Legal Policy 

This website is the property of the Peter De Haan Foundation , with registered office at  Rue du Rhône 14, c/o Walder Wyss SA, succursale de Genève 1204 Genève, Switzerland. Tax ID number 081.352.162 and e-mail info@fondationpdh.org. 

By browsing this website, you accept our general terms and conditions of use, unless there are circumstances that may apply to some services on this site. 

To access our services, you declare that you are of legal age and that you have the legal capacity to act according to the law of your country. 

The following General Terms and Conditions regulate the use and access to the Website, the purpose of which is to be a gateway to the Peter De Haan Foundation  and its projects, offering Users information, services and contents via the Website. Through the website, Users have access to information about specific products and services, tools and applications. 

Users undertake to make appropriate use of the contents, services, applications and tools that are accessible, subject to the Law and to these General Terms and Conditions of Use and, where appropriate, to the Specific Terms and Conditions that may be established for access to certain services and applications, respecting the other Users of the website at all times. 

In case of total or partial non-compliance by the User of these General Terms and Conditions of Use, the Peter De Haan Foundation  reserves the right to deny access without prior notice to the User. 

Intellectual and industrial property. 

The intellectual property belongs to the Peter De Haan Foundation. The website, the programming, the pages it includes and the information or elements contained therein (including, but not limited to, texts, documents, photographs, drawings and graphic representations), as well as logos, brands, commercial names or other distinctive signs, are protected by intellectual or industrial property rights, of which the Peter De Haan Foundation  is the owner or holds authorisation for their use and public communication from the legitimate owners thereof. 

With this in mind, we do not object to the downloading of content from this website as long as it is not for commercial or unlawful use and its integrity is not modified or altered. In short, we ask you not to try to do business with our content or change it to pass it off as your own. As a User you shall use the contents diligently and correctly, in compliance with the law, morality and public order. 

The Peter De Haan Foundation  is not responsible for the information and content stored, including, but not limited to, in forums, chats, blog generators, comments, social media or any other medium that allows third parties to post content independently on our website. However, and in compliance with the provisions of articles 11 and 16 of the LSSICE, it is offered to all users, authorities and security forces, actively collaborating in the removal or, where appropriate, blocking of all content that may affect or contravene national or international legislation, the rights of third parties or morality and public order. In the event that you, as a user, consider that there is any content on the website that could be susceptible to this classification, please notify us immediately. 

Our website servers may automatically detect the IP address and domain name used by users. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to a computer when it connects to the Internet. All this information is recorded in a server activity file that enables the subsequent processing of the data in order to obtain purely statistical measurements that enable us to know the number of page impressions, the number of visits made to the web servers, the order of visits, the access point, etc. 

If we are required to do so, we may make changes to the website, modifying the browsing and functionalities of the site without having to notify you. Some of these changes may be intended to improve user experience, but they may still cause problems and you might not be able to browse the page. 

The Peter De Haan Foundation  does not guarantee ongoing access, nor the correct visualisation, downloading or use of the elements and information contained in the pages of the portal, which may be impeded, hindered or interrupted by factors or circumstances beyond its control, nor those produced by the existence of computer viruses on the Internet. 

The Peter De Haan Foundation accepts no liability whatsoever for damages, losses, claims or expenses arising from: 

(i) Interferences, interruptions, failures, omissions, delays, blockages or disconnections caused by errors in the telecommunications lines and networks or by any other cause beyond the Foundation’s control. 

(ii) Unlawful interference through the use of malicious software of any kind and by any means of communication, such as computer viruses or any other means. 

(iii) Improper or inappropriate use of the Peter De Haan Foundation  website. 

(iv) Security or browsing errors caused by a malfunction of the browser or by the use of outdated versions. 

Connections and links to third party websites or pages are provided solely for the convenience of Users. The Peter De Haan Foundation  is in no way responsible for them or their content. 

The Peter De Haan Foundation  does not accept any responsibility derived from the existence of links between the contents of this website and contents located outside this website or any other mention of contents external to this website. Such links or mentions have an exclusively informative purpose and in no case imply the support, approval, commercialisation or relationship between the Peter De Haan Foundation  and the persons or entities that are the authors and/or managers of such contents or owners of the sites where they are located. Links to the website require the express written authorisation of the owners of the portal. 

Our website is subject to Swiss law and in the event of any dispute or controversy arising from its use, both parties submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of Genève (Switzerland). This clause of express submission to the courts of Genève shall not be applicable in the event of litigation with users of the website who, according to current legislation, are consumers, in which case both parties shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Courts of the consumer’s place of residence.