User Agreement

Effective March 3, 2021

1. Introduction

1.1 User Agreement

Your use of our Services is subject to our Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy, which covers how we collect, use, share, and store your personal information. By using our Services, you agree to all of these terms.

You agree that by clicking “Join Now”, “Join Agbora”, “Sign Up” or any similar button, registering, accessing or using our services (as defined below), you are agreeing to enter into a legally binding contract with Agbora, Inc., for Agbora (even if you are using our Services on behalf of a company). If you do not agree to this contract (“Contract” or “User Agreement”), do not click “Join Now” (or any similar button) and do not access or otherwise use any of our Services.

You are entering into this User Agreement with Agbora, Inc. (also referred to as “we” and “us”). If you wish to terminate this contract, at any time you can do so by closing your account and no longer accessing or using our Services.

We use the term “Designated Countries” to refer to countries in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland.

1.2. Services

This Contract applies to Agbora.com, Agbora-branded apps, and any other Agbora-related sites, apps, communications and any other services that state that they are offered under this Contract (“Services”), including the offsite collection of data for those Services, such as our ads. Registered users of our Services are “Members” and unregistered users are “Visitors.” This Contract applies to both.

1.3. Members & Visitors

When you register and join Agbora, you become a Member. If you have chosen not to register for our Services, you may access certain features as a “Visitor.

As a Visitor or Member of our Services, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to our Privacy Policy (which includes our Cookie Policy and other documents referenced in our Privacy Policy) and updates.

1.4. Agreement Modifications

We may modify this Contract, our Privacy Policy and our Cookies Policy from time to time. If we make material changes to it, we will provide you notice through our Services, or by other means, including e-mail, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. 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.

2. Your Obligations

Here are some of the things you’ve agreed to by using our Services.

2.1. Eligibility

You agree not to use our Services if you are under the age of 16. Our Services are not for use by anyone under the age of 16.

To use our Services, you agree that: (1) you must be the “Minimum Age” or older; (2) you will only have one Agbora account, which must be in your real name; and (3) you are not already restricted by Agbora from using the Services.

Creating an account with false information is a violation of our terms, including accounts registered on behalf of others or persons under the age of 16.

“Minimum Age” means 16 years old. However, if law requires that you must be older in order for Agbora to lawfully provide the Services to you without parental consent (including use of your personal data) then the Minimum Age is such older age.

2.2. Your Account

You agree to keep your account password secret and not to share an account with anyone else.

As a member of the Agbora online community, you are an account holder. To use our Services, you agree that you will keep your account password secret. You agree that you will not share an account with anyone else and will follow our rules and the law.

You agree to: (1) try to choose a strong and secure password; (2) keep your password secure and confidential; (3) not transfer any part of your account; and (4) follow the law and our terms. You are responsible for anything that happens through your account unless you close it or report misuse.

As between you and others (including your employer), your account belongs to you.

2.3. Payment

You agree to honor payment obligations and understand that there may be fees and taxes that are added to our prices. You also have agreed to allow us to store your payment information.

If you buy any of our paid Services, including advertising or marketing, you agree to pay us the applicable fees and taxes. Failure to pay these fees will result in the termination of your paid Services. You also 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 (e.g. credit card) even after it has expired, to avoid interruptions in your Services and to use it to pay other Services you may buy.
  • All of your purchases of Services are subject to Agbora’s refund policy.
  • We may calculate taxes payable by you based on the billing information that you provide us at the time of purchase.

2.4. Notices & Messages

You agree that we can provide notices to you through our websites, apps, and contact information your provided to us.

You agree that we will provide notices to you in the following ways: (1) a notice within the Service, or (2) a message sent to the contact information you provided us, including email, mobile number, and/or physical address. You agree to keep your contact information up to date.

2.5. Sharing

Our Services allow messaging and sharing of information in many ways, such as your profile, stories, polls, links to news articles, job postings, and/or blogs. Information and content that you share or post may be seen by other Members, Visitors or others (including off of the Services). Where we have made settings available, we will honor the choices you make about who can see content or information.

We are not obligated to publish any information or content on our Service and can remove it in our sole discretion, with or without notice.

3. Rights & Limitations

You agree to grant us a non-exclusive license to use the content, feedback, and personal information you provide to us.

Our Services allow messaging, comments, posts, and sharing of information in many ways, such as your profile, pictures, stories, polls, links to news articles, and blogs. Information and content that you share or post may be seen by other Members or Visitors. Where we have made settings available, we will honor the choices you make about who can see content or information.

We are not obligated to publish any information or content on our Service and can remove it in our sole discretion, with or without notice.

