Terms and Conditions

This website was created and is managed by Babeș-Bolyai University. Mihail Kogălniceanu Street 1, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (“UBB”). These Terms and Conditions are applicable as of June 2, 2021.

The website includes a platform with aggregated data on an analysis and forecast of the risks of economic and financial crime in the countries of the world, with a focus on the countries of the European Union ("Platform"). To access the Platform, accounts can be created, as described below, and those who create an account within the Platform will be called "Users of the Platform".

These terms and conditions apply to all who access this website (the "Website") or its content. Thus, your use of this Website and Platform is subject to compliance with these terms and conditions. If you choose to visit the Website / Platform and access the services provided through the Website / Platform, you assume full knowledge and acceptance of these terms and conditions, which form the basis of the contract between UBB and you. UBB may unilaterally change these Terms and Conditions, only to Platform Users. The law applicable to these terms and conditions is Romanian law.

1. Creating and managing an account on the Platform

The Account for the Platform will be created depending on the type of access within the Platform.

For those within the UBB partner organizations, through the flow established in the contract with these UBB partner organizations.

For any other person, by creating an account in the related section: entering the required data and confirming the email address. You must provide the information requested and complete all fields appropriately, completely, correctly and with real information. Any natural person, regardless of nationality, with a minimum age of 18 years on the date of account creation can create an account on the Platform. We do not knowingly allow persons under the age of 18 to create accounts that allow access to the Platform. Any access to the Platform by minors directly or through guardians / legal representatives is made under their own responsibility.

As a User of the Platform, you will have access to certain aggregated information related to an analysis and forecast of economic and financial crime risks.

The account password can be changed according to the instructions within the Platform. The account will only be used by the person who created it. Disclosure of authentication data to third parties is prohibited. It is prohibited for the User of the Platform to allow third parties to use his account within the Platform.

UBB may deactivate an account at the request of the Platform User, at the request of UBB partner organizations (for Platform Users requested by them), if UBB finds a breach by the Platform Users of these Terms and Conditions, and in case of termination of the activity. making the information on the Platform available to the public.

If the email address entered when creating the account is changed, a new user will be created within the Platform.

2. Liability

UBB is not responsible for how you use this platform and the data made available on this platform. UBB is also not responsible for the accuracy of the data provided on this platform, as they are the result of the analysis of data provided by UBB partners. UBB makes no warranty as to the data within the Platform.

UBB is not responsible for any damage to your computer or viruses that may infect your computer or other equipment as a result of accessing, using or browsing the Website / Platform or downloading any content, information, materials. , data, text, images, video or audio from the Website and the Platform.

UBB shall not be liable for any damages, losses, direct or indirect damages, incidents or consequences of any kind arising out of or in any way related to any use of the Website / Platform or the content, data, materials or information. found in it, with any failure or delay, or execution or non-execution by UBB or by any supplier, even if UBB or the UBB supplier have been notified of the possibility of damages to these parties or any other party.

This limitation of liability applies to any damage or injury caused by any underperformance, error, omission, interruption, removal, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to , as well as situations in which force majeure intervenes.

UBB has the unilateral right to change the content of the platform or to cease the existence of the Platform, without the obligation to update the information within the platform or to notify any change or termination of the platform to its users in advance. UBB will maintain the confidentiality of searches and retrievals performed on the Platform by Platform Users.

By creating and using the account on this platform, you assume responsibility for maintaining the confidentiality of account data (username and password), managing access to the account, and the activity of using the account.

UBB cannot guarantee the discontinuous and uninterrupted use of the Website and the Platform. Errors, defects, viruses or other harmful behavior may occur on the Website and / or the Platform or on servers that make them unavailable. UBB will take all measures to limit and eliminate such unpleasant events as soon as possible. You may not interfere with the operation of the Website or the Platform or take any action to intervene on the computer equipment of UBB, for any reason and regardless of the result obtained.

Visitors to the Website and Users of the Platform have the obligation not to attempt cyber attacks on the elements of the Website or the Platform.

3. Intellectual property

The content of this Website, including the Platform, represents all information within the Website and the Platform that can be visited, viewed or accessed through the use of a device, including, but not limited to logos, photos, source code of the platform, commercial symbols, dynamic images, videos, text and / or multimedia content (“Content”). The content is the exclusive property of UBB, which owns all rights in this regard (through use licenses, assignment or other copyright or related rights).

Copying, distribution, publication, transfer to third parties, modification and / or alteration of any part of the Content, exposure of a part of the Content in any context other than that intended by UBB, removal of signs identifying UBB's copyright on it is not permitted. Content, as well as participation in the transfer or distribution of materials made by reproducing or modifying part of the Content.

Attempts to extract all or a significant part of the database from the Platform in bulk are prohibited. It is also forbidden to replicate all or part of the information from the Platform in the online environment in any way (e.g. creating a platform similar to the one included on this Website).

As an exception to this prohibition, for specific issues, the aggregate / statistical data included in the Platform (“Data”) may be used free of charge, through a non-exclusive license for an indefinite period (“License”). The data may not be used for commercial purposes and consequently the License is not granted for the use of the Data for commercial purposes. The license does not allow the recipient to transmit any rights relating to the License to other natural or legal persons.

If you use the Data, you will include a reference to the copyright of UBB in the material in which the Data is used as follows: Babeș-Bolyai University holds the copyright to this information. The name UBB will not be associated in such a way as to be understood from the context that UBB is the author of any modification or reinterpretation of the Data. UBB is not liable for any damages or other liability arising from the context and manner of presentation, inclusion, modification, reinterpretation of the Data by the user to whom it licenses the use of the Data.

4. Newsletter

In the dedicated section of the Website you can subscribe to the relevant newsletters created in connection with the activity covered by the Website and the Platform. In the profile settings, as well as in the received newsletter emails, you can unsubscribe from this newsletter. Details on the processing of personal data in connection with the newsletter can be found in the Policy on the processing of personal data.

This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, CNCS - UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-2174, within PNCDI III titled “Intelligent analysis and prediction of the economic and financial crime in a cyber-dominated and interconnected business world”, conducted over the period 2021-2023.