Användarvillkor

(Effective as of 01/10/2017)

Welcome to the Wolters Kluwer Account service (the “Service”). The following Terms of Use apply when you view or use the Service via our website located at https://login.wolterskluwer.eu/selfservice/ or by accessing the Service through one of the Wolters Kluwer federated applications. Please review the following terms carefully. By accessing or using the Service, you confirm your agreement with these Terms of Use. If you do not agree with these Terms of Use, you may not access or use the Service.

PRIVACY POLICY

Wolters Kluwer (the “Company”) respects the privacy of its Service users. Please refer to the Wolters Kluwer Account’s Privacy Policy (found here: https://www.wolterskluwer.se/support/forsaljningsvillkor) which explains how we collect, use, and disclose information that pertains to your privacy. When you access or use the Service, you confirm your agreement with this Privacy Policy.

EMAIL MAY NOT BE USED TO PROVIDE NOTICE

Communications made through e-mail and other non-physical messaging systems, will not constitute legal notice to the Company or any of its officers, employees, agents or representatives in any situation where written paper notice to the Company is required by contract or any law or regulation.

USER CONSENT TO RECEIVE COMMUNICATIONS IN ELECTRONIC FORM

For contractual purposes, you (a) agree to receive communications about the services from the Company in an electronic form via the email address you have submitted. and (b) agree that all Terms of Use, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that the Company provides to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications would satisfy if it were in writing. The foregoing does not affect your non-waivable rights.

We inform you that the Company may use the provider “Microsoft (AZURE)”, who can handle your data and store it in servers located within the European Economic Area. “Microsoft” is inscribed in the Privacy Shield.

ABOUT THE SERVICE

This service allows you to create and manage a Wolters Kluwer Account. The account is necessary to access the Company, and federated, systems and applications.

REGISTRATION; RULES FOR USER CONDUCT AND USE OF THE SERVICE

Signing up for the Service you (the User) authorize the Company to create a personalized account which includes a unique username and password to be used to access the Service and federated applications, and to receive service messages from the Company. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your password and/or account. The Company will not be responsible for any liabilities, losses, or damages arising out of the unauthorized use of your member name, password and/or account.

USE RESTRICTIONS

Your permission to use the Service is conditioned upon the following Use Restrictions and Conduct Restrictions: You agree that you will not under any circumstances:

  • Use the service for any unlawful purpose or for the promotion of illegal activities;
  • Attempt to, or harass, bully, abuse or harm another person or group;
  • Use or access another user’s account without permission;
  • Provide false or inaccurate information when registering an account;
  • Interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the Service;
  • Make any automated use of the service, or take any action that we deem to impose or to potentially impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our servers or network infrastructure;
  • Bypass any robot exclusion headers or other measures we take to restrict access to the Service or use any software, technology, or device to scrape, spider, or crawl the Service or harvest or manipulate data;
  • Publish or link to malicious content intended to damage or disrupt another user’s browser or computer.

TECHNICAL SUPPORT

https://www.wolterskluwer.se/support/forsaljningsvillkor

WARRANTY DISCLAIMER

We strive to keep the Services up and running; however, all online services suffer occasional disruptions and outages, and the Company is not liable for any disruption or loss you may suffer as a result. In the event of an outage, you may not be able to access the Service and federated applications. The Service might be incorporated into the Service Level Agreement of federated applications, in this case please refer to the specific application Service Level Agreement

LIMITATION OF DAMAGES

The Company shall not be liable for:

  1. Losses that were not caused by our breach of these terms
  2. Any loss attributable to any breach by you
  3. Business loss (including loss of profits, income, contracts, expected savings, unnecessary data or expenses incurred)
  4. Consequential losses that were not reasonably foreseeable by both parties at the time the user had begun to use the service

Also the Company will not be responsible for a defective configuration of the equipment or devices of the user, for an insufficient capacity to support the systems in the equipment or devices of the user or for the lack of minimum technical requirements essential to be able to use the service. Limitations or exclusions of liability that are prohibited by law will not be deemed applicable.

MODIFICATION OF TERMS OF USE

We can amend these Terms of Use at any time and will update these Terms of Use in the event of any such amendments. It is the User’s sole responsibility to check the Service Site for any such changes. Continuation of use of the Service indicates agreement with the revisions of the Terms of Use. It is the Company’s intention to notify the User of any changes to the Terms of Use by posting a notice on the Service Site 30 days prior to implementation of the changes and/or sending an email to the email address provided to us upon registration. It is responsibility of the User to keep contact and profile information up to date in order to receive such notices. Any changes to these Terms of Use (other than as set forth in this paragraph) or waiver of the Company’s rights hereunder shall not be valid or effective except in a written agreement bearing the physical signature of an officer of the Company. No purported waiver or modification of the Terms of Use by the Company via telephonic or email communications shall be valid.

GENERAL TERMS

If any part of the Terms of Use is held invalid or unenforceable, that portion of the Terms of Use will be construed consistent with applicable law. The remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. Any failure on the part of the Company to enforce any provision of these Terms of Use will not be considered a waiver of our right to enforce such provision. Our rights under these Terms of Use will survive even in case the User will stop using the Service and/or the Service Site.

You agree that any cause of action related to or arising out of your relationship with the Company must commence within ONE year after the cause of action accrues. Otherwise, such cause of action is permanently barred.

These Terms of Use and your use of the Site are governed by applicable laws, without regard to conflict of law provisions.

The Company may assign or delegate these Terms of Service and/or the Wolters Kluwer Account’s Privacy Policy, in whole or in part, to any person or entity at any time with or without your consent. You may not assign or delegate any rights or obligations under the Terms of Service or Privacy Policy without the Company’s prior written consent, and any unauthorized assignment and delegation by you is void.