Membership Terms and Conditions
Please read the following important terms and conditions which set out our respective legal rights and responsibilities in respect of your Price Writer membership. You agree to be bound by these terms and conditions and confirm that the information you have submitted is accurate and complete.
In these terms, references to “Price Writer”, “we”, “us” or “our” shall be to Price Writer Ltd with company number 10756070 and registered address at 85 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 7LT.
These are non-negotiable standard terms. If you wish to create a bespoke agreement we reserve the right to charge a fee for any changes to these terms.
Conference
1. Your Membership may entitle you to conference places as indicated on your booking confirmation.
2. Additionally, you shall get access to video recordings via our chosen Learning Management System, to be notified to you by us (the “LMS”).
Member Engagement
3. As a Price Writer member, you and your Team Members must abide by our Code of Conduct provided on our website, as well as these terms and conditions, and you agree to procure their compliance with the same.
4. In particular you agree to, and shall procure that your Team Members shall, abide by all applicable laws and regulations including, but not limited to, in relation to UK competition law and the 1998 Competition Act, which states “...agreements between undertakings, decisions by associations of undertakings or concerted practices which (a) may affect trade within the United Kingdom, and (b) have as their object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition within the United Kingdom, are prohibited...”.
5. If there are repeated breaches of the Code of Conduct by specific Team Members, we reserve the right to withhold or remove Member Benefits (defined below) from such Team Member.
Member Benefits
6. You will also be granted membership in the Price Writer Training Program, a place on our Expert Panel if you are deemed by Price Writer to meet the seniority requirements, and any other benefits, as set out on our website, in our marketing communications, or as otherwise communicated to you by us, (“Member Benefits”) during the term of your Membership.
7. We shall administer and provide you with access to the Price Writer Training Program via the LMS.
8. You acknowledge that the Member Benefits may change from time to time.
9. You must notify us if you wish to remove or replace participating Team Members in writing, and upon removal such Team Member’s progress on the Price Writer Training Program shall be cancelled.
Filming and photography
10. We may, at our discretion, choose to photograph, film, broadcast or record any event or conference which you’re invited to (“Event”). Subject to clause 27, you grant us an irrevocable licence to use and sublicense the use of your and any Team Member’s name, voice, likeness, image and any contribution made by you or any Team Member at or to the Event in any and all media (whether now known or hereinafter invented) throughout the world and in perpetuity.
11. You must notify us at least 48 hours prior to an Event if you or any Team Member do not wish for your or their name, voice, likeness, image and/or contribution to be used in accordance with clause 26. All such notices must be sent to notify@PriceWriters.com.
12. On the basis that other Event attendees may not wish for their name, voice, likeness, image and/or contribution to be used in accordance with clause 26, we are unable to permit you to photograph, film, broadcast or record an Event without our express prior approval.
13. The terms are governed by English law and the parties subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
Membership Term and Renewal
14. Your membership shall last for a 12 month period beginning on the date of purchase (“Term”). After this period, the Term shall automatically renew for additional 12 month periods on each anniversary of the invoice date (each a “Renewal Term”). If you don’t wish to renew you must notify us in writing at least 30 days prior to the end of the Term or relevant Renewal Term (as applicable), and you shall cease to have access to any of the Member Benefits (defined below).
Membership Fees
15. The annual fee payable for your Price Writer membership (“Membership Fee”) shall be based on the number of seats you wish to book. Please see our website for the current prices here.
16. All payments should be made in £GBP and where applicable shall include VAT at the standard rate.
17. You shall indicate the number of seats you wish to book via email or phone, and we shall confirm on the attached booking form and invoice for the corresponding amount.
18. If you wish to move up to a tier allowing more seats, then please email us, and we shall issue you with a further invoice for the pro-rata increase in Membership Fee between the two tiers. There shall be no refunds for any downgrades in tiers.
19. You acknowledge that your annual Membership Fees may change for each Renewal Term depending on our Membership Fee rates (as varied by us from time to time and notified to you as set out below) and/or the introduction or expiry of any discounts we have agreed to give you from time to time.
20. The Membership Fee for the Term and each Renewal Term is payable in full, within 30 days of the date of our invoice for such sums (invoices to be issued at the beginning of the Term and each Renewal Term).
