Website Terms of Use

Visitors to this website are bound by the following terms of use (Terms of Use) so please read these carefully before proceeding.

This website is operated by Ignitis AG (Ignitis). References to “this website” means the whole or any part of the web pages located at or directed to www.ignitisag.com, and includes the layout of this website; individual elements of this website’s design; underlying code elements of the website; or text, sounds, graphics, animated elements or any other content of this website.

By accessing, using or browsing on this website, or by continuing to do so, you accept and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. In accepting these Terms of Use, you agree that these Terms of Use apply whenever you access or use this website.

Ignitis may change these Terms of Use from time to time and you are responsible for periodically reviewing the most current version posted on this website.  Any amendment will be effective immediately. Your use of this website after any amendment constitutes an agreement by you to comply with and be bound by the amended Terms of Use.

Disclaimer and limitation of liability

The content on this website is provided by Ignitis in good faith on an “as is” and “as available” basis for general information purposes only and is not intended to constitute or substitute legal or other professional advice.  All articles, briefings, updates, or other information available on this website are prepared so that they are current as at the date of writing.  However, information can rapidly become out of date. You must make your own assessment of the information on this website and rely on it wholly at your own risk. 

Ignitis makes no representations or warranties about the suitability, reliability, timeliness, comprehensiveness or accuracy of any information, services and other content contained on this website.  Further, Ignitis does not warrant that any projections, predictions, forecasts or other forward-looking statements available on this website, will be accurate, complete or up to date and no reliance should be placed on any forward-looking statements posted on this website. 

Ignitis cannot and does not guarantee that the content of this website will always be correct or fault, error and virus free or that access to the website or third-party websites will be uninterrupted. Ignitis is not liable for incorrect content or errors and/or omissions in this website or its content (whether of typographical, technical or other nature), and does not warrant that defects, inaccuracies or errors on this website will be identified or remedied.  

Ignitis may, from time to time, change or add to this website without notice.  Ignitis is not liable to you or anyone else if the information on this website is not up to date and does not undertake to keep this website updated.

None of the content on this website is an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities of Ignitis or any other company. In addition, nothing on this website should be construed as an offer to buy or sell, nor a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell, any security or other financial instrument, or to invest assets in any account managed or advised by Ignitis or its affiliates. 

Ignitis will not be liable for any interference with or damage to your computer systems that may occur in connection with use of this website or a linked website, or for any data lost or any equipment or software damaged or replaced by you because of you using this website.  You must take your own precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use from this website is free of viruses or anything else (such as worms or trojan horses) that may interfere with or damage the operations of your computer systems.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, all implied terms are excluded, and Ignitis will not be liable directly or indirectly to you or anyone else in contract, tort, equity or otherwise for any loss or damage (including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, exemplary and aggravated damages and damages for loss of use, profits or revenue) or other remedy whatsoever in connection with this website or any use of content provided on this website.

To the extent permitted by law, Ignitis does not provide any representations or warranties relating to this website or its availability.

This general disclaimer is not restricted or modified by any specific warnings and disclaimers elsewhere on this website.

Security

Ignitis takes all reasonable steps to ensure the security of its systems. Any information which Ignitis holds for you is stored on secure servers. However, the possibility exists that the information could be unlawfully observed by a third party while the data is being transmitted over the internet or while stored on cloud-based servers. Ignitis accepts no liability that may arise if any other persons obtain the information you submit to this website, subject to any negligence or breach of law on Ignitis’ behalf.

Use

You agree that you will use this website responsibly and in compliance with all applicable laws.

You agree that you will not hack into this website or employ any robot, spider or other device or process to use this website for unauthorized purposes. You further agree that you will not take any action or do anything which imposes an unreasonable burden on the website.

Ignitis shall have the right (but not obligation) in its sole discretion to monitor, refuse or remove any content on this website. Without any limitation to the foregoing, Ignitis shall have the right to remove any content that violates these Terms of Use.

Ignitis may, in its sole discretion and at any time without notice, restrict, suspend, or cancel access to or use of this website, for all or any one or number of users.

If you are dissatisfied with any portion of this website, or with any of these Terms of Use, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue your use of this website.

User rights and intellectual property rights

All rights in this website and the content on this website including copyright, design rights, patents, inventions, knowhow, database rights, trademarks, source codes and any other intellectual property rights in any of the foregoing are owned by or licensed to Ignitis.

You are provided with access to this website only for your personal and non-commercial use.  No part of this website may be reproduced, republished, used, or modified without Ignitis’ express prior written consent. You agree that you will not adapt, reproduce, store, distribute, transmit, print, display, perform, publish, or create derivative works from any part of this website or commercialize any information, products, or services obtained from any part of this website, without Ignitis’ express prior written permission.

You agree that you will not do or allow any third party to do anything which may infringe, damage, or endanger Ignitis’ intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of a third party in respect of this website.

Nothing contained on this website should be construed as granting any license or right of use of any other person’s or entity’s trademark which is displayed on this website without their express permission.

Links to other websites

This website may contain links to other websites.  These links are provided solely for your convenience only and may not remain current or active. Ignitis does not endorse, recommend, or approve any information, products or services referred to on such linked sites and assumes no responsibility for the content, security, or privacy practices of any other website. Your use of any link to a linked website is entirely at your own risk.

Users are prohibited from placing a link to this website without express prior written consent from Ignitis and on terms satisfactory to Ignitis.

