Introduction

The Institute for Legal Support and Technical Assistance (ILSTA) is a legal person set up and registered in Luxembourg with its registered office at 7,rue de Bitbourg, L-1273 Luxembourg. ILSTA's office for its operations in Lao PDR is 6th Floor, NNN Building, Bourichane Road, Phonsinouan Village, Sisattanak District, Vientiane.

This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to these Terms and Conditions, you consent to ILSTA's use of cookies in accordance with the terms of ILSTA's Privacy Policy.

In addition, this website and the ILSTA mobile app use third-party analytics and other services (including but not limited to Firebase Analytics) in order to measure usage of and engagement with this website and ILSTA's mobile app. By using this website and/or the ILSTA mobile app, you consent to ILSTA's use of Firebase Analytics and other services.

Licence to use this website

Unless otherwise stated, ILSTA and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in this website and material on this website. Subject to the licence below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages or other content from this website for your own personal, non-commercial use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these Terms and Conditions.

You must not:

• copy, reproduce or republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
• disassemble, decompile, or reverse engineer any part of this website or any content on this website
• sell, rent or sub-license material from this website;
• show, broadcast, transmit or make available any material from this website to the public;
• reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;
• edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
• redistribute material from this website (except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution).

Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed as expressly stated.

Acceptable use

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to this website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of this website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website.

You must not post, send or upload any such content or information:

• unless you own or have appropriate rights to use the intellectual property rights subsisting in or relating to that content and information and unless you are sure that posting, sending or uploading the same does not infringe the rights (including but not limited to the intellectual property rights) of any other person or organisation;
• which is or could be considered defamatory, derogatory or in appropriate with regard to ILSTA, its partners or donors, or any other person or organisation;
• which contains any confidential information about ILSTA or another person or organisation (unless you have our permission or that of the other person or organisation);
• which contains any offensive, obscene or criminal content or any other content which may cause embarrassment to ILSTA, its partners or donors, or any other person or organisation; and
• which contains any personal data about another person including (but not limited to) names, contact details and sensitive personal data (for example, information about an identified or identifiable individual’s mental or physical health, racial or ethnic origin, religious or other beliefs).

ILSTA is not responsible for any content and/or information which you post, send or upload onto the Site. ILSTA reserves the right to withdraw any such content and/or information without notice and at its sole discretion.

Restricted access

Access to certain areas of this website is restricted. ILSTA reserves the right to restrict access to other areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at ILSTA's discretion.

You must keep your user ID and password for this website confidential. You must not allow any other person or organisation to use your user ID and password to access this website.

ILSTA may disable your user ID and password in ILSTA's sole discretion without notice or explanation.

User content

In these Terms and Conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to ILSTA a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to ILSTA the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or ILSTA or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

ILSTA reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on ILSTA's servers, or hosted or published upon this website.

Notwithstanding ILSTA's rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, ILSTA does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.

No warranties

This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. ILSTA makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, ILSTA does not warrant that:

• this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
• the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

Information contained in or accessible via this website changes on a regular basis. ILSTA may make improvements or alterations to this website at any time and without notice.

Addresses of or links to other websites may appear on this website for your convenience. ILSTA does not operate or monitor other websites and ILSTA accepts no responsibility or liability for the content of other websites. Any link is not intended to be, nor should be construed as, an endorsement of any kind by ILSTA of another website.

Limitations of liability

ILSTA not guarantee that:

• use of this website will be compatible with all hardware and software,
• use of this website will be uninterrupted or error or virus free,
• use of this website will deliver any specific outcome for its users, or
• defects on this website will be corrected (save for those defects which ILSTA is obliged to correct by law).

You must take appropriate steps to ensure that you regularly check for and protect against viruses when using the Site on any device.

ILSTA makes no statement about the suitability of the content, information and services contained on, or accessed via, this website. All warranties, terms and conditions in this regard, including all warranties, terms and conditions implied by statute or otherwise, of satisfactory quality and fitness for purpose are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law (see below for more details). For the avoidance of doubt this includes materials accessed via links to websites (including home pages, web pages or documents they contain) operated by any other person or organisation.

ILSTA further excludes to the fullest extent permissible by law (see below for more details) all liability for damages and direct, indirect or consequential loss (all three of which terms include pure economic loss, loss of profits, loss of business, business interruption, depletion of goodwill and like loss) or otherwise incurred by you or any other person or organisation and arising out of or in any way connected with the use of this website or its content, whether based on contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise.

You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless ILSTA, ILSTA's partners, donors, affiliates and ILSTA's officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses or expenses, including reasonable legal costs, arising out of or in any way connected with any breach by you of these Terms and Conditions.

Breaches of these terms and conditions

Without prejudice to ILSTA's other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these Terms and Conditions in any way, ILSTA may take such action as ILSTA deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to this website, prohibiting you from accessing this website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Variation

ILSTA may revise these Terms and Conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised Terms and Conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.