FT Website: Terms of Use & Privacy Policy

 

Terms of Use

The web pages available at frontiertechhub.org and all linked pages are owned and operated by Results for Development Institute (R4D) and are accessed by you under the Terms of Use described below (“Terms of Use”). Please read these Terms of Use before using frontiertechhub.org (“this website”) or any of the features on this site, including, but not limited to the social media resources. By using this website, you accept and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to the Terms of Use, please exit the website and do not access or otherwise use the website. We reserve the right to modify, add, or delete any of these Terms of Use at any time. Continued use of the website after any modifications, additions, or deletions to the Terms of Use will constitute your acceptance of the Terms of Use, as modified.

 

Accuracy of Content

We make every effort to ensure that the content of the website is accurate and up-to-date, but we do not offer any warranties (whether express implied or otherwise) as to the reliability, accuracy or completeness of the information appearing on the website. We may remove material from the website at our own discretion and without giving any notice.

 

Intellectual Property Rights

The contents of this website are protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. This website may not be used in any manner that violates the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark rights, patent rights, contract rights, or any other rights belonging to R4D or a third party. 

Unless authorised by the Terms of Use or by the owner of the materials, you are strictly prohibited from modifying, copying, reproducing, republishing, uploading, posting, transmitting, translating, selling, creating derivative works, or distributing in any manner or medium (including email or other electronic means) any material from this website. Your use of the website does not grant you ownership of any content, code, data, or other materials you may access on or through the website. Use of the website and the services offered on or through the website are only for your personal and non-commercial use.

When you post or submit any material to this website, you represent and warrant that you are the owner of the material or have express permission from the owner of the material to post, use, or submit the material. You are solely responsible for any damages resulting from any infringements of copyrights, trademark rights, propriety rights, or any other harm resulting from any uploading, posting, or submission. When you post or submit material to this website, you grant R4D the right to use the material, royalty-free, and give us the non-exclusive right and licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate display, distribute and create any type of derivative work from the submitted material. Submitting or posting material also grants us the right to identify you as the author of any of your postings or submissions by name, email address, or username, as we deem appropriate.

We respect the intellectual property rights of others and require that people who use this website and services available on this website do the same. If you believe your work has been copied in a way that constitutes infringement, please forward the following information to our designated offices:

  • Your address, telephone number, and email address;

  • A description of the copyrighted work you claim has been infringed;

  • A description of where the alleged infringing material is located;

  • A statement that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;

  • An electronic or physical signature of the person authorised to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; and

  • A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or are authorised to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.

 

Third Party Sites

You may be able to link from this website to third-party websites; conversely, third-party websites may link to this website. You acknowledge and agree that this website has no responsibility for the information, content, products, services, advertising, code, or other materials which may be provided by or through third-party sites. Links to third-party sites do not constitute an endorsement or sponsorship by this website of such third-party sites or the information, content, products, services, advertising, or other materials presented on or through such websites. You agree that R4D and its affiliates are not responsible for any damages that you incur arising from your use of any products or services made available by third-parties through the website.

 

Disclaimers

This website provides links to websites maintained by third parties. Any information, products, or services provided by the third-party sites are maintained by the operators of such sites and not by R4D or our subsidiaries. When these third-party sites are accessed, they are accessed at your own risk.

This website and any content, materials, features or products available or sold on or through this website are available on an “as is” and “as available” basis, without any warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability of fitness for a particular purpose. We do not warrant that this service will be uninterrupted or error-free, virus-free, nor do we make any warranties that any defects will be corrected. We make no warranty that the website or the provided services will meet users’ requirements. No advice, results or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from us or through the website shall create any warranty not expressly made herein.

We also assume no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your equipment on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the website or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video content, or audio content from the website. If you are dissatisfied with the website, your sole remedy is to discontinue using the website.  

We try to ensure that the information posted on the website is correct and up-to-date. We reserve the right to change or make corrections to any of the information provided on the website at any time and without any prior warning. We neither endorse nor are responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement on the website, nor for any offensive, defamatory, obscene, indecent, unlawful or infringing posting made thereon by anyone other than authorised employees while acting in their official capacities (including, without limitation, other users of the website). 

It is your responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content available through the website. Please seek the advice of professionals, as appropriate, regarding the evaluation of any specific information, opinion, advice or other content, including but not limited to financial, health or lifestyle information, opinion, advice or other content.

 

Limitations on Liability

In no event will R4D or its directors, employees, or agents be liable to you or any third person for any direct, indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special, or punitive damages, including for any lost profits or lost data arising from your use of the website or this service.

 

Terminations

At any time and without notice, we may suspend, cancel, or terminate your right to use this website or any portion of the website. In the event of a suspension, cancellation, or termination, you are no longer authorised to access the part of the website affected by such suspension, cancellation, or termination.

