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TERMS AND CONDITIONS nextGEN @ LifeScience ORG
Your attention is particularly drawn to the provisions of paragraph 16 (Liability).
This page gives you information about us and sets out the legal terms and conditions (Terms) on which we may make the nextGEN @LifeScience ORG Community platform (Community) available to you.
These Terms apply to any contract formed between us relating to your access to the Community (Subscription). You can find out more about what our Community offers on members.lifescienceorg.com (our site).
Please read these Terms carefully and make sure that you understand them before accessing our Community. Please note that before you access our Community you will be asked to agree to these Terms. If you refuse to accept these Terms, you will not be able to access our Community.
We may amend these Terms from time to time as set out in paragraph 11. Please check this page regularly to ensure that you are familiar with and understand the terms which will apply at that time.
These Terms were most recently updated in July 2022. These Terms, and any contract between us, are only in the English language.
1 Information about us
1.1 We are LifeScience Connect Ltd (trading as nextGEN @LifeScience ORG), a company registered in England and Wales under company number 12688952 and with our registered office at 4 Cross Street, Beeston, Nottingham. NG9 2NX, GB.
You may contact us by e-mailing us at nextGEN@lifescienceorg.com.
2 Our relationship with Mighty Networks
2.1 Mighty Networks is the hosting provider of our Community.
The contract relating to your use and access of the Community is between you and LifeScience ORG, but Mighty Networks also has terms and conditions which you must adhere to (Mighty Networks Terms). NextGEN @LifeScience ORG is referred to as a ‘Host’ in the Mighty Networks Terms. You will be asked to read and agree to the Mighty Networks Terms before accessing our Community.
3 Applications
3.1 Access to our Community is restricted to individuals that have been approved by us. You may apply to become a member of our Community by completing an application form on our site at members.lifescienceorg.com.
We may approve or reject your application at our sole discretion and will inform you of our decision via e-mail to the e-mail address provided on the application form.
3.2 Should we accept your application, we shall provide you with an e-mail link which will enable you to subscribe to our Community (Subscription Link). The Subscription Link is our offer to contract with you on the basis of these Terms. You accept our offer by subscribing to the Community using the Subscription Link. The Subscription Link, and therefore our offer, will expire after 28 days of being sent by us (whether or not you actually received the Subscription Link).
4 Subscribing to our Community and the Subscription Period
4.1 In consideration of you paying the Fees (as defined in paragraph 5), we will make the Community available to you in accordance with these Terms.
Your Subscription shall begin on the date on which you sign up for our Community using the Subscription Link and continue for 28 days on a free of charge trial basis (Trial Period). On expiry of the Trial Period, you may choose to continue with your Subscription for a period of one year (Initial Period) in accordance with paragraph 6.1. On expiry of the Initial Period (Renewal Date) your Subscription shall automatically renew for successive one-year periods (each a Renewal Period) until your Subscription is terminated in accordance with these Terms. Together, the Trial Period, Initial Period and each subsequent Renewal Period shall be known as the Subscription Period.
4.2 We shall notify you by e-mail of each upcoming Renewal Period at least seven days before the relevant Renewal Date.
5 Fees payable by you
5.1 In these Terms, Annual Subscription Fees shall mean the yearly fees payable by you for your Subscription in respect of the Initial Period and each Renewal Period that follows (as appropriate). The Annual Subscription Fees are as set out on our site at https://www.lifescienceorg.com/nextGEN-Terms. The Annual Subscription Fees shall not be payable during the Trial Period.
We may change the Annual Subscription Fees from time to time by updating our site and by notifying you by email and, subject to paragraph 5.6, these changes will take effect from the start of your Initial Period or your next Renewal Date (as applicable).
5.2 In addition to the Annual Subscription Fees, you may choose to purchase additional content (in these Terms, the word “content” includes all content accessible via the Community including, without limitation, all posts, articles, photos, videos, questions, polls, links, files, events, groups, discussions, courses and workshops uploaded to or otherwise accessible via the Community) from time to time (Additional Content). The Additional Content is not included within the Annual Subscription Fees and shall be charged for separately (Additional Content Fees) if you choose to access it. The Additional Content Fees shall be made clear to you on our site and the Community.
