TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. INTRODUCTION AND DATA OF THE COMPANY

The present document constitutes the Terms of Use of the Website owned by AED – Associação Portuguesa para o Cluster das Indústrias Aeronáutica, Espaço e Defesa, (here in after referred to as the “Entity” or “AED Cluster Portugal”), located at the URLs https://registration.aeddays.com and https://app.beamian.com/aed-days-2024/new-visitor-embed, which has its registered office at Parque do Alentejo de Ciência e Tecnologia, Rua Luís Adelino Fonseca, Lt 1, 7005-841 Évora, Portugal. Our main activity is the representation of the national Aeronautics, Space and Defence industries.

2. OBJECT AND SCOPE

These Terms of Use regulate the access and use of the contents made available by the Entity through its Website. Nevertheless, the Entity reserves the right to modify the presentation, configuration and contents of the Website and Services, as well as the conditions of access and/or use required. The access and use of the Contents and Services after the entry into force of any modifications or alterations, imply the acceptance of the same.

However, access to certain contents and the use of certain services may be subject to certain specific conditions, which, as the case may be, will replace, supplement and/or modify these Terms of Use. In the event of contradiction, the terms of the specific conditions shall prevail over those of the Terms of Use.

The mere access, navigation and use of the Website implies and presupposes the express and unreserved acceptance by the User of all the terms of these Terms and Conditions.

In this sense, the User is understood to be the person who accesses, browses or views the contents hosted on the Website and/or who provides personal data through the forms available on the Website itself.

3. ACCESS

Access to and browsing the Website does not require Registration, except that in order to use certain features and/or services it will be necessary to provide the required data, such as, but not limited to, name and email address.

It is forbidden to access and browse the Website for minors under 14 years of age, except with the prior and express authorisation of parents, guardians or legal representatives, who will be held responsible for the acts carried out by minors under their charge, in accordance with the law in force. In any case, it is presumed that the access made by a minor to the Website was made with the prior and express authorization of parents, guardians or legal representatives.

4. INTELLECTUAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

 

4.1 Intellectual Property Rights

The Entity is the holder, or has obtained the corresponding license, of the rights of exploitation of intellectual and industrial property of the Website, as well as the rights of intellectual and industrial property on the information, materials, contents, computer programs, structure, selection, ordering and presentation of its Contents and Services available through the same.

 

4.2 Industrial Property Rights

References to names and trademarks or registered trademarks, logos and other emblems, whether owned by AED Cluster Portugal or third party companies, are implied to prohibit their use without the consent of the Entity or its legitimate owners. At no time, except by express manifestation, the access or use of the Website and/or its Contents and/or Services confers to the user any right over the brands, logos and/or emblems included in it and protected by Law.

 

5. LICENSE ON COMMUNICATIONS

 

In the event that the user sends information of any kind to the Entity through the Website, through the channels that may have been made available for that purpose on the Page itself, the User declares, guarantees and accepts that he/she has the right to do so freely, that the said information does not infringe any intellectual property, trademark, patent, trade secret or any other right of third parties, that the said information is not confidential and that the said information is not harmful to third parties.

 

The User acknowledges to assume the responsibility, from which the Entity will exempt the Entity for any information provided personally or on its behalf, being the responsibility referring to the accuracy, legality, originality and ownership of the information.

 

6. RESPONSIBILITIES AND GUARANTEES

 

The Entity cannot guarantee the reliability, usefulness or truthfulness of the services or information provided through the Website.

Consequently, the Entity does not guarantee or accept responsibility for: (i) continuity of content on the Website; (ii) absence of errors in such content or products; (iii) absence of viruses and/or other harmful components on the Website or the server that hosts it; (iv) invulnerability of the Website and/or impregnability of security measures adopted on it; (v) lack of usefulness or performance of content and products on the Website; (vi) damage or loss caused to yourself or to a third party by any person who violates the terms, standards and instructions that the Entity sets forth on the Website or by violating the Website’s security systems.

However, the Entity declares to have adopted all the necessary measures, within its possibilities and the state of the technology, to guarantee the functioning of the Website and to avoid the existence and transmission of viruses and other harmful components to the users.

If the user becomes aware of the existence of any illegal content or contrary to the law or that may imply an infringement of intellectual and/or industrial property rights, he must immediately report it to the Entity so that it can proceed with the application of appropriate measures.

 

7. LINKS

 

7.1 Links to other web pages

If, on the Web Site, the User can find links to other Web pages through different buttons, links, banners, etc., these will be managed by third parties. AED Cluster Portugal does not have the capacity, nor human or technical resources, to know, control or approve all the information, contents, products or services provided by other websites, to which links can be established from the Website.

 

Consequently, the Entity cannot assume any type of responsibility for any aspect related to the web page to which a link can be established from the web site, in particular, by way of example, about its operation, access, data, information, files, quality, reliability of its products and services, of its own links and/or of any of its contents in general.

 

In this regard, if Users have actual knowledge of the illegality of activities carried out through these third party web pages, they must immediately notify the Entity in order to deactivate the access link to the same.

 

The establishment of any type of link from the Website to an external website does not imply the existence of any type of relationship, collaboration or dependency between the Entity and the person responsible for that external website.

 

7.2 Links to the Entity’s channel on platforms and social networks

The Entity makes available to Users, through different tools and APIs, technical connection devices that allow Users to access channels and pages of the Entity, on different platforms and social networks owned and/or managed by third parties. The sole purpose of installing these applications on the Website is to facilitate Users’ access to the Entity’s channels on the different platforms and social networks.

