The Cassyni online platform (hosted on dedicated pages at cassyni.com) (the Platform) provides all the tools you need to discover, watch, present, organise, run and publish research seminars and symposia.

The Platform is operated by Cassyni Limited (we, us, our). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 13026428 and our registered office is at 85 Great Portland Street, First Floor, London, United Kingdom, W1W 7LT.

Please read the following important terms and conditions (Platform Terms) before you register for an account with, use or otherwise access our Platform. These Platform Terms contain the terms on which we make the Platform available to you. By registering for an account with, using or otherwise accessing the Platform (whether as an attendee, speaker or organiser), you confirm that you accept these Platform Terms and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these Platform Terms, you must not use our Platform.

If you are accessing the Platform on behalf of your organisation, you confirm that you have the right and authority to do so.

If you have any questions about these Platform Terms, please email us at help@cassyni.com.

The following additional terms also apply to your use of the Platform:

• Our Privacy Policy, which explains how we collect, use and store your personal data. Reference to the Website in the Privacy Policy shall be taken to mean the Platform for the purposes of these Platform Terms.
• Our Terms of Use, which set out the standards that apply to your use of the Platform (and cassyni.com more widely). Reference to the Website in the Terms of Use shall be taken to mean the Platform for the purposes of these Platform Terms.

1. DEFINITIONS

In these Platform Terms, the defined terms below shall have the following meanings:

“Contributed Content” means any and all content that you (whether as an attendee, speaker or organiser) provide or otherwise contribute to or publish on the Platform from time to time (including via contact with other users of the Platform), including but not limited to slides, audio, videos (pre-recorded and live-streamed content and including your voice and likeness as part of any recording), text, images, data, documents, software, products and all other materials that are: (a) manually or automatically recorded when using the Platform; and/or (b) otherwise provided to us through the Platform directly, or via email or file transfer or via any other means outside of the Platform; and

“Platform Content” means any and all content that Cassyni, its licensors and other users of the Platform provide or otherwise contribute to or publish on the Platform from time to time, including but not limited to  slides, audio, videos (pre-recorded and live-streamed content), text, images, data, documents, software, products and all other materials.

2. ACCESSING AND USING THE PLATFORM

1. Unless otherwise agreed by us in writing, the Platform is for your personal and non-commercial use only and is made available to you for information and educational purposes.

2. Nothing in these Platform Terms grants you any rights in or to the Platform other than as necessary for you to access it in accordance with these Platform Terms.

3. Before accessing the Platform, you must check that the hardware and software requirements of your computer or device are suitable. We may also require you to grant us certain permissions and to enable certain technical functionality in order to access your institutional or personal Zoom account through the Cassyni Zoom app (the app, together with details and app permissions, is available here: https://marketplace.zoom.us/apps/fbrKGFdqR6-418Ja4uV7cA) in order for you to access seminars and meetings on the Platform. Please contact us at help@cassyni.com or check our Cassyni FAQ for more information.

4. We try to make the Platform as accessible as possible. If you have any difficulties using the Platform, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this page.

5. You agree that you are solely responsible for all costs and expenses you may incur in relation to your use of the Platform.

6. We may prevent or suspend your access to the Platform if you do not comply with these Platform Terms, our Terms of Use, any other instructions we may issue via the Platform from time to time or any applicable law.

7. We may modify or cease providing the Platform (in whole or in part) at our sole discretion. We will have no liability to you for any such modification, suspension or termination of the Platform.

3. REGISTRATION AND PASSWORD SECURITY

1. In order to use the Platform as an attendee, speaker or organiser, including to access restricted aspects of the Platform, you may be required to register for a Cassyni account. Please follow the instructions on-screen in order to register.

2. We are not obliged to permit anyone to register for an account on the Platform and we may refuse, terminate or suspend registration to anyone at any time.

3. You are responsible for making sure that your password and any other account details are kept secure and confidential. You are not permitted to share your account details with any other person (including in order to access the Platform).

4. If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your email address and password, or you believe there has been any unauthorised access to your Cassyni account, you should promptly notify us at help@cassyni.com. In such circumstances we may require you to change your password, or we may suspend or terminate your account.

5. Should you forget your password for your account, please select the “I forgot my password” option on the login page and you will be asked to submit your email address. Please follow the instructions on-screen to reset your password.

6. Any personal data you provide to us as part of the registration process (as updated from time to time) will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

7. If necessary, we will contact you by email as communicated by you when creating your Cassyni account, using the contact details you have provided to us. You agree to promptly update your account details and other information, including your email address and payment details (if applicable), so that we can complete your transactions and contact you as needed.

