Terms of Service

TIDEX Terms of Service

Legal Notice

The TIDEX Platform - https://tidex.upf.edu/ - (hereinafter "TIDEX") is managed by the Interactive Technologies Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (“UPF” or “WE/US”) domiciled at Plaça de la Mercè, 10-12, Barcelona, Spain, with tax number (CIF) Q-5850017-D. For more information about the UPF, please see https://www.upf.edu/home and legal information at https://www.upf.edu/avis-legal.

Contact. Any questions regarding TIDEX, the Site, our services or these terms should be addressed via the tide-info@upf.edu e-mail address.

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General use of the website
By registering as an online learner and accessing and using this TIDEX website, you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these terms of service, privacy policy, and honour code, as defined below. If you do not understand or agree, you should not use the TIDEX platform. The TIDEX Platform is provided to you by the TIDE research group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, for the purpose of delivering online courses and digital resources. For the purpose of improving these services and functionalities, and analyzing and researching online learning and the learning related to the topics in the courses offered, TIDE also analyses use of the portal by registered users.	TIDEX is provided to you to deliver online courses.
Use of the TIDEX website and corresponding services by any user (“you” or “User”) entails full acceptance of these terms and any specific conditions published on the website. Accordingly, users are recommended to read carefully these terms and conditions and any instructions shown on the website each time they access the site.	By accessing the site, you agree to these terms.
We reserve the right to modify or delete at any time and without notice any content, services and information that are published in this website, as well as limit or modify these terms and conditions. Any modification will take effect as from the date of publishing and will bind any user accessing the page subsequent to publication. These terms may be saved and printed by the user using the "Print" function of the browser. Registered Users will be provided 30 days’ prior written notice of any change in these conditions, which will go into effect on the date stated in the notice, and they may cancel their registration at any time by contacting tide-info@upf.edu.	We may change these terms from time to time. We will notify registered users of any change.
Intellectual Property Rights
Independently of any free or open source software or content license that may apply to any works (as indicated in each case), and except for works that are in the public domain, all the elements of this website - including each individual work and the structure, arrangement and selection of those works - are covered by intellectual or industrial property rights. The rights in content, source code, form, design and name of the products, applications, tools, pages, brands, commercial names, logotypes, images, sounds and graphics, belong to, or have been granted to or are the object of a license in the name of, UPF. Authorship and the right to use these works in any manner, including reproduction, modification, distribution or public communication, are protected by Spanish or international regulations governing industrial and intellectual property.	The website and materials on TIDEX are protected by copyright laws.
User Account
Registration. To register for and participate in online courses on TIDEX, you must create an account by completing the corresponding form with your details and agreeing to these Terms. The passwords are confidential and it is therefore your responsibility to safeguard and ensure their correct use. You agree to notify us immediately upon learning of any unauthorised use of your Account or any other breach of security known to you. On confirmation of the account, you are granted a limited, revocable, non-exclusive and non-transferable license to use the TIDEX services in accordance with these Terms. The privacy policy applicable to personal data collected and processed by TIDEX is set out here.	To join online courses, you must register and create an account. Please read our privacy policy, which you must accept for registration
Term. The account will be activated and remain in force unless terminated by either us or you hereunder. You may cancel your account at any time. All cancellations should be addressed to our tide-info@upf.edu e-mail address. We may suspend or cancel your registration immediately in case of breach by you of these Terms, by written notice. We may provide you 7 days’ notice of termination in any other circumstance. On termination for any reason, your access to your account and all of its content will be disabled and your personal data will be deleted, except as maintained in backups (for back-up retrieval purposes only or for any legal contingency). The content you have posted to the site will be reviewed and, at your option, may be deleted or kept online.	Your account remains active, but we may suspend it if you breach these rules and your content may be removed.
Responsibility and Use. You are responsible for all activities undertaken under your account. You agree not to use the TIDEX account for any illegal or unauthorized purpose or any activity that infringes third party rights. Unless otherwise agreed in writing with us, you may not use the TIDEX platform for commercial purposes (note for clarification, we do not consider teaching in private or for-profit institutions a “commercial purpose”). You must not use the service in any manner that may deteriorate it or violate any laws (including but not limited to copyright laws). You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless to the fullest extent allowed by law regarding all matters related to your use of your TIDEX Account.	You are responsible for activity under your account, and you agree to comply with these terms and the law.
Security. You understand that the TIDEX account can be used for transmission of your content. We use encrypted communications (HTTPS). Please also note that your public profile and published content will be visible by third parties.	Transmissions to TIDEX over the Internet are encrypted.
Interactive services and User content
Your comments posted to the TIDEX are not moderated as regards their quality and appropriateness for the site. We do not control or supervise contributions made by users and other third parties to the web site, for example posts to a forum, comments, etc., except when required by applicable law or competent court or administrative decision or to remove spam and other irrelevant or harmful content. We do check from time to time for inappropriate or illegal content. If we spot any content we consider may be illegal or infringe these conditions, we will investigate and may immediately or later remove or block this content. If you spot any content you wish to flag as being inappropriate, illegal or in particular a breach of your rights (copyright, personal rights, etc.), then please contact us at tide-info@upf.edu. And we will investigate. This may mean sending your flag to the poster of the contested content, with details (but without indicating your name or user account)	We do not review the learning designs and comments posted to the site, but the community does, and may notify us.
All content, announcement, comment, opinion, declaration or recommendation made within the interactive services shall exclusively be attributable to the User/s expressing such points of view. In no circumstances shall such announcements, comments, opinions, declarations or recommendations be attributable to TIDEX, which will be held harmless by the User from any claims that may arise in relation to such User using these interactive services for the purposes prohibited in these terms or otherwise by law.	Only you are responsible for your posted content.
We reserve the right to eliminate or block access at any time any content or contribution that infringes or may infringe these conditions, or prevent the reproduction or public communication of any content/contribution until proof is provided of ownership of the material provided or the legality of the contribution. In particular, and for precautionary purposes, TIDEX may eliminate or suspend publication of such content when any contribution is reported to be illegal, infringe third party rights or not be sufficiently documented (without prejudice to TIDEX’s right to retain and keep on file internally a copy of the content in question while the legal situation is being verified and for the duration that is prescribed by law).	We may remove content at any time if it breaches these rules.
We also reserve the right to exclude any user from the interactive services and to suspend or close his/her account without prior warning should the user breach any of these terms.	We may also exclude users who breach these rules.
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in the Interactive Services and User Content
Inbound (general content). Without prejudice, the posting or publication of messages, comments, descriptions, opinions, files or any other content to the website constitutes the grant in UPF’s favour (as operator of TIDEX) to use and exploit such content under the terms of the Creative Commons - BY 4.0 license.	You provide us your content (other than artifacts) under the CC-BY 4.0 content license.
Claims: Any claims notified to us by users in relation to infringements of intellectual or industrial property rights relating to any of the content contained on this web site must be sent to us via tide-info@upf.edu e-mail address.
Liabilities
We make no warranties about the User content provided through the TIDEX site, nor do we guarantee the user the continued availability of TIDEX platform or the supply of information or of the various services offered through it. As a result, users will not hold us liable for any damage or expense in the event of interruptions in the service, delays, malfunctions and, in general, any inconvenience whose origin lies in causes beyond the control of TIDEX.	We don’t warrant that all the data on the site is correct. We are not liable for information not posted by us on this site.
UPF does not assume any liability arising from (a) use made by the user of the content of TIDEX’s website and services; (b) the content and opinions published by third parties (including Users); (c) any activity that constitutes breach by the user or third parties of these terms; or (d) for any damages that may be caused to the users' equipment due to possible computer viruses contracted by the user in browsing the website or for any other damages incurred due to their browsing.	We are not liable for third party users’ behaviour on the site.
The User shall hold TIDEX harmless in the event of damages caused to third-parties as a result of the user's rightful or wrongful use of the products, services, contents or tools available on the website.	You will cover our costs caused by your incorrect behaviour.
UPF, as operator of TIDEX, will only be liable for loss or damages incurred by the user as a consequence of accessing the website or using the contents or tools on the platform when such damages are attributed to fraud or willful misconduct on the part of UPF.	We will only be liable for fraud or misconduct on our part.
We reserve the right to modify, replace, update, renew, impede or restrict access, interrupt, block, temporarily suspend or cancel definitively any service, supply of information or any other content, either with regard to a specific user or in general, in particular when notified by any third party or administrative or judicial authority of any actual or potential breach of third party rights. Any potential breach should be notified using our tide-info@upf.edu e-mail address.	We can change the site when we want and we will notify you.

