ABOUT THE WEBSITE AND APPLICABILITY
You, the USER, by accessing this Website, have agreed to be bound by the Terms of Use as set out below. The Website refers to the Database and Digital Platform (the DDP) of the research project Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad (LAWHA), funded by the ERC under grant agreement 850760. The DDP serves as a documentation and recording of Lebanon’s art history in its local, regional and global context, and is available on an open and non-commercial basis, unrestricted and free of charge. The LAWHA team may revise these Terms of Use from time to time; you are responsible for checking this page when you visit the Website.
The Website contains digital surrogates of items and material of relevance to LAWHA, such as biographical data of artists and people connected to the art world, educational and professional information, artworks, information on artworks and exhibitions, networks,photographs, and ephemera.
PERMITTED USES
Unless otherwise stated, the DDP and its content can be used by public users for non-commercial, scholarly, and educational uses. The digital surrogates accessible on the DDP are for your personal and/or educational use/reference. You must give credit to the respective copyright owner(s) and acknowledge LAWHA for making the material accessible.
For high resolution images for academic publications and other non-commercial purposes, you should contact the holding institution or the copyright holder.
In working towards a knowledge community, LAWHA would appreciate to be notified about any publication that includes data extracted from the digital surrogates provided by the DDP. This will expand the artists and artworks related publication list in the DDP, and it helps sharing the growing knowledge production about art with the respective artists and/or their families who provide the items.
Please contact us at lawha@orient-institut.org
COPYRIGHT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Although the data provided by the Website is publicly accessible, the items and their digital surrogates included in the DDP are protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights, and can only be reproduced with the permission of the copyright holder unless otherwise stated.
You acknowledge and will respect all such copyright and other intellectual property rights we own or may own in the look and feel of the Website and its contents including any sounds, music, text, graphics, data, stills, photographs, moving images and other digital surrogates. Such intellectual property rights shall include all registered and unregistered intellectual property rights of any type or nature including trademarks and copyright. You further agree that you will not infringe our copyright by any method or manner now known or as may exist in the future.
If you are the copyright owner of an image, document, or other item in the DDP and notice any breach, please contact and notify us with clear information on how your right is infringed. Once notified, we will take down works that may infringe copyright and/or other intellectual property rights.
Please contact us at lawha@orient-institut.org and we will get back to you within 48 hours.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
By accessing the Website, you understand and accept that to the fullest possible extent permitted in law, we accept no responsibility for any loss or damage or injury caused to you or your hardware or software whether we cause such loss or injury directly or indirectly.
The texts, opinions, advice, and information expressed or made available on the Website or through hyperlinks or emails are solely the responsibility of their respective authors and not LAWHA. The content and site hyperlinks of the Website are broadcasted only for the LAWHA project purposes. You should not interpret them as expert advice on cultural, educational, legal, tax, accounting or other purposes whatsoever. The information, documents and images on the Website are provided “as is”. LAWHA cannot be held responsible for the veracity of any content provided by third parties at the Website.
We strive to make the DDP as accurate as possible but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access to the Website, content, hyperlinks and email links offered on the Website. We reserve the right to modify the Website without prior notice. LAWHA aims to keep the Website up to date, but it is not committed to any continual update. In case you detect any error or have reason to doubt any of the information provided on the Website please contact us by email at lawha@orient-institut.org for it to be corrected as quickly as possible.
PRIVACY AND COOKIES POLICY
Your privacy is important to us so we only use the information you provide about yourself when using this website to answer your enquiry or to assist us to improve our service to you. We do not share this information with any third party except to the extent necessary to answer your enquiry if that enquiry requires the involvement of a third party.
As a result of accessing our Website, a “cookie” has been stored on your web browser that enables us to provide restricted information to third parties. We transfer these alphanumeric identifiers to your hard drive through your web browser when you visit our Website. It enables our own system to recognize you when you visit our Website again and improve our service to you. Cookies may also be used to compile aggregate information about areas of our Website that are visited most frequently. This traffic information can be used to enhance the content of our Website and make your use of it easier. We do not track which pages you looked at while visiting our Website. If you wish to remove the cookie or check that the information stored is accurate please refer to the settings in your web browser or other such system that serves the same function.
GOVERNING LAW
You agree that in the event of any dispute of any nature that may arise between you and us, these Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed exclusively in accordance with the Lebanese law.