Terms of Use
Last updated: March 18th, 2017
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The Electric Vehicles Research Centre (eMotion) is a component part of "Valahia" University of Targoviste (University). The eMotion website is presented at the Internet address emotion.valahia.ro (website).
By resources you agree to understand any information, know-how or other electronic or material assets presented on the website.
Please be sure you understand and agree to our terms of use before downloading or using any of eMotion's resources for your personal or client interests. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact us at the contact page.
You should carefully read the following terms and conditions. Your purchase or use of eMotion's resources, membership or services implies that you have read and accepted these terms and conditions.
1. Copyright information
All editorial content and graphics on our website are protected by E.U. copyright, international treaties and other applicable copyright laws and may not be copied without the express permission of University's Management, which reserves all rights. Re-using of any of eMotion's editorial content and graphics for any purpose without University permission is strictly prohibited.
eMotion and the University have the right to intellectual property in accordance with the law:
- Law 206/2004 regarding appropriate behaviour in scientific research, technological development and innovation, with subsequent amendments;
- Law No 64/1991 on patents invention, republished, with subsequent amendments;
- Law 129/1992 on the protection of industrial designs, republished;
- Law 8/1996 on copyright and related rights, as amended and supplemented.
Intellectual property rights acquired by eMotion during the research activities prior to the publication on the website are and will remain the exclusive property of eMotion. Proper quoting of the published information is allowed according to appropriate behaviour in scientific research, technological development and innovation.
2. eMotion Membership restrictions
All types of memberships are free and may be subject of eMotion's management approval, as follows.
eMotion's grants you a free nonexclusive limited domain license to use the eMotion's resources presented through our website.
Membership Abbreviations :
ENM - eMotion Newsletter Membership
EAM - eMotion Aspirant Membership
ERM - eMotion Researcher Membership
ECM - eMotion Collaborator Membership
EPM - eMotion Partner Membership
2.1. eMotion Newsletter Membership
ENM can be obtained by submitting your email address on the website on the newsletter section and isn’t a subject of eMotion’s management approval. ENM members agree that they request for the periodical information sent by the website.
2.2. eMotion Aspirant Membership
EAM can be obtained by online or hard-copied application and is a subject of eMotion’s management approval. The management reserve its right to approve or to decline a request for this membership type, to suspend or cancel an EAM account for violation of any of Terms of Use.
The information available for EAM members is stored in website containers protected by members’ credentials.
The applicants for this membership are assumed not to be active researchers but persons interested in eMotion activity.
2.3. eMotion Researcher Membership
ERM can be obtained by online or hard-copied application and is a subject of eMotion’s management approval. The management reserve its right to approve or to decline a request for this membership type, to suspend or cancel an ERM account for violation of any Terms of Use.
The information available for ERM members is stored in website containers protected by members’ credentials.
The applicants for this membership are assumed to be active researchers that don’t have a contractual relation with eMotion or the University.
2.4. eMotion Collaborator Membership
ECM can be activated by online or hard-copied application and is not a subject of eMotion’s management approval. The management reserve its right to activate or not a request for this membership type based on the legitimacy of the request, to suspend or cancel an ECM account for violation of any Terms of Use or Contractual Clause.
The information available for ECM members is stored in website containers protected by members’ credentials.
The applicants for this membership are assumed to be active researchers that have a contractual relation with eMotion or the University in the fields of eMotion’s interest.
2.5. eMotion Partner Membership
EPM can be activated by online or hard-copied application and is not a subject of eMotion’s management approval. The management reserve its right to activate or not a request for this membership type based on the legitimacy of the request, to suspend or cancel an eMotion RM account for violation of any Terms of Use or Contractual Clause.
The information available for EPM members is stored in website containers protected by members’ credentials.
The applicants for this membership are assumed to be representative persons of eMotion Partners.
3. Unauthorized use
You may not place any of our resources, modified or unmodified, on a diskette, CD, website or any other medium and offer them for distribution or sale of any kind without prior written consent from eMotion.
4. Assignability
Membership privileges are granted per user account only. They are not transferable to other users without prior written consent from eMotion.
