ConnectMe
Terms & Conditions
of Platform Use

These terms and conditions (together with any other documents referred to in it) (Terms), together with the booking contract or order terms agreed by you in respect of your delegate/sponsor/exhibitor/digital package (Booking Contract) and any applicable data protection addendum tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of this platform (the Site). In the event of any conflict between these Terms and the Booking Contract in respect of the Site, these Terms shall prevail but only to the extent of such conflict.

Please read these Terms carefully before you start to use the Site. By using the Site, you indicate that you accept these Terms and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these Terms, please refrain from using the Site immediately.

We may revise these Terms at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these Terms may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on the Site.

This Site is operated by Informa Group Limited (we, us or our), which is a part of the Informa group. Our registered office address is 5 Howick Place, London, SW1P 1WG, UK.

For the purpose of these Terms, you and your means the customer, client, delegate, exhibitor or sponsor entity named in the Booking Contract. The individual accepting these Terms on behalf of such customer, client, exhibitor or sponsor confirms that it is duly authorised and possesses all necessary power and authority to provide such acceptance of these Terms.

The Site and its contents are provided for information purposes only and do not constitute advice or a recommendation to acquire or dispose of any investment or make any investment-related decision. You should ensure that you obtain your own professional advice before making any investment decisions and nothing contained within the Site should be construed as legal, tax or investment advice nor relied upon in making investment decisions.

Any content, data or materials on the Site may be inaccurate, incomplete or out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it. We endeavour to ensure that information published on the Site is accurate when posted, but we cannot be held liable for its accuracy, completeness or timeliness and provide no guarantee regarding the same.

The information provided on the Site is provided without warranty and for information purposes only. We may change the information at any time without notice. You must not rely on information on the Site and you acknowledge that you must take appropriate steps to verify this information before acting upon it.

You are permitted to access and use the Site on a temporary, non-exclusive, non-transferable basis in accordance with the Booking Contract and these Terms and we reserve the right to withdraw your access to the Site. Your access to the Site is personal to you and you are not permitted to grant sub-licences or allow others (whether internal or external) to access or use the Site unless expressly agreed in writing with us. You may only use the Site lawfully in connection with your internal business purposes.

You shall not, without our prior written consent (i) use the Site (or any part of it) in any manner or for any purpose other than as expressly set out herein, (ii) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble the Site, unless required to do so by law, (ii) remove or obscure any proprietary rights notices contained on the Site (iv) make, or attempt to make, any other changes to the data, content or materials on the Site, (iv) copy, duplicate or distribute (in hard copy, electronic media, machine readable or any other form) the whole or any part of the Site; (v) commercially exploit or re-sell your access to, or any part of, the Site, or (vi) disclose the whole or any part of the Site (including any content, data or materials contained on the Site) to any third party not expressly authorised by us.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Site.

You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Site through your internet connection are aware of these Terms, and that they comply with them. You agree not to damage, interfere with or disrupt access to the Site or do anything which may interrupt or impair its functionality.

We may make changes to or amend the data, content or materials contained on the Site without notice. This includes change, adding or removing features and/or functionality. We will not be liable if for any reason the Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You shall comply with all laws, regulations and sanctions applicable to your access to and use of the Site. We reserve the right to monitor your use of the Site to ensure compliance with this requirement.

On conclusion of your Booking Contract, your access to and use of the Site shall immediately cease and you are required to promptly delete any extracts from the Site in accordance with the terms of your Booking Contract.

Usernames and passwords are personal to you and you are solely responsible for the security of any password(s) issued to you to access the Site. You acknowledge that access to the Site is granted on a ‘per user’ basis. You will not disclose your username and password to any other person, including anyone within your organisation or business. You acknowledge that any breach of security resulting in the use or attempted use of your username or password by any other person constitutes a material breach by you of these Terms. Such passwords are subject to cancellation or suspension without notice at any time if we reasonably believe that you have breached these Terms

You shall immediately notify us in writing in the event of any actual or suspected loss, theft or disclosure of a username or password. You shall also immediately change your password if you reasonably suspect that it has been compromised.

You acknowledge that you will be liable for, and we are entitled to compensation from you in respect of, any use of your username and password in breach of these Terms. Such compensation is without prejudice to any of our other rights and remedies in respect of such breach.

You are permitted to print and download extracts from the Site for your own internal business use on the following basis:

(a) no exports and no content, data or related graphics on the Site are modified in any way;

(b) no content, data or graphics on the Site are used separately from the corresponding text; and

(c) any watermarks, copyright and/or trade mark notices on the Site appear in all extracts.

Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on the Site (including without limitation photographs and graphical images) are owned by us or our licensors. For the purposes of these Terms, any use of extracts from the Site other than in accordance with this licence for any purpose is prohibited. In the event of a suspected breach of any of these Terms, or if we become aware of a threat to any of our (or our licensor’s) Intellectual Property, you must promptly notify us and co-operate with us to protect our Intellectual Property. Your permission to use the Site shall automatically terminate if you breach any of these Terms and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from the Site.

Subject to this licence, no part of the Site may be reproduced or stored in any other website or included in any public or private electronic retrieval system or service without our prior written permission. Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved. You agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any of the data, content or material contained in this Site or use it for any other purpose than for your own internal business use.

You must not alter, add to, delete, remove or tamper with the Site or any part of it or indirectly disrupt or interfere (or attempt to disrupt or interfere) with the Site. You must not misuse the Site by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Site, the server on which the Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Site. You must not attack the Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

You must not access the Site for unlawful use, including, without limitation, use which would constitute a criminal offence. You hereby agree to on demand indemnify and keep us indemnified for any costs, claims, liabilities, fines, expenses, demands, proceedings and losses whatsoever made against or incurred by us as a direct or indirect result of your breach of this paragraph.

We will not be liable for any loss, disruption or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the Site or to your downloading of any material posted on it or on any website linked to it. We recommend that you take measures to protect the security of your computer, including, without limitation, installing anti-virus software on your computer.

You shall not access or attempt to access, monitor or copy the Site or any content, data or materials contained within the Site through any automated means, such as agents, robots, spiders, scripts or web crawlers. You may not feed any data, content or materials from the Site into any large language models or use any data, content or materials from the Site to train, tune or influence such models.

The Site may provide facilities that enable you to communicate with other users of the Site. If you communicate with any other user of the Site, you must ensure that:

• to the best of your knowledge and belief, any such communication is truthful and accurate in all respects;
• no such communication shall be inappropriate, abusive or objectionable; and
• if applicable, you shall immediately comply with any request from any other user of the Site to stop communicating with them.

By submitting any User Content to us, you warrant that such User Content is your own original work and that you are fully entitled to make it available to us for all the purposes specified above and agree to waive any moral rights in the User Content. Under no circumstances should you submit any User Content that:

• is inaccurate, misleading, defamatory, illegal, abusive, vulgar, obscene, inflammatory, of a discriminatory nature, in breach of confidence or privacy or which is otherwise unlawful, offensive or which might reasonably cause offence to any person or damage our reputation. You must not use any abusive or aggressive language, swear, threaten, harass or abuse any other person, including other users of the Site. For the avoidance of doubt “Illegal” User Content includes but is not limited to User Content that harasses or threatens any other user of the Site or a third party, comprises hateful language, or is otherwise unlawful;
• you do not own or for which you have not obtained all necessary licenses and approvals;
• is technically harmful including, without limitation, containing computer viruses, Trojan horses, worms, corrupted data, malicious software or harmful data; and/or
• misrepresents the user or impersonates another person or entity or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with any person or entity.

Any User Content submitted to us is submitted on the basis that we may (but shall be under no obligation to) review and edit such User Content prior to publication. We reserve the right to remove any User Content or part thereof published on the Site at any time and for any reason, including for breach of the above User Content conditions, at our absolute discretion without notification to you. We also reserve the right to withdraw your access to the Site at any time and for any reason, including for breach of the above User Content conditions, at our absolute discretion on written notice to you. Users can report illegal User Content and/or make a complaint about another user by clicking on the “Chat with Support” hyperlink within the Site.

We do not endorse or accept any responsibility for the use of, or any content within, any such User Content or any content that features within any website linked or referenced to the Site. We will not be liable for any loss, damage, cost, claim or expense suffered or incurred by you and/or any of your personnel arising out of or in connection with the use of, or reliance on, any content, products and/or services available on or through the Site or any other website.

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless us and our directors, officers, employees and other representatives from and against all liabilities, claims, demands, expenses and costs arising out of your submission of User Content that breaches these Terms.

You acknowledge that we are the owner or the licensee of all patents, patentable rights, utility models copyright, trade marks (whether or not registered), trade secrets, trade names, rights in domain names, rights in inventions, design rights, rights in data, database rights, rights in know-how and confidential information or any other intellectual and industrial property and similar or analogous rights existing under the laws of any country and all pending applications for and right to apply for or register the same (present, future and contingent) (together the Intellectual Property) in the Site (including all content and data contained within it). The Intellectual Property in the Site is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved. The Site (including all content and data contained within it) constitutes our (and/or our licensor’s) valuable intellectual property. The names, images and logos identifying us (and our licensors) including any third party data or products are proprietary to us and/or our licensors (as applicable).

Where we authorise you to link to the Site, you may include a link to the Site provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish a link to the Site in any website that is not owned by you. We may withdraw our authorisation for you to link to the Site at any time without notice.

We reserve the right to monitor and track your visits to the Site including through the use of software tools such as cookies. Our Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies and our Privacy Notice explains how we use personal data https://privacy.informa.com/policies/en/.

The express provisions of these Terms are in place of all warranties, conditions, terms, undertakings and obligations implied by statute, common law, trade usage, course of dealing or otherwise, all of which are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Except in respect of the Booking Contract, the material on the Site is provided "as is", without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind.

We, any other party (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering the Site), and any of our group companies and the officers, directors, employees, shareholders or agents of any of them, exclude all liability and responsibility for any amount or kind of loss or damage that may result to you or a third party (including without limitation, any direct, indirect, punitive or consequential loss or damages, or any loss of income, profits, goodwill, data, contracts, use of money, or loss or damages arising from or connected in any way to business interruption, and whether in tort (including without limitation negligence), contract or otherwise) in connection with the Site in any way or in connection with the use, inability to use or the results of use of the Site, any websites linked to the Site or the material on such websites, including but not limited to loss or damage due to viruses that may infect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing the Site or your downloading of any material from the Site or any websites linked to the Site.

Nothing in these Terms shall exclude or limit our liability for:

(a) death or personal injury caused by negligence (as such term is defined by the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977); or

(b) fraud.

The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to the Site, although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these Terms in your country of residence or any other relevant country.

These Terms and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including, without limitation, non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

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