the site:

1. Are protected by copyright legislation: this may include photographs, articles, reports, legal researches, studies, drawings, animated sequences, recordings in digital audio or video format, etc.;


2. And/or are protected by design legislation;


3. Are protected by trademark legislation (including the term “trademark” or by TI-LB’s logo or by its former LTA logo);


4. We may offer you the ability to receive updates either via email or by posting on portions of the Site only accessible to registered users. In order to subscribe to these services, you may be required to provide us with Personally Identifiable Information such as your name and email address.

As such, any reproduction, representation, use, adaptation, modification, incorporation, translation, marketing, partial or complete by any process and on any medium whatsoever (paper, digital, etc.) for any distribution anywhere must do subject to prior written authorization from TI-LB.

Unless otherwise stated, TI-LB and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material on the TH. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may access this from the TH for your own personal use subjected to restrictions set in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

1. Sell, rent or sub-license material from the TH;


2. Reproduce, duplicate or copy material from the TH;


3. Redistribute content from the TH.

Unless with our approval or for an TH academic purpose!

We may remove or edit inappropriate content or activity identified by or reported to us. We may separately suspend, disable, or terminate a user's access to all or part of the Services.

You also aren't allowed to:

1. Do anything that violates local, state, national, or international law or breaches any of your contractual obligations or fiduciary duties;


2. Share your password, let anyone besides yourself access your account, or do anything that might put your account at risk;


3. Attempt to access any other user's account;


4. Break or circumvent our authentication or security measures or otherwise test the vulnerability of our systems or networks, unless specifically authorized to do so;


5. Try to reverse engineer any portion of our Services;


6. Try to interfere with any user, host, or network, for example by sending a virus, overloading, spamming, or mail-bombing;


7. Use our Services to distribute malware;


8. Use our Services or any functionality of the platform for anything other than for completing online courses or for pedagogical purposes or uploading academic material;


9. Impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity;


10. Encourage or help anyone do any of the things on this list.

We reserve the right to suspend, disable, or terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe or are repeatedly charged with infringing the copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property rights of others.
If you believe in good faith that materials on the platform infringe your copyright, you may send us a notice requesting that the material be removed or access to it blocked.

The notice must include the following information:

1. The physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;


2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed (or, if multiple copyrighted works located on the platform are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works);


3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or the subject of infringing activity, and information reasonably sufficient to allow the TH to locate the material on the platform;


4. The name, address, telephone number, and email address (if available) of the complaining party;


5. A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;


6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Parts of this website offer an opportunity for users to post and exchange opinions and information in certain areas of the website Https://transparent-hearts.org/ TI-LB. Comments do not reflect the views and opinions of TI-LB, its agents and/or affiliates. Comments reflect the views and opinions of the person who post their views and opinions. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, Transparency Lebanon TI-LB shall not be liable for the Comments or for any liability, damages or expenses caused and/or suffered as a result of any use of and/or posting of and/or appearance of the comments and testimonies on this website.
Transparency Lebanon TI-LB reserves the right to monitor all Comments and to remove any Comments which can be considered inappropriate, offensive or causes breach of these Terms and Conditions.

You warrant and represent that:

1. You are entitled to post comments and testimonies on our website and have all necessary licenses and consents to do so;


2. The comments and testimonies do not invade any intellectual property right, including without limitation copyright, patent or trademark of any third party;


3. The comments and testimonies do not contain any defamatory, libelous, offensive, indecent or otherwise unlawful material which is an invasion of privacy;


4. The comments and testimonies will not be used to solicit or promote business, custom or present commercial activities or unlawful activity.

You hereby grant TI-LB a non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, edit and authorize others to use, reproduce and edit any of your Comments in any and all forms, formats or media.

Setting up a hypertext link to the Https://transparent-hearts.org/ site or to one of the projects associated with Https://transparent-hearts.org/ requires prior written authorization from Https://transparent-hearts.org/
In any case, Https://transparent-hearts.org/ cannot be held responsible for the content as well as the products or services offered on the sites to which the Https://transparent-hearts.org/ site may be linked by hypertext links or any other type of links.

All users participating in Content Offerings must agree to abide by the following code:

1. I will register for only one account, unless expressly permitted to register for additional accounts by the TH;


2. My answers to homework, quizzes, exams, projects, and other assignments will be my own work (except for assignments that explicitly permit collaboration);


3. I will not make solutions to homework, quizzes, exams, projects, and other assignments available to anyone else (except to the extent an assignment explicitly permits sharing solutions). This includes both solutions written by me, as well as any solutions provided by the course staff or others;


4. I will not engage in any other activities that will dishonestly improve my results or dishonestly improve or hurt the results of others.

Any violation of this code may result in your access to all or part of the Services being suspended, disabled, or terminated.

You should understand that when you upload any type of document on the digital library, we have the right to use it and post it and refer it, as well as the right to deny it.

You agree to use the Sites in accordance with all applicable laws. Further, you agree that you will not use the Site for organized partisan political activities. You further agree that you will not e-mail or post any of the following content (“Prohibited Content”) anywhere on the Site, or on any other TH computing resources:

1. Content that defames, harasses or threatens others;


2. Content that discusses illegal activities with the intent to commit such activities, or encourages others to commit such activities;


3. Content that infringes or misappropriates another's intellectual property rights, including, but not limited to, copyrights, trademarks or trade secrets;


4. Content that you do not have the right to disclose under contractual confidentiality obligations or fiduciary duties;


5. Material that contains obscene language or images;


6. Advertising, promotional materials, or any form of commercial solicitation;


7. Content that otherwise harms other users or visitors to the Sites;


8. Content that is otherwise unlawful or that violates any applicable local, state, national or international law.

Without prior approval and written permission, you may not create frames around our Webpages that alter in any way the visual presentation or appearance of our website.

If you find any link on our website that is offensive for any reason, you are free to contact and inform us any moment. We will consider requests to remove links but we are not obligated to or so or to respond to you directly.
We do not ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we promise to ensure that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up to date.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to our website and the use of this website. Nothing in this disclaimer will:

1. limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury;


2. limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;


3. limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law;


4. Exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

The limitations and prohibitions of liability set in this Section and elsewhere in this disclaimer: (a) are subject to the preceding paragraph; and (b) govern all liabilities arising under the disclaimer, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort and for breach of statutory duty.
As long as the website and the information and services on the website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

The laws of the Country shall govern this Terms and Your use of the Services. Your use of the Services may also be subject to other local, state, national, or international laws.

These Terms and Conditions may have been translated if we have made them available to you on our Service. You agree that the original English text shall prevail in the case of a dispute.

We reserve the right, at Our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material, we will make reasonable efforts to provide a notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.
By continuing to access or use Our Service after those revisions become effective, You agree to be bound by the revised terms. If You do not agree to the new terms, in whole or in part, please stop using the website and the Service.

We may terminate or suspend Your access immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if You breach these Terms and Conditions.
Upon termination, your right to use the Service will cease immediately.

For any additional questions, we suggest that you contact us by sending an email to the following transparency@transparency-lebanon.org