Terms of Use of the Digital Circular Inventory website
1. Introduction
These Terms of Use (“Terms” ) govern the rights and obligations of users of the Digital Circular Inventory website operated via https://www.circularinventory.eu/ ( “Website” ), and operated by Technická univerzita v Košiciach, Letná 1/9, 042 00 Košice-Sever, Slovak Republic, company ID: 00 397 610 ( “Operator” ).
By using the Website, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to these Terms. If you do not agree, you may not access or use the Website.
2. Purpose of the Website
The Website was created as part of the online platform – The Digital Circular Inventory. The Digital Circular Inventory is an innovative online platform designed to help small and medium-sized businesses in the mechanical industry transition to a more sustainable future. This tool provides companies with easy access to circular economy solutions, helping them to reduce waste, reuse materials, and optimize resources in their production processes. The Digital Circular Inventory is a core output of the REUSE2030 project, co-financed by the Interreg Central Europe Programme.
3. Terms of Use of the Website
The Website is made available for informational, educational, and project-related purposes in connection with the Digital Circular Inventory and the REUSE2030 project.
Users may access and use the Website only in accordance with these Terms, applicable law, and the purpose of the Website. The Website does not allow users to publish, upload, submit, or otherwise make available their own content through the Website.
Users must not:
- use the Website in a manner contrary to its purpose or applicable law;
- use automated means or tools, including bots, scrapers, crawlers or similar technologies, to download, analyse, collect, extract, copy, index or otherwise use data or content from the Website without the Operator’s prior consent;
- interfere with, overload, disrupt, damage or impair the Website, its servers, technical infrastructure, security features or proper functioning;
- attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Website, user accounts, systems, servers or networks connected to the Website;
- circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with any security-related or access-control features of the Website;
- use the Website or its content for commercial purposes without the Operator’s prior authorisation, unless such use is expressly permitted by applicable law or by the relevant licence terms;
- copy, reproduce, distribute, communicate to the public, modify or create derivative works from the Website content beyond the scope permitted by applicable law, these Terms or the applicable licence terms;
- remove, obscure or alter any copyright notices, licence notices, trademarks, source references or other proprietary notices displayed on or in connection with the Website or its content;
- use the Website in a way that could infringe intellectual property rights, personality rights, trade secrets, confidentiality obligations or other rights of the Operator or third parties.
4. User Responsibilities
When using the Website, users must comply with all applicable laws, these Terms and any applicable copyright, intellectual property, database, confidentiality and licensing terms relating to the Website and its content.
Unless expressly permitted by applicable law, these Terms, the relevant licence terms or the Operator’s prior authorisation, users must not:
- copy, reproduce, distribute, communicate to the public or otherwise make available any content published on the Website;
- remove, obscure or alter any copyright notices, licence notices, trademarks, source references or other proprietary notices displayed on or in connection with the Website or its content;
- use the content of the Website for commercial purposes;
- modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works based on the Website content in a manner that infringes the rights of the Operator, authors or other rights holders;
- use the Website or its content in a manner that infringes intellectual property rights, database rights, personality rights, trade secrets, confidentiality obligations, contractual restrictions, licence terms or other rights.
The Operator does not grant any licence or permission to use, reproduce, extract, reuse or exploit the Website content, data or materials except to the extent expressly permitted by these Terms, applicable licence terms or mandatory applicable law.
5. Liability and Disclaimer
The Website and all content, information, materials, tools, references and outputs made available through the Website are provided for informational, educational and project-related purposes only. They do not constitute legal, technical, environmental, financial, investment, business, certification, regulatory or other professional advice.
The Operator does not verify, guarantee or warrant the accuracy, completeness, correctness, reliability, suitability, timeliness, availability, legality or usefulness of any information, materials, content, references, third-party materials, project outputs or external links made available through the Website.
Any use of the Website, its content and any information obtained through the Website is at the user’s sole risk. Users are solely responsible for assessing whether the Website content is suitable for their intended purpose and for obtaining independent professional advice where appropriate.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Operator shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive or other damages, losses, lost profits, loss of data, loss of goodwill, loss of business opportunity, reputational harm, third-party claims or other adverse consequences arising from or in connection with:
- access to, use of, inability to use, interpretation of or reliance on the Website or its content;
- any error, omission, inaccuracy, incompleteness, delay or outdated information on the Website;
- any interruption, suspension, modification, restriction, unavailability or discontinuation of the Website;
- any unauthorised access, cyber incident, technical failure, malware, loss of data or actions of third parties;
- any use of the Website content in breach of copyright, licensing terms, intellectual property rights, database rights, confidentiality obligations or other third-party rights;
- any decisions, actions or omissions taken by users or third parties on the basis of information published on the Website.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under mandatory applicable law.
No Warranties
The Operator operates and provides the Website “as is” and “as available”, without any warranties, representations or guarantees of any kind, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, including but not limited to warranties of fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, completeness, timeliness, reliability, non-infringement, uninterrupted operation, error-free operation, compatibility, security or availability.
Force Majeure
The Operator is not liable for any failure, delay, interruption, unavailability, data loss or other adverse consequence caused by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including technical failures, hosting failures, network outages, cyber incidents, malware, security incidents, actions or omissions of third parties, changes in third-party services, legal or regulatory changes, force majeure events or other events outside the Operator’s reasonable control.
6. Data Protection
The Operator processes personal data of users in connection with the operation and use of the Website in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the GDPR.
Detailed information on the processing of personal data, including the categories of personal data processed, purposes and legal bases of processing, retention periods, recipients, data subject rights and contact details of the Data Protection Officer, is provided in the Operator’s Privacy Policy available on the Website.
By using the Website, users acknowledge that the processing of their personal data is governed by the Privacy Policy.
7. Technical Availability and Modifications
The Operator strives to maintain the Website in a functional and secure condition, but does not guarantee continuous, uninterrupted, secure, timely or error-free availability of the Website.
The Operator may, at any time and at its sole discretion, update, modify, restrict, suspend, discontinue, replace, remove or otherwise change the Website, its content, functionalities, structure, availability or access conditions, in whole or in part.
The Operator shall not be liable for any damage, loss, inconvenience, unavailability, interruption, limitation of access, data loss or other adverse consequence resulting from any update, modification, restriction, suspension, discontinuation, replacement, removal or other change of the Website, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.
Where required by mandatory applicable law, or where reasonably possible and appropriate, the Operator may inform users of material changes, suspensions or discontinuation in an appropriate manner.
8. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These Terms shall be governed by the laws of the Slovak Republic. Any disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms shall be resolved primarily by amicable settlement. If no amicable settlement is reached, the dispute shall be submitted to the competent court of the Slovak Republic.
9. Amendments to the Terms
The Operator may amend these Terms at any time. The amended version will be published on the Website and will become effective on the date specified in the amended Terms or, if no date is specified, on the date of publication. Continued use of the Website after the amended Terms become effective constitutes acceptance of the amended Terms.
10. Contact
For any inquiries related to these Terms, please contact: dev.ekf@tuke.sk.
Effective date: June 15, 2026.