Stipulations

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE

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These terms of use (together with the documents referred to herein) tell you the terms of use on which you may use our websites www.brahmakumaris.be (= www.brahmakumarisvzw.be = www.rajayogameditatie.be = www.rajayoga.be = www.rajayogameditatie.org = www.rajayogameditation.be) (“our site”). Use of our site includes accessing or browsing our site.

 

Please read these terms of use carefully before using our site, as they apply to your use of our site. We recommend that you print a copy for future reference.

 

By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and agree to abide by them.

 

If you do not agree to these terms of use, you may not use our site.

 

 

Other applicable terms

 

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to the use of our site:

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• Our privacy policy, https://www.brahmakumaris.be/privacyverklaring, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you or that you provide to us. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

• Our acceptable use policy, https://www.brahmakumaris.be/aanvaardbaargebruik, which sets out the permitted use and prohibited use of our site. When you use our site, you must comply with this acceptable use policy.

• Our cookie policy, https://www.brahmakumaris.be/cookies, which provides information about the cookies on our site.

 

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Information about us

 

www.brahmakumaris.be (= www.brahmakumarisvzw.be = www.rajayogameditatie.be = www.rajayoga.be = www.rajayogameditatie.org = www.rajayogameditation.be) is a website managed by Brahma Kumaris vzw, with registered office at: Lange Violettestraat 203, 9000 Ghent, Belgium (‘We’) and company number: 0419.308.828.

 

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Changes to these terms

 

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page.

 

Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are binding on you.

Changes to our site

 

We may update our site from time to time and may change the content at any time. However, please note that all content on our site may be out of date at any time, and we are under no obligation to update it.

 

We cannot guarantee that our site, or any content on it, is free from errors or omissions.

 

 

Access to our site

 

Our site is accessible free of charge.

 

We cannot guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or uninterrupted. Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our site without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

 

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site.

 

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

 

Our site is directed at people residing in Belgium. We do not represent that the content available on or through our site is appropriate or available for use in other locations. We may restrict the availability of our site or any service or product described on our site to any person or geographical area at any time. If you choose to access our site from outside Belgium, you do so at your own risk.

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Intellectual property rights

 

We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights on our site and in the material published on it. These works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

 

You may print one copy and download extracts from any page(s) of our site for your personal use, and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.

 

You may not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or otherwise reproduced, and you may not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

 

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.

You may not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

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If you print, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

 

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No reliance on information

 

The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to be relied upon as advice. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, express or implied, that the content on our site is accurate, complete or up to date.

 

 

Limitation of our liability

 

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by Belgian law.

 

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied.

 

We shall not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

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• use of, or inability to use, our site; or

• use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

 

If you are a business user, please note that we are specifically not liable for:

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• loss of profits, turnover, business or revenue;

• business interruption;

• loss of anticipated savings;

• loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or

• any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

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If you are a consumer, please note that we only offer our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our website for commercial or business purposes, and we are not liable to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption or loss of business opportunity.

 

We are not liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

 

We take no responsibility for the content of websites linked to our site. Such links should not be interpreted as our endorsement of those linked websites. We are not liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

 

 

Viruses

 

We cannot guarantee that our site is secure or free from bugs or viruses.

 

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You must use your own virus protection software.

 

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. By breaching this provision, you commit a criminal offence. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will cooperate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.

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Content Feeds

 

Brahma Kumaris may offer RSS feeds on all of its websites, consisting of podcasts, videos or articles, which are delivered to users using RSS or other syndication technology (collectively, the ‘Content Feeds’).

 

You may display, cut and link to the Content Feeds on your personal site, blog or similar application for personal, non-commercial purposes or on your Corporation website, blog or similar application, provided that:

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• the links direct the user to our site when the user clicks on them,

• you do not place any intermediate page, splash page or other content between the links and the relevant page on our site,

• the use or display of content does not suggest that Brahma Kumaris promotes or endorses third-party causes, ideas, sites, products or services,

• the fundamental meaning of the content in the Content Feeds, including the headlines and summaries, is not altered or distorted, and

• you do not modify the stories or other content to which the Content Feeds are linked.

• If you display a complete Content Feed on your site, blog or similar application, you may not redistribute the Content Feed without referring back to Brahma Kumaris, unless you have obtained prior written permission from Brahma Kumaris to do so.

 

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Links to third-party sites, applications and services

 

Our site may contain links to sites, applications and services maintained by third parties over which Brahma Kumaris has no control. Brahma Kumaris does not endorse the content, products or services of such sites, applications and services or any of their operators, and Brahma Kumaris is not responsible or liable for the content, availability, accuracy, quality, advertising, products, services or other materials on or available from such sites, applications, platforms and services.

 

In some cases, our site may contain certain embedded tools that are managed and controlled by third parties and are governed by the terms and policies of those third parties. Please only use these third-party tools if you agree to their respective terms and policies.

 

Our site contains tools that allow you to log in using information from your account with a third-party service, such as Facebook, Twitter or Google. Please note that third-party services are not affiliated with Brahma Kumaris and that your use of third-party services is subject to the terms and policies of those services.

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Links to our home page

 

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. You must not establish a link to any page of our site other than our home page.

 

You may not link in any way that suggests any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

 

You may not place a link to our site on any website that is not owned by you.

 

Our site may not be framed on another 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 to which you link must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy https://www.rajayogameditatie.org/aanvaardbaargebruik.

 

If you wish to use content on our site other than as set out above, please contact gent@be.brahmakumaris.org.

 

 

Uploading content to our site

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Whenever you use a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy https://www.brahmakumaris.be/aanvaardbaargebruik.

 

You warrant that any such contribution complies with those standards and that you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. If you are a consumer, this means that you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of the warranty.

 

All content you upload to our site is considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all your ownership rights in your content, but you must grant us and other users of the site a limited licence to use, store, copy and distribute that content and make it available to third parties. The rights you grant us are described in the following section (Rights you license).

 

We also have the right to disclose your identity to a third party who claims that content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.

 

We are not responsible or liable to any third party for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our site.

 

We have the right to remove any messages you post on our site if, in our opinion, your message does not comply with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy https://www.brahmakumaris.be/aanvaardbaargebruik.

 

The views of other users on our site do not represent our views or values.

 

You are responsible for securing and backing up your content.

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Rights you license

 

When you upload or post content on our site, you grant us and other users of the site:

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• a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable licence to use, reproduce, distribute and display that content in connection with the site and/or the promotion of the site.

 

 

Links and third-party resources on our site

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Where our site contains links to other sites and third-party resources, these links are provided for your information only.

 

We have no control over the content of those sites or resources.

 

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Applicable law

 

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation are governed by Belgian law. You and we both agree that the courts of Belgium have non-exclusive jurisdiction.

 

If you are a business, these terms of use, their subject matter and formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by Belgian law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Belgium.

 

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Contact us

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To contact us, email us at gent@be.brahmakumaris.org.

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