Terms of Service
Nextinit online idea development platform and collaboration software
Effective Date: July, 1st. 2015.
THIS IS AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU OR THE ENTITY THAT YOU REPRESENT (hereinafter “You” or “Your”) AND NEXTINIT.Inc (hereinafter “Nextinit”) GOVERNING YOUR NON-EXCLUSIVE USE OF NEXTINIT’S ONLINE IDEA DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM AND COLLABORATION SOFTWARE.
- Parts of this Agreement
This Agreement consists of the following terms and conditions (hereinafter the “General Terms”) and terms and conditions, if any, specific to use of individual Services (hereinafter the “Service Specific Terms”). The General Terms and Service Specific Terms are collectively referred to as the “Terms”. In the event of a conflict between the General Terms and Service Specific Terms, the Service Specific Terms shall prevail. - Acceptance of the Terms
Usage of the Services implies full acceptance of the General Terms and any applicable Service Specific Terms. You understand that you must be of legal age to enter into a binding agreement in order to accept the Terms. If you are not of legal age and/or do not agree to the General Terms, please do not use any of our Services. If you agree to the General Terms and do not agree to any Service Specific Terms, please do not use the corresponding Service. You can accept the Terms by checking a checkbox or clicking on a button indicating your acceptance of the terms or by actually using the Services. In addition to this, acceptance by you or the entity that you represent of a “Nextinit Platform License Proposal” or a “Nextinit Platform License and Customization Proposal” implies full acceptance of the General Terms and any applicable Service Specific Terms. - Description of Service
We provide an on-line platform that comprises an array of services and features for idea generation and development as well as for on-line collaboration («Service» or «Services»). You may use the Services for your personal and business use or for internal business purpose in the organization that you represent. You may connect to the Services using any Internet browser supported by the Services. You are responsible for obtaining access to the Internet and the equipment necessary to use the Services. You can create and edit content with your user account and if you choose to do so, you can publish and share such content. - Subscription to Beta Service
We may offer certain Services as closed or open beta services («Beta Service» or “Beta Services”) for the purpose of testing and evaluation. You agree that we have the sole authority and discretion to determine the period of time for testing and evaluation of Beta Services. We will be the sole judge of the success of such testing and the decision, if any, to offer the Beta Services as commercial services. You will be under no obligation to acquire a subscription to use any paid Service as a result of your subscription to any Beta Service. We reserve the right to fully or partially discontinue, at any time and from time to time, temporarily or permanently, any of the Beta Services with or without notice to you. You agree that Nextinit will not be liable to you or to any third party for any harm related to, arising out of, or caused by the modification, suspension or discontinuance of any of the Beta Services for any reason. - Modification of Terms of Service
We may modify the Terms upon notice to you at any time through a service announcement or by sending email to your primary email address. If we make significant changes to the Terms that affect your rights, you will be provided with at least 30 days advance notice of the changes by email to your primary email address. You may terminate your use of the Services by providing Nextinit notice by email within 30 days of being notified of the availability of the modified Terms if the Terms are modified in a manner that substantially affects your rights in connection with use of the Services. In the event of such termination, you will be entitled to prorated refund of the unused portion of any prepaid fees. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of any change to the Terms will be deemed to be your agreement to the modified Terms. - User Sign up Obligations
You are required to sign up for a user account by providing all required information in order to access or use the Services. If you represent an organization and wish to use the Services for corporate internal use, we recommend that you, and all other users from your organization, sign up for user accounts by providing your corporate contact information. In particular, we recommend that you use your corporate email address. You agree to: a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the sign up process; and b) maintain and promptly update the information provided during sign up to keep it true, accurate, current, and complete. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, outdated, or incomplete, or if Nextinit has reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, outdated, or incomplete, Nextinit may terminate your user account and refuse current or future use of any or all of the Services. - Organization Accounts and Administrators
When you sign up for an account for your organization you may specify one or more administrators. The administrators will have the right to configure the Services based on your requirements and manage end users in your organization account. If your organization account is created and configured on your behalf by a third party, it is likely that such third party has assumed administrator role for your organization. Make sure that you enter into a suitable agreement with such third party specifying such party’s roles and restrictions as an administrator of your organization account.You are responsible for i) ensuring confidentiality of your organization account password, ii) appointing competent individuals as administrators for managing your organization account, and iii) ensuring that all activities that occur in connection with your organization account comply with this Agreement and any applicable Service Specific Terms. You understand that Nextinit is not responsible for account administration and internal management of the Services for you.You are responsible for taking necessary steps for ensuring that your organization does not lose control of the administrator accounts. You may specify a process to be followed for recovering control in the event of such loss of control of the administrator accounts by sending an email to legal@nextinit.com, provided that the process is acceptable to Nextinit. In the absence of any specified administrator account recovery process, Nextinit may provide control of an administrator account to an individual providing proof satisfactory to Nextinit demonstrating authorization to act on behalf of the organization. You agree not to hold Nextinit liable for the consequences of any action taken by Nextinit in good faith in this regard. - Intellectual Property
