Ethical policy

Ethical usage policy- Seekers

SeekEx builds technologies and services that enable people to connect with each other, build communities, share knowledge and grow consulting businesses. These Terms govern your use of SeekEx and the other products, features, apps, services, technologies and software that we offer (the SeekEx Products or Products), except where we expressly state that separate terms (and not these) apply. These Products are provided to you by SeekEx Technologies Pvt. Ltd

We offer both chargeable and free of cost products and services covered by these Terms. For both the class of services and products, businesses and organisations pay us to show you ads for their products and services. By using our Products, you agree that we can show you ads that we think will be relevant to you and your interest topics. We use your personal data to help determine which ads to show you.

As outlined in the privacy policy, we don't sell your personal data to advertisers, and we don't share information that directly identifies you (such as your name, email address or other contact information) with advertisers unless you give us specific permission. Instead, advertisers can tell us things such as the kind of audience that they want to see their ads, and we show those ads to people who may be interested. We provide advertisers with reports about the performance of their ads that help them understand how people are interacting with their content


A. Our services
Our mission is to democratize the knowledge acquired by our expert partner consultants over the years of professional experience, to make it accessible to even the people residing in the remotest of the areas.  To help advance this mission, we provide the products and services described below to you:

Provide tools to connect with relevant experts:
SeekEx provides you with the tools required to acquire a particular piece of advice from an expert/consulting firm of your choice with filters like age, experience, gender, expertise area etc.

Enablement of communication channel among experts and seekers:
SeekEx enables you to communicate with desired experts/consultants through means like audio calls, video calls and text chats.


Provide a personalised experience for you:
Your experience on SeekEx is unlike anyone else's: from the posts, requests, communications and other content that you see in the activity area .

Connect you with people and organisations that you care about:
We help you find and connect with people, groups, businesses, organisations and others that matter to you across the SeekEx Products that you use. We use the data that we have to make suggestions for you and others.

Help you discover content, products and services that may interest you
We show you ads, offers and other sponsored content to help you discover content, products and services that are offered by the many businesses and organisations that use SeekEx and other SeekEx Products.

Use and develop advanced technologies to provide safe and functional services for everyone:
We use and develop advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning systems so that people can use our Products safely regardless of physical ability or geographic location. We also build sophisticated network and communication technology to help more people connect to the Internet in areas with limited access. And we develop automated systems to improve our ability to detect and remove abusive and dangerous activity that may harm our community and the integrity of our Products.

Research ways to make our services better:
We engage in research to develop, test and improve our Products. This includes analysing the data we have about our users and understanding how people use our Products, for example by conducting surveys and testing and troubleshooting new features. Our Data Policy explains how we use data to support this research for the purposes of developing and improving our services.

Enable global access to our services
To operate our global service, we need to store and distribute content and data in our data centres and systems around the world, including outside your country of residence.

1. Your commitments to SeekEx and our community
   We provide these services to you and others to help advance our mission. In exchange, we need you to make the following commitments
2. Who can use SeekEx
   Any individual with an access to internet and have valid email id can use SeekEx,provided you are not one of the following:
   You are under 13 years old (or the minimum legal age in your country to use our Products).
   You are a convicted sex offender.
   We've previously disabled your account for violations of our Terms or Policies.
   You are prohibited from receiving our products, services or software under applicable laws.
   
   Other guidelines for for individuals/companies using SeekEx:
   Use the same name that you use in everyday life;
   provide accurate information about yourself;
   create only one account (your own) and place legitimate calls, consultation requests with the desired experts.
   not share your password, give access to your SeekEx account to others or transfer your account to anyone else (without our permission).
   
   2. What you can share and do on SeekEx
   We want people to use SeekEx to express themselves and share knowledge to help individuals and businesses grow and nourish with your professional experience. But not at the expense of the safety and well-being of others or the integrity of our community. You therefore agree not to engage in the conduct described below (or to facilitate or support others in doing so):
   
   That breaches these Terms, our Community Standards, and other Terms and Policies that apply to your use of SeekEx.
   That is unlawful, misleading, discriminatory or fraudulent.
   That infringes or violates someone else's rights, including their intellectual property rights.
   You may not upload viruses or malicious code, or do anything that could disable, overburden or impair the proper working or appearance of our Products.
   You may not access or collect data from our Products using automated means (without our prior permission) or attempt to access data that you do not have permission to access.
   We can remove or restrict access to content/user profiles that is in violation of these provisions.
   
   If we remove content that you have shared in violation of our Community Standards, we'll let you know and explain any options you have to request another review, unless you seriously or repeatedly violate these Terms or if doing so may expose us or others to legal liability; harm our community of users; compromise or interfere with the integrity or operation of any of our services, systems or Products; where we are restricted due to technical limitations; or where we are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons.
   
   To help support our community, we encourage you to report content or conduct that you believe violates your rights (including intellectual property rights) or our terms and policies.
3. The permissions you give us
   We need certain permissions from you to provide our services:
   Permission to use content that you create and share: Some content that you share or upload, such as photos or videos or consultation call recordings, may be protected by intellectual property laws.
   You own the intellectual property rights (things such as copyright or trademarks) in any such content that you create and share on SeekEx and the other SeekEx Company Products you use. Nothing in these Terms takes away the rights you have to your own content. You are free to share your content with anyone else, wherever you want.
   However, to provide our services, we need you to give us some legal permissions (known as a ‘licence') to use this content. This is solely for the purposes of providing and improving our Products and services as described in Section A above.
   Specifically, when you share, post or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights on or in connection with our Products, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free and worldwide licence to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings). This means, for example, that if you share a photo on SeekEx, you give us permission to store, copy and share it with others (again, consistent with your settings) such as service providers that support our service or other SeekEx Products you use.This licence will end when your content is deleted from our systems.
   When you delete content, it's no longer visible to other users; however, it may continue to exist elsewhere on our systems where:
   Immediate deletion is not possible due to technical limitations (in which case, your content will be deleted within a maximum of 90 days from when you delete it);
   your content has been used by others in accordance with this licence and they have not deleted it (in which case, this licence will continue to apply until that content is deleted); or

