Terms of Use


1. Introduction

THIS AGREEMENT BINDS YOU OR THE COMPANY YOU REPRESENT (“YOU,” OR “YOUR”) TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH HEREIN IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF LinkandTrain’S, (“OUR”, “WE”, “COMPANY” OR “LinkandTrain”) SOFTWARE, SERVICES OR OTHER OFFERINGS ON OUR SITE (COLLECTIVELY, OUR “PRODUCTS”). BY USING ANY OF THE COMPANY’S PRODUCTS OR CLICKING ON THE "NEXT" BUTTON DURING ACCOUNT CREATION, YOU AGREE TO BECOME BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT, CLICK ON THE “BLUE X” IN THE CREATE ACCOUNT WINDOW AND DO NOT USE THE COMPANY’S PRODUCTS. COMPANY’S ACCEPTANCE IS EXPRESSLY CONDITIONED UPON YOUR ASSENT TO ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT, AND TO THE EXCLUSION OF ALL OTHER TERMS. IF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS ARE CONSIDERED AN OFFER BY THE COMPANY, ACCEPTANCE IS EXPRESSLY LIMITED TO THESE TERMS.

2. Privacy

Any personal information submitted in connection with Your use of the Products or LinkandTrain is subject to Our Privacy Policy.

3. General

The Products enable Users to connect with Portal Curators (the "Portal Curators") who provide live and recorded instruction, tutoring, and learning services in Our proprietary online portals (the "Portals"). The Products include, without limitation, facilitating and hosting online Communities, the Portals and supporting materials, and taking feedback from Users.

Company reserves the right to revise these Terms at its sole discretion at any time by posting the changes on LinkandTrain. Changes become effective thirty (30) days after posting. Your continued use of Products after change(s) become effective shall mean that You accept those changes. You should visit LinkandTrain regularly to ensure You are aware of the latest version of the Terms. Ten free user licenses and 10 GB of storage space for any community that will be created during introductory period will remain free indefinitely and are protected from any changes to this agreement.

The Company may modify the Products or discontinue their availability at any time, 30 days notice will be issued and Portal curators will be able to download and store all of their content on external storage.

All intellectual property rights for the content created by Portal Curators using LinkandTrain’s tools or otherwise created by the third party or application at all times belongs to its original owners and LinkandTrain doesn’t have any ownership of copyrights for such content besides the ones that are covered by this agreement.

You are solely responsible for all Internet and other services, telephony, data charges and/or other fees and costs associated with Your access to and use of the Products, as Well as for obtaining and maintaining all Internet access, telephone, computer hardware, and other equipment required for such access and use.

If You elect to access or use Products that involve payment of a fee, then You agree to pay, and will be responsible for payment of, that fee and all taxes associated with such access or use. If You provide credit card information to pay for such fees then You hereby represent and warrant that You are authorized to supply such information and hereby authorize the Company to charge Your credit card on a regular basis to pay the fees as they are due. Unless otherwise stated, all fees are quoted in U.S. Dollars. If Your payment method fails or Your account is past due, then We may collect fees owed by using other collection mechanisms. This may include charging other payment methods on file with us and/or retaining collection agencies and legal counsel. We may also block Your access to any Products pending resolution of any amounts due by You to the Company.

All of Your use, access and other activities relating to the LinkandTrain and the Products must be in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, including, without limitations, laws relating to copyright and other intellectual property use, and to privacy and personal identity. In connection with Your use of the Products and LinkandTrain, You must not provide incorrect or knowingly provide false information; copy, distribute, modify, reverse engineer, deface, tarnish, mutilate, hack, or interfere with the Products or operation of LinkandTrain; frame or embed LinkandTrain or Products; impersonate another person or gain unauthorized access to another person’s Account; introduce any virus, worm, spyware or any other computer code, file or program that may or is intended to damage or hijack the operation of any hardware, software or telecommunications equipment, or any other aspect of the Products or operation of LinkandTrain; scrape, spider, use a robot or other automated means of any kind to access the Products.

4. General Disclaimer

LinkandTrain is only a marketplace for Portal Curators and Users. We do not hire or employ Portal Curators nor are We responsible or liable for any interactions involved between the Portal Curators and their respective clients. We are not responsible for disputes, claims, losses, injuries, or damage of any kind that might arise out of or relate to conduct of Portal Curators or Users, including, but not limited to, any User's reliance upon any information provided by a Portal Curator.

We do not control Submitted Content (as defined below) posted on LinkandTrain and, as such, do not guarantee in any manner the reliability, validity, accuracy or truthfulness of such Submitted Content. You also understand that by using the Products you may be exposed to Submitted Content that You consider offensive, indecent, or objectionable. The Company has no responsibility to keep such content from You and no liability for Your access or use of any Submitted Content.

LinkandTrain and Products may give You access to links of third-party Websites ("Third Party Sites"), either directly or through Portals or Portal Curators. The Company does not endorse any of these Third Party Sites and does not control them in any manner. Accordingly, the Company does not assume any liability associated with Third Party Sites. You need to take appropriate steps to determine whether accessing a Third Party Site is appropriate, and to protect Your personal information and privacy on such Third Party Site.

5. Conduct

You may only access the Products for lawful purposes. You are solely responsible for the knowledge of and adherence to any and all laws, rules, and regulations pertaining to Your use of the Products. You agree not to use the Products or the Company Content (as defined below) to recruit, solicit, or contact in any form Portal Curators or potential users for employment or contracting for a business not affiliated with us without Our advance written permission, which may be withheld at Our sole discretion. You assume any and all risks from any meetings or contact between You and any Portal Curators or other Users of the Products.

6. Specific Obligations of Portal curators

If You are instructing Users in connection with Your Portal You are a “Portal Curator” and the following additional terms and conditions apply, and You represent, warrant and covenant that:

You are subject to the Company’s approval, which We may grant or deny at Our sole discretion;

You will be responsible for all of Your Submitted Content, that You own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions, and have the authority to authorize Company, to reproduce, distribute, publicly perform (including by means of a digital audio transmission), publicly display, communicate to the public, promote, market and otherwise use and exploit any of Your Submitted Content on and through the Products in the manner contemplated by this Agreement, and that no Submitted Content shall infringe or misappropriate any intellectual property right of a third party;

You have the required qualifications, credentials and expertise, including without limitation, education, training, knowledge, and skill sets, to teach and offer the services You offer on and through LinkandTrain and the Products;

You will not post any inappropriate, offensive, racist, hateful, sexist, sex-related, false, misleading, infringing, defamatory or libelous content;

You will not upload, post or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes or any other form of solicitation (commercial or otherwise) through the Products or to Users;

You will not use the Products for any business other than for providing business development, collaboration, communication, consulting, training, tutoring, teaching and instructional services to Users of LinkandTrain;

You will not engage in any activity that will require Company to obtain any licenses from or pay any royalties to any third party, including, by way of example and not limitation, the payment of royalties for the public performance of any video, musical works or sound recordings or any other content;

You will not copy, modify or distribute Company Content except as permitted in this Agreement;

You will not interfere with or otherwise prevent other Portal Curators from providing their services or Portals;

You will maintain Your enrollment and account information, and all such enrollment and account information shall be accurate;

You shall respond promptly to Users seeking Your services and ensure a quality of service commensurate with the standards of Your industry and instruction services in general;

You are over the age of 18 or if not a third party parent or legal guardian has agreed to the terms of this Agreement and will assume responsibility and liability for Your performance and compliance hereunder.

7. Specific Obligations of Users using LinkandTrain

If You are a User in search of, or engaging, Portal Curators, You represent, warrant and covenant that:

If You are under the age of 18, You have obtained parental or legal guardian consent before using LinkandTrain, contacting a Portal Curator, or registering for a Portal.

You will not upload, post or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes or any other form of solicitation (commercial or otherwise) through LinkandTrain or the Products;

You will not post any inappropriate, offensive, racist, hateful, sexist, sex-related, false, misleading, infringing, defamatory or libelous content;

You will not reproduce, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, communicate to the public, create derivative works from or otherwise use and exploit any Company Content, the Products or Portals or Submitted Content except as permitted by these Terms or the relevant Portal Curator as applicable;

You will assume responsibility for controlling how Your personal information is disclosed or used, including, without limitation, taking appropriate steps to protect such information; and You will not solicit personal information from any Portal Curator or other User.

8. Registration

To use certain Products, You will need to register and obtain an account, username and password. When You register, the information You provide to us during the registration process will help us in offering content, customer service, and network management. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of Your account, username, and password (collectively, Your "Account") and for all activities associated with or occurring under Your Account. You represent and warrant that Your Account information will be accurate at all times. You must notify us (a) immediately of any unauthorized use of Your Account and any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that You exit from Your Account at the end of each use of the Products. We cannot and will not be responsible for any loss or damage arising from Your failure to comply with the foregoing requirements or as a result of the use of Your Account, either with or without Your knowledge, prior to Your notifying us of unauthorized access to Your Account.

You may not transfer Your Account to any other person and You may not use anyone else's Account at any time without the permission of the account holder. In cases where You have authorized or registered another individual, including a minor, to use Your Account, You are fully responsible for (i) the online conduct of such User; (ii) controlling the User's access to and use of the Products; and (iii) the consequences of any misuse.

In orders to create a Community you have to use Your corporate, organizational or educational e-mail. LinkandTrain uses Your email extension as an identifier to combine users into members of the community. Any representative of your company or organization may create a Community. Despite that the right to Community ownership and management at all times belongs to Your corporate or organizational management and you obtained permission to create a community using your corporate or organizational E-mail or/and agree to transfer all the rights and permissions of Community management on their request.

9. Content, Licenses & Permissions

All software, technology, designs, materials, information, communications, text, graphics, links, electronic art, animations, illustrations, artwork, audio clips, video clips, photos, images, reviews, ideas, and other data or copyrightable materials or content, including the selection and arrangements thereof is “Content.” Where the Company provides Content to You in connection with the Products, including, without limitation, the Software and the Products and LinkandTrain, it is “Company Content.” Content uploaded, transmitted or posted to LinkandTrain or through the Products by a User or Portal Curator is “Submitted Content.” Content remains the proprietary property of the person or entity supplying it (or their affiliated and/or third party providers and suppliers) and is protected, without limitation, pursuant to U.S. and foreign copyright and other intellectual property laws. You hereby represent and warrant that You have all licenses, rights, consents, and permissions necessary to grant the rights set forth in these Terms to Company with respect to Your Submitted Content and that the Company shall not need to obtain any licenses, rights, consents, or permissions from, or make any payments to, any third party for any use or exploitation of Your Submitted Content as authorized in these Terms or have any liability to You or any other party as a result of any use or exploitation of Your Submitted Content as authorized in these Terms.

You hereby grant the Company a non-exclusive right and license to reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, offer, market and otherwise use and exploit the Submitted Content that you submitted on the LinkandTrain public cloud and through the Products, and sublicense it to Portal Curators and Users for these purposes directly or through third parties. Notwithstanding the foregoing, You have the right to remove all or any portion of Your Submitted Content from LinkandTrain at any time. Removal of Your Submitted Content will terminate the foregoing license and rights sixty (60) days after such removal to new uses, provided, however, that any rights given to Users or Portal Curators prior to that time will continue in accordance with the terms granted to such Users or Portal Curators.

All Submitted Content that is submitted by you or Your company or organization on the private cloud remains private at all times and Company doesn’t have any rights to distribute, publicly perform, offer, market and otherwise use and exploit that Private Content.

The Company hereby grants You (as a User) a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use Submitted Content and Company Content, for which You have paid all required fees, solely for Your personal, non-commercial, educational purposes through LinkandTrain and the Products, in accordance with these Terms and any conditions or restrictions associated with particular Portals or Products. All other uses are expressly prohibited absent Our express written consent. You may not reproduce, redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit, create derivative works of, license, or otherwise transfer or use any Submitted Content or Company Content unless the Portal Curator, User or Company gives You explicit permission to do so. Submitted Content and Company Content is licensed, and not sold, to You. Portal Curators may not grant You license rights to Submitted Content You access or acquire through the Services and any such direct license shall be null and void and a violation of these Terms.

You agree that We may record and view all or any part of any Portals (including any files, video/voice and text communications) for quality control and delivering, marketing, promoting, demonstrating or operating LinkandTrain and the Products. You hereby grant the Company permission and release the use of Your name, likeness, image or voice in connection with offering, delivering, marketing, promoting, demonstrating, and selling LinkandTrain, Products, Portals, Company Content and Submitted Content submitted to the Public LinkandTrain cloud and waive any and all rights of privacy, publicity, or any other rights of a similar nature in connection therewith.

THE COMPANY RESPECTS ALL COPYRIGHT, PRIVACY, DEFAMATION AND OTHER LAWS RELATING TO CONTENT AND INFORMATION AND WILL NOT TOLERATE VIOLATIONS OF SUCH LAWS. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THE COMPANY DOES NOT NECCESSARILY SCREEN THE SUBMITTED CONTENT AND ALL USE OF THE SUBMITTED CONTENT BY YOU IS AT YOUR OWN RISK AND THE COMPANY SHALL HAVE NO LIABILITY FOR SUCH USE. IN PARTICULAR, NO REVIEW OR POSTING OR APPEARANCE OF THE SUBMITTED CONTENT ON THE SITE OR THROUGH THE PRODUCTS IS INTENDED TO ACT AS AN ENDORSEMENT OR REPRESENTATION THAT ANY SUBMITTED CONTENT IS FREE OF VIOLATION OF ANY COPYRIGHT, PRIVACY OR OTHER LAWS OR WILL SUIT A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR BE ACCURATE OR USEFUL.

If You believe that Submitted Content of Yours violates any law or regulation or is inaccurate or poses any risk whatsoever to a third party it is Your responsibility to take such steps You deem necessary to correct the situation. If You believe that Submitted Content of a third party or any Company Content violates any laws or regulations, including, without limitation, any copyright laws, You should report it to the Company in accordance with the procedures that We maintain at Copyright Policy.

All rights not expressly granted in these Terms are retained by the Content owners and these Terms do not grant any implied licenses.

10. Paid Portal Terms & Conditions

As a Portal Curator, You will be solely responsible for determining the fees You charge Users for the content of Your Portal. You agree to charge only for Your own Submitted Content. The Company will not handle billing and other fee interaction with Users and you will keep 100% of revenue that you will receive from Users of your portal.

Users are entitled to refunds pursuant to Your general Terms of Service and You agree that the Company is not responsible and will be kept harmless from any charges and fees that might accrue from any circumstance involving your charges to Users of Your Portal.

11. Pricing for Paid Portals

The Portal Curator will be solely responsible for determining the fees to be charged for such Portal access and content, in accordance with this Agreement. If You are a User, You agree to pay the fees for Portal access and its content that You receive, and hereby authorize the Portal Curator to charge Your credit card for the amounts you agreed on during the enrollment process. We will not charge Your credit card for access to Portal content.

12. Refunds

If you, as a User, are unhappy with a Portal’s content it will be your responsibility to obtain Terms and Conditions for refunds from the Portal Curator that is strictly based on your agreement with the Portal Curator and the rules of engagement. It is Your responsibility to obtain such information from the Portal Curator prior to your enrollment into any Portal. Please note that if we believe that You as a Portal Curator are abusing Your refund policy at our sole discretion, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse or restrict any and all current or future use of the Company’s Products, without any liability to you.

You, as a Portal Curator, acknowledge and agree that you have in place a Refund policy that Users become aware of and agreed on prior to being enrolled into Your Portal.

13. Terms for LinkandTrain licenses, storage and technical support

Subscriptions to LinkandTrain User Licenses are sold in batches of ten licenses at a time on a 12 month subscription basis. Each license comes with 1GB of storage space and free technical support with a 24 hour response time. Additional storage space is available on demand for additional payment. Immediate support is available for additional fees. LinkandTrain License subscription fees, Storage and Immediate support fees are not refundable.

14. Trademarks

The trademarks, service marks, and logos (the "Trademarks") used and displayed on LinkandTrain, in the Products or in any of the Company’s Content are Our registered or unregistered Trademarks or of Our suppliers or third parties and are protected pursuant to U.S. and foreign trademark laws. All rights are reserved and You may not alter or obscure the Trademarks, or link to them without Our prior approval.

15. Warranty Disclaimer

THE PRODUCTS, SITE, COMPANY CONTENT, SUBMITTED CONTENT, PORTAL CONTENT, AND ANY OTHER MATERIALS MADE AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THE SITE OR THE PRODUCTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS," WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND AND THE COMPANY HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL SUCH WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, FREEDOM FROM ERRORS, SUITABILITY OF CONTENT, OR AVAILABILITY.

16. Limitation of Liability

NEITHER PARTY SHALL BE LIABLE HEREUNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABLITY, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, CONTRACT, TORT OR NEGLIGENCE, FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR LOSS OF PROFITS. THE COMPANY’S TOTAL LIABILITY HEREUNDER SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNTS PAID IN CONNECTION WITH THE PORTALS OR PRODUCTS UNDER WHICH SUCH LIABILITY AROSE.

17. Indemnification

You hereby indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Company, and its affiliates, officers, directors, agents, partners, employees, licensors, representatives and any third party providers from and against all losses, expenses, damages, costs, claims and demands, including reasonable attorneys' fees and related costs and expenses, due to or arising out of Your breach of any representation or warranty hereunder. We reserve the right, at Our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by You, and in such case, You agree to fully cooperate with such defense and in asserting any available defenses.

18. Termination

We may terminate Your use of the Products or LinkandTrain immediately without notice for any breach by You of these Terms or any of Our applicable policies, as posted on LinkandTrain from time to time. We may discontinue offering any Product, Portal, or Content at any time (which will terminate Your right to offer these Portals if You are a Portal Curator). You may terminate Your use of LinkandTrain or the Products at any time, either by ceasing to access them, or by contacting us via email at support@linkandtrain.com (but if You are a Portal Curator then Users enrolled in Your Portals prior to termination shall continue to have access to them for the duration of the Portal access established by you for Portal Users prior to their enrollment into Your Portal). We have no obligation to retain any of Your Account or Submitted Content for any period of time beyond what may be required by applicable law. Upon termination, You must cease all use of LinkandTrain, Products and Content. Any accrued rights to Your refund policy and all representations and warranties shall survive termination.

19. Miscellaneous

Entire Agreement. This Agreement and any policies applicable to You posted on LinkandTrain constitute the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersede all previous written or oral agreements between the parties with respect to such subject matter.

20. Severability

If any provision of this Agreement is found to be illegal, void or unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this Agreement and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions of this Agreement.

21. Waiver

A provision of these Terms may be waived only by a written instrument executed by the party entitled to the benefit of such a provision. The failure of Company to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

22. Notice

Any notice or other communication to be given hereunder will be in writing and given by facsimile, postpaid registered or certified mail return receipt requested, or electronic mail.

23. No Agency

Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed as making either party the partner, joint venture, agent, legal representative, employer, contractor or employee of the other. Neither the Company nor any other party to this Agreement shall have, or hold itself out to any third party as having, any authority to make any statements, representations or commitments of any kind, or to take any action that shall be binding on the other except as provided for herein or authorized in writing by the party to be bound.

This Agreement and Your use of LinkandTrain and the Products shall be governed by the substantive laws of the State of Ohio without reference to its choice or conflicts of law principles.