EquityShare Terms & Conditions

Terms of Service

EquityShare, LLC. and it's affiliates (together, "EquityShare," "we," "us," "our" or the "Company") operate the website located at equityShare.ai. Our mission is to connect entrepreneurs ("Founders") who are working on innovative new businesses ("Startups") with people who may be able to provide financing, advice and other support to those Startup ("Investors"). EquityShare also provides supplementary materials that educate both Founders and Investors about the nature of entrepreneurship, the process and perils of investing in startup companies and "crowdfunding" – the funding of a project or venture by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people. The services, features, content or applications that may be offered from time to time by EquityShare in connection with the Site and/or EquityShare's business, including EquityShare Cash are collectively referred to as the "Services."

1. Acceptance of the Terms of Service

By accessing the Site and/or using the Services, you agree to be bound by all of the provisions of the Terms of Service (the "TOS"). IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE TOS, OR IF YOU ARE NOT ELIGIBLE, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO ACCESS THE SITE OR USE THE SERVICES.

If you are not a resident of the European Union, this TOS provides that all disputes between you and EquityShare will be resolved by BINDING ARBITRATION. YOU AGREE TO GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT TO GO TO COURT to assert or defend your rights under this contract, except for matters that may be taken to small claims court. Your rights will be determined by a NEUTRAL ARBITRATOR and NOT a judge or jury, and your claims cannot be brought as a class action. Please review Section 15.3 ("Dispute Resolution") for the details regarding your agreement to arbitrate any disputes with EquityShare.

As used in the TOS, the terms "you" and "your" mean each individual or entity that accesses, browses or uses the Site and/or the Services in any manner. If you are accessing the Site and/or using the Services on behalf of an entity, you represent and warrant to EquityShare that you have the authority to bind the entity you represent to the TOS. Your agreement to this TOS will be treated as the agreement of the entity you represent.

EquityShare may modify the TOS or add or remove terms at any time, and each such modification, addition or deletion will be effective immediately upon posting on the Site. Your use of the Site or the Services following any such posted modification, addition or deletion constitutes your agreement to be bound by and your acceptance of the TOS as so modified. It is therefore important that you review the TOS regularly. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL OF THE TERMS OF THE MODIFIED TOS, YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO ACCESS THE SITE AND/OR USE THE SERVICES, AND YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY DISCONTINUE DOING SO

2. Privacy Policy (Additional Terms).

Use of the Site and the Services is subject to the EquityShare Privacy Policy (the "Privacy Policy"). The terms of the Privacy Policy are incorporated into the TOS by this reference. (To view the Privacy Policy, click here)

Your access to and/or use of certain portions of the Site and certain of the Services will require you to accept terms and conditions applicable to such Services which are in addition to the terms of the TOS and will be presented to you for your acceptance when you sign up for such Services (the "Additional Terms"). For Investors, "Additional Terms" includes the Investor Agreement. For Founders and Startups, "Additional Terms" includes the Startup Agreement. The TOS, the Privacy Policy and the Additional Terms (collectively, the "User Agreements") set forth the terms and conditions that apply to your use of the Site and the Services. To the extent there is any conflict between the TOS and any Additional Terms, the Additional Terms will prevail.

3. Eligibility

You may only use the Site and the Services if you are at least 13 years of age. If you are under the age of 18 or under the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which you are located, you may only use the Site and the Services under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian. You may not use the Site if you are under 13 years of age. EquityShare reserves the right to require you to provide EquityShare with proof of your age and, if applicable, approval of your use of the Site and the Services by your parent/legal guardian. EquityShare may terminate your access to and use of the Site and the Services without warning if it determines that you do not meet the foregoing eligibility requirements.

In addition to the eligibility requirements in the TOS, your use of certain Services may be subject to eligibility requirements set forth in the Additional Terms.

4. Access to the Site and the Services

4.1 General Access.

Subject to your compliance with the Agreement, EquityShare hereby grants to you a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive right to access and use its proprietary, commercially available, hosted software product and related documentation via a Web-browser or mobile application for use during the term of the Agreement. EquityShare hosts and retains control over the software and only makes it available for access and use by you over the Internet through a Web-browser or mobile application. Nothing in this Agreement obligates EquityShare to deliver or make available any copies of computer programs or code from the software to you, whether in object code or source code form. You may not rent, lease, distribute, or resell the software, or use the software as the basis for developing a competitive solution (or contract with a third party to do so), or remove or alter any of the logos, trademark, patent or copyright notices, confidentiality or proprietary legends or other notices or markings that are on or in the software.

