Terms of Use and Content Agreement:
Forum is owned by the
Unified African Business Network, LLC (Universal susu), a Fusion MediaSoft,
LLC (FMS) subsidiary company. Our mission is to connect
professionals and businesses and allow them to be more productive
and successful. Our services are designed to promote economic
opportunity for our members by enabling you and millions of other
professionals to meet, exchange ideas, learn, and find opportunities
or employees, work, and make decisions in a network of trusted
relationships.
More information about how we use your content is
in our User Agreement video
Table of Contents:
1 Introduction
2 Obligations
3 Rights and Limits
4 Disclaimer and Limit of Liability
5 Termination
6 Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
7 General Terms
8 Universal susu “Dos and Don’tsâ€
9 Complaints Regarding Content
10 How To Contact Us
1.
Introduction
1.1
Contract
When
you use our Services you agree to all of these terms. Your use of
our Services is also subject to our Privacy Policy, which covers how
we collect, use, share, and store your personal
information. You agree that by clicking “Joinâ€, “Join Nowâ€,
“Join Universal susuâ€, “Sign Up†or similar, registering, accessing
or using our services (described below), you are agreeing to enter
into a legally binding contract with Universal susu (even if you are
using our Services on behalf of a company). If you do not agree to
this contract (“Contract†or “User Agreementâ€), do not click
“Join Now†(or similar) and do not access or otherwise use
any of our Services. If you wish to terminate this contract, at any
time you can do so by closing your account and no longer accessing
or using our Services.
Services
This
Contract applies to Universal susu.com, Universal susu-branded apps, Universal susu
Learning and other Universal susu-related sites, apps, communications and
other services that state that they are offered under this Contract
(“Servicesâ€), including the offsite collection of data for those
Services, such as our ads and the “Apply with Universal susu†and
“Share with Universal susu†plugins. Registered users of our Services
are “Members†and unregistered users are “Visitorsâ€. This
Contract applies to both Members and Visitors.
Universal susu
You
are entering into this Contract with Universal susu / Universal susu, LLC and FMS,
LLC (also referred to as “we†and “usâ€). We use the term
“Designated Countries†to refer to countries in the European
Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland.
If
you reside in the “Designated Countriesâ€, you are entering into
this Contract with FMS Ireland Unlimited Company (“FMS Irelandâ€)
and FMS Ireland will be the controller of your personal data
provided to, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with
our Services. If you reside outside of the “Designated
Countriesâ€, you are entering into this Contract with FMS LLC
(“FMS Corp.â€) and Universal susu, LLC will be the controller of your
personal data provided to, or collected by or for, or processed in
connection with our
Services.
This
Contract applies to Members and Visitors.
As a Visitor or
Member of our Services, the collection, use and sharing of your
personal data is subject to this Privacy Policy (which includes
other documents referenced in this Privacy Policy) and updates.
1.2 Members and
Visitors
When
you register and join the Universal susu Service or become a registered
user on all Fusion MediaSoft connected online properties, you become
a Member. If you have chosen not to
register for our
Services, you may access certain features as a “Visitor.â€
1.3
Change
We
may make changes to the Contract.
We
may modify this Contract, our Privacy Policy and our Cookies
Policies from time to time. If we make material changes to it, we
will provide you notice through our Services, or by other
means, to provide
you the opportunity to review the changes before they become
effective. We agree that changes cannot be retroactive. If you
object to any changes, you may close your
account. Your
continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice
about our changes to these terms means that you are consenting to
the updated terms.
2.
Obligations
2.1 Service Eligibility
Here are
some promises that you make to us in this Contract: You’re
eligible to enter into this Contract and you are at least our
“Minimum Age.â€
The Services are not for use by anyone
under the age of 16.
