Terms of Service

These terms were last updated on September 6, 2024

Scope

These terms govern use of the website (https://biosecurity.world). The operator Félix Dorn (the sole entrepreneurship incorporated in France) of the website may offer other products and services. These terms apply only to use of the website.

Important Terms

These terms include a number of especially important provisions that affect your rights and responsibilities, such as the disclaimers in Disclaimers , limits on the operator’s legal liability to you in Limits on Liability , your agreement to reimburse the operator for problems caused by your misuse of the website in Your Responsibility , and an agreement about how to resolve disputes in Disputes .

Your Permission to Use the Website

Subject to these terms, the operator gives you permission to use the website. You can’t transfer your permission to anyone else. Others need to agree to these terms for themselves to use the website.

Conditions for Use of the Website

Your permission to use the website is subject to the following conditions:

  1. You must be at least thirteen years old.
  2. You may no longer use the website if the operator tells you that you may not.
  3. You must follow a Acceptable Use and Content Standards .

Acceptable Use

  1. You may not break the law using the website.

  2. You may not falsely imply that you’re affiliated with or endorsed by the operator.

  3. You may automate access to the website, or monitor the website, so long as you identify yourself, for example through a unique User-Agent header. You may crawl the website to index it for a publicly available search engine, so long as you abide by the rules of any robots.txt file on the website.

  4. You may not strain infrastructure of the website with an unreasonable volume of requests, or requests designed to impose an unreasonable load on information systems the operator uses to provide the website.

  5. You may not disable, avoid, or circumvent any security or access restrictions of the website.

  6. You may not encourage or help anyone in violation of these terms.

Content Standards

  1. You may not use the website to disclose information from or about others that you don’t have the right to disclose.

  2. You may not submit content to the website that is illegal, offensive, or otherwise harmful to others. This includes content that is harassing, inappropriate, or abusive.

  3. You may not submit content to the website that violates the law, infringes anyone’s intellectual property rights, violates anyone’s privacy, or breaches agreements you have with others.

  4. You may not submit content to the website containing malicious computer code, such as computer viruses or spyware.

Enforcement

  1. The operator may investigate and prosecute violations of these terms to the fullest legal extent. The operator may notify and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting violations of the law and these terms.

  2. The operator reserves the right to change, redact, and delete content on the website for any reason. If you believe someone has submitted content to the website in violation of these terms, contact the operator immediately. See Contact .

Your Content

  1. For all content that you share with the website, you grant the operator and its affiliates a worldwide, royalty-free (meaning that there is no ongoing payment to you required), sub-licensable, and transferable license to host, store, cache, use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, analyse, transmit, and distribute that content.

  2. This licence is for the limited purpose of operating, developing, providing, promoting and improving the website and researching and developing new ones.

  3. This license includes a right for the operator to make your content available to, and pass these rights along to, service providers with whom the operator has contractual relationships related to the provision of the website, solely for the purpose of providing such services.

Your responsibility

You agree to reimburse the operator for all the costs of legal claims by others related to your breach of these terms, or breach of these terms by others using your account. Both you and the operator agree to notify the other side of any legal claims you might have to reimburse the operator for as soon as possible. If the operator fails to notify you of a legal claim promptly, you won’t have to reimburse the operator for costs that you could have defended against or lessened with prompt notice. You agree to allow the operator to take over investigation, defense, and settlement of legal claims you would have to reimburse the operator for, and to cooperate with those efforts. The operator agrees not to enter any settlement that admits you were at fault or requires you to do anything without your permission.

Disclaimers

  1. You accept all risk of using the website and it content. As far as the law allows, the operator provides the website and its content as is, without any warranty whatsoever.

  2. The website may hyperlink to and integrate websites and services run by others. The operator does not make any warranty about services run by others, or content they may provide. Use of services run by others may be governed by other terms between you and the one running service.

Limits on Liability

  1. The operator will not be liable to you for breach-of-contract damages operator personnel could not have reasonably foreseen when you agreed to these terms.

  2. As far as the law allows, the operator’s total liability to you for claims of any kind that are related to the website or its content will be limited to $50.

Feedback

  1. The operator welcomes your feedback and suggestions for the website. See Contact .

  2. You agree that the operator will be free to act on feedback and suggestions you provide, and that the operator won’t have to notify you that your feedback was used, get your permission to use it, or pay you for it. You agree not to submit feedback or suggestions that you believe might be confidential or proprietary, to you or others.

Termination

  1. Either you or the operator may end this agreement at any time. When this agreement ends, your permission to use the website also ends.

  2. The following sections continue after this agreement ends: Your Content , Feedback , Your Responsibility , Disclaimers , Limits on Liability , and General Terms .

Disputes

  1. The governing law of France will govern these terms and all legal proceedings related to these terms or your use of the website.

  2. Both sides agree to bring any legal claim related to this agreement only in the national and any national-subdivision courts located in the forum for disputes of Strasbourg, France.

  3. Neither you nor the operator will object to jurisdiction, forum, or venue in those courts.

  4. If the governing law allows, both sides waive their rights to trial by jury.

  5. Both sides agree to bring any legal claims related to this agreement as individuals, not as part of a class action or other representative proceeding.

General Terms

  1. If a section of these terms is unenforceable as written, but could be changed to make it enforceable, that section should be changed to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable. Otherwise, that section should be removed, and the others should be enforced as written.

  2. You may not assign this agreement. The operator may assign this agreement to any affiliate of the operator, any other company that obtains control of the operator, or any other company that buys assets of the operator related to the website. Any attempt to assign against these terms has no legal effect.

  3. Neither the exercise of any right under this agreement, nor waiver of any breach of this agreement, waives any other breach of this agreement.

  4. These terms, plus the terms on any page incorporating them by reference, are all the terms of agreement between you and the operator about use of the website. This agreement entirely replaces any other agreements about your use of the website, written or not.

Contact

  1. You may notify the operator under these terms, and send questions to the operator, using the email team @biosecurity.world.

Changes

  1. The operator may update the terms of service for the website. The operator will post all updates to the website. The operator may also announce updates with special messages or alerts on the website.

  2. Once you get notice of an update to these terms, you must agree to the new terms in order to keep using the website.