Bravado Network Terms of Service

Last Updated: October 20, 2022

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF SERVICE AND OUR PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY USING OUR SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF SERVICE.

Welcome to the Bravado Network, Inc. (“Bravado”, “we”, “us”, or “our”)’s website located at https://www.bravado.co (the “Site”). On our Site and through our mobile application (the "App") we offer certain platforms that provide, among other things, information, forums, and networking opportunities to sales professionals (together with the Site and the App, the “Services.”

Agreement to Terms

The Services are provided by Bravado, and these Terms of Service (the “Terms of Service”) are entered into by and between Bravado and you (“you” or “your”), and together with our Privacy Policy , the Bravado Commission Points Program Terms , and any documents incorporated by reference (collectively, these “Terms”) govern your access to and use of the Services. By using our Services, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age and you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you don’t agree to be bound by these Terms, do not use the Services. If you are accessing and using the Services on behalf of a company (such as your employer) or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind that company or other legal entity to these Terms. In that case, “you” and “your” will refer to that company or other legal entity.

Changes to Terms or Services

We may modify the Terms at any time, in our sole discretion. If we do so, we’ll let you know either by posting the modified Terms on the Site or through other communications. It’s important that you review the Terms whenever we modify them because if you continue to use the Services after we have posted modified Terms on the Site, you are indicating to us that you agree to be bound by the modified Terms. If you don’t agree to be bound by the modified Terms, then you must not use the Services anymore. Because our Services are evolving over time we may change or discontinue all or any part of the Services, at any time and without notice, at our sole discretion.

ARBITRATION NOTICE: UNLESS YOU OPT OUT OF ARBITRATION WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE DATE YOU FIRST AGREE TO THESE TERMS BY FOLLOWING THE OPT-OUT PROCEDURE SPECIFIED IN THE “ARBITRATION” SECTION BELOW, AND EXCEPT FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF DISPUTES DESCRIBED IN THE “ARBITRATION” SECTION BELOW, YOU AGREE THAT DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND BRAVADO WILL BE RESOLVED BY BINDING, INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND YOU ARE WAIVING YOUR RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS ACTION OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.

Description of Services

Our Site provides information to sales professionals to help them build their career. Additionally, through our Site and our App, we provide our registered users (“Members”) the ability to build their professional profile and a portfolio of their representative work. Our services allow Members to connect with their professional relationships (e.g. their managers, business counterparts, clients, decision-makers, etc.) and request them to provide a review or recommendation or share their experiences working with the requesting Member. The person having the professional relationship that has been contacted by the Member may provide his/her review or share his/her experience working with the requesting Member (each such reviewing person, a “Reviewer”, and each such review, a “Review”) via the Services. Accordingly, our Members can develop their professional brand by adding Reviews from various Reviewers to their profile.

By uploading or submitting any materials, including without limitation, your profile picture, work experience, Reviews, and any other User Content (as defined below) into the Services, you acknowledge that none of the User Content is confidential, and hereby consent to us publishing your User Content on our Services, unless a Member changes his/her profile settings within his/her account page, to be “private.”

Who May Use the Services

Eligibility

You may use the Services only if you are 18 years or older and capable of forming a binding contract with Bravado and are not barred from using the Services under applicable law.

Registration and Your Information

In order to access and use certain features of our Services, you’ll have to register as a Member. Reviewers may, but do not need to register to use the Services in order to provide a Review, though they cannot build their own professional profile unless they become a Member. You can register via the Site or through your account with certain third-party social networking services such as Facebook or LinkedIn (each, an “SNS Account”). If you choose the SNS Account option, we’ll create your Member account ("Member Account") by extracting from your SNS Account certain personal information such as your name and email address and other personal information that your privacy settings on the SNS Account permit us to access.

It’s important that you provide us with accurate, complete and up-to-date information for your Member Account and you agree to update such information, as needed, to keep it accurate, complete and up-to-date. If you don’t, we might have to suspend or terminate your Member Account. You agree that you won’t disclose your Member Account password to anyone and you’ll notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your Member Account. You’re responsible for all activities that occur under or through your Member Account, whether or not you know about them.

