Terms of Use

Please read these Terms & Conditions carefully before using the Consultancy.org website.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions
For the purposes of these Terms & Conditions:

Agreement refers to the Terms & Conditions set forth in this agreement

Country refers to: Netherlands

Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Consultancy.org, based in the Netherlands. Consultancy.org and the other platforms part of Consultancy.org (see our footer) are owned by BLLiZ Consultancy BV (Chamber of Commerce 88709477 in Amsterdam).

Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.

Site refers to Consultancy.org, accessible from www.consultancy.org, and all sites that fall under Consultancy.org: Consulting.us, Consulting.ca, Consultancy.uk, Consultancy.eu, Consultancy.nl, Consultancy-me.com, Consultancy.in, Consultancy.africa, Consultancy.co.za, Consultancy.asia, Consultancy.lat, and Consultancy.com.au.

Software refers to the programs and other operating information used to run and support the website and Consultancy.org services

Terms & Conditions (also referred as “Terms”) mean these Terms & Conditions that form the entire agreement between You and the Company regarding the use of the Service. 

Third-party Social Media Service means any services or content (including data, information, products or services) provided by a third-party that may be displayed, included or made available by the Service.

You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Acknowledgment

These Terms & Conditions govern the use of this Site and the agreement that operates between You and the Company. These Terms and Conditions set out the rights and obligations of all users regarding the use of the Site.

Your access to and use of the Site is conditioned on Your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms & Conditions. These Terms & Conditions apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use the Site.

By accessing or using the Site You agree to be bound by these Terms & Conditions. If You disagree with any part of these Terms & Conditions then You may not access the Site.

You represent that you are over the age of 13. Consultancy.org does not permit those under 13 to use the website.

Your access to and use of the Site is also conditioned on Your acceptance of and compliance with the Privacy Policy of the Company. Our Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your personal information when You use the application or the Site and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You. Read Our Privacy Policy carefully before using Our Service.

Code of Conduct

While using the Site, You agree to comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations.

While using the Site and/or Software you also agree not to:

Restrict, inhibit or otherwise interfere with any other visitor or member from accessing or using the Site or any service or feature thereof, including, without limitation, by means of “hacking” or defacing any portion of the Site, or by engaging in spamming or flooding our servers with requests;

Use the Site for any unlawful purpose or in violation of applicable law, rule or regulation;

Express or imply that any statements you make are endorsed or approved by us, without our prior written consent;

Transmit any software or other materials that contain any virus, worm, Trojan horse, spyware, adware or other harmful or disruptive component;

Modify, adapt, sub-license, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or circumvent any portion of the Site or Software;

Remove or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices contained in the Site;

Link from any other web site to this Site in any manner such that the Site, or any page of the Site, is “framed”, surrounded or obfuscated by any third party content, materials or branding, without our prior written authorization;

Use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, “data mine” or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or its contents (except that the foregoing restriction shall not be construed to preclude a search engine from using a spider, robot or similar process or device to crawl and index the Site for purposes of feeding search results in response to applicable legitimate search queries);

Harvest or collect information about Site visitors or Members without their express consent; or

Impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent your affiliation with any other person or entity.

Ownership and Restrictions on Use

Consultancy.org is owned and operated by BLLiZ Consultancy BV in the Netherlands in conjunction with others pursuant to contractual arrangements.

Unless otherwise expressly permitted by this Agreement or on the Site in connection with particular Site materials (for example, with respect to certain materials that may be expressly labeled as “free” and “shareable”), you may not copy, reproduce, republish, upload, post, transmit or distribute materials from the Site in any way, without our prior written permission. Materials include content, text, files, images, audio files, video files, graphics, devices and code, among others.

You should assume that everything on the Site is copyrighted unless otherwise noted and that it must not be used except with the express written consent of Consultancy.org.

Modification of the Site or the Site materials or use of the Site or the Site materials for any other purpose may be a violation of our copyright and other proprietary rights, and is strictly prohibited. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by using the Site.

Other than as specifically mentioned above, reproduction of part or all of the contents of this website in any form, including framing, creating any derivative work based on this website and or its content, incorporation into other websites, electronic retrieval systems or publications is prohibited. You may not use any diagrams, illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. 

