PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY USING THIS SITE, YOU AGREE TO THE
TERMS OF THIS POLICY.
1. Effective Date
This Agreement was last updated on September 3, 2008.
2. Acceptance of Terms
Welcome to Gotta Mentor. The www.gottamentor.com website (the "Site")
is provided by CareerCore, Inc. under the operating brand of Gotta Mentor ("Gotta
Mentor", "we", or "us"). By using our Site, you agree to
be legally bound by these Terms of Use (the "Agreement"). We encourage
you to periodically review these Terms of Use. If you do not agree with any
of these terms, do not access or otherwise use this Site and/or the services or
any information contained on the Site.
You represent to us that you have the ability and the authority to (a) agree to
be bound by this Agreement; and (b) provide the personal information requested by
Gotta Mentor in connection with the Services. The services are not intended for
use by children. You represent to us that you are eighteen (18) years of age or
older. If you are under the age of 18, your parent or legal guardian must agree
to the terms of this Agreement on your behalf.
3. Changes in Terms of Use
This Agreement outlines the legally binding terms for your use of the Site. We reserve
the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify or otherwise alter these terms
and conditions at any time, for any reason, without notice and such modifications
will be made available on our Site. Such changes and/or modifications shall become
effective immediately upon the posting thereof. Please review this Agreement to
keep yourself apprised of any changes. Your continued use of the Site following
the posting of changes and/or modifications constitutes (a) acknowledgement by you
of our modifications, and (b) an agreement by you to abide and be bound by this
Agreement and its modifications. You may identify whether Gotta Mentor has revised
this Agreement by the Effective Date listed in Section 1 above.
4. Description of Service
Gotta Mentor is a web-based based career mentoring and guidance platform (the
“Service”) committed to helping you realize your career objectives. We do that by
helping you better leverage your social and professional networks, the Gotta Mentor
community, and experts to provide personalized career guidance. As part of our service
we provide a framework and tools to engage a small community of people who are committed
to making sure you are best prepared for your targeted career objectives. We also
help individuals, who opt-in for such service, find mentors or advisees that match
their profile criteria. A variety of information and features are available at no
charge to visitors to the Site. There are some fee-based products and services that
offer either more intensive personal coaching or higher levels of customization.
Additional features may be added and made available to you from time to time. You
understand and agree that Gotta Mentor may provide updates, new features or new
versions of the Site from time to time, with or without notice. You also understand
and agree that the Gotta Mentor Offerings may include advertisements and that these
advertisements are necessary for Gotta Mentor to provide the Services.
5. Registration
Many elements of the Site may be viewed without registration. In
order to use some of the Services offered on our Site you must register with Gotta
Mentor by filling out and submitting our registration form at www.gottamentor.com.
In submitting the registration form, you represent and warrant that the information
you provide is and agree to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. Failure
to do so or Gotta Mentor’s reasonable suspicion of such failure shall be grounds
for Gotta Mentor to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current
or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof).
During the registration process, you will be required to designate an email and
password (your “Login Credentials”). You are solely responsible in all respects
for all use of and for protecting the confidentiality of your Login Credentials.
You agree to immediately notify Gotta Mentor of any unauthorized use of your Login
Credentials and any other suspected breach of security regarding the Site. You are
responsible for changing your password if you believe your password has been stolen
or might otherwise be misused. You also agree to exit from your account at the end
of each session.
6. USER CONDUCT AND RESPONSIBILITIES
You are responsible for obtaining access to the Site and that access may involve
third party fees (such as Internet service provider or airtime charges). You are
responsible for those fees. In addition, you must provide and are responsible for
all equipment necessary to access the Site.
You may not submit automated queries to the Site. Any query sent to the Site by
an automated agent such as a software process that is capable of submitting queries
without direct human intervention will represent a violation of this Agreement.
Your use of the Site is subject to all applicable local, state, national and international
laws and regulations.
Without limitation of the foregoing, your use of the Site is subject to the following:
- You shall not use the Site to interfere with any other person's use of the Services
or attempt to use another's account without authorization.
- You shall not use the Site to falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your identity
or your affiliation with any person or entity or impersonate any person or entity.
- You shall not use the Site to solicit personal information from anyone under age
13.
- You shall not use the Site to intimidate, harass, or “stalk” another.
- You shall not hold yourself out as sponsored by, endorsed by, or
affiliated with Gotta Mentor or the Site.
- You shall not attempt to gain or gain unauthorized access to Gotta Mentor’s database
or other computer systems.
