Disclaimer

In this Disclaimer the following terms are defined as follows:

1. IM Associates BVBA, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of Belgium, with its registered offices at B-3020 Herent, Perilstraat 52, building E-PO box 5, and registered with the Belgian RPR/RPM Leuven under number BE 0464.554.477, including any Affiliates;

2. Affiliate: Means any affiliated company as defined in article 11 of the Belgian Company Code;

3. Website: the websites of IM Associates, www.im-associates.eu and www.im-smart.eu, and derivative websites developed and administered by IM Associates;
   
   

1 General information about the Website

The consultation or use of the Website implies full acknowledgement and acceptance of the Disclaimer. If you continue with the consultation of the Website, this means that you explicitly accept the terms listed below and will comply with them strictly.

The information published on the Website is of a general and informative nature and is not published with the aim to meet individual needs. Neither is the information necessarily complete or up-to-date nor does it contain any individual advice or professional recommendations.

2 Intellectual property rights

The Website, including text, layout, graphic elements, presentation, logos, software, databases, trademarks and tradenames of IM Associates and other components of this Website are protected by intellectual property rights belonging to IM Associates or third parties. You expressly undertake to fully respect the intellectual property rights of IM Associates and/or third parties.

IM Associates has or will prescribe brand and trademark guidelines which have to be adhered to by the relevant licensees.

Any reproduction, circulation, sale, distribution, publication, modification, translation, adaptation or use for commercial purposes of all or part of this Website in any form and by any means is prohibited, except with the prior written consent of IM Associates. This also applies to data that are not protected by intellectual property rights, and which can be collected through amongst others the technique of ‘screen scraping’. By making the Website available and allowing the use of the Website, IM Associates does not grant a licence in any way.

IM Associates reserves the right to take any measures it deems necessary in order to prevent the infringement of its intellectual property rights and/or to put an end to this infringement, without accepting any liability for the consequences of these measures.

IM Associates is not obliged to respond to any creative materials, ideas or suggestions that are received unsolicited. By providing information or materials you grant IM Associates a worldwide, royalty-free and irrevocable license to use the information or materials for all purposes deemed acceptable to IM Associates, including the granting of sublicenses. You agree that IM Associates is free to use any ideas, concepts, to use knowledge or techniques contained in the information or material that you provided for whatsoever reason, including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information and materials.

3 Hyperlinks

IM Associates must be notified in advance of the creation of hyperlinks to the Website. The hyperlink may only redirect the user to the homepage of the Website, which must open in a new browser tab.  Deep linking is prohibited.

The Website may also contain hyperlinks to other websites. IM Associates can in no way be held liable for the content, security or privacy and cookie policy of a website to which a hyperlink on the Website refers.
Inserting hyperlinks to one or more other websites shall in no way mean that there is an association, partnership or accession with or to the institutions managing these websites nor shall it imply approval of the content of these websites. The hyperlinks are provided purely for information purposes. IM Associates does not check (the contents of) these websites.
Once IM Associates has definite knowledge of any illegal content on any website referred to by a hyperlink on the Website, or if its content does not correspond to the intended objective of IM Associates, IM Associates will remove the hyperlink to this website. IM Associates can in no way be held liable for the placement of the hyperlink to the relevant website.

4 Liability

IM Associates can never be held liable for direct or indirect damage arising from the use of the information on the Website. By visiting the Website, you waive any claim or any recourse against IM Associates concerning the use of data and information made available on the Website.

By visiting the Website you agree to assume all the risks associated with the use of the Website. This includes the risk of damage to the computer, software or data if this damage is due to malware that could have been passed on or activated through the Website. IM Associates cannot be held liable for such damage.

You further acknowledge the right of IM Associates to interrupt access to the Website at any time and without prior notice, including for, but not limited to, the following reasons: tracing or suppressing possible cases of abuse and/or fraud, solving technical or operational errors in functioning, or in the event of an injunction by a court for allegedly infringing the (intellectual property) rights of third parties or having actual knowledge of such an infringement, etc.

5 Security of the website

IM Associates will to its best efforts take measures to effectuate the security of the Website, including security investigations, encryption techniques, secure environments and all reasonable measures and procedures given the state of the art in the field. In the event of an attack on the Website, computer-related crime or any other unauthorized attempt to access a part or all of the Website, IM Associates will use all legal means at its disposal to protect the integrity of its Website and do this with the cooperation of the competent authorities.

6 Privacy

For more information about our privacy policy, please consult our Privacy Statement.

7 Cookies

To make our Website user friendly, we can make use of cookies. You can refuse these cookies by programming your internet browser to inform you about cookies or systematically blocking cookies.

For more information about our cookie policy, please consult our Cookie Policy.

8 Changes to the Website and/or the Disclaimer

IM Associates reserves the right to change the Website and the information on the Website at any time and without prior notice, and to remove this information, either temporarily or permanently.

It is your responsibility to ensure that you are informed of the latest Disclaimer. After each modification to this Disclaimer, the date at the top of the disclaimer will be updated. If you continue to use the Website after such modification, you indicate by doing so that you expressly agree to and accept the changes.

IM Associates declines any form of liability for any adverse consequences that may result from the changes made to the content of the Website or the Disclaimer.
IM Associates reserves the right to continuously update this Disclaimer.

9 Miscellaneous

If any of the provisions of this Disclaimer would be wholly or partially annulled by a binding decision, this shall have no effect whatsoever on the other provisions of this Disclaimer. IM Associates is entitled to modify or replace such a provision by another provision which, within legal limits, has the same effect.

The failure of IM Associates to demand strict compliance with the provisions of this Disclaimer shall not be construed as a waiver or rejection thereof.

10 Applicable law 

By visiting the Website and thus expressly accepting this Disclaimer and the conditions therein, you agree that any dispute or claim relating to the Website or any information stated therein shall be governed by Belgian law and the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Leuven (Belgium).