Terms And Conditions of Use

Last updated: January 2025

Thank you for visiting https://pleiades-project.eu/. This site and the information, data, and content contained herein (collectively, the “Website”) are provided to you by the European Composites Industry Association with registered office at Auguste Reyerslaan 80, 1030 Schaarbeek and registered with the Crossroads Bank of Enterprises under number 0511.958.278, and with VAT BE0511.958.278 (“EuCIA”, “us”, “we”, or “our”). The terms “you” and “your” means a user of the Website.

Please read this agreement carefully. These Terms and Conditions of Use set forth the terms and conditions that you agree to by accessing and using the Website.

The headings, captions, and section titles are for convenience only. They do not define or explain any section or provision of these Terms and Conditions of Use.

Acceptance of the Terms and Conditions of Use

By using the Website, you acknowledge these Terms and Conditions of Use and you acknowledge that EuCIA will process your personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy (https://pleiades-project.eu/privacy-policy/).

If you do not agree with these Terms and Conditions of Use, you should not use the Website.

Ownership and intellectual property rights

EuCIA owns or duly licenses all of the text, graphics, user interfaces, visual interfaces, photographs, and artwork on the Website, as well as the way they are designed, structured, selected, coordinated, expressed, and arranged. EuCIA, in conjunction with the licensors whose software was used to develop the Website or whose content appears on the Website (together, the “Third Party Licensors”), are the owners of all intellectual property rights associated with the Website including, without limitation, copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade dress, patents, patent applications and trade secrets and all other proprietary rights. By accessing and using the Website, you agree that you do not acquire any ownership or rights to the Website or its intellectual property. You acknowledge that these rights belong to EuCIA and any Third Party Licensors.

Restrictions on use of Website

You may download, display, reformat, print and store copies of the Website pages for your own personal, non-commercial use provided that you do not modify or alter the Website in any manner, nor delete, obscure or change any copyright, trademark or other notice. You may not copy, publish, distribute, transmit, disseminate, sell, create derivative works of, or otherwise reproduce any information, data, or content on the website without the express written permission of EuCIA. Any rights not explicitly granted to you by EuCIA are reserved.

You may not:

  • Use the Website or access it for any fraudulent or unlawful purpose;
  • Use the Website or access it to impersonate any person or entity, or to falsely state or otherwise misrepresent its affiliation with any person or entity;
  • Interfere with or disrupt the operation of the Website;
  • Transmit or otherwise make available in connection with the Website any virus, worm, Trojan horse, time bomb, spyware, or other computer code, file, or programme that is harmful or invasive or may or is intended to damage or hijack the operation of, or to monitor the use of, any hardware, software, or equipment;
  • Use any robot, spider, search/retrieval application or other manual or automatic device to retrieve, index, “scrape,” “data mine,” or in any way gather or reproduce the Website or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Website.

Changes to Website/Terms and Conditions of Use

EuCIA and the Third Party Licensors reserve the right, at any time and from time to time, to add, modify, or remove any of the: (a) information, data or content on the Website, or its availability, or (b) these Terms and Conditions of Use. Any changes to these Terms and Conditions of Use will be binding and effective immediately upon posting on this Website and your access to and use of this Website thereafter shall constitute your acceptance of any such changed terms. If you do not agree with the amended Terms and Conditions of Use, you must not continue to use the Website.

User Data

You can generally browse the Website without providing any personal information. If you do choose to enter your contact information on the “Contact Us” tab, we will contact you to provide you with information we believe may be useful to you based upon your inquiry. At no time will EuCIA sell or broker any of the information we receive from you to any third parties.

No warranty

This Website is provided “as is” by EuCIA and EuCIA makes no representations or warranties of any kind whatsoever, express or implied, with respect thereto. EuCIA disclaims all implied warranties to the fullest extent permissible under law, including, but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and does not represent or warrant: (i) that the information, data or content will meet your specific requirements or is timely, correct, adequate, accurate, or complete, or (ii) the availability of the Website or that your use will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free. EuCIA has no responsibility to make corrections or updates to the information, data or content on the Website. Your use or reliance on the Website is solely within your discretion and at your risk, and you will be solely responsible for any damage or loss that results there from.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, EuCIA shall have no liability for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, or punitive damages (even if EuCIA has been advised of the possibility of such damages), or other losses, costs or expenses, whether in contract, tort, negligence or otherwise, arising out of or relating in any way to the Website, or any errors or omissions therein, or your use of, or inability to use, or reliance on the website. Your sole remedy for dissatisfaction with the Website is to stop using the Website.

In the event that the warranty disclaimer or limitation of liability is held to be invalid or unenforceable, or if EuCIA is held liable to you for any reason, you agree that the maximum cumulative liability of EuCIA to you for all damages, losses, costs or expenses at any time shall be the amount of 500 EUR.

Nothing in these Terms and Conditions of Use is intended to exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraudulent misrepresentation or for any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless EuCIA from and against any and all losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or related to: (a) your access to, use of, or inability to use the Website; (b) your breach or violation of any term, condition, representation or warranty contained herein; and (c) your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations including, without limitation, any securities laws or regulations, or any other person’s rights, including but not limited to infringement of any intellectual property, proprietary, or privacy right of any third party.

Third Party Content/links to other websites

EuCIA may include content form Third Party Licensors (“Third Party Content”) and/or hyperlinks to third parties’ Internet sites (“”) on the Website either for your convenience or as required by applicable law, rule or regulation or by a Third Party Licensor. EuCIA makes no representation with respect to the information, data or content contained in the Third Party Content or on such Hyperlinked Sites, nor any endorsement of such third parties or their products or services. EuCIA has no control over the Third Party Content or Hyperlinked Sites nor has EuCIA reviewed or approved them. Your use of the Third Party Content and/or Hyperlinked Sites is solely at your own risk and EuCIA has no responsibility or liability to you or any third party vis-à-vis the Third Party Content or Hyperlinked Sites, in particular, without limitation, the timeliness, adequacy, accuracy, or completeness of the information, data or content, or any opinions expressed there in.

You may not frame, link or deep-link the Website to any other website without our prior written consent. Should you wish to frame or set up a link or deep link to our Website please contact info@eucia.eu.

If EuCIA provides you with prior written consent allowing you to frame, link or deep-link the Website to another website, you acknowledge and agree the following:

  • EuCIA is not liable to you for any loss that you suffer as a result of such links;
  • EuCIA does not promise that the Website will be continuously available (and therefore such links may not always work);
  • You will not insert such links on any website which contains any content which is illegal, infringes any rights, such as the intellectual property rights, of any third party or contains any adult content;
  • EuCIA reserves the right to object to any such links and require you to remove them.

Governing law

These Terms and Conditions of Use, your rights and obligations, and all actions including any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms and Conditions of Use herein contemplated shall be governed by the laws of Belgium.

You hereby consent to exclusive jurisdiction of the Dutch speaking courts of Brussels for all matters connected herewith.