GENERAL TERMS COSMOPROF MYMATCH

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE USE OF THE PLATFORM AND RELATED SERVICES


PREAMBLE

a.       BolognaFiere Cosmoprof S.p.A., Tax Code/Vat No. IT 04717230967, with registered office in Via Maserati 16, 40128 Bologna, in the person of its pro tempore legal representative, hereinafter abbreviated as “BFC”, is the lawful owner of the rights associated with the  Cosmoprof MyMatch digital platform and its related digital services, hereinafter the “Platform”.

b.      The user, hereinafter the “User”, as plural “Users”, by accessing to the Platform accepts the present terms and conditions for the use of the Platform and for the enjoyment of the related services as detailed below, hereinafter “T&Cs”.

 

1. DESCRIPTION AND USE OF THE PLATFORM

1.1. The Platform consists of software owned by BFC, such as the reserved area of BFC's official website, and third-party software and includes the following services, organized into sections: Cosmoprof MyMatch, Products/Companies Catalogue and Virtual Meetings.

1.2. In order to use the Platform and the related services, BFC provides to the User a protected account and login credentials, that the User is required to keep confidential. It is expressly prohibited to assign the login credentials provided by BFC to other individuals different from the User. The User is further required to monitor access to its computer and devices, accepting to be deemed liable for all the activities performed with its account and login credentials.

1.3. The User is required to ensure that the information provided and uploaded on its account are accurate and complete, undertaking to promptly update its profile for each occurred variation. The User can access its data at its reserved area.

1.4. BFC reserves the right to prevent access to the Platform and/or its services and sections, to suspend or close an account, to remove or modify Platform’s content at its own discretion in case of breach by the User of the applicable laws or these T&Cs or BFC's own corporate policies.

2. OMITTED PAYMENTS

BFC reserves the faculty to prevent access to the Platform and/or to the cancel the User’s account in case the User owes a debt towards BFC for whatsoever reason.

3. ACCESS TO THE PLATFORM

Access to the Platform and to the related sections Cosmoprof MyMatch, Products/Companies Catalogue and Virtual Meetings is allowed only on the days indicated by BFC based on the profile and type of the User.

 

4. DUTIES OF THE USER

4.1. By accessing the Platform, the User undertakes not to do any of the following:

- falsify their personal identity by providing false information and / or uploading a profile photo that does not portray the User in question;

- transmitting or promoting any material or link containing obscene, vulgar, fraudulent, libelous, slanderous, threatening, confidential, illegal or otherwise objectionable content.

- molesting, harassing, threatening, embarrassing or causing difficulty or discomfort to other Users or any other person, e.g. the webinars’ speakers, or legal entities which use the Platform;

- spreading viruses, 'Trojan horses', logic bombs, worms, dangerous components or any tool whatsoever that is capable of provoking the destruction or disruption of the IT system and supports;

- promoting chain letters or pyramid schemes, sending or transmitting any type of unsolicited promotional material or any other form of unrequested solicitation (e.g. spam communications);

- violating the right to privacy and any other personal right of any person or business;

- conducting behavior in breach of the current laws and regulations in any way;

- resell, license or sub-license, transfer or otherwise assign any right to use the Platform and / or any content present on the Platform;

- use any robot and / or data collection / extraction techniques aimed at extrapolating data from the Platform.

4.2. The User shall be liable for any content or message it publishes on the Platform.

4.3. The User is allowed to send only personal information that are strictly linked to the use of the Platform.

4.4. It is prohibited to send personal or third-party information identifying racial or ethnic origins, political opinions, religious or philosophic beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data designed to identify an individual, information on individuals' health or sexual activity or sexual orientation. Any such data received through the Platform will not be processed in any way.

4.5. It is prohibited to send/upload/share third party personal and confidential information on the Platform.


5. COSMOPROF MY MATCH

5.1. Cosmoprof My Match is the Platform's matching section, created and developed by BFC to facilitate the connection of demand and supply in the cosmetic industry.

5.2. Within Cosmoprof My Match, the User can access a list of Users and selected visitors who are registered at the Platform.

5.3. Thanks to Cosmoprof My Match, the User is able to organize and schedule on the Platform’s calendar business meetings with other Users to be performed at the exhibition’s venue, on the days 10 – 14th March 2022, or through Virtual Meetings (according to article 8 below) on the days communicated by BFC by sending a meeting request or using the message board.

5.4. Cosmoprof My Match is based on an Artificial Intelligence system that analyses interactions across Users. Examples of profile interaction analyzed by the system include profile viewing, marking a profile as favorite, sending a meeting request or a message.

5.5. Each exhibiting User can select and indicate to BFC up to 10 (ten) people which will have access to the Platform and to the related sections Cosmoprof MyMatch, Products/Companies Catalogue and Virtual Meetings, hereinafter the “Team Members”. The User is the sole liable for the use of the Platform by its Team Members and shall procure that its Team Members are compliant with the present T&Cs. The User undertakes to hold harmless and indemnified BFC against any and all prejudice, direct or indirect damage, loss deriving to BFC from the infringement by the Team Members of the present T&Cs or of applicable law.

5.6. Users are permitted to download the details of confirmed meetings.

 

6.  UPLOADING AND SHARING OF CONTENTS ON THE PRODUCTS/COMPANIES CATALOGUE

6.1. The Platform allows exhibiting Users to upload on the Platform's Products/Companies Catalogue section, hereinafter the “Catalogue”, information of their firm and related products. It is possible to upload up to 75 products in the Products/Companies Catalogue, by filling the product form and uploading product pictures in the required formats.

6.2. It is forbidden to User to upload materials on the Catalogue with the aim to adopting behaviors or sharing contents that may be:

a.    unlawful, misleading, discriminatory or fraudulent;

b.    affecting or infringing other Users' rights, including their intellectual property rights.

6.3. It is expressly prohibited to the User to upload viruses or damaging codes through the Platform's Catalogue, and to perform any activity that may disable, overload, or prevent the correct functioning of the Platform.

6.4.  It is prohibited to the User to access to or collect data, including personal data, from the Platform through automated tools or to attempt unauthorized access to data.

6.5.  BFC reserves the discretionary and unquestionable right to remove from the Catalogue and from the Platform any content uploaded by the User that may breach the provisions of the articles above.

6.6. The User is and remains the owner of any intellectual and industrial property related or linked to the content uploaded on the Catalogue (including but not limited to author's rights and trademarks). By uploading the content on the Catalogue, the User grants BFC a free of charge worldwide license on the content uploaded on the Catalogue. The said license is granted to BFC the whole time User is being registered on the Platform and strictly for the purposes connected to the functioning of the Platform itself.

6.7.  In particular, when the User shares, publishes or uploads on the Catalogue any content protected by intellectual or industrial rights, he/she grants BFC a non-exclusive, free of charge, worldwide license to transmit, use, distribute, modify, perform, copy, translate, perform publicly, share or visualize their content.

6.8. The User can alter or eliminate its content from the Catalogue, in part or in full, however it will impair the matchmaking purposes of our Platform.


7. CONTENT UPLOADED BY THE USER ON ITS PROFILE OR CHAT

7.1.  The Platform enables the User to create a personal profile, by entering its professional information and a profile picture on the Platform's pre-set form. Personal profiles are visible to all other Users.

7.2. Users can communicate to each other through the Platform's integrated messaging board, hereinafter the "Message Board".

7.3.  It is expressly prohibited to the User to upload on its personal profile or on the Message Board any material or content that may be:

a.    unlawful, misleading, discriminatory or fraudulent;

b.    affecting or breaching other Users' rights, including intellectual property rights.

7.4.  The User is expressly prohibited from uploading on its personal profile or on the Message Board virus or harmful codes, or performing any activity that may disable, overload or prevent the correct functioning of the Platform.

7.5.  The User is expressly prohibited from accessing or collecting data, including personal data, from the Platform through automated means or attempting unauthorized access to data.

7.6.  BFC reserves the discretionary and unquestionable right to remove from the Platform any content uploaded by the User that may breach the provisions of the articles above.

7.7.  The User is and remains the owner of any intellectual and industrial property associated with the content uploaded on the personal profile and/or the Message Board (including but not limited to author's rights or trademarks). However, by uploading content on the personal profile and/or Message Board, the User grants BFC a free of charge worldwide license to use the content uploaded on the personal profile and/or Message board. Said license is granted to BFC the whole time the User is being registered on the Platform and for the purposes strictly connected to the functioning of the Platform.

7.8.  In particular, when the User shares, publishes or uploads on its personal profile any content protected by intellectual or industrial rights, it grants BFC a non-exclusive, free of charge, worldwide license to transmit, use, distribute, modify, perform, copy, translate, perform publicly, share or visualize their content.

7.9.  The User can alter or eliminate its content from the personal profile, in part or in full, but it will impair the matchmaking purposes enabled by our Platform.

7.10.  Through the Message Board the User can send comments, questions or other information to other Users, as long their content is not illicit (that is, obscene, abusive, intimidating, defamatory, breaching privacy or intellectual property, or offensive towards third parties or deplorable, or containing viruses, political propaganda, purchase solicitation, chain letters, mass emails or any other form of spamming).

7.11.  The User is expressly prohibited from creating and using profiles containing fake information and/or information that do not match the User's real identity.

7.12.  BFC reserves the right to delete or block, at its sole discretion, the profiles of Users who breach these T&Cs and/or the rights of third parties and/or applicable laws. The User undertakes to hold harmless and indemnified BFC from any and all requests, also request of compensation for damages, claims, demands, including any legal action by third parties against BFC and deriving from or connected to the User’s breach of these T&Cs and/or of third-party rights and/or of applicable laws.

 

8. VIRTUAL MEETINGS

8.1. On the days communicated by BFC each User has the possibility to carry out virtual meetings on the Platform for a maximum duration of 30 minutes each via video conference, hereinafter the "Virtual Meetings".

8.2. Once the 30 minutes of each Virtual Meetings have been used up, it will be possible for the User to carry out additional Virtual Meetings or attend to an instant meeting of 15 minutes.


9.   WEBINARS

9.1. BFC reserves the right to admit Users to free webinars eventually held on the Platform, selecting Users on the base of their profile, their type and their interests.

9.2. In any case, it is understood that BFC's decision to admit or not a User to one or more webinars held on the Platform is entirely discretionary and unquestionable.

9.3. It is expressly forbidden for Users admitted to webinars to take photos, videos or otherwise record and reproduce the webinars in any way.

9.4. The webinars can be live streaming or recorded and it will be BFC’s care to inform the admitted Users about how to enjoy webinars and their related calendar.

9.5. Webinars can be displayed and performed using third party platforms.

9.6. BFC reserves the discretionary right to cancel, suspend, reschedule webinars or modify their duration and / or the methods of display and / or the speaker, giving notice to admitted Users, with the express exclusion of BFC’s liability, also for procured damages.

9.7. BFC cannot be held liable in any way for any illegal or inappropriate or unprofessional behavior of the webinars’ speakers.


10.   BFC’S RIGHTS AND EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY

10.1.   BFC will do its best to ensure uninterrupted access to the Platform and smoothly functioning of the Platform’s services. Nevertheless, due to the very nature of the Internet and third-party software, uninterrupted Platform access and smoothly functioning services cannot be guaranteed. To this regard BFC cannot be deemed liable for any disservice, or malfunctioning, fault, mistake, interruption and suspension of service of the Platform or any of its sections.

10.2.   BFC reserves the right to suspend or occasionally restrict access to the Platform and the associated services, in order to allow maintenance or to introduce new services or activities.

10.3.   BFC shall not be deemed liable for any (i) loss of data that is not a direct consequence of the infringement by BFC of these T&Cs or applicable laws, or for any (ii) loss of sales opportunities (including lost earnings, income, contracts, anticipated savings, data, goodwill or unnecessary expenditure) or (iii) any other indirect or consequent loss that could not have reasonably been foreseen at the time the user started using the Platform.

10.4.   BFC shall not be deemed liable in any way for any infringement of Users' rights by third parties and/or by Users, including but not limited to, intellectual and industrial property rights. The User is therefore required to obtain all relevant industrial patent rights and to adopt adequate measures to protect their rights.


11. CHANGES IN THE SERVICE OR IN THE PLATFORM’S TERMS AND CONDITIONS

11.1.   BFC reserves the right to alter at any time, at its discretion, the services offered on the Platform, the utilization policy related to the Platform and its services and these T&Cs, eventually preventing access to User.

11.2.   Should any of these T&Cs provisions be held to be invalid, null or inapplicable for any reason, this will not prejudice the validity and effect of the other provisions.


12.  THIRD PARTY SOFTWARES

12.1.   The Platform uses third party software and in relation to the latter BFC shall not be deemed liable in any way for any disservice, malfunctioning, fault, mistake, interruption or suspension for whatsoever reason.

12.2.   The owners of the software used by the Platform will be able to occasionally suspend or restrict its functioning for maintenance or in order to introduce new services or activities.


13.  EXCLUSION OF THE RIGHT OF WITHDRAWAL OF THE USER

The User acknowledges and declares that the present T&Cs do not allow the User to withdraw from the participation agreement to BFC’s events nor from any other agreement in force with BFC.


14. INITIATIVES OF THE USER

14.1.   It is prohibited to User to register and/or to use identical or confusingly similar logos, trademarks and other distinctive symbols which can be confused with BFC’s trademarks.

14.2.   Inside the Platform all forms of advertising carried out by User shall be performed exclusively through BFC and shall be object of a separate agreement for sponsorship opportunities.

14.3.   Inside the Platform it is strictly forbidden to promote, in any way, the sale or presentation or promotion of competing exhibitions of digital platforms. BFC is entitled to prevent the access to the Platform to the User that infringes the present article and to retain the amounts paid by the User by way of penalty, without prejudice to compensation for greater damages.


15. APPLICABLE LAWS AND COMPETENT JURISDICTION

15.1.   These T&Cs are regulated by Italian Law and must be interpreted accordingly.

15.2.   Any dispute arising from or connected to the interpretation, performance or application of these T&Cs or related to the Platform and associated services is subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of Bologna. 


16.  PRIVACY

According to article 13 of the European Union Regulation n. 2016/679 (hereinafter “GDPR”), the personal data voluntarily provided by the User and collected by BFC will be processed according to the applicable laws concerning the protection of personal data and in compliance with the privacy policy statement available on https://www.cosmoprof.com/en/privacy-policy/, that BFC invites the User to examine.

17. CONTACTS AND ASSISTANCE

For further information or assistance, please send a message to the following e mail address: info@cosmoprof.com.

 

 

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