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User terms and conditions for Worldtrucker - Global English

The below terms and conditions apply to use of Worldtrucker. By logging into the web service, you confirm that you agree to these conditions. You also authorise Volvo to process your personal data in the ways specified below.

General information about Worldtrucker

Worldtrucker is a web service run by Volvo Trucks AB, Co. Reg. No. 556013-9700 (“Volvo”), a company in the Volvo Group. Among other things, the web service includes blogs and competitions. All users of the service have access to all information published on the website.

General rules for use of the web service

When you become a member of Worldtrucker, you choose a user name and a password. These login details are personal and may not be disclosed to unauthorised parties. If you find out that someone else is using Worldtrucker with your login details, you must take reasonable measures to prevent this unauthorised use of Worldtrucker and notify Volvo about it.

Rules and responsibilities regarding use of electronic notice boards

Volvo offers users of this website the opportunity to post messages on electronic notice boards. As a user, you are personally responsible for the content of the material, information and pictures you publish on the website.

Consequently, you are responsible for ensuring that the material complies with the Copyright Act, the British Data Protection Act and other relevant laws, and that any necessary licenses for gathering, storing, processing and disseminating the information have been duly obtained.

You are obliged to hold Volvo and other companies in the Volvo Group harmless for claims brought by third parties due to the information you publish or submit to the electronic notice board.

You may not publish information that violates Swedish law or accepted publishing standards, or information that is otherwise offensive or unsuitable. Among other things, this means you may not post material via the electronic notice board that encourages or constitutes incitement, persecution of ethnic groups, child pornography, illegal violent material, criminal acts, offensive, vulgar, obscene, pornographic or otherwise unsuitable material, or material which violates copyrights or other rights. Information or files may not contain viruses, trojans, corrupted files or other programs that may harm Worldtrucker's function or other parties’ computer or property.

Volvo has the right to immediately erase information that violates Swedish law or accepted publishing standards, or which may otherwise be regarded as offensive or otherwise unsuitable.

If you feel that any information on the electronic notice board is unsuitable or illegal, you can report this directly on the website via the “abuse” function, or write to global@worldtrucker.com specifying the material in question and the person who submitted it.

You may not use Worldtrucker for commercial purposes, including but not limited to promoting the products and services of any other company that operates in competition with Worldtrucker and/or with Volvo.

Exclusion from the website

If you do not follow these user terms and conditions, Volvo reserves the right to ban you from Worldtrucker and erase your account.

Changes to the terms and conditions

Volvo reserves the right to change, add to or take away parts of these user conditions, except the parts covered by your authorisation for processing of your personal data. As a user of this web service, you are obliged to keep abreast of any changes in the user conditions.

Personal data

Before you can use Worldtrucker, Volvo must gather and process certain of your personal data such as your name, address, phone number and email address. Volvo will protect your personal integrity in compliance with prevailing personal data protection laws and regulations. Volvo will not process any of your personal data unless you submit it yourself, or unless we specifically request it from you.

Volvo will process and store your personal data for the following purposes:

Login and connection to Worldtrucker
Market surveys aimed at improving the service
Email newsletters for the purpose of meeting our commitments regarding the service offered.
Emails containing news and offers related to the service.
Emails, SMS and MMS messages containing offers from Volvo, Volvo’s advertising and collaborative partners or companies in the Volvo Group.

You have the right to cancel your authorisation at any time by sending an email to global@worldtrucker.com.

The website may contain links to other websites that do not belong to the Volvo Group. The Volvo Group disclaims responsibility for these websites' methods of gathering personal data or protecting user integrity.

If you have any questions about our processing of your personal data, you are welcome to contact Volvo. You will find Volvo’s contact details at the bottom of this page. If you notice any errors in your personal data, you have the right to have them corrected. You also have the right to receive information from us regarding, among other things, which parts of your personal data we process and for what purposes (this information will be provided free of charge, once per calendar year, on receipt of a written, personally signed request).

Cookies

When you visit this website, we may store certain information in your computer in the form of cookies. Cookies are used on many websites to give users access to certain functions. The information stored in a cookie can also be used to chart a user’s behaviour on the website.

