Terms and conditions for using the Radio Romania International website

This website (henceforth referred to as the Website) is available to the public by typing the URL http://www.rri.ro and belongs to the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation- Societatea Romana de Radiodifuziune (SRR), 60-64, General Berthelot street, sector 1, Bucharest, Romania.

Eugen Cojocariu, 17.03.2013, 17:47

Radio Romania International (RRI) is a part of SRR, a public service, and runs its activities as per Law 41/1994, republished, with subsequent modifications and additions, and the Law of the Audiovisual 504/2002, with subsequent modifications and additions.

The purpose of www.rri.ro is to enable users to access journalistic information and content about or related to Romania, its domestic and foreign policy, about RRI, as well as to form an on-line community around the international channel of the public radio broadcasting system in Romania.



Any use of this Website or its services shall be considered as full acceptance of the present terms and conditions.

RRI reserves the right to modify this document at any moment and in any way. The modifications come into effect at the moment of posting, which is why we invite you to regularly review the terms and conditions. If at any moment you no longer accept the full terms and conditions, please refrain from accessing the Website.

In case of any incident whatsoever, deriving from the use or interpretation of the content of this Website, the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Corporation shall not be held responsible in any form. SRR shall not be held liable towards you or any other third party/ institution for any damages or problems caused by any Website dysfunction, suspension of service, error in content, speed of data transfer or the lack of on-line broadcasting.

Even though we make every effort for the entire content to have maximum accuracy, we take no responsibility for the entirety of the information posted. The information on the Website cannot be construed as professional advice, and is not final recommendations.

The content of the Website, including text, photographs, audio files, video files, streaming content, banners, animations, graphs, as well as the Website design and the database collected from users belong to SRR/RRI and are protected by the law of copyright and of connected rights. All rights for copying, reproduction and distribution in any form are reserved and belong to SRR/RRI, in line with existing legislation.

The content of this Website cannot be copied, reproduced, republished, recompiled, duplicated, modified, downloaded, posted, sold, resold, exploited, broadcast or transmitted in any way whatsoever, partially or totally, with the exception of personal, non-commercial use. Also forbidden is the creation of derivative components/products or complete services.

Other mass media outlets can only take over information by specifying the source visibly and providing a link to the Website in the form: “Source: RRI — www.rri.ro”. RRIs prior consent must be obtained in any situation that requires using the content of the Website. Violating this condition leads to a conflict which SRR shall try to settle amiably and then by legal means, referring the matter to a Romanian court.

Links to other websites are made in order to provide more comprehensive information to users. The Website is in no way responsible for the information on websites it provides links to.

The responsibility for comments posted on the Website fully belongs to those who wrote them. The comments that do not refer to the posted article shall not be posted. RRI shall not post answers or comments that violate the rights of a person or violate the law. RRI shall not post comments that are advertising or contain links. Comments that contain telephone numbers or e-mail addresses shall not be published since we cannot verify their authenticity.

It is forbidden to use the Website to post or transmit any kind of material that is threatening, false, deceiving, harassing, licentious, slanderous, vulgar, obscene, scandalous, instigating, discriminatory, racist, extremist, pornographic or desecrating, or any other material that may constitute or may encourage behavior that may lead to a crime, may result in civil liability or in any other way break the law. SRR/RRI shall cooperate with any law enforcement authorities and shall comply with any court decision requiring SRR/RRI to disclose the identity of any person that shall post or transmit any kind of information or material of this nature through the Website.

If you wish to contact the editorial board in relation to the content of this Website or on any other topic, please write to rri@rri.ro. All messages transmitted are analyzed and referred to the relevant persons for the purpose of receiving a possible answer from RRI.

Users sending information or content towards the www.rri.ro website assume the obligation not to violate in any way the copyright held by a third party/institution, the Romanian and international law, the intellectual property rights, patents or trademarks, and implicitly accept that responsibility for violating them falls fully on themselves. Through the content you send towards the RRI website you grant RRI the right to use, reproduce, publish, adapt, translate and provide the public with this content.

Users of www.rri.ro agree, upon request from SRR/RRI, to exonerate of any responsibility www.rri.ro and SRR/RRI for any judicial/extrajudicial action and to cover any court expenses and other expenses that may be incurred as a result of the violation by those users of the clauses in this document.

Personal data is provided by users when they take part in campaigns or fill in questionnaires launched by www.rri.ro, when they use feedback forms or when they register for the newsletter service.

In order to use the services offered by www.rri.ro you incur the obligation to supply and update, if necessary, data that is true, exact and complete about yourselves, as per the form (forms) used for registration; if you provide information that is not in accordance to reality, inexact or incomplete, RRI has the right to suspend/ cancel your account and to deny you access to the Website. If you use another name, or an e-mail address that does not belong to you, registration shall be canceled, your access blocked, and, in case of damages caused to the members of the community, to RRI/SRR or the Website, the data will be provided to the Police and investigating authorities. Users of the Website are not permitted to take over any information about any other user of the Website.

According to Law 677/2001 for the protection of persons with regard to processing personal data and free circulation of this data, modified and completed, as well as to Law 506/2004 regarding processing of personal data and protecting private life in the electronic communication sector, www.rri.ro will administrate the data provided by users only in conditions of safety and only for the specified purposes. RRI will take the proper technical measures to protect your personal data against accidental or illegal destruction, loss, modifications, disclosure or unauthorized access.

Under Law 677/2001, you have the right to access and to intervene on the data, the right to not be subject to an individual decision and the right to appeal to justice. At the same time, you have the right to be opposed to the processing of your personal data and to request the data to be erased. In case you want your data not to be collected, you should not send any to us.

You can e-mail us at rri@rri.ro or write a letter and send it at the address Radio Romania International, 60- 64, General Berthelot street, sector 1, Bucharest cod 010165, Romania.

RRI is committed to not sending spam messages.

The website www.rri.ro uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service supplied by Google. Google Analytics uses cookies, text files placed on a computer in order to help the Website analyze the way in which users use it. Information generated by cookies regarding your use of the Website (including your IP address) will be sent to and stored by Google on their servers in the USA, and will be used to evaluate your use of the Website, to draft research reports of the Website for the site administrators and to supply other services regarding the activity and use of the Internet on www.rri.ro. Google may transfer this information to third parties, in case this is requested by law, or if the third parties affect the information process with regard to the name Google. You have the right to refuse the use of cookies by operating the proper settings in your browser. If you operate these settings it is possible that you may not have access to all the functions of the Website. By using www.rri.ro you agree with the processing of your personal data by Google in the ways and for the purposes mentioned above.