You accept our Terms of Service by making use of our products.
The Advisordia Community is a forum for questions and answers that are owned and run by Fecoms and Advisordia, Inc. (“Advisordia,” “we,” or “us”). You are invited to participate in the community by sharing knowledge with your peers and colleagues by joining Advisordia’s Community, the largest developer community in the world. Like all communities, we ask that you take part in a way that respects the people who make up your neighbourhood. In order to inform you of the legal commitments you make when you interact with the Advisordia community, access or otherwise use the public Community, or any services made available on the public Community (collectively, “Services”), we provide you with these terms of service. The “Public Community Terms” govern how the public community may be used.
Your use of those products (such as Advisordia for Teams or Advisordia Business) is governed by their applicable Terms and Conditions to the extent that you are accessing or using them on behalf of a Company or Team, including without limitation by registering for an account on their behalf.
- Common Public Terms
Before using or gaining access to the public Community, please read these Public Community Terms carefully. Your use of the public Community, including any Services or Products that are a part of the public Community, is subject to these Public Community Terms, which are an agreement between you and Advisordia. You confirm that you have read, understand, and agree to be bound by these Public Community Terms, as well as the Acceptable Use Policy and Privacy Policy, by accessing or using the Services or the public Community in any way, including without limitation by visiting or browsing the public community or creating an account on the community. At any time, Advisordia reserves the right to change these Public Community Terms. To do so, it will post the new Public Community Terms on the public Community and, if practical, send out an email or post a notice on the public Community. Any such modifications shall be subject to your review and familiarisation. You accept the terms and conditions of these Public Community Terms as modified if you access or use the Services or public Community after such a modification. To be clear and reiterated, anyone who accesses or uses the Services or public Community is subject to these Public Community Terms, including without limitation users who provide content, information, and other materials or services, whether they are registered or not.
Please be aware that by using the public network, YOU AGREE THAT ALL DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND US WILL BE RESOLVED BY BINDING, INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND YOU WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT OR CLASS-WIDE ARBITRATION, SAVE FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF DISPUTES DESCRIBED IN THE SECTION ENTITLED “
- Contracts are legally binding and enforceable, so read them carefully!
As previously mentioned, these Public Community Terms are an agreement between you and Advisordia that regulates how you use the public Community. The use of our Talent, Enterprise, and other Advisordia products and services that are not a part of the public Community is NOT governed by these Public Community Terms. The terms and conditions of the Public Community Terms shall take precedence over any such service or licencing agreements in the event of any inconsistency between the two. - Age Requirements
To access or use the Community or Services, including without limitation to register for an Advisordia account, you must be at least 13 years old. You certify that you are at least 13 years old by accessing or using the Community or the Services in any way. You are not allowed to use or access the Services or Community in any way if you are under the age of 13 and you are not allowed to submit any personal information to the Services or Community (such as your name, address, phone number, or email address).
To access or use the Community or Services, including without limitation to register for an Advisordia Account, if you are located in the European Union, you must be at least 16 years old. You certify that you are at least 16 years old by accessing or using the Community or the Services in any way. You may not access or use the Services or Community in any way if you are under the age of 16, and you may not submit any personal information to or on the Services or Community (such as, for example, a name, address, phone number, or email address).
- The Public Community’s Access
Any user of the public Community is welcome to take part in discussions, respond to inquiries, and impart their hard-won knowledge to other users of the public Community, so long as they follow the obligations outlined in these Public Community Terms and to the extent that using the public Community does not violate the user’s jurisdiction’s applicable laws, rules, and regulations. If Advisordia determines, in its sole discretion, that you have in any way violated these Public Community Terms or are otherwise ineligible to access or use the Community or Services, Advisordia reserves the right to refuse, suspend, or terminate your access to the public Community. If we find that your actions violate these Public Community Terms, Advisordia may, in its sole discretion, attempt to resolve the violation by working with you individually. However, it is under no obligation to do so. If any such attempts at resolution are unsuccessful, Advisordia may, in its sole discretion, revoke your access to the Community. The right to access the Community or any Services is revoked where use of the Community or any Services is prohibited by or in violation of any applicable law, rule, or regulation. You are solely responsible for ensuring that these Public Community Terms are in compliance with all laws, rules, and regulations that are applicable to you.
