Preamble

  • The company WO5C by Orphise Rodriguez (“hereinafter, “WO5C””) managed by Orphise Rodriguez, located at Rue Guillaume – Tell 6, 1201 Geneva; registration n° CH-660.5.838.015-1 owns and operates www.wo5c.com (hereinafter, the “Website”).
  • The domain name of the Website may not be used in connection with any content, products and / or services, which are not of WO5C or that, may cause confusion among Users or discredit WO5C.
  • These Terms and Conditions represent an agreement between WO5C and the User of the Website and therefore, any connection to the Website is subject to compliance with these Terms and conditions. By using or browsing the Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agree to be bound to these Terms and Conditions and all applicable laws and regulations. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions, then you must not use this Website. WO5C may change these Terms and Conditions at any time and without any notice to Users so we suggest that you periodically visit this page to review these Terms and Conditions. By using this Website after we post any changes, you agree to accept those changes, whether or not you actually reviewed them.
  • For the User, a simple access to the WO5C Website at the following URL: www.wo5c.com involves the acceptance of all the terms and conditions described hereafter.

Purpose

  • The purpose of these Terms and Conditions is to define, the general conditions governing access, navigation and use of the Website, as well as its contents, without prejudice that WO5C may establish specific conditions governing the use, provision and /or contracting of the products and/or services which might be offered via the Website and the use of the Website will also imply acceptance of such specific conditions by Users.
  • Certain products and/or services offered by WO5C through the Website may be accessible only to registered Users.

Presentation of services:

  • The WO5C social network allows businesswomen to create company pages in order to increase their international visibility on the web. Therefore they can contact other professional women in order to create business relationships (B2B) and /or to be contacted by different customers surfing on the network (B2C).
  • The network allows project developers to establish business contacts with other Members of the community. They will also be able to create a page to present their project(s), find partners, sponsors or the necessary answers to develop their activities.
  • The network allows humanitarian organizations to benefit from an international support. These organizations have the possibility to create a page in order to raise funds, look for volunteers, or inform Users on the evolution of their structure.
    The purpose of our services is to help you find more potential partners by extending your social network. However, we encourage you to be careful about all the information you make publicly available on the WO5C Website.

Registration forms

  • On WO5C, when creating or setting up your account as a businesswoman, project developer or humanitarian organization, you will be asked to fill out a form for us to collect information about you.
  • In any case, the collection and processing of personal data will be subject to the principles and obligations stated in the Federal Law on Data Protection (LPD), in force since 1 July 1993 and other applicable laws and regulations as well as in accordance with the provision of the Privacy Policy which also governs your visit to this Website and which is incorporated into these Terms and Conditions.

Legal notice:

Hosting is provided by: Digital Ocean Inc.

The Website is edited by:

Women of the Five Continents

Headquarters: Rue Guillaume – Tell 6

Founder: Orphise Rodriguez

Registration n°: CH-660.5.838.015-1

Email: info@wo5c.com

Definitions

User: Any person (natural or moral) who uses the Website or one of the services available on the Website.

User Content: The data and content provided by the User in the different sections of the Website.

Member: A User who is logged-in to the Website www.wo5c.com.

Login: A WO5C User account

Technical support: The technical support is WO5C.

Access to the Website:

  • The access to the Website, the use of the contents offered therein, filling out forms, sending information requests, inquiries, and complaints and, in general, any similar act implies that you will be deemed as User of the Website and that consequently you accept and you are bound to these Terms and Conditions. Therefore, any User must carefully read and understand the contents of these Terms and Conditions.
  • The Website is freely available to any User having an Internet connection, except as otherwise established by WO5C.
  • Some sections of the Website are reserved to the Members after logging in. Some services have a cost.
  • All costs related to accessing the Website, whether they are material, software or internet connection costs, will be borne exclusively by the User. The User is solely responsible for the good working of his/her computer hardware and Internet connection.
  • WO5C reserves the right to shut down the access to the Website, unilaterally and without prior notice, to any User who would transgress these Terms and Conditions of use.
  • WO5C uses all reasonable measures available to ensure a quality access to the Service, but is bound by no obligation to do so.
  • WO5C endeavors to ensure a 24/24 hours, 7/7 days access to the Website, except in case of force majeure or for any reasons beyond the reasonable control of WO5C, and subject to possible breakdowns and maintenance interventions necessary to the good working of the Website and its services. For this reason, WO5C cannot guarantee the availability of the Website and/or the services, the reliability of the transmissions and performances in terms of answering time or quality. The User will be able to contact the technical service by email to the following address: info@wo5c.com
  • WO5C cannot be held responsible if access to the Website and/or use of the services is impossible.
  • Besides, WO5C may need to shut down the Website operating or part of the services, with prior notice, without any right to indemnity. The User acknowledges and accepts that WO5C is not responsible for interruptions and the consequences they can imply for the User or any third party.
  • The mere access to the Website does not bind or create any relationship between the User and WO5C, unless expressly established and the User complies with some formal requirements such as filling in the relevant registration form.
  • In any case, the access, navigation and use of the Website and, where appropriate, the use of the services via the Website shall be under the sole and exclusive responsibility of the User who undertakes to diligently and faithfully observe any additional instruction given by WO5C on the use of the website and its contents.

