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Unfortunately, some people don’t use the internet and our platform in the best interest of others. That is why below you find the terms and conditions of The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. and its brand The Startup Buddy to legally protect us and yourself. The text doesn’t read like a good novel, but the intention is honest and we worked diligently to formulate it fairly and correctly. If we did not entirely succeed, please let us know via [email protected] so we can check and change in applicable cases.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

1. Introduction
These Terms and Conditions apply to www.thestartupbuddy.co, any other platforms owned by The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd and to all our services and products where no other terms have been provided. The Startup Buddy Pte Ltd is a Singapore registered company under UEN+6587421393R. By engaging with The Startup Buddy platforms or services you enter into an agreement with The Startup Buddy Pte Ltd and you confirm to adhere to our Terms, Conditions and Privacy Policies.

2. Authorization
You affirm that you are an adult according to the regulations in your country of residence or possess legal parental or guardian consent, and are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and warranties set forth in these Terms and Conditions, and to abide by and comply with these Terms and Conditions.

If you subscribe to or interact with any of the Services under the name of a legal entity, you agree to act as a representative or duly authorized legal person to act in the name of that entity to contract the Services.

You will identify yourself correctly and truly where necessary to use our Services and Platforms. Not doing so may lead to cancellation of service without

3. Intellectual property rights
Other than the content you own or content which is explicitly specified or recognizable as content from external sources, The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. owns all the intellectual property rights and materials contained in the Websites, Platforms and in use for our Services.

You are granted limited access only for the purposes of viewing, using and/or sharing with reference to the Websites as the source of the material. The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. may use intellectual property and materials users upload for publicly visible purposes for its own marketing. The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. will not use your intellectual property and materials when you upload those for private use. As a user of our Platforms you can publish and share information and materials with other people. When you do, you affirm to be aware that all published information can be in principle viewed by most other users on the Platform.

This Agreement does not transfer to you any intellectual property of the Website or Platform operator or third parties. All rights, titles, and interests in and to such intellectual property will remain (as between the parties) solely with the Website and Platform operator. All trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with our Website or Services, are intellectual property, trademarks or registered trademarks of Website operators or third parties. Your use of our Websites and Services grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Website operator or third-party trademarks unless by clearly referring to the Websites or its third parties as the source.

4. About your Platform or Website account

If you create any type of account your login credentials are personal in your name. You are responsible for the data you submit and services you offer which shall not be offensive nor shall be in contradiction with any laws and regulations of the jurisdictions you or us are operating in. You will keep any of your submitted data up to date and maintain the security of your membership account and login credentials. You are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with it.

Pretending to be someone else, purposely providing false contact information or other routes of trying to deceive or put forward a different identity will lead to immediate termination of your account and where applicable can lead to legal action against you. You must immediately notify us of any unauthorized uses of your account or any other breaches of security. We may suspend, disable, or delete your account (or any part thereof) if we determine that you have violated any provision of this Agreement or that your conduct or content would tend to damage our reputation and goodwill.

5. Payments for memberships and subscriptions on our Platforms

All subscriptions are automatically renewed from your selected payment method on a recurring basis. You can check your receipt and payment status under your Membership settings in the platform. You can upgrade, downgrade or cancel your membership anytime. The change of your membership starts at the next moment of renewal.

All prices for our Services and Platforms are in US dollars unless specifically stated otherwise and subject to change. Other restrictions, taxes, bank- or credit card fees may apply.

If you subscribe to a fee-based Service or Platform, the price and conditions will be stated separately during the subscription process and upfront before you make any payments. By making payment you agree to these conditions. No refunds or claims can be made after payment based on not agreeing with those conditions.

For selling your products or services to our users by listing on our Websites, you need to agree to a separate pricing agreement including conditions which are displayed at the beginning of the listing procedure. No refunds or claims can be made after payment based on not agreeing with those conditions.

