Terms of Service

Welcome, and thank you for your interest in the website www.hellomeela.com (the "Website" or "Site") and our mobile application Meela (the "App"), together hereafter referred to in these Terms of Service as "Meela", "us", "our" or "we". Meela is owned and operated by Juno Technology, LLC, a New York Limited Liability Company and for the purposes of this Agreement and our Privacy Policy any use of the terms "Meela", "us", "our" or "we" includes Juno Technology, LLC, without limitation. The term "user", "you" or "your" refers to the users of the Service, including visitors that do not register for an account or purchase a subscription to our Services, and "Birth Professionals" that provide birth services for our user community. Unless otherwise specified, all references to our services (the “Service” or "Services") include the content, marketplace services and products available through the Meela Website or App, as well as any software that Meela provides to you that allows you to access the Services. Our Services do not include the actual services provided by Birth Professionals in our marketplace. The following Terms of Service are a legally binding contract between you and Meela regarding your use of the Service.

Please read the following Terms of Service ("Terms" or "Agreement") carefully before accessing or using any of the Services. Each time you access or use our Services, subscribe to a plan or purchase something from us, you, and if you are acting on behalf of a third party or your employer, such third party or employer, agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy whether or not you register with us. If you do not agree to be bound by all of these Terms, you may not access or use our Service. Meela may change this Agreement at any time by posting an updated Terms of Service on this site. If any amendment to these Terms is unacceptable to you, you shall cease using this Site or App. If you continue using the Site or the App, you will be conclusively deemed to have accepted the changes.

In addition, certain areas of the Service may be subject to additional Terms of Service that we make available for your review. By using such areas, or any part thereof, you are expressly indicating that you have read and agree to be bound by the additional Terms of Service applicable to such areas. In the event that any of the additional Terms of Service governing such area conflict with these Terms, the additional terms will control.

YOUR USE OF MEELA SERVICES DOES NOT CONSTITUTE OR CREATE A DOCTOR-PATIENT OR OTHER HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEELA AND YOU. IT IS MEELA'S DESIRE TO PROVIDE USEFUL GENERAL INFORMATION FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND ACCESS TO BIRTH PROFESSIONALS, AND NOT PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS AND ADVICE. OUR SERVICES ARE NOT INTENDED TO BE UTILIZED FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES OR TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, CURE OR PREVENT ANY CONDITION, DISEASE OR INJURY. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE WE ARE NOT PROVIDING MEDICAL ADVICE VIA THE SERVICES. ALL CONTENT PROVIDED THROUGH THE SERVICES, WHETHER PROVIDED BY US OR BY OTHER USERS, BIRTH PROFESSIONALS OR THIRD PARTIES IS NOT INTENDED TO BE AND SHOULD NOT BE USED IN PLACE OF THE ADVICE OF YOUR PHYSICIAN OR OTHER MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS. SHOULD YOU HAVE ANY HEALTH RELATED QUESTIONS, PLEASE CALL OR SEE YOUR PHYSICIAN OR OTHER HEALTHCARE PROVIDER PROMPTLY. IF YOU HAVE AN EMERGENCY, CALL YOUR PHYSICIAN OR YOUR LOCAL EMERGENCY SERVICES IMMEDIATELY.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT BIRTH PROFESSIONALS ARE INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS AND THAT MEELA IS ONLY A MARKETPLACE PLATFORM AND IS NOT A PARTY TO ANY CONTRACT OR AGREEMENT BETWEEN BIRTHING PERSONS/FAMILIES AND BIRTH PROFESSIONALS. MEELA DOES NOT ENDORSE USERS OF OUR SERVICES AND HAS NO CONTROL OVER THEIR ACTIONS, COMMENTS, COMMUNICATIONS OR POSTED USER CONTENT AS HEREINAFTER DEFINED. IT IS THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE USERS OF OUR SERVICES WHETHER OR NOT TO COMMUNICATE, MESSAGE, SHARE USER CONTENT OR IN ANY OTHER WAY ENGAGE ONE ANOTHER THROUGH OUR SERVICES. YOU SHOULD ALWAYS EXERCISE RESPONSIBILITY, DUE DILIGENCE AND CARE WHEN DECIDING WHETHER TO COMMUNICATE, MESSAGE, SHARE USER CONTENT OR IN ANY OTHER WAY ENGAGE WITH ANY OTHER USER OF OUR SERVICES. YOU AGREE THAT THE USE OF OUR SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND BY USING THE PLATFORM, YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ANY LEGAL REMEDY OR LIABILITY THAT YOU SEEK TO OBTAIN FOR ACTIONS OR OMISSIONS OF OTHER USERS OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES WILL BE LIMITED TO A CLAIM AGAINST THOSE INDIVIDUAL USERS OR OTHER THIRD PARTIES AND NOT MEELA. YOU AGREE NOT TO ATTEMPT TO IMPOSE LIABILITY ON, OR SEEK ANY LEGAL REMEDY FROM, MEELA WITH RESPECT TO SUCH USER ACTIONS OR OMISSIONS.

PLEASE READ THE BINDING ARBITRATION CLAUSE AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER PROVISIONS IN THE DISPUTE RESOLUTION SECTION OF THESE TERMS. IT AFFECTS HOW DISPUTES ARE RESOLVED. BY ENTERING INTO THIS AGREEMENT, YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING THE DISPUTE RESOLUTION, ARBITRATION PROVISIONS AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER AND ACCEPT ALL OF THE TERMS. YOU MAY NOT USE OR ACCESS OUR PLATFORM IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT.

