1. ELIGIBILITY
- You
may not use the Platform if you are under 13 or if you are between the
ages of 13 and 16 and live in a jurisdiction where parental consent would
be required for us to process your personal information. We reserve the
right to refuse access by users under certain ages, as set in our sole
discretion from time to time.
- If
you are under 18 years of age (or the age of legal majority where you
live), you may use our Platform only with the permission of a parent or
legal guardian who agrees to be bound by these Terms. If you are a parent
or legal guardian of a user under the age of 18 (or the age of legal
majority where you live), you agree to be fully responsible for the acts
or omissions of such user, including any breach of these Terms, and for determining
the suitability of the Platform for such user.
2. USER
ACCOUNTS
- If
you register for an account to use our Platform, you must provide accurate
account information and ensure that you maintain the accuracy of this
information at all times. You also must maintain the security of your
account (including by logging out of your account at the end of each
session), and promptly notify us if you discover or suspect that someone
has accessed your account or your account credentials without your
permission. If you permit others to use your account, you are responsible
for the activities of those users. We reserve the right to reclaim
usernames for any reason, including on behalf of businesses or individuals
that hold trademark rights or other legal claims in those usernames.
- Pricing. Prices
for our subscriptions are subject to change at any time, but changes will
not affect any purchase you have already placed except that for
auto-renewing subscriptions, price changes will take effect when indicated
in our email notice to you.
- Taxes. To
the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you are responsible for
any applicable sales, use, duty, customs or other governmental taxes,
levies or fees ("Taxes") due with respect to your purchase through
our Platform. We will present an estimate of Taxes we collect at checkout,
except where we have clearly stated in writing that a price includes
Taxes.
- Payment
Method. Only valid payment methods
acceptable to us may be used to complete a purchase via the Platform. You
represent and warrant that you are authorized to use your designated
payment method. You authorize us to charge your designated payment method
for the total amount of your purchase (including any applicable taxes and
any shipping and handling charges). If a payment is not successfully
settled, due to expiration, insufficient funds, or otherwise, you remain
responsible for any uncollected amounts.
- Auto-Renewal
Terms. If you purchase a subscription from us to access or use the
Platform you will have the option to elect auto-renewal. If you elect
auto-renewal, the terms of this Section apply and your subscription will
auto renew for subsequent subscription periods of equal length until you
cancel your subscription or we terminate it. The subscription period and
the cost of the subscription (during and after any initial promotional
period) are disclosed via the Platform prior to purchase. We automatically
bill your payment method upon the expiration of your current subscription
period. You may cancel your VAYU subscription at any time by contacting
us at support@vayufinancials.com,
and you will continue to have access through the end of your subscription
period (or free trial period, if applicable). You will not have the right
to receive any pro-rated refunds if you cancel your subscription period
early. You must cancel your subscription at least 3 days before the end of
your current subscription period in order to avoid being billed for the
next subscription period.
- Free
Trials. Your subscription may start with a free trial. Vayu reserves the
right, in its sole discretion, to determine your free trial eligibility.
Our Platform will indicate whether or not the free trial will
automatically convert to a paid subscription upon expiration of the trial
period. If so, unless you cancel your subscription prior to the end of the
free trial period, we will begin billing your payment method on a
recurring basis for your subscription upon expiration of the free trial
period until you cancel your subscription or we terminate it.
- Errors. In
the event of an error, we reserve the right to correct the error and
revise your purchase accordingly (which includes charging the correct
price) or to cancel the purchase and refund any amount charged.
- No
Refunds. Except to the extent refunds are
required by law, payments are nonrefundable and there are no refunds.
However, we may, in our sole discretion, provide a refund or discount in
certain cases.
4. USER
CONTENT AND AUTHOR CONTENT
- Our
Platform may allow you and other users to post or otherwise submit
comments, messages, photos, ratings, and other materials (collectively, "User
Content") on Partner Content, Author Content, or otherwise on the
Platform. You grant Vayu a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive,
royalty-free, worldwide, fully paid, and sublicensable license to use,
reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works
from, distribute, publicly perform and display your User Content and any name,
username or likeness provided in connection with your User Content for any
purpose and in all media formats and channels now known or later developed
without compensation to you for any purpose. For purposes of clarity only,
distribution of your User Content by VAYU via the Platform (or otherwise)
may be to all of: (i) VAYU owned and/or VAYU-operated properties and/or
entities, or (ii) third-party properties and/or entities that are
distribution partners of VAYU via the Platform or other agreement. Except
for the license you grant above, you retain all rights in and to your User
Content, as between you and VAYU.
