Terms

The principles

1.1 The purpose of Culture.si website is to provide free information to cultural producers and general public interested in Slovene culture. It enables all users of the Culture.si website free and easy access to information on current Slovenian cultural production, including access to photographs, pictures, designs, logos and other visual images.

1.2. Culture.si website www.culture.si is owned and operated by Ministry of Culture of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia and the owner/operator may change, modify, add or remove portion(s) of its content at any time.

1.3. By accessing Culture.si website or by otherwise accessing any content found on this website, users are deemed to the have agreed to be bound by the terms set out below (Terms of Use). However owner/operator of Culture.si website may restrict the use and/or accessibility of the website at any time.

1.4. The users are allowed to employ all information and other content available on Culture.si website under the conditions specified in the Terms of Use as well as under the conditions indicated separately on/by/with the particular element of the content in display on Culture.si website.

1.5. Access to certain Culture.si content may be subject to additional terms and conditions.

Definitions

2. For the purposes of understanding this Terms of Use the words employed in this text should have the following meanings:

User is every physical person or legal entity that accesses the Culture.si website and by entering it, accepts applicable Terms of Use;
Text/s are all written materials, available on Culture.si website whether or not protected by copyright and/or other intellectual property rights;
Visual materials are all pictures, photographs, drawings, sketches, designs or other visual images on display on Culture.si website whether or not protected by copyright and/or other intellectual property rights;
Audio files are files in which sounds or recording of sounds or other audio data is stored,
Video files are files in which audio and/or visual data is stored,
Culture.si content means all text(s), information visual materials, audio and video files and other data published or made available or accessible in any other way on the Culture.si website.

Use of visual materials, audio and video files

3.1. Unless specifically indicated otherwise all pictures, photographs, drawings, designs, audio and video files published and made available to users in the “free image bank” of “databanks” section of the Culture.si website are permitted to be reproduced under the conditions of CC licence (Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.5 Generic).

3.2. It is not permitted to use any of the visual materials, audio and video files in a derivative form and/or as an excerpt of the original form as available in the “free image bank” of “databanks” section of the Culture.si website.

3.3. Whenever one or more persons are shown in visual materials, audio and video files, users should consult these persons or the indicated owners of such materials or the owners of underlying rights in/to such materials before any commercial use of such materials.

3.4. Any use of the Culture.si content not specifically permitted above or in the specified CC licence is expressly prohibited. Request for permission for other uses of Culture.si content may be sent to Culture.si Desk and may be subject to applicable fee or other conditions.

Use of logos

4.1. All logos published and made available to users in the “logos” category of “databanks” section of the Culture.si website are protected by intellectual property rights, in particular copyright, trademarks and trade-names.

4.2. Before any use that exceeds the use within the Culture.si website and its subsections for the purpose of identification and/or use conducted in order to obtain information, users must obtain permission for any use of the logos, trademarks or trade-names or any part thereof from their owners. Logos and/or trademarks and trade-names owners are identified in the respective files of the category “logos” of the “databanks” section of Culture.si website. Users who do not obtain proper authorisation for the use of logos, trademarks and/or trade-names from their respective owners are under risk to be prosecuted.

Links

Links to the Culture.si website are permitted provided that

the browser window does not contain any information other than that of the page to which the link is made and its address and
none of the information provided on Culture.si website is modified

Limitation of liability

6.1. The owner/operator of the Culture.si website uses reasonable care in operating the website. However the Culture.si website is available to users “as is” and its owner/operator cannot give any guarantees that the Culture.si content is correct at the moment it is received, or that the information is correct in the context it is used or that the Culture.si website is free from computer viruses and other malicious programs.

6.2. The owner/operator of Culture.si website is not liable in any way for any use of protected content that exceeds the conditions of use specified in the Terms of Use and/or is indicated on/by/with particular part of the Culture.si content.

6.3. The owner/operator of the Culture.si website is not liable for any damages arising from the use (or failure to use) or reliance on the Culture.si website.

6.4. The owner/operator of Culture.si website is in any way not responsible for the content or security of external third parties websites which may be accessed through hyperlinks found on Culture.si website. Such external third parties websites are not continuously verified by the owners/operators of Culture.si website.

6.5. Culture.si content may occasionally and temporarily not be accessible or may be accessible only in portions due to regular technical maintenance work. The owners/operators of Culture.si website will not be liable for any damages arising from such temporary moments of unavailability of the Culture.si content.

Changes to the Terms of Use

7.1. The owners/operators of the Culture.si website may at its sole discretion change the Terms of Use. All such changes will be duly posted on the Culture.si website and are binding on all users from the day they are posted on the Culture.si website.

7.2. Users who use the Culture.si website after the changes have been published agree to be bound by those changes. If any user does not agree to be bound by those changes, he/she should not use the Culture.si website after changes are published.

Miscellaneous

8.1. Notices to Culture.si website must be given in writing by registered letter or e-mail and sent to the following address.

8.2. If any clause of this Terms of Use shall for any reason be adjudged by any court or other legal authority or competent jurisdiction to be invalid such judgement shall not affect the remainder of this Terms of Use which shall continue in full force and effect.

8.3. The terms of use shall be governed and construed under the laws of the Republic of Slovenia and each party submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Slovenia.