Terms of Use

General terms

Welcome to the PulseZ Hub!

These Terms of Use regulate the relations between the PulseZ European partnership and visitors/registered users on the PulseZ Hub regardless of being juridical or natural persons.

Any visitor and registered user of the PulseZ Hub is entitled to access the information published on it under the conditions set forth. By browsing our website or using its functions, you (as a visitor or registered user) agree to the following Terms of Use. If you do not agree with these terms, we kindly ask that you refrain from using the website.

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 PulseZ partnership for the services provided on our Hub in accordance with the provisions of these Terms of Use.

The PulseZ partnership is a European partnership, which unites the following organisations under the coordination of the Junior Achievement Europe (Belgium): Matrix Internet (Ireland), CiaoPeople (Italy), EURACTIV Poland (Poland), EURACTIV Romania (Romania), European Dialogue (Slovakia), and European Youth Press (Germany).

Funding

The PulseZ project is co-funded by the European Union, Grant Agreement No LC-03234024 concluded with the European Commission under the 2023 Work Programme on the financing of Pilot Projects and Preparatory Actions in the field of “Communications Networks, Content and Technology”, Preparatory Action: “A European public sphere: a new online media offer for young Europeans” (CALL CNECT/2023/9573146).

Official Disclaimer

The PulseZ Hub is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CNECT) . Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Our services

The goal of PulseZ is to empower young Europeans to produce and publish their own high-quality daily content that is consistently verified, and fact checked. This content should reflect and translate local realities, address the spread of distorted information regarding European affairs, and uphold Europe’s core democratic values.
PulseZ aims to bring Europe and the European Union closer to people through independent, modern youth journalism. It fosters grassroots, collaborative, and educational approach. While the project focuses on producing high-quality content that adheres to ethical standards, social responsibility, and modern journalistic practices, it also prioritizes the professional development of young journalists. These journalists will collaborate with more experienced peers, experts, and audiences.

With having that in mind, we have developed the following services and resources for visitors:

Access to media content of various genres and formats;
Access to the online courses;
Option to register on the Hub and access the following functions:
- submit media content,
- receive feedback and eventually get the approved piece of content published,
- use engaged journalism tools, e.g. participate in polls, suggest topics, propose translation improvements,
- complete the online courses,
- communicate with the PulseZ team,
- maintain public profile,
- see profiles of other registered users, including contact email address.

All services provided on the PulseZ Hub are free of charge.

We do not bear responsibility if you cannot access the hub due to problems, which are not in our control.

Account and use of the services

You can create a user account in your personal capacity or as a representative of an organisation. To do so, you need to fill in the registration form, available at https://pulse-z.eu/register/ by completing the mandatory fields, which will be associated with your account registration, and by agreeing to the current Terms of Use. Once you submit your application, you will receive an email to activate your account.

The active account allows you to complete your public profile to the extent you want to. Through your public profile other users will be able to interact with you.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You must not give access to your account.

You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account.

The access to your account shall be suspended under the condition provided for in these Terms of Use and in Privacy Statement.

Your rights and obligations

All visitors are entitled to access and use the content available on the PulseZ Hub free of charge and only for non-commercial purposes.

Once you complete the registration you will have access to all services available to registered users, including possibility to submit and get your media content pieces published. In doing so, you undertake not to upload/post/share any content created by a third party, including links to resources that might:

violate copyright,
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 and Privacy Statement;
encourage unlawful behaviour which calls for violence, humiliation, hatred, terrorism, or any other undemocratic ideology;
contain political or religious propaganda.

In addition to points listed above, content produced or co-produced by yourselves must be aligned with the PulseZ Charter on Professional and Ethical Standards and the Content Strategy & Editorial Guidelines and is available on the PulseZ Hub. Each content created by registered users and intended for publication on PulseZ shall undergo an approval review by the Editorial Board or at least one of the Editors-in-chief to ensure professionalism and quality of the content and the alignment with the Charter and Strategy mentioned above.

The Charter on Professional and Ethical Standards is a legally binding document and forms an integral part of agreements / contracts with all people working on the PulseZ content. When you submit your content via online tool on PulseZ Hub you will be required to confirm the compliance with this Charter by ticking the corresponding box in the submission form.

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 PulseZ 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 anonymization of all the content posted, uploaded or shared by you. Please email privacy@pulse-z.eu to request this.

You have the right to unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time, by sending email to the following address: privacy@pulse-z.eu.

You have all the rights as listed in these Terms of Use and our Privacy Statement.

Authorship and license

Users submitting media content become Authors and as such they are mentioned in the following format: Name, surname, name of the partner organisation (if applicable). In the case of videos and podcasts this reference is also included in the description.

All persons collaborating on creation of the content are also properly mentioned: at the end of the article, within photo-gallery or game, in closing credits of video, at the end of podcast episode, and in description of the content on social media.

All sources are properly quoted.

In case of photos and video footage, only content that is not copyright protected can be used. Proper reference to licence should be always mentioned, at least in the description of the video or podcast.

By submitting media content on PulseZ Hub, you – as an author – are partially transferring your copyright to PulseZ partnership as publisher, distributor, and co-producer (if applicable) of your content by giving it a royalty-free and non-exclusive copyright license to the PulseZ partnership. This means you are not entitled to receive fees for repeated publications and you are allowed to use the same piece of content via other channels or publishers. If you do so, you are encouraged to mention that the content was originally created for PulseZ and include link to the Hub.

If you don’t have a contract with a PulseZ partnership, you can choose under which license your content shall be published on PulseZ – it can be “all rights reserved” or various Creative Commons licenses. Such license shall be properly mentioned in your piece of content. If you don’t choose a license, it shall be considered that the content is copyright protected and “©PulseZ, 2025” notice can be used, so that it’s visible that third parties are not allowed to re-publish and distribute the content without consent.

Our rights and obligations

Each member of the PulseZ partnership has the right and responsibility to administer the Hub.

We do not guarantee that the information accessible on the PulseZ Hub is always accurate, correct, and errorless.

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 and Privacy Statement 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 the 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.

If we receive a claim from a third person that a content uploaded on the Hub violates their intellectual property rights, we may suspend the access to such content or delete such content until the settlement of such dispute or the receipt of an order from a competent state authority.

We reserve the right to restrict or suspend the provision of particular services, accessible through the PulseZ by giving a notice on the relevant web page at the PulseZ Hub.

External link disclaimer

PulseZ Hub includes references and links to external resources (“external links”) in domains other than pulse-z.eu and learn.pulse-z.eu which are not owned or created by the PulseZ partnership, over which the PulseZ partnership has no control and for which the PulseZ partnership assumes no responsibility (for the availability, quality of the external content, truthfulness, and conformity with the law of such websites and resources).

When visitors or users of the PulseZ Hub choose to follow a link to any external website, they leave the official domain of the PulseZ 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 PulseZ website, falls outside the control of the PulseZ partnership and is the explicit responsibility of the external website.

Disclaimer of endorsement

The purpose of any linked reference from the PulseZn website to any specific external resource, online service or a website, is to enhance the information available on the PulseZ website and help visitors and users to reach those websites.

Such linked references do not constitute endorsement by the PulseZ partnership 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 of PulseZ

The intellectual property of PulseZ’s partners remains under their ownership. Content created as part of the partnership for the online course is shared as Open Educational Resources (OER). This allows free access for teaching, learning, assessment, and research purposes. Any further use of the course materials must include attribution to PulseZ, recognizing their intellectual property rights. Failure to do so may result in legal action against the users.

Media content created by PulseZ journalists and other content creators is published under copyright © 2025, PulseZ, unless stated otherwise. This information is included at end of the episodes from the PulseZ video series. In case of all videos, podcasts, photo-galleries, this reference is included at least in the description. In does not need to be included in written pieces of content.

The learning materials are published under licence CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

As you have access to various contents and resources, external to the Pulse Hub, 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 of their copyright license.

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 PulseZ Hub. 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 PulseZ Hub, unless stated otherwise.

You (regardless of being visitor or registered user) agree to indemnify and hold harmless the PulseZ partnership 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 and Privacy Statement or the applicable laws or violation of the rights of any third party. This obligation shall remain in effect even after the termination of registration, including after the termination of the activity and existence of the PulseZ Hub itself.

Account termination. Termination of the Contract

Besides the cases stipulated in the present Terms of Use and Privacy Statement, the contract between the parties shall be terminated under the following circumstances:

the support of the PulseZ Hub is ceased;
upon mutual consent of the parties – you are entitled to terminate your registration by applying a request to the partnership;
in other cases, as provided by applicable law.

Updating our Terms of Use and Privacy Statement

The PulseZ Hub is developed in accordance with the Description of action under Agreement No LC-03234024 concluded with the European Commission, 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 present Terms of Use and Privacy Statement, we shall inform you about any introduced amendments via email and by publishing the new version on the PulseZ Hub. 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 as of the date of the adoption of the amendments.

Once any updated Terms of Use and Privacy Statement are in effect, you will be bound by them if you continue to use our services. If not specified otherwise, the new Terms of Use and Privacy Statement shall enter into force 20 days after the update notification, unless the changes are required by law. You will have the right to terminate your contract with the partnership respectively.

Additional provisions

The Terms of Use and Privacy Statement shall be governed by the law of the Kingdom of Belgium and the law of the European Union and for all matters not settled by the present Terms of Use and Privacy Statement, the provisions of the EU and Belgian legislation in force shall apply.

You agree that any dispute or claim relating in any way to your use of the PulseZ Hub 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 and Privacy Statement are adopted by all members of the PulseZ partnership.