Terms and Conditions

Please be aware that compass data is not approved to be published without prior written consent from invidis consulting.

Intellectual Property

The contents and design of the Site, any Digital Application and any material e-mailed to you or otherwise supplied to you in conjunction with the Site and/or a Digital Application (such contents, design and materials being collectively referred to as the "invidis Content"), is copyright by invidis consulting and its licensors. Neither a Subscription nor any other consuming of invidis Content entitles you to any commercial or promotional use rights in the invidis Content. You may not use or reproduce or allow anyone to use or reproduce any trademarks (including, without limitation, “invidis”, “invidis consulting” and “invidis compass” names and logos or other trade names and logos appearing on the Site or any Digital Application) for any reason without written permission from invidis consulting. The software that operates the Site and all Digital Applications is proprietary software and you may not use it except as expressly allowed under these Terms. You may not copy, reverse engineer, modify or otherwise deal with the software.

Use of invidis Content

You may retrieve and display invidis Content from the site on a computer screen or mobile device, print individual pages on paper and store such pages in electronic form on your computer or mobile device for your internal, non-public use. You may use Digital Applications only on devices for which they were intended and on no more than ten separate devices. Except as expressly permitted above, you may not reproduce, modify or in any way commercially exploit any invidis Content. In particular, but without limiting the general application of the restrictions in the previous sentence, you may not do any of the following without prior written permission from invidis consulting:

• reproduce or store in or transmit to any other website, newsgroup, mailing list, electronic bulletin board, server or other storage device connected to a network or regularly or systematically store in electronic or print form, all or any part of the invidis Content; or
• modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit all or any part of the invidis Content (including as part of any library, archive or similar service);
• remove the copyright or trademark notice from any copies of invidis Content;
• avoid, bypass or override the paywall on our Sites and Digital Applications except pursuant to a valid Subscription or your entitlement as a Registered User;
• use or permit the use, where by automated means or otherwise, of any software, tool or other device (including, but not limited to robots, crawlers, spiders or scripts) on any Sites or Digital Applications, or otherwise on invidis Content, in order to copy, collect or scrape on the Sites, Digital Applications or invidis Content (other than any such use by a public search engine for the sole purpose of providing direct, non-amalgamated links to invidis Content that do not include any generative or derivative works based on or including invidis Content);
• conduct data mining on, apply machine learning tools or models to, or train machine learning tools or models or any other artificial intelligence technology on, any Sites, Digital Applications or invidis Content; or
• use artificial intelligence tools or models for the purposes of generating text, images or any other material, output or derivative works based on or using invidis Content, whether or not in the same or similar style as the invidis Content.

Any use of invidis Content not specifically permitted above is expressly prohibited. Requests for permission for other uses may be sent by email to compass@invidis.net and may be subject to a fee.

Subscription and Cancellation

Subscription

invidis consulting offers the following subscription ("Subscriptions"), including (but not limited to):

• Access to content (data & knowledgebase) of the invidis software compass

By submitting your payment and other Subscription details, you are making an offer to us to buy a Subscription. Your offer will only be accepted by us and a contract formed when we have successfully verified your payment and contact details, at which point we will provide you with access to the Subscription. You will receive written confirmation when your Subscription offer has been accepted (beginning the fulfilment of a Subscription does not signify acceptance).

We will update you from time to time about these benefits.

Renewal

Unless specifically stated in any Subscription offer you agree that at the end of the initial Subscription period (and of each renewal period thereafter), your Subscription will automatically renew for the same Subscription period at the then prevailing renewal rate, which may be changed from time to time. If there are any changes to the amount or frequency of your payment, invidis consulting will notify you at least six weeks in advance of payment being taken.

Cancellation

You have the right to cancel your Subscription at any time. Please note that if you purchase a Subscription, by placing your order you agree that we will start your Subscription immediately and you acknowledge that you will lose your right to a refund in relation to any period prior to your cancellation.

If you exercise your right to cancel, we will:

cancel the next renewal of your Subscription such that your Subscription will end at the renewal date of your current Subscription term and you will not be charged any further amounts following the expiry of your existing Subscription.

You may notify us of your wish to cancel your Subscription by contacting invidis consulting.

