General Terms of Business and Stipulations for Use

of the home4arts Institute of Arts (defined as IOA in the following):
Registration
  1. By registering in the customary manner via registration form and upon receiving a confirmation of approval from the IOA (home4arts), the user therewith consents to a contract for the use of services.
  2. In order to use the services available, the user agrees to provide truthful, up-to-date, exact and complete information with respect to themselves and in accordance with the registration form. Additionally the user agrees to judiciously notify the Institute of Arts about any changes to this information.
  3. The IOA (home4arts) respects all applicable data protection legislation when processing the user information.
Rights and Obligations
  1. The user is liable for any unauthorized use of his account.
  2. The user is obligated to protect his or her account against any form of use through third parties.
  3. The personal password which was selected, may not be passed on in any form.
  4. The user may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to other accounts through cracking of codes, illegal procurement of passwords or other methods.
  5. The user may not associate the IOA (home4arts) services and its users in connection with surveys, competitions, chain letters, junk emails, mass advertising, spamming or all other unwanted correspondence of commercial or other nature.
  6. The user may not in any way infringe upon the legal rights (i.e. privacy and individual protection) of other persons through slander, annoyance, abuse or intimidation.
  7. The user must in all cases respect the privacy of others and may not publish, make public, upload or distribute any contemptible, slanderous, obscene, immoral or illegal material or information.
  8. The user may not transmit, upload, download or in any other way make use of contents which contain pictures, photos, software or other material, through which the rights of third parties (in particular copyrighted and/or patented information) are violated. The incorporation of hyperlinks or other technical links which lead to websites containing contents contrary to the terms of the agreement, are also considered as invalid and unauthorized. In particular, any contents containing discriminating racist annotations, hostile remarks regarding foreigners and pornographic or other material of a sexually degrading nature is especially deemed as a violation of this agreement.
  9. The user may not upload any files which are damaged or afflicted with a virus and/or comparable software or programs, which could impair other computer systems..
  10. The user may not prevent other users from employing communication services and/or limiting its utilisation.
  11. The user may not infringe upon applicable laws or legal regulations and may not incorporate or distribute any contents which do not comply with the principles of fair competition and consumer protection, copyright and commercial patent rights of third parties, data protection, relevant criminal regulations and/or general laws, regulations for the protection of youth and the right of personal honour (altogether: "contents contrary to the terms of the agreement").
General Information
  1. The IOA (home4arts) reserves the right too delete any illegal, discriminating, sexist, morally despicable or otherwise precarious contents and to pass these on to judicial or official agencies as well as criminal prosecution authorities.
  2. If an offence and/or a justified suspicion of an offence against these terms of condition exists, the IOA (home4arts) is warranted and obligated to exclude the respective user from utilization of the system and to IMMEDIATELY file a criminal complaint against the person (or person's group).
  3. These general terms of business and stipulations for use, and, any legal disputes arising from the contractual relationship between users and the IOA (home4arts) are subject to the legislation of the Federal Republic of Austria under exclusion of the obligation to retreat from purchase.
  4. For all disputes between the IOA (home4arts) and the user, to the extent permissible Vienna is agreed upon as the sole area of jurisdiction.
  5. The IOA (home4arts) websites and services and the information contained therein, are regularly altered and updated. They may display mistakes or typographic errors. The IOA (home4arts) does not have any influence on the transmission of data by means of the internet. Therefore the IOA (home4arts) cannot guarantee that messages sent will correctly reach the receiver, to the extent that during the transmission any errors arise externally from the main server. The IOA (home4arts) is automatically released from any liability, performance obligations and guarantees in the case of unforeseeable events such as higher force, strikes, loss of transmission or other disturbances which were not directly brought about by the IOA (home4arts).
  6. The Institute of Arts will not whatsoever accept liability for any potential damages caused through the use of the websites and services at www.home4arts.com and www.instituteofarts.net.
Use by the IOA - home4arts
  1. The user grants the IOA (home4arts) the time and spatially unrestricted, non-exclusive, irrevocable, complimentary right to use and commercially draw on the integrated contents of his or her photo pages, chat or other forums within the framework of the home4arts site.
  2. In particular, the user grants IOA (home4aerts) the right to reproduce the contents, to convey and distribute them under any kind of name, to change, develop or translate the contents and to make public these changes, developments or translations as well as the contents, by means of transfer via wired or wireless technology including interactive areas. In addition, the contents may be rented to third parties and/or licensed to them in any other way.
Notice of Termination for Use of the Home4arts Project Forums (with password)
Any notice of termination must be sent per email to office@home4arts.com or in writing to the following address:

Institute of Arts
Lerchenfelder Strasse 23/17
1070 Vienna - AT

Immediately upon receiving the termination notice, the user is denied access to all of his data.

Additional Information
For more information regarding the correct affiliation between IOA and persons who support, accompany and/or promote the work of the institute, please refer to "Articles of the Association 'Institute of Arts' - Performing and Dramatic Arts Association".