Terms of Use

1. Introduction

These terms of use govern your use of the website of Odua Research Group (of the Yoruba Nation).
By using the website, you accept these terms of use in full. If you disagree with these terms of use or any part of these terms of use, you must not use the website.
You must be at least 18 years of age to use the website. By using the website and by agreeing to these terms of use, you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age.
The website uses cookies. By using the website and agreeing to these terms of use, you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of the privacy policy.

2. Licence to use website

Unless otherwise stated, the licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the licence below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.
You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms of use.

You must not:
(a) sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
(b) reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on the website for a commercial purpose;
(c) redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.

3. Acceptable use

You must not use the website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
You must not use the website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to the website without express written consent.
You must not use the website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

4. Registered users

Access to certain areas of the website is restricted to registered users.
In order to become a registered user, you must complete the online registration form.
You warrant that all the information you provide to us as part of the registration procedure is true, accurate, fair and complete.
You will select your own login name (email address) and password, but you acknowledge that we may refuse to permit, or may insist that you change, any login name that impersonates another person or breaches the provisions of Section 5 below.

You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account.
You are responsible for any activity on the website arising out of any failure to keep your account details confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.
You must not use any other person’s login name and password to access the website, unless you have that person’s express permission to do so.

Registered users will have access to such additional features on the website as we may from time to time determine in our sole discretion. Such additional features may include:
(a) the facility to complete a detailed personal profile on the website, to publish that profile on the website, and to restrict the publication of that profile to particular groups or individuals registered on the website;
(b) the facility to join website groups, and to share information amongst group members;
(c) the facility to send private messages via the website to particular groups or individuals registered on the website.
We may disable login names and passwords, delete accounts, reclaim usernames and delete any information associated with an account, in our sole discretion without notice or explanation.

5. User generated content

In these terms of use, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to the website, for whatever purpose.
You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to us the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
You warrant and represent that your user content will comply with these terms of use.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or us or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).
Your user content (and its publication on the website) must not:
(a) be libellous or maliciously false;
(b) be obscene or indecent;
(c) infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right;
(d) infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy, or right under data protection legislation;
(e) constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement;
(f) constitute an incitement to commit a crime;
(g) be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order;
(h) be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;
(i) be blasphemous;
(j) be in breach of official secrets legislation;
(k) be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person;
(l) depict violence;
(m) be pornographic or sexually explicit;]
(n) be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading;
(o) consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage;
(p) constitute spam;
(q) be offensive, deceptive, threatening, abusive, harassing, or menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or
(r) cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.

Your user content must be appropriate, civil, tasteful and accord with generally accepted standards of etiquette and behaviour on the internet.
You must not use the website to link to any website or web page consisting of or containing material that would, were it posted on the website, breach the provisions of these terms of use.
You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to the website, or stored on the servers, or hosted or published upon the website.
Notwithstanding our rights under these terms of use in relation to user content, we do not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, the website.

6. Limited warranties

You acknowledge that some of the information published on this website is submitted by users, and that we do not usually review, approve or edit such information. We do not warrant the completeness or accuracy of the information published on this website; nor do we commit to ensuring that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up-to-date.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to this website and the use of this website (including, without limitation, any warranties implied by law of satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose and/or the use of reasonable care and skill).

7. Limitations and exclusions of liability

Nothing in these terms of use will:
(a) limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
(b) limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
(c) limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
(d) exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section and elsewhere in these terms of use:
(a) are subject to the preceding paragraph; and
(b) govern all liabilities arising under the terms of use or in relation to the subject matter of the terms of use, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty.
We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.
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.
We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.
We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

You agree to the publication of comments, reviews and/or feedback relating to you, by others, on the website. You acknowledge that such comments, reviews and/or feedback may be critical or defamatory or otherwise unlawful; and you agree that you will not hold us liable in respect of any such comments, reviews and/or feedback, irrespective of whether we are aware or ought to have been aware of such comments, reviews and/or feedback.

8. Indemnity

You hereby indemnify us and undertake to keep us indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by us to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of our legal advisers) incurred or suffered by us arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms of use, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms of use.

9. Breaches of these terms of use

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 the website;
(c) permanently prohibit you from accessing the website;
(d) block computers using your IP address from accessing the website;
(e) contact your internet services provider and request that they block your access to the website;
(f) bring court proceedings against you for breach of contract or otherwise;
(g) suspend and/or delete your account with the website; and/or
(h) delete and/or edit any or all of your user generated content.
Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to the website or a part of the website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

10. Third party websites

Our website includes hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by third parties. These links are not recommendations. We have no control over the contents of third party websites, and we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

11. Trade marks

The logos are trade marks and may only be used where written permission has been granted.
The other registered and unregistered trade marks or service marks on the website are the property of their respective owners. Unless stated otherwise, we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any licence to exercise such rights.

12. Competitions

From time to time we may run competitions, free prize draws and/or other promotions on the website. These will be subject to separate terms and conditions that we will make available to you as appropriate.

13. Variation

We may revise these terms of use from time-to-time. Revised terms of use will apply to the use of the website from the date of the publication of the revised terms of use on the website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

14. Assignment

We may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms of use without notifying you or obtaining your consent.
You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms of use.

15. Severability

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. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision 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.

16. Exclusion of third party rights

These terms of use are for the benefit of you and us, and are not intended to benefit any third party or be enforceable by any third party. The exercise of our and your rights in relation to these terms of use is not subject to the consent of any third party.

17. Entire agreement

These terms of use, together with the privacy policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of the website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

18. Law and jurisdiction

These terms of use will be governed by and construed in accordance with Dutch law, and any disputes relating to these terms of use will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Netherlands.