- Our
Platform may allow you to submit works of authorship (including but not
limited to written materials, images, illustrations, audio, videos,
graphics, artwork, stories, themes, hyperlinks, objects, and other
materials and/or content "Author Content"), for the purpose of
the Platform publishing, distributing, and/or potentially monetizing such
Author Content on your behalf. For the avoidance of doubt, User Content is
not deemed to be Author Content.
- User
Content and Author Content are together referred to as "Submitted
Content"
- You
may not create, post, store or share any Submitted Content that violates
these Terms. You are solely responsible for your Submitted Content. You
represent and warrant that your Submitted Content, and our use thereof as
permitted by these Terms, will not violate any rights of or cause injury
to any person or entity and that you have all rights necessary to grant us
the license above. Although we have no obligation to screen, edit or
monitor Submitted Content, we may elect not to publish, to delete, or to
remove Submitted Content at any time and for any reason with or without
notice. Your decision to submit Submitted Content to the Platform is
voluntary, and at your discretion.
- VAYU
may preserve and store Submitted Content (including, for a commercially
reasonable time, Author Content you have removed from the Platform), and
may disclose such content if required to do so by law or if VAYU believes
in good faith that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary
to: (i) comply with legal process (e.g., subpoenas); (ii) enforce these
Terms; (iii) respond to claims that any Submitted Content violates the
rights of third parties; or (iv) protect the rights, property, or personal
safety of VAYU, its Partners, its users and the public.
5. USER
CONDUCT AND CONTENT
- Subject
to your compliance with these Terms, you may use the Platform only for
your own personal, noncommercial use (except as specifically pre-approved
in writing by VAYU for commercial use). Any use of the Platform other than
as specifically authorized herein, without our prior written permission,
is strictly prohibited.
- You
will not violate any applicable law, contract, intellectual property right
or other third-party right or commit a tort in connection with your use of
our Platform, and you are solely responsible for your conduct while using
our Platform. Further, you will not:
- Engage in any harassing, threatening,
intimidating, predatory, discriminatory or stalking conduct;
- Use or attempt to use another
user’s account without authorization from that user and VAYU;
- Impersonate or post on behalf or
any person or entity or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person
or entity;
- make the Platform available to any
third party (via a services arrangement, service bureau, lease, sale, resale,
or otherwise);
- Use our Platform to build a
competitive product or service;
- Copy, reproduce, distribute,
publicly perform or publicly display all or portions of our Platform, except as
expressly permitted by us or our licensors;
- Modify our Platform, remove any
proprietary rights notices or markings, or otherwise make any derivative works
based upon our Platform;
- Use our Platform other than for its
intended purpose or in any manner that could interfere with, disrupt,
negatively affect or inhibit other users from fully enjoying our Platform or
that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the functioning of our
Platform in any manner;
- Reverse engineer any aspect of our
Platform or do anything that might discover source code or bypass or circumvent
measures employed to prevent or limit access to any part of our Platform;
- Use any data mining, robots or
similar data gathering or extraction methods designed to scrape or extract data
from our Platform, including any application that reads areas of RAM used by
the Platform to store information;
- Bypass or ignore instructions
contained in our robots.txt file;
- Circumvent safeguards we implement
or usage limitations or attempt to gain unauthorized access to our Platform or
other user accounts;
- Develop or use any applications
that interact with our Platform without our prior written authorization;
- Send, distribute or post spam,
unsolicited or bulk solicitations or advertisements, including via chain
letters or pyramid schemes;
- Solicit or otherwise attempt to
collect personal information or passwords from other users; or
- Use our Platform (including data,
intellectual property, brand or API) for any illegal or unauthorized purpose,
or engage in, encourage or promote any activity that violates these Terms.
- You
may not create, post, store or share any Submitted Content that:
- is confidential or that you do not
have all necessary rights to disclose;
- contains or depicts nudity, sexual
activity or violence or is otherwise unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene,
pornographic, indecent, lewd, suggestive, harassing, threatening, invasive of
privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory or fraudulent;
- Would constitute, encourage or
provide instructions for a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party or
otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national or
international law;
- May infringe any patent, trademark,
trade secret, copyright or other intellectual or proprietary right of any
party;
- Contains or depicts any statements,
remarks or claims that do not reflect your honest views and experiences;
-
Contains any unsolicited promotions
(such as "spam"), political campaigning, advertising or solicitations;
- Contains advertisements or
promotions, including to solicit interest in a contest, sweepstake or other
promotion;
- Contains any private or personal
information of a third party without such third party’s consent;
- Contains any viruses, corrupted
data or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files or content;
- Is content written primarily in a
language other than English, except in instances where such content is written
in the same primary language as the website in which it appears; (e.g.,
Submitted Content written in Spanish on a Spanish-language website published by
VAYU);
- Is identical to, substantially the
same as, or derived from other Partner Content, User Content or Author Content
and/or content published elsewhere on the Internet (this applies even if you
are the owner of that content and/or have the rights to publish that content
online); or
- In our sole judgment, is of poor
quality, is objectionable, restricts or inhibits any other person from using or
enjoying our Platform, or may expose VAYU or others to any harm or liability of
any type.
