Eclipse.org Terms of Use | The Eclipse Foundation

As used herein, the term “you” or “your” means the individual accessing any Eclipse Foundation website or online resource that contains a reference or link to these Terms of Use, including in the first place at https://www.eclipse.org/ as well as those websites of its industry collaborations and any other website of the Eclipse Group (“Website”), as well as any person or entity which has granted to such individual the authority to enter into this agreement on its behalf. By accessing, browsing, or using this Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understand, and agree to be bound by these terms.
This Website and related services are made available by the Eclipse Foundation AISBL , and/or its affiliated Eclipse Foundation organisations, including Eclipse Foundation Canada, Eclipse.org Foundation, Inc, and Eclipse Foundation Europe GmbH (collectively, “Eclipse Foundation”). All software, documentation, information and/or other materials provided on and through this Website (“Content”) and all of the related services offered by the Eclipse Foundation may be used solely under the following terms and conditions (“Terms of Use”).
This Website and related services are not meant for or targeted to anyone under the age of 16. You must be at least 16 years of age, or the age of consent under your location’s applicable laws for using websites intended for adults if your location uses a different age, to use the Website or related services; otherwise, your parent or guardian must review and accept these Terms on your behalf. To learn how Eclipse Foundation collects, processes, and shares personal information, please consult Eclipse Foundation’s Website Privacy Policy.
This Website may contain other proprietary notices and copyright information, the terms of which must be observed and followed. The Content on this Website may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors and may be changed or updated without notice. The Eclipse Foundation may also make improvements and/or changes to the Content at any time without notice.
Neither the Eclipse Foundation nor its members (“Members”) assume any responsibility regarding the accuracy of the Content and use of the Content is at your own risk. Neither the Eclipse Foundation nor its Members provide any assurances that any reported problems with any Content will be resolved. Except as otherwise expressly stated herein or in another applicable licence, by providing the Content, neither the Eclipse Foundation nor the Members grant any licences to any copyrights, patents, or any other intellectual property rights in the Content.
The Eclipse Foundation and its Members do not want to receive confidential information from you through this Website and related services. Please note that, with the exception of the personal information submitted by you in the process of either creating or updating the personal information associated with your Eclipse account or when executing an agreement with us such as the Eclipse Contribution Agreement, any information or material submitted through the Website will be deemed NOT to be confidential and will be publicly available.
You are prohibited from posting, transmitting, or storing to or from this Website or to any service offered by the Eclipse Foundation (each referred to as a “Submission”) any unlawful, threatening, libellous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material, or any other material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under the law. Further, all Submissions made by you to the Website must be in conformance to the Eclipse Community Code of Conduct, which may be found here: https://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/Community_Code_of_Conduct.php and the Eclipse Foundation Communication Channel Guidelines which may be found here: https://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/communication-channel-guidelines/ .
Should the Eclipse Foundation determine that a Submission violates these Terms of Use or should we be informed thereof by a third party, the Eclipse Foundation reserves the right to remove any such Submissions made by you to the Website at its sole discretion.
If your Submission has been removed for violation of these Terms of Use or for violation of any applicable law, we will inform you of the reasons thereof. Should you disagree with us, you may send an e-mail to transparency@eclipse-foundation.org within six months from the date we informed you of the removal of your Submission, stating the reasons why, in your opinion, your Submission should be reinstated. Your complaint will be logged in our systems, and we will review it and respond to you without undue delay.
If you believe that Content residing or accessible on or through this Website or any User Data Services (“UDS”) infringes a copyright, please send a notice of copyright infringement to our designated agent pursuant to the procedures set forth here: https://www.eclipse.org/legal/copyright
If you repeatedly provide manifestly illegal Content or if you repeatedly issue infringement notices, or if you frequently send e-mails about alleged infringement Content that are manifestly unfounded, we will issue a warning to you, and subsequently we may bar you, for a reasonable period of time, from using our Website or UDS, or from issuing infringement notices. Examples of facts and circumstances we take into account before we decide to bar you as mentioned are the gravity and/or frequency of the misuses, including the nature of illegal content and its consequence.
Should you disagree with our response or our reaction to the complaint you addressed to us via e-mail or via https://www.eclipse.org/legal/copyright, you may refer the matter to a certified out-of-court settlement body that is competent to address content moderating issues. Please note that no such out-of-court settlement bodies have been certified by the competent authorities yet. We will update these Terms of Use once more information becomes