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Terms and Conditions of the Online Expo

SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. TERMS & CONDITIONS ACCEPTANCE

1.1. Herein the following definitions are used:

“CFC BIG IDEAS” or the “Company” or the “Website Owner” or “We”— means Limited Liability Company “CFC BIG IDEAS”, the company incorporated in Ukraine, TIN: 31992454, located at: 8, Kostyolna Street, 6th floor, Kyiv, 01001, Ukraine. Legal Address: 4 А, Rohnidynska, Street, office 10, Kyiv, 01024, Ukraine. CFC Big Ideas organizes and provides access to Davos Energy Week Online hosted online that allows visitors/attendees to exhibition panels at the Website taking place 19–21 January (“Event”).

SECTION 2. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

2.1. These Terms of Service (hereinafter referred to as the “Terms”), are intended to make You aware of your legal rights and responsibilities with respect to Your access to and use of the Website and any related mobile or software applications (“Event Platform”) including but not limited to delivery of information via the Website whether existing now or in the future that link to the Terms.

2.2. You must carefully read and comply with these Terms.

2.3. By using the Website, You are confirming that You have fully read, understood and irrevocably accepted these Terms. If You do not agree with these Terms in general or any part of them, You are not permitted to use the Website and any associated Services.

2.4. By accessing or using the Website, you are agreeing to these Terms and concluding a legally binding contract with CFC BIG IDEAS and/or its affiliates. Your use of the Website is at your own risk, including the risk that you might be exposed to content that is objectionable, or otherwise inappropriate.

2.5. You can accept the Terms by:

SECTION 3. GENERAL PROVISIONS

3.1. These Terms and any accompanying documents are effective and binding on You whenever You use the Website.

3.2. You acknowledge and accept that these Terms and any accompanying documents and/or the Website are subject to change, modifications, amendments, alterations or supplements at any time without prior written notice, at Companies sole discretion. Your continued use of the Website after any amendments or alterations of these Terms, any accompanying documents and/or the Website shall constitute Your consent and acceptance of any such changes, modifications, amendments, alternations or supplements. The date of the most recent amendments and alterations will be indicated at the top of these Terms.

3.3. By using the Website, You covenant, represent, and warrant that (under the Applicable Law and law of Your country of residence) You are of an age of majority in the jurisdiction where You are a resident (at least 18 years of age), and are fully able and legally competent to use the Website, and in doing so will not violate any other agreement to which You are a party.

3.4. If you are registering on behalf of another person or entity it is your obligation to make sure that the person attending is aware of these Terms and accepts them. By completing and submitting the registration form you are representing and warranting that you have made the person attending aware of these Terms and that they have accepted these Terms.

3.5. The pages of the Website may contain services of the Company’s partners, vendors, software developers, etc. and/or links to third-party websites and services. Such services and/or links are provided for Your convenience, but the Website Owner shall not be considered to make any recommendation or endorsement of any third party website or its content, unless expressly stated by the Website Owner. The Website Owner does not guarantee or otherwise suggest or imply the safety of any third party website or the conformity of any such third party website with Your expectations. Furthermore, the Website Owner is not responsible for maintaining any materials referenced from another site, and makes no warranties, recommendation or endorsement for that site or respective service. The Website Owner assumes no obligations in the event of any damage or loss, or any other impact, directly or indirectly resulting from the use of any content, goods or services available on or through any such third-party websites and resources. Please also note that these services may have their own policies. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check policies of such services before using these services.

SECTION 4. USER’S WEBSITE REGISTRATION

4.1. For the purpose of proper use of the Website, You should register on the Website. You are given access to the Exhibition Panel following Your provision of all information required by the Website Owner. You warrant that any and all information provided for the purpose of Your Account creation and/or any other Website use is valid, current, complete and accurate. Registration data and other information about You is subject to the accompanying Privacy Policy available on the Website.

4.2. CFC Big Ideas reserves its right to prohibit without any compensations or explanations access to the Website and/or Service anyone that (a) fails to comply with, or is likely to fail to comply with these Terms (b) is behaving in a manner that could disrupt, hinder or cause a nuisance to the Event or to the enjoyment of any other person or partner or speaker at the Event); © represents a security or safety risk to the Event or to any person.

4.3. You hereby expressly consent that You are solely responsible for the use of Your login and password for the Account, for any registration data provided for Account creation, and for any actions done during any use of Your Account. You agree to keep Your login information and password private and to immediately notify the Website Owner of any unauthorized Account activity. You may be aware of and modify Your login information respectively. You are solely responsible for any loss or damage You or the Website Owner may suffer as a result of Your failure to do so.

