Terms and conditions of the service illinoischarter.com

§1 Definitions

1. User – means any natural person who, via the Internet, reads the content presented on the Service or uses the services offered by the Service.
2. Service Provider – means the company WeNet Group S.A. with its registered office in Warsaw, ul. Postępu 14, registered in the register of entrepreneurs maintained by the District Court for the capital city of Warsaw, 13th Commercial Division, KRS: 0000681163, with the share capital of PLN 4,950,000.00.
3. Article Database – means a collection of content, collected according to the Service Provider’s systematics and method, individually available to the User in full scope via electronic tools provided by the Service Provider (search engines), requiring significant investment in terms of quality and quantity in order to prepare, verify and present the content, subject to protection under the Act of 4 February 1994 on copyright and related rights and the Act of 27 July 2001 on the protection of databases.
4. Client – a natural person conducting business activity or another legal entity with legal capacity, which was or is related to the Service Provider by an agreement on the provision of internet marketing services.
5. Search Engine – means software available on the website, belonging to the Service Provider, enabling Users to ask questions to the Article Database and obtain answers to the questions asked.
6. Service – means a website with the address illinoischarter.com placed on the Service Provider’s server, containing a Search Engine enabling searching the Database in order to obtain information about articles published on the Service.
7. “Cookies” files – text files containing computer data. “Cookies” files are most often used in the case of counters, probes, online stores, websites requiring logging in, advertisements and to monitor visitor activity.
8. Regulations – these Terms of Service.
9. WeNet Group Companies – a group of entities linked financially and functionally, which include, apart from the Service Provider, WeNet sp. z o.o. (KRS: 0000116894), WebWave sp. z o.o. (KRS: 0000851194), Favore.pl sp. z o.o. (KRS: 0000546914), GJS83 sp. z o.o. (KRS: 0001070345), WeNet Synergy sp. z o.o. (KRS: 0001118535), WeNet Synergy Polska sp. z o.o. (KRS: 0000474969), Grupa Tense Polska sp. z o.o. (KRS: 0000729013), Grupa Tense sp. z o.o. (KRS: 0001116410), Artefakt sp. z o.o. (KRS: 0000477000), Artefakt sp. z o.o. sp.k. (KRS: 0000486593), Semahead sp. z o.o. (KRS: 0000798061), Semahead sp. z o.o. sp.k. (KRS: 0000802729), Widzialni.pl sp. z o.o. (KRS: 0000620905), Widzialni.pl sp. z o.o. sp.k. (KRS: 0000634480).

§2 Introductory Provisions

These Regulations govern the principles and manner of using the Service Provider’s Internet Service available at illinoischarter.com. The principles contained in these Regulations do not prejudice the regulations relating to other services or products of the Service Provider.

§3 Types and scope of Services provided electronically to Users

1. The Service Provider provides the following services to Users free of charge within the Service:
   1. enables Users to search and browse articles published on the Service;
   2. enables Users to publish opinions on articles on the Service.
2. The Service Provider may entrust the provision of services within the Service to another entity from the WeNet Group.

§4 Types and scope of Services provided electronically to entrepreneurs and institutions

1. Publishing articles included in the Article Database with reference to business cards of entities created and presented by the Service Provider on other services of the Service Provider takes place in the performance of separate agreements concluded with Clients and at their request.
2. The Client is entitled to:
   1. submit a request to update the presented articles or business cards concerning the enterprise run by him/her via the Contact Form or by contacting the Customer Service Department of the Service Provider at [email protected] or hotline no. 22 457 30 95;
   2. submitting a request to remove a comment published in an opinion from the Service, concerning an article that violates the provisions of these Regulations and concerns an article or a business card of the company run by him/her via the Contact Form or by contacting the Service Provider’s Customer Service Department at [email protected] or the hotline no. 22 457 30 95.
3. The Client may at any time resign from the presentation of the article on the Service by sending an appropriate instruction to [email protected]. For the avoidance of doubt, it is indicated that submitting an instruction regarding the end of the presentation of the article in accordance with the previous sentence does not have an effect on the assessment of the manner in which the Service Provider performs the agreement between it and the Client.