Eligibility for Our Service

By using our Services, you represent and warrant that you have attained the age of majority where you reside (18 years of age in most jurisdictions) and are otherwise capable of entering into binding contracts including this Agreement. Persons who are at least 13 years of age but under the age of majority may only use our Services under the supervision of a parent or guardian who has agreed to these Terms of Service. Accordingly, parents or legal guardians of a child between the age of 13 and the age of 18 may use the Site or Services on behalf of such minor child, and by doing so, you represent and warrant that you are the parent or legal guardian of such child, and that all references in this Agreement to "user", "you" or "your" shall refer to such child or such other individual on whose behalf you have authorization to enter into these Terms of Service, and to you in your capacity as the parent or legal guardian of such child or as the authorized party of such individual.

Our Service

  1. Meela is a web and mobile platform that provides a venue and marketplace for birthing persons and families to find Birth Professionals. In addition, birthing persons and families can utilize Meela’s tools to create a birth plan, outlining their personal preferences before, during and after childbirth.. Birth Professionals can find new clients and manage their existing client relationships using our Services. Birthing persons and families can browse profiles and reach out to the Birth Professionals based upon their personal qualifications, experience and birth philosophy as represented by such professionals. Birth Professionals can communicate with clients through our secure messaging and file sharing services on both the mobile App and Website. Birth professionals can also invoice their clients directly through Meela and birthing persons/families can pay quickly and securely, with funds being sent directly to the Birth Professional.
  2. Meela reserves the right to modify or discontinue the Service or any feature or functionality thereof at any time without notice to you. All rights, title and interest in and to the Service and its components (including all intellectual property rights) will remain with and belong exclusively to Meela.

Accounts and Registration

  1. To access some features of the Service, including our Birth Professionals subscription services plan, you will be required to register for an account. When you register for an account, you may be required to provide us with some information about yourself (such as your name, date of birth, e-mail address, physical address, phone number, company name or other personal information). Some of this information may be of a confidential nature and may include personal identifying information (all "Your Information").
  2. If you provide Your Information to us then you agree to provide true, current, complete and accurate information, and not to misrepresent your identity.  You also agree to keep Your Information current and to update Your Information if any of Your Information changes.
  3. Our collection, use and disclosure of Your Information is governed by this Agreement and our Privacy Policy which you may access here.

Account Management

  1. Keep Your Password Secure. If you have been issued an account by Meela in connection with your use of the Services, you are responsible for safeguarding your password and any other credentials used to access that account, even if you authorize other parties in your organization to access your account. You, and not Meela, are responsible for any activity occurring in your account, whether or not you authorized that activity. If you become aware of any unauthorized access to your account, you should notify Meela immediately.
  2. Keep Your Details Accurate. Meela may send notices to the email address or text messages to your mobile phone registered with your account. You must keep your email address, mobile phone number and, where applicable, your contact details and payment details associated with your account current and accurate.
  3. We reserve the right to modify, suspend or terminate the Service, any user account or your access to the Service for any reason, without notice, at any time, and without liability to you.
  4. You can cancel your account at anytime. Upon termination or cancellation, all licenses and other rights granted to you in these Terms will immediately cease.
  5. We reserve the right to refuse to issue an account to anyone or permit access to the Service to anyone for any reason at any time.

Birthing Persons and Families Account; Non-Circumvent

  1. Birthing persons and families may create a free Meela account. However, if you do engage the services of one, or more, of the Birth Professionals on our Service, you agree that you will be responsible for, and pay the fees charged by the Birth Professional according to the terms you have agreed upon with the Birth Professional. Furthermore, you agree to pay those fees using the Meela provided third party payment service portal exclusively for all payments to the Birth Professional. Your failure to use the Meela third party payment service portal may result in the immediate termination of your Meela account.
  2. Birthing persons/families and Birth Professionals are prohibited from circumventing Meela for the purpose of engaging one another for work or an assignment. Users may not contact another user in any manner whatsoever with the intent and purpose of avoiding Meela Services. Any violation of this non-circumvent term may result in the immediate termination of one or both users account(s)

Birth Professional Account; Subscription Plans and Terms

In order to participate in our marketplace community, Birth Professionals must create an account and subscribe to a Monthly Subscription Plan. The Monthly Subscription Plan is automatically renewable and payable.

The features, subscriber rights, terms and prices of the Subscription Plan may change from time to time and the most current description and price may be found on our Subscription Plan pricing page here.

By completing your registration for a Subscription Plan, you authorize Meela through its secure third party payment processor to charge your payment method on a recurring monthly basis for: (a) the applicable subscription plan charges; (b) any and all applicable taxes; and (c) any other charges incurred in connection with your use of the Meela services. The authorization continues through the subscription term and any renewal term until the subscriber cancels the Subscription Plan.

  1. Monthly subscription billed every month (“Monthly Subscription”).
    1. By purchasing a Monthly Subscription, you expressly acknowledge and agree that (a) your subscription has an initial and recurring payment feature, and Meela (or our third party payment processor) is authorized to automatically charge your payment method monthly at the then-current subscription rate for your subscription as long as your subscription continues, and (b) your subscription is continuous and will be automatically extended for successive monthly periods until you cancel it.
    2. You may cancel your Monthly subscription at any time, by logging into your account or emailing us at [email protected] and following the instructions, if any, we provide you in response to your cancellation request.  If you cancel, you will not be entitled to a refund for your last payment and you will be removed from the Meela marketplace as a Birth Professional. Nevertheless, you are welcome to continue to use the free Services provided by Meela. Meela may submit periodic charges without further authorization from you, until you provide prior notice that you have terminated this authorization or wish to change your payment method. Such notice will not affect charges submitted before Meela reasonably could act.
    3. You agree that we may charge you, and you will pay to Meela, any fee or penalty that is assessed or charged to us for a "Chargeback" resulting from a failure or refusal of your selected method of payment to make a required payment. This payment shall be refunded to you in the event that your selected method of payment resolves this dispute in your favor.WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REVOKE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION AT ANY TIME AS A RESULT OF A VIOLATION OF THESE TERMS OF SERVICE OR THE PRIVACY POLICY. SUBSCRIPTION MEMBERSHIP IS VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.
    4. In the event you cancel your Monthly subscription, please note that we may still send you promotional communications about Meela, unless you opt out of receiving those communications by following the unsubscribe instructions provided therein.

