GENERAL TERMS OF USE

Platform

bid2board PC, a private limited company organized and existing under the laws of Greece, whose registered office is at 2 Afentouli street, Piraeus, 18536, Greece (“bid2board”) is the sole and exclusive owner of an online platform that contains information (including, without limitation, data, databases, standards, photographs, web logs), web tools, search engines and software (the“Platform”), fully administered by bid2board.

Access to the Platform is conditional upon (a) your registration and consent to the present Terms of Use (the “Terms of Use”) and the Privacy Policy, and (b) creation and or approval of your account by bid2board.

Your agreement with bid2board includes the present Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy (together the “Agreement”). Unless otherwise provided herein, defined terms shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Privacy Policy. Before you use the Platform, you should read the Terms, and print or save a local copy for your records.

By registering or signing-in to the Platform, you declare that you are authorized to bind yourself and the business or company that you are affiliated with (if applicable) to use the Platform. If the Platform is being used on behalf of a business or company, such business or company shall be responsible for said use as well as for all decisions regarding said use, such as the selection of the subscription package and the termination of the account.

bid2board shall have the right to grant to third parties a license to access and use the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom at any time.

You acknowledge that, following your registration and upon creation of your account by bid2board you have entered into a legally binding agreement with bid2board under the Terms of Use and declared that you have the power and authority to do so.

You declare that you have read and agree to be bound by the Terms of Use. bid2board reserves the right to modify or revise the Terms of Use at any time, unilaterally and without notice. The revised Terms of Use become effective on the date they are published on the website hosting the Platform, which is accessible via https://bid2board.com (the“Website”) and/or the Platform. You are advised to periodically check the Terms of Use for any such modifications or revisions. Your continued use of the Platform after such changes have been posted as provided above constitutes your binding acceptance of such changes.

If a modification is unacceptable to you, you may terminate this agreement by ceasing use of the Platform by providing a relevant prior written notice to bid2board.

Registration

For the purposes of registering and creating an account, you shall provide bid2board with registration information that will be requested, all of which you warrant and represent to be accurate, truthful and will be updated, if any of such information changes. You may only register if you are 18 years old and above.

You shall be solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your username and password.

bid2board reserves the right to deny creation of your account.

You are solely responsible for all use, authorized or unauthorized, of the Platform under your username and password. You must notify bid2board immediately of any unauthorized use of the Platform.

You may not, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, by operation of law or otherwise, assign, transfer or delegate any of your rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of bid2board. Any attempted assignment, transfer or delegation without bid2board’s prior written consent will be void and unenforceable.