21. Membership Fee payments shall be made by bank transfer to the bank details set out in the invoice or via card payment. Please use our invoice number or your business name as your reference for the payment.
22. Our Membership Fee rates are reviewed periodically and may be varied by us from time to time (at our sole discretion). When any such changes are made, we will provide you with at least 30 days’ notice and your new Membership Fee will be effective from the start of the next Renewal Term to commence after the date of the notice.
Your right to cancel your membership
23. If you choose to cancel your membership, you acknowledge that: • you will have no claim to any refund of Membership Fees already paid; and • all Membership Fees due but not yet paid will immediately become due and payable by you.
Our right to terminate your membership
24. We reserve the right to immediately terminate your membership for the following reasons on giving you written notice of the same if: (i) you have committed a breach of any of the terms hereof and (where such breach is capable of being remedied) shall have failed to remedy the same within 14 (fourteen) days of receiving a notice specifying the breach and requiring its remedy; (ii) you have repeatedly breached any provisions of our Code of Conduct (iii) you engage in conduct which, in our reasonable opinion, reflects unfavourably on the good name, goodwill, reputation or image of Price Writer, or other members; or (iv) you fail to pay any Membership Fee (or portion thereof) when due and fail to remedy the same within 5 working days of receiving a reminder notice from the us that payment is overdue.
25. In the event that membership is terminated for one of these reasons, without prejudice to our other rights and remedies, you acknowledge that no refund of any Membership Fees paid will be made to you. On termination of your membership, all rights connected with your membership shall immediately cease.
Disclaimer, Liability and General Terms
26. Whilst we endeavour to ensure the accuracy of information and material supplied to members at any conferences and/or events we organise, no warranty is given about the accuracy of such information and materials. You acknowledge that the conduct of your Team Members and/or any information they share at any Price Writer event or via any of our other services is your responsibility, and as such we shall not in any event be liable in relation to such Team Members’ behaviour and/or actions.
27. We reserve the right to vary these terms (including the documents referred to in them) from time to time. We will make you aware of any variations that we make and the most current version of the terms will supersede all previous versions.
28. Nothing in these terms shall exclude or in any way limit either party’s liability for fraud, death or personal injury caused by its negligence or any other liability to the extent such liability may not be excluded or limited as a matter of law. Subject to the foregoing, we shall not in any event be liable to pay compensation or damages to you (for whatever reason such compensation or damages may be due) in relation to these terms or the rights granted under them, greater than the amount of the Membership Fees received by us in the particular year of the Term to which the action or claim relates.
29. During the Term, you acknowledge and agree that we may access, receive, generate, store and/or otherwise process personal data relating to you and your Team Members in order to process your application for membership and to fulfil our obligations to you under these membership terms when you become a member. We shall process such personal data in accordance with our Privacy Policy provided on our website.
30. If you provide Team Members, or other staff, to contribute to, present at and/or participate in any of our events (a “Contribution”), you agree and shall procure that such Team Members, or other staff, shall agree:
- to the recording and exploitation of the Contribution by us, and hereby grant and assign to us absolutely all rights, title and interest in and to the Contribution, all existing and future rights in such Contribution and all consents necessary to enable us to make full use of the Contribution worldwide in perpetuity in any and all media, whether now known or hereafter developed or discovered, and whether as part of the event or as part of other content owned, controlled or represented by us, for the entire term thereof (including renewals, extensions, reversions and revivals) regardless of the termination or early expiry of this agreement without payment, liability (save as specifically set out in this agreement) or acknowledgement to you.
- that we shall be entitled to edit, copy, add to, adapt or translate the Contribution, at our discretion and, in respect of the Contribution, you hereby irrevocably waive in favour of us, our assignees and licensees the benefit of all moral rights and performers’ rights arising under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or similar rights arising under the laws of any jurisdiction.
- to the extent that the assignment above is ineffective pursuant to applicable law, you grant us an irrevocable, perpetual, royalty-free, fully paid, freely transferable, worldwide right and licence to the Contribution, and any part of it for use by us as we may determine in our sole discretion in any media and in any languages for all rights.