Birth Professional Client Invoicing and Payments; Non-Circumvention

  1. As a Birth Professional, you agree that you will invoice your clients for your services through the Meela invoicing system that we provide to you, and that all client payments will be made to you through the Meela secure third party payment service portal. Your failure to use the Meela third party payment service portal may result in the immediate termination of your Meela account and subscription.
  2. As a Birth Professional, you agree that Meela reserves the right to charge you service fees for any portion of our Services. You further agree that Meela may change these fees at any time in its sole discretion. You will receive thirty (30) days notice before any fee schedule is changed. All balances and all fees, charges, and payments collected or paid through the Services are in US dollars.
  3. Birth Professionals will be liable for any taxes required to be collected on their Services and remitted to the appropriate federal, state and local authorities. Furthermore, the Birth Professional agrees to indemnify and hold Meela harmless for any taxes, fines, penalties or injuries cause to Meela for a breach of the terms of this of this section.
  4. Birth Professionals and birthing persons/families are prohibited from circumventing Meela for the purpose of engaging one another for work or an assignment. Users may not contact another user in any manner whatsoever with the intent and purpose of avoiding Meela Services. Any violation of this non-circumvent term may result in the immediate termination of one or both users account(s).

Independent Contractors; No Guarantees, Warrantees or Endorsements

You acknowledge and agree that Birth Professionals are independent contractors and Meela is not a party to any relationship, dealings or contract between users, including proposals, selection, contracting, and performance of Birth Professional's services. Meela is only a marketplace venue that provides a platform on which users can meet and independently decide whether or not to engage with each other. Meela does not have control over the quality, suitability, reliability, timing, legality, failure to provide, or any other aspect whatsoever of any services provided by Birth Professionals, nor of the integrity, responsibility or any of the actions or omissions of any Birth Professional. Meela makes no representations, guarantees or warranties whatsoever with respect to services offered or provided by Birth Professionals.

Furthermore:
  1. Meela does not request or verify any Birth Professional's professional license, permit or qualifications. Users must determine for themselves whether a Birth Professional is currently certified, licensed and qualified to perform the specific service or job requested.
  2. Meela does not, in any way, supervise, direct, or control any Birth Professional or the Birth Professional’s work.
  3. Meela does not set a Birth Professional’s work hours, work schedules or location of work.
  4. Meela does not intervene in any transaction or dispute between users.
  5. Meela may identify a Birth Professional with a title, nevertheless, Meela does not endorse or recommend the services of any particular Birth Professional and we do not independently verify their representations about their services, their qualifications, their background, their identities, the ability of Birth Professionals to deliver the Birth Professional services, nor do we validate any reviews. It is the sole responsibility of each user to evaluate the Birth Professional they interact with and their current qualifications.
  6. Meela makes no representations about, and does not guarantee the quality, safety, or legality of the Birth Professional services or any assignment.
  7. The Birth Professionals are not employees or agents of Meela and Meela is not an agent or representative of any user.
  8. Meela does not deduct any amount for tax withholding, unemployment, Social Security, or other taxes for the Birth Professional.
  9. Birth Professionals are solely responsible for any taxes they are required to pay to any federal, state, or local tax authority.

Your Access and Use of our Services

  1. Your right to access and use our Services is personal to you and is not transferable by you to any other person or entity. Access to our Services may not be available in all locations. You are only entitled to access and use our Services for lawful purposes and pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and our Privacy Policy. Any action by you that, in our sole discretion: (i) violates the terms and conditions of this Agreement and/or the Privacy Policy; (ii) restricts, inhibits or prevents any access, use or enjoyment of our Services; or (iii) through the use of our Services, defames, abuses, harasses, offends or threatens others, shall not be permitted, and may result in your loss of the right to access and use our Services.
  2. The rights granted to you in these Terms are subject to the following restrictions: (i) you shall not license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, host, or otherwise commercially exploit the Services; (ii) you shall not modify, make derivative works of, disassemble, reverse compile or reverse engineer any part of the Services; (iii) you shall not access the Services in order to build a similar or competitive Service; and (iv) except as expressly stated herein, no part of the Services may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means. Any future release, update, or other addition to functionality of the Services shall be subject to these Terms.
  3. Furthermore, you agree that you will not use any robot, spider, scraper, deep link or other similar automated data gathering or extraction tools, program, algorithm or methodology to access, acquire, copy or monitor our Services or any portion of our Services or for any other purpose, without our prior written permission.  Additionally, you agree that you will not: (i) take any action that imposes, or may impose in our sole discretion an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (ii) copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute or publicly display any content (except for your personal information) from our Services without our prior written permission and the appropriate third party, as applicable; (iii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of our Services or any activities conducted on our Services; (iv) bypass any robot exclusion headers or other measures we may use to prevent or restrict access to our Services, or (v) interfere or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, including by transmitting any worms, viruses, spyware, malware or any other code of a destructive or disruptive nature.
  4. Except as expressly permitted in this Agreement, you shall not collect or harvest any personally identifiable information, including account names, from our Services.
  5. Our Services may now, or in the future, have "publicly accessible areas" that allow users to post User Content (hereafter defined) that will be accessible by the public or the user population generally. As a user of the Services, you acknowledge and affirmatively agree that in the course of using the Services you may be exposed to User Content that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate. You further agree that Meela shall not, under any circumstances, be liable in any way for any User Content.
  6. You understand that Meela may issue upgrade versions of any mobile App and you consent to receiving automatic upgrades on your mobile device.  You also acknowledge and agree that standard carrier data charges may apply to your use of the Service including, without limitation, text messages.
  7. You shall not use any communication systems provided on our Services including, without limitation email, for any commercial or solicitation purposes.  You shall not solicit for commercial purposes any users of our Services without our prior written permission.
  8. You understand and agree that you are solely responsible for compliance with any and all laws, rules, regulations, and Tax obligations that may apply to your purchases or use of the Services.

