Terms of Service

Ventranet is operated by Feuz Institute, c/o Regus, Hagenholzstrasse 56, 8050 Zürich, Switzerland. Company identification number CHE-338.930.920, registered for Swiss VAT under CHE-338.930.920 MWST. Managing director: Silvano C. Feuz.

Throughout this document, “we”, “us” and “Ventranet” mean Feuz Institute. “You” means the person using the website. Full contact details are on the imprint page.

These terms cover the website at ventranet.ch and every subdomain of it, the newsletter, the support form, and the Ventracard. They do not cover the websites of event organisers that we link to, even when you reach them from an event page here. Those sites have their own terms, and section 6 explains what that means for you.

You accept these terms by using the site. If you do not accept them, the remedy is to stop using it. Where you buy something, the version of these terms in force at the moment of your purchase is the version that governs that purchase, and later changes do not reach backwards into it.

Our Privacy Policy forms part of these terms. It describes what data we handle and why, and it is written to be read rather than skimmed.

You must be at least 16 years old to use this website, to subscribe to the newsletter, or to buy a Ventracard. The site is about professional business events, so this is not a restriction most visitors will notice.

If you are under 18 and the law where you live requires a parent or guardian to approve purchases, you need that approval before you buy. We have no practical way to verify age, which is exactly why the responsibility sits with you.

Where you act for a company, you confirm that you are authorised to accept these terms on its behalf, and “you” then means both you and that company.

Ventranet is an independent editorial selection of professional and business events in Switzerland. We find events, check them, describe them, and publish the ones we judge worth someone’s time. That judgment is ours and it is subjective.

We are not the organiser of any event listed here. Specifically:

• We do not host, run, staff or fund the events, and we are not a co-organiser, agent or partner of the organisers unless a specific page says so in as many words.
• We do not sell tickets, take bookings, process registrations or handle refunds for events. When you register, you leave our site and contract directly with the organiser under their terms.
• We do not accept payment for listings, placement, ranking or coverage. No organiser has ever paid to appear on Ventranet, to appear higher, or to be described more kindly. If that ever changes, the paid entries will be labelled as advertising, clearly and on the entry itself, as Swiss unfair-competition law requires.
• We are not a professional adviser. Nothing on this site is legal, financial, tax, investment or career advice, and no adviser-client relationship arises from reading it.

Publishing an event is not an endorsement of the organiser, the speakers, their opinions, their employers or anything said from the stage. It means we thought the event might be worth your attention.

Event details come from the organisers’ own public announcements, from their websites, and occasionally from material they send us. We check what we publish, but we are describing other people’s plans, and other people change their plans.

Dates move. Venues change. Prices go up between the day we read a page and the day you read ours. Events are postponed, sold out, made members-only, or quietly cancelled without anyone updating the announcement we worked from. We usually will not know until someone tells us.

So: always verify the details on the organiser’s own page before you book, travel or pay.The organiser’s page is authoritative; ours is a pointer to it. We give no warranty that any listing is accurate, complete or current, and we accept no liability for a cancellation, a change, a sold-out event, a refused entry, or your experience once you are in the room. Section 15 sets out the limits in full.

Found something wrong? Tell us at admin@ventranet.ch or through the support form, and we will correct or remove it. Corrections are free and we would rather have them than not.

Event pages link out to registration forms, ticket shops, organiser websites and occasionally to social media. Those destinations are not ours. We do not control them, we do not review them continuously, and we are not responsible for their content, their security, their pricing, their privacy practices or their terms.

Following an outbound link ends our part in the transaction. Whatever happens there is between you and them, and we have no liability for loss arising from it. Links also rot: a link that worked when we published it can lead somewhere else entirely a year later. We check for dead links, but we cannot check continuously.

The newsletter is free. You subscribe by entering your email address and confirming that you want it, and you can optionally tell us which categories, sectors, locations or price ranges interest you so that we can send fewer irrelevant events.

You can unsubscribe at any time by writing to admin@ventranet.ch. One line is enough, we do not ask why, and we remove you the same day. We do not sell, rent, share or hand your address to advertisers or other companies. There is no minimum term and no notice period.

We do not promise a publication schedule. Issues go out when there is something worth sending.

Some parts of the site require signing in. We use a sign-in link sent by email rather than a password, which means the security of your account is the security of your inbox. Keep that in mind, and tell us at admin@ventranet.ch if you think someone else has access to it.

Do not share your sign-in link, let others use your account, or open an account under someone else’s name or email address. You are responsible for what happens under your account, except where the fault is ours.

The Ventracard is a digital contact card: a web page with a short, unguessable address that shows your name, your headline, a photo if you upload one, and a QR code generated from your LinkedIn profile URL. You can add it to Apple Wallet and show it on your phone.

You may read the site, link to it, quote short passages with attribution, and use what you find here to decide where to spend your evenings. That is what it is for.

You may not:

• copy the event listings systematically, in bulk or repeatedly, whether by scraping, crawling, automated extraction or by hand, in order to build or feed another listing, database, newsletter or product;
• republish substantial parts of the collection, whether or not you credit us and whether or not you charge for it;
• use automated tools that place an unreasonable load on the site, or work around our rate limits, access controls or the maintenance page;
• probe, scan or test the security of the site, or try to reach data, accounts or systems that are not meant for you;
• use our forms, support address or newsletter to send spam, phishing, malware or unsolicited commercial messages;
• harvest personal data from the site, including the names, photographs or employers of speakers, for recruitment, marketing, list-building or resale;
• remove, hide or alter any notice of authorship, copyright or origin on material taken from the site;
• use the site for anything unlawful, or to help anyone else do so.

