Terms and Conditions
Graphisoft IGNITE Conference

Event Participation Terms and Conditions

These Terms and Conditions set forth the general rules of applying to and participating at the Event organized and managed by Graphisoft SE (Zahony utca 7, Budapest 1031 Hungary; registered under registration number Cg.01-20-000001; hereinafter referred to as “Graphisoft”)

Definitions

Event: the Conference determined by Graphisoft.

Participant: a person who registered to the Event and accepted and comply with these Terms and Conditions.

Terms and Conditions

Event Description

All the information about the Event can be found at Graphisoft’s website.

General

  1. You acknowledge and agree that you have registered to the Event organized by Graphisoft. These Terms and Conditions regulate Your registration to and participation at the Event. By submitting Your registration to the Event, You expressly agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions during the whole term of the Event. This is an irrevocable condition of registration to and participation at the Event.
  2. You must be at least 18 years of age or the legal age of your nationality (if higher than 18 years).
  3. You accept that Graphisoft shall – without any legal consequences – unilaterally decide on the registration or rejection of Your participation prior or during the Event.
  4. During the Event the Participant cannot behave in a way that would harm or endanger Graphisoft’s reputation, legitimate economic or organizational interests.
  5. Neither Graphisoft nor its officers, directors, employees, agents, successors, or assigns shall be liable for any warranty, costs, damage, injury, or any other claims incurred as a result of the usage of information obtained by the Participant during or related to the Event.
  6. Participants should fulfil all requirements on Participant’s expense for immigration and health insurance applicable to the physical location of the Event (if any). Failure to do so may result in the termination of participation. Acceptance of these Terms and Conditions Participation indicates adherence to the relevant legal regulations in the Place of the Event.

  7. If you participate in-person on the Event, then you have to comply with the Hotel’s Terms and Conditions applicable to the Hotel guests’ conduct. You also acknowledge that the Hotel providing venue to the Event is solely and directly liable to you and you are directly liable to the Hotel for any loss or damage  the Hotel is causing you or you cause to the Hotel. Graphisoft is not liable for any conduct of the Hotel or of you.

Provisions for Events

  1. Participant has to register on the event platform to participate on the Event. Participant shall ensure appropriate hardware, software and internet necessary to online participation.
  2. Graphisoft will make all reasonable efforts to ensure that the Event take place on the advertised date and time for in person Participants and online. In the event that the Event does not take place on the advertised date and time an alternative date/time will be scheduled by Graphisoft. Graphisoft reserves the right to substitute speakers if circumstances beyond Graphisoft‘s reasonable control prevent speakers from appearing. Participant accepts that there will be no right to any refund or cancellation in these circumstances.

Rights to Intellectual Property

  1. All works, materials, ideas created by the Participant in the course of or in relation to the Event are and will remain the intellectual property of the Participant (“Participant IP”). The Participant shall declare that it is the owner or the licensor regarding all the Participant IP submitted. Graphisoft hereby declares that according to the prevailing rules of statutory law the name and country data related to the Participant will be indicated whenever the Participant IP will be used by Graphisoft. By registering to the Event the Participant grants to Graphisoft and its partner network enlisted at www.graphisoft.com and any other partners determined by Graphisoft regarding the particular Contest (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Graphisoft Partners”) an exclusive, royalty free, sublicensable license right unlimited in time, territory and usage mode without any restrictions to the use, adaptation, modification of the Participant IP by Graphisoft without any time limitation. The license right granted herein includes the inclusion of the Participant IP into Graphisoft’s products, services and into marketing materials furthermore the publishing of the Participant IP in press releases and in social media platforms.
  2. By applying to and registering to the Event the Participant expressly accepts that Graphisoft and its licensors shall retain all right, title and interest in the Graphisoft product(s), services, knowledge either disclosed to the Participant during or in relation to the Event or otherwise throughout the world, including without limitation, patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret rights related thereto (“Graphisoft IP”). Except as expressly set forth by Graphisoft, neither this document, nor any license shall be construed as granting to Participant any license or other right in or to any patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary right of Graphisoft or its licensors. Participant shall take all reasonable measures to protect Graphisoft’s proprietary rights in the Graphisoft IP and shall not copy, use or distribute the Graphisoft IP or any part of it, or any derivative thereof, in any manner or for any purpose, except as expressly authorized in this document. Participant shall not disassemble, decompile, or reverse-engineer the Graphisoft IP, including any source codes, or otherwise attempt to discover any Graphisoft trade secret or other proprietary information.

Confidentiality

  1. The Participant shall treat and keep confidential any business secrets learnt at or in connection with the Event or beyond that any information or data related to Graphisoft or Graphisoft’s affiliated companies or the activities of these (“Confidential Information”).
  2. Graphisoft’s Confidential Information includes without limitation all information related to, Graphisoft’s know-how and all information relating to Graphisoft’s business, products, services, finances, plans, opportunities, designs, research, development, know-how, personnel, distributors, suppliers, and customers, confidential information disclosed to Graphisoft or its affiliates by third parties, in all cases whether acquired or developed by subcontractors or disclosed by Graphisoft employees.
  3. The Participant must not use or disclose the Confidential Information neither directly nor indirectly, neither solely nor through any other person, company, association, firm, enterprise or any other legal person in any way, furthermore shall not enable any form of usage or disclosing of these information and is obliged to do everything he/she is capable of to prevent the leakage of the Confidential Information, and in case he/she perceives the possibility of violation of this confidentiality or the danger of leakage of the Confidential Information, he/she is obliged to forthwith inform Graphisoft.
  4. The Participant is obliged to treat the Confidential Information determined above confidential after the termination of the Event, thus the obligations stated in this Article may bound the Participant without time limit.

Liability

  1. Graphisoft and/or its Partners do not assume any liability and responsibility for and in relation to the services provided by Graphisoft during and related to the Event. In particular Graphisoft excludes any and all liabilities in relation to the professional advice and guidelines provided by Graphisoft’s employees or other speakers of the Event to the Participant and any damages suffered by the Participant or Participant’s employees or belongings at the Event premises or related to the accommodation, travel arrangements, visa and other official obligations that may occur for the Participant in relation to the Event. Graphisoft does not guarantee to the Participant that he/she will reach the goals set as the goals of the Event. Nor Graphisoft is responsible for the use of the knowledge gained at the Event or the applicability of this knowledge.
  2. To the extent permitted by the applicable rules of law Graphisoft excludes any and all liabilities related to damages, injuries suffered by Participant caused by breach of Graphisoft’s obligations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Graphisoft cannot limit or exclude its liability for premeditated non-performance of an obligation resulting in loss of life, or harm to physical integrity or health.
  3. Force Majeure. Neither the Participant nor Graphisoft shall be liable for any failure or delay in performance of its obligations under these Terms and Conditions arising out of or caused, directly or indirectly, by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, acts of God; earthquakes; fires; floods; wars; civil or military disturbances; acts of terrorism; sabotage; strikes; epidemics; riots; power failures; computer failure and any such circumstances beyond its reasonable control as may cause interruption, loss or malfunction of utility, transportation, computer (hardware or software) or telephone communication service; accidents; labor disputes; acts of civil or military authority; governmental actions; or inability to obtain labor, material, equipment or transportation; provided, however, that in the event of a failure or delay Graphisoft shall use its best efforts to ameliorate the effects of any such failure or delay. In case of force majeure Graphisoft reserves the right to unilaterally decide on the cancellation or modification or on the postponing of the Event without any obligations to repay any fees already paid or compensation for damages or expenses. In case of postponing or modification of the Event by Graphisoft the fees already paid to Graphisoft are re-booked by Graphisoft to the modified/postponed Event. Graphisoft reserves the right to unilaterally decide whether a circumstance qualifies as force majeure or not. Graphisoft’s aggregate liability cannot exceed the actual amount paid by Participant to Graphisoft.
  4. Cancellation/modification/Postponing the Event by Graphisoft or cancelation by the Participant. Graphisoft may cancel, modify or postpone the Event in its own discretion for any reasons except for force majeure. In case of force majeure Graphisoft shall only be obliged to repay the percentage of the registration fees paid by Participant in the individual notification made by Graphisoft related to the particular Event. In case of cancellation/modification/postponing by Graphisoft the participant is not entitled to any compensation for damages or expenses occurred at Participant. Graphisoft is not obliged to satisfy any claim(s) not specified in these Terms and Conditions raised by Participant related to the cancellation/modification/postponing of the Event by Graphisoft.

