TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE NEWSLETTER SERVICE IN THE PROJECT ‘GREENTURN - ENABLING STAKEHOLDERS FOR ZERO-CARBON E-COMMERCE DELIVERY AND RETURNS PRACTICES THROUGH TRANSPARENT AND COLLABORATIVE SUPPLY CHAINS’
Definitions
Glossary of terms:
1) Service Provider – Łukasiewicz Research Network – Poznan Institute of Technology, ul. Estkowskiego 6, 61 – 755 Poznan, entered in the Register of Entrepreneurs of the National Court Register by the District Court Poznań-Nowe Miasto and Wilda in Poznań, 8th Economic Division – National Court Register under the number 0000850093, NIP: 7831822694, REGON: 386566426; e-mail: office@pit.lukasiewicz.gov.pl, phone no: +48 61 850 48 90;
2) Project – the project ‘Greenturn – Enabling Stakeholder-Centric Zero-Emission E-Commerce Delivery And Return Practices Through Transparent And Collaborative Supply Chains’ carried out by the Service Provider;
3) Terms and Conditions – these terms and conditions of the newsletter service in the project ‘Greenturn – enabling stakeholder-centric zero-emission e-commerce delivery and return practices through transparent and collaborative supply chains’;
4) GDPR – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC;
5) Agreement – an agreement on the use of the Newsletter service under the conditions described in the Terms and Conditions concluded between the Service Provider and the User;
6) Act – the Act of 18 July 2002 on Electronic Service Provision;
7) Newsletter service – a service provided electronically which consists of providing information in the form of an electronic letter sent to the User’s e-mail address;
8) User – natural person, legal entity or organisational unit without legal personality, being a recipient of the Newsletter service.
General provisions
1. These Terms and Conditions shall govern provision of the Newsletter Service by the Service Provider.
2. These Terms and Conditions are the terms and conditions referred to in Art. 8 (1) par. 1 of the Act.
3. The Consumer Rights Act of 30 May 2014 shall not apply to the Agreement based on the exemption set out in Article 3(1)(11) of that Act.
Agreement
1. The Newsletter Service shall be provided on the basis of a Contract.
2. In order to conclude the Agreement, the User:
1) fills in the form made available to him/her on the website of the Service Provider (at the address: www.green-turn.eu/newsletter ) marked ‘Newsletter subscription’, providing his/her e-mail address and making a declaration of acceptance of the Terms and Conditions by ticking the appropriate checkbox;
2) after clicking on the ‘SUBMIT’ button at the bottom of the form. the User is prompted on the website to check his/her e-mail in order to confirm subscription to the Newsletter Service;
3) by clicking on the ‘CONFIRM’ button in the body of the message sent by the Service Provider to the e-mail address, the User confirms his/her declaration to use the Newsletter Service. Upon receiving confirmation from the User, the Service Provider shall deem the Agreement concluded and shall enter the User’s email address into the Newsletter Service subscriber database.
3. The Newsletter Service shall commence immediately upon the conclusion of the Agreement. The Service Provider shall provide the User with a maximum of one Newsletter every two calendar months.
Subject of the Newsletter service
1. The Newsletter service consists of sending by the Service Provider to the e-mail address provided by the User appropriately formatted messages concerning the implementation of the Project. In particular, the transmitted information may concern:
1) the developed results of the Project;
2) upcoming Project events, such as consortium meetings, project workshops or study visits;
3) summaries of Project events;
4) surveys and polls on topics related to the Project.
2. No specific risks are associated with the Newsletter Service. 3.
3. When providing the Newsletter Service, the Service Provider shall not introduce into the User’s ICT system any software or data that is not a component of the service content.
Terms of use
1. The condition for using the Newsletter Service is the possession of an electronic device equipped with any web browser, access to the Internet and e-mail. In order to obtain, reproduce and record the Terms and Conditions, the User shall have software enabling the opening of files saved in pdf format..
2. The Newsletter service is free of charge.
3. The User is obliged to refrain from providing the Service Provider with unlawful content, in particular not to provide in the form other persons’ data without their consent.
4. The User shall not be entitled to use the content of the Newsletter Services for any other purpose than to read that content.
5. Content sent within the Newsletter Service shall constitute works within the meaning of the Act on Copyright and Related Rights of 4 February 1994 (Journal of Laws of 2025, item 24, as amended) and shall be subject to legal protection. Any further modification, processing of them requires the consent of the Service Provider.
6. The Service Provider is entitled to delete an erroneous e-mail address provided by the User in the form, as well as an address provided illegally, if the Service Provider takes reasonable notice thereof.
Liability of the Service Provider
The Service Provider shall not be liable for incorrect performance of the Newsletter service due to:
1) force majeure;
2) failure caused by the User or irregularities in the User’s computer system;
3) quality of the User’s connection to the internet;
4) breakdowns of User’s internet provider equipment.
Contract Duration
1. The Agreement between the Service Provider and the User shall be concluded for an indefinite period of time.
2. The User may terminate the Agreement at any time by withdrawing consent to use the Newsletter Service.
3. Withdrawal of consent referred to in section 2 shall be effected by sending a message from the e-mail address which was indicated as the address for using the Newsletter Service with the content ‘I WITHDRAW FROM THE NEWSLETTER’ to the e-mail address: contact@green-turn.eu.
4. The Service Provider may suspend or terminate the Newsletter Service at any time after informing the Users at the e-mail addresses provided by them.
5. Deactivation of the Newsletter Service may also occur at the initiative of the Service Provider in the event of non-compliance by the User with the obligations required under these Terms and Conditions. Upon deactivation of the Newsletter Service, the Service Provider shall cease sending information to the User’s e-mail address. The User may re-order the Newsletter service at any time.
6. Termination of the Newsletter Service as stipulated in section 4 and deactivation of the Newsletter Service as stipulated in section 5 shall be tantamount to termination of the Contract by the Service Provider with immediate effect
Personal data
1. The Administrator of Users’ personal data which are processed within the Newsletter Service is the Service Provider.
2. An information clause on the processing of User data is appended to the Terms and Conditions.
Complaints
1. Complaints concerning provision of the Newsletter Service shall be submitted to the email address contact@green-turn.eu or by traditional correspondence addressed to the address of the Service Provider.
2. The complaint shall indicate the data of the person submitting the complaint, necessary to send information on the outcome of complaint consideration, description of irregularities noticed in the Newsletter Service and the User’s expected manner of settling the matter.
3. The Service Provider shall consider the complaint within 21 days of its receipt, responding to the address from which the complaint was sent.
4. The warranty for defects referred to in the provisions of the Civil Code Act of 23 April 1964 shall be excluded in relation to the User other than a consumer or an entrepreneur with the characteristics of a consumer.
Closing provisions
1. The Terms and Conditions shall enter into force as soon as they have been published on the website … . These Terms and Conditions are provided as a pdf file.
2. The Service Provider reserves the right to unilaterally amend these Terms and Conditions to the extent permitted by applicable law, in particular in the event of significant technical
reasons, the introduction of new features and services, their modification or discontinuation of certain features or services.
3. Any changes to the Terms and Conditions will be communicated to the Users on a case-by-case basis through the inclusion of the relevant information in the Newsletter.
4. The User shall be deemed to have read and accepted any amendments to the Terms and Conditions upon the lapse of 30 days from the date of their announcement. In the event of non-acceptance of amendments to the Terms and Conditions, the User shall immediately resign from the Newsletter service pursuant to § 7 point 3 of the Terms and Conditions.
5. Invalidity of one of the provisions of the Terms and Conditions confirmed by a decision of a competent court shall not cause invalidity of the remaining provisions of the Terms and Conditions.
6. Disputes between the User and the Service Provider shall be resolved by a court of local jurisdiction of the Service Provider. This provision does not apply to disputes in which the User is a consumer. In this case, the court of competent jurisdiction for disputes shall be the court with jurisdiction over the defendant’s registered office or the court with jurisdiction over the place of execution of the Agreement.
7. In matters not covered by these Terms and Conditions, the provisions of Polish law shall apply.