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.