4.4. By filling in the registration form at the Website, You also consent to receive electronic communications from Website Owner (e.g., via email). These communications may include notices about Your registration procedure (e.g., password changes and other transactional information) and are part of Your relationship with Us. You agree that any notices, agreements, disclosures or other communications that We send to You electronically will satisfy any legal communication requirements, including, but not limited to, that such communications be in writing. You should maintain copies of electronic communications from Us by printing a paper copy or saving an electronic copy. We may also send you promotional communications via email, including, but not limited to, newsletters, special offers, surveys and other news and information We think will be of interest to You. You may opt out of receiving these promotional emails at any time by following the respective unsubscribe instructions.

4.5. We try to make sure that the Event programmes, speakers, topics, platform, format and dates are correct at the time of publishing. Circumstances beyond our control may necessitate substitutions, alterations, postponements, or cancellations to the content, format, themes, name, performers, hosts, moderators, venue, timing, platform or dates of the Event. We reserve the right to do so at any time and will not be liable to you for any cost incurred by you as a result.

4.6. We will endeavor to notify you as soon as reasonably practicable of any substitutions, postponements, or changes by posting the updated information on the Website.

4.7. If the Event is postponed, we will provide you with access to the Event at a later date. No refunds will be provided if the Event is postponed.

SECTION 5. PROVISION OF THE SERVICES BEING OFFERED

5.1. The Exhibitor shall receive upon acceptance of these Terms and provision of payment made according to the Section 5 hereof, the following opportunities:

5.2. Virtual Booth of the Exhibitor at the Website shall include:

5.3. The Exhibitor shall receive 50 (fifty) VIP invitations to Davos Energy Week sent to Your prospective clients of Your choice. For each invitation You need to provide to the Company the following data: Name; Position; Company; Email (optional). In events, when You don’t have the email address of Your prospective client, Company commits to find the relevant contact information and deliver the invitation.

SECTION 6. PAYMENTS, FEES AND REFUND

6.1. The price of the Services shall depend on the time of the payment made by you:

6.2. In case of non-payment for any reason or any violation of these Terms, the Company shall be entitled, without liability, to immediately suspend Your access to the Service.

6.3. When the Exhibitor pays the Company via bank transfer, the necessary bank transfer charges should be borne by the Exhibitor. For avoidance of doubt, the total amount (fee) payable for the Service should be credited to the Company’s bank account without any deductions.

6.4. Exhibitor is responsible for all taxes and Exhibitor will pay the Company for the Services without any reduction for taxes. If the Company is obligated to collect or pay taxes, the taxes will be invoiced to the Exhibitor.

6.5. You are eligible to cancel your registration on the Website without giving any reason and to receive a reimbursement of payments any time prior to 1 (one) calendar day before the start of the Event.

6.6. You acknowledge that all refunds are subject to deduction of 150 USD per each day Your Content was published at the Website.

6.7. In the unlikely event of cancellation of the Event by the Company, our total aggregate liability to you is limited to the refund of paid fees by You.

SECTION 7. CONTENT

7.1. We are the sole and exclusive copyright owners of the Services and our Content. We also exclusively own the copyrights, trademarks, service marks, logos, trade names, trade dress and other intellectual and proprietary rights throughout the world (the “IP Rights”) associated with the Services and Website Owner Content, which may be protected by copyright, patent, trademark and other applicable intellectual property and proprietary rights and laws. You acknowledge that the Services contain original works and have been developed, compiled, prepared, revised, selected, and arranged by us and others through the application of methods and standards of judgment developed and applied through the expenditure of substantial time, effort, and money and constitutes valuable intellectual property of us and such others. You further acknowledge that the Services may contain information which is designated as confidential by the Website Owner and that you shall not disclose such information without Website Owner prior written consent.

7.2. You agree to protect Website Owner proprietary rights and the proprietary rights of all others having rights in the Services during and after the term of this agreement and to comply with all reasonable written requests made by us or our suppliers and licensors of content or otherwise to protect their and others’ contractual, statutory, and common law rights in the Services. You acknowledge and agree that Company (or Company’s licensors) own all legal right, title and interest in and to the Services, including any IP Rights which subsist in the Services (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). You further acknowledge that the Services may contain information which is designated as confidential by the Company and that you shall not disclose such information without Company prior written consent. Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with the Company, nothing in the Terms gives you a right to use any of Company trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features.

7.3. You agree not to use any framing techniques to enclose any trademark or logo or other proprietary information of the Company; or remove, conceal or obliterate any copyright or other proprietary notice or source identifier, including without limitation, the size, color, location or style of any proprietary mark(s). Any infringement shall lead to appropriate legal proceedings against you at appropriate forum for seeking all available/possible remedies under applicable laws of the country of violation.