Consultancy.org and our ‘Top Consulting Firms’ series by country and region, as well as ‘Top Consulting Firms in the World’ are trademarks and/or service marks of Consultancy.org. There are other trademarks that appear on the Site that belong to us and others, and all other trademarks, service marks, and logos used on the Site are the trademarks, service marks, or logos of their respective owners. Nothing contained on the Site should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right to use any trademark displayed on the Site without our written permission or that of the third party rights holder. Your misuse of the trademarks displayed on the Site is strictly prohibited.

Job Postings

Customers and partners that use the Site’s jobs environment, either directly or indirectly, agree to follow our Code of Conduct and also agree not to:

1. Post any jobs with incomplete, false, misleading or inaccurate information, or any information or content which is not their own;
2. Post jobs, information or content in the job board that contains hyperlinks, hidden keywords or keywords that are irrelevant to the job or the posting or are otherwise misleading;
3. Use any information or content accessible on or via the job board or elsewhere on the Site for any purpose other than as an employer seeking employees, including but not limited to selling or promoting any products or services;
4. Use any feature of the job board to send any unsolicited communications to any user of the Site (including by mail, email, phone calls, text messages or faxes) regarding promotions and/or advertising of products or services;
5. Aggregate, copy or duplicate in any manner any of the information or content available from the Job Board or anywhere else on Site, without our prior express written consent.

Consultancy.org is under no obligation to monitor the information residing on or transmitted to the job board, however, You agree that Consultancy.org reserves the right to modify, reject or eliminate any information residing on or transmitted to such areas of the Site.

Links to Other Websites

Consultancy.org may contain links to third-party web sites or services that are not owned or controlled by Consultancy.org.

Consultancy.org. has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that the Company 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 the use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites or services.

Any reliance on the contents of a Linked Site is done at your own risk and You assume all responsibilities and consequences resulting from such reliance.

We strongly advise You to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third-party web sites or services that You visit.

Jurisdictional Issues

Consultancy.org and its different Sites (see our footer) are directed at individuals residing worldwide. We control and operate the Site from different locations, and the Site and Software is hosted from servers in different locations. 

We reserve the right to limit the availability of the Site and/or the provision of any service, program, film, or other product described thereon to any person, geographic area, or jurisdiction we so desire, at any time and in our sole discretion, and to limit the quantities of any such service, program, film, or other product that we provide.

Disclaimers

The site, the materials on the site, any product or service obtained through the site, and the software are provided “As is” and "As Available” with all faults and defects and without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. To the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law, Consultancy.org and its suppliers, advertisers and agents disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, with respect to the Site, including all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and warranties that may arise out of course of dealing, course of performance, usage or trade practice. Without limitation to the foregoing, the Company provides no warranty or undertaking, and makes no representation of any kind that the Site will meet Your requirements, achieve any intended results, be compatible or work with any other software, applications, systems or services, operate without interruption, meet any performance or reliability standards or be error free or that any errors or defects can or will be corrected.

Without limiting the foregoing, neither the Consultancy.org nor any of our providers make any representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied: (i) as to the operation or availability of the Site, or the information, content, and materials or products included thereon; (ii) that the Site will be uninterrupted or error-free; (iii) as to the accuracy, reliability, or currency of any information or content provided through the Site; or (iv) that the Site, its servers, the content, or e-mails sent from or on behalf of the Company are free of viruses, scripts, trojan horses, worms, malware, timebombs or other harmful components.

You acknowledge that you are responsible for obtaining and maintaining all telephone, computer hardware and other equipment needed to access and use the site, and all charges related thereto. You assume total responsibility and risk for your use of the site and the software and your reliance thereon. No opinion, advice, or statement of vault or its suppliers, agents, members, or visitors, whether made on the site, in the software, or otherwise, shall create any warranty. Your use of the site and any materials provided through the site are entirely at your own risk.

Without limitation of the above in this section, Consultancy.org and its suppliers and licensors make no warranties or representations regarding any products or services ordered or provided via the site, and hereby disclaim, and you hereby waive, any and all warranties and representations made in content, rankings, and otherwise on the site or in correspondence with company or its agents. 

We are not responsible for any errors or omissions in articles or postings, for hyperlinks embedded in messages, or for any results obtained from the use of such information. Under no circumstances will we or our suppliers, or agents be liable for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on such information obtained through the site. 

A possibility exists that the Site could include inaccuracies or errors, or materials that violate these terms of use set out in the Code of Conduct. Additionally, a possibility exists that unauthorized alterations could be made by third parties to the Site. We make no guarantees as to the Site’s completeness or correctness. 