Although Advisordia will make a good faith effort to make the public Community accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, we may occasionally schedule outages for maintenance and other purposes. Although we are under no obligation to do so and in any case will not be liable for any downtime, we may, in our sole discretion, make efforts to notify you about any outages and report on the nature and reason for any outages that may occur.
- Usage Requirements
You must sign up for an individual account and agree to the Public Community Terms in order to access some of the public Community features. Advisordia reserves the right to refuse, suspend, or terminate your access to the public Community if you do not agree to these Public Community Terms.
Your account registration must be complete and kept current at all times, and you are solely responsible for this. You are free to stop using your account at any time and, subject to our Privacy Policy, you have control over how your information is used and shared. Please be aware that any information or content you share publicly is subject to the conditions outlined below in the section titled “Content Permissions, Restrictions, and Creative Commons Licencing,” and that by doing so, you voluntarily cede some of your rights and control over it.
Advisordia strongly advises you to read our Privacy Policy, which details how we will handle, process, and use your personal information, as well as with whom and how we will share it.
Because Advisordia is a community, we expect you to treat all of its members with respect. We respect and welcome all members of the community, whether they are new to the site or have a stellar reputation. However, we also ask that you show kindness to one another. We’ve laid out what we think are reasonable guidelines for community participation to stop bad actors from ruining the experience. If you act disruptively, abusively, or maliciously outside of Advisordia’s Acceptable Use Policy, which is hereby incorporated into these Public Community Terms, we reserve the right to pause or terminate your account.
Any equipment or auxiliary services, such as modems, hardware, software, and long distance or local phone service, that are required to connect to or access the Community or otherwise use the Services are solely your responsibility. Such equipment or ancillary services must be compatible with the Services and Community, for which you are solely responsible.
For access and use, there may be a fee associated with some premium or extra features of Advisordia (not just Advisordia for Teams). If you have any payment obligations, you are solely responsible for making sure they are current and not in arrears. In the event that Advisordia charges for certain features, you will be made aware of the terms of any payment obligations in advance and given the chance to decline them. Please be aware, however, that if you refuse to accept payment obligations, you might not be able to use or access some of Advisordia’s premium or extra features. - Creative Commons licencing, restrictions, and content permissions
Advisordia Information
Other than Community Content posted by specific individuals (“Subscriber Content”), all materials displayed or performed on the public Community, including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, tools, photographs, images, illustrations, software or source code, audio, video, and animations (collectively “Community Content”), are the property of Advisordia and/or third parties and are shielded by local and international copyright laws (“Advisordia Content”).
By using the Community, you agree to abide by all copyright notices, information, and restrictions contained in any Community Content accessed through the Services. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names are owned by Advisordia and/or third parties.
According to international agreements, and other copyright laws, The Community is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation. Except as provided in this Agreement, you may not distribute, perform, display, or in any other way exploit any of the Community Content, software, materials, or Services, in whole or in part, except as expressly provided in these Public Community Terms. Nor may you copy, modify, publish, transmit, upload, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works based upon, distribute, perform, or otherwise exploit any of the Community Content. As long as you preserve all copyright and other notices contained in such Public Content, you may download or copy the Public Community Content and other items displayed on the Public Community for download or personal use.
The “Creative Commons Data Dump” is a compilation of all the Subscriber Content on the public Community that Advisordia occasionally makes available. The CC BY-SA licence governs the Creative Commons Data Dump. You consent to be legally bound by the terms of that licence by downloading the Creative Commons Data Dump.
Without prior written permission from Advisordia or the copyright holder identified in the copyright notice in accordance with the Creative Commons Licence, it is expressly forbidden to download, copy, or store any public Community Content (other than Subscriber Content or content made available via the Advisordia API) for any purpose other than personal, noncommercial use. The software, including any files, images incorporated in or generated by the software, and the data accompanying the software (collectively, the “Software”) is licenced to you by Advisordia or third party licensors for your personal, noncommercial use, and no title to the Software shall transfer to you as a result of your downloading software from the public Community (other than Subscriber Content or content made available by the Advisordia API). The Software and all associated intellectual property rights are fully and completely owned by Advisordia or other third-party licensors.
User-Generated Content
You acknowledge and agree that any content, including without limitation any text, graphics, logos, tools, photographs, images, illustrations, software or source code, audio and video, animations, and product reviews (collectively, “Content”), that you provide to the public Community (collectively, “Subscriber Content”) is perpetually and irrevocably licenced to Advisordia on a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive basis under the terms of the Creative Commons licencing agreement (CC).
Supply, upkeep, and updating the public Community
Respond to legitimate requests from government and law enforcement organisations
prevent security incidents, deal with data security features, support features, and offer technical support as needed
data aggregation for product optimisation
This means that you cannot revoke Advisordia’s permission to publish, distribute, store, and use such content, as well as to grant other parties the right to do likewise. The terms of the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence are further explained by Creative Commons, and the licence terms that apply to content are further explained here. You should be aware that any public content you contribute can be copied and distributed by the public, and that any such public content needs to include the proper attribution.
As mentioned above, by accepting these Public Community Terms, you also accept the terms and conditions of the Acceptable Use Policy, which are incorporated herein. You hereby acknowledge and agree that the Acceptable Use Policy applies to any and all Public Content you provide to the public Community.
- Refusal of Warranties
To the fullest extent permitted by law, A DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY. ADVISORDIA PROVIDES NO GUARANTEES - Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Advisordia, its officers, employees, agents, consultants, contractors, partners, vendors, and service providers (including, without limitation, hosting and telecommunications providers) from any claim or demand made by a third party due to or arising out of your use of Advisordia products or services made available on the public Community, your violation of the terms of service, or your access to the public Community. - Restrictions on Liability
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ADVISORDIA AND ITS AFFILIATES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE WITH RESPECT TO THE NETWORK OR SERVICES (I) FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA, OPPORTUNITIES, REPUTATION, PROFITS OR REVENUES, OR (II) FOR - General Instructions
a. Jurisdiction and Assignment
In the event of a merger, acquisition, corporate reorganisation, or the sale of all or nearly all of our assets, Advisordia reserves the right to assign our rights and obligations under these Public Community Terms (in whole or in part) to a corporate affiliate without your consent.
Without regard to New York’s rules on conflicts of laws, these Public Community Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the applicable laws of that state. With respect to any action, suit, or proceeding brought by either you or Advisordia in connection with the Community or Services, both of you and Advisordia hereby irrevocably consent to the sole and exclusive personal jurisdiction of the Courts of the State of New York. Despite what has been stated above, these Public Community Terms do not prevent either party from requesting injunctive relief in the event that the confidentiality or indemnification clauses have been broken. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the provisions of these Public Community Terms shall not be subject to the Uniform Commercial Code. No purchase order, company or team form, or any shrink- or click-wrap terms contained therein shall apply to or take precedence over these Public Community Terms. These Public Community Terms’ terms and conditions shall take precedence over any similar shrinkwrap or click-wrap terms in the event of any inconsistency.