Suspension and Termination of Services

  1. Meela may limit or suspend or terminate the Services to you (including your subscription) if you fail to comply with these Terms, the Privacy Policy or if you use the Services in a way that causes legal liability to us or disrupts use of the Service by other users.
  2. Meela may also suspend providing the Services to you (including your subscription) if we are investigating suspected misconduct by you. Meela will use commercially reasonable efforts to narrow the scope and duration of any limitation or suspension under this Section as is needed to resolve the issue that prompted such action.
  3. Users who have been terminated or suspended will not be eligible for a refund of any kind for the termination or the period of suspension.

Information Accuracy

We attempt to ensure that information on this Service is complete, accurate and current. Despite our best efforts, the information on our Service may occasionally be inaccurate, incomplete, include typographical errors or be out of date. We make no representation as to the completeness, accuracy, or currency of any information on the Service. We reserve the right to correct or make changes in such information without notice.

Proprietary Rights

As between Meela and you, Meela or its licensors own and reserve all right, title and interest in and to the Service and all hardware, software and other items used to provide the Service, other than the rights explicitly granted to you to use the Service in accordance with these Terms. No title to or ownership of any proprietary rights related to the Service is transferred to you pursuant to these Terms. All rights not explicitly granted to you are reserved by Meela.

Intellectual Property Rights

  1. Our names, graphics, videos, logos, page headers, button icons, scripts, and service names are our trademarks or trade dress in the United States and/or other countries (collectively the "Proprietary Marks"), and are owned by Meela. You may not use the Proprietary Marks without our prior written permission.
  2. We make no proprietary claim to any third-party names, trademarks or service marks appearing on our Services. Any third-party names, trademarks, and service marks are property of their respective owners.
  3. The information, content, documentation, guides, descriptions, advice, data, software and any other content viewable on, contained in, or downloadable from our Services (collectively, "Our Content"), including, without limitation, all audio files, text, graphics, charts, pictures, photographs, images, videos, line art, icons and renditions, are copyrighted by, or otherwise licensed to us or Our Content suppliers.
  4. We also own a copyright of a collective work in the selection, coordination, arrangement, presentation, display and enhancement of Our Content (the "Collective Work").
  5. All software used on, or within our Services is our property or the property of our software vendors and is protected by United States and international copyright laws. Listening, viewing, reading, printing, downloading or otherwise using Our Content and/or the Collective Work does not entitle you to any ownership or intellectual property rights to Our Content, the Collective Work, or the Software.
  6. You are solely responsible for any damages resulting from your infringement of our, or any third-parties, intellectual property rights regarding the Trademarks, Our Content, the Collective Work, the Software and/or any other harm incurred by us or our affiliates as a, direct or indirect, result of your copying, distributing, redistributing, transmitting, publishing or using the same for purposes that are contrary to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

Use of Our Content

  1. We grant you a revocable limited license to access, print, download or otherwise make personal use of Our Content and the Collective Work for your noncommercial personal use provided, however, that you shall not delete any proprietary notices or materials with regard to the foregoing.
  2. You may not modify Our Content or the Collective Work or utilize them for any commercial purpose or any other public display, performance, sale, or rental, decompile, reverse engineer, or disassemble Our Content and the Collective Work, or transfer Our Content or the Collective Work to another person or entity.

