EU Events Website - Terms And Conditions
By using EU Events website you indicate that you have read and understood all the following Terms and Conditions and that you agree to all these Terms and Conditions in their entirety.
Disclaimer and general
- All contents are provided only for information purposes, and are not comprehensive or advisory in nature. While EU Events uses reasonable endeavours to ensure that the information is accurate and up-to-date, EU Events does not guarantee the accuracy, currency or completeness of the information provided. EU Events makes no representations about the content and suitability of the information provided (including but not limited to information in any links to websites). To the maximum extent permitted by law, EU Events does not warrant, guarantee or make any representations about the accuracy, reliability, currency or any other aspect of the information provided on the website, the Newsletters and our posts on social media.
- All contents contain links or references to third party sites. EU Events is not responsible or liable for the content of those sites and your access to and use of those sites is at your own risk. Any links are provided for convenience only, and do not indicate any endorsement or recommendation by us. EU Events does not guarantee that materials accessible will be free from errors, viruses, worms or other harmful codes. To the extent permitted by law, all liability is excluded for any loss, damages or injury resulting from your access to, or inability to access, or your receipt of any codes, or your reliance on any information from or through the website, the Newsletters and our posts on social media.
- EU Events is not responsible for any change in the agenda of any event, missed registration deadline or undeclared or missed registration fee by the event organisers. Please, check carefully the event website of those you intend to attend.
- EU Events is not responsible for any security- or safety-related issues that might be directly or indirectly linked to any event, here including the venues, data transmission, registration and fees.
- You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless EU Events, its partners, sponsors, users, supporters and team from and against any and all claims, liabilities, penalties, settlements, judgments, fees (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from (i) any content that you or anyone using your account may submit, post or transmit to the web site; (ii) your use of the Services; (iii) your violation of the terms of these Terms and Conditions; and (iv) any violation or failure by you to comply with all laws and regulations in connection with the Services.
- EU Events is not responsible for the following acts and as such are obviously forbidden on the EU Events website and social media pages and groups:
- racism, xenophobia, negationism and discrimination or any propagation thereof;
- slander, defamation, stalking, insulting, abuse of name or image, breach of trust;
- infringements of intellectual or other property. It is forbidden to disturb the public order on the website. This means that spamming, transmitting unsolicited advertising via private or public messages, the act of repeatedly and unlawfully reloading pages, flooding or placing excessively long texts, etc., may be prosecuted;
- hacking or attempted hacking of the Mediahuis Group website is prohibited and will be punished;
- violation of public decency, publication of pornographic images, paedophilia and the public offering of prostitution or escort services.
- These acts are prohibited and punishable by law. Following a user’s illegal behaviour, their available ID information, alias or similar may be passed on to the competent authorities. Our followers who believe that certain content is illegal or offensive are requested to get in touch via the above-mentioned contact information.
- Despite its best endeavours, EU Events cannot guarantee continuous availability of the website, or that they will be free from outages or interruptions. EU Events reserves the right to interrupt access to the website at any time and without prior notice for technical or other reasons, as well as to terminate the services. Other than in the case of wilful misconduct on its part, EU Events cannot be held liable for interruptions or errors in electronic supply, nor can these result in reimbursements or price adjustments or other compensation.
- EU Events can temporarily discontinue or permanently cancel its free-to-use service anytime without assigning sufficient cause or reason for it.
- EU Events has the right to suspend, cancel or deny your free subscription to the website service for uploading events anytime without assigning any cause or reason for it.
- Your subscription to the website might include subscription to the Newsletter, under the rules detailed in the dedicated paragraph below. EU Events may amend these Terms and Conditions from time to time with no prior communication.
- These Terms and Conditions are visible at any time from the homepage and here: http://www.eu-events.eu/terms-and-conditions
Submission of events
According to its mission, EU Events will reject the publication on the website of events who:
- Are NOT taking place in Brussels
- Are NOT sufficiently detailed
- Do NOT show any clear link with EU-policies and/or European culture, as well as those of EU member and neighbouring states
- Do NOT respect these Terms and Conditions
Such decisions are entirely up to EU Events and cannot be questioned.
If EU Events accepts an event, it will be published on the website within 48 hours.
Visibility of past events
EU Events will progressively archive all the events published. For the period 2014-2017 they can be shared upon request at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., although EU Events reserves the right to refuse such requests.
Privacy
No personal information is requested to browse the website.
Any personal information is exclusively requested for the purpose of the submission of events and of the registration to our newsletters and special releases, as well as for the information form and the uploading of your own events. If you do not provide the information requested, you may not be able to receive the newsletters or send any query or upload any event.
