AGREEMENT 

(public offer) № 2021/02

for participation in the XVIII International scientific Congress “WOSC2021»

            Moscow                                              30.06.2021

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1. General provisions

1.1. This public offer agreement (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement) is an official offer of STT LLC (hereinafter referred to as the Contractor (Perfomer), represented by E. A. Trushkova, acting on the basis of the Charter, to provide services for organizing remote participation in the XVIII International Scientific Congress "WOSC2021" (hereinafter – WOSC 2021, Congress), where the Main organizers are: WOSC (World Organisation of Science and Cybernetics) и FGBI RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences), to any individual or legal entity, referred to as (hereinafter – the Customer (Participant/The author), whose will will be expressed by them personally or through an authorized representative who will accept this offer under the terms of this Agreement.

1.2. In accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 437 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation (hereinafter – the Civil Code of the Russian Federation), this document is a public offer, and if the conditions set out below are accepted and the services are paid to the (Perfomer) Contractor, the person or organization that has made the acceptance of this offer becomes the Customer in accordance with paragraph 3 of Article 438 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.

1.3. In case of joint mention, the Contractor (Organizer/Operator) and the Customer (Participant/The Author) are hereinafter referred to as the Parties.

1.4. This Offer is published and comes into force from the date of its placement on the official website of the XXII International Congress "WOSC2021", (hereinafter-the Website),

1.5. STT LLC has the right to change the terms of the Offer or withdraw it at any time at its discretion. If STT LLC changes the terms of the Offer, such changes will take effect from the moment the amended terms of the Offer are posted on the Internet on the Congress website.

1.6. The moment of full and unconditional acceptance by the Customer of the offer of STT LLC to conclude this Agreement (that is, acceptance of the Offer), according to clause 1.3 of Article 438 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, is considered to be the commission by the Customer of actions aimed at participating in the XVIII International Congress "WOSC2021" by registering a personal account on the congress website, sending an abstract and a paper and paying the registration fee for participation in the Congress by the Customer in favor of the (Perfomer)Contractor.

By performing the above actions, the Customer confirms his desire to participate in the XVIII International Congress "WOSC2021", in accordance with this Agreement.

2. Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this Agreement, the following terms are used in the following meaning:

Offer – a limited-term offer of the Contractor, containing all the essential conditions and expressing the intention to conclude a contract with any person who will accept this offer. This Offer expires on September 30, 2020 at 18: 00 Moscow time.

The Contractor reserves the right to make changes to the terms of the Offer and/or withdraw the Offer, as well as terminate any of the mandatory documents at any time at its discretion. If the Contractor makes changes to the terms of the Offer, such changes will take effect from the moment the amended text of the Offer is posted on the Conference website on the Internet at https://wosc2020.org.

Public contract-offer (public offer) – this document defining the terms of the Offer and posted on the Internet at https://wosc2020.org

Acceptance of the Offer – full and unconditional acceptance of the Offer by performing the actions specified in section 5 of this Agreement and no later than September 27, 2020 at 23 h 59 min Moscow time. By accepting the Offer, the Customer confirms that the provision of services by the Contractor under this Agreement remotely using the software (software) fully corresponds to the Customer's ability to use the services provided in this way.

The XVIII International Scientific Congress "WOSC2021" is a congress organized by the Contractor remotely and scheduled to be held from September 27 to 30, 2020.

The Conference website is an information resource of the Contractor on the Internet, available at: https://wosc2020.org

Application – an independent request of the Customer to provide the Contractor with the necessary data (surname, first name, patronymic, TIN, address, phone number, email address and information about the payment of the registration fee) to organize the participation of the Customer and/or his representative(s) in the Congress. The application is formed automatically when filling out an electronic form on the Congress website.

Customer – an individual or legal entity and/or its representative (s) are a participant (s) of the congress after the acceptance of the offer (in the text below – the words "Customer and/or his representative" are identical).

Software (software) – a browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and similar) for accessing information resources located on the Internet, other programs for processing the information provided. The customer undertakes to independently ensure the availability of the software on his personal computer.

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3. The Subject of the Contract.

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3.1 The Contractor undertakes to organize the participation of the Customer and/or his representative (s) in the Congress under the terms of this Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the Services).

