Welcome to the website of G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train!
These Terms of Use regulate the relations between the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train consortium and visitors on the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website regardless of being juridical or natural persons. Any visitor of the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website is entitled to access the information published on it under the conditions set forth. By browsing our website or accessing the virtual classroom or forum, you (as a visitor) agree to the following Terms of Use. If you do not agree with the provisions of this document, please do not access and/or use the website and the virtual classroom or forum.
 
The G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train consortium is an international partnership, which is composed of the following organisations (partners, members):  Internationaler Bund (IB) Mitte gGmbH für Bildung und Soziale Dienste Niederlassung Sachsen (coordinator, Germany), NATSIONALNA SHKOLA PO MENIDZHMANT (Bulgaria), HIGHER INCUBATOR GIVING GROWTH AND SUSTAINABILITY (Greece), Celje Youth Centre (Slovenia), and Europsky Dialog (Slovakia).
 
Any visitor of the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train online hub is entitled to access the information published on it under the conditions set forth. By browsing our online hub, you (as visitor) agree to the Terms of Use in the parts concerning the visitors. If you do not agree with the provisions of this document, please do not access and/or use the hub.
 
If you are about to complete your registration on the hub, you need to explicitly agree to the following Terms of Use, in order to use the services accessible to registered users. Once you complete your registration you will enter into a contract with the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train partnership for the services provided on our Work hub in accordance with the provisions of these Terms of Use.
 
Our mission is to support and improve the innovation and capacity of the European youth work community by creating a networking platform for sharing good youth work practices around Europe and beyond. Therefore, we have developed the following services and resources to both visitors and registered users: 
– Access to the section “Virtual classroom”, which are developed by the The G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train partnership.
– Access to the content of the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train forum in section “Forum”.
Once you complete the registration you will have access to all services available to registered users, including posting discussions and comments in section “Forum” and access to the Virtual Classroom. In doing so, you undertake not to upload/post/share any content that might: 
– be unlawful, misleading, discriminatory, or fraudulent; contain pornographic or sexual character
– violate or breach someone else’s rights, including their intellectual property rights and legitimate interests
– be harmful to the good name, honour or dignity of someone else
– violate the applicable laws including these Terms of use
– encourage unlawful behaviour which calls for violence, humiliation, hatred, terrorism, or any other undemocratic ideology
– contain political or religious propaganda. 
 
We can remove any content that is in breach of these provisions. 
You must not perform any malicious action that may compromise the functioning of the The G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train online hub, including uploading viruses or malicious code, or do anything that could disable, overburden or impair the proper working of the hub. 
You have the right to deactivate your profile, without any explanation or prior notice, through the profile functions at your disposal. 
You have the right to request a termination of your registration, which will lead to the anonymzation of all the content posted, uploaded or shared by you. 
We may terminate your registration without prior notice and at our sole discretion if we consider that your behaviour violates the current Terms of Use or the applicable law or in case we receive information that your behaviour in the use of our services may constitute a crime or an administrative violation. In the latter case, we are entitled to approach the competent state authorities and to provide them the necessary cooperation. Admins shall suspend access to your user account as well as shall have the right to delete or anonymise any content posted, uploaded or shared by you via this account. 
 
You have all the rights, as listed in our Privacy policy. 
 
Services, available only to registered users:
 
– Registered users are entitled to maintain public profiles for the purposes of building a The G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train Forum. 
– Registered users are allowed to participate in conversations and discussions by posting and deleting their own comments on the forum. 
– Registered users can create and delete topics for discussion. 
 
All services provided on the The G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train online hub are free of charge. 
 
Funding
The G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train project was funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme, Key Action 2, under Grant Agreement No 2023-1-DE04-KA220-YOU-000123686 .
 
Disclaimer
The content of this platform represents the views of the authors only and is their sole responsibility. The European Commission does not accept any responsibility for use that may be made of the information contained on this website and in the simulation game.
 
G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train is designed to foster youth participation in democratic life through resources for the target group and the field of youth work that help to raise the ability, competences and motivation of young people for social and civic engagement. The content of G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train available via this website includes: Materials, Interactive videos, Good practices, Virtual Classroom, Forum and News. 
 
All services/products provided on the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website, including registered access within the Virtual Classroom and Forum, are free of charge.
 
We do not bear responsibility if you cannot access the website due to problems, which are not in our control.
 
Your rights and obligations
All visitors are entitled to access the content available on the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website and the Virtual Classroom and Forum for the aims and purposes, which are in alignment with the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train project’s aims or for any other non-profit purpose as long as the usage of the information respects the intellectual property rights over it. We shall not tolerate any usage of the website and the simulation game with commercial purposes.
 
You must not perform any malicious activity that may compromise the functioning of the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website or simulation game, including uploading viruses or malicious code, or doing anything that could disable, overburden or impair the proper working of the website or simulation game.
 
Our rights and obligations
Each member of the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train consortium has the right and responsibility to administer the website and the Virtual Classroom and Forum.
 