The individual facts we publish — that an event happens on a given date at a given address — are not ours to own, and we make no claim to them. What took the work is the finding, the checking, the selection, the descriptions and the arrangement, and that is what these restrictions protect.

Automated access for research or indexing may be fine. Ask first at admin@ventranet.ch, and respect robots.txt in the meantime.

The site’s design, code, text, editorial descriptions, the Ventranet name and logo, and the selection and arrangement of the events belong to Feuz Institute or to our licensors. Nothing in these terms transfers any of it to you.

Cover images on event pages are generated by us using an AI image model. They are illustrations in the site’s visual style. They are not photographs of the event, the venue or the people attending, and they should not be read as documentation of anything. Where an organiser’s own image is used instead, the rights stay with the organiser.

Names, logos, trade marks and event materials belonging to organisers, hosts, sponsors and speakers remain theirs. They appear here to identify and describe the events, which is what trade marks are for, and their appearance implies no affiliation with or endorsement by their owners.

If you believe something on this site infringes your rights, write to admin@ventranet.ch with the URL, a description of the material and the basis of your claim. We take these seriously and respond quickly.

Event pages name speakers, hosts and organisers, and often show a photograph and a job title. That information comes from the organiser’s own public announcement of the event or from the person’s public professional profile, and we publish it to describe an event that has already been announced publicly.

If you are named on this site and would rather not be, write to admin@ventranet.ch. Tell us which page and what you want changed, and we will correct or remove it. You do not have to explain why, and we will not ask you to argue for it. What we publish about you is covered further in section 11 of the Privacy Policy.

We give no uptime guarantee. The site may be unavailable for maintenance, deployments, provider outages or reasons outside our control, sometimes without warning.

We may change, add or remove features, pages and listings at any time. Past events move to the archive and eventually disappear from it. None of this creates a claim, and we are not liable for loss caused by a page being unavailable or gone, subject to section 15.

Paid services are the exception. If we discontinue something you have paid for, section 9.6 applies.

The website and its free services are provided as they are and as they happen to be available. To the extent the law permits, we exclude all warranties that are not expressly given here, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, uninterrupted availability, or freedom from error.

We do not warrant that the site will meet your requirements, that it will be free of errors or interruptions, that defects will be corrected, or that the site or its servers are free of harmful components.

This section does not limit the statutory warranty on the Ventracard, and it does not apply where liability cannot lawfully be excluded.

We are liable without limit for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for intent and gross negligence, and wherever mandatory law does not allow liability to be limited. Nothing below reduces any of that.

Beyond those cases, and to the extent the law permits:

• we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, for lost profit, lost business, lost opportunity, lost data or wasted expenditure;
• we are not liable for anything arising out of an event itself — its cancellation, postponement, quality, safety, content, or the conduct of anyone there — since we neither organise nor control it;
• we are not liable for the content, security or conduct of any third-party website reached from here;
• our total liability arising from the Ventracard is limited to the amount you paid for it;
• our total liability arising from the free parts of the site is limited to CHF 100 in aggregate.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions. Where that is so, the exclusion does not apply to you and the rest of this section stands.

If you put something on this site — a Ventracard, a support message, anything else — and it causes a claim against us because it was unlawful, infringing, or untrue, you are responsible for that claim, including reasonable legal costs. This does not apply where the claim arises from our own conduct, and it does not apply to consumers beyond what mandatory law allows.

We may block access, remove content or close an account if these terms are breached, if the site is being misused, or if the law requires it. Where it is reasonable to warn you first, we will. Where the breach is serious or ongoing, we may act immediately.

You may stop using the site at any time. Unsubscribing from the newsletter and asking for your card to be taken down are both a single email to admin@ventranet.ch. Sections 11, 15, 16, 19 and 20 survive the end of your use of the site.

If you are a consumer resident in the European Union or the EEA, mandatory consumer protection law in your country of residence applies to you regardless of what section 19 says. Nothing in these terms removes a right you have under that law.

We are not obliged to take part in dispute resolution before a consumer arbitration body, and we do not currently do so. If you have a complaint, the fastest route by a wide margin is to write to admin@ventranet.ch, and we answer.

Swiss law governs these terms and any dispute arising from them, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

The courts of Zürich, Switzerland have exclusive jurisdiction. Consumers are the exception: if you are a consumer, you may also sue in the courts of your country of residence, and we may only sue you there. That right cannot be signed away and we are not trying to.

If a provision of these terms is invalid or unenforceable, the rest stays in force, and the invalid provision is replaced by the valid one that comes closest to its purpose.

If we do not enforce a provision on one occasion, that is not a waiver of it. We may transfer our rights and obligations to a successor of the business, and your rights are unaffected by such a transfer. You may not transfer yours without our agreement.

These terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the imprint, are the whole agreement between us about the website, and they replace anything said before.

We update these terms when the site changes. The date at the top always states when the current version took effect, and it is set by hand when something actually changes. It is not the date you happen to be reading.

Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the new version. If a change materially affects a paid service you hold, we will tell you by email before it takes effect. Purchases already made stay under the version that applied when you made them.

Feuz Institute, c/o Regus, Hagenholzstrasse 56, 8050 Zürich, Switzerland.
Email: admin@ventranet.ch
Phone: +41 76 517 88 94

For anything about your data, the same address reaches us, and section 17 of the Privacy Policy sets out how quickly we answer.