By signing up for an account on Talent Mart Social Network via our Android app, websites and/or other services, you are deemed a User or Content Creator and agree to these User Terms of Service (the “Agreement”). You agree that you have read, understood, and accepted all the Terms and Conditions contained in this Agreement, as well as our Privacy Policy and all other Policies.
This Agreement is legally binding and serves to govern your use of Talent Mart Social Network Website, Android and all other applications. If you do not agree with any of the terms contained herein, kindly refrain from using our services, web sides and applications.
Introduction
Disclaimer and Limit of Obligation
Your Privacy Matters
Data we Collect
Cookie Policy
Service Eligibility
Restricted Activities
Your Account
How we Use your Information
Productivity
Communications
Advertising
Surveys
Customer Support
Profile
Legal Disclosures
Security
Cross-border Data Transfers
Lawful Bases for processing
Rights and Limits
Actions by Talent Mart
Service Availability
Exclusion of Liability
Termination
Dos and Don'ts
Complaints Regarding Content
Accessibility for All
Our Disability Answer Desk
Market Place Terms
Miscellaneous
Talent Mart is your One Stop Socio-empowerment Platform designed to add commercial value to your contents to help you trade with your potentials and Earn Good Money from your posts, and referrals. It is a unique network that connects families together and make your friendship with others much more rewarding.
Talent Mart is a Free for all Video and Picture sharing Social Media App that allows people across the nations of the world showcase their potentials and share a wide range of contents as well as promote their products and brands.
Furthermore, Talent Mart is here to alleviate poverty and provide employment to financially empower people, predominantly the youths with great potentials who have little or no resources to pursue their dreams and thereupon turn them into creative, productive and resourceful entities.
In Talent Mart Social Network, we are committed to protecting the privacy of our users. This Privacy Policy provides our users an overview of the measures we have taken to show our commitment to this policy. It describes how Talent Mart Social Network collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects your information whenever you use mytalentmart.net or Talent Mart Social Network App.
DISCLAIMER AND LIMIT OF OBLIGATION
WE TRY TO MAINTAIN TALENT MART AVAILABLE AT ALL TIMES, BUG-FREE AND SAFE. NEVERTHELESS, YOU USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. OUR APP, WEBSITE AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS, IMPLIED AND/OR STATUTORY WARRANTIES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY IMPLIED OR STATUTORY WARRANTIES OF USERSIBILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE OR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS). WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, TALENT MART MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT OUR WEBSITE, APP AND SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR THAT OUR WEBSITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR MISTAKE FREE. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER VERBAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH OUR WEBSITE OR FROM TALENT MART, ITS PARENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, OR OTHER AFFILIATED COMPANIES, OR ITS OR THEIR SUPPLIERS (OR THE RESPECTIVE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS OF ANY SUCH ENTITIES) (COLLECTIVELY, " TALENT MART PARTIES") SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY.
No Warranty
THIS IS OUR DISCLAIMER OF LEGAL LIABILITY FOR THE QUALITY, SAFETY, OR RELIABILITY OF OUR SERVICES.
TALENT MART 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, TALENT MART AND ITS AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED OR STATUTORY WARRANTY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF TITLE, ACCURACY OF DATA, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
EXCLUSIONS
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation or exclusion of liability for certain damages. Accordingly, some of the above disclaimers and limitations of liability may not apply to you. To the extent that Talent Mart Social Network may not, as a matter of applicable law, disclaim any implied warranty or limit its liabilities, the scope and duration of such warranty and the extent of Talent Mart Social Network’s liability shall be the minimum permitted under such applicable law.
INDEMNITY
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold Talent Mart Social Network, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, and suppliers, harmless from and against any claims, actions or demands, liabilities and settlements including without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, or alleged to result from, your violation of these Agreement.
USER DATA
When you use Talent Mart Services, we collect data sent to us through your computer, mobile phone, or other access device. This includes personal data that you volunteer on forms which you submit to us and in emails that you send to us. In addition, we automatically gather details of browser types and IP addresses of the users who visit our site. We do not release this data to any outside party, except in suspected fraud cases.
If you create an account or use Talent Mart Services, we may collect the following types of information:
CONTACT DATA - your name, phone number, e-mail address, city, country, date of birth and other similar data; and
FINANCIAL DATA – Bank details and/or debit card details that you input when you use Talent Mart Services. If you do not use Talent Mart Services, you may opt out of providing this data.
When you use Talent Mart Services, we collect data about your transactions and/or your other activities on our website and we may continuously collect data about your computer, mobile device, or other access device for fraud prevention purposes, to monitor for possible breach of your Talent Mart Account, and to identify any malicious software or other activity that may harm Talent Mart or its users. You may choose to provide us access to certain personal data stored by third parties. The information we have access to varies by site and is controlled by your privacy settings on that site and your authorisation. By associating an account managed by a third party with your Talent Mart account and authorising Talent Mart to have access to this data, you agree that Talent Mart may collect, store, and use this information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Finally, we may collect additional data you may disclose to our customer support team.
YOUR PRIVACY MATTERS
Talent Mart Social Network Mission is to provide a favourable atmosphere for entertainment and financial empower people to raise with their immense talents at the world stage. Central to this mission is our commitment to be transparent about the information we collect about you, how it is used and with whom it is shared.
This Privacy Policy applies when you use our Services (described below). We offer our users choices about the data we collect, use and share as described in this Privacy Policy.
SERVICES
This Privacy Policy applies to mytalentmart.net, Talent Mart Social Network App and other Talent Mart Online Exhibition-related sites, Apps, communications and services, including off-site Services, such as our ad services and the “Apply with Talent Mart Online Exhibition” and “Share with Talent Mart Online Exhibition” plugins, but excluding services that state that they are offered under a different Privacy Policy.
USING TALENT MART SERVICES ON BEHALF OF AN ORGANIZATION
Many organizations, such as businesses, non-profits, and schools, take advantage of our services. To use our services on behalf of an organization:
an authorized representative of that organization must agree to these terms
your organization’s administrator may assign a Talent Mart Account to you. That administrator might require you to follow additional rules and may be able to access or disable your Talent Mart Account.
CHANGE
Changes to the Privacy Policy apply to your use of our Services after the “effective date.”
Talent Mart Social Network (“we” or “us”) can modify this Privacy Policy, and if we make material changes to it, we will provide notice through our Services, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. If you object to any changes, you may close your account. You acknowledge that your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy means that the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to the updated Privacy Policy, as of its effective date.
DATA WE COLLECT
You provide data to create an account with us.
DATA FROM OTHERS
Others may post or write about you.
USERS AND VISITORS
When you sign-in (register) and join Talent Mart Services, you become a User. As a User, you can Vote and be Voted for. Even if you have not registered for our Services, you may access certain features as a “Visitor” or review contents associated with closed accounts. This will show an unknown user as the source. Your profile may continue to be displayed in the services of others (e.g., search engine results) until they refresh their cache.
PERSONAL DATA
Throughout this policy, we use the term "personal data" to describe information that can be associated with a specific person and can be used to identify that person. This Privacy Policy does not apply to personal data that has been anonymised so that it does not and cannot be used to identify a specific user. Talent Mart Social Network takes reasonable precautions, as described herein, to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
Our primary purpose in collecting personal data is to provide you with a secure, smooth, efficient, and customised experience.
We may use your personal information to:
Provide Talent Mart Services and customer support you request;
Process transactions and send notices about your transactions;
Resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;
Prevent and investigate potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and/or violations of our posted user terms;
Customise, measure, and improve Talent Mart Services and the content and layout of our website and applications;
Deliver targeted marketing, service update notices, and promotional offers based on your communication preferences; and
Verify your identity by comparing your personal information against third-party databases.
