Welcome to the websites, online services and mobile application services of Better Founder (“we,” or “us”). These Terms of Service (the “Terms of Service”) are a binding contract between Better Founder and you and explain the terms and conditions by which you may use and/or access our online and/or mobile services (“our Service”), in connection with www.betterfounder.com, together with any related subsites, sub-domains, mobile and software applications, services, features and/or content associated therewith (collectively, “our Websites”).
For purposes of these Terms of Service, “you” and “your” mean you as the user of our Service. If you use our Service on behalf of a company, organization or other entity, then (a) “you” includes you and that entity, (b) you represent and warrant that you are an authorized representative of the entity with the authority to bind the entity to these Terms of Service, and that you agree to these Terms of Service on the entity’s behalf, and (c) your entity is legally and financially responsible for your use of our Service as well as for the use of your account by others affiliated with your entity, including any employees, agents or contractors.
Better Founder is dedicated to providing users of our Service with a highly interactive and positive experience, while at the same time protecting our rights and the rights of our users. We have developed these Terms of Service to govern your use of our Service, and we, along with our affiliates, partners and advertisers, provide content and services to you subject to the following conditions. By accessing or using our Service, you hereby affirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms of Service, whether or not you are a registered user or customer of our Service. Please read the Terms of Service carefully. Your use of our Service is subject to Better Founder’s Privacy Policy, incorporated herein by this reference. If you do not agree with any of these Terms of Service, do not use or access (or continue to access) our Service.
Our Service Content
1. All of the information, content, services and software displayed on, transmitted through, or used in connection with our Service, including for example, advertising, directories, guides, articles, opinions, reviews, text, photographs, images, illustrations, audio clips, video, html, source and object code, software, data, and all other matters related to our Websites, including without limitation, the selection and arrangement of the aforementioned and the “look and feel” of our Websites (collectively, the “Content”), are protected under applicable copyrights and other proprietary (including but not limited to intellectual property) rights and are the intellectual property of Better Bounder, and its affiliated companies, licensors and suppliers. Better Founder actively protects its rights to the Content to the fullest extent of the law. The copying, rearrangement, broadcast, rewriting for broadcast or publication, redistribution, modification, use or publication by you in any medium, directly or indirectly, of any such matters or any part of our Service, including the removal or alteration of advertising, except for limited rights of use granted hereunder, is strictly prohibited. You may not use such material except as provided in these Terms of Service.
2. The Content includes logotypes, trademarks and service marks (collectively “Marks”) owned by Better Founder, and Marks owned by other information providers and third parties. No Marks may be used in any manner unless approved in advance, in writing by Better Founder.
3. Subject to your agreement to and continuing compliance with these Terms of Service, Better Founder hereby grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-transferable license to access and use our Service for your personal and non-commercial use only. You may download or print a single copy of any portion of the Content for your personal, non-commercial use, provided you do not remove any trademark, copyright or other notice contained in such Content. You may not use our Service for any other purpose, including any way that breaches the Privacy Policy or any other agreement applicable to our Service, unless otherwise expressly permitted by Better Founder. You may not, for example, republish the Content on any Internet, Intranet or Extranet site or incorporate the Content in any database, compilation, archive or cache or store the Content in electronic form on your computer or mobile device unless otherwise expressly permitted by Better Founder. You may not distribute any of the Content to others, whether or not for payment or other consideration, and you may not modify, copy, frame, reproduce, sell, publish, transmit, display or otherwise use any portion of the Content without securing the prior written consent of Better Founder.
4. Requests to use the Content for any purpose other than as permitted in these Terms of Service should be directed to our licensing and reprints provider found at www.betterfounder.com
5. Free access to the content made available to you on our Service is possible due to the paid advertising that appears on our Service. Without this advertising, we would not be able to provide you with this content for free. In exchange for your free access to this content, you agree that you will not, and will not permit any third party to, remove, obstruct, modify or otherwise interfere with the delivery or display of advertisements on our Service.
