Below is a ready-to-use Terms and Conditions page for the GAFAI Global Members Platform. You should treat this as a strong draft for website use, but it is not legal advice and should be reviewed by a qualified lawyer before publishing.

Terms and Conditions

Effective Date: April 5, 2026

Welcome to the GAFAI Global Members Platform. These Terms and Conditions govern your access to and use of the platform, including its website, member areas, content, services, communications, and community features. By accessing, registering for, or using the platform, you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.

If you do not agree with these terms, you should not use the platform.

1. About the platform

The GAFAI Global Members Platform is a digital community and collaboration environment designed to support members, partners, professionals, organizations, and stakeholders connected to the Global Alliance for Artificial Intelligence (GAFAI). The platform may include member profiles, pages, groups, forums, events, blogs, educational resources, opportunities, and other interactive features.

We may update, improve, suspend, or remove any part of the platform at any time, with or without notice, where reasonably necessary.

2. Eligibility

By using this platform, you confirm that:

• You are legally able to enter into a binding agreement.

• The information you provide is accurate and complete.

• You will use the platform in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

• If you are using the platform on behalf of an organization, you have authority to act on its behalf.

We reserve the right to approve, reject, suspend, or terminate accounts or memberships at our discretion where necessary to protect the platform, community, or mission.

3. Member accounts

To access certain features, you may need to create an account. You are responsible for:

• Maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials.

• Restricting unauthorized access to your account.

• Ensuring that your account information remains accurate and up to date.

• All activities that occur under your account unless caused by our failure to maintain reasonable security measures.

You must notify the platform administrator promptly if you believe your account has been compromised or used without authorization.

4. Acceptable use

You agree to use the platform in a respectful, lawful, and responsible manner. You must not:

• Violate any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right.

• Upload, post, transmit, or share false, misleading, defamatory, abusive, hateful, discriminatory, or harmful content.

• Harass, threaten, exploit, or impersonate any person or organization.

• Upload malicious code, viruses, spyware, bots, or other harmful technologies.

• Attempt to gain unauthorized access to systems, accounts, or data.

• Interfere with the operation, security, or integrity of the platform.

• Use the platform for spam, unauthorized advertising, or fraudulent activity.

• Collect or misuse personal data of other users without proper authorization.

• Post content that infringes intellectual property, privacy, confidentiality, or publicity rights.

• Use the platform in ways that undermine GAFAI’s mission, reputation, or community safety.

We may investigate violations and take appropriate action, including content removal, access restriction, account suspension, or termination.

5. User content

You may be able to submit, upload, publish, or share content, including profile information, posts, comments, articles, event details, media, and other materials. You retain ownership of your content, subject to the rights granted in these Terms.

By posting or submitting content to the platform, you grant GAFAI a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, revocable license to host, store, reproduce, display, distribute, and make available that content for the purpose of operating, promoting, and improving the platform and its related community activities.

You are solely responsible for the content you submit and confirm that:

• You own it or have the necessary rights and permissions to share it.

• It does not violate law or third-party rights.

• It is accurate to the best of your knowledge and not misleading in a material way.

We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to review, moderate, edit, restrict, or remove content that violates these Terms or is otherwise considered inappropriate, unlawful, or harmful to the platform or community.

6. Community standards

The platform is intended to support constructive international dialogue and collaboration. All users are expected to engage respectfully and professionally. Content or behavior that promotes hatred, discrimination, harassment, abuse, intimidation, or deliberate disruption is not permitted.

We may establish additional community guidelines, moderation rules, or participation standards for specific features such as forums, groups, events, courses, or member spaces. Those guidelines will form part of these Terms where applicable.

7. Intellectual property

Unless otherwise stated, the platform, including its design, branding, trademarks, logos, text, graphics, software, structure, and original content, is owned by or licensed to GAFAI and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws.

