Terms and Conditions
Introduction
These terms and conditions govern your use of this website; by using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this website.
You must be at least 18 years of age to use this website. By using this website and by agreeing to these terms and conditions you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age.
This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to Energy Dialogues LLC's use of cookies in accordance with the terms of Energy Dialogues LLC's Cookie Policy. Please also refer to our privacy policy which explains how we will handle any personal information we collect from you, or that you provide to us.
We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.
General Purpose
The Energy Dialogues Collaborative, hosted by Energy Dialogues LLC, is a community of experts and thought leaders from private sector, academica, think tanks and governments with the goal to collaboratively develop and debate key issues in the energy industry and explore opportunities and solutions to challenges in an open and informed manner.
Definition and Terms
Throughout the terms and conditions, the following definitions will apply:
“Membership” - Membership or any Membership Product that is offered by Energy Dialogues LLC after Client registers via the Website and agrees to the terms and conditions;
“Member(s)” - any user who has an active subscription;
“Advertising” - media advertising campaign or program of advertising that is purchased by the Client from Energy Dialogues LLC;
“Advertisement” - any display, inserts, directories, banners and any other announcement designed to publicly promote activities including campaigns and programs;
“Attendee” - any person attending an Event;
“Event” any live or virtual event hosted by Energy Dialogues LLC, including but not limited to any training, seminar, webinar, workshop, conferences;
“Client” - individual or company purchasing Membership, Advertisement or other services from Energy Dialogues LLC;
“Corporate Partner” - company that has purchased a corporate Membership from Energy Dialogues LLC; Limited License
The Corporate Partner hereby grants Energy Dialogues LLC a non-exclusive, limited license to use, display and reproduce its logos and other artwork in connection with the promotion and advertisement of the Event or Membership and any listing of the Corporate Partner for promotional purposes, for the duration of the Membership.
Disclaimer
The opinions and arguments expressed are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views of Energy Dialogues LLC or its corporate members.
Energy Dialogues LLC cannot be held responsible for possible violations of copyright resulting from the posting of any written or spoken material by its contributors or members.
License to Use Website
Unless otherwise stated, Energy Dialogues LLC and/or its licensors own(s) the intellectual property rights in this website and material on this website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.
You may view, download, print and share content from this website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:
● if you republish material from this website (including republication on another website) you must attribute this website as the source of the material
● you must not sell, rent or sub-license material from this website
● you must not reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose, unless you have express written consent from Energy Dialogues LLC
● you must not edit or otherwise modify any material you have printed off or downloaded from this website and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our website in breach of this licence, your right to use our website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
Acceptable Use
You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to this website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of this website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, root-kit or other malicious computer software.
You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without Energy Dialogues LLC's express written consent.
You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.
You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without Energy Dialogues LLC's express written consent.
You must not upload any content to this website which contains personal information about another person or which identifies them (such as their contact details, email address or a picture of them). The only exception to this is where you have obtained the consent from that individual to upload their personal information onto this website.
Restricted Access
Access to certain areas of this website is restricted. Energy Dialogues LLC reserves the right to restrict access to areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at Energy Dialogues LLC’s discretion.
If Energy Dialogues LLC provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.
Energy Dialogues LLC may disable your user ID and password in Energy Dialogues LLC’s sole discretion without notice or explanation.
User content
In these terms and conditions, “user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.
Any user content you upload to this website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You grant to Energy Dialogues LLC a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content and make it available to third parties in any existing or future media. You also grant to Energy Dialogues LLC the right to sublicense these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or Energy Dialogues LLC or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).
You must not submit any user content to this website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
Energy Dialogues LLC reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on Energy Dialogues LLC's servers, or hosted or published upon this website. We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our website constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.
Notwithstanding Energy Dialogues LLC’s rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, Energy Dialogues LLC does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website. The user content on this website is, therefore, not verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our website do not represent Energy Dialogues LLC’s views or values.
No Warranties
This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. Energy Dialogues LLC makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.
Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, Energy Dialogues LLC does not warrant that:
● this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
● the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading
For example, we may suspend, withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our website for business and operational reasons.
Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind. If you require advice in relation to any legal, financial or medical matter you should consult an appropriate professional.