- Enforcement
of this Section 5 is solely at VAYU’s discretion, and failure to enforce
this section in some instances does not constitute a waiver of our right
to enforce it in other instances. In addition, this Section 5 and any
action taken or not taken by VAYU hereunder shall not create any cause of
action on the part of any third party or any reasonable expectation that
the Platform will not contain any content that is prohibited by this
section.
6. OWNERSHIP
The Platform, including all
content contained therein, including Partner Content and Submitted Content,
text, graphics, images, photographs, audio, videos, illustrations, themes,
objects, stories, concepts, artwork, and other content contained therein, are
owned by VAYU or our licensors and are protected under both United States and
foreign laws. Except as explicitly stated in these Terms, all rights in and to
the Platform are reserved by us or our licensors.
7. FEEDBACK
You may voluntarily post,
submit or otherwise communicate to us any questions, comments, suggestions,
ideas, original or creative materials or other information about VAYU or our
Platform (collectively, Feedback�).
You grant us a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use,
reproduce, create derivative works of, sell and otherwise exploit Feedback (or
any product or service created based upon such Feedback) for any purpose,
commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you.
8. TRADEMARKS
The name, logo, our product
or service names, and our slogans are trademarks that are owned or licensed by VAYU
and may not be copied, imitated, or used, in whole or in part, without our
prior written permission. All other trademarks, registered trademarks, product
names and company names or logos mentioned on the Platform are the property of
their respective owners. Reference to any products, services, processes or
other information by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier or otherwise
does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation by us.
9. REPEAT
INFRINGER POLICY; COPYRIGHT COMPLAINTS
In accordance with the
Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other applicable law, we have adopted a
policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who
repeatedly infringe the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe
that anything on our Platform infringes any copyright that you own or control,
you may notify VAYU’s designated agent as follows:
Designated Agent Name: Copyright
Manager
Address: 34 Miltiades Ave., Riverside, CT 06878
Email:support@vayufinancials.com
Please see 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3) for
the requirements of a proper notification. Also, please note that if you
knowingly misrepresent that any activity or material on our Platform is
infringing, you may be liable to VAYU for certain costs and damages.
10.
PARTNER AND OTHER THIRD-PARTY CONTENT
In addition to Partner
Content and Submitted Content, the Platform may also include or link to other
content or information provided by or about third-party websites, products,
services, activities or events (collectively, "Third-Party
Content"). We are not responsible for Third-Party Content. Your
interactions with or correspondence with the providers of Third-Party Content
and your use of or interaction with any Third-Party Content are solely between
you and the third party providing it. VAYU does not control or endorse, and
makes no representations or warranties regarding, any Third-Party Content, and
your access to and use of such Third-Party Content is at your own risk.
11.
MODIFYING AND TERMINATING OUR PLATFORM
We reserve the right to
modify our Platform or to suspend or stop providing all or portions of our
Platform at any time. You also have the right to stop using our Platform at any
time. We are not responsible for any loss or harm related to your inability to
access or use our Platform at any time.
12.
INDEMNIFICATION
To the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, you will indemnify, defend and hold harmless VAYU,
and our respective officers, directors, agents, Partners and employees
(individually and collectively, the "VAYU
Parties") from and against any losses, liabilities, claims, demands,
damages, expenses or costs ("Claims") arising
out of or related to (a) your access to or use of the Platform; (b) your Author
Content, User Content or Feedback; or (c) your violation of these Terms. You
agree to promptly notify VAYU of any third-party Claims, cooperate with the
applicable VAYU Parties in defending against such Claims and pay all fees,
costs and expenses associated with defending such Claims (including attorneys’
fees). You also agree that the VAYU Parties will have control of the defense or
settlement, at VAYU’s sole option, of any third-party Claims. This indemnity is
in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other indemnities set forth in any
other agreement between you and VAYU or the other VAYU Parties.
13.
