Introduction
Meetspeaker is an online learning system offered through the internet address www.meetspeaker.com, managed through the sole proprietorship with VAT number 02813160344 and registered office in Parma (PR) at Via Gaetano Callani
The site can be used to improve the knowledge of foreign languages in an easy and effective way. For this purpose, it offers users the opportunity to initiate conversations with other users with whom they share interests and, at the same time, to promote and advertise courses, events, job offers, groups, teacher profiles and initiatives related to language learning. foreigners themselves.
By registering with Meetspeaker, the general terms and conditions set out below are approved as a “User”. Once registration is complete, a valid contract is concluded with the Owner. Each User is therefore required to carefully read the conditions and terms set out below, which constitute the legal framework governing the use of Meetspeaker.
Meetspeaker offers free content and features, but this does not mean that it is totally free of cost for Users. All paid Pro services offered by the Owner are duly and clearly indicated on the site. Each amount is charged only after explicitly informing the User.
The service offered by Meetspeaker through the website www.meetspeaker.com is aimed at individuals who have reached the age of majority, and legal entities. These subjects will be able to register on the site by creating an Account.
With regard to the scope of application of the conditions and terms of use indicated below, it is specified that these are intended to be applied to all those who register, at the same time subscribing to the free and / or Pro services offered by Meetspeaker.
1. Privacy.
The protection and processing of personal data will take place in accordance with the provisions of Legislative Decree 196/2003 as amended by Legislative Decree 101/2018 following the entry into force of the EU Reg. 679/2016 (GDPR), containing the current legislation on the protection and processing of personal data.
The user must read the Privacy Policy as it describes the types of user data that are collected through Meetspeaker, the relative methods of storage, protection, treatment and also identifies the owner of the relative treatment.
The Owner is not able to control the ways in which the data and information provided and exchanged with other Users are used by the Users through the services made available by Meetspeaker.
For this reason, the Owner urges Users to pay due attention in sharing information with others on the platform.
2. Links to third party sites
The site may contain links to third party sites, some of which may provide services. In these cases, the general conditions for the use of the site and for the use of the service prepared by third parties will apply to the individual services, for which the Owner assumes no responsibility.
The Owner assumes no responsibility for materials created, uploaded or published by third parties with whom the site has a hypertext link. The Owner does not exercise any control over them and, therefore, is in no way responsible for the contents of these sites.
The user who decides to visit a website connected to Meetspeaker does so at his own risk, assuming the burden of taking all necessary measures against viruses or other destructive elements that can potentially harm him.
The site may contain links to third party sites, some of which may provide services. In these cases, the general conditions for the use of the site and for the use of the service prepared by third parties will apply to the individual services, for which the Owner assumes no responsibility.
3. Accessibility to the portal
For the provision of services Meetspeaker uses the technology currently and habitually used in the sector. To be able to take full advantage of the services offered by Meetspeaker, the User must similarly use these technologies (e.g. updated browser …) or allow their use on his computer (e.g. activate Java Script, authorize cookies and pop-up windows). If technologies that are not current or not in common use are used, the User may be able to use the services of Meetspeaker only to a limited extent.
4. Warranty Disclaimer
The service is made available to Users through the site www.meetspeaker.com “as it is available.” The Owner does not guarantee in any way that the service rendered will never have interruptions, errors, bugs or viruses, and that it may meet the needs of all Users.
The Owner will endeavor to ensure that the site is available continuously 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, but will in no way be held responsible if, for any reason, it is not accessible and / or operational at any time or for any period.
Access may in any case be suspended temporarily and without notice in the event of system failure, maintenance, repairs or for reasons completely unrelated to the will of the Owner or for events of force majeure.
The Owner will continue to make innovations and improvements to the site, also reserving the right to delete or modify parts of the same even without notice and in any case without this resulting in any liability towards users or third parties.
The Owner also disclaims any guarantee regarding:
5. Major force
The Data Controller cannot be held responsible for the failure or delayed fulfillment of its obligations, for circumstances that can be defined outside its sphere of control due to events of force majeure or, in any case, to unforeseen and unforeseeable events and, in any case, independent of the will ( among which may be included, by way of example but not limited to, failures or interruptions to the transmission tools, the electricity network, the Internet network, natural events, viruses and computer attacks, interruptions in the supply of products). Upon the occurrence of force majeure events and for their entire duration, the fulfillment of the obligations by the Owner will be considered suspended. The Owner will carry out any act in his power in order to identify solutions that allow the correct fulfillment of his obligations despite the persistence of force majeure events.
6. Limits to use
The material contained in the Site is protected by copyright except for the contents expressly identified as creative commons. The documentation, images, characters, artistic work, graphics, application software and all codes and format scripts used to implement the Site are the property of the Owner.
