These Terms and Conditions ( Terms ) are agreed between you and IMIF Media LTD (the Company) and sets out the terms and conditions that apply to your Account and your use of the Services (including under an Assessment Program or as a Funded Trader or ancillary services associated with either or both). These Terms are effective immediately on successful registration of your Account and continue until terminated or you stop using the Services in accordance with clause 18. By registering your Account and using the Services, you expressly acknowledge and agree that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms.
By establishing an Account and paying the Access Fee, you are agreeing to have your trading skills assessed by the Company in a proprietary demonstration environment (developed by the Company) and against the Assessment Criteria corresponding to your chosen Assessment Program.
You will be provided with access to the Trading Platform which you will use to conduct your Trades for assessment by the Company against the Assessment Criteria.
If your trading skills are sufficiently proficient and you satisfy the Assessment Criteria, the Company may offer you a role as a Funded Trader (which you may accept or decline). There is no guarantee that you will be offered such a role, irrespective of whether you satisfy the relevant Assessment Criteria.
As a Funded Trader, the Company will allocate to you a Bankroll (the amount of which will correspond to your Assessment Program) from which you will conduct Trades with the aim of making a Notional Net Profit for each Trading Period.
If you satisfy the Funded Trader Criteria for a given Trading Period, you will receive a Trader Payment for that Trading Period.
If you do not meet the Funded Traded Criteria for a given Trading period, you will not receive a Trader Payment for that Trading Period.
As a Funded Trader, you will not be required to make any payment of money to either fund your allocated Bankroll or cover the negative monetary positions of your Trades. Your Bankroll and the monetary positions of your Trades are representative in nature only and are not “live” amounts or positions.
All your Trades will be placed on the Trading Platform, which is strictly a demonstration only environment and not a “live” platform. The Trading Platform may use real data taken from a live trading environment, but such data will be representative only and your Trades will not be placed in a “live” trading environment. This applies to the Trades you place as part of your chosen Assessment Program and as a Funded Trader.
The Company may vary these Terms at any time, including to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, to protect its systems, processes and other users Services (including other Funded Traders), and to otherwise ensure the delivery Services can continue in a commercially reasonable and sustainable way. Where such changes materially affect the Services or their delivery, you will be notified in writing before the changes are implemented or as soon as practicable after they are implemented.
Unless expressly stated otherwise or the context requires it, the following words have the following meanings when used in these Terms: Access Fee means the upfront fees payable by you to the Company to receive the Services, as relevant to your selected Assessment Program and prescribed in the Schedule of Assessment Programs & Fees.
Account means an account created by you, or on your behalf, to use Services offered by the Company. Account Application Form means the relevant application form (whether printed or hosted online) you must complete to establish an Account. Assessment Criteria means the relevant criteria corresponding to each Assessment Program detailed in the Schedule of Assessment Programs & Fees, and requirements of which are to be satisfied as part of determining whether the Company considers a person to have sufficient proficiency in Trading. Assessment Program means an “Assessment Program” as detailed in the Schedule of Assessment Programs & Fees which you select as part of establishing your Account.
Bankroll means the representative dollar value which you will be allocated if you are selected to become a Funded Trader, and from which you will use to construct and place representative Trades. Confidential Information means any information which is by its nature confidential or commercially sensitive and includes all technical, proprietary and operational information, drawings, techniques, processes, know-how, methods of working, data and specifications, trade secrets and other commercially valuable information of any kind, and the terms of these Terms. Funded Trader means a person who accepts the Company’s offer to become an independent contractor to construct and place theoretical Trades using representative real-time data on the Trading Platform.
Funded Trader Criteria means the relevant criteria a Funded Trader needs to satisfy in order to receive Trader Payments (as prescribed in the Schedule of Assessment Programs & Fees).
Independent Contractor Agreement means an agreement to be entered into between you and the Company if you are selected to become a Funded Trader.
Intellectual Property Rights means all Confidential Information and all industrial and intellectual property rights including:
Notional Net Profit means the notional value that can be attributed to the representative value of the net positions of your Trades for each Trading Period.
Permitted Use means the construction and placement of Trades on the Trading Platform as part of the Assessment Program or as a Funded Trader.
Restricted Territory has the meaning given in clause 4.
