Welcome to B.P.C.I! 

B.P.C.I build technologies and services that enable people to connect with each other, build communities, and grow businesses. These Terms govern your use of B.P.C.I, except where we expressly state that separate terms (and not these) apply. These Products are provided to you by BPCI

We don’t charge you to use B.P.C.I or the other products and services covered by these Terms. Instead, businesses and organizations pay us to show you ads for their products and services. By using our Products, you agree that we can show you ads that we think will be relevant to you and your interests. We use your personal data to help determine which ads to show you.

We don’t sell your personal data to advertisers, and we don’t share information that directly identifies you (such as your name, email address, or other contact information) with advertisers unless you give us specific permission. Instead, advertisers can tell us things such as the kind of audience that they want to see their ads, and we show those ads to people who may be interested. We provide advertisers with reports about the performance of their ads that help them understand how people are interacting with their content.

Our Data Policy explains how we collect and use your personal data to determine some of the ads that you see and provide all of the other services described below. You can also go to your settings at any time to review the privacy choices that you have about how we use your data.

1. The services we provide

Our mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. To help advance this mission, we provide the products and services described below to you:

• User Profiles: Users can set their own avatars and cover images. Profiles come with custom fields that users can fill in with information about themselves. Users can set their notification preferences, whether to show online status, and many more. Users can like others’ profiles.

• Activity Stream: Users can write posts on Activity Stream and Profiles, 3 default Privacy settings for users content: Public, Site Members, Only Me. Comments under Posts are nested so your users never lose track of the conversations. Users can pin posts to the top of the Activity Stream – these are great for making announcements.

• Reactions: Say more than a thousand Likes. Reactions on stream posts with emotional messages such as Love, Laugh, Wink, and much more. It features a built-in set of Reactions with a robust admin panel that lets you customize everything, adds your own, change the icons, text, and more. Customize Reaction notification text. Plugin hooks in email notifications and adjusts according to the chosen reaction. Built-in set of Reactions immediately ready to use. Upload your own custom image – .PNG, SVG, or even an animated. GIF

• Hashtags: This comes with the ability to use hashtags on any Post. Whether they’re made by users on activity streams or in groups regardless of posts privacy settings. They will be counted and added up, but posts will keep their privacy. Using hashtags in no way compromises that. Hashtags will be calculated and added up. Each tag is counted one time per post. If you add the same tag ten times in one post it’ll still count its usage only once. Hashtag search is built-in. You can search either by clicking a hashtag or by using the search field. Search also indicates to members what are the minimum and maximum character counts for hashtags. Search results will only show posts users are allowed to see, post privacy is respected fully. When filtering by hashtag, it’s automatically added to the postbox for easier post creation.

• Blog Posts: Your Blog with your community. Added Blog Posts tab to user profiles, featuring blog entries created by your community members. Automatically create a new activity stream post. It is also capable of creating an activity stream item each time displays users’ blog posts in their profiles. Automatically create a corresponding post on Community Stream when a new blog post is published. Blog posts can be reacted to and commented on. Comments and reactions are synced with the corresponding community posts.

• Live Onsite and Email Notifications: Sent when someone comments on users’ posts. Sent when someone replies to users’ comments. Sent when someone reacts to users’ comments. When a notification is clicked, it takes the user directly to the relevant content and highlights it. 

• Social Groups:  Allows members to organize themselves into public, private, or hidden social areas with separate activity feeds and a member listing. Every community is unique. Create public, private, or hidden groups and set different rules and settings depending on the group type. Allow all group members, organizers, and/or moderators to invite other users to the group. Create organizers or moderators within a group to control who can edit the group, post-activity, or invite users. Allow all group members, organizers, and/or moderators to post into the group activity feed.

• Forum Discussions: Create a discussion forum to allow members of a group to communicate in a structured, bulletin-board style fashion. Each group can create its own discussion forum. Several groups can optionally be attached to the same discussion forum. 