Use of the Platform / Restrictions on use

bid2board grants to you a limited, restricted, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable license to access and use the Platform, the material contained therein and resulting therefrom for your internal business purposes and/or for your personal use subject to the provisions of the Terms of Use. You accept usage limits to the Platform and that bid2board may restrict access to it, as set forth under the Terms of Use. You may not use the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom for resale or other transfer or disposition to, or use by, or for the benefit of, any other person or entity. You may not use or dispose of the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom in any manner that could compete with the business of bid2board.
Except to the extent required by law, or as expressly provided herein, you may not copy, take screenshots, (re)distribute, (re)publish, transfer, (re)sell, (sub)/(re)license, lease, give, store, permanently retain, recompile, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, disseminate, assign (whether directly or indirectly, by operation of law or otherwise), transmit, scan, publish on a network, display, or otherwise reproduce, disclose, modify, translate into any language or make available to others, or create derivative works from, the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom.
You may not download and/or extract any data or other material contained in the Platform or resulting therefrom, either manually or automatically, including through the use of web scraping software or any technique of screen scraping, web scraping or report mining.
You may not remove any copyright notice, trademark and/or other proprietary notices of bid2board and/or any third-party providers contained on or in the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom. You shall take any and all actions that may reasonably be required by bid2board to protect the proprietary rights as owned by bid2board and/or third-party providers.
You may not make or retain copies of the Platform or of any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom, in any form, except as expressly provided herein.
You acknowledge that the Platform, the material contained therein and any material resulting therefrom, are developed entirely at private expense, comprise valued proprietary and commercial information of bid2board and/or third-party providers and are the property of bid2board and/or of third-party providers. You acknowledge that the license granted herein does not confer any ownership rights whatsoever in the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom. You must secure the Platform, the material contained therein and the material resulting therefrom to prevent access by unauthorized individuals or local area network users. You shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that no unauthorized persons shall have access to the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom.
You may not use the Platform, or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom, for any illegal purpose, for the facilitation of the violation of any law or regulation, or in any manner inconsistent with the Agreement.
To the extent applicable under your subscription package, you may submit Business Information (as defined below), under the terms provided for in the Terms of Use.
You acknowledge that any Business Information submitted or any exchange of communication between the users of the Platform are also disclosed to and monitored by bid2board.
You represent and warrant: that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to Business Information that you submit; to the extent that you submit Business Information, that you have the power and authority to submit Business Information for the purposes of the Agreement; that Business Information is truthful and accurate; that use by bid2board of Business Information for purposes of the Agreement does not violate any agreement. You may not submit Business Information that: (i) are unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, hateful or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; (ii) you do not have the right to make available (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information acquired or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under non-disclosure agreements); (iii) infringe upon any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party; (iv) contain software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs, designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware, or telecommunications equipment; (v) are promotional in nature, or constitute junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes or the like. Failure by you to comply with this clause might result in termination of the Agreement, in accordance with clause 10 herein, and/or claims for damages.

Fees and terms of payment

The Platform and the full range of services and functions are provided based on a Fee Policy depending on your business needs and preferences as set below:

For Service Suppliers

Each service supplier will be burdened with a yearly based fee, applicable as soon as the specific supplier receives the confirmation for their first order through bid2board platform.
After the service supplier’s first order, all additional orders received via the platform will be charged with an additional fee per order.
The supplier will have the option to buy in advance service bundles (“Service Supplier Packages”) of 10, 20, 50, 100 or 200 orders at a reduced fee rate.

For Ship Owners / Managers

Each Ship Owner / Manager will be burdened with a yearly based fee per ship, applicable as soon as they order their first service for the specific ship on the platform.
Ship Owner’s / Manager’s orders applied via the platform will be charged with an additional fee per order.
The Ship Owner / Manager will have the option to buy in advance service bundles (“Owner /Manager Packages”) of 10, 20, 50, 100 or 200 orders at a reduced fee rate.

Depending on your business bid2board will activate your profile when:

verification of the input data of the profile has been completed and the user logs into his/her account (Service Suppliers).
the company profile is created and credentials have been provided to log in.

bid2board issue and provide you with an invoice in respect of the fee payable for the use of the Platform and its services. The invoice will concern the fixed fee that you have paid for your subscription package upon such subscription.
bid2board reserves the right to modify, terminate or otherwise amend the subscription packages or the fees or the terms of payment. You will be notified of any amendments to the subscription packages or the fees 15 days before any such amendment becomes effective.
All payments which you are liable to make against the use of the Platform should be made without deduction or withholding for or on account of any tax payable under any law of any pertinent jurisdiction.
If bid2board has not received payment within 30 (thirty) days after the due date, bid2board may, without liability to you, disable your password, account and access to all or part of the Service and shall be under no obligation to provide any or all of the Service while the invoice(s) concerned remain unpaid.
All amounts and fees stated or referred to in these terms:

shall be payable in euro;
are non-cancellable and non-refundable;
are exclusive of value added tax, which shall be added to bid2board’s invoice(s) at the appropriate rate.

