Welcome to the website of the Liberal Institute.

These terms and conditions contain the rules and regulations for the use of the Liberal Institute website at https://www.libinst.ch/en/.

We assume that by accessing the website you accept the terms and conditions in their entirety. Please do not continue to use our website if you do not accept all the terms and conditions stated on this page.

Cookies:

This site uses cookies to personalize your online experience. By continuing to access the Liberal Institute website, you accept the use of cookies.

A cookie is a text file stored on your hard disk by a web server. Cookies cannot execute programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They contain a unique identifier and can only be read by the web server of the domain that stored the cookie on your computer.

We use cookies for various purposes, including analysis and personalized marketing communications to improve the user-friendliness of our website. You have the option of refusing optional cookies. Some cookies, however, are absolutely necessary for the proper functioning of our website. These technically necessary cookies must always be activated and therefore do not require your consent. Please note that by accepting necessary cookies, you also accept third-party cookies if you use services provided by third parties on our website, such as an integrated video advertising window.

License:

Unless otherwise indicated, the Liberal Institute and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights to all material appearing on the Liberal Institute website. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may view and/or print pages from Liberal Institute for your own personal use and/or share them on social media and/or link to them in any other way, subject to the restrictions set out in these terms and conditions. This agreement comes into force on today’s date.

In some parts of this website, users have the opportunity to leave comments for the purpose of exchanging opinions and information. Corresponding user comments are not checked, filtered, edited or distributed prior to publication on the Liberal Institute website. User comments exclusively reflect the personal opinion of their author and do not correspond to the opinions and convictions of Liberal Institute, its legal representatives and/or business partners. Unless otherwise provided by law, Liberal Institute assumes no liability for user comments or for any damages and/or costs resulting from the appearance of such user comments on the website.

The Liberal Institute reserves the right to verify and possibly delete any comments that may be considered inappropriate, offensive or contrary to the General Conditions.

You hereby warrant and agree that:

• You have the necessary authorization, licenses and consents to post comments on our website;
• Your comments do not infringe the intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights such as copyrights, patents or trademarks of third parties;
• Your comments do not contain abusive, defamatory, offensive, inappropriate or otherwise illegal material that constitutes a violation of privacy;
• Your comments are not intended to promote or encourage commercial, customer-oriented or illegal activities;
• You hereby grant Liberal Institute a non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, edit and authorize others to use, reproduce and edit your Comments in any form, format or medium.

Link to our content:

Anyone may create a link to our website without written permission, provided that:

the link: (a) is not misleading in any way; (b) does not erroneously suggest sponsorship, support or endorsement of the linking party or its products and/or services; and (c) is within the context of the website to which the link is made.

Our website may be linked in the following ways:

By using the name of our institute or

By using the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to which the link is made or by using other descriptions of our site or the documents to which the link is made, so that these descriptions correspond to the context and content of the site to which the link is made.

Neither the Liberal Institute logo nor any other graphic element may be used to create a link without a trademark license agreement.

Responsibility for content:

We assume no responsibility for the content that appears on your website. You hereby agree to indemnify us against any claims made against your site. No website may contain links whose content may be considered defamatory, obscene or criminal, or which infringes or violates the rights or advocates any other infringement or violation of the rights of third parties.

Legal reserve:

We reserve the right, at any time and in our sole discretion, to request that you remove all links or a specific link to our site. You agree to comply immediately with any such request and to remove any link to our site without delay. We also reserve the right to change the terms and conditions and linking guidelines at any time. If you continue to link to our website, you accept the linking guidelines set out in these terms and conditions. By continuing to link to our website, you agree to be bound by and comply with these linking terms and conditions.

Removal of links from our website:

Please contact us at any time if you consider that a link on our website or a linked website is inappropriate for any reason. We will consider requests to remove links, but we are not obliged to act on them or to respond directly to requests.

We do not warrant the completeness or accuracy of the information contained on any third-party site, nor do we warrant that the site will remain available or that the material contained on the site will be kept up to date.

Disclaimer:

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to our website and its use. Nothing in this disclaimer is intended to:

• limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;
• limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
• limit our or your liability in any way not permitted by applicable law; or exclude any liability on our or your part which cannot be excluded under applicable law.

The limitations and exclusions of liability set forth in this section and elsewhere in this Disclaimer: (a) are subject to the preceding paragraph and (b) apply to all liabilities arising out of or in connection with the subject matter of this Disclaimer, including liabilities in contract, tort and breach of statutory duty.

As long as the website and the information and services it contains are made available free of charge, we accept no liability for loss or damage of any kind.