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DistrictWorld Terms & Conditions
DistrictWorld cannot be held responsible for any kind of damage resulting from the use of this website, including but not restricted to direct or indirect damage.
As a user, you assume complete responsibility and liability, without protest, for any information you publish and/or any activity in which you engage on or via your profile. You are not only liable and responsible for the items you publish on your profile, photo album etc., but also for the comments and responses that others publish on your page. You can remove undesired content easily.
Links to other websites, including banners, buttons and text links, are subject to the responsibility and liability of the owner of the links. DistrictWorld can prevent the linking to other websites and can prosecute if these are not according to personal, normal and non-commercial use.

Personal, normal and non-commercial use
This website may only be used for personal, non-commercial use.
You cannot use this website in an irregular manner, for any unlawful purpose or any purpose contrary to the conditions and warnings in this text or in any other text. You have to use the entire website as a normal, careful and reasonable human being.
In case of any misplaced commercial messages within the content of the DistrictWorld website, DistrictWorld moderators are allowed to moderate this particular content.
DistrictWorld distributes a weekly e-mail containing user specific ‘network updates’ which represents a brief list of relevant information in regard to the personal network of the user. Users will automatically receive this e-mail on a weekly basis.

Warnings and indications
You are supposed to read and understand all warnings and indications on this site. Any continued use of this site after a warning will be seen as an explicit consent with regard to these documents.

Other conditions
Other conditions for some services, such as the code of conduct, warnings, software licences and price settings, are addendums to these conditions.

Access
The use of usernames, logins, passwords (from now on "login data") is the sole responsibility of the user. The user is required to maintain the confidentiality and security of the login data.
The user is required to immediately inform DistrictWorld of a breach or abuse of login data by sending an email to abuse @districtworld.com.

Territorial use
THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE IS PROHIBITED IN COUNTRIES WHERE ANY PARTS OF THIS AGREEMENT ARE INVALID ACCORDING TO LOCAL LAW, WITHOUT LEADING TO THE ENTIRE OR PARTIAL INVALIDITY OF THE AGREEMENT.

Jurisdiction
This agreement and the relationship between you and this site shall be governed by the Dutch laws without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You and DistricWorld agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the Netherlands.

DistrictWorld: Code of conduct
In order for everyone to be able to enjoy DistrictWorld, you need to follow a few rules. The following acts are prohibited by law and, thus, subject to punishment:
• Racism, xenophobia, negationism, and discrimination (prison sentences). Racist remarks, propagating discrimination of sexual preferences, publishing racist pictures or insulting foreigners are forbidden on DistrictWorld.
• Public offences, publishing sexually suggestive pictures, pedophilia, offering prostitution or escort services and implicit or explicit invitations for sexual activities.
Uploading pornographic, sexually suggestive or overtly erotic pictures/text is forbidden. Invitations for sexual activities in public or by private messages are also prohibited. Humorous or caricatural pictures can be an exception, as long as the humorous character is predominant.
• Slander, defamation, stalking, insults, abusing someone's name or picture, abuse of confidence, etc. are prohibited by law and subject to punishment. Therefore, using abusive language, insults, abusing someone's name or picture, slander and defamation are forbidden on DistrictWorld as well.
It is strictly forbidden to publish messages or pictures with damaging, threatening, misleading, defamatory, rancorous, aggressive, racist, vulgar, denigrating, indecent, insulting, violent, obscene or pornographic content.

Violation of intellectual properties
On DistrictWorld you can only publish content that is yours. DistrictWorld cannot be held liable if you do publish texts, graphics or audiovisual material of which you don't have the appropiate right(s) to publish. DistrictWorld will impose sanctions when the abuse of such rights is known or brought to our attention.
• Disturbing the public order on the web site means that spamming, recruiting votes, sending unsolicited commercials or collar letters, in private or public messages, unlawfully reloading pages, flooding or writing excessively long texts, etc. can be prosecuted.
• (Trying to) hack(ing) DistrictWorld or the account of a DistrictWorld member is prohibited and punishable. In this situation, we always inform the police, even when you're a minor. By committing such offences, you risk getting a prison sentence and/or monetary fine.
Except for abuses such as slander and defamation, which can only be prosecuted after a complaint by the victim, DistricWorld can initiate action to end forbidden practices. DistrictWorld is lawfully obliged to report indictable offences to the appropriate law enforcement agency(ies).

Further questions?
Abuse can be reported here: abuse@districtworld.com