User Content Rights and Related Responsibilities; License

  1. "User Content" means, without limitation, any messages, texts, chats, reviews, digital files, images, photos, personal profile (including your photo), artwork, videos, audio, comments, feedback, suggestions and documents, or any other content you upload, transmit or otherwise make available to Meela and its users via the Services. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control the rights to your User Content and that each and every part thereof, is an original work by you, or you have obtained all rights, licenses, consents and permissions necessary in order to use those parts at any and all times. You further agree to indemnify Meela and its affiliates for all claims arising from or in connection with any claims to any rights in your User Content or any damages arising from your User Content.
  2. By submitting User Content on or through the Service, you grant Meela a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, re-use, reproduce, transmit, print, publish, display, exhibit, distribute, re-distribute, copy, host, store, cache, archive, index, categorize, comment on, broadcast, stream, download, edit, alter, modify, adapt, translate, create derivative works based upon and publicly perform such User Content without attribution, and without the requirement of any permission from or payment to you or to any other person or entity, in any manner including, without limitation, for commercial, publicity, trade, promotional, or advertising purposes, and in any and all media now known or hereafter devised.
  3. In order for us to provide the Service to you, we require that you grant us certain rights with respect to User Content, including the ability to transmit, manipulate, process, store and copy User Content in order to provide our Services. Your acceptance of this Agreement gives us the permission to do so and grants us any such rights necessary to provide the Service to you.
  4. You agree that any User Content you submit to our Service may be viewed by other users, any person visiting or participating in the Service and by the public in general.
  5. Meela expressly disclaims any liability for the loss or damage to any User Content or any losses or damages you incur as a result of the loss or damage of any User Content. It is your responsibility to back-up any User Content to prevent it's loss.
  6. You are solely responsible for your User Content, including, without limitation, reviews, comments and feedback, and any damages suffered by Meela resulting therefrom.
  7. Meela may block, remove or return any User Content at any time for any reason whatsoever, or for no reason at all. We are not responsible for the authenticity, accuracy, completeness, appropriateness, or legality of User Content.
  8. You represent and warrant that all information that you submit is authentic, accurate and truthful and that you will promptly update any information provided by you that subsequently becomes inaccurate, misleading or false.
  9. User Content is not considered to be confidential. You agree not to submit User Content in which you have any expectation of privacy.
  10. Meela has no control over User Content once posted, and it is possible that visitors to the Site may copy User Content and repost it elsewhere.
  11. You agree not to post as part of the Service any offensive, inaccurate, incomplete, abusive, obscene, profane, threatening, intimidating, harassing, racially offensive, or illegal material. The following includes, without limitation, examples of the things you may not do:
    1. Impersonate any person or entity.
    2. Stalk, harass, defame, abuse, bully, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights of others.
    3. Advocate for or harass or intimidate another person.
    4. Promote information that is false or misleading.
    5. Promote illegal activities or conduct that is defamatory, libelous or otherwise objectionable.
    6. Promote violence, racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual.
    7. Transmit anything that exploits children or minors or that depicts cruelty to animals.
    8. Solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18.
    9. Use the service in an illegal manner or to commit an illegal act.
    10. Transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware.
    11. Transmit any content that contains video, audio, or images of another person without his or her permission or that of their legal guardian.
    12. Promote material that exploits people in a sexual, pornographic or violent manner.
    13. Provide instructional information about illegal activities.
    14. Infringe upon someone else's trademark, copyright or other intellectual property or other rights.
    15. Promote commercial activities including without limitation sales, contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and business offers.

Interruption of Service

  1. Your access and use of our Services may be interrupted from time to time for any of several reasons, including, without limitation, the malfunction of equipment, periodic updating, maintenance or repair of our Services or other actions that we, in our sole discretion, may elect to take.
  2. You agree that we will not be liable to you or to any third party for any interruption of the Services or any part thereof.

Third Party Links, Services and Content

The Service may contain features, services and functionalities linking you to, or providing you with access to third party services and content, websites, directories, servers, networks, systems, information, databases, applications, software, programs, courses, products, and the Internet as a whole. Because we have no control over such sites and resources, we are not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and do not endorse and are not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, courses or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. When you visit or use a third party’s website you agree to read and consent to the third party’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy and you release us from any liability.

Mobile Application Software

  1. If you receive software from us, its use is governed in one of two ways: If you're presented with license terms that you must accept in order to use the software, those terms apply; if no license is presented to you, these Terms apply. We reserve all other rights to the software.
  2. Any license is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services as provided by Meela, in the manner permitted by these terms. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of our Services or included software, nor may you reverse engineer or attempt to extract the source code of that software.
  3. We may automatically check your version of the software. We may also automatically download to your device or computer new versions of the software.
  4. Any software is licensed, not sold. Unless we notify you otherwise, the software license ends when your Service ends. You must then promptly uninstall the software, or we may disable it. You must not work around any technical limitations in the software.
  5. The software is subject to applicable U.S. export laws and regulations. You must comply with all domestic and international export laws and regulations that apply to the software. These laws include restrictions on destinations, end users, and end use. Without limitation, you may not transfer the software or Service without U.S. government permission to anyone on U.S. government exclusion lists. You represent and warrant that you're not on any of those lists or under the control of, or an agent for, anyone on those lists.

Mobile Application from a Third Party App Store

The following applies to any App Store Sourced Application accessed through or downloaded from a Third Party App Store:
  1. You acknowledge and agree that (i) the Terms are concluded between you and Meela only, and not the Third Party App Store, and (ii) Meela, not the Third Party App Store, is solely responsible for the App Store Sourced Application and content thereof. Your use of the App Store Sourced Application must comply with the Third Party App Store Terms of Service.
  2. You acknowledge that the Third Party App Store has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to the App Store Sourced Application.
  3. In the event of any failure of the App Store Sourced Application to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify the Third Party App Store, and the Third Party App Store will refund the purchase price for the App Store Sourced Application to you, and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Third Party App Store will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App Store Sourced Application. As between Meela and the Third Party App Store, any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be the sole responsibility of Meela.
  4. You and Meela acknowledge that, as between Meela and the Third Party App Store, the Third Party App Store is not responsible for addressing any claims you have or any claims of any third party relating to the App Store Sourced Application or your possession and use of the App Store Sourced Application, including, but not limited to: (i) product liability claims; (ii) any claim that the App Store Sourced Application fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (iii) claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation.
  5. You and Meela acknowledge that, in the event of any third-party claim that the App Store Sourced Application or your possession and use of that App Store Sourced Application infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights, as between Meela and the Third Party App Store, Meela, not the Third Party App Store, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement and discharge of any such intellectual property infringement claim to the extent required by the Terms.
  6. You and Meela acknowledge and agree that the Third Party App Store, and their subsidiaries, are third-party beneficiaries of the Terms as related to your license of the App Store Sourced Application, and that, upon your acceptance of the terms and conditions of the Terms, the Third Party App Store will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce the Terms as related to your license of the App Store Sourced Application against you as a third-party beneficiary thereof.
  7. Without limiting any other terms of the Terms, you must comply with all applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the Third Party App Store Sourced Application.