For payments to be made for fee-based subscriptions or Services we use third-party providers such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors. We do not store your card details or have access to them, this is also handled by a third party (Stripe). They have their own terms and policies in accordance to their respective laws and jurisdiction and in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions. We recommend that you read their terms and policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers. The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. does not take liability for third party disputes and will not be a party in the resolution of those disputes.

6. Website access
You are yourself responsible for accessing the Websites and Platforms using your internet connection, even if access to the internet connection is granted by another legal person. No guarantees of the functioning of the Websites or its Services are given. Users are themselves responsible for their actions when entering into any Services. The Website and Platform operator can under no circumstances be liable for damage that is caused to the user.

We make no promise that the information and materials on the Websites and Platforms are appropriate, correct or available for use. Accessing the Websites from territories where its contents are illegal or unlawful is prohibited. If you choose to access the Websites from elsewhere, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws and regulations.

Despite ongoing efforts to keep all proprietary and third party content up to date, the Website operator can not guarantee all content on the Websites is up to date and accurate. Third parties listing their services on our Websites are responsible for keeping their own data and information up to date.

We perform regular backups of the Websites and Content and will do our best to ensure completeness and accuracy of these backups. In the event of the hardware failure or data loss we will restore backups automatically to minimize the impact and downtime.

7. Restrictions
You are not allowed to publish any Websites’ material in any other media, sell, sublicense and/or otherwise commercialize any Websites’ material unless your sharing does not contain content protected by subscription/listing and does not harm the Websites or its users in any way. In case you are not certain, you inform us prior to using the materials to obtain specific approval.

You are prohibited from using the Websites contrary to applicable laws and regulations, or in any way which may cause harm to the Websites, its Services, the Website operator or to any person or business entity. Any data mining, data harvesting, data extracting or any other similar activity in relation to the Websites unless specific approval has been granted by us in legal writing or contract, is not allowed.

We have the right, though not the obligation, to, in our own sole discretion, refuse, change or remove any content that, in our reasonable opinion, violates any of our Terms or is in any way harmful or objectionable for the Websites or our users immediately without informing us upfront.

Certain areas of the Websites may be restricted from being accessed by you and can only be accessed via membership subscription. Any user ID and password you may have for the subscription Services are confidential and shall not be shared by you to anyone.

8. Third party websites
The Websites and its Services provide links to other websites and online resources. We are not, directly or indirectly, implying any approval, association, sponsorship, endorsement, or affiliation with any linked website, unless specifically stated. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating, and we do not warrant the offerings of, any businesses or individuals or the content of their websites. We do not assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, products, services and content of any other third parties.

Once you leave our Websites or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Agreement. You should carefully review the legal statements and other conditions of use of any website which you access through a link from our Websites.

9. Data protection
Your personal data and the information that you share with us, is treated with the utmost respect and care and in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act in Singapore.

9.1 Data collection and usage
When you subscribe to our Websites and Services we collect personal information you give us. We may collect and store any personal information you enter on our Websites or otherwise provided to us at servers located in Singapore and/or other countries worldwide.

When you visit our Websites, we may assign your computer one or more cookies, to facilitate access to our Websites, to personalize your online experience and to record information about your visit to our Websites. We may allow third parties to display advertisements on our Websites for which they may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about users who view or interact with these advertisements and connect to these websites.

When you browse our Websites, we can receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your preferences to service you better. We may also collect other information such as your browser type and language, access times, content of any undeleted cookies that your browser previously accepted from us and the referring website address.

We may use standard Internet technology, such as web beacons and other similar technologies, to track your use on our Websites. We also may include web beacons in promotional email messages or newsletters to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. The information we obtain in this manner enables us to customize the services we offer our Websites' visitors to deliver targeted advertisements and to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, programming or other activities.

