Terms & Conditions

Last updated on July 26, 2023

​This website is owned and operated by Sigrid van Roode. These terms set forth the terms and conditions under which you may use our website and services as offered. This website offers visitors information and digital products about traditional jewellery, personal adornment and dress from North Africa and Southwest Asia. This website operates social media accounts on Instagram and Facebook, also named Bedouin Silver. By accessing or using the website or our service, you approve that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms.

​Copyright and intellectual property: what you can do

All information, texts and images published on this website as well as all information presented in the classes are subject to copyright and intellectual property rights of Sigrid van Roode. You are free to use all information and images published on this website and its social media accounts, provided you credit Bedouin Silver clearly. An easy way to do so is to add the following creditline: ‘Image/information retrieved from Bedouin Silver/Sigrid van Roode’. On social media, tagging the appropriate account is another easy way to attribute credit. Please contact me if you need a certain image in a higher resolution or a photograph from another angle: I will be happy to help.

For use of the texts themselves, see the next section.

​Copyright and intellectual property: what you can not do

You can not reproduce, adapt or translate the texts without crediting Sigrid van Roode. Copyright of the texts published here remains with Sigrid van Roode at all times. You can not present any of the texts or images on this website as your own work in any form. This includes texts and images as posted by Sigrid van Roode on Instagram and Facebook-accounts of Bedouin Silver.

If you choose to quote a few lines of text from this website, its downloadable products and its social media accounts, you will indicate where the quote begins and ends, and add a clear credit to Bedouin Silver/Sigrid van Roode and the webpage or downloadable product where you found the text.

If you choose to quote entire sections of text from this website, its downloadable products and its social media accounts, be it digitally or in print, you will clearly attribute authorship to Sigrid van Roode in both the contents-section of your work as well as with the individual sections that you quote. An easy way to do so is to include ‘with contributions by Sigrid van Roode’ in the author-section of your work, and to include ‘By Sigrid van Roode’ in the main text at the beginning of the sections you quote. Please note that presenting entire sections of texts without clearly asserting correct authorship is considered plagiarism.

You can not reproduce or distribute the free downloads on this website or the e-courses offered, either digitally or manually. Only the production of copies and downloads for personal, private and non-commercial use is allowed.

You agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works of the information, images and texts on this website and its social media accounts. This includes access to the e-course(s) and the e-course(s) and accompanying materials itself.

​Use of the website

The products and information offered in this website, its social media accounts as well as in the e-courses are based on my own personal experience. They are not to be regarded as legal advice. You agree to indemnify and hold Sigrid van Roode harmless from any demands, loss, liability, claims or expenses (including attorneys’ fees), made against them by any third party due to, or arising out of, or in connection with your use of the website or any of the services offered on the website and its social media accounts.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall Sigrid van Roode be liable for any indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including without limitation, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses, arising out of or relating to the use of, or inability to use, the service.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Sigrid van Roode assumes no liability or responsibility for any (i) errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content; (ii) personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to or use of our service; and (iii) any unauthorized access to or use of our secure servers and/or any and all personal information stored therein.

E-course

By enrolling in one or more e-courses, you commit to fulfill payment. Please contact Sigrid if you have difficulty affording an e-course: e-courses are aimed to be accessible for everyone interested. As this is a digital product, enrollment is non-refundable.

Your account on this website is for your personal use only. Your login and password are not be distributed or shared: access to the e-course and downloadable material is personal. If you are a teacher and would like to use fragments of an e-course, please do contact Sigrid to come to an arrangement. All copyright, intellectual property rights and related rights remain with Sigrid van Roode and are non-transferable. By enrolling in an e-course, you agree to these terms and conditions.

​Changes

We reserve the right to modify these terms and conditions at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes, we will notify you here that it has been updated.