We will not use your personal information for purposes other than those purposes we have disclosed to you, without your permission. From time to time, we may request your permission to allow us to share your personal information with third parties. You may opt out of having your personal information shared with third parties, or from allowing us to use your personal information for any purpose that is incompatible with the purposes for which we originally collected it or subsequently obtained your authorisation. If you choose to so limit the use of your personal information, certain features or Talent Mart Services may not be available to you.
We collect personal data that you volunteer on forms which you submit to us and in e-mails that you send to us. In addition, we automatically gather details of browser types and IP addresses of the users who visit our site. We do not release this information to any outside party, except in suspected fraud cases.
We store and process your personal and transactional information, including certain payment information, where Talent Mart facilities or our service providers are located, and we protect it by maintaining physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in compliance with applicable laws. We use computer safeguards such as firewalls and data encryption, we enforce physical access controls to our buildings and files.
We store our Users' personal information securely throughout the life of the User's Talent Mart Account. Talent Mart will retain your personal data for a minimum of five years or as necessary to comply with our legal obligations or to resolve disputes.
COOKIE POLICY
At Talent Mart Social Network, we believe in being clear and open about how we collect and use data related to you. This Cookie Policy applies to any Talent Mart product or service that links to this policy or incorporates it by reference. We use cookies and similar technologies such as pixels, local storage and mobile ad IDs (collectively referred to in this policy as “cookies”) to collect and use data as part of our Services, as defined in our Privacy Policy (“Services”).
WHAT ARE COOKIES
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This section describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies.
How We Use Cookies: We intend to use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below:
To recognise you as a Talent Mart Social Network User. If you create an account with us, then we may use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out, however in some cases, they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
We may use both session and persistent cookies when you access our website or content. Session cookies expire and no longer have any effect when you log out of your account or close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your browser until you erase them or they expire.
When you submit data to through a form, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence. To offer you a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we may need to set cookies so that this information can be recalled whenever you interact with a page affected by your preferences.
We may use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.
We may also use Local Shared Objects, commonly referred to as "Flash cookies," to help ensure that your account security is not compromised, to spot irregularities in behaviour to help prevent fraud, and to support our sites and services.
We may use cookies to collect information about your computer or other access device to mitigate risk, help prevent fraud, and promote trust and safety.
We shall encode our cookies so that only we can interpret the information stored in them. You are free to decline our cookies if your browser or browser add-on permits, but doing so may interfere with your use of Talent Mart Services. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. The help section of most browsers or browser add-ons provides instructions on blocking, deleting, or disabling cookies.
Third Party Cookies in some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. This section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site. We use Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web, to help us understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience.
These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging contents. As we may eventually sell products it's important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that certain cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
We intend to use several partners to advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies will simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.
Furthermore, if there is something you aren't sure you need or not, it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
SERVICE ELIGIBILITY
Here are some promises that you make to us in this Contract: You're eligible to enter into this Contract if you are at least our “Minimum Age.”
Talent Mart “Minimum Age” means 18 years old. However, if the law requires that you must be older in order for Talent Mart to lawfully provide her Services to you without parental consent (including using your personal data) then the Minimum Age is such older age.
To use Talent Mart Services, you agree that:
(1) You must be the “Minimum Age” (described above) or older;
(2) You will only have one Talent Mart account, which must be in your real name;
(3) You will be restricted or block by Talent Mart from using the Services if discovered that you have more than one account;
(4) You will not Upload or post contents that are not originally yours as this is not permitted and will disqualify you from using our services as well as receiving the attached benefit(s);
(5) You will not Create an account with false information as it will amount to a violation of our terms, including accounts registered on behalf of others or persons under the age of 18 except by the child's parent or guardian;
(6) You will not upload, post or share an impure, harmful, life-threatening, unpleasant, hate, porn and their like content.
(7) You will not upload, post or share contents that criticise or attack any individual, group, gender, tribe, religion or government of any nation.
Bridging any of the above will disqualify you from using our service as well as receiving the attached benefits.
YOUR ACCOUNT
It is your responsibility to keep your password, PIN/codes and other private information secret.
You must not share an account with anyone else and must follow our policies and the law. Users are account holders.
You agree to: (1) use a strong password and keep it confidential; (2) never transfer any part of your account to a third party and (3) follow the law and our list of Dos and Don'ts.
You are responsible for anything that happens to or through your account.
CM ACCOUNT
All Partners and Staff account is known as CM Account, that means ‘Closely Monitored Account’. Thus, any user following any Partner or Staff or that followed by any Partner or Staff is known and Marked as CM Account.
RESTRICTED ACTIVITIES
You must not use Talent Mart Social Network in connection with any product, service, transaction or activity that:
1). Violates any law or government regulation, or promotes or facilitates such violation by third parties including customers;
2). Violates any rule or regulation of any electronic funds transfer network;
3). Is fraudulent, deceptive, unfair or predatory;
4). Causes or threatens reputational damage to us;
5). Involves any of the business categories listed under “Certain Business Categories” below; or
6). Results in or creates a significant risk of chargebacks, penalties, damages or other harm or liability.
a. CERTAIN BUSINESS CATEGORIES
You must not use Talent Mart Social Network in connection with any product, service, transaction or activity that involve:
1). The Prohibition List of Customs Service of any country.
2). Banned narcotics, steroids, certain controlled substances or other products that present a risk to consumer's safety;
3). Blood, bodily fluids or body parts;
4). Counterfeit items;
5). Illegal drugs and drug paraphernalia;
6). fireworks, destructive devices and explosives;
7). Secret government documents or government financial records;
8). lottery tickets, sweepstakes entries or slot machines without the required license;
9). offensive material or hate speech or items that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance, or the financial exploitation of any kind;
10). Military or police badges or uniforms;
11). chemicals;
12). recalled items;
13). prohibited services;
14). unlicensed financial services, stocks or other securities;
15). stolen property;
16). items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction;
17). sales of currency without Bureau De Change license, certain cryptocurrency operators;
18). obscene material or pornography;
19). certain sexually oriented materials or services;
20). firearms, firearm parts or accessories, ammunition, weapons or knives; or
21). any product or service that is illegal or marketed or sold in such a way as to create liability to Talent Mart Social Network.
b. RELATE TO TRANSACTIONS THAT
1). show the personal information of third parties in violation of applicable law;
2). violate the Guidelines on International Money Transfer Services;
3). support pyramid or Ponzi schemes, matrix programs, other "get rich quick" schemes or certain multi-level marketing programs;
4). are used as covers for money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
5). pertain to ammunitions and arms; and
6). involve gambling, gaming and/or any other activity with an entry fee and a prize, including, but not limited to casino games, sports betting, horse or greyhound racing, lottery tickets, other ventures that facilitate gambling, games of skill (whether or not it is legally defined as a lottery) and sweepstakes unless the operator has obtained prior approval from Talent Mart Social Network and the operator and customers are located exclusively in jurisdictions where such activities are permitted by law.
ACTIONS BY TALENT MART SOCIAL NETWORK
If, in our sole discretion, we believe that you may have engaged in any violation of this Agreement, we may (with or without notice to you) take such actions as we deem appropriate to mitigate risk to Talent Mart Social Network and any impacted third parties and to ensure compliance with this Agreement. Such actions may include, without limitation:
1). Blocking the settlement or completion of one or more transaction;
2). Suspending, restricting or terminating your access to and use of Talent Mart Social Network’s Services;
3). Terminating our business relationship with you, including termination without liability to Talent Mart Social Network of any payment service agreement between you and Talent Mart Social Network;
4). Taking legal action against you;
5). Contacting and disclosing information related to such violations to: (i) any bank or Card Network involved with your business or transactions, (ii) law enforcement or regulatory agencies, and (iii) other third parties that may have been impacted by such violations; or (iv) Assessing against you any fees, penalties, assessments or expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) that we may incur as a result of such violations, which you agree to pay promptly upon notice.
REGISTRATION
To create an account, you need to provide data including your name, gender, e-mail address, mobile number, country, city and a password. If you register as content creator, you will need to vote for yourself first to activate your page. You create your Talent Mart Social Network profile (a complete profile helps you get the most from our Services).
