Bookingworldspeakers.com Terms of Use

Last modified: May 17, 2018

Welcome to our Terms of Use. Our collection and use of personal information in connection with your access to and use of the bv bookingworldspeakers.com ("bookingworldspeakers.com") platform is described in our Privacy Policy

These Terms of Use ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement ("Agreement") between you and bookingworldspeakers.com (as defined below) governing your access to and use of the bookingworldspeakers.com platform, including any subdomains thereof, and any other websites through which bookingworldspeakers.com makes its services available (collectively, "Platform").

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Our Services

Bookingworldspeakers.com is an independent online speakers platform that enables you who are registered as speaker to publish and promote your speaking engagement services directly, easily and more efficient with users that are seeking to book such speaking engagement services.

Speaking engagement services may include the offering as a keynote speaker, conference speaker, coach, mentor, trainer, moderator, interviewer, presenter, entertainer, and the offering of a consult, master class, breakout session, custom video, webinar, voiceover.

Our platform makes it also possible for you to make connections with other speakers around the world to build a global speakers community together. You need to be a member of our platform to invite other speakers to connect. When you contact and make a connection with another speaker, it might be possible that the other speaker does not accept the invitation. Please do understand that some speakers are more willing to make connections, and some are not.

How it works

Sign up

We do not charge you for signing up. Before you confirm on a paid membership, we ask you to create your account with your first and last name, your email address and your password. You can log in to discover your own dashboard which consists of information such as contact details, speaker profile information and account settings.

User Content

You are responsible for your own content and you must ensure that you have all the rights and permissions needed to use that content in connection with the services. We are not responsible for any actions you take with respect to your content, including sharing it publicly.

Membership fee and Fixed Commission per booking

When you have created your account and discovered your own dashboard, you can agree and confirm a paid membership and a fixed commission of 5% per booking to use our services for a whole year. Once your account and membership have been registered, you can be booked and request bookings through our platform.

Bookings through our platform

There are two ways in which you may be booked. Firstly, you may be contacted by an event organizer who has seen your speakers profile. Secondly, an event organization may upload an upcoming event to the platform, to which you can react directly to the event organizer.

When the event organizer has contacted you through our platform, you agree to use our easy booking system to arrange the booking and administration with the information we gathered from you and the event organizer.

When the event organizer has sent you an enquiry, you will receive a notification by email as well as in your dashboard with a link to read more about the enquiry. You contact the event organizer to discuss further details and answer questions before you send the event organizer your fee and conditions through the platform.

When the event organizer accepts the your fee and conditions, your booking has been confirmed and you can start further preparation.

We automatically send for you the invoice to the event organizer with the most important and necessary details we gathered from you and the event organizer. Invoice details may include company name, name and last name, postal address, VAT, and eventually necessary other payment details of the event organizer.

Payment terms

We do not charge event organizers for any bookings. We only charge speakers for a yearly membership and a fixed percentage (5%) of every booking through our platform.

The membership fee has to be paid directly before your speakers profile page will be shown on our platform. The payment for your membership is final and cannot be refunded. Further we send you the invoice for the 5% of the total amount of your bookings in the first week of the month after the events have taken place. We ask you to pay us within 15 days. We do not charge you when for reasons beyond your control the event has to be cancelled.

Further we send you the invoice for the 5% of the total amount of your bookings in the first week of the month after the events have taken place. We ask you to pay us within 15 days.

We do not charge you when for reasons beyond your control the event has to be cancelled.

Customer support

For customer support with account-related and payment-related questions, you can contact support . Our support team will answer your questions within 12 hours.

Termination

By you
Although we hope you will stay a member for many years, you can always terminate your yearly membership in your account. Such termination will result in the deactivation or disablement of your account and access to it, and the deletion of content you collected through use of the services at the next day after your yearly membership ends.
If you want to terminate during your membership, you can send a message to contact support and our team will deactivate your account for you. Understand payments are nonrefundable.

By us
We may terminate the services to you: (i) if you fail to comply with these Terms, (ii) if you use the services in a way that causes legal liability to us or disrupts others’ use of the services; or (iii) in case of apparent misconduct by you.

Disclaimer
While it is in our interest to provide you with a great experience when using our services, there are certain things we do not promise about them. We try to keep our online services up, but they may be unavailable from time to time for various reasons. Except as expressly provided in these terms and to the extent permitted by applicable law, the services are provided “as is” and we do not make warranties of any kind, express, implied, or statutory, including those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement or any representations regarding availability, reliability, or accuracy of the services.

Exclusion of Liability

We never shall be liable or responsible for any form of indirect or consequential loss or damage, that may result of the use of our platform. Furthermore liability shall never exceed the total amount paid to the speaker in the twelve month term in which the event that caused the loss or damage took place. Nothing in these Terms shall exclude or limit liability for (i) death or personal injury caused by negligence; (ii) fraud; (iii) misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter; or (iv) any liability which cannot be excluded or limited under the Dutch law.

Competent Court

Governing Law. These terms are governed by the laws of The Netherlands.
Jurisdiction. Each party submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the district court Limburg, The Netherlands, with respect to any dispute that may arise from these Terms.