General Terms and conditions of use ("T&C")

3.1 Technical prerequisites. THE USER IS INFORMED THAT THE PLATFORM REQUIRES A BROADBAND INTERNET CONNECTION AND AN UP-TO-DATE WEB BROWSER.

 3.2 THE USER IS INFORMED THAT SOSCIENCE WILL NOT VERIFY COMPLIANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS DESCRIBED IN THIS SECTION. THE USER ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT IT IS HIS/HER RESPONSIBILITY TO DO SO.

3.3. Access to the Services. User’s access to the Services is effective after the following steps:

• acceptance of the T&C,
• the connection to the Profile using the Login Information,

 3.4 Description of the Services. The user has the functionalities of navigation on the Platform as described below:

• Create a Profile,
• Sign in and sign up for the Profile,
• Fill the collaboration profile that can be visible to others with mandatory information such as name and last name and optional information such as a picture, organization, department/service, position, city, Profile title, biography, Profile URL, email address (that can be visible only by SOSCIENCE, the User’s contacts or all Users), the experiences and publication, the contributions (types of contributions, expertise, industries in which the User is active, topics), the needs (experts to connect with, types of contributions that could be useful, expertise looking for, interested industries, topics),
• Create the User’s company or organization profile with name and type as mandatory information and the logo and website URL as optional information,
• Update communication options to choose which email and notification to receive,
• Discover existing Calls for Collaborations (aka. Programs), Projects and Organizations
• Submit Application to Programs,
• Receive Application status (accepted, rejected),
• Join a community with other users
• Exchange messages with the users of the community
• Submit collaborative Project proposals,
• Add other Users as collaborators to a Project proposal,
• Create & publish a Web page for a collaborative Project,

FOR CLARIFICATION PURPOSES, THE USER CANNOT CARRY OUT ANY COMMERCIAL TRANSACTION OR BENCHMARK VIA THE PLATFORM AND THE SERVICES.

3.5 Terms of Use of the Services. Use of the Platform and its Services is free of charge for the User.

To access the Platform, the User must create a Profile. Registration and creation of the Profile are confirmed by the automatic sending of a confirmation request to the e-mail address provided by the User. The confirmation e-mail may include a hypertext link that Users must click on to definitively validate their registration and the creation of the Profile.

To enable said registration and to be able to identify the User, respond to the requests, provide the Services and improve them, the Platform collects Personal Data concerning the User. This data is collected in accordance with the Platform’s Privacy Policy.

In this context, the User undertakes to provide only information that is specific to him/her, accurate and up to date, and that does not infringe the rights of third parties or contravene public policy or accepted standards of behavior.

At the time of registration and at any time during the use of the Platform, the User undertakes to update the data and information concerning him/her. In this respect, the User guarantees the truthfulness, accuracy and completeness of the information thus transmitted and will be solely responsible for any error, omission or failure to update it.

Once registered, Users will be able to access their Profiles using the Login Information. The information thus communicated via the Platform is strictly confidential. The Login Information are personal to him/her and remains his/her sole responsibility. The User is responsible for their safekeeping and assumes all risks of loss. For this reason, the User must take all necessary precautions to ensure their confidentiality, security and correct use, to prevent them from being disclosed to unauthorized third parties.

The User is solely responsible for the use by any other person of his/her Login Information and, in particular, for all operations carried out via his/her Profile. Consequently, any connection to the Platform via a Profile and/or transmission of data carried out using a User’s Profile will be presumed to have been carried out by the holder of the said Profile and under his exclusive responsibility. In the event of fraudulent use of their Login Information, Users undertake to inform the Platform in writing as soon as possible by letter to 29 rue Galande, 75005 Paris, or by email to the following address : contact@soscience.org.

Users may terminate their registration at any time by notifying their decision in their Profile, in the section “Delete your account’, in the “Settings” section. Their registration will then be effectively terminated within a reasonable period. The User will no longer be able to connect to the Platform from this date and will no longer be able to share User Content.

