Terms of Participation in Training

1. The training is organised by BNI Poland Sp. z o.o. with its registered office in Warsaw, ul. Chłodna 51, 00-867 Warszawa, entered in the register of entrepreneurs of the National Court Register kept by the District Court for the Capital City of Warsaw in Warsaw, 13th Commercial Division of the National Court Register, under number KRS 0000475787, NIP 1132868575, REGON 146851390, share capital PLN 5,000,000.00 — hereinafter the “Organiser”.
2. Contact for training and complaint matters: biuro@bnipolska.pl, tel. 792 092 002, registered office address as above. For personal data matters: rodo@bnipolska.pl.

1. These Terms set out the rules for registering for and participating in training and workshops organised by the Organiser.
2. A Participant is a natural person taking part in the training. The Ordering Party is the entity that registers the Participant and bears the fee — this may be the Participant themselves.
3. A Consumer is a Participant or Ordering Party who is a natural person concluding the agreement for a purpose not directly related to business or professional activity.
4. An entrepreneur with consumer rights is a natural person running a business where it follows from the content of the agreement that it is not of a professional nature for them (Article 7aa of the Consumer Rights Act, Article 385⁵ of the Civil Code). The provisions on the Consumer apply to such a person accordingly — including the right of withdrawal under §5.
5. When registering, you indicate your status. It determines which provisions of these Terms apply to you.

1. The training is addressed to Members of BNI Chapters. We accept registrations in the BNI Connect system (bniconnectglobal.com), operated outside this website, on the terms set by its operator. If a given training course is open to people from outside the organisation, we indicate the registration channel in the information about that course. The bnipolska.pl website does not accept training registrations — it serves an information function only.
2. The registration contains the Participant’s details, the Ordering Party’s invoicing details and a declaration of status under §2(3)–(4).
3. The agreement is concluded at the moment we confirm acceptance of the registration — we send the confirmation to the e-mail address provided.
4. Together with the confirmation we provide: the name and date of the training, the venue, the price, the payment conditions, the information on the right of withdrawal (Annex 1), the model withdrawal form (Annex 2) and these Terms — on a durable medium.
5. The number of places is limited. Admission is decided by the order of registrations, unless the training description states otherwise.

1. We state the price with the description of each training course. The amounts given are gross prices in Polish zloty — nothing is added to them.
2. The price covers participation in the training, training materials and meals — coffee breaks or lunch, as stated in the description of the given course. It does not cover travel or accommodation, unless the training description expressly states otherwise.
3. The method and date of payment are indicated in the training description. Payment may be made through the payment operator linked in the description, by card or in cash on the day of the training.
4. We issue the invoice in accordance with tax regulations to the Ordering Party’s details given in the registration. For payment through the operator, the invoice is made available by its system. For payment by card or in cash on the day of the training, we send it within 14 days of the end of the training, from the address faktury@bnipolska.pl.

This section applies to Consumers and entrepreneurs with consumer rights.

1. You may withdraw from the agreement within 14 days of its conclusion, without giving a reason and without incurring costs.
2. Send the withdrawal declaration to the address in §1(2) — by post or e-mail. You may use the form in Annex 2, but you do not have to. To meet the deadline, it is enough to send the declaration before it expires.
3. We refund the entire amount paid within 14 days of receiving the declaration, using the same payment method you used.
4. If the training takes place before 14 days have passed since the conclusion of the agreement, you may expressly ask us to begin performance before the withdrawal period expires. We then ask for two separate declarations: a request to begin performance and an acknowledgement that, once the service has been fully performed, the right of withdrawal will lapse.
5. If you withdraw after such a request and the training has already partly taken place — you pay for the part of the service performed, in proportion to the scope of the service provided.
6. Without the express request under paragraph 4 we do not begin performance before 14 days have passed.

This section applies in addition to the right of withdrawal under §5 — it neither replaces nor limits it.

1. Notify us of your cancellation at the address in §1(2).
2. We refund the payment less the costs we have actually already incurred in connection with your participation, according to the following scale:

3. We deduct only costs actually incurred — the venue, catering, printed materials — and we will substantiate them on request. If the costs were lower than the rate in the table, we deduct only what we actually spent.
4. Instead of cancelling, you may nominate a substitute person — at no additional charge, no later than one working day before the training.
5. Absence without notice is settled as a cancellation less than 3 days before the training.
6. Cancellation of the training by the Organiser means a refund of the entire payment — the rules are in §7.

1. We may cancel a training course because of too few registrations, illness of the trainer, force majeure or loss of access to the venue. We notify you of this without delay.
2. In the event of cancellation we refund the entire payment within 14 days or — with your consent — transfer the registration to another date.
3. We may change the trainer, the venue within the same town or the hours of the training. We notify you of the change without delay; if it is material to you, you may cancel without deductions.

1. The condition of participation is a registration confirmed in accordance with §3 and payment, if it was required before the training.
2. Please be punctual — arriving late may make it impossible to take part in the workshop part.
3. We may refuse participation to a person who disrupts the course of the training or endangers the safety of the other participants. In that case the fee is not refunded in the part corresponding to the service already performed — we refund the remaining part within 14 days. On request we will show how we calculated that part.

1. We make the materials available to the Participant for their own use connected with the training.
2. The materials are protected by copyright. Reproducing, distributing and making them available to third parties requires our written consent.
3. The prohibition in paragraph 2 does not limit the permitted use arising from provisions of law.

1. We photograph and record training, workshops and events — to document and promote the Organiser’s activities. We publish the photographs on the bnipolska.pl website and in our social media. Photography is carried out for us by an external agency acting under a data processing agreement.
2. Distribution of your image requires your separate consent, which you give separately at registration or on site. Refusal does not affect your participation in the training.
3. You may withdraw the consent at any time by writing to rodo@bnipolska.pl. We will then remove the materials from our channels; we have no control over copies distributed earlier by third parties.
4. If you do not wish to be photographed, say so before the start — we will show you a place outside the frame.

1. Submit a complaint to the address in §1(2) — by e-mail or in writing.
2. Please submit it within 30 days of the training. Submitting it after this period does not deprive you of the rights arising from provisions of law.
3. We reply within 14 days, on paper or another durable medium. Failure to reply within this period means the complaint has been accepted — this applies to a Consumer and an entrepreneur with consumer rights.
4. Acceptance of a complaint may mean a refund of part or all of the fee, participation on another date free of charge or another agreed remedy.

A Consumer may use out-of-court methods of handling complaints and pursuing claims: apply to the district or municipal consumer ombudsman, apply to the voivodeship inspector of the Trade Inspection for mediation or for the dispute to be resolved by a permanent consumer arbitration court, and in cross-border disputes — to the European Consumer Centre. The list of authorised entities is kept by the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection.

1. The controller of Participants’ and Ordering Parties’ data is the Organiser (§1(1)). Contact: rodo@bnipolska.pl. Data that goes to the BNI Connect system — including points for participation in training (paragraph 2) — is controlled jointly by the Organiser and BNI Worldwide Development Ltd, Ballinrobe Road, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, F23 FT28, Ireland (data protection officer: dpo@bni.com). The division of roles is described in the Privacy Policy and in BNI’s privacy policy; you may exercise your rights against either of the joint controllers (Article 26(3) GDPR).
2. Purposes and legal bases:

3. Recipients of data: the payment operator indicated in the training description, the photographic agency documenting events, the accounting office, the e-mail provider (Google Ireland Limited, the Google Workspace service), the law firm and the postal operator. Each acts under a data processing agreement (Article 28 GDPR). The BNI group entities responsible for the BNI Connect system are not processors — their role is described in paragraphs 1 and 4.
4. Transfers outside the European Economic Area: the BNI Connect system is operated by BNI Global, LLC with its registered office in the United States (3430 Toringdon Way, Suite 300, Charlotte, NC 28277) — a BNI group company acting, alongside BNI Worldwide Development Ltd, as a data controller in the BNI Connect system, under the rules described in BNI’s privacy policy. Data goes there to the extent necessary to operate the system. The basis for the transfer is the European Commission’s adequacy decision of 10 July 2023 on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, to which BNI Global, LLC has adhered. Correspondence concerning the training goes to the National Office’s mailbox in Google Workspace; data may also be processed by Google LLC in the United States — a company certified under the same EU–US Data Privacy Framework; the data processing agreement with Google additionally includes the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses (Article 46(2)(c) GDPR). We provide a copy of, or information about, the safeguards on request — write to rodo@bnipolska.pl. Photographs and recordings featuring your image — solely with the consent under §10(2) — are also published on our profiles: on Facebook and Instagram (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited), on LinkedIn (LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company) and on YouTube (Google Ireland Limited). The operators of these services are separate controllers and may transfer data to their companies in the United States — Meta Platforms, Inc., LinkedIn Corporation and Google LLC — certified under the same EU–US Data Privacy Framework. From the moment of publication, the rules of these services apply.
5. Your rights: access (Article 15), rectification (16), erasure (17), restriction (18), portability (20), objection to processing based on our legitimate interest (21) and withdrawal of consent at any time (Article 7(3)). We accept requests at rodo@bnipolska.pl.
6. You have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority: the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (Prezes Urzędu Ochrony Danych Osobowych), ul. Stawki 2, 00-193 Warszawa.
7. If the Ordering Party registers a Participant, we receive the Participant’s data from the Ordering Party — to the extent provided in the registration (§3(2)): identification and contact data needed to take part in the training. We send the information from this section to the Participant directly with the first message concerning the training, at the latest within one month of receiving their data (Article 14 GDPR).
8. Providing data is voluntary but necessary to take part in the training.
9. We do not profile Participants and do not make automated decisions about them.

1. In matters not regulated, Polish law applies, in particular the Civil Code and — with respect to Consumers — the Consumer Rights Act.
2. The choice of Polish law does not deprive a Consumer of the protection afforded by the mandatory provisions of the law of the country of their habitual residence.
3. Disputes are resolved by the court having jurisdiction under the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure.
4. We may change the Terms for important reasons: a change in the law, a change in the way training is organised, a change in the Organiser’s details or a decision of a competent authority. Registrations accepted before a change are governed by the previous wording.
5. The Terms apply from the date of publication.

Right of withdrawal. You have the right to withdraw from the agreement within 14 days without giving a reason. The period runs from the day the agreement is concluded.

To exercise the right of withdrawal, inform us of your decision by an unequivocal statement — for example by a letter sent by post or by e-mail. Our details: BNI Poland Sp. z o.o., ul. Chłodna 51, 00-867 Warszawa, tel. 792 092 002, e-mail biuro@bnipolska.pl. You may use the form in Annex 2, but it is not obligatory. To meet the deadline, it is enough to send the statement before it expires.

Effects of withdrawal. We refund all payments received from you without delay, and no later than 14 days from the day we receive the statement, using the same means of payment — you bear no fees as a result.

If you requested the performance of services to begin before the withdrawal period expired, you will pay us an amount proportionate to the scope of the services performed up to the moment you informed us of the withdrawal.

(complete and return this form only if you wish to withdraw from the agreement)

Addressee: BNI Poland Sp. z o.o., ul. Chłodna 51, 00-867 Warszawa, biuro@bnipolska.pl

I/We hereby give notice that I/we withdraw from my/our agreement for the provision of the following service: …………………………………

• Date of conclusion of the agreement: …………………………………
• Name of consumer(s): …………………………………
• Address of consumer(s): …………………………………
• Signature of consumer(s) (only if this form is notified on paper)
• Date: …………………………………