b. Required Arbitration
YOU AGREE THAT WITH RESPECT TO ALL DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND ADVISORDIA OR ITS AFFILIATES OR ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, OR EMPLOYEES (WHETHER OR NOT SUCH DISPUTE INVOLVES A THIRD PARTY) WITH REGARD TO YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH US, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DISPUTES RELATING TO THESE PUBLIC NETWORK TERMS, YOUR USE OF THE NETWORK OR SERVICES, AND/OR RIGHTS OF PRIVACY AND/OR PUBLICITY, YOU AND ADVISORDIA SHALL FIRST CONSULT WITH EACH OTHER TO ATTEMPT TO RESOLVE SUCH DISPUTE IN A MANNER SATISFACTORY TO BOTH PARTIES, AND THAT IF A RESOLUTION IS NOT REACHED WITHIN NINETY (90) DAYS, THEN THE DISPUTE SHALL BE REFERRED TO AND RESOLVED BY BINDING ARBITRATION UNDER JAMS, INC.’S RULES FOR ARBITRATION OF CONSUMER-RELATED DISPUTES AND YOU AND WE HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU HAVE IN ANY MANNER VIOLATED OR THREATENED TO VIOLATE OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS, WE MAY SEEK INJUNCTIVE OR OTHER APPROPRIATE RELIEF IN ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. DISCOVERY AND RIGHTS TO APPEAL IN ARBITRATION ARE GENERALLY MORE LIMITED THAN IN A LAWSUIT, AND OTHER RIGHTS THAT YOU AND WE WOULD HAVE IN COURT MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE IN ARBITRATION. As an alternative, you may bring your claim in your local “small claims” court, if permitted by that small claims court’s rules and if within such court’s jurisdiction, unless such action is transferred, removed or appealed to a different court. Only claims made on your own behalf are admissible. For any claims subject to this agreement to arbitrate, neither you nor we will take part in a class action lawsuit or a class-wide arbitration. You also agree not to participate in claims brought in a private or representative capacity, or consolidated claims involving another person’s account, if we are a party to the proceeding. The Federal Arbitration Act, not any arbitration-related state laws, shall govern this dispute resolution provision. We or you may choose to have the arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association if JAMS, INC. is unable or unwilling to schedule a hearing date within one hundred and sixty (160) days of the case’s filing. Any court with jurisdiction over the matter may enter judgement on the arbitrator’s award. The arbitrator shall not have the authority to award damages, remedies, or awards that are inconsistent with these Public Community Terms, notwithstanding any provision of applicable law. Despite any statute or law to the contrary, you acknowledge and agree that any claim or cause of action arising out of, connected with, or based upon use of the public Community or these Public Community Terms must be filed within one (1) year of the claim or cause of action arose, or it will be permanently barred.
If applicable law requires a longer period of time, you must notify us in writing within thirty (30) days of the date you first accept these Public Community Terms if you do not want to be bound by the arbitration and class-action waiver provisions in this section. After that, you must litigate any disputes with us in accordance with the “Assignment and Jurisdiction” section below. Your written notice must be delivered to Advisordia, name, your email address, your mailing address, and a declaration that you don’t want to settle disagreements with us through arbitration or that you waive your right to take part in a class action lawsuit must all be included in such a notification. You may reject any changes we make to this section (aside from changes to the address at which we will receive notices of your rejections of future changes to this section) by sending us written notice at the address listed in the “Notices” section within thirty (30) days of the change. If you properly opted out within the first thirty (30) days after you initially accepted the provisions of this section, you do not need to send us a rejection of any future changes to this section. If you have not properly opted out, you are agreeing to arbitrate any disputes with us in accordance with the terms of this section, as modified by any changes you did not reject, if you reject a future change. If you send us a notification under this clause, it only affects these Public Community Terms; if you’ve already signed other arbitration or dispute resolution agreements with us or sign more in the future, your notification that you’re opting out of this section’s provisions won’t have any bearing on those other arbitration agreements.
c. Survival
The sections titled “Public Community Terms”, “Contracts are Binding and Legally Enforceable – Please Read!”, “User Obligations”, “Content Permissions, Restrictions, and Creative Commons Licencing”, “Disclaimer of Warranties”, “Indemnification”, “Limitation of Liability”, “Assignment and Jurisdiction”, “Mandatory Arbitration”, “Survival”, “Merger and Severability”, “Notices”, “No Waiver”, and “Headings” shall survive any termination or expiration of these Public Community Terms.