The Annual Subscription Fees and Additional Content Fees shall together be known as the Fees.
5.3 We take all reasonable care to ensure that the Fees are correct but will notify you if we become aware that we have made a mistake on our site, Community or in any other communication to you.
The Fees, unless otherwise indicated on our site, exclude any sales or other local tax which shall, if applicable, be payable by you in addition at the rate from time to time in force.
5.4 If we notify you of a mistake (as referred to in paragraph 5.4) above, or change our Fees (as referred to in paragraph5.2), and you no longer wish to proceed with your Subscription or purchase of Additional Content (as applicable), you may cancel your Subscription or purchase of Additional Content (as applicable) in accordance with paragraph 7.1 and we shall refund you the applicable Fees.
6 When and how to pay
6.1 No Annual Subscription Fees shall be payable by you during the Trial Period. Should you wish to continue your Subscription beyond the Trial Period (i.e. for the Initial Period) you must pay the Annual Subscription Fees via the link that we will email to you shortly before your first log into the community. Your credit card will not be charged during the trial period. These Annual Subscription Fees will be charged to your payment card on the last day of your Trial Period.
Following expiry of your Initial Period, the Annual Subscription Fees shall be charged to your payment card on your Renewal Date and each subsequent Renewal Date (in each case in respect of the upcoming Renewal Period), unless you cancel your Subscription before the relevant Renewal Date in accordance with these Terms.
6.2 Additional Content Fees are payable immediately on registering to access Additional Content via the Community.
You can pay the Fees via any of the methods listed on our site or the Community (as applicable).
7 Your Subscription and how to cancel it
7.1 If you wish to cancel your Subscription, you may do so at any time through accessing your account on our Community or by sending us a written request by e-mail. We will aim to respond to any such request and notify you by email that we have processed your requested change or cancellation, within 48 hours.
Where you cancel your Subscription by following the procedure set out in paragraph 7.1 above, your cancellation shall take effect on expiry of the Trial Period, Initial Period or current Renewal Period (as applicable). No refund shall be given in respect of any Fees already paid by you prior to the date of cancellation of your Subscription.
7.2 If you cancel your Subscription within your Trial Period, you shall not be charged any Annual Subscription Fees. However, we shall not refund any Additional Content Fees incurred during your Subscription and these, to the extent unpaid, shall remain payable by you.
Any Additional Content Fees paid by you are non-refundable except in accordance with these Terms.
8 Our rights to terminate your Subscription
8.1 We may suspend or terminate your Subscription or your access to particular Additional Content (at our discretion and without notice) in the event you:
8.1.1 do not pay any Fees payable by the due date;
you share content of other members (or any other user of the Community) or nextGEN @LifeScience ORG outside of the Community;
8.1.2 breach any provision of these Terms;
breach any provision of the Handbook; and/or
8.1.3 breach any provision of the Mighty Networks Terms.
8.2 Please be aware that Mighty Networks may also suspend or terminate your Subscription in accordance with the Mighty Networks Terms.
If your Subscription is suspended or terminated under this paragraph 8, no refund of Fees shall be issued to you.
9 How we use your personal information
We only use your personal information obtained via the Community in accordance with our Privacy Policy set out on our site (https://www.lifescienceorg.com/privacy-policy-1). Please take the time to read our Privacy Policy, as it includes important information which applies to you. Mighty Networks may also use your personal information for their own purposes and will set and control cookies on the Community, and you should refer to their privacy policy and cookie policy for further details.
10 Authority
10.1 The Community is a platform that is designed for individuals over the age of 18 acting for purposes related to their trade, business, craft, or profession. We shall not accept any applications made by individuals acting in the capacity of a consumer and you must only use the Community for business purposes.
These Terms and any document expressly referred to in them constitute the entire agreement between you and us and supersede and extinguish all previous agreements, promises, assurances, warranties, representations and understandings between us, whether written or oral, relating to its subject matter.
10.2 You acknowledge that in purchasing a Subscription or any Additional Content you do not rely on any statement, representation, assurance or warranty (whether made innocently or negligently) that is not set out in these Terms or any document expressly referred to in them.
You and we agree that neither of us shall have any claim for innocent or negligent misrepresentation or negligent misstatement based on any statement in these Terms.
