Terms of Sale

1. About us

Company details

Crypto Fraud and Asset Recovery Network Limited (company number 14899308) (we, us, our) is a company registered in England and Wales and our registered office is at RPC, Tower Bridge House, St Katharine's Way, E1W 1AA. We operate the website https://www.cfaar.co.uk/ (Site).

Contacting us

To contact us, email us at cfaar@rpc.co.uk.

Our Events

The CFAAR network will bring together experts in crypto disputes and advisory roles to provide in-person or virtual events, seminars, webinars, and information sessions to you (Events).

2. Our contract with you:

  • Our contract. These terms of sale (Terms) apply to registration for Events by you and the provision of Events by us to you (Contract). They apply to the exclusion of any other terms that you seek to impose or incorporate, or which are implied by law, trade custom, practice or course of dealing.
  • Reference to “you”. This is a reference either to you as a professional individual or a company on whose behalf you are acting.
  • Entire agreement. The Contract is the entire agreement between you and us in relation to its subject matter. You acknowledge that you have not relied on any statement, promise or representation or assurance or warranty that is not set out in the Contract.
  • Your copy. You should print off a copy of these Terms or save them to your computer for future reference.

3. Booking your place

  • Your registration will always be subject to availability.
  • Booking your place. Please follow the onscreen prompts on the Site to book your place to our Events. You may register for our Events using the method set out on the Site. Each registration is subject to these Terms. Where you are registering for our Events on behalf of multiple delegates, you will be required to provide the full name and email address for each delegate.
  • Correcting input errors. Our registration process allows you to check and amend any errors before submitting your registration. Please check the registration carefully before confirming it. You are responsible for ensuring that your registration and any specific details submitted by you are complete and accurate.
  • Your registration. Our acceptance of your registration takes place when we send an email to you and each delegate to confirm it (Registration Confirmation). The Contract will relate only to those Events confirmed in the Registration Confirmation and therefore terminate upon conclusion of the Event.
  • Third party platforms for booking Events. We may use a third party platform for Event registration. Where this is the case, when you click to book, you will be redirected to the relevant third party’s platform and you will be subject to their terms and conditions of use and their privacy and cookies policies etc.

4. Cancelling your registration, transferring your ticket and obtaining a refund

  • You may cancel the Contract (and request a refund where a fee has been paid), if you notify us up to 2 working days before the Event. Any refund request will be processed at our discretion. We will email you to confirm we have cancelled your registration and whether you will receive a refund.
  • If you are unable to attend an Event, you may transfer your ticket or Event login details to someone else.
  • To cancel your registration or for more information on transferring your ticket, you can email us or call our customer service team using the details provided at the beginning of these Terms.
  • If you cancel the Contract, and we refund you the price you paid for the Event, we will refund you by the method you used for payment. We may deduct a transaction fee from any refund.

5. Our Events

  • Descriptions and illustrations. Any descriptions or illustrations on our Site are published for the sole purpose of giving an approximate idea of the Event described in them. They will not form part of the Contract or have any contractual force.
  • Changes to Event description. We may amend the description of the Event on our Site (Event Description) if there are current developments in the Event topic, speaker availability or changes to the applicable statutory or regulatory regime.
  • In-person Event. Where an Event is to take place in-person, we will send you (or each delegate) a Registration Confirmation shortly after your payment is received which, unless stated otherwise, will be your ticket for the Event. We may also send you (and each delegate) an email reminder of the Event prior to the Event.
  • Virtual Event. Where an Event is to take place virtually, we will send you (or each delegate) Event login details prior to the Event. We may also send you (or each delegate) an email reminder of the Event prior to the Event.
  • Time for performance. We will use reasonable endeavours to meet any performance dates specified in the Event Description and Registration Confirmation. Where an Event is postponed or cancelled, we will inform you as soon as reasonably practicable and insofar as possible refund you in the unlikely event of cancellation.

6, Your obligations

  • It is your responsibility to ensure that: your registration details (and those of any other delegates you may have registered) are complete and accurate so that we can provide your Registration Confirmation and any Event login. Please inform us at the earliest opportunity if you have not received these so that we can resolve any discrepancies and your Event attendance is secured.
  • For an in-person Event, where the Event is catered you MUST provide any allergy information and dietary requirements upon registration.

7. Charges

  • The Charges are the prices provided in the Event Description for each Event on our Site at the time you submit your registration details.
  • We take reasonable care to ensure that the prices stated for the Events are correct at the time when the relevant information was entered into the system. However, please see clause 7.4 for what happens if we discover an error in the price of the Event for which you registered.
  • Our Charges are exclusive of VAT. Where VAT is payable in respect of the Event you will be notified of the applicable VAT at the time of payment and you must pay us such additional amounts in respect of VAT, at the same time as you pay the Charges.
  • It is always possible that, despite our reasonable efforts, some of the Events on our Site may be incorrectly priced. Where the correct price for the Event is less than the price stated on our site, we will charge the lower amount; if the correct price for the Event is higher than the price stated on our Site, we will contact you in writing as soon as possible to inform you of this error and we will give you the option of paying the additional balance for the Event at the correct price or cancelling your registration. If we are unable to contact you using the contact details you provided during the registration process, we will treat the registration as cancelled and notify you in writing.