§5 Rules of using the Service

1. The Service Provider allows the User to use the Service and read the content of the Article Database only to a limited extent, resulting from the provisions of these Regulations.
2. The technical conditions for using the Service are:
   1. access to the Internet;
   2. a web browser installed on the end device, for example one of the following: Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE, Opera, updated to the latest version.
3. All rights to the Article Database belong to the Service Provider.
4. By using the Service, the User does not acquire any rights, in particular copyrights or licenses, to the content contained in the Service. Data posted on the Service may not be electronically downloaded by the User in any way, in particular for the purpose of creating mailing lists for the serial submission of any commercial offers in the form of traditional or electronic correspondence, or creating other databases.
5. The User is not entitled to make the content posted on the Service available to third parties, whether for a fee or free of charge, except for the possibility of sharing an article on social media using the standard functionalities of the Service. The User is also not entitled to generate queries using the software and perform reverse engineering operations against the Search Engine and Article Database mechanism, or to distribute in any form any part or all of the Article Database obtained in this way.
6. The rights to works, trademarks and databases made available on the Service are held by the Service Provider or third parties, including Customers. In the event that the rights in question are held by third parties, the Service Provider presents works, trademarks and databases on the Service based on relevant agreements concluded with these parties, in particular license agreements and agreements on the transfer of copyright property rights, or based on the provisions of law in force in this respect.
7. The information posted on the Service does not constitute an offer within the meaning of the provisions of the Civil Code, but constitutes an invitation for the User to submit a request for quotation. The Service Provider is not, under any circumstances, a party to transactions carried out by the User and the Service Provider’s contractor and is not liable for the actions and omissions of entities that are parties to such transactions.
8. It is prohibited for Users to post content on the Service (in particular comments within opinions) that is illegal, contrary to good practices and infringes the rights of third parties.
9. The Service Provider reserves the right to introduce restrictions on access to the Service without giving a reason, in particular with respect to Users who violate the rules of using the Service.
10. The Service Provider reserves the right to temporarily suspend the provision of Services in connection with the modernization or reconstruction of the Service or with maintenance work on the IT system.
11. The Service Provider is not liable for interruptions in the provision of Services resulting from reasons beyond its control, in particular force majeure.

§6 Adding opinions

1. The User may post opinions on articles. Opinions may consist of a score and a comment justifying the assessment.
2. The User may also post comments on Customers’ business cards, provided that the functionality of the Service allows it.
3. Opinions posted by the User are accompanied by any signature provided by them in the content of the opinion.
4. Opinions on articles should be based on the personal experiences of the User posting the opinion. The User is solely responsible for the content of the comment on the posted opinion.
5. It is prohibited to post directly or indirectly advertising content in comments to opinions or to send or post unsolicited commercial information (so-called spam) on the Service.
6. Posted comments on opinions on articles may not violate legal regulations, good customs or the principles of social coexistence. In particular, it is prohibited to use vulgar, obscene and offensive expressions, use slander, refer to the private and family sphere, accuse someone of committing a crime, etc.
7. The Service Provider has the right to refuse to publish a comment on an opinion, and to remove a published comment or other information posted on the website by the User if they are contrary to these Terms and Conditions, provisions of generally applicable law or if they violate good manners.
8. Opinions regarding articles are presented on the Website for the period in which the article is published on the Website. After the end of the publication of the article on the Website, opinions regarding it are stored in the database without presentation on the Website until the end of the calendar year in which the publication was completed or the presentation of the article was discontinued, and then for a period of up to 5 years. After this period, the opinions are completely removed from the Service Provider’s database.

§7 Conditions for concluding and terminating an agreement with the Service Provider for the provision of Services by electronic means

In the case of each User of the Service, the conclusion of an agreement for the provision of Services by electronic means takes place by each time browsing the content of the Service and using the Services available to the User.

§8 Liability

1. The Service Provider shall not be liable for the content and form of opinions posted on the Service by the User and the consequences of their posting on the Service and the resulting violation
2. The User shall be fully liable for breaking the law or damage caused by their actions on the Service, in particular providing false data, disclosing legally protected secrets or other confidential information, violating personal rights or intellectual property rights of third parties.
3. The Service Provider shall not be liable, including in particular for damages, to any User for any losses resulting from irregularities, outdatedness, quality of data, content of advertisements or announcements posted on the Service pages.
4. The Service Provider shall not be liable for the actions of third parties or any Users who use the content contained in the Service in a manner inconsistent with the principles of using the Service.
5. In no event shall the Service Provider be liable for any damage or viruses that may infect the equipment of any User while using the Website, and in particular in connection with the downloading of any materials, files, text, photo, graphic, audio or video materials from it.

§9 Statistics

The Service Provider reserves the right to collect and process anonymous statistics regarding Users in order to learn about their preferences and assess compliance with the principles of using the Service and the Regulations. The above data does not constitute personal data within the meaning of the applicable legal provisions and is not subject to the protection provided for therein.

§10 Provisions concerning “cookies”

Detailed information on the technologies used by WeNet, including the types and purposes of using cookies, is available in the Cookies Policy.