4. SUBSCRIPTIONS

1. Attendees and speakers can access and use the Platform for free but will not be permitted to organise any seminar series or symposia. In order to organise seminar series and/or symposia via the Platform you are required to pay for a subscription or, where applicable, for one-off paid for features and functionality (as detailed on the Platform). Please see our Cassyni FAQ more for information.

2. Unless otherwise agreed between us, as an organiser you provide us with payment authority to charge your payment method for the specified amount on approval of your subscription or one-off paid for features and functionality (as applicable), and (where applicable for subscriptions) at annual intervals following such approval date. For subscriptions, each payment will be taken on or around the same day of each year (as detailed in your subscription confirmation) unless your subscription is cancelled by you in accordance with these Platform Terms or any other agreement we have in place with you.

3. As an organiser of a seminar series or symposia, if you wish to invite a speaker, the speaker will be required to accept these Platform Terms (and the Terms of Use). Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the speaker pre-records any session, and you provide the recording on their behalf, you remain responsible for the speaker’s compliance with these Platform Terms (and the Terms of Use).

4. If you wish to make a change to your paid for subscription, please contact us at help@cassyni.com. We will let you know if the change is possible. If it is possible we will let you know about any changes to the price of the subscription, the timing of supply or anything else which would be necessary as a result of your requested change and ask you to confirm whether you wish to go ahead with the change. If we cannot make the change or the consequences of making the change are unacceptable to you, you can cancel your subscription.

5. Unless otherwise agreed between us, paid for subscriptions can be cancelled at any time on written notice to us at help@cassyni.com. On termination of your paid for subscription, you will not be permitted to organise any more seminar series or symposia unless you select paid for features and/or functionality from your account in the future. Any fees paid by you in connection with your subscription and any paid for features and functionality are non-refundable.

5. CONTRIBUTED CONTENT

1. Whenever you upload, publish or otherwise make available Contributed Content on the Platform you must ensure that:

1. such Contributed Content complies with the content standards set out in our Terms of Use;
2. you have the full right, title and interest to provide such Contributed Content (and have obtained any and all third party consents, licences and permissions required to provide such Contributed Content) and to licence it to us in accordance with paragraph 5.4; and
3. ensure that use of such Contributed Content in accordance with paragraph 5.4 will not infringe any third party rights (including intellectual property rights).

2. Unless otherwise agreed with you in writing, we will consider all Contributed Content to be non-confidential.

3. We acknowledge that you own (or are the licensor of) your Contributed Content and nothing in these Platform Terms will assign ownership of the intellectual property rights in any Contributed Content to us. However, we do require that you grant us a licence to use your Contributed Content and to distribute and make it available to others (further detailed below).

4. You hereby grant to us the following rights to use your Contributed Content:

1. a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable and sublicensable (including to our users) licence to your Contributed Content such that we can:

1. use, reproduce, distribute, modify, display, publish, broadcast, store, monetise, translate and/or adapt it: (i) as required to make the Platform and the Contributed Content available to our users; (ii) for archival purposes; and (iii) for other commercial and business purposes;
2. embed the Contributed Content (including via links) in third party platforms; and
3. anonymise and aggregate it for our commercial and business purposes (including making improvements to our services and the Platform more generally); and

2. a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence for us to permit other Platform users to use the Contributed Content as Platform Content.

5. Please note, we make use of artificial intelligence (AI) to extract references, to create transcripts and to produce summaries of any and all Contributed Content. Without prejudice to your rights in and to the Contributed Content, we will own all output (of whatever kind) generated using such AI or, where applicable, will have the rights to use such output in accordance with paragraph 5.4.

6. PLATFORM CONTENT

1. We own or have the right to use all Platform Content and all other intellectual property in the Platform. Those works and rights are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved. Except as permitted under these Platform Terms or as otherwise notified to you via the Platform, you are not permitted to use the Platform Content.

2. Accessing Platform Content (whether it is viewed, streamed or downloaded) will not transfer ownership of any Platform Content to you. Instead, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and view the Platform Content for the purpose of enjoying the Platform in accordance with these Platform Terms, wherever you are in the world, but only if you comply with local laws.

3. Platform Content may not be:

1. changed or adapted by you;
2. combined or merged with other content by you; or
3. distributed or sold by you to any third party,

in each case, without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

4. Platform Content contains information which is owned by us or third parties (as applicable). You must not conceal, change or remove any markings which show who owns this information, such as copyright (©), registered trade mark (®) or unregistered trademark (™) markings.

5. You agree not to adjust, to circumvent or delete any digital rights or other security technology embedded or contained within Platform Content.