Fees and Payments

The price to be paid for your Subscription will be made clear to you on the Subscription order pages or otherwise during the order process and may vary from time to time. You agree to pay the fees at the rates notified to you at the time you purchase your Subscription together with any processing or other associated fees charged by the issuing bank/payment provider.

Changes to the Site and Digital Applications

Invidis consulting reserves the right, in its discretion and at any time, to suspend, change, modify, add or remove portions of invidis Content available on the Site and/or on a Digital Application at any time and to restrict the use and accessibility of the Site and its Digital Applications.

Liability and Indemnity

All invidis Content and services are provided 'as is'. You indemnify us for breaches of these Terms.

Although we endeavor to ensure the high quality and accuracy of the Site and Digital Applications, invidis consulting makes no warranty, express or implied concerning invidis Content, any Digital Application, the Site or any software that are made available through the Site (the " Services"), which are provided "as is". Invidis consulting expressly disclaims all warranties, including but not limited to warranties of fitness for a particular purpose and warranties of merchantability. In no event will invidis consulting, its affiliates, agents, suppliers or licensors be liable for indirect, special, incidental, and/or consequential damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of business profits, business interruption, loss of business information or other pecuniary loss) that may arise directly or indirectly from the use of (or failure to use) or reliance on the Services, even if invidis consulting has been advised of the possibility that such damages may arise. Invidis consulting does not guarantee the accuracy, content, or timeliness of the Services or that they are free from viruses or other contaminating or destructive properties.

In no event will any liability of invidis consulting or its affiliates, agents, suppliers and licensors to you (and/or any third party) that may arise out of any kind of legal claim (whether in contract, tort, or otherwise) in any way connected with the Services or in breach of these Terms by invidis consulting exceed the amount, if any, paid by you to invidis consulting for the particular Service to which the claim relates.

Upon invidis consulting’s request, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless invidis consulting, its affiliates, agents, suppliers and licensors from any claims and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, related to any breach of these Terms by you or your use of any Services.

Force Majeure

Invidis consulting will not be held responsible for circumstances beyond its control.

Invidis consulting, its affiliates and its information providers will not be liable or deemed to be in default for any delay or failure in performance or interruption of the delivery of the invidis Content that may result directly or indirectly from any cause or circumstance beyond its or their reasonable control, including but not limited to failure of electronic or mechanical equipment or communication lines, telephone or other interconnect problems, computer viruses, unauthorized access, theft, operator errors, severe weather, earthquakes or natural disasters, strikes or other labor problems, wars, or governmental restrictions.

Others

Assignment of Agreement. This agreement is personal to you and your rights and obligations under these Terms may not be assigned, sub-licensed or otherwise transferred. This agreement may be assigned to a third party by invidis consulting.

Non-Waiver. No delay or omission on the part of either party in requiring performance by the other party of its obligations will operate as a waiver of any right.

Notices. Notices to invidis consulting must be given in writing, by letter or email, and sent to invidis consulting GmbH, Gisel-Stein-Str. 6, 81671 Munich /Germany.

Severability/Survival/Statute of Limitations. If any provision of these Terms is invalid or unenforceable, such will not render all the Terms unenforceable or invalid. Rather, the Terms will then be read and construed as if the invalid or unenforceable provision(s) are not contained therein. Any cause of action of yours with respect to these Terms must be filed in a court of competent jurisdiction in Munich, Germany within one year after the cause of action has arisen, or such cause will be barred, invalid and void.

Whole Agreement. Save as expressly referred to herein, any representation, warranty, term or condition not expressly set out in these Terms shall not apply.

Term and Termination

Invidis consulting may terminate or suspend your access to invidis Content at any time.

Invidis consulting may, in its discretion, terminate or suspend your access to and/or use of all or part of the Site and/or a Digital Application (including any invidis Content) with or without cause by delivering notice to you.

These rights of termination are in addition to all other rights and remedies available to invidis consulting under these Terms or by law.

Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, German law. The parties irrevocably agree that the courts of Germany shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute which may arise out of, under, or in connection with these Terms or the legal relationship established by them, and for those purposes irrevocably submit all disputes to the jurisdiction of the German courts.