Terms of Service

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

These Conditions (including our Privacy Policy and any other documents referred to in these Conditions) set out all of the terms and conditions upon which you may access the connectnetworks.ai website , participate in our networks and utilize our app, in which members create their Connect Networks profile and which matches members for meetings via our platform.

Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully before using this Site.

1. Conditions

1.1 This website (the “Site”) and the app we use to match members for meetings (the “App”) are owned and operated by Connect Networks LLC. We are a Maine limited liability company having an office address at 138 High Street, Hope, ME 04847 (“Connect Networks”).

1.2 We maintain this Site for information and communication purposes. These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of the Site and the App. By using this Site and the App you agree to these Terms of Use. IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THESE TERMS OF USE OR YOU DO NOT MEET OR COMPLY WITH THE TERMS, CONDITIONS, AND PROVISIONS SET FORTH HEREIN, YOU MAY NOT USE THIS SITE.

1.3 The Site is directed to individuals and entities located in the United States and other jurisdictions in which access is lawful. It is not directed to any person or entity in any jurisdiction where (by reason of nationality, residence, citizenship, or otherwise) the publication or availability of the Site, including its content and materials, are unavailable or otherwise contrary to local laws or regulations. If this applies to you, you are not authorized to access or use any of the information on this Site. We make no representation that the content of this Site (collectively, “Content”) is appropriate or lawful in jurisdictions outside the United States. Those who choose to access this Site from other locations do so at their own risk and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws.

1.4 The Content on this Site and the App, including but not limited to images, photographs, data, text, music, sound, video, or other content, as well as the organization and layout of this Site, is copyrighted and is protected by United States and international copyright laws and treaty provisions, and is either originally developed by us and our affiliates or is used by us under a license from third parties. You may use the Site or the App for your personal use and not for resale or further distribution. We retain all right, title, and interest in and to this Site and the App, including all related intellectual property rights. No right, title, or interest in any of the Content is transferred to you as a result of accessing, downloading, or printing such materials. You may not copy, modify, distribute, transmit, display, reproduce, publish, or license any part of this Site, the App or any Content; create derivative works from, link to, or frame in another website; or transfer or sell any information obtained from this Site or the App without our prior written permission. You may not use, reproduce, modify, transmit, distribute, or publicly display or operate this Site or any Content without our prior written permission. You may not use a part of this Site on any other website, without our prior written consent.

Connect Networks™ is a trademark of Connect Networks LLC. Your display, reproduction, or other use of the trademark without our express written consent is strictly prohibited.

2. Understanding these Conditions

2.1 When certain words and phrases are used in these Conditions which start with capital letters, they have the specific meanings set out herein (known as “defined terms”). Where a defined term is used, it has the meaning given to it in the section of the Conditions where it was defined.

2.2 When we refer to "we", "us", or "our", we mean Connect Networks LLC. Where we refer to "you" or "your" we mean you, the person accessing the Site and/or requesting our Services.

2.3 Section headings are inserted for convenience only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of these Conditions.

2.4 References to clauses are to clauses in these Conditions.

2.5 Where the context dictates, the singular shall include the plural and vice versa and any gender includes the other gender.

2.6 Any reference to any statute or statutory provision will (unless the context otherwise requires) be construed as a reference to that statutory provision as may be amended, consolidated, modified, extended, re-enacted, or replaced from time to time.

3. Applicability.

3.1 Please note that when you visit this Site, use the App and/or choose to create a Connect Networks account or participate in meetings through one of our networks, all of these Conditions become applicable to you. You agree to be legally bound by all such provisions.

3.2 We reserve the right at any time to modify or discontinue any of our services (or any part or content thereof) without notice at any time. We shall not be liable to you or to any third party in relation to any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of the services.

3.3 We reserve the right, but are not obligated, to limit the access to meetings on our platform to any person, geographic region, or jurisdiction. We may exercise this right on a case-by-case basis.

4. Accessing the Site and the App

4.1 Access to the Site and the App is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the content of the Site and the App without notice to you.

4.2 From time to time, we may restrict access to the Site, to users who have created account profiles with us on the App. Any personal data and other information provided by you is processed by us in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By providing any such personal data or other information you agree to the Conditions of our Privacy Policy.

4.3 If you choose, or you are provided by us with a password, user identification code, or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures relating to the Site and the App and our platform, you must treat such information as confidential and you must not disclose it to any third party.

4.4 We reserve the right to disable any password or user identification code, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Conditions.