All the software and contents of the Services, including: html code, texts, animations, images etc. in addition to the trademarks, trade names and/or distinctive marks displayed are property of NEXTINIT or of third parties and are protected by national and international intellectual and industrial property laws. Any use of them outside of the Services, including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication, arrangement or representation of any part thereof, is strictly forbidden without express written consent from NEXTINIT. All rights not expressly granted in this Agreement are expressly reserved by NEXTINIT.You hereby acknowledge that NEXTINIT owns all rights, titles and interests in and pertaining to the Services, its Documentation and all Intellectual Property Rights associated therewith, including the layout (look and feel), design, texts and organization of the Services and any reports, forms or templates or management information and/or statistical usage data generated by the Services. Users shall not acquire any right, title or interest in the Services, the Documentation and all Intellectual Property Rights associated therewith, including without limitation the layout (look and feel), design, texts and organization of the Services and any reports or management information and/or statistical usage data generated by them. - Personal Information and Privacy
All personal information you provide to Nextinit at sign-up and through the Services is governed by Nextinit’s Privacy Policy. Your election to use the Service indicates your acceptance of the terms of the Nextinit Privacy Policy. You are responsible for maintaining confidentiality of your username, password and any other sensitive information. You are responsible for all activities that occur in your user account and you agree to inform Nextinit immediately of any unauthorized use of your user account by email to accounts@nextinit.com. We are not responsible for any loss or damage to you or to any third party incurred as a result of any unauthorized access and/or use of your user account, or otherwise. - Communications from Nextinit
The Service may include certain communications from Nextinit, such as service announcements, administrative messages and newsletters. You understand that these communications shall be considered part of using the Services. As part of our policy to provide you with a reasonable level of privacy, we also provide you the option of opting out from receiving newsletters from us. However, you will not be able to opt-out from receiving service announcements and administrative messages. - Complaints
If we receive a complaint from any person against you with respect to your activities as part of use of the Services, we will forward the complaint to the primary email address of your user account. You must respond to the complainant directly within 10 days of receiving the complaint forwarded by us and copy Nextinit in the communication. If you do not respond to the complainant within 10 days from the date of our email to you, we may disclose your name and contact information to the complainant for enabling the complainant to take legal action against you. You understand that your failure to respond to the forwarded complaint within the 10 days’ time limit will be construed as your consent to disclosure of your name and contact information by Nextinit to the complainant. - Fees and Payments
The Services are available under subscription plans of various durations. Your subscription will be automatically renewed at the end of each subscription period unless you downgrade your paid subscription plan to a free plan or inform us that you do not wish to renew the subscription If you do not wish to renew the subscription, you must inform us at least seven days prior to the renewal date. If you have not downgraded to a free plan and if you have not informed us that you do not wish to renew the subscription, you will be presumed to have authorized Nextinit to charge the subscription fee. From time to time, we may change the price of any Service or charge for use of Services that are currently available free of charge. Any increase in charges will not apply until the expiry of your then current billing cycle. You will not be charged for using any Service unless you have opted for a paid subscription plan. - Restrictions on Use
In addition to all other terms and conditions of this Agreement, you shall not: (i) transfer the Services or otherwise make it available to any third party; (ii) provide any service based on the Services without prior written permission; (iii) use the third party links to sites without agreeing to their website terms & conditions; (iv) post links to third party sites or use their logo, company name, etc. without their prior written permission; (v) publish any personal or confidential information belonging to any person or entity without obtaining consent from such person or entity; (vi) use the Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, impair or harm any server, network, computer system, resource of Nextinit; (vii) violate any applicable local, state, national or international law; and (viii) create a false identity to mislead any person as to the identity or origin of any communication. - Spamming and Illegal Activities
You agree to be solely responsible for the contents of your transmissions through the Services. You agree not to use the Services for illegal purposes or for the transmission of material that is unlawful, defamatory, harassing, libelous, invasive of another’s privacy, abusive, threatening, harmful, vulgar, pornographic, obscene, or is otherwise objectionable, offends religious sentiments, promotes racism, contains viruses or malicious code, or that which infringes or may infringe intellectual property or other rights of another. You agree not to use the Services for the transmission of «junk mail», «spam», «chain letters», «phishing» or unsolicited mass distribution of email. We reserve the right to terminate your access to the Services if there are reasonable grounds to believe that you have used the Services for any illegal or unauthorized activity. Inactive User Accounts Policy. We reserve the right to terminate unpaid user accounts that are inactive for a continuous period of 120 days. In the event of such termination, all data associated with such user account will be deleted. We will provide you prior notice of such termination and option to back-up your data. The data deletion policy may be implemented with respect to any or all of the Services. Each Service will be considered an independent and separate service for the purpose of calculating the period of inactivity. In other words, activity in one of the Services is not sufficient to keep your user account in another Service active. In case of accounts with more than one user, if at least one of the users is active, the account will not be considered inactive. - Data Ownership
