Terms of use

Introduction

1.1  DOR – Romanian Diaspora CIC (“us”, “we”, “our”) owns and operates the app rbrt.dorod.co.uk. These terms of use shall govern your use of our app.

1.2  By using our app, you accept these terms of use in full, our Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy. Accordingly, if you disagree with these terms of use or any part of these terms of use, you must not use our app.

1.3  If you register on our app, submit any material to our app or use any of our app services, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms of use.

1.4  You must be at least 18 years of age to use our app; by using our app or agreeing to these terms of use, you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age.

2.Copyright notice

2.1  Copyright © 2025, DOR – Romanian Diaspora CIC.

2.2  Subject to the express provisions of these terms of use:

(a)  we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our app and the material on our app;

(b)  all the copyright and other intellectual property rights on our app and the material on our app are reserved.

3. Permission to use the app

3.1  You may:

(a)  view pages from our app in a web browser;

(b)  download pages from our app for caching in a web browser;

(c)  print pages from our app for your personal and non-commercial use, providing that such printing is not systematic or excessive;

(d)  use our app services through a web browser, subject to the other provisions of these terms of use.

3.2  Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1 or the other provisions of these terms of use, you must not download any material from our app or save any such material to your computer.

3.3  You may only use our app for your personal and business purposes; you must not use our app for any other purposes.

3.4  Except as expressly permitted by these terms of use, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our app.

3.5  Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a)  republish material from our app (including republication on another online environment);

(b)  sell, rent or sub-license material from our app;

(c)  show any material from our app in public;

(d)  exploit material from our app for a commercial purpose; or

(e)  redistribute material from our app.

3.6  We reserve the right to suspend or restrict access to our app, to areas of our app and/or to functionality upon our app. We may, for example, suspend access to the app during server maintenance or when we update the app. You must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on the app.

4. Misuse of app

4.1  You must not:

(a)  use our app in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the app or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility, integrity or security of the app;

(b)  use our app in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(c)  hack or otherwise tamper with our app;

(d)  probe, scan or test the vulnerability of our app without our permission;

(e)  circumvent any authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our app;

(f)   use our app to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, malware, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;

(g)  impose an unreasonably large load on our app resources (including bandwidth, storage capacity and processing capacity);

(h)  decrypt or decipher any communications sent by or to our app without our permission;

(i)  conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including, without limitation, scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our app without our express written consent;

(j)  access or otherwise interact with our app using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;

(k)  use our app except by means of our public interfaces;

(l)  violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our app;

(m)  use data collected from our app for any direct marketing activity (including, without limitation, email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing); or

(n)  do anything that interferes with the normal use of our app.

(o) engage in abusive, discriminatory, or harassing behaviour toward other users;

(p) post or share content that is defamatory, offensive, or incites hatred or violence.

4.2  You must not use data collected from our app to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.

5. User-Generated Content

If you submit or share any content through the app, including text, images, links, or business information, you:

(a) Grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, and display that content in connection with the operation and promotion of the app;

(b) Confirm you have the right to submit such content and that it does not infringe third-party rights or violate laws.

(c) agree not to post unlawful, defamatory, or offensive material.
We reserve the right to remove or moderate content at our sole discretion.

6. Limited warranties

6.1  We do not warrant or represent:

(a)  the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our app;

(b)  that the material on the app is up to date;

(c)  that the app will operate without fault; or

(d)  that the app or any service on the app will remain available.

6.2  We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our app services, and to stop publishing our app, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms of use, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any app services, or if we stop publishing the app.

6.3  To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 6.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms of use, our app and the use of our app.

7. Limitations and exclusions of liability

7.1  Nothing in these terms of use will:

(a)  limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b)  limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(c)  limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

(d)  exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

7.2  The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 6 and elsewhere in these terms of use:

(a)  are subject to Section 6.1; and

(b)  govern all liabilities arising under these terms of use or relating to the subject matter of these terms of use, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms of use.

7.3  To the extent that our app and the information and services on our app are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

7.4  We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

7.5  We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

7.6  We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

7.7  We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

7.8  You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our team and partnerships and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a community interest company; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our team and partnerships in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the app or these terms of use (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the community interest company itself for the acts and omissions of our teams and partnerships).

8. Breaches of these terms of use

8.1  Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms of use, if you breach these terms of use in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms of use in any way, we may:

(a)  send you one or more formal warnings;

(b)  temporarily suspend your access to our app;

(c)  permanently prohibit you from accessing our app;

(d)  block computers using your IP address from accessing our app;

(e)  contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our app;

(f)  commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise.

8.2  Where we prohibit or block your access to our app or a part of our app, you must not take any action to circumvent such prohibition or blocking.

9. Assignment

9.1  You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms of use.

9.2  You may not, without our prior written consent, assign, transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms of use.

10. Severability

10.1  If a provision of these terms of use is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

10.2  If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms of use would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

11. Third party rights

11.1  A contract under these terms of use is for our benefit and your benefit and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

11.2  The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these terms of use is not subject to the consent of any third party.

12. Entire agreement

12.1  Subject to Section 6.1, these terms of use, together with our Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our app and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our app.

13. Law and jurisdiction

13.1  These terms of use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.

13.2  Any disputes relating to these terms of use shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.

14. Our details

14.1  This app rbrt.dorod.co.uk. is owned and operated by DOR – Romanian Diaspora CIC. We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 12729777.

15. Contact

Our principal place of business is given above.

15.1  You can contact us:

(a)  using our app contact form;

          (b) by email at contact@dorod.co.uk

16. Amendments

16.1  We may update these terms of use from time to time by publishing a new version on our app.

16.2  For any major change in our terms of use and to keep yourself informed, you should check this page occasionally to familiarise yourself with any changes to these terms of use.

16.3  You hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms of use.

16.4  Last revision of this policy was made on the 1st of June, 2025.