Terms of Service
Climate Reporting Toolkit Visitor Agreement
Effective Date: April 1, 2024
Welcome to climatereporting.net (the “Website”), a service of The China-Global South Project (“CGSP,” “our,” “us,” or “we”). This Visitor Agreement is a binding legal agreement between you and The China-Global South Project. Please read this Visitor Agreement carefully. This Visitor Agreement includes disclaimers of warranties and liabilities and limitations on your rights. By accessing the Website (including by automated means), you accept all terms of this Visitor Agreement.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
The China-Global South Project respects your privacy. Please take a moment to review our Privacy Statement so you understand what information we collect through the Website, how we use it, how we secure it, and when we may share it. This Visitor Agreement incorporates our Privacy Statement by reference.
The web is an evolving medium. If we need to change the terms of this Visitor Agreement in the future, we will post the revised Visitor Agreement on the Website and update the “Last Updated” date above to reflect the date of the changes. By continuing to use the Website after we post such changes, you agree to the terms of this Visitor Agreement, as modified.
The China-Global South Project provides access to articles from independent writers. In addition, The China-Global South Project serves as a platform for exclusive editorial content from respected regional experts.
We reserve the right to deny access to the Website, or any service provided via the Website, to anyone who violates this Visitor Agreement or who, in our judgment, interferes with the ability of others to enjoy the Website, or infringes the rights of others. We may change, restrict access to, suspend, or discontinue the Website, or any portion of the Website, at any time. We may determine, in our discretion, that The China-Global South Project will comply with local laws and regulations that may or may not be applicable to us. Our contributors, in their discretion, may do the same.
The Website is provided to you on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We disclaim all responsibility for the availability, timeliness, security, or reliability of the Website or any feature or software included on the Website.
Please bring to our attention any material on the Website that you believe to be inaccurate. Please forward a copy of the material to our Editor-in-Chief Eric Olander eric@chinaglobalsouth.com along with an explanation of your objection.
From time to time, we may include on the Website photographs taken by others, including photographs we’ve found on social media sites, that we believe may be of interest to visitors to The China-Global South Project. If you are the owner of copyright in a photograph displayed on the Website and you’d prefer that we remove it, please send an email to our Editor-in-Chief Eric Olander eric@chinaglobalsouth.com including a description of the photograph and a link to the page within the Website on which it’s displayed.
If you have other comments or questions about the Website, please email the Editor-in-Chief Eric Olander directly at eric@chinaglobalsouth.com.
HOW YOU MAY USE WEBSITE CONTENT
The China-Global South Project is made available for your personal, noncommercial use only. All content and other material on the Website is the property of The China-Global South Project and/or its licensors and is protected by U.S. copyright laws, other copyright laws, and international conventions. Except as explicitly provided in this Visitor Agreement, you may not distribute, display, reproduce, perform, create derivative works from, or otherwise exploit any of the content or other material on the Website. You may display and occasionally print or store a single copy of an individual page of the Website for your personal use provided that you keep intact all credits and copyright and other proprietary notices, but you may not otherwise reproduce, store or distribute copies of any content or other material found on the Website, in any form (including electronic form), without prior written permission from the copyright owner. For information about requesting permission to reproduce or distribute materials from the Website, please contact Editor-in-Chief Eric Olander at eric@chinaglobalsouth.com.
You are free to establish a hypertext link to the Website so long as the link does not state or imply that we sponsor, endorse, or are affiliated with you or your website. However, you may not, without our prior written permission, frame or inline link any of the content of the Website, or incorporate into another website or other service any of the content or other material you find on the Website.
REGISTRATION
To receive our newsletters, you will be required to provide your email address. Some content and newsletters are available only to Registered Users of the Website. To register for access to this content, you will need to create a username and password and provide some basic demographic information.
Our use of any information you provide to us or that we gather while you’re visiting the Website is governed by the terms of our Privacy Statement.
You agree to provide accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by our registration forms. You may not sell, share or otherwise transfer your registration information. You may cancel your newsletter subscription at any time by visiting your unique profile management page, a link is found on the bottom of every email newsletter we send you.
We reserve the right to reject or terminate use of any username that we deem inappropriate. You responsible for all activities (whether by you or by others) that occur under your username. If you believe your account or password has been compromised, you should contact Editor-in-Chief Eric Olander immediately at eric@chinaglobalsouth.com.
NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
If you are a copyright owner who believes your copyrighted material has been reproduced, posted or distributed on the Website in a manner that constitutes copyright infringement, please inform our designated copyright agent by sending written notice by U.S. Mail to The China-Global South Project, 625 Kenmoor Avenue, Suite 301, PMB 95914, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49546-2395. Please include the following information in your written notice: (1) a detailed description of the copyrighted work that is allegedly infringed; (2) a description of the location of the allegedly infringing material on the Website; (3) your contact information, including your address, telephone number, and, if available, email address; (4) a statement by you indicating that you have a good-faith belief that the allegedly infringing use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; (5) a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, affirming that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf; and (6) an electronic or physical signature of the copyright owner or someone authorized on the owner’s behalf to assert infringement of copyright and to submit the statement. Please note that the contact information provided in this paragraph is for suspected copyright infringement only. Contact information for other matters is provided elsewhere in this Visitor Agreement or on the Website.
TRADEMARKS AND SERVICE MARKS
THE CHINA-GLOBAL SOUTH PROJECT is the service marks of The China-Africa Project. The names of other products and services referred to on the Website may be the trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. You may not use any trademark or service mark appearing on the Website without the prior written consent of the owner of the mark.
DISCLAIMERS
Throughout the Website, we have provided links and pointers to websites maintained by third parties. Our linking to such third-party websites does not imply that we endorse or sponsor such websites, or the information, products or services offered on or through the websites. We do not operate or control any information, products or services that third parties may provide on or through the Website or on websites to which we link.
You expressly agree that use of the Website is at your own risk. The information, products and services offered on or through the Website are provided “as is” and without warranties of any kind either express or implied. We do not warrant or make any representations regarding use or the results of use of the Website or materials on the Website or any information or content made available on or via the Website in terms of their correctness, accuracy, timeliness, reliability or otherwise. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. We do not warrant that the Website or any of its functions will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that any part of the Website, including public posting areas, or the servers that make the Website available, are free of viruses or other harmful components.
Your interactions with companies, organizations and/or individuals found on or through the Website, including any purchases, transactions, or other dealings, and any terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such companies, organizations and/or individuals. You agree that we will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings. You also agree that, if there is a dispute between users of the Website, or between a user and any third party, we are under no obligation to become involved, and you agree to release us and our parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and each of our and their respective directors, officers, managers, employees, shareholders, agents, representatives, licensors, successors and assigns, from any claims, demands and damages of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, disclosed or undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such dispute and/or the Website.
If you are dissatisfied with the Website, or any materials, products, or services on the Website, or with any of the Website’s terms and conditions, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Website.
LIMITIATIONS OF LIABILITY
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE, WILL WE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR ANY INFORMATION, CONTENT, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES MADE AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF WE ARE ADVISED BEFOREHAND OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, OUR LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY STATE LAW.
INDEMNIFICATION
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless us and affiliates, and each of our and their respective directors, officers, managers, employees, shareholders, agents, representatives, licensors, successors and assigns from and against any and all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, that arise out of your use of the Website, any information or content that is posted or submitted via the Website by you or by others using your account, violation of this Visitor Agreement by you or any other person using your account, or your violation of any rights of another. We reserve the right to control the defense of any claim for which we are entitled to indemnification under this section. In such event, you agree to provide us with such cooperation as is reasonably requested by us. We will make reasonable efforts to provide you with notice of any such claim, but our failure to provide such notice will not relieve you of these obligations.
MISCELLANEOUS
This Visitor Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between us and you with respect to the subject matter of this agreement and supersedes all previous and contemporaneous agreements, proposals and communications on this subject, whether written or oral. This Visitor Agreement is personal to you, is not intended to benefit any third party, and does not create any third-party beneficiaries. You may not assign this Visitor Agreement to anyone.
Our failure to enforce any terms of this Visitor Agreement or to respond to a breach by you or other parties shall not in any way waive our rights to enforce subsequently any terms of this Visitor Agreement or to act with respect with similar breaches.
We control and operate the Website from servers based in the United States of America. We do not represent that the content and other materials on the Website are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Persons who choose to access or use the Website from other locations do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.
This Visitor Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United States, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action that you may have arising out of or related to use of the Website or this Visitor Agreement must be filed by you within one year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred. If any portion of this Visitor Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed to reflect, as nearly as possible, the original intention of the parties, and the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect.