Terms and Conditions

1. General

   1. Critical Housing Analysis (including this website and all its applications, hereinafter collectively referred to as ‘the Journal’) is an online journal administered by the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (see Contact for detailed information), hereafter referred to as ‘the Publisher’.
   2. These Terms and Conditions constitute a legally binding agreement between the Publisher and any natural or legal person who, as a registered user of the Journal, uses the Journal for any purpose, hereafter referred to as ‘the User’.
   3. These “Terms and Conditions” are binding to all users after registration.
   4. Individual terms and conditions and individual amendments to all terms and conditions are only binding if agreed in written form.

2. Disclaimer

   1. The Journal is provided ‘as it is’ and the Publisher disclaims any and all representations and warranties, whether express or implied, including - but not limited to - implied warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for any particular purpose or non-infringement. The Publisher does not promise any specific results, effects or outcome from the use of the Service.
   2. The Publisher does not represent or warrant that the Journal and the data and information provided are accurate, up-to-date, complete or reliable. The Publisher is not responsible or liable for any damage, disadvantage or disprofit, whether material or immaterial, that is caused by the usage or non-usage of the Journal. This does not apply to damages, disadvantages and disprofits that are caused by the Publisher intentionally, recklessly or negligently.
   3. The Publisher reserves the right to change, reduce, interrupt or discontinue publishing of the Journal or parts of it at any time.
   4. No one has a right to use the Journal; the Publisher reserves the right to exclude certain Users or delete contributions in the discussion under the published papers in cases where they are unethical, use vulgarities or support discrimination, violence or personal abuse.

3. Storage of information

   1. The Journal consists partly of information published at the request of Users.

   2. The Publisher neither previews nor automatically reviews such information, except the Works reviewed by the Editorial Board. Therefore, the Publisher cannot have current knowledge of possible infringements caused by information that is stored at the request of Users. The Publisher is not liable for such information (Article 14 of Directive 2000/31/EC).

   3. Upon acquiring knowledge or awareness of such infringement, the Publisher shall act expeditiously to remove or disable access to such information.

   4. Users may only request the publishing of such information that they may legally publish. Users must not seek to publish any information that infringes any third party's copyright, trademarks, other intellectual property rights or any other rights.

   5. Users indemnify the Publisher from any claims raised by third parties in reference to any information that is published by the respective User. The indemnification covers all adequate expenditures, including court and lawyer fees.

4. Notice and take down

   1. If a user feels that any information provided within the Journal infringes his/her or any third party's rights, he or she shall notify the Publisher before taking any legal action.

   2. Upon such notification, the Publisher will expeditiously check the objectionable information and will, where necessary, remove or disable access to this information (‘notice and take down’ process).

   3. The Publisher will respond to any such notification within ten business days.

   4. Users shall not take any legal action before the Publisher has dismissed the notification or ten business days have elapsed without response.

   5. The Publisher disclaims liability for expenditures, including court and lawyer fees, if legal action is taken earlier, unless the Publisher has caused the infringement intentionally, recklessly or negligently.

5. Misuse of the Journal

   1. Users must not misuse the Journal. Misuse of the Journal includes, without limitation:

      • insults to other Users;

      • automated or massive manual retrieval of other Users' profile data (‘data harvesting’);

      • advertising for commercial products or services of all kinds;

      • unsolicited job offers and business proposals;

      • all kinds of technical attacks on the servers.

   2. All aforementioned behaviours are strictly forbidden, unless the User has obtained prior written permission from the Publisher.

6. Use of information

   1. All information provided within the Journal by the Publisher and by other Users may only be accessed manually by a natural person using ordinary Internet devices.
   2. Users may link, share or make available information that is provided within the Journal by the Publisher or by other Users to/with a third party. Such information must contain the name of the author, the title of the Work (in the case of an Work), the name of the Journal, DOI code, identification of the URL and or any other specific location that contains the information published/shared/made available.
   3. Users interested in the dissemination and discussion of their ideas may submit short papers (hereinafter ‘the Work(s)’) that meet the requirements specified in the section ‘Instructions for Authors’. All Works will undergo a quick double-blind peer review by two members of the Editorial Board. Based on the reviews and the final decision of the editor-in-chief, the Work will be published or rejected (see ‘Information for Authors’ for more details). Hereafter the term ‘the Author’ refers to a User who has published at least one Work in the Journal. Each Work may have its own discussion forum where it will be discussed by the Users. The Work may be later re-published in broader form in a standard academic journal. If the Publisher or a third party deriving its authorisation from this Agreement should incur a loss or some other damage because of a legal defect of the Work, the Author shall compensate them to the full extent of the loss or damage suffered. Otherwise, all contributions will be stored in an accessible on-line archive.
   4. The Author hereby grants the Publisher permission to use the Work (licence) to the extent specified in ‘the Licence Agreement’.
   5. The right to use the Work is granted as a non-exclusive right, which means that the Author retains the right to use the Work him/herself, and also to grant the right to use it to a third party.
   6. The Publisher's is required to always acknowledge the Author by listing his/her name whenever the Publisher uses the Work.
   7. The Publisher is not obliged to use the licence granted by the Author in full.
   8. The Parties to the Agreement have agreed that the licence is granted free of charge by the Author pursuant to the provisions of § 49 Par 2 (b) of the Copyright Act.
   9. Users must not store or process any of the User's other personal data for any other purpose than the natural purpose of such data being published within the Journal by the respective User.

7. Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Rights

The software running the Service, the site design, logos and other graphic design elements, Works and other texts and the database are protected by copyright and are the property of the Publisher and/or third parties.

8. Applicable Law

These Terms and Conditions, including its additions (as in article 1 (3)), form an agreement subject solely to the law of the Czech Republic.

9. Salvatorius Clause

If any provision or provisions in these Terms and Conditions and additions to them (as in Article 1 (3)) shall be held to be or become invalid, illegal, unenforceable or in conflict with the law of any applicable jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be thereby affected or impaired.