Electronic Communications

  1. Although we may choose to communicate with you by regular mail, we may also choose to communicate with you by electronic means including, without limitation, email, telephone, text, SMS or by posting notices on our Services.  When you use our Services, you consent to communicating with us electronically.
  2. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Electronic Transactions

  1. Your use of the Services includes the ability to enter into agreements, including these Terms, and to make transactions electronically, including financial transactions and purchases. You acknowledge that your electronic submissions constitute your agreement and intent to be bound by such agreements, financial transactions and purchases.
  2. Your agreement and intent to be bound by electronic submissions applies to all records relating to all transactions you enter into on this site, including purchases, financial transactions, notices of cancellation, policies, contracts, and applications.
  3. In order to access and retain your electronic records, you may be required to have certain hardware and software, which are your sole responsibility.

Third Party Social Networking

If you access our Services through a third party social networking site or application including, but not limited to, Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter, you authorize Meela to access certain information about you that is made available through that third party social networking site and further authorize us to collect, store, retain and use, your information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Security

Violating the security of our Services is prohibited and may result in criminal and civil liability. Meela may investigate incidents involving such violations and may involve, and will cooperate with law, enforcement if a criminal violation is suspected. Security violations include, without limitation, unauthorized access to or use of data or systems including any attempt to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service or to breach security or authentication measures, unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic and interference with service to any user, host, or network.

Privacy and Your Personal Information

For information about the Meela data protection practices and privacy policies, please read our Privacy Policy where you accessed these Terms of Service or here. This policy explains how we treat your personal information, and protect your privacy when you use the Services. You agree to the use of your data in accordance with Meela Privacy Policy.

Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. We reserve the right to remove any User Content on the Services which allegedly infringe upon another person's copyright, trademark or other intellectual property right, and/or terminate, discontinue, suspend and/or restrict the account or ability to visit and/or use the Services or remove, edit, or disable any User Content on the Services which allegedly infringe upon another person's intellectual property rights. We provide this policy pursuant to Section 512 of the Copyright Revision Act, as enacted through the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA").

A valid complaint under the DMCA must provide the following information in writing:

  1. An electronic or physical signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.
  2. Identification of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed.
  3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and where it is located on the Service.
  4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as your address, telephone number, and, email address.
  5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or law.
  6. A statement, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information is accurate, and that you are the copyright owner or are authorized to act on behalf of the owner.

Federal law provides that if you knowingly misrepresent that online material is infringing, you may be subject to criminal prosecution for perjury and civil penalties, including monetary damages, court costs, and attorneys' fees. The above information must be submitted to the Copyright Agent at: [email protected]

Disclaimers; No Warranties

  1. ALL SERVICES AND PRODUCTS AVAILABLE FROM MEELA ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, MEELA AND ITS PARENTS, SUBSIDIARIES, PARTNERS, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS, (COLLECTIVELY, THE “MEELA PARTIES”) DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
  2. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT (I) THE SERVICES OR PRODUCTS, INCLUDING THE SERVICES OF THE BIRTH PROFESSIONALS WILL BE EFFECTIVE, RELIABLE OR MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS OR REQUIREMENTS, (II) THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, OR (III) THE QUALITY OF ANY SERVICES, PRODUCTS OR INFORMATION PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU FROM OR THOUGH US WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS.
  3. THE SERVICES CAN INCLUDE TECHNICAL OR OTHER MISTAKES, INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. FURTHERMORE, THE INFORMATION OR SERVICES ON THIS SITE OR APP MAY BE OUT OF DATE. WE MAY MAKE CHANGES TO THE SERVICES, PRODUCTS AND INFORMATION ON THIS SITE OR APP, INCLUDING THE PRICES AND DESCRIPTIONS OF ANY SERVICES OR PRODUCTS LISTED HEREIN AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE, HOWEVER WE HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO DO SO.
  4. THE MEELA PARTIES DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES OR THE SERVERS THAT MAKE THE SERVICE AVAILABLE WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT ANY PRODUCT DESCRIPTION OR OTHER CONTENT OFFERED AS PART OF THE SERVICES, ARE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, CURRENT OR COMPLETE.
  5. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. IF YOU DOWNLOAD ANY CONTENT FROM THE SERVICE, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK. YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY CONTENT THROUGH THE SERVICE.
  6. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO RESTRICT OR TERMINATE YOUR ACCESS TO THE SERVICE OR ANY FEATURE OR PART THEREOF AT ANY TIME.
  7. SOME STATES OR OTHER JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO SOME PARTS OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Limitation Of Liability