Accounts, passwords and security

Certain features or services offered on or through this website may require you to set up an Ignitis Portal or other account. You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the information you hold for your account, including your password, and for any and all activity that occurs under your account as a result of your failing to keep this information secure and confidential. You agree to notify Ignitis immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or password, or any other breach of security. You are prohibited from using anyone else’s login, password or account at any time without the express permission and consent of the holder of that account. Ignitis cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with these obligations.

Privacy Policy

Ignitis will collect, use, disclose, and retain personal information submitted or collected via submissions through its website.

The personal information collected via the website is:

• Your full name;
• Your company name;
• Your email address; and
• Your phone number.

We collect, hold, disclose, use, and otherwise process your personal information for the following business and commercial purposes:

• to verify whether we wish to conclude an agreement with you or your organization;
• to provide our services and products (for example, for our legitimate interest in managing claim(s), reviewing and evaluating litigation funding prospects and other potential agreements, conducting legal proceedings, settling legal claims, and to perform contracts with our clients (including claim enforcement) and with our suppliers or vendors);
• to market our services and products to you, including informing you about legal and funding developments that may be of interest to you, and notifying you of Ignitis hosted events; 
• to administer and archive case-related information and our financial information;
• to maintain commercial relationships with contact persons;
• to communicate with you or other contact persons, including corresponding with you to resolve queries or complaints;
• to analyze the use of our website, enhance its user friendliness and optimize it for website users;
• to help us manage or improve our services;
• to be able to disclose necessary information to a potential or actual third-party purchaser of our business, shares or assets (if your personal information is included as an asset of the business);
• to comply with our legal obligations including our tax, audit, and company law requirements; and/or
• to protect our assets, business, and personnel.

Ignitis may share your personal information, as permitted by applicable law, for the following business and commercial purposes:

• between members of the Ignitis group where such disclosure is necessary to provide you with our services and/or to manage our business;
• with third parties who help manage our business and/or deliver services or perform functions on our behalf. These include:
  • IT service providers who help manage our IT and back-office systems;
  • solicitors, barristers, bailiffs, advisors, auditors and translators – personal information from our case files are shared with suppliers who provide services on specific cases. These suppliers are usually established in the country where the legal proceedings take or are intended to take place (this can be anywhere in the world);
  • investment partners – limited personal information contained in case files may be shared with investors for investment decisions related to our cases;
• with a defendant or respondent in proceedings in relation to which Ignitis has agreed to provide funding, for the purpose of Ignitis performing its obligations under an agreement or to comply with applicable law, such defendant or respondent could be located anywhere in the world;
• with financial institutions in the context of legal proceedings, e.g. a bank to levy attachments on a bank account;
• courts, arbitral tribunals, arbitral institutes – personal information from specific case files is shared with these bodies in the country where legal proceedings take or are intended to take place;
• with local government organizations and agencies, courts, law enforcement and regulators to comply with applicable laws, regulations and rules, and requests of law enforcement, regulatory and other governmental agencies;
• we may share in anonymized, statistical form, information regarding the visitors to our website, traffic patterns, and website usage with our affiliates and service providers such as “Google” (for example  use of “Google Analytics”);
• if, in the future, we sell or transfer some or all of our business, shares or assets to a third party, we may disclose information to a potential or actual third-party purchaser of our business, shares or assets and this may include personal information as an asset of the business;
• with lawyers, law firms and related legal service providers in the context of a relevant claim. These parties agree or are legally bound to strict confidentiality restrictions and use any personal information we share with them or which they collect on our behalf solely for the purpose of providing legal confidential services; and/or
• with our clients who may receive personal information contained in their case files.

You may contact us at any time through our website if you would like to access, correct, or request deletion of your personal information or to complain about a breach of our obligations with respect to your personal information.

Due to the global nature of Ignitis’ business, your personal information may be disclosed to overseas entities located across the world.

Indemnity

You will indemnify and hold harmless Ignitis, each Ignitis subsidiary and their respective directors, officers, employees, licensors, contractors, agents and any third party content providers against all damages, losses, actions, costs, claims, demands and causes of action whatsoever at law, in equity or under statute, that Ignitis may suffer or incur as a result of any breach of these Terms of Use by you. These obligations survive any termination of your relationship with Ignitis or your use of this website.

Alterations

Ignitis reserves the right to, at its sole discretion, terminate, suspend or alter the content of this website and to amend these Terms of Use at any time.  Continued use of this website after alteration of its content or these Terms of Use constitutes acceptance of such alterations.

Governing law

These Terms of Use and any dispute, controversy, proceedings or claim of whatever nature arising out of or in any way relating to these Terms of Use will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Switzerland and its courts will have exclusive jurisdiction to resolve any disputes relating to these Terms of Use.

General

These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and Ignitis with regard to your use of this website, and any and all other written or oral agreements or understandings previously existing between you and Ignitis with respect to such use are superseded. 

If any part of these Terms of Use is held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be void or unenforceable, such provisions shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary and replaced with a valid provision that best embodies the intent of these Terms of Use, so that these Terms of Use shall remain in full force and effect. 

Ignitis’ failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provisions of these Terms of Use shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. 

Complaints procedure

If you have a question or complaint about this website, please contact us via the message board on our Home page. 

These Terms of Use were last updated on 7 May 2024.