TERMS & CONDITIONS
These are the terms (the “Agreement”) that govern your attendance at and/or participation in the National 8(a) Association’s 2025 National Small Business Conference (the “Event”) on February 11-13, 2025.
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY AS THEY INCLUDE A BINDING ARBITRATION PROVISION.
By registering for the Event and in consideration for your ability to attend the Event, you are agreeing to these terms, which form a legal contract between National 8(a) Association, and the registered attendee and/or participant (“you”). If you are registering on behalf of another it is your responsibility to ensure that the person attending is aware of these terms and accepts them, and by completing the registration you are warranting that you have made the attendee aware of these terms and that they have accepted these terms.
I. Event admission
Admittance. Your registration entitles you to admittance to the Event. Any and all other costs associated with your attendance (including without limitation any travel and/or accommodation expenses) shall be borne solely by you and National 8(a) Association shall have no liability for such costs.
Termination. You acknowledge that National 8(a) Association reserves the right to remove you from the Event if National 8(a) Association, in its sole discretion, considers your presence and/or behavior to create a disruption or to hinder the Event and/or the enjoyment of the Event by other attendees or speakers.
Media. By attending the Event you acknowledge and agree to grant National 8(a) Association the right during the Event 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 National 8(a) Association 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.
Event Content. You acknowledge and agree that National 8(a) Association, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to change any and all aspects of the Event, including but not limited to, the Event name, themes, content, program, speakers, performers, hosts, moderators, and time.
II. Fee(s)
Payment. The payment of the applicable fee(s) for the Event is due upon registration. If such payment is insufficient or declined for any reason National 8(a) Association may refuse to admit you to the Event and shall have no liability in that regard.
III. Substitution and cancellation policy
If you cancel before January 14, 2025, you will be eligible for a refund. If you register after January 14, 2025, you will have 48 hours to cancel your registration and be eligible for a refund. If you do not cancel before January 14, or within 48 hours after registration, you will not be eligible for a refund.
IV. Intellectual property
All intellectual property rights in and to the Event, the Event content and all materials distributed at or in connection with the Event are owned by National 8(a) Association and/or the Event sponsors or speakers presenting at the Event. You may not use or reproduce or allow anyone to use or reproduce any trademarks or other trade names appearing at the Event, in any Event content and/or in any materials distributed at or in connection with the Event for any reason without the prior written permission of National 8(a) Association.
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 trademarks or other intellectual property rights owned or used under license by National 8(a) Association or any of its affiliates or grant to you any right or license to any other intellectual property rights of National 8(a) Association or its affiliates, all of which shall at all times remain the exclusive property of National 8(a) Association and its affiliates.
V. Warranties and limitation of liability
National 8(a) Association gives no warranties in respect of any aspect of the Event or any materials related thereto or offered at the Event 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. Neither National 8(a) Association nor its affiliates can accept any responsibility or liability for reliance by you or any person on any aspect of the Event and/or any information provided at the Event.
Other than to the extent required as a matter of law: (i) neither National 8(a) Association nor its affiliates shall be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential costs, damages or losses arising directly or indirectly from the Event or other aspect related thereto or in connection with this Agreement.
The maximum aggregate liability of National 8(a) Association 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 National 8(a) Association under this Agreement to attend the Event.
V. Governing law and jurisdiction
This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the United States and the parties shall submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States courts.
The parties agree that any dispute between them arising out of, based on, or relating to this Agreement shall be resolved exclusively by arbitration conducted in accordance with the Commercial Rules then in effect of the United States. Judgment upon the award rendered shall be final and non-appealable and may be entered in any court having jurisdiction. Each party shall bear its own expenses arising out of any such proceeding, except that the fees and costs of any arbitrator(s) shall be borne equally by the parties. Notwithstanding the obligations set forth in this paragraph, the National 8(a) Association shall be permitted to seek equitable relief from a court having jurisdiction to prevent the unauthorized use or misuse of its Marks and Intellectual Property.