• Groups: Open, Closed, and Secret user groups. Groups plugin lets your community create and participate within more narrowed group discussions. Communities, especially those revolving around a general topic, groups are a very useful tool. They allow your users to focus on a particular thing. Let Your Community create groups for focused discussions. Open, Closed, Secret, and Announcement groups can be created. Invite users to groups. Add users to the group. Groups come with their own set of notifications regarding posts and user actions like invitations. Assign groups to specific categories. Optional Announcement Stream Posts. When a user Posts to stream when joining. Pinned posts within groups. Group Owner, Manager, Moderator, and Member roles. With Photos, you can create Photos and Photo Albums in Groups. With Videos, you can share videos in groups.

• Polls: Post a question for others to vote. Polls allow you and your community to create polls in posts. The polls can be placed in the main activity stream, in users’ profiles, and even in groups. Users can cast their votes once per poll. The design is sleek and simple, and because it’s fully responsive, it looks great on mobile as well as on desktops. Logged out users see the polls on posts, but can’t vote or see the poll results. They are prompted to log in to vote and see results. With the use of User Limits, you are able to decide which users can create Polls in your community. Let users create polls with multiple select options. Let users create polls with a single select option. Polls can be attached to User Status Updates and added to Group Status Updates. After casting a vote users can see the poll results.

• Chat: Communicate via private messages & real-time chat. Every community needs a convenient way for members to message each other privately. This private messaging and also the possibility to create private group messages between many members. Chat works in real-time. Chat has been optimized for minimal server usage. Real-time onsite notifications. Users will be notified by email when there’s a message waiting for them. Chat and Messages work with one-on-one or group conversations.

• Friends Connection: Friend connections and “friends” privacy level. Creating connections is at the core of every community. Friends let your members add friends, accept or decline friend requests, and set their post privacy to “Friends Only.” It’s essential! Friendship relationships are what keep people coming back to the community. Let your users make friends as well as the following members. Shows upcoming friends’ birthdays and birthdays on the day. Shows users the latest friends. When placed in a widget position it shows friends of that particular user whose profile you’re visiting.  When looking at members listing you can see who’s a mutual friend.

• Tag Friends: With Tags, users can tag their friends in Status Updates. Introduces Friends Only privacy level for Posts. Users can write posts only friends can see. Users get email notifications about pending friend requests.  Users get onsite notifications about pending friend requests.

• Photos: Upload photos and create albums in profiles and groups. Photos is a “must-have” plugin that lets members upload images to the Stream, Groups, Messages, and Chat. It invigorates communities with pictures that people love to see and share. When clicked, the photos open in a beautiful theatre view window allowing members to comment, react to and show them to their friends. The Photos tab to profile pages and to Groups. It comes with 2 widgets: My Photos and Community Photos that admins can place anywhere. Profile Photo Albums, Groups Photo Albums, GIF support, and many more! Upload Photos to Posts, Comments, Profiles, and Groups. Shows latest photos of your entire community (photos show respecting their privacy settings). Shows users the latest photos. Photo is shown in theatre view with photo description and comments on the right . Users can upload moving gif files to Status Updates and in Comments. Optional automatic status updates when a user changes avatar or cover images. Users can upload photos in Chat conversations. Create Photo Albums in User Profiles and Groups. Limit the number of photos users can upload per day.

• Audio & Video: Audio & Video uploads directly to your site. You can also link videos from supported providers. The videos show in a theatre view for an easy and comfortable viewing experience. Videos can also play inline within posts. Audio files come with artwork, if available. Members can comment on, react to and share the videos, generating engagement and interaction. Full support for live streaming via YouTube and other supported providers. Just copy and paste a link to your live stream video sharing feature in the postbox and you’re done. Allow Uploading videos directly to your site. Upload audio files right to your community. Perfect for podcasts, music artists, and more. Shows the latest Videos of your entire community (videos show depending on their privacy setting). Share videos to User Profiles and Groups. You can allow video and/or audio files to be shared.

2. How our services are funded:

Instead of paying to use B.P.C.I and the other products and services we offer, by using the B.P.C.I Products covered by these Terms, you agree that we can show you ads that businesses and organizations pay us to promote on and off the B.P.C.I Products. We use your personal data, such as information about your activity and interests, to show you ads that are more relevant to you.

Protecting people’s privacy is central to how we’ve designed our ad system. This means that we can show you relevant and useful ads without telling advertisers who you are. We don’t sell your personal data. We allow advertisers to tell us things such as their business goal, and the kind of audience that they want to see their ads. We then show their ad to people who might be interested.

We also provide advertisers with reports about the performance of their ads to help them understand how people are interacting with their content on and off  B.P.C.I. For example, we provide general demographic and interest information to advertisers to help them better understand their audience. We don’t share information that directly identifies you (information such as your name or email address that by itself can be used to contact you or identifies who you are) unless you give us specific permission. 

We collect and use your personal data in order to provide the services described above for you. You can learn about how we collect and use your data in our Data Policy. You have controls over the types of ads and advertisers you see, and the types of information we use to determine which ads we show you. 

3. Your commitments to B.P.C.I and our community:

We provide these services to you and others to help advance our mission. In exchange, we need you to make the following commitments:

Who can use B.P.C.I:
When people stand behind their opinions and actions, our community is safer and more accountable. For this reason, you must:

1. use the same name that you use in everyday life;
2. provide accurate information about yourself;
3. create only one account (your own) and use your timeline for personal purposes; and
4. not share your password, give access to your B.P.C.I account to others or transfer your account to anyone else (without our permission). 

4. We try to make B.P.C.I am broadly available to everyone, but you cannot use B.P.C.I if:

1. You are under 18 years old (or the minimum legal age in your country to use our Products).
2. You are a convicted sex offender.
3. We’ve previously disabled your account for violations of our Terms or Policies.
4. You are prohibited from receiving our products, services, or software under applicable laws.

5. What you can share and do on B.P.C.I:
   We want people to use B.P.C.I to express themselves and to share content that is important to them but not at the expense of the safety and well-being of others or the integrity of our community. You, therefore, agree not to engage in the conduct described below (or to facilitate or support others in doing so):

1. You may not use our Products to do or share anything:
   • That breaches these Terms, our Community Standards, and other Terms and Policies that apply to your use of B.P.C.I.
   • That is unlawful, misleading, discriminatory or fraudulent.
   • That infringes or violates someone else’s rights, including their intellectual property rights.
2. You may not upload viruses or malicious code, or do anything that could disable, overburden or impair the proper working or appearance of our Products.
3. You may not access or collect data from our Products using automated means (without our prior permission) or attempt to access data that you do not have permission to access.

6. We can remove or restrict access to content that is in violation of these provisions:
   If we remove content that you have shared in violation of our Community Standards, we’ll let you know and explain any options you have to request another review unless you seriously or repeatedly violate these Terms or if doing so may expose us or others to legal liability; harm our community of users; compromise or interfere with the integrity or operation of any of our services, systems or Products; where we are restricted due to technical limitations; or where we are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons.
   To help support our community, we encourage you to report content or conduct that you believe violates your rights (including intellectual property rights) or our terms and policies.
   We also can remove or restrict access to your content, services or information if we determine that doing so is reasonably necessary to avoid or mitigate adverse legal or regulatory impacts to B.P.C.I.
   
   
7. The permissions you give us:
   We need certain permissions from you to provide our services:

1. Permission to use content that you create and share: Some content that you share or uploads, such as photos or videos, may be protected by intellectual property laws.
   You own the intellectual property rights (things such as copyright or trademarks) in any such content that you create and share on B.P.C.I and the other B.P.C.I Products you use. Nothing in these Terms takes away the rights you have to your own content. You are free to share your content with anyone else, wherever you want.
   However, to provide our services, we need you to give us some legal permissions (known as a ‘license’) to use this content. This is solely for the purposes of providing and improving our products and services as described in Section 1 above.
   Specifically, when you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights on or in connection with our Products, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings). This means, for example, that if you share a photo on B.P.C.I, you give us permission to store, copy and share it with others (again, consistent with your settings) such as service providers that support our service or other B.P.C.I Products you use. This license will end 

when your content is deleted from our systems.
You can delete content individually or all at once by deleting your account. Learn more about how to delete your account. You can download a copy of your data at any time before deleting your account.
When you delete content, it’s no longer visible to other users, however, it may continue to exist elsewhere on our systems where:

• Immediate deletion is not possible due to technical limitations (in which case, your content will be deleted within a maximum of 90 days from when you delete it);
• your content has been used by others in accordance with this license and they have not deleted it (in which case, this license will continue to apply until that content is deleted); or
• Where immediate deletion would restrict our ability to:
  • investigate or identify illegal activity or breaches of our Terms and Policies (for example, to identify or investigate misuse of our Products or systems);
  • comply with a legal obligation, such as the preservation of evidence; or
  • comply with a request of judicial or administrative authority, law enforcement, or a government agency;