4.2 Registered Users.

In order to access or use certain Services, you must become a "Registered User" by creating an account (an "Account") and choosing a password that you will use to access your Account. By registering, you represent and warrant to the Company that all registration and other information you submit to or through the Site is truthful, accurate, current and complete, and you agree to immediately provide corrected information if any of the submitted information shall no longer be truthful, accurate, current and complete. You further represent and warrant that your use of the Site and the Services does not violate any applicable laws, rules or regulations. Without limiting any of EquityShare's other available legal remedies, if you provide any registration or other information that is untrue, inaccurate, or incomplete, or EquityShare has reasonable grounds to suspect that such is the case, EquityShare may immediately, and without notice to you, suspend or terminate your Account and refuse any and all use by you of the Site and the Services. Your registration on the Site and your use of the Site and the Services are void where prohibited.

You are solely responsible for safeguarding the confidentiality of your password and for any and all use of your Account and password, whether or not authorized by you. Although EquityShare will not be liable for any of your losses that are caused by any unauthorized use of your Account, you may be liable for the losses of EquityShare or others due to such unauthorized use. If you suspect any unauthorized use of your Account or unauthorized access to your password, please contact EquityShare immediately at support@EquityShare.com. You do not have the right to transfer your Account to any individual or entity and EquityShare reserves the right to remove or reclaim your Account if EquityShare determines, in its sole discretion, that such action is appropriate under the circumstances. You agree that you will not create an Account for any individual other than yourself (or, if applicable, the entity you represent). As a Registered User, you agree that EquityShare may electronically provide you (via email or postings or links on the Site) with invoices, documents, notices and other communications regarding the Site, the Services and/or your use thereof, as well as special offers, promotions, commercial advertisements, marketing materials, etc. You agree that EquityShare may send the foregoing communications to you via your Account or any email address(es) which you provide to EquityShare as part of your Account registration or otherwise.

5. Use of the Site and Services

5.1 Generally

5.1.1. You agree that you will use the Services solely in a manner consistent with this Agreement and the EquityShare mission described above. You assume all risk when using the Site and the Services, and you acknowledge that the Company cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from your use of the Site and the Services.

5.1.2. While some of the Services relate to legal, tax, investment or accounting matters, neither we nor any of the professionals providing such content are providing professional advice to you, and you acknowledge that there is no professional relationship (including without limitation any attorney-client relationship) between you and any of the same, unless you and such party specifically agree otherwise.

5.1.3. The information and services provided on the Site are not provided to, and may not be used by, any person or entity in any jurisdiction where the provision or use thereof would be contrary to applicable laws, rules or regulations of any governmental authority or where EquityShare is not authorized to provide such information or services. Some products and services described in the Site may not be available in all jurisdictions or to all users.

5.1.4. You represent and warrant to EquityShare that: you own all rights in and to the content posted by you on, through or in connection with the Site or the Services ("User Content"), or otherwise have all the rights, power and authority legally required to grant EquityShare the rights in your User Content pursuant to the TOS and the Additional Terms; and the posting of your User Content on or through the Site does not violate the TOS or violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, intellectual property rights (including, without limitation, copyrights and trademarks), contract rights or any other rights of any person or entity, whether or not such person or entity is depicted or appears/performs in your User Content. You agree that you are solely responsible for the User Content that you post on or through the Site and any material or information that you transmit to other users of the Site or the Services.

5.2 You agree that EquityShare has the right to perform all technical functions necessary to offer the Services, including, but not limited to, processing and transmitting email communications to and from you, and transcoding and/or reformatting your User Content. You do not have the right to use, copy or distribute any of the content posted on the Site, except as expressly authorized by the TOS and the Additional Terms. Any violation by you of the forgoing prohibitions may result in the termination of your Account and your right to use the Site and the Services.

5.3 Your Conduct When Using the Site and the Services

5.3.1. As a condition of your access to the Site and use of the Services, you are prohibited from taking any action that would violate the content and conduct standards set forth in Section 6 below. In addition and not in limitation of the prohibited actions set forth in Section 6 below, you agree that you will not (a) employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud or (b) engage in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person.

