The following terms and conditions (the “Terms of Service” or “Agreement”) constitute an agreement between you, whether as a casual visitor or a registered user (“User”, “you” or “your”) and HackVentures Ltd, a Swiss Limited Liability company operating this website and/or providing our Services, and its affiliates, successors and assigns (“Hack”, "HackGroup", "Hack Team", "HackSummit", "ClimateHack", "FoodHack", “us”, “our” or ‘we”), the owner and operator of this website (the "Hack Summit Website", or this "Website" or "Site") and other associated website (collectively, the “Hack Platforms”) and all content and features contained therein, as well as other Hack Platforms, media content, online and offline communities, chat groups, email notifications and access to any financial services and informations, or any other related applications and services provided by us (collectively, the “Services”), regarding your use of this website and any other Hack Platform and/or Services.

BY ACCESSING THE WEBSITE, UTILIZING ANY OF THE SERVICES AND/OR REGISTERING WITH US, YOU SIGNIFY THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF SERVICE INCLUDING OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND CODE OF CONDUCT, WHICH IS INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE.

Hack, in its sole and absolute discretion, may make changes or modifications to this Website or to this Agreement (including any policies, code of conduct or agreements which are incorporated by reference herein) at any time and without prior notice to you, and such changes or modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting to this Site. You acknowledge and agree that (i) Hack may notify you of such changes or modifications by posting them to this Site and (ii) your use of this Site or the Services after such changes or modifications have been made (as indicated by the “Last Revised” date at the top of this page) shall constitute your acceptance of this Agreement as last revised. In addition, Hack may occasionally notify you of upcoming changes or modifications to this Agreement by email. We, therefore, recommend that you keep your account information including, but not limited to, your email address, current.

This Site and the Services found at this Site are available only to Users who can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. By using this Site or the Services found at this Site, you represent and warrant that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age. If you are visiting this Site from a country other than the country in which our servers are located, your communications with us may result in the transfer of information (including your User information) across international boundaries. By visiting this Site and communicating electronically with us, you consent to such transfers. You may be asked to register in order to use certain Services including, but not limited to our Newsletters, Media Subscriptions, Hack Event Access or any other Activities and Services provided by HackVentures. You agree to provide accurate, current and complete information about yourself as requested or directed on the Services and to promptly update this information to maintain its accuracy. HackVentures has the right to suspend or terminate your registration and to refuse any and all current or future use of the Services if it suspects that such information is inaccurate or incomplete.

By using our Services and participating to Hack Events, you acknowledge that investing in startups, VC funds and any other alternative investment involves risks, including illiquidity, lack of dividends, loss of investment and dilution. Participation to Hack Events are not intended as provision of financial services and at no time can be considered as financial advice. Any Services related to Financial Services, is solely intended for experienced professional investors and provided on an individual basis outside of any Hack Events context. In no case shall HackVentures be responsible for any damages, direct or indirect, in any way whatsoever, including damages related to investments and financial decisions.

Through this Site, Hack provides access to its HackSummit Conference. The HackSummit Conference is focused on organising and facilitating professional networking between entrepreneurs, investors and industry professionals via an in-person conference and exhibition fair, as well as designing, developing and providing online products and software related to the same.

We are continuously developing our Hack Services, and we may, at our sole discretion, change or remove different parts of the Hack Services at any time, including any functionality and feature, in part or in whole related to the HackSummit Conference. Hack may also make some smaller modifications or changes to our Hack Services at any time and without notifying you thereof.

Ticket price list for the HackSummit Conference is made available on this Site. The applicable ticket price shown on this Site includes VAT and a ticket sales service fee. In addition to the ticket price, Hack charges payment method fees and other similar fees, where applicable. These will be communicated separately during payment via our third-party payment service providers Brella, Weezevent and Stripe. All ticket purchases made through online ticketstore or another ticket purchase platform are final. Tickets are generally non-refundable, with the exception of due justification for cancellation.

All ticket purchases made through our online ticket store are final and tickets are non-refundable.If you wish to transfer your ticket to someone else, please mention the first name, last name and email address of the person replacing you at least 15 days before the event to team@hackgroup.org.

Before the relevant Hack Service takes place, Hack has the right to cancel purchased tickets if the tickets have been obtained in breach or violation of these Terms or otherwise fraudulently or wrongfully, or are being resold without authorisation.

