Terms of Use

1.         INFORMATION ABOUT US

1.1 The Abu Dhabi Global Market super application (which was last updated on 04/12/2024) (our Application or the Application) is owned and operated by Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM, we or us). Any reference to “ADGM”, “we” or “us” includes our successors and assigns.

2.         TERMS OF USE

2.1 These terms of use together with the documents referred to in it (together, the Terms of Use), tell you the terms of use on which you may make use of this Application, including any updates or supplements to it, the data supplied with this Application, the services you receive or connect to via the Application (which may include our or our affiliates’ services or third party services) (the Services) and the content provided to you through it, whether as a guest or a registered user.

3.         PRIVACY

3.1 For information on how we collect and use your personal information, please see our privacy notice.

3.2 We will only use your personal information in accordance with each privacy notice which applies to you, and each such privacy notice is incorporated by reference into these Terms of Use.

4.         ADDITIONAL TERMS AND NOTICES

4.1 When you download and install the Application, you will be granted a level of access based on the category of user that you are, from the following list:

• (a) guest user;
• (b) signed-up user;
• (c) employee of licensed entity user; or
• (d) authorised user.

Depending on your user access level, your use of the Application and/or certain Services may be subject to supplementary terms of use and privacy notices. Please review any such supplementary terms of use and privacy notices and indicate your acceptance to such terms by clicking on the accept button, once prompted. The ways in which you can use our Application may also be controlled by the rules and policies of the relevant distribution platform from which you downloaded our Application (the Appstore). Where there is a difference between these Terms of Use and the Appstore rules and policies, the Appstore’s rules and policies will prevail.

5.         OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

5.1 You are responsible for configuring your devices in order to download, install or access our Application.

5.2 In order to download, access and use the Application, your devices must comply with the following minimum system operating requirements:

6.         CHANGES TO THESE TERMS OF USE

6.1 From time to time, we may revise these Terms of Use and any such changes will be posted on this page. Where appropriate, we may also notify you when you next start the Application. A new version of these Terms of Use may also be displayed on-screen and you may be required to read and accept the changes to continue your use of our Application or any of the Services.

6.2 Please take notice of any changes to these Terms of Use that we make, as they are binding and will take effect once posted on this page or notified to you. Your continued access and use of the Application after any modification to these Terms of Use is deemed to be your acceptance of the modified Terms of Use. If you do not accept any notified changes, you will not be permitted to continue to use the Application or the Services and your rights to access or use the Application or the Services shall immediately terminate.

7.         CHANGES TO OUR APPLICATION

7.1 From time to time, we may automatically update the Application and change certain Services to improve performance, enhance functionality, reflect changes to the operating system or address security issues. Alternatively we may ask you to update the Application for these reasons.

7.2 If you choose not to install such updates or if you opt out of automatic updates, you may not be able to continue using the Application or the Services.

8.         AVAILABILITY AND SUPPORT

8.1 We do not guarantee that our Application will be secure or free from bugs or viruses at all times and you should use your own virus protection software.

8.2 We also cannot guarantee that our Application, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our Application without notice and we will not be liable to you if for any reason our Application is unavailable at any time or for any period.

8.3 If you have any problems using the Application or any Service, please contact us in accordance with Section 19 below.

9.         ACCEPTABLE USE

9.1 In consideration for you agreeing to comply with these Terms of Use, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable and limited licence, on the terms of these Terms of Use, to:

• (a) download one copy of the Application onto each of your devices and view, use and display the Application and the Services on such devices for your personal purposes only or, if you are an enterprise user, for your employer’s business purposes, provided at all times that you do not exceed the maximum number of permitted devices;
• (b) use any documentation describing the features and functions of our Application or the Services that we may provide or notify to you from time to time (the Documentation); and
• (c) receive and use any update, patch, fix or release of the Application as we may provide to you from time to time,

in each case, until terminated in accordance with these Terms of Use

9.2 We are giving you a personal right to use our Application and the Documentation under these Terms of Use. If you sell or otherwise dispose of any device on which our Application is installed, you must remove the Application from that device.

9.3 In using our Application or any Services, you agree that you shall not:

• (a) use (which shall include making copies of) the Application beyond the scope of the licence granted under Section 9.1 above;
• (b) except as permitted under these Terms of Use, rent, lease, sub-license, loan or provide, distribute, re-sell or otherwise make available the Application (including object code and source code) or the Services in any form, in whole or in part to any person without our prior written consent;
• (c) use the Application to do anything to encourage, procure or conduct any criminal activity;
• (d) use the Application to engage in any conduct or encourage others to engage in any conduct that would give rise to civil liability;
• (e) use the Application for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use, or do anything which may give rise to or cause us to incur any liability;
• (f) email, transmit, post or otherwise disseminate any content, material or information which is, in our sole opinion, defamatory, obscene, offensive, vulgar or indecent or may have the effect of being harassing, threatening, abusive or hateful or that otherwise degrades or intimidates an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age or disability or is otherwise unlawful;
• (g) post any content or material that infringes or violates our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of any third party or do, cause or permit anything to be done that may infringe, damage or interfere with our, or our affiliates’, intellectual property rights;
• (h) except as permitted under these Terms of Use, advertise or promote third party or your own products or services including by way of the distribution of ‘spam’ email;
• (i) introduce any viruses, trojans or other harmful programs to the Application;
• (j) translate, merge, adapt, vary, alter or modify, enhance or create derivative works or improvements of, in each case the whole or any part of the Application, the Documentation or the Services, nor permit the Application or the Services or any part of them to be combined with, or be incorporated in, any other software programs or Applications, except to the extent necessary to use the Application and the Services as permitted under these Terms of Use;
• (k) disassemble, de-compile, reverse engineer or create derivative works based on the whole or any part of the Application or the Services, nor attempt to do any such things;
• (l) remove, delete, efface, alter, obscure, translate, combine, supplement, or otherwise change any trademarks or any copyright, trademark, patent, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights or other symbols, notices, marks, or serial numbers on or relating to any copy provided on or with the Application or the Documentation, including any copy thereof;
• (m) access or attempt to access the accounts of other users or penetrate or attempt to penetrate the Application’s security measures; or
• (n) do anything which could or might damage, interfere with, disrupt access to, interrupt or impair the functionality of or the material available on our Application or the Services.

• (a) without prior notice to you:
  • (i) remove or delete any material or content that you may have posted;
  • (ii) suspend, restrict or terminate your right to access or use to our Application or any Services at any time; or
  • (iii) report you to an internet service provider and/or any relevant regulatory body or authority; or
• (b) take legal action against you.

9.5 If we end your rights to use our Application or the Services under Section 9.4 above:

• (a) you must stop all activities previously authorised by these Terms of Use, including your use of the Application, the Documentation and any Services;
• (b) you must delete or remove the Application from all devices in your possession and immediately destroy all copies of the Application and the Documentation which you have and confirm to us in writing that you have done this; and
• (c) we may remotely cease providing you with access to the Application and the Services.

10.         INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

10.1 All intellectual property rights in our Application, the Documentation, the Services and content and materials published on our Application, including but not limited to, text, design, graphics, logos, icons, images, videos, downloads and software are the exclusive property of and owned by ADGM or its third party licensors, protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights of ADGM or such third parties. All such intellectual property rights are reserved and you shall comply with any licences which are applicable to third party software, content, data or other materials included in our Application including those relating to Abuzz and GetStream. Any breach of such third party terms shall also be a breach of these Terms of Use.

10.2 When you share, upload or post content to our Application or in the use of the Services, you automatically grant to ADGM, each of ADGM’s affiliates and third party licensors and service providers a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable, worldwide and non-exclusive licence to use, store, copy and distribute such content to the extent necessary to make available, distribute and support the Application and provide any of the Services.

• (a) you own or control all rights in and to any content you upload or post to our Application and you have the right to grant the licence granted pursuant to Section 10.2 above to the relevant licensees; and
• (b) any and all content you upload or post to our Application or in the use of the Services, does and will comply with these Terms of Use.

