These are the terms (the “Agreement”) that govern your attendance and participation in the BioGaia Academy.
- Compliance
Subject to what is specifically mentioned in this Agreement, you acknowledge and agree that you have no obligations to BioGaia after attending the BioGaia Academy, including no obligation on recommending products from BioGaia, purchase products from BioGaia and conduct presentations on BioGaias studies and products.
You guarantee that your employer has approved that you attend the BioGaia Academy under the terms in this Agreement. - Admittance
You will receive documentation and handouts pertaining to the work being presented, refreshments and a light breakfast, lunch and dinner for multiple day workshops during the start and graduation meetings.
Travel to get the BioGaia Academy venue, accommodation or any other expenses incurred by you for and during the training workshop shall be borne solely by you and BioGaia shall have no liability for such costs, if not otherwise agreed. - Media
By attending the BioGaia Academy you acknowledge and agree to grant BioGaia the right at the BioGaia Academy to record, film, photograph or capture your likeness in any media now available and hereafter developed and to distribute, broadcast, use or otherwise globally to disseminate, in perpetuity, such media without any further approval from you or any payment to you. This grant to BioGaia includes, but is not limited to, the right to edit such media, the right to use the media alone or together with other information, and the right to allow others to use and/or disseminate the media. - BioGaia Academy Content
You acknowledge and agree that BioGaia, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to change any and all aspects of the BioGaia Academy, including but not limited to, the BioGaia Academy name, themes, content, program, speakers, performers, hosts, moderators, venue and time. - Privacy notice
BioGaia is responsible for the processing of your personal information and is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.The data controller is:
BioGaia AB
P.O.Box 3242
SE 103 64 Stockholm
Sweden
Email: [email protected]BioGaia will only collect and process the information you give us when agree to attend and participate in the BioGaia Academy, which includes your name, postal address, workplace, e-mail address, curriculum vitae, telephone number and profile photo.
We will only use your personal data to fulfil this Agreement regarding your attendance and participation in the BioGaia Academy, to inform you about future lecture opportunities and to fulfil our legal obligations. The legal basis of the processing occurs by virtue of the consent you submitted when you agree to attend and participate in the BioGaia Academy. We store the personal data for this purpose until you withdraw your consent, or at the latest 5 years.
BioGaia may share your personal data with third parties. These parties are either Data processors or data controllers.
Data processors are allowed to process personal data only for the specific aims and purposes defined by us. Our processors, and the data they receive, include:
•Platform and technology suppliers: contact information.Data controllers are companies that use personal data for their own purposes and are independently responsible to you for the personal data processing they carry out. BioGaia may also share your personal data with government agencies, to the extent that it results from law or other legal obligation incumbent upon us. On rare occasions, we may share personal data when we believe it is necessary to comply with the law, regulation or legal request (including a court order or government inquiry), or to enforce or apply our terms of use or other agreements. In addition, we may use, make available or transfer personal data to third parties in conjunction with reorganisation, merger, sale, joint venture, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or part of our operations, assets or shares (including in conjunction with bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
We will on your explicit consent share your personal information with business partners or BioGaia’s distributors. Except as stated above BioGaia will not disclose information to any third party.
All personal data you provide to us is protected using both organisational and technical security measures. These measures are used to store, process and communicate the data securely. In the event that you would like to know which security measures we apply, you can contact us using the contact information above.
You can always request access to your personal data. This includes the right to request information on where we retrieved the data from, the scope and legal basis of our processing, and with which recipients (or categories of recipients) your personal data has been shared.
You have the right, in certain circumstances, to require us to erase some or all of your personal data, provided that it is not necessary for us to retain this data in order to fulfil our legal obligations. You have the right to request that your data be erased if:
• your personal data is no longer necessary for the purpose behind the processing;
• you withdraw your consent on which the processing is based;
• you object to the processing and we are not considered as having a legitimate interest; or
• the personal data has been processed unlawfully.
Depending on the circumstances, we may need to retain some data until we are no longer obligated to process it.You have the right to have erroneous personal data concerning you corrected without unnecessary delays. If you discover errors in the data that we hold about you, please notify us via e-mail ([email protected]). You also have the right to supplement incomplete data that we have on you.
To help us keep our information accurate and up-to-date, please provide us with correct data and inform us in the event your data changes.You have the right, in some circumstances, to require that we limit our processing of your personal data. A limitation can be imposed for several reasons:
• If you believe that the data we have on you is incorrect and request correction, you can request limited processing during the time we take to check whether the personal data is correct.
• If you have objected to processing based on BioGaia’s legitimate interests, you can request limited processing during the time we take to check how our and your legitimate interests are balanced.
• If we no longer need the data, but you require that we keep the data in relation to a legal claim.
• If our processing is unlawful, but you oppose our deletion of the data, you can request limited processing of the data instead.Under certain conditions, you have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, generally used and machine-readable format so you can transfer it to another personal data controller.
Where we are processing your data based on the public interest or BioGaia’s legitimate interests, you have the right to object to that processing. However, we may continue the processing in question if we can demonstrate a legitimate reason for it. You also have the right to object to direct marketing.
In the event we base our processing on your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection’s (IMY) (www.imy.se). We would, however, be grateful if you would contact us in the first instance so we can endeavour to deal with your concerns direct. - Intellectual property
All intellectual property rights in and to the BioGaia Academy, the BioGaia Academy content and all materials distributed at or in connection with the BioGaia Academy are owned by BioGaia. You may not use or reproduce or allow anyone to use or reproduce any trademarks or other trade names appearing at the BioGaia Academy, in any BioGaia Academy content and/or in any materials distributed at or in connection with the BioGaia Academy for any reason without the prior written permission of BioGaia.
For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to vest in you any legal or beneficial right in or to any trade marks or other intellectual property rights owned or used under license by BioGaia or grant to you any right or license to any other intellectual property rights of BioGaia, all of which shall at all times remain the exclusive property of BioGaia. - Confidentiality
You shall hold and maintain Confidential Information received during the BioGaia Academy in strictest confidence for the sole and exclusive benefit of BioGaia.
“Confidential Information” shall include all information or material that has or could have commercial value or other utility in the business in which BioGaia is engaged, and if in written form labeled with the word “Confidential”, or if transmitted orally, BioGaia has within 10 days provided a writing indicating that such oral communication constituted Confidential Information.
Your obligations under this Agreement do not extend to information that is: (a) publicly known at the time of disclosure or subsequently becomes publicly known through no fault of you; (b) discovered or created by you before disclosure by BioGaia; (c) learned by you through legitimate means other than from the BioGaia; or (d) is disclosed by you with BioGaia’s prior written approval. - Termination
BioGaia reserves the right to request your removal with the 30 days written notice from the BioGaia Academy if you do not participate in the mandatory parts of the program.
You have the right to terminate your participation in the program with 30 days written notice. - Warranties and limitation of liability
BioGaia gives no warranties in respect of any aspect of the BioGaia Academy or any materials related thereto or offered at the BioGaia Academy and, to the fullest extent possible under the laws governing this Agreement, disclaims all implied warranties, including but not limited to warranties of fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, timeliness and merchantability. BioGaia cannot accept any responsibility or liability for reliance by you or any person on any aspect of the BioGaia Academy and/or any information provided at the BioGaia Academy.
Other than to the extent required as a matter of law: (i) BioGaia shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential costs, damages or losses arising directly or indirectly from the BioGaia Academy or other aspect related thereto or in connection with this Agreement.
The maximum aggregate liability of BioGaia for any claim in any way connected with therewith or this Agreement whether in contract, tort or otherwise (including any negligent act or omission) shall be limited to the amount paid by you to attend the BioGaia Academy. - Governing law and jurisdiction
This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of Sweden and the parties shall submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Swedish courts.