In connection with the physical HackSummit Conference, Users shall change and collect their entrance badge against purchased ticket before entering the HackSummit Conference. Under no circumstances is Hack responsible for lost, stolen or otherwise damaged or destroyed tickets or badges. After receiving their badge, ticket holders shall handle the badge with due care and keep the badge visible at all times during the attendance at the HackSummit Conference.

In a situation where a person not registered as ticket holder is seen using a HackSummit badge and/or wristband or if the badge was initially assigned to a different person, the ticket shall be forfeited and the person shall be removed from the HackSummit Conference or other Hack Services, as applicable.

In connection with your registration at the HackSummit Conference and the use of Hack Services, participants and ticket holders may submit content, data and information, including without limitation text, photographs and information through a chat function to Hack Services (“User Content”). The User is solely responsible for all content that the User uploads/transmits to Hack Services, including ensuring that it has all relevant rights to the User Content. In case Hack reasonably deems that any User Content violates these Terms, intellectual property rights or applicable law, Hack reserves the right to remove such User Content at any time and at its own discretion. Accordingly, the User agrees and acknowledges that Hack does not assume any liability or responsibility in respect to any User Content, and the User shall at all times ensure that the User Content does not infringe any rights of third parties or any applicable law. Furthermore, the User Content shall not be offensive, threatening, libellous, defamatory or otherwise inappropriate, including as per our Code of Conduct. For clarity, Hack is not responsible and shall not be held liable for any User Content, nor does Hack endorse any opinion contained in any User Content. Hack expressly disclaims any responsibility for the backup and/or retention of any User Content, and Hack Services shall not be used for back-up purposes of any User Content.

HackVentures has no obligation, either express or implied, to treat your User Content as confidential to develop or use your User Content and no compensation is due to you or to anyone else for any intentional or unintentional use of your User Content, with the exception of the existence of a valid separate Confidentiality Agreement (NDA) agreed upon between you and HackVentures in which case the Confidentiality Agreement takes precedence over these Terms. You acknowledge and agree that HackVentures may be working on the same or similar content, it may already know of such content from other sources, it may simply wish to develop this (or similar) content on its own, or it may have taken / will take some other action. If you provide us with User Content, you authorise HackVentures to use the intellectual property and other proprietary rights in and to your User Content to enable inclusion and use of the User Content in the manner contemplated by this Site and this Agreement. HackVentures shall have the right to generate anonymous user data and statistical data from the User Content and use of the User Account. Hack shall reserve all rights to such anonymised data.

Accordingly, you hereby grant HackVentures a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers), and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, combine with other works, display, and perform your User Content in connection with this Site and HackVentures's business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing all or part of this Site in any media formats and through any media channels without restrictions of any kind and without payment or other consideration of any kind, or permission or notification, to you or any third party. The above licenses granted by you in your User Content terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete your User Content from this Site and the provision of our Services no longer applies. You understand and agree, however, that HackVentures may retain (but not distribute, display, or perform) server copies of your User Content that have been removed or deleted unless you expressly request full removal of your User Content.

‍HackVentures reserves the right, but has no obligation, to pre-screen User Content and decide whether any item of User Content is appropriate and/or complies with this Agreement. HackVentures may remove any item of User Content and/or terminate a User’s access to this Site or the Services found at this Site for posting or publishing any material in violation of this Agreement, or for otherwise violating this Agreement (as determined by HackVentures in its sole and absolute discretion), at any time and without prior notice. If HackVentures terminates your access to this Site or the Services found at this Site, HackVentures may, in its sole and absolute discretion, remove and destroy any data and files stored by you on its servers.

‍Upon receipt of a valid written notification containing the information as outlined above, HackVentures shall, (1) remove or disable access to the Third Party Content that is alleged to be infringing; (2) forward the written notification to the alleged infringer (the “Subscriber”); (3) take reasonable steps to promptly notify the Subscriber that it has removed or disabled access to the Third Party Content.Counter Notification. To be effective, a Counter Notification must be a written communication provided to HackVentures's Designated Agent that includes substantially the following:A physical or electronic signature of the Subscriber; Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled; A statement, as follows: “I swear under penalty of perjury that it is my good faith belief that the material identified above was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled”; and The Subscriber’s name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the Subscriber consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the Subscriber’s address is located, or if the Subscriber’s address is outside of Switzerland or the European Union, for any judicial district in which FoodHack may be found, and that the Subscriber will accept service of process from the person who provided notification or an agent of such person.

