communities.md Terms of Use

1. About these terms

The communities.md catalogue is operated by WEB TEAM S.R.L., IDNO 1022600023783, 44 A. Pușkin Street, Chișinău, Republic of Moldova. Contact address: inbox@webteam.email. In these terms, “we” means the catalogue operator, and “you” means the person who uses the site, creates an account or submits materials to us.

The catalogue publishes information about communities and their activities. Publishing a community listing does not mean that we organise, verify or vouch for the community's activities.

These terms apply to all visitors to the site. When creating an account or submitting materials, you confirm through a separate action in the form that you have read and accept the terms. The Privacy Policy and Catalogue Rules apply alongside these terms. Subscriptions to the digest and the processing of personal data are described in the Privacy Policy.

Using the catalogue is free. We do not promise publication, a publication period, a position in the catalogue or uninterrupted operation of the site.

2. Account

An account is needed to submit a community listing, confirm the right to manage it and receive notifications. You provide a valid email address and are responsible for keeping your password secure and for everything that happens in your account. The account is personal and cannot be transferred to another person. To create an account and submit materials, you must have the legal capacity required to accept these terms.

We may suspend or close your account if you breach these terms or the Catalogue Rules, if this is necessary to protect the catalogue, its users or communities, or by editorial decision. We notify you of the closure at the account's email address, except where notification is impossible or would interfere with stopping abuse. You may challenge the decision by writing to us.

You may close your account at any time. What happens to the data of a closed account is described in the Privacy Policy; what happens to the materials is described in section 4.

3. Materials and licence

Materials are descriptions, logos, cover images, photographs, links, news and other information that you submit for a community listing and its publications.

By submitting a material, you grant us a free, non-exclusive licence to use it in operating the catalogue: reviewing, storing, publishing it on communities.md, including it in the digest and in announcements of listings and news on our pages and channels on social networks and messaging services. The licence applies worldwide until it ends under section 4. We may change the format, size and compression of images, create thumbnails and make technical crops, and correct, shorten, format and translate texts into Romanian, Russian and English while preserving their meaning. We credit the author if you requested this when submitting the material. We may entrust technical processing to our service providers and transfer the licence, together with our rights and obligations under these terms, to a legal successor or the person to whom the catalogue is transferred, on the same terms; we announce the transfer on the site. Exclusive rights remain with you.

We do not use materials for third-party advertising or pass them to other publishers for their own purposes.

We are not required to use a material. Non-use, alteration and removal of a material do not give rise to a right to remuneration or compensation.

4. Deleting materials and ending the licence

You may delete your own materials in your account or ask us to do so at inbox@webteam.email, identifying the material and the listing. You do not need to give a reason. We stop using the material within 30 days of deletion or receipt of the request and may do so sooner.

Termination does not affect digest editions already sent, backup and archive copies kept in accordance with the Privacy Policy and not used for new publication, or announcements published on our pages and channels before termination. These announcements remain as they are; we may delete or edit them at our discretion. No new publications containing the material appear after termination.

The community listing remains in the catalogue after your materials are deleted: the name, publicly available information about the community and the editorial description do not depend on your licence. Deleting a material does not give you the right to require deletion of the listing.

Your statements in section 5 and liability under section 11 remain in effect after the materials are deleted, the licence ends and the account is closed.

5. Your statements

By submitting a material, you confirm that the information is accurate; that you hold the rights to the material or have obtained permission to submit it to us on the terms of section 3; that the material does not contain personal, private or confidential information about third parties without their permission; that the material and its publication do not violate the law or the rights of others; and that, if you act on behalf of a community, organisation or rights holder, you have the authority to do so. Without that authority, you are personally responsible for your actions.

Making a material publicly available does not give others the right to copy it. If your permission does not cover all the uses in section 3, do not submit the material. We may request confirmation of rights and authority and withhold publication or remove the material until we receive it.

Our editorial review does not replace your statements or transfer responsibility for the material to us. We keep records of acceptance of the terms and of your confirmations for the periods specified in the Privacy Policy.

6. Photographs and personal data of third parties

We accept photographs of people from the person shown or from the organiser with that person's consent. We do not publish photographs of people taken from public sources.

By submitting a photograph showing recognisable people, you confirm that each person consents to its use in the listing, digest and announcements under section 3, knows that the catalogue is accessible to visitors and search engines, and knows that they may withdraw consent by writing to us. Obtain consent before submission. Permission from the author of the photograph is a separate confirmation under section 5.

At our request, you provide confirmation of the consent of the people shown within 7 days, in any form: correspondence, written consent. Failure to provide confirmation within this period is a breach of your statement about consent, and we may remove the photograph.

At the request of a person shown, we remove the photograph; they do not need to give a reason. We may suspend publication while reviewing a complaint.

Submit information about third parties only to the extent necessary for the listing, and only if you are entitled to disclose it. We do not publish home addresses, personal phone numbers or email addresses that are not intended for contacting the community, or lists of participants. We publish information revealing health, political or religious beliefs, ethnic origin, sexual orientation or other special categories of data only with the explicit consent of the person concerned or if that person has manifestly made it public. The organiser's statement and acceptance of these terms do not replace such consent. We review listings without such information in the usual way.

