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Welcome to Coworkingsquares- The Learning Management System of Off-University
Off-University is an initiative for academic freedom and against censorship, surveillance and repression. This is why we want to turn our online learning platform into a secure space in which users can stay anonymous. We neither save your data, nor do we share it with third parties. As a user, there are a couple of things you can bare in mind to contribute to your own and other users' digital security.
Please read our suggestions before you proceed to register:
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When registering, you can use a nickname. Nicknames with insulting, racist or sexist undertones will not be accepted.

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Before you register, you may consider creating an anonymous e-mail address which doesn’t include your personal information. (see here for information creating anonymous email addresses)

https://thebestvpn.com/anonymous-email
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Please take into consideration that communicating with other participants outside of the platform (by e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, Skype etc.) may put other participants at risk

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It is optional to turn on your camera during the classes. You can decide on your own when to turn on and turn off your camera.

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Terms and conditions

Terms of use for “coworkingsquares”

Version 01.10.2019

 

(This document is an translation of the original “Allgemeine Nutzungsbedingungen “Coworkingsquares”. Legally binding is only the German original)

 

1. Terms and Scope of Application

 

The following Terms of Use (ToU) apply to the use of the browser-based platform "coworkingsquares" and thus to the contractual relationship between the user and Vir2ell.com Internet Solutions GmbH, Limburgstr. 9, 30159 Hanover (in the following: provider).  The version of this ToU valid at the time of registration of the user account is applicable.

 

2. Object of the Contract of Use

 

2.1 The service operated by the provider is a browser-based platform (in the following: platform), which allows users to exchange documents and messages with other users and lecturers within the scope of the functionality of the platform and to work on projects together.

 

2.2 User Account

In order to be able to use the platform to its full extent, the user necessarily has to have a personal user account. The provider will set up a personal user account for the user and provide the user with the access data for this user account.

 

When registering for the first time, the user agrees to the validity of these ToU as binding and assigns itself a personal password.

 

The user account on the platform is not transferable to third parties.

 

Registered users must keep their self-chosen or assigned password secret and carefully secure access to their member account. Registered users are obliged to inform the provider immediately if there are indications that their user account has been misused by third parties.

 

The provider will not pass on the password of a user to third parties and will never ask a registered user for his or her password by e-mail or telephone.

 

Registered users are generally liable for all activities carried out using their user account. If the registered user is not responsible for the misuse of his or her user account because there is no violation of the existing duties of care, the user is not liable.

 

3. General Principles

 

3.1 Users of the platform are obliged to comply with the applicable laws when using the provider's platform. It is the user's own responsibility to ensure that the content posted and used by the user is legal and does not infringe the rights of third parties.

 

3.2 The user assumes full responsibility for the legality of his conduct in compliance with the legal regulations. In particular, the user commits him- or herself not to use the platform for sending, publishing or transmitting illicit material. This particularly includes offensive formulations and/or sexually explicit material, including corresponding photos. In addition, the texts, photographs and documents used by the user must not violate applicable law. In particular these may

 

- no libel, defamation, threats or harassment,

- no content that is suitable for defaming other users of the platform or other third parties or degrading their reputation,

- no obscenities, pornographic or sexually suggestive content, no child pornography,

- no content that is likely to disrupt the operation of the platform or impair its usability, in particular no malicious programs, worms, viruses or other destructive program codes

 

must be included.

 

3.3 Users may not the use nicknames and e-mail addresses which they have received within the scope of using the platform for any purpose other than communication within the scope of the contractual use of the platform. In particular, it is prohibited to resell, commercially evaluate or use this data for purely commercial purposes.

 

3.4 The provider reserves the right to change or supplement these principles as far as this is feasible for the users in consideration of the legitimate interests of the provider.

 

3.5 The provider does not adopt the contents posted by the users as his own.

 

4. Responsibility of the Users/ Exemption

 

The user guarantees that the contents used or uploaded by him or her as part of the use of the platform are either free from the rights of third parties or that he or she has been granted a corresponding usage/ exploitation right, and that these contents do not violate any applicable law. Furthermore, the registered user shall exempt the provider from all claims of third parties which are supposed to have occurred due to an alleged infringement of rights caused by content uploaded by users to the provider.

 

The provider undertakes to use the content made available by the user only within the scope of the contractually agreed purpose. The user grants the provider the non-exclusive right to store and process the content created by the user within the framework of the use of the platform.  

 

5. Limitations of Liability

 

The provider is only liable for intent and gross negligence. The provider is also liable in the event of a negligent breach of duties if this results in injury to life, limb or health or if a guarantee or claims under the Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz) are affected. The provider is also liable for a negligent breach of duties if the fulfilment is essential for the proper execution of the contract, the breach endangers the achievement of the purpose of the contract and on whose observance the user regularly relies. In the latter case, however, the provider shall not be liable for unforeseeable damage that is not typical of the contract. The provider is not liable for slightly negligent violation of other obligations. The above limitations of liability also apply to vicarious agents of the provider.

 

6. Conditions of License

 

The provider grants the user a spatially and temporally unlimited, but at any time revocable, simple right of use to use the platform as intended. The user is not permitted to commercially evaluate, distribute, edit, decompile or otherwise use the platform without the consent of the provider.

 

7. Availability and Adjustment of Functionalities

 

The provider makes every effort to ensure that the platform can be reached at all times.

