User Terms

Our mission is to connect the world’s future and established AI professionals and corporates. 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 AI enthusiasts to meet, exchange ideas, learn, and find opportunities or employees, work, and make decisions in a network of trusted relationships.

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 and Cookie Policy, which cover how we collect, use, share and store your personal information.
You agree that by clicking “Join Now”, “Join Witsy”, “Sign Up” or similar, registering, accessing or using our services (described below), you are agreeing to enter into a legally binding contract with Witsy (even if you are using our Services on behalf of a company). If you do not agree to this contract (“Contract” or “User Agreement”), 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.  Certain of your obligations will continue notwithstanding termination.

Services

This Contract applies to Witsy.ai, Witsy-branded apps, Witsy Learning, and other Witsy-related sites, apps, communications and other services that state that they are offered under this Contract (“Services”), including the offsite collection of data for those Services, such as “Share with Witsy” plugins. Registered users of our Services are “Members” and unregistered users are “Visitors”. This Contract applies to both Members and Visitors.

Witsy

You are entering into this Contract with Witsy, a company registered in England with registration number 11748985 (also referred to as “we” and “us”).
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 our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy and updates.

1.2 Members and Visitors

When you register and join Witsy, you become a Member. If you have chosen not to register for our Services, you may access certain features as a “Visitor.”

1.3 Change

We may modify this Contract, our Privacy Policy, and our Cookie Policy 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

To use the Services, you agree that: (1) you must be the “Minimum Age” (described below) or older; (2) you will only have one Witsy account which must be in your real name; and (3) you are not already restricted by Witsy from using the Services. Creating an account with false information is a material breach of this Contract, including accounts registered on behalf of others or persons under the Minimum Age.
"Minimum Age" means 16 years old. However, if the law requires that you must be older in order for Witsy 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 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/university/college), your account belongs to you. However, if the Services were purchased by another party for you to use, 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 Notices and Messages

You are 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.

2.4 Sharing

When you share information on our Services, others can see, copy and use that information. 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.
We strongly recommend to restrain yourself from sharing any sensitive or confidential project information from your private workspace, into the public domain. The sole liability of sharing private or confidential information in public domain remains with you. Witsy can remove any such information at its sole discretion, with or without notice.

3. Rights and Limits

3.1. Your License to Witsy

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 honour 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 Witsy, you own the content and information that you submit or post to the Services, and you are only granting Witsy and our affiliates the following non-exclusive license:
A worldwide, transferable and sub-licensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publish, and process, information, and content that you provide through our Services and the services of others, without any further consent, 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 actions 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 "public", 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 through their services.
4. While we may edit and make format changes to 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.

You and Witsy agree that if the content includes personal data, it is subject to our Privacy Policy.
You and WItsy 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 Witsy, you agree that WItsy 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 Witsy 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. Witsy 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.
Witsy 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.

We do not guarantee that the Services will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

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. Witsy generally does not review the 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.

3.4 Limits

We have the right to limit how you connect and interact on our Services.

3.5 Intellectual Property Rights

We’re providing you notice about our intellectual property rights.
Witsy 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.

3.7 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.

3.8 Payment Processing

Witsy processes all payments using a secured Stripe payment gateway. Upon activating your subscription, the first seven days are under a FREE trial, and unsubscribing will result in no deduction of payment from your account. Post seven days, Witsy will initiate your first billing cycle, and deduct payment in thirty days. Cancelling your subscription after the first seven but before thirty days will still result in the payment being deducted from your account.
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4. Disclaimer and Limit of Liability

4.1 No Warranty

WE EXCLUDE ALL IMPLIED CONDITIONS, WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR OTHER TERMS THAT MAY APPLY TO OUR SERVICES, WEBSITE OR ANY CONTENT ON IT.

4.2 Limit of Liability

WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), BREACH OF STATUTORY DUTY, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF FORESEEABLE, ARISING UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH:

1. USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, OUR SERVICES; OR
2. USE OF OR RELIANCE ON ANY CONTENT DISPLAYED AS PART OF OUR SERVICES.

IN PARTICULAR, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR:

1. LOSS OF PROFITS, SALES, BUSINESS OR REVENUE;

3. BUSINESS INTERRUPTION;
4. LOSS OF ANTICIPATED SAVINGS;
5. LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, GOODWILL OR REPUTATION; OR
6. ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS OR DAMAGE.

You shall defend, indemnify and hold harmless Witsy against claims, actions, proceedings, losses, damages, expenses and costs (including without limitation court costs and reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in connection with any use of the Services by you which is not permitted by this Contract.

5. Termination

We can each end this Contract anytime we want.
Both you and Witsy 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.

6. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

This Contract, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

7. General Terms

Here are some important details about the Contract.
You grant us the right to use your company name and logo as a reference for marketing or promotional purposes on our website and in other public or private communications with our existing or potential customers, subject to your standard trademark usage guidelines as provided to us from time-to-time. We don’t want to list customers who don’t want to be listed, so you may send us an email to helpdesk@witsy.ai stating that it does not wish to be used as a reference.

Force Majeure

Neither us nor you will be liable because of any failure or delay in the performance of its obligations because events beyond the reasonable control of a party, which may include denial-of-service attacks, a failure by a third-party hosting provider or utility provider, strikes, shortages, riots, fires, acts of God, war, terrorism, and governmental action.

Relationship of the Parties; No Third-Party Beneficiaries

The parties are independent contractors. The Contract does not create a partnership, franchise, joint venture, agency, fiduciary or employment relationship between the parties. There are no third-party beneficiaries to the Contract.

Email and Witsy Messages

Except as otherwise set forth herein, all notices under the Contract will be by email. Notices to WItsy will be sent to mailto:helpdesk@witsy.ai, except for legal notices, such as notices of termination or an indemnifiable claim, which must be sent to mailto:legal@witsy.ai Notices will be deemed to have been duly given (a) the day after it is sent, in the case of notices through email; and (b) the same day, in the case of notices through the Services.

GENERAL

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 Witsy 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 Witsy 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 with legal notice is at the addresses provided in Section 7.

8. Witsy "Dos and Don'ts"

8.1 Dos

WItsy is a community of AI enthusiasts and corporates/universities/colleges. This list of “Dos and Don’ts” limits what you can and cannot do on our Services.
You agree that you will:

1. Comply with all applicable laws, including, without limitation, privacy laws, intellectual property laws, anti-spam laws, export control laws, tax laws, and regulatory requirements;
2. Provide accurate information to us and keep it updated;
3. Use your real name on your profile; and
4. Use the Services in a professional manner.

8.2 Don'ts

You agree that you will not:

1. Create a false identity on Witsy, misrepresent your identity, create a Member profile for anyone other than yourself (a real person), or use or attempt to use another’s account;
2. 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;
3. 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);
4. 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 Witsy;
5. Disclose information that you do not have the consent to disclose (such as confidential information of others (including your employer));
6. 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;
7. Violate the intellectual property or other rights of Witsy, 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 “Witsy” or our logos in any business name, email, or URL
8. Post anything that contains software viruses, worms, or any other harmful code;
9. 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;
10. Rent, lease, loan, trade, sell/resell or otherwise monetize the Services or related data or access to the same, without Witsy consent;
11. Deep-link to our Services for any purpose other than to promote your profile or a Group on our Services, without WItsy’s consent;
12. Use bots or other automated methods to access the Services, add or download contacts, send or redirect messages;
13. Monitor the Services’ availability, performance or functionality for any competitive purpose;
14. Engage in “framing,” “mirroring,” or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of the Services;
15. 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);
16. 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

9. Complaints Regarding Content

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.