Registration

General terms and conditions for attendees

For the event:

ICC 2021 – International CTEPH Conference 2021
10 – 11 December 2021
Bad Nauheim, Germany

Please note the following information and terms and conditions for attendance of the above-mentioned event. The host has commissioned wikonect GmbH, Hagenauer Strasse 53, 65203 Wiesbaden, Germany, to organise the event. wikonect GmbH shall charge attendance fees in its own name, which will then be transferred by the attendee to the respective account of wikonect GmbH.

Participation is reserved for physicians and healthcare professionals. To participate in the live stream, a further free-of-cost account on the Online-Congress platform to be used, may be required.

Terms of payment and cancellation
Payment of the attendance fees shall become due on completion of registration and the resulting binding booking and must be made no later than 14 days before the start of the event/live stream. Payment can be made by credit card (Visa and Mastercard) or bank transfer in advance. Invoices for conference registration shall be sent to the attention of the attendee, bearing the billing address as stated in the registration form. Please transfer all amounts after receiving the invoice by stating your name, invoice number as well as reference. Any extra charges for payment have to be covered by the attendee.
If changes to the registration are necessary, please contact wikonect GmbH by email (icc2021@wikonect.de). Please note that a processing fee of € 10 shall be charged for invoice corrections. Registrations are made on a personal basis and are non-transferable. In the event of cancellations up to 14 days before the start of the event, a cancellation fee of € 50 shall be charged. The attendance fee shall not be reimbursed in case of cancellations after this date. A cancellation is no longer possible if the digital seminar documents have already been downloaded. Cancellations shall be addressed by email (icc2021@wikonect.de) to wikonect GmbH.

All attendance fees listed include the legal effective VAT.

Live streams

Payment of the participation fee is due immediately upon issue of invoice after registration and must be made no later than 14 days before the start of the live stream. Invoices for participation in the event will be sent only for the attention of the participants, provided with their invoicing address and preferably by email.
If changes to the registration are necessary, please contact wikonect GmbH by email (icc2021@wikonect.de). Please note that a processing fee of € 10 shall be charged for invoice corrections. Registrations are made on a personal basis and are non-transferable. Cancellations must be made in writing. For cancellation within 14 days before the start of the event, a cancellation fee of €50 will be levied. For cancellations after this date, there will be no refund of the participation fee. A cancellation is no longer possible if the digital seminar documents have already been downloaded. Full participation fee shall also have to be paid if persons have registered but have not accessed the live stream without prior cancellation.

For booking changes of any kind (change from in-person event to livestream and vice versa, etc.), a rebooking fee of € 10,– shall be charged. Any differences between attendance fees shall be reimbursed or billed subsequently. Rebooking to livestream less than 14 days before the start of the booked in-person event can only be done at same attendance fees as the in-person event. Rebooking to an in-person event is basically possible only if free seats are available.

If the attendee cannot attend the booked in-person event due to force majeure (such as the Covid-19 pandemic) or should it be cancelled, rebooking – if requested – to the corresponding livestream is free of charge. Any differences between the attendance fees shall be reimbursed.

Changes and cancellations of the event by the host
The event/live stream shall only take place if a minimum number of attendees has been reached.
The same shall apply to all courses, seminars and social events taking place as part of the event/live stream. The host reserves the right to replace speakers, to change times or locations or cancel parts of the programme, and to make changes to the programme.
If the event/live stream has to be cancelled completely, the host shall notify the registered attendees without delay. In this case, any fees that have already been paid shall be reimbursed in full.
In the event of the cancellation of individual separately booked and chargeable parts of the programme (e.g. seminars, courses, etc.), the respective fee shall be reimbursed. Further claims for compensation shall be ruled out.

Availability of live streams and digital seminar documents
Access to the live stream is possible only after receipt of payment and at the start of the respective event. The time is indicated on the relevant pages of our website.
If access to on-demand videos of the lectures is to be provided, these will be successively made available on the Online-Congress platform from about 2 weeks after the respective event / live stream and can be retrieved from there for a period of 2-3 months. The participants will be informed about the availability if wikonect has a correct email address.

Liability notice
The host of the event shall be liable without limitation for damages to congress attendees resulting from injury to life, limb or health caused by a breach of duty of its legal representatives, employees or vicarious agents. For other damages to the congress attendees the host shall be liable without limitation only in the case of intent and gross negligence of their legal representatives, employees or vicarious agents. The host shall not be liable for cases of ordinary negligence of its legal representatives, employees or vicarious agents, unless an obligation is violated, the observance of which is of particular importance for the fulfilment of the contractual purpose (cardinal obligation). This shall include such obligations, the fulfilment of which is essential for the due and proper execution of the contract, the breach of which endangers the fulfilment of the contractual purpose, and the compliance with which the other contract partner regularly relies on. In the event of a negligent breach of a cardinal obligation, liability shall be limited to the foreseeable damage typical of the contract.

Liability for contents
The information in and the publications on the events / live streams have been diligently compiled and commented on by the respective speakers or authors to the best of their knowledge and currently available information. Invariably, the comments echo the personal opinion of the respective speakers or authors. Information and comments do not represent a substitute for the specific treatment decision of the physician. It is the physician‘s sole responsibility to be guided by the relevant information and comments according to his/her own diagnosis.

Third party regulations / house rules
Separate provisions of third parties, in particular their house rules or the venue operator’s cloakroom rules, are expressly pointed out.

Access ruling
Only expert attendees shall have access to the event facilities; all other persons and pets (except guide dogs) shall not be admitted.

These General Terms and Conditions for attendees were last updated on 10 December 2020.

Congress organiser:
wikonect GmbH
Hagenauer Strasse 53
65203 Wiesbaden
Managing director: Daniel M. Metzler

Host and responsible for scientific content:
International CTEPH Association
c/o artax Fide Consult AG
Gartenstrasse 95
4002 Basel
Switzerland
Chairman: Gérald Simonneau