Intellectual property

  • The general structure of the Website www.wo5c.com as well as the texts, designs, pictures, sounds and videos are the property of WO5C. Any partial or full representation and/or copy and/or exploiting of the contents and services provided by the Website www.wo5c.com, by any process whatsoever, without prior written authorization, is strictly forbidden and would be likely to represent a counterfeit in accordance with Swiss law.
  • However, the pictures used by WO5C but not originally created by the latter, will have their source clearly specified. There are, for instance, pictures coming from the following websites: www.unsplash.com / and / or www.shutterstock.com
  • The Website and/or its content may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without WO5C’s express prior written consent. Users shall not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout or form) of WO5C without express prior written consent.
  • With regards to the services that third parties may provide through the Website, WO5C recognizes in favor of their holders the relevant rights of intellectual property, but their mere mention or appearance in the Website does not imply the existence of such rights.

Hyperlinks

(i) Hyperlinks from the Website to external websites

  • The Website www.wo5c.com can include hyperlinks to external websites. WO5C accepts no liability concerning their privacy policy. You must contact these websites or their administrators directly to know about their privacy and protection of personal data policy as well as their general Terms and Conditions. Please note that when you click on a hyperlink and enter an external website, you will be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies of the external website.
  • These hyperlinks lead to websites published or operated by third parties who are not in any way related to WO5C (“external websites”). Unless we specify otherwise, by providing hyperlinks to an external website, we shall not be deemed to (i) endorse, recommend, approve, guarantee or introduce any third party or the services or products it provides on the external website, or (ii) have any form of cooperation with such third party and the external website.
  • WO5C will not be responsible for the content of any external website. You use any hyperlink on this Website at your own risk. WO5C will not be responsible for any damages or losses incurred or suffered by Users arising out of or in connection with their use of any hyperlink on this Website. WO5C is not a party to any contractual arrangement entered into between Users and/or Members and the provider of any external website unless we expressly specify or agree. Any hyperlink to an external website that contains downloadable software is provided for your convenience only. We are not responsible for any difficulties you may encounter in downloading the software or for any consequences from your doing so.
  • Yet, WO5C reserves the right at its discretion to require that a link should be deleted if it is not consistent with the object of the Website. Thus, it is acknowledged that WO5C has a power of moderation of posts on this Website.

(ii) Hyperlinks from external websites to the Website

  • A link to the home page of this Website can be created without the specific permission of WO5C. No permission or prior request of information can be demanded by WO5C to an external website wishing to create a link to the Website. However, the latter should be displayed in a new browser window.
  • WO5C is not responsible for the setup of any hyperlink from an external website to this Website. Any hyperlink so set up does not constitute any form of cooperation with WO5C or endorsement by us of such external website. Any hyperlink to this Website should (i) always be an active and direct link to this Website and (ii) be made directly to the home page of this Website. No “deep- linking” of this Website or its contents is allowed.
  • WO5C is not liable for any loss or damage incurred or suffered by Users and/or Members arising out of or in connection with any hyperlink to this Website.

User’s responsibility:

Users agree to:

  • Communicate and provide real, correct, true and updated information such as their exact identity (first name and last name) at the time of subscription;
  • Provide, in a reasonable period of time, evidence of their identity upon simple request from WO5C;
  • Refrain from using fake names, pseudonyms and/or any email address that could affect the rights of third parties;
  • Update regularly personal information on their profile, particularly in order to maintain the accuracy of the data;
  • Inform WO5C without delay in case they modified the information they communicated at the time of subscription and, if so, directly proceed to updating their profile on the Website;
  • Refrain from any action or use whatsoever that could restrain, prohibit or disturb in any way, even temporarily, the normal use of the Website by other Users. The foregoing provisions are not only applicable to all viruses, or Trojan horses, but also to any action whatsoever likely to block partially or completely part or all of the Website’s operation;
  • Send no spam, or chain email such as a “snowball effect” or a flood email (i.e. flooding mailboxes repeatedly with the same message);
  • Not access, in any way, without permission, another User’s content and modify it in any way whatsoever;
  • Inform immediately WO5C in the event of any non-authorized use of their account, and any violation of the confidentiality and privacy of their means of identification;
  • Guarantee that the content that has been communicated complies with the applicable laws and regulations, and particularly, that this content is not likely to:
    • Violate the copyright or privacy of people;
    • Ignore the rights of intellectual and industrial property of any third parties;
    • Represent one of the infringements provided for and punishable by … on freedom of the press;
    • Represent an offense to presumption of innocence.
    • Be solely responsible for messages, hyperlinks, and generally, any content they post on their WO5C page;
    • Be solely responsible for letting a third party use their means of identification, or for any actions or statements done through their User account, whether these actions are fraudulent or not.

