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Updated October 5,  2022

Permission.io, Inc. (“Permission”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) operates various cryptocurrencies, including ASK and others, various blockchains, websites, blogs, forums, various mobile applications and platforms, including https://permission.io, all subdomains of https://permission.io, and others (all operations collectively referred to herein as the “Services”). These terms of use (“Terms of Use”) describe the terms and conditions applicable to your use of any and all Services operated by us that include a link to these Terms of Use. If there is a link to these Terms of Use on any website, mobile application or online service you are visiting, these Terms of Use apply. We may also offer mobile applications and websites that have their own terms of use. Please refer to the terms of use associated with the website or mobile application you are using for the governing terms of use. An Account is any and all access to the Services. End users of the Services are collectively referred to herein as “you”, “your”, and “Members”.

Your access to and use of the Services is subject to all applicable laws and regulations and to these Terms of Use. By accessing, browsing, commenting, or purchasing services or goods on the Services, you agree to be bound, without limitation or qualification, to these Terms of Use, which form a legally binding contract. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you may not use the Services.

Software in the Services

To the extent that Permission provides you with mobile applications or other software as part of the Services, we grant you a limited, personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive license to use the software, but solely to the extent necessary for you to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services in the manner permitted by these Terms of Use. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any software included as part of the Services. All right, title and interest in such software not expressly granted to you in this paragraph are reserved by Permission and its licensors. However, to the extent we license one of our mobile applications or other software applications to you pursuant to a separate end user license agreement, the terms of that end user license agreement shall govern over any inconsistent provisions in this paragraph. Some software used in the Services may be offered under an open source license, and in such case, there may be provisions in the open source license that expressly override some of the terms of this paragraph.

Third-Party Sites and Linking

As a convenience to users, the Services may contain links to websites operated by third parties (“Third-Party Sites”). Third-Party Sites are not under the control of Permission, and, as such, access to and use of such Third-Party Sites is at your own risk and subject to corresponding third-party, non-Permission terms of use and privacy policies. We are not responsible for, do not endorse, and hereby disclaim any and all content, advice, or services found, learned, available, or provided on such Third-Party Sites. We reserve the right to terminate a link to a Third-Party Site at any time. The fact that we provide a link to a Third-Party Site does not necessarily mean that we endorse, authorize or sponsor that Third-Party Site, or that we are affiliated with the Third-Party Site.

Unless otherwise set forth in a written agreement between you and Permission, you must adhere to Permission’s linking policy as follows: (a) the appearance, position and other attributes of the link may not be such as to damage or dilute the goodwill associated with Permission’s name or any Permission trademark or service mark; (b) the appearance, position, and other attributes of the link may not create the false appearance that your organization or entity is sponsored by, affiliated with, or associated with Permission, and (iii) when selected by a user, the link must display the Services on full-screen and not within a “frame” on the linking site.

Rules of Conduct

It is a violation of these Terms of Use for you to:

  1. Use the Services for illegal purposes, in violation of any applicable laws or regulations;

  2. Copy, sell, resell, or exploit for commercial purposes any portion of the Services;

  3. Use any robot, spider, scraper or other automatic or manual process to monitor, data mine, or copy any Services, website pages, content, or user information, except as expressly permitted by Permission;

  4. Intentionally manipulate identifiers, use another’s identification or password without authorization, or otherwise engage in any activities intended to impersonate or hide a user’s identity or contact information;

  5. Transmit or distribute viruses or other malicious code;

  6. Collect Member names and contact information and/or send unsolicited commercial communications (spam);

  7. Take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionally large load on the Services’ infrastructure or interferes with the proper working of the Services;

  8. Post content or take any action using the Services that infringes or violates someone else’s rights (whether protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity, or other proprietary right) or otherwise violates the law, including without limitation selling, purchasing, or otherwise disseminating, without the individual’s prior written consent, an individual’s content;

  9. Attempt to decompile, decipher or reverse engineer any of the software used by us as part of the Services;

  10. Post or transmit any advertising or promotional materials or solicit Members to use particular goods or services, except as otherwise expressly permitted by us;

  11. Post any classified or sensitive information;

  12. If you do not follow our instructions or these terms or our Privacy Policy;

  13. Transmit or distribute any content that is unlawful, deceptive, false, stolen, threatening, abusive, harassing, obscene, pornographic, defamatory, racially or ethnically objectionable, or in violation of the personal privacy rights of another; or

  14. Assist or permit any persons in engaging in any of the activities described above.

  15. Any and all fraudulent activities on an Account or with Services.

Each Member of the Services, including you, is responsible for the content that the Member transmits, and the consequences of its use or submission.