OUTLINE
You have choices about the information on your profile, such as your education, work experience, skills, photo, city or area and endorsements. You don't have to provide additional information on your profile; however, profile information helps you to get more from our Services, including helping other users to vote for you. It's your choice whether to include sensitive information on your profile and to make that sensitive information public. Please do not post or add personal data to your profile that you would not want to be publicly available.
POSTING AND UPLOADING
We collect personal data from you when you provide, post or upload it to our Services, such as when you fill out a form. You don't have to post or upload personal data; though if you don't, it may limit your ability to grow and engage with your network over our Services.
MODIFICATION
We may make changes to the Contract. We may modify this Contract, our Privacy 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.
CONTENT AND NEWS
You and others may post content that includes information about you (as part of articles, posts, comments, pictures, videos) on our Services. We also may collect public information about you, such as professional-related news and accomplishments, and make it available as part of our Services, including, as permitted by your settings, in notifications to others mentioned in the news. Others may sync their contacts or calendar with our Services.
CONTACT AND CALENDAR DATA
We receive personal data (including contact information) about you when others import or sync their contacts or calendar with our Services, associate their contacts with user profiles, scan and upload business cards, or send messages using our Services (including invites or connection requests). If you or others opt-in to sync email accounts with our Services, we will also collect “email header” information that we can associate with user profiles.
SERVICE USE
We record your transactions/visits and use of our Services, including mobile apps. We log usage data when you carry out transaction/visit or otherwise use our Services, including our sites, app and platform technology, such as when you view or click on content or ads, perform a search, install or update our mobile app, send votes, share articles, receive votes.
MESSAGES
If you communicate through our Services, we learn about that. We collect information about you when you vote, send votes, share articles, receive votes or engage with messages in connection with our Services. For example, we use this technology to suggest possible responses to messages and to manage or block content that violates our User Agreement or Policies from our Services. We are improving our Services, which means we get new data and create new ways to use information. Our Services are dynamic, and we often introduce new features, which may require the collection of new information. If we collect materially different personal data or materially change how we collect, use or share your data, we will notify you and may also modify this Privacy Policy.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION.
We use your data to provide, support, personalize and develop our Services. How we use your personal data will depend on which Services you use, how you use those Services and the choices you make in your settings. We use the data that we have about you to provide and personalize our Services, with the help of automated systems and inferences we make, so that our Services (including ads) can be more relevant and useful to you and others.
SERVICES
Our Services help you start-up and expand in life or business, receive cashback, vote for your favourite exhibitor or content and receive votes, connect with family and friends, find and be found for work and business opportunities, stay informed, get training and be more productive, learn new skills and trade with your potentials. We use your information to authorize access to our Services and honour your settings.
STAY CONNECTED
Our Services allow you to stay in touch and up to date with colleagues, partners, clients, and other professional contacts. Subject to your and their settings, when you connect with other Users, you will be able to search each other's connections in order to exchange ideas and opportunities.
We use data about you (such as your profile, profiles you have viewed or data provided through address book uploads) to help others find your profile, suggest connections for you to be voted for and others (e.g. users who share your contacts or experiences) and enable you to invite others to become users and connect with and vote for you. You can also opt-in to allow us use your detailed location or proximity to others for certain tasks.
It is your choice whether to invite someone to our Services, send a connection request, or allow another user to become your connection. When you invite someone to connect with you, your invitation will include your network and basic profile information (e.g., name, profile photo, talent, region). We will send invitation reminders to the person you invited. You can choose whether or not to share your own list of connections with your connections.
Visitors have choices about how we use their information.
STAY INFORMED
Our Services allow you to stay informed about news, events and ideas in the entertainment industry. Our Services also allow you to improve your skills, or learn new ones. We use the data we have about you (e.g., data you provide, data we collect from your engagement with our Services and inferences we make from the data we have about you), to personalize our Services for you, such as by recommending or ranking relevant content and conversations on our Services.
We also use the data we have about you to suggest skills you could add to your profile and skills that you might need to pursue your next opportunity. So, if you let us know that you are interested in a new skill (e.g., by watching other users' videos), we will use this information to personalize content in your feed, suggest that you follow certain users on our site. We use your content, activity and other information, including your name, photo, and video to provide notices to your network and others. For example, subject to your settings, we may notify others that you have updated your profile, posted content, took a social action, used a feature, made new connections or were mentioned in the news.
PRODUCTIVITY
Our Services allow you to showcase your talents and creativity, collaborate with colleagues, search for potential clients, voters, customers, partners and others to do business with. Our Services also allow you to communicate with other users, schedule and hold virtual meetings with them. If your settings allow, we scan messages to provide “bots” or similar tools that facilitate tasks such as scheduling meetings, drafting responses, summarizing messages or recommending next steps.
COMMUNICATIONS
We contact you and enable communications between Users. We offer settings to control what messages you receive and how often you receive some types of messages.
We will contact you through email, mobile phone, notices posted on our websites or apps, messages to your Talent Mart inbox, and other ways through our Services, including text messages and push notifications. We will send you messages about the availability of our Services, security, or other service-related issues. We also send messages about how to use our Services, network updates, reminders, and promotional messages from us and our partners.
You may change your communication preferences at any time. Please be aware that you cannot opt out of receiving service messages from us, including security and legal notices.
We also enable communications between you and others through our Services, including for example invitations, InMail, groups and messages between connections.
ADVERTISING
We serve you tailored ads both on and off our Services. We offer you choices regarding personalized ads, but you cannot opt-out of seeing other ads. We target (and measure the performance of) ads to Users, Visitors and others both on and off our Services directly or through a variety of partners, using the following data, whether separately or combined:
* Data from advertising technologies on and off our Services, pixels, ad tags, cookies, and device identifiers;
* Users provided information (e.g., profile, contact information, title, etc.);
* Data from your use of our Services (e.g., search history, feed, content you read, who you follow or is following you, connections, groups participation, page visits, videos create and watch, clicking on an ad, etc.);
* Information from advertising partners, vendors and publishers; and
* Information inferred from data described above (e.g., using job titles from a profile to infer industry, seniority, and compensation bracket; using graduation dates to infer age or using first names or pronoun usage to infer gender; using your feed activity to infer your interests; or using device data to recognize you as a user).
We will show you ads called sponsored content which look similar to non-sponsored content, except that they are labelled as advertising (e.g., as “ad” or “sponsored”). If you take a social action (such as comment or share) on these ads, your action is associated with your name and viewable by others, including the advertiser. Subject to your settings, if you take a social action on the Talent Mart Services, that action may be mentioned with related ads.
AD CHOICES
We adhere to self-regulatory principles for interest-based advertising and participate in industry opt-outs from such ads. This does not opt you out of receiving advertising; you will continue to get other ads by advertisers not listed with these self-regulatory tools. You can also opt-out specifically from our uses of certain categories of data to show you more relevant ads.
INFO TO AD PROVIDERS
We do not share your personal data with any third-party advertisers or ad networks except for: (i) hashed IDs or device identifiers (to the extent they are personal data in some countries); (ii) with your separate permission (e.g., in a lead generation form) or (iii) data already visible to any users of the Services (e.g., profile). However, if you view or click on an ad on or off our Services, the ad provider will get a signal that someone visited the page that displayed the ad, and they may, through the use of mechanisms such as cookies, determine it is you. Advertising partners can associate personal data collected by the advertiser directly from you with hashed IDs or device identifiers received from us. In such instances, we seek to contractually require such advertising partners to obtain your explicit, opt-in consent before doing so.
MARKETING
We promote our Services to you and others.
In addition to advertising our Services, we use Users' data and content for invitations and communications promoting the usage and network growth, engagement and our Services, such as by showing your connections that you have used a feature on our Services.