7. Rules for using the site

The following are prohibited: submitting requests to manage a community with which you have no connection and impersonating its organiser; knowingly providing false information; submitting materials that violate the law, contain calls for violence or hatred, adult content or advertising disguised as a community description; creating multiple accounts to bypass restrictions; collecting contact details and other data from catalogue pages for mailings and other purposes unrelated to joining the community; copying the whole catalogue or a substantial part of it, automatically or manually, except as provided in section 9; sending spam and advertising through the site's forms; bypassing the site's protection, interfering with its operation or uploading malicious code; breaching the Catalogue Rules.

In the event of a breach, we may remove materials, suspend or close your account, stop accepting materials from you and restrict access to the site.

8. Editorial decisions

We may reject, edit within the limits of section 3, hide or delete any material and any listing at any time: for a breach of these terms or the Catalogue Rules, following a complaint, to protect the catalogue, its users and communities, or by editorial decision. We may choose not to explain the reasons. We may, but are not required to, offer an opportunity to replace a material before rejecting or deleting it. No compensation is paid for rejection, editing, hiding or deletion. You may challenge the decision by writing to us; we respond within the period in section 13.

We do not verify the accuracy of materials or rights to them beyond our own editorial review. The site contains links to external websites and services; we do not control them and are not responsible for their content, operation or terms.

9. Our materials and the catalogue database

Editorial texts, the site's structure and design, software code, the communities.md name and logo, and the catalogue as a database belong to us or are used by us under licence. You may browse the catalogue, link to listings and quote them with attribution and a link to the source. Copying, extracting and reusing the catalogue or a substantial part of it in another service, product or database requires our written permission.

10. Community activities and disputes between users

Communities are responsible for their own activities, events, participation terms and services. We are not responsible for their actions.

We do not take part in disputes between organisers over the right to manage a community, between a community and its participants, between site users, or with third parties concerning communities and their events. We are not liable for claims arising from such disputes. This does not apply to claims based on our own actions.

11. Compensation for losses

If a claim is made against us because of a breach of your statements and obligations under these terms, because of your materials or because you violate the rights of others, you compensate us for all losses caused by this: amounts paid under settlement agreements and court decisions, and necessary, documented costs of defence and settlement, including legal costs. The amounts claimed must be reasonable. We do not pass the consequences of our own breaches on to you.

We notify you of a third-party claim within 10 days of receiving it. We decide how to defend against and settle the claim and may, but are not required to, involve you. Settlement without your consent does not deprive us of the right to reimbursement of reasonable amounts. A delay in notification does not release you from compensation; losses caused by our delay are not passed on to you.

You pay the amount due within 15 days of receiving our demand with supporting documents.

12. Our liability

We are not liable for indirect losses or lost profits. Our total liability to you for direct losses related to use of the site, the account and submission of materials is limited to 5 000 Moldovan lei.

These limitations do not apply to intentional acts and gross negligence, harm to life and health, or other cases where the law does not allow liability to be limited.

13. Claims and notices

Send claims and notices to inbox@webteam.email, to the postal address in section 1 or through the “Report a problem” link on the listing, identifying the material or listing, the circumstances and what you are requesting. Registration is not required. The rights holder and the person whose data is published may contact us directly, regardless of who submitted the material. We may request only the information necessary to identify the material and verify on whose behalf the person contacting us is acting. We respond within 30 days of receipt.

We send notices to you at the account's email address or the address provided when submitting the material. A message is considered received on the next working day after it is sent, unless the sender receives a non-delivery notification. The periods in these terms are calculated in calendar days.

The right to bring a matter before a court or competent authority does not depend on first submitting a claim to us.

14. Complaints about violations of rights

If you believe a material on the site violates your rights, tell us who you are and on whose behalf you are acting; which right has been violated; where the material is located on the site; and what confirms your right. We may remove the material during review and permanently. We may inform the person who submitted the material of the substance of the complaint; we share your contact details with them only with your consent or when the dispute cannot be resolved without doing so. In the event of repeated violations, we stop accepting materials from the person responsible.

15. Changes to the terms

We may change these terms. The new version is published on the site with a date. We notify account holders of significant changes by email at least 10 days before they take effect. The new version applies to materials submitted after it takes effect and to use of the site and the account after that date. It does not expand licences or consents obtained earlier. If you disagree with the new version, close your account before it takes effect.

16. Law, language and final provisions

These terms are governed by the law of the Republic of Moldova. Disputes are heard by the court at our place of establishment, unless the law provides for a different mandatory jurisdiction.

The terms are published in Romanian, Russian and English. The Romanian text is the original; in the event of a discrepancy, it prevails.

If we have not applied a provision or taken action in a particular case, this does not constitute a waiver for the future. Forgiveness of a debt and waiver of a claim apply only to the specified obligation and the specified person.

If a provision is found to be invalid, the others remain in effect.

These terms, the Privacy Policy and the Catalogue Rules constitute the entire agreement between you and us concerning use of the catalogue.