HONOUR CODE

By enrolling in a TIDEX course or program, you agree that you will:

Complete all tests and assignments on your own, unless collaboration on an assignment is explicitly permitted.
Maintain only one user account.
Not let anyone else use your username and/or password.
Not engage in any activity that would dishonestly improve your results, or improve or hurt the results of others.
Not post answers to problems that are being used to assess learner performance.

UPF complies with the ALLEA - The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity and establishes certain community norms regarding content and behaviour on the TIDEX Platform. By using the TIDEX, you agree not to any of the following:

Post any material that is knowingly false, misleading, inaccurate or cannot be substantiated.
Post any material that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libellous, or otherwise objectionable.
Post material that is clearly outside of the scope of the materials posted on the site (learning designs) nor disrupt others’ use of the site by, for example, deliberately posting irrelevant material or copies of identical material.
Behave in an abusive manner, and nor harass, threaten, or attack anyone. If you disagree with someone's posting or comment, don't attack that person ... agree to disagree, respectfully
Use strong language and avoid terms and expressions that may offend others..
Use the site in a manner that adversely affects the availability of its resources to other users.
Use the site for commercial gain or to advertise your, or your organisation's, own services or products.
Collect or store any personally identifiable information from other members of the Service without their express permission nor use any other user’s personal data for any purposes other than contacting them for matters relating to the site, nor impersonate any other person or misrepresent your affiliation.
Encourage or enable any other individual to do any of the activities prohibited in these Terms of Service
Send any unsolicited or unauthorized spam, advertising messages, promotional materials, email, junk mail, chain letters or other form of solicitation
Avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, impair, descramble or otherwise circumvent any technological measure implemented by UPF or any of our providers or any other third party (including another user) to protect the Service
Access the Service by any means other than through interfaces provided by UPF and as otherwise expressly authorized under these Terms of Service

You should remember that you are legally responsible for what you write. By participating in a discussion you undertake to indemnify UPF against any liability arising from any obscene, defamatory, seditious, blasphemous or other actionable statement published by you, or any breach of confidentiality, copyright or other intellectual property rights, and against all damages, losses, claims and costs arising from any these actionable statements.

If asked by a UPF representative, you agree to cease posting any content deemed to breach these terms by the site’s moderators.

If you find any material published to the forums to be offensive or objectionable, please contact us by email at tide-info@upf.edu If we determine that removal of material is necessary, we will make reasonable efforts to do so in a timely manner.