COVID Mobility Works

Terms of Use

Last updated: 10/06/2021

COVID Mobility Works is an independent digital platform ("Website") owned and operated by the New Urban Mobility Alliance (NUMO), which is hosted by WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities; Global New Mobility Coalition, which is hosted by the World Economic Forum; High Volume Transport Applied Research Programme, IMCWorldwide; POLIS - Promotion of Operational Links with Integrated Services AISBL; Urbanism Next Center of the University of Oregon; Transportation Sustainability Research Center of the University of California at Berkeley; and Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI) (thereafter referred to as "we", "our" or "us"). The Website is made available to the users (individually "you" or "Visitor" and collectively "Visitors") under the following Terms of Use:

1 . Agreement to the Terms of Use

Please read these Terms of Use carefully before accessing the Website. These Terms of Use contain conditions, disclaimers, and other provisions, some of which limit our liability. By accessing the Website, you explicitly agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE WEBSITE.

2. Appropriate Use

Visitors shall not use the Website to:

  1. (i) Post, submit or otherwise distribute unlawful, defamatory, abusive, obscene or offensive materials;
  2. (ii) post or transmit of any content to/through Website that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party, endanger national security, or that would otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national or international law;
  3. (iii) attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any content of the Website;
  4. (iv) transmit any viruses, corrupted data or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files;
  5. "(v) violate Website's or any third-party rights including, but not limited to intellectual property;
  6. (vi) access or attempt to access Website using interfaces aside from the ones provided by the Website;
  7. (vii) limit or constrict the availability or quality of the Website;
  8. (viii) commenting on other people ideas in a non­ appropriate manner;
  9. (ix) bypass, disable or delete any copy protection mechanisms or any security mechanisms on the Website.

In case of violation of this Section 2, we reserve the sole right to take any actions, including but not limited to prevent your access to the Website.

3. Disclaimer of Warranties

WEBSITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" WITH NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, TRANSLATION AND TITLE. WE DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL LIABILITY FOR THE ACTS, OMISSIONS AND CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTIES IN CONNECTION WITH OR RELATED TO VISITORS' USE OF WEBSITE. VISITORS ASSUME TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR USE OF THE WEBSITE AND ANY LINKED SITES. YOUR SOLE REMEDY AGAINST US FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE SITE OR ANY CONTENT IS TO STOP USING THE SITE OR ANY SUCH CONTENT. IF THIS DISCLAIMER IS NOT ENFORCEABLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, IT MAY BE MODIFIED AT OUR SOLE DISCRETION TO A FORM THAT IS ENFORCEABLE.

FURTHERMORE, WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OR CORRUPTION CAUSED BY VIRUSES (OR SIMILAR MECHANISMS SUCH AS WORMS, LOCK OUTS, METERING, OR SELF-DESTRUCT MECHANISMS) ON COMPUTERS OR OTHER TERMINAL EQUIPMENT IN CONNECTION WITH VISITING, USING AND/OR DOWNLOADING CONTENT/INFORMATION FROM THE WEBSITE OF ANY KIND OR ACCESSING ANY EXTERNAL THIRD PARTY LINKS. THE VISITORS ARE PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR PROTECTING THEIR EQUIPMENT APPROPRIATELY FROM VIRUSES AND OTHER RISKS ON THE INTERNET. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT, AT OUR SOLE DISCRETION, BUT DISCLAIM THE OBLIGATION, TO MONITOR AND/OR REMOVE ANY CONTENT FROM THE WEBSITE.

4. Intellectual Property Rights

We publish content, photographs, videos, graphics, logos, resources and links ("Content") provided by third parties. Any Content of the third parties remain owned by such third parties and your use of Website does not give you any rights of ownership in relation to such third-party Content. You may only use such Content in accordance with these Terms of Use.

We will retain all (including where applicable, ownership) rights in relation to any comments, ideas, and feedback provided by Visitors in relation to the use of the Website ("Visitor's Feedback"). Visitors are not authorized to use our name, logo or likeness.

Should you participate in a specific campaign organised by us and published on this Website (“Campaign”) you may be required to submit Content to participate. In such case, you grant the World Economic Forum and NUMO/WRI an irrevocable, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, sub-licensable transferable right and license to use and display your Content in connection with the Campaign and use the Content in any media whatsoever now known or later invented for promoting, or otherwise publicizing in connection with the Campaign, without further permission required.

5. Data Protection

We will not collect personal data from you as Visitor to the Website. However, should you participate in a Campaign and submit Content, you will be directed to a specific page and form. In that connection, we will request you to provide your personal data and a specific Privacy Notice will be provided.

6. Links to Other Websites

Links (including e-mail addresses) – with exception of the Campaigns submission links that bring you to a specific form to enable your participation – in the Website may connect Visitors to external or third-party websites that are not related to us or under our control. We are not responsible for the content of external or third-party websites that may be accessible or displayed through external links in Website. The presence of these external links does not represent our endorsement of the views or content of these third-party websites. Navigating to external websites through links on the Website is done at the sole risk of the Visitor, and we expressly disclaim any and all liability, damage and losses for any content that appears on any external site.

7. Links to the Website

The Visitor may link to Website provided the Visitor does so in a way that indicates that the link is to the Website and is fair and not misleading. Visitors may not integrate or make use of all or part of the Website in ways that would confuse or mislead other Visitors as to the nature and origin of Website content.

8. Amendments

We may amend these Terms of Use at any time, and such amendments will be effective immediately upon providing the notice in the Website. Visitor's continued use of the Website will be deemed as acceptance of the modified Terms of Use.

9. Waiver and Severability of Terms of Use

Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of these Terms of Use is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavour to give effect to the parties' intention as reflected in the provision and the other provisions of these Terms of Use shall remain in full force and effect.

10. Applicable law and Jurisdiction

These Terms of Use shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the substantive laws of Switzerland, under the exclusion of any conflicts of laws principles. Exclusive place of jurisdiction shall be Geneva, Switzerland.

11. Contact

For any notices and questions regarding these Terms of Use, please contact us: info@covidmobilityworks.org.