Terms/Conditions

Welcome to your EquityGateway website. Please read carefully the following terms and conditions that govern your use of this site.

• You hereby understand and agree that this site is not intended to provide investment advice or tax advice to any extent to you or any other person or entity.
• Global Shares Ireland Limited (“Global Shares”) and its affiliates make no representation of tax consequences of any transaction conducted via the website. Global Shares recommends you contact your tax advisor prior to making any online transaction requests.
• Global Shares may discontinue or change at any time any of the services available through the site.
• You agree to maintain the confidentiality of your username and password and to notify Global Shares in the event your username and password are lost or stolen or you become aware of an unauthorised use or transfer of your username and password. Global Shares will not be financially responsible for any costs or damages caused to you by the loss theft or the unauthorised use or transfer of your username and password unless such loss theft or unauthorised use is directly and immediately caused by our negligence, bad faith or wilful misconduct.
• You agree to review any report or another document we may send to you relating to your equity awards and/or stock information within ten calendar days of receipt and to notify us within that ten day period whether such document(s) is/are incorrect or incomplete. Your failure to notify Global Shares within such ten day period will result in a waiver by you to assert any claim against us based on such document[s]. You agree and acknowledge that the majority if not all of the notices related to your participation as an equity participant and/or ownership of  your employer company’s stock will be made by Global Shares via email. You agree to maintain a current email address with Global Shares and any change in the email address must be communicated to us or you risk not receiving important notifications.
• You agree to receive all notices given by the Global Shares under any provision of the law, the Certificate of Incorporation or Memorandum and Articles of Association of your employer company or related to your participation in the equity and/or stock programs via email including but not limited to the following electronic notices as applicable: exercise/RSU confirmations, stock redemptions, notice of issuance of warrants, stock transfers, and proxy voting.
• You agree to indemnify and hold Global Shares harmless for any tax penalties interest claims expenses (including legal fees) or any other costs or losses that you may incur caused by or related to the use of or reliance upon in any manner information or grants contained or reflected on this site.
• You agree to indemnify and hold Global Shares harmless for any claims losses or expenses (including legal fees) it incurs as a result of your failure to comply with these terms and conditions or for any unauthorised use of this site. You also agree that under no circumstances will Global Shares be responsible for consequential incidental special or punitive damages (even if such damages could reasonably be foreseen) or for any loss caused by events, not within our control. Global Shares has taken reasonable steps to provide a secure environment for your personal information on the EqutiyGateway website. However given the fact that the internet is a public network not controlled by Global Shares cannot guarantee the confidentiality or security of such information.
• Global Shares has taken all reasonable steps to provide a secure environment for your personal information and to protect the information from loss, misuse and unauthorised access disclosure alteration and destruction on the site. However, Global Shares is not responsible for the accuracy or reliability of messages sent or received by e-mail over the internet as it is a public network.
• Voting. If as a participant in an employee share plan you have been provided with the facility to electronically instruct the Trustee of the plan as to how to vote on your behalf in accordance with the rules of your employee share plan, you may do so by using the online voting task specific to your plan. Your vote shall only be valid if it is unconditional, correctly completed, submitted and received via this site on or before the date specified within the voting task. If the voting task is found not to comply with these requirements, the Trustee and/or Global Shares reserve the right to treat any such vote as invalid. In the event that more than one vote is received by Global Shares (via any medium) then the last relevant and valid vote received shall override all previous directions. Global Shares accepts no liability for a vote which is received after the due date or which is accepted or rejected by it in good faith.
• This site is operated and resides on servers located within the UK, but can be accessed from jurisdictions whose laws may differ from those of the UK. By accessing the site you agree that the laws of England and Wales, without regard to conflicts of law provisions, will apply to all matters arising out of or in connection with the site. You also agree to submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the courts of England and Wales with respect to such matters.