  1. IN NO EVENT SHALL WE BE RESPONSIBLE TO, OR LIABLE TO YOU, OR ANY THIRD PARTY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, FOR ANY DAMAGES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES THAT INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR ANY PERSONAL INJURY TO YOU OR OTHERS, OR LOSS OF PROFIT, REVENUE OR BUSINESS, AS A DIRECT OR INDIRECT RESULT OF: (I) YOUR ACCESS AND USE OF OUR SERVICES AND PRODUCTS; (II) YOUR BREACH OR VIOLATION OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT; (III) YOUR DELAY IN ACCESSING OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE OUR SERVICES FOR ANY REASON; (IV) YOUR DOWNLOADING OF ANY OF OUR CONTENT OR THE COLLECTIVE WORK FOR YOUR USE; OR (V) YOUR RELIANCE UPON OR USE OF OUR CONTENT OR THE COLLECTIVE WORK, WHETHER RESULTING IN WHOLE OR IN PART, FROM BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORTIOUS BEHAVIOR, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF WE AND/OR OUR SUPPLIERS HAD BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES.
  2. THIS LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER SERVICES OR PRODUCTS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN OUR SERVICES OR RECEIVED THROUGH ANY LINKS PROVIDED IN OUR SERVICES.
  3. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL WE BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DELAY OR FAILURE IN PERFORMANCE RESULTING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM ACTS OF NATURE, FORCES, OR CAUSES BEYOND THEIR REASONABLE CONTROL, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INTERNET FAILURES, COMPUTER EQUIPMENT FAILURES, TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT FAILURES, OTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURES, ELECTRICAL POWER FAILURES, STRIKES, LABOR DISPUTES, RIOTS, INSURRECTIONS, CIVIL DISTURBANCES, SHORTAGES OF LABOR OR MATERIALS, FIRES, FLOODS, STORMS, EXPLOSIONS, ACTS OF GOD, WAR, GOVERNMENTAL ACTIONS, ORDERS OF DOMESTIC OR FOREIGN COURTS OR TRIBUNALS OR NON-PERFORMANCE OF THIRD PARTIES.
  4. OUR LIABILITY AND THE LIABILITY OF OUR AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS, SHAREHOLDERS, REPRESENTATIVES, AND AGENTS ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT, OR ANY CLAIM HEREUNDER, SHALL NOT EXCEED $100 IN THE AGGREGATE.
  5. YOU AND WE AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO OUR SERVICES MUST COMMENCE WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES. OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.
  6. CERTAIN STATE OR JURISDICTIONAL LAWS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Interaction With Others

  1. You are solely responsible for determining the identity, suitability and for your interactions with the people you choose to engage with through the service. You understand that we currently do not conduct any user background checks including, but not limited to, criminal, financial, sex offender or any other background checks or screenings. We make no representations or warranties as to the conduct of the people you choose to interact with through our Services. While not obligated to do so, Meela reserves the right at its sole discretion to conduct any criminal or other background check or screenings at any time and using available public records.
  2. You assume all risk when using the services, including, without limitation, all risks associated with any online or offline personal interactions with others.
  3. In no event shall Meela, its employees, consultants, executives or officers be liable (directly or indirectly) for any losses or damages whatsoever, whether direct, indirect, general, special, compensatory, consequential, and/or incidental, arising out of or relating to the conduct of a user or anyone else in connection with the use of the service including, without limitation, theft, bodily injury, emotional distress, death and/or any other damages resulting from communications with, contact with or personal interaction with other users.

Indemnity

  1. You agree that you will be personally responsible for your use of the Service, products or subscriptions you purchase from us; and you further agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Meela and its officers, directors, employees, consultants, affiliates, subsidiaries and agents from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ and accounting fees and costs, arising out of or in any way connected with (i) your access to, use of or alleged use of the Service, subscription or the products you purchase through the Service; (ii) your violation of these Terms of Service or any representation, warranty, or agreements referenced herein, or any applicable law or regulation; (iii) your infringement upon the property rights, intellectual property rights (copyrights and trademarks) or other rights of others; (iv) your violation of any third party right, including without limitation publicity, confidentiality, or privacy right; (v) any serious physical or serious emotional harm or death, to you or any third party, resulting from your use of the Services, products or subscriptions purchased though the Service.
  2. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, and in such case, you agree to cooperate with our defense of such claim.

Release

  1. By using the Services, you release, to the maximum extent allowed by law, Meela, its officers, directors, employees, affiliates, and agents from claims, demands and damages of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of, or in any way connected with, your use of our Services, products or subscriptions, including without limitation, any serious emotional or physical harm or death.
  2. If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code §1542, which says: “A general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release, which if known by him or her must have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor.”

Governing Law

This Agreement, and any separate agreements whereby we provide you Services, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to its conflicts of laws principles. The parties hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the state and federal courts in the State of New York in and for the County in which Meela has established its principal office.

Our Remedies

  1. You acknowledge that we may be irreparably damaged if this Agreement is not specifically enforced, and damages at law would be an inadequate remedy. Therefore, in the event of a breach or threatened breach of any provision of this Agreement by you, we shall be entitled, in addition to all rights and remedies, to an injunction restraining such breach or threatened breach, without being required to show any actual damage or to post an injunction bond, and/or to a decree for specific performance of the provisions of this Agreement.
  2. For purposes of this Section, you agree that any action or proceeding with regard to such injunction restraining such breach or threatened breach shall be brought in the state courts of record or a United States District Court for the State of New York in and for the County in which Meela has established its principal office. You consent to the jurisdiction of such court and waive any objection to the venue of any such action or proceeding in such court.

Dispute Resolution

THIS AGREEMENT CONTAINS AN AGREEMENT TO ARBITRATE, WHICH WILL, WITH LIMITED EXCEPTION, REQUIRE YOU TO SUBMIT CLAIMS YOU HAVE AGAINST US TO BINDING AND FINAL ARBITRATION.
THIS AGREEMENT ALSO CONTAINS AN AGREEMENT THAT YOU WILL ONLY BE PERMITTED TO PURSUE CLAIMS AGAINST US ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION OR PROCEEDING.
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE ACCESSING OR USING ANY OF THE SERVICE. EACH TIME YOU ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE MANDATORY ARBITRATION PROVISION AND THE CLASS ACTION WAIVER YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICE.