1. In which case, the content will be retained for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it has been retained (the exact duration will vary on a case-by-case basis). In each of the above cases, this license will continue until the content has been fully deleted.
2. Permission to use your name, profile picture and information about your actions with ads and sponsored content: You give us permission to use your name and profile picture and information about actions that you have taken on B.P.C.I next to or in connection with ads, offers and other sponsored content that we display across our Products, without any compensation to you. For example, we may show your friends that you are interested in an advertised event or have liked a Page created by a brand that has paid us to display its ads on B.P.C.I. Ads like this can be seen only by people who have your permission to see the actions that you’ve taken on B.P.C.I. You can learn more about your ad settings and preferences.
3. Permission to update software that you use or download If you download or use our software, you give us permission to download and install updates to the software where available.

Limits on using our intellectual property:
If you use content covered by intellectual property rights that we have and make available in our Products (for example, images, designs, videos, or sounds we provide that you add to content you create or share on B.P.C.I), we retain all rights to that content (but not yours). You can only use our copyrights or trademarks (or any similar marks) as expressly permitted by our Brand Usage Guidelines or with our prior written permission. You must obtain our written permission (or permission under an open-source license) to modify, create derivative works of, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract source code from us.

4. Additional provisions:

• Updating our Terms:
  We work constantly to improve our services and develop new features to make our Products better for you and our community. As a result, we may need to update these Terms from time to time to accurately reflect our services and practices. We will only make changes if the provisions are no longer appropriate or if they are incomplete, and only if the changes are reasonable and take due account of your interests.
  We will notify you (for example, by email or through our Products) at least 30 days before we make changes to these Terms and give you an opportunity to review them before they go into effect unless changes are required by law. Once any updated Terms are in effect, you will be bound by them if you continue to use our Products.
  We hope that you will continue using our Products, but if you do not agree to our updated Terms and no longer want to be part of the B.P.C.I the community, you can delete your account at any time.
  
  

• Account suspension or termination:
  We want B.P.C.I to be a place where people feel welcome and safe to express themselves and share their thoughts and ideas.
  If we determine that you have clearly, seriously, or repeatedly breached our Terms or Policies, including in particular our Community Standards, we may suspend or permanently disable access to your account. We may also suspend or disable your account if you repeatedly infringe other people’s intellectual property rights or where we are required to do so for legal reasons.
  Where we take such action, we’ll let you know and explain any options you have to request a review, unless doing so may expose us or others to legal liability; harm our community of users; compromise or interfere with the integrity or operation of any of our services, systems or Products; or where we are restricted due to technical limitations; or where we are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons.
  You can learn more about what you can do if your account has been disabled and how to contact us if you think that we have disabled your account by mistake.
  If you delete or we disable your account, these Terms shall terminate as an agreement between you and us, but the following provisions will remain in place: 3, 4.2-4.5.
  
  

• Limits on liability:
  We work hard to provide the best Products we can and to specify clear guidelines for everyone who uses them. Our Products, however, are provided “as is”, and we make no guarantees that they will always be safe, secure, or error-free, or that they will function without disruptions, delays, or imperfections. To the extent permitted by law, we also DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. We do not control or direct what people and others do or say, and we are not responsible for their actions or conduct (whether online or offline) or any content that they share (including offensive, inappropriate, obscene, unlawful, and other objectionable content).
  We cannot predict when issues may arise with our Products. Accordingly, our liability shall be limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and under no circumstances will we be liable to you for any lost profits, revenues, information or data, or consequential, special, indirect, exemplary, punitive, or incidental damages arising out of or related to these Terms or the B.P.C.I Products, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
  
  

• Disputes
  We try to provide clear rules so that we can limit or hopefully avoid disputes between you and us. If a dispute does arise, however, it’s useful to know upfront where it can be resolved and what laws will apply. If you are a consumer, the laws of the country in which you reside will apply to any claim, cause of action, or dispute that you have against us that arises out of or relates to these Terms or the B.P.C.I Products, and you may resolve your claim in any competent court in that country that has jurisdiction over the claim. In all other cases, you agree that the claim must be resolved exclusively in the Competent Authority, India. You also agree that you submit to the personal jurisdiction of either of these courts for the purpose of litigating any such claim and that the provisions of Indian Law will govern these Terms and any claim, without regard to conflict of law provisions.

