The United Nations maintains the UN Geneva Multimedia Newsroom web site (the “Site”) as a courtesy to those who may choose to access the Site (“Users”). The United Nations grants permission to Users to visit the Site and to download and copy the information, documents, video recordings, and other associated materials (collectively, “Materials”) from the Site for the User’s use, including the right to redistribute them or to compile or create derivative works therefrom, subject to the terms and conditions outlined below, and also subject to more specific restrictions that may apply to specific Material within this Site.

In addition to the terms outlined below, the United Nations grants, specifically on UN Geneva Multimedia Newsroom, the right to use the Materials for Editorial Use Only, for a period of 2 months, for registered users, to download and use for descriptive or illustrative purposes in a newsworthy context for a duration of 2 months following the upload to the platform, and under the conditions as set out below. Any use of material that is not for Editorial Use or is beyond the initial 2 months period is subject to a usage and licensing agreement that can be requested through form: Contact Us. 

1. Terms and Conditions of Use

The use of the materials from the UN Geneva Multimedia Newsroom web site constitutes an agreement with the following terms and conditions:

(a) The United Nations maintains the UN Geneva Multimedia Newsroom web site (the “Site”) as a courtesy to those who may choose to access the Site (“Users”). The United Nations grants permission to Users to visit the Site and to download and copy the information, documents, video presentations, television programmes and other associated materials (collectively, “Materials”) from the Site for the User’s use, including the right to redistribute them or to compile or create derivative works therefrom, subject to the terms and conditions outlined below, and also subject to more specific restrictions that may apply to specific Material within this Site.

(b) Unless expressly stated otherwise, the findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed in the Materials on this Site are those of the various United Nations staff members, consultants and advisers to the United Nations who prepared the work and do not necessarily represent the views of the United Nations or its Member States.

(c) The Users shall ensure that the use of the Materials and any third party sponsorship of the Users’ use of the Materials, such as advertisements or commercials broadcast during such use, shall not: (i) associate the United Nations with any particular opinion of the Users or create any impression or representation that the User is endorsed by the United Nations; (ii) be obscene or defamatory of any person, or encourage or incite crime, lead to disorder, or be offensive to the public or bring the United Nations into disrepute; (iii) encourage behaviour prejudicial to the protection of the environment; (iv) encourage behaviour prejudicial to health or safety; (v) be in breach of all applicable laws, statutes, rules (administrative or otherwise), regulations or common law, or any requirement of any governmental body; (vi) be in conflict with necessary consents, permissions or clearances of any third parties; (vii) adversely reflect upon the United Nations and the goodwill associated with the United Nations name, or be otherwise incompatible with the purposes and principles of the United Nations; or (viii) create any impression or representation that any third party sponsor of the Users has a relationship with the United Nations or such sponsor’s products or services are endorsed by with the United Nations.

(d) The Users shall ensure that the readability and lucidity of the Materials is not unduly affected by the Users’ use of the Materials. The Users take full responsibility for the readability and lucidity of the Materials during their use. The Users shall take full responsibility for the occurrence of any significant distortion in the quality of the broadcast of the Materials and shall rectify it promptly.

(e) The Users shall acknowledge that the Materials were provided by the United Nations from the UN Geneva Multimedia Newsroom Site.

2. Disclaimers

Materials provided on this Site are provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, without limitation, warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. The United Nations specifically does not make any warranties or representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any such Materials. The United Nations periodically adds, changes, improves or updates the Materials on this Site without notice. Under no circumstances shall the United Nations be liable for any loss, damage, liability or expense incurred or suffered that is claimed to have resulted from the use of this Site, including, without limitation, any fault, error, omission, interruption or delay with respect thereto. The use of this Site is at the User’s sole risk. Under no circumstances, including but not limited to negligence, shall the United Nations or its affiliates be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages, even if the United Nations has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

The Users specifically acknowledges and agrees that the United Nations is not liable for any conduct of any User. This Site may contain advice, opinions and statements of various information providers. The United Nations does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any advice, opinion, statement or other information provided by any information provider, any User of this Site or any other person or entity. Reliance upon any such advice, opinion, statement, or other information shall also be at the User’s own risk. Neither the United Nations nor its affiliates, nor any of their respective agents, employees, information providers or content providers, shall be liable to any User or anyone else for any inaccuracy, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, alteration of or use of any content herein, or for its timeliness or completeness, nor shall they be liable for any failure of performance, computer virus or communication line failure, regardless of cause, or for any damages resulting therefrom.

As a condition of use of this Site and the Materials, the User agrees to indemnify the United Nations and its affiliates from and against any and all actions, claims, losses, damages, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of the User’s use of this Site, including, without limitation, any claims alleging facts that if true would constitute a breach by the User of these Terms and Conditions. If the User is dissatisfied with any Material on this Site or with any of its Terms and Conditions of Use, the User’s sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Site and Materials.

This Site may contain links and references to third-party web sites. The linked sites are not under the control of the United Nations, and the United Nations is not responsible for the content of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site.

The United Nations provides these links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link or reference does not imply the endorsement of the linked site by the United Nations.

3. Preservation of immunities

Nothing herein shall constitute or be considered to be a limitation upon or a waiver of the privileges and immunities of the United Nations, which are specifically reserved.

4. General

The United Nations reserves its exclusive right in its sole discretion to alter, limit or discontinue the Site or any Materials in any respect. The United Nations shall have no obligation to take the needs of any User into consideration in connection therewith.

The United Nations reserves the right to deny in its sole discretion any user access to this Site, its Materials or any portion thereof without notice.

No waiver by the United Nations of any provision of these Terms and Conditions shall be binding except as set forth in writing and signed by its duly authorized representative.