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Terms of Service

From our small team at ArtConnects: Thank you for your trust. It means a lot.

Since we don’t know all of you personally, we have to put some Terms in place to make things simple for you and for us.

We’ll keep this in plain English and avoid confusing legal terms wherever possible.

Hey, we’re ArtConnects, LLC.

When we say “Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us” in this document, we are referring to ArtConnects, LLC.

When we say “Services,” we mean any product created and maintained by ArtConnects, LLC. Right now that’s just artconnects.club, whether delivered within a web browser, desktop application, mobile application or any other format.

We may update these Terms in the future. Typically, changes are only to clarify some of these terms by linking to an expanded related policy. Whenever we make a significant change to our policies, we will also send you an email if you’re using our services or product.

When you use our Services, now or in the future, you are agreeing to the latest Terms. That’s true for any of our existing and future products, and all features that we add to our Services over time. There may be times where we do not exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms; in doing so, we are not waiving that right or provision. These terms do contain a limitation of our liability.

If you violate any of these terms, we may terminate your account. That’s a broad statement and it means you need to place a lot of trust in us. We do our best to deserve that trust by being open about who we are and how we work, and by keeping an open door to your feedback, at any time!

Account Terms

  1. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and password. We cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage from your failure to comply with this security obligation. We recommend you set up two-factor authentication for added security (we support both Google and Apple Login, which both support two-factor authentication).

  2. You may not use the Services for any purpose outlined in our Use Restrictions Policy.

  3. You are responsible for all content posted and activity that occurs under your account.

  4. You must be a human. Accounts registered by “bots” or other automated methods are not permitted.

Payment, Refunds, and Plan Changes

  1. If you are on the free version of artconnects.club, it is really free: we do not ask you for your credit card and — just like for customers who pay for our services — we do not sell your data.

  2. We currently offer a free plan. We explain this via the email you receive after signing up. If you upgrade to a paid plan and later cancel your subscription, you will be immediately downgraded or suspended from your account. Of course, we will always send you multiple reminders ahead of time before we do anything to your inactive account. See our Cancellation Policy for more details.

  3. If you are upgrading from a free plan to a paid plan, we will charge your card immediately and your billing cycle will start on the day of your upgrade. For other upgrades or downgrades in plan level, the new rate starts from the next billing cycle.

  4. All fees are exclusive of taxes, levies or duties imposed by taxing authorities. Where required, we will collect those taxes on behalf of the taxing authority and remit those taxes to taxing authorities. Otherwise, you are responsible for payment of all taxes, levies or duties.

  5. We process refunds according to our Fair Refund Policy.

Cancellation and Termination

  1. You are solely responsible for properly canceling your account. Within artconnects.club web app, we provide a simple no-questions-asked cancellation link in your account settings. You can find instructions for how to cancel your account in our Cancellation Policy. An email or phone request to cancel your account is not automatically considered cancellation. If you need help cancelling your account, you can always contact us.

  2. All of your content will be inaccessible from the Services immediately upon cancellation. Within 30 days, all content will be permanently deleted from active systems and logs. Within 60 days, all content will be permanently deleted from our backups. We cannot recover this information once it has been permanently deleted. We currently do not offer an export of your profile.

  3. If you cancel the Service before the end of your current paid up month, your cancellation will take effect immediately, and you will not be charged again. We do not automatically prorate unused time in the last billing cycle. See our Fair Refund Policy for more details.

  4. We have the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of our Services for any reason at any time. Suspension means you and any other users on your account will not be able to access the account or any content in the account. Termination will furthermore result in the deletion of your account or your access to your account, and the forfeiture and relinquishment of all content in your account. We also reserve the right to refuse the use of the Services to anyone for any reason at any time. We have this clause because statistically speaking, out of the hundreds of thousands of accounts on our Services, there is usually at least one doing something nefarious. There are some things we staunchly stand against and this clause is how we exercise that stance. For more details, see our Use Restrictions Policy.

