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The following terms and conditions, together with any documents they expressly incorporate by reference (“</span><strong>Terms of Use</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">“), govern your access to and use of </span><a href="https://newventurefund.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">聽newventurefund.org</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">including any content, functionality and services offered on or through </span><a href="http://newventurefund.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">newventurefund.org</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">聽</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">(the “</span><strong>Website</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">“).</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Please read the Terms of Use carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by these Terms of Use and acknowledge our Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to these Terms of Use, you must not access or use the Website.</span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Changes to the Terms of Use</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We may revise and update these Terms of Use from time to time in our sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately when we post them and apply to all access to and use of the Website thereafter.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Your continued use of the Website following the posting of revised Terms of Use means that you accept and agree to the changes. You are expected to check this page from time to time so you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you.</span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Accessing the Website and Account Security</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We reserve the right to withdraw or amend this Website, and any service or material we provide on the Website, in our sole discretion without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason all or any part of the Website is unavailable at any time or for any period.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of the Website, or the entire Website, to users, including registered users.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You are responsible for both:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Website.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ensuring that all persons who access the Website through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of Use and comply with them.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To access the Website or some of the resources it offers, you may be asked to provide certain registration details or other information. It is a condition of your use of the Website that all the information you provide on the Website is correct, current and complete. You agree that all information you provide to register with this Website or otherwise, including, but not limited to, through the use of any interactive features on the Website, is governed by our Privacy Policy, and you consent to all actions we take with respect to your information consistent with our Privacy Policy.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you choose, or are provided with, a user name, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any other person or entity. You also acknowledge that your account is personal to you and agree not to provide any other person with access to this Website or portions of it using your user name, password or other security information. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized access to or use of your user name or password or any other breach of security. You also agree to ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. 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You must not use such marks without the prior written permission of the Company. All other names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans on this Website are the trademarks of their respective owners.</span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Prohibited Uses</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You may use the Website only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms of Use. You agree not to use the Website:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In any way that violates any applicable federal, state, local or international law or regulation (including, without limitation, any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from the US or other countries).</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with the </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fuzZk3WnnbwgP-N-2T7-1vr_KhDYo_0-/edit#heading=h.gjdgxs"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Content Standards</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">set out in these Terms of Use.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">To impersonate or attempt to impersonate the Company, a Company employee, another user or any other person or entity (including, without limitation, by using e-mail addresses associated with any of the foregoing).</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">To engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone’s use or enjoyment of the Website, or which, as determined by us, may harm the Company or users of the Website, or expose them to liability.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell, or otherwise exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of, use of, or access to the Site.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Additionally, you agree not to:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Use the Website in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, or impair the site or interfere with any other party’s use of the Website, including their ability to engage in real time activities through the Website.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Use any robot, spider, crawler or other automatic device, process or means to access the Website for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on the Website.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Use any device, software or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Website.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Introduce any viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage or disrupt any parts of the Website, the server on which the Website is stored, or any server, computer or database connected to the Website.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Otherwise attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Website.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>User Contributions</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Website may contain message boards and other interactive features (collectively, “</span><strong>Interactive Services</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">“) that allow users to post, submit, publish, display or transmit to other users or other persons (hereinafter, “</span><strong>post</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">“) content or materials (collectively, “</span><strong>User Contributions</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">“) on or through the Website.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">All User Contributions must comply with the Content Standards set out in these Terms of Use.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Any User Contribution you post to the site will be considered non-confidential and non- proprietary. By providing any User Contribution on the Website, you grant us and our licensees, successors and assigns the right to use, reproduce, modify, perform, display, distribute and otherwise disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You represent and warrant that:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You own or control all rights in and to the User Contributions and have the right to grant the license granted above to us and our licensees, successors and assigns.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">All of your User Contributions do and will comply with these Terms of Use.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You understand and acknowledge that you are responsible for any User Contributions you submit or contribute, and you, not the Company, have fully responsibility for such content, including its legality, reliability, accuracy and appropriateness.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are not responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any User Contributions posted by you or any other user of the Website.</span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Monitoring and Enforcement; Termination</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have the right to:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Remove or refuse to post any User Contributions for any or no reason in our sole discretion.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take any action with respect to any User Contribution that we deem necessary or appropriate in our sole discretion, including if we believe that such User Contribution violates the Terms of Use, including the Content Standards, infringes any intellectual property right or other right of any person or entity, threatens the personal safety of users of the Website or the public or could create liability for the Company.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /> </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Disclose your identity or other information about you to any third party who claims that material posted by you violates their rights, including their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take appropriate legal action, including without limitation, referral to law enforcement, for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Website.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Website for any or no reason, including without limitation, any violation of these Terms of Use.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Without limiting the foregoing, we have the right to fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or other information of anyone posting any materials on or through the Website. YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS THE COMPANY FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY THE COMPANY DURING OR AS A RESULT OF ITS INVESTIGATIONS AND FROM ANY ACTIONS TAKEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER THE COMPANY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">However, we do not undertake to review material before it is posted on the Website, and cannot ensure prompt removal of objectionable material after it has been posted.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Accordingly, we assume no liability for any action or inaction regarding transmissions, communications or content provided by any user or third party. We have no liability or responsibility to anyone for performance or nonperformance of the activities described in this section.</span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Content Standards</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">These content standards apply to any and all User Contributions and use of Interactive Services. User Contributions must in their entirety comply with all applicable federal, state, local and international laws and regulations. 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