Digital Platforms terms

47. Scope

When accessing and using any of our Digital Platforms you are prohibited from:

• attendees to the Conference Websites and their related subdomains;

• users of the Conference apps; and

• participants of the online surveys relating to a Conference.

Including organisations, such as but not limited to, partners, startups, investors, among others (together hereinafter referred to as “Organisations”, “Entities”, or “Third-parties”). 

Together hereinafter referred to as the “Digital Platforms”.

48. Acceptable use

When accessing and using any of our Digital Platforms you are prohibited from:

• violating any law, statute, ordinance or regulation;

• using the Digital Platforms (or any part of it) for any illegal purpose. You agree to use it in accordance with all relevant laws;

• promoting or providing information about illegal activities, promoting physical harm or injury against any group or individual, or promoting any illegal acts;

• uploading or transmitting through the Digital Platforms any computer viruses, macro viruses, Trojan horses, worms or anything other harmful activity;

• overriding any security feature of the Digital Platforms or jeopardise the security of your account or someone else’s account (such as allowing someone else to log in to your profile as you);

• interfering with the operation of, or places an unreasonable load on, the Digital Platforms (such as viruses, denial of service attack or gaming algorithms);

• using manual or automated software, devices or other means or processes to access, scrape or crawl the Digital Platforms or any content or information contained in it;   

• engaging in ‘framing’, ‘mirroring’, or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of the Digital Platforms;

• removing any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on the Digital Platforms;

• modifying, creating derivative works or copying or storing any significant portion of the Digital Platforms or any related technology (unless allowed by law or we expressly authorise);

• using the Digital Platforms (or any part of it) in a manner which may result in; (i) the Digital Platforms being interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient or such manner designed to interfere with, interrupt or disrupt the normal operating procedures of computers or Digital Platforms; (ii) sharing any material which is unlawful, libellous, abusive, obscene, pornographic, discriminatory, harmful, fraudulent, deceptive, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar invasive of another’s privacy, hateful or otherwise objectionable, defamatory, offensive, or of an obscene or menacing character, or that may cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety; (iii) impairing the effectiveness or functionality of the Digital Platforms; or (iv) violating or infringing the rights of any person, firm or company (including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, confidentiality and/ or privacy of the Digital Platforms);

• attempting to grant any unauthorised access to any part or component of the Digital Platforms;

• copying or distributing any part of the Digital Platforms in any medium without our prior written consent; and

• altering or modifying any part of the Digital Platforms other than as may be reasonably necessary to use the Digital Platforms for their intended use; or

• reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, deciphering or otherwise attempting to obtain the source code or underlying ideas or information of or relating to the Digital Platforms or any related technology, or any part thereof unless allowed by law.

49. Conference app 

To attend a Conference, you must complete a Conference App profile. Your profile will be discoverable and visible in the app to other Conference attendees and Organisations. Your conference profile must include your name, job title, company name and a profile photo, as well as some of your topics of interest (“Conference Profile”).

50. Badge scanning 

Enabling QR code scanning in your profile will allow other attendees and/or Organisations to receive your contact information by scanning your badge (“lanyard”). You may also scan other attendees’ lanyards and/or connect with Organisations by scanning QR codes made available by them. Please note this is completely optional. When you consent to Organisations scanning your lanyard, you give them your direct marketing consent. You will be subject to the communications and policies of those Organisations. Therefore, you must exercise your rights and any revocation of consent for communications with such Third-parties.

51. Disclaimer 

51.1 While we will use reasonable endeavours to verify the accuracy of any information we place on the Digital Platforms, we make no warranties, whether express or implied in relation to its accuracy. We will develop and operate the Digital Platforms with reasonable skill and care and will use reasonable efforts to promptly remedy any faults of which we become aware. However, the Digital Platforms, all materials, information, software, products and services included in or available through the Digital Platforms are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis for your information and personal use only without any representation or endorsement. We do not guarantee that access to the Digital Platforms will be uninterrupted or error-free.

51.2 To the fullest extent permitted by the applicable law, we disclaim all warranties or conditions, either express or implied, or any part of them in relation to the Digital Platforms, all materials, information, software, products or services offered on the Digital Platforms whether by us or on our behalf, and in relation to any results or information obtained through the Digital Platforms and any reliance on any such results or information and conclusions drawn from such results or information. 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.

51.3 To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, representations, conditions and duties of any kind, whether implied or expressed, including without limitation, any warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security, accuracy, condition or completeness, or any implied warranty arising from course of dealing or usage or trade.

51.4 You acknowledge that we cannot guarantee and therefore shall not be in any way responsible for the timeliness, security, performance or privacy of the Digital Platforms and any information provided to or taken from the Digital Platforms by you.

52. Digital Platforms Intellectual Property

52.1 We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in the Digital Platforms. You acknowledge and agree that all copyright, trademarks and all other intellectual property rights in all material or content contained within the Digital Platforms shall remain at all times owned by us or our licensors. You are permitted to use this material only as expressly authorised by us. We reserve all rights not expressly granted in and to the Digital Platforms and the content on the Digital Platforms. You agree not copy, publish, republish, redistribute, archive, store, adapt, alter, modify, translate, create derivative works from, summarise, photocopy, scan, syndicate, sell, licence, frame, harvest, scrape, grant or purport to grant any rights in or otherwise make available any content from the Digital Platforms.

53. Access to Digital Platforms

53.1 We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to terminate or block your access to all or part of the Digital Platforms, with or without notice, for any reason or no reason, including without limitation your violation of these Terms.

53.2 If you do not log in to your account in any of our Digital Platforms for a period equal to or greater than 2 consecutive years, it will be deemed inactive. Inactive accounts may be deleted by us at any time.

54. Lead Scanning Feature 

54.1 Organisations have the possibility to activate the Lead Scanning Feature for their ticket holders (i.e., their guests). This feature allows them to give their ticket holders the possibility to collect direct marketing consent on their behalf, by scanning attendees’ lanyards via their company profile. 

54.2 The Lead Scanning Feature is deactivated by default. It can be activated by each Organisation on the ticket dashboard. The Feature may be activated for some or all ticket holders, in line with these T&Cs.

54.3 Organisations can only activate this Feature if the ticket holder is their direct employee and/or is a documented representative of the Organisation, with established contractual obligations, particularly concerning confidentiality and data protection compliance. 

54.4 Organisations are strictly prohibited from activating this Feature for external guests and/or ticket holders that do not have a contractually documented relationship with the Organisation. 

54.5 3f reserves the right to terminate contracts and/or packages with any Organisation found to have breached these T&Cs. In such circumstances, we may proceed to the termination immediately at any time by written notice to the respective Organisation. We shall not be required to refund any fees received by the respective Organisation and we will have no obligation towards the Organisation.

54.6 3f shall be entitled to submit an invoice in respect of the balance (or the whole as the case may be) of fees which will become immediately due and payable by the respective Organisation and it will not be liable to the Organisation for any loss or damage of any kind resulting from such a termination. 

54.7 3f reserves the right to refuse celebrating new contracts and/or packages for future Conferences with the respective Organisation. 

54.8 The Organisation found to have breached 3f’s T&Cs and applicable legislation (particularly concerning data protection) will hold 3f harmless from any losses and damages due to any breach, abuse or violation, whether by action or omission, regardless of fault.