  5. Verbal, physical, written or other abuse (including threats of abuse or retribution) of our employees will result in immediate account termination.

Modifications to the Service and Prices

  1. We make a promise to keep our service running for as long as we possibly can. That means when it comes to security, privacy, and customer support, we will continue to maintain any legacy Services. Sometimes it becomes technically impossible to continue a feature or we redesign a part of our Services because we think it could be better or we decide to close new signups of a product. We reserve the right at any time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, any part of our Services with or without notice.

  2. Sometimes we change the pricing structure for our products. When we do that, we tend to exempt existing customers from those changes. However, we may choose to change the prices for existing customers. If we do so, we will give at least 30 days notice and will notify you via the email address on record. We may also post a notice about changes on our websites or the affected Services themselves.

Uptime, Security, and Privacy

  1. Your use of our Services is at your sole risk. We provide these Services on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We do not offer service-level agreements for our Services — but we do take uptime of our applications seriously.

  2. We take many measures to protect and secure your data through backups, redundancies and encryption. We enforce encryption for data transmission from the public internet. There are some edge cases where we may send your data through our network unencrypted.

  3. When you use our Services, you entrust us with your data. We take that trust to heart. You agree that ArtConnects, LLC may process your data as described in our Privacy Policy and for no other purpose. We as humans can access specific data of yours for the following reasons:

→ To safeguard ArtConnects, LLC. We’ll look at logs and metadata (such as server activity to prevent misuse) as part of our work to ensure the security of your data and the Services as a whole.

→ To the extent required by applicable law.

  1. We use third-party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage and related technology required to run the Services. You can see a list of all sub-processors that handle your data Sub-processors.

  2. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), ArtConnects, LLC. is a “service provider,” not a “business” or “third party,” with respect to your use of the Services. That means we process any data you share with us only for the purpose you signed up for and as described in these Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. We do not retain, use, disclose or sell any of that information for any other commercial purposes unless we have your explicit permission. And on the flip-side, you agree to comply with your requirements under the CCPA and not use our services in a way that violates the regulations.

Copyright and Content Ownership

  1. All content shared via our Services must comply with U.S. copyright law.

  2. We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Services. All materials uploaded remain yours.

  3. We do not pre-screen content, but reserve the right (but not the obligation) to take down any publicly shared content that violates our Use Restrictions Policy.

  4. You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Services, use of the Services, or access to the Services without the express written permission by the Company.

  5. You must not modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with the Services or the Company.

Features and Bugs

We design our Services with care, based on our own experience and the experiences of customers who share their time and feedback. However, there is no such thing as a service that pleases everybody. We make no guarantees that our Services will meet your specific requirements or expectations.

We also test all of our features extensively before shipping them. As with any software, our Services will inevitably have some bugs. We track the bugs reported to us and work through priority issues, especially any related to security or privacy. Not all reported bugs will be fixed and we don’t guarantee completely error-free Services.

Liability

We mention liability throughout these Terms but to put it all in one section:

You expressly understand and agree that the Company shall not be liable, in law or in equity, to you or to any third party for any direct, indirect, incidental, lost profits, special, consequential, punitive or exemplary damages, including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses (even if the Company has been advised of the possibility of such damages), resulting from: (i) the use or the inability to use the Services; (ii) the cost of procurement of substitute goods and services resulting from any goods, data, information or services purchased or obtained or messages received or transactions entered into through or from the Services; (iii) unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data; (iv) statements or conduct of any third party on the service; (v) or any other matter relating to this Terms of Service or the Services, whether as a breach of contract, tort (including negligence whether active or passive), or any other theory of liability.

In other words: choosing to use our Services means you are making a bet on us. If the bet does not work out, that’s on you, not us. We do our best to be as safe a bet as possible through careful management of the business; investments in security, infrastructure, and talent; and by caring about you and your data. If you choose to use our Services, thank you for betting on us and giving your trust. We take it seriously.

If you have a question about any part of our Terms of Service, please contact us.