11 Our right to vary these Terms
We may vary these Terms, and our Community, from time to time by publishing updated Terms and/or by notifying you by e-mail. If we revise these Terms as they apply to your Subscription, and you do not agree to the changes, you may cancel your Subscription in accordance with the paragraph 7.1 above.
12 Your content
12.1 Our Community enables you to upload your own content and view the content of others.
Content created and uploaded by you is your sole and entire responsibility and all content you create is at your own risk.
12.2 You shall not upload any content to, sell any products on, or otherwise carry out any activity on, our Community which infringes the intellectual property rights, or any other rights, of any third party.
At all times when using the Community, you and your content must comply fully with these Terms, the Handbook (as defined below) and the Mighty Networks Terms.
12.3 You must treat your Subscription details, including your username and password, as confidential, and not disclose them to any third party including, for the avoidance of doubt and without limitation, any of your colleagues at your place of business or other business contacts.
If you know or suspect that anyone knows your username or password, you must promptly notify us at the e-mail address listed in paragraph 1 of these Terms. We shall not be liable to you or any third party for any loss or damage which may arise as a result of any failure by you to keep your password or account confidential.
12.4 The Community may only be used for lawful purposes. You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Community or using it to obtain products or services not properly ordered and fully paid for.
You may not interrupt or attempt to interrupt the operation of the Community in any way or send unsolicited email messages to or through the Community or otherwise harass us or other members.
13 Our provision of the Community
13.1 We will always make reasonable efforts to keep the Community operational. Technical difficulties may result in temporary interruptions to the Community.
Certain content or areas of our Community may also be temporarily unavailable to you if capacity for that content or area has been reached.
13.2 No interruptions to the Community shall entitle you to a refund of any payment already made by you or any compensation for revenue lost.
We are under no obligation to provide any content for the Community and reserve the right to upload, remove, vary or otherwise deal with any Content provided on the Community from time to time.
13.3 We shall provide the Community to you in accordance with applicable laws.
14 Your obligations and the Handbook
14.1 You, and all of your content, must comply with the nextGEN @LifeScience ORG Handbook available at
https://nextgen.lifescienceorg.com/courses/5265300/content and in particular the Community Guidelines (Handbook) throughout your Subscription. We may vary the provisions in the Handbook from time to time and shall notify you of any changes. The Handbook, as amended from time to time, shall form part of these Terms.
14.2 You must not use the Community:
14.2.1 in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;
to bully, insult, harm, intimidate or humiliate any person;
14.2.2 to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam); and
to knowingly or recklessly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
14.3 Your content must be accurate (where it states facts), genuinely held (where it states opinion), comply with these Terms and all applicable laws. In particular, but without limitation, your content must not:
14.3.1 be defamatory of any person;
be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
14.3.2 promote, include or refer to sexually explicit material, violence, illegal activity, or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
infringe any intellectual property rights of any other person;
14.3.3 be likely to deceive any person;
breach the Mighty Networks Terms;
14.3.4 be threatening, abuse or invade another's privacy, or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety; and
be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
15 Confidential information and intellectual property
15.1 Subject to the compliance with applicable data protection legislation, any content, except for financial or security information or any information which we inform you we will keep confidential, sent to us will be deemed NOT to be confidential. By sending us any content or uploading or making available any content to or via the Community, you give us an unrestricted, irrevocable, sublicensable licence to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit and distribute that content, and you also agree that we are free to use any content (including any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques) that you send us or upload to or make available via the Community for any purpose. For the avoidance of doubt, this licence shall include the ability to grant sub-licences to other members of the Community.
Any confidential information we provide to you that is confidential or proprietary in nature (including, without limitation, details of Additional Content Fees) shall be classed as confidential information. You shall not share our confidential information with any third party unless you have our written permission to do so or you are required to do so by law. In particular, any content not uploaded to or inputted into the Community by you must not be shared outside of the Community by you.
15.2 All intellectual property rights, and all other rights including goodwill, whether now known or created in the future, in our site, Community, and any content we provide you is our property or our licensors and shall vest in us or our licensors (as appropriate).