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3.2. The services are provided by the Contractor remotely via the Internet via software, and are:

1. Organization of the Customer's participation in the Congress in the format of an online discussion based on Zoom software,

2. Collection, processing and reviewing of abstracts and texts of papers on the topics of the Congress,

3. The materials accepted and presented at the Congress and processed will have the opportunity to be presented for special issues of scientific journals, according to clause 5.2. 7. of this Agreement.

3.3. The Customer undertakes to pay for the Contractor's Services in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

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4. Acceptance of the Offer and conclusion of the Contract.

4.1 The Offer is considered accepted by the Customer and the Contract is concluded by the Parties from the moment the Customer performs a set of the following actions:

a) Submitting an Application for participation in the  Congress in electronic form on the Congress website.

b) After the funds are credited to the Contractor's account as a result of the Customer's payment for the Contractor's services no later than September 27, 2020, 23 h 59 min Moscow time inclusive.

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5. Rights and obligations of the Parties.

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5.1 Rights of the Contractor:

5.1.1 The Contractor reserves the right to change the terms of the Congress at any time for a valid reason and, accordingly, to change the terms of providing access to the online broadcast.

5.2 Obligations of the Contractor:

5.2.1 undertakes to organize the participation of the Customer and / or the Customer's representative (s) in the Congress. The organization of the participation of the Customer and/or his representative (s) in the Congress is to ensure the access of the Customer and/or his representative (s) to the broadcast of the Congress in the following way:

5.2.1.1 After the acceptance of the Offer, the Contractor provides the Customer and/or his representative with access by providing information on the Congress website.

The fulfillment of the obligation to provide the service is considered to be the fact of holding the Congress in the terms and procedure established by this Agreement, regardless of whether the Customer himself (his representative) participated directly or not;

5.2.2 prepares and publishes informational materials in electronic form, selects materials for the publication of the Congress, ensures that the Congress is held in accordance with the approved program;

5.2.3 The Contractor shall post information on any change in the terms of rendering services on the Congress website;

5.2.4 sends documents related to the execution of this Agreement from its e-mail to the Customer's e-mail (specified by him during registration).

5.2.5. The Contractor (Performer) will organize the WOSC 2021 in an on-line mode, enabling the authors their active participation according to the WOSC 2021 programme (to be published before the congress). They will provide an author an option to actively participate in their section and in open discussion parts of the Congress.

5.2.6. The Contractor (Performer/ Organizer) will publish an electronic book of submitted abstracts. A selection of congress full papers will be published in a Springer Nature book.

5.2.7. Additionally, WOSC congresses are well recognized by the publishers and, accepted and delivered papers to the Congress, will have the option to be submitted either as short papers or as fully developed papers for special issues of a scientific journals. Several international and national, regular or strictly open access scientific journals, indexed in Thomson JCR, Scopus RISC, VAK and others are interested in publishing these papers.

5.3. The Сustomer (author`s) rights:

5.3.1. By completing the registration, authors gain the right to actively participate in the WOSC2021 congress, according to the WOSC2021 programme (to be published before the congress).

5.3.2. The Customer (author`s) responsibilitie:

5.3.2.1. The author has submitted a structured abstract of about 500 to 800 words abstract, formed according to the author guidelines.

5.3.2.2. The author will complete the registration process according to the registration/payment instructions provided upon the acceptance of the abstract.

5.3.2.3. The author will actively engage in the communication, provided by the organizers and the section coordinators.

5.3.2.4. The author will (optionally) submit a congress paper for publication by the organizers.

5.3.2.5. The author will actively participate on the WOSC 2021 congress, accordingly to the WOSC2021 programme (to be published before the congress).

5.3.2.6. After the congress, the author will (optionally) submit a full paper for publication by the scientific journals, related to the Congress.

5.4. Obligations of the Customer (participant/author):

5.4.1. pay for the Contractor's services in the amount of the registration fee according to clause 6.1. of this Agreement;

5.4.2. confirm the payment for the services by sending a copy (scanned copy) of the payment document containing the surname, first name, patronymic, TIN, address, e-mail address and the composition of the participants-representatives of the Customer (a list in the form provided in Annex 1 to this Agreement and including the full surname, first name, patronymic, participant (s) of the Congress for which the registration fee is paid under this Agreement) to the Contractor's e-mail payment@wosc2020.org In the subject of the letter, specify "Registration fee";

