The following terms govern contributors’ use of and submissions to the My Climate Risk – Ateneo de Manila University Regional Hub (the “Hub”) website and, when accepted, constitute a binding agreement between individual contributors to the website and the Ateneo de Manila University (“Ateneo”) which operates the website through the Hub.
Please read the terms carefully. Your use of and submission to the website means that you agree to be bound by these terms. Do not proceed further if you do not accept any of these terms. Proceed only if you accept all of the terms.
1. Through the Hub, Ateneo reserves the right to modify these terms at any time.
2. Any personal data processed by Ateneo, through the Hub, will be used only in accordance with Republic Act No 10173 otherwise known as the Data Privacy Act of 2012, other applicable data protection laws and policies, and the privacy policy of the privacy policy of the Hub.
3. By submitting your pertinent personal information, documents, files, and related data (herein referred to as “Climate Story Materials”) through the website’s submission form and checking the box below, you agree to the following:
- Climate Stories: Voices from the Ground aims to build a bottom-up understanding of how climate change is experienced and how climate risk is perceived based on submissions from different sectors and across all ages. These Climate Story Materials may be edited for brevity and clarity, and may be publicly available on the website ateneo.edu/ais/mcr/featured-projects and its partner institutions, such as those under the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). The Climate Story Materials may also be used for research, publications, presentations, exhibitions, promotions and related events and usages, as well as disseminated through public channels by means of traditional and new media.
- By submitting the Climate Story Materials for the Climate Stories initiative, you attest that you do so willingly, and that you warranty your possession of the right to submit them.
- You acknowledge that you are assisting the Ateneo, through the Hub, in meeting its goals by providing your voice and sharing your Climate Story Materials to give a human face to the issue of climate change.
- The Climate Story Materials may be analyzed and used to provide insights for climate action and developing approaches that highlight the perspectives of different stakeholders and communities on their experiences of climate change.
- You hereby grant to the Ateneo, through the Hub:
a. The right to edit, reproduce, publish, distribute, or otherwise use all or any portion of the Climate Story Materials in events of and usage by the Hub, such as but not limited to research, publications, presentations, exhibitions, and promotions, in all forms and in all media throughout the world and in perpetuity.
b. The right to use your name, image, and other biographical data in connection with any use of the Climate Story Materials, including as described above.
c. The right to screen or delete any Climate Story Materials which, in the Ateneo’s (through the Hub’s) sole discretion, are deemed abusive, defamatory, obscene, culturally insensitive, or otherwise unacceptable.
- You hereby waive any right to inspect or approve the use of your name, image, and other biographical data, or of the Climate Story Materials as incorporated into the Hub’s website.
- You hereby release and discharge the Ateneo, all its personnel (including but not limited to those involved with the Hub), its affiliated institutions, successors and assigns from any and all claims, demands, or causes of action that you may have against them regarding any use of the Climate Story Materials or regarding anything contained in related materials, including but not limited to any claims based on the right to privacy, the right to publicity, copyright, libel, defamation, or any other right.
If you have any questions regarding this agreement, you may contact mcr@ateneo.edu.