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By using this website or making an application or by registering to attend or attending the FinTech Legal Labs, you are deemed to accept the following terms and conditions ("this website" means the whole or any part of the web pages located at www.fintechlegallabs.com, and include the layout of this website; individual elements of this website's design; underlying code elements of the website; or text, sounds, graphics, animated elements or any other content of this website).
As you browse through this website, or as you attend the FinTech Legal Labs event you may be provided with access to other websites that are subject to different terms of use. When using these other sites, you will be bound by the terms and conditions posted on those websites.
Ashurst may change these terms of use at any time without notice. Any amendment will be effective immediately. Your use of this website and/or application to FinTech Legal Labs and/or and your attendance at the FinTech Legal Labs event after any amendment constitutes an agreement by you to comply with and be bound by the amended terms of use. Accordingly, you should read these terms of use from time to time for changes.
Disclaimer
The content on this website and any information made available to you at the FinTech Legal Labs event are provided by Ashurst or the participants of the FinTech Legal Labs in good faith on an "as is" basis for general information purposes only and are not intended to constitute or substitute legal or other professional advice. All articles, briefings, updates or other information available on this website and at the FinTech Legal Labs event are prepared so that they are current as at the date of the preparation. It should be noted that such information can rapidly become out of date. You must make your own assessment of the information and rely on it wholly at your own risk. You should not take any actions based on information found on this website or made available to you at the FinTech Legal Labs without seeking legal or other relevant professional advice.
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This general disclaimer is not restricted or modified by any specific warnings and disclaimers elsewhere on this website applicable to the use of this website and to the FinTech Legal Labs.
FinTech Legal Labs Event
FinTech companies looking to participate in the FinTech Legal Labs event are required to be registered with us in advance by completing the registration and application form on this website.
Investors, businesses, banks, financial institutions, entrepreneurs, and start-ups in the FinTech industry that participate at our FinTech Legal Labs event to observe the FinTech companies agree and acknowledge that Ashurst does not in any way make recommendation of any investment, joint venture or any commercial transaction in any participating companies at the FinTech Legal Labs event. You acknowledge that we have no special relationship with you, and we do not owe any fiduciary duty to you in connection with FinTech Legal Labs. We do not represent, warrant, covenant, guarantee, or promise any specific results from your attendance at the FinTech Legal Labs event.
In the unlikely occurrence that any of our FinTech Legal Lab events have to be cancelled or postponed due to circumstances beyond our control, we cannot be held responsible for any costs incurred by you as an attendee at the event.
Please note that photographs and footage may be taken at the FinTech Legal Labs event. We may use them for marketing and publicity in our publications, on our website and in social media or in any third party publication. Please contact us if you have any concerns, or if you wish to be exempted from this.
We do not accept responsibility and expressly excludes liability to the fullest extent permitted by law for:
We will review all registration and application forms and may discuss internally the profiles of the applicants for the purpose of finalising the list of participating FinTech companies to be admitted to the FinTech Legal Labs programme. Please note that you should not disclose any information which you consider as confidential in your registration and application form. Acceptance of a FinTech company in the FinTech Legal Labs programme is in the sole discretion of Ashurst.
There will be opportunities for the participating FinTech companies to present about their business to other participants at the FinTech Legal Labs, including but not limited to our partnering organisations. Please note that all the information shared at the presentations will not be kept confidential, and you should refrain from disclosing any information you may consider to be confidential in your presentations. You will be required to make such a presentation of your FinTech company to our partners and guests at FinTech Legal Labs.
We will take appropriate measures to keep your personal data included in all registration and application forms submitted confidential and secure. Kindly note, however, that we cannot guarantee the full security of your information, and we shall not be liable for any system violations or interception of our transmission. Please refer to the Privacy Notice (referred to below) for further details.
Participants at the FinTech Legal Labs event should be 18 years old or above.
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You are provided with access to this website and are invited to apply to attend the FinTech Legal Labs event only for your personal and non-commercial use, but you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to the content there under. Other than for these permitted purposes, and for the purposes of and subject to the conditions prescribed under statutes that apply in your location, you may not, without our prior written permission, in any form or by any means:
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You may not link the homepage or any other parts of this website without prior written consent from Ashurst.
Your use of any link to a linked website is entirely at your own risk.
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Privacy policy
These terms of use incorporate, and should be read together with, the privacy notice for the FinTech Legal Labs (the "Privacy Notice"). Ashurst will use only the personal data which you submit to us via the website or at the FinTech Legal Labs event in accordance with the Privacy Notice.
The Privacy Notice also describes how this website may collect, store and use cookies.
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Alterations
Ashurst reserves the right to terminate, suspend or alter the content of this website and information made available to you at the FinTech Legal Labs, and to amend these terms and conditions at any time. Continued use of this website or participation at the FinTech Legal Labs after alteration of these terms and conditions shall be deemed to constitute acceptance of such alterations.
Any changes to these terms and conditions will take immediate effect upon publication. We recommend that these terms and conditions be reviewed on a regular basis.
You agree that we shall not be liable to you or any other third parties for the termination, suspension or alternation of the content of this website or the FinTech Legal Labs and the information accessible via the FinTech Legal Labs.
Termination
Ashurst reserves the right to terminate your registration or right to attend the FinTech Legal Labs event, with or without notice, for any reason and at any time.
General
If any provision of these terms and conditions is or becomes invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect under the law of any jurisdiction:
shall not be affected or impaired in any way thereby.
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