We have revised our Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy.
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TERMS AND CONDITIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- Please read this carefully (together with the documents referred to on it) before you start to use the site or you submit your personal information through our social media because it sets out a legally binding agreement between you and the FFA.
- This page set outs the use on which you may make use of our website and / or our social media whether as a guest or a registered user. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site and / or social media. We only make these terms and conditions available in the English language.
- These terms and conditions replace all previous terms and conditions for FFA’s website and / or social media. The FFA may update these terms and conditions for legal or regulatory reasons, or to reflect changes in our services or business practices. We will provide notice of any significant changes in Section 15 below.
- ACCESSING OUR SITE AND / OR SOCIAL MEDIA
- Access to our site and / or social media is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site and / or social media is unavailable at any time or for any period.
- If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
- When using our site and / or social media, you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy (below).
- You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site and / or social media. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site / social media through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.
- INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
- We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site and / or social medial, and in the material published on them. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
- You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organization to material posted on our site.
- You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
- Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged by attributing to the Football Foundation for Africa.
- You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a license corporate or academic membership to do so from us or our licensors.
- If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
- Except as set out above, you may not copy FFA content from footballfoundation.africa, social media and / or any third party source of FFA content such as news aggregators and you may not republish or redistribute full text articles, for example by pasting them into emails or republishing them in any media, including websites, newsletters or intranets.
- We recognize that users of the Internet want to share information with others. We therefore permit limited republishing and redistribution of FFA content as set out below provided that this does not create a substitute for the Football Foundation for Africa’s own products or services. We define a substitute as a product or service that reduces the need for users or other third parties to pay for FFA content directly, or which creates revenue from the FFA’s content to the detriment of the FFA’s own ability to generate revenues from that content.
- As long as you do not create a substitute, you may do the following:
- Publish online, the original FFA headline and a link to the article and the first 140 characters of an article (what we call teaser text);
- Forward the original headlines, links, and teaser text to other individuals;
- Download our RSS feeds and view them for your personal use.
- Organizations that may be using FFA content without the appropriate permissions may approach us with a view to discussing the purchase of a license to legitimize that use. Please email info@footballfoundation.africa for further information.
- RELIANCE ON INFORMATION POSTED
- Commentary and other materials posted on our site and / or social media are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
- OUR SITE CHANGES REGULARLY
- We aim to update our site regularly and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site and / or social media, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
- OUR LIABILITY
- The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:
- All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute (advise).
- Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:
- loss of income or revenue;
- loss of business;
- loss of profits or contracts;
- loss of anticipated savings;
- loss of data;
- loss of goodwill;
- wasted management or office time; and
- for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable, provided that this condition shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your tangible property or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded by any of the categories set out above.
- This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
- The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:
- INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND YOUR VISITS TO OUR SITE
- We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
- We will use information supplied by you (including, without limitation, sensitive personal data) for the organization and celebration of the African Football Business Summit which will be held in Kigali, Rwanda, on 14th and 15th September 2022. This involves the FFA, amongst other things, processing and storing information (including, without limitation, sensitive personal data) and passing or making available online such information for the promotion of the event. We use third parties to help us process your information. We may collect and aggregate data from the information supplied by you to help us to understand our users so that we can provide you with a better service. We may also share aggregate information with selected third parties, without disclosing individual names or identifying information. You consent to the FFA using information provided by you (including, without limitation, sensitive personal data) in each of these ways. We will process any data which you provide in completing the online registration or application forms and any further forms of our website and / or social media, assessments or personal details which you complete or provide to us when using this site in accordance with Kenyan data protection legislation.
- VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES
- You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to our site, the server on which our site is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
- By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Kenyan Law. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
- We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
- LINKING TO OUR SITE
- You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
- You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
- Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy.
- If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to info@footballfoundation.africa.
- LINKS FROM OUR SITE
- Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
- JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW
- The Kenyan courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site and/or any dispute which may arise out of, under, or in connection with these terms and conditions. (although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country).
- These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of Kenya.
- VARIATIONS
- We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.
- These terms and conditions were published in Nairobi and were updated on 16th March 2022.
- YOUR CONCERNS
- If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact info@footballfoundation.africa.
- Thank you for visiting our site.