You agree that we may collect, use and disclose your personal data you provided to us for any of the following purposes:

to provide you with any of our products or Services;
to bill for any of our products and Services provided to you; and to request for, or enforce payment of the same;
to arrange for third parties to help us provide our products or Services to you, including (among other things) storage, tracking or delivery of our products or Services;
to better serve you by matching your preferences or needs with relevant products or services;
to better serve you by matching your preferences or needs with relevant products or services from third parties and joint marketing efforts with those third parties;
to communicate with you regarding our Websites, Services, programs or events;
to provide you with information on selected third parties’ websites, products, services, programs or events that we think may be of interest to you;
to respond to your queries or requests;
to manage our business operations and to improve our business, Websites, Services, programs or events;
to investigate any wrongdoing in relation to our business, Websites, Services, programs or events;
for legal purposes, including obtaining legal advice, managing disputes and risks, complying with any laws;
any other purposes relating to the above purposes.

9.2 Consent
The ways in which we may collect personal data include (but are not limited to) collecting directly or indirectly data from you in the course of:

Visiting our Websites
Subscribing to a Service
Contacting us with queries, requests or feedback
Participating in our marketing or events
Conducting market research or surveys
Signing up for alerts, newsletters or our social media channels
Applying for a job with us
Conducting interviews

You agree that we may collect, use and disclose your personal data you provided to us for providing marketing communications like newsletters and updates via email or Social Media, information about our Services via email or Social Media, information about third parties' products and services via email and Social Media and marketing via third parties related to the Services we provide to you.

All requests to have personal data removed from our databases or physical storage facilities will be entertained and performed within the Website operator’s reasonable abilities and timelines and provided you have the correct membership status.

9.3. Data disclosure
We will only use, disclose and/or transfer personal data for the purposes you have been notified of and consented to or which are permitted under applicable laws and regulations. Through our Websites sharing of your data explicitly is a feature. For example entrepreneurs can share their profiles with mentors and vice versa. By using our Websites you are aware of this and consent to this type of data sharing. We may disclose your personal information if we are required by laws or regulations to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.

9.4. Aggregated data and non-personal information
We may share aggregated information (i.e., information about you and other subscribers collectively, but not specifically identifiable to you) and other non-personal information we collect under any of the above stated circumstances. We may also share it with third parties to develop and deliver targeted advertising on our Websites. We may combine non-personal information we collect with additional non-personal information collected from other sources. We also may share aggregated information with third parties, including advisors, advertisers and investors, for the purpose of conducting general business analysis.

9.5. Data Security
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.
However, we cannot fully guarantee to secure personal data from cyber-attacks, such as hacking, spyware and viruses. You cannot hold us liable for any unauthorized disclosure, loss or destruction of personal data arising from such risks.

We will not store personal data longer than necessary but will cease to retain the personal data when it is no longer required for the purposes we originally notified you for or any business or legal needs.

If you are visiting our Websites from outside Singapore, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored and processed in Singapore where our servers are located and our central database is operated. Please be assured that we seek to take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is protected.

10. Limitation of liability
In no event shall The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd., nor any of its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, and agents, be held liable for any damage or liability arising out of or in any way connected with your use of the Websites.

11. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold Website operator and its affiliates, directors, officers, employees, and agents harmless from and against any liabilities, losses, damages or costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, incurred in connection with or arising from any third-party allegations, claims, actions, disputes, or demands asserted against any of them as a result of or relating to your content, subscription, your use of the Websites or Services or any willful misconduct on your part including breach of any of the provisions of these Terms.

12. Severability
If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid under any applicable law, such provisions shall be deleted without affecting the remaining provisions herein.

13. Changes and amendments
The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. is permitted to revise these Terms at any time as it sees fit, and by using the Websites you are expected to review these Terms on a regular basis. We reserve the right to modify this Agreement relating to the Websites or Services at any time, effective upon posting of an updated version of this Agreement on the Websites. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. Continued use of the Websites after any such changes shall constitute your consent to such changes. We recommend that you check our Websites from time to time to inform yourself of any changes.

14. Assignment
Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. is allowed to assign, transfer, and subcontract its rights and/or obligations under these Terms without any notification. In the case our business is partially or completely acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.
You are not allowed to assign, transfer, or subcontract any of your rights and/or obligations under these Terms.