‍Upon receipt of a valid Counter Notification containing the information as outlined above, the EUCD provides that the removed material will be restored or access re-enabled and HackVentures will comply with this requirement within a reasonable time (or as otherwise required by law), provided HackVentures's Designated Agent has not received notice from the original complaining party that an action has been filed seeking a court order to restrain Subscriber from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on HackVentures's network or system.

This Site and the Services found at this Site may contain links to third-party websites that are not owned or controlled by HackVentures. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you and do not constitute an endorsement by HackVentures of the content on such websites nor of the business practices of those operating those websites. HackVentures has no control over and assumes no responsibility for the content, terms, and conditions, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites. In addition, HackVentures does not censor or edit the content of any third-party websites. By using this Site or the Services found at this Site, you expressly release HackVentures from any and all liability arising from your use of any third-party website. Accordingly, HackVentures encourages you to be aware when you leave this Site or the Services found at this Site and to review the terms and conditions, privacy policies, and other governing documents of each other website that you may visit.

Please note that while speakers, agenda and topics may be confirmed throughout the year, circumstances beyond the control of Hack may necessitate substitutions, alterations or cancellations of the speakers, agenda and/or topics. As such, Hack reserves the right to change and/or modify the advertised time schedule, location and line up of speakers and/or topics if necessary without any liability to the User whatsoever. Any substitutions or adjustments to the foregoing will be updated on Hack's channels and this Site as soon as possible.

HackVentures accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of substitution, alteration, cancellation, rescheduling or postponement of Hack Services. In case of an unforeseen or exceptional incident, restriction or another circumstance likely having an effect on Hack Services, HackVentures reserves the right to make changes to the dates and time for all parts of Hack Services. In case of cancellation or rescheduling any Hack Service for a new date and/or time, Hack may, at its sole discretion, transfer the ticket(s) to be valid on such a new date and/or time, or reimburse costs related to Hack Services and paid by the User to HackVentures (e.g. purchased ticket and other similar costs) upon the User's request within a reasonable time limit specified by Hack on a case-by-case basis. After such reasonable time limit without the User having contacted HackVentures about the reimbursement, which shall be at least thirty (30) days, has expired Hack will not be liable for any refund or reimbursement. For the avoidance of doubt, HackVentures reserves the right to make changes to Hack Services and thereto related schedules.

HackVentures will make commercially reasonable efforts to keep Hack Services operational. However, certain technical difficulties or maintenance may, from time to time, result in temporary interruptions. HackVentures reserves the right, periodically and at anytime, to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, functions and features of Hack Services. To the maximum extent allowed by applicable laws, HackVentures shall not be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential damages arising from or relating to these Terms, Hack Services, or Users participation to the HackSummit Conference and/or registration to Hack Services, or any thereto related activity or participation. However, the limitations set out herein shall not apply to damage caused by wilful misconduct or gross negligence. In order for the claim not to be forfeited, all claims for damage must be made within thirty(30) days from the date that the damage was or should reasonably have been noticed by theUser. For clarity, HackVentures accepts no liability for tickets or badges that are lost, stolen or otherwise damaged or destroyed.

‍To the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless HackVentures, its and affiliates, and their directors, officers, managers, employees, shareholders, agents, and licensors, from and against all claims, demands, disputes, losses, expenses, damages, and costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of or in relation to these Terms or your use of the Services. HackVentures reserves the right to assume the exclusive defense of any claim for which we are entitled to indemnification under these Terms. In such event, you shall provide us with such cooperation as is reasonably requested by us.

Certain aspects of the Hack Service may be provided for a fee or other charge. If you elect to use paid aspects of the Hack Service, you agree to the Pricing and Payment Terms outlined in your dedicated InKind or Paid Sponsorship Agreement, as separately provided and signed between you and HackVentures. We may add new services for additional fees and charges, or amend fees and charges for existing services, at any time in its sole discretion with due justification. Any change to our pricing or payment terms shall become effective in the billing cycle following notice of such change to you as provided in these Terms, at the exception of any contradicting Terms listed in your dedicated InKind or Paid Sponsorship Agreement which takes precedent over these Terms.

‍All information that you provide in connection with a purchase or transaction or other monetary transaction interaction with the Hack Services must be accurate, complete, and current. You agree to pay all charges incurred by users of your credit card, debit card, or other payment method used in connection with a purchase or transaction or other monetary transaction interaction with the Hack Service at the prices in effect when such charges are incurred. You will pay any applicable taxes, if any, relating to any such purchases, transactions or other monetary transaction interactions.