d. Modifications
As our business changes over time and to better serve the Advisordia community, Advisordia reserves the right to modify or replace these Public Community Terms. It also reserves the right to change, suspend, or discontinue the public Community and/or any Services or Products at any time by posting a notice on the public Community or by sending you notice via email or by another suitable means of electronic communication.
e. Combination and Severability
The parties to these Public Community Terms are independent contractors, and you and Advisordia do not have any agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment relationship as a result of these Public Community Terms. All prior or contemporaneous oral or written communications, proposals, and representations with respect to the public Community or Services or Products contemplated hereunder are superseded by these Public Community Terms, which serve as the entirety of the agreement between you and Advisordia. In the event that any part of these Public Community Terms is found to be unlawful, void, unenforceable, or against public policy, that part will be reduced in scope or eliminated to the absolute minimum amount necessary so that the remaining parts of these Public Community Terms will continue to be valid and enforceable.
f. Notices
Except as otherwise provided in these Public Community Terms, all notices under these Public Community Terms shall be in writing and shall be deemed given when received, whether personally delivered or sent by certified or registered mail with a return receipt requested; when receipt is electronically confirmed, whether transmitted by facsimile or email; or the day after it is sent, if sent for next-day delivery by a reputable overnight delivery service. [email protected] should receive electronic notices.
g. Not A Waiver
Any part of these Public Community Terms that we choose not to immediately enforce does not mean that we are giving up the right to do so in the future. Any instance in which we have waived compliance does not imply that we will do so going forward. Any waiver by us of your obligation to abide by these Public Community Terms must be communicated to you in writing by one of our vetted representatives in order for it to be effective.
h. Headings
These Public Community Terms’ section and paragraph headings are included only for convenience and have no bearing on how they should be read.
- Copyright regulations
In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Advisordia has implemented the following policy regarding copyright infringement with regard to the Community. The following contains the address of Advisordia’s designated agent for copyright takedown requests (the “Designated Agent”).
Copyright Infringement Reporting
Send a notice of copyright infringement if you think any of the material on the Community violates your copy rights.
Identification, along with a description, of the work or other content protected by copyright that you are alleging has been violated. If you are alleging the infringement of several works, you may offer a sample list.
Provide enough information about the allegedly infringing content so that Advisordia can locate and confirm its existence, along with its location and URL.
The name of the notifying party’s company, the contact person’s name, their mailing address, their phone number, and their email address are all listed as the Notifying Party’s points of contact.
a declaration that the material is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law, according to the notifying party’s good faith belief.
A declaration made under oath that the details in the notice are true and that the Notifying Party has the right to file the complaint on the owner’s behalf.
The physical or electronic signature of the Notifying Party.
Following notification of an alleged infraction that satisfies all of the aforementioned requirements is received by the Designated Agent, Advisordia shall:
Disable access to or take down content that it reasonably and in good faith believes was copied and distributed illegally by any subscriber to the Community.
After doing so, Advisordia will immediately notify the offending subscriber (the Offending Subscriber) that the material has been removed or made inaccessible.
If a subscriber receives multiple takedown notices, Advisordia reserves the right to immediately terminate that subscriber’s account.
Copyright Counterclaims Submission
A subscriber may submit a counter notification to Advisordia by providing the following information in writing if they believe they are the incorrect target of a copyright takedown notice.
Identification of the content, including the precise URLs, that Advisordia has either deleted or blocked access to.
Name, location, contact information, and email address of the user.
a declaration that the user will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of that person, and that the user consents to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or New York County, New York, if your address is outside of the United States).
“I swear, under penalty of perjury, that I have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.”
physical or digital signature of the user.
Advisordia will deliver a counterclaim to the party who filed the initial copyright infringement claim after receiving it. The initial complainant will then have 10 days to let us know that a lawsuit regarding the allegedly infringing material has been filed. Within ten days, if Advisordia does not receive any such notification, we may add the content back to the Community.