These Terms of Use, subject to Turkish and international law, govern the use of the site Artcitizens.net including all content and features accessible on the site artcitizens.net (all of which are called hereafter “Site”) published by Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University and its partners within the framework of the City and Art Project www.cityandartproject.net. Your access or use of the Site, whether you are a registered or non-registered user of the site, infers express acceptance without reservations of the Terms of Use.
Read the Terms of Use carefully and do not hesitate to contact us at info@cityandart.org for any questions that you may have.
TERMS OF USE
Artcitizens.net is an original site and a social networking service to host text, images, photographs, videos and music on the theme of art free of charge and to allow users to view, listen, put online, store, share and comment on their own artistic creations and those of other users.
Users may not communicate through this site any content (text, photos, video, works of art, sound recordings, data etc.) which is protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights owned by third parties, unless permission to do so has been expressly granted by the rights holder. Proof of such permission must be supplied when uploading the content.
Artcitizens.net does not and cannot review content uploaded by users, and is not responsible for any content posted. Artcitizens.net reserves the right to refuse, delete, move or edit, at its sole discretion, content that it deems in violation of the law. Users shall remain solely responsible for the content of the content they communicate.
Artcitizens.net may modify the Terms of Use at any time. In this case, these modifications will be notified on the Site. To this effect, you recognize and accept that your use of the Site or simply your access to it after the date at which the modifications are issued will infer your acceptance of the Terms of Use as they have been modified.
Artcitizens.net is intended solely for users who are over 18 years of age. Access and use of Artcitizens.net by a user under the age of 18 is a breach of these terms of use.
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to this site, or to make contact with other users of this site, you are responsible for all the content that you upload, publish or display, including (but not limited to) text, photos, music, comments on other users’ profiles and you must comply with the content standards set out in our Terms of Use. You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.
If you are registered and you have an account through which you publish your texts, images, photographs, audiovisual work, videos and music online, as well as your comments (all of which are called hereafter “Your Content”), Artcitizens.net does not acquire any property rights with regard to Your Content. If you choose to make Your Content accessible to other users (individually or in groups), you declare that you accept that they can, free of charge and to purely personal ends, download, copy, view, listen to and share Your Content on the Site or from the Site, on other fixed or mobile electronic communications media, for all of the time that Your Content is hosted on the Site. In addition, during the time that Your Content is hosted and strictly within the scope of applications making the Site accessible via Internet or other electronic communications media, you authorize us to reproduce and/or represent Your Content and, if need be, adapt its format to this effect. You are also informed that, in view of the intrinsic characteristics of the Internet, data submitted, in particular Your Content, is not protected against risks of appropriation and/or hacking, for which we will not be held responsible in any case whatsoever. It is up to you, if relevant, to take all appropriate measures to protect this data.
By posting your Content using the Services, you are granting Artcitizens.net a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use your Content in connection with the operation of the Services, including, without limitation, the license rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Content, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work.
You agree that Artcitizens.net will not be liable, under any circumstances and in any way, for any errors or omissions, loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of use of any content posted on this site. You agree that you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such content.
We are not legally bound to any general obligation of surveillance of content transmitted or stored via the Site.
Generally, Artcitizens.net will not be held responsible under any circumstances for content made available through the Site and for relations that may be established between users of the Site, in particular if information and/or data should be false, deceptive or misleading in their appearance.
In addition, the Site may contain links to other Internet sites that have no affiliation with Artcitizens.net. Artcitizens.net makes no guarantee and will in no case be held responsible for the nature and content of the said sites nor for damage or prejudice that you might suffer through connection to the said sites, even by clicking on a link appearing on one of the pages of the Site.
Users may not communicate through this site any content which is libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive or in any way violates any laws.
By placing Your Content on the Site, you are bound to comply with legal and regulatory provisions in force. It is therefore your responsibility to ensure that the storage and distribution of Your Content via the Site does not constitute (i) a violation of third party intellectual property rights (copyright and/or similar rights), (ii) damage to persons (in particular defamation, abuse, etc.) or invasion of privacy, (iii) offences to public order and standards of good behaviour (in particular, vindication of crimes against humanity, incitement to racial hatred, child pornography, etc.). By putting Your Content online and at the disposal of Other Users on and/or through the Site, you guarantee that you hold all rights and authorizations necessary from holders concerned, and that Your Content in no case constitutes one of the offences stated in (ii) and (iii) above.