Data Protection

Due to differences of Events Graphisoft organizes their Privacy part is widely various; the scope of personal data processed, data processing purposes and data processors can be different, hence there is no general Privacy part of this Terms and Conditions. The relevant Privacy Policy or Notice of each Event is available during the registration of the Events.

Participation fee, Billing / invoicing 

Participant agrees to pay to Graphisoft (through Graphisoft Asia Limited) via bank transfer to the bank account number indicated on the registration form the respective amount of the participation fee indicated on the registration website or with bank card via Stripe. Please note that the transaction costs charged by the payment processor shall be borne by You. The participation fee is deemed to be paid when the full amount is credited on Graphisoft’s bank account.

You shall pay the participation fee within 7 days of your registration. If the participation fee is not paid within 7 days of your registration then your registration will be automatically cancelled on the 8th day without any notice to you.

For processing registration, issuing invoices and processing payments on behalf of Graphisoft SE, its subsidiary Graphisoft Asia Limited shall proceed. Graphisoft Asia manually processes the billing requests and issues the invoices which might take up to 14 days after your payment; the invoice will be sent to the address you have provided. Application to the Event qualifies as submitted once the full amount of the participation fee is credited on Graphisoft Asia’s bank account. The invoiced fee is based on the number of participants (eg. colleagues invited).
Tickets are non-transferable.

Event cancellation (for in-person participation only)

Participant acknowledges that Graphisoft shall start providing the services in relation to the Event right after the contract is entered between Participant and Graphisoft through accepting this T&C and payment is made. Thus Participant can terminate this contract and request refund according to the following terms and conditions:

Natural individuals can cancel their participation at the Event and can get full refund within 14 days after their payment if the payment is made until 1st of August, 2025 the latest; if refund is requested after more than 14 days of the payment and before 1st of August , 50% refund will be provided. If refund is requested after 2nd of August 2025 there is no refund. Furthermore, if the natural person participant proves with appropriate medical documentation (provided to Graphisoft free from all sensitive data) that he was unable to travel then they may be eligible to postpone their participation to another Graphisoft event, in which case the participant must cover the fee difference between the two events (if any).

Legal entities are eligible for 50% refund until 1st of August 2025; after that no refund will be provided.

If Graphisoft must move or reschedule the Event due to unforeseen circumstances, including a pandemic, your registration will automatically be transferred to the rescheduled Event date. In case of rescheduling the event, no refund is possible.

Miscellaneous Provisions

  1. Graphisoft reserves the right to unilaterally modify the present document or any part thereof. Participants will be informed of any such modifications via e-mail sent to their registered e-mail addresses.
  2. Any questions not governed by this document shall be resolved pursuant to the applicable Hungarian legislation, and in particular pursuant to the Hungarian Civil Code. The parties agree that all disputes arising from, or in connection with, the present document shall be decided by, and all claims concerning this document will belong to, the exclusive jurisdiction of the ordinary courts of Hungary.
  3. This document may be translated into other languages. In case of any discrepancies between the original English language version and any other language translations the English language version prevails.

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