- You shall not attempt to modify, translate, adapt, edit, decompile, disassemble,
or reverse engineer any software programs used by Gotta Mentor in connection with
the Site or the Services.
- You shall not engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes
with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of the Site or Services.
If you register as a user of our Site, you represent and warrant that any materials
you transmit through or otherwise post or share through the Site are free of libel
or other unlawful material, including matter that may be construed as invasion of
privacy, violation of a right of publicity, a copyright, a patent, or a trademark
infringement, and/or theft of trade secret or any other right of a person or party
and that all necessary licenses and consents have been obtained for unrestricted
use on the Web. Without limitation, you agree to not use the Site to upload, post,
transmit, share, store or otherwise make available:
- any content that victimizes, harasses, degrades, or intimidates an individual or
group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race,
ethnicity, age, or disability;
- any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, solicitations, promotional materials,
"junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid
schemes," or any other form of solicitation;
- any private information of any third party, including, without limitation, addresses,
phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers and credit card numbers;
- any content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other
proprietary rights of any party;
- any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or
programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer
software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
- any content that would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal
offense, violate the rights of any party (including without limitation rights of
privacy and publicity), or that would otherwise create liability or violate any
local, state, national or international law;
- any content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual
or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential
information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure
agreements);
- any content that, in our sole judgment, is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits
any other person from using or enjoying the Site, or which may expose Gotta Mentor
or its users to any harm or liability of any type; or
- any information intended to promote and/or generate revenue for any third party
business activity.
7. Site Content
All content on the Site, including but not limited to designs, text, graphics, pictures,
video, information, software, music, sound and other files, and their selection
and arrangement (the "Site Content"), are the proprietary property of
Gotta Mentor, its users or its licensors with all rights reserved. No Site Content
may be modified, copied, distributed, framed, reproduced, republished, downloaded,
displayed, posted, transmitted, or sold in any form or by any means, in whole or
in part, without Gotta Mentor's prior written permission, except that the foregoing
does not apply to your own User Content (as defined below) that you legally post
on the Site. You are granted a limited license to access and use the Site and to
download or print a copy of any portion of the Site Content solely for your personal,
non-commercial use, provided that you abide by and keep all copyright or other proprietary
notices intact. Except for your own User Content, you may not republish Site Content
on any Internet, Intranet or Extranet site or incorporate the information in any
other database or compilation, and any other use of the Site Content is strictly
prohibited. Such license is subject to this Agreement and does not include use of
any data mining, robots or similar data gathering or extraction methods. Any use
of the Site or the Site Content other than as specifically authorized herein, without
the prior written permission of Gotta Mentor, is strictly prohibited and will terminate
the license granted herein. Such unauthorized use may also violate applicable laws
including without limitation copyright and trademark laws and applicable communications
regulations and statutes. Unless explicitly stated herein, nothing in this Agreement
shall be construed as conferring any license to intellectual property rights, whether
by estoppel, implication or otherwise. This license is revocable at any time without
notice and with or without cause.
8. User Content
You are solely responsible for any and all profiles, comments, messages, notes,
text, documents, presentations, videos, animation files, listings, and other content
that you upload, publish or display (hereinafter, "post") on or through
the Site, or transmit to or share with other users ("User Content"). You
may not post, transmit, or share User Content on the Site or service that you did
not create or that you do not have permission to post. You understand and agree
that Gotta Mentor reserves the right to, but is not obligated to, review the Site
and may refuse to post, modify or remove, at its discretion, any Site Content or
User Content in its sole discretion, for any reason or no reason, including without
limitation User Content that in the sole judgment of Gotta Mentor violates this
Agreement or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights,
harm, or threaten the safety of users or others. You are solely responsible at your
sole cost and expense for creating backup copies and replacing any User Content
you post or store on the Site or provide to Gotta Mentor. When you post User Content
to the Site, you authorize and direct us to make such copies thereof as we deem
necessary in order to facilitate the posting and storage of the User Content on
the Site. We do not claim any ownership of the User Content. You may have an option
to mark the content you upload as Private ("Private Content") or allow
it to be used by other users of the Site ("Public Content"). In case of
Public Content, including but not limited to your public profile, comments, messages,
notes, text, documents, presentations, videos, animation files, listings, and other
content, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the
right to grant, to Gotta Mentor and its affiliates and users a royalty-free, perpetual,
irrevocable, sublicenseable (through multiple tiers), fully paid, transferable,
worldwide, non-exclusive right (including any moral rights) and license to use,
reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute,
communicate to the public, publicly perform and display such Public Content (in
whole or in part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or
technology whether now known or later developed, and distribute such Public Content
for any purpose on or in connection with the Site or the promotion thereof. You
also hereby grant each user of the Site (subject to such limitations, if any, that
may apply with respect to Private Content) a non-exclusive license to access your
User Content through the Site, and to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative
works of, and display such User Content as permitted through the functionality of
the Site and under this Agreement. You also warrant that the holder of any rights,
including moral rights in such content, has completely and effectively waived all
such rights and validly and irrevocably granted to you the right to grant the license
stated above. You also permit any user to access, display, view, store and reproduce
such User Content for the purposes contemplated by the Site. Subject to the foregoing,
the owner of such User Content placed on the Site retains any and all other rights
that may exist in such content which are not otherwise limited or modified by the
grant of this license.