To use the Services, you agree that: (1) you
must be the “Minimum Age
“Members who were below this new
Minimum Age when they started using the Services under a previous
User Agreement which had allowed certain persons under 16 to use the
Services, may continue to use the Services. As of January 2021
persons under the age of 16 are not eligible to use our Services.â€
†(described below) or older; (2) you will only have one Universal susu
account (and/or one SlideShare account, if applicable), which must
be in your real name; and (3) you are not already restricted by
Universal susu from using the Services. Creating an account with false
information is a violation of our terms, including accounts
registered on behalf of others or persons under the age of 16.
“Minimum
Age†means 16 years old. However, if law requires that you must be
older in order for Universal susu to lawfully provide the Services to you
without parental consent (including using of your personal data)
then the Minimum Age is such older age.
2.2 Your Account
You
will keep your password a secret.
You will not share an account
with anyone else and will follow our rules and the law.
Members
are account holders. 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) and (4)
follow the law and our list of Dos and Don’ts and Professional
Community Policies. You are responsible for anything that happens
through your account unless you close it or report misuse.
As
between you and others (including your employer), your account
belongs to you. However, if the Services were purchased by another
party for you to use (e.g. Recruiter seat bought by your employer),
the party paying for such Service has the right to control access to
and get reports on your use of such paid Service; however, they do
not have rights to your personal account.
2.3 Payment
You’ll
honor your payment obligations and you are okay with us storing your
payment information. You understand that there may be fees and taxes
that are added to our prices.
We don't guarantee refunds.
If
you buy any of our paid Services (“Premium Servicesâ€), you agree
to pay us the applicable fees and taxes and to additional terms
specific to the paid Services. Failure to pay these fees will result
in the termination of your paid Services. Also, you agree that:
• Your purchase may be subject to foreign
exchange fees or differences in prices based on location (e.g.
exchange rates).
• We may
store and continue billing your payment method (e.g. credit card)
even after it has expired, to avoid interruptions in your Services
and to use to pay other Services you may buy.
• If you purchase a subscription, your
payment method automatically will be charged at the start of each
subscription period for the fees and taxes applicable to that
period. To avoid future charges, cancel before the renewal date.
Learn how to cancel or suspend your Premium Services.
• All of your purchases of Services are
subject to Universal susu’s refund policy.
• We may calculate taxes payable by you
based on the billing information that you provide us at the time of
purchase.
You can get a copy of your invoice through your Universal susu
account settings under “Purchase History†once option is
activated.
2.4 Notices and Messages
You’re okay with us
providing notices and messages to you through our websites, apps,
and contact information. If your contact information is out of date,
you may miss out on important notices.
You agree that we will
provide notices and messages to you in the following ways: (1)
within the Service, or (2) sent to the contact information you
provided us (e.g., email, mobile number, physical address). You
agree to keep your contact information up to date.
Please review
your settings to control and limit messages you receive from us.
2.5
Sharing
When you share information on our Services, others can
see, copy and use that information.
Our Services allow
messaging and sharing of information in many ways, such as your
profile, slide decks, links to news articles, job postings, InMails
and blogs. Information and content that you share or post may be
seen by other Members, Visitors or others (including off of the
Services). Where we have made settings available, we will honor the
choices you make about who can see content or information (e.g.,
message content to your addressees, sharing content only to Universal susu
connections, restricting your profile visibility from search
engines, or opting not to notify others of your Universal susu profile
update). For job searching activities, we default to not notifying
your connections network or the public. So if you apply for a job
through our Service or opt to signal that you are interested in a
job, our default is to share it only with the job poster.
We are
not obligated to publish any information or content on our Service
and can remove it in our sole discretion, with or without notice.
3.
Rights and Limits
3.1. Your License to Universal susu
You own all
of the content, feedback, and personal information you provide to
us, but you also grant us a non-exclusive license to some content
for marketing purposes.
We’ll honor the choices you make about
who gets to see your information and content, including how it can
be used for ads.
As between you and Universal susu, you own the
content and information that you submit or post to the Services, and
you are only granting Universal susu and our affiliates.