3.1. Your License to Agbora

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

As between you and Agbora, you own the content and information that you submit or post to the Services and you are only granting Agbora and our affiliates the following non-exclusive license: A worldwide, transferable and sublicensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publish, and process, information and content that you provide through our Services and the services of others, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others. These rights are limited in the following ways:

  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 on sponsored content and company pages may be visible, as noted in the Privacy Policy.
  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” (e.g. determining that your post is available to “Everyone”) we will enable a feature that allows other Members to embed that public post onto third-party services, and we enable search engines to make that public content findable though their services.
  4. While we may edit and make formatting changes to your content (such as translating it, modifying the size, layout or file type or removing metadata), we will not modify the meaning of your expression.
  5. You and Agbora agree that we may access, store, process and use any information and personal data that you provide in accordance with the terms of the Privacy Policy and your choices (including settings).
  6. 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 Creative Commons license.

You agree that we may access, store and use any information that you provide in accordance with the terms of the Privacy Policy and your choices (including settings).

By submitting suggestions or other feedback regarding our Services to Agbora, you agree that Agbora can use and share (but does not have to) such feedback for any purpose without compensation to you.

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. You understand that Agbora may be required by law to remove certain information or content in certain countries.

3.2. Availability of Service

We don’t promise to store or keep showing any information and content that you’ve posted, in the event that we change or discontinue any of our Services.

You understand that Agbora may change, suspend or end any Service, or change and modify prices prospectively in our discretion. To the extent allowed under law, these changes may be effective upon notice provided to you.

You agree and understand that Agbora 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.

3.3. Other Content

You post or use others’ content and information on our Services at your own risk.

Others may offer their own products and services through Agbora, 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. You understand that Agbora generally does not review content provided by our Members or others. You agree that we are not responsible for others’ (including other Members’) content or information. We cannot always prevent this misuse of our Services, and you agree that we are not responsible for any such misuse. You also acknowledge the risk that you or your organization may be mistakenly associated with content about others when we let connections (e.g., persons in your circle) and followers know you or your organization were mentioned in the news.

You are responsible for deciding if you want to access or use third-party apps or sites that link from our Services. If you allow a third-party app or site to authenticate you or connect with your Agbora account, that app or site can access information on Agbora related to you and your connections. Third-party apps and sites have their own legal terms and privacy policies, and you may be giving others permission to use your information in ways we would not. Except to the limited extent it may be required by applicable law, Agbora is not responsible for these other sites and apps – use these at your own risk. Please see our Privacy Policy.

3.4. Limits

You understand that Agbora reserves the right to limit your use of our Services, including the number of your connections (e.g., persons in your circle) and your ability to contact other Members. You understand that Agbora reserves the right to restrict, suspend, or terminate your account if Agbora believes that you may be in breach of this Contract or law or are misusing the Services.

3.5. Intellectual Property Rights & Use of Data

You understand that Agbora reserves all of its intellectual property rights in the Services. Using the Services does not give you any ownership in our Services or the content or information made available through our Services. Trademarks and logos used in connection with the Services are the trademarks of their respective owners. You understand that Agbora trademarks, service marks, graphics, and logos used for our Services are trademarks or registered trademarks of Agbora.

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

4. Limitations of Liability

4.1. There is no warranty in connection with our Service

TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED UNDER LAW, AGBORA AND ITS AFFILIATES (AND THOSE THAT AGBORA WORKS WITH TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES) (A) DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS (E.G. WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY OF DATA, AND NONINFRINGEMENT); (B) DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT THE SERVICES WILL FUNCTION WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR ERRORS, AND (C) PROVIDE THE SERVICE (INCLUDING CONTENT AND INFORMATION) ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS.

SOME LAWS DO NOT ALLOW CERTAIN DISCLAIMERS, SO SOME OR ALL OF THESE DISCLAIMERS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

4.2. Exclusion of Liability

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER LAW (AND UNLESS AGBORA HAS ENTERED INTO A SEPARATE WRITTEN AGREEMENT THAT OVERRIDES THIS CONTRACT), AGBORA AND ITS AFFILIATES (AND THOSE THAT AGBORA WORKS WITH TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES) SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR OTHERS FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF DATA, OPPORTUNITIES, REPUTATION, PROFITS OR REVENUES, RELATED TO THE SERVICES (E.G. OFFENSIVE OR DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS, DOWN TIME OR LOSS, USE OF, OR CHANGES TO, YOUR INFORMATION OR CONTENT).

IN NO EVENT SHALL THE LIABILITY OF AGBORA AND ITS AFFILIATES (AND THOSE THAT AGBORA WORKS WITH TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES) EXCEED, IN THE AGGREGATE FOR ALL CLAIMS, AN AMOUNT THAT IS THE LESSER OF (A) FIVE TIMES THE MOST RECENT MONTHLY OR YEARLY FEE THAT YOU PAID FOR A PREMIUM SERVICE, IF ANY, OR (B) US $1000.

THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY IS PART OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN YOU AND AGBORA AND SHALL APPLY TO ALL CLAIMS OF LIABILITY (E.G. WARRANTY, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, CONTRACT, LAW) AND EVEN IF AGBORA OR ITS AFFILIATES HAS BEEN TOLD OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH DAMAGE, AND EVEN IF THESE REMEDIES FAIL THEIR ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

SOME LAWS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY, SO THESE LIMITS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

5. Termination

You understand that we can each end this Contract anytime we want.

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

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

6. Your Choices & Obligations

In the unlikely event we end up in a legal dispute, Agbora and you agree to resolve it in New York courts using New York law.

You and Agbora agree that the laws of the State of New York, U.S.A., excluding its conflict of laws rules, shall exclusively govern any dispute relating to this Contract and/or the Services. You and Agbora both agree that all claims and disputes can be litigated only in the federal or state courts in New York County, New York, USA, and you and Agbora each agree to personal jurisdiction in those courts.

7. General Terms Governing Our Agreement

If a court with authority over this Contract finds any part of it unenforceable, you and we agree that the court should modify the terms to make that part enforceable while still achieving its intent. If the court cannot do that, you and we agree to ask the court to remove that unenforceable part and still enforce the rest of this Contract.

To the extent allowed by law, the English language version of this Contract is binding and other translations are for convenience only. This Contract (including additional terms that may be provided by us when you engage with a feature of the Services) is the only agreement between us regarding the Services and supersedes all prior agreements for the Services.

If we don’t act to enforce a breach of this Contract, that does not mean that Agbora has waived its right to enforce this Contract. You may not assign or transfer this Contract (or your membership or use of Services) to anyone without our consent. However, you agree that Agbora may assign this Contract to its affiliates or a party that buys it without your consent. There are no third-party beneficiaries to this Contract.

8. You Agree to Follow Our Community Rules

You agree that you will:

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

You agree that you will not:

  1. Post inaccurate, defamatory obscene, shocking, hateful, threatening or otherwise inappropriate content or airing personal grievances or disputes;
  2. Create a false identity on Agbora, misrepresent your identity, create a Member profile for anyone other than yourself (a real person), or use or attempt to use another’s account;
  3. 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;
  4. 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);
  5. 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 Agbora;
  6. Disclose information that you do not have the consent to disclose (such as confidential information of others (including your employer));
  7. 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;
  8. Violate the intellectual property or other rights of Agbora, including, without limitation, (i) copying or distributing our technology, unless it is released under open source licenses; and (ii) using the word “Agbora” or our logos in any business name, email, or URL;
  9. Post anything that contains software viruses, worms, or any other harmful code;
  10. 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;
  11. Imply or state that you are affiliated with or endorsed by Agbora without our express consent (e.g., representing yourself as an accredited Agbora coach or trainer);
  12. Rent, lease, loan, trade, sell/re-sell or otherwise monetize the Services or related data or access to the same, without Agbora’s consent;
  13. Deep-link to our Services for any purpose other than to promote your profile or a Group on our Services, without Agbora’s consent;
  14. Use bots or other automated methods to access the Services, add or download contacts, send or redirect messages;
  15. Monitor the Services’ availability, performance or functionality for any competitive purpose;
  16. Engage in “framing,” “mirroring,” or otherwise simulating the appearance or function of the Services;
  17. 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);
  18. 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
  19. Violate the Community Rules or any additional terms concerning a specific Service that are provided when you sign up for or start using such Service.

9. Content Related Complaints

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. We require that information posted by Members be accurate and not in violation of the intellectual property rights or other rights of third parties. Please contact us with complaints concerning content posted by our Members.

10. How to Contact Us

If you want to contact us, please send us an email at contact@agbora.com.

Welcome to Agbora!

Agbora provides a platform for Africans, the African diaspora, and people from around the world, to connect and reconnect, share and invest, tell their stories, shape their future, and build community. Our mission is to connect Africans and the African diaspora from around the world, and to foster an environment where community members, professionals, influencers, talents, and leaders can share memories, ideas, interests, and objectives in a network of trusted relationships.

Our services are designed to create lasting meaningful relationships and to promote economic and professional opportunities for our members by enabling you and other community members to learn from each other, find synergy, influence others, blog, poll, and find opportunities, among other things!