DISCLAIMERS; ASSUMPTION OF RISK
Your use of
our Platform is at your sole risk. Except as otherwise provided in a writing by
us, our Platform and any content therein (including any Third-Party Content)
are provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, either
express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness
for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. In addition, VAYU does
not represent or warrant that our Platform will be available, accurate,
complete, reliable, current or error-free. You assume the entire risk as to the
quality and performance of the Platform.
14.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
To the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law:
- VAYU
and the other VAYU Parties will not be liable to you under any theory of
liability—whether based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability,
warranty, or otherwise—for any indirect, consequential, incidental, or
special damages or lost profits, even if VAYU or the other VAYU Parties
have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Some jurisdictions
do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential
damages, so the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you.
- The
total liability of VAYU and the other VAYU Parties for any claim arising
out of or relating to these Terms or our Platform, regardless of the form
of the action, is limited to the greater of $100 or the amount paid by you
to use our Platform in the 6 months preceding the claim.
15.
RELEASE
To the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, you release VAYU and the other VAYU Parties from
responsibility, liability, claims, demands and/or damages (actual and
consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown (including claims of
negligence), arising out of or related to disputes between users and the acts
or omissions of third parties. If you are a consumer who resides in California,
you hereby waive your rights under California Civil Code § 1542, which
provides: "A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does
not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the
release, which if known by him or her must have materially affected his or her
settlement with the debtor."
16.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION; BINDING ARBITRATION
Please read
the following section carefully because it requires you to arbitrate certain
disputes and claims with VAYU and limits the manner in which you can seek
relief from us, unless you opt out of arbitration by following the instructions
set forth below. No class or representative actions or arbitrations are allowed
under this arbitration provision. In addition, arbitration precludes you from
suing in court or having a jury trial.
- No
Representative Actions. You and VAYU agree that any dispute arising out of
or related to these Terms or our Platform is personal to you and VAYU and
that any dispute will be resolved solely through individual action, and
will not be brought as a class arbitration, class action or any other type
of representative proceeding.
- Arbitration
of Disputes. Except for small
claims disputes in which you or VAYU seeks to bring an individual action
in small claims court located in the county of your billing address or
disputes in which you or VAYU seeks injunctive or other equitable relief
for the alleged infringement or misappropriation of intellectual property, to
the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you and VAYU waive your
rights to a jury trial and to have any other dispute arising out of or
related to these Terms or our Platform (collectively, "Disputes"),
including claims related to privacy and data security or our Privacy
Policy, resolved in court.
Instead, for any Dispute that you have against VAYU, you agree to first
contact VAYU and attempt to resolve the claim informally by sending a
written notice of your claim ("Notice") to VAYU by email at legal@vayufinancials.com
or by certified mail addressed to 34 Miltiades Ave., Riverside, CT 06878.
The Notice must (a) include your name, residence address, email address,
and telephone number; (b) describe the nature and basis of the Dispute;
and (c) set forth the specific relief sought. Our notice to you will be
similar in form to that described above. If you and VAYU cannot reach an
agreement to resolve the Dispute within thirty (30) days after such Notice
is received, then either party may submit the Dispute to binding
arbitration administered by JAMS or, under the limited circumstances set
forth above, in court. All Disputes submitted to JAMS will be resolved
through confidential, binding arbitration before one arbitrator.
Arbitration proceedings will be held in the City of New York, County of
New York unless you are a consumer, in which case you may elect to hold
the arbitration in your county of residence. For purposes of this Section
16, a "consumer" means a person using the Platform for personal,
family or household purposes. You and VAYU agree that Disputes will be
held in accordance with the JAMS Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures
("JAMS Rules"). The most recent version of the JAMS Rules are
available on the JAMS website and are hereby
incorporated by reference. You either acknowledge and agree that you have
read and understand the JAMS Rules or waive your opportunity to read the
JAMS Rules and waive any claim that the JAMS Rules are unfair or should
not apply for any reason.
- You
and VAYU agree that these Terms affect interstate commerce and that the
enforceability of this Section 16 will be substantively and procedurally
governed by the Federal Arbitration Act, 9 U.S.C. § 1, et seq. (the "FAA"),
to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. As limited by the FAA,
these Terms and the JAMS Rules, the arbitrator will have exclusive
authority to make all procedural and substantive decisions regarding any
Dispute and to grant any remedy that would otherwise be available in
court, including the power to determine the question of arbitrability. The
arbitrator may conduct only an individual arbitration and may not
consolidate more than one individual’s claims, preside over any type of
class or representative proceeding or preside over any proceeding
involving more than one individual.