Confidentiality

Where either you or bid2board (the "Discloser") provides the other party to the Agreement (the "Recipient") with Confidential Information, such information shall be held in strict confidence and shall not be disclosed or used for any purpose unless (a) the prior written consent of the Discloser is provided, or (b) required by any applicable law or pursuant to the order or demand of a competent court, administrative authority or recognized stock exchange, provided in such case that the Recipient shall promptly notify the Discloser of such requirement before proceeding with any such disclosure and shall disclose only that portion of the Confidential Information as is legally required to disclose, or (c) as otherwise expressly provided in the Agreement. The Recipient shall exercise the same degree of care it uses to protect its own confidential or proprietary information but no less than a reasonable standard of care.

For the purpose of this clause, "Confidential Information"means: (a) Any business, technical, technological, operational, financial, economic, commercial and legal information, including, without limitation, any information relating to products, services, prices, analytics, technologies, business process management, business transactions, business relationships, customers, personnel (b) business information provided by you for the use of the Platform and/or its services and/or for the purposes of the provision by bid2board of broader and more detailed outputs, information and results available only to you, unless otherwise provided herein, such as information about transactions, vessel name, vessel size, vessel position, delivery place, vessel status (“Business Information”);(c) any other information of Discloser that is specifically designated as confidential or proprietary; and(d) any information that, by its nature, Recipient knows or should know is confidential or proprietary.

Confidential Information shall not include: (a) information that is or becomes public knowledge other than by a breach of this clause; (b) information that is obtained from a third party without breach of an obligation of confidentiality; (c) information that can be shown to have been independently developed by means other than through access to the Confidential Information; (d) if the Platform is being used on behalf of a business or company, the name of that business or company, its domain name and its logo as user of the Platform; such information may be disclosed by bid2board for promotional and/or marketing purposes.

Each time you submit Business Information, you grant to bid2board the limited, irrevocable, non-transferable right of use of said Business Information, including, without limitation, the right to read, process, analyse, integrate Business Information, combine them or fuse them with other data, subject to the limitations of this clause. bid2board warrants will not use Business Information that you submit and that will be available only to you, unless you otherwise agree or unless otherwise provided herein.

Business Information may only be disclosed:

By bid2board to comply with any applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence, and to respond to requests from courts, public and/or judicial authorities, which may include such authorities outside your country of residence, provided that bid2board shall provide you with prompt written notice thereof and shall disclose only such Business Information as it is required to disclose.
By bid2board to allow third-party providers to assist bid2board in providing you with the services of the Platform, as long as such third-party providers have signed a non-disclosure agreement providing for a similar standard of protection for Business Information as provided for herein.
By you on pages, features or any services of the Platform to which you are able to post information and materials, provided that a relevant notice is displayed regarding the disclosure of said information and materials to other users. Please note that any information you post or disclose through these pages, features or services may be made available to other users as well.
By you to anyone with whom you communicate through the Platform.
By bid2board to be made available to all users, subject to your consent.

You shall not provide any Confidential Information about others unless you are authorized to do so. By submitting Confidential Information about others, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so and that you have received authorization from the person about whom you provide information and that that person has consented to have all such information used, disclosed and transferred in accordance with this clause.

You acknowledge and agree that the employees of bid2board may gain access to your Confidential Information. bid2board shall limit such access on a need-to-know basis. bid2board shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that such employees are informed of the confidential nature of the Confidential Information and comply with the provisions of this clause.

bid2board have put in place reasonable technical, organizational and other measures to protect your Confidential Information from unauthorized use and/or disclosure. Such measures also apply to entities directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with bid2board.

Disclaimer

The Platform, the material contained therein and the material resulting therefrom is provided by bid2board "as is" and "as available". bid2board may add, remove or change functionalities or features. bid2board gives no warranties of any kind concerning the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom, to the fullest extent permissible by law. In particular, bid2board expressly disclaims all warranties, whether express or implied, of availability, accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability, non-infringement of third parties’ rights, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose of any material contained in, displayed on, resulting from or otherwise available from the Platform, including Business Information and/or third parties’ information and/or data, if applicable, and expressly disclaims (to the maximum extent permitted by any applicable law) any and all liability for any damage or loss resulting from use of or reliance on the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom.