The contents of the Site cannot be copied, modified, transferred, uploaded, downloaded, published or distributed without the prior written consent of the Owner.
Without prejudice to the possibility of storing such contents on one’s computer or of printing extracts from the pages of the Site for personal use only.
The Meetspeaker name, trademarks and logos on the Site are the property of the Owner, these cannot be used without the prior consent of the Owner.
The user also undertakes to refrain from any activity capable of interfering or interrupting the proper functioning of the platform made available through www.meetspeaker.com or any hardware used in connection with the platform itself.
7. Limitation of Liability
8. Registration and conclusion of the contract
9. User Regulation and Definition.
10. Pro functionality definition and regulation.
a-The owner through the site www.meetspeaker.com, makes available to users, additional functions Pro features, which allow these Users to create and manage profiles of teachers through which they can promote language activities while also assuming full responsibility for them.
b-The contract for the Pro features becomes binding when the user presses the button that uniquely indicates the confirmation of the payment obligation, confirming the data entered via the link received via email.
c-After signing the contract for the Pro features, each User will be able to create the teacher profile.
d-The User can change his subscription to the Pro features at any time, opting for a different subscription from those offered by Meetspeaker. The choice must be made within 15 days prior to the expiry of the contractually envisaged term for automatic renewal. Should the choice be made after this deadline, the same will produce its effects starting from the next renewal.
e-At the expiry of the term of duration of the Pro subscription, if the User has not expressed his desire to cancel the subscription chosen for access to the Pro features in the manner provided, the contract will automatically renew for a period equal to the one chosen. by the user himself at the time of subscription.
f-Upon automatic renewal, the amount corresponding to the price of the subscription service selected by the User at the time of subscription will be charged in full. The price thus charged following the automatic renewal of the subscription service cannot be refunded by the Owner in the event of subsequent termination or cancellation of the same account.
g-Without prejudice to the right of withdrawal regulated in paragraph 21 of these conditions. The User may withdraw from the Pro functionality service at any time by communicating via e-mail to the Service Owner ([email protected]), his will to withdraw from the same without providing any reasons.
In any case, the User will not be entitled to obtain a refund of the price already paid upon subscription or any automatic renewal of the service, regardless of the actual use of the same.
11. Instant messaging service (chat)
a-Meetspeaker provides its Users with instant messaging services.
b-Meetspeaker provides an area in which each User, after selecting the language and topics of interest, can participate in group conversations and dialogues in real time. The User who decides to take part in one of the conversations on the common dialogue area is obliged to use only the language provided therein.
c-Meetspeaker also offers each User the opportunity to initiate individual conversations with other Users. To this end, each User, using the appropriate button, can send an invitation to the User with whom he wishes to exchange messages.
d-Each User in using the instant messaging services offered through Meetspeaker is in any case required to conform their behavior to the requirements laid down by the Regulations referred to in the previous point and these Terms of Use.
e-The User may at any time decide to block, and possibly unblock, another User, using the specific functionality made available by Meetspeaker, as well as to send the Owner a motivated report on another User.
f-The Owner does not carry out a contextual verification of the contents transmitted and exchanged by users within the chats.
g-The contents of the chats are not subject to registration and archiving procedures by the Owner, who will not be able to carry out specific checks on the contents exchanged following any reports.
12. User Content
13. Code of Conduct
By accepting these Conditions, the User is obliged to abide by the following rules:
14. Real Dating and Activities.
15. Prices, tariffs and duration of the service.
Upon expiry of the agreed term, the service will automatically renew for a period of 6 or 12 months corresponding to the one selected by the User when signing up for the subscription with simultaneous debit of the relative amount.
16. Payment methods PRO
The fees for the use of the services made available by Meetspeaker for Users with Pro functionality must be paid in advance.
The User can make the payment using one of the methods specified on the site itself.
By accepting these General Terms and Conditions, the user declares that he agrees that the Owner assigns an external payment service provider to process the payment data entered by the user as part of the payment process.
After choosing the payment system, the user enters his requested data in the appropriate fields.
The Owner reserves the right to limit, even at a later time, the payment systems offered.
The User has the duty to honor the payments related to the Pro service subscribed by him. This also entails the obligation to keep updated the information necessary for payment and renewal. Please note that failure to pay the fee will make it impossible to operate the automatic renewal mechanism, with the loss of the quality of User with Pro functionality.
