Terms of Use

People under the age of 18 should not use this website or should only do so under the supervision of an adult. The acquisition and use of NMI Services by people under the age of 18 is generally not allowed.

5.1 The NMI websites and their contents (in summary “Content”) and NMI Services are owned by the relevant rights holders, who reserve all rights to content and services. Content and services shall only be used for private, non-commercial, personal or educational purposes, provided the content is not altered and any notices on copyright and other intellectual property rights are not deleted or altered. You are not allowed to produce any edits or derivatives from the content/services or to exploit them in any way. Any other use – in full or in part – is explicitly prohibited.

5.2 Nor are you allowed to use content and NMI Services for unauthorized or unlawful purposes.This includes: (a) downloading, copying or forwarding parts of the content or all the content; (b) use of data mining, automatic download programs or similar data collection or extraction methods; (c) manipulation or other display of content with the use of framing or similar navigation technologies; (d) uploading or posting of content that infringes third-party rights or which, at the sole discretion of NMI, may be deemed inappropriate or offensive; or (e) logging on, subscribing or logging out, or an attempt to do so, without the explicit written consent of any third parties. You are not allowed to interfere in the security of these websites or misuse them or other system resources, services or networks, which are associated with these websites or accessible on these websites, in any other way.

5.3 We regularly update the contents on our websites. However, we cannot guarantee the accuracy, up-to-dateness or completeness of contents and cannot assume any responsibility or liability for contents and NMI Services. We may revise, supplement or delete contents and reserve the right to make such changes without prior notice. Your continued access to the websites or use thereof following such changes means that you consent to such changes.

We are the holders or licensees of all property rights of this website and of material provided by it or published thereon. These works are protected by copyright and by additional intellectual property rights. All these rights are reserved.

This website shall not be copied, reproduced, modified, publicly displayed, republished, distributed, extracted or reused in any other way, in full or in part.

If you infringe these Terms of Use, your right to use this website shall expire immediately and you must return or destroy any copies taken.

6.1 Subject to the exceptions in Article 7 of these Terms of Use, all contents and services included on the website, unless they have been uploaded by users, including but not restricted to texts, graphics, logos, symbols, images, sound clips, video clips, data compilations, page layout, underlying codes and software, are the property of NMI, our affiliates or other relevant third parties. By continuing to use the website you hereby acknowledge that this material is protected by applicable Austrian and international laws on the protection of intellectual property and other laws.

6.2 Both online courses and the accompanying documents are protected by copyright and shall not – even in the form of excerpts – be duplicated, distributed, published or used commercially.

6.3 NMI shall not provide the user with ownership of contents and NMI Services, and in particular of online course contents and the accompanying materials. The user shall acquire a non-exclusive and non-transferrable right to use the contents and NMI Services, in particular online courses and accompanying materials, solely for his own personal purposes. Making any content-related and editorial changes or using modified versions, copying content for third parties or providing content to third parties, otherwise forwarding or making content available, uploading content on the Internet or in (other) networks free of charge or for payment, emulating, reselling or using content for commercial purposes, is not permitted. Further transfer of rights to third parties is excluded.

6.4 Where NMI harbors suspicion of misuse or infringement of these Terms of Use by the user, NMI shall block the user’s access until the circumstances have been clarified. If the suspicion proves unfounded, blocking of access shall be reversed. In the event of misuse or infringement of these Terms of Use by the user being detected, NMI reserves the right to maintain blocked access or to completely delete the website user account.

6.5 In the event of misuse or infringement of these Terms of Use, NMI is entitled to demand a contractual penalty from the user in an amount of € 500 (excluding VAT) for each occasion. The enforcement of any further compensation is reserved.

6.6 NMI endeavors to offer contents and NMI Services with the highest possible level of care and availability. However, NMI assumes no guarantee for the requested access always being established, for NMI Services being available at all times without interruption, and for stored data remaining stored under all circumstances.

6.7 NMI shall not be liable, except in case of intent, for any damage to the user due to errors arising in access to the acquired NMI Services.

7.1 Unless specifically indicated otherwise, all rights to intellectual property, including but not limited to copyrights and trademarks, belong to the relevant holder of rights.

7.2 You are not permitted to reproduce, copy, distribute or reuse in any other way materials, technical features and any other contents and offers that we provide to you on our website and form the intellectual property of the relevant holder of rights, unless indicated otherwise on the website or unless you have specific written authorization from the relevant holder of rights.

This website may provide links to other websites. Unless specifically indicated, these websites are not under the control of NMI or companies affiliated with us. NMI does not monitor or recommend these linked websites, and specifically assumes no guarantee, liability or responsibility for the contents, actions, offered products or services of these linked websites and, moreover, refuses any liability or responsibility for any kind of loss or damage arising from the use of these websites.