EU Events might use your personal information for specific marketing campaign and activities.
EU Events will not communicate / spread / publish / sell or otherwise give away your email address and/or any personal details to any third party service or any marketing service provider.
EU Events may use your information to:
- Process a payment that you have made;
- Notify you of changes to our services;
- Send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you. These may include information about events, update on European Affairs, research opportunities, promotions of third organisations’ services.
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 process payments and send you mailings). However, when we use third-party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure and not to use it for their own direct marketing purposes. Please be reassured that we will not release your information to third parties 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.
When you are using our secure online payment pages, your payment is processed by a third-party payment processor, who specialises in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions. If you have any questions regarding secure transactions, please contact us.
We may transfer your personal information to a third party if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or to enforce or apply our terms of use or to protect the rights, property or safety of our supporters and customers. However, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
Security precautions in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of your information
When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that it is treated securely.
Any sensitive information (such as credit or debit card details) is encrypted and protected with the following software 128 Bit encryption on SSL. When you are on a secure page, a lock icon will appear on the bottom of web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Non-sensitive details (your name, 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.
Cookies
Definition: 'Cookies' are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise 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 your country preference. This helps us to improve our website and deliver a more personalised service.
EU Events makes NO direct use of any cookies.
EU Events uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer to help the website analyse how visitors use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. For more information on the use of cookies by Google Analytics, please read: http://www.cookielaw.org/google-analytics-eu-cookie-law/
EU Events does not respond of any use of cookies made by Joomla, MailChimps, Bitly or Shellrent (server-host).
It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. Turning cookies off may result in a loss of functionality when using our website.
Copyright
EU Events acts under EU copyright legislation.
The content of EU Events website, of the Newsletters and of our posts on social media and any and all ideas, designs, graphics, photographs, text, audio and audiovisual material, documents and any other material might be copyrighted by third parties (event organisers, their partners and sponsors, including EU institutions). They might therefore be subject to copyright laws in one or more European country and overseas. Unauthorised use is prohibited and protected by law.
The user acknowledges explicitly that all the related property rights, including any intellectual property rights, are vested in EU Events.
None of these components nor the website itself or any information offered on the websites may be stored for any other purpose than to be able to view the website, reproduced, modified, published, distributed, transmitted, sold, transferred to third parties or used in any way other than with the prior written consent of EU Events.
Unless agreed otherwise by separate contract, by transmitting texts, photographs, drawings, graphs, images, sounds, data and other materials to the websites from EU Events every legal or natural person transfers all ownership of the aforementioned works, including intellectual property rights and copyrights, to EU Events.
External websites may link to the EU Events website or social media upon prior agreement. A written request can be addressed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or via social media.
Feeds
The use of feeds (eg. RSS feeds and similar) from our website without prior authorisation is forbidden and might lead to legal action.
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 practices 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 practices of the owners and operators of that third-party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third-party site.
EU Events Newsletters - Terms And Conditions
Before subscribing to our Newsletter service, please read the following terms and conditions carefully.
- You agree to all general Terms and Conditions detailed above.
- NEW As of February 2020, you accept this has become a paid service, e.g.you accept the prices and the registration procedure indicated here.
- NEW You are agree that you will not be receiving the newsletter updates until the payment of the annual fee has been well received and processed.
- This is a weekly newsletter service.
- You could also receive information on the progress of our activities, as well as information on our new partners and sponsors.
- You will also receive information on our sponsored events and on specific subjects, campaigns and activities happening in Brussels or abroad, here included webinars and trainings, including special releases on specific events or event organisers.
- Specific material might occasionally be attached for downloading or contain links to other websites and web-services.
- EU Eventshas no liability for any damage or loss linked to your firewall or antispam settings. EU Events encourages to regularly check the SPAM folder settings of your e-mail accounts.
- EU Events can temporarily discontinue or permanently cancel its newsletter service anytime without assigning sufficient cause or reason for it.
- EU Events has the right to suspend, cancel or deny your subscription to the newsletter service anytime without assigning any cause or reason for it.
- You agree that you may use the Newsletters for only your personal use and you may not use the Newsletters for any commercial use, unless otherwise agreed with EU Events in advance.
- Your continued subscription and receipt of the Newsletters is considered acceptance of the present Terms and Conditions.
- You are free to unsubscribe anytime from the EU Events Newsletters service by choosing “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of all our email newsletters.
- NEW In case of unsubscriptions, no refund is foreseen.
- NEW In case of bankrupt, no refund is foreseen.
By subscribing to EU Events Newsletters you indicate that you have read and understood these Terms and Conditions and that you agree to the present Terms and Conditions.
Terms last updated: 08 February 2020