In addition, you undertake to make very effort to ensure that all information and data in Your Content is correct and cannot mislead Other Users. Failing this, Your Content will be removed and/or your account will be deactivated without prior notice. Moreover, you will personally incur civil and/or penal sanctions specific to the litigious content (prison terms and/or fines and/or sentence to pay damages, publicity measures, etc.). In view of the community nature of the Site and in order to respect the sensibilities of other users, it is up to the user to maintain certain ethics as to the content placed online and in particular to abstain from distributing any content of a violent or pornographic nature.
You must not misuse Artcitizens.net by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to Artcitizens.net, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack Artcitizens.net 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 Computer Misuse Act 1990. 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 Artcitizens.net 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 Artcitizens.net or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it. You should take adequate steps to ensure that you virus check regularly when using Artcitizens.net on your computer, PDA or phone.
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.
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.
In order to benefit from the features of the Site, you must create an account using the form provided to this effect. You are free at all times to modify the personal data provided on this occasion. As soon as the form is validated, you will receive an email inviting you to click on a link in order to confirm your registration. Your account can be accessed by entering your username and associated password. You will ensure this information remains confidential. Use of the Site following your registration is valid for an unspecified period. We reserve the right to end this at any time by sending an email. If the Terms of Use are not respected, access to your personal area may be temporarily or definitively suspended immediately and without prior notice by deactivation of your account. This is without prejudice to our other rights.
Artcitizens.net reserves the right to alter, to depart from or to cease offering its Services free of charge at any time, taking into account Artcitizens.net's legitimate interests and reasonable consumer expectations. Artcitizens.net will inform Members by email if a Service is to be offered in the future for a fee. You can then decide if you want to continue to use such Service. Your continued use of the Service after the proposed fee modification has been posted for at least one month will be considered acceptance of the proposed fee modification. The same applies if fees are raised by Artcitizens.net. If Artcitizens.net terminates your Membership because you have breached the Terms of Use, you shall not be entitled to the refund of any unused portion of subscription fees.
The Site is normally accessible continuously, apart from interruptions, programmed or not, for maintenance or cases of force majeure. We will not be held responsible for any damages, whatever their nature, as a result of the Site not being available.
The computerized registers conserved in our systems in accordance with due diligence with regard to security, are considered as proof of sending of emails, registration forms, and downloading of content. Archiving of registration forms is carried out using media that can ensure faithful and durable retention as required by the legal provisions in force. If there is a divergence between our registers and documents on paper or electronic format that you possess, our computerized registers will constitute final proof.
We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using this site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
PRIVACY POLICY
This section illustrates Artcitizens.net’s undertaking with regard to respect for your privacy and the protection of your personal data (hereafter called "Data"), collected and processed when you use the Site under the conditions fixed by the Terms of Use.
Data collected and later processed by ourselves concerns data that you send to us voluntarily via the Site registration form and includes at least your username and a valid email address. Data collected automatically by the Site includes your IP address (the address of your computer), and excludes any other. You are informed that the Site may implement an automatic tracking procedure (cookie) that you can block, if you are not a registered user, by modifying the relevant parameters of your Internet browser.
Data identified as being obligatory on the form is necessary in order to benefit from the features of the Site (publishing online, storage and sharing of content). Data collected automatically by the Site (using a cookie) allows us to compile statistics as to the consultation of its web pages. This information is collected for purely statistical purposes and in no case allows you to be identified.
Your data will not be communicated to third parties. You are however informed that it may be divulged in accordance with laws, regulations or by virtue of a decision of a regulatory or judicial authority within its jurisdiction or even, if it should be necessary, in order that Artcitizens.net may preserve its rights and interests.
Data is stored at the Site host is kept for the duration that is strictly necessary to fulfil the aims described earlier. After this time, it will be retained for purely statistical purposes and will not be used in any other way whatsoever.
Where you have chosen a password which enables you to access certain parts of Artcitizens.net, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to Artcitizens.net; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Unless you have opted out, we will use the information you provide when registering with Artcitizens.net to send you updates and newsletters relating to Artcitizens.net. You can opt out of receiving updates and newsletters at any time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link provided in all updates and newsletters.
We will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about services related to the subject matter of our site.
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@cityandart.org.
Disclaimer
Opinions expressed on this site are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Artcitizens.net, the project owners, its partners or its funders.
