Terms of Service

CEOWORLD Magazine — Terms and Conditions

1. Introduction

These terms and conditions (the “Terms”) govern your access to and use of the CEOWORLD Magazine website located at https://ceoworld.biz/ (the “Website”) and the information and services made available on and through it. Please read them carefully. Once you accept them, they form a legally binding agreement between you and us.

The Website is operated by CEOWORLD Magazine Limited (“CEOWORLD Magazine,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), a company registered in England and Wales under company number 09935295, with its registered office at 1st Floor 124 Cleveland Street, London, United Kingdom, W1T 6PG. Our Tax ID number, where applicable, is 4728526829. You can contact us at info@ceoworld.biz.

2. Acceptance and Changes to These Terms

By accessing or using the Website, you confirm that you accept these Terms and agree to comply with them. If you do not agree, you must not use the Website.

We may amend these Terms from time to time to reflect changes in law, regulatory requirements, or the way we operate the Website. The current version will always be posted on this page, with the date of the latest update shown above. Where a change is material, we will take reasonable steps to bring it to your attention, for example by a notice on the Website. Your continued use of the Website after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms. If you do not agree to a change, you must stop using the Website.

3. Definitions

In these Terms, the following definitions apply:

“Content” means all Text, Graphics, Design, and Programming used on or forming part of the Website.

“Text” means all text on every page of the Website, whether editorial, navigational, or instructional.

“Graphics” means all logos, buttons, images, and other graphical elements on the Website, excluding paid advertising banners.

“Design” means the color combinations, page layout, and overall look and feel of the Website.

“Programming” means all client-side code (including HTML and JavaScript) and server-side code (including scripts and databases) used on the Website.

“Consumer” means an individual acting for purposes wholly or mainly outside that individual’s trade, business, craft, or profession.

“User” means any individual or entity that accesses or uses any part of the Website or its services.

“You” and “your” refer to the person accessing the Website and accepting these Terms, and, where that person acts on behalf of an organization, that organization.

4. Intellectual Property Rights

All Content on the Website is owned by CEOWORLD Magazine or licensed to us by its respective owners, as indicated. It is protected by copyright, database rights, trademark, and other intellectual property laws of the United Kingdom, including the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 and the Trade Marks Act 1994, and by international treaties. All such rights are reserved.

We grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to view the Content and to download or print a single copy of individual pages solely for your personal, non-commercial use. You must not reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, display, sell, distribute, or otherwise use the Content for any public or commercial purpose without our prior written consent. This includes copying or adapting the HTML or other code used to generate the Website, and any Graphics. You must not remove or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notice.

The look and feel of the Website, including color combinations, button shapes, layout, design, and all other graphical elements, is likewise protected. All product names, service names, trademarks, and service marks (the “Marks”) belong to CEOWORLD Magazine or their respective owners. You may not use the Marks for any purpose other than as expressly permitted by these Terms.

Nothing in these Terms limits any use you are permitted to make under the exceptions to copyright set out in the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, such as fair dealing for the purposes of criticism, review, or quotation.

5. Acceptable Use of the Website

The Website provides business news, analysis, rankings, commentary, and related information and services for an executive and professional audience. You may use it only for lawful purposes and in a manner consistent with that purpose and these Terms. You must not use, or plan, encourage, or help others to use, the Website in any way that breaches these Terms or any applicable law or regulation.

In particular, you must not:

• send unsolicited commercial communications to Users, including spam, chain emails, and advertising solicitations;
• delete, edit, or revise any material posted by any other person or entity, or copy, download, or otherwise use such material except as permitted by these Terms;
• use any automated means, including bots, scrapers, crawlers, or data-mining tools, to access, extract, or index the Content, other than standard search-engine indexing that complies with our robots.txt directives, or use the Content to train, develop, or improve any artificial intelligence or machine-learning system without our prior written consent; or
• interfere with the proper operation of the Website, including by attacking, hacking into, or attempting to gain access to any non-public part of it, or by introducing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful.

6. Information You Submit

Any information, material, or comment you submit to us through the Website (a “Submission”) must comply with the following standards. A Submission must not:

• contain links to external websites for promotional purposes (to advertise your company or website, please contact our sales team);
• contain material protected by copyright, or trade secrets, unless you own them or have the owner’s permission to submit them;
• infringe the intellectual property rights of any person, including copyright, database rights, trademarks, patents, or confidential information;
• contain material that is defamatory, obscene, sexually explicit, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, or discriminatory;
• contain information that you know or suspect to be untrue, inaccurate, or misleading, or that does not fairly describe its subject matter;
• impersonate any person, living or dead, or misrepresent your identity, affiliation, gender, or age;
• solicit money or investments, or make any offer or promotion of securities, investments, or financial products, including any communication that would breach section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;
• contain chain letters, pyramid schemes, or unsolicited advertising or promotional notices; or
• breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence.