 

Other Terms

These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and R4D regarding the use of the website and supersede any prior agreements between you and R4D relating to your use of the website. The failure of R4D to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision in that or any other instance. If any provision of these Terms of Use is held invalid, the remainder of the Terms of Use shall continue in full force and effect. If any provision of these Terms of Use shall be deemed unlawful, void, or for any other reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms of Use and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. This agreement shall be governed and construed by the laws of the District of Columbia without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. The foregoing provisions of these Terms of Use are for the benefit of R4D, its affiliates, and third-party content providers and licensors, and each shall have the right to asset and enforce provisions of the Terms of Use directly and on their own behalf.

 

Privacy Policy

At Results for Development, we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Policy explains when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our website, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure. We may change this Policy from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re aware of any changes. By using our website, you’re agreeing to be bound by this Policy.

Any questions regarding this Policy and our privacy practises should be sent by email to procurement@r4d.org or by writing to Legal Department at R4D, 1111 19th Street, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036. Alternatively, you can telephone (+1) 202.570.5711.

 

How do we collect information from you?

We obtain information about you when you use our website, for example, if you register to receive one of our email newsletters or announcements or if you access information we post about our programs.

 

What type of information is collected from you?

The personal information we collect might include your name, address, email address, IP address, and information regarding what pages are accessed and when.

How is your information used?

We may use your information to:

  • To provide information or services to you as requested by you.

  • To let you know about information and services in which you may be interested.

  • For internal review.

  • To seek your views or comments on the services we provide.

  • To improve the content of the website.

  • To customise the content and /or layout of the website for each individual user.

  • To notify users about updates to the website.

  • To compile and disclose statistics about our users and their preferences. However, these statistics are anonymous and do not identify individual users.

We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory obligations. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with us.

 

Who has access to your information?

We will not pass any of your personal information to any third party, other than R4D and its affiliates engaged in the running of the Frontier Technologies programme without your consent. We will not sell or rent your information to third parties. We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes. Third Party Service Providers working on our behalf: We may pass your information to our third party service providers, agents, subcontractors and other associated organisations for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (for example to send you mailings). However, when we use third party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary for them to deliver the service and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your personal information secure and not to use it for their own direct marketing purposes. Please be assured that we will not release your personal information to third parties for them to use for their own direct marketing purposes unless you have requested us to do so, or we are required to do so by law, for example, by a court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime.

 

Legitimate interest

We may disclose your personally identifiable information to certain third-party (e.g., partners) used by the FT Hub to assist us in providing services to the extent necessary to enable such partners to provide such assistance. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.The legal basis for the collecting and the processing of personal data depends on the purpose for which we use the personal data. In some instances, the basis for processing is your consent. However, in some cases, the legal basis for processing will be FT Hub’s legitimate interest. Note that should you believe that your interest outweighs the Hub’s interests, you may object to such processing as described in this Policy.

How you can access and update your information

The accuracy of your information is important to us. We’re working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that we hold about you. In the meantime, if you change your email address, or any of the other personal information we hold about you is inaccurate or out of date, please contact us. 

You also have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you, to request that we transfer your personal information to you or to another data processor, to request that we dispose of your personal information if we are legally permitted to do so, and to withdraw your consent for us to hold your personal information.

 

Security precautions in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of your information

Non-sensitive details (your email address etc.) are transmitted normally over the Internet, and this can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. 

 

Use of ‘cookies’

Like many other websites, this website uses cookies. ‘Cookies’ are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognize you when you visit. They collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual. For example, we use cookies to store the pages you may visit. This helps us to improve our website and deliver a better and more personalised service. The best way to switch off cookies is by setting your browser preferences. Turning cookies off may result in a loss of functionality when using our website.

 

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This Privacy Policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practises of other sites even if you access them using links from our website. In addition, if you linked to our website from a third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practises of the owners and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site.

 

16 or Under

The privacy of children aged 16 or under is very important to us. If you are aged 16 or under‚ please get your parent/guardian’s permission before you provide us with personal information.

 

Transferring your information outside of Europe

If you have accessed this website while within the European Union (“EU”), you should be aware that the information which you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside the EU. By way of example, this may happen if any of our servers are from time to time located in a country outside of the EU. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to the EU. By submitting your personal data, you’re agreeing to this transfer, storing or processing. If we transfer your information outside of the EU in this way, we will take steps to ensure that appropriate security measures are taken with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Policy. If you use our services while you are outside the EU, your information may be transferred outside the EU in order to provide you with those services.

 

Analytics

Our website uses analytics, which may record mouse clicks, mouse movements, page scrolling and any text keyed into website forms. The information collected does not include bank details or any sensitive personal data. Data collected by these tools is for internal use only. The information collected is used to improve our website usability and is stored and used for aggregated and statistical reporting.

 

Review of this Policy.

We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated on November 5th 2024.