The following terms and conditions govern all use of the Minnect.com website, Minnect Mobile Applications and all content, services and products available at or through the Minnect Mobile Applications or the associated Minnect website (taken together, the Website or Minnect). The Website is owned and operated by Minnect Inc. The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, Minnect’s Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by Minnect (collectively, the “Agreement”).
Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by Minnect, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old.
I agree and acknowledge that:
1. Any and all commentary, opinions, interactions, dialogue and/or answers to any questions (“Commentary”) provided by entrepreneurs, businesspersons and personalities (“Entrepreneurs”) available for you to engage with through Minnect are provided for educational and informational purposes only.
2. I shall reach my own conclusions, of my own free will without coercion, and assume any and all risk and full responsibility associated with any actions taken or inactions determined as a result of the Commentary provided.
3. Minnect and its affiliated and related entities, successors and assigns and each of their respective owners, principals, officers, directors, employees, members, agents, representatives, licensees, service providers and contractors (collectively, “Minnect Parties”), and Entrepreneurs, are not liable for any such conclusions or reliance upon Commentary that may result in losses, lost revenues or profits, liabilities, deficiencies, claims, actions, suits, legal proceedings, judgments, settlements, interest, awards, penalties, fines, costs, expenses, including attorneys’ fees, and any actual, speculative, consequential, incidental, direct, indirect, exemplary, special or punitive damages of any kind.
4. The information contained on Minnect and provided during interactions with our experts are for educational and informational purposes only – nothing offered to you via Minnect or our experts is a substitute for professional advice and help. We accept no liability whatsoever for any loss or damage you may incur, and you hereby waive, release, and discharge Minnect and its experts from any liability or damage arising from your interactions with Minnect and our experts. We have done our best to ensure that the experts and information provided on and through Minnect are accurate and provide valuable information to you. Regardless of anything to the contrary, nothing available on or through Minnect should be understood as a recommendation not to consult with professionals to address your particular situation and/or problems. In fact, we urge you to engage qualified professionals in those areas in which you seek advice. The information contained on Minnect and the information available through our experts are not intended as, and shall not be understood or construed as, legal, medical, financial, or psychological advice. While we or our experts may provide information that relates to laws or legal issues, health, fitness, lifestyle, mindset, and other personal issues, including information provided by experts who happen to be lawyers, doctors, psychologists, accountants or the like, the information provided through Minnect is no substitute for relevant and personalized advice from a qualified, licensed professional. Neither Minnect nor any of its experts, employees, or contractors shall be held liable or responsible for any errors or omissions on Minnect or for any damage you may suffer as a result of failing to seek competent professional advice from a licensed professional who is familiar with your situation.
5. In addition to the immediately preceding point, which clearly specifies that Minnect information or interactions or engagements by and between Minnect experts / users / Entrepreneurs is for educational and informational purposes ONLY, any expert or user or Entrepreneur who offers or promotes or references lewd, sexual or sexually gratifying or otherwise pornographic content or services, including nudity, whether or not such includes an expressed or implied financial transaction, shall be immediately suspended and/or permanently removed from Minnect. In common language; no “18+” content is permitted on Minnect. In such cases, Minnect shall act unilaterally and without notice and shall be the sole and final arbiter of any action or decision to suspend, remove or permanently revoke an account. Further, if required or if appropriate, Minnect will report such actions / materials and all account information for all participants to the appropriate law enforcement authorities and fully cooperate with any subsequent investigation(s) by such authorities.
6. Company would not provide me the opportunity to engage with Entrepreneurs but for my agreement and acknowledgement herein.
7. I shall comply with Minnect’s End User Agreement (“EULA”) located for public access and inspection at minnect.com.
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- Your Minnect.com Account and Site. If you create a blog/site on the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and blog, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the blog. You must not describe or assign keywords to your blog in a misleading or unlawful manner, including in a manner intended to trade on the name or reputation of others, and Minnect may change or remove any description or keyword that it considers inappropriate or unlawful, or otherwise likely to cause Minnect liability. You must immediately notify Minnect of any unauthorized uses of your blog, your account or any other breaches of security. Minnect will not be liable for any acts or omissions by You, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.
- Your Name Image and Likeness. You agree that your name, image, likeness and description as shown in your Minnect account profile, as edited or approved by you, may appear in social media posts and/or digital advertisements, including videos and/or printed materials, created and distributed by Minnect, to raise awareness of Minnect and/or promote product benefits and/or announce or otherwise present the presence and/or availability of individual experts/users/contributors on Minnect.
- Responsibility of Contributors. If you operate a blog, comment on a blog, post material to the Website, post links on the Website, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Website (any such material, “Content”), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, an audio file, or computer software. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:
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- the downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party;
- if your employer has rights to intellectual property you create, you have either (i) received permission from your employer to post or make available the Content, including but not limited to any software, or (ii) secured from your employer a waiver as to all rights in or to the Content;
- you have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms;
- if you are citing to another URL, you give proper attribution to any cited and/or copied content;
- you have rights to any images used or they are marked as free for use;
- you will NOT use AI engines or AI software in any way in any form to craft responses or answers or Content that is subsequently provided to Minnect users who are voluntarily paying for Entrepreneurs or Experts specific responses or time. In reviewing ANY AI utilization, Minnect shall act unilaterally and without notice and shall be the sole and final arbiter of any action or decision to suspend, remove or permanently revoke an account;
- the Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;
- the Content is not spam, is not machine- or randomly-generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing);
- the Content is not pornographic, does not contain threats or incite violence towards individuals or entities, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
- your blog is not getting advertised via unwanted electronic messages such as spam links on newsgroups, email lists, other blogs and web sites, and similar unsolicited promotional methods;
- your blog is not named in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company. For example, your blog’s URL or name is not the name of a person other than yourself or company other than your own; and
- you have, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by Minnect or otherwise.