You warrant that each Submission complies with these standards, and you are responsible for it.

7. Monitoring of Information

We are under no obligation to review the accuracy, completeness, or truthfulness of any Submission, and you rely on information posted by other Users at your own risk. We may nevertheless review, edit, decline, or remove any Submission at our discretion, for any reason, including to comply with our legal obligations.

8. License to Your Submissions

You retain ownership of any intellectual property in your Submissions. By making a Submission, you grant CEOWORLD Magazine a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable, and sublicensable license to use, reproduce, edit, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, and display it in any media. To the extent permitted by law, you waive any moral rights you may have in your Submissions under Chapter IV of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Any personal data contained in a Submission will be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

9. Security Rules

If you register an account, you are responsible for keeping your password and login details confidential and for all activity under your account. You must notify us promptly at info@ceoworld.biz if you become aware of any loss or unauthorized use of your password. We are not responsible for losses arising from your failure to keep your login details secure, except to the extent caused by our own breach of these Terms or our negligence.

You must not:

• access data not intended for you, or log in to a server or account you are not authorized to access;
• probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network, or breach any security or authentication measure, without authorization;
• interfere with service to any User, host, or network, including by submitting a virus, overloading, flooding, mail-bombing, or crashing the Website, or by launching a denial-of-service attack;
• send unsolicited email, including promotions or advertising of products or services; or
• forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or posting.

Breach of these rules may constitute a criminal offense under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and may give rise to civil liability. We may report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and will cooperate with them, including by disclosing your identity where lawfully required to do so.

10. Suspension and Termination of Access

We may suspend or withdraw all or part of the Website, or your access to it, at any time and for any reason, including where we reasonably believe you have breached these Terms. Where practicable and lawful, we will give you notice. Questions about your access should be directed to info@ceoworld.biz. Sections 4, 8, and 11 to 18 survive any suspension or termination.

11. No Financial, Investment, or Professional Advice

The Content is provided for general information and editorial purposes only. It does not constitute financial, investment, legal, tax, or other professional advice, nor a recommendation or invitation to buy, sell, or hold any security, investment, or financial product. Nothing on the Website is a financial promotion for the purposes of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. You should obtain independent professional advice, from an adviser authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority where appropriate, before taking or refraining from any action on the basis of the Content.

12. Third-Party Content and Links

The Website may display content, products, services, advertisements, or links provided by third parties. Their presence does not constitute an endorsement, representation, or warranty by CEOWORLD Magazine. We do not control, and are not responsible for, third-party websites or the information, products, or services available through them, and you access them at your own risk. Any product or service purchased from a third party is supplied under that party’s own terms, and any warranty is given by that party, not by us.

13. Disclaimers

We aim to keep the Content accurate and up to date, but we do not guarantee that the Website, or any Content on it, will be complete, accurate, timely, free from errors, or always available or uninterrupted. Content may contain inaccuracies or typographical errors, and it may be out of date at any given time.

We make no representation or warranty regarding the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any Submission or other communication by Users, and we are not responsible for the conduct of any User. Any reliance you place on such material is at your own risk.

Subject to Section 14, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Website is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, and we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations, and other terms that might otherwise be implied by statute, common law, or the law of equity, including implied terms as to satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Nothing in this Section affects your statutory rights as a Consumer.

14. Limitation of Liability

14.1. Information only, not advice

14.1.1.  All content published by CEOWORLD Magazine, on our website, in print, in newsletters, on social media, at events, or through any other channel, is provided for general information and commentary only.

14.1.2. Nothing we publish constitutes financial, investment, legal, tax, accounting, or other professional advice, or a recommendation or solicitation to buy, sell, or hold any security, asset, or product, or to enter into any transaction.

14.1.3. Rankings, lists, ratings, indices, and assessments reflect editorial opinion based on methodologies and information available at the time of publication. They are not statements of fact, guarantees, or endorsements.

14.1.4. You must obtain independent professional advice before making any decision. Any reliance you place on our content is entirely at your own risk.