You acknowledge that we shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor use of the Services to improve performance, for legal and regulatory requirements, and to determine compliance with these Terms of Use and other applicable policies. Permission shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to refuse to post or to remove any content that it believes to be in violation of these Terms of Use or which it finds otherwise objectionable for any reason, without any advance notice or liability to you or any third party.

Single Account

You are permitted to open only one (1) Account. Only one Account is allowed per Member. Multiple accounts held by the same individual are subject to immediate closure and we reserve the right to seize any funds or cryptocurrencies (including ASK coins) gained as a result of holding multiple Accounts. Furthermore, you shall not permit another person to access the Services via your Account without the express authorization of Permission.

Eligible Members

Permission users may have the opportunity to earn ASK coins or other cryptocurrency “rewards” by using the Permission Platform to provide data, including data provided directly by you, data collected based on your use of Permission, or data provided by an external source that you have opted in to the Permission Platform. You may earn from connecting accounts, allowing us and/or our business partners to collect data, answering survey questions, and other activities, all as specified through the Platform, and all on an anonymous basis, i.e., not identifying you personally to third parties. You get to be the “agent” for your data, and to be rewarded for this data, according to the Terms stated herein. Rewards earned through qualifying actions taken by a user will be stored in the user’s account wallet and recorded against the user’s account.

The amount of rewards you earn is determined by a dynamic algorithm based on variables of both user and merchant behavior. Permission may in its sole discretion alter this algorithm, which may result in a decrease in the amount of rewards in your account.

Permission has the sole discretion to determine when to distribute your rewards to your account. Distribution of rewards to your account may be subject to identification requirements.

Rewards may be redeemed as specified through the Platform at the time a user seeks to redeem rewards, currently including for cash through PayPal and/or in exchange for gift cards, and according to any applicable terms set forth on the Platform. Without limiting the preceding sentence, we may impose requirements or conditions prerequisite to redeeming rewards, restrictions on how many rewards may be redeemed at any time or over a period of time and such other rules conditions or restrictions as we deem prudent in our sole discretion. You represent and warrant that you will comply with all such rules, conditions and restrictions.

The rate at which rewards may be exchanged for cash will be specified on the Platform and may be amended or modified by us, in our sole discretion, at any time prior to redemption. Termination or suspension of a user’s account, or access to a user’s account, for any reason will result in the forfeiture of all rewards previously owned by the user. If, in our sole discretion, rewards are earned in violation of these Terms of Use and/or any terms, requirements or restrictions set forth within the Platform, or while a User is in violation of any of the forgoing, then we may cause such rewards to be forfeited by a user, and update the user’s account accordingly.

Children Under 13 Years of Age

Permission’s Platforms or Sites are not intended for children under the age of 13. In order to open an Account and participate in any of the Permission Platforms or Sites, you must be at least 13 years old (a “Minor”), or your parent or guardian has opened an Account on your behalf and consented to your use of the Services. If you do not meet either of these eligibility requirements, we will deactivate your Account. We do not knowingly collect data from children under the age of 13 without verified parental consent. If we learn that we have collected information, including Personal Data, from an individual under 13 years of age without parental consent, we will delete that information immediately. If you are a parent or legal guardian of a Minor, you hereby agree to bind the Minor to these Terms and to fully indemnify Permission and hold it harmless if the Minor breaches any of these Terms.

Restricted Jurisdictions

As a US company, we comply with the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) sanctions. The OFAC is a division of the US Department of the Treasury that administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries and regimes, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and other threats to the national security, foreign policy or economy of the United​ States.

 

Certain of OFAC’s sanctions programs encompass broad prohibitions at the country level and are oriented geographically (i.e. Cuba, Iran). As a result, we may not make all of the Services available in all markets and jurisdictions and may restrict or prohibit use of all or a portion of the Services from certain jurisdictions. At this time, Restricted Jurisdictions include those that are identified in the following “List of Banned Countries.” You must not attempt to use our Services if you are located in any of these Restricted Jurisdictions. You must not attempt to circumvent any restrictions imposed via the Services, such as by obscuring your IP address or submitting any inaccurate information regarding your location.

Users and traffic from the following countries are banned from Permission.io:

Belarus
Burma
Burundi
Central African Republic
Cote D’Ivoire
Cuba
Democratic Republic of Congo
Iran
Iraq
Lebanon
Liberia
Libya
Myanmar
North Korea
Russia
Somalia
South Sudan-related Sanctions
Sudan and Darfur
South Sudan
Syria
Ukrainian regions of Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetz
Venezuela
Yemen
Zimbabwe

Violations; Termination of Usage

We may terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Services immediately and without notice for any conduct that Permission, in its sole discretion, believes is in violation of any applicable law or is harmful to the interests of Permission or any third party. Upon termination, you must cease use of the Services and all related content. Permission reserves the right to seek all remedies available at law and in equity for violations of these Terms of Use, including the right to block access to a Permission Service from a particular Internet address.

Proprietary Rights

All trademarks, service marks and logos on the Services are the property of their respective owners. Unauthorized use of any Permission (or of any third-party) trademark, service mark, or logo may violate Permission’s or a third party’s legal rights. You must obtain our written consent prior to using any trademark or service mark of Permission.

Permission and its licensors own all intellectual property rights in the Services, including designs, text, graphics, pictures, information, content, software, and other files, and their selection and arrangement (collectively, the “Materials”), except for certain third party content on the Services and as otherwise expressly indicated. The Services and all Materials therein are protected by United States and international copyright laws. Any unauthorized use of the Materials may violate copyright laws, laws of privacy and publicity, and other laws and regulations. In exercising any permitted use of the Materials, you agree to leave all copyright, trademark and other proprietary notices intact.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Policy

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any content or other content available through the Permission Services infringes your copyright, pursuant to Section 512(c)(3) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, please provide us with the following information: (1) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; (2) an identification of copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site; (3) a detailed description of the material that you claim is infringing and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material ; (4) ) information sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, including your address, telephone number, and email address; (5) a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner , its agent, or the law; and (6) a statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information is accurate and that the complaining party is the owner or is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Our designated copyright agent for notice of alleged copyright infringement appearing on the Websites can be reached here: dmca (at) permission.io.

Upon receipt of a Notification of Copyright Infringement containing the required information as described in (1) through (6) above, we reserve the right to (i) notify the user, if known, of the alleged infringement, and (ii) remove or disable access to the material that is alleged to be infringing if hosted on one of our Permission Services. No personal user information is shared with the copyright owner unless required by law. Permission reserves the right to terminate the accounts of users based on receiving one or more Notice of Copyright Infringement.

DMCA Counter Claim Procedure

If we remove or disable access to your material and you believe that a copyright holder has accused you in error, you may file a DMCA Counter-Claim with our designated copyright agent. You must provide us with the following information: (1) a physical or electronic signature of the user; (2) identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled; (3) a statement under penalty of perjury that the user has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; (4) the user’s name, address and telephone number, and a statement that the subscriber consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the user’s address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that the user will accept service of process from the person who provided notification or an agent of such person;

 

Upon receipt of a DMCA Counter-Claim, we will provide the complaining party with a copy of the DMCA Counter-Claim. When we receive a Counter-Claim that meets the requirements of the DMCA, we will process the Counter-Claim in accordance with the requirements of the DMCA.

Registration-Related Account Security

Some Services or portions of Services may be accessible only through a registration process or with specific credentials. For such access-restricted portions of the Services, it is a violation of these Terms of Use for you to: (a) create more than one personal profile, (b) create another account without our permission if we disable your account; (c) share your login credentials, (d) let anyone else access your account, or (e) do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.

You are solely responsible for any unauthorized use of your login credentials.

Risks

Your access to and use of the Services is an acknowledgement by you that there may be risks to using the Services. All those risks cannot be known, but at a minimum, by using the Services, you agree to hold Permission not liable should any of the following occur: regulatory actions; insufficient interest in Services; failure of the Services to meet your expectations; exploitation of security weaknesses in the Services; failures of cryptography associated with the Services; cryptocurrency vault attacks associated with the Services; and theft of cryptocurrency in association with use of the Services.

No Guarantee of Value

We make no guarantee of any value related to the Services. Your access to and use of the Services is an acknowledgement by you that the value of any cryptocurrency, such as ASK, can go up, can go down, and/or may have no value at all. We make no guarantee that the Services, including any cryptocurrency (such as ASK), will have any value at any given time.

