Effective: June 7, 2023

Welcome to Startupstorm.asia (https://startupstorm.asia). We offer our services to you based on the terms and conditions (the “Terms”) set out below. By using our website, applications and our products/services, you are deemed to have accepted these Terms as well as our privacy and cookies policy. If you disagree to be bound by these Terms, you may not use our website and applications in any way. Furthermore, should the Terms conflict with any other documents, the terms of use will prevail for the usage of our website and applications. 

We reserve the right to update or revise the Terms at our sole discretion from time to time. The updated Terms will be posted on the site and shall take effect from the posting date. The continued use of this site following any changes to the Terms constitutes acceptance of those changes.

Table of Contents:

• ⚫ About Us
• ⚫ User of Conduct
• ⚫ Registration and Accounts
• ⚫ Course Providers
• ⚫ Licence to Use
• ⚫ Your Content
• ⚫ Copyright Policy
• ⚫ Linking to Other Sites
• ⚫ Intellectual Property Rights
• ⚫ Your Liability to Us
• ⚫ Our Liability to You
• ⚫ Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
• ⚫ Changes to Our Website, Applications and These Terms
• ⚫ Other Important Terms

About Us

1.1  In these Terms, references to “we”, “us”, and “our” are to Startupstorm.asia and/or any affiliated organisation(s), as appropriate.
 
1.2  In these Terms, references to “you” or “your” are references to you, whether as a student registering with Startupstorm.asia (the “User”) or an entity visiting and browsing our website and applications (the “Visitor”).

1.3  Startupstorm.asia offers information, services and materials (the “Online Content and Courses”) from BlackStorm Consulting and/or any affiliated organisation(s) and third parties from across the world.
 
1.4  Contacting Us. You may contact us if you have any feedback or enquiries about these Terms or wish to make any request in the following manner. Email address: hello@startupstorm.asia

User Conduct

2.1 Using our website, applications, and Online Content and Courses, you confirm that you have read, agreed, and complied with these Terms and any other policies (each revised from time to time). Use of our website and applications and access to the Online Content and Courses by anyone under the age of 13 is strictly prohibited.

2.2 Your use of and access to our website, applications and the Online Content and Courses are subject to the following conditions (“Acceptable Use Conditions”), and you agree that failure to comply with any one of the Acceptable Use Conditions will constitute a breach of these Terms. Acceptable Use Conditions are as follows:

• 1. You agree to use our website, applications and access the Online Content and Courses only for lawful purposes, and your use of our website,    applications, and Online Content and Courses is in no way unlawful or fraudulent and does not have the intention or effect of damaging the third parties we have engaged either reputationally or financially or us;
  
• 2. You agree not to use or access our website, applications or the Online Content and Courses to harm or attempt to harm minors in any way; 
  
• 3. You agree not to distribute all or any part of our website, applications or Online Content and Courses in any medium without our prior written consent unless such distribution is offered through the functionality of our website and applications and permitted by these Terms; 
  
• 4. You agree not to alter or modify any part of our website, applications or Online Content and Courses; 
  
• 5. You agree not to access our website, applications or the Online Content and Courses through any technology other than the software provided by us or enabled via APIs or other generally available third parties web browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Apple Safari or Internet Explorer; 
  
• 6. You agree not to (and will not attempt to) circumvent, disable or otherwise interfere with any security-related features of our website, applications or any features that (i) prevent or restrict the use or copying of content or (ii) enforce any limitations on you, the use of our website, applications or access to the Online Content and Courses; 
  
• 7. You agree not to knowingly transmit any data or send or submit any content that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to affect the operation of any computer software or hardware adversely;  
  
• 8. You agree not to use or access our website, applications or Online Content and Courses for any commercial uses or the benefit of any third party, including but not limited to (i) the sale of access to the Online Content and Courses or any associated content; (ii) the solicitation of business in the course of trade or connection with a commercial enterprise; and (iii) the solicitation of any Learner or Visitor of our website and applications concerning their content for commercial purposes; 
  
• 9. You agree to use our website applications and access the Online Content and Courses in a way that does not infringe the rights of third parties or restrict or prevent anyone else’s use and enjoyment of our website, applications and the Online Content and Courses; 
  
• 10. You agree not to ask for, collect or harvest any personal data of any User or Visitor of our website, applications or Online Content and Courses;  
  
• 11. You agree not to post, upload, email, or otherwise transmit to or otherwise cause us to email, transmit or otherwise distribute chain letters, surveys or studies, calls to action, junk mail, pyramid schemes, incentives (monetary or click-based), spimming or spamming, or bulk communications of any kind, whether or not for commercial or non-commercial purposes; 
  
• 12. You will not copy, reproduce, create derivative works of, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, or otherwise exploit any content contained on our website and applications (including without limitation the Online Content and Courses) for any other purpose other than as permitted by these Terms without our prior written consent;
  
• 13. You agree not to use our website, applications or the Online Content and Courses in any manner intended to damage, disable, overburden or impair any Startupstorm.asia server or the network(s) connected to any Startupstorm.asia server, or infringe any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of any servers or networks connected to our website and applications;
  
• 14. You agree not to use any high volume, automated, or electronic means to access our website, applications or the Online Content and Courses (including without limitation robots, spiders or scripts);
  
• 15. You agree not to frame our website, applications or the Online Content and Courses, place pop-up windows over its pages, or otherwise affect the display of its pages; 
  
• 16. You agree not to access or attempt to access any other Learner or Visitor’s account or falsely state, impersonate, or otherwise misrepresent your identity, including but not limited to misrepresenting your affiliations with a person or entity, past or present;
• 17. You agree not to forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers to disguise the origin of any communication transmitted through our website and applications; and
  
• 18. You agree not to send, knowingly receive, submit, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with these Terms.

Registration and Accounts

• 1. are, and will continue to be, registered for our website only once and will not create multiple Learner Accounts; 
• 2. will not let anyone else use your Learner Account;
• 3. will not cheat on any assignment or exam relating to the Online Content and Courses, nor share solutions to any assignment or exam; and 
• 4. will notify the administrators of the relevant Online Content and Courses immediately if you become aware of any other Learner cheating or breaching these Terms

3.5 If you are disqualified for any reason under paragraphs 3.4 (1), (2) or (3), we may prohibit your access or participation in the Online Content and Courses. 

Course Providers

• 1. the third party may have its terms, policies or procedures regarding your eligibility to participate in the Online Content and Courses, your participation in the Online Content and Courses, the requirements or prerequisites for receiving Accreditation for the Online Content and Courses, and your educational or student records as they may relate to your participation and performance in the Online Content and Courses; and
• 2. your educational or student records are maintained by the Course Provider and/or any other third party (and not by us), including for purposes of completing the courses you are registered for at such Course Providers and/or third-party entities, assigning Accreditation.

Licence to Use

5.1 Rights. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you fully revocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sub-licensable limited rights

• 1. to access, internally use and display our website, applications and the Online Content and Courses as an individual only at your location solely as necessary to browse and/or participate in the Online Content and Courses as permitted by these Terms; and
• 2. to download permitted content from the Online Content and Courses so that you may exercise the rights granted to you by these Terms.

5.2 Copyright. It will help if you abode by all copyright notices or restrictions contained on our website, applications or the Online Content and Courses. You may not delete any attributions, legal or proprietary notices on our website, applications or the Online Content and Courses. 

Your Content

• 1. you have all necessary rights and/or clearances to provide such User Content and permit us to use and publish such User Content as provided in paragraphs 6.1 to 6.3 above;
• 2. such User Content is true, accurate and complete to the best of your knowledge and belief;
• 3. as between you and us, you are responsible for the payment of any third-party fees related to the provision, publication and use of such User Content; and
• 4. such use and/or publication of your User Content does not and will not infringe or misappropriate any third party rights or constitute a fraudulent statement or misrepresentation.

• 1. all communications methods constitute public, and not private, means of communication between you and any other parties;
• 2. communications sent to or received from third-party service providers or other third parties are not endorsed, sponsored or approved by us in any manner (unless expressly stated otherwise by us); and
• 3. most content will be reactively-moderated if learners or visitors flagged. Still, we reserve the right to pre-review or post-review User Content to ensure that it complies with generally acceptable communication standards. 

Copyright Policy

• 1. a statement telling us you believe that you have found content on our website and applications which you think infringes your intellectual property rights;
• 2. which country your intellectual property rights apply to;
• 3. the title of the content concerned and the full URL for access to that content;
• 4. a statement explaining how the content infringes your intellectual property rights;
• 5. your mailing address, telephone number and email address so that we can contact you;
• 6. a statement that the information contained in the notice is true and accurate, and that you are the owner of the intellectual property rights or have an exclusive right in law to bring infringement proceedings in respect of its use; and
• 7. your signature (an electronic signature is sufficient).

7.5 We will, acting in our sole discretion, terminate Learner Accounts and access to our website, applications and the Online Content and Courses if a Learner has been notified of infringing activity twice or more, regardless of whether the Learner has taken appropriate action as we may direct. 

Linking to Other Sites

• 1. we have no responsibility for the accuracy or availability of information provided by Linked Sites; and
• 2. we do not control or endorse the sponsors of such Linked Sites or the content, products, advertising or other materials presented on such Linked Sites.

Intellectual Property Rights

Your Liability to Us

• 1. you submitting User Content to our website, applications or participating in the Online Content and Courses;
• 2. you submitting User Content to our website, applications or participating in the Online Content and Courses;
• 3. your breach of any of these Terms; and
• 4. any negligent act or omission, deliberate default or breach of statutory duty on your part.

Our Liability to You

• 1. any loss of profit (directly or indirectly);
• 2. any loss of goodwill; and
• 3. any loss of opportunity.

• 1. any reliance placed by you on the completeness, accuracy or existence of any information or advertising, or as a result of any relationship or transaction between you and any advertiser or sponsor whose advertising appears on our website, applications or about the Online Content and Courses;
• 2. any changes which we may make to our website, applications or Online Content and Courses, or for any temporary interruptions in the provision of our website, applications or Online Content and Courses;
• 3. the deletion of, corruption of, or failure to store, any Online Content and Courses and other communications data maintained or transmitted by or through your use of our website and applications;
• 4. your failure to provide us with accurate account information; or
• 5. failure to keep your account details secure and confidential

• 1. if we reasonably believe you or any Learner you are connected with are in breach of any of these Terms;
• 2. in order to prevent any fraudulent, unlawful or abusive activity; or
• 3. if it is necessary to prevent or stop any harm or damage to us, other Learners of our website and/or applications, or the general public.

Governing Law and Dispute Resolution

Changes to Our Website, Applications and These Terms

Other Important Terms