14.2. No warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by law, our website, publications, content, and services are provided “as is” and “as available.” All warranties, representations, conditions, and other terms, whether express or implied by statute, common law, or otherwise, are excluded, including as to accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability, fitness for a particular purpose, and uninterrupted, secure, or error-free availability.

14.3. Exclusion of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, CEOWORLD Magazine, its parent, affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, editors, contributors, licensors, and agents (together, “we” or “us”) shall have no liability to you or any other person, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, misrepresentation, or otherwise, for any loss or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with:
(a) access to, use of, or inability to use our website, publications, or services;
(b) any reliance on our content, including articles, opinions, rankings, data, analysis, and forecasts;
(c) any error, omission, inaccuracy, or delay in our content;
(d) content created or supplied by contributors, guest authors, interviewees, advertisers, sponsors, partners, or users;
(e) any third-party website, product, service, or offer linked to, advertised in, or referenced in our content;
(f) any virus, malware, or other technologically harmful material, or any unauthorised access to or alteration of data; or
(g) any suspension, interruption, modification, or withdrawal of our website, publications, or services.

14.4. Excluded types of loss
Without limiting clause 3, we shall in no circumstances be liable for any:
(a) loss of profits, revenue, income, business, contracts, or opportunity;
(b) investment, trading, or financial loss of any kind;
(c) loss of anticipated savings, goodwill, or reputation;
(d) loss, corruption, or destruction of data; or
(e) indirect, special, incidental, punitive, or consequential loss,
in each case whether or not foreseeable and whether or not we were advised of its possibility.

14.5. Personal use
If you are a consumer, our website and content are provided for domestic and private use only. You agree not to use them for any commercial, business, investment, or resale purpose, and we have no liability to you for any loss arising from such use.

14.6. Aggregate cap
Subject to clause 10, our total aggregate liability arising from or in connection with these Terms, our website, publications, content, or services, however arising, shall not exceed the greater of:
(a) the total sums paid by you to us in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim; or
(b) one hundred pounds sterling (£100).

14.7. Time limit for claims
To the fullest extent permitted by law, any claim against us must be notified to us in writing, with reasonable particulars, within twelve (12) months of the date on which you became aware, or ought reasonably to have become aware, of the circumstances giving rise to it. Any claim not so notified shall be irrevocably waived and barred.

14.8. Complaints and corrections
14.8.1 If you believe any content we publish is inaccurate, defamatory, infringes your rights, or is otherwise unlawful, you must notify us promptly at info@ceoworld.biz, identifying the content, the specific words or material complained of, and the reasons for your complaint.
14.8.2 We will review every complaint in good faith and may, at our sole editorial discretion, correct, clarify, update, add a response to, or remove the content. You agree to use this procedure before commencing any legal proceedings against us.

14.9. Your indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from and against all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising from:
(a) any content you submit to us or post on our platforms;
(b) your breach of these Terms; or
(c) your infringement of any law or the rights of any third party.

14.10. Liability that cannot be excluded
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under the laws of England and Wales, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

14.11. Severability
If any provision of this section is held invalid, unenforceable, or unreasonable, it shall apply to the maximum extent permitted by law, and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.

14.12. Governing law and jurisdiction
These Terms and any dispute arising from or in connection with them, including non-contractual disputes, are governed by the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, except that if you are a consumer resident in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you may also bring proceedings in your local courts.

15. Indemnity

If you use the Website in the course of a business, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless CEOWORLD Magazine, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all liabilities, claims, damages, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable legal fees, arising out of or in connection with your breach of these Terms or any Submission you make. If you are a Consumer, you remain liable for loss caused by your breach of these Terms in accordance with the general law.

16. Privacy and Cookies

We process personal data in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation, the Data Protection Act 2018, and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. Our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy explain what personal data we collect, how we use it, and your rights, and form part of these Terms.

17. General

Severability. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or severed if modification is not possible. The remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.

No waiver. No failure or delay by CEOWORLD Magazine in exercising or enforcing any right or provision of these Terms shall constitute a waiver of that right or provision, nor shall it prevent or restrict its later exercise or enforcement.

Third-party rights. A person who is not a party to these Terms has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any of its provisions.

Assignment. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to another organization. You may not transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent.

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and any additional terms that apply to specific services, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding your use of the Website.

18. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms, and any dispute or claim (including non-contractual disputes or claims) arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales, without regard to its conflict of laws principles.

The courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such dispute or claim. If you are a Consumer, however, nothing in this Section deprives you of the protection of any mandatory provision of the law of the country in which you are habitually resident. If you are a Consumer resident in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you may also bring proceedings in your local courts.

19. Copyright and Image Claims

19.1 No obligation. This clause sets out the conditions on which we may, at our sole and absolute discretion, choose to consider a claim. It does not create any obligation, duty, undertaking, commitment, or procedure on our part. We are under no obligation to acknowledge, respond to, investigate, assess, negotiate, remove material, or make any payment in respect of any claim, whether or not the conditions in this clause are met.

19.2 Bulk and automated demands. We do not recognize standardized, template, or automated demands from law firms, agencies, collection services, or other intermediaries, including those generated by image-matching technology, as evidence of ownership, infringement, or loss. No such demand shall be treated as a valid claim, and we will make no payment, admission, or settlement on the basis of it.

19.3 Owner must contact us directly. We will consider a claim, if at all, only where the legal owner of the copyright has contacted us personally and directly in writing at info@ceoworld.biz. This applies whether or not the owner has instructed a representative. A communication from a representative alone shall not be treated as a claim.

19.4 Evidence required. The owner’s communication must include all of the following:

(a) identification of the work and the specific URL or publication in which our use appears;
(b) original documentary evidence that the claimant created the work or acquired ownership of the copyright in it, including original files with intact metadata, and any written assignment, employment, or commissioning agreement;
(c) a copy of any exclusive licence relied upon;
(d) details of any copyright registration relied upon, including registration number and effective date;
(e) where a representative is involved, a signed letter of authority from the owner relating to that specific work; and
(f) the owner’s full legal name, postal address, and contact details.

19.5 Signed declaration of prior distribution. The owner must provide a written declaration, signed and dated personally by the owner (or, for a company, by a director or authorised officer), stating whether the work has at any time, past or present, been:

(a) uploaded to, published on, or made available through any free image-sharing website, platform, or service;
(b) offered for sale or licence through any stock photography, image marketplace, or image licensing website or service;
(c) published under any Creative Commons, royalty-free, or other open or general licence; or
(d) supplied to any person, company, agency, or media outlet for publicity, promotional, or editorial use.
For each instance, the declaration must identify the website, service, licence, or recipient, the dates involved, and whether the work was later removed. The declaration must confirm that it is true and complete and that it is given in the knowledge that we will rely on it.

19.6 Burden of proof. The burden of establishing ownership, authority, the absence of any licence, and any alleged loss rests entirely on the claimant. Until we are satisfied, at our sole discretion, that every requirement of clauses 19.3 to 19.5 has been met in full, the claim shall be treated as unsubstantiated.

19.7 No admission. None of the following constitutes an admission of infringement, liability, ownership, or the validity of any claim, or a waiver of any right or defence:

(a) any acknowledgement, reply, or correspondence;
(b) any request for information or evidence;
(c) any removal, replacement, alteration, or crediting of material;
(d) any failure or delay in responding; or
(e) any offer, negotiation, or payment.
Silence shall not constitute acceptance or acquiescence. All communications are without prejudice.

19.8 Removal at our discretion. We may remove, replace, or retain any material at any time, for any reason or none, solely as a matter of editorial discretion.

19.9 Compensation. If we choose to make any payment, it is made voluntarily, without admission, and in full and final settlement. Any assessment will take into account all information disclosed under clause 19.5, including the availability of the work free of charge or under any open, royalty-free, or general licence, and any failure to disclose such information.

19.10 False or improper claims. We reserve all rights and remedies in respect of any claim that is unsubstantiated, false, misleading, or made without proper authority, including the recovery of our costs and the referral of any representative to the relevant professional regulator.

19.11 Third-party material. Any person who supplies material to us, including contributors, interviewees, companies, and public relations agencies, warrants that they hold all rights necessary to authorise its publication by us, and shall indemnify us in full against all claims, losses, damages, costs, and expenses (including legal fees) arising from any breach of that warranty. We may refer any claim to the person who supplied the material.

19.12 No third-party rights. No person other than CEOWORLD Magazine has any right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise to enforce, rely on, or require compliance with any part of this clause.

19.13 Reservation of rights. All rights, defences, and exceptions available to us under law are fully reserved, including fair dealing, licence (express or implied), the expiry of any limitation period, and any challenge to ownership, subsistence, or quantum. We may amend this clause at any time without notice.

20. Contact Us

Questions about these Terms or the Website should be directed to info@ceoworld.biz