Although bid2board takes all reasonable measures to ensure the security of its systems, it does not warrant that the services and products provided in or through the Platform and/or the material contained therein or resulting therefrom will be uninterrupted, error-free or free from defects in design or engineering, that defects will be corrected or that the online services or the servers that render the functions, services and materials available are free of viruses or other harmful components. bid2board assumes no responsibility for any infection by virus or other harmful material that might infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to use of the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom, and shall not be liable for any related costs incurred, including without limitation the servicing or replacement of equipment or data. You must take all precautions in this respect.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Agreement, in no event whatsoever shall bid2board and/or respective directors, officers, shareholders, employees, advisors, agents, and/or bid2board’s third-party providers be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential losses or damages, including without limitation loss of profits and opportunity costs, business interruption, loss of data, trading losses, anticipated savings, loss of goodwill, reputation, revenue or business, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, even if they have been advised of the possibility of such damages. In circumstances where loss or damage is suffered arising out of or in connection with the use, inability to use or performance of the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom, bid2board and/or their respective directors, officers, shareholders, employees, advisors, agents, and/or bid2board’s third-party providers shall not be liable for such loss or damage, whether due to inaccuracy, error, omission, delay, unavailability or interruption, failure in performance or any other cause whether on the part of bid2board and/or their respective directors, officers, shareholders, employees, advisors, agents, and/or bid2board’s third-party providers and/or their respective directors, officers, shareholders, employees, advisors, agents. In any event, it is your responsibility to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of the Platform, the material contained therein and the material resulting therefrom. bid2board and/or their respective directors, officers, shareholders, employees, advisors, agents and bid2board’s third-party providers and/or their directors, officers, shareholders, employees, advisors, agents shall not be liable for any claims against you by third parties.

The Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom might contain references or links to third-party websites, including without limitation links to websites of third-party providers. bid2board assumes no responsibility for the content, accuracy, completeness, up-to-dateness and availability of any website or resources linked on the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom, or for any loss or damage that may arise from the use of such websites or resources. These linked websites and resources are provided solely for your reference and convenience, and not as an endorsement by bid2board of their content or operation. Any decision to visit a linked or referenced third-party website must be taken at your own risk.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the aggregate liability of bid2board, their respective directors, officers, shareholders, employees, advisors, agents and bid2board’s third-party providers in connection with any claim arising out of or relating to the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom, shall not exceed any amount paid by you, or the business or company that you are affiliated with, for use of the Platform in the twelve (12) calendar months preceding notification by you to bid2board of the claim. If no such amount is paid, then the aggregate liability stated above is equal to zero (0).

The present clause shall survive any termination of the Agreement.

Indemnification

You hereby agree and undertake to hold bid2board and their third-party providers, as well as their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, contractors, assignees, third-party providers, suppliers, and successors in interest (the "Indemnified Parties") harmless against any and all demands, actions, claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, charges and expenses, including but not limited to attorneys’ fees and expenses, (the "Claims") resulting or arising from your use of the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom or any breach of the Agreement (the"Indemnified Causes"). This undertaking shall apply only to the extent that the Indemnified Parties are named, or threatened with being so named, in an action or proceeding alleging that the Indemnified Causes partially or wholly gave rise to the alleged cause of action. The indemnification obligation shall survive any termination of the Agreement. bid2board will provide you with notice of any such Claim or allegation. bid2board always reserves the right to voluntarily participate in proceedings regarding such Claim at its own expense.