You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. However, you acknowledge
that in case the User Content was public in nature Gotta Mentor or users may retain
such User Content in their own accounts. Further you also acknowledge that Gotta
Mentor may retain archived copies of your User Content whether Public Content or
Private Content.
9. Limitations on Service
You acknowledge that Gotta Mentor may establish limits concerning use of the Site,
including without limitation, the maximum number of days that User Content will
be retained by the Site, the maximum number and size of postings, mail messages,
or other User Content that may be transmitted or stored by the Site, and the frequency
with which you may access the Site. You agree that Gotta Mentor has no responsibility
or liability for the deletion or failure to store any User Content maintained or
transmitted by the Site. You acknowledge that Gotta Mentor reserves the right to
log off accounts that are inactive for an extended period of time. You acknowledge
that Gotta Mentor reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue the Site
(or any part thereof) with or without notice, and that Gotta Mentor shall not be
liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance
of the Site or Services.
10. Links to Other Websites and Content
The Site contains (or you may be sent through the Site) links to other web sites
("Third Party Sites") which may contain articles, photographs, text, graphics,
pictures, designs, music, sound, video, information, software and other content
belonging to or originating from third parties (the "Third Party Content").
Such Third Party Sites and Third Party Content are not investigated, monitored or
checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by Gotta Mentor, and Gotta
Mentor is not responsible for any Third Party Sites accessed through
the Site or any Third Party Content linked or posted through the Site, including
without limitation the content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions, reliability,
legality, or policies of or contained in the Third Party Sites or the Third Party
Content. Inclusion of or linking to any Third Party Site or any Third Party Content
does not imply approval or endorsement thereof by Gotta Mentor. If you decide to
leave the Site and access the Third Party Sites, you do so at your own risk and
you should be aware that our terms and policies no longer govern. You should review
the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices,
of any site to which you navigate from the Site.
11. Submissions
You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback
or other information about the Site ("Submissions"), provided by you to
Gotta Mentor are non-confidential and shall become the sole property of Gotta Mentor.
Gotta Mentor shall own exclusive rights, including all intellectual property rights,
and shall be entitled to the unrestricted use and dissemination of these Submissions
for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation
to you.
12. Privacy Policy
We care about the privacy of our users. Use of the Site is governed by our Privacy
Policy http://www.gottamentor.com By using the
Site or the Service, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to
and processed in the United States.
13. Proprietary Rights
Gotta Mentor and its licensors have expended substantial time, effort, and funds
to create Gotta Mentor and its Services. The Site is protected to the maximum extent
permitted by copyright laws and international treaties. Content displayed on or
through the Site is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation,
pursuant to copyrights laws, and international conventions. No copyrighted material
or other content may be reproduced, modified, used to create derivative works, displayed,
performed, published, distributed, disseminated, broadcasted or circulated to any
third party (including, without limitation, the display and distribution of the
Content via a third party website or other networked computer environment) without
the express prior written consent of Gotta Mentor. Use of Gotta Mentor and/or its
licensors' content is only permitted with their express written permission.
All contents on the Site are: Copyright ©; 2008 Gotta Mentor or its partners. All
rights reserved. Gotta Mentor and the Gotta Mentor logo are trademarks of CareerCore,
Inc.. All other trademarks are property of their respective companies. All trademarks
and registered trademarks are protected by US and international trademark laws.
14. Copyright Complaints
If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright
infringement, please provide Gotta Mentor's designated agent the following written
information: (1) An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to
act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; (2) A description of the copyrighted
work that you claim has been infringed upon; (3) A description of where the material
that you claim is infringing is located on the Site; (4) Your address, telephone
number, and e-mail address; (5) A statement by you that you have a good-faith belief
that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the
law; and (6) A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information
in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to
act on the copyright owner's behalf.