Affiliates
are companies controlling, controlled by or under common control
with us, including, for example, Universal susu, LLC or FMS LLC 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 and the services of others, with your concert before doing
so. Universal susu will only user content that don’t require notice
and/or compensation to you or others. These rights are limited in
the following ways:
1 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, re-shared it or stored it and (b) for the reasonable
time it takes to remove from backup and other systems.
2 We will not include your content in
advertisements for the products and services of third parties to
others without your separate consent (including sponsored content).
However, we have the right, without payment to you or others, to
serve ads near your content and information, and your social
actionse.g. likes, comments, follows, shares
may be visible and
included with ads, as noted in the Privacy Policy.
3 We will get your consent if we want to
give others the right to publish your content beyond the Services.
However, if you choose to share your post as "publicIncluding any
“Public +†(e.g. public + twitter)
", we will enable a
feature that allows other Members to embed that public post onto
third-party services, and we enable search engines to make that
public content findable though their services.
4 While we may edit and make format changes
to content you agree for us to use, your content (such as
translating it, modifying the size, layout or file type or removing
metadata), we will not modify the meaning of your expression.
5 Because you own your content and
information and we only have non-exclusive rights to it, you may
choose to make it available to others, including under the terms of
a Creative Commons license.
You and Universal susu agree that if
content includes personal data, it is subject to our Privacy Policy.
You
and Universal susu agree that we may access, store, process and use any
information and personal data that you provide in accordance with
the terms of the Privacy Policy and your choices (including
settings).
By submitting suggestions or other feedback
regarding our Services to Universal susu, you agree that Universal susu can use
and share (but does not have to) such feedback for any purpose
without compensation to you.
You promise to only provide
information and content that you have the right to share, and that
your Universal susu profile will be truthful.
You agree to only
provide content or information that does not violate the law nor
anyone’s rights (including intellectual property rights). You also
agree that your profile information will be truthful. Universal susu may be
required by law to remove certain information or content in certain
countries.
3.2 Service Availability
We may change, suspend
or end any Service, or change and modify prices prospectively in our
discretion. To the extent allowed under law, these changes may be
effective upon notice provided to you.
We may change or
discontinue any of our Services. We don’t promise to store or keep
showing any information and content that you’ve posted.
Universal susu
is not a storage service. You agree that we have no obligation to
store, maintain or provide you a copy of any content or information
that you or others provide, except to the extent required by
applicable law and as noted in our Privacy Policy.
3.3 Other
Content, Sites and Apps
Your use of others’ content and
information posted on our Services, is at your own risk.
Others
may offer their own products and services through our Services, and
we aren’t responsible for those third-party activities.
By
using the Services, you may encounter content or information that
might be inaccurate, incomplete, delayed, misleading, illegal,
offensive or otherwise harmful. Universal susu generally does not review
content provided by our Members or others. You agree that we are not
responsible for others’ (including other Members’) content or
information. We cannot always prevent this misuse of our Services,
and you agree that we are not responsible for any such misuse. You
also acknowledge the risk that you or your organization may be
mistakenly associated with content about others when we let
connections and followers know you or your organization were
mentioned in the news. Members have choices about this feature.
You
are responsible for deciding if you want to access or use
third-party apps or sites that link from our Services. If you allow
a third-party app or site to authenticate you or connect with your
Universal susu account, that app or site can access information on Universal susu
related to you and your connections. Third-party apps and sites have
their own legal terms and privacy policies, and you may be giving
others permission to use your information in ways we would not.
Except to the limited extent it may be required by applicable law,
Universal susu is not responsible for these other sites and apps – use
these at your own risk. Please see our Privacy Policy.
3.4
Limits
We have the right to limit how you connect and interact on
our Services.
Universal susu reserves the right to limit your use of the
Services, including the number of your connections and your ability
to contact other Members. Universal susu reserves the right to restrict,
suspend, or terminate your account if Universal susu believes that you may
be in breach of this Contract or law or are misusing the Services
(e.g., violating any of the Dos and Don’ts or Professional
Community Policies).
