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This website is operated by Learning Dynamics Limited (“LD” or “we”), on its own behalf and on behalf of its affiliated entities.

Terms and Conditions

If you are under 18 years of age, please be sure to read these terms and conditions with your parent or guardian and ask questions about things you do not understand.

These Terms and Conditions apply to your use of this website: Universities Business Challenge Worldwide ubcworldwide.com and linking affiliates Sites, ( “linking affiliate Sites” means the following Sites:  www.learningdynamics.co.uk; www.thesimulationspace.com; their features and contents (“the Sites”).

Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully before using and/or registering on any linking affiliated entity Sites because by accessing or using the Sites or any mobile versions of it or by linking to it, you signify that you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. These Terms and Conditions are a legally binding agreement between you and us.

You are responsible for bringing these terms to the attention of anyone who may read material on these Sites as a result of your access to it.

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, add or delete portions of the Terms and Conditions at any time. If we do this, we will post the changes to these Terms and Conditions on this page and will indicate at the top of this page the date these terms were last revised. We may send registered users and subscribers an email notifying you of the change. Your continued use of the Sites after any such change whether or not you received an email from us notifying you of any changes, constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to abide by these or any future Terms and Conditions, please do not use or access (or continue to use or access) the Sites.

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to make any changes to the Sites and levels of service offered and to terminate access at any time.  You must not use data mining, robots, scraping or similar data gathering or extraction methods on any part of these Sites without our express prior written consent.

Proprietary Rights in Content; Limited Licence

All material on or available through this and linking affiliates Sites is (unless otherwise stated) copyright Learning Dynamics Limited and its licensor Learning Dynamics Limited. All rights are reserved.

Users are permitted to view, print and download the material for personal, non-commercial and class room use only but in so doing are not permitted to remove or amend any trademark, copyright or other proprietary notice. Class room use refers to non-commercial uses by a qualified teacher during a class of students registered in a qualified educational institution (“class-room use”).

Users are not entitled to modify the content of this Site and linking affiliate Sites or reproduce, republish, distribute, transmit, link, frame or deep-link it on any other website without the express permission of Learning Dynamics Limited. Users may not distribute, transmit, reproduce or publish by electronic or any other means any part of the data without the prior written permission of Learning Dynamics Limited. Users may not create a database in electronic or structured manual form by systematically downloading and storing all or any of the content. All other rights reserved.

All trademarks used on this Site and linking affiliate Sites are the property of their respective owners.

The use of any trademark on our Sites does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement of our Sites by such owners.

Registration Data and Account Security

When you register for any services offered on these Sites requiring registration, you are asked to provide specific information as set out in the registration form (“Registration Details”). You must provide accurate Registration Details and update your Registration Details as necessary so that they maintain their accuracy. You must keep your password and identification details secure.

Privacy

Registration Details or other information you provide to us as part of our registration process will be treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy which can be viewed here. By using the Site, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed by us in line with our Privacy Policy which forms part of these terms and conditions.

User Conduct

The Sites and all their features, whether or not requiring password registration or payment, is available for your personal, non-commercial use only. You represent and warrant and agree that no materials of any kind submitted to the Sites, including if you registered with us through your account, or otherwise posted, transmitted or shared by you will violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary rights or contain libellous, defamatory or otherwise harmful material. You may not use the Sites or any of its features for any illegal or unauthorised purpose. You agree to abide by all applicable local, state, national and international laws and regulations and are solely responsible for all your acts or omissions and for all those that occur under your account.

By submitting any material to us you agree to abide by the following rules. Learning Dynamics Limited reserves the right but does not have an obligation to monitor materials or any information which is posted on any part of the Sites, any bulletin boards, discussion forums or any tools available on the Sites allowing you to post comments, material, views, reviews or comment on material posted by you, us or others or to interact with others or materials in any way (“the Interactive Areas”) and on any part of the Sites requiring registration or subscription allowing you to do any of the above.

