This Website, including, without limitation, the information, functions and documents herein (the "Contents"), is intended exclusively for distributors, sub-distributors and other intermediaries who: i) may be involved in the marketing and distribution, ii) are residents of Germany and iii) qualify as professional clients under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive 2004/39/EC (each an "Advisor" and together the "Advisors"). This Website and its Contents are made available for the exclusive use of Advisors and for educational purposes only (the "Purpose"). This Website is not intended for any other use other than the Purpose or for residents of any other jurisdictions.
The "Firm" shall mean CIS Asset Management (Deutschland) GmbH ("CIS Asset Management") and/or any other company or person controlled by, controlling or under common control with CIS Asset Management.
You must read these Terms and Conditions for your own protection and benefit. When you have read the Terms and Conditions and provided you are entitled to view this Website according to these Terms and Conditions and any applicable laws and regulations, please click on the button below to acknowledge that you have read, understood and accept the Terms and Conditions and to proceed to the main part of the Website. If you are not an Advisor or if you are not in compliance with any of the provisions contained in the Terms and Conditions, you must not access this Website. CIS Asset Management shall not be held liable for any actions that you may take or omit to take with regard to distribution or marketing of the financial instruments. You hereby represent that you understand and acknowledge that failure to comply with these Terms and Conditions may mean that CIS Asset Management comes under a legal obligation to register the financial instruments in a particular jurisdiction and that this and other associated issues arising could result in irreparable injury to CIS Asset Management for which monetary damages alone may not be an adequate remedy. You hereby agree that in the event of non compliance with these Terms and Conditions CIS Asset Management will be entitled to specific performance and injunctive or other equitable relief as a remedy in addition to and not in lieu of any appropriate relief in the way of monetary damages.
The Contents are not intended to be accessed or used by any person or entity in any country or jurisdiction where this access or use is illegal or where the Firm will be under a legal obligation to register the financial instruments or any offering of such instruments.
CONTENTS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS A SOLICITATION, A RECOMMENDATION OR ADVICE
The Contents do not constitute an invitation to invest or a public offer of the financial instruments in the U.S. or elsewhere. The Contents are provided exclusively for the Purpose and they have not been prepared as an offer to trade any particular security referred in the Contents. For the avoidance of doubt, this Website is not intended for investors or beneficiaries resident in the U.S., or elsewhere.
The Contents have been prepared for informational purposes only without regard to the investment objectives, financial situation, or means of any particular person or entity, and CIS Asset Management is not soliciting any action based upon them. The Contents are not to be construed as a recommendation or a representation about the suitability or appropriateness of the financial instruments; or an offer to buy or sell; or the solicitation of an offer to buy or sell any security, financial product, or instrument; or to participate in any particular trading strategy. Certain transactions, including those involving futures, options, and high-yield securities, give rise to substantial risk and are not suitable for all investors. Many of the products described on this Website involve significant risks. Transactions should not be entered without a full understanding of all such risks and an appropriate independent determination that such transactions are appropriate. Any discussion of the risks contained in this Website (including, without limitation, in respect of the financial instruments) should not be considered to be a disclosure of all risks or complete discussion of the risks which are mentioned. For complete information about the financial instruments, always refer to the financial instrument‘s latest offering documentation, including but not limited to the relevant financial instrument prospectus as well as the relevant supplement of such prospectus. You should not construe any of the Contents as business, financial, investment, hedging, trading, legal, regulatory, tax, or accounting advice. The Firm will not treat users of this Website as its clients by virtue of them accessing it.
REPRESENTATIONS
Compliance with applicable laws and regulations
You acknowledge that the financial instrument may not be publicly offered in some jurisdictions and will not be registered for public distribution in the U.S. Therefore, you represent and warrant to CIS Asset Management that you will not take any actions or omit to take any actions which may require the shares of the financial instrument or any offering of such shares to become registered for sale under the laws of any jurisdiction.
Without prejudice to the foregoing, you represent and warrant to CIS Asset Management that you will not promote or market the financial instrument unless such promotion and marketing is made in compliance with any applicable laws, rules and regulations related to the promotion of financial products or services, all of such laws, rules and regulations you represent to know and have appropriate compliance procedures designed to ensure that you, your representatives, associates, affiliates and agents comply with all of such laws, rules and regulations.
Non U.S. Person Representation
The Contents are not available to U.S. persons or persons acting on their behalf, and the financial instruments described in the Contents are not being offered in the United States or to U.S. persons. Therefore, you represent, warrant and covenant to CIS Asset Management that: (i) you are not a U.S. Person (as defined in Rule 902 of Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended) or acting for the account or benefit of a U.S. Person; (ii) you are a Non-United States Person (as defined in Rule 4.7 under the U.S. Commodity Exchange Act, as amended) and are not acting for the account or benefit of a person who is not a Non-United States Person; (iii) you will not make the Contents available to, or offer or promote the sale of any interest in the financial instruments to, any such U.S. Person or any person who is not such a Non-United States Person; and (iv) you will forthwith cease any use of the Contents for any purpose if any of the foregoing representations is no longer true.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
All intellectual property rights related to the Contents, including the information, text, materials, images, logos, photographs and illustrations on this Website and regarding the lay-out and design thereof (such intellectual property rights referred as the "Intellectual Property") are the property of the Firm or have been licensed to the Firm by the owner(s) of those rights. None of the Contents, nor any copy of it, may be altered in any way (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any removal of any copyright, trademark or any other notices that are provided to you in connection with the Contents), transmitted to, copied or distributed to any other party, without the prior express written permission of CIS Asset Management. All trademarks, service marks and logos used on this Website are trademarks or service marks or registered trademarks or service marks of the Firm or other entities. CIS Asset Management reserves the right, at any time and from time to time, in the interests of its own editorial discretion and business judgment to add, modify, or remove any of the Contents. These Terms and Conditions are not intended to, and will not, transfer or grant any rights in or to the Intellectual Property other than those which are specifically described herein, and all rights not expressly granted herein are reserved by the Firm or, where applicable, the third party providers from whom the Firm has obtained the Intellectual Property.
LINKED WEBSITES
The Website may contain addresses or hyperlinks which lead you out of this Website. CIS Asset Management has not reviewed any such websites to which this Website may link, and is not responsible for the content of any websites or pages linked to or linking from this Website. Such addresses or hyperlinks (including addresses or hyperlinks to the Firm‘s own website material) are provided solely for your convenience and information. Accessing such websites or following such links to any other websites or pages shall be at your own risk. CIS Asset Management has not tested any information, software, or products found on any such websites and therefore, CIS Asset Management makes no representations concerning their content or sponsors, or the suitability or appropriateness of the products or transactions described therein. The inclusion within this Website of addresses or hyperlinks which lead you out of this Website does not constitute an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or affiliation by the Firm with respect to any websites, its owners, or its providers.
MONITORING BY CIS Asset Management
Your use of this Website may be monitored by CIS Asset Management or its service providers, and the resultant information may be used by CIS Asset Management for its internal business purposes or in accordance with the rules of any applicable regulatory or self-regulatory organization.
GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by German law.
INDEMNITY
Without prejudice to the foregoing, you will keep the Firm indemnified and harmless with respect to any liabilities (including all costs of investigation and defense) and other damages that directly or indirectly may derive from the failure to comply with the Terms and Conditions hereunder, including, but not limited to, any liability or damage that directly or indirectly may derive from any use of the Website which is not in accordance with the Purpose or any breach by you or by any of your agents or delegates of: i) these Terms and Conditions, or ii) any applicable rules and regulations related to the promotion of financial products or services.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
Past performance should not be taken as an indication or guarantee of future performance, and no representation or warranty, express or implied, is made regarding future performance. Opinions and/or estimates reflect a judgment at the original date of publication by the Firm and are subject to change without notice. The price, value of and income from any of the securities or financial instruments mentioned in this Website can fall as well as rise. Foreign currency denominated securities and financial instruments are subject to fluctuations in exchange rates that may have a positive or adverse effect on the value, price or income of such securities or financial instruments. Investors in securities, the values of which are influenced by currency volatility, effectively assume this risk. Valuations provided in the Website may be based upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, current prices quoted, valuation of underlying assets and market liquidity, as well as other assumptions (which are subject to change without notice) and publicly available information. All assumptions and estimates should not be relied upon for any investment decision. CIS Asset Management does not represent that any transaction can or could have been effected at such valuations. Any valuations are provided as a courtesy and are intended solely for your analysis.
This Website is subject to periodic update and revision. However CIS Asset Management does not represent that such Contents are accurate, current, or complete and it should not be relied upon as such, without regard to the date on which you may access the information. CIS Asset Management maintains the right to delete or modify information on this Website without prior notice. The Firm may have issued other reports that are inconsistent with, and reach different conclusions from, the information presented in this Website. Those reports reflect the different assumptions, views and analytical methods of the analysts who prepared them and the Firm is under no obligation to ensure that such reports are brought to your attention.
The Firm makes no warranty whatsoever to you express or implied, regarding the security of this Website.
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DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
You expressly acknowledge that you have checked and confirm that you: (i) are a distributor, sub-distributor or other intermediary who: a) may be involved in the marketing and distribution of the financial instrument, b) is a resident of Germany and c) qualifies as a professional client under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive 2004/39/EC; (ii) understand and accept the Terms and Conditions above and are legally entitled to view this Website; and (iii) understand that the information on the Website is not a promotion and that you will not treat it as such and that any information on the Website is not addressed specifically to you.
Should you not be an Advisor or should you not be in compliance with any of the Terms and Conditions, you must immediately discontinue from using the Website and refrain from accessing any pages of the Website.
The Contents and tools presented in this Website are made available, for educational purposes, by CIS Asset Management (Deutschland) GmbH, Hauptstraße 81, 65760 Eschborn, Germany which is authorized and regulated in Germany by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (the "BaFin") to provide investment services and which appears in the BaFin‘s Register (Registration No. 121247). CIS Asset Management is registered as a Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (private limited company) in Germany (registered at Amtsgericht Frankfurt; Company Number HRB 87624). CIS Asset Management is subject to the BaFin rules and guidance, details of which can be found on the BaFin‘s website at www.bafin.de. The BaFin regulates the financial services industry in Germany and is located at Graurheindorfer Str. 108, 53117 Bonn, Germany and Marie-Curie-Str. 24-28, 60439 Frankfurt, Germany.