Terms of Use

IMD - Institute for Management Development (“IMD”) is providing you access to this site and the applications and services contained therein (collectively, the "Site"). The Site may be accessed by you through the internet via your browser or app (mobile or otherwise).

Your use of the Site is subject to all terms and policies as posted from time-to-time including the IMD Privacy Policy; (collectively referred to as the "Terms of Use").

Acceptance of the Terms
By accessing or using the Site, you acknowledge and represent that you have read, understood, agree to be bound by, and accept these Terms of Use. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, YOU MUST NOT USE THE SITE.

IMD may, at any time and at its sole discretion, modify these Terms of Use. Any such modifications will be made available online and will be effective immediately upon posting to IMD’s hosted site. You agree to assume responsibility for periodically reviewing these Terms of Use. By continuing to use the Site, following the initial posting date of modifications made by IMD, you agree to be bound by the Terms of Use as amended. If at any time, you disagree with the Terms of Use you must stop using the Site.

Right to Enter the Site
As long as you comply with these Terms of Use, IMD grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited permission to enter and use the Site. Any unauthorized use of the Site terminates the permission granted by IMD to enter and use the Site. No person under the age of 18 may use the Site.

Ownership and Use of Materials
All information, data, text, communications, graphics, user interfaces, visual interfaces, photographs, trademarks, logos, sounds, music, artwork and computer code contained on the Site (collectively, "Materials") are owned, controlled or licensed by or to IMD, and are protected by copyright, patent, trade dress and trademark laws, and various other Intellectual Property Rights (as that term is defined below). You may download, print and view Materials from the Site under these Terms of Use as long as you use the Materials only for non-commercial, personal use, and as long as you do not modify or alter the Materials in any way. You may not copy, republish, distribute, prepare derivative works, modify, or otherwise use the Materials other than as expressly permitted by these Terms of Use. IMD reserves the right to revoke at any time the authorization to view, download and print the Materials available on or via the Site, and you must discontinue such use immediately upon notice from IMD.

Privacy
Please review our Privacy Policy (https://www.imd.org/settings/privacy/) on the safety and privacy of all users of the Site.

User Obligations
You agree NOT to do any of the following while using the Site:

• Violate any applicable law, regulation or the Terms of Use;
• Tamper with other users' postings;
• Solicit or gather any user’s information available from the Site, such as other users' names and email addresses, for the purpose of transmitting any unsolicited advertising, "junk mail", "spam" or "chain letters";
• Impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity or create a false identity to mislead others;
• Post false or misleading information;
• Post or transmit any content that infringes a third party's Intellectual Property Rights (as that term is defined below) or rights of publicity or privacy, that you do not have the right to disclose under contractual or fiduciary obligations, or that is unlawful, untrue, fraudulent, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, pornographic, racist, harmful (including viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs), disparaging of IMD or other users, or otherwise objectionable;
• Sell or otherwise monetize or commercialize any information posted on the Site;
• Violate any other policies stated on the Site;
• Repeat any action after you receive a warning or request from IMD to stop, whether or not that action is explicitly prohibited in policies. This includes continuing to use the Site under the same account, a different account, or re-registering under a new account after your account has been temporarily suspended, indefinitely suspended or terminated; or
• Fail to respond to an email from IMD regarding a violation, dispute or complaint.

Indemnification
The software and access to the site are provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of fitness for a particular purpose and noninfringement. You agree to indemnify and hold IMD and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, directors, licensors, contractors and employees harmless from any claims, actions, costs, liabilities, expenses and damages, including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, made against IMD by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Site, your connection to the Site, your breach of any representation, warranty or obligation, your violation of this Terms of Use, or your violation of any rights of another user

Intellectual Property Rights means patents, inventions, trademarks, service marks, logos, design rights (whether registerable or otherwise), applications for any of the foregoing, copyright, database rights, domain names, trade or business names, moral rights and other similar rights or obligations whether registerable or not in any country (including but not limited to Switzerland) and the right to sue for passing off.