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Terms and Conditions

Polkassembly End User Agreement

Premiurly OÜ is a company registered in Estonia under company number 16162207 with its registered office at Tornimäe tn 7, Kesklinna linnaosa, Tallinn,Harju maakond, 10145 (the Company). The Company operates Polkassembly (the Forum) on https://polkassembly.io (the Website).

1. Understanding these terms

  1. This end user agreement (the Terms) describes how you may access and use the Forum and any services made available through the Forum via the Website,any mobile applications made available by the Company and any other distribution channels made available by the Company (the Services). By accessing the Forum, these Terms will apply to you and you agree to the Terms. You should therefore read the terms carefully before using the forum.

  2. When certain words and phrases are used in these Terms, they have specific meanings (these are known as defined terms). You can identify these defined terms because they start with capital letters (even if they are not at the start of a sentence). Where a defined term is used, it has the meaning given to it in the section of these Terms where it was defined (you can find these meanings by looking at the sentence where the defined term is included in brackets and speech marks).

  3. In this document, when we refer to we, us or our, we mean the Company; and when we refer to you or your we mean the person accessing or using the person accessing or using the Forum.

  4. Please note that:

    1. your use of the Website is governed by our website terms of use (available https://polkassembly.io/terms-and-conditions), in the case of any inconsistency between any provisions of those website terms of use and any of the clauses of this end user agreement, the clauses of this end user agreement shall prevail;

    2. the Website uses cookies, the use of which are governed by our cookies policy (available https://premiurly.in/policy/);

    3. we only use your personal information in accordance with our privacy notice (available https://polkassembly.io/privacy)

2. The Forum

  1. The Forum is made available free of charge. We do not guarantee that the Forum, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to the Forum is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of the Forum without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason the Forum is unavailable at any time or for any period. We may update the Forum and/or change the content on it at any time.

  2. You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Forum. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access the Forum through your internet connection are aware of these Terms and that they comply with them.

  3. The Forum and the content on it are provided for general information purposes only. They are not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely.

3. Your account and password

  1. You will need to register an account with us on the Website in order to use the Services and gain access to the Forum (Account). You can register via our official website (at https://polkassembly.io/signup). In order to register for an Account, you must be aged 18 or over. If you register an Account, you will be asked to provide certain information (such as your user name) and to create a password, as part of our security procedures. You must treat such password as confidential and you must not disclose it to any third party.

  2. We have the right to disable any Accounts and/or passwords, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms.

  3. If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your Account login details, you must immediately notify us at contact@premiurly.in.

  4. You are responsible for any unauthorised use of your Account login details.

  5. If you are accepting these Terms on behalf of another legal entity, including a business or government, you represent that you have full legal authority to bind such entity to these Terms.

4. Acceptable use

General

  1. You agree:
    1. not to use the Forum in any unlawful manner, for any unlawful purpose or in any manner inconsistent with these Terms;
    2. not to infringe our intellectual property rights or those of any third party in relation to your use of the Forum (to the extent that such use if not licensed under these Terms);
    3. not to transmit any material that is defamatory, offensive or otherwise objectionable in relation to your use of the Forum;
    4. not to use the Forum by automated means or otherwise for the purposes of scraping, extracting or otherwise obtaining any material from the Forum for use within a third party website or application;
    5. not to collect or harvest any information or data from our systems or attempt to decipher any transmission to or from the servers running the Website;
    6. not to copy, or otherwise reproduce or re-sell any part of the Forum unless expressly permitted to do so in these Terms;
    7. not to access, query or search the Forum with any automated system, other than through our published interfaces and pursuant to their applicable terms; and
    8. not to create multiple accounts to evade punishment or avoid restrictions.