The Artcitizens.net Services are provided on an "AS-IS" basis and as available. Artcitizens.net does not warrant of timely, secure, error- and interruption-free provision of the Artcitizens.net Services. Artcitizens.net expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Artcitizens.net cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the Artcitizens.net Services. The exclusion of warranties does not affect your right of withdrawal.
Read the Terms of Use carefully and do not hesitate to contact us at info@cityandart.org for any questions that you may have.
TERMS OF USE
Artcitizens.net is an original site and a social networking service to host text, images, photographs, videos and music on the theme of art free of charge and to allow users to view, listen, put online, store, share and comment on their own artistic creations and those of other users.
Users may not communicate through this site any content (text, photos, video, works of art, sound recordings, data etc.) which is protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights owned by third parties, unless permission to do so has been expressly granted by the rights holder. Proof of such permission must be supplied when uploading the content.
Artcitizens.net does not and cannot review content uploaded by users, and is not responsible for any content posted. Artcitizens.net reserves the right to refuse, delete, move or edit, at its sole discretion, content that it deems in violation of the law. Users shall remain solely responsible for the content of the content they communicate.
Artcitizens.net may modify the Terms of Use at any time. In this case, these modifications will be notified on the Site. To this effect, you recognize and accept that your use of the Site or simply your access to it after the date at which the modifications are issued will infer your acceptance of the Terms of Use as they have been modified.
Artcitizens.net is intended solely for users who are over 18 years of age. Access and use of Artcitizens.net by a user under the age of 18 is a breach of these terms of use.
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload material to this site, or to make contact with other users of this site, you are responsible for all the content that you upload, publish or display, including (but not limited to) text, photos, music, comments on other users’ profiles and you must comply with the content standards set out in our Terms of Use. You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you indemnify us for any breach of that warranty.
If you are registered and you have an account through which you publish your texts, images, photographs, audiovisual work, videos and music online, as well as your comments (all of which are called hereafter “Your Content”), Artcitizens.net does not acquire any property rights with regard to Your Content. If you choose to make Your Content accessible to other users (individually or in groups), you declare that you accept that they can, free of charge and to purely personal ends, download, copy, view, listen to and share Your Content on the Site or from the Site, on other fixed or mobile electronic communications media, for all of the time that Your Content is hosted on the Site. In addition, during the time that Your Content is hosted and strictly within the scope of applications making the Site accessible via Internet or other electronic communications media, you authorize us to reproduce and/or represent Your Content and, if need be, adapt its format to this effect. You are also informed that, in view of the intrinsic characteristics of the Internet, data submitted, in particular Your Content, is not protected against risks of appropriation and/or hacking, for which we will not be held responsible in any case whatsoever. It is up to you, if relevant, to take all appropriate measures to protect this data.
By posting your Content using the Services, you are granting Artcitizens.net a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use your Content in connection with the operation of the Services, including, without limitation, the license rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Content, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work.
You agree that Artcitizens.net will not be liable, under any circumstances and in any way, for any errors or omissions, loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of use of any content posted on this site. You agree that you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such content.
We are not legally bound to any general obligation of surveillance of content transmitted or stored via the Site.
Generally, Artcitizens.net will not be held responsible under any circumstances for content made available through the Site and for relations that may be established between users of the Site, in particular if information and/or data should be false, deceptive or misleading in their appearance.
In addition, the Site may contain links to other Internet sites that have no affiliation with Artcitizens.net. Artcitizens.net makes no guarantee and will in no case be held responsible for the nature and content of the said sites nor for damage or prejudice that you might suffer through connection to the said sites, even by clicking on a link appearing on one of the pages of the Site.
Users may not communicate through this site any content which is libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive or in any way violates any laws.
By placing Your Content on the Site, you are bound to comply with legal and regulatory provisions in force. It is therefore your responsibility to ensure that the storage and distribution of Your Content via the Site does not constitute (i) a violation of third party intellectual property rights (copyright and/or similar rights), (ii) damage to persons (in particular defamation, abuse, etc.) or invasion of privacy, (iii) offences to public order and standards of good behaviour (in particular, vindication of crimes against humanity, incitement to racial hatred, child pornography, etc.). By putting Your Content online and at the disposal of Other Users on and/or through the Site, you guarantee that you hold all rights and authorizations necessary from holders concerned, and that Your Content in no case constitutes one of the offences stated in (ii) and (iii) above.