15. Governing Law & Jurisdiction
These Terms are governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Singapore. Any disputes are deemed to be submitted to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Singapore for resolution.

16. Contacting us
If you have any questions about this Agreement, please contact us under [email protected]

17. Contacting us
Data deletion requests have to be sent to [email protected]

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Privacy Policy

www.thestartupbuddy.co (hereinafter referred to as “Website”) is operated by The Startup Buddy Pte Ltd, a Singapore registered company (UEN+6587421393R). Your personal data and the information that you share with us in confidence, is treated with the utmost respect and care. Thus, the safety of your personal data is important to us and it is our policy to respect the confidentiality of information and the privacy of every individual and legal person. This Policy outlines how we aim to manage the personal data we hold in compliance with the Personal Data Protection Act in Singapore and GDPR in Europes, these being currently the strictest privacy laws in the world.

This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date stipulated at the bottom of this page and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time, effective upon posting of an updated version of this Privacy Policy on this Website. Continued use of the Website after any such changes shall constitute your acknowledgement of any modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully when using our Website, services or transacting business with us. By using our Website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

If our business is partially or completely acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you. Please refer also to Section 3 “Disclosure” in case of corporate transactions.

If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please refer to the end of this Privacy Policy for information on how to contact us.

SECTION 1 – COLLECTION AND USAGE OF INFORMATION

You agree that we may collect, use and disclose your personal data you provided to us for any of the following purposes

to provide you with any of our products or services;
to bill for any of our products or services provided to you and to request for, or enforce, payment of the same;
to arrange for third parties to help us provide our products or services to you, including (among other things) storage, tracking or delivery of our products or services;
to better serve you by matching your preferences or needs with relevant products or services;
to communicate with you regarding our website, products, services, programs or events;
to provide you with information on selected third parties’ websites, products, services, programs or events which we think may be of interest to you;
to respond to your queries or requests;
to manage our business operations;
to improve our business, website, products, services, programs or events;
to investigate any wrongdoing in relation to our business, website, programs or events;
for legal purposes, including obtaining legal advice, managing disputes and risks, complying with any laws;
any other purposes relating to the above purposes.

When you register, use our Services or purchase and/or sell services through our Website we collect personal information you give us such as your name, postal address and email address. We may collect and store any personal information you enter on our Website or otherwise provided to us at servers located in Singapore and/or other countries worldwide.

When you browse our Website, we automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your preferences to service you better. We may also collect other information such as your browser type and language, access times, content of any undeleted cookies that your browser previously accepted from us and the referring website address.

When you visit our websites, we may assign your computer one or more cookies, to facilitate access to our Website, to personalise your online experience and to record information about your visit to our Website. Through the use of a cookie, we also may automatically collect information about your online activity on our websites, such as the web pages you visit, the links or advertisements you click, or the other actions you conduct while on our websites. The cookies do not store any personally identifiable information about you. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, please note that you may not be able to sign in or use some of the interactive features offered on our Website.

We may use standard Internet technology, such as web beacons and other similar technologies, to track your use on our Website. We also may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. The information we obtain in this manner enables us to customise the services we offer our Websites’ visitors to deliver targeted advertisements and to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, programming or other activities.

We may allow third parties, including our authorised service providers, advertising companies, and ad networks, to display advertisements on our Website. We and these companies may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about users who view or interact with these advertisements and connect to our Website. Our Website does not provide any personal information to these third parties. This information allows us and these companies to deliver and gauge the effectiveness of targeted advertisements. Some of these third-party advertising companies may be advertising networks that are members of the Network Advertising Initiative, which offers a single location to opt out of ad targeting from member companies.

Part of our Website is hosted on Duda. They provide us with a content management system that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data is stored through Duda data storage, databases and the general Duda application. For the part where your data is hosted with Duda, the privacy policy of Duda Pte Ltd applies.

As soon as you leave our Website by clicking on a link from one of the service providers, you may be bound to the privacy policy and terms of service of this respective service provider.

We may send you emails about our services, new products and other updates. If you do not want to receive these emails you can opt-out in your profile and/or listing at any time.

The Startup Buddy has different levels of memberships. Requesting to delete data other than your email address and password is covered under “Personal Tech Support”. When this is part of your membership all requests to have personal data removed from our databases or physical storage facilities will be entertained and performed within the company’s reasonable abilities and timelines. When this is not part of your membership The Startup Buddy will entertain these requests at a pre-paid price of USD 50,-. You are able to remove all your personal data yourself without our help.

SECTION 2 – CONSENT

When you sign up on the platform we imply consent for the personal information you provide us to use it as stated in this Privacy Policy.

When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card or PayPal account or place an order, you consent to our Terms of Service as well as this Privacy Policy for collecting the data and using it for that specific reason.

The ways in which we may collect personal data include (but are not limited to) collecting directly or indirectly from individuals or authorised representatives in the course of:

Visiting our Websites
Applying for a product or service through us and/or our business partners
Conducting or completing of transactions
Using our products or services
Contacting us with queries, requests or feedback
Participating in our marketing or promotional events
Conducting market research or surveys
Signing up for alerts or newsletters
Applying for a job with us
Conducting interviews

You agree that we may collect, use and disclose your personal data you provided to us for providing the following types of marketing communications: newsletters and updates via email, information about our products and services via email, information about third parties’ products and services via email.

If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent or provide you with an opportunity to decline participation.

If after you provide personal information, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at any time by contacting us at [email protected]. We will within a reasonable period of time remove the personal information upon that request where possible.

SECTION 3 – DISCLOSURE

We will only use, disclose and/or transfer personal data for the purposes you have been notified of and consented to or which are permitted under applicable laws and regulations. We will not sell, rent or give away personal data to third parties for commercial purposes without prior consent.

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by laws or regulations to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.

Furthermore, your personal information might need to be disclosed in one of the following situations:

In response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order or a request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.
When we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; or to enforce our Websites’ terms and conditions or other agreements or policies.
In connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, asset sale or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

Any third parties to whom we may disclose personal information may have their own privacy policies that describe how they use and disclose personal information. Those policies will govern use, handling and disclosure of your personal information once we have shared it with those third parties as described in this Privacy Policy. If you want to learn more about their privacy practices, we encourage you to visit the websites of those third parties. These entities or their servers may be located either inside or outside Singapore.

SECTION 4 – THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us and to you. Financial experts and service providers which advertise on our platform are an example of these third-party services.

However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.

For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.

In particular, please take note that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located in a different jurisdiction than either you or us are located. That means if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

As an example, if you are located in Singapore and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation.

Once you leave our Website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our Website’s Terms of Service.

When you click on links on our Website, they may direct you away from our Website to a website that we do not control. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

These third-party websites may independently solicit and collect information, including personal information, from you and, in some instances, provide us with information about your activities on those websites. We recommend that you consult the privacy statements of all third-party websites you visit by clicking on the “privacy” link typically located at the bottom of the webpage you are visiting.

We cannot take responsibility for the execution of Third Party Privacy Policies. We do ask users of our Website to report issues they are having on this subject so we can investigate and possibly help to solve a problem if applicable.

SECTION 5 – AGGREGATED AND NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share aggregated information (i.e., information about you and other customers collectively, but not specifically identifiable to you) and other non-personal information we collect under any of the above-stated circumstances. We may also share it with third parties to develop and deliver targeted advertising on our websites and on websites of third parties. We may combine non-personal information we collect with additional non-personal information collected from other sources. We also may share aggregated information with third parties, including advisors, advertisers and investors, for the purpose of conducting general business analysis. For example, we may tell our advertisers the number of visitors to our websites and the most popular features or services accessed. This information does not contain any personal information and may be used to develop website content and services that we hope you and other users will find of interest and to target content and advertising.