Where immediate deletion would restrict our ability to:
investigate or identify illegal activity or breaches of our Terms and Policies (for example, to identify or investigate misuse of our Products or systems);
comply with a legal obligation, such as the preservation of evidence; or
comply with a request of a judicial or administrative authority, law enforcement or a government agency;
in which case, the content will be retained for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it has been retained (the exact duration will vary on a case-by-case basis).
In each of the above cases, this licence will continue until the content has been fully deleted.Permission to use your name, profile picture and information about your actions with ads and sponsored content: You give us permission to use your name and profile picture and information about actions that you have taken on SeekEx next to or in connection with ads, offers and other sponsored content that we display across our Products, without any compensation to you. Ads like this can be seen only by people who have your permission to see the actions that you've taken on SeekEx.

Permission to update software that you use or download: If you download or use our software, you give us permission to download and install updates to the software where available.

4. Limits on using our intellectual property
   If you use content covered by intellectual property rights that we have and make available in our Products (for example, images, designs, videos or sounds that we provide, which you add to content that you create or share on SeekEx), we retain all rights to that content (but not yours). You can only use our copyrights or trademarks (or any similar marks) as expressly permitted by our Brand Usage Guidelines or with our prior written permission. You must obtain our written permission (or permission under an open source licence) to modify, create derivative works of, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract source code from us.
   
   C. Additional provisions
   
   1. Updating our Terms
   We work constantly to improve our services and develop new features to make our Products better for you and our community. As a result, we may need to update these Terms from time to time to accurately reflect our services and practices. We will only make changes if the provisions are no longer appropriate or if they are incomplete, and only if the changes are reasonable and take due account of your interests.

We will notify you (for example, by email or through our Products) at least 30 days before we make changes to these Terms and give you an opportunity to review them before they go into effect, unless changes are required by law. Once any updated Terms are in effect, you will be bound by them if you continue to use our Products.

We hope that you will continue using our Products, but if you do not agree to our updated Terms and no longer want to be part of the SeekEx community, you can delete your account at any time.

2. Account suspension or termination
   We want SeekEx to be a place where people feel welcome and safe to share/acquire the knowledge from other users on the platform.
   
   If we determine that you have clearly, seriously or repeatedly breached our Terms or Policies, including in particular our Community Standards, we may suspend or permanently disable access to your account. We may also suspend or disable your account if you repeatedly infringe other people's intellectual property rights or where we are required to do so for legal reasons.
   
   Where we take such action, we'll let you know and explain any options you have to request a review, unless doing so may expose us or others to legal liability; harm our community of users; compromise or interfere with the integrity or operation of any of our services, systems or Products; or where we are restricted due to technical limitations; or where we are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons.

You can learn more about what you can do if your account has been disabled and how to contact us if you think that we have disabled your account by mistake.
If you delete or we disable your account, these Terms shall terminate as an agreement between you and us.

3. Limits on liability
We work hard to provide the best Products we can and to specify clear guidelines for everyone who uses them. Our Products, however, are provided "as is", and we make no guarantees that they will always be safe, secure or error-free, or that they will function without disruptions, delays or imperfections. To the extent permitted by law, we also DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. We do not control or direct what people and others do or say, and we are not responsible for their actions or conduct (whether online or offline) or any content that they share (including offensive, inappropriate, obscene, unlawful and other objectionable content).

We cannot predict when issues may arise with our Products. Accordingly, our liability shall be limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and under no circumstances will we be liable to you for any lost profits, revenues, information or data, or consequential, special, indirect, exemplary, punitive or incidental damages arising out of or related to these Terms or the SeekEx Products, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

4. Disputes
   We try to provide clear rules so that we can limit or hopefully avoid disputes between you and us. If a dispute does arise, however, it's useful to know up front where it can be resolved and what laws will apply.
   
   If you are a consumer, the laws of the country in which you reside will apply to any claim, cause of action or dispute that you have against us that arises out of or relates to these Terms or the SeekEx Products, and you may resolve your claim in any competent court in that country that has jurisdiction over the claim. In all other cases, you agree that the claim must be resolved exclusively in the High court located at the then location of the SeekEx headquarters.

5. Others
   If any portion of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining portion will remain in full force and effect. If we fail to enforce any of these Terms, it will not be considered a waiver. Any amendment to or waiver of these Terms must be made in writing and signed by us.

You will not transfer any of your rights or obligations under these Terms to anyone else without our consent.

You may designate a person (called a legacy contact) to manage your account if it is memorialised. Only your legacy contact or a person who you have identified in a valid will or similar document expressing clear consent to disclose your content upon death or incapacity will be able to seek disclosure from your account after it is memorialised.

These Terms do not confer any third-party beneficiary rights. All of our rights and obligations under these Terms are freely assignable by us in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, or by operation of law or otherwise.

You should know that we may need to change the username for your account in certain circumstances (for example, if someone else claims the username and it appears unrelated to the name that you use in everyday life). We will inform you in advance if we have to do this and explain why.

We always appreciate your feedback and other suggestions about our products and services. But you should know that we may use them without any restriction or obligation to compensate you, and we are under no obligation to keep them confidential.

We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.