4.5 It is your responsibility to ensure that all information (including your name and address) you upload to the Site and the App, including payment information, is correct and accurate. Please ensure that you check all information before making a purchase.

4.6 Your participation in our platform is contingent upon your adherence to our Community Standards, a copy of which is available on this Site. Your right to use this Site and the App and participate in our services may be revoked if you fail to comply with the Community Standards.

4.7 We may, but are not obligated to, record, process, and analyze your interactions on our platform, including analysis through automated systems and generative artificial intelligence. We do this for the purpose of improving our services, generating insights, and research. By your use of this website, use of the app, and participation in meetings on our platform, you give consent to our recording, processing, and analysis of your interactions on our platform, including by means of automated systems and generative artificial intelligence. Connect Networks is not obligated to review, act upon, or respond to any information that we derive from analyses of interactions on our platform.

5. Restrictions

5.1 As a condition of your use of the Site and the App, you warrant to us that you will not use the Site, the app, and our services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Conditions. You may not use the Site or the App in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site of the App or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Site or the App. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site.

6. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Copyright Policy, and Copyright Agent

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe something on this Site has infringed your intellectual property rights, please notify our agent and provide the following information:

(a) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

(b) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.

(c) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled.

(d) Address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address where we may contact you.

(e) A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

(f) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

The Site’s Copyright Agent can be reached at support@connectnetworks.ai.

7. Limitation of Liability and Disclaimer of Warranties

7.1 The following provisions set out our entire liability in respect of our services and this Site.

7.2 To the fullest extent permitted by applicable laws, we disclaim responsibility for any harm resulting from our services.

7.3 THE SITE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITH NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THE PRODUCTS, ALL OF WHICH WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES THAT USE OF THIS SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR THAT IT WILL BE ERROR-FREE OR COMPATIBLE WITH YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM, OR THAT ANY ERRORS CAN BE IDENTIFIED AND CORRECTED, OR THAT THE SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES, MALICIOUS CODE, OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY RESULTS OR OTHER CONSEQUENCES OF ACCESSING THE SITE AND USING THE CONTENT, AND FOR TAKING ALL NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS TO ENSURE THAT ANY CONTENT YOU MAY ACCESS, DOWNLOAD, OR OTHERWISE OBTAIN IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR ANY OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE DISCLAIMER OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE FOREGOING DISCLAIMER MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER LEGAL RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM JURISDICTION TO JURISDICTION.

7.4 Your access to and use the Site is at your own discretion and risk, and you are solely responsible for any damages to your hardware device(s) or loss of data that results from the download or use of the Site.

7.5 WE SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY LIABILITY, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF ANTICIPATED PROFITS, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF BUSINESS, OVERHEAD RECOVERY, MATCHING COSTS, LOSS OF REVENUE, OR LOSS OF ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR ACCESS TO, USE OF, OR RELIANCE ON THE CONTENT (EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES) OR THAT ARISE IN CONNECTION WITH MISTAKES OR OMISSIONS IN, OR DELAYS IN TRANSMISSION OF, INFORMATION TO OR FROM THE USER, ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DELETION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION OR DELIVERY, COMPUTER VIRUS, COMMUNICATION LINE FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO, ALTERATION OF, OR USE OF RECORDS, PROGRAMS OR FILES, INTERRUPTIONS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONNECTIONS TO THE SITE OR VIRUSES, WHETHER CAUSED IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY NEGLIGENCE, ACTS OF GOD, TELECOMMUNICATIONS FAILURE, THEFT OR DESTRUCTION OF, UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO THE SITE OR THE CONTENT, OR ANY OTHER CAUSE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY, SO THIS LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

7.6 The provisions of this Section 7 shall survive the termination or expiry (for whatever reason) of your Connect Networks account.

7.7 Nothing in these Conditions shall limit or exclude our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation, for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or the negligence of our agents or employees, or for any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law.

8. Website Links

This Site may provide links to other websites for your information. If you use these links, you leave this Site. We have not reviewed these third-party websites and we have no control over such sites or resources. We therefore do not endorse or make any representations or provide any warranties about them, or any material found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third-party websites linked to this Site, you do so entirely at your own risk. We accept no responsibility for third-party websites or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. We reserve the right to terminate any link or linking program at any time.