5.3.2. EquityShare reserves the right, but is under no obligation or duty, to at any time, and without notice, monitor activity on the Site to determine compliance with the TOS or to comply with any law, regulation or authorized government request. You hereby specifically agree to such monitoring. In the event that EquityShare does monitor the Site or the Services, EquityShare makes no representation or warranty that EquityShare will take any action whatsoever in connection with any of the monitored activities and EquityShare assumes no liability with respect thereto

5.4 Your Interactions with Other Users

5.4.1. EquityShare uses various techniques to verify the accuracy of the information provided by users. However, in view of the limitations in verification on the Internet, EquityShare cannot confirm the identity of users. We encourage you to use the various tools and content available on the Site, as well as elsewhere, to evaluate the users with whom you are dealing.

5.4.2. You acknowledge that there are risks of dealing with other users acting under false pretenses, and you assume the risks of liability or harm of any kind in connection with transactions of any kind relating to goods and/or services that are the subject of transactions using the Site. Such risks shall include, but are not limited to, misrepresentation of information about a user or a Startup, breach of warranty, breach of contract, and violation of third-party rights and consequent claims. You agree that EquityShare shall not be liable or responsible for any damages, liabilities, costs, harms, inconveniences, business disruptions or expenditures of any kind that may arise as a result of or in connection with any transactions with others using the Site.

6. Prohibited Content/Conduct.

As a condition of your access to the Site and use of the Services, you are prohibited from (i) posting, uploading, exhibiting, communicating or distributing content which violates any applicable laws, rules or regulations or which Wefunder, in its sole and absolute discretion, deems to be inappropriate and (ii) engaging in conduct which violates any applicable laws, rules or regulations or which Wefunder, in its sole and absolute discretion, deems to be inappropriate. Examples of such prohibited content and prohibited conduct include, without limitation, the following:

• Posting, uploading or transmitting any content that violates any privacy right, publicity right, patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary right, or contract right or other right of any party;
• Posting, uploading or transmitting any content or engaging in any conduct that is offensive, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, or obscene or that is unlawful in any manner or that degrades, intimidates, promotes or incites racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual, including, without limitation, on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
• Posting, uploading or transmitting any content that is pornographic or that exploits people (adults or children) in a sexual or violent manner; or contains nudity, excessive violence, or offensive subject matter or that contains a link to any of the foregoing types of content or to an adult website or in any way using the Site or the Services in connection with any adult entertainment or pornography business;
• Copying, reproducing, modifying (including, without limitation, altering, obscuring, deleting, etc. any copyright or other legally required notices, credits, logos, trademarks, etc.), creating derivative works from, or distributing in any manner or medium any content posted on the Site or through the Services in any manner that is in violation of the terms of the User Agreements or other applicable agreements;
• Impersonating any person or entity, or submitting any materials to the Site or through the Services that are false, inaccurate, deceptive, misleading, unlawful, or are otherwise in violation of the TOS or the Additional Terms, including, without limitation, utilizing misleading email addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted to the Site or through the Services;
• Except as explicitly permitted by the TOS and Additional Terms, or otherwise pre-approved in writing by Wefunder, engaging in any commercial activity on the Site or including any links to commercial services or websites or uploading, posting or otherwise transmitting any content that contains advertising or any solicitation regarding products, goods or services;
• Interfering with any user's right to privacy; soliciting or collecting user names, passwords, emails, personal identifying information or other information from any user; engaging in conduct that poses or creates a privacy or security risk to any person; or posting private information about a third party;
• Engaging in conduct that involves the posting, uploading or transmission of unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional materials, "junk mail," "chain letters," unsolicited mass mailing, "spimming," or "spamming";
• Engaging in any action or inaction that could disable, overload, impair the infrastructure of the Site or impair the proper functioning of the Site or the Services, including, without limitation, uploading, posting or otherwise transmitting any software or materials which contain a virus or other harmful or disruptive component; circumventing, altering or interfering with any computer software, or security-related features of the Site or the Services; or deciphering, decompiling, disassembling or reverse engineering any of the software comprising or in any way utilized in connection with the Site or the Services;
• Accessing or attempting to access the Site or the Services using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) or gaining, or attempting to gain, unauthorized access to any servers, computer systems or databases utilized in connection with the Site or the Services;
• Using the communication systems provided by the Site for any solicitation or other commercial purposes, except as explicitly permitted by the User Agreements or otherwise authorized by Wefunder, or Wefunder and the specific user, as applicable;
• Uploading, posting or transmitting any content that advocates or provides instruction on illegal activity or communicating on or through the Site regarding illegal activities with the intent to commit them;
• Making any untrue statement of a material fact or omitting to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in connection with the purchase or sale of any security; and
• Engaging in any conduct that in Wefunder's sole discretion restricts or inhibits any other user from enjoying the use of the Site or any of the Services.