FEI Website Terms and Conditions

Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully. By accessing this website/application and/or any pages thereof (hereinafter referred to collectively as the « Website »), you signify your agreement with and understanding of the following Terms and Conditions and the legal information pertaining to both this Website and any material on it. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, do not access this Website. In addition, when using particular services, you and the FEI shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such services that may be posted on the Website from time to time. All such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into these Terms and Conditions.
The FEI reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any time without notice to you. You are therefore responsible for regularly reviewing these Terms and Conditions. Continued use of this Website following any such changes shall constitute your acceptance of such changes.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

The Website was created by the FEI, HM King Hussein I Building, Chemin de la Joliette 8, 1006 Lausanne, Switzerland. All rights reserved. Copyright FEI 2023.
Unless otherwise indicated, all of the content featured or displayed on this Website, including, but not limited to, text, graphics, data, photographic images, moving images, sound, illustrations, software, and the selection and arrangement thereof (« FEI Content »), is owned by the FEI, its licensors, or its third-party image partners and all rights are reserved.  FEI Content may not be reproduced in any way without the prior permission of the FEI.
All elements of the Website, including the FEI Content, are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws relating to the protection of intellectual property. FEI shall bear no responsibility whatsoever for unauthorised copying and/or use of any material property of third parties on the Website.
Nothing in the Website is designed to grant any licence or right to use any names, logos, pictures or trademarks. No act of downloading or otherwise copying or reproducing from the Website will transfer title to you to any software or material on the Website.
Except as otherwise stated above, you are granted permission to view, store, print, reproduce, distribute any pages or download any material from the Website for personal non-commercial use only provided that (a) you do not modify any such page or any such material and (b) you include these Terms and Conditions with any reproduction. Any unauthorised reproduction for commercial purposes of the Website or any part thereof is a violation of FEI’s rights.

NO OFFER OF SERVICE

Unless otherwise expressly stated, the material on the Website is intended to be for informational purposes only. FEI makes no representation that material on the Website is appropriate or available for use in jurisdictions other than Switzerland. Those users who choose to access the Website from other locations do so at their own risk and are responsible for compliance with local laws and regulations.

DISCLAIMER

Although the FEI has taken all reasonable care that the information contained within the Website is accurate at the time of publication, however no representation or guarantee (including liability towards third parties), expressed or implied, is made as to its accuracy, reliability or completeness.
Therefore, FEI and its Directors, employees, content providers, agents, affiliates assume no liability for the use or interpretation of information contained herein. Your use of the Website is on an « AS IS » and « AS AVAILABLE » BASIS AND AT YOUR SOLE RISK, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, SUITABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS.
In particular, the FEI assumes no responsibility for, and makes no guarantees that (i) the Website and services on the Website will meet your requirements, (ii) services and functions on the Website will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, (iii) results that may be obtained from the use of the Website and services on the Website will be accurate or reliable, (iv) defects will be corrected, or (v) the Website or the servers that make it available will be free of viruses or other harmful elements.
Any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the Website is done at your own discretion and risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or loss of data that results from the download of any such material.

LINKS FROM AND TO THE WEBSITE

You acknowledge and agree that the FEI has no responsibility for the accuracy or availability of information, material or content provided by third party linked websites, if any, or the content, performance, terms and conditions of use or the privacy policies or practices on such websites. Links to such sites do not constitute an endorsement by the FEI of such websites or the content, products, or other materials or services presented on such websites. Information in the many webpages that are linked to the Website, and the applications and services available through the Website, comes from a variety of sources. The FEI does not author, edit, or monitor the content, links, or services provided by third parties, if any. FEI SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, FOR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS CAUSED OR ALLEGED TO BE CAUSED BY OR IN CONNECTION WITH USE OF OR RELIANCE ON ANY SUCH CONTENT, PRODUCTS, OR OTHER MATERIAL AVAILABLE ON THE WEBSITE OR ON THIRD PARTY LINKED WEBSITES.
In the event that you wish to establish a link to the Website, you expressly agree:

  • to ask prior written approval of FEI to establish a link to the Website;
  • not to include the Website into the frame of another website and to create a direct link to the FEI’s official Website at www.fei.org.
  • not to create any third party association with the Website; and
  • to ensure that the link does not state or imply that FEI sponsors or endorses any other website activity, company or entity, or presents the FEI and/or equestrian sport Horse Sport in a false, misleading, defamatory or derogatory manner
    The link to our Website does not permit you to use any the FEI and/or third party content, names, logos, pictures or trademarks, unless separately agreed to in writing by the relevant rights-holder.

INDEMNITY

As a condition of use of the Website, you agree to indemnify the FEI and its affiliates, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all liabilities, expenses (including attorneys’ fees) and damages arising out of claims resulting from your use of the Website.

PRIVACY & SECURITY

FEI is subject to Swiss data protection laws when collecting and processing personal data. For details, please refer to our Privacy Policy on the Website.

APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION

By accessing the website, you agree that the laws of Switzerland, without regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof, will apply to all matters relating to the use of the website.
In the case of a dispute, you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Lausanne, Switzerland.