modify or copy the materials;
use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials.
Any "robot", "bot", "spider", "scraper" or other automated device, program, tool, algorithm, code, process or methodology to access, obtain, copy, monitor or republish any portion of the website or any data, content, information or services accessed via the same.
Any automated analytical technique aimed at analysing text and data in digital form to generate information which includes but is not limited to patterns, trends and correlations.
You may link to our site, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.
You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
Our website must not be framed on any other website.
We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our website other than that set out above, please contact us at the email address above.
We may update and change our website from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our users' needs, and our business priorities. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes if we deem this necessary or useful.
Our website is made available free of charge, except where explicitly stated otherwise.
We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our website for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal if we deem this necessary or useful.
Terms of Use
1. What's in these Terms?
These terms of use (“Terms”) tell you the rules for using our website at summit.cardano.org, and all related website applications (collectively, our “website”).
Additional terms will apply if you register for an event or purchase tickets using our website.
2. Who we are and how you can contact us
Cardano Foundation (Cardano Stiftung) is an independent, Swiss-based not-for-profit organization aiming to advance Cardano as a public digital infrastructure. Its registered address is: Cardano Stiftung, Dammstrasse 16, 6300 Zug, Switzerland.
To contact us, please contact us via the contact form.
3. Acceptance of these Terms
By using our site, you confirm that you accept these Terms, that you agree to comply with them as well as with all applicable laws and regulations, and you have legal competence to consent to these terms. If you do not agree with any of these Terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this website.
Certain parts of our website or the whole website in general may be subject to additional terms. In particular, should you purchase any tickets to any of our events on the website or using any related web or mobile applications, you may be subject to additional terms and conditions relating thereto.
4. Our intellectual property – how you may use material on our site
We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in our website and in the materials published on it. Those works are protected by copyright and trademark laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
Use of our trademarks is governed by our trademark policy and requires adherence to its terms, unless otherwise authorised through our prior written approval.
These Terms permit you to use the website for your personal, non-commercial use only. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of the materials must always be acknowledged (except where we are only licensees of such materials).
You may not:
This licence shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by Cardano Foundation at any time. Upon termination of this license, you must destroy any materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format and confirm your compliance with this provision in writing.
5. Do not rely on information on this site
The materials on our website are provided on an ‘as is’ basis for general information purposes only.
The materials appearing on our website could include technical, typographical, or photographic errors. Cardano Foundation does not warrant that any of the materials on its website are accurate, complete or current. Cardano Foundation may make changes to the materials contained on its website at any time without notice. However, Cardano Foundation does not make any commitment to update the materials.
Cardano Foundation makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties including, without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, accuracy of results, warranties as to the absence of bugs or other vulnerabilities, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights. Further, Cardano Foundation does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on its website or otherwise relating to such materials or on any website linked to from this website. All use of the website is at your own risk.
6. Limitations of our liability for losses or damages suffered by you
In no event shall Cardano Foundation, its affiliates or its subcontractors be liable for any claims or damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption) arising out of the use or inability to use the site, any the materials on our website or any related services (including participating in online polls or competitions on our site), even if Cardano Foundation or a Cardano Foundation authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.
7. Indemnification
To the extent permissible by applicable law, you shall indemnify us from any claims from third-parties which are caused by your misuse of the website or breach of these terms, including your sharing of personal data which you are not authorized to share and uploading of Prohibited Content to the website.
8. Website applications
We reserve the right to deny registration on any website applications to anyone at our sole discretion and without assigning any reason thereof. We retain the right to deny access to any website applications to any user at any time, including for the reason that we believe such person has violated these Terms. We reserve the right to delete all data associated with any account created by a user who behaves contrary to these Terms. When registering for or using any of our website applications, you may do so through your wallet address or Discord account. We may verify your interaction with our website applications via SMS and a one-time pin.
9. Use of the site
You warrant that your use of the website shall not infringe, misappropriate or violate in any manner the right of any third-party or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation. You agree that your use of any website applications will be in accordance with the applicable rules of those website applications. In particular, any website applications used for voting shall be used fairly and honestly, and you shall not impersonate another user to cast an additional vote or otherwise distort the voting results. We do not guarantee the accuracy of any information provided by website applications.
We may from time to time run competitions or polls on the site, additional terms may apply to such competitions or polls.
10. User account responsibilities
In case of registrations, you are responsible for protecting against unauthorized access. Keep your access data secret and do not disclose it to anyone. We are not responsible for lost, stolen or compromised access credentials or for access to your account by an unauthorized user if this was caused by you. Access to and use of the website is at your own risk.
If you upload content to your account on the site, you are responsible for the accuracy thereof and for ensuring that you are authorized to upload this content and share it with us and our subcontractors.
You shall not upload or share any Prohibited Content on the website. “Prohibited Content” shall mean any content, that: (i) cannot be lawfully shared with us and uploaded to our site; (ii) is copyrighted, protected by trade secret, or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner or licensee of such rights; (iii) creates a risk to any person’s safety or health, creates a risk to public safety or health, compromises national security, or interferes with an investigation by law enforcement; (iv) impersonates another person; (v) promotes illegal drugs, violates export control laws, relates to illegal gambling, or illegal arms trafficking; (vi) is unlawful, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, gives rise to civil liability, violates any law, or is otherwise dishonest, inaccurate, inappropriate, malicious or fraudulent; (vii) involves theft or terrorism; (viii) constitutes unauthorized commercial communication; (ix) contains the contact information or any personally identifiable information of any third party unless you have first obtained the express and informed consent of said third party to include such information; and/or (x) breaches this agreement.
By sharing content to your account, you hereby grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual right to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, and display your content for the purposes of providing our website and services to you as described herein.
11. We are not responsible for websites we link to
Cardano Foundation has not reviewed all of the websites linked to its website and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked website. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Cardano Foundation of the website. Use of any such linked website is at the user’s own risk.
12. No text or data mining or web scraping
You must not conduct, facilitate, authorise or permit any text or data mining or web scraping in relation to our website or any services provided via, or in relation to, our website. This includes using (or permitting, authorising or attempting the use of):
The provisions in this clause should be treated as an express reservation of our rights in this regard, including for the purposes of applicable copyright law. Because some jurisdictions do not allow such exclusion or limitation of text or data mining or web scraping activity by contract, this clause may not apply to you.
13. Other use of the site
You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the website (or the servers and networks which are connected to the same) or attempt to interfere with its proper functioning in any way.
You will not make any unauthorised disclosures of any personally identifiable information of any individual, including but not limited to email address and username, without their consent. You agree that you will not attempt to gain unauthorised access to any portions of the website which are unavailable to you.
Cardano Ballot votes, once cast, cannot be changed.
14. How we may use your personal data
For information on how we process personal data, please refer to our Privacy Policy.
15. Rules about linking to our site
16. Modifications of these Terms
Cardano Foundation may revise these Terms for its website at any time without notice. The revised version applies upon publication on our website. By using our site, you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these Terms.
17. Changes, suspension or withdrawal of the site
18. Disclosure
We reserve the right to access, read, preserve and disclose any the content you provide us at registration or which you upload to your account, or any other information that we obtain in connection with the website as we reasonably believe is necessary to: (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, subpoena or governmental request; (ii) enforce this Agreement, including investigation of potential violations of it; (iii) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; (iv) respond to user support requests; or (v) protect the rights, property or safety of the Cardano Foundation or the public.
19. Assignment
We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to another organisation. We will always inform you in writing or other suitable form if this happens.
20. General
If any provision of this Agreement is deemed invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect. A party’s failure to assert any right or provision under this agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. Subject to mandatory applicable law, you agree that any cause of action that you may have arising out of or related to this agreement must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues. Otherwise, such cause of action is permanently barred.
21. Governing Law and jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the material laws of Switzerland under exclusion of its conflicts of laws provisions and you irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Zug, Switzerland. In case of imminent or actual infringement of its rights, Cardano Foundation reserves the right to call upon any other competent court for injunctive relief.
Version 8 August 2025