We also have the right, but no obligation, at any time to delete, remove, or suspend the whole or any part of the materials on these Sites or any content posted on them including in any Interactive Areas and areas requiring registration or subscription without notice and without incurring any liability. No part of our Sites is meant for you to post third-party copyrighted content. That includes the Interactive Areas including those requiring registration and/or subscription. And it means third party copyright content such as songs, film clips, an episode of a TV programme, parts of books, news articles, illustrations, photos or music videos.

The views, statements and opinions expressed in any of the Interactive Areas in any form are those of the individual contributors or advertisers and not the statements and opinions of Learning Dynamics Limited or its affiliated entities.

By posting your comments or materials on the Interactive Areas, you grant us and our affiliated entities a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, world-wide licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, publish, make available, distribute, include in other works, sub-license and display any content you submit to us in any format now known or later developed. By submitting material you acknowledge that you waive any moral rights you may have in it.

If you do not want to grant us these rights, please do not submit your comments or materials to us.

You may use the Interactive Areas only to post content that is proper and appropriate to such areas and you must not do any of the following:

1.advertise, promote or offer to sell any goods or services even if you are acting for a charity or non-profit organisation;

2.post, transmit unsolicited promotional material “junk” mail or “spam”, pyramid schemes;

3.harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information or use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Site;

4.reveal any confidential or sensitive information;

5.reveal any personal information on other persons (for example, email address, telephone number or postal address, credit card numbers, social security numbers);

6.post or link to any content that we deem unlawful, defamatory, obscene, threatening, offensive, fraudulent, harmful or otherwise objectionable (this includes but is not limited to text, graphics, video, programs or audio);

7.post content which you do not have permission to use, in particular, material that contains the intellectual property rights of third parties;

8.upload, post share or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses, computer codes, worms, trojans or any other components with harmful or contaminating effects to any user or equipment;

9.imply that any statements you make are endorsed by us;

10.delete any author attributions, legal notices or proprietary designations or labels in any content that is posted;

11.falsify the origin or source of content that is posted;

12.contribute content with the intention of committing or promoting an illegal act;

13.use inappropriate (e.g. vulgar or offensive) language or user names;

14.impersonate any living person or purport to represent any organisation;

15.use or attempt to use another’s account, service or system without authorisation, register for more than one account or register on behalf of another individual, group or entity;

16.reformat or frame any portion of the web pages that are part of the Site, deep link into it without permission.

Please bear in mind that we will identify you with content you submitted and may release that information to a court or other official if ordered to do so.

We may refuse to grant you a username that impersonates someone else, is or may be protected by trademark or other intellectual property rights, is vulgar, offensive or otherwise inappropriate, as determined by us in our sole discretion.

We do not undertake to keep or make available any material that you or anyone else has contributed to the Site for any length of time or at all. We may delete, archive, make unavailable, modify or comment on any material, and close or suspend any discussion topic at any time without notice.

You may not use the words “Universities Business Challenge”, “Global Masters Challenge”, “Business Management Experience”, “Learning Dynamics”, or any other trademark used on the Sites or belonging to us or our affiliated entities, in particular in any meta-tags or other “hidden text”, in each case without our express prior written consent.

User Disputes

You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of the Sites. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other users.

Disclaimers

Although we try to ensure that the information we provide on these Sites is correct, it is provided on an ‘as is’ basis, without warranties of any kind. No warranty, express or implied, is given that any of the content of these Sites is accurate, complete or up to date. Learning Dynamics Limited does not accept any liability for any error or omission of any content on these Sites, including content provided by us or any affiliated entities or by any users or other third parties.

Any and all representations and warranties whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement, whether implied by statute, common law, custom, trade usage, course of dealing or otherwise are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law. We do not exclude any liability in respect of death or personal injury caused by our negligence, liability for our fraud, or any other liability that we cannot exclude by law.

We cannot guarantee and do not promise any specific results from use of these Sites.