User Generated Content

If it is the case that you supply/upload any content to the Forum – whether it be pictures, text, sound recordings or whatever the content you supply (User Generated Content) must comply with the following rules:

  1. it must not be obscene, abusive, offensive or racist and it must not promote or propose hatred or physical harm against anyone;

  2. it must not harass, bully, insult or intimidate another person;

  3. it must be true and honest so far as you know;

  4. it must not constitute pornography or be sexual or sexually suggestive involving minors;

  5. it must not be defamatory of anyone;

  6. it must not use the material or content or infringe the rights or privacy of anyone else; for example you should not use images of well-known characters, footage or music (unless it is your own);

  7. it must not contain someone else's personal details or confidential information relating to other people;

  8. it must not promote discrimination, whether based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age

  9. it must not promote or condone terrorism, violence or illegal behaviour;

  10. it must not be harmful to minors in any way;

  11. it must not promote any illegal activity or otherwise be unlawful;

  12. it must not impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person; and

  13. it must not give the impression that it emanates from or is endorsed by Premiurly, if this is not the case

We reserve the right to refuse to accept or refuse or cease to use any User Generated Content supplied by any person that we think contravenes these Terms or otherwise may create liability for us.

We take no responsibility for, and we do not expressly or implicitly endorse, any User Generated Content. By submitting your User Generated Content, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, power and authority necessary to grant the rights to such User Generated Content as set out in these Terms. As you alone are responsible for your User Generated Content, you may expose yourself to liability if you post or share User Generated Content without all necessary rights.

We do not oversee, monitor or moderate any User Generated Content which is uploaded to the Forum. If you become aware of any User Generated Content that breaches clause 4.2 above, please use the report button or contact us on contact@premiurly.in, providing details of: (i) the date on which it was posted and where it can be found on the Forum; (ii) the name and surname of the author or, if the author is a legal person, the authors business name; (iii) reasons why the content should be deleted; and (vi) copies of any communication with the author (if any).

Viruses

  1. We do not guarantee that the Website will be totally secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access the Website and we recommend that you use your own virus protection software.

  2. You must not misuse the Website by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Website, the server on which the Website is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the Website. You must not attack the Website via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit criminal offences. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will cooperate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use the Website will cease immediately.

5. Intellectual property

  1. We grant to you a non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable licence to use the Forum provided that you comply with these Terms and the documents referred to in it. We reserve all other rights.

  2. We are the owner or licensee of all intellectual property rights in the Forum and its content (other than the User Generated Content), including the Premiurly name and mark. Those works are protected by intellectual property laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

  3. You are not granted any right to use, and may not use, any of our intellectual property rights other than as set out in these Terms. You must not commercially exploit the Forum (or any part of it or its content); however, you may download material from the Forum solely for internal, non-commercial, personal use by you.

  4. Save as required by applicable law, you shall not copy, reproduce, republish, upload, re-post, modify, transmit, distribute or otherwise use in any way for any non-personal, public or commercial purpose any part of the Forum including (without limitation) the text, designs, graphics, photographs, images and User Generated Content of other users without our prior written consent and (in the case of User Generated Content of a different user) the prior written consent of that user.

  5. You retain all ownership rights you have in the User Generated Content, but you hereby grant to us a perpetual, transferable, royalty-free license, irrevocable, worldwide, sub-licensable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works from, distribute, perform and display your User Generated Content and any name, username, voice or likeness provided in connection with your User Generated Content in all media formats and channels now known or later developed. This license includes the right for us to make your User Generated Content available for syndication, broadcast, distribution or publication by other companies, organisations or individuals who partner with us. You also agree that we may remove metadata associated with your User Generated Content, and you irrevocable waive any claims and assertions of moral rights or attribution with respect to your User Generated Content.

6. Our liability

  1. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for:

    1. death or personal injury caused by our negligence;

    2. fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; and

    3. any matter in respect of which it would be unlawful for us to exclude or restrict our liability.

  2. We assume no responsibility for the content of websites, web applications or mobile applications linked to from the Forum (including links to any third party browser extensions providing voting functionality or notification facilities or links to our commercial sponsors and partners). Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites or mobile applications. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them

  3. We make no representations about the reliability, availability, timeliness or accuracy of the content included on the Forum.

If you are a business

If you are acting for purposes relating to your trade, business, craft or profession, then subject to clause 6.1:you agree to use the Forum for internal purposes only and in no event shall we be liable to you for any loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss of contracts,failure to realise anticipated savings or for any indirect or consequential loss, whether arising from negligence, breach of contract or otherwise; and our total liability to you for any loss or damage arising out of or in connection with these Terms, whether in contract (including under any indemnity), tort (including negligence) or otherwise shall be limited to EUR 100.

You shall indemnify and hold us harmless against any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses suffered or incurred by us and/or our affiliates as a result of any breach of these Terms.

If you are a consumer

If you are acting for purposes that are wholly or mainly outside your trade, business, craft or profession then, save as set out in clause 6.1, the following sub-clauses apply:

  1. If we fail to comply with these Terms, we are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breach of these Terms or our negligence, but we are not responsible for any loss or damage that is not foreseeable. Loss or damage is foreseeable if it was an obvious consequence of our breach or if it was contemplated by you and us at the time that you accessed the Forum.

  2. Our total liability to you for any loss or damage arising out of or in connection with these Terms, whether in contract (including under any indemnity), tort (including negligence) or otherwise shall be limited to EUR 100.

  3. Nothing in these Terms affects your statutory rights. Advice about your statutory rights is available from your local Citizens Advice Bureau or Trading Standards Office.

  4. You agree not to use the Forum, or any content on the Forum, for any commercial or business purposes and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

7. Suspension and termination

  1. Either you or we may terminate these Terms (and your access to Forum) at any time for any reason.

  2. If you breach any of the terms of these Terms, we may immediately do any or all of the following (without limitation):

    1. issue a warning to you;

    2. temporarily or permanently withdraw your right to use the Forum;

    3. suspend or terminate your Account;

    4. issue legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs resulting from the breach (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs);

    5. take further legal action against you; and/or

    6. disclose such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary to do so.

  3. If we withdraw your right to use the Forum, then:

    1. all rights granted to you under these Terms shall cease;

    2. you must immediately cease all activities authorised by these Terms, including your use of any services provided through the Forum.

8. Changes to these Terms

We may make changes to these terms from time to time (if, for example, there is a change in the law that means we need to change these Terms). We will give you at least thirty days advance notice of such changes. If you do not wish to continue using the Forum following the changes, you can cancel your agreement to these Terms by cancelling your Account. Your continued use of the Forum following the prior notification of the amended terms will be understood as your acceptance of the new terms.

9. Other important information

  1. Each of the clauses of these Terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful or unenforceable, the remaining clauses will remain in full force and effect.

  2. If we fail to insist that you perform any of your obligations under these Terms, or if we do not enforce our rights against you, or if we delay in doing so, that will not mean that we have waived our rights against you and will not mean that you do not have to comply with those obligations. If we do waive a default by you, we will only do so in writing, and that will not mean that we will automatically waive any later default by you.

  3. If you wish to have more information on online dispute resolution, please follow this link to the website of the European Commission: [http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr/]. This link is provided as required by Regulation (EU) No 524/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, for information purposes only. We are not obliged to participate in online dispute resolution.

10. Governing law and jurisdiction

If you are a business

These Terms are governed by Estonian law. This means that your access to and use of the Forum, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection therewith will be governed by Estonian law.

The courts of Estonia will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes between us and you (including non-contractual disputes or claims).

If you are a consumer

  1. These Terms are governed by the laws of Estonia. This means that your access to and use of the Forum, and any dispute or claim arising out or in connection therewith (including non-contractual disputes or claims), will be governed by Estonian law.

  2. You may bring any dispute which may arise under these Terms to – at your discretion - either the competent court of Estonia, or to the competent court of your country of habitual residence if this country of habitual residence is an EU Member State, which courts are – with the exclusion of any other court - competent to settle any of such a dispute. We shall bring any dispute which may arise under these Terms to the competent court of your country of habitual residence if this is in an EU Member State, or otherwise the competent court of Estonia.

  3. As a consumer, if you are resident in the European Union and we direct the Forum to (and/or pursue our commercial or professional activities in relation to the Forum in) the EU Member State in which you are resident, you will benefit from any mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which you are resident. Nothing in these Terms, including clause 10.3, affects your rights as a consumer to rely on such mandatory provisions of local law.

11. Contacting us

Should you have any reasons for a complaint, we will endeavour to resolve the issue and avoid any re-occurrence in the future. You can always contact us by using the following details:

Address: Tornimäe tn 7, Kesklinna linnaosa, Tallinn, Harju maakond, 10145

Email address: contact@premiurly.in

Thank you.

Terms last updated 27th August 2020

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