- The
arbitration will allow for the discovery or exchange of non-privileged
information relevant to the Dispute. The arbitrator, VAYU, and you will
maintain the confidentiality of any arbitration proceedings, judgments and
awards, including all information gathered, prepared and presented for
purposes of the arbitration or related to the Dispute(s) therein. The
arbitrator will have the authority to make appropriate rulings to
safeguard confidentiality, unless the law provides to the contrary. The
duty of confidentiality does not apply to the extent that disclosure is
necessary to prepare for or conduct the arbitration hearing on the merits,
in connection with a court application for a preliminary remedy or in
connection with a judicial challenge to an arbitration award or its enforcement,
or to the extent that disclosure is otherwise required by law or judicial
decision.
- You
and VAYU agree that for any arbitration you initiate, you will pay the
filing fee (up to a maximum of $250 if you are a consumer), and VAYU will
pay the remaining JAMS fees and costs. For any arbitration initiated by
Company, VAYU will pay all JAMS fees and costs. You and VAYU agree that
the state or federal courts of the State of New York, located in the
County of New York, State of New York have exclusive jurisdiction over any
appeals and the enforcement of an arbitration award.
- Any
Dispute must be filed within one year after the relevant claim arose;
otherwise, the Dispute is permanently barred, which means that you and VAYU
will not have the right to assert the claim.
- You
have the right to opt out of binding arbitration within 30 days of the
date you first accepted the terms of this Section 16, by emailing
legal@thearenagroup.net. In order to be effective,
the opt-out notice must include your full name and address and clearly
indicate your intent to opt out of binding arbitration. By opting out of
binding arbitration, you are agreeing to resolve Disputes in accordance
with Section 17.
- If
any portion of this Section 16 is found to be unenforceable or unlawful
for any reason, (i) the unenforceable or unlawful provision shall be
severed from these Terms; (i) severance of the unenforceable or unlawful
provision shall have no impact whatsoever on the remainder of this Section
16 or the parties’ ability to compel arbitration of any remaining claims
on an individual basis pursuant to this Section 16; and (iii) to the
extent that any claims must therefore proceed on a class, collective,
consolidated, or representative basis, such claims must be litigated in a
civil court of competent jurisdiction and not in arbitration, and the
parties agree that litigation of those claims shall be stayed pending the
outcome of any individual claims in arbitration. Further, if any part of
this Section 16 is found to prohibit an individual claim seeking public
injunctive relief, that provision will have no effect to the extent such
relief is allowed to be sought out of arbitration, and the remainder of
this Section 16 will be enforceable.
17.
GOVERNING LAW AND VENUE
Any dispute arising from
these Terms and your use of the Platform will be governed by and construed and
enforced in accordance with the laws of Connecticut, except to the extent
preempted by U.S. federal law, without regard to conflict of law rules or principles
(whether of Connecticut or any other jurisdiction) that would cause the
application of the laws of any other jurisdiction. Any dispute between the
parties that is not subject to arbitration or cannot be heard in small claims
court will be resolved in the state or federal courts of the County of
Fairfield, State of Connecticut.
18.
MODIFYING THESE TERMS
We may make changes to these
Terms from time to time. If we make material changes, we will provide you with
notice of such changes, such as by sending an email, providing a notice through
our Platform or updating the date at the top of these Terms. Unless we say
otherwise in our notice, the amended Terms will be effective immediately, and
your continued use of our Platform after we provide such notice will confirm
your acceptance of the changes. If you do not agree to the amended Terms, you
must stop using our Platform. Unless material changes are made to the
arbitration provision under Section 16, you agree that modification of these
Terms does not create a new right to opt out of arbitration.
19.
MISCELLANEOUS
- These
Terms reflect the entire agreement between the parties relating to the
subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements, representations,
statements and understandings of the parties.
- The
failure of VAYU to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these
Terms will not operate as a waiver of that right or provision.
- If
any provision or part of a provision of these Terms is unlawful, void or
unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable
from these Terms and does not affect the validity and enforceability of
any remaining provisions.
- The
section titles in these Terms are for convenience only and have no legal
or contractual effect. Any references to "including" will be deemed to
mean "including without limitation."
- Except
as otherwise provided herein, these Terms are intended solely for the
benefit of the parties and are not intended to confer third-party
beneficiary rights upon any other person or entity.
- Without
limiting any provision of this Agreement, VAYU will not be liable for any
delay or failure of the Platform to the extent caused by circumstances
beyond its reasonable control.
- You
agree that communications and transactions between you and us may be
conducted electronically.