Intellectual Property

Any technology and other similar proprietary property related to, forming a part of, embodied in, or necessary for use of the Platform, or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom (the“Intellectual Property”) are, and shall remain, the sole and exclusive property of bid2board, their third-party providers, and/or other entities that have granted bid2board and/or their third-party providers the right and license to use such Intellectual Property (the “Owners”). Owners hold and reserve all right, title and interest in and to their respective Intellectual Property, including but not limited to, copyrights, patents, trade secrets, database rights, trademark rights, rights to software, rights to computer programs, applications and other related products, rights to trade names, service marks, designs and other product and service names and logos, know-how related to the design, function or operation of the Platform. You acknowledge that you have no right, title or interest in and to the Intellectual Property. You may not use, copy, reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disclose, disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast, circulate or interfere with the Intellectual Property in any way without the appropriate Owner’s express prior written consent. Except as expressly provided herein, the Owners do not grant to you any express or implied rights to the Intellectual Property. Actual or attempted illegal or unauthorized use of the Intellectual Property is strictly prohibited and may result in criminal and/or civil prosecution. Unless otherwise provided herein, it is explicitly forbidden to copy or reproduce the Platform, or any part of its content, functionality or design, or the software and the technologies on which the Platform is based. For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby explicitly provided that the Intellectual Property rights residing in the architecture and software of the Platform and its supporting technology comprise confidential information – in the sense of clause 6 of the Agreement – which is provided to you as part of this Agreement. Without prejudice to the interdictions contained in the preceding paragraph, you shall not disclose any Intellectual Property information and any Intellectual Property information about the Platform, its architecture or software, or its supporting technology to any third party. The present clause shall survive any termination of the Agreement.

Termination

You are authorized to use the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom exclusively for the duration of the Agreement. You agree that bid2board at its sole discretion, may terminate the Agreement or suspend your access to and use of the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom, at any time, with immediate effect, if (a) bid2board has reasonable indication that you are accessing or using the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom in violation of the Agreement; or (b) you commit a breach of any term or condition of the Agreement and do not cure such breach within five (5) days of written notice thereof; or (c) you object to the processing of your Personal Information, as further provided for in the Privacy Policy; (d) your assets are transferred to an assignee for the benefit of creditors, to a receiver or to a trustee in bankruptcy, a proceeding is commenced by or against you for relief under bankruptcy or similar laws and such proceeding is not dismissed within sixty (60) days, or you are declared bankrupt; or (e) required by legal or regulatory authority; or (f) so suggested by legal counsel to protect bid2board’s liability to third parties; or (g) if you fail to make any payment whatsoever due and payable to bid2board;
You may cancel your account at any time by sending an email to info@bid2board.com.Your registration and your right to receive the Service will end immediately, but you acknowledge that you will not receive any refund of any charges already paid in relation to the remainder of the relevant payment period. Furthermore, if at the date of termination you owe us any, we will issue an invoice to you for payment.
Upon termination, all licenses granted herein will immediately terminate and all fees and expenses owed by you through the date of termination automatically and immediately become due and payable.
Upon termination, you must immediately (i) discontinue the use of the Platform, the material contained therein and the material resulting therefrom, (ii) destroy and purge from electronic media any items relating to the Platform, any of the material contained therein and any material resulting therefrom without limitation; and (iii) provide a notarized written certification to bid2board that you have complied with this clause.
Upon suspension of your access to and use of the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom, you must immediately discontinue the use of the Platform, the material contained therein and the material resulting therefrom. bid2board may authorize you to continue the use of the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom as soon as it is satisfied at its sole discretion that the reasons for which suspension was decided no longer apply, provided that any such authorization shall be given no later than fifteen (15) business days from the date of suspension. If no such authorization is given, then the Agreement shall be deemed terminated by bid2board.
Accessing the Platform after such suspension or termination shall constitute an act of trespass. Further, you agree that bid2board shall not be liable to you or any third party for any suspension of your access to the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom, or termination of the Agreement.

