Visa Business and Economic Insights
Terms of Service

Last updated: May 2023

IMPORTANT: PLEASE CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING VISA BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC INSIGHTS TERMS OF SERVICE ("TERMS"). YOU HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO ALL OF THESE TERMS IF YOU HAVE SUBSCRIBED TO OR OTHERWISE ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES FROM VISA BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC INSIGHTS. THESE TERMS REPLACE ALL PRIOR TERMS WITH RESPECT TO VISA BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC INSIGHTS.

As used in these Terms, the Services shall mean all current and future publications from Visa Business and Economic Insights, such as the U.S. Economic Outlook, Spending Momentum Index, Travel Insights, Global Economic Insights, including the logos, designs, text, images, videos, graphics, software and other content and materials of Visa or its licensors available from Visa Business and Economic Insights, and the selection and arrangement thereof.

These Terms are a binding contract and govern your use and access to the Services. By accessing the Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms as of the date of such access without limitation or qualification, and acknowledge that any other agreements you may have with Visa are superseded by these Terms, to the extent any conflict exists.

Use

The purpose of these Terms is to establish the terms and conditions upon which you obtain and subscribe to the Services.

Your access to and use of the Services is subject to all applicable international, federal, state and local laws and regulations. Unless otherwise specifically indicated, you may download the Services for personal, non-commercial use only. You may not distribute, modify, copy, publish, transmit, display, sell, license, use, reuse or create derivative works of the Services or any of the contents of or material displayed on the Services for any public or commercial purpose without the written consent of Visa or any third party Visa deems necessary. You must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices on downloaded and/or copied material from the Services. Any copy of the publications from Visa Business and Economic Insights or any other part of the Services you make and distribute for any purpose must also include these Terms.

User Conduct

You agree that you will comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations and other legal requirements that relate to your use of the Services. In addition, you agree:

  • to use the Services only as permitted by law;
  • not to use the Services in breach of these Terms;
  • not to disrupt or interfere with the security or operation of, or otherwise abuse, the Services, or any part of the Services;
  • not to use the Services in any manner that could be deemed false and/or defamatory, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or in violation of any third party rights;
  • not to copy, emulate, clone, rent, lease, sell, commercially exploit, modify, decompile, disassemble, distribute, reverse engineer or transfer the Services or any portion thereof; and
  • to comply with any other requirements, restrictions or limitations imposed by Visa or by your Issuer from time to time.

Disclaimers of warranties and limitations of liability

The views, opinions, and/or estimates, as the case may be (“views”), expressed in the Services are those of the Visa Business and Economic Insights team and do not necessarily reflect those of Visa executive management or other Visa employees and affiliates. Estimated economic forecasts, statistics, and indexes included in the Services are intended for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon for operational, marketing, legal, technical, tax, financial or other advice and do not in any way reflect actual or forecasted Visa operational or financial performance. Visa neither makes any warranty or representation as to the completeness or accuracy of the views in the Services, nor assumes any liability or responsibility that may result from reliance on such views. These views are often based on current market conditions and are subject to change without notice.

THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITH ALL FAULTS, AND THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO SATISFACTORY QUALITY, PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY AND EFFORT IS WITH THE USER. THIS MEANS THAT VISA MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS AS TO THE ACCURACY OF THE SERVICES. VISA MAKES NO WARRANTY, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, THAT ANY INFORMATION OR DATA PROVIDED IN THE SERVICES IS EITHER MERCHANTABLE OR ACCURATE, THAT SUCH INFORMATION OR DATA WILL FULFILL ANY OF YOUR PARTICULAR PURPOSES OR NEEDS, OR THAT SUCH INFORMATION OR DATA DOES NOT INFRINGE ON ANY THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. VISA ASSUMES NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE SERVICES.

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, NEITHER VISA NOR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, OR DELIVERING THE SERVICES, WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS, COST OF PROCURING SUBSTITUTE SERVICE OR LOST OPPORTUNITY), HOWEVER CAUSED, ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS TO, USE OF, OR RELIANCE ON THE SERVICES, EVEN IF VISA HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, VISA ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR, AND WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES RELATING TO OR CAUSED BY ANY VIRUSES WHICH MAY AFFECT YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT OR OTHER PROPERTY ON ACCOUNT OF YOUR ACCESS TO, USE OF, OR DOWNLOADING OF THE SERVICES. VISA CANNOT AND DOES NOT GUARANTEE CONTINUOUS, UNINTERRUPTED OR SECURE ACCESS TO THE SERVICES.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE DISCLAIMER, EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES, LIABILITIES AND DAMAGES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS, VISA’S LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. NOTHING IN THESE TERMS EXCLUDES THE VISA’S LIABILITY FOR ANY MATTER WHICH IT WOULD BE ILLEGAL FOR THE VISA PARTIES TO EXCLUDE OR LIMIT OR ATTEMPT TO EXCLUDE OR LIMIT LIABILITY.

Links

Visa has not reviewed all of the sites that are linked in the services, and the fact of such links or references does not indicate any approval or endorsement of any material contained on any site. Visa is not responsible for the contents of any site linked to the Visa Site. Your connection to and use of any such linked site is at your own risk.

Privacy

Visa uses your personal information as necessary to provide the Services to you (as agreed in these terms of service). For more information about how Visa collects and protects your personal information when you use the Service, and any data privacy rights you may have, please read the Visa Global Privacy Notice.

You are responsible for ensuring the personal information associated with your account remains accurate and up-to-date. You can unsubscribe from the Service at any time by updating your preferences here: Visa

Modification of the Services and these Terms; Termination

Visa may, in its sole discretion, terminate, change, modify, suspend, make improvements to or discontinue any or all aspects of the Services, temporarily or permanently, including the availability of any portion of the Services at any time with or without notice to you and you agree that Visa shall not be liable to you or to any third party as a result of taking any of these actions. Your continued use of the Visa Solution after any changes, modifications or improvements have been made to any or all aspects of the Services will be construed to be your acceptance of such changes, modifications or improvements, and the applicability of these Terms to the Services with such changes, modifications or improvements.

If you do not agree with any of these Terms, you must not use the Services. Visa reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify these Terms at any time. Visa may change these Terms by posting a new version with notice that we deem to be reasonable in the circumstances, including such notice on our Website or any other website maintained for the purposes of providing the Services. We will always post the most recent version of these Terms at the Website. The most recent modification date will be noted by the "Last Updated" date below. To the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, your continued use of or participation in the Services after any such modification constitutes your acceptance of these Terms as modified.

You may terminate your use of the Services at any time, including if you are not happy with changes we make to the Terms, by updating your preferences here: Visa. Visa may suspend, discontinue or terminate your access to or use of the Visa Solution at any time, immediately and without prior notice or obligation to you, (i) if you violate any of these Terms, or (ii) for any other commercially reasonable reason, in Visa's sole discretion. Visa shall not be liable to you for any suspension, discontinuance, termination, change or modification of your use of or access to the Services. Upon termination, you remain liable for all payments and other obligations you have incurred under these Terms.

Waiver

Visa’s failure or delay to exercise or enforce any provision or right contained in these Terms shall not be deemed a waiver of such provision or right.

Entire Agreement

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between Visa and you with respect to your use of the Services.

Severability

You and Visa agree that if any provision of these Terms is deemed unlawful, void (including by virtue of law) or for any reason unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

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