• Other:
  
  

1. 1. These Terms make up the entire agreement between you and B.P.C.I, regarding your use of our Products. They supersede any prior agreements.
   2. Some of the products that we offer are also governed by supplemental terms. If you use any of those Products, supplemental terms will be made available and will become part of our agreement with you. For instance, if you access or use our Products for commercial or business purposes, such as buying ads, selling products, managing a group or Page for your business, or using our measurement services, you must agree to our Commercial Terms. If you post or share content containing music, you must comply with our Music Guidelines. To the extent that any supplemental Terms conflict with these Terms, the supplemental terms shall govern to the extent of the conflict.
   3. If any portion of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining portion will remain in full force and effect. If we fail to enforce any of these Terms, it will not be considered a waiver. Any amendment to or waiver of these Terms must be made in writing and signed by us.
   4. You will not transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms to anyone else without our consent.
   5. You may designate a person (called a legacy contact) to manage your account if it is memorialized. Only your legacy contact or a person who you have identified in a valid will or similar document expressing clear consent to disclose your content upon death or incapacity will be able to seek disclosure from your account after it is memorialized.
   6. These Terms do not confer any third-party beneficiary rights. All of our rights and obligations under these Terms are freely assignable by us in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, or by operation of law or otherwise.
   7. You should know that we may need to change the username for your account in certain circumstances (for example, if someone else claims the username and it appears unrelated to the name that you use in everyday life). We will inform you in advance if we have to do this and explain why.
   8. We always appreciate your feedback and other suggestions about our products and services. But you should know that we may use them without any restriction or obligation to compensate you, and we are under no obligation to keep them confidential.
   9. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.

5.1. Other terms and policies that may apply to you:

• Community Standards: These guidelines outline our standards regarding the content that you post to B.P.C.I and your activity on B.P.C.I and other B.P.C.I Products.
• Commercial Terms: These Terms apply if you also access or use our Products for any commercial or business purpose, including advertising, operating an app on our Platform, using our measurement services, managing a group or a Page for a business, or selling goods or services.
• Advertising Policies: These policies specify what types of ad content are allowed by partners who advertise across the B.P.C.I Products.
• Self-Serve Ad Terms: These Terms apply when you use self-serve advertising interfaces to create, submit or deliver advertising or other commercial or sponsored activity or content.
• Pages, Groups, and Events Policy: These guidelines apply if you create or administer a B.P.C.I Page, group or event, or if you use B.P.C.I to communicate or administer a promotion.
• Commerce Policies: These guidelines outline the policies that apply when you offer products and services for sale on B.P.C.I.
• B.P.C.I Brand Resources: These guidelines outline the policies that apply to the use of B.P.C.I trademark, logos and screenshots.
• Music Guidelines: These guidelines outline the policies that apply if you post or share content containing music on B.P.C.I.
• Live Policies: These policies apply to all content broadcast to B.P.C.I Live.

6. B.P.C.I “Dos and Don’ts”:

Dos

B.P.C.I am a community of professionals. This list of “Dos and Don’ts” along with our Professional Community Policies limit what you can and cannot do on our Services.

You agree that you will:

• Comply with all applicable laws, including, without limitation, privacy laws, intellectual property laws, anti-spam laws, export control laws, tax laws, and regulatory requirements;
• Provide accurate information to us and keep it updated;
• Use your real name on your profile; and
• Use the Services in a professional manner.

