Terms of Use and Standard Operating Procedures

PROJECT AURAVANA, also known as AURAVANA or AURAVANA PROJECT, and hereafter known as the PROJECT (auravana.org).

The terms of these conditions are most up-to-date and current on the Auravana Project’s website (auravana.org/about/terms-and-conditions).

WHEREAS;

1. SOCIETY is all individuals in need of professional work services for human fulfillment projects. 
2. PROJECT AURAVANA possesses the necessary coordination organization and standards to facilitate and support professional societal fulfillment services.
3. The CONTRIBUTOR desires to engage and contribute to PROJECT AURAVANA to provide the services to society in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth herein.
4. Both AURAVANA and CONTRIBUTOR are offering to provide the services to SOCIETY subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
5. The SOCIETY, PROJECT AURAVANA, and CONTRIBUTOR are each referred to herein as a “Party” and collectively, as the “Parties.”
6. The USER and CONTRIBUTOR are each referred to herein collectively as “You”.

NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual agreements contained herein, the Parties agree as follows;

Article 1: License

The Auravana Project, hereafter known as “the Project”, is an open source and free shared (i.e., free source) project operating under a CC BY-SA 4.0 License.

Article 2: Acceptance and Modification of Terms

The Auravana Project reserves the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of the Terms and Conditions of Agreement and Use and privacy, information contained within the Project, on the Project’s website, and all open source creations. Changes will be effective immediately upon posting on the Project’s website, whereupon SOCIETY is notified of the change by posting to the PROJECT’s website revision log, and CONTRIBUTORS who have previously signed the Agreement are notified by messaging. 

Please check these Terms and Conditions of Use, all other content on this site, and all the Project’s open source creations, for updates. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to these Terms and Conditions, content of this site, and all our open source creations, constitutes your acceptance of those changes. By accessing and using Project resources, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Agreement (Terms of Service). Please contact us if you have any questions.

Article 3: Entire agreement

This Agreement constitutes the entire and complete agreement, and supersedes and cancels any and all prior communications, understandings, promises, representations, and agreements, whether oral or written, expressed or implied, with respect to the subject matter hereof.

Article 4: Services

By using the Auravana Project and any services therein, “you” grant a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sub-licensable right and license to use and adapt all user submissions and user content for the purposes of developing, distributing, providing, improving, and promoting the Project and/or its services to everyone on the planet; the Project is open source. In addition, users of and contributors to the Project may make all Project content available to the public for use and adaptation.

Article 5: Access, User Submissions, and User Content

If “you” access, participate or contribute to the Project in any way via any medium through any channel via any connection, or through the initiation or reception of any connection, “you” permit the Auravana Project to use, collect, store, display, reproduce, save, modify, create derivative works, perform, and distribute, to make any changes to, deletions from, and/or additions to your content, and to use it at The Auravana Project’s sole, absolute, and unfettered discretion, as well as the sole, absolute, and unfettered discretion of everyone else on the planet. 

If “you” contribute to the project, “you” are agreeing to allow your claimed work to be licensed by the Project under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. The project operates under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. This is the lowest common denominator license used by other projects working on this direction, which still allows for commercial use. To use their content, The Auravana Project releases its content under a CC BY-SA 4.0 License. To contribute, “you” must agree to a CC BY-SA 4.0 release of “your” work.

“Your” contributions must be “your” own, or legally permissible, and “you” must have the “right” or “rights” to that which you contribute. If “you” contribute the work of another who subsequently engages in legal action, then “you” will be held accountable and “you” will be responsible for all damages. “You” shall only contribute work that is legally permissible to be contributed by “you”. “You” are solely responsible for determining whether any contributions “you” submit to Project Auravana require the prior consent of other parties and, if so, to obtain it and share it with Project Auravana in writing. 

Article 6: Other Content

Content used from other projects and organizations not covered by user submission shall maintain the license of the originating project or organization.

Article 7: Intellectual Property

To use content from the Auravana Project while excluding others’ ability to use it goes against our [community-based] philosophy, purpose, and goals. In accordance with our open source value-system you agree to not use any materials gathered from this site as part of any current or future patent claim in any jurisdiction unless you are improving upon the materials with an original idea and explicitly waive all claims to the Auravana Project’s material and content. “You” grant the Auravana Project the right to freely use and distribute any derivational content, including all derivative works in all jurisdictions, per the remainder of these terms and conditions, and without any necessity for exchange, including royalties, money, tokens, credits, or property of any kind. 

For the avoidance of doubt, and more specifically, both parties agree that all intellectual property rights and database rights, whether registered or unregistered, in the Site, information content on the Site, all documentation and content therein, and all the website and standards, including, but not limited to, documentation, text, graphics, software, photos, video, music, sound, know-how, idea,  information, technical data, data studies, formula, drawings, prototypes, samples, test results, software, process description, schematics, flowcharts, graphical layouts and descriptions, equipment, methods, plans, specifications and all of the Project’s open source creations, shall remain at all times freely accessible and available without any form of exchange to The Auravana Project and its contributors. All work contributed to The Auravana Project is shared by “you” on a royalty free, open source, CC BY-SA license.

As part of the Auravana Project’s open source purpose and goals, the Project grants a non-exclusive license in all parts of this intellectual property. The Project does this through the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (BY-SA) 4.0 License. This license is free and permits the use, development, distribution and replication of all of Project Auravana’s intellectual property with the following conditions: 1) “you” must indicate attribution (provide citation/credit), and 2) “you” must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original (i.e., “you” must distribute the work under a CC BY-SA license).