Use of these Sites and any content on any part of it whether requiring registration and/or subscription or not is at your own risk. Learning Dynamics Limited will not be liable to any users of these Sites (whether registered users, subscribers or not) and any third parties for any claims or losses of any nature including, but not limited to, loss of profits, direct, indirect, special or consequential damages arising from a user’s or third party’s use or inability to use this Site or any part of it, including any loss of data or lost profits or wasted time of management or employees even if Learning Dynamics Limited is aware of or has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Learning Dynamics Limited’s liability to you for any cause whatsoever, and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to the amount paid, if any, by you to us.

Learning Dynamics Limited accepts no responsibility for the content on any website to which a hypertext link from these Sites exists or for any use of personal data by the third party operating such a website. The links are provided ‘as is’ with no warranty, express or implied, for the information provided within them.

While Learning Dynamics Limitedmakes all reasonable attempts to exclude viruses or other code with contaminating or disruptive properties from these Sites, it cannot ensure such exclusion and no liability is accepted for viruses and any computer code/software. You are recommended to take all appropriate safeguards before downloading information from these Sites.

Information transmitted via these Sites will pass over public telecommunications networks. Learning Dynamics Limited makes no representation or warranty that the operation of these Sites will be uninterrupted or error free and disclaims all liability in this respect. These Sites may be temporarily unavailable from time to time for maintenance or other reasons.

Indemnity

You agree to hold harmless, indemnify, and at our request defend, Learning Dynamics Limited, its parents, subsidiaries and other affiliated entities and their respective owners, officers, managers, agents and employees from and against any third party claim arising from or in any way related to your material, your use of, conduct on the Site, including any liability or expense arising from all claims, liabilities, losses, damages (actual and consequential), suits, judgments, litigation costs, expenses and lawyers fees, for every kind and nature. In such a case, we will provide you with written notice of such claim, suit or action to the address you registered with us.

Termination

Learning Dynamics Limited may immediately suspend or terminate your access to these Sites without notice if any breach of these Terms and Conditions of use by you is brought to our attention.

If you breach these Terms and Conditions and we take no action, we will not be deemed to have waived any of our rights and may still use any rights and remedies that were open to us when you broke them.

Your registration may be terminated and your profile and any content or information that you have posted on these Sites may be deleted at any time. We may prohibit you from using or accessing these Sites for any reason, at any time in our sole discretion, with or without notice. These Terms and Conditions shall apply to any use of these Sites, also after your registration was terminated.

We reserve the right to deactivate user accounts and user names that have been inactive for more than 90 consecutive calendar days.

Governing Law: Venue and Jurisdiction

By visiting or using these Sites you agree that these Terms and Conditions are governed by and shall be interpreted in accordance with English law. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute between you and us, irrespective of whether or not you are a registered user/subscriber and irrespective of the type of dispute. You agree not to commence or prosecute any action against us other than in the courts of England and Wales and you hereby consent to, and waive all defences of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens with respect to, venue and jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales. Notwithstanding this, you agree that we shall still be allowed to apply for injunctive remedies (or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief) in any jurisdiction.

These Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and Learning Dynamics Limited. Learning Dynamics Limited shall be entitled to enforce this agreement on its own behalf and on behalf of and for the benefit of its affiliated entities. Apart from Learning Dynamics Limited affiliated entities who shall be entitled to enforce the terms of this agreement in the same way as Learning Dynamics Limited, nothing in this agreement shall confer on any third party any right or benefit under the provisions of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

Learning Dynamics Limited is a registered limited liability partnership in England and Wales whose registered office is at 21 Trafalgar Place, Lymington, Hampshire SO41 9BN, United Kingdom, Partnership number OC377791.

Our “affiliated entities” mean other Learning Dynamics Limited entities which are under common control by Learning Dynamics Limited, including without limitation UBC Worldwide, Universities Business Challenge United Kingdom, Universities Business Challenge South Africa, Universities Business Challenge Asia Pacific, LDSimulations.com