6. You must not use the Platform Content (in whole or in part) for commercial (revenue generating) purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

7. Platform Content is provided for your general information purposes only and has not been tailored to your specific requirements or circumstances. It does not constitute technical, financial or legal advice or any other type of advice and should not be relied on for any purposes. Platform Content has not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on the Platform do not represent our views or values.

7. INFRINGING CONTENT

If you believe that any Platform Content which is distributed or published on the Platform is inappropriate, defamatory or infringes intellectual property rights, you should contact us immediately using the contact details at the top of this page. We will investigate and, if appropriate, use reasonable efforts to remove such content.

8. YOUR PRIVACY AND PERSONAL INFORMATION

Your privacy and personal information are important to us. Any personal information that you provide to us while using the Platform will only be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which explains what personal information we collect from you, how and why we collect, store, use and share such information, your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a query or complaint about the use of your personal information.

9. ACCURACY AND AVAILABILITY OF THE PLATFORM

1. We try to make sure that the Platform is accurate, up-to-date and free from bugs, but we cannot promise that it will be. Furthermore, we cannot promise that the Platform will be fit or suitable for any purpose. Any reliance that you may place on the information on the Platform is at your own risk.

2. Whilst we try to make sure that the Platform is available for your use, we do not promise that the Platform will be available at all times or that your use of the Platform will be uninterrupted, accurate or error free, or that any Contributed Content or Platform Content will be secure or not lost or altered.

3. We may suspend or terminate access or operation of the Platform at any time as we see fit.

10. HYPERLINKS AND THIRD PARTY SITES

The Platform may contain hyperlinks or references to third party advertising and websites. Any such hyperlinks and references are provided for your convenience only. We have no control over third party advertising or websites and accept no legal responsibility for any content, material or information contained in them. The display of any hyperlink and reference to any third party advertising or website does not mean that we endorse that third party's website, products or services. Your use of a third party site may be governed by the terms and conditions of that third-party site and is at your own risk.

11. LINKING AND FRAMING

1. You may create a link to our Platform from another website without our prior written consent provided no such link:

1. creates a frame or any other browser or border environment around the content of our Platform;

2. implies that we endorse your products or services or any of the products or services of, or available through, the website on which you place a link to our Platform; or

3. breaches the relevant website’s terms and conditions of use.

2. You must display our name (Cassyni) alongside any links to our Platform on your website.

3. We reserve the right to require you to immediately remove any link to the Platform at any time, and you will immediately comply with any request by us to remove any such link.

12. LIMITATION ON OUR LIABILITY

1. Whether you are a business or a consumer user:

1. we do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; and

2. our aggregate liability to you under these Platform Terms shall not exceed one hundred pounds (£100).

2. If you are a business user:

1. we exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to the Platform or any content on it;

2. we will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

1. use of, or inability to use, the Platform; or

2. use of or reliance on any content displayed on the Platform; and

3. in particular, we will not be liable for:

1. loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;

2. business interruption;

3. loss of anticipated savings;

4. loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or

5. any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

3. If you are a consumer user:

1. we only provide the Platform for domestic and private use. You agree not to use the Platform for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any commercial or business related loss; and

2. if defective digital content that we have supplied damages a device or digital content belonging to you and this is caused by our failure to use reasonable care and skill, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation. However, we will not be liable for damage that you could have avoided by following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of charge or for damage that was caused by you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system requirements advised by us.

4. To the extent we have an agreement in place with your organisation, such agreement shall prevail in the event of a conflict with this paragraph 12.

13. GENERAL

1. Events beyond our control: we are not liable to you if we fail to comply with these Platform Terms because of circumstances beyond our reasonable control.

2. Rights of third parties: no one other than a party to these Platform Terms has any right to enforce any of these Platform Terms.

3. Variation: we reserve the right to vary these Platform Terms from time to time. Our updated Platform Terms will be displayed on the Platform and by continuing to use and access the Platform following such changes, you agree to be bound by any variation made by us. It is your responsibility to check these Platform Terms from time to time to verify such variations.

4. Disputes: we will try to resolve any disputes with you quickly and efficiently. If you are unhappy with the Platform or any other Cassyni-related matter, please contact us as soon as possible using the contact details set out at the top of this page.

5. Using our name and logo: you are not permitted to use our trade marks, logos or trade names except in accordance with these Platform Terms or subject to our prior written approval.

6. Breach: we will apply these Platform Terms in our absolute discretion. In the event of your breach of these Platform Terms we may terminate or suspend your access to or use of the Platform, remove any Contributed Content you have provided, disclose any Contributed Content you have provided to law enforcement authorities, or take any other action we consider reasonably necessary to remedy the breach.

7. Governing law and jurisdiction: these Platform Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with English law and any dispute arising from or in connection with these Platform Terms shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.