You may not copy, reproduce, modify, republish, distribute, sell, reverse engineer, or exploit any part of the platform except:

• As allowed by law,

• As expressly permitted in writing by GAFAI, or

• For your own personal, non-commercial, and platform-related use consistent with these Terms.

Third-party names, logos, trademarks, and materials remain the property of their respective owners.

8. Privacy and data use

Your use of the platform may involve the collection and processing of personal data. Such processing is governed by the platform’s Privacy Policy and any related data protection notices, which should be read together with these Terms.

By using the platform, you acknowledge that certain account, profile, communication, and participation data may be processed as necessary to operate the platform, manage membership, support community functions, improve services, and comply with legal obligations.

9. Third-party links and services

The platform may include links to third-party websites, services, tools, events, payment providers, social networks, or external resources. These are provided for convenience only. GAFAI does not control and is not responsible for the content, availability, accuracy, security, or practices of third-party services.

Your use of any third-party service is at your own risk and subject to that third party’s terms and policies.

10. Events, opportunities, and listings

The platform may publish information about events, jobs, offers, marketplace items, courses, partnerships, grants, funding opportunities, or other listings. Unless expressly stated, GAFAI does not guarantee the accuracy, availability, quality, legality, safety, or outcome of third-party listings, opportunities, or arrangements.

Users are responsible for conducting their own due diligence before participating in, applying for, purchasing, or relying on any listing or opportunity shared through the platform.

11. No professional or legal advice

Content made available on the platform is provided for general information, networking, educational, and community purposes only. It does not constitute legal, regulatory, financial, investment, employment, technical, or professional advice unless explicitly stated otherwise by a qualified source.

You should seek independent advice appropriate to your circumstances before relying on any information provided through the platform.

12. Platform availability

We aim to keep the platform available, secure, and functional, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access or error-free operation. Access may be affected by maintenance, updates, technical issues, security incidents, network failures, or factors beyond our reasonable control.

We may suspend or restrict access temporarily where needed for operational, security, legal, or administrative reasons.

13. Disclaimers

The platform and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis to the fullest extent permitted by law. GAFAI makes no express or implied warranties regarding:

• Continuous availability,

• Accuracy or completeness of content,

• Fitness for a particular purpose,

• Merchantability,

• Non-infringement, or

• Security against all possible threats or interruptions.

Nothing in these Terms excludes rights that cannot be excluded under applicable law.

14. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, GAFAI, its officers, board members, employees, volunteers, partners, affiliates, and representatives will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of data, profits, business, reputation, or opportunity arising out of or related to your use of, or inability to use, the platform.

Where liability cannot be excluded, it will be limited to the minimum extent permitted by applicable law.

15. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless GAFAI and its officers, directors, employees, volunteers, affiliates, and representatives from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising from:

• Your use or misuse of the platform,

• Your violation of these Terms,

• Your infringement of third-party rights, or

• Content you submit, post, or distribute through the platform.

16. Suspension and termination

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your account or access to the platform, with or without notice, if:

• You violate these Terms or community rules,

• Your conduct creates legal, security, reputational, or operational risk,

• Your membership status changes,

• We are required to do so by law, or

• Continued access is no longer appropriate for platform administration or community protection.

Upon termination, provisions that by nature should survive termination will continue to apply, including those relating to intellectual property, liability, indemnity, and dispute-related matters.

17. Changes to these terms

We may revise these Terms and Conditions from time to time. Updated versions will become effective when posted on the platform unless a different effective date is stated. Your continued use of the platform after updated terms are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

You are responsible for reviewing the current version periodically.

18. Governing law

These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws designated by GAFAI in its official legal and operating framework, unless otherwise required by applicable mandatory law.

If you want stronger legal certainty, you should replace this clause with a specific jurisdiction and dispute venue after legal review.

19. Contact information

For questions about these Terms and Conditions, membership matters, or platform use, please contact:

GAFAI Global Members Platform
Global Alliance for Artificial Intelligence
Email: support@gafai.org