Don’ts

You agree that you will not:

• Create a false identity on B.P.C.I, misrepresent your identity, create a Member profile for anyone other than yourself (a real person), or use or attempt to use another’s account;
• Develop, support, or use software, devices, scripts, robots, or any other means or processes (including crawlers, browser plugins, and add-ons or any other technology) to scrape the Services or otherwise copy profiles and other data from the Services;
• Override any security feature or bypass or circumvent any access controls or use limits of the Service (such as caps on keyword searches or profile views);
• Copy, use, disclose or distribute any information obtained from the Services, whether directly or through third parties (such as search engines), without the consent of B.P.C.I;
• Disclose information that you do not have the consent to disclose {such as confidential information of others (including your employer)};
• Violate the intellectual property rights of others, including copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, or other proprietary rights. For example, do not copy or distribute (except through the available sharing functionality) the posts or other content of others without their permission, which they may give by posting under a Creative Commons license;
• Violate the intellectual property or other rights of B.P.C.I, including, without limitation, (i) copying or distributing our learning videos or other materials or (ii) copying or distributing our technology, unless it is released under open-source licenses; (iii) using the word “B.P.C.I” or our logos in any business name, email, or URL except as provided in the Brand Guidelines;
• Post anything that contains software viruses, worms, or any other harmful code;
• Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decipher or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the Services or any related technology that is not open-source;
• Imply or state that you are affiliated with or endorsed by B.P.C.I without our express consent (e.g., representing yourself as an accredited B.P.C.I trainer);
• Rent, lease, loan, trade, sell/re-sell or otherwise monetize the Services or related data or access to the same, without B.P.C.I’s consent;
• Deep-link to our Services for any purpose other than to promote your profile or a Group on our Services, without B.P.C.I’s consent;
• Use bots or other automated methods to access the Services, add or download contacts, send or redirect messages;
• Monitor the Services’ availability, performance or functionality for any competitive purpose;
• Engage in “framing,” “mirroring,” or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of the Services;
• Overlay or otherwise modify the Services or their appearance (such as by inserting elements into the Services or removing, covering, or obscuring an advertisement included on the Services);
• Interfere with the operation of, or place an unreasonable load on the Services (e.g., spam, denial of service attack, viruses, gaming algorithms); and/or
• Violate the Community Policies or any additional terms concerning a specific Service that are provided when you sign up for or start using such Service, and the Bing Maps terms where applicable.

7. Complaints Regarding Content:

Contact information for complaints about the content provided by our Members.

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. We require that information posted by Members be accurate and not in violation of the intellectual property rights or other rights of third parties. We provide a policy and process for complaints concerning content posted by our Members.

8. Rights and Limits:

8.1. Your License to B.P.C.I:

You own all of the content, feedback, and personal information you provide to us, but you also grant us a non-exclusive license to it.

We’ll honor the choices you make about who gets to see your information and content, including how it can be used for ads.

As between you and B.P.C.I, you own the content and information that you submit or post to the Services, and you are only granting B.P.C.I and our affiliates have the following non-exclusive license:

A worldwide, transferable, and sublicensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publish and process, information and content that you provide through our services and the services of others, without any further consent, notice, and/or compensation to you or others. These rights are limited in the following ways:

• You can end this license for specific content by deleting such content from the Services, or generally by closing your account, except (a) to the extent you shared it with others as part of the Service and they copied, re-shared it or stored it and (b) for the reasonable time it takes to remove from backup and other systems.
• We will not include your content in advertisements for the products and services of third parties to others without your separate consent (including sponsored content). However, we have the right, without payment to you or others, to serve ads near your content and information, and your social actions may be visible and included with ads, as noted in the Privacy Policy. If you use a service feature, we may mention that with your name or photo to promote that feature within our Services, subject to your settings.
• We will get your consent if we want to give others the right to publish your content beyond the Services. However, if you choose to share your post as “public”, we will enable a feature that allows other Members to embed that public post onto third-party services, and we enable search engines to make that public content findable though their services.
• While we may edit and make format changes to your content (such as translating or transcribing it, modifying the size, layout or file type, or removing metadata), we will not modify the meaning of your expression because you own your content and information and we only have non-exclusive rights to it, you may choose to make it available to others.

9. If the content includes personal data, it is subject to our Privacy Policy:

9.1 You and B.P.C.I agree that we may access, store, process, and use any information and personal data that you provide in accordance with the terms of the Privacy Policy and your choices (including settings).

9.2 By submitting suggestions or other feedback regarding our services to B.P.C.I, you agree that B.P.C.I can use and share such feedback for any purpose without compensation to you.

You promise to only provide information and content that you have the right to share, and that your B.P.C.I profile will be truthful.