The Owner of Meetspeaker will in no way be held responsible for any payment that the User will make outside the payment system offered by the same, whether it is made in cash or through any other system, nor can he be called to mediate if with respect to such payments, disputes or disputes should arise. The payment systems made available by Meetspeaker cannot in any case be used by users to make payments for services and / or activities considered illegal or prohibited under these conditions (such as, by way of example and not limited to, gambling, drugs, prostitution, solicitation for sexual purposes, betting).
17. Reporting and blocks
The Owner gives each user the possibility to report Users or Groups, Profiles that do not comply with the requirements contained in these Terms of use.
It is the duty of each User to report any abnormal behavior found in the use of the service by other Users as well as any behavior that may be considered symptomatic of the conduct of criminal activities.
The User may at any time decide to block another User, using the specific functionality made available by Meetspeaker.
The Data Controller also attributes to each user the right to send motivated reports in relation to the conduct of other Users.
The Owner reserves the right to verify the validity of the reports and to find them within a reasonable time.
In any case, the Owner urges each User to use the features offered by the site with the utmost prudence and foresight, in such a way as to protect themselves from any danger and damage that could be caused to their person by other Users. This entails the duty to contact the competent authorities directly and with the utmost diligence in order to receive adequate protection and assistance.
18. Account closure
The closure as well as the cancellation of the account do not give the User the right to obtain from the Owner a refund of the amount, possibly paid for the Pro service subscribed, even if the same is not yet exhausted at the date of the effective removal of the account from part of the Owner.
19. Consumer right of withdrawal.
The email sent for this purpose must necessarily have the subject indicated below: Exercise of the right of withdrawal – User name and surname.
The Consumer is any natural person who concludes a legal transaction by acting with purposes that are not primarily related to his commercial or professional activity.
The right of withdrawal regulated in this paragraph is recognized only for Users who subscribe to a subscription to access the so-called features Pro and who at the same time play the role of consumers.
The newly identified Users are recognized and guaranteed the right to withdraw from the contract, without indicating the reasons, within 14 days from the conclusion of the contract.
The right of withdrawal must be exercised no later than the aforementioned term by means of an explicit declaration that must be sent by email to the following address: [email protected]. The email sent for this purpose must necessarily have the subject indicated below: Exercise of the right of withdrawal – User name and surname.
The right of withdrawal gives the User the right to obtain from the Owner the re-credit of the amount originally charged as a consideration for the subscription signed within 6 months of receiving the communication containing the manifestation of the will to withdraw from the contract.
20. Waiver
No waiver by either party of an article of these Conditions will be effective unless it has been expressly communicated and declared in writing to the Owner and accepted by the same.
21. Absence of representation.
It should be noted that this agreement does not give rise to any relationship of representation or collaboration between the Owner and the Users. Therefore, no User may conclude with third parties any shops or agreements that are also binding for the Owner, much less spend his name.
22. Invalidity of individual clauses
If any provision of these Conditions is found to be illegal, illegitimate or invalid, it will not be considered as part of the Conditions and this will not affect the remaining provisions which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.
23. Applicable law, arbitration clause and competent court
These Conditions and all disputes regarding execution, interpretation and validity are subject to Italian law and to the exclusive jurisdiction of the court of the place where the Data Controller is based.
The parties will submit disputes arising from this contract to the conciliation attempt provided for by the Conciliation Service of the Arbitration Chamber of Parma. In the event that the attempt fails, disputes arising from this contract or in relation to it, will be resolved by arbitration according to the Rules of the Arbitration Chamber established at the Chamber of Commerce of Parma, by a single arbitrator appointed in accordance with these Rules.
If the User is a consumer pursuant to Article 3 of the Consumer Code, the mandatory territorial jurisdiction is of the judge of the place of residence or domicile of the consumer himself, if located in the territory of the Italian State, without prejudice to the right for the User – consumer to refer to a judge other than that of the “consumer court” pursuant to art. 66bis of the Consumer Code, competent for the territory according to one of the criteria referred to in Articles 18, 19 and 20 of the civil procedure code.
24. Online dispute resolution for consumers
Consumers residing in Europe must be aware of the fact that the European Commission has set up an online platform that provides an alternative dispute resolution tool. This tool can be used by the Consumer to resolve in a non-judicial way any dispute relating to and / or deriving from contracts for the sale of goods and services stipulated online. Consequently, the Consumer can use this platform for the resolution of any dispute arising from the contract stipulated with the Owner of Meetspeaker. The platform is available at the following address: http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/
25. Translation
The Owner declares that these Conditions have been drafted entirely in Italian and subsequently translated into other languages. In the event that Users find any inconsistencies, they must therefore exclusively and fully refer to the Italian version.
26. Final provisions
The Owner reserves the right to modify the conditions and terms of use at any time and without indicating the reason for the changes.
The aforementioned changes will in any case be made known to users already registered through the site.