11.         NON-RELIANCE ON INFORMATION

11.1 The Application and the Services have not been developed to meet your individual requirements and you are responsible for configuring your devices to download, install, access and/or use the Application and the Services. Please check that the facilities and functions of the Application and the Services (as described on the Appstore and in the Documentation) meet your requirements.

11.2 You acknowledge and agree that any information or content on our Application is provided on an “as is” basis, for your general information only, and does not purport to be all-inclusive and that we make no representation or warranty to the accuracy, reliability or completeness of any of the information. Any reliance on the content or materials on our Application is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from the use of our Application or any information or content on our Application. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking or refraining from any action on the basis of the content of our Application. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through or advertised on our Application meet your specific requirements.

12.         INDEMNITY

12.1 You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless on written demand ADGM, its affiliates and its and their directors, owners, employees and agents (the Indemnified Persons), in each case from and against any and all claims, liabilities, losses, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees on a full indemnity basis) or payments whatsoever, suffered or incurred by the Indemnified Persons, arising out of or in connection with:

• (a) your use of our Application or any Service;
• (b) any content that you share, post or upload to our Application or in the use of any of the Services;
• (c) your violation of these Terms of Use; or
• (d) anything you have or may have done that infringes, damages or interferes with our, or our affiliates’, or any third party’s intellectual property rights

13.         LIMITATION OF OUR LIABILITY

13.1 Nothing in these Terms of Use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law.

13.2 To the fullest extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our Application or any content on it or any of the Services, whether express or implied.

13.3 We will not be liable to you or any other Application user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

• (a) use of, inability to use, or failure of performance of, our Application or the Services;
• (b) use of or reliance on any content displayed on our Application or the Services;
• (c) any virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your devices or computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Application or to your downloading of any content on it; or
• (d) any independent website linked on our Application or any third party Service you connect to via our Application.

13.4 We will not be liable for any consequential loss, loss of profits, loss of data or loss of sales, loss of business, business interruption, loss of anticipated savings, loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation, in each case whether direct or indirect.

14.         THIRD PARTY LINKS AND RESOURCES IN OUR APPLICATIONS

Our Application may contain links to external sites on the internet, which are owned and operated by third parties. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites, the content on those websites or any information or services you may obtain from them. These links are provided for your convenience and information only. ADGM has no control over and is not responsible for the availability of, or the information and content of, any third party’s website or such third party services. You should contact the site administrator or webmaster for those external sites, if you have any concerns regarding such links or the content located on such external sites.

15.         YOUR ACCOUNT AND PASSWORD

15.1 If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

15.2 We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Use.

16.         SUSPENSION OR TERMINATION OF YOUR ACCESS

16.1 Without limiting our other rights or remedies, we reserve the right, in its sole discretion, at any time to restrict, suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Application or any of the Services for any reason without prior notice. We may change, suspend or discontinue all or any aspect of the Application or the Services at any time, including the availability of any content, without prior notice or liability.

17.         ASSIGNMENT

17.1 ADGM may freely novate, assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of these Terms of Use or any of ADGM’s rights or obligations under these Terms of Use without your consent and without providing notice.

18.         GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION

18.1 These Terms of Use, your use of our Application and any dispute between you and the ADGM arising out of these Terms of Use are subject to the laws of the Abu Dhabi Global Market and these Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Abu Dhabi Global Market.

18.2 Any disputes arising in connection with these Terms of Use shall be referred to and finally resolved by the courts of the Abu Dhabi Global Market, which shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any such disputes. You agree that the courts of the Abu Dhabi Global Market are the most appropriate and convenient courts to settle any dispute under or in connection with these Terms of Use and you hereby waive any objection to the courts of the Abu Dhabi Global Market on the grounds that they are an inconvenient or inappropriate forum to settle any dispute.

19.         CONTACT

19.1 You can contact us by populating a general enquiry form on the Application.