We respect your right to ownership of content created or stored by you. You own the content created or stored by you. Unless specifically permitted by you, your use of the Services does not grant Nextinit the license to use, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish or distribute the content created by you or stored in your user account for Nextinit’s commercial, marketing or any similar purpose. But you grant Nextinit permission to access, copy, distribute, store, transmit, reformat, publicly display and publicly perform the content of your user account solely as required for the purpose of providing the Services to you. For procedure relating to complaints of illegality or infringement of third party rights in content transmitted or published using the Services, click here. If you wish to protest any blocking or removal of content by Nextinit, you may do so in the manner provided here. - Sample files and Applications
Nextinit may provide sample files and applications for the purpose of demonstrating the possibility of using the Services effectively for specific purposes. The information contained in any such sample files and applications consists of random data. Nextinit makes no warranty, either express or implied, as to the accuracy, usefulness, completeness or reliability of the information or the sample files and applications. Trademark. Nextinit, the Nextinit logo, the names of individual Services and their logos are trademarks of Nextinit.inc or its affiliates. You agree not to display or use, in any manner, the Nextinit trademarks, without Nextinit’s prior permission. - Cookie usage notice
We use «cookies» within the services for the purpose of permitting and user interaction with it. Furthermore, the statistical services – ours or from third parties’ -, used by the Services use «cookies» for the sole purpose of establishing metrics and patterns of site and Service usage. Access to and usage of the Services necessarily implies your consent to the use of «cookies» by NEXTINIT and/or its service providers. - Disclaimer of Warranties
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE USE OF THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN AS-IS-AND-AS-AVAILABLE BASIS. NEXTINIT EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.NEXTINIT MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR FREE. USE OF ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICES SHALL BE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM, MOBILE TELEPHONE, WIRELESS DEVICE OR DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICES OR THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER WRITTEN OR ORAL, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM NEXTINIT, ITS EMPLOYEES OR REPRESENTATIVES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TERMS. - Limitation of Liability
YOU AGREE THAT NEXTINIT AND/OR ITS AFFILIATE COMPANIES SHALL, IN NO EVENT, BE LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR OTHER LOSS OR DAMAGE WHATSOEVER OR FOR LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, COMPUTER FAILURE, LOSS OF BUSINESS INFORMATION, OR OTHER LOSS ARISING OUT OF OR CAUSED BY YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, EVEN IF NEXTINIT HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. IN NO EVENT SHALL NEXTINIT’S ENTIRE LIABILITY TO YOU IN RESPECT OF ANY SERVICE, WHETHER DIRECT OR INDIRECT, EXCEED THE FEES PAID BY YOU TOWARDS SUCH SERVICE. - Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Nextinit, its officers, directors, employees, suppliers, and affiliates, from and against any losses, damages, fines and expenses (including attorney’s fees and costs) arising out of or relating to any claims that you have used the Services in violation of another party’s rights, in violation of any law, in violations of any provisions of the Terms, or any other claim related to your use of the Services, except where such use is authorized by Nextinit - Arbitration
Any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to the Terms shall be settled by binding arbitration in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association. Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim or controversy of any other party. The decision of the arbitrator shall be final and unappealable. The arbitration shall be conducted in Redwood City, California and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered into any court having jurisdiction thereof. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, Nextinit may at any time seek injunctions or other forms of equitable relief from any court of competent jurisdiction. - Suspension and Termination
We may suspend your user account or temporarily disable access to whole or part of any Service in the event of any suspected illegal activity, extended periods of inactivity or requests by law enforcement or other government agencies. Objections to suspension or disabling of user accounts should be made to legal@nextinit.com within thirty days of being notified about the suspension. We may terminate a suspended or disabled user account after thirty days. We will also terminate your user account on your request.In addition, we reserve the right to terminate your user account and deny the Services upon reasonable belief that you have violated the Terms and to terminate your access to any Beta Service in case of unexpected technical issues or discontinuation of the Beta Service. You have the right to terminate your user account if Nextinit breaches its obligations under these Terms and in such event, you will be entitled to prorated refund of any prepaid fees. Termination of user account will include denial of access to all Services, deletion of information in your user account such as your email address and password and deletion of all data in your user account.