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The NUVISAN Drug Discovery Innovation Challenge
Terms and Conditions
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY. BY REGISTERING FOR THE CHALLENGE, YOU ACCEPT THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS HAVE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES AND WILL AFFECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS AND ABILITY TO BRING FUTURE LEGAL ACTIONS.
In consideration of The NUVISAN Drug Discovery Innovation Challenge (hereinafter the “Challenge), organized by the Nuvisan ICB GmbH (hereinafter “strong>NUVISAN”), the individual, company, or other legal entity specified on the application and, as applicable, on behalf of him/her/itself and his/her/its heirs, assigns, executors, administrators, next of kin, and other persons acting or purporting to act on his/her/its behalf (hereinafter referred individually as "Applicant"), hereby acknowledge and agrees to the terms below by submitting their application, registration and potential attendance to the Challenge.
- Application of the T&Cs
- These Terms and Conditions (“T&Cs”) shall apply to the online application, registration and potential attendance of Applicant to the Challenge. The T&Cs govern solely the relationship between the Applicant and Nuvisan.
- The T&Cs govern the Challenge from the day of Applicant’s online application. The T&Cs shall not apply to any other exchanges, discussions and meetings not directly related to, and posterior to the Challenge termination. The Challenge termination shall be considered as the date of the latest collective and organized professional gathering in relation to the activities related to the Challenge.
- Differing or conflicting terms, including terms with, or from the Applicant, shall not apply.
- Nuvisan shall do its best effort to commit to the organization of the Challenge as communicated on the Challenge website (e.g. the timelines, prize).
- Jury selection and attendance
- The jury for the Challenge (the “Jury”) will decide at any round of selection which Applicant will be allowed to attend and present in the next round (as described on the Challenge website).
- Nuvisan expects Applicant to always behave in an appropriate manner. In its sole discretion and without any financial compensation or indemnity of any sort possible for the Applicant, Nuvisan reserves the right to exclude from the Challenge anyone that it determines is behaving in a manner that could be disruptive to the Challenge, to fellow Applicants or to Nuvisan or Nuvisan employees. Breach of any of the terms herein shall entitle Nuvisan to all available legal remedies.
- Jury’s own views.
- Views expressed by any member of the Jury, or any other speaker or attendee at the Challenge are their own. Nuvisan shall have no liability for advice given or views expressed by any member of the Jury or any other speaker or attendee at the Challenge or in any material communicated or provided to Applicants.
- Communication of information and confidentiality
- Information, documents and materials provided by the Applicant must be in the English language and must be the original creation of the individual, company, or other legal entity entering the Challenge.
- All information and materials submitted to the Challenge, including any ideas, concepts, know-how, techniques, designs, data, drawings, comments, technology, questions, or the like, will be considered NON-CONFIDENTIAL and NON-PROPRIETARY information. For this reason, Nuvisan requests Applicant not to send to Nuvisan any information or material which Applicant does not wish to be rendered public, including, without limitation, any confidential information.
- In particular the fact that Applicant is conducting or contemplating a certain project with respect to any specific target(s) (and all knowledge or other information related hereto as disclosed by Applicant) shall not be considered as confidential information and nothing in these T&Cs shall prevent Nuvisan or its affiliates from carrying out research activities independently related to any and all targets.
- Applications, along with the Applicant’s name, city, state, country or province of residence, will be shared with our Venture Capital partner for the selection purpose and may be posted on any website owned and/or operated by Nuvisan as well as any other website or other online point of presence on any platform of either Nuvisan or our Venture Capital partner.
- Intellectual property
- These T&Cs do not create any assignment of intellectual property rights between Nuvisan and the Applicant. The occurrence of the Challenge does not, in any whatsoever, includes, supposes or implies any transfer of any intellectual property between Nuvisan and the Applicant, or between Applicants.
- Any data, information, documents and other materials remain the sole property of its lawful owner.
- Any new creation and invention shall remain the sole ownership and responsibility of its creator and inventor.
- Data protection
- . By participating to the Challenge, Applicant agrees that Nuvisan may publish Applicant’s name and other information provided by the Applicant in connection with Applicant’s response to the Challenge. The Applicant is aware that the personal data he/she/it conveyed to Nuvisan will be processed by Nuvisan for the sole purpose of the Challenge. Applicant benefits from all the data subject rights governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679. Full details of Nuvisan’s privacy policy are available at: Privacy Policy - NUVISAN
- Liability and indemnification
- Nuvisan reserves the right to make changes to the agenda, format, speakers, other attendees, location and any other aspect of the Challenge without notice and without liability to Applicant. Nuvisan may at any time, with or without giving notice, in its absolute discretion and without giving any reason, change, cancel or postpone the Challenge, change its venue or any of the other published particulars, or withdraw any invitation to attend. In any case, Nuvisan shall not be liable for any loss, liability, damage or expense suffered or incurred by any person or legal entity in the course of the Challenge, nor will it offer any material or financial compensation or indemnity to the Applicants.
- NUVISAN MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE, IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXPECTATIONS OF ANY TYPE OF APPLICANTS REGARDING THE CHALLENGE.
- TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, APPLICANT, ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND RELATED PERSONS, HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGES AND KNOWINGLY, VOLUNTARILY, IRREVOCABLY, AND FOREVER RELEASES, WAIVES, AND DISCHARGES, NUVISAN WITH RESPECT TO ANY AND ALL CLAIMS THAT APPLICANT OR ANY OF APPLICANT’S RELEASED PERSONS MAY HAVE (OR HEREINAFTER ACCRUE) AGAINST NUVISAN, THAT RELATE TO ANY OF THE RISKS, HAZARDS AND DANGERS RESULTING FROM THE ATTENDANCE AT THE CHALLENGE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY AND ALL CLAIMS THAT ARISE OUT OF OR RELATE IN ANY WAY TO APPLICANT’S OR RELATED PERSONS' EXPOSURE TO ANY ACCIDENT OR DISEASE (COLLECTIVELY, THE "CLAIMS"), IN EACH CASE WHETHER CAUSED BY ANY ACTION OR INACTION (OTHER THAN GROSS NEGLIGENCE, OR INTENTIONAL MISCONDUCT) OF NUVISAN. NUVISAN SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS, LIABILITY OR DAMAGE TO PERSONAL PROPERTY.
- Use of image
- Except as otherwise expressly agreed in writing between Applicant and Nuvisan, Nuvisan reserves the sole right to use any photographs, electronic images, videos and recordings received or created by Nuvisan in the course of the Challenge, for the purpose of communicating on the occurrence of the Challenge, and Applicant consents to this use.
- Insurance
- It is the sole responsibility of Applicant to arrange any personal insurance appropriate or necessary in connection with their attendance to the Challenge.
- Force majeure
- Nuvisan shall not be liable for any failure to meet its obligations, including, timelines, organization, price, due to any cause beyond Nuvisan’s reasonable control, including, acts of public enemy, acts of any governmental authority, governmental laws, ordinances, rules and regulations, whether or not valid, acts of God, fires, hurricanes, floods, extreme weather, epidemics and unusually severe weather, quarantine restrictions, strikes or lockouts, labour disputes or shortages, embargoes, war, riot, malicious acts or damage, accidents, interruption of supplies, equipment malfunction, failure of electrical supply or other utilities (the “Force Majeure Events”).
- In the event of a Force Majeure Event impacting the organization of the Challenge, Nuvisan shall be excused from organizing and performing the Challenge for the period of time attributable to such delay, which may extend beyond the time lost due to one or more of the causes mentioned above. In the event of any such Force Majeure Event, Nuvisan may, in its sole discretion, cancel, postpone or change the organization of the Challenge.
- Independent Parties
- The relationship of Nuvisan and Applicant is that of independent parties and not of principal and agent.
- Choice of Law/Jurisdiction
- These T&Cs shall be governed by, and be construed in accordance with, the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, without regard to its principles of conflict of laws and excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the international Sale of Goods.
- Place of performance and place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising out of or in connection with these T&Cs shall be Berlin, Germany.