7.4. All intellectual property rights (“IP”) in and to the Event, the Company content, the Services and all materials distributed at or in connection with the Event are owned by us, our related companies, and/or the Event sponsors or speakers participating in the Event. You agree not to reproduce, record, modify, distribute, license, perform, publish, create derivative works from or use (except as authorised and in accordance with these Terms) the Event or the Services for any reason.

7.5. Nothing in these Terms shall vest in you any legal or beneficial right in or to any IP owned or used under licence by us or our related companies, or grant to you any right or licence to any other IP of us or our related companies. All such IP shall remain the exclusive property of us and our related companies.

7.6. It is strictly forbidden for any company, organisation, or person to attempt to host or organise any event in conjunction with, contiguous to or purporting to be related to the Event or its affiliates without the express prior permission and cooperation of us. We reserve their right to take such action (legal or otherwise), including a claim for damages as we, in our sole discretion, deem appropriate in the circumstances.

7.7. We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive and non-transferable license to access and use the Services only as expressly permitted in these Terms. You shall not use the Services for any illegal purpose or in any manner inconsistent with these Terms. You may use information made available through the Services solely for your personal use.

SECTION 8. MESSAGES

8.1. We may permit you to send messages and other communications to us or to other users via the App and/or Website. You are solely responsible for your Messages and the consequences of sending them, and expressly release us and agree to hold us harmless, from all and any liability arising from your Messages. You grant us (and we accept) a global right to use, store, and reproduce your Messages for the limited purpose of facilitating sending them to your chosen recipients (and we may also use third party service providers to facilitate the sending of your Messages). You represent and warrant that your Messages will not infringe any third party right of others.

8.2. You are not permitted to engage in or attempt to engage in any activity in breach of the Terms of Use, this includes:

SECTION 9. INDEMNIFICATION

9.1. To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, You shall indemnify, defend, and hold the Website Owner and/or its subsidiaries, Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, successors, and permitted assignees harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, suits, actions, demands, proceedings, expenses, and/or liabilities (including but not limited to reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred and/or those necessary to successfully establish the right to indemnification) filed/incurred by any third party against the Website Owner arising out of a breach of any warranty, representation, or obligation hereunder.

9.2. You shall not have any claim of any nature whatsoever against the Website Owner for any failure by the Website Owner to carry out any of its obligations under these Terms as a result of causes beyond its control, including but not limited to any strike, lockout, shortage of labor or materials, delays in transport, hacker attacks on the Website or any resources which have any relation to CFC Big Ideas, any economic instability, any malfunction or breakdown, accidents of any kind, any default or delay by any sub-contractor or supplier of Ours, riot, any political or civil disturbances, the elements, by an act of state or government including regulatory action imposed, any delay in securing any permit, consent or approval required by the Website Owner, for the supply of Services under these Terms or any other authority or any other cause whatsoever beyond Our absolute and direct control.

SECTION 10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY AND WARRANTES

10.1 Materials shared or distributed at or in connection with the Event are intended for information purposes only and should not be relied upon by you or others. We and our related companies do not provide any guarantees, conditions or warranties that the materials are complete or accurate and do not accept any responsibility or liability for reliance by you or any person on any aspect of the Event and/or any information provided at the Event.

10.2 You hereby expressly agree that, to the maximum extent permitted by the Applicable Law, neither the Website Owner nor its Affiliates shall be liable to You, regardless of the basis or theory upon which the liability is claimed, for any damage or loss, including loss of business, revenue, or profits, or loss of or damage to data, equipment, or software (direct, indirect, punitive, actual, consequential, incidental, special, exemplary or otherwise) arising under or in connection with the performance or contemplated performance of the Terms, even if we had been advised of the possibility of same in advance.

10.3 Our total aggregate liability in contract, tort (including negligence), misrepresentation, restitution or otherwise, arising under or in connection with the performance or contemplated performance of the Terms is limited to the total amount paid by you to us.

10.4 You understand and agree that it is Your obligation to ensure compliance with any legislation relevant to Your country of domicile concerning Your use of the Website.

10.5 The Website owner does not warrant or represent that any information on the Website is accurate or reliable or that the Website will be free of errors or viruses, that defects will be corrected, or that the service or the server that makes it available is free of viruses or other harmful components.

10.6 If Applicable Law or the law of Your country of residence does not permit all or any part of the above limitation of liability or exclusion of warranties or disclaimer of implied terms in contracts to apply to You, the limitations, exclusions and disclaimers will apply to You only to the extent permitted by Applicable Law.