SOSCIENCE may also at any time deregister a User who does not respect the rules or whose behavior disrupts the normal use and management of the Platform. The Profile will then be effectively terminated within a reasonable period. The User will no longer be able to connect to the Platform from this date and will no longer be able to share User Content.

3.4 Provision of the Services. Subject to the User’s use of the Services in accordance with these T&C, the purposes of the services and applicable laws and regulations, SOSCIENCE undertakes as a best-effort obligation to:

(a) Make the Services and User Data available to the User in accordance with these T&C;

(b) Make reasonable efforts to make the Services available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except for (i) unavailability resulting from corrective or evolutionary maintenance operations and (ii) unavailability caused by circumstances beyond SOSCIENCE’s reasonable control including, for example, natural disaster, action of governmental authorities, flood, fire, earthquake, civil disturbance, act of terrorism, strike or other labor-related problem (not involving SOSCIENCE’s employees), failure or delay of internet providers, acts undertaken by third parties including but not limited to a denial-of-service attack. SOSCIENCE will endeavor to inform User in advance of any unavailability as defined in (i) above, within a reasonable time, indicating the expected date of maintenance operations;

(c) Provide the Services in accordance with the laws and regulations that are applicable to SOSCIENCE in general, taking into account the purposes of the Services. For the avoidance of doubt, SOSCIENCE will not be able to comply with the said laws and regulations in the event User fails to comply with the terms of these T&C, including its obligation to use the Services in accordance with their intended purposes.

3.6 Functionalities

User acknowledges and accepts that the Services, including their functionalities, may evolve during the term of the T&C. The evolution of the Services may cause the Resources to evolve during the term of the T&C, which the User acknowledges and accepts.

3.7 User’s Obligations.

The User undertakes, at all times, throughout the duration of these T&C, as part of an obligation of result, to comply with all the stipulations contained in these T&C and in particular in this section.

Consequently, the User undertakes to comply with the following rules of conduct in relation to the Services and the Platform:

(a) User will use the Services in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations (in particular the Data Protection Laws and Regulations);

(b) User will use the Services, information and contact details (including Personal Data) of other Users accessed through the Services in accordance with these T&C and applicable laws and regulations, including but not limited to the Data Protection Laws and Regulations; for example, User will not collect Personal Data of other Users for a reason other than to contact them regarding their Program, Project, Call for Applications or Applications; User will not send unauthorized emails (e.g. spam) to other Users;

(c) User will use the Services with sincerity, concerning SOSCIENCE, in particular concerning the Personal Data that the User communicates in the context of the Services;

(d) User will be loyal and have good faith towards SOSCIENCE, and more generally towards any third party;

(e) User will prevent any unauthorized use of and access to the Services, User Data and will promptly notify SOSCIENCE in writing of any such unauthorized access or use;

(f) User will respond in a timely, courteous and professional manner to messages sent by other Users of the Platform;

(g) User will act professionally with respect to all other Users and in compliance with applicable law and regulations;

(h) User will comply with all intellectual property rights relating to the Platform, its components, the Resources and the Services, in particular its software elements, its graphic charter, its trademarks, works or designs,

(i) User will comply with all intellectual property rights held by third parties, including those of other Users.

3.8 Usage Restrictions. The User agrees not to:

(a) Use the Services or any part of the Platform in violation of applicable laws and regulations, including, without limitation, in violation of the Data Protection Laws and Regulations, or these applicable to the protection of privacy;

(b) Use the Services or any part of the Platform to store, transmit, upload, link to, post or otherwise store any material (e.g., documents, data, text, images or other content) that is unlawful, racist, hateful, abusive, defamatory, obscene, libellous, deceptive, unfair, inaccurate/misleading, discriminatory, or in any way violates these T&C, any applicable laws and regulations, including, without limitation, laws and regulations applicable to the User Content, the Products, the Services, the Data Protection Laws and Regulations, intellectual property law;