We do not guarantee that our website will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programs and platform to access our website. You should use your own virus protection software.
Event Registration
Payment for registration is required immediately, by credit card. Entrance to the event is subject to full payment being received.
Event places are for the named delegate/delegation only and are for representatives of the registering company only unless otherwise agreed with Energy Dialogues LLC.
Substitutes can be made at any time leading up to the event, until three days before the event.
Cancellations made more than 30 days prior to the start of the event will be refunded, less a 75% administrative charge.
Cancellations made within 30 days of the start date of the event will receive no refund. If the cancellation is made and the full payment has not yet been received, the delegate will still be held liable for the full payment of the registration fee.
Please note that in case of force majeure Energy Dialogues LLC is relieved of all obligations. Force majeure includes any circumstances beyond the will of Energy Dialogues that impedes permanent or temporary compliance with their obligations, such as ‘acts of god’, war, danger of war, government regulations, revolts, strikes, transportation difficulties, fire or severe disturbances affecting the event organisation or its suppliers.
Energy Dialogues Collaborative Membership
The terms and conditions apply to the use of and (where applicable) purchase of Energy Dialogues LLC’s membership and other Products and Services, including but not limited to Membership subscriptions and Events and the placing of advertising with Energy Dialogues LLC.
In order to become a Member users are required to complete a registration form. The Member represents and warrants that the information given in the registration are truthful, accurate and complete. Energy Dialogues LLC will hold all such information in accordance with the terms of the Energy Dialogues LLC’s privacy policy and it may be used to validate the Member’s registration for Membership.
Membership subscription is deemed to commence on the date of receipt of Member's completed payment and registration.
As part of the subscription, Membership will be automatically renewed for 12 months from the relevant end date.
Members will receive an email to inform them of their automatic renewal and the date that such renewal will take effect (“Renewal Date”). Membership will automatically be renewed, unless cancelled 30 days prior to Renewal Date.
Limitations of Liability
Energy Dialogues LLC excludes all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our website or any content on it.
Energy Dialogues LLC will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contract, the law of torts, breach of statutory duty or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:
● to the extent that this website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
● for any indirect, special or consequential loss;
● for any business losses, in particular, loss of revenue, income or profits;
● loss of anticipated savings;
● business interruption;
● loss of contracts or business relationships;
● loss of reputation or goodwill; or
● loss or corruption of information or data
Exceptions
Nothing in these terms and conditions will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in the terms and conditions will exclude or limit Energy Dialogues LLC’s liability in respect of any:
● death or personal injury caused by Energy Dialogues LLC’s negligence;
● fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of Energy Dialogues LLC; or
● any other matter for which it would be illegal or unlawful for Energy Dialogues LLC to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.
Unenforceable Provisions
If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, it will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.
Indemnity
You hereby indemnify Energy Dialogues LLC and undertake to keep Energy Dialogues LLC indemnified and hold Energy Dialogues LLC blameless against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by Energy Dialogues LLC to a third
party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of Energy Dialogues LLC's legal advisers) incurred or suffered by Energy Dialogues LLC arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.
Breaches of Terms and Conditions
Without prejudice to Energy Dialogues LLC’s other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, Energy Dialogues LLC may take such action as Energy Dialogues LLC deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to this website, prohibiting you from accessing this website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing this website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to this website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.
Variation
Energy Dialogues LLC may revise these terms and conditions from time to time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.
Assignment
Energy Dialogues LLC may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with Energy Dialogues LLC’s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.
You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
Third Party Websites
Where our website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.
We have no control over the contents of those websites or resources.
Severability
If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or
unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
Entire Agreement
These terms and conditions, together with our Network Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Energy Dialogues LLC in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.
Law and Jurisdiction
These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws California, USA, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of California, USA.
Energy Dialogues LLC’s Details
The full name of Energy Dialogues LLC is Energy Dialogues LLC.
Energy Dialogues LLC is registered in the United States of America, in the state of California.
Energy Dialogues LLC's registered address is Energy Dialogues LLC, 7660-H Fay Ave., #190, CA 92037, USA.
You can contact Energy Dialogues LLC by email to collaborative@energy-dialogues.com. Last Updated: May 1st, 2021.