No Warranties

The Services and the materials (including all information, content (including user content), products, and services available on or through the Services) are provided to you on an “as is,” “as available” basis without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, data accuracy, and quiet enjoyment. Permission makes no warranty as to the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or reliability of any materials available on or through the Services. No oral or written information or advice given by Permission shall create a warranty of any kind. You are responsible for verifying any and all of the materials before relying on them. Permission makes no representations or warranties that use of the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, completely secure, or free from viruses.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold Permission and its parent, affiliates, officers, directors, agents, partners, members and employees harmless from any claim, action, demand, loss, or damages (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to your use of the Services, your use or submission of any content, your violation of the Terms of Use, or your violation of any law or rights of a third party. Permission reserves the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will cooperate fully with Permission in asserting any available defenses.

Limitation of Liability

The use of the Services and the materials is at your sole risk. Permission specifically disclaims all liability, whether based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or otherwise for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or special damages arising out of or relating to your access to or use of the Services and the materials, even if Permission has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall Permission’s aggregate liability to you for all damages, losses and causes of action (whether in contract or tort, including, but not limited to, negligence or otherwise), exceed $100.00.

Some jurisdictions do not allow exclusions of liability for certain types of damages. Accordingly, some of the above limitations may not apply to you to the extent prohibited by law. In such cases, Permission’s liability will be limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

Limitation of Liability

We may preserve and disclose content submitted by you if expressly authorized by you or if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce these Terms of Use; (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third parties; or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Permission, users of Services, or the public.

Compliance with Laws

Information available through the Services is not intended for distribution to, or use by, any non-U.S. military personnel or entity in any foreign jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation. Permission makes no representation that the information available through the Services is appropriate or available for use in other non-U.S. locations, and access to the Services from any such locations where the content of the Services offered herein may be illegal is prohibited. Those who choose to access the Services from other non-U.S. locations do so on their own initiative and risk and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws.

Export Control

You may not use, export, re-export, import, or transfer any software or code supplied as part of your use of the website or our services: (a) into any United States embargoed countries; or (b) to anyone listed as a specifically prohibited recipient by the United States Government. By using the website and our services, you represent and warrant that you are not located in any such country or on any such list. You also will not use the website or our services for any purpose prohibited by the United States or any other law.

Force Majeure

We will not be liable by reason of any failure or delay in the performance of our obligations because of events beyond our reasonable control, which may include, without limitation, denial-of-service attacks, strikes, shortages, riots, insurrection, fires, flood, storm, explosions, acts of God, war, terrorism, pandemics, governmental action, labour conditions, earthquakes, material shortages, extraordinary internet congestion or extraordinary connectivity issues or failure of a third party host, (each a “Force Majeure Event”). Upon the occurrence of a Force Majeure Event, we will be excused from any further performance of the obligations which are affected by that Force Majeure Event for so long as the event continues.

Modifications

You should review these Terms of Use regularly as they may change. We reserve the right to update the Terms of Use from time to time by posting a new Terms of Use in the Services (e.g., posting on the website or in the settings tab of our mobile applications) and the “date of last revision” at the top of this page will be revised. You should consult the Terms of Use regularly for any changes, and any use by you of the Services after such changes have been posted constitutes acceptance of those changes. In addition, for material changes to these Terms of Use, as determined in our sole discretion, we will include a notice on the Services that directs users to a copy of the latest Terms of Use for review and/or send a communication to users notifying them of changes. If the modified Terms of Use are not acceptable to you, your only recourse is to cease using the Services.

Permission’s failure to exercise any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of these Terms of Use is found by a court to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision and the other provisions of these Terms of Use will remain in full force and effect. These Terms of Use are provided in the English language and all communications and notices to be made or given pursuant to these Terms of Use will be in the English language.


If you have any questions about the Services or these Terms of Use, please email us: info@permission.io.

General

Severability. If any provision of these Terms of Use is illegal or unenforceable under applicable law, the remainder of the provisions will be amended to achieve as closely as possible the effect of the original term, and all other provisions of these Terms of Use will continue in full force and effect.


Governing Law. These Terms of Use are governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of California without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule. Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of or related to these Terms of Use or the Platform shall be instituted exclusively in the U.S. federal or state courts of the State of California located in the county of San Diego. You waive any and all objections to the exercise of jurisdiction over you by such courts and to venue in such courts.

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