There are two types of cookie: The first type stores a file in your computer for a long period of time. It is used to determine whether there has been any previous contact between us and your computer. The other type, known as a session cookie, is temporarily stored in the computer’s memory during your visit on the website. Session cookies are only briefly stored in your browser, and are erased when you turn off your web browser.

Volvo uses cookies to gather statistics regarding visitors and collect information regarding your preferences when you navigate on the websites, for the purpose of helping us to target relevant information directly to our customers.

Unless otherwise stated, the Volvo Group never uses cookies to gather personal data.

If you do not authorise Volvo to use cookies on our website, you can configure your browser settings to deactivate cookies. However, in this case we cannot guarantee that all the functions on the website will work optimally.

Intellectual property rights/Copyrights

The information on the website, including but not limited to text, pictures and sound, may not be copied, transferred, distributed or stored without Volvo’s written authorisation, except strictly for private use or if expressly stated. It is strictly forbidden to change the website content.

Certain parts of the website contain copyrighted pictures that are the property of their respective owners.

Trademarks

Unless otherwise specified, company logos and emblems on the website are trademarks owned by Volvo Trademark Holding AB and/or Volvo (or its subsidiaries).

No guarantees or obligations

THE INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE IS PUBLISHED IN ITS EXISTING STATE. VOLVO SHALL UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY OR FOR DIRECT DAMAGE, INDIRECT DAMAGE, SPECIFIC DAMAGE OR OTHER DAMAGE RESULTING FROM USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR OF ANY OTHER WEBSITE VISITED VIA A HYPERLINK, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF EARNINGS, OPERATIONAL FAILURE, LOSS OF SOFTWARE OR OTHER DATA IN INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN EXPRESSLY NOTIFIED OF THE RISK OF SUCH DAMAGE OCCURRING.

Volvo provides no guarantees and/or assumes no obligations regarding other websites accessible via this website. Such websites are only provided as a service, and do not mean that Volvo shares in or accepts any responsibility for their content and use. The user is also responsible for taking precautionary measures and ensuring that the material and equipment used by him/her is free of viruses, worms, trojans and other harmful programs etc.

The information on this website may contain technical or typographical errors.

Furthermore, the information may be changed at any time without prior notice or obligation.

Information published on the website may contain references or cross references to the Volvo Group’s products and services that are unavailable in the country concerned. The accuracy of this information cannot be guaranteed since the information may be changed, pose specific requirements or have limited accessibility, and such references do not mean that Volvo Group intends to market these products and services in the relevant country. Contact a local dealer for full information on which products and services are available and can be ordered.

Comments, questions and suggestions

Please note that none of the information, suggestions, ideas and other material submitted to the website are regarded as confidential or copyrighted. If you submit information or material, you give Volvo and the Volvo Group unlimited and irrevocable right to use, copy, display, implement, change, transfer and distribute the material or information, and you authorise Volvo and the Volvo Group to freely use all ideas, concepts, knowledge and techniques that you submit to us for any reason.

Specific software available on the website

All software available and downloadable from this website (“the Software”) is copyrighted and owned by AB Volvo (or its subsidiaries) and/or its suppliers.

Use of the Software is covered by the terms and conditions of the end user license agreement ("the Licence Agreement") enclosed with the Software (if applicable). Unless otherwise stated in the Licence Agreement, any Software available and downloadable from the website may only be used by the end users. All reproduction or distribution of the Software in violation of the Licence Agreement is illegal.

WITHOUT RESTRICTING WHAT IS WRITTEN ABOVE, COPYING OR REPRODUCTION OF THE SOFTWARE TO ANOTHER SERVER OR ANOTHER LOCATION FOR SUBSEQUENT REPRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTION IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED. ANY GUARANTEES FOR THE SOFTWARE ARE SPECIFIED IN THE LICENCE AGREEMENT. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF WHAT IS STATED IN THE LICENCE AGREEMENT, THE VOLVO GROUP HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL GUARANTEE LIABILITY REGARDING THE SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLICIT GUARANTEES AND CONDITIONS FOR GENERAL SUITABILITY, SUITABILITY FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE, OWNERSHIP RIGHTS AND ABSENCE OF VIOLATION OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS.