Consultancy.org cannot and does not take responsibility for the veracity, reliability, or completeness of any opinion, advice, information, or statement available on the site.

For content outside of our editorial board, we neither endorse nor are responsible for any opinion pieces, op-eds or other form of content provided by third parties on our platform.

You are solely responsible for using the information on the site:
Buyers of consultancy services are solely responsible for independently researching the companies featured on the site
Job seekers are solely responsible for independently researching the companies featured on the site and choosing to evaluate or to make a career decision based on any content found
All users are solely responsible for the use of the information presented in the rankings

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain types of warranties or limitations on applicable statutory rights of a consumer, so some or all of the above exclusions and limitations may not apply to You. But in such a case the exclusions and limitations set forth in this section shall be applied to the greatest extent enforceable under applicable law.

Limitation of Liability

Neither Consultancy.org nor its suppliers, advertisers, agents or sponsors are responsible or liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, punitive or other damages under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other theory arising out of or relating in any way to the Site and/or content contained on the site, the software, or any product or service purchased through the site. Your sole remedy for dissatisfaction with the site, the software, and/or content contained within the site is to stop using the site and/or software, as applicable.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law the sole and exclusive, maximum and aggregate liability of Consultancy.org for all damages, losses, and causes of action (whether in contract, tort (including, without limitation, negligence), or otherwise) shall be the total amount paid by You, if any, to access the site. Some jurisdictions do not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages so some of the above limitations may not apply to certain users.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, all users of this website understand and agree that (I) the mutual agreements made in this section reflect a reasonable allocation of risk, and (ii) the parties hereto would not have entered into this agreement without these limitations on liability.

Some nations, states, territories do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or limitation of liability for incidental or consequential damages, which means that some of the above limitations may not apply. In these states, each party’s liability will be limited to the greatest extent permitted by law.

Nothing in this agreement shall limit our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us, our officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, costs (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), or other expenses that arise directly or indirectly out of or from:

1. your breach of this Agreement;
2. any allegation that any materials that you submit to us or transmit to the Site infringe or otherwise violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property or other rights of any third party (including, without limitation, any Submitted Materials);
3. your violation of the Code of Conduct above; and/or
4. your activities in connection with the Site.

Consultancy.org reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, and in such case, you agree to cooperate with Consultancy.org’s defense of such claim.

Governing Law

The laws of the Country, excluding its conflicts of law rules, shall govern this Terms and Your use of the Service. You agree to personal jurisdiction by the courts located in the Country, and waive any jurisdictional, venue, or inconvenient forum objections to such courts. If any provision of this Agreement is found to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this Agreement and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions. In this Agreement references to applicable law are to mandatory law only.

If You have any concern or dispute about the Service, You agree to first try to resolve the dispute informally by contacting the Company. Any form of dispute resolution shall take place in line with the laws of the Country.

Severability and Waiver

If any provision of these Terms is held to be unenforceable or invalid, such provision will be changed and interpreted to accomplish the objectives of such provision to the greatest extent possible under applicable law and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

Except as provided herein, the failure to exercise a right or to require performance of an obligation under these Terms shall not affect a party's ability to exercise such right or require such performance at any time thereafter nor shall the waiver of a breach constitute a waiver of any subsequent breach.

No waiver by either party of any breach or default hereunder shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default.

Miscellaneous

This is the entire Agreement between us relating to the subject matter herein and supersedes and any and all prior or contemporaneous written or oral Agreements between us. This Agreement is not assignable, transferable or sub-licensable by you except with Consultancy.org’s prior written consent. 

Nothing in this Agreement shall confer or create any rights or benefits enforceable by any person who is not a party to this Agreement. Any heading, caption or section title contained in this Agreement is inserted only as a matter of convenience and in no way defines or explains any section or provision hereof. To the extent you have statutory rights as a consumer, nothing in this Agreement shall affect such rights.

Changes to Terms & Conditions

We reserve the right, at Our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material We will make reasonable efforts to provide at least 30 days' notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at Our sole discretion.

By continuing to access or use Our Service after those revisions become effective, You agree to be bound by the revised terms. If You do not agree to the new terms, in whole or in part, please stop using the website and the Service.

For any questions about our Terms & Conditions, contact us by email: info@consultancy.org.