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The Women’s Network Inc. Terms of Use
Last Updated: January 29, 2024

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Welcome to The Women’s Network Inc.’s (“TWN”) Terms of Use agreement.

For the purpose of this Terms of Use, “Website” refers to the TWN website, which can be accessed at https://www.thewomens.network. “Service” refers to TWN’s services accessed via the Website, in which users can can get information on upcoming events, meetings, and workshops, learn about, engage with, and network with other professional women, and get general information about TWN. The terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to TWN. “You” refers to you, as a user of our Website and/or our Service.

The following Terms of Use apply when you view or use the Website.

Please review the following terms carefully. By accessing or using the Website, you signify your agreement to these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms of Use in their entirety, you may not access or use the Service or Website.

Privacy Policy

TWN respects the privacy of our users. Please refer to TWN’s Privacy Policy which explains how we collect, use, and disclose information that pertains to your privacy. When you access or use the Website, you signify your agreement to the Privacy Policy as well as these Terms of Use.

About the Service

The Service allows you to get information on upcoming events, meetings, and workshops, learn about, engage with, and network with other professional women, and get general information about TWN.

Registration, Rules For User Conduct, And Use Of The Service

You need to be at least 13 years old and a resident of the United States to register for and use the Service.

If you are a user who signs up for the Service, you will create a personalized account that includes a unique username and a password to access the Service and to receive messages from TWN. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your password and/or account. TWN will not be responsible for any liabilities, losses, or damages arising out of the unauthorized use of your member name, password and/or account.

User Restrictions

Your permission to use the Website is conditioned upon the following use, posting, and conduct restrictions. You agree that you will not under any circumstances:

Access the Service for any reason other than your personal, non-commercial use solely as permitted by the normal functionality of the Service;
Collect or harvest any personal data of any user of the Website or the Service;
Use the Website or the Service for the solicitation of business in the course of trade or in connection with a commercial enterprise;
Distribute any part or parts of the Website or the Service without our explicit written permission (we grant the operators of public search engines permission to use spiders to copy materials from the Website for the sole purpose of creating publicly-available searchable indices but we retain the right to revoke this permission at any time on a general or specific basis);
Use the Service for any unlawful purpose or for the promotion of illegal activities;
Attempt to harass, abuse or harm another person or group;
Use another user’s account without permission;
Provide false or inaccurate information when registering an account; or
Interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the Service.

Posting and Conduct Restrictions

When you create your personalized account, you may be able to provide information to TWN (“User Content”) that may then be posted on the Website. You are solely responsible for the User Content that you post, upload, link to or otherwise make available via the Website.

You agree that we are only acting as a passive conduit for your online distribution and publication of your User Content. TWN, however, reserves the right to remove any User Content from the Service at our sole discretion.

We grant you permission to use and access the Service, subject to the following express conditions surrounding User Content. You agree that failure to adhere to any of these conditions constitutes a material breach of these Terms of Use.

By transmitting and submitting any User Content while using the Service, you agree as follows:

You are solely responsible for your account and the activity that occurs while signed in to or while using your account;
You will not post any information that is malicious, libelous, false or inaccurate;
You will not post any information that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory, or racially, sexually, religiously, or otherwise objectionable and offensive;
You retain all ownership rights in your User Content but you are required to grant the following rights to the website and to the users of the Service as set forth more fully under the “License Grant” and “Intellectual Property” provisions below: When you upload or post User Content to the Website or the Service, you grant to TWN a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform that User Content in connection with the provision of the Service; and you grant to each user of the Service, a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to access your User Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display and perform such Content to the extent permitted by the Service and under these Terms of Use;
You will not submit content that is copyrighted or subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy, publicity, trade secret, or others, unless you are the owner of such rights or have the appropriate permission from their rightful owner to specifically submit such content; and
You hereby agree that we have the right to determine whether your User Content submissions are appropriate and comply with these Terms of Service, remove any and/or all of your submissions, and terminate your account with or without prior notice.

You understand and agree that any liability, loss or damage that occurs as a result of the use of any User Content that you make available or access through your use of the Service is solely your responsibility. The website is not responsible for any public display or misuse of your User Content.

Online Content Disclaimer

Opinions, advice, statements, offers, or other information or content made available through the Service, but not directly by the Website, are those of their respective authors, and should not necessarily be relied upon. Such authors are solely responsible for such content.

We do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information on the Website or the Service, nor do we adopt nor endorse, nor are we responsible for, the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice, or statement made by other parties.

Links To Other Websites And/Or Materials

As part of the Service, we may provide you with convenient links to third party website(s) (“Third Party Websites”), as well as content or items belonging to or originating from third parties (the “Third Party Applications, Software or Content”). These links are provided as a courtesy to Service subscribers. We have no control over Third Party Websites or Third Party Applications, Software, or Content or the promotions, materials, information, goods or services available on these Third Party Websites or Third Party Applications, Software or Content. Such Third Party Websites and Third Party Applications, Software or Content are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness, and we are not responsible for any Third Party Websites accessed through the Website or any Third Party Applications, Software or Content posted on, available through or installed from the Website, including the content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions, reliability, privacy practices or other policies of or contained in the Third Party Websites or the Third Party Applications, Software or Content. Inclusion of, linking to or permitting the use or installation of any Third Party Website or any Third Party Applications, Software or Content does not imply our approval or endorsement. If you decide to leave the Website and access the Third Party Websites or to use or install any Third Party Applications, Software or Content, you do so at your own risk and you should be aware that our terms and policies, including these Terms of Use, no longer govern. You should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any Third Party Website to which you navigate from the Website or relating to any applications you use or install from the Third Party Website.‍

