Last updated: September 8, 2017

CONNECTINGCENTRE, LLC (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the http://www.connectingcentre.com website (the “Service”).

Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use the Service.

By accessing or using the Service you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the terms then you may not access the Service.

Accounts
When there is a possibility/function added in website, and you create an account with us, you must provide us information that is accurate, complete, and current at all times. Failure to do so constitutes a breach of the Terms, which may result in immediate termination of your account on our Service.

You are responsible for safeguarding the password that you use to access the Service and for any activities or actions under your password, whether your password is with our Service or a third-party service. You agree not to disclose your password to any third party. You must notify us immediately upon becoming aware of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account.

Organization Accounts and Administrators
When you sign up for an account for your organization you may specify one or more administrators. The administrators will have the right to configure the Services based on your requirements and manage end users in your organization account. If your organization account is created and configured on your behalf by a third party, it is likely that such third party has assumed administrator role for your organization. Make sure that you enter into a suitable agreement with such third party specifying such party’s roles and restrictions as an administrator of your organization account.

You are responsible for i) ensuring confidentiality of your organization account password, ii) appointing competent individuals as administrators for managing your organization account, and iii) ensuring that all activities that occur in connection with your organization account comply with this Agreement. You understand that CONNECTINGCENTRE is not responsible for account administration and internal management of the Services for you.

You are responsible for taking necessary steps for ensuring that your organization does not lose control of the administrator accounts. You may specify a process to be followed for recovering control in the event of such loss of control of the administrator accounts by sending an email to support@CONNECTINGCENTRE.com, provided that the process is acceptable to CONNECTINGCENTRE. In the absence of any specified administrator account recovery process, CONNECTINGCENTRE may provide control of an administrator account to an individual providing proof satisfactory to CONNECTINGCENTRE demonstrating authorization to act on behalf of the organization. You agree not to hold CONNECTINGCENTRE liable for the consequences of any action taken by CONNECTINGCENTRE in good faith in this regard.

Data Ownership
We respect your right to ownership of content created or stored by you. You own the content created or stored by you. Unless specifically permitted by you, your use of the Services does not grant CONNECTINGCENTRE the license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish or distribute the content created by you or stored in your user account for CONNECTINGCENTRE’s commercial, marketing or any similar purpose. But you grant CONNECTINGCENTRE permission to access, copy, distribute, store, transmit, reformat, publicly display and publicly perform the content of your user account solely as required for the purpose of providing the Services to you. Also your contactinformation will be used by Connectingcentre to send newsletters.

All contents posted by a user will undergo modification by CONNECTINGCENTRE before they are published. For extra services like training programs or other events that CONNECTINGCENTRE organize there will be conditions regarding it aside the general terms and conditions. You will be informed about it once there is a contract from CONNECTINGCENTRE.

User Generated Content
You may transmit or publish content created by you using any of the Services or otherwise. However, you shall be solely responsible for such content and the consequences of its transmission or publication. Any content made public will be publicly accessible through the internet and may be crawled and indexed by search engines.

You are responsible for ensuring that you do not accidentally make any private content publicly available. Any content that you may receive from other users of the Services, is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only and you agree not to use, copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license or otherwise exploit such content for any purpose, without the express written consent of the person who owns the rights to such content. In the course of using any of the Services, if you come across any content with copyright notice(s) or any copy protection feature(s), you agree not to remove such copyright notice(s) or disable such copy protection feature(s) as the case may be. By making any copyrighted/copyrightable content available on any of the Services you affirm that you have the consent, authorization or permission, as the case may be from every person who may claim any rights in such content to make such content available in such manner.

Further, by making any content available in the manner aforementioned, you expressly agree that CONNECTINGCENTRE will have the right to block access to or remove such content made available by you if CONNECTINGCENTRE receives complaints concerning any illegality or infringement of third party rights in such content. By using any of the Services and transmitting or publishing any content using such Service, you expressly consent to determination of questions of illegality or infringement of third party rights in such content by the agent designated by CONNECTINGCENTRE for this purpose.

Billing
We will begin billing you, when applicable, for subscription fees corresponding to your subscription plan, plus any applicable tax, unless you cancel prior to the end of your Monthly or Yearly plan. Users will automatically receive newsletters from us but can also decide to unsubscribe from.

Unless cancelled, your Service subscription will be automatically renewed at the end of your subscription period. We will bill the subscription fee plus any applicable tax to you. Your membership will automatically renew for successive subscriptions, without prior notice to you, unless and until you cancel your membership, or we terminate it. You must cancel your membership before it renews in order to avoid billing of the next period’s subscription fees to your payment method. Once a user cancels his/her contract refund won’t be made available.

By using the Service, you are expressly agreeing that we are permitted to bill you a subscription fee, any applicable tax and any other charges you may incur in connection with your use of the Service. Additional charges may include service level changes you request. The subscription fee will be billed at the beginning of your subscription and on each renewal thereafter, unless and until you cancel your membership. We will automatically bill you each billing period on the calendar day corresponding to the commencement of your membership. Except and to the extent required by applicable law, all fees and charges are nonrefundable, and there are no refunds or credits for partially used periods, or where you have elected to downgrade service levels or otherwise remove any paid component or feature. If you elect to upgrade your service level or otherwise add any paid component or feature, we will pro-rate the amount due based on the number of days remaining in your billing cycle; provided, however, that any such proration shall be based on your service level or paid components or features in existence immediately prior to your election to upgrade or add paid components or features.

If you change your service level (downgrade it), you may cause the loss of Content or features for your account. CONNECTINGCENTRE does not accept any liability for such loss. You may cancel your subscription to the Service at any time, and cancellation will be effective immediately. All User details will be erased from our system once the contract has ended, only the subscriber email will be used for sending newsletters which user can unsubscribe form. Except and to the extent required by applicable law, we do not provide refunds or credits for any partial subscription periods or any feature of component that you have paid for but not used.

In connection with your purchase and/or use of the Service you may be subject to taxes, including, without limitation, sales and use taxes, by any authority which has jurisdiction to impose such taxes. You agree that the obligation and payment of any such taxes shall be your sole and absolute responsibility, and you agree, that unless otherwise required by applicable law, to indemnify CONNECTINGCENTRE pursuant to the section below entitled “Indemnity” to the extent that CONNECTINGCENTRE incurs any obligations or other liabilities in connection with such taxes.

Third Party Applications
If you elect to utilize any third party application in connection with your use of the Service, by doing so you are consenting to your Content being shared with such third party application. To understand how such third party application provider utilizes your Content and other information, you should review their privacy policy.

Links to Other Web Sites
Our Service may contain links to third-party web sites or services that are not owned or controlled by CONNECTINGCENTRE. CONNECTINGCENTRE has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that CONNECTINGCENTRE shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites or services.

We strongly advise you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third-party web sites or services that you visit.

Disclaimer of Warranties
The service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without any warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. CONNECTINGCENTRE is not responsible for any third party content that you download or otherwise obtain through the use of the service or for any damage or loss of data that may result. We do not warrant, endorse, guarantee, or assume responsibility for any third party application or service that provides access to our service (e.g., Any third party application developed using CONNECTINGCENTRE’S API).

The Service is controlled, operated and hosted from within the Dutch. We make no representations that the Service is appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who access or use the Service from other jurisdictions do so at their own risk and are responsible for compliance with all applicable Dutch and local laws and regulations, including but not limited to export and import regulations. Also if some informations on the website is not visible in some countries due to technical issues or the country law regarding informations like that CONNECTINGCENTRE won’t be responsible for situations like that nor be asked for refund.

Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event shall CONNECTINGCENTRE, its affiliates, agents, directors, employees or suppliers be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including without limitation damages for loss of profits, goodwill, data or other intangible losses that result from the use of, or inability to use, the service, whether or not CONNECTINGCENTRE has been warned of the possibility of such damages and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. CONNECTINGCENTRE’s aggregate liability for all claims related to the service shall not exceed the greater of $100 (€83) or the amounts paid by you to CONNECTINGCENTRE in connection with your use of the service during the six (6) month period prior to the claim giving rise to such liability.

Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless CONNECTINGCENTRE, its officers, directors, employees, suppliers, and affiliates, from and against any losses, damages, fines and expenses (including attorney’s fees and costs) arising out of or relating to any claims that you have used the Services in violation of another party’s rights, in violation of any law, in violations of any provisions of the Terms, or any other claim related to your use of the Services, except where such use is authorized by CONNECTINGCENTRE.

Arbitration
Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to the Terms shall be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the Dutch Arbitration Association. Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party. The decision of the arbitrator shall be final and unappealable. The arbitration shall be conducted in New Jersey and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered into any court having jurisdiction thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, CONNECTINGCENTRE may at any time seek injunctions or other forms of equitable relief from any court of competent jurisdiction.

Governing Law
These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Dutch, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of those rights. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in effect. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between us regarding our Service, and supersede and replace any prior agreements we might have between us regarding the Service.

Termination
We may terminate or suspend access to our Service immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach the Terms.

All provisions of the Terms which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

We may terminate or suspend your account immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach the Terms.

Upon termination, your right to use the Service will immediately cease. If you wish to terminate your account, you may simply discontinue using the Service.

All provisions of the Terms which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability. Also a user can’t ask for refund due to website or server technical issues.

Changes
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material we will try to provide at least 30 days notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.

By continuing to access or use our Service after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, please stop using the Service or send us a message via our contact mail asking us to terminate the contract.

For contacting you about the changes of the conditions, or any other purposes, we will use the contact information you provided to us. Its the responsibility of you as a subscriber/client to send us always the right contact information and let us be up-to-date. We are not responsible to any charges when your contact email will be not working or when our messages don’t reach you.[:en]Last updated: September 8, 2017

CONNECTINGCENTRE, LLC (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the http://www.connectingcentre.com website (the “Service”).

Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use the Service.

By accessing or using the Service you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the terms then you may not access the Service.

Accounts
When there is a possibility/function added in website, and you create an account with us, you must provide us information that is accurate, complete, and current at all times. Failure to do so constitutes a breach of the Terms, which may result in immediate termination of your account on our Service.

You are responsible for safeguarding the password that you use to access the Service and for any activities or actions under your password, whether your password is with our Service or a third-party service. You agree not to disclose your password to any third party. You must notify us immediately upon becoming aware of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account.

Organization Accounts and Administrators
When you sign up for an account for your organization you may specify one or more administrators. The administrators will have the right to configure the Services based on your requirements and manage end users in your organization account. If your organization account is created and configured on your behalf by a third party, it is likely that such third party has assumed administrator role for your organization. Make sure that you enter into a suitable agreement with such third party specifying such party’s roles and restrictions as an administrator of your organization account.

You are responsible for i) ensuring confidentiality of your organization account password, ii) appointing competent individuals as administrators for managing your organization account, and iii) ensuring that all activities that occur in connection with your organization account comply with this Agreement. You understand that CONNECTINGCENTRE is not responsible for account administration and internal management of the Services for you.

You are responsible for taking necessary steps for ensuring that your organization does not lose control of the administrator accounts. You may specify a process to be followed for recovering control in the event of such loss of control of the administrator accounts by sending an email to support@CONNECTINGCENTRE.com, provided that the process is acceptable to CONNECTINGCENTRE. In the absence of any specified administrator account recovery process, CONNECTINGCENTRE may provide control of an administrator account to an individual providing proof satisfactory to CONNECTINGCENTRE demonstrating authorization to act on behalf of the organization. You agree not to hold CONNECTINGCENTRE liable for the consequences of any action taken by CONNECTINGCENTRE in good faith in this regard.

Data Ownership
We respect your right to ownership of content created or stored by you. You own the content created or stored by you. Unless specifically permitted by you, your use of the Services does not grant CONNECTINGCENTRE the license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish or distribute the content created by you or stored in your user account for CONNECTINGCENTRE’s commercial, marketing or any similar purpose. But you grant CONNECTINGCENTRE permission to access, copy, distribute, store, transmit, reformat, publicly display and publicly perform the content of your user account solely as required for the purpose of providing the Services to you. Also your contactinformation will be used by Connectingcentre to send newsletters.

All contents posted by a user will undergo modification by CONNECTINGCENTRE before they are published. For extra services like training programs or other events that CONNECTINGCENTRE organize there will be conditions regarding it aside the general terms and conditions. You will be informed about it once there is a contract from CONNECTINGCENTRE.

User Generated Content
You may transmit or publish content created by you using any of the Services or otherwise. However, you shall be solely responsible for such content and the consequences of its transmission or publication. Any content made public will be publicly accessible through the internet and may be crawled and indexed by search engines.

You are responsible for ensuring that you do not accidentally make any private content publicly available. Any content that you may receive from other users of the Services, is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only and you agree not to use, copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license or otherwise exploit such content for any purpose, without the express written consent of the person who owns the rights to such content. In the course of using any of the Services, if you come across any content with copyright notice(s) or any copy protection feature(s), you agree not to remove such copyright notice(s) or disable such copy protection feature(s) as the case may be. By making any copyrighted/copyrightable content available on any of the Services you affirm that you have the consent, authorization or permission, as the case may be from every person who may claim any rights in such content to make such content available in such manner.

Further, by making any content available in the manner aforementioned, you expressly agree that CONNECTINGCENTRE will have the right to block access to or remove such content made available by you if CONNECTINGCENTRE receives complaints concerning any illegality or infringement of third party rights in such content. By using any of the Services and transmitting or publishing any content using such Service, you expressly consent to determination of questions of illegality or infringement of third party rights in such content by the agent designated by CONNECTINGCENTRE for this purpose.

Billing
We will begin billing you, when applicable, for subscription fees corresponding to your subscription plan, plus any applicable tax, unless you cancel prior to the end of your Monthly or Yearly plan. Users will automatically receive newsletters from us but can also decide to unsubscribe from.

Unless cancelled, your Service subscription will be automatically renewed at the end of your subscription period. We will bill the subscription fee plus any applicable tax to you. Your membership will automatically renew for successive subscriptions, without prior notice to you, unless and until you cancel your membership, or we terminate it. You must cancel your membership before it renews in order to avoid billing of the next period’s subscription fees to your payment method. Once a user cancels his/her contract refund won’t be made available.

By using the Service, you are expressly agreeing that we are permitted to bill you a subscription fee, any applicable tax and any other charges you may incur in connection with your use of the Service. Additional charges may include service level changes you request. The subscription fee will be billed at the beginning of your subscription and on each renewal thereafter, unless and until you cancel your membership. We will automatically bill you each billing period on the calendar day corresponding to the commencement of your membership. Except and to the extent required by applicable law, all fees and charges are nonrefundable, and there are no refunds or credits for partially used periods, or where you have elected to downgrade service levels or otherwise remove any paid component or feature. If you elect to upgrade your service level or otherwise add any paid component or feature, we will pro-rate the amount due based on the number of days remaining in your billing cycle; provided, however, that any such proration shall be based on your service level or paid components or features in existence immediately prior to your election to upgrade or add paid components or features.

If you change your service level (downgrade it), you may cause the loss of Content or features for your account. CONNECTINGCENTRE does not accept any liability for such loss. You may cancel your subscription to the Service at any time, and cancellation will be effective immediately. All User details will be erased from our system once the contract has ended, only the subscriber email will be used for sending newsletters which user can unsubscribe form. Except and to the extent required by applicable law, we do not provide refunds or credits for any partial subscription periods or any feature of component that you have paid for but not used.

In connection with your purchase and/or use of the Service you may be subject to taxes, including, without limitation, sales and use taxes, by any authority which has jurisdiction to impose such taxes. You agree that the obligation and payment of any such taxes shall be your sole and absolute responsibility, and you agree, that unless otherwise required by applicable law, to indemnify CONNECTINGCENTRE pursuant to the section below entitled “Indemnity” to the extent that CONNECTINGCENTRE incurs any obligations or other liabilities in connection with such taxes.

Third Party Applications
If you elect to utilize any third party application in connection with your use of the Service, by doing so you are consenting to your Content being shared with such third party application. To understand how such third party application provider utilizes your Content and other information, you should review their privacy policy.

Links to Other Web Sites
Our Service may contain links to third-party web sites or services that are not owned or controlled by CONNECTINGCENTRE. CONNECTINGCENTRE has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that CONNECTINGCENTRE shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites or services.

We strongly advise you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third-party web sites or services that you visit.

Disclaimer of Warranties
The service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis without any warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. CONNECTINGCENTRE is not responsible for any third party content that you download or otherwise obtain through the use of the service or for any damage or loss of data that may result. We do not warrant, endorse, guarantee, or assume responsibility for any third party application or service that provides access to our service (e.g., Any third party application developed using CONNECTINGCENTRE’S API).

The Service is controlled, operated and hosted from within the Dutch. We make no representations that the Service is appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who access or use the Service from other jurisdictions do so at their own risk and are responsible for compliance with all applicable Dutch and local laws and regulations, including but not limited to export and import regulations. Also if some informations on the website is not visible in some countries due to technical issues or the country law regarding informations like that CONNECTINGCENTRE won’t be responsible for situations like that nor be asked for refund.

Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event shall CONNECTINGCENTRE, its affiliates, agents, directors, employees or suppliers be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including without limitation damages for loss of profits, goodwill, data or other intangible losses that result from the use of, or inability to use, the service, whether or not CONNECTINGCENTRE has been warned of the possibility of such damages and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. CONNECTINGCENTRE’s aggregate liability for all claims related to the service shall not exceed the greater of $100 (€83) or the amounts paid by you to CONNECTINGCENTRE in connection with your use of the service during the six (6) month period prior to the claim giving rise to such liability.

Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless CONNECTINGCENTRE, its officers, directors, employees, suppliers, and affiliates, from and against any losses, damages, fines and expenses (including attorney’s fees and costs) arising out of or relating to any claims that you have used the Services in violation of another party’s rights, in violation of any law, in violations of any provisions of the Terms, or any other claim related to your use of the Services, except where such use is authorized by CONNECTINGCENTRE.

Arbitration
Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to the Terms shall be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the Dutch Arbitration Association. Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party. The decision of the arbitrator shall be final and unappealable. The arbitration shall be conducted in New Jersey and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered into any court having jurisdiction thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, CONNECTINGCENTRE may at any time seek injunctions or other forms of equitable relief from any court of competent jurisdiction.

Governing Law
These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Dutch, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of those rights. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in effect. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between us regarding our Service, and supersede and replace any prior agreements we might have between us regarding the Service.

Termination
We may terminate or suspend access to our Service immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach the Terms.

All provisions of the Terms which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

We may terminate or suspend your account immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach the Terms.

Upon termination, your right to use the Service will immediately cease. If you wish to terminate your account, you may simply discontinue using the Service.

All provisions of the Terms which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability. Also a user can’t ask for refund due to website or server technical issues.

Changes
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material we will try to provide at least 30 days notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.

By continuing to access or use our Service after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, please stop using the Service or send us a message via our contact mail asking us to terminate the contract.

For contacting you about the changes of the conditions, or any other purposes, we will use the contact information you provided to us. Its the responsibility of you as a subscriber/client to send us always the right contact information and let us be up-to-date. We are not responsible to any charges when your contact email will be not working or when our messages don’t reach you.


Additional terms:

  • All prices on the website are mentioned with VAT (incl.), unless otherwise agreed upon
  • Silver and Gold packages are valid for a maximum of 1 year and will be automatically renewed annually for a period of 1 year.  After 1 year all packages can be canceled with a notice period of 1 month (notice period)
  • The prices on the website for Global Innovation Map are valid from 1 September 2017 to 31 December 2017
  • From 1 January 1 2018 the prices for Silver package and Gold package may increase. In this regard, all our customers will be notified at least 1 month before any changes
  • For cost-related reasons, we may no longer be able to make the Lite-package available for free. Of course, Connectingcentre strives to continue offering the Lite version of our services worldwide for free as long as possible. We will always inform our customers about any changes, no later than 1 month before the changes, regardless of the nature of the agreement.
  • Questions can be asked via this form: www.connectingcentre.com/contact