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Terms and Conditions

Terms of Use

Effective date: June 2023

Gallatin River B.V., along with its subsidiaries, divisions, and affiliates (“SDCourses.org”), provides the information and services on its Website(s) (the “Site”) under the following terms and conditions.

Acceptance of Terms.

By accessing and using this Site you agree to be bound by the following Terms of Use and all terms and conditions contained and/or referenced herein or any additional terms and conditions set forth on this Site and all such terms shall be deemed accepted by you. If you do NOT agree to all these Terms of Use, you should NOT use this Site. If you do not agree to any additional specific terms which apply to particular Content (as defined below) or to particular transactions concluded through this Site, then you should NOT use the part of the Site which contains such Content or through which such transactions may be concluded and you should not use such Content or conclude such transactions.

These Terms of Use may be amended by SDCourses at any time. Such amended Terms of Use shall be effective upon posting on this Site. Please check the Terms of Use published on this Site regularly to ensure that you are aware of all terms governing your use of this Site. Other SDCourses Websites may have their own terms of use or privacy statement, which apply to such Web sites. Also, specific terms and conditions may apply to specific content, products, materials, services, discussion forums, or information contained on or available through this Site (the “Content”) or transactions concluded through this Site. Such specific terms may supplement these Terms of Use or, where inconsistent with these Terms of Use, such specific terms will supersede these Terms of Use only to the extent that the content or intent of such specific terms is inconsistent with these Terms of Use.

SDCourses reserves the right to make changes or updates with respect to or in the Content of the Site or the format thereof at any time without notice. SDCourses reserves the right to terminate or restrict access to the Site for any reason whatsoever at its sole discretion.

Laws and Regulations.

Your access to and use of this Site is subject to all applicable international, federal, state and local laws and regulations. You agree not to use the Site in any way that violates such laws or regulations.

Copyright notice.

Copyright and all other proprietary rights in the Content (including but not limited to software, audio, video, text and photographs) rest with SDCourses or its licensors. All rights in the Content not expressly granted herein are reserved. Except as stated herein, none of the material may be copied, reproduced, modified, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of SDCourses or the copyright owner. All copyright and other proprietary notices shall be retained on all permitted reproductions. Permission is granted to display, copy, distribute and download the materials on this Site for personal, non-commercial use only, provided you do not modify the materials and that you retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the materials. You also may not, without SDCourses permission, “mirror” any material contained on this Site on any other server. This permission terminates automatically if you breach any of these terms or conditions. Upon termination, you must immediately destroy any downloaded and/or printed materials. Any unauthorised use of any material contained on this Site may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy, communications, regulations and statutes.

Any material or information sent through or in connection with this Site by you (“User Materials”) will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary, and immediately become the property of SDCourses, subject to the applicable Privacy Statement posted on this Site. SDCourses may use such User Materials as it deems fit, anywhere in the world, without obligation for compensation, and free of any moral rights, intellectual property rights and/or other proprietary rights in or to such User Materials.

This Site may contain references to specific SDCourses products and services that may not be (readily) available in a particular country. Any such reference does not imply or warrant that any such products or services shall be available at any time in any particular country. Please contact your local SDCourses business contact for further information.

Trademarks.

Unless otherwise indicated, all trademarks, service marks and logos displayed on the Site are registered and unregistered trademarks of SDCourses (or its affiliates, subsidiaries or divisions). These include each of SDCourses primary product brands and service offerings and its corporate logos and emblems.
Tampering.

User agrees not to modify, move, add to, delete or otherwise tamper with the information contained in SDCourses Site. Users also agree not to decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or unlawfully use or reproduce any of the software, copyrighted or trademarked material, trade secrets, or other proprietary information contained in the Site.

Indemnity.

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless SDCourses, its affiliates, subsidiaries, and divisions, and each of their officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any claims, actions or demands, including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, alleging or resulting from your use of the Content (including software) or your breach of the terms of this Agreement. SDCourses shall provide notice to you promptly of any such claim, suit, or proceeding and shall assist you, at your expense, in defending any such claim, suit or proceeding.

Third party information.

Although SDCourses monitors the information on the Site, some of the information may be supplied by independent third parties. While SDCourses makes every effort to insure the accuracy of all information on the Site, SDCourses makes no warranty as to the accuracy of any such information.