5. Ownership
You may not claim intellectual or exclusive ownership to any of our resources, modified or unmodified. All resources, except for those for which eMotion has only licence for use, are property of eMotion.
The images that are not property of eMotion used in the website are for representative purpose only and we strongly advise users against using them in their project and such stock images should be purchased by user separately to avoid legal hassles.
6. Disclaimer
eMotion's resources are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. In no event shall our juridical person be liable for any damages including, but not limited to, direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages or other losses arising out of the use of or inability to use our products.
Privacy
Last updated: March 18th, 2017
Privacy Policy
We take your privacy seriously and only basic information is required by us for processing the signup process. We do not ask or store your credit card information. We do not share member’s details with anyone, nor we run ads or other commercial activities apart from our said activity from our domain.
We do send out periodic emails to members based on their subscription to update them on information, educational and research offers and policy changes.
We recommend to use active email account to receive such important announcements.
The Electric Vehicles Reasearch Centre ("eMotion", "we", "us" or "our") is committed to protect your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains our privacy practices for our website emotion.valahia.ro on the World Wide Web (the "Site" or "Website"), as well as for eMotion services that may be accessed through the normal use of our resources (the "Services"). You can travel through most of our Site without giving us any information about yourself. But sometimes we do need information to provide services that you request. The following statement explains our information-gathering and dissemination practices. Please read the complete eMotion Privacy Policy.
General Information
eMotion may periodically update this Privacy Policy. If so, eMotion will post the updated Privacy Policy on this Site. eMotion encourages you to review this Privacy Policy from time to time for any changes.
By using this Site or any products or services provided through the Site, you expressly consent to the use and disclosure of information as described in this Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY OF THE TERMS BELOW, YOU SHOULD NOT USE THIS SITE OR THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OFFERED BY US AT THIS SITE.
Please note that the eMotion Users Forum (coming soon) is covered by its own privacy policy, which is available for review at any time.
Information Collection and Use
You may decide whether to proceed or not with any activity that requests personally identifiable information. If you do not wish to provide the requested information, however, you may not be able to complete the resource request. We do not collect information from individuals under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, we ask that you do not submit any personal information through the Site. If we have specific knowledge that an individual under the age of 13 has submitted personally identifiable information to the Site, we will delete such information permanently and without notice.
Except as described below, eMotion will only disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties if acting under a good faith belief that such action is necessary (1) to conform to legal requirements; (2) to protect and defend the rights or property of eMotion; (3) to enforce the eMotion Terms of Use; or (4) in the event of a merger, acquisition or sale of all or substantially all eMotion' assets relating to the activity in connection with which the information was collected.
eMotion collects personally identifiable information that can be divided into the following categories:
eMotion Membership Registration Information: eMotion Memberships ask you for certain personally identifiable information as part of the registration process (including but not limited to your name, email address, occupation, institution). Certain of this information is necessary in order to conclude the registration. If you provide us with personally identifiable information, and select the "Inform me about important news" option on the registration page or in the Personal Page of the "Control Panel" in the eMotion account, we use this information to send you communications, including informative emails/newsletters about eMotion activity and to provide you with special offers that may be of interest to you, including announcements from Partners. In the event you no longer wish to receive such information, you may choose to opt out of receiving further communications by complying with the procedures listed in the "Updating/Unsubscribing Your Email Address" section of this Privacy Policy. Except in the case of Collaborator and Partner Membership, eMotion keeps personally identifiable information, collected in the course of registration of eMotion, confidential and does not sell, trade, or exchange mailing lists with any organization.
Partner Application: If you request participation in the partner program online, we will ask you for information necessary to complete the request such as company name, email address and company profile.
Contact Methods for Subscribers and Members
Email: With your permission, eMotion will send you communications, including informative emails/newsletters about eMotion’s activities and services. These communications provide you with special offers that may be of interest to you.
Phone: Sometimes, and that depends on your membership type, only for Collaborator and Partner Memberships, we may call you on the phone to increase the speed and volume of the communication.
