Legal notice and terms of use
1. Owner of the site
The site www.bogotainstitute.org is owned by Fundación Bogota Institute (hereinafter «the Institute»), a non-profit entity domiciled in Bogotá D.C., Republic of Colombia.
Contact address: director@bogotainstitute.com.
Registration details. The tax identification number (NIT) and the registration number in the non-profit register of the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce will be published in this section once the corresponding procedure has been completed.
Until then, the site operates for informational and scholarly purposes only: it offers no paid services, opens no enrolment and collects no payments.
2. Purpose
This notice governs access to and use of the site. Browsing the site confers the status of user and implies acceptance of these terms in the version published at the time of access.
3. Nature of the content
The content is published for academic, research and educational purposes. It constitutes general legal analysis of international humanitarian law, international human rights law and related fields.
It does not constitute legal advice or a legal opinion on specific cases, creates no professional relationship between the Institute and the user, and is no substitute for consulting a qualified lawyer about a particular situation.
Views expressed in publications are those of their authors and do not necessarily bind the Institute or the institutions with which those authors are affiliated.
4. Independence and funding
The Institute operates with analytical independence. Its positions are determined by academic and scientific criteria, not by the interests of donors, governments or armed actors.
5. Intellectual property
Texts, analyses, training materials, graphic works and databases produced by the Institute are protected by Colombian Law 23 of 1982, Andean Decision 351 of 1993 and other applicable rules.
The «BI» monogram, the name «Bogota Institute» and the motto «International Humanitarian Law and Contemporary Conflict» are distinctive signs of the Institute.
6. Open access and licensing
The Institute adheres to the principle of open access and seeks to make the research and knowledge it generates publicly available.
The Institute releases its own publications under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence where each publication expressly states so. The licence does not apply to this site generally: it governs only the content that declares it, and on the terms that content declares.
Absent an express statement, all rights are reserved in the content of this site, in accordance with section 5.
Suggested citation for content actually released: Author, «Title», Bogota Institute, year, URL, followed by the declared licence.
Exclusions
The following are excluded from any open licence in all cases:
- The Institute's distinctive signs and its identity artwork.
- Photographs of individuals published on this site. The right to one's own image is autonomous from copyright and belongs to each person portrayed; reproduction or reuse by third parties requires that person's authorisation and cannot rely on any licence granted by the Institute.
- Materials owned by third parties. In particular, the book chapters published with Universidad Externado de Colombia and Ediciones Uniandes are governed by their respective publishing contracts; reuse must be cleared with the relevant publisher.
7. Links to third-party sites
The site links to external resources, including DOI identifiers and the Institute's LinkedIn profile. The Institute does not control those sites and is not responsible for their content or their privacy policies.
8. Availability and limitation of liability
The Institute endeavours to keep content accurate and up to date, but does not warrant that it is free from error or that the site will be available without interruption. It is not liable for damage arising from use of the site or from the inability to use it, except where the law does not permit liability to be excluded.
9. Amendments and governing law
The Institute may alter the presentation, the content and these terms; the version published at the time of access governs.
These terms are governed by Colombian law, and any dispute arising from them is submitted to the courts of the Republic of Colombia sitting in Bogotá D.C.