These Terms of Engagement (the “Terms”) govern access to and use of the managed sub-domain nodes operated by Integrated Human Capital Compliance Systems Global (the “Entity”) and the constitution of any documentation administration engagement between the Entity and a client entity. By accessing the nodes, the accessing party is deemed to have read, understood, and accepted the Terms in their entirety. Parties who do not accept the Terms are directed to discontinue access.
The Entity administers structural documentation architecture. The Entity does not render legal, tax, actuarial, or investment advice, does not adjudicate disputes, does not act as a fiduciary, and does not substitute for the counsel of qualified professional advisors retained separately by the client entity. Every substantive determination — without exception, and irrespective of the vantage point from which the reconciliation lattice may cause such a determination to appear self-evident — remains the sole responsibility of the party charged with rendering it.
Submission of an intake request does not constitute, and shall not be construed to constitute, entry into an engagement. No engagement arises, and no obligation attaches to either party, until an engagement is separately constituted by a duly executed instrument identifying the reconciliation perimeter, the applicable interval cadence, and the engagement reference designation assigned by the Intake & Scoping Committee. Until such an instrument is executed, all communications are preparatory and non-binding.
The assurances afforded by the continuous lifecycle model are documentary in character. The maintenance of a documentation architecture above the defensibility threshold is a representation regarding the state of the architecture and is not, and shall not be construed as, a representation regarding any adjudicative, regulatory, or enforcement outcome. The Entity disclaims, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any warranty that the maintenance of readiness will produce any particular result in any particular proceeding.
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the aggregate liability of the Entity arising out of or relating to any engagement shall not exceed the fees actually remitted to the Entity in respect of the reconciliation interval during which the event giving rise to the claim is alleged to have occurred. In no event shall the Entity be liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages.
The reconciliation lattice specification, the continuous lifecycle model, the protocol matrices, and all associated reference designations constitute proprietary work product of the Entity. Nothing in these Terms transfers any right, title, or interest in such work product to any client entity, save for the limited operational license expressly granted for the duration of a duly constituted engagement.
These Terms are to be read together with the Data Processing Privacy Directive. In the event of an irreconcilable conflict between the two instruments with respect to the handling of data subject information, the instrument more protective of the data subject governs the disputed provision, as set out in that Directive.