SERVICE DEVELOPMENT
We use data, including public feedback, to conduct research and development for our Services in order to provide you and others a better, more intuitive and personalized experience, drive usage growth and engagement on our Services, and help connect professionals to each other and to economic opportunities.
OTHER RESEARCH
We seek to create economic opportunities for Users of the global workforce and to help them become more productive and successful. We use the personal data available to us to research social, economic and workplace trends that help bridge the gap in various industries and geographic areas. In some cases, we work with trusted third parties to perform this research, under controls that are designed to protect your privacy. We publish or allow others to publish economic insights, presented as aggregated data rather than personal data.
DEVELOPING SERVICES AND RESEARCH
We develop our Services and conduct research.
SURVEYS
Polls and surveys are conducted by us and others through our Services. You are not obligated to respond to polls or surveys, and you have choices about the information you provide. You may opt-out of survey invitations.
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
We use data to help you and solve problems.
We use data (which can include your communications) to investigate, respond to and resolve complaints and for Service issues (e.g., bugs).
INSIGHTS THAT DO NOT IDENTIFY YOU
We use your data to produce and share insights that do not identify you. For example, we may use your data to generate statistics about our Users, their profession or industry, to calculate ad impressions served or clicked on, or to publish visitor demographics for a Service or create demographic workforce insights.
SECURITY AND INVESTIGATIONS
We use data for security, fraud prevention and investigations.
We use your data (including your communications) for security purposes or to prevent or investigate possible fraud or other violations of our User Agreement and/or attempts to harm our Users, Visitors or others.
HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION
Any data that you include on your profile and any content you post or social action (e.g., comments, follows, shares, vote) you take on our Services will be seen by others, consistent with your settings.
PROFILE
Your profile is fully visible to all Users of our Services. Subject to your settings, it can also be visible to others on or off of our Services (e.g., Visitors to our Services or users of third- party search engines). As detailed in our Help Center, your settings, degree of connection with the viewing Users, the subscriptions they may have, their usage of our Services, access channels and search types (e.g., by name or by keyword) impact the availability of your profile and whether they can view certain fields in your profile.
POSTS, FOLLOWERS, VOTES, COMMENTS, MESSAGES
Our Services allow viewing and sharing information through posts, following, votes, and comments.
When you share an article or a post (e.g., an update, image, video or article) publicly it can be viewed by everyone and re-shared anywhere (subject to your settings).
Content Creators/Users or Exhibitors will be able to find and see your publicly-shared contents, including your name (and photo if you have provided one).
In a group, posts are visible to others in the group. Your membership in groups is public and part of your profile, but you can change visibility in your settings.
Any information you share through companies' or other organizations' pages on our Services will be viewable by it and others who visit those pages.
When you follow a person or organization, you are visible to others and that “page owner” as a follower.
We let senders know when you act on their message, subject to your settings where applicable.
Subject to your settings, we let Users know when you view their profile.
When you vote, share or comment on another's content (including ads), others will be able to view these “social actions” and associate it with you (e.g., your name, profile and photo if you provided it).
Voters can see how you rise with the votes they provided for you and related information.
SERVICE PROVIDERS
We may use others to help us with our Services. We use others to help us provide our Services (e.g., maintenance, analysis, audit, payments, fraud detection, marketing and development). They will have access to your information as reasonably necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes.
RELATED SERVICES
We share your data across our different Services and Talent Mart Social Network affiliated entities. We will share your personal data with our affiliates to provide and develop our Services. We may combine information internally across the different Services covered by this Privacy Policy to help our Services be more relevant and useful to you and others. For example, we may personalize your feed or potential recommendations based on your performance history.
OTHER POLICIES
Correct/Update: You may request that we amend any personal data that we are holding about you which is factually inaccurate. You can contact customer support stating your wishes.
Links: This website may contain links to other sites. Talent Mart Social Network is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This privacy statement applies solely to data collected by this web site.
Online Payment Methods: Talent Mart is not associated with any of the trademarks which might appear visible in the Online Payment Method lists or payment gateway. Talent Mart does not itself support these payment methods, or claim to be in partnership with them. Also, services provided by Talent Mart are not authorised, approved, endorsed or sponsored by any of the payment methods we use or their respective trademark owners. Payment method listings are visible on the Talent Mart website for informative purposes only. Trademarks which might appear visible on the Talent Mart website, belong to the respective trademark owners alone.
Data retention policy: We retain your personal information as long as it is necessary and relevant for our operations. In addition, we may retain personal information from closed accounts to comply with national laws, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigation, enforce our Terms of Service and take other actions permitted or required by applicable national laws.
If you have any questions about this Privacy statement, the practices, or your dealing with this web site, please contact us and your inquiry will be dealt with as soon as possible.
TRANSACTIONS
All information about transactions made on our Platform is secured and confidential. If you use our Platform to perform financial transactions (such as when you Send or Receive vote, buy or sell goods) we use the information about the purchase or transaction to process your payment.
When purchast goods, your payment information such as your credit or debit card number and other card information such as account and authentication information, and billing details are only used to process your payment. Your card details and personal banking information is never stored during or after your purchase on our Platform. Your contact details are only required for the purpose of the transaction.
LEGAL DISCLOSURES
We may need to share your data when we believe it's required by law or to help protect the rights and safety of you, us or others. It is possible that we will need to disclose information about you when required by law, subpoena, or other legal process or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to:
(1) investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies;
(2) enforce our agreements with you;
(3) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations;
(4) protect the security or integrity of our Services (such as sharing with companies facing similar threats); or
(5) exercise or protect the rights and safety of Talent Mart, our Users, personnel or others. We attempt to notify users about legal demands for their personal data when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency.
(6). We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.
CHANGE IN CONTROL OR SALE
We may share your data when our business is sold to others, but it must continue to be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We can also share your personal data as part of a sale, merger or change in control, or in preparation for any of these events. Any other entity which buys us or part of our business will have the right to continue to use your data, but only in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy unless you agree otherwise.
YOUR CHOICES & OBLIGATIONS
DATA RETENTION
We keep most of your personal data for as long as your account is open. We generally retain your personal data as long as you keep your account open or as needed to provide you Services. This includes data you or others provided to us and data generated or inferred from your use of our Services. Even if you only use our Services when showcasing your talent to win a prize, we will retain your information and keep your profile open, unless you close your account. In some cases, we choose to retain certain information (e.g., insights about Services used) in a depersonalized or aggregated form.
RIGHTS TO ACCESS AND CONTROL YOUR PERSONAL DATA
You can access or delete your personal data. You have many choices about how your data is collected, used and shared.
We provide many choices about the collection, use and sharing of your data, from deleting or correcting data you include in your profile and controlling the visibility of your posts to advertising opt-outs and communication controls. We offer you settings to control and manage the personal data we have about you.
For personal data that we have about you, you can:
* Delete Data: You can ask us to erase or delete all or some of your personal data (e.g., if it is no longer necessary to provide Services to you).
* Change or Correct Data: You can edit some of your personal data through your account. You can also ask us to change, update or fix your data in certain cases, particularly if it's inaccurate.
* Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Data: You can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal data (e.g., if we have no legal right to keep using it) or to limit our use of it (e.g., if your personal data is inaccurate or unlawfully held).
* Right to Access and/or Take Your Data: You can ask us for a copy of your personal data and can ask for a copy of personal data you provided in machine readable form.
* Visitors can learn more about how to make these requests. You may also contact us using the contact information, and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws.
ACCOUNT CLOSURE
We keep some of your data even after you close your account.
If you choose to close your Talent Mart account, your personal data will generally stop being visible to others on our Services within 48 hours. We generally delete closed account information within 30 days of account closure, except as noted below.
We retain your personal data even after you have closed your account if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement requests), meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse (e.g., if we have restricted your account for breach of our Policies), enforce our User Agreement, or fulfil your request to "unsubscribe" from further messages from us. We will retain de-personalized information after your account has been closed.
