1. INTRO­DUC­TION

1.1 The event is organ­ised and man­aged by Bitcoin Events Pty Ltd, a com­pa­ny reg­is­tered in South Africa with reg­is­tra­tion num­ber 2014/195807/07 situated at Innovation City Cape Town, Darter Studio, Longkloof, Darters Rd, Gardens, Cape Town, 8001, South Africa.

1.2 Ref­er­ences to “us” means Bitcoin Events Pty Ltd and ref­er­ences to “we” and “our” shall be con­strued accord­ing­ly. Ref­er­ence to “you” means the enti­ty com­plet­ing a book­ing request and ref­er­ences to “your” shall be con­strued accordingly.

1.3 All appli­ca­tions to reg­is­ter for the event, and all orders to pur­chase the rel­e­vant doc­u­men­ta­tion pack are made sub­ject to these terms and con­di­tions (which shall apply to the exclu­sion of any terms you attempt to be incor­po­rate into our agree­ment with you).

1.4 You acknowledge and accept that we have the right to publicly announce our business rela­tion­ship with you which shall include but not be lim­it­ed to announce­ments on social media. Such announce­ments shall not be dis­parag­ing or oth­er­wise adverse to your business.

2. BOOK­INGS

2.1 All appli­ca­tions to reg­is­ter for the event are sub­ject to avail­abil­i­ty and full pay­ment being received by us.

2.2 Del­e­gate pass­es issued for the event are valid for the named attendee only and, sub­ject to clause 4.2 below, can­not be trans­ferred to any oth­er per­son.

3. PRICES AND PAYMENT

3.1 Prices may be sub­ject to change from time to time. Changes are shown on the registration form.

3.2 If you apply to reg­is­ter for the event less than two (2) weeks before the date of the event we will only accept pay­ment by a cred­it card unless we express­ly agree oth­er­wise in writ­ing. If for any rea­son we have not received pay­ment in full pri­or to the date of the event you (or the attend­ing del­e­gate) will be asked as a con­di­tion of being per­mit­ted to attend the event to pro­vide pay­ment by cred­it card on the day of the event. We reserve the right to can­cel your book­ing at any time and refuse entry if full pay­ment has not been received.

3.3 You acknowl­edge and accept that if pay­ment is not made in accor­dance with this Clause 3, inter­est on the over­due bal­ances (includ­ing any peri­od after the date of any judg­ment or decree against the Cus­tomer), and late pay­ment fees, fall due and payable and are cal­cu­lat­ed upon the basis set out in the Late Pay­ment of Com­mer­cial Debts (Inter­est) Act 1998 (as amended).

3.4 Bitcoin Events Pty Ltd does not offer refunds or price reductions for tickets purchased prior to the introduction of ticket promotions. Once a ticket is purchased, the transaction is considered final. Any subsequent promotions, discounts, or price adjustments introduced after the ticket purchase will not be applicable to previously purchased tickets. We encourage customers to review event details and pricing carefully before completing their ticket transactions.

4. CHANGES TO THE EVENT AND CANCELLATIONS

4.1 It may be nec­es­sary for rea­sons beyond our rea­son­able con­trol to alter the adver­tised con­tent, tim­ing and/ or loca­tion of the event or the adver­tised speak­ers. We reserve the right to do this at any time. Where we alter the date and/ or loca­tion of the event, we will pro­vide you with notice of the same and will offer you the choice of either: (a) cred­it for a future event of your choice (up to the val­ue of sums paid by you in respect of the event) to be used with­in 12 months of the alter­ation notice; or (b) the oppor­tu­ni­ty to attend the event as varied.

4.2 If a del­e­gate is unable to attend the event we wel­come a sub­sti­tute del­e­gate attend­ing at no extra cost pro­vid­ed that we have at least two (2) days’ pri­or notice of the name of your pro­posed sub­sti­tute and pay­ment has been received in full. Please noti­fy us of any sub­sti­tu­tions by email at info@bitcoinevents.co.za.

4.3 We ask that you noti­fy us if a del­e­gate can­not attend the event. If you would like to make a can­cel­la­tion in respect of a book­ing, no refunds will be giv­en except in accor­dance with this clause

You may can­cel a book­ing only by send­ing an email to info@bitcoinevents.co.za clear­ly iden­ti­fy­ing the event, the num­ber of del­e­gates and the del­e­gate names the can­cel­la­tion is in respect of. If we receive a valid can­cel­la­tion email:

4.3.1 more than two (2) months pri­or to the planned date of the event, a 50% refund will be issued;

4.3.2 between two (2) months and one (1) month pri­or to the planned date of the event, a 25% refund will be issued; and

4.3.3 less than one (1) month pri­or to the planned date of the event, no refund will be given.

