Terms and Conditions 

The User must read this document carefully. 

What the User should know at a glance

• Please note that some provisions in these Terms may only apply to certain categories of Users. In particular, certain provisions may only apply to Consumers or to those Users that do not qualify as Consumers. Such limitations are always explicitly mentioned within each affected clause. In the absence of any such mention, clauses apply to all Users.

• Usage of Charbot and the Service is age restricted, as detailed in the relevant section of this document.

• Minors may access Charbot and use its Service only under parental or adult supervision.

TERMS OF USE

Unless otherwise specified, the terms of use detailed in this section apply generally when using Charbot.

Single or additional conditions of use or access may apply in specific scenarios and in such cases are additionally indicated within this document.

By using Charbot, Users confirm to meet the following requirements:

• There are no restrictions for Users in terms of being Consumers or Business Users;

• Users must be older than 13;

• Minors may only use Charbot under parental or adult supervision;

Content on Charbot

Unless where otherwise specified or clearly recognizable, all content available on Charbot is owned or provided by the Owner or its licensors.

The Owner undertakes its utmost effort to ensure that the content provided on Charbot infringes no applicable legal provisions or third-party rights. However, it may not always be possible to achieve such a result.

In such cases, without prejudice to any legal prerogatives of Users to enforce their rights, Users are kindly asked to preferably report related complaints using the contact details provided in this document.

Rights regarding content on Charbot - All rights reserved

The Owner holds and reserves all intellectual property rights for any such content.

Users may not therefore use such content in any way that is not necessary or implicit in the proper use of the Service.

In particular, but without limitation, Users may not copy, download, share (beyond the limits set forth below), modify, translate, transform, publish, transmit, sell, sublicense, edit, transfer/assign to third parties or create derivative works from the content available on Charbot, nor allow any third party to do so through the User or their device, even without the User's knowledge.

Where explicitly stated on Charbot, the User may download, copy and/or share some content available through Charbot for its sole personal and non-commercial use and provided that the copyright attributions and all the other attributions requested by the Owner are correctly implemented.

Any applicable statutory limitation or exception to copyright shall stay unaffected.

Access to external resources

Through Charbot Users may have access to external resources provided by third parties. Users acknowledge and accept that the Owner has no control over such resources and is therefore not responsible for their content and availability.

Conditions applicable to any resources provided by third parties, including those applicable to any possible grant of rights in content, result from each such third parties’ terms and conditions or, in the absence of those, applicable statutory law.

In particular, on Charbot Users may see advertisements provided by third parties. The Owner does not control or moderate the advertisements displayed via Charbot. If Users click on any such advertisement, they will be interacting with any third party responsible for that advertisement.

The Owner is not responsible for any matters resulting from such interaction with third parties, such as anything resulting from visiting third-party websites or using third-party content.

Acceptable use

Charbot and the Service may only be used within the scope of what they are provided for, under these Terms and applicable law.

Users are solely responsible for making sure that their use of Charbot and/or the Service violates no applicable law, regulations or third-party rights.

Therefore, the Owner reserves the right to take any appropriate measure to protect its legitimate interests including denying Users access to Charbot or the Service, terminating contracts, reporting any misconduct performed through Charbot or the Service to the competent authorities – such as judicial or administrative authorities - whenever Users are suspected to be in violation of any laws, regulations, third-party rights and/or these Terms, including, but not limited to, by engaging in any of the following activities:

Conduct restrictions

• pretending to fulfill any possible condition or requirements for accessing Charbot and/or using the Services, such as for instance being adult according to law or qualifying as a Consumer;

• concealing their identity or stealing someone else's identity or pretend to be or represent a third-party, if not allowed to do so by such third-party;

• manipulating identifiers to disguise or otherwise conceal the origin of their messages or of the content posted;

• defaming, abusing, harassing, using threatening practices, threatening or violating the legal rights of others in any other way;

• promoting activity that may endanger the User’s life or the life of any other User or lead to physical harm. This includes but is not limited to suicide threats or instigations, intentional physical trauma, the use of illegal drugs, or excessive drinking. Under no circumstance is any User allowed to post any content promoting and/or encouraging and/or showing any self-destructive or violent behavior on Charbot;

• probing, scanning or testing the vulnerability of Charbot, including the services or any network connected to the website, nor breaching the security or authentication measures on Charbot, including the services or any network connected to Dyno;

• installing, embedding, uploading or otherwise incorporating any malware into or via Charbot;

• using Charbot or the technical infrastructure in an abusive, excessive or otherwise inappropriate way (for example: for spamming purposes);

• attempting to disrupt or tamper with the technical infrastructure in a manner that harms or places an undue burden on Charbot or the Service;

• pretending to purchase any Products offered via Charbot without any real intent to do so;

• failing to pay for Products purchased;

Excessive use of the Service

• using a resource of Charbot excessively in relation to other Users of Charbot – in such cases, the Owner, at its sole discretion, additionally reserves the right to suspend the User’s account or limit the related activity until the User reduces the excessive consumption;

Excessive use of the API

• sending abusive or excessively frequent requests to the Service via the API. The Owner will determine what constitutes abuse or excessive usage of the API and additionally reserves the right to temporarily or permanently suspend access to the API by the User. In such cases, the Owner will make a reasonable attempt to alert the User prior to suspension;

Scraping

• adopting any automated process to extract, harvest or scrape information, data and/or content from Charbot and all the digital properties thereto related unless where explicitly allowed to do so by the Owner;

Content restrictions

• disseminating or publishing content that is unlawful, obscene, illegitimate, libelous or inappropriate;

• publishing any content that promotes, either directly or indirectly, hate, racism, discrimination, pornography, violence;

• disseminating or publishing any content that is false or may create unjustified alarm;

• using Charbot to publish, disseminate or otherwise provide content protected by intellectual property laws, including but not limited to patent, trademark or copyright law, unlawfully and without the legitimate right-holder’s consent;

• using Charbot to publish, disseminate or otherwise make available any other content which infringes on any third-party rights, including but not limited to state, military, trade or professional secrets and personal data;

• publishing any content or carrying out any activity that disrupts, interrupts, harms, or otherwise violates the integrity of Charbot or another User's experience or devices. Such activities include: spamming, distributing unauthorized advertisements, phishing, defrauding others, spreading malware or viruses etc.;

User protection

• misappropriating any account in use by another User;

• harvesting or collecting any personally identifying information of other Users including but not limited to their email addresses or contact information, by circumventing the privacy setting of other Users’ accounts on Charbot or by any other means;

• using any information relating to other Users, including personal or contact data, for purposes other than those Charbot is intended for.