We do not guarantee that the information is accessible on the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website or the Virtual Classroom and Forum, however, the information on the website is carefully researched by the project partners and we do our very best to provide accurate and high-quality information.
 
We reserve the right to restrict or suspend the provision of particular services, accessible through the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website and the Virtual Classroom and Forum by giving a notice on the relevant web page at G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website.
 
External link disclaimer
G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website includes references and links to external resources (“external links”) in domains other than goat-project.eu / forum.goat-project.eu / vc. goat-project.eu, which is not owned or created by the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train consortium, over which the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train consortium has no control and for which the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train consortium assumes no responsibility (for the availability, quality of the external content, truthfulness, and conformity with the law of such websites and resources).
 
When visitors to G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website choose to follow a link to any external website, they leave the official domain of G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train, and are subject to the cookie, privacy and legal policies of the external website. Compliance with applicable data protection and accessibility requirements of external websites linked to from the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website, falls outside the control of G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train consortium and is the explicit responsibility of the external website.
 
Disclaimer of endorsement
The purpose of any linked reference from the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website to any specific external resource, online service or a website, is to enhance the information available on the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website and help visitors and users to reach those websites.
 
Such linked references do not constitute endorsement by the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train consortium or the European Commission of the specific external resource, online service or a website, nor endorsement of the information contained in the linked reference, nor endorsement of the organisations owning the external websites.
 
Intellectual property
The intellectual work of the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train consortium available through this website and the Virtual Classroom and Forum is published as Open Educational Resource, which means that you are free to access and use it for teaching, learning, and assessing as well as for research purposes.
 
The source codes of the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website and the Virtual Classroom and Forum are subject to the copyright of the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train  consortium.
 
As you may have access to various contents and resources, external to the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website, the intellectual property rights on these materials are subject to protection pursuant to the applicable law and are held by the respective holder. The reference to those resources cannot be deemed as granting any right to use such resources in violation to their copyright licence.
 
Copyright notice:
© 2024, All Rights Reserved by the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train Partnership. The learning and all other materials are published under licence CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
 
Liability
We will exercise due diligence in providing our services to you and will apply appropriate measures for keeping a safe and error-free functioning of the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website and the Virtual Classroom and Forum. We do not guarantee that the services provided free of charge will satisfy your requirements.
 
We do not accept responsibility for any damages that might be incurred by you in the course of the use of the services unless such losses are caused by us intentionally or due to gross negligence. We do not accept responsibility for losses caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
 
We do not commit to any deadlines for updating the information on the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website and the Virtual Classroom and Forum unless stated otherwise.
 
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train consortium as a whole, its members, and representatives from any and all claims or demands, including penalty payments, reasonable attorney’s fees, made by any third party related to your breach of these Terms of Use or the applicable laws or violation of the rights of any third party.
 
Personal Data Protection – G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website
There is no personal data collected through the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website.
 
Personal Data Protection – G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train Virtual Classroom and Forum
By registering to the Virtual Classroom and Forum, a person authorises the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train consortium to process their data that they used to fill in the registration form. G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train consortium confirms compliance with the provisions of 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.
 
In the case of the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train Virtual Classroom and Forum, it uses only strictly necessary cookies for its normal functioning and for the smooth maintenance of its content and of users accounts. We use only two types of cookies – one that keeps information if you have consented to the usage of cookies and one that keeps users logged in for a period of time. The last cookie is automatically deleted when a user logs out.
 
Analytics cookies
These cookies collect data to remember choices users make to improve and give a more personalised experience.
 
Essential cookies
These cookies enable core functionality such as security, verification of identity, and network management. This cookie also keeps users logged in for a period of time and it is automatically deleted when a user logs out. These cookies can’t be disabled.
 
Updating our Terms of Use
The G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website and simulation game are developed in accordance with the Description of action under Agreement No 2023-1-DE04-KA220-YOU-000123686, which pre-defines our services. However, our team shall continue its work to improve the provided services, where deemed necessary. In case such improvements or changes in the applicable law necessitate the update of the present Terms of Use, we shall inform you about any introduced amendments by publishing the new version on the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train website and noting it in the News section.
 
We will only make changes if the provisions are no longer appropriate or if they are incomplete. Such notifications will be sent no later than 7 days from the date of the adoption of the amendments.
 
Once any updated Terms are in effect, you will be bound by them if you continue to use our services. If not specified otherwise, the new Terms shall enter into force 20 days after the update notification, unless the changes are required by law.
 
Additional provisions
The Terms of Use shall be governed by German and European law and for all matters not settled by the present Terms of Use, the provisions of the Austrian and European legislation in force shall apply.
 
You agree that any dispute or claim relating in any way to your use of our website or the simulation game will be resolved amicably and in good faith, through negotiations and mutual concessions. If an agreement cannot be reached you agree that the dispute shall be resolved by binding arbitration rather than in court.
 
The present Terms of Use are adopted by all Partners acting jointly as the G.O.A.T | Get on the Action Train consortium.
 
Date of last version – 16.2.2024