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By submitting Content to Minnect for inclusion on your Website, you grant Minnect a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your blog. If you delete Content, Minnect will use reasonable efforts to remove it from the Website, but you acknowledge that caching or references to the Content may not be made immediately unavailable.
Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, Minnect has the right (though not the obligation) to, in Minnect’s sole discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in Minnect’s reasonable opinion, violates any Minnect policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Website to any individual or entity for any reason, in Minnect’s sole discretion. Minnect will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid.
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- Responsibility of Website Visitors. Minnect has not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, posted to the Website, and cannot therefore be responsible for that material’s content, use or effects. By operating the Website, Minnect does not represent or imply that it endorses the material there posted, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. Minnect disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of content there posted.
- Content Posted on Other Websites. We have not reviewed, and cannot review, all of the material, including computer software, made available through the websites and webpages to which Minnect.com links, and that link to Minnect.com. Minnect does not have any control over those non-Minnect websites and webpages, and is not responsible for their contents or their use. By linking to a non-Minnect website or webpage, Minnect does not represent or imply that it endorses such website or webpage. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. Minnect disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from your use of non-Minnect websites and webpages.
- Copyright Infringement and DMCA Policy. As Minnect asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by Minnect.com violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify Minnect in accordance with Minnect’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) Policy. Minnect will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. Minnect will terminate a visitor’s access to and use of the Website if, under appropriate circumstances, the visitor is determined to be a repeat infringer of the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of Minnect or others. In the case of such termination, Minnect will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to Minnect.
- Intellectual Property. This Agreement does not transfer from Minnect to you any Minnect or third-party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with Minnect. Minnect, Minnect.com, the Minnect.com logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with Minnect.com, or the Website are trademarks or registered trademarks of Minnect or Minnect’s licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Minnect or third-party trademarks.
- Ownership of Minnect Content. ALL content created and presented on Minnect by and between users and experts (also referred to as Contributors or Entrepreneurs) in the Minnect App(s) or on the associated Minnect website in whatever form, including text, audio and video formats, is the sole property of Minnect and may not be reused or redistributed by you or a proxy in any form in any way whatsoever. You hereby agree not to take screenshots, create screen recordings, or otherwise replicate or reproduce such content for any use whatsoever including, but not limited to, public distribution on any mobile or online or other platform (social media, websites, et.) or your own private personal use. This prohibition includes the creation of any derivative content (including, but not limited to, illustrations, animations, AI images, GIFs, Memes, etc. based on Minnect content). Violation may result in suspension or termination of your Minnect Account and/or, in the case of inflammatory, slanderous, false, or otherwise malicious content, may subject you to civil lawsuits or legal remedies or criminal proceedings brought by law enforcement agencies, Minnect or Creators or Entrepreneurs as may be applicable to your actions.
- Advertisements. Minnect reserves the right to display advertisements on your blog unless you have purchased an ad-free account.
- Attribution and Links. Minnect reserves the right to display attribution links such as ‘Blog at Minnect.com,’ theme author, and font attribution in your blog footer or toolbar.
- Partner Products. By activating a partner product (e.g. theme) from one of our partners, you agree to that partner’s terms of service. You can opt out of their terms of service at any time by de-activating the partner product.
- Domain Names. If you are registering a domain name, using or transferring a previously registered domain name, you acknowledge and agree that use of the domain name is also subject to the policies of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”), including their Registration Rights and Responsibilities.
- Changes to Terms and Conditions. Minnect reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. Minnect may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
- Termination of Access. Minnect may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement or your Minnect.com account (if you have one), you may simply discontinue using the Website. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you have a paid services account, such account can only be terminated by Minnect if you materially breach this Agreement and fail to cure such breach within thirty (30) days from Minnect’s notice to you thereof; provided that, Minnect can terminate the Website immediately as part of a general shut down of our service. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.
- Disclaimer of Warranties. The Website is provided “as is”. Minnect and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither Minnect nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.
- Limitation of Liability. In no event will Minnect, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement for substitute products or services; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to Minnect under this agreement during the twelve (12) month period prior to the cause of action. Minnect shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law.
- General Representation and Warranty. You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the Minnect Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.
- Indemnification. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Minnect, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the Website, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.
- Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Minnect and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of Minnect, or by the posting by Minnect of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Website will be governed by the laws of the state of California, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of law provisions, and the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the state and federal courts located in San Francisco County, California. Except for claims for injunctive or equitable relief or claims regarding intellectual property rights (which may be brought in any competent court without the posting of a bond), any dispute arising under this Agreement shall be finally settled in accordance with the Comprehensive Arbitration Rules of the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service, Inc. (“JAMS”) by three arbitrators appointed in accordance with such Rules. The arbitration shall take place in San Francisco, California, in the English language and the arbitral decision may be enforced in any court. The prevailing party in any action or proceeding to enforce this Agreement shall be entitled to costs and attorneys’ fees. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties’ original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under this Agreement to any party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms and conditions; Minnect may assign its rights under this Agreement without condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.
Minnect Inc. – Terms and Conditions – Rev. 06.10.2024