In addition, you undertake to make very effort to ensure that all information and data in Your Content is correct and cannot mislead Other Users. Failing this, Your Content will be removed and/or your account will be deactivated without prior notice. Moreover, you will personally incur civil and/or penal sanctions specific to the litigious content (prison terms and/or fines and/or sentence to pay damages, publicity measures, etc.). In view of the community nature of the Site and in order to respect the sensibilities of other users, it is up to the user to maintain certain ethics as to the content placed online and in particular to abstain from distributing any content of a violent or pornographic nature.
You must not misuse Artcitizens.net by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to Artcitizens.net, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack Artcitizens.net 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 Computer Misuse Act 1990. 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 Artcitizens.net 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 Artcitizens.net or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it. You should take adequate steps to ensure that you virus check regularly when using Artcitizens.net on your computer, PDA or phone.
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.
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.
In order to benefit from the features of the Site, you must create an account using the form provided to this effect. You are free at all times to modify the personal data provided on this occasion. As soon as the form is validated, you will receive an email inviting you to click on a link in order to confirm your registration. Your account can be accessed by entering your username and associated password. You will ensure this information remains confidential. Use of the Site following your registration is valid for an unspecified period. We reserve the right to end this at any time by sending an email. If the Terms of Use are not respected, access to your personal area may be temporarily or definitively suspended immediately and without prior notice by deactivation of your account. This is without prejudice to our other rights.
Artcitizens.net reserves the right to alter, to depart from or to cease offering its Services free of charge at any time, taking into account Artcitizens.net's legitimate interests and reasonable consumer expectations. Artcitizens.net will inform Members by email if a Service is to be offered in the future for a fee. You can then decide if you want to continue to use such Service. Your continued use of the Service after the proposed fee modification has been posted for at least one month will be considered acceptance of the proposed fee modification. The same applies if fees are raised by Artcitizens.net. If Artcitizens.net terminates your Membership because you have breached the Terms of Use, you shall not be entitled to the refund of any unused portion of subscription fees.
The Site is normally accessible continuously, apart from interruptions, programmed or not, for maintenance or cases of force majeure. We will not be held responsible for any damages, whatever their nature, as a result of the Site not being available.
The computerized registers conserved in our systems in accordance with due diligence with regard to security, are considered as proof of sending of emails, registration forms, and downloading of content. Archiving of registration forms is carried out using media that can ensure faithful and durable retention as required by the legal provisions in force. If there is a divergence between our registers and documents on paper or electronic format that you possess, our computerized registers will constitute final proof.
We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using this site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
PRIVACY POLICY
This section illustrates Artcitizens.net’s undertaking with regard to respect for your privacy and the protection of your personal data (hereafter called "Data"), collected and processed when you use the Site under the conditions fixed by the Terms of Use.
Data collected and later processed by ourselves concerns data that you send to us voluntarily via the Site registration form and includes at least your username and a valid email address. Data collected automatically by the Site includes your IP address (the address of your computer), and excludes any other. You are informed that the Site may implement an automatic tracking procedure (cookie) that you can block, if you are not a registered user, by modifying the relevant parameters of your Internet browser.
Data identified as being obligatory on the form is necessary in order to benefit from the features of the Site (publishing online, storage and sharing of content). Data collected automatically by the Site (using a cookie) allows us to compile statistics as to the consultation of its web pages. This information is collected for purely statistical purposes and in no case allows you to be identified.
Your data will not be communicated to third parties. You are however informed that it may be divulged in accordance with laws, regulations or by virtue of a decision of a regulatory or judicial authority within its jurisdiction or even, if it should be necessary, in order that Artcitizens.net may preserve its rights and interests.
Data is stored at the Site host is kept for the duration that is strictly necessary to fulfil the aims described earlier. After this time, it will be retained for purely statistical purposes and will not be used in any other way whatsoever.
Where you have chosen a password which enables you to access certain parts of Artcitizens.net, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to Artcitizens.net; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Unless you have opted out, we will use the information you provide when registering with Artcitizens.net to send you updates and newsletters relating to Artcitizens.net. You can opt out of receiving updates and newsletters at any time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link provided in all updates and newsletters.
We will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about services related to the subject matter of our site.
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@cityandart.org.
Disclaimer
Opinions expressed on this site are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Artcitizens.net, the project owners, its partners or its funders.
The Artcitizens.net Services are provided on an "AS-IS" basis and as available. Artcitizens.net does not warrant of timely, secure, error- and interruption-free provision of the Artcitizens.net Services. Artcitizens.net expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Artcitizens.net cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the Artcitizens.net Services. The exclusion of warranties does not affect your right of withdrawal.