3.5 Intellectual Property Rights
We’re
providing you notice about our intellectual property rights.
Universal susu
reserves all of its intellectual property rights in the Services.
Using the Services does not give you any ownership in our Services
or the content or information made available through our Services.
Trademarks and logos used in connection with the Services are the
trademarks of their respective owners. Universal susu and “in†logos
and other Universal susu trademarks, service marks, graphics, and logos
used for our Services are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Universal susu or Universal susu, LLC.
3.6 Automated Processing
We use data
and information about you to make relevant suggestions to you and
others.
We will use the information and data that you provide
and that we have about Members to make recommendations for
connections, content and features that may be useful to you. For
example, we use data and information about you to recommend jobs to
you and you to recruiters. Keeping your profile accurate and
up-to-date helps us to make these recommendations more accurate and
relevant.
4. Disclaimer and Limit of Liability
4.1
No Warranty
This is our disclaimer of legal liability for the
quality, safety, or reliability of our Services.
TO THE
EXTENT ALLOWED UNDER LAW, Universal susu AND ITS AFFILIATES (AND THOSE THAT
Universal susu 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 you.
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER LAW (AND
UNLESS Universal susu HAS ENTERED INTO A SEPARATE WRITTEN AGREEMENT THAT
OVERRIDES THIS CONTRACT), Universal susu AND ITS AFFILIATES (AND THOSE THAT
Universal susu 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 OF, OR CHANGES TO,
YOUR INFORMATION OR CONTENT).
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE LIABILITY OF
Universal susu AND ITS AFFILIATES (AND THOSE THAT Universal susu WORKS WITH TO
PROVIDE THE SERVICES) EXCEED, IN THE AGGREGATE FOR ALL CLAIMS, AN
AMOUNT THAT IS THE LESSER OF (A) FIVE TIMES THE MOST RECENT MONTHLY
OR YEARLY FEE THAT YOU PAID FOR A PREMIUM SERVICE, IF ANY, OR (B) US
$1000.
THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY IS PART OF THE BASIS OF
THE BARGAIN BETWEEN YOU AND Universal susu AND SHALL APPLY TO ALL CLAIMS OF
LIABILITY (E.G. WARRANTY, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, CONTRACT, LAW) AND EVEN
IF Universal susu OR ITS AFFILIATES 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.
5.
Termination
We can each end this Contract anytime we want.
Both
you and Universal susu may terminate this Contract 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;
• Members and/or
Visitors’ rights to further re-share content and information you
shared through the Service to the extent copied or re-shared prior
to termination;
• Sections
4, 6, 7, and 8.2 of this Contract;
• Any amounts owed by either party prior
to termination remain owed after termination.
You can visit our
Help Center to close your account.
6. Governing Law and
Dispute Resolution
In the unlikely event we end up in a legal
dispute, Universal susu and you agree to resolve it in Delaware courts
using Delaware law, or Dublin, Ireland courts using Irish law.
If
you live in the Designated Countries:
We use the term
“Designated Countries†to refer to countries in the European
Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland.: You and
FMS Ireland agree that the laws of Ireland, excluding conflict of
laws rules, shall exclusively govern any dispute relating to this
Contract and/or the Services. You and FMS Ireland agree that claims
and disputes can be litigated only in Dublin, Ireland, and we each
agree to personal jurisdiction of the courts located in Dublin,
Ireland.
For others outside of Designated Countries,
including those who live outside of the United States: You and
Universal susu agree that the laws of the State of Delaware, U.S.A.,
excluding its conflict of laws rules, shall exclusively govern any
dispute relating to this Contract and/or the Services. You and
Universal susu both agree that all claims and disputes can be litigated
only in the federal or state courts in Delaware, USA, and you and
Universal susu each agree to personal jurisdiction in those courts.
7.
General Terms
Here are some important details about the Contract.
If
a court with authority over this Contract finds any part of it
unenforceable, you and we 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 we agree to ask the
court to remove that unenforceable part and still enforce the rest
of this Contract.