5.4.3. receive an invoice and a Certificate of Acceptance of the services rendered (hereinafter referred to as the Act) in electronic form from the Contractor, sign the Act no later than 3 (three) working days after the end of the Conference and return its scanned copy to the Contractor. In case of the Customer's claims related to the acceptance of the results of the services rendered by the Contractor, send a corresponding reasoned refusal to the Contractor. If the Contractor has not received a written reasoned refusal from the Customer to sign the Act within a 10-day calendar period, the Act will be considered approved by the Parties in full, and the obligations under the Contract accepted by the Customer in full and without claims;

5.4.4. have a personal computer or a portable (mobile) device with Internet access, equipped with an earpiece and microphone, as well as with installed software, necessary and sufficient to receive the service;

5.4.5. not to record, distribute (publish, post on Internet sites, copy, transfer or resell to third parties) for commercial or non-commercial purposes the information and materials provided by the Contractor to the Customer under this Agreement, create information products based on it for the purpose of extracting commercial profit, as well as use this information in any other way;

5.4.6. not to transfer to third parties and to ensure the confidentiality of access passwords to the personal account and to special software used for the organization of services by the Contractor under this Agreement;

5.4.7. not to post personal data of third parties on the Contractor's website without their consent, including home phone numbers, addresses, passport data, e-mail addresses;

5.4.8. independently get acquainted with and track changes in the Offer, the terms of the Contract and information about the Contractor's services on the Conference website, including in case of changes in the terms of the Conference by the Contractor.

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6. The cost of services and the payment procedure.

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6.1. The cost of the Contractor's services consists of the amount of the registration fee for one participant and corresponds to clause 6.2. of the Agreement. Payment for services is made by the Customer in the form of a 100% prepayment by transferring funds by bank transfer to the Contractor's current account by September 26, 2020 at 23: 59 Moscow time inclusive on the terms established by this section of the Agreement.

6.1.1. All expenses on banking operations and commissions of the correspondent bank related to the fulfillment of payment obligations are fully on the Congress Participant.

6.2. The amount of the registration fee for one participant is 125 (one hundred and twenty-five) euros in rubles at the exchange rate of the Central Bank of Russia on the day of payment., including 20% VAT - for early registration;

150 (one hundred and fifty) euro in ruble equivalent at the exchange rate of the Central Bank of Russia on the payment date, including VAT 20%;

* - The discount for participation in the Congress is provided on an individual basis and is previously agreed with the Organizing Committee of the Congress. Requests are accepted in writing to the following email address: Info@wosc2020.org

6.2.3. The calculation of the cost of services under this Agreement is determined as the amount of the registration fee for one participant multiplied by the number of participants declared by the Customer.

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      6.2.4. Payment details:
      LLC "Strategic and tactical technologies"

      (LLC "STT")
      Payment details for transferring funds in Russian rubles:
      LLC "STT"
      Address: 129226, Moscow, Prospekt Mira,131,

      office 2

      e-mail: trushkova@stt-consulting.ru,

      info@stt-consulting.ru
      TIN 9717008842
      KPP 771701001
      OGRN 5157746101893
      OKPO 52381193
      Bank: PJSC "SBERBANK OF RUSSIA", Moscow
      BIK: 044525225
      Correspondent account: 30101810400000000225
      Account number: 40702810138000084063

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      Payment details for transferring funds in euros:

      Name LLC "CTT"
      International name STT LLC
      Account Number 40702978438001002372
      National ID / TIN  9717008842
     Address / Address RUSSIAN FEDERATION, 129226, Moscow,        Prospekt Mira, house 131, office 2
      City / City Moscow
      Country / Country Russian Federation
      SWIFT SABRRUMM
      Beneficiary Bank / Beneficiary Bank SBERBANK
      City / City MOSCOW
      Country / Country RUSSIA

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6.2.5. In the payment document, the Customer-individual must indicate the name and initials of the payer, his/her TIN, address, e-mail address, and in the purpose of the payment - “For participation in the international scientific congress “WOSC2021”, Agreement No. 2021/02”.

6.2.6. The customer-legal entity in the purpose of payment indicates "For participation (name of his / her representative (s)) in the international scientific congress" WOSC2021 ", Agreement No. 2021/02”.

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7. Payment is made on the Congress website

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7.1.  The cost of the registration fee as well as the write-off of funds are made in ruble currency.

7.2. The cost of the registration fee for early bird registration is 11 700 (Eleven thousand seven hundred) rubles, including VAT 20% and internal commission for payment processing,

      The cost of the discount payment is 4 680 (Four thousand six hundred eighty) rubles, including VAT 20% and internal commission for payment processing.

       The cost of the registration fee after 10.09.2021 is 14 175 (Fourteen thousands one hundred and seventy-five) rubles, including VAT 20% and internal commission for payment processing ,

        The cost of the discount payment is 7 488 (Seven thousand four hundred and eighty- eight)  rubles, including VAT 20% and internal commission for payment processing;

         The cost of participation without submitting an abstract is 4,680 (Four thousand six hundred and eighty) rubles, including VAT of 20% and internal commission for payment processing.

7.3. All expenses on banking operations and commissions of the correspondent bank related to the fulfillment of payment obligations are paid by the Congress participant independently.

7.4.The Customer's bank is responsible for the conversion of funds. You will receive a notification about the final debiting of funds from your bank.

7.5. If you were unable to complete the transaction, please contact your bank.

8. Final conditions.

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8.1. The Agreement comes into force from the moment of acceptance of the Offer by the Customer and is valid until the Parties fully fulfill their obligations.

8.2. The Agreement may be amended or terminated in accordance with the procedure provided for by this Agreement and the current legislation of the Russian Federation.

8.3. For violation of the terms of this Agreement, the Parties are responsible in accordance with the current legislation of the Russian Federation.

8.4. The Contractor is not responsible for the methods and results of the Customer's use of the information obtained during the provision of services.

8.5. The Conference Program is posted on the Conference website and may be changed at the discretion of the Contractor.

8.6. The Parties shall take measures to resolve all disputes and disagreements arising from the Agreement or in connection with its execution through negotiations. The term for consideration of the claim is set at 10 (ten) working days from the date of its receipt by the Party.

8.7. If it is impossible to resolve the disputes and disagreements that have arisen through negotiations, such disputes are subject to consideration in the Arbitration Court of the City of Moscow.

8.8. Without contradicting the above, the Contractor is released from liability for violation of the terms of the Agreement if such violation is caused by force majeure (force majeure), including: actions of state authorities, (including the adoption of legal acts), fire, flood, earthquake, other natural disasters, lack of electricity and / or computer network failures, strikes, civil unrest, riots, any other circumstances, not limited to the above, which may affect the execution of the Contract by the Contractor.

8.9. By entering into this Agreement, the Customer confirms his agreement with all its terms, including the cost of services, the Conference program and other terms of service provision by the Contractor, including, confirms his awareness and expresses unconditional consent:

8.9.1. to receive services from the Contractor in the manner, scope, terms and conditions set out in the Contract, as well as provided for by the current legislation and local acts of the Contractor;

8.9.2. with the fact that in order to correctly provide access to the Contractor's services, the Customer's equipment must correspond to the ability to use the services provided in this way;

8.9.3. with the fact that he has no right to transfer, assign, sell, transfer for use, etc. the link and access code received from the Contractor to other persons without the consent of the Contractor;

8.9.4. with the fact that he must take all possible measures to keep secret the link and access code received from the Contractor, allowing access. The Customer is obliged to immediately notify the Contractor of any cases of unauthorized use of the link and access code;

8.9.5. with the fact that he is fully responsible for any actions committed by him using the link and access code provided to him, as well as for any consequences that such use could entail or entailed;

8.9.6. it is prohibited to use any technical means for recording the online broadcast of the conference or downloading the conference archive posted on the Conference website;

8.9.7. with the fact that the Customer does not have the right to reproduce, distribute, display, publish, broadcast or otherwise use the online broadcast of the conference. The exceptions are the cases provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation. The use of the speakers ' presentations by the Customer outside the Conference website is possible subject to the written consent of the speaker;

8.9.8. with the fact that the Contractor has the right to terminate the provision of the service and block access to the Customer in case of violation of one or more provisions of this Agreement or if the Contractor considers the actions of the Customer to be fraudulent or aimed at damaging the Contractor's service, undermining the reputation of the Contractor or its brand, organizing a DDoS attack, etc.The funds paid by the Customer for providing access in this case are not subject to refund.

8.9.9. to process their personal data specified in the application and when registering for the purpose of fulfilling this Agreement, including publishing information about the participation of the Customer or the Customer's representative (s) in the Conference on the Conference website, which is a publicly available source of information (without additional consent or informing the Contractor of these persons).

8.9.9.1. processing of personal data means recording, systematization, accumulation, storage, clarification (updating, modification) extraction, use, transfer (distribution, transfer, access) depersonalization, blocking, deletion, destruction of personal data that do not fall under special categories, the processing of which, according to the current legislation of the Russian Federation, requires the written consent of the Customer;

8.10. The Contractor guarantees to the Customer that the processing of personal data is carried out exclusively for the purpose of fulfilling this Agreement, providing the Customer with feedback when using the Contractor's website. The Contractor takes sufficient measures to ensure their safety and confidentiality in relation to the processing of personal data.

8.10.1. If the Customer (the Customer's representative) participates in the Conference together with the participants sent to them, the Customer guarantees and assures the Contractor that he has received consent from these persons: for voluntary participation in the Conference, for the use of their personal data under this Agreement, and if this participation provides for co-authorship of the Conference participants, the Customer also guarantees and assures the Contractor of the voluntary consent of these persons to use their co-authorship rights.

8.11. The Contractor is not responsible for the inability to provide services to the Customer for reasons beyond the Contractor's control, namely (including, but not limited to):

violation and any errors in the operation of the Internet, omissions, interruptions, deletions, defects, delays in processing or transmitting data, failure of communication lines, theft, destruction or unauthorized access by third parties to the results of intellectual activity posted on the Conference website. The Contractor is not responsible for any technical failures or other problems of any telephone networks or services, computer networks, servers or providers, computer or telephone equipment, software, failures of e-mail services or creaks for technical reasons. In this case, the services are rendered properly and payable in full;

8.12.The contractor is not responsible for the compliance of the content of Conference website, in whole or in its parts, (service) the Customer's expectations, error-free or uninterrupted operation of the Conference website, the termination of Customer's access to the site, not associated with the actions of the Contractor, the safety of the login and password of the Customer, providing access to the Conference site, the losses incurred by the Customer for reasons related to technical failures of hardware or software.

8.13. The Contractor is not responsible to the Customer or any third parties for:

* actions of the Customer on the Conference website;

* content, legality, reliability of the information used (received) By the Customer in connection with obtaining access to the Contractor's services;

* consequences of the application of the information used (received) By the Customer in connection with the provision of access from the Contractor.

In the event of claims by third parties against the Contractor related to the use by the Customer of the access provided to the Customer by the Contractor and/or materials posted on the Conference website to which the Customer has access, the Customer undertakes to settle these claims with third parties on its own and at its own expense, protecting the Contractor from possible losses and proceedings.

8.14. The Parties have the right at any time to draw up a Contract for the provision of services under the terms of this Offer in the form of a single document signed by both Parties.

8.15. The Parties have agreed that the documents related to the execution of the Contract, transmitted by e-mail specified in the Contract details, have legal force on an equal basis with the original documents. When sending documents, the Party is obliged to use only the e-mail specified in the Contract details.

8.16. In all other matters that are not regulated in this Agreement, the Parties will be guided by the civil legislation of the Russian Federation.

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9.Publication and Copyright Transfer Statement

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9.1. The copyright to the submitted abstract, including any graphic elements therein (e.g. illustrations, charts, moving images), is hereby assigned for good and valuable consideration to WOSC2021 Congress, effective if and when the article is accepted for publication and to the extent assignable if assignability is restricted for by applicable law or regulations.

9.2. Author warrants (i) that he/she is the sole owner or has been authorized by any additional copyright owner to assign the right, (ii) that the article does not infringe any third party rights and no license from or payments to a third party is required to publish the article and (iii) that the article has not been previously published or licensed.

9.3. The copyright assignment includes without limitation the exclusive, assignable and sub licensable right to publish the abstract in WOSC2021 Congress book of abstracts and be presented at the WOSC2021 Congress and in the WOSC2021 Congress web site.

9.4. Authors may self-archive the Author’s accepted manuscript of their articles on their own websites. Authors may also deposit this version of the article in any repository, provided it is only made publicly available, with the reference of the original publication. Author retains the right to use his/her article for his/her further scientific career by including the final published journal article in other publications such as dissertations and postdoctoral qualifications provided acknowledgement is given to the original source of publication.