 

The provider reserves the right to change or supplement the functionalities of the platform at any time.

 

8. Final Provisions/ Amendment of the ToU

 

The provider reserves the right to change these ToU. The users will be informed about the changed conditions. If the user continues to use the platform after reference is made to the amended ToU, the user agrees to the amended ToU.

 

German law shall be deemed applicable. The validity of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is excluded.

 

If individual provisions of the above ToU are invalid in whole or in part, this shall not affect the validity of the contract or the remaining provisions.

Data protection information

Privacy Policy of “coworkingsquares”

 

We collect, use and store your personal data exclusively within the framework of the provisions of the Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz) of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the following, we will inform you about the type, scope and purpose of data collection and its use.

 

Responsible Agency

The operator of "coworkingsquares" and thus the responsible body is:

 

Vir2ell.com Internet Solutions GmbH

Represented by the Managing Director Mr. Hüseyin Karatas

Limburgstr. 9

30159 Hanover, Germany

 

Collection and Processing of Data

 

We collect the following data within the framework of the use of "coworkingsquares" or our website

 

- Data entered by the user him- or herself as part of the provision of content

 

- The data provided within the scope of a registration or by a contractual partner, operating a closed user network, will be stored (nick name, e-mail address). The user account used is linked to the content provided by the user.

 

The legal basis for the collection of this data is either your consent to the processing pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) DSGVO (German Data Protection Act), the fact that the processing pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) DSGVO is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the person concerned is a party, or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures which are taken at your request; and/or the processing pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c) DSGVO is necessary for the fulfilment of a legal obligation to which we are subject. This applies in particular to commercial obligations to retain business correspondence. Furthermore, the necessity of collecting this data in order to be able to offer the online service constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f). of the DSGVO.

 

Use of Data

 

Insofar as the user has provided personal data, we use this only to answer the user's queries, to provide the functions of the network and for technical administration, in particular to identify and correct technical errors and to monitor the functioning of the services.

 

How and to Whom is the Data Passed on?

 

The user content is only made accessible to other users of the network within the framework of the functionalities initiated by the user. Any further transfer of data to third parties will only take place if it is a user account created by a contractual partner. In this case, the data will be made available to the respective contractual partner who created the user account.

 

Deletion of Data

 

Personal data, e.g. in connection with user enquiries, are deleted if the user of the network withdraws his consent to storage, which is possible at any time with effect for the future by sending a short message to our contact data stated above, if their knowledge is no longer necessary for the fulfilment of the purpose pursued with the storage or if their storage is inadmissible for other legal reasons. Data for billing and accounting purposes will not be affected by a deletion request.

 

Data that we receive within the scope of individual communication, e.g. through e-mail inquiries

 

Data which we receive from you within the scope of individual communication will be stored by us for the following purposes:

 

a) In order to fulfil our obligations arising from any contracts concluded between you and us or in order to initiate such contracts

 

b) To process the request and in the event of any queries that may arise.

 

The legal basis for the collection of this data is either your consent to the processing pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) DSGVO (German Data Protection Act), the fact that the processing pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) DSGVO is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures which take place at your request; and/or the processing is necessary pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c) DSGVO to fulfil a legal obligation to which we are subject. This applies in particular to commercial obligations to retain business correspondence. Furthermore, an ongoing customer relationship between you and us constitutes a legitimate interest in the sense of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f). DSGVO.

 

You can revoke your consent at any time by sending a short message to the contact data given in the imprint.

 

Deletion of Data

The data processed by us will be deleted or their processing restricted in accordance with Art. 17 and 18 DSGVO. Unless expressly stated in this data protection declaration, the data stored by us will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for their intended purpose and there are no legal obligations to retain them. If the data are not deleted because they are required for other and legally permissible purposes, their processing will be restricted. This means that the data will be blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to data that must be stored for commercial or tax reasons.

 

According to legal requirements in Germany, data is stored for 10 years in accordance with §§ 147 para. 1 AO, 257 para. 1 nos. 1 and 4, para. 4 HGB (German Commercial Code) (books, records, management reports, accounting records, commercial books, documents relevant for taxation, etc.) and 6 years in accordance with § 257 para. 1 nos. 2 and 3, para. 4 HGB (German Commercial Code) (commercial letters).

 

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time with effect for the future. A current version is available on the website. Please visit the website regularly and inform yourself about the applicable data protection regulations.

 

Your rights and Contacts

You can view your personal data e.g. at any time free of charge and, if necessary, also request its correction and/or - if the existence of the data storage is not required for the purpose of fulfilling the contract due to statutory provisions or by law - deletion and/or also only blocking. We recommend that you secure your data yourself before asserting any claim for deletion against us. You may also be entitled to the rights to limit the processing, to object to the processing as well as to data transferability, which result from Art. 15 - 21 of the DSGVO. If the processing is based on your separate consent, you can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future.

 

For the aforementioned purposes and/or to obtain more detailed information about them, please contact us by e-mail at mail@vir2ell.com or by using the contact and address data provided in the imprint of this website.

 

If you have any questions, comments or inquiries regarding the collection, processing and use of your personal data by us, please contact us, as already explained, via the contact details given in the imprint of this website. If you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data by us is unlawful, you also have the right to complain to one of the competent supervisory authorities in accordance with Art. 77 DSGVO, irrespective of this as the person concerned.

 

End of the privacy policy.