Links to third party sites.

This Site may contain links that will let you access other Websites that are not under the control of SDCourses. The links are only provided as a convenience and SDCourses does not endorse any of these sites. SDCourses assumes no responsibility or liability for any material that may be accessed on other Web sites reached through this Site, nor does SDCourses make any representation regarding the quality of any product or service contained at any such site.

Links from third party sites.

SDCourses prohibits unauthorised links to the Site and the framing of any information contained on the site or any portion of the Site. SDCourses reserves the right to disable any unauthorised links or frames. SDCourses has no responsibility or liability for any material on other Web sites that may contain links to this Site.

No warranties.

Although care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of information on this Site, SDCourses assumes no liability therefore. Information and documents provided on this Site are provided “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE”. SDCourses hereby disclaims any representations and warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including without limitation warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, title or as to operation or content. SDCourses uses reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information on this Site; it does not, however, make any warranties or representations as to its accuracy or completeness. SDCourses periodically ads, changes, improves, or updates the information and documents on this Site (including but not limited to products, pricings, programs, events, and offers) without notice. SDCourses assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content of this Site. Your use of this Site is at your own risk.

Limitation of Liability.

Under no circumstances shall SDCourses or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, or divisions, be liable for any damages suffered by you, including any incidental, special or consequential damages (including, without limitation, any lost profits or damages for business interruption, loss of information, programs or other data) that result from access to, use of, or inability to use this site or due to any breach of security associated with the transmission of information through the internet, even if SDCourses was advised of the possibility of such damages. any action brought against SDCourses pertaining to or in connection with this site must be commenced and notified to SDCourses in writing within one (1) year after the date the cause for action arose.

Privacy.

Protecting the privacy of our clients and users of our Sites is important to SDCourses. The SDCourses Privacy Statement, as updated and amended from time to time, describes how we use and protect information you provide to us. You acknowledges and agree that by providing SDCourses with any personal data through the Site, you consent to processing of such personal data in accordance with SDCourses Privacy Statement.

Security.

The security of information transmitted through the Internet can never be guaranteed. SDCourses does not warrant or make any representations as to the security of this Site. You acknowledge any information sent may be intercepted. SDCourses does not warrant that the Site or the servers, which make this site available or electronic communications sent by SDCourses are free from viruses or any other harmful elements. SDCourses is not responsible for any interception or interruption of any communications through the Internet or for changes to or losses of data. You are responsible for maintaining the security of any password, user ID, or other form of authentication involved in obtaining access to password protected or secure areas of SDCourses sites. In order to protect you and your data, SDCourses may suspend your use of a client site, without notice, pending an investigation, if any breach of security is suspected.

Access to password protected/ secure areas.

Access to and use of password protected and/or secure area of the Site is restricted to authorised users only. Unauthorised access to such areas is prohibited and may lead to criminal prosecution.

Forward-looking statements.

The information on this Site may contain certain projections or forward-looking statements with respect to the financial condition, results of operations and business of SDCourses or any of its affiliates and certain plans and objectives of SDCourses with respect to these items. By their nature, projections and forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. There are a number of factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these projections or forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, levels of business spending in major economies, the levels of marketing and promotional expenditures by SDCourses and its competitors, raw materials and employee costs, changes in future exchange and interest rates (in particular, changes in the euro and the US dollar can materially affect results), changes in tax rates and future business combinations, acquisitions or dispositions and the rate of technical changes.

Specific software available on this site.

Any software that may be made available to download from the Site (the “Software”) is the copyrighted work of SDCourses and/or a third party providing that Software. Software made available for downloading from or through this Site is licensed subject to the terms of the applicable licence agreement, which may accompany or be included with the Software (“Licence Agreement”). An end user may be unable to install any Software that is accompanied by or includes a Licence Agreement, unless the end user first agrees to the Licence Agreement terms. Except as set forth in the applicable Licence Agreement, the Software is made available for use by end users only and any further copying, reproduction or redistribution of the Software is expressly prohibited. Warranties, if any, with respect to such Software shall only apply as expressly set forth in the applicable Licence Agreement. SDCourses hereby expressly disclaims all further representations and warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for any particular purpose, title or non-infringement with respect to the Software.

Jurisdiction/ Governing law.

These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of The Netherlands without regard to its principles of conflict of laws. You agree that any disputes in connection with this agreement or its enforcement shall be resolved in a court of competent jurisdiction in The Netherlands.

In the event that any provision of the Terms of Use are deemed by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, the invalid portion of the Terms of Use shall be considered to be modified as closely as possible to the intent of SDCourses and the remainder of the Terms of Use shall remain in full force and effect.

Cookies

Effective date: June 2023

When you visit our websites, domains and/or products (“Websites”), your data is collected and stored using cookies. In this Cookie Policy you can read which information is collected and what it is used for (“Cookie Policy”). In addition, we provide an explanation of what you can do if you want to change your cookie preferences.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that are stored on the hard disk of your computer or smartphone during a visit to the Websites via your browser. Cookies have various functions such as:

  • Remembering the login name or settings;
  • Your preferences are stored so that you only have to enter this once;
  • Tracking surfing behaviour so we can optimise the Websites for visitors;
  • Content and advertisements can be tailored to your area of interest;

The use of cookies is safe and cookies are never used to retrieve any sensitive personal information such as passwords. The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of these Websites. For all other types of cookies we ask for your permission.

The different types of cookies

Functional.

This enables Websites to remember which choices you made during a website visit. These cookies are used, for example, to store preferences such as text size and font. These cookies are necessary for the Website to work properly and therefore these cookies are stored by default.

Analytical.

These cookies collect information about visitor behaviour on Websites, for example which pages you visit frequently. Based on this data, Websites and their navigation can be optimized. These cookies are also used to keep track of how you ended up on a website.

Marketing.

These cookies follow a user for a longer period of time across various Websites and are able to build up a profile. This allows a visitor to be segmented for specific interest. These cookies are often used to advertise online in a more targeted way. An advertisement network places a cookie on the computer or smartphone of the visitor via a third-party site. This cookie can be read by the network on the Website located in this advertisement network.

Disclaimer

Effective date: June 2023

Any product, process or technology published on this Website (“Site”) may be the subject of other intellectual property rights reserved by SDCourses and are not licensed hereunder. Any software programs and any corrections, updates or new versions of any software programs that may be made available by SDCourses through this Site are provided subject to the additional terms, conditions and restrictions indicated in the applicable section of this Site.

Information on this Site is provided “as is” without any warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, suitability for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. The information provided on this Site is intended for informational purposes only. Information may be changed or updated without notice. SDCourses may also make improvements and/or changes in the products, pricing and/or the programs described on the Site at any time without notice.

Any software products or software product documentation which is downloaded from this Site shall be subject to the licensing rights specified for such products with such products’ documentation.

In no event shall SDCourses be liable for any special, indirect, or consequential damages or any damages whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data, or profits, whether in an action of contract, negligence, or other action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of this information. In no event will SDCourses be liable to any party for any direct, indirect, special or other consequential damages for any use of this Site, or on any other linked website, including, without limitation, any lost profits, business interruption, loss of programs or other data on your information handling system or otherwise, even if we are expressly advised of the possibility of such damages.

If any provision or part of a provision of this disclaimer shall be, or be found by any court of competent jurisdiction or public authority to be, invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the other provisions or parts of such provisions of this disclaimer, all of which shall remain in full force and effect.

All rights reserved. All trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
© SDCourses.org, 2023.

Information security

Effective date: June 2023

SDCourses takes information security, including personal data related security, very seriously. Therefore, we have installed dedicated operational processes to manage information security, appointed dedicated security staff and installed an internal reporting mechanism to facilitate proper decision making in case of incidents.

Compliance Committee.

Obviously, we are committed to comply with all relevant legislation, such as the Dutch Data Protection Act. A key mechanism in managing information security is our compliance committee, in which we monitor security processes and discuss security incidents, after being detected and analysed by our corporate information security officer.

Transparency.

We are convinced that transparency on the quality of service we deliver is key to keeping the trust of our customers. Therefore, we have chosen to voluntarily publish important security incidents we have encountered. In our vision security incidents can and will happen occasionally. Key in this context is how often they occur and especially how you deal with them.