4.4 Any refund due under clause 4.3 shall be paid with­in 28 days of receipt of the can­cel­la­tion notice.

4.5 We shall not be liable to you for trav­el, accom­mo­da­tion or oth­er costs and expens­es incurred (includ­ed wast­ed costs and expens­es) if we are required to can­cel or relo­cate the event as a result of an event out­side our rea­son­able con­trol (includ­ing, with­out lim­i­ta­tion, to acts of God, floods, light­ning, storm, fire, explo­sion, war, mil­i­tary oper­a­tions, acts or threats of ter­ror­ism, strike action, lock-outs or oth­er indus­tri­al action or a pan­dem­ic, epi­dem­ic or oth­er wide­spread illness).

4.6 You have no right to can­cel a book­ing except in accor­dance with this clause 4.

5. CON­TENT

5.1 All rights in all pre­sen­ta­tions, doc­u­men­ta­tion and mate­ri­als pub­lished or oth­er­wise made avail­able as part of the event (includ­ing but not lim­it­ed to any doc­u­men­ta­tion packs or audio or audio-visu­al record­ing of the event) (“Con­tent”) are owned by us or are includ­ed with the per­mis­sion of the own­er of the rights. No (i) pho­tog­ra­phy, film­ing or record­ing; or (ii) repub­li­ca­tion, broad­cast or oth­er dis­sem­i­na­tion of the Con­tent is per­mit­ted. You shall not dis­trib­ute, repro­duce, mod­i­fy, store, trans­fer or in any oth­er way use any of the Con­tent (save that use by the rel­e­vant del­e­gate for inter­nal busi­ness pur­pos­es shall be per­mit­ted), and in par­tic­u­lar (but with­out lim­i­ta­tion) you shall not (and shall pro­cure that each of your del­e­gates shall not):

5.1.1 upload any Con­tent into any shared system;

5.1.2 include any Con­tent in a database;

5.1.3 include any Con­tent in a web­site or on any intranet;

5.1.4 trans­mit, re-cir­cu­late or oth­er­wise make avail­able any Con­tent to any­one else;

5.1.5 make any com­mer­cial use of the Con­tent what­so­ev­er; or

5.1.6 use Con­tent in any way that might infringe third par­ty rights or that may bring us or any of our affil­i­ates into disrepute.

5.2 The Con­tent does not nec­es­sar­i­ly reflect our views or opinions.

5.3 Sug­ges­tions or advice con­tained in the Con­tent should not be relied upon in place of pro­fes­sion­al or oth­er advice. Whilst we take rea­son­able care to ensure that the Con­tent cre­at­ed by us is accu­rate and com­plete, some of it is sup­plied by third par­ties and we are unable to check its accu­ra­cy or com­plete­ness. You should ver­i­fy the accu­ra­cy of any infor­ma­tion (whether sup­plied by us or third par­ties) before rely­ing on it. The Con­tent is pro­vid­ed on an “as is” basis with­out any war­ranties of any kind (express or implied). We here­by exclude to the fullest extent per­mit­ted by law all lia­bil­i­ties, costs, claims, dam­ages, loss­es and/ or expens­es aris­ing from any inac­cu­ra­cy or omis­sion in the Con­tent or aris­ing from any infring­ing, defam­a­to­ry or oth­er­wise unlaw­ful mate­r­i­al in the Content.

5.4 To the extent that any Con­tent is made avail­able by us online or in any oth­er way oth­er than phys­i­cal hard copy form we reserve the right to sus­pend or remove access to such Con­tent at any time.

6. LIA­BIL­I­TY

6.1 Sub­ject to Clause 6.4, our aggre­gate lia­bil­i­ty to you, whether such lia­bil­i­ty aris­es in con­tract, tort (includ­ing neg­li­gence) or oth­er­wise, for any dam­ages, loss, costs, claims or expens­es of any kind how­so­ev­er aris­ing, out of in con­nec­tion with any book­ing (or request­ed book­ing) made by you or oth­er­wise in rela­tion to a event, shall be lim­it­ed to the price paid by you in respect of your book­ing to attend the event.

