Terms of Use

Welcome to INTGOV.NET, and independent Web site operated by the Russian and Bulgarian Web communities, hereinafter referred to as the Operator.. If you wish make use of the Web site’s service (the “Service”), please read these Terms of Use. If you object to anything in this Agreement or our Privacy Policy, do not use the Web site or the Service. The Terms of Use are subject to change by the Operator at any time, effective upon posting on the Web site, and your use of the Service after such posting will constitute acceptance by you of such changes.

  1. Acceptance of Terms of Use Agreement

    1. Electronic Agreement. This Agreement is an electronic contract that sets out the legally binding terms of your use of the Web site. This Agreement may be modified by the Operator from time to time, such modifications to be effective upon posting by the Operator on the Web site. This Agreement includes the Operator’s Privacy Policy, and any notices or all other policies regarding the Website, whether posted on the Website or e-mailed to you. By accessing the Web site you accept this Agreement and agree to the terms, conditions, and notices contained or referenced herein.
    2. Electronic Form. By accessing the Website or becoming a Member, you consent to have this Agreement provided to you in electronic form.
      1. Withdrawing Your Consent. You have the right at any time to withdraw your consent to have this Agreement provided to you in electronic form.
      2. Effect. Should you choose to withdraw your consent to have this Agreement provided to you in electronic form, we will discontinue your then-current username and password.
      3. Prospective Nature. Your withdrawal of consent shall be effective within a reasonable time after we receive your withdrawal notice described above. Your withdrawal of consent will not affect the legal validity or enforceability of the Agreement provided to, and electronically signed by, you prior to the effective date of your withdrawal.
      4. Retaining an electronic copy of the Agreement. To retain the electronic copy of this Agreement , you may save it into any word processing program

    3. Access

      In order to access this electronic Agreement, you must have access to the World Wide Web, either directly or through devices that access Web-based content, and pay any service fees associated with such access. In addition, you must use all equipment necessary to make such connection to the World Wide Web, including a computer and modem or other access device. .. Via the Web site, we will notify you of any changes in the hardware or software requirements needed to access and/or retain this Agreement that create a material risk that you will not be able to continue to access and/or retain this electronic Agreement.

  2. Eligibility

    By using the Website, you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority, and capacity to enter into this Agreement and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

  3. Term

    This Agreement will remain in full force and effect while you use the Web site. All decisions regarding the termination of accounts shall be made in the sole discretion of the Operator. The Operator is not required, and may be prohibited, from disclosing a reason for the termination of your account.

  4. Account Security

    You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the username and password that you designate during the Registration process, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your username and password. The Operator will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this provision. You should use particular caution when accessing your account from a public or shared computer so that others are not able to view or record your password or other personal information. If you share your computer with others, you may wish to consider disabling your auto–sign in feature if you have linked your browser vehicle to your account with Operator.

  5. Your Interactions with other users of this Web-site

    You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of this Web-site. You understand that the Operator does not in any way screen its users. In no event shall the Operator be liable for any damages whatsoever — whether direct, indirect, general, special, compensatory, consequential, and/or incidental — arising out of or relating to the conduct of you or anyone else in connection with the use of the Service, including without limitation, bodily injury, emotional distress, and/or any other damages resulting from communications or meetings with other registered users of this Service or persons you meet through this Service.

  6. Content on Website

    1. Proprietary Rights. The Operator owns and retains all proprietary rights in the Web site and the Service.
    2. Reliance on Content, Advice, Etc. Opinions, advice, statements, offers, or other information or content made available through the Service, but not directly by the Operator, are those of their respective authors and should not necessarily be relied upon. Such authors are solely responsible for such content. The Operator does not: (i) guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information on the Service, or (ii) adopt, endorse, or accept responsibility for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice, or statement made by any party that appears on the Web site. Under no circumstances will the Operator or its affiliates be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from your reliance on information or other content posted on the Website or transmitted to or by any users of this site.