To the extent allowed by law, the English
language version of this Contract is binding and other translations
are for convenience only. This Contract (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 Contract, that does not mean that
Universal susu has waived its right to enforce this Contract. You may not
assign or transfer this Contract (or your membership or use of
Services) to anyone without our consent. However, you agree that
Universal susu may assign this Contract to its affiliates or a party that
buys it without your consent. There are no third-party beneficiaries
to this Contract.
You agree that the only way to provide us legal
notice is at the addresses provided in Section 10.
8. Universal susu
“Dos and Don’tsâ€
8.1. Dos
Universal susu is a community of
professionals. This list of “Dos and Don’ts†along with our
Professional Community Policies limit what you can and cannot do on
our Services.
You agree that you will:
a Comply with all applicable laws,
including, without limitation, privacy laws, intellectual property
laws, anti-spam laws, export control laws, tax laws, and regulatory
requirements;
b Provide
accurate information to us and keep it updated;
c Use your real name on your profile; and
d Use the Services in a professional manner.
8.2.
Don’ts
You agree that you will not:
a Create a false identity on Universal susu,
misrepresent your identity, create a Member profile for anyone other
than yourself (a real person), or use or attempt to use another’s
account;
b Develop, support
or use software, devices, scripts, robots, or any other means or
processes (including crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons, or any
other technology) to scrape the Services or otherwise copy profiles
and other data from the Services;
c Override any security feature or bypass or
circumvent any access controls or use limits of the Service (such as
caps on keyword searches or profile views);
d Copy, use, disclose or distribute any
information obtained from the Services, whether directly or through
third parties (such as search engines), without the consent of
Universal susu;
e Disclose
information that you do not have the consent to disclose (such as
confidential information of others (including your employer));
f Violate the intellectual property rights
of others, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets,
or other proprietary rights. For example, do not copy or distribute
(except through the available sharing functionality) the posts or
other content of others without their permission, which they may
give by posting under a Creative Commons license;
g Violate the intellectual property or other
rights of Universal susu, including, without limitation, (i) copying or
distributing our learning videos or other materials or (ii) copying
or distributing our technology, unless it is released under open
source licenses; (iii) using the word “Universal susu†or our logos in
any business name, email, or URL except as provided in the Brand
Guidelines;
h Post anything
that contains software viruses, worms, or any other harmful code;
i Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble,
decipher or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the
Services or any related technology that is not open source;
j Imply or state that you are affiliated
with or endorsed by Universal susu without our express consent (e.g.,
representing yourself as an accredited Universal susu trainer);
k Rent, lease, loan, trade, sell/re-sell or
otherwise monetize the Services or related data or access to the
same, without Universal susu’s consent;
l Deep-link to our Services for any purpose
other than to promote your profile or a Group on our Services,
without Universal susu’s consent;
m
Use bots or other automated methods to access the Services,
add or download contacts, send or redirect messages;
n Monitor the Services’ availability,
performance or functionality for any competitive purpose;
o Engage in “framing,†“mirroring,â€
or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of the Services;
p Overlay or otherwise modify the Services
or their appearance (such as by inserting elements into the Services
or removing, covering, or obscuring an advertisement included on the
Services);
q Interfere with
the operation of, or place an unreasonable load on, the Services
(e.g., spam, denial of service attack, viruses, gaming algorithms);
and/or
r Violate the
Professional Community Policies or any additional terms concerning a
specific Service that are provided when you sign up for or start
using such Service.
9. Complaints RegardingContent
Contact
information for complaint about content provided by our Members.
We
respect the intellectual property rights of others. We require that
information posted by Members be accurate and not in violation of
the intellectual property rights or other rights of third parties.
We provide a policy and process for complaints concerning content
posted by our Members.
10. How To Contact Us
Our Contact
information. Our Help Center also provides information about our
Services.
If you want to send us notices or service of process,
please contact us:
ONLINE OR BY MAIL