9. Intellectual Property Rights

(a) For the purposes of these Conditions, “Intellectual Property Rights” means any and all patents, trademarks, service marks, registered designs, any application for any of the foregoing, copyright, unregistered design rights, and any other similar protected rights in any other country that are owned by us or capable of being owned by us. The ownership of and sole rights to obtain the ownership of all Intellectual Property Rights shall at all times be vested in Connect Networks LLC.

(b) We own, or are the licensee to, all right, title, and interest in and to the Site and the content featured on the Site. You must not modify, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, decompile, reverse-engineer, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive source code from the Site.

(c) You must not extract or otherwise use any of the content on the Site for commercial purposes without obtaining a license to do so from us.

10. Viruses, Hacking, and Other Offenses

(a) You must not misuse our Site by introducing viruses, Trojans, worms, or other material which is malicious or harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to our Site, the server on which our Site is stored, or any server, computer, or database connected to our Site.

(b) We adopt a zero-tolerance procedure to such actions. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Site will cease immediately.

11. Waiver

If we fail or choose at any time not to insist upon strict performance of any of your obligations under these Conditions, or if we fail or choose not to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled under them, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with such obligations. No waiver by us of any of these Conditions shall be effective unless it is expressly stated to be a waiver and is communicated to you in writing.

12. Severability

If any of these Conditions are determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable to any extent, such term, condition, or provision will to that extent be severed from the remaining Conditions, which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.

13. Variation of Conditions

We may update these Terms and Conditions (and the documents referred to in them) from time to time and will notify such changes to you by uploading details of them on the Site. You should review the Conditions each time you use the Site for changes. By using the Site, you will be deemed to have agreed to be bound by these changes. If you do not agree to be bound by these changes then please do not use the Site.

14. Entire Agreement

(a) These Conditions and any documents expressly referred to in them constitute the entire agreement between Connect Networks LLC and you and supersedes and extinguishes all previous drafts, agreements, arrangements, and understandings between you and us, whether written or oral, relating to its subject matter.

(b) You agree that you shall have no remedies in respect of any representation or warranty (whether made innocently or negligently) that is not set out in these Conditions or any documents expressly referred to in them.

15. Force Majeure

(a) We shall not be liable to you by reason of any delay or failure to deliver Services or any interruption of this Site if the delay or failure is due to any act beyond our reasonable control, including but without limitation, any act of God, explosion, inclement weather, fire, flood, tempest, epidemic, pandemic, or accident; war or threat of war, acts of terrorism, sabotage, insurrection, civil disturbance or requisition, regulations, prohibitions, or measures of any kind on the part of any federal, state, or local governmental or quasi-governmental authority, import or export regulations or embargoes, strikes, lock-outs or other industrial actions or trade disputes, power failure or telecommunications failure (each a “Force Majeure Event”).

(b) If for any reason we anticipate that we will be prevented or hindered from delivering any Services due to a Force Majeure Event, then we shall notify you and you may cancel the Contract.

(c) In the event of any cancellation of an Order following the occurrence of a Force Majeure Event, we shall be under no liability or obligation to you other than to repay the Fees for unprovided Services.

16. No Third-Party Beneficiaries

These Conditions are binding upon and inure to the benefit of Connect Networks LLC and you, and shall not be enforceable by any third party.

17. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Conditions shall be governed by the laws of the State of Maine without giving effect to the principles of conflicts of law. Except as regarding any action seeking equitable relief, including without limitation for the purpose of protecting any of our confidential information and/or intellectual property rights, or preserving the status quo or avoiding further or irreparable harm, any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to these Conditions or this Site shall be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules, in effect at the time the proceedings begin, of the American Arbitration Association (the “AAA”). Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party. The arbitration shall be held in Portland, Maine, before a single arbitrator selected by the AAA. The arbitrator may determine all questions of law and jurisdiction (including questions as to whether a dispute is arbitrable) and all matters of procedure relating to the arbitration. The arbitrator shall have the right to award costs (including legal fees and the costs of the arbitration) and interest. Any award or determination of the arbitrator shall be final and binding on you and Us and no appeal will lie. We and you each irrevocably waive any objection on the grounds of venue, forum non-conveniens or any similar grounds. You may choose to have the arbitration conducted by telephone, based on written submissions, or in person.

By visiting our website, use of our app or participation in meetings on our platform, network members agree that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, all disputes will be resolved individually and that they waive the right to bring or participate in class proceedings, representative actions, or class-wide arbitrations against us.

18. Feedback and Complaints

General comments about the Site are welcome, please contact us by emailing support@connectnetworks.ai.

If you have any complaints about the Site, please contact us by emailing support@connectnetworks.ai.