Save where such a licence is granted to you via the Mighty Networks Terms and only to the extent we have a right to do so, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, revocable licence (without the ability to sub-licence) to use, view, access, or print content provided through the Community (whether by us or other members of the Community) for use by you for the sole purpose of accessing and benefitting from the Community (Licence). When you use, transmit, download or print any content, you must ensure that all copyright, trade mark and other proprietary notices comprised within that content are retained. The Licence shall automatically terminate upon the termination or expiry of your Subscription.
15.3 You shall not assign or sub-licence your rights under the Licence.
Your Licence does not permit you to:
15.3.1 share content with any other person or body corporate outside of the Community, whether in hard copy, soft copy, or via the internet (including using social media);
copy, adapt, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any of our source code;
15.3.2 copy, adapt or modify any of our trade marks or content;
use any of our trade marks or content other than as provided in accordance with these Terms,
or authorise or assist anyone else to do so without our express prior written consent.
16 Liability
16.1 Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes our liability for:
16.1.1 death or personal injury caused by our negligence; or
fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or
16.1.2 any other loss or liability which may not be excluded or limited by law.
16.2 Subject to paragraph 16.1, we will under no circumstances whatsoever be liable to you, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise howsoever arising for:
16.2.1 any loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
loss or corruption of data, information or software;
16.2.2 loss of business opportunity;
loss of anticipated savings;
16.2.3 loss of goodwill; or
any indirect or consequential loss.
16.3 You acknowledge that nextGEN @LifeScience ORG brings together like-minded individuals but that it is not responsible to you for any content or other information you obtain via the Community, including, without limitation, any content posted by other members or users of the Community (including LifeScience ORG). Considering this, except as expressly stated in these Terms, we do not give any representation, warranties or undertakings in relation to the Community or the content accessible via the Community. Any representation, condition or warranty which might be implied or incorporated into these Terms by statute, common law or otherwise is excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. In particular, we will not be responsible for ensuring that the content via the Community is suitable for your purposes.
Subject to paragraph 16.1, 16.2, and 16.3, our total liability to you per event or series of connected events, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise howsoever arising, shall in no circumstances exceed 100% of the total Fees paid by you in the 12-month period prior to the date on which the act or omission giving rise to the liability occurred.
16.4 You shall remain solely responsible for compliance with your own legal duties and obligations, including (but without limitation) in respect of the content of you input into the Community (except to the extent we have provided this content to you).
17 Indemnity
17.1 You shall indemnify us against all liabilities, costs, expenses, damages and losses (including but not limited to any direct, indirect or consequential losses, loss of profit, loss of reputation and all interest, penalties and legal costs (calculated on a full indemnity basis) and all other reasonable professional costs and expenses) suffered or incurred by us arising out of or in connection with:
17.1.1 your breach or negligent performance or non-performance of any of these Terms of the Mighty Networks Terms;
any claim made against us for the actual or alleged infringement of any third-party intellectual property rights arising out of or in connection with your use of the Community and/or any content inputted into the Community by you; and
17.1.2 any claim made against us by any third party arising out of or in connection with the content you input into the Community.
18 Communications between us
When we say "in writing", this includes e-mail. Any notice or other communication given by you to us, or by us to you, under or in connection with these Terms needs to be in writing sent by email to the email address listed in paragraph 1 of these Terms. We will contact you at the e-mail address you provide when you complete an application form. A notice or other communication will be assumed to be received one working day after transmission. This paragraph 18 will not apply to any documents or proceedings served on us in any legal action.
19 Other sites
19.1 When you visit or purchase from a website affiliated with us or linked to the Community, you use the other site at your own risk and that site’s terms and conditions of use and privacy policy will apply. We have not examined the content of any other website, and are not responsible for the actions, products, services, or content of any such other site or its related businesses.
You may link to our Community’s public homepage only, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish a link to the Community in any website that is not owned by you. The Community must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of the Community other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
20 Other important terms
20.1 We may transfer our rights and obligations under our contract with you to another organisation, but this will not affect your rights or our obligations under these Terms.
You may only transfer your rights or your obligations under our contract with you if to another person if we agree in writing.
20.2 Our contract is between you and us. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms, whether under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise.
Our contract with you and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with our contract with you or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.
20.3 We both agree that the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with our contract or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims).