1. About these Terms of Use

www.ventureway.org and www.ventureway.net, including any subdomains thereof (the “Website”), is owned by Venture Way, Lda., a company incorporated under the laws of Portugal, with registered office at Alameda António Sérgio, no. 10, 3th floor right, 1495-132 Algés, Portugal, registered with the Commercial Registry Office under the number 515 915 980 (“Venture Way”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). We welcome you to our Website.

These Terms of Use apply to the use of the Website, regardless of how you access it. Please read these Terms of Use carefully before you proceed.

We may, at any time and without notice, terminate your access to or use of this Website. If we do so, you do not have the right to bring any claim or claims against us.

2. Consent to Terms of Use

Please read these Terms of Use carefully before accessing and using the Website. By accessing and using the Website, or clicking to accept or agree to these Terms of Use where that option is made available, you (a) accept and agree to these Terms of Use, (b) consent to the collection, use, disclosure and other handling of data as described in our Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy, and (c) accept and agree to any additional terms, rules and conditions issued by us from time to time. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, then please do not access and use the Website.

The access to or use of certain areas and features of the Website may be subject to separate policies, standards or guidelines, or may require that you accept additional terms and conditions, before you can access the relevant areas or features of the Website. If there is a conflict between these Terms of Use and terms and conditions applicable to a specific area or feature of the Website, the latter terms and conditions shall take precedence with respect to your access to or use of that area or feature, unless specified otherwise in those terms and conditions.

You may only use this Website for lawful purposes.

3. Modification of Terms of Use

We reserve the right to modify these Terms of Use at any time in accordance with this provision. If we modify any of these Terms of use, we will post the revised Terms of Use on the Website and update the “Last updated on” date at the top of these Terms of Use. If you disagree with the revised Terms of Use, please stop accessing and using the Website. Your continued access to or use of the Website will constitute acceptance of the revised Terms of Use.

4. Intellectual property

Unless we expressly state otherwise, the copyright and any other intellectual property rights, including but not limited to design rights, trademarks and patents appearing anywhere on this Website remain our property, whether owned by or licensed to us.

These Terms of Use do not affect the ownership of any intellectual property rights in any information, data, techniques, technology, know-how, inventions, software, discoveries and materials (regardless of the form or medium in which they are disclosed or stored) which are provided or made available by us to you in the Website. The intellectual property rights in all of them shall remain our property and nothing in these Terms of Use shall be construed to assign or license to you any intellectual property rights owned by us.

Without prejudice to the following paragraph, you may not use any of the material on this Website without our prior written permission, whether by reproducing, copying, downloading, printing, linking to, editing, broadcasting, distributing or otherwise.

We encourage you to share our talks, videos, blog articles and other content created and owned by Venture Way (“Content”) as long as you comply with the following requirements:

a)   Attribute Venture Way as the owner of the Content and include a link to the Website.

b)   Do not include any text, image or other content that may indicate or reasonably be understood as if we endorse your website, platform, app or project.

c)     Do not use the Content for any commercial purposes, for sale, for profit, sublicense or in an app or software of any kind for any advertising, or in exchange for payment of any kind, including in any ad supported content or format.

d)   Do not to use the Content as the main content for your website, platform, app or project, which provides revenue or other sources of income (including from ads) that relies on content we are providing.

e)   Do not edit, remix, create derivative works of, modify or alter the form of the Content in any way. This includes using the Content as the basis for another work, including dubbing, voice-overs, or other translations not authorized by us.

f)     Do not add any more access restrictions than those we have provided to the Content in our website, such as legal restrictions, charge any fees or technological restrictions to accessing the content.

g)   Do not use the Content in any way that is or may reasonably be understood as obscene, defamatory, discriminatory, or illegal.

h)   Do not use the Content in any way that affects or would reasonably be harmful to our or the speaker’s reputation.

i)     Remove the Content from your website, platform, app or project if requested to do so by us whatever the reason.

5. Disclaimer

Accessing or using this Website or its content in any way is done entirely at your own risk. You will be responsible for any loss or damage to any computer, device, software, systems or data resulting directly or indirectly from the use or inability to use this Website or its content.

We are under no obligation to provide uninterrupted access to this Website. We reserve the right to restrict your access to this Website at any time and for any reason.

We do not guarantee that the contents of this Website will be free of errors, bugs, worms, trojans or viruses or otherwise make any representations as to the quality or accuracy or completeness of the content available on the Website including, but not limited to, any price quotes. You are responsible for maintaining appropriate software on your computer or device to protect you from any such errors, bugs, worms, trojans or viruses.

To the fullest extent permissible by law, we exclude any and all liability to you resulting from your use of the Website or connected to these Terms of Use. This exclusion includes but is not limited to any type of damages, loss of data, income or profit or loss or damage to property belonging to you or third parties arising from the use of this Website or its contents.

Nothing in these Terms of Use is intended to limit our liability to you for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or that of our employees or agents.

6. Links to third party websites

This Website may provide links out to websites or other online resources under the control of third parties. Any such links are provided solely for your convenience. We have no control over the contents of these third-party resources. We are not responsible for the contents of any linked websites and do not endorse them in any way.

7. Links from third party websites

You can link to this Website, so long as you do so fairly and without suggesting any affiliation, endorsement, approval or association with Venture Way if there is none. We reserve the right to withdraw permission to link to our Website at any time.

8. Content submitted by you

You acknowledge that you are responsible for all content you submit to this Website and you must ensure that all content you post, publish, upload or distribute to this Website (whether via comments, articles, or any other method):

a)   does not breach any third party’s intellectual property rights;

b)   is not defamatory, offensive, abusive or threatening;

c)     does not breach a third party’s privacy rights;

d)   is not confidential or otherwise owned by a third party;

e)   does not contain any advertisements unless we have consented to this in writing;

f)     does not contain any viruses or otherwise threaten our computer systems or our customers’ customers systems; and

g)   does not breach any applicable laws.

You will indemnify us for any claims by third parties against us resulting from your use of this Website in contravention of these Terms of Use.

By submitting content to this Website, you agree to grant us an unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, ongoing, transferable and royalty-free licence to use, store, reproduce, display, publish or distribute your content.

9. Privacy policy

We take your privacy and the protection of your data very seriously. We may gather and/or use certain information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Please see our separate Privacy Policy for more information.

10. Customer service

We welcome your questions and suggestions.

We will reply to any queries, suggestions or reports in the shortest time possible, but the time of answer will always depend on the issue and the number of requests we are getting from time to time.

In case you, for any reason, including concerns, problems or disputes using the Website, need to get in contact with us, please use the following e-mail address: talk@ventureway.org.

11. Miscellaneous

To assist users who speak different languages, the content of the Website may be translated, in whole or in part, into other languages. We cannot guarantee the accuracy or quality of such translations and you are responsible for reviewing and verifying the accuracy of such translations. The English version of these Terms of Use and of any other rules or content found in the Website shall prevail over any translations available in the Website.

Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

In the event any provision of these Terms of Use is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be deemed severed from the remainder of these Terms of Use and replaced with a valid and enforceable provision as similar in intent as reasonably possible to the provision so severed, and shall not cause the invalidity or unenforceability of the remainder of these Terms of Use.

These Terms of Use are the entire agreement between us and you, and supersede any and all prior terms, conditions, warranties or representations to the fullest extent permitted by law.

12. Applicable law and jurisdiction

These Terms of Use and all non-contractual obligations arising from or connected with them shall be governed by, and shall be construed in accordance with, the laws of Portugal and, without prejudice to Clause 10, shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Courts of Portugal.