 

The establishment of these applications does not imply the existence of any relationship between the Entity and the owner of the platform with which the connection has been established, nor does it imply the acceptance and approval by the Entity of its contents and/or services, and their owner is solely responsible for them.

 

Given that the Entity does not have any control over the content housed in these channels, the User acknowledges and accepts that the Entity does not assume any responsibility for the content or services that the User may access on these pages, nor for any other material available on them. For this reason, the User must be extremely prudent in evaluating and using the information, content and services existing in the channels to which links are established.

 

7.3 Links from other websites to the Website

The entity does not authorize the establishment of a link to the Web Site from Web pages that contain material, information or content that is illegal, degrading, and obscene and in general contrary to morality, public order or that are not generally accepted social norms.

 

7.4 Services provided by third parties through the Website

AED Cluster Portugal does not guarantee the lawfulness, reliability and usefulness of the services provided, the Contents provided by third parties through this page, nor those in which the Entity only acts as an advertising channel.

 

The Entity shall not be liable for damages and losses of any nature caused by the services provided, by the Third Party Content that is advertised through the Website, and in particular, as a mere indication, caused by:

 

·       Non-compliance with the law, morals and public order.

·       Incorporation of viruses or any computer code, file or program that may damage, interrupt or prevent the normal functioning of any software, hardware or telecommunications equipment.

·       Infringement of Intellectual and Industrial Property rights or contractual commitments of any kind.

·       Carrying out acts that constitute illicit, misleading or unfair advertising and, in general that constitute unfair competition.

·       Lack of truthfulness, accuracy, quality, relevance and/or timeliness of the Contents transmitted, disseminated, stored, received, obtained, and made available or accessible.

·       Infringement of the rights of honour, personal and family privacy and the image of persons or, in general, any type of rights of third parties.

·       Inadequacy for any kind of purpose and defrauding of the expectations generated, or defects and defects that may arise in the relationship with third parties.

·       Non-compliance, delay in performance, inadequate performance or termination for any reason of the obligations contracted by third parties and contracts entered into with third parties.

·       Communication of data between Users.

 

AED Cluster Portugal shall not be responsible, in cases where third parties advertise their services and/or Contents on the Website, for the truthfulness of the information produced by the supplier about such services and/or Contents, for obtaining the administrative authorizations that may be required of the supplier to provide its services, for the violation by the supplier of the rights of third parties and, in general, for any obligation or guarantee required of the supplier towards the Users.

 

The Entity does not have the capacity or human or technical means to know, control or approve all the information, contents, products or services provided by other websites that have established links to the Website. The Entity does not assume any type of responsibility for any aspect related to the Website, namely, as an indication, about its operation, access, data, information, files, quality and reliability of its products and services, its own links and/or any of its contents, in general.

 

8. COOKIES

 

The Entity may treat information about visitors to the Website. For that purpose, this Website may use navigation cookies or other common invisible systems in order to optimize and improve navigation on the Website.

 

The Entity considers that navigation on the Website constitutes acceptance of the collection and processing of such information. In any case, commonly used browsers contain several security features that allow the User to prevent the use of cookies and/or other navigation data collection systems at any time.

 

9. COMMUNICATION CHANNEL

 

The Entity makes available to its Users a channel through which they can communicate and make known the existence of any Contents that are considered to be contrary to the law or that infringe the legitimate rights of third parties.

 

Any user who may have knowledge of any of the situations referred to above, may immediately inform the Entity so that it can review the content in question and, if necessary, proceed with its removal or deactivation, using the address available for this purpose: aed@aedportugal.pt

 

10. SUSPENSION OF SERVICE

 

The Entity reserves the right to suspend, modify, restrict, interrupt, temporarily or permanently, the access, navigation, use, hosting and/or downloading of Contents and/or use of Web Site Services or any of the said activities, with or without prior notification, as long as it violates any of the terms specified in these Terms of Use, without the User being able to claim any compensation for this reason.

 

11. PRIVACY POLICY

 

The processing of personal data that may be carried out is determined by the provisions of the PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION POLICY document.

 

12. DURATION AND MODIFICATION

 

The Entity may modify the terms and conditions herein stipulated, totally or partially, publishing any modification in the same way as these Terms of Use appear, or through any type of communication addressed to the Users.

 

The validity of these Terms of Use coincide, therefore, with the time of its exposure, until it is totally or partially modified, from which moment the modified Terms of Use will come into force.

 

Regardless of what is stated in the particular conditions, the Entity may terminate, suspend or interrupt access to the contents of the page at any time and without the need for prior notice, without the User being able to demand any compensation. After the referred extinction, the prohibitions of use of the contents previously exposed in the present Terms of Use will remain in force.

 

13. GENERALITIES

 

The headings of the different clauses are for informational purposes only and will not affect, qualify or extend the interpretation of the Terms of Use.

 

In the event of any discrepancy between the provisions of these Terms of Use and the particular conditions of each specific service, the provisions of the latter will prevail.

 

In the event that any provision or provisions of these Terms of Use are found to be invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, by any Judge, Court or competent administrative body, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the other provisions of these Terms of Use.

 

Failure by the Entity to exercise or enforce any right or provision contained in these Terms of Use do not constitute a waiver thereof, unless acknowledged and agreed in writing by the Entity.

 

14. JURISDICTION

 

The relations established between the Entity and the User are governed by the provisions of Portuguese law in force. The Entity and the User, expressly waiving any other jurisdiction that may apply to them, will submit any controversy and/or dispute to the knowledge of the Judges and Courts of the city of Lisbon.

 

Last date of revision: February 15, 2024