Feedback

We welcome feedback, comments, and suggestions for improvements to the Services (“Feedback”). You can submit Feedback by emailing us at hello@bravado.co.Feedback is provided on a NON-CONFIDENTIAL BASIS, and we will have no obligation to keep such Feedback secret, to refrain from using such Feedback, or to compensate you for the receipt or use of such Feedback. Bravado is free to use, for any purpose whatsoever, any Feedback, including, but not limited to publishing, developing, and marketing our Services using such Feedback. By submitting Feedback to us, you hereby release Bravado from any liability under any legal theory in connection with the use, modification, sale or disclosure of such Feedback. By providing any Feedback to Bravado, you hereby grant us, to the extent you retain any rights, the unlimited, perpetual right to reuse, redistribute, publish, perform, create derivative works from, modify and otherwise exploit such Feedback without any compensation to you.

Content on the Services

“Content” means the text, graphics, images, software, designs, audio, video, works of authorship of any kind, and information or other materials that are posted, generated, provided or otherwise made available through the Services.

“User Content” means any Content that users (including Members and registered and unregistered Reviewers) (collectively, “Users”) provide to be made available through the Services. Content includes without limitation, User Content.

Content Ownership, Responsibility and Removal

By agreeing to these Terms, you also agree to the transfer of your User Content, including any personal data about you, to the United States.

Bravado does not claim any ownership rights in any User Content and nothing in these Terms will be deemed to restrict any rights that you may have to use and exploit your User Content. Subject to the foregoing, Bravado and its licensors exclusively own all right, title, and interest in and to the Services and the Content provided by Bravado on the Services, and all associated intellectual property rights. You acknowledge that the Services and Content provided by Bravado are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of the United States and foreign countries. You agree not to remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying the Services or the Content provided by Bravado. In addition, Bravado owns all right, title, and interest in any aggregate data created from the User Content such as, analytics data about the industry, location, skills, etc. across different Users (“Aggregate Data”); provided that none of the Aggregate Data will contain any personally identifiable information relating to any User. To review our cookie policy, please see our separate Cookie Notice.

Rights in User Content Granted by You

By making any User Content available through the Services you hereby grant to Bravado a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicenseable, worldwide, royalty-free license, with a right to grant sublicenses, to use, copy, modify (only for formatting purposes), publicly display, publicly perform, and distribute your User Content in connection with operating and providing the Services and Content to you and to other Users.

You are solely responsible for all your User Content. You represent and warrant that: (i) you own all your User Content or you have all rights that are necessary to grant us the license rights in your User Content under these Terms; (ii) the User Content that you submit through the Services will be true and accurate; and (iii) neither your User Content, nor your use and provision of your User Content to be made available through the Services, nor any use of your User Content by Bravado on or through the Services will infringe, misappropriate or violate a third party's intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation.

You can remove your User Content by specifically deleting it. However, in certain instances, some of your User Content may not be completely removed and copies of your User Content may continue to exist on the Services. We are not responsible or liable for the removal or deletion of (or the failure to remove or delete) any of your User Content.

Rights in Content Granted by Bravado

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Bravado grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access, view and print the Content solely in connection with your permitted use of the Services and solely for your personal and non-commercial purposes.

General Prohibitions and Bravado’s Enforcement Rights

You agree not to do any of the following:

Post, upload, publish, submit or transmit any User Content that: (i) infringes, misappropriates or violates a third-party’s patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violates, or encourages any conduct that would violate, any applicable law or regulation or would give rise to civil liability; (iii) is fraudulent, forged, false, misleading or deceptive; (iv) is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, vulgar or offensive; (v) promotes discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, harassment or harm against any individual or group; (vi) is violent or threatening or promotes violence or actions that are threatening to any person or entity; (vii) promotes illegal or harmful activities or substances; (viii) attempts to sell a product(s); (ix) is self-promoting or intends to drive traffic to a third-party site; or (x) is spam or commercial content.
Use, display, mirror or frame the Services or any individual element within the Services, Bravado’s name, any Bravado trademark, logo or other proprietary information, or the layout and design of any page or form contained on a page, without Bravado’s express written consent;
Access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Services, Bravado’s computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of Bravado’s providers;
Avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, impair, descramble or otherwise circumvent any technological measure implemented by Bravado or any of Bravado’s providers or any other third party (including another User) to protect the Services or Content;
Use the Services or Content, or any portion thereof, for any commercial purpose or for the benefit of any third party or in any manner not permitted by these Terms;
Forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any email or newsgroup posting, or in any way use the Services or Content to send altered, deceptive, or false source-identifying information;
Attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software used to provide the Services or Content;
Impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity;
Violate any applicable law or regulation;
Encourage or enable any other individual to do any of the foregoing; or
Use the Services in any manner that we reasonably believe to be an abuse of or fraud on the Bravado War Room or Commission Store as further explained in the Bravado Commission Points Program Terms and the War Room FAQ.

Although we’re not obligated to monitor access to or use of the Services or Content or to review or edit any User Content, we have the right to do so for the purpose of operating the Services, to ensure compliance with these Terms, and to comply with applicable law or other legal requirements. We reserve the right, but are not obligated, to remove or disable access to any Content, temporarily or permanently suspend or ban access to the Services, or remove Commission Points (as used in the Services and defined in the Bravado Commission Points Program Terms), at any time and without notice, including, but not limited to, if we, at our sole discretion, consider any User Content to be objectionable or in violation of these Terms. We have the right to investigate violations of these Terms or conduct that affects the Services, and consult and cooperate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute users who violate the law.

DMCA/Copyright Policy

Bravado respects copyright law and expects its users to do the same. It is Bravado’s policy to terminate in appropriate circumstances Users who repeatedly infringe or are believed to be repeatedly infringing the rights of copyright holders. Please see Bravado’s Copyright Policy, for further information.

Links to Third-Party Websites or Resources

The Services may contain links to third-party websites or resources. We provide these links only as a convenience and are not responsible for the content (or the accuracy, truthfulness or reliability of such content), products or services on or available from those websites or resources or links displayed on such websites. You acknowledge sole responsibility for and assume all risk arising from, your use of any third-party websites or resources.

Termination

We may terminate your access to and use of the Services, at our sole discretion, at any time and without notice to you. You may cancel your Member Account at any time by sending an email to us at hello@bravado.co. Upon any termination, discontinuation or cancellation of Services or your Member Account, the following provisions will survive: Feedback, Content and Aggregate Data Ownership, Responsibility and Removal; Termination; Disclaimers; Indemnity; Limitation of Liability; Dispute Resolution, and General Terms.

Warranty Disclaimers

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, ITS CONTENT AND ANY AMENITIES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE CANNOT AND DO NOT GUARANTEE OR WARRANT THAT FILES AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOADING FROM THE SERVICES WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER DESTRUCTIVE CODE. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR IMPLEMENTING SUFFICIENT PROCEDURES AND CHECKPOINTS TO SATISFY YOUR PARTICULAR REQUIREMENTS FOR ANTI-VIRUS PROTECTION AND ACCURACY OF DATA INPUT AND OUTPUT, AND FOR MAINTAINING A MEANS EXTERNAL TO OUR SITE FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF ANY LOST DATA. WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY A DISTRIBUTED DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACK, VIRUSES OR OTHER TECHNOLOGICALLY HARMFUL MATERIAL THAT MAY INFECT YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, DATA OR OTHER PROPRIETARY MATERIAL DUE TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES OR ANY AMENITIES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE
SERVICES OR TO YOUR DOWNLOADING OF ANY CONTENT POSTED ON IT, OR ON ANY
WEBSITE LINKED TO IT.

THE SERVICES AND ITS CONTENT AND ANY AMENITIES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS,” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE EXPLICITLY DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, QUIET ENJOYMENT AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. We make no warranty that the Services will meet your requirements or be available on an uninterrupted, secure, or error-free basis. We make no warranty regarding the quality, accuracy, timeliness, truthfulness, completeness or reliability of any information or Content on the Services. The foregoing does not affect any warranties which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. You are solely responsible for, and assume all risks associated with any User Content (including Reviews) that you or your Reviewer submits. In the event that you have a dispute with any Member or Reviewer, you agree to address such dispute directly with the other party and you release Bravado (and our officers, directors, agents, investors, subsidiaries, and employees) from any and all claims, demands, or damages (actual or consequential) of any kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such dispute.

Indemnity

You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Bravado and its officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any claims, disputes, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, and costs and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees arising out of or in any way connected with (i) your access to or use of the Services or Content, (ii) your User Content (including without limitation, information in the Reviews), (iii) your relationship with any Member or Reviewer or (iv) your violation of these Terms. For any matter for which you are required to provide indemnification under these Terms, Bravado may, in its sole discretion, assume exclusive defense and control, at your sole cost and
expense. You agree to cooperate with Bravado in the defense of any claim or action. You agree that you will not settle any such claim without the advance written consent of Bravado.

Limitation of Liability

(a) TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BRAVADO WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUES, LOST SAVINGS, LOST BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, LOSS OF DATA OR GOODWILL, SERVICES INTERRUPTION, COMPUTER DAMAGE OR SYSTEM FAILURE OR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES OF ANY KIND ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT BRAVADO HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, EVEN IF A LIMITED REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

(b) TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY THE LAW OF THE APPLICABLE JURISDICTION, IN NO EVENT WILL BRAVADO’S TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES EXCEED THE AMOUNTS YOU HAVE PAID OR ARE PAYABLE BY YOU TO BRAVADO FOR USE OF THE SERVICES.

(c) THE EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS OF DAMAGES SET FORTH ABOVE ARE FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN BRAVADO AND YOU.

Dispute Resolution

Governing Law

These Terms and any action related thereto will be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of laws provisions.

Agreement to Arbitrate

You and Bravado agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof or the use of the Services or Content (collectively, “Disputes”) will be settled by binding arbitration, except that each party retains the right: (i) to bring an individual action in small claims court and (ii) to seek injunctive or other equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation or violation of a party’s copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents or other intellectual property rights (the action described in the foregoing clause (ii), an “IP Protection Action”). Without limiting the preceding sentence, you will also have the right to litigate any other Dispute if you provide Bravado with written notice of your desire to do so by email or regular mail at hello@bravado.co or 268 Bush Street, #2734 San Francisco, CA 94104 within thirty (30) days following the date you first agree to these Terms (such notice, an “Arbitration Opt-out Notice”). If you don’t provide Bravado with an Arbitration Opt-out Notice within the thirty (30) day period, you will be deemed to have knowingly and intentionally waived your right to litigate any Dispute except as expressly set forth in clauses (i) and (ii) above. The exclusive jurisdiction and venue of any IP Protection Action or, if you timely provide Bravado with an Arbitration Opt-out Notice, will be the state and federal courts located in the Northern District of California and each of the parties hereto waives any objection to jurisdiction and venue in such courts. Unless you timely provide Bravado with an Arbitration Opt-out Notice, you acknowledge and agree that you and Bravado are each waiving the right to a trial by jury or to participate as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class action or representative proceeding. Further, unless both you and Bravado otherwise agree in writing, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims, and may not otherwise preside over any form of any class or representative proceeding. If this specific paragraph is held unenforceable, then the entirety of this “Dispute Resolution” section will be deemed void. Except as provided in the preceding sentence, this “Dispute Resolution” section will survive any termination of these Terms.

Arbitration Rules

The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Rules and the Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes (the “AAA Rules”) then in effect, except as modified by this “Dispute Resolution” section. (The AAA Rules are available at www.adr.org/arb_med or by calling the AAA at 1-800-778-7879). The Federal Arbitration Act will govern the interpretation and enforcement of this Section.

Arbitration Process

A party who desires to initiate arbitration must provide the other party with a written Demand for Arbitration as specified in the AAA Rules. The arbitrator will be either a retired judge or an attorney licensed to practice law and will be selected by the parties from the AAA’s roster of arbitrators. If the parties are unable to agree upon an arbitrator within seven (7) days of delivery of the Demand for Arbitration, then the AAA will appoint the arbitrator in accordance with the AAA Rules.

Arbitration Location and Procedure

Unless you and Bravado otherwise agree, the arbitration will be conducted in the county where you reside. If your claim does not exceed $10,000, then the arbitration will be conducted solely on the basis of the documents that you and Bravado submit to the arbitrator, unless you request a hearing or the arbitrator determines that a hearing is necessary. If your claim exceeds $10,000, your right to a hearing will be determined by the AAA Rules. Subject to the AAA Rules, the arbitrator will have the discretion to direct a reasonable exchange of information by the parties, consistent with the expedited nature of the arbitration.

Arbitrator’s Decision

The arbitrator will render an award within the time frame specified in the AAA Rules. The arbitrator’s decision will include the essential findings and conclusions upon which the arbitrator based the award. Judgment on the arbitration award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. The arbitrator’s award of damages must be consistent with the terms of the “Limitation of Liability” section above as to the types and amounts of damages for which a party may be held liable. The arbitrator may award declaratory or injunctive relief only in favor of the claimant and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by the claimant’s individual claim. If you prevail in arbitration you will be entitled to an award of attorneys’ fees and expenses, to the extent provided under applicable law. Bravado will not seek, and hereby waives all rights it may have under applicable law to recover, attorneys’ fees and expenses if it prevails in arbitration.

Fees

Your responsibility to pay any AAA filing, administrative and arbitrator fees will be solely as set forth in the AAA Rules. However, if your claim for damages does not exceed $75,000, Bravado will pay all such fees unless the arbitrator finds that either the substance of your claim or the relief sought in your Demand for Arbitration was frivolous or was brought for an improper purpose (as measured by the standards set forth in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b)).

Changes

Notwithstanding the provisions of the “Changes to Terms or Services” section above, if Bravado changes this “Dispute Resolution” section after the date you first accepted these Terms (or accepted any subsequent changes to these Terms), you may reject any such change by sending us written notice (including by email to hello@bravado.co) within 30 days of the date such change became effective, as indicated in the “Last Updated” date above or in the date of Bravado’s email to you notifying you of such change. By rejecting any change, you are agreeing that you will arbitrate any Dispute between you and Bravado in accordance with the provisions of this “Dispute Resolution” section as of the date you first accepted these Terms (or accepted any subsequent changes to these Terms).

General Terms

These Terms and the Privacy Policy constitute the entire and exclusive understanding and agreement between Bravado and you regarding the Services, and these Terms supersede and replace any and all prior oral or written understandings or agreements between Bravado and you regarding the Services. If any provision of these Terms is held invalid or unenforceable (either by an arbitrator appointed pursuant to the terms of the “Arbitration” section above or by court of competent jurisdiction, but only if you timely opt out of arbitration by sending us an Arbitration Opt-out Notice in accordance with the terms set forth above), that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and the other provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect. You may not assign or transfer these Terms, by operation of law or otherwise, without Bravado’s prior written consent. Any attempt by you to assign or transfer these Terms, without such consent, will be null. Bravado may freely assign or transfer these Terms without restriction. Subject to the foregoing, these Terms will bind and inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.

Any notices or other communications provided by Bravado under these Terms, including those regarding modifications to these Terms, will be given: (i) via email; or (ii) by posting to the Site. For notices made by e-mail, the date of receipt will be deemed the date on which such notice is transmitted.

Bravado’s failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of such right or provision. The waiver of any such right or provision will be effective only if in writing and signed by a duly authorized representative of Bravado. Except as expressly set forth in these Terms, the exercise by either party of any of its remedies under these Terms will be without prejudice to its other remedies under these Terms or otherwise.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about these Terms or the Service, please contact Bravado at hello@bravado.co or 268 Bush Street, #2734 San Francisco, CA 94104.