8. How to pay

  • Payment for the Event is in advance. We will usually take your payment upon registration.
  • You can pay for the Event using a debit card or credit card when submitting the registration for which we may redirect you to a payment provider in which case their terms and conditions and privacy policy etc will apply additionally in relation to the transaction.
  • Where we use a third party platform for booking an Event, the means of payment will be that as indicated by the platform provider.

9. Intellectual property rights

  • All intellectual property rights in the Site and its contents, in the Event publicity or any material that is provided in connection with the Event will be owned by us or the relevant individuals/firms who have authorised us to share such materials with you.
  • You shall not in any way copy or modify any part of our Site or any material provided to you by us prior to, during or after an Event.
  • We will request feedback after each event and would be most grateful if you could provide this to us. Any intellectual property rights in your feedback are here by assigned to us by way of future assignment, when they arise.

10. How we may use your personal information

  • We will use any personal information you provide to us to:
  • provide you with access to the Event;
  • process your payment for the Event; and
  • inform you about upcoming Events that we provide, but you may stop receiving these at any time by contacting us.
  • We will process your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy, the terms of which are incorporated into this Contract.

11. Limitation of liability: YOUR ATTENTION IS PARTICULARLY DRAWN TO THIS CLAUSE.

  • Nothing in the Contract purports to, or does, limit any liability which cannot legally be limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence; fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; and breach of the terms implied of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 that cannot by law be excluded.
  • Subject to clause 11.1, we will not be liable to you, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), for breach of statutory duty, or otherwise.
  • Subject to clause 1, our total liability to you arising under or in connection with the Contract, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, will be limited to the amount paid by you for the Event. Our Events are not intended to be legal advice. You must obtain your own legal advice on any of the matters presented at an Event and we shall not be liable for any reliance whatsoever upon our Event materials.
  • Any terms implied by the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 or otherwise are, to the fullest extent permitted by law, excluded from the Contract.
  • Unless you notify us that you intend to make a claim in respect of an Event within the notice period, we shall have no liability for that Event. The notice period for an Event shall start on the day on which you became, or ought reasonably to have become, aware of the Event having occurred and shall expire three months from that date. The notice must be in writing and must identify the Event and the grounds for the claim in reasonable detail.
  • Nothing in these Terms limits or affects the exclusions and limitations set out in our Terms and Conditions.
  • This clause 11 will survive termination of the Contract.

12. Confidentiality

  • We undertake that we will not at any time disclose to any person any confidential information concerning your business, affairs, customers, clients or suppliers, except as permitted by clause 2.
  • We each may disclose your confidential information:
  • to such of our respective partners, employees, officers, representatives, subcontractors or advisers who need to know such information for the purposes of exercising our respective rights or carrying out our respective obligations under the Contract. We will ensure that such partners, employees, officers, representatives, subcontractors or advisers comply with this clause 12; and
  • as may be required by law, a court of competent jurisdiction or any governmental or regulatory authority.
  • We may only use your confidential information for the purpose of fulfilling our respective obligations under the Contract.

13. Events outside our control

  • We will not be liable or responsible for any cancellation or postponement of our Events or any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations under the Contract that is caused by any act or event beyond our reasonable control (Event Outside Our Control).
  • If an Event Outside Our Control takes place that affects the performance of our obligations under the Contract:
    • we will contact you as soon as reasonably possible to notify you; and
    • our obligations under the Contract will be suspended for the duration of the Event Outside Our Control. Where possible, we will arrange a new date for the Events after the Event Outside Our Control is over. If we are unable to rearrange the Event, we will refund you.

14. General

  • Communications between us. When we refer to "in writing" in these Terms, this includes email.
  • Assignment and transfer. We may assign or transfer our rights and obligations under the Contract to another entity but will always notify you by posting on this webpage if this happens. You may only assign or transfer your rights or your obligations under the Contract to another person if we agree in writing (for instance, under clause 4.2).
  • Any variation of the Contract only has effect if it is in writing and signed by you and us (or our respective authorised representatives).
  • If we do not insist that you perform any of your obligations under the Contract, or if we do not enforce our rights against you, or if we delay in doing so, that will not mean that we have waived our rights against you or that you do not have to comply with those obligations. If we do waive any rights, we will only do so in writing, and that will not mean that we will automatically waive any right related to any later default by you.
  • Each paragraph of these Terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them is unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.
  • Survival. Any provision of the Contract that expressly or by implication is intended to come into or continue in force on or after termination will remain in full force and effect.
  • Third party rights. The Contract is between you and us. No other person has any rights to enforce any of its terms.
  • Governing law and jurisdiction. The Contract is governed by English law and we each irrevocably agree to submit all disputes arising out of or in connection with the Contract to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.