Users acknowledge and agree that they:

  • Own or hold the necessary rights and/or permissions related to copyrights or other rights of intellectual property that might be bound to their contribution as well as any work they have included in their contribution;
  • Benefit from the prior written consent of each physical person identifiable in their contribution to use their name and/or image and/or voice especially, with a view to post it on their Website, to comply with the terms mentioned in the general Terms and Conditions of use of WO5C;
  • Make sure that the data they own remain confidential. They must, in any circumstances, ensure that the law is complied with. They must under no circumstances engage in an activity competing with the activity of the company/association or likely to cause the company/association any damage while using the Website.
  • Provided that a User does not comply with one or several of the foregoing rules, WO5C reserves the right to modify and/or interrupt all or part of the services provided through the Website, temporarily or permanently, and/or to terminate unilaterally these Terms and Conditions, cancel the account of the User/Member in question, delete automatically the contentious messages, prevent all or part of the User/Member’s profile to be published, without anything in return.
  • Additionally, Users agree not to: (i) take any action that imposes, or may impose in WO5C’s sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Website; (ii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website or any activities conducted on the Website; or (iii) bypass any measures WO5C may use to prevent or restrict access to the Website.

WO5C’s responsibility and limitations

  • Although WO5C is working in good faith to ensure the reliability of the information contained in the Website at the time of publication, WO5C cannot formally certify or attest explicitly the accuracy, reliability or completeness of the information contained in the Website and therefore these information and/or documents are likely to contain technical inaccuracies and typographical mistakes. WO5C reserves the right to correct them at its own discretion as soon as these mistakes come to its knowledge.
  • It is strongly advised to check the accuracy and relevance of the information and/or documents provided on this Website.
  • The information and/or documents available on this site are likely to be modified at any time without prior notice, and may have been updated. Specifically, they may have been updated between the time of download and the time when the User reads them.
  • The use of information and/or documents available on the Website is made under the sole and full responsibility of the User who takes on all the implications that could come out of it, without WO5C being called upon in this respect and without any recourse against the latter. WO5C can under no circumstances be held responsible for any damage of any kind whatsoever resulting from the interpretation or use of information and/or documents available on the Website.
  • WO5C assumes no liability and gives no guarantee that the functions on the Website will not be interrupted nor the absence of viruses or other harmful elements in the browser concerned.
  • WO5C will not be liable for the reliability and / or accuracy of the services and/products of third parties published via the Website nor of the lack of usefulness, benefit or performance of the contents or services of the Website.

Modification of Terms and Conditions

  • WO5C reserves the possibility to modify, at any time and without prior notice, these Terms and Conditions of use in order to adapt them to the evolutions of the Website and/or its use.

Internet Use Policy

The User declares agreeing to the characteristics and limits of the Internet, and especially acknowledges that:

  • WO5C cannot be held responsible for the services available via the Internet and has no control of any form whatsoever on the nature and characteristics of the data that could pass through WO5C’s server center.
  • Data circulating on the Internet are not protected, particularly against possible distortions. The communication of sensitive or confidential information by the User is made at the User’s own risks.
  • Data circulating on the Internet can be regulated in terms of use or protected by a property right.
  • The User has the sole and full responsibility for the use of data they may read, examine and transfer on the Internet.
  • WO5C has no means of control on the contents of services available on the Internet.

Duration and resignation

  • These Terms and Conditions of use are concluded for an indefinite period of time from the moment when the User starts using the Website.
  • WO5C reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions of use where necessary in order to adapt to any legislative changes, new business and/or technology. The updated texts shall be valid and shall take effect upon publication on the Website.
  • Users shall be bound by the Terms and Conditions in force at the time they access the Website and therefore a periodic reading of these Terms and Conditions is strongly recommended.

Applicable law

  • This Website as well as its terms and conditions of use are governed by Swiss law, regardless of User’s location. In the event of a possible disagreement, and after failing to find any amicable settlement, the Swiss courts will be the only qualified body to settle this dispute.
  • For any question regarding the Terms and Conditions of use of the Website, you can write to us at the following address: WO5C by Orphise Rodriguez, Rue Guillaume-Tell 6, 1201 Geneva, Switzerland.