Moreover, we recommend that you carefully check the data privacy statements, General Terms and Conditions and Terms of Use of linked websites.

Anyone wanting to place a link (includes deep linking, i.e. links to specific pages within the website) to this website on other websites may only do so on request and with the specific consent of NMI. NMI reserves the right to take legal action in the event of this procedure not being observed and such linking being implemented without the consent of NMI.

11.2 You hereby acknowledge that NMI reserves the right to monitor any communication to us or on our system.

11.3 You hereby acknowledge that NMI may retain copies of all communications to us or on our system, in accordance with relevant data protection regulations and deadlines.

11.4 You hereby acknowledge that all information you send to us on our system may be modified in any way, and you hereby waive your moral right to be identified as author of such information. Any restrictions that you want to impose on our use of such information must be notified to us in advance, and we hereby reserve the right to refuse such conditions and associated information.

12.5.1 By creating, filling out and editing such a user profile on our website (summarized as “user content”) you declare that you hold all rights to such user content. Moreover, you declare that the user content shall not infringe any laws, is not incorrect or misleading in terms of content, does not infringe personal privacy, intellectual property rights or other third-party rights or these Terms of Use, and that the user content shall not damage the good reputation of Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche, the methods and practices, NMI and affiliated companies and their employees or services in any way, whereby NMI is free to decide what is meant by “damage”.

12.5.2 NMI is entitled, but not obliged, to inspect, edit or remove any activity or user content. NMI shall not assume responsibility or liability for any user content created or edited by you or third parties.

12.5.3 You hereby consent to hold NMI harmless from and against all compensation claims and liability arising as a result of or in relation to user contents or in relation to infringements of these Terms of Use by you or anyone acting on your behalf.

• Notwithstanding the above, we hereby reserve the right to terminate an account without prior email notification and without giving reasons, in particular if the user has previously infringed or intentionally ignored the Terms of Use of NMI.

14.1 Although every effort has been made to ensure that all general descriptions of services offered by NMI conform to the actual services provided to you, we are not responsible for deviations from these descriptions, given that the exact type of services may vary depending on requirements and circumstances. 

14.2 You might not be able to demand an NMI service because you do not fulfill certain requirements.

14.3 We do not promise or guarantee that such NMI Services will be available at all times.

14.4 We hereby reserve the right to change prices from time to time and as required and to amend or remove offers and NMI Services.

15.1 Subject to the applicable legal regulations we do not assume any responsibility or liability for any losses or damages even if they are foreseeable, regardless of whether they are incurred contractually or through unauthorized action (including negligence), breach of a statutory obligation or in any other way. Where legally permitted, we shall exclude all conditions, warranties and undertakings related to this website, regardless of whether they are explicit or implied. Subject to the applicable legal regulations, we assume no liability for any losses or damages incurred with regard to your information technology, computer programs, platform, data or other materials under your ownership in relation to use of this website. With regard to content and NMI Services, NMI does not provide warranties of any kind, explicitly or implicitly, including – but not restricted to – implied warranties of commercial usability and suitability for a specific purpose, and NMI explicitly refuses such warranties – where legally permitted.

15.2 NMI is not responsible or liable for software, computer viruses or other damaging or destructive files or programs, which could infect your computer equipment or other property or could damage them in any other way, nor for phishing, spiders or other forms of data extraction, which pass through your access to these websites, the downloading of materials or other use. We recommend that you install corresponding anti-virus software or other protective software on your computer.

15.3 You hereby explicitly consent to use the websites and NMI Services at your own risk. NMI is not liable for any kind of damage incurred from the use of websites, content or the demand for NMI Services, including but not restricted to direct, indirect, accidental, punitive or consequential damage, unless agreed to the contrary in writing. Many legal systems do not allow for such limits or exclusions of certain liabilities, and therefore some of the above points might not be relevant or might not apply to you.

15.4 The teachings transmitted in the digital content are physically and mentally demanding. The user consumes the digital content at his own risk and carries out the demonstrated exercises shown at his own risk, and declares that he is in a suitable physical and mental condition to do so. If an individual exercise or all digital content exceeds the mental and/or physical abilities of the contractual partner, it is the individual responsibility of the user to discontinue his participation in the exercise or his consumption of such digital content. Should the user violate this obligation, the liability of NMI is completely excluded. Repayment of costs paid to the provider shall be excluded in such a case.

15.5 We do not provide a guarantee that the contents of this website and/or the materials provided are correct, complete, up-to-date or free of errors or omissions.