SECTION 6 – Non-disclosure The Startup Buddy Platform user data

The Startup Buddy Platform (https://app.thestartupbuddy.co/home/signin) asks for more personal and commercial information as the other websites of The Startup Buddy Pte Ltd. The terms and conditions and this privacy policy of The Startup Buddy Pte Ltd apply. Additionally, our non-disclosure agreement applies for user data provided as part of the usage of The Startup Buddy Platform.

SECTION 7 – SECURITY

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with encryption.

We regard breaches of privacy very seriously and we have implemented measures to secure and protect information, such as training our employees who handle personal data to respect the confidentiality of such personal data, storing personal data in a combination of secure computer storage facilities and paper based files and other records, taking steps to protect the personal data we hold from misuse, loss, unauthorized access, modification or disclosure.

We cannot, however, secure personal data from cyber-attacks, such as hacking, spyware and viruses. You cannot hold us liable for any unauthorized disclosure, loss or destruction of personal data arising from such risks.

We will not store personal data longer than necessary but will cease to retain the personal data when it is no longer required for the purposes we originally notified the individual for or any business or legal needs.

If you are visiting our websites from outside Singapore, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored and processed in Singapore where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of Singapore and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. Please be assured that we seek to take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is protected. By using our services, you understand that your information may be transferred to our facilities and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this privacy policy.

SECTION 8 – CAPACITY TO CONTRACT

By using this Website and contracting in any form for instance as client or as advertiser for products and services, you represent that you have the legal capacity and capacity to contract according to the local laws and regulations of your country of residence.

SECTION 9 – QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

If you would like to access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have from you, register a complaint, or simply want more information about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at [email protected]. Processing is based on your membership status and depending on the request a fee might be applicable for execution.

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Non-Disclosure Agreement

GENERAL

This Non-Disclosure Agreement is effective after the signing date of legal documents between The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. and its customers for services, partnerships or other agreements that are confirmed in a written contract or legal document. A “Customer” under this agreement has a signed contract or other legal agreement with The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd.(“Customer”),The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd., UEN +6587421393R is the “Service Provider” in this agreement, hereinafter both referred to as “parties”, to assure the protection and preservation of the confidential and/or proprietary nature of information to be disclosed or made available by the Customer to the Service Provider or vice versa. In reliance upon and in consideration of the following undertakings, the parties agree as follows:

SECTION 1

Subject to the limitations set forth in Paragraph 2, all information disclosed by the Customer to the Service Provider or vice versa shall be deemed to be “Confidential Information”. In particular, Confidential Information shall be deemed to include any trade secret, information, invention, idea, sample and procedures and formulations for producing any such sample, process, formula, or test data relating to any research project, work in process, future development, engineering, manufacturing, marketing, servicing, financing or personnel matter relating to the Customer, its present or future products, sales, suppliers, clients, customers, employees, investors or business, whether in oral, written, graphic, electronic or digital form.

SECTION 2

The term “Confidential Information” shall not be deemed to include any public information which includes information that parties: (a) are at the time of the effective date of this agreement already aware of ; b) hereafter became aware of by means of receiving such information by a third party or public sources; c) are generally known or available to the public.

SECTION 3

Parties shall maintain all Confidential Information in trust and confidence and shall not disclose any Confidential Information to any third party except for the intent of the rendered services. Parties shall not use Proprietary Information for any purpose or in any manner which would constitute a violation of any laws or regulations applicable to the Republic of Singapore.

SECTION 4

Parties will disclose the necessary Confidential Information to any third party if the services require it to do so. The contact information of either party is not deemed Confidential Information and Parties are allowed to share this information with third parties for purposes of references or checks.

SECTION 5

Both Parties shall advise its employees, agents, servants, partners and any other third party who might have access to Confidential Information of the confidential nature thereof. Parties shall not disclose any Confidential Information to any employee, agent, servant, partner and any other third party who does not have a need for such information, nor shall it disclose any Confidential Information to any third party without the other Parties written consent except regulatory or law requirements request to disclose such information to the respective authorities.

SECTION 6

All Confidential Information including all (digital) copies thereof shall at all times remain the property of either Party.

SECTION 7

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, disclosure of Confidential Information shall not be precluded if such disclosure:(a)is in response to a valid order of a court or other governmental body of Singapore or any political subdivision thereof; provided, however, that the Parties shall first have given notice to each other; or(b)is otherwise required by Singapore law or regulations.

SECTION 8

This Agreement shall continue in full force and effect for so long as the Service Provider continues to render services to the Customer. This agreement will stay in effect until the original written notice of the ending of the contract or legal document between Customer and the Service Provider to which this agreement is underlying.

SECTION 9

This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of Singapore and disputes will be resolved accordingly.

SECTION 10

This Agreement may not be changed, modified, amended or supplemented except by a written supplement or agreement signed by both parties.

SECTION 11

If any provision of this Agreement is found by a proper authority to be unenforceable by law or regulations, that provision shall be severed and the remainder of this Agreement will continue in full force and effect.

SECTION 12

Any notices required or permitted hereunder shall be given to the appropriate party at the address specified above or at such other address as the party shall specify in writing. Such notice shall be deemed given upon personal delivery, or sent by certified or registered mail, or sent by electronic mail or any other digital medium which allows receiving a delivery and read receipt for the sending party.

SECTION 13

No other users or customers of The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. are covered under or can make demands under this NDA, other than the type of customers defined at the start of this agreement.

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Agreement for providers listing their services

For listing your services on any websites owned and operated by The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. , you agree to the following terms between The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. as the operator of this website ("Website operator", "us", "we" or "our") and you additionally to general Terms and Conditions:

You agree to start servicing the client immediately after the transaction is submitted via our website and not later than 3 working days after the transaction. That includes making first contact and arrangements for providing the services to the client.
You agree to pay The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. 15% of any transaction amounts which users pay for the services you offer on our website.
The complete transaction amount will be collected by The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. from the users transacting with you.
The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. will pay out to you within 7 days after the sale has been made and upon receiving your correct invoice that includes:
The customer details
Transaction date
Transaction amount
Deduction of the 15% service fee to be paid to The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd.
If the user informs The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. after 3 working days but before the 6th working day after the transaction that your service as a provider has not yet started and you can not evidence the opposite in writing, the full payment will be refunded to them. Any invoice you have sent to us will be voided and not paid out
In case The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. needs to refund a purchase to a user for a service that you listed, The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. will charge and invoice 5% of the purchase value to you to cover administration and transaction fees that you agree to pay by accepting these terms.
You are solely responsible for the content and services you post on our website. The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. is not liable for any direct or indirect damage to any party caused by your listing or actions.
If you are unclear about any of these terms, it is your responsibility to understand them and interact with The Startup Buddy team before listing. Upon listing you agree to them.

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Agreement for buying services from providers

By buying your services on this website, you agree to the following terms between The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. as the operator of this website (“Website operator”, “us”, “we” or “our”) and you.

When you buy on our website your contact data (name and email address) will be shared with the service provider that posted the listing on our website.
The service provider is responsible for starting to service you immediately after the transaction is submitted via our website and not later than 3 working days after the transaction. Start of service includes that the service provider makes first contact and arrangements for providing the services to you.
Make sure your contact data (name and email address) are correct so the service provider can contact you. In case of an error in your data, please inform The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. via [email protected] or update your profile.
The complete transaction amount will be collected by The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd.
If the service provider has not started servicing you within 3 working days after the transaction was submitted via our website you have to inform us via [email protected]
The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. will refund you your full payment only if you inform us before the 6th working day after the transaction took place and only if the service provider cannot provide evidence in writing to have started servicing you. Qualifying refunds will be made to you on the 7th working day after the transaction.
After the 7th working day, any complaints you then still have about the service have to be handled between you and the service provider.
The Startup Buddy Pte. Ltd. is not liable for any direct or indirect damage to any party caused by listings, actions, etc.. on our website. You are encouraged to make sure you understand the service you are buying before making payment.
All Terms and Conditions stated on our website are applicable to this transaction.

These above Terms, Conditions and Policies were last updated July 2021