10.7 To the extent permitted by the applicable law, we disclaim all warranties or conditions, either express or implied, or any part of them in respect of any aspect of the Event or any related materials. You acknowledge and agree that in accepting these Terms you have not relied on any representation or warranty that is not expressly included in these Terms and you agree that you shall have no remedy in respect of any misrepresentation which has not become a part of these Terms.

10.8 Security measures have been implemented to ensure the safety and integrity of any of the services related to the Event. However, despite this, You acknowledge that information that is transmitted over the internet may be susceptible to unlawful access and monitoring.

SECTION 11. MISCELLANEOUS

11.1. Termination and Suspension. Notwithstanding anything contained herein, the Website Owner reserves the right, without notice and in its sole discretion, to terminate these Terms, suspend Your right to access the Website, and delete or deactivate Your Account and all related information and files in such Account without liability to You, including (but not limited to) in case of Your breach of these Terms or if the Website Owner believes You have committed fraud, negligence or other misconduct. You may terminate these Terms without notice by discontinuing use of the Website. All rights granted to You under these Terms will immediately be revoked upon the Website Owner’s termination of these Terms or suspension of Your access to the Website. In the event of any Force Majeure Event (as defined in “Miscellaneous” Section), breach of this Agreement, or any other event that would make the provision of services commercially unreasonable, the Website Owner may, in its discretion and without liability to You, with or without prior notice, suspend Your access to all or a portion of its services or the Website.

11.2. Assignment. The Website Owner may, at its sole discretion, assign any of its rights and/or delegate its duties (including, but not limited any and all intellectual property rights for all the intellectual property rights objects created during or referring to the Event) to any third party at any time. You may not assign Your rights or delegate Your duties as Website User, and any assignment or delegation without the previous written consent of the Website Owner shall be null and void.

11.3. Communication and Notices. Any communication concerning these Terms execution and/or violation should be conducted only via Your email and through the Website Owner’s contact form on the Website. Your official email for communication shall be deemed the email specified by You during the Account registration process. The one and only language of the communication shall be English. The Website Owner may provide any notice to You under this Agreement by: (i) posting a notice on the Website; or (ii) sending an email to the email address then associated with Your account. Notices the Website Owner provides by posting on the Website will be effective upon posting and notices Website Owner provides by email will be effective when such email is sent. It is Your responsibility to keep Your email address current. You will be deemed to have received any email sent to the email address then associated with Your account when Website Owner sends such email, whether or not You actually receive or read the email.

11.4. Further Assistance. You shall cooperate with and assist the Website Owner in connection with any investigation, examination or enquiry by any government entity. You shall promptly provide the Website Owner with any documents, certification, record or other information it may request in connection with such investigation, examination or enquiry.

11.5. Force Majeure Events. Website Owner shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from any event beyond its reasonable control, including but not limited to flood, extraordinary weather conditions, earthquake, or other act of God, fire, war, insurrection, riot, labor dispute, accident, action of government, communications, power failure, or equipment or software malfunction or any other cause beyond its reasonable control (each, a “Force Majeure Event”).

11.6. Applicable Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the United Arab Emirates. To resolve any dispute, controversy or claim between them arising out of or relating to this Agreement, or the breach thereof, the Parties agree first to negotiate in good faith for a period of not less than sixty (60) days following written notification of such controversy or claim to the other Party. If the negotiations do not resolve the dispute, controversy or claim to the reasonable satisfaction of all Parties during such period, then the Parties irrevocably and unconditionally submit the respective claim to the binding arbitration with the Rules of Arbitration of International Chamber of Commerce. The claim is to be reviewed by one or more arbitrators appointed in accordance with the said rules. Except for any disputes, claims, suits, actions, causes of action, demands or proceedings in which either Party seeks injunctive or other equitable relief for the alleged unlawful use of intellectual property, including, without limitation, copyrights, trademarks, trade names, logos, trade secrets or patents, You and the Website Owner (a) waive Your and Website Owner’s respective rights to have any and all disputes arising from or related to these Terms resolved in a court, and (b) waive Your and Website Owner’s respective rights to a jury trial. The substantive law shall be the Applicable Law (including all other operating rules, policies, and procedures that may be issued by the Website Owner and published from time to time on the Website), without regard to conflict of law rules or principles. The language of the arbitration shall be English.

11.7. Nothing contained in the Terms shall limit our right to bring enforcement proceedings in another jurisdiction or to seek interim, protective or provisional relief in the courts of another jurisdiction.

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