Information you have shared with others (e.g., through InMail, updates or group posts) will remain visible after you close your account or delete the information from your own profile or mailbox, and we do not control data that other users have copied out of our Services. Groups content and ratings or review content associated with closed accounts will show an unknown user as the source. Your profile may continue to be displayed in the services of others (e.g., search engine results) until they refresh their cache.
SECURITY
We monitor for and try to prevent security breaches. Please use the security features available through our Services. We implement security safeguards designed to protect your data. We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. However, we cannot warrant the security of any information that you send us. There is no guarantee that data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFERS
We store and use your data outside your country.
We process data both inside and outside of the county and rely on legally-provided mechanisms to lawfully transfer data across borders. Countries where we process data may have laws which are different from, and potentially not as protective as, the laws of your own country.
LAWFUL BASES FOR PROCESSING
We have lawful bases to collect, use and share data about you. You have choices about our use of your data. At any time, you can withdraw consent you have provided by going to settings.
We will only collect and process personal data about you where we have lawful bases. Lawful bases include consent (where you have given consent), contract (where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you e.g., to deliver the Talent Mart Services you have requested) and “legitimate interests.”
Where we rely on your consent to process personal data, you have the right to withdraw or decline your consent at any time and where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object. If you have any questions about the lawful bases upon which we collect and use your personal data, please contact us.
DIRECT MARKETING AND DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS
Our statements regarding direct marketing and “do not track” signals.
We currently do not share personal data with third parties for their direct marketing purposes without your permission.
CONTACT INFORMATION
You can contact us or use other options to resolve any complaints. If you have questions or complaints regarding this Policy, please first contact Talent Mart online platform.
As described, you have choices regarding the use of your personal data for targeted advertising. Some mobile device operating systems such as Android provide the ability to control the use of mobile advertising IDs for ads personalization. You can learn how to use these controls by visiting the manufacturer's website.
PAYMENT
You agree to honour your payment obligations and you are okay with us storing your payment information. You understand that there may be fees and taxes that are added to our prices.
REFUNDS ARE SUBJECT TO OUR POLICY.
If you subscribe or buy any of our paid Services (Premium Services), you agree to pay us the applicable fees and taxes and additional terms specific to the paid Services. Failure to pay these fees will result in the termination of your paid Services.
Also, you agree that:
* Your purchase may be subject to foreign exchange fees or differences in prices based on location (e.g. exchange rates).
* We may store and continue billing your payment method even after it has expired, to avoid interruptions in your Services and to use to pay other Services you may buy.
* If you purchase a subscription, your payment method automatically will be charged at the start of each subscription period for the fees and taxes applicable to that period. To avoid future charges, cancel before the renewal date.
NOTICES AND MESSAGES
We will provide 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.
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, video and photo postings, messages and InMails. Information and content that you share or post may be seen by other users, visitors or others (including out of the Services). Where we have made settings available, we will honour the choices you make about who can see content or information (e.g., message content to your addressees, sharing content only to Talent Mart connections, restricting your profile visibility from search engines, or opting not to notify others of your Talent Mart profile update). We are not obligated to publish any information or content on our Service and can remove it with or without notice.
RIGHTS AND LIMITS
Your License to Talent Mart Social Network
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 honour 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 Talent Mart Social Network, you own the content and information that you submit or post to the Services, and you are only granting Talent Mart and our affiliates the following non-exclusive license:
A worldwide, transferable and sub-licensable 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:
1. 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.
2. 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, video or photo to promote that feature within our Services, subject to your settings.
3. 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 users to embed that public post onto third-party services, and we enable search engines to make that public content findable through their services.
4. 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.
5. 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, including under the terms of a Creative Commons license. You and Talent Mart agree that if content includes personal data, it is subject to our Privacy Policy.
You and Talent Mart Social Network agree that we may access, store, process and use any information and personal data that you provide in accordance with, the terms of this Privacy Policy and your choices (including settings). By submitting suggestions or other feedback regarding our Services to Talent Mart, you agree that Talent Mart can use and share (but does not have to) 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 Talent Mart profile will be truthful.
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. Talent Mart may be required by law to remove certain information or content in certain countries.
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. Talent Mart 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.
OTHER CONTENT, SITES AND APPS
Your use of others’ contents 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. Talent Mart generally does not review content provided by our users or others. You agree that we are not responsible for others' (including other users') 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. Users have choices about this feature.
MARKET PLACE TERMS
1. ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS
These Terms of Use (the “Terms”) constitute a binding and enforceable legal contract between Talent Mart Online Marketplace, its affiliated companies (together, the “Administrator”, “we”, “us”) and you. Please read these Terms carefully.
1.1. Your access and use of the Talent Mart website and mobile applications, as well as any service, content, and data available via them (together, the “Service” or the “Platform”) are governed by these Terms.
1.2. If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, or if you are not eligible or authorized to be bound by the Terms, then do not access or use the Service.
1.3. Please also review our Privacy Policy. The terms of the Privacy Policy and other supplemental terms, rules, policies, or documents that may be posted on the Platform from time to time are hereby expressly incorporated herein by reference. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to make changes or modifications to these Terms at any time and for any reason with or without prior notice.
2. IMPORTANT DISCLAIMERS
2.1. ALL SERVICES RENDERED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR ARE RENDERED “AS IS”, “AS AVAILABLE” AND “WITH ALL FAULTS”, AND THE ADMINISTRATOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY GUARANTEES REGARDING CONDITION, QUALITY, LIFE DURATION, PERFORMANCE, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMMERCIAL VALUE AND SUITABILITY FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES. ALL SUCH WARRANTIES AND LIABILITIES ARE HEREBY EXCLUDED.
2.2. ADMINISTRATOR HAS NO CONTROL OVER AND DOES NOT GUARANTEE THE EXISTENCE, QUALITY, SAFETY OR LEGALITY OF GOODS AND SERVICES PUBLISHED BY USERS ON THE PLATFORM; THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OR ACCURACY OF INFORMATION PROVIDED BY USERS IN THE ANNOUNCEMENTS; THE ABILITY OF SELLERS TO SELL GOODS OR TO PROVIDE SERVICES; THE ABILITY OF BUYERS TO PAY FOR GOODS OR SERVICES; OR THAT A USER WILL ACTUALLY COMPLETE A TRANSACTION. ADMINISTRATOR MAKES NO GUARANTEES CONCERNING THAT MANUFACTURING, IMPORT, EXPORT, OFFER, DISPLAYING, PURCHASE, SALE, ADVERTISING AND/OR USE OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES, WHICH ARE OFFERED OR DISPLAYED ON THE PLATFORM DO NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTIES’ RIGHTS. THEREFORE, ADMINISTRATOR EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY IN CONNECTION TO MATERIALS AND INFORMATION POSTED BY USERS ON THE PLATFORM.
2.3. YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO CHECK THE GOODS BEFORE PAYMENT AND TO REQUEST THE SELLER TO PROVIDE DOCUMENTS CONFIRMING COMPLIANCE OF THE GOODS WITH APPLICABLE REQUIREMENTS OF LAWS, REGULATIONS, RULES, GUIDELINES, STANDARDS.
2.4. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR SAFETY AND YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU SHOULD MEET WITH OTHER INDIVIDUALS FOR COMPLETION OF A TRANSACTION ONLY IN SAFE PUBLIC PLACES IN DAYLIGHT HOURS. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR CONDUCTING DUE DILIGENCE OF ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANIZATION REQUESTING A MEETING TO CONDUCT A JOB INTERVIEW OR TO COMPLETE A TRANSACTION. ADMINISTRATOR DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR USER’S INTERACTION WITH ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANIZATION.
3. ACCOUNT REGISTRATION
3.1. In order to use certain features of the Service you may need to register an account on the Platform (the “Account”) and provide certain information about yourself as prompted by the registration form.
3.2. You may create an Account as an individual or as an authorized representative of a company.
3.3. You can register only one Account. If more than one person accesses its Account from the same device, we may request to upload the proof of identity to avoid duplicate accounts.
3.4. You acknowledge that you are solely responsible for safeguarding and maintaining the confidentiality of access details to your Account and that you are fully responsible and liable for any activity performed using your Account access details.
3.5. You hereby represent and warrant to us that you have reached the age of majority or are accessing the Service under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian. All users who are minors in the jurisdiction in which they reside (generally under the age of 18) must have the permission of, and be directly supervised by, their parent or guardian to use the Service. If you are a minor, you must have your parent or guardian read and agree to these Terms prior to you using the Service.
3.6. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your Account, or restrict your access to the Service, with or without notice to you, in the event that: (a) you breach these Terms; (b) we detect suspicious activity on your Account; or (c) we have reasonable grounds to believe that you are engaging in fraudulent activities, scams, creating duplicate profiles, or otherwise misusing the Service. The grounds listed above are not exhaustive, and we reserve the right to take such actions in other circumstances where we deem it necessary to protect the integrity, security, and functionality of the Service or to safeguard the interests of other users and third parties.
3.7. You agree to immediately notify us of any unauthorized use, or suspected unauthorized use of your Account or any other breach of security. We cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with the above requirements.
4. SERVICE
4.1. The Platform is an online service that allows users to create and publish announcements, to view announcements published by other users, to communicate with other users using the contact details provided in the announcements.
4.2. The Administrator itself is not an importer, manufacturer, distributor, or seller of any item, as well as not a provider of any service posted by users on the Platform. In addition, the Administrator is neither a marketer nor a person acting on user's behalf with respect to the marketing of any goods or services posted on the Platform. The actual sale and purchase contracts or services contracts are entered into directly between the users, and the Administrator itself is not a party to such transactions. The Administrator provides users with an opportunity to communicate.
4.3. Users shall be solely responsible to collect and remit any applicable taxes resulting from the sale of their goods or services posted on the Platform.
4.4. The Administrator reserves a right to delete or block access to announcements posted by users without any notice in the event of: (i) receiving of mandatory judgments of competent public authorities; (ii) claim of a holder of intellectual property rights to terminate infringement of his/her rights by a user on the Platform; (iii) infringements of rights or legal interests of other users, legal entities, or individuals upon their reasonable request; (iv) detecting that announcement posted by user on the Platform breaches these Terms or any applicable law, regulation, rule or standard.
4.5. The Administrator is authorized to delete or block announcements of users regardless of providing a user with the relevant substantiation.
4.6. The Administrator retains the right to implement any changes to the Service (whether to free or paid features) at any time, with or without notice. You acknowledge that a variety of Administrator’s actions may impair or prevent you from accessing the Service at certain times and/or in the same way, for limited periods or permanently, and agree that the Administrator has no responsibility or liability as a result of any such actions or results, including, without limitation, for the deletion of, or failure to make available to you, any content or services.
4.7. Each user of the Service is solely responsible for any and all his or her User Content (as defined below). Because we do not control the User Content, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for any User Content and we make no guarantees regarding the accuracy, currency, suitability, or quality of any User Content, and we assume no responsibility for any User Content. Your interactions with other Service users are solely between you and such user. You agree that the Administrator will not be responsible for any loss or damage incurred as the result of any such interactions. If there is a dispute between you and any Service user, we are under no obligation to become involved.
4.8. The Service may contain links to third-party websites, services, resources, and advertisements for third parties, including without limitation, offers from local banks and other financial institutions (collectively, "Third Party Ads"). Such Third-Party Ads are not under the control of the Administrator and the Administrator is not responsible for any Third-Party Ads. The Administrator provides these Third-Party Ads only as a convenience and does not review, approve, monitor, endorse, warrant, or make any representations with respect to Third-Party Ads. Advertisements and other information provided by online properties to which the Third Party Ads lead, may not be wholly accurate. You acknowledge sole responsibility for and assume all risk arising from your use of any such online properties. When you link to third party online properties, the applicable service provider's terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, govern. You should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any transaction with any third party. Your transactions and other dealings with Third-Party Ads that are found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, are solely between you and such third party.
4.9. You hereby release us, our officers, employees, agents, and successors from claims, demands any and all losses, damages, rights, claims, and actions of any kind including personal injuries, death, and property damage, that is either directly or indirectly related to or arises from any interactions with or conduct of any Service users or any Third Party Ads.
5. POSTING OF ANNOUNCEMENTS BY USERS
5.1. A user shall provide to the Administrator any documents confirming the legitimacy of posting of announcements and identity documents upon the Administrator’s request.
5.2. A user, who posts announcements with regard to the sale of goods or services on the Platform, shall provide precise and complete information about such goods and services, as well as about the terms and conditions of sale and services provision. In particular, but without limitation, phone number associated with each announcement shall be reachable, which implies not only the ability to receive messages but also necessitates that the user shall be available to answer calls promptly. Failure to maintain an accessible and functional phone number may result in the temporary closure of the user's advertisements.
5.3. The terms and conditions of sale and services provision developed by the user shall not interfere with these Terms and applicable laws.
5.4. Price of goods or services shall be exact. If it is perceived to be changed due to any specific circumstances, this shall be provided in the announcement.
6. FEES
6.1. The Platform is generally free; however, it may contain payable services. For instance, we may set limits for publishing announcements in certain categories or offer advertising options for announcements on the Platform.
6.2. You are not permited to register more than one Account.
6.3. The fees we charge is what makes you a partner on the Platform.
6.4. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change the fees and acceptable payment methods from time to time and for any reason.
6.5. Unless otherwise explicitly provided by mandatory rules of the applicable law, the fees are non-refundable due to the nature of online services.
6.6. Your payments for the services are governed by the Billing Policy.
7. USER PARTNERSHIPS AND WARRANTIES
By using the Service, you Partner and warrant that:
7.1. You have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with the Terms;
7.2. If you register yourself as a Partner of a legal entity, you are authorized by the company to enter into an agreement with us and with users of the Platform;
7.3. You are above 18 years of age;
7.4. You will or have provided true, accurate, and complete information in your Account;
7.5. You will update your information on your Account to maintain its truthfulness, accuracy, and completeness;
7.6. You will immediately change data for access to the Platform if you have a suspicion that your Account access details were disclosed or probably used by the third parties;
7.7. You will notify the Administrator of any unauthorized access to your Account;
7.8. You will not provide any false or misleading information about your identity or location in your Account;
7.9. You will use the Service in strict abidance by applicable laws, regulations, rules, guidelines;
7.10. You will not use the Service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose;
7.11. You will not post on the Platform announcements that offer for sale or exchange any Prohibited Items.
7.12. You will not post on the Platform announcements that infringe other person’s rights or interests, including any intellectual property rights or any other personal or proprietary rights of any third party.
7.13. You will not post on the Platform announcements that include:
7.13.1. false, misleading or deceptive statements;
7.13.2. personal or identifying information about minors or other persons without the proper consent;
7.13.3. pornographic, overtly sexual materials;
7.13.4. depictions that encourage illegal or reckless use of weapons and dangerous objects, or facilitate the purchase of firearms or ammunition;
7.13.5. defamatory, discriminatory, mean-spirited, threatening or harassing, improper, unacceptable materials, vulgar or abusive language;
7.13.6. advocacy of hate, violence, discrimination, racism, xenophobia, ethnic conflicts;
7.13.7. appeals to violence and unlawful actions;
7.13.8. offers of prostitution or other services contradicting moral or legal norms;
7.13.9. services, provision of which is prohibited by the applicable law;
7.13.10. information of solely promotional nature with no offers of specific goods or services;
7.13.11. counterfeit and imitated goods or unauthorized copies. Unauthorized copies include also goods having been acquired by illegal means, pirated or stolen; and
7.13.13. direct or indirect references to any other web sites, references, or information about websites competing with the Platform;
7.14. You will not use software and pursue any other actions aimed to interference with the normal operation of the Platform;
7.15. You will not promote or distribute unsolicited commercial emails, chain letters, Ponzi schemes through the Platform or by any other means towards other users of the Platform;
7.16. You will not copy, modify, distribute any other User Content without consent of the respective user;
7.17. You will not harvest or otherwise collect information about users, including email addresses, phone numbers, without their consent or otherwise violate the privacy of another person;
7.18. You will not download, store, post, distribute and provide access to, or in any other way use worms, viruses, trojans, and other malware;
7.19. You have a legal title to the items offered for sale in your announcement; and
7.20. You have the necessary license or are otherwise authorized, as required by applicable law, to offer for sale, to advertise, and distribute goods described in your announcement.
8. INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold the Administrator, its successors, subsidiaries, affiliates, related companies, its suppliers, licensors and partners, and the officers, directors, employees, agents, and representatives of each of them harmless from any claim or demand, including costs and attorneys’ fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of: (i) your use of the Platform; (ii) your User Content; (iii) your violation of any representation, warranty, covenant, or obligation stipulated in these Terms; (iv) your violation of any applicable law, industry-standard, regulation, guideline, rule; (v) any transaction entered into by you via the Platform or your violation of terms of such transaction. The Administrator reserves the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us and you agree to cooperate with our defense of these claims.
9. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
9.1. IN NO EVENT SHALL WE (AND OUR AFFILIATES) BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY LOST PROFIT OR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING FROM THESE TERMS OR YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SERVICE, OR THIRD-PARTY ADS, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. ACCESS TO, AND USE OF, THE SERVICE, AND THIRD-PARTY ADS ARE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTING SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA RESULTING THEREFROM.
9.2. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, YOU AGREE THAT THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE ADMINISTRATOR TO YOU FOR ANY AND ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE, CONTENT OF ANNOUNCEMENTS, IS LIMITED TO THE LESSER OF THE AMOUNTS YOU HAVE PAID, IF ANY, TO US DURING THE SIX (6) MONTH PERIOD PRIOR TO ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OR NGN37,000.
10. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
10.1. Information you submit to us as part of your registration, and any data, text, pictures and other materials that you may submit or post on the Platform (the “User Content”) remain your intellectual property, and the Administrator does not claim any ownership of the copyright or other proprietary intellectual property rights in such registration information and the User Content. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you agree that the Administrator may retain copies of all registration information and the User Content and use such information and the User Content as reasonably necessary for or incidental to its operation of the Service and as described in these Terms and the Privacy Policy.
10.2. You grant the Administrator the non-exclusive, worldwide, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable right to copy, modify, adapt, store, publish, distribute, publicly display and perform, communicate and make available to the public the User Content in connection with the Service, including to use and make the User Content public on the affiliated web-site, as well as for the Administrator’s marketing, advertising, and other purposes.
10.3. You agree, and represent and warrant, that your use of the Service, or any portion thereof, will neither infringe nor violate the rights of any other party or breach any contract or legal duty to any other parties.
10.4. Materials on the Platform, except those posted by the user, including but not limited to texts, software, scripts, graphics, photos, sounds, music, videos, interactive functions, etc. ("Materials") and trademarks, service marks and logos included in it ("Marks") belong to or are licensed by the Administrator representing items of copyright and of any other intellectual property rights. Any use of such Materials and Marks without prior notice of the Administrator is not allowed.
Notice for Claims of Intellectual Property Violations and Copyright Infringement
10.5. If you are a holder of intellectual property rights or a person authorized to act in the name of a holder of intellectual property rights and you reasonably believe that information that is posted to the Platform someway infringes your intellectual property rights or intellectual property rights of a person, in which name you act, you may provide notification to the Administrator requiring to delete such material. In this regard, you shall warrant that your appeal has a legal basis, and you act in good faith according to law.
10.6. When providing relevant notification concerning infringement of rights you shall ensure that your request corresponds to the form below and includes the following:
10.6.1. an appeal should include the physical or electronic signature of a person empowered for acting in the name of a holder of the right, which is believed to be infringed;
10.6.2. the objects of intellectual property right, rights on which were supposedly infringed, shall be specified. If several objects exist, the entire list of such items shall be provided;
10.6.3. you shall specify materials (with an indication of specific URL-pages), which are stated to infringe rights or themselves are the objects of infringement;
10.6.4. you shall provide contact information so that the Administrator would be able to contact you, for example, address, phone number, and email address;
10.6.5. signed application with regard to your faithful and reasonable belief in those materials being the objects of complaint concerning infringement of intellectual property rights are used without a right holder’s or its representative’s consent, and also that this is not allowed by law;
10.6.6. signed application with regard to that a holder of intellectual property rights releases the Administrator from any third parties' claims related to deletion of relevant materials by the Administrator;
10.6.7. signed application with regard to that information contained in a notification is accurate under penalty of perjury, and you are authorized to act in the name of a holder of the exclusive right, which has been supposedly infringed;
10.6.8. statutory regulations which you believe to be violated in connection to using of disputable content;
10.6.9. state, in which territory you believe the rights to be infringed;
10.6.10. copies of documents establishing rights for an object of intellectual property right, which is subject to security, as well as a document that confirms powers for acting in the holder’s name, in attachments to your appeal.
10.7. The relevant notification shall be sent to email or in-app support mail.
11. PROHIBITED ITEMS ON TALENT MART MARKET PLACE
Users shall comply with all applicable laws, the Terms of Use, and all posted Platform rules and policies.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of goods and services promotion of which is prohibited on Talent Mart:
Narcotics, steroids, and any drugs or medications that require a prescription from a licensed medical specialist
Weapons
Restricted military/police items
Human organs
Illegal/pirated copies
Stolen property
Code grabbing and lock picking devices
Electronic equipment prohibited by the law
Sexually-oriented services
Loans, money transactions, Bitcoin, various gift cards
Multi-level marketing, pyramid, and matrix programs
Network marketing and “Home Base Business” jobs
Military-style clothing and camouflage
Products (goods or services) prohibited to sell by the law, in particular:
Food, processed food, water, soft drinks, spirit drinks, medical devices, drugs, drug products, cosmetics, chemicals, agrochemicals, pesticides, veterinary drugs, or other goods if they have not been registered with the National Agency for Food & Drug Administration and Control (the “NAFDAC”) or other relevant authority of Nigeria;
Any goods, sale, distribution, or advertising of which is banned or restricted by the NAFDAC or any other relevant authority of Nigeria;
Any goods, sale, distribution or advertising of which is prohibited by applicable legislation of Nigeria;
Any goods that do not comply with standards and quality requirements imposed on such goods by applicable legislation of Nigeria;
Any goods that are represented on the label or described as a treatment, preventative, or cure for diseases, disorders, or abnormal physical states specified by applicable legislation of Nigeria.
Trophies and wildlife specimens (including but not limited to ivory artifacts and pangolin parts) in relation to which trade is prohibited by applicable legislation.
If you have noticed any adverts promoting prohibited items, please report them.
12. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION
12.1. These Terms shall be governed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Nigeria.
12.2. Any dispute arising out of or in connection with these Terms, including any question regarding its existence, validity or termination, shall be referred to and finally resolved by arbitration under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act (Cap. A18) of the Republic of Nigeria. The number of arbitrators shall be one. The seat of arbitration shall be Lagos, Nigeria. The language to be used in the arbitral proceedings shall be English.
13. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
13.1. Except as otherwise provided, if any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, such provision shall be struck out and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions.
13.2. We may transfer and assign any and all of our rights and obligations under these Terms to any other person, by any way, including by novation, and by accepting these Terms you give us consent to any such transfer or assignment.
13.3. If we fail to take any action with respect to your breach of these Terms, we will still be entitled to use our rights and remedies in any other situation where you breach these Terms.
13.4. In no event shall the Administrator be liable for any failure to comply with these Terms to the extent that such failure arises from factors outside the Administrator's reasonable control.
14. TALENT MART CONTEST RULES
According to the applicable provisions of the tax legislation of Nigeria the Company will apply a withholding tax to your award, therefore you may receive your award less respective withholding tax as applied. You are hereby informed and acknowledge that the ultimate responsibility for your federal, state and municipal individual income taxes and/or other taxes related to the award and legally applicable to you, is and remains your responsibility and may exceed the amount actually withheld by the Company.
15. CONTACT
If you want to send any notice under these Terms or have any questions regarding the Service, you may contact us at: info@mytalentmart.net or in-app support mail.
LIMITS
We have the right to limit how your connection and interaction on our Services.
Talent Mart reserves the right to limit your use of the Services, including the number of your connections and your ability to contact other users. Talent Mart reserves 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 Policies).
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
We're providing you notice about our intellectual property rights. Talent Mart reserves 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. Talent Mart, and “in” logos and other Talent Mart trademarks, service marks, videos, graphics and logos used for our Services are trademarks or registered trademarks of Talent Mart.
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 users to make recommendations for connections, campaign for votes, content and features that may be useful to you. For example, we use data and information about you to recommend contract to you. Keeping your profile accurate and up to date helps us to make these recommendations more accurate and relevant.
EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY
These are the limits of legal liability we may have to you.
To the fullest extent permitted by law (and unless Talent Mart has entered into a separate written agreement that overrides this contract), Talent Mart, 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., down time or loss, use of, or changes to, your information or content) or any indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages.
Talent Mart Social Network and its affiliates will not be liable to you in connection with this contract for any amount that exceeds the total fees paid or payable by you to Talent Mart for the services during the term of this contract.
TERMINATION
We can each end this Contract, but some rights and obligations survive.
Both you and Talent Mart Social Network 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;
* Users and/or Visitors' rights to further re-share content and information you shared through the Services;
* Any amounts owed by either party prior to termination remain owed after termination.
TALENT MART SOCIAL NETWORK “DOS AND DON'TS”
DOs
This list of “Dos and Don'ts” along with our limit of what you can and cannot do on our Services.
You agree that you will:
1. Comply with all applicable laws, including, without limitation, privacy laws, intellectual property laws, tax laws, and regulatory requirements;
2. Provide accurate information to us and keep it updated;
3. Use your real name on your profile; and
4. Use the Services in a professional manner.
2. DON'TS
You agree that you will not:
1. Create a false identity on Talent Mart Social Network, misrepresent your identity, create a user profile for anyone other than yourself (a real person), or use or attempt to use another's account;
2. 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;
3. 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);
4. 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 Talent Mart;
5. Disclose information that you do not have the consent to disclose (such as confidential information of others);
6. 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;
7. Violate the intellectual property or other rights of Talent Mart, 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 “Talent Mart” or our logos in any business name, e-mail, or URL except as provided in the Brand Guidelines;
8. Post anything that contains software viruses, worms, or any other harmful code;
9. 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;
10. Imply or state that you are affiliated with or endorsed by Talent Mart without our express consent (e.g., representing yourself as an accredited Talent Mart, staff, director, agent, trainer, etc.);
11. Rent, lease, loan, trade, sell/re-sell or otherwise monetize the Services or related data or access to the same, without Talent Mart Social Network's consent;
12. Deep-link to our Services for any purpose other than to promote your profile or a Group on our Services, without Talent Mart Social Network’s consent;
13. Use bots or other automated methods to access the Services, add or download contacts, send or redirect messages;
14. Monitor the Services' availability, performance or functionality for any competitive purpose;
15. Engage in “framing,” “mirroring,” or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of the Services;
16. 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);
17. 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
18. Violate the Policies or any additional terms concerning a specific Service that are provided when you sign up for or start using such Service.
COMPLAINTS REGARDING CONTENT
Contact information for complaint about content provided by our users.
We respect the intellectual property rights of others. We require that information posted by users 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 users.
SETTLING DISPUTES, GOVERNING LAW, AND COURTS
For information about how to contact Talent Mart, please visit our contact page. Federal law will govern all disputes arising out of or relating to these terms, service-specific additional terms, or any related services, regardless of conflict of laws rules. These disputes will be resolved exclusively in the federal or state courts, and you and Talent Mart consent to personal jurisdiction in those courts.
To the extent that applicable local law prevents certain disputes from being resolved in a federal court, then you can file those disputes in your local courts. Likewise, if applicable local law prevents your local court from applying federal law to resolve these disputes, then these disputes will be governed by the applicable local laws of your country, state, or other place of residence.
ACCESSIBILITY FOR ALL
No two Talent Mart users are the same-and it's that diversity which makes our community so great. We believe in inclusion, and we want you to know that whatever your goals, ideas and abilities are, we're here to help you succeed. We're on a journey to make accessibility and inclusive design part of our core principles, building accessibility from the ground up and testing our products with assistive technology to make sure that everyone can use Talent Mart to advance their goals.
OUR DISABILITY ANSWER DESK
Our teams are constantly working to improve your Talent Mart experience by adding new features and making changes to better serve all our users. We're always open to feedback and would love to hear from you as to how we can make Talent Mart serve you even better.
If you find an accessibility bug or have trouble using Talent Mart with assistive technology, contact us and we'll reach out to help you through it. You can also send us feedback.
COPYRIGHT POLICY
Talent Mart respects the intellectual property rights of others and desires to provide a platform with no content that violates those rights.
Our User Agreement requires that information posted by users be accurate, lawful and not in violation of the rights of third parties. To promote these objectives, Talent Mart Social Network provides a process for submission of complaints concerning contents posted by our users. Our policy and procedures are described and/or referenced in the sections that follow.
Please note that whether or not we disable access to or remove content, Talent Mart Social Network may make a good faith attempt to forward the written notification, including the complainant's contact information, to the User who posted the content and/or take other reasonable steps to notify the User that Talent Mart Social Network has received notice of an alleged violation of intellectual property rights or other content violation. It is also our policy, in appropriate circumstances and in our discretion, to disable and/or terminate the accounts of Users, or groups as the case may be, who infringe or repeatedly infringe the rights of others or otherwise post unlawful contents.
Please note that any notice or counter-notice you submit must be truthful and must be submitted under Penalty of Perjury. A false notice or counter-notice may give rise to personal liability. You may therefore want to seek the advice of legal counsel before submitting a notice or a counter-notice.
USERS PROFILE
Your profile is fully visible to all Users and Visitors of our Services. Subject to your settings, it can also be visible to others on or off of our Services (e.g., Visitors to our Services or users of third- party search engines).
As detailed in our Policies and Terms, your settings, (degree of connection, fraud detection, marketing and development). The Organizer will have access to your information as reasonably necessary.
MISCELLANEOUS
You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. Assigning or sub-contracting any of your rights or obligations under this Agreement to any third party is prohibited. We reserve the right to transfer, assign or sub-contract the benefit of the whole or part of any right or obligation under these Terms of Use to any third party.
If any portion of this Privacy Policy is held by any court or tribunal to be invalid or unenforceable, either in whole or in part, then that part shall be severed from this Policy and shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other part in this Policy.
By accessing or using Talent Mart Social Network, you agree to comply with the terms and conditions of this Acceptable Use Policy.
CONTACT US
For inquiry, Send us an e-mail: info@mytalentmart.net or Send Us Whatsapp Message Via: +234-82-999-1378, +234-708-7400-707, +233-543-6666-97.
NIGERIA:
* 16 Ahorobi Street, Ogba-Lagos State;
* 24, Herbert Macaulay Way, Wuse Zone 4, FCT Abuja;
* 2, Wellington Bassey Way Uyo, Akwa Ibom;
* 1, Umoh Uko Street, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
GHANA:
CL12, Adama Avenue, Adabraka Accra;
KS 16563 Adum-Kumasi, Kumasi.