Restrictions means the prohibited and restrictions of use of the Services set out in clause 12.2.
Schedule of Assessment Programs & Fees means the schedule of the same name detailing the Assessment Program(s) available to you (and relevant details for Access Fees, Assessment Criteria and Funded Trader Criteria and Potential Trader Payment) when you establish an Account and as part of the Services.
Services means the provision by the Company of trading technology (including the Trading Platform) and trading assessment services to you and other applicants and Funded Traders and as part of your selected Assessment Program.
Terms means these Terms and Conditions and includes the accompanying documents expressly agreed to form part of these Terms, including the Schedule of Assessment Programs & Fees.
Trades means the theoretical and/or representative forex and contracts-for-difference (CFD) trades you construct and place on the Trading Platform whether as part of your Assessment Program or as a Funded Trader, and Trading has a corresponding meaning.
Trader Payments means the amounts you will be entitled to receive if you become a Funded Trader and satisfy the Funded Traded Criteria (as prescribed in the Schedule of Assessment Program & Fees).
Trading Platform means the technology platform provided by the Company to you as part of the Services to construct and place Trades.
Website means the Company’s website prescribed in the Schedule of Assessment Programs & Fees or such other website(s)
as the Company may maintain from time to time to deliver any part of Services.
When interpreting these Terms, unless the context otherwise requires:
The Schedule of Assessment Programs & Fees is incorporated into, and form part of, these Terms. The Schedule or Assessment Programs & Fees may accompany these Terms or may be provided to you separately (either as another document, via the Website or as part of other communications between you and the Company). Unless expressly stated otherwise, the provisions of the Schedule of Assessment Programs & Fees prevail in the event of any discrepancy between them and these Terms.
You acknowledge, warrant and agree that you are not, and will not at any time during your use of the Services be, a citizen or resident (permanent or otherwise) of a Restricted Territory. You acknowledge and agree that it is your sole responsibility to ensure you comply with any laws and are permitted to use the Services and fully indemnify the Company and its personnel from any loss, damage or liability arising out of or in connection with the establishing of your Account or your use of the Services being unlawful or not being permitted in any jurisdiction, including your country of citizenship or residency. For the purpose if these Terms, a Restricted Territory includes those countries expressly stated to be a “Restricted Territory” as set out in the Schedule of Assessment Programs & Fees but can include others as designated by Governments and Government agencies. By purchasing any products you agree that all the information provided is true and accurate.
You undertake that you will notify us as soon as possible if any of the above representations become incorrect. You further agree that we may immediately and without notice suspend or terminate the agreement if we reasonably believe this to be required in order to comply with applicable sanctions laws.
You explicitly agree that any monies paid are not refundable if you breach this Clause 4.
The Company provides the Services strictly for Permitted Use only.
The Company makes no representation, and does not give any warranty, about the suitability of the Services. You acknowledge and agree that the Trading Platform and Services are provided “as is” and that you have not relied on any representation or warranty (express or implied) made by any party, other than as expressly set out in these Terms. The Company does not warrant that the Trading Platform or any other technology or platform it provides: (i) is or will be secure, accurate, complete, uninterrupted, without error, or free of viruses, worms, other harmful components, or other limitations; (ii) meets your requirements, (iii) will provide results that are accurate or reliable; or (iv) will have errors corrected.
You acknowledge and agree that the Company provides you with technology, administrative and assessment services only, and that the Services do not constitute the provision of financial products or financial services.
You assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing, repair, or correction of problems caused by viruses or other harmful components except to the extent directly caused by the Company’s gross negligence or willful misconduct.
The Company is not responsible for delays in the transmission of Trade orders due to disruption, failure or malfunction of communications facilities or infrastructure and it not liable for any claims, losses, damages, costs or expenses, including legal or professional fees, to any person or entity arising other than as a direct result of the Company’s sole gross negligence.
The Company is permitted to limit the number of open Trading positions you may enter or The Company may refuse to accept any Trade.
The parties are independent contracting parties to each other. These Terms do not create or constitute a partnership, joint venture, agency or employer/employee relationship between the parties, or allow a party to make any representation for the other party or bind the other party to another duty or obligation.
To establish your account, you must complete the Account Application Form on the Website and provide the Company with all additional information requested (including providing relevant documents to enable the Company to complete required identity verification and anti-money laundering checks).
The Company will complete all necessary internal controls once you submit your Account Application Form and, once completed, will send to you a notice informing you whether or not your application to establish an Account has been accepted.
The Company has full and complete discretion as to whether it accepts an Account Application Form or proceeds with establishing or maintaining an Account.
You acknowledge and accept that the Company will rely on the accuracy, completeness and correctness of the information or documents you provide in your Account Application Form and to otherwise establish the Account and warrant that you will immediately notify the Company if the information or documents provided are modified or become inaccurate following a change in your circumstances.
On establishing your Account, you will be required to choose an Assessment Program and pay to the Company the relevant Access Fee applicable to your chosen Assessment Program, in full and before you are given access to the Trading Platform. The Access Fee is a non-refundable fee once your Assessment Period starts except where expressly required by law.
By submitting an Account Application Form, you expressly authorise and consent to the Company establishing your Account and that you will receive and use the Services voluntarily and without any coercion from any other party. You agree that any Access Fee you pay to the Company is done voluntary in accordance with your selected Assessment Program. You must not submit a chargeback in relation to the Access Fee on an unsubstantiated basis (this includes where you have started to receive the Services or have otherwise started to use the Trading Platform in any way). The Company may present these Terms as evidence to refute any chargeback in connection with the Access Fee and you will be liable for any costs the Company incurs (including administrative and legal costs on a full indemnity basis) to refute an unsubstantiated chargeback or recover amounts in connection with an unsubstantiated chargeback.
Once the Company has received the Access Fee, you will be given access to the Trading Platform to start your Assessment Program. Unless expressly agreed by the Company or communicated to you otherwise, your Assessment Criteria (including the Assessment Period) is the that which corresponds to your Assessment Program in the Schedule of Assessment Programs & Fees.
You will not be entitled to restart Assessment Period once it starts. The Company may at its sole discretion allow for an Assessment Period to restart if provided with compelling reasons to do so by you or some other person. The Company is not obliged to permit a restart of an Assessment Period other than as may be required by law.
You may only change Assessment Programs if it is agreed by the Company. You may be required to pay to the Company additional amounts to cover differences in Access Fees or administrative fees associated with implementing such changes for you. The Company has sole discretion in deciding whether or not to allow you to change to another Assessment Program or reject a request for the same.
You may be asked to give the Company a “live” or “real-time” demonstration of your Trading activities during the Assessment Period, by video conference or in-person.
To successfully complete your chosen Assessment Program, your Trading Performance must satisfy the Assessment Criteria relevant to you and your chosen Assessment Program. You will be advised by the Company at the end of your Assessment Period if you have satisfied the Assessment Criteria.
If you satisfy the Assessment Criteria or the Company considers your Trading skills to be proficient and of high standards, the Company may (at its sole discretion) offer you a position as a Funded Trader. The Company may use other information available to it to assess your suitability to become a Funded Trader (including demonstrated trading history and expertise). An offer to become a Funded Trader is not guaranteed. Paying an Access Fee and participating in an Assessment Program (successfully or otherwise) does not oblige the Company to make you an offer to become a Funded Trader.
You may accept or reject the Company’s offer to you of a role as a Funded Trader. To accept the offer, you must sign an Independent Contract Agreement that the Company will provide you. To decline the offer you may advise the Company accordingly. If the Company does not receive your response to the offer within 30 days of making the offer to you, this will be deemed as a rejection of the offer.
You may be required to provide further or additional information (including identification, criminal history and bankruptcy checks and bank account information) before you can be onboarded as a Funded Trader.
A Funded Trader is engaged by the Company as an independent contractor only and is not as an employee, partner or agent of the Company.
As a Funded Trader, you will be allocated a Bankroll and you will construct and place Trades with the aim of making Notional Net Profit and adding to your allocated Bankroll.
For each Trading Period in which you satisfy the relevant Funded Trader Criteria, you will receive a Trader Payment for that relevant Trading Period. Any Trader Payments you are entitled to will be paid to you in US Dollars (or equivalent in another currency if agreed to by the Company) and to a bank account nominated by you.