Gotta Mentor's Designated Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on
its Site can be reached as follows:
Ronald Mitchell
GottaMentor
One Battery Park Plaza 27th floor
New York, NY 10004
T: 646-291-6735
15. Repeat Infringers
Gotta Mentor may terminate user accounts of registered users who are deemed, in
Gotta Mentor’s sole discretion, to be repeat infringers of any intellectual property
rights of others or who violate provisions of this Agreement.
16. Notice
All notices to a party shall be in writing and shall be made either via e-mail or
conventional mail. Gotta Mentor may broadcast notices or messages through its website
to inform you of changes to this Agreement, the Site, or other matters of importance.
Such broadcasts shall constitute notice to you.
17. Contests, Sweepstakes and Other Activitiesm
Gotta Mentor provides Rules of Participation for certain activities on this Site
including, without limitation, contests, sweepstakes and electronic postcards by
Gotta Mentor and in conjunction with third parties. This Agreement is incorporated
by reference to the specific Rules of Participation which appear in connection with
information about a particular activity. To the extent that any conflict exists
between this Agreement and specific Rules of Participation, this Agreement shall
govern.
18. Disclaimers
Gotta Mentor does not represent, warrant or guarantee in any way that following
our guidelines and recommendations ensures job offers, career success, or promotions.
Any information or advice found in our Site or Services is subjective and should
not be used as your sole source of information for career advancement. You acknowledge
and agree that this Site and/or the Services may include certain errors, omissions,
or outdated information.
Gotta Mentor is not responsible or liable in any manner for any User Content or
Third Party Content linked to or posted on the Site, whether linked, posted or caused
by users of the Site or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or
utilized in the Site. Gotta Mentor does not control and is not responsible for what
users contribute to the Site and is not responsible for any offensive, inappropriate,
obscene, unlawful or otherwise objectionable content you may encounter on the Site
or in connection with any User Content or Third Party Content. Gotta Mentor is not
responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the Site.
The Site may be temporarily unavailable from time to time for maintenance or other
reasons. Gotta Mentor assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption,
deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure,
theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, user communications
or User Content. Under no circumstances will Gotta Mentor be responsible for any
loss or damage, including any loss or damage to any User Content or personal injury
or death, resulting from anyone's use of the Site, any User Content or Third Party
Content linked to or posted on or through the Site, or any interactions between
users of the Site, whether online or offline.
Gotta Mentor reserves the right to change any and all content contained in the Site
or offered through the Site at any time without notice. Reference to any products,
services, processes or other information, by trade name, trademark, manufacturer,
supplier or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation
thereof, or any affiliation therewith, by Gotta Mentor.
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:
- THE SITE, AND ALL CONTENT AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN THE SITE ARE PROVIDED "AS
IS," WITH NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER.
- EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH ON OUR SITE, GOTTA MENTOR AND ITS LICENSORS DISCLAIM
ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY
WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
- GOTTA MENTOR AND ITS LICENSORS MAKE NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION REGARDING (i)
ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE OFFERED OR SOLD THROUGH THE SITE, (ii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY
BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SITE, (iii) THE CURRENCY, ACCURACY, QUALITY, CONTENT,
COMPLETENESS, LEGALITY, OPERABILITY, AVAILABILITY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY INFORMATION
OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, (iv) THE DELETION, FAILURE TO STORE, MISDELIVERY, OR
UNTIMELY DELIVERY OF ANY INFORMATION OR MATERIAL, OR (v) THAT THE SITE WILL MEET
ANY OF USER'S REQUIREMENTS, BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR FREE.
- USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. ANY MATERIAL AND/OR DATA DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE
OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU
WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA
THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF SUCH MATERIAL AND/OR DATA.
- NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM GOTTA MENTOR
OR THROUGH THE SITE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY MADE HEREIN.
19. Limitation of Liability
GOTTA MENTOR ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OVER WHETHER THE CONTENT SUBMITTED BY OTHER
USERS OR THIRD PARTIES IS QUESTIONABLE, UNINTENDED, OR OBJECTIONABLE. TO THE FULLEST
EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL GOTTA
MENTOR, ITS AFFILIATES, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS,
LICENSORS, REPRESENTATIVES, AND THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS TO THE SITE BE LIABLE TO YOU
FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL
DAMAGES OR OTHER INJURY ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF
GOTTA MENTOR SERVICES OR THE SITE, WHETHER RESULTING IN WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM BREACH
OF CONTRACT, TORTIOUS BEHAVIOR, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN
IF GOTTA MENTOR, ITS AFFILIATES, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES,
AGENTS, LICENSORS, REPRESENTATIVES, AND THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS TO THE SITE HAVE BEEN
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES.