(c) Use the Services or any part of the Platform in any manner that interferes with or disrupts the integrity or performance of the Services and their components;

(d) Attempt to decipher, decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise discover the source code of any software making up the Services or all or part of the Platform, except as permitted by the French Intellectual Property Code;

(e) Use the Services or any part of the Platform for any purpose other than its Purpose such as commercial purposes or for benchmarking;

(f) Use the Services or any part of the Platform in violation of applicable law and regulations;

(g) Use the Services or any part of the Platform in a manner that harms (or is likely to harm) any other user or third party;

(h) Use the Services or any part of the Platform to abuse or incite fraud;

(i) Attempt to harm, or harming, SOSCIENCE in any way whatsoever, in particular via the Internet (for example via social networks), for example by committing acts of unfair competition, acts of parasitism, acts of damage to reputation or image, acts of denigration, acts of counterfeiting, acts of invasion of privacy;

(k) Use the Services or all or part of the Platform in any way that interferes with or disrupts the integrity or performance of the Services or the Platform and their components;

or (l) Attempt to use or use the Services in violation of this Section.

3.9 Usage restrictions on misappropriation of Services. The User agrees not to:

(a) Divert or attempt to divert all or part of the Platform, or any other element to which the User may have access, for purposes other than these for which they are intended;

(b) Violate the terms of the “Database Protection” sections; by way of example, the User will not license, sublicense, sell, assign, resell, rent, lease, loan, transfer, assign, distribute, share, copy the Services, or all or any part of the Platform, including on a time-sharing basis, or in any other way commercially exploit the Services or make them available to third parties;

(c) Modify, adapt, or hack the Services or any part of the Platform or otherwise attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services (or any part of the Platform) or related systems or networks;

(d) Attempt to copy or reproduce, in any manner whatsoever, without the prior written consent of SOSCIENCE, all or part of the Platform (including by means of reverse engineering);

(e) Communicate to SOSCIENCE any false, misleading, inaccurate, or outdated contact information, by any means whatsoever;

(f) Communicate to a third party the Login Information of his/her Profile;

(g) Attempt to use or use the Services in breach of this Section.

3.10 Usage restrictions on undermining the security of the Platform. The User agrees not to:

(a) Attempting to carry out or carry out, in any form whatsoever, and irrespective of the technology used, any action of a malicious nature and/or presenting a risk to the operation and/or security of all or part of the Services, the Platform, or any other element to which the User may have access;

(b) Attempt to infringe or infringe the procedures or rules governing the operation of all or part of the Platform, the Services or any other element linked to all or part of the Services;

(c) Attempt to implement or implement any action resulting in saturation or flooding of the servers used to provide the Services;

(d) Send to the Platform, in any way whatsoever, and by any technological means whatsoever, any element containing: software viruses, Trojan horses, worms, or other spyware or malicious computer codes, files or programs, time bombs or any other similar harmful software;

(e) Attempt to probe, probe, attempt to test, test the vulnerability of all or part of the Platform or the Services;

(f) Modify, adapt or hack the Services or all or part of the Platform or attempt in any other way to obtain unauthorized access to all or part of the Platform or to the systems or networks concerned;

(g) Attempt to decipher, decompile, reverse engineer or in any other way discover the source code of any software that makes up the Services or all or part of the Platform, except in the cases authorized by the Intellectual Property Code;

(h) Use the Services or all or part of the Platform to store or transmit any sensitive data within the meaning of Article 9 of the GDPR;

(i) Use or launch any automated system that accesses all or part of the Service or the Platform (i.e. a bot) in such a way as to send more request messages to a Service server in a given period than a human being could reasonably produce in that same period, using a conventional Internet browser.

3.11 Confidentiality of Login Information. The user is responsible for compliance with the terms of these T&C. The User is responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the Login Information.

3.12 Personal Data. The terms and conditions under which SOSCIENCE processes Personal Data on behalf of the User are determined under the Privacy Policy.