You must not:
If the Company determines you have contravened this clause 12 then the Company may immediately and without notice to you terminate or suspend your Account and/or use of the Services and you will forfeit any fees or payments you are entitled to under these Terms. You will not be eligible to become or remain a Funded Trader if your Trading activities contravene the Restrictions of this clause 12.2 and you agree the Company may review your Trading activities at any time to determine if such contraventions have occurred.
All fees quoted as part of these Terms will be exclusive of tax, unless expressly stated otherwise.
You are solely responsible for paying all relevant taxes or other statutory or regulatory fees or costs in connection your use of the Services, including any applicable sale, use, good and services, value added, withholding or similar taxes and penalties or interest in connection with the same.
If the Company is required to withhold or deduct any such amounts described in paragraph (b) above from the Trader Payment, the Company is entitled to recover such withheld or deducted amounts from you in addition and as a debt immediately due and payable.
The parties acknowledge and agree that the Company wholly owns all legal ownership and Intellectual Property Rights to any technology, applications, products, systems, and documents that are provided to you in connection with these Terms, including the Trading Platform, the Website, the Account and any other part of the Services.
If required to effect the Company’s ownership and control of any Intellectual Property Rights described in clause 14.1, you must procure the effective assignment of any such rights.
You indemnify the Company against all liabilities incurred by the Company arising out of or in connection with any infringement of Intellectual Property Rights by you or any failure by it to effectively assign Intellectual Property Rights to the Company under clause 14.2.
A party ( receiving party ) who receives Confidential Information from the other party ( disclosing party ) must only use the Confidential Information for the purpose of exercising its rights and performing its obligations under these Terms. All Confidential Information received by a receiving party must, to the extent practicable, be kept separate from the other documents and records of the receiving party.
Except to the extent necessary to comply with clause 15.1, or as otherwise permitted by clause 15.3, a receiving party must not:
Notwithstanding clause 15.2, a receiving party may disclose the other party’s Confidential Information:
If requested by a disclosing party, a receiving party must as soon as reasonably practicable:
If the receiving party develops or uses a product or a process which, in the reasonable opinion of the disclosing party, might have involved the use of any of the disclosing party’s Confidential Information, the receiving party must, at the disclosing party’s request, give to the disclosing party information reasonably necessary to establish that the disclosing party’s Confidential Information has not been used or disclosed.
The Company may collect information directly from you (including from your Account) or from other persons including, for example, credit reference agencies, fraud prevention agencies and the providers of public registers.
The Company will use, store, process and handle any personal information provided by you (for natural persons) in connection with the Services and in accordance with its Privacy Policy.
The Company may disclose personal information to its related entities or business partners for the purposes of, and in connection with, facilitating an assignment, transfer, or novation.
The Company will treat any information about you it holds as Confidential Information, and such information will be used solely for providing the Services.
The Company may disclose your information including recordings and documents of a private nature:
Telephone conversations between you and the Company may be recorded for compliance monitoring and quality control and such recordings will be the Company’s sole property. You agree such recordings will be evidence to support any orders, instructions, and activities made by you.
You agree that the Company may directly contact you by any communication method.
The Company will keep records containing your personal data, trading information, account opening documents, communications, and anything else which relates to you, for at least five years after termination or expiry of these Terms (or such other period as required by law).
Each party (as an indemnifying party ) indemnifies the other party ( indemnified party ) against any claim or liability (including reasonable legal costs on a solicitor-client basis) arising from damage or loss (including any infringement of Intellectual Property Rights and breaches of confidentiality), personal injury, or death to the extent caused or contributed to by the indemnifying party’s willful or negligent act or omission or breach of these Terms. An indemnifying party’s liability under this clause 17 is reduced proportionately to the extent such damage, loss personal injury or death has been caused or contributed by the indemnified party’s acts or omissions.
Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes an indemnifying party’s liability:
Neither party is liable to the other party, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, under these Terms or otherwise, for any loss of profit, loss of opportunity or economic loss or for any indirect or consequential loss.
The Company is not liable for any loss, damage, expense, or liability incurred by you in relation to, or directly or indirectly arising from or in connection with:
The Company may terminate your use of the Services for any reason and without cause at any time.
The Company may elect to suspend your access to the Services rather than terminate these Terms if it considers it more appropriate to do so (for example, if further inquiries or investigative activities need to be completed to determine if there has been a breach of these Terms or misuse of the Services). The length of any such suspension will be determined by the Company at its sole discretion acting reasonably.