6.2 Sub­ject to Clause 6.4, we shall not be liable to you for: (i) any loss of prof­it, loss of or dam­age to data, loss of antic­i­pat­ed sav­ings or inter­est, loss of or dam­age to rep­u­ta­tion or good­will; or (ii) any indi­rect, spe­cial or con­se­quen­tial dam­ages, loss, costs, claims or expens­es of any kind.

6.3 You agree to indem­ni­fy us, our staff and our affil­i­ates and to hold us harm­less to the fullest extent per­mit­ted by law, against all loss, costs, claims or expens­es of any kind aris­ing from any act or omis­sion by you (includ­ing your del­e­gates) dur­ing or oth­er­wise in rela­tion to an event.

6.4 Noth­ing in this these Terms and Con­di­tions shall lim­it or exclude a party’s lia­bil­i­ty for:

6.4.1 death or per­son­al injury caused by its neg­li­gence, or the neg­li­gence of its employ­ees, agents or subcontractors;

6.4.2 fraud or fraud­u­lent mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion; or

6.4.3 any oth­er lia­bil­i­ty which can­not be lim­it­ed or exclud­ed by applic­a­ble law.

7. GEN­ER­AL

7.1 These terms and con­di­tions (togeth­er with any doc­u­ments referred to here­in or required to be entered into pur­suant to these terms and con­di­tions) con­tain the entire agree­ment and under­stand­ing between us and super­sede all pri­or agree­ments, under­stand­ings or arrange­ments (both oral and writ­ten) relat­ing to the sub­ject mat­ter of these terms and con­di­tions and any such document.

7.2 You acknowl­edge that in reg­is­ter­ing a del­e­gate place you have not relied on, and shall have no rem­e­dy in respect of, any state­ment, rep­re­sen­ta­tion, war­ran­ty, under­stand­ing, promise or assur­ance (whether neg­li­gent­ly or inno­cent­ly made) of any per­son oth­er than as express­ly set out in these terms and conditions.

7.3 Bitcoin Events Pty Ltd is part of an enlarged group which pledges to trade legal­ly and respect all laws includ­ing the trade sanc­tions imposed by EU and US Gov­ern­ments. We oper­ate a group sanc­tions pol­i­cy which means that we can­not allow atten­dees at our events or awards to be based, resid­ing or con­nect­ed with a coun­try or organ­i­sa­tion sub­ject to EU and/ or US Gov­ern­ment sanc­tions and we reserve the right to refuse book­ings from or entry to any such per­sons or organisations.

7.4 These terms and con­di­tions shall not cre­ate, nor shall they be con­strued as cre­at­ing, any part­ner­ship or agency rela­tion­ship between us.

7.5 You accept that com­mu­ni­ca­tion with us may be elec­tron­ic. We may con­tact you by e-mail or pro­vide you with infor­ma­tion by post­ing notices on our web­site. You agree to this elec­tron­ic means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion and you acknowl­edge that all such com­mu­ni­ca­tions that we pro­vide to you elec­tron­i­cal­ly com­ply with any legal or con­trac­tu­al require­ment that such com­mu­ni­ca­tion be made in writing.

7.6 Save as set out in Clause 4.2 you are not per­mit­ted to re-sell, trans­fer, assign or oth­er­wise dis­pose of any of your rights or oblig­a­tions aris­ing under these terms and conditions.

7.7 These terms and con­di­tions and the rights and oblig­a­tions of both par­ties shall be gov­erned by, and con­strued in accor­dance with, the laws of the Republic of South Africa and both par­ties irrev­o­ca­bly agree to sub­mit to the exclu­sive juris­dic­tion of the courts of the Republic of South Africa in respect of any dis­pute which aris­es hereunder.

7.8 A con­tract formed under these terms shall ter­mi­nate at the lat­er of (a) the end of the event (as rea­son­ably deter­mined by us) or (b) on com­ple­tion of all your oblig­a­tions under the contract.

8. CON­SUMER RIGHTS

8.1 If you are book­ing to attend an event and are a con­sumer with­in the def­i­n­i­tion in the Con­sumer Rights Act 2015 or under oth­er applic­a­ble con­sumer pro­tec­tion laws, noth­ing in these terms shall exclude or lim­it any con­sumer rights that can­not be exclud­ed or lim­it­ed by law.

9. DATA PRO­TEC­TION AND PRI­VA­CY POLICY

View our privacy policy here.