SUCH LIMITATION OF LIABILITY SHALL APPLY:
- WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE OFFERED OR SOLD THROUGH THE
SITE, USE OR MISUSE OF AND RELIANCE ON THE SITE, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE SITE,
OR FROM THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, OR TERMINATION OF THE SITE (INCLUDING SUCH
DAMAGES INCURRED BY THIRD PARTIES).
- WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF ANY GOODS, SERVICES, INFORMATION,
OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE SITE OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS
PROVIDED IN THE SITE.
- WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO THE COSTS OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES,
LOST PROFITS, OR LOST DATA.
- WITH RESPECT TO THE PERFORMANCE OR NON-PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE OR ANY INFORMATION
OR MERCHANDISE THAT APPEARS ON, OR IS LINKED OR RELATED IN ANY WAY TO, THE SITE.
- NOTWITHSTANDING ANY FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE OF ANY LIMITED REMEDY AND TO THE
FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT SHALL GOTTA MENTOR’S LIABILITY TO YOU
FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE) EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU, IF ANY, FOR ACCESSING THIS SITE.
20. Termination
Gotta Mentor may, in its sole discretion, terminate your password, account (or any
part thereof) or access to or use of the Site, remove or discard any content within
the Site, or otherwise limit your access to this Site and its Content, for any reason,
including, without limitation, your failure to pay any fees or other amount due
to Gotta Mentor, or if Gotta Mentor believes that you have breached or violated
or acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of these Terms of Use or any
agreement between you and Gotta Mentor. Gotta Mentor may also in its sole discretion
and at any time discontinue providing the Site or any related services, or any part
thereof, with or without notice. You agree that any termination or limitation of
your access to the Site under any provision of these Terms of Use may be effected
without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that Gotta Mentor may immediately
deactivate or delete your account and all related information and files in your
account and/or bar any further access to such files or the Site. Further, you agree
that Gotta Mentor shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination
or limitation of your access to the Site or any related services. All fees and other
amounts paid to Gotta Mentor by any User for access to or use of the Site, any features
or functionality of the Site or any related services are non-refundable, except
as otherwise expressly provided herein or in any other written agreement between
Gotta Mentor and such User.
21. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless, Gotta Mentor, its affiliates,
and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, representatives,
and third party providers to the Site from and against any and all losses, expenses,
damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or in connection
with any User Content, any Third Party Content you link to, post or share on or
through the Site, your use of the Site, your conduct in connection with the Site
or with other users of the Site, or any violation of this Agreement or of any law
or the rights of any third party by you. Gotta Mentor reserves the right to assume,
at its sole expense, the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to
indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with Gotta Mentor
in asserting any available defenses.
22. General
Gotta Mentor controls and operates this Site from its headquarters in the United
States and makes no representation that the Site, the content therein, or the Services
are appropriate for use in locations other than the United States. If you use this
Site or the Services from outside the United States, you are entirely responsible
for compliance with applicable local laws, including but not limited to the export
and import regulations of other countries in relation to the content. This Agreement
shall be governed by New York law and controlling United States federal law, without
regard to the choice or conflicts of law provisions of any jurisdiction. You shall
bring all disputes, actions, claims, or causes of action related to this Agreement
or in connection with this Site only in the federal and state courts located in
New York county, New York. You agree that any cause of action arising out of or
related to this Agreement must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action
arose; otherwise, such cause of action is permanently barred. Some jurisdictions
may prohibit the shortening of the time period in which a cause of action must be
brought. In all such jurisdictions, the applicable time period shall be the minimum
allowed by law. If any provision of this Agreement is held by a court of competent
jurisdiction to be contrary to law, then such provision(s) shall be construed, as
nearly as possible, to reflect the intentions of the parties, with all other provisions
remaining in full force and effect. The failure of Gotta Mentor to enforce any right
or provision in this Agreement shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision
unless acknowledged and agreed to by Gotta Mentor in writing. No joint venture,
partnership, employment or agency relationship exists between you and Gotta Mentor.
These Terms comprise the entire agreement between you and Gotta Mentor and supersede
all prior or contemporaneous negotiations, discussions or agreements, if any, between
the parties regarding the subject matter contained herein. The section titles in
this Agreement are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.