6. You agree that you will only use our Service for lawful purposes, and you will not use our Service for sending or storing any unlawful material or for fraudulent purposes or to engage in any illegal, offensive, indecent or objectionable conduct. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques that involve any trademark, logo, copyrighted material or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of any portion of our Service without our express written consent. You may not alter or modify in any way, our Service including but not limited to using any software to suppress or alter the display of advertising on the pages of our Service. In addition, you agree not to decompile, reverse engineer or disassemble any software or other products or processes accessible through our Service, not to insert any code or product or manipulate the content of our Service in any way that affects the user’s experience, and not to use any data mining, robots, cancelbots, Trojan horse, or any data gathering or extraction method in connection with your use of our Service, or otherwise harm our Service in any way whatsoever.
7. Better Founder respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement or are aware of any infringing material placed by any third party on our Service, please contact us by emailing at support@betterfounder.com
Membership and Registration
1. Certain areas of our Service may require registration or may otherwise ask you to provide information to participate in certain features or access certain content. The decision to provide this information is purely optional, however if you elect not to provide such information, you may not be able to access certain content or features or participate in various areas of our Service. When you register or become a member of our Service or provide information to our Service in any other manner, you agree to provide only true, accurate, current and complete information on all registration pages. Using a name other than your own legal name is prohibited. You agree that Better Founder may use the information you provide to us according to the Privacy Policy posted on our Service.
2. If you become a member of our Service, you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password, and agree you will not sell, transfer or assign your membership or any membership rights. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and for restricting access to your computer so that others may not access our Service using your name in whole or in part. Better Founder reserves the right to terminate membership and deny access to our Service to any person who violates these Terms of Service.
Posting Rules
1. Interactive areas of our Service are intended to encourage public debate. We expect people to differ – judgment and opinion are subjective things – and we encourage freedom of speech and a marketplace of ideas. But by using these areas of our Service, you are participating in a community that is intended for all our users. Therefore, we reserve the right to remove any content posted on our Service at any time for any reason. Decisions as to whether content violates any Better Founder posting rule will be made by Better Founder in its discretion after we have actual notice of such posting. Without limiting our right to remove content, we have attempted to provide the following guidelines to those posting content on our Service. When using our Service, please do not post material that:
- contains vulgar, profane, abusive or hateful language, epithets or slurs, text or illustrations in poor taste, inflammatory attacks of a personal, racial or religious nature, or expressions of bigotry, racism, discrimination or hate.
- is defamatory, threatening, disparaging, grossly inflammatory, false, misleading, deceptive, fraudulent, inaccurate, unfair, contains gross exaggeration or unsubstantiated claims, violates the privacy rights of any third party, is unreasonably harmful or offensive to any individual or community, contains any actionable statement, or tends to mislead or reflect unfairly on any other person, business or entity.
- violates any right of Better Founder or any third party.
- discriminates on the grounds of race, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation or disability, or refers to such matters in any manner prohibited by law.
- violates any municipal, state or federal law, rule, regulation or ordinance, or attempts to encourage such an evasion or violation.
- unfairly interferes with any third party’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of our Service.
- advertises, promotes or offers to trade any goods or services, except in areas specifically designated for such purpose.
- uploads copyrighted or other proprietary material of any kind on our Service without the express permission of the owner of that material.
- uses or attempts to use another’s account, password, service or system except as expressly permitted by these Terms of Service.
- includes images, photos, articles or other content that constitutes, promotes or encourages illegal acts, violation of any right of any individual or entity, violation of any local, state, national or international law, rule, guideline or regulation, or otherwise creates liability.
- uploads or transmits viruses or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files.
- disrupts, interferes with, or otherwise harms or violates the security of our Service, or any services, system resources, accounts, passwords, servers or networks connected to or accessible through our Service or affiliated or linked sites.
- “inflames” any individual or entity (e.g., sends repeated messages related to another user and/or makes derogatory or offensive comments about another individual), or repeats prior posting of the same message under multiple threads or subjects.
- is unrelated to the specific interactive area or the interactive area’s topic.
- disguises the origin of the post.
- collects or stores other users’ personal data.
2. A violation of certain posting rules may be referred to law enforcement authorities. Better Founder reserves the right to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request.