9.3 You agree to only provide content or information that does not violate the law nor anyone’s rights (including intellectual property rights). You also agree that your profile information will be truthful. B.P.C.I may be required by law to remove certain information or content in certain countries.

10 Service Availability:

We may change or end any Service or modify our prices prospectively.

We may change, suspend or discontinue any of our Services. We may also modify our prices effective prospectively upon reasonable notice to the extent allowed under the law.

We don’t promise to store or keep showing any information and content that you’ve posted. B.P.C.I is not a storage service. You agree that we have no obligation to store, maintain or provide you a copy of any content or information that you or others provide, except to the extent required by applicable law and as noted in our Privacy Policy.

11. Other Content, Sites, and Apps:

Your use of others’ content and information posted on our services, is at your own risk.

Others may offer their own products and services through our services, and we aren’t responsible for those third-party activities.

By using the services, you may encounter content or information that might be inaccurate, incomplete, delayed, misleading, illegal, offensive, or otherwise harmful. B.P.C.I generally do not review content provided by our members or others. You agree that we are not responsible for others’ (including other Members’) content or information. We cannot always prevent this misuse of our services, and you agree that we are not responsible for any such misuse. You also acknowledge the risk that you or your organization may be mistakenly associated with content about others when we let connections and followers know you or your organization were mentioned in the news. Members have choices about this feature.

B.P.C.I may help connect members offering their services (career coaching, accounting, etc.) with members seeking services. B.P.C.I do not perform nor employ individuals to perform these services. You must be at least 18 years of age to offer, perform or procure these services. You acknowledge that B.P.C.I do not supervise, direct, control, or monitor members in the performance of these services and agree that (1) B.P.C.I am not responsible for the offering, performance, or procurement of these services, (2) B.P.C.I do not endorse any particular member’s offered services, and (3) nothing shall create an employment, agency, or joint venture relationship between B.P.C.I and any member offering services. If you are a member offering services, you represent and warrant that you have all the required licenses and will provide services consistent with our Community Policies.

Similarly, B.P.C.I may help you register for and/or attend events organized by members and connect with other members who are attendees at such events. You agree that (1) B.P.C.I am not responsible for the conduct of any of the members or other attendees at such events, (2) B.P.C.I do not endorse any particular event listed on our services, (3) B.P.C.I do not review and/or vet any of these events, and (4) that you will adhere to these terms and conditions that apply to such events.

12. Limits:

We have the right to limit how you connect and interact with our Services.

B.P.C.I reserve the right to limit your use of the Services, including the number of your connections and your ability to contact other Members. B.P.C.I reserve the right to restrict, suspend, or terminate your account if you breach this Contract or the law or are misusing the Services (e.g., violating any of the Dos and Don’ts or Professional Community Policies).

13. Intellectual Property Rights:

We’re providing you with a notice about our intellectual property rights.

B.P.C.I reserve all of its intellectual property rights in the Services. Trademarks and logos used in connection with the Services are the trademarks of their respective owners. B.P.C.I, and “in” logos and other B.P.C.I trademark, service marks, graphics, and logos used for our Services are trademarks or registered trademarks of B.P.C.I. 

14. Automated Processing:

We use data and information about you to make relevant suggestions to you and others.

We use the information and data that you provide and that we have about Members to make recommendations for connections, content, and features that may be useful to you. For example, we use data and information about you to recommend jobs to you and you to recruiters. Keeping your profile accurate and up to date helps us to make these recommendations more accurate and relevant.

15. Disclaimer and Limit of Liability

15.1 No Warranty:

This is our disclaimer of legal liability for the quality, safety, or reliability of our Services.

B.P.C.I and its affiliates make no representation or warranty about the services, including any representation that the services will be uninterrupted or error-free, and provide the services (including content and information) on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, B.P.C.I and its affiliates disclaim any implied or statutory warranty, including any implied warranty of title, the accuracy of data, non-infringement, merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose.

15.2 Exclusion of Liability:

These are the limits of legal liability we may have to you.

To the fullest extent permitted by law (and unless B.P.C.I has entered into a separate written agreement that overrides this contract), B.P.C.I including its affiliates, will not be liable in connection with this contract for lost profits or lost business opportunities, reputation (e.g., offensive or defamatory statements), loss of data (e.g., downtime or loss, use of or changes to your information or content) or any indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages. B.P.C.I and its affiliates will not be liable to you in connection with this contract for any amount of loss or damage caused to you. All the services availed by you through our product are at your own peril. 