DMCA Take-Down Notices

If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe, in good faith, that any materials provided on the Service infringe upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (see 17 U.S.C 512) (“DMCA”) by sending the following information in writing to the our designated copyright agent at national@thewomens.network:

The date of your notification;
A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
A description of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online Website are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that Website;
A description of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and information sufficient to enable us to locate such work;
Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact you, such as an address, telephone number, and/or email address;
A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

License Grant

By posting any User Content via the Service, you expressly grant, and you represent and warrant that you have a right to grant, to TWN a royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, publish, list information regarding, edit, translate, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, and make derivative works of all such User Content and your name, voice, and/or likeness as contained in your User Content, if applicable, in whole or in part, and in any form, media or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, for use in connection with the Service.

Intellectual Property

You acknowledge and agree that we retain ownership of all intellectual property rights of any kind related to the Service, including applicable copyrights, trademarks and other proprietary rights. Other product and company names that are mentioned on the Service may be trademarks of their respective owners. We reserve all rights that are not expressly granted to you under these Terms of Use.

Email May Not Be Used To Provide Notice

Communications made through the Service’s email and messaging system will not constitute legal notice to the Website, the Service, or any of its officers, employees, agents or representatives in any situation where legal notice is required by contract or any law or regulation.

User Consent To Receive Communications In Electronic Form

For contractual purposes, you: (a) consent to receive communications from us in an electronic form via the email address you have submitted; and (b) agree that all Terms of Use, agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications would satisfy if it were in writing. The foregoing does not affect your non-waivable rights.

We may also use your email address to send you other messages, including information about the Website or the Service and special offers. You may opt out of such email by changing your account settings, using the “Unsubscribe” link in the message, or by sending an email to national@thewomens.network.

Warranty Disclaimer

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, REGARDING THE SERVICE INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, SECURITY, ACCURACY AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE MAKE NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION THAT ACCESS TO OR OPERATION OF THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE. YOU ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK OF LOSS RESULTING FROM YOUR DOWNLOADING AND/OR USE OF FILES, INFORMATION, CONTENT OR OTHER MATERIAL OBTAINED FROM THE SERVICE. SOME JURISDICTIONS LIMIT OR DO NOT PERMIT DISCLAIMERS OF WARRANTY, SO THIS PROVISION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Limitation of Damages

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE WEBSITE, THE SERVICE, ITS AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, OR EMPLOYEES, OR ITS LICENSORS OR PARTNERS, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, USE, OR DATA, OR FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, HOWEVER ARISING, THAT RESULT FROM: (A) THE USE, DISCLOSURE, OR DISPLAY OF YOUR USER CONTENT; (B) YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE; (C) THE SERVICE GENERALLY OR THE SOFTWARE OR SYSTEMS THAT MAKE THE SERVICE AVAILABLE; OR (D) ANY OTHER INTERACTIONS WITH USE OR WITH ANY OTHER USER OF THE SERVICE, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, AND EVEN IF A REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. SOME JURISDICTIONS LIMIT OR DO NOT PERMIT DISCLAIMERS OF LIABILITY, SO THIS PROVISION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT OR COULD OTHERWISE CLAIM THE PROTECTIONS OF CALIFORNIA LAW, YOU FURTHER EXPRESSLY WAIVE THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 1542 OF THE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE, WHICH THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2018, READS AS FOLLOWS: “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR.”

Modification Of Terms Of Use

We can amend these Terms of Use at any time and will update these Terms of Use in the event of any such amendments. It is your sole responsibility to check the Website from time to time to view any such changes in this agreement. Your continued use of the Website or the Service signifies your agreement to our revisions to these Terms of Use. We will endeavor to notify you of material changes to the Terms by posting a notice on our homepage and/or sending an email to the email address you provided to us upon registration. For this additional reason, you should keep your contact and profile information current. Any changes to these Terms of Use (other than as set forth in this paragraph) or waiver of our rights hereunder shall not be valid or effective except in a written agreement bearing the physical signature of one of our officers. No purported waiver or modification of this agreement on our part via telephonic or email communications shall be valid.

General Terms

If any part of this Terms of Use agreement is held or found to be invalid or unenforceable, that portion of the agreement will be construed as to be consistent with applicable law while the remaining portions of the agreement will remain in full force and effect. Any failure on our part to enforce any provision of this agreement will not be considered a waiver of our right to enforce such provision. Our rights under this agreement survive any transfer or termination of this agreement.

You agree that any cause of action related to or arising out of your relationship with TWN must commence within one year after the cause of action accrues. Otherwise, such cause of action is permanently barred.

These Terms of Use and your use of the Website are governed by the federal laws of the United States of America and the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict of law provisions.

We may assign or delegate these Terms of Use and/or our Privacy Policy, in whole or in part, to any person or entity at any time with or without your consent. You may not assign or delegate any rights or obligations under the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy without our prior written consent, and any unauthorized assignment or delegation by you is void.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THESE TERMS OF USE, UNDERSTAND THE TERMS OF USE, AND WILL BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THESE TERMS OF USE TOGETHER WITH THE PRIVACY POLICY AT [INSERT LINK TO PRIVACY POLICY] REPRESENT THE COMPLETE AND EXCLUSIVE STATEMENT OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN US AND THAT IT SUPERSEDES ANY PROPOSAL OR PRIOR AGREEMENT ORAL OR WRITTEN, AND ANY OTHER COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN US RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT.