Legal Notice

The Luangwa Valley Apostolate was established by the Catholic Diocese of Chipata and answers to the local ordinary of the Diocese. The Catholic Diocese of Chipata is represented by Rt Rev George Cosmas Zumaire Lungu, Bishop of Chipata Diocese.

This website is run by Bernhard Udelhoven, assisted by the members of the Luangwa Valley Apostolate. (Email: webmaster@valleyapostolate.org). The above person is referred to as webmaster.

Efforts are made to keep the website up and running smoothly. However, the operators run the site on a voluntary basis and may not always be available for prompt updates and corrections; they may also be restricted by the availability of access to the internet. They will always correct inappropriate content immediately upon notification or as soon as possible.

Visitors who use this website and rely on any of its information do so at their own risk.

The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only. While we endeavour to keep the information up to date and correct, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website for any purpose. Any reliance placed on such information is therefore strictly at the user’s own risk.

In no event will the Diocese of Chipata or the webmaster be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website.

This website contains links to external websites. We have no control over the nature, content, and availability of the sites we link to. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within the external sites.

Copyright notice

The content of the website, unless otherwise stated, are under the copyright of the Catholic Diocese of Chipata. All rights reserved. Some documents in the documents section and the reserved area fall under the copyright of the Faith and Encounter Centre Zambia (FENZA) (www.fenza.org). Users may access and download the materials located on this website for personal, non-commercial use, but not commercially exploit the content. This website allows links to its content, but not to store full articles on any other website without permission. Permissions are granted by the webmaster.

The webmaster makes every effort to respect the copyright of materials that are posted on this site. We will promptly correct or withdraw materials that are false or that impinge on copyrights, upon being notified.

Privacy Policy

This website (valleyapostolate.org) does not collect personal data or IP addresses or computer specifications. Nor does it set analytics cookies, tracking cookies or advertising cookies. However, if you write an email to any of the addresses provided, your email is likely to be stored by the receiver. Important: This website contains links to other websites. Such links are clearly marked as referring to external sites. We are not responsible for these sites. You need to consult their own privacy policies when clicking on such a link.

Photos

This website contains photos about activities in the Luangwa Valley. We try to obtain permission from the people who are depicted. However, not every person in every picture was uniquely asked for permission. We will take down any photo immediately when asked so by any member of the public who is depicted against their wishes or whose family members are depicted against their wishes. Photos on this website that depict people must not be reproduced on any website or stored on any device. No photo on this website is to be exploited for commercial interests.

Software

This website contains software downloads for an application to administer parish records. Any user downloading the application or related files do so at own risk. The developer is not a professional programmer and will not be responsible for data loss or system failure on the user's computer or network. Any download affirms that the user has accepted to be bound by the End User Licence Agreement (EULA) of the application.

Prohibited use

You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site or any associated email address (name@valleyapostolate.org) to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam). You may not use our site in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation or to make unauthorised attempts to access any of our systems.

You must not misuse our website by introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to this website, the server on which this website is stored or to the databases connected to this website. You must not attack this website via a denial-of-service attack. You must not spoof or impersonate this website.

While we make reasonable attempts to check uploaded materials for viruses, we will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it. In accordance with good computing practice, you are advised to virus check all materials and/or content accessed and/or downloaded from this website using commercially available, up to date virus checking software.