Under this license anyone is also free to freely distribute (for no profit), as well as trade and sell (for profit), The Auravana Project’s intellectual property; however, if “you” choose to sell any of The Auravana Project’s intellectual property in whole or in part you must prominently display:

1. Referentially credit Project Auravana as the source of the intellectual property; and
2. Include a link to where a customer may retrieve the intellectual property for free from Project Auravana with a notice as to the difference in price between you and Project Auravana. Here is an example statement:

These designs were developed based upon open source standards from Project Auravana. The free designs can be found on this page of Project Auravana’s website: https://auravana.org/standards

In addition, “you” agree:

1. Not to use Project Auravana’s (a.k.a., The Auravana Project) name, logo, and motto as they appear on this site and all open source creations and properties, without the prior written consent and agreement of Project Auravana’s current Global Projects Coordinator. “You” agree to show the Global Projects Coordinator how the logo will be used, and will not use it to harm the Auravana Project or associate the Project with information that is false about The Auravana Project.
2. Not to use photographs, biographies, names, and likenesses of anyone involved with Project Auravana, as they appear on this site, for any purpose without the prior written consent and permission of the person.
3. To be entirely responsible for your use of any/all content of whatever nature derived from this site and all our open source creations and agree to hold us free of any/all liability arising from your use or misuse of the contents derived therefrom.

Article 8: Indemnity

All content provided by the Project is provided as is. The Project and its content providers make no warranties, express, implied or otherwise, regarding its accuracy, completeness or performance. You agree to be entirely responsible for your use of any/all content of whatever nature derived from this site and all the Project’s open source creations and agree to hold us free of any/all liability arising from your use or misuse of the contents derived therefrom. By accessing the website and/or using the its content or specifications “you” agree to indemnify and hold harmless The Auravana Project and all contributors and participants and successors from any and all claims, demands, losses, causes of action, damage, lawsuits, liabilities, disputes, suits, claims, proceedings, costs and expenses, judgments, including attorneys’ fees and costs. “You” hereby release The Auravana Project, all contributors and participants, and their successors from claims, demands, any and all losses, damages, rights, and actions of any kind, including personal injuries, death, and property damage that is either directly or indirectly related to or arises from any Auravana Project creation(s), design(s), web content, etc. and the use or access thereof.

Article 9: Accessibility of Website

The Project’s aim is to ensure accessibility to the website at all times, however we make no representation of that nature and reserve the right to terminate the website at any time and without notice. You accept that service interruption may occur in order to allow for website improvements, scheduled maintenance, or may also be due to outside factors beyond the Project’s control, to which we shall not be liable.

Article 10: Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

You further agree to waive all injunctive relief and to limit any monetary damages sought to a maximum of US $1,000 (one thousand US dollars) should a dispute arise from your breach of these Terms of Use.

Article 11: Limitations

No trademark rights held by the Project are waived, abandoned, surrendered, licensed or otherwise affected by this document.

Article 12: Cookie Policy for European State GDPR Compliance

This site uses cookies to make your browsing experience more convenient, provide social media features, and analyse traffic. Cookies store useful information on your computer to help us serve fonts and acquire user analytics. Cookies are essential to providing full functionality to the site. By accessing this site, you consent to the use of cookies. By using our websites, you are consenting to our use of cookies. If you do not agree to our use of cookies in this way, you should set your browser settings accordingly, disable the cookies that we use or not use our websites at all. If you disable the cookies we use, this may impact your user experience while on the website (e.g., the display of fonts).

Article 13: Privacy Policy for European State GDPR Compliance

The Auravana Project is an open source, CC BY-SA 4.0 licensed project per the remainder of this policy. All user submitted content made available to the Auravana Project is content made available under this license. All information submitted to, or through, the Project has no expectation of privacy, is public and shareable to everyone, even if it is not made immediately public (or shared immediately). All information collected could be used for any purpose (because this is a societal building project unifying all domains of living). The Project only requires the minimum amount of personal information that is necessary to fulfill the purpose of your interaction with the Project.

The legal basis for processing personal data:

• Personal data category — Legal basis
• Email address and name (Contact webpage) — Legitimate interest
• Personal identifying information to generally include name, postal address, and other personal details (Online registration) — Legitimate interest
• User submissions and User content (site contact forms and Contact webpage) — Legitimate interest
• Cookie analytics (website functioning, social media, traffic analytics) — Legitimate interest
• Others

In addition to the uses described above, the project uses your information in the following ways:

• To conduct analytics.
• To respond to your inquiries related to support, opportunities, and other requests.
• To provide the products and services you request.
• To improve the design of society by including it in a public, common, open source design specification for the next iteration of society.
• To share with the public.
• To add to and modify the system being designed and produced by this open source project.

How the project collects your information (different methods are used):

• Direct interactions (e.g., email, contact page, forum) and indirect interactions (e.g., surveys), by communicating on, through, or to the project, or to one of its contributors.
• Automated technologies or computer interactions. As you interact with the Project and the Project’s website, it may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. The project collects this personal information by using cookies, [server logs] and other similar technologies. [We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing these cookies.] Cookies (You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.)

How the project stores your information (different methods are used):

• Your information is stored on email servers and personal computers. “You” accept that any information you make available to the Project or its contributors may be made available to the public at any time – that information can be seen, collected and used by others besides us. We cannot be responsible for any unauthorized third-party use of such information.

How “you” can access and control the information collected:

• “You” accept that upon submission of any information to, or through, the Project “you” waive all rights to the control of that information. In all interactions with the Project, there is no expectation of privacy.

The Project may change the privacy policy and practices over time. The Project will not notify “you” of such changes unless legally required. When re-accessing the website, if it is important to you, please re-check the terms then.

Article 14: Contact Form Compliance for European State GDPR Compliance

The contact webpage, including contact form therein, and newsletter subscription form on every page, is used to collect personal information (name and email) so that project coordinators and other team members can contact “you”.

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