Terms & Conditions

We are UAE/Climate of National Media Office - UAE, Corniche Road, Al Zahiyah - Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates (“UAE/Climate”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) the operator of this website. This website is maintained by Topham Guerin of 3 Hanover Square, London, W1S 1HD, UK.

To contact us, please email info@uaeclimate.com.

These Terms were last updated on Wednesday, 25 September, 2024, and are the current and valid version.

TERMS OF USE

The provisions set out in these Terms govern your access to and your use of our website and shall constitute a legally binding agreement between you and us. We may change such terms from time to time and shall notify you accordingly if we do. If you do not agree to such terms, you must not use our website.

Subject to you agreeing to abide by these Terms, we hereby grant to you a revocable, non-exclusive, and non-transferable license to use our website on these Terms.

If you are using our website and services on behalf of a company, organization, or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so and have the authority to bind such entity to these Terms, in which case the words “you” and “your” as used in these Terms shall refer to such entity.

We reserve the right to change, modify, suspend, or discontinue any portion of the website or any other products, services, affiliated websites, and/or other software provided by us in connection with any of the foregoing at any time. You agree that access to or operation of any of the foregoing may from time to time be interrupted or encounter technical difficulties.

Save to the extent permitted by us in writing, you are not permitted to use, or submit any content to, our website or any of our affiliated websites to advertise, promote, or market any products or services of any third party or yourself.

The following additional terms also apply to your use of our website and form part of these Terms:

our Privacy Policy; and

our Cookie Policy.

PROVIDING DATA AND CONTENT TO OUR WEBSITE

You irrevocably and unconditionally represent and warrant that any of your content or data (“content”) submitted to, provided to or uploaded to our website complies with our Privacy Policy, the UAE`s Federal Decree Law No. 45 of 2021 (“Law No. 45”), the UK’s Data Protection Act (“DPA”), the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and any other applicable laws.

You are fully responsible for your content uploaded to our website. We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for: i) the content or accuracy of any content or data uploaded by you; or ii) the loss of any content or data provided to us by you. You should keep a record of all such content and data.

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

You may use our website only for lawful purposes. You may not use our website:

in any way that breaches any applicable local or international laws or regulations;

in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;

to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use, or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards as set out in our prevailing terms and conditions as amended from time to time; and

to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware, or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

You also agree:

not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, or resell any part of our website in contravention of the provisions of our Terms; and

not to access without authority, interfere with, damage, or disrupt:

any part of our website;

any equipment or network on which our website is stored;

any software used in the provision of our website; or

any equipment, network, or software owned or used by any third party.

Except as expressly set out in these Terms or as permitted by any applicable law, you undertake:

not to disassemble, decompile, reverse-engineer, or create derivative works based on the whole or any part of the source code of our website, nor attempt to do any such thing, or to reproduce, display, or otherwise provide access to the Services, our website, or any of the contents therein, including but not limited to framing, mirroring, linking, spidering, scraping, or any other technological means;

not to provide or otherwise make available our website in whole or in part (including but not limited to program listings, object and source program listings, object code, and source code) in any form to any person without prior written consent from us;

to include our copyright notice on all entire and partial copies you make of our website on any medium;

to comply with all applicable technology control or export laws and regulations; and

not to disrupt, disable, or otherwise impair the proper working of the services, our website, or our servers, such as through hacking, cyberattacks (including but not limited to denial-of-service attacks), tampering, or reprogramming.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

You acknowledge that all intellectual property rights in our website anywhere in the world belong to us, that rights in our website are licensed (not sold) to you, and that you have no rights in or to our website other than the right to use them in accordance with these Terms.

Any intellectual property rights in content uploaded by you to our website shall continue to belong to you or their respective owners. You agree that you grant us a royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, publish, and display such intellectual property rights for the purposes of performing the services, promotional purposes, internal administrative purposes, and any other purposes set out in these Terms, including for the purpose of improving the services and our responses to users of the website.

You acknowledge that you have no right to have access to our website in source code form.

You must not use any part of the content on our website for commercial purposes not specified on our website without obtaining a license to do so from us or our licensors.