  7. Content Posted by You on the Website

    1. You are solely responsible for the Content that you publish or display (hereinafter, “post”) on the Service, or transmit to other users of this Web-site. You will not post on the Service, or transmit to other users of this Web-site, any defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, profane, offensive, sexually oriented, threatening, harassing, racially offensive, or illegal material—or any material that infringes or violates another party’s rights (including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights and rights of privacy and publicity). You will not provide inaccurate, misleading, or false information to the Operator or to any other User of this Web-site.
    2. You understand and agree that the Operator may review and delete any content, messages, e-mails, photos, or profiles (collectively, “Content”), in each case in whole or in part, that in the sole judgment of the Operator violate this Agreement or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of users of this Web-site.
    3. By posting Content to any public area of the Operator, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to the Operator, its affiliates, and successors an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, reproduce, adapt, modify, and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. You further represent and warrant that public posting and use of your content by the Operator will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party.
    4. A partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Website. The Operator reserves the right to remove the offending communication from the Service and terminating the membership of such violators. It includes, but is not limited to, Content that:
      • is patently offensive to the online community, such as Content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred, or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
      • harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
      • involves the transmission of “junk mail,” “chain letters,” or unsolicited mass mailing or “spamming”;
      • promotes information that you know is false and misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory, or libelous;
      • promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person’s copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated images, audio, or video, or links to pirated images, audio, or video files;
      • contains restricted or password-only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
      • provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under the age of 18;
      • provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone’s privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
      • solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users; and
      • engages in commercial activities and/or sales, such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes, without our prior written consent.
    5. Your use of the Service, including but not limited to the Content you post on the Service, must be in accordance with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
    6. You may not include in your user profile any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or e-mail addresses.
    7. You may not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other userss. This includes but is not limited to solicitation or advertising to buy or sell any products or services through the Service or to attend parties or other social functions or networking for commercial purposes. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk e-mail to other users. Although the Operator cannot monitor the conduct of its users off the Web site, it is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Service in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any user without their prior explicit consent.
    8. All information you include in your user profile must be accurate, current, and complete.

  8. Prohibited Activities

    The Operator reserves the right to terminate your membership if you have misused the Service or behaved in a way that could be regarded as inappropriate or whose conduct is unlawful or illegal. The following is a partial list of the type of actions that you may not engage in with respect to the Service:

    • You will not impersonate any person or entity.
    • You will not “stalk” or otherwise harass any person.
    • You will not express or imply that any statements you make are endorsed by the Operator without our specific prior written consent.
    • You will not use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, “data mine,” or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Service or its contents.
    • You will not post, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior consent of the owner of such proprietary rights.
    • You will not remove any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices contained in the Service.
    • You will not interfere with or disrupt the Services or the site or the servers or networks connected to the Services or the site.
    • You will not post, e-mail, or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files, or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
    • You will not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any information transmitted through the Service.
    • You will not “frame” or “mirror” any part of the Service or the Web site without the Operator’s prior written authorization. You also shall not use meta tags or code or other devices containing any reference to the Operator or the Service or the site in order to direct any person to any other Website for any purpose.
    • You will not modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decipher, decompile, or otherwise disassemble any portion of the Service or the Web site or any software used on or for the Service or cause others to do so.

  9. Modifications to Service

    The Operator reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that the Operator shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of the Service.

  10. Blocking of IP Addresses

    In order to protect the integrity of the Service, the Operator reserves the right at any time in its sole discretion to block users from certain IP addresses from accessing the Web site.

  11. Copyright Policy

    You may not post, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the Service in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide the Operator with the following information: an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Website; your address, telephone number, and e-mail address; a written statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate, and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf. Please submit respective claims to the Operator by e-mail at: info@intgov.org

  12. User Disputes

    You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of this Web-site. The Operator reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other users of this web-site.

  13. Privacy

    Use of the Website and/or the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy

  14. Disclaimers

    The Operator is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the Website or in connection with the Service, whether caused by users of the Website, users, or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Service. The Operator is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the Web site or user of the Service. The Operator assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction, or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, user or User communications. The Operator is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of e-mail, or players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Web site or combination thereof, including injury or damage to users and/or User or to any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in connection with the Web and/or in connection with the Service. Under no circumstances will the Operator or any of its affiliates, advertisers, promoters or distribution partners be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from anyone’s use of the Website or the Service, any Content posted on the Web site or transmitted to users, or any interactions between users of the Web site, whether online or offline. The Web site and the Service are provided “AS IS” and the Operator expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. The Operator cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the Web site and/or the Service. In addition to the preceding paragraph and other provisions of this Agreement, any advice that may be posted on the Website is for informational and discussion purposes only and is not intended to replace or substitute for any professional financial, medical, legal, or other advice.

  15. Links

    The Service may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. Because the Operator has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that the Operator is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any Content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that the Operator shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of, or reliance upon, any such Content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource.

  16. Limitation on Liability

    Except in jurisdictions where such provisions are restricted, in no event will the Operator be liable to you or any third person for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special, or punitive damages, including also lost profits arising from your use of the Web site or the Service.

  17. Jurisdiction and Choice of Law

    If there is any dispute arising out of the Website and/or the Service, by using the Website, you expressly agree that any such dispute shall be governed by the laws of the Russian Federation, without regard to its conflict of law provisions, and you expressly agree and consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and the court of law of the Russian Federation, for the resolution of any such dispute.

  18. Indemnity by You

    You agree to indemnify and hold the Operator, its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and other partners and employees harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorney’s fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Service in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above.

  19. No Third Party Beneficiaries

    You agree that, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, there shall be no third party beneficiaries to this Agreement.

  20. Other

    This Agreement contains the entire agreement between you and the Operator regarding the use of the Website and/or the Service. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect.