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TERMS OF USE
Micro-Enterprise Acceleration Institute (MEA-I) authorizes you to view and download the materials at this website ("Site") only for your personal, non-commercial use, provided that you retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original materials on any copies of the materials. You may not modify the materials at this Site in any way or reproduce or publicly display, perform, or distribute or otherwise use them for any public or commercial purpose. Any use of these materials on any other website or networked computer environment for any purpose is prohibited. The materials at this Site are copyrighted and any unauthorized use of any materials at this Site may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. If you breach any of these Terms, your authorization to use this Site automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed materials.
Disclaimers
THE MATERIALS (INCLUDING ALL SOFTWARE) AND SERVICES AT THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
MEA-I's obligations with respect to its products and services are governed solely by the agreements under which they are provided and nothing on this Site should be construed to alter such agreements. MEA-I further does not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the materials, software or services at this Site. MEA-I may make changes to the materials and services at this Site, or to the products and prices described in them, at any time without notice.
The materials and services at this Site may be out of date, and MEA-I makes no commitment to update the materials and services at this Site. Information published at this Site may refer to products, programs or services that are not available in your country. Consult your local MEA-I business contact for information regarding the products, programs and services that may be available to you. Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so this exclusion may not apply to you.
Limitation of liability
IN NO EVENT WILL MEA-I, ITS SUPPLIERS, OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES MENTIONED AT THIS SITE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THOSE RESULTING FROM LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) ARISING OUT OF THE USE, INABILITY TO USE, OR THE RESULTS OF USE OF THIS SITE, ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO THIS SITE, OR THE MATERIALS OR INFORMATION OR SERVICES CONTAINED AT ANY OR ALL SUCH SITES, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY AND WHETHER OR NOT MEA-I HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IF YOUR USE OF THE MATERIALS, INFORMATION OR SERVICES FROM THIS SITE RESULTS IN THE NEED FOR SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION OF EQUIPMENT OR DATA, YOU ASSUME ALL COSTS THEREOF. APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THESE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
Use of software
Any software that is made available to download from this Site is the copyrighted work of MEA-I and/or its suppliers and partners. Use of the software is governed by the terms of the end user license agreement, if any, which accompanies or is included with the software ("License Agreement"). You may not download or install any Software that is accompanied by or includes a License Agreement unless you have read and accepted the terms of the License Agreement. REPRODUCTION OR REDISTRIBUTION OF THE SOFTWARE IS PROHIBITED EXCEPT AS PROVIDED FOR IN THE APPLICABLE LICENSE AGREEMENT.
User submissions
MEA-I does not want to receive confidential or proprietary information from you through this Site. Any material, information or other communication ("Communications") you transmit or post to this Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. MEA-I will have no obligations with respect to the Communications. MEA-I and its designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use the Communications and all data, images, sounds, text, and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this Site any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or other material that would violate any law.
Links to third-party Websites
Links on this Site to third-party websites are provided solely as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave this Site. MEA-I has not reviewed all of these third-party sites and does not control and is not responsible for any of these sites or their content. Thus, MEA-I does not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third-party websites linked to this Site, you do this entirely at your own risk.
Linking to this site
You may create links to this Site from other sites, but only in compliance with all applicable laws.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
MEA-I has created this Privacy Policy to explain why we collect particular information and how we will protect your personal privacy within our Web site. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the Web site located at the URL www.becomelife.org.
In order to fully understand your rights we encourage you to read this Privacy Policy. MEA-I reserves the right at any time and without notice to change this Privacy Policy simply by posting such changes on our Site. Any such change will be effective immediately upon posting.
As we want to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy, this Privacy Policy notifies you of:
- What personally identifiable information of yours is collected through the Site;
- Who collects such information;
- How such information is used;
- With whom your information may be shared;
- What choices you have regarding collection, use and distribution of your information;
- What kind of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control;
- and, How you can correct any inaccuracies in your information.
Questions regarding this statement should be directed to MEA-I by sending an e-mail to info@mea-i.org . Please reference this "Privacy Policy" in your subject line.
What Information We Collect and How We Use That Information:
Our registration forms require users to give us contact information that may include name, e-mail address, format preference (HTML vs. Text), address, interests, and similar information. We do not request or store sensitive information from our visitors, such as credit card or social security numbers.
Use of Cookies
This site uses "cookies", which are small text files located on your computer where some navigation information is gathered and stored. This enables the site to save your site preferences, automatically logs you in when you input the url of the site in your browser. This site also uses the Google Analytics software (see below), which also uses cookies to store information about your navigation.
Google Analytics
To analyze the web traffic of the users on this site, the web analytics tool "Google Analytics", from Google Inc. is used on this site. The collected non-personally identifiable information allows to identify the most popular pagesof the site, determine the effectiveness of our promotional activities, and obviously measure the actual traffic on the site.
By using this site, you accept the use of Google Analytics and allow this site to forward the collected information to Google Inc. This allows Google Inc. to provide reports and analyzes about the traffic on the site. The information is stored in a cookie (see above) and can be used by Google Inc as per the Google data privacy policy that can be found at http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/privacy-policy.html. The type of information gathered is :date and time of visited urls, your IP address, the pages you viewed, as well as some system information such as which browser was used, the resolution of your screen, the operating system.
Although such information is not personally identifiable, this site can determine from the IP address a visitor's Internet Service Provider and the geographic location of his or her point of connectivity.
If you do not want your navigation information on this site being collected by Google Analytics, you can either change your browser's settings so that it does not accept cookies (please note that you will not be able to take advantage of all the features of this site), or you can download and install a plug-in that Google Inc. developed (see below)
Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on (BETA)
To provide website visitors more choice on how their data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to indicate that information about the website visit should not be sent to Google Analytics.
If you want to opt-out, download and install the add-on for your current web browser. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is available for Internet Explorer (versions 7 and 8), Google Chrome (4.x and higher), and Mozilla Firefox (3.5 and higher). You can find the plugin at http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
Internet Protocol Address:
We collect an IP address from all visitors to our Site. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our Site, analyze trends, track users' movement, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in order for us to improve the site, and deliver customized, personalized content. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Other Web Sites:
Our Site contains links to other Web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another Web site for which MEA-I has no responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on all such sites as their policies may be different than ours.
Contacting the Web Site:
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, you can contact:
Postal address:
Micro-Enterprise Acceleration Institute
Hewlett-Packard
Route de Nant d'Avril 150
1217 Meyrin, Switzerland
Telephone:
+41 78 844 1438
Electronic mail:
info@mea-i.org
