Terms of use
1. Copyright
The platform is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This license enables the user to copy and redistribute the materials in any medium or format, as well as remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. When doing so, the user has to give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license and indicated if changes were made. This should be done in a reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. Remixed or transformed materials should be distributed under the same license as the original. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. For more details, please visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
2. Copyright of third parties
The consortium strives to respect the copyrights of the graphics, sounds and texts used, to use graphics, sounds and texts created by the consortium itself or to use graphics, sounds and texts that are in the public domain. If, however, any unmarked graphic, sound or text protected by a third-party copyright should appear on these pages, the copyright could not be determined by the consortium. In the event of such an unintentional copyright violation, the consortium will remove the object in question from its homepage or mark it with the appropriate copyright after notification.
3. Content of the online offer
Liability claims against the consortium, which refer to material or non-material damages, which have been caused by the use or non-use of the information provided or by the use of incorrect or incomplete information, are excluded in principle, provided that there is no demonstrable intentional or grossly negligent fault on the part of the consortium. All offers are subject to change and non-binding. Parts of the pages or the complete publication including all offers and information might be extended, changed or partly or completely deleted by the consortium without separate announcement.
4. References and links
There are links on our pages that lead to other websites. Since we have no influence on the content and design of the linked pages, we expressly distance ourselves from their content. This declaration applies to all links on our website and to all contents of the pages to which links or banners lead.
5. Google Analytics
The website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA ("Google"). Google Analytics also uses cookies which are stored on your computer and which enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. If IP-anonymization is activated on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. In exceptional cases, the full IP address will be transferred to a Google server in the USA and only shortened there. On behalf of University of Lodz as operator of the FOCAL platform, Google will use the information collected from you to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and provide University of Lodz with other services related to website and Internet use. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Under the item "Cookies" you will find instructions on how to prevent and/or limit the collection and storage of data by means of cookies using the appropriate settings in your browser. In this case, however, you will not be able to make full use of the functions of FOCAL platform. You can also prevent the transfer of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website, including your IP address, to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You can find more information on terms of use and data protection at www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html. We may also use Google Analytics to analyze data from AdWords and the double-click cookie for statistical purposes. If you do not want this, you can disable this feature in the Ads Preferences Manager at www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.
By using this site, you agree to the processing of the data collected about you by Google in the manner and for the purpose described above. We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code "grt._anonymizeIP();" in order to guarantee an anonymous collection of IP addresses. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on this website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.