Contact

If you have any questions regarding the section above, do not hesitate to contact Worldtrucker on global@worldtrucker.com.

User terms and conditions for Worldtrucker - United Kingdom & Ireland

General information about Worldtrucker

General rules for use of the web service

Rules and responsibilities regarding use of electronic notice boards

Consequently, you are responsible for ensuring that the material complies with all laws, including but not limited to copyright and privacy laws, and that any necessary licences for gathering, storing, processing and disseminating the information have been duly obtained.

You are responsible for choosing a secure password, keeping it secure, and not disclosing it to anyone else.

You are obliged to hold Volvo and other companies in the Volvo Group harmless for claims brought by third parties due to the information you publish or submit to the electronic notice board.

You may not publish information that violates any law or accepted publishing standards, or information that is otherwise offensive or unsuitable. Among other things, this means you may not post material via the electronic notice board that encourages or constitutes incitement, persecution of ethnic groups, child pornography, illegal violent material, criminal acts, offensive, vulgar, obscene, pornographic or otherwise unsuitable material, or material which violates copyrights or other rights. Information or files may not contain viruses, trojans, corrupted files or other programs that may harm Worldtrucker's function or other parties’ computers or property.

Volvo has the right to immediately erase information that violates any law or accepted publishing standards, or which may otherwise be regarded as offensive or otherwise unsuitable.

If you feel that any information on the electronic notice board is unsuitable or illegal, you can report this directly on the website via the “abuse” function, or write to uk@worldtrucker.com specifying the material in question and the person who submitted it.

Exclusion from the website

If you do not follow these user terms and conditions, Volvo reserves the right to ban you from Worldtrucker and erase your account.

Changes to the terms and conditions

Personal data

Before you can use Worldtrucker, Volvo must gather and process certain of your personal data such as your name, address, phone number and email address. Volvo will protect your personal data in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations. Volvo will not process any of your personal data unless you submit it yourself, or unless we specifically request it from you.

Volvo will process and store your personal data for the following purposes:

Login and connection to Worldtrucker
Market surveys aimed at improving the service
Email newsletters for the purpose of meeting our commitments regarding the service offered.
Emails containing news and offers related to the service.
Emails, SMS and MMS messages containing offers from Volvo, Volvo’s advertising and collaborative partners or companies in the Volvo Group.

You have the right to cancel your authorisation at any time by sending an email to uk@worldtrucker.com

Cookies

Unless otherwise stated, Volvo never uses cookies to gather personal data.

Intellectual property rights/Copyright

Certain parts of the website contain copyright pictures that are the property of their respective owners.

Trademarks

Unless otherwise specified, company logos and emblems on the website are trademarks owned by Volvo Trademark Holding AB and/or Volvo (or other companies in the Volvo Group).

No guarantees or obligations

Volvo provides no guarantees and/or assumes no obligations regarding other websites accessible via this website. Links to such websites are provided only as a service, and do not mean that Volvo shares in or accepts any responsibility for their content and use. The user is also responsible for taking precautionary measures and ensuring that the material and equipment used by him/her is free of viruses, worms, trojans and other harmful programs etc.

The information on this website may contain technical or typographical errors.

The information on this website may be changed at any time without prior notice or obligation.
Information published on the website may contain references or cross references to the Volvo Group’s products and services that are unavailable in the country concerned. The accuracy of this information cannot be guaranteed since the information may be changed, pose specific requirements or have limited accessibility, and such references do not mean that the Volvo Group intends to market these products and services in the relevant country. Contact a local dealer for full information on which products and services are available and can be ordered.

Comments, questions and suggestions

Please note that none of the information, suggestions, ideas and other material submitted to the website are regarded as confidential or copyright. If you submit information or material, you give Volvo and the Volvo Group unlimited and irrevocable right to use, copy, display, implement, change, transfer and distribute the material or information, and you authorise Volvo and the Volvo Group to freely use all ideas, concepts, knowledge and techniques that you submit to us for any reason.

Specific software available on the website

All software available and downloadable from this website (“the Software”) is copyright and owned by the Volvo Group and/or its suppliers.

Contact

If you have any questions regarding the section above, do not hesitate to contact Worldtrucker UK on uk@worldtrucker.com