A clause that is expressed to, or by its nature is intended to, survive termination or expiry, including clauses 4 (Residency Acknowledgement & Disclaimer), 6 (No Partnership or Employee Relationship), 13 (Taxes or Other Statutory or Regulatory Costs), 14 (Intellectual Property), 15 (Confidentiality), 16 (Privacy and Data Protection), 17 (Indemnity and Limitation of Liability), 18.5 (Consequences of Termination), 18.6 (Survival), 21 (Notices) and 22 (Dispute Resolution), survives termination or expiry of these Terms.
The Company is not liable to you or any other person for any claims, losses, damages, costs or expenses, including legal or professional fees, caused, directly or indirectly, by any events, actions or omissions not within the Company’s reasonable control including those resulting from civil unrest, war, insurrection, international intervention, actions of a government or regulatory body (including, without limitation,
exchange controls, forfeitures, nationalisations, devaluations), natural disasters, acts of God, market conditions, inability to communicate with any relevant person or any delay, disruption, failure or
malfunction of any transmission or communication system or computer facility, whether belonging to you, the Company or a third-party or other service provider.
Each party represents to the other party that each of the following statements is true and accurate upon the commencement of these Terms:
If you establish your Account as the trustee of a trust ( Relevant Trust ), then you warrant to the Company that on establish of your Account:
In your capacity as trustee of the Relevant Trust you must not without the Company’s prior written consent permit any of the following:
Any notice, demand, consent or other communication ( Notice ) given or made under these Terms must be in writing, in English and signed by a person duly authorised by the sender and delivered to the registered address of the Company or an address notified by you to the Company in any correspondence (as the case may be). This includes any notice, demand, consent or other communication made by electronic forms of communication (such as email).
If a dispute arises out of or in connection with these Terms (except for an urgent matter that may require urgent relief), the parties agree to act in good faith to resolve the dispute by ensuring discussions between them are conducted before any further action is taken on the dispute.
At any time following a dispute arising and whether the parties have relied on clause 22.1 or not, the dispute may be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration under the London Court of International Arbitration Rules ( LCIA Rules ), which are deemed to be incorporated by reference into this clause, and:
This clause 22 does not prejudice any party’s right to seek injunctive relief from a court of competent authority where failure to obtain such relief would cause irreparable damage to the party concerned. The dispute resolution procedures in this clause 22 do not apply to impair, delay or otherwise prejudice the exercise by a party of its rights provided in these Terms (including any right of termination).
If any part of these Terms does not comply with any law, then the offending part must be read down to give it as much effect as possible. If it is not possible to give the provision any effect at all, then it must be severed from the rest of these Terms.
A single or partial exercise or waiver of a right relating to these Terms does not prevent any other exercise of that right or the exercise of any other right. A party is not liable for any loss, cost or expense of any other party caused or contributed to by any waiver, exercise, attempted exercise or failure to exercise, or any delay in the exercise of, a right.
Other than as expressly contemplated by another provision of these Terms, a variation or amendment to these Terms is not binding unless agreed by the parties in writing.
You must not assign, novate, transfer or otherwise deal with its rights and obligations under these terms without the Company’s prior written consent. The Company may assign, novate, transfer or otherwise deal with its rights and obligations under these terms without notice to you to effect any corporate re-structuring activities or a sale or transfer of its business to a third party.
These Terms form the entire agreement between the parties and supersede all other communications, negotiations, arrangements, and agreements, whether verbal or written, between the parties in respect of the subject of these Terms.
These Terms are governed by the laws of Cyprus and each party irrevocably and unconditionally submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Cyprus.
I/we, being the above-named applicant, have read and understood the Terms and Conditions accompanying this Account Application Form, and authorise IMIF Media LTD (the Company) to establish an Account on my/our behalf. I/we acknowledge and agree that I/we have voluntarily and fully consented to paying the Access Fee corresponding to the Assessment Path I/we have selected above to the Company. The Company may present this Confirmation and Acknowledgement as evidence to refute any chargeback in connection with an Access Fee paid by me/us and may recover from me/us any costs (including administrative and legal costs on a full indemnity basis) it incurs to refute a chargeback or recover an Access Fee associated with an unsubstantiated chargeback.