§11 Principles of personal data processing

1. WeNet Group S.A. with its registered office in Warsaw, at ul. Postępu 14, 02-676 Warsaw, registered in the register of entrepreneurs maintained by the District Court for the capital city of Warsaw, XIII Division of the National Court Register, KRS: 0000681163, with the share capital of PLN 4,950,000.00 is, within the meaning of the GDPR regulations, the administrator of data of:
   1. natural persons, regarding their business activity registered in CEIDG, contained in free business cards of enterprises presented on the Website, such as the name of the entrepreneur, registered office address, contact details, NIP, REGON, industry;
   2. Users, in the scope of data provided in the Contact Form, the content of opinions published on the Website, the content of correspondence conducted with the Service Provider and “cookies” files.
2. The Service Provider may commission the processing of personal data to companies from the WeNet Group in connection with the purpose indicated in paragraph 4 below. Whenever this paragraph refers to the obligation or right of the Service Provider, this provision shall apply accordingly to the companies from the WeNet Group, provided that they are entrusted with the processing of personal data by the Service Provider.
3. Based on art. 14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC, the Service Provider informs that:
   1. the legal framework for processing by WeNet Group S.A. data of natural persons using the service (Users) are specified in the following acts:
      1. Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC – hereinafter referred to as GDPR;
      2. Act of 18 July 2002 on the provision of services by electronic means – hereinafter referred to as UŚUDE.
   2. the legal framework for the processing by WeNet Group S.A. of data of natural persons concerning their business activity registered in CEIDG, contained in business cards of companies are specified in the following acts:
      1. GDPR;
      2. UŚUDE;
      3. Act of 25 February 2016 on the reuse of public sector information – hereinafter referred to as UoPWISP.
4. User data are processed:
   1. for the purpose of providing by WeNet Group S.A. electronic services referred to in these Regulations, within the meaning of art. 6 sec. 1 letter b of the GDPR and on the basis of consent granted in accordance with art. 6 sec. 1 letter a of the GDPR, which may be withdrawn by the entity at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of consent before its withdrawal;
   2. in order to fulfill the legal obligations of WeNet Group S.A. towards the entity whose data is subject to, specified in the GDPR, within the meaning of art. 6 sec. 1 letter c of the GDPR;
5. The recipients of User data in the scope published on the Service are users of the Service Provider’s websites. User data in the scope not published on the Service may be made available at the request of authorized state authorities. In addition, “cookies” files concerning them may be made available to advertisers and business partners cooperating with WeNet Group S.A., to which the User agrees.]
6. User Data is processed for the period of provision of services by electronic means, referred to in these Regulations, while the data provided by them in the Service Forms is processed until the end of the calendar year in which it was made available, and then for a period of up to 5 years. In addition, User Data is processed for the period required for WeNet Group S.A. to perform and document the legal obligations imposed by the provisions of the GDPR towards Users and Registered Users, referred to in paragraph 9.
7. Each entity whose data is administered by WeNet Group S.A. has the right to request from WeNet Group S.A. access to the data concerning them, their rectification, deletion or restriction of processing, the right to object to the processing, as well as the right to transfer data.
8. Contact with the Data Protection Inspector of WeNet Group S.A. Wojciech Zaręba, [email protected]
9. Every entity whose data is administered by WeNet Group S.A. has the right to file a complaint with the President of the Personal Data Protection Office.
10. WeNet Group S.A. processes personal data in IT systems, to which access is strictly limited. The Service Provider applies technical and organizational measures aimed at ensuring the security of personal data processed in the Service, including protection against disclosure of data to unauthorized persons. IT systems and procedures used by the Service Provider are regularly monitored in order to detect possible threats.

§12 Complaint procedure

1. Complaints related to the functioning of the Service and questions regarding the use of the Service should be submitted to the e-mail address [email protected]. The complaint should include the data of the person filing the complaint (name, surname, address) and the justification for the complaint.
2. The Service Provider will consider the complaint within 14 calendar days from the date of its receipt and will immediately inform the User, via e-mail, about the method of its consideration. In a situation where the information provided in the content of the complaint requires supplementation, the time for considering the complaint may be extended.
3. The User has no right to appeal against the content of the response to the complaint.

§13 Final Provisions

1. The Service Provider reserves the right to unilaterally change the provisions of these Regulations at any time by publishing the current version on the Service.
2. In matters not regulated in these Regulations, the applicable provisions of Polish law shall apply.
3. The court of the place of the Service Provider’s registered office shall have jurisdiction to resolve disputes arising from the provision of Services specified in these Regulations.
4. Users are guaranteed access to these Regulations at any time, via the link placed on the main page of the Service, in a form that allows it to be downloaded, saved and printed.
5. These Regulations enter into force on the date of publication on the Service.