Fax: Sometimes, and that depends on your membership type, only for Collaborator and Partner Memberships, we may send you documents on your Fax number provided by you in your account.
Site Functionality
Cookies: A "cookie" is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our Site. Once you close your browser, the cookie simply terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our Site, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our Site. You may still use our Site if you reject the cookie. The only drawback to this is that you will be limited in some areas of our Site. For example, you will not be able to use certain features of our forum or other parts of the Site that offer customized settings. Read more about this on Cookies Section.
Log Files: We (eMotion and/or our contracted web analytics provider(s)) do keep track of the domains from which you access our Site and Services on the World Wide Web, and may log IP addresses or other identifiers for statistical purposes. We do this to gather broad demographic information for aggregate use to identify and analyse trends and the results of our dissemination efforts, to help diagnose problems with our servers and to administer the Site and Services, and analyse users' movements. We may periodically share aggregate demographic information with our partners. IP addresses and other identifiers are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Links: This Site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we eMotion are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Site.
Newsletter: If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address.
Security of Your Information
All information gathered on the Site is stored and maintained in secure facilities. In addition, internal security provides that this information is coded with restricted access, and our servers are kept in a secure, locked environment that limits access to authorized personnel only. All eMotion employees, and all external service providers who may process and/or store customer data, are briefed about the company's privacy and security policies on a regular basis. The Site is regularly tested for security breaches to ensure that all information collected is secure from unauthorized viewing. Any service providers with whom eMotion contracts, and who receive, store, or process personally identifiable customer data, have committed to abide by the provisions of this privacy policy. All transmissions of personally identifiable customer data are encrypted and secure.
If you have any questions about the security of our Site, you can send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with the subject Privacy.
Updating Personal Information
You are free to update your information at any time directly through our Site. At your request, eMotion will change your information; we may request evidence of your identity before doing so. Inasmuch as your information will never be used without your explicit consent, we are not able to update the email address to which you subscribe to eMotion communications on your behalf. If you wish to update the email address at which you receive communications from us, please see the section "Updating/Unsubscribing Your Email Address".
To change your information, or request that your information be changed, please use one of the following options:
- Log in at https://emotion.valahia.ro and click on "Your Details" link;
- Send email to us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Cookies
Last updated: March 18th, 2017
Cookies Policy
The Electric Vehicles Research Centre ("eMotion", "us", "we", or "our") uses cookies on emotion.valahia.ro (the "Service" or "Site"). By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies.
Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you.
Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies.
How eMotion uses cookies
When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser.
We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the Service, to provide analytics or to store your preferences.
We use both session and persistent cookies on the Service and we use different types of cookies to run the Service:
- Essential cookies. We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.
- Performance cookies. We may use performance cookies in order to deliver Google Analytics service. These cookies are described in the table below.
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These cookies are used to store information, such as what time your current visit occurred, whether you have been to the site before, and what site referred you to the web page.
These cookies contain no personally identifiable information but they will use your computer's IP address to know from where in the world you are accessing the Internet.
Google stores the information collected by these cookies on servers in the United States. Google may 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.
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Third-party cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service. To find out more and read about EDAA opt-out program please consult the following information http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
What are your choices regarding cookies
If you'd like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies please read the subsequent sections Opt-out and Disabling Cookies.
Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.
Opt-out
In order to provide website visitors with more choice on how data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to stop data being sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not affect usage of the website in any other way. A link to further information on the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is provided below for your convenience.
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=None
For more information on the usage of cookies by Google Analytics please see the Google website. A link to the privacy advice for this product is provided below for your convenience.
http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html
Disabling Cookies
If you would like to restrict the use of cookies you can control this in your Internet browser. Links to advice on how to do this for the most popular Internet browsers are provided below for convenience and will be available for the Internet browser of your choice either online or via the software help (normally available via key F1).
Internet Explorer
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/Block-enable-or-allow-cookies
Google Chrome
https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95647&p=cpn_cookies
Mozilla Firefox
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Blocking%20cookies
Apple Safari
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=32467
Where can you find more information about cookies?
You can learn more about cookies and the following third-party websites:
AllAboutCookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org
Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org