WARRANTIES

While we make all efforts to maintain the accuracy of the information on our website, we provide the services, website, and all related content on an “as is” and “as available” basis. unless otherwise specified in writing. We make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of any of the foregoing, unless otherwise specified in writing.

To the full extent permissible by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, relating to our website or any Services, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. We do not warrant that the services, our website, the related content, or electronic communications sent by us are free of viruses or other harmful components.

You agree that your use of the website is at your sole risk. You will not hold UAE/Climate or its third-party service providers, licensors, or suppliers, as applicable, responsible for any loss or damage that results from your access to or use of the website, including without limitation any loss or damage to any of your computers or data.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITY

Users are responsible for ensuring that the technical requirements for access to and use of the respective services are met.

This applies in particular to the hardware and operating system software used, the connection to the Internet, the firewall settings (if any) and the current browser software.

The user shall carry out necessary and reasonable adjustment measures himself/herself and shall bear the costs for the Internet connection in order to be able to access the services.

UAE/Climate does not guarantee that the services offered can actually be used with the user's device.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

We are not liable for the completeness, accuracy, or correctness of any information uploaded on our website and any related content. You expressly agree that your use of the Services and our website, including reliance on any information, is at your sole risk.

You agree not to use the Services, our website, and the related content for any resale purposes, and we have no liability to you, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, arising under or in connection with these Terms (including but not limited to the use of, or inability to use, the Services, our website, or any other website or software) for:

loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;

business interruption;

loss of anticipated savings;

loss or corruption of data or information;

loss of business opportunity, goodwill, or reputation; or

any other indirect or consequential loss or damage.

Nothing in these Terms shall limit or exclude our liability for:

death or personal injury resulting from our negligence;

fraud; and/or

any other matter in respect of which we are prohibited under applicable law from limiting or excluding our liability.

These Terms set out the full extent of our obligations and liabilities in respect of the supply of the services and our website. Except as expressly stated in these Terms, there are no conditions, warranties, representations, or other terms, express or implied, that are binding on us. Any condition, warranty, representation, or other term concerning the supply of the Services and our website which might otherwise be implied into, or incorporated in, these Terms, whether by statute, common law, or otherwise, is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

INDEMNITY

You agree to indemnify and hold us, our related corporations and our respective directors, officers, employees, agents, and representatives, independent contractors, licensees, successors, and assigns harmless from and against all claims, losses, expenses, damages, and costs (including but not limited to direct, incidental, consequential, exemplary, and indirect damages), and reasonable legal fees, resulting from or arising out of your act, default, or omission, whether in your use of our website, Services, and/or any websites or software in relation thereto or otherwise, and whether in respect of your breach of these Terms or any laws or regulations or otherwise.

OTHER IMPORTANT TERMS

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to another organization, but this will not affect your rights or obligations under these Terms.

You may only transfer your rights or your obligations under these Terms to another person if we agree in writing.

No joint venture, partnership, agency, or employment relationship has arisen by reason of these Terms.

These Terms and any document expressly referred to in it constitutes the entire agreement between us regarding their subject matter and supersedes and extinguishes all previous agreements, promises, assurances, warranties, representations, and understandings between us, whether written or oral, relating to that subject matter. You agree that you shall have no remedies in respect of any statement, representation, assurance, or warranty (whether made innocently or negligently) that is not set out in these Terms or any document expressly referred to in it. You agree that you shall have no claim for innocent or negligent misrepresentation or negligent misstatement based on any statement in these Terms or any document expressly referred to in it.

If we fail to insist that you perform any of your obligations under these Terms, or if we do not enforce our rights against you, or if we delay in doing so, that will not mean that we have waived our rights against you and will not mean that you do not have to comply with those obligations. If we do waive a default by you, we will only do so in writing, and that will not mean that we will automatically waive any later default by you.

Each of the conditions of these Terms operates separately. If any court or competent authority decides that any of them are unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining conditions will remain in full force and effect.

These Terms, its subject matter and its formation, and any other disputes or claims in connection therewith, are governed by the laws of the UAE. In the event of any such disputes or claims in connection with these Terms, you agree to first engage in good faith discussions with us to resolve such dispute or claim. If such dispute or claim is not resolved within sixty (60) days, we both irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the UAE.