15.3 Basis of the Bargain Exclusions:

The limitations of liability in clause 15.2 are part of the basis of the bargain between you and B.P.C.I and shall apply to all claims of liability (e.g., warranty, tort, negligence, contract, and law) even if B.P.C.I or its affiliates have been told of the possibility of any such damage, and even if these remedies fail their essential purpose.

These limitations of liability do not apply to liability for death or personal injury or for fraud, gross negligence or intentional misconduct, or in cases of negligence where a material obligation has been breached, a material obligation being such which forms a prerequisite to our delivery of services and on which you may reasonably rely, but only to the extent that the damages were directly caused by the breach and were foreseeable upon conclusion of this Contract and to the extent that they are typical in the context of this Contract.

16. Termination:

We can each end this Contract, but some rights and obligations survive.

Both you and B.P.C.I may terminate this Contract at any time with notice to the other. On termination, you lose the right to access or use the Services. The following shall survive termination:

• Our rights to use and disclose your feedback;
• Members and/or Visitors’ rights to further re-share content and information you shared through the Services;
• Sections 4, 6, 7, and 8.2 of this Contract;
• Any amounts owed by either party prior to termination remain owed after termination.

17. Change:

We may make changes to the Contract.

We may modify this Contract, our Privacy Policy, and our Cookies Policy from time to time. If we make material changes to it, we will provide you notice through our Services, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. We agree that changes cannot be retroactive. If you object to any changes, you may close your account. Your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to these terms means that you are consenting to the updated terms as of their effective date.

18. Obligations:

18.1 Service Eligibility:

Here are some promises that you make to us in this Contract:

You’re eligible to enter into this contract and you are at least our “Minimum Age.”

The Services are not for use by anyone under the age of 18.

To use the Services, you agree that: (1) you must be the “Minimum Age” (described below) or older; (2) you will only have one B.P.C.I account, which must be in your real name; and (3) you are not already restricted by B.P.C.I from using the Services. Creating an account with false information is a violation of our terms, including accounts registered on behalf of others or persons under the age of 18.

“Minimum Age” means 18 years old. However, if the law requires that you must be older in order for B.P.C.I to lawfully provide the Services to you without parental consent (including using your personal data) then the Minimum Age is such older age.

18.2 Your Account:

You will keep your password a secret. You will not share an account with anyone else and will follow our rules and the law. Members are account holders. You agree to: (1) use a strong password and keep it confidential, (2) not transfer any part of your account (e.g., connections) and (3) follow the law and our list of Dos and Don’ts and Community Policies. You are responsible for anything that happens through your account unless you close it or report misuse. As between you and others (including your employer), your account belongs to you. However, if the Services were purchased by another party for you to use (e.g. Recruiter seat bought by your employer), the party paying for such Service has the right to control access to and get reports on your use of such paid Service; however, they do not have rights to your personal account.

18.3 Notices and Messages:

You’re okay with us providing notices and messages to you through our websites, apps, and contact information. If your contact information is out of date, you may miss out on important notices. You agree that we will provide notices and messages to you in the following ways: (1) within the Service, or (2) sent to the contact information you provided us (e.g., email, mobile number, physical address). You agree to keep your contact information up to date. Please review your settings to control and limit messages you receive from us.

18.4 Sharing:

When you share information on our Services, others can see, copy and use that information. Our Services allow messaging and sharing of information in many ways, such as your profile, articles, group posts, links to news articles, job postings, messages, and in mails. Information and content that you share or post may be seen by other Members, Visitors, or others (including the Services). Where we have made settings available, we will honor the choices you make about who can see content or information (e.g., message content to your addressees, sharing content only to B.P.C.I connections, restricting your profile visibility from search engines or opting not to notify others of your B.P.C.I profile update). For job searching activities, we default to not notifying your connections network or the public. So, if you apply for a job through our Service or opt to signal that you are interested in a job, our default is to share it only with the job poster. We are not obligated to publish any information or content on our Service and can remove it with or without notice.

Date of last revision: 31-12-2021