Force majeure

bid2board may be excused from the performance of any obligation under the Agreement due to any act or condition whatsoever beyond the reasonable control of, and not occasioned by the fault or negligence of bid2board, including, without limitation, acts of God, acts of terrorism, acts of nature or of a public enemy, acts of a government or any state or political subdivision thereof, internet outages, strikes, lockouts, failure of a utility service or transport or telecommunications network, fires, floods, explosions, wars, or other catastrophes, malicious damage labor disturbances, freight embargos, or delays of a supplier or subcontractor due to such causes.

Security measures

bid2board may impose any security measures it reasonably deems appropriate to ensure compliance with the Agreement, including covert and overt copy-detection and license awareness technology and encoding of requestor/user information in printed and electronic formats. Any attempt to circumvent such access restrictions of bid2board security measures will be considered a material breach of the Agreement.

Notices

Any notice given under the Agreement shall be sent via email.

You shall communicate with bid2board at the following address: info@bid2board.com. bid2board shall communicate with you at the email address you have provided upon registration. Delivery of a notice is deemed to have taken place on the business day after it has been sent.

Assigment

You may not assign or transfer the Agreement or any of the rights and/or obligations hereunder to any third party without bid2board prior written consent. bid2board reserves the right to assign or transfer the Agreement and/or any of the rights and/or obligations hereunder to any third person provided that it will notify you of any such assignment or transfer within a reasonable time after its execution. Any assignment in violation of this clause shall be null and void.

Relationship of the parties

The parties are independent contractors. The Terms of Use do not create an agency, partnership, joint venture, fiduciary duty, employment relationship or other form of legal association between bid2board and you, unless otherwise explicitly described in an addendum to this agreement.

Entire agreement

The Agreement constitutes the entire agreement. Nothing said by any person on bid2board’s behalf should be understood as a variation of the Agreement or as an authorized representation about the nature or quality of the Platform or any of the material contained therein or resulting therefrom.

The Agreement supersedes all prior agreements, negotiations and discussions between you and bid2board relating to the subject matter of the Agreement, and you acknowledge that you have not entered into the Agreement in reliance on any statement or representation except in so far as the representation has been incorporated into the Agreement. Save for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, bid2board shall have no liability for any representation being untrue or misleading.

Waiver

A failure or delay by bid2board to exercise any right or remedy provided under this Agreement or by law shall not constitute a waiver of that or any other right or remedy, nor shall it prevent or restrict any further exercise of that or any other right or remedy. No single or partial exercise of any right or remedy provided under this Agreement or by law shall prevent or restrict the further exercise of that or any other right or remedy.

Governing law/ Jurisdiction

The Agreement and its performance (including any non-contractual obligations) shall be governed by Greek Law. The parties shall submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Piraeus for any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with the Agreement.

Website Terms of Use

This website https://bid2board.com (“Website”) is a computer online service, provided by bid2board PC, a private limited company organized and existing under the laws of Greece, whose registered office is at 2 Afentouli Street, Piraeus, 18536, Greece.

Acceptance of the Terms of Use

The Website is accessible to the user through any electronic devices (e.g. personal computer, tablet, mobile phone). By using the Website, the user acknowledges that he/she has read and understood the present Terms of Use (“Terms of Use”), that he/she agrees to be bound by all of its provisions and that he/she hereby irrevocably waives any complaint, claim or demand whatsoever against bid2board with respect to any liability arising from or connected in any way with the use of this Website.

bid2board may amend or modify the Terms of Use at any time at its sole discretion and without prior notice. Any use of the Website by the user after such amendment has been uploaded to the Website, shall be deemed to constitute acceptance by the user of such amendments or modifications.

User’s obligations

The user agrees to use the Website, in accordance with the Terms of Use, only for his/her personal information and only for lawful purposes.

It is expressly prohibited to copy, take screenshots, distribute, publish, transfer, store, permanently retain, disseminate, distribute, transmit, scan, publish on a network, display, or otherwise reproduce, disclose, modify, download, translate into any language or make available to others, commercially exploit, or create derivative works from the Website or any of the material contained therein.

