Terms and Conditions

Agreement

These terms and conditions apply to mentorsinservice.org and any Mentors In Service mobile application, and all other Mentors In Service websites, apps, developer platforms, and other products and services (collectively, the “Services”). When you use our Services, you are entering into a legal agreement and you agree to all of these terms. You also agree to our Privacy Policy, which covers how we collect, use, share, and store your personal information. You agree that by registering, accessing, or using our Services, you are entering into a legally binding agreement (even if you are using our Services on behalf of a company) with Mentors In Service, LLC. (referred to as “Mentors In Service,” “us,” or “we”). This “Agreement” includes these Terms and Conditions and the Privacy Policy, and other terms that will be displayed to you at the time you first use certain features, as may be amended by us from time to time. If you do not agree to this Agreement, do not access or otherwise use any of our Services. Registered users of our Services are “Members.”

Agreement

Our Service Eligibility

Here are some promises you make to us in this Agreement:

You"re eligible to enter into this Agreement and you are at least 18 years or older. To use the Services, you agree that:

  1. You are at least 18 years old
  2. You will only have one Mentors In Service account, which must be in your real name
  3. You are not already restricted by Mentors In Service from using the Services.

Your Membership

You"ll keep your password a secret. You will not share an account with anyone else and will follow our rules and the law. As between you and others, your account belongs to you. You agree to:

  1. Try to choose a strong and secure password
  2. Keep your password secure and confidential
  3. Not transfer any part of your account (e.g., connections, groups)
  4. Follow the law and the Dos and Don"ts below. You are responsible for anything that happens through your account unless you close it or report misuse.

Notices and Service Messages You"re okay with us using our websites, mobile apps, and email to provide you with important notices. This Agreement applies to mobile applications as well. Also, you agree certain additional information can be shared with us. If the contact information you provide isn"t up to date, you may miss out on these notices. You agree that we may provide notices to you in the following ways:

  1. A banner notice on the Service
  2. An email sent to an address you provided
  3. Through other means including mobile number, telephone, or mail. You agree to keep your contact information up to date. You can review your personal settings to determine what type of messages you receive from us.

Rights and Limits

Your License to Mentors In Service You own all of the content, feedback, and personal information you provide to us, but you also grant us a non-exclusive license to it. We"ll honor the choices you make about who gets to see your information and content. You promise to only provide information and content that you have the right to share, and that your Mentors In Service profile will be truthful. As between you and Mentors In Service, you own the content and information that you submit or post to the Services and you are only granting Mentors In Service the following non-exclusive license: A worldwide, transferable and sublicensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publish, and process, information and content that you provide through our Services, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others. These rights are limited in the following ways: -

You can end this license for specific content by deleting such content from the Services, or generally by closing your account, except: -

(a) to the extent you shared it with others as part of the Service and they copied or stored it; and -

(b) for the reasonable time it takes to remove from backup and other systems.

We will not include your content in advertisements for the products and services of others (including sponsored content) to others without your separate consent. However, we have the right, without compensation to you or others, to serve ads near your content and information, and your comments on sponsored content may be visible as noted in the Privacy Policy. You agree that we may access, store, and use any information that you provide in accordance with the terms of the Privacy Policy and your privacy settings.

By submitting suggestions or other feedback regarding our Services to Mentors In Service, you agree that Mentors In Service can use and share (but is not obligated to) such feedback for any purpose without compensation to you

Service Availability

We may change or discontinue any of our Services. We can"t promise to store or keep showing any information and content you"ve posted. We may change, suspend, or end any Service, or change and modify prices prospectively at our discretion. To the extent allowed under law, these changes may be effective upon notice provided to you.

Other Content, Sites, and apps

When you see or use others" content and information posted on our Services, it"s at your own risk. Mentors In Service generally does not review content provided by our Members. You agree that we are not responsible for third parties" (including other Members") content or information or for any damages as a result of your use of or reliance on it.

Limits

We have the right to limit how you connect and interact on our Services. We"re providing you notice about our intellectual property rights. Mentors In Service reserves the right to limit your use of the Services, including your ability to contact other Members. Mentors In Service reserves the right to restrict, suspend, or terminate your account if we believe that you may be in breach of this Agreement or law or are misusing the Services (e.g., violating any Do"s and Dont"s).

Mentors In Service reserves all of its intellectual property rights in the Services. For example, Mentors In Service logos and other Mentors In Service trademarks, service marks, graphics, and logos used in connection with Mentors In Service are trademarks or registered trademarks of Mentors In Service. Other trademarks and logos used in connection with the Services may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Disclaimer and Limit of Liability

No Warranty

This is our disclaimer of legal liability for the quality, safety, or reliability of our Services.

TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED UNDER LAW, Mentors In Service (AND THOSE THAT Mentors In Service WORKS WITH TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES) (A) DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS (E.G. WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY OF DATA, AND NONINFRINGEMENT); (B) DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICES WILL FUNCTION WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR ERRORS, AND (C) PROVIDE THE SERVICE (INCLUDING CONTENT AND INFORMATION) ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. SOME LAWS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN DISCLAIMERS, SO SOME OR ALL OF THESE DISCLAIMERS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.4.2. Exclusion of Liability These are the limits of legal liability we may have to youTO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER LAW (AND UNLESS MENTORS IN SERVICE HAS ENTERED INTO A SEPARATE WRITTEN AGREEMENT THAT SUPERSEDES THIS AGREEMENT), Mentors In Service (AND THOSE THAT Mentors In Service WORKS WITH TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES) SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR OTHERS FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA, OPPORTUNITIES, REPUTATION, PROFITS OR REVENUES, RELATED TO THE SERVICES (E.G. OFFENSIVE OR DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS, DOWN TIME OR LOSS, USE OR CHANGES TO YOUR INFORMATION OR CONTENT). THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY IS PART OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN YOU AND Mentors In Service AND SHALL APPLY TO ALL CLAIMS OF LIABILITY (E.G. WARRANTY, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, CONTRACT, LAW) AND EVEN IF Mentors In Service HAS BEEN TOLD OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH DAMAGE, AND EVEN IF THESE REMEDIES FAIL THEIR ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. SOME LAWS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY, SO THESE LIMITS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Termination

We can each end this Agreement anytime we want.

Mentors In Service or You may terminate this Agreement at any time with notice to the other. On termination, you lose the right to access or use the Services. The following shall survive termination: Our rights to use and disclose your feedback; and additional sections of this Agreement;

Dispute Resolution

In the unlikely event we end up in a legal dispute, it will take place in the courts of the State where Mentors In Service is headquartered, applying local law. You agree that the laws of the State where Mentors In Service is headquartered, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of laws rules, shall exclusively govern any dispute relating to this Agreement and/or the Services. We both agree that all of these claims can only be litigated in the federal or state courts of the county where Mentors In Service is headquartered, and we each agree to personal jurisdiction in those courts

General Terms

If a court with authority over this Agreement finds any part of it not enforceable, you and us agree that the court should modify the terms to make that part enforceable while still achieving its intent. If the court cannot do that, you and us agree to ask the court to remove that unenforceable part and still enforce the rest of this Agreement.

This Agreement (including additional terms that may be provided by us when you engage with a feature of the Services) is the only agreement between us regarding the Services and supersedes all prior agreements for the Services. If we don"t act to enforce a breach of this Agreement, that does not mean that Mentors In Service has waived its right to enforce this Agreement. You may not assign or transfer this Agreement (or your membership or use of Services) to anyone without our consent. However, you agree that Mentors In Service may assign this Agreement to its affiliates or a party that buys it without your consent. There are no third-party beneficiaries to this Agreement. We reserve the right to change the terms of this Agreement and will provide you notice if we do and we agree that changes cannot be retroactive. If you don"t agree to these changes, you must stop using the Services. You agree that the only way to provide us legal notice is at the addresses provided here in our Terms and Conditions.

Mentors In Service "Don'ts" and "Do's."

Do's:

You agree that you will comply with all applicable laws, including, without limitation, privacy laws, intellectual property laws, anti-spam laws, export control laws, tax laws, and regulatory requirements; Provide accurate information to us and keep it updated; Use your real name on your profile; Use the Services in a professional manner.

Don'ts:

You agree that you will not

  • - Solicit other members of the Mentors In Service community nor solicit members to do so on your behalf except for mentorship;
  • - Act dishonestly or unprofessionally, including by posting inappropriate, inaccurate, or objectionable content;
  • - Add content that is not intended for, or inaccurate for, a designated field (e.g., submitting a telephone number in the “title” or any other field, or including telephone numbers, email addresses, street addresses, or any personally identifiable information for which there is not a field provided by Mentors In Service);
  • - Use an image that is not your likeness or a head-shot photo for your profile;
  • - Create a false identity on Mentors In Service;
  • - Misrepresent your current or previous positions and qualifications;
  • - Misrepresent your affiliations with a person or entity, past or present;
  • - Misrepresent your identity, including but not limited to the use of a pseudonym
  • - Create a Member profile for anyone other than yourself (a real person);
  • - Use or attempt to use another"s account;
  • - Harass, abuse, or harm another person;
  • - Send spam or other unwelcomed communications to others;
  • - Scrape or copy profiles and information of others through any means (including crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons, and any other technology or manual work);
  • - Act in an unlawful, libelous, abusive, obscene, discriminatory, or otherwise objectionable manner;
  • - Disclose information that you do not have the right to disclose (such as confidential information of others, including your employer);
  • - Violate intellectual property rights of others, including patents, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights, or other proprietary rights
  • - Violate the intellectual property or other rights of Mentors In Service, including, without limitation, using the word “Mentors In Service” or our logos in any business name, email, or URL;
  • - Post anything that contains software viruses, worms, or any other harmful code;
  • - Copy or use the information, content, or data of others available on the Services (except as expressly authorized);
  • - Copy or use the information, content, or data on Mentors In Service in connection with a competitive service (as determined by Mentors In Service);
  • - Copy, modify, or create derivative works of Mentors In Service, the Services, or any related technology (except as expressly authorized by Mentors In Service);
  • - Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Services or any related technology, or any part thereof;
  • - Imply or state that you are affiliated with or endorsed by Mentors In Service without our express consent (e.g., representing yourself as an accredited Mentors In Service trainer);
  • - Remove any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on our Service;
  • - Collect, use, copy, or transfer any information obtained from Mentors In Service without the consent of Mentors In Service;
  • - Share or disclose information of others without their express consent;
  • - Use manual or automated software, devices, scripts, robots, other means or processes to access, “scrape,” “crawl” or “spider” the Services or any related data or information;
  • - Use bots or other automated methods to access the Services, add or download contacts, send or redirect messages;
  • - Monitor the Services" availability, performance, or functionality for any competitive purpose;
  • - Engage in “framing,” “mirroring,” or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of the Services;
  • - Access the Services except through the interfaces expressly provided by Mentors In Service, such as its mobile applications and mentorsinservice.org;
  • - Override any security feature of the Services;
  • - Interfere with the operation of, or place an unreasonable load on, the Services (e.g., spam, denial of service attack, viruses, gaming algorithms);

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