Legal and Privacy

Despite the efforts made by the CPA Bermuda (defined below) team to ensure that information on this site is complete, accurate and continually up-to-date, some errors may occur.

The security measures implemented on this site are intended to protect your personal information and avoid virus transmission. However, CPA Bermuda accepts no responsibility for the interception of data exchanged or for the transmission of viruses or other harmful elements.

CPA Bermuda accepts no responsibility for the contents of any site referred to or linked from this website.

Terms of Use

The Chartered Professional Accountants of Bermuda (“CPA Bermuda”) owns and operates a website at https://cpabermuda.bm (the “Site”).

By using this Site and any information and services thereon, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions of use (“Site Terms”). If you do not agree with the Site Terms, please do not use any part of this Site.

When used on the Site, “we” and “us” means CPA Bermuda and “you” or “your” means the user of the Site and includes any of your subsidiaries, affiliates and employees (as applicable).

We will endeavor to allow uninterrupted access to the Site, but access to the Site may be suspended, restricted, or terminated at any time and for any reason.

We reserve the right to change, modify, substitute, or remove without notice any information on the Site at any time and your continued use of the Site following any such changes, modifications, substitutions, or removals will mean that you accept and agree to be bound by them. Any of the contents on the Site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material, save at our sole discretion.

Member Accounts

The Site provides our customers with the ability to set up a member account that offers a variety of functions and services in connection with the member’s membership account, e.g. track CPD, membership payments, etc. (“Member Account”).

We reserve the right to:

accept or decline to accept an application to open a Member Account;
suspend or terminate any Member Account; and
discontinue the provision of any feature or service related to such Member Account.

If you wish to establish a Member Account, you agree (i) to provide accurate and complete information when opening the Member Account; (ii) to update your information as necessary so it remains accurate and complete and (iii) not to impersonate any other person, operate under an alias, or otherwise conceal your identity.

Website Use Restrictions

You must not use the Site nor post, upload, publish, reproduce, transmit or otherwise distribute any content on the Site that:

is unlawful or encourages conduct that is unlawful;
is invasive of privacy rights;
is obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit or depicts graphic or gratuitous violence;
is threatening, intimidating or abusive;
is discriminatory, demeaning, defamatory or offensive;
contains viruses or any other computer code, files or programs that interrupt, contaminate or destroy computer software or hardware;
infringes any third-party rights; or
impersonates any person or entity or misrepresents yourself in any way.

Linking to the Website

You are permitted to link to our homepage but must do so in a manner that is fair and legal and does not mislead or, in our opinion, negatively affect our reputation. You are not permitted to link the Site in any way that suggests we associate, approve or endorse your website, goods or services or those of any third party and you may not frame the Site to any other website. CPA Bermuda shall have no responsibility or liability for any content appearing on your website. If CPA Bermuda exercises this right, you will immediately remove all links to this Site. You agree to abide by these link conditions and the other terms and conditions on this Site, as amended from time to time.

Protection of Personal Information

By accepting these Site Terms and each time you use the Site, you consent to CPA Bermuda’s collection, use, disclosure, and retention of your information in accordance with the most current version of the Privacy Policy and as otherwise permitted by applicable law.

Limitation of Liability

CPA Bermuda does not guarantee that the Site or any of its content will be error-free, accurate, complete, current, uninterrupted or secure, that any defect will be corrected, or that your use of the Site will produce specific results. You use the Site at your own risk. If users find an error on the site, they should contact the site administrator so that the error can be corrected as soon as possible.

To the maximum extent permitted by law: (i) in no event and under no circumstances shall CPA Bermuda, its board members, members, officers, or employees be responsible or liable to you or any third party for any loss or damages whatsoever, including (without limiting the generality of the foregoing) any direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive, consequential or exemplary damages or loss, loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of data or information, loss of business, loss of opportunity, loss of use or productivity, loss of anticipated savings, loss of goodwill or reputation, or any other commercial damage or loss whether in contract, tort or otherwise arising out of, in connection with or related to your use of, access to or your reliance on, or your inability to use or access, this Site, any contents of this Site, any information provided through this Site, any external links on this Site, any website linked to this Site, or any contents thereof, any website linking to this Site, or any contents thereof, or any delivery, hosting or ancillary services or facilities of third party suppliers utilized by CPA Bermuda; and (ii) if notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provisions of these terms of use CPA Bermuda is liable to you or any other person, then in no event and under no circumstances will CPA Bermuda’s total aggregate liability arising from, connected with, or relating to the website or any related matter exceed fifty Bermuda Dollars (BD$50.00).

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Governing Law & General Provisions

These Site Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Bermuda. Should any dispute arise out of the use or content of the Site, such dispute shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Bermuda courts.

This legal and privacy policy was last updated on [date].

If you have any questions regarding these Site Terms, please forward them to: [email protected].