The rules for using this site and our newsletter.

1. Who these terms are with

This website and the World Digital Forum programme are operated by the company identified below. In these terms, “we”, “us” and “our” mean that company; “you” means the person using this website.

2. Scope and acceptance

These Terms & Conditions govern your use of the website at worlddigitalforum2025berlin.com and of the newsletter and contact facilities offered through it. By using the site you accept them. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

Separate terms apply to participation in an individual event. Those terms are provided with the registration materials for that event and, where they conflict with these terms, they prevail for that event. Accepting these terms is not a registration for anything and does not commit you to attend or to pay for anything.

3. Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the site in breach of any applicable law or regulation;
• submit another person’s email address to the newsletter, or impersonate anyone;
• submit content that is unlawful, defamatory, abusive, deceptive, or infringes anyone’s rights;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to the site, its server, its database, or any account or record;
• probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the site without our prior written permission, or circumvent any security or rate-limiting measure;
• use automated means to submit forms, harvest addresses, or place a disproportionate load on the site;
• introduce malware or any other harmful code; or
• systematically copy or re-publish the content of the site, or use it to build a competing database or mailing list.

We may suspend or block access where we reasonably believe one of these rules is being broken, including by rate-limiting or blocking an IP address.

4. Confirmation, preference and unsubscribe codes

We do not operate user accounts or passwords. Instead we send you long random codes in email links, which let you confirm a subscription, change your preferences, or unsubscribe. Anyone holding such a link can act on the subscription it belongs to, so please treat those emails as you would any other private message. If you believe a link has been seen by someone else, unsubscribe and subscribe again to invalidate it.

5. Intellectual property

All content on this site — text, layout, design, code, graphics, the World Digital Forum name and logo, and the structure of our programme materials — is owned by us or licensed to us, and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights.

You may read the site, print pages for your own use, and quote short extracts with a clear attribution and, online, a link to the page quoted. You may not otherwise reproduce, adapt, distribute, publish or commercially exploit any part of it without our prior written permission. Nothing on the site grants any licence to use our name or logo.

Where you send us material — for example a speaking proposal or a case study — you keep ownership of it. You grant us permission to read it, circulate it internally, and use it to assess and plan our programme. We will ask you separately before publishing anything you send us.

6. Newsletter terms

The newsletter is free and is sent only to addresses that have completed our double opt-in process: you submit the address, and you then confirm from a link we email to it. We do not mail unconfirmed addresses.

• We send at most a few emails a month. We never sell, rent or share your address.
• You may unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email we send, in one click, without logging in and without giving a reason. It takes effect immediately and costs you nothing.
• You may instead narrow your topics or reduce the frequency using the preferences link in any email.
• We may change the content, format or frequency of the newsletter, or discontinue it, at any time.
• We may remove an address from the list — for example if it repeatedly bounces, if a mailbox provider signals a complaint, or if we believe it was submitted without the owner’s knowledge.
• The newsletter is editorial. It is not advice, and it is not an offer capable of acceptance.

7. Events and enquiries

Descriptions of formats on this site explain how we work. They are not an offer to contract, and they do not commit us to running any particular event. Individual editions are announced separately with their own dates, terms and registration process.

Places in closed formats such as roundtables are allocated at our discretion in order to assemble a group of comparable participants. Registering interest does not entitle you to a place, and we are not obliged to give reasons for a selection decision.

We aim to reply to enquiries promptly, but a response time stated on this site is a target rather than a contractual commitment. Statutory response deadlines for data protection requests are separate and are always met — see our Privacy Policy.

8. Availability of the site

We try to keep the site available and correct, but we provide it “as is”. We may change, suspend or withdraw all or part of it, temporarily or permanently, without notice. We are not obliged to keep any particular content online.

9. Disclaimers

The content of this site is general information about our programme and about the themes we cover. It is not legal, regulatory, financial, security or other professional advice, and it must not be relied on as such. References to legislation are simplified descriptions, not statements of law applicable to your circumstances. You should take your own advice before acting.

Views expressed by speakers and participants at our events are their own and are not endorsed by us. We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components, and you are responsible for your own device security.

10. Limitation of liability

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded. In particular, nothing in these terms affects your rights under mandatory consumer-protection law.

Subject to that, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for loss of profit, revenue, business, goodwill, anticipated savings, data or opportunity, or for loss arising from your reliance on general information published on this site; and our total liability arising out of or in connection with your use of this site is limited to one hundred euros (€100). This limit does not apply to any separate contract for participation in an event, which contains its own liability terms.

11. Privacy and cookies

How we handle personal data is set out in our Privacy Policy, and every cookie this site sets is listed in our Cookie Policy. Both form part of your use of the site, but neither is a contractual term you can be said to “accept” in place of the consent we ask for separately.

12. Changes to these terms

We may amend these terms from time to time. The version published on this page is the one in force, and the date of the current version is shown at the end. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the amended terms. Changes are not applied retrospectively to anything that has already happened.

13. Governing law and jurisdiction

These terms, and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with them, are governed by the law of the Republic of Lithuania. The parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of the Republic of Lithuania.

If you use this site as a consumer, this choice of law and jurisdiction does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which you habitually reside, and it does not remove your right to bring proceedings in the courts of that country where applicable law gives you that right.

If any provision of these terms is found to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in force, and the invalid provision is to be replaced by a valid one that comes closest to its commercial purpose.

14. Contact

Questions about these terms should be sent to awatef.keltai@worlddigitalforum2025berlin.com, or by post to UAB, Kolbenova 2, 190 00 Prague 9, Czech Republic.

Last updated: 7 September 2026.