For any dispute you have with Meela, you agree to first contact us at [email protected] and attempt to resolve the dispute with us informally. If Meela has not been able to resolve the dispute with you informally, we each agree to resolve any claim, dispute, or controversy as follows:

  1. Claims. You and we agree that any claim or dispute at law or equity between us relating in any way to or arising out of this or previous versions of this Agreement, your use of or access to the Services will be resolved in accordance with the provisions set forth in this Legal Disputes section. Please read this section carefully. It affects your rights and will have a substantial impact on how claims you and we have against each other are resolved.
  2. Applicable Law. You agree that the laws of the State of New York, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern this Agreement and any claim or dispute that has arisen or may arise between you and us, except as otherwise stated in this Agreement.
  3. Agreement to Arbitrate. You and we each agree that any and all disputes or claims between you and us relating in any way to or arising out of this or previous versions of this Agreement, your use of or access to our Services, or any courses or services delivered, sold, offered, or purchased through our Services shall be resolved exclusively through final and binding arbitration, rather than in court, except that you may assert claims in small claims court, if your claims qualify.
  4. Prohibition of Class and Representative Actions and Non-Individualized Relief. YOU AND WE AGREE THAT EACH OF US MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION OR PROCEEDING. UNLESS BOTH YOU AND WE AGREE OTHERWISE, THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE OR JOIN MORE THAN ONE PERSON'S OR PARTY'S CLAIMS, AND MAY NOT OTHERWISE PRESIDE OVER ANY FORM OF A CONSOLIDATED, REPRESENTATIVE, OR CLASS PROCEEDING. ALSO, THE ARBITRATOR MAY AWARD RELIEF (INCLUDING MONETARY, INJUNCTIVE, AND DECLARATORY RELIEF) ONLY IN FAVOR OF THE INDIVIDUAL PARTY SEEKING RELIEF AND ONLY TO THE EXTENT NECESSARY TO PROVIDE RELIEF NECESSITATED BY THAT PARTY'S INDIVIDUAL CLAIM(S). ANY RELIEF AWARDED CANNOT AFFECT OUR OTHER USERS.
  5. Arbitration Procedures. Arbitration is more informal than a lawsuit in court. There is no judge or jury in arbitration, and court review of an arbitration award is very limited. However, an arbitrator can award the same damages and relief on an individual basis that a court can award to an individual. An arbitrator should apply the terms of this Agreement as a court would. The arbitrator, and not any federal, state, or local court or agency, shall have exclusive authority to resolve any dispute arising out of or relating to the interpretation, applicability, enforceability or formation of this Agreement to Arbitrate, any part of it, or of this Agreement including, but not limited to, any claim that all or any part of the Agreement to Arbitrate or this Agreement is void or voidable. The arbitration will be conducted by the American Arbitration Association ("AAA") under its rules and procedures, including the AAA's Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes (as applicable), as modified by this Agreement to Arbitrate. The arbitrator will decide the substance of all claims in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, including recognized principles of equity, and will honor all claims of privilege recognized by law. The arbitrator shall not be bound by rulings in prior arbitrations involving our other users, but is bound by rulings in prior arbitrations involving the same user to the extent required by applicable law. The arbitrator's award shall be final and binding and judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof.
  6. Judicial Forum for Legal Disputes. Unless you and we agree otherwise, in the event that the Agreement to Arbitrate above is found not to apply to you or to a particular claim or dispute as a result of a decision by the arbitrator or a court order, you agree that any claim or dispute that has arisen or may arise between you and us must be resolved exclusively by a state or federal court located in the State of New York in and for the County in which Meela has established its principal office. You and we agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the courts located within New York for the purpose of litigating all such claims or disputes. You also agree that: (i) our Services shall be deemed solely based in the State of New York; and (ii) our Services shall be deemed passive Services that do not give rise to personal jurisdiction over us and our assigns, either specific or general, in jurisdictions other than the State of New York.

Disputes Between Users

The Meela platform is a venue for connecting users of our Service and we are not a party to any contract or agreement between users. In the event that you have a dispute with another user, you release Meela and its affiliates, officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, and employees from any and all claims, demands, or damages of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.

Law Enforcement

  1. Meela is committed to cooperating with law enforcement while respecting each individual’s right to privacy. If Meela receives a request for user account information from a government agency investigating criminal activity, we will review the request to be certain that it satisfies all legal requirements before releasing information to the requesting agency.
  2. Furthermore, under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2702(b)(8) and 2702(c)(4) (Voluntary Disclosure Of Customer Communications or Records), Meela may disclose user account information to law enforcement, without a subpoena, court order, or search warrant, in response to a valid emergency when we believe that doing so is necessary to prevent death or serious physical harm to someone. Meela will not release more information than it prudently believes is necessary to prevent harm in an emergency situation.

Statutory Rights; Notice To California Residents

If you are a California resident, under California Civil Code Section 1789.3, you may contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs in writing, currently at: 1625 N. Market Blvd., Suite N-112, Sacramento, California 95834, or by telephone, currently at (800) 952-5210 in order to resolve a complaint regarding our Site or to receive further information regarding use of our Site.

Amendments to this Agreement

We reserve the right to update, amend and/or change this Agreement at any time in our sole discretion and without notice. Updates to this Agreement will be posted here. Amendments will take effect immediately upon us posting the updated Agreement on our Services.  You are encouraged to revisit this Agreement from time to time in order to review any changes that have been made. The date on which this Agreement was last updated will be noted immediately below this Agreement.  Your continued access and use of our Services following the posting of any such changes shall automatically be deemed your acceptance of all changes.

Severability

If any portion of this Agreement is deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable by any arbitrator or court of competent jurisdiction, this Agreement as a whole shall not be deemed unlawful, void or unenforceable, but only that portion of this Agreement that is unlawful, void or unenforceable shall be stricken from this Agreement.

No Waiver

Our failure to enforce any right or provision in these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision unless acknowledged and agreed to by us in writing.

Entire Understanding

This Agreement and the Privacy Policy represent the entire understanding and agreement between you and us regarding the subject matter of the same, and supersede all other previous agreements, understandings and/or representations regarding the same.

If you have questions, comments, concerns or feedback regarding this Agreement or our Services, please contact us at [email protected]

Last updated: March 8, 2019

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