The user acknowledges that the Website and the material contained therein, regardless of the form or the medium on which they are delivered or displayed, are developed entirely at private expense, comprise valued proprietary and commercial information of bid2board and are the property of bid2board.

The user acknowledges that the Website may contain information, software, graphics or other material that are protected by copyright, trademarks, database rights, patents, trade secrets, rights to software, rights to computer programs, applications and other related products, rights to trade names, service marks, designs and other product and service names and logos, know-how related to the design, function or operation of the Website, or other proprietary rights (“Intellectual Property”). bid2board holds and reserves all right, title and interest in and to the respective Intellectual Property.

The user acknowledges that he/she has no right, title or interest in and to the Intellectual Property. The user may not use, copy, reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, publish, broadcast, circulate or interfere with the Intellectual Property in any way without bid2board’s express prior written consent.

The user should not engage in any conduct that in any way restricts or inhibits any other person from using the Website. The user should avoid posting inaccurate information. The user is prohibited from posting on or transmitting through the Website any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, including but not limited to, any material which encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law in force.

The user should refrain from using software viruses, or any other computer code, files or programs that may interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment of bid2board or of any other user of the Website.

The user is responsible for all charges (e.g. telephone, internet service, etc.) associated with the connection to the Website.

bid2board’s rights

bid2board reserves the right, at its sole discretion and without prior notice, to restrict, suspend or alter any part – or the entirety – of the Website, including but not limited to (i) restrict the time of availability and (ii) restrict or increase the availability and/or purpose of the Website (e.g. computer types and operating systems).

Privacy Policy

The user acknowledges that he/she has carefully read the Privacy Policy before deciding to use the Website, which governs bid2board’s treatment of any information, including personally identifiable information, submitted by the user.

Disclaimer

The information contained in this Website is provided on an “as is” and “as available” “without prejudice” basis. It is not comprehensive and is subject at any time to revision and/or change and/or cancellation and/or modification and/or alteration without any notice whatsoever. The user is using the Website entirely at his/her own risk under these Terms of Use. If the user does not agree with any of these terms of use, he/she shall refrain from using this Website.

bid2board gives no warranties of any kind concerning the Website or any of the material contained therein. bid2board expressly disclaims all warranties, whether express or implied, of availability, accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability, non-infringement of third parties’ rights, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose of any material contained in, displayed on, resulting from or otherwise available from the Website. bid2board will in no way be responsible or liable for any damages, direct, indirect, special, punitive or consequential of any kind whatsoever arising out of or in connection with the use, contents or information of this Website, which is intended for general guidance only, and which is, as aforesaid, subject to changes without prior notice. bid2board, its principals, directors, officers and employees make no representations or warranties of any kind whatsoever in this Website, either express or implied. bid2board also disclaims all responsibility whatsoever for any damages caused by viruses contained in this Website or within any electronic files sent from bid2board or from this Website.

Neither bid2board, nor any of its external partners, agents, affiliates and/or other related parties guarantee that the Website will function without interruption or functional errors. In particular, the operation of the Website may be interrupted, indicatively due to maintenance, updates, or system or network failures. bid2board disclaims all liability for any damages caused by any such interruption or errors in functioning. Furthermore, bid2board disclaims all liability for any malfunctioning, impossibility of access or poor use conditions of the Website due to inappropriate equipment, disturbances related to internet service providers, to the saturation of the internet network, and for any other reason.

The Website may contain references or links to third-party websites. bid2board assumes no responsibility for the content, accuracy, completeness, up-to-dateness and availability of any website or resources linked on the Website or any of the material contained therein, or for any loss or damage that may arise from the use of such websites or resources. These linked websites and resources are provided solely for your reference and convenience, and not as an endorsement by bid2board of their content or operation. Any decision to visit a linked or referenced third-party website must be taken at your own risk.