Service Security Rules
You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of our Service, including, without limitation, (a) accessing data not intended for you or logging into a server or account which you are not authorized to access, (b) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization, (c) attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to our Service, overloading, “flooding”, “mailbombing” or “crashing”, or (d) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail, forum, or newsgroup posting. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. Better Founder will investigate occurrences which may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting those who are involved in such violations.
Communications with Third Parties through our Service
Your dealings or communications through our Service with any party other than our Service are solely between you and that third party. Please review carefully that third party’s policies and practices and make sure you are comfortable with those policies and practices before you engage in any transaction. Any complaints, concerns or questions you may have relating to materials provided by third parties should be forwarded directly to the third party.
Software Available On Our Service
Any software that is made available to download from our Service (“Software”) is the copyrighted work of Better Founder suppliers. Use of the Software is governed by (i) these Terms of Service and (ii) the terms of the end-user license agreement, if any, which accompanies or is included with the Software (“License Agreement”). In the event of a conflict, the License Agreement shall control. End users shall not install or use any Software that is accompanied by or includes a License Agreement, unless the end user first agrees to the License Agreement terms. Any such Software is not available to users in territories where its distribution is prohibited by law.
Paid Services
1. Certain aspects of our Service may be provided for a fee or other charge. If you elect to use paid features of our Service, you agree to the pricing and payment terms for the applicable Service, as we may update them from time to time. Better Founder may add new services for additional fees and charges, or amend fees and charges for existing services, at any time in its sole discretion. We may also provide certain services via our third party partners and you agree, that your use of such third party services is subject to the contractual (including payment) terms presented by such third parties should you wish to use their services. You further agree that Better Founder has no responsibility for such third party services and your use of such services is entirely at your own risk. In such case, we will give you 30 days’ notice before the additional or amended charges or fees become applicable, during which you can stop your use of the particular paying Service. Any change to the fees for paid services shall become effective in the billing cycle following notice of such change to you as provided in these Terms of Service.
2. You may cancel your user account at any time; however, there are no refunds for cancellation. In the event that Better Founder suspends or terminates your account or these Terms of Service for your breach of these Terms of Service, you understand and agree that you shall receive no refund or exchange for any unused time on a subscription, any license or subscription fees for any portion of our Service, any content or data associated with your account, or for anything else.
3. All information that you provide in connection with a purchase or other monetary transaction interaction with our Service must be accurate, complete, and current. You agree to pay all charges incurred by users of your credit card, debit card, or other payment method used in connection with a purchase or transaction or other monetary transaction interaction with our Service at the prices in effect when such charges are incurred. You will pay any applicable taxes relating to such purchases or other monetary transaction interactions.
If at any time Better Founder is required by a taxing authority to pay any taxes not previously collected from you, you will promptly submit such taxes (including applicable penalties and interest, if any) to Better Founder upon written notice.
International Users
Our Service is controlled, operated and administered by Better Founder from its offices within the United States. Better Founder makes no representation that materials or the Content available through our Service are appropriate or available for use outside the United States and access to them from territories where their contents are illegal is prohibited. You may not use our Service or export the Content in violation of U.S. export laws and regulations. If you access our Service from a location outside the United States, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws.
Modification
Better Founder shall have the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add or remove terms of this agreement at any time. We will provide you with 30 days’ notice of any substantial changes to the terms of this agreement. You agree to review this agreement periodically since subsequent use by you of our Service shall constitute your acceptance of any changes. EMI shall have the right at any time to change or discontinue any aspect of our Service, including, but not limited to, the community areas, content, hours of availability and equipment needed for access to use. Such changes, modifications, additions or deletions shall be effective immediately upon posting and any subsequent use by you after such posting shall conclusively be deemed to be acceptance by you of such changes, modifications or deletions.
Notice of Availability of Filtering Software
You should know that parental control protections (such as computer hardware, software, or filtering services) are commercially available that may assist in limiting access to material that is harmful to minors. A report detailing some of those protections can be found at https://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/ntiageneral/cipa2003/index.html (Children’s Internet Protection Act: Report on the Effectiveness of Internet Protection Measures and Safety Policies).
Service Contact
If you have any questions, concerns or suggestions about these Terms of Service, you may contact us at support@betterfounder.com or at the following address:
8 The Green STE 15919
Dover, DE, 19901