Terms of use

I. OBJECTIVE OF THE SITE

This website is a toolkit to inform and create awareness among companies and organisations about the fundamentals and challenges of respect for human rights;

  • to inform and create awareness among companies and organisations about the fundamentals and challenges of respect for human rights;
  • to help companies and organisations entrench the respect for human rights in their activities and management of supply chains;
  • to simplify access to information by centralising and organising existing tools on an online platform

The Federal Institute for Sustainable Development wishes to use its website to give you simple, fast and improved access to the existing qualitative instruments on information, awareness-raising and implementation of the respect for human rights in their activities.

The information on this website is of a general nature. This information is not adapted to personal or specific circumstances, and can, therefore, not be considered as personal, professional or legal advice to the user. 

If you need specific or personal advice, you should always consult the relevant services within the federal government. The federal information officers might be able to help you in finding the competent service or person within the federal government.

It should be stressed that information and documents that have been made available on or through the website are not to be regarded as an authentic reproduction of officially adopted texts. Only the official texts are valid as the authentic texts.

II. CONTENT AND AVAILABILITY OF THE WEBSITE

The Federal Institute for Sustainable Development makes great efforts to provide complete, proper, precise and up-to-date information. Despite these efforts, errors can arise in information provided. Should the information provided via the website contain errors or should certain information provided via the website not be available, the Federal Institute for Sustainable Development will make every effort to rectify this as soon as possible. 

The Federal Institute for Sustainable Development also makes every effort to prevent, as much as possible, interruptions due to technical errors. However, the Federal Institute for Sustainable Development cannot guarantee that the website will be completely free of interruptions or will not be subject to other technical problems. 

The website may contain links to other websites of authorities, institutions and organisations over which the Federal Institute for Sustainable Development does not exercise any control, either technically or as regards content. The Federal Institute for Sustainable Development can therefore not guarantee the completeness or the accuracy of the content, nor the availability of those websites. 

The Federal Institute for Sustainable Development does not accept any responsibility for any direct or indirect damage ensuing from the consultation or use of such external websites or the information available on the websites to which the website refers.

The Federal Institute for Sustainable Development only plays the role of a technical distributor /site host and does not control the user content and does not monitor that content. By making an account, the user enters into a legally binding offer for a license agreement, which is confirmed via confirmation email by the Federal Institute for Sustainable Development. When creating an account, the user will have to enter the required personal data. It concerns a first and last name and valid email address.

The user grants the Federal Institute for Sustainable Development the worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free exploitation rights and the rights to use all media for the duration of the legal term of copyright, in particular with a view to the retrieval, publication and dissemination of information within the website.

The Federal Institute for Sustainable Development is not required to keep the information retrievable. At any time can the Federal Institute for Sustainable Development refuse, publish elsewhere, shorten or remove user content.

The user agrees to refrain from publishing content of which the provision, publication or the use is in conflict with the legislation or rights of third parties and confirms that he or she is the owner of the content. Uploading racist, pornographic, discriminating, insulting or immoral material is expressly prohibited.

III. COPYRIGHTS

Unless otherwise indicated, the information provided on or via this website is not subject to copyright law. The information may be used free of charge, but only if its source is quoted and only for personal use. When for the use or the reproduction of certain information preliminary authorisation is needed, the restraints on the use will be mentioned explicitly. Prior permission shall invariably be required for the reproduction or use of multimedia information (including but not limited to: sound, images, software applications). 

The Federal Institute for Sustainable Development and/or others retains all intellectual property rights on this website. Some software applications and graphics which can be accessed on or via the website are supplied by third parties and may be protected by copyright, which means that the use and reproduction of these items are restricted and require prior authorisation from the owner of the copyright.