Website Terms of Use

1.1. Definitions:

• "SelfStartGlobal", "Company", or "Website Owner" means SelfStartGlobal, a company registered under the laws of the Netherlands in Haarlem, Netherlands, Email: hello@selfstartglobal.com, Phone: +380 956 981 228.
• "Website" means the website www.selfstartglobal.com, maintained by SelfStartGlobal.
• "You" or "User" means the individual using the Website or purchasing the Service. "Services" means the services provided by the Company through the Website, such as webinars, including features and functionalities, as well as all content and software associated with the Company’s services.
• "Messages" means messages and other communications sent to us or other users through the Website.
• "Platform" means the online service provided by SelfStartGlobal on the Website, which serves as an educational tool for users.
• "Applicable Law" means the law of the Netherlands, subject to the provisions of Section 7.9 of these Terms.

1.2. These Terms of Use of the Website (hereinafter referred to as the "Terms" or "Terms of Use"), including any and all accompanying documents, constitute a legally binding agreement between you and SelfStartGlobal.

1.3. These Terms and any accompanying documents come into effect and are binding on you every time you use the Website.

1.4. You must carefully read and comply with these Terms. We ask that you carefully review all the Terms as they contain important legally significant information, including governing your rights. We also recommend regularly referring to the text of these Terms as they may change at any time.

1.5. By using the Website, you confirm that you have fully read, understood, and unconditionally accepted these Terms. If you do not agree with these Terms as a whole or with any part thereof, you are not permitted to use the Website and any related Services, including but not limited to the Platform.

2.1. You acknowledge and agree that these Terms and any accompanying documents, and/or the Website, and/or the Platform may be amended, modified, supplemented at any time without prior written notice at the sole discretion of the Company and/or as necessary. Proper notification of changes is considered to be the publication of an updated version of the Terms on the Website with the date of update. Your continued use of the Website after any amendments or changes to these Terms, any accompanying documents, and/or the Website, and/or the Platform signifies your agreement and acceptance of any such changes, modifications, amendments, or supplements.

2.2. The use of the Website and the services offered on it are available to individuals aged 13 years and older. By using the Website and any related Services, you undertake, represent, and warrant that you are at least 13 years old. If you are between 13 years old and the age of majority according to the Applicable Law and the laws of your country of residence and citizenship, you must review these Terms in the presence of at least one of your parents, guardians, or custodians. In such cases, your use of the Website confirms that you and your representative (parent, guardian, custodian) have fully read and agree with these Terms. Persons under the specified age should not engage in transactions on the Website or use it without the consent of their parents/guardians/custodians or other persons legally and otherwise responsible for you.

2.3. If you order Services on behalf of another person, you must ensure that the person receiving the Services is aware of and accepts these Terms. By completing and submitting the order form, you guarantee that you have informed the person receiving the Services about these Terms and that they have accepted these Terms.

2.4. If, when ordering Services, you provide personal and/or any other data of another person, you guarantee that the owner of such data agrees to provide this information to SelfStartGlobal and that they are aware of and agree with these Terms, as well as the Privacy Policy presented on the Website.

2.5. The Website pages may contain services from the Company’s partners, suppliers, software developers, etc., and/or links to third-party websites and services. Such services and/or links are provided for your convenience, but the Website Owner does not endorse or approve any third-party website or its content unless explicitly stated otherwise by the Website Owner. The Website Owner does not guarantee or otherwise imply or suggest the security of any third-party site or the compliance of any such third-party site with your expectations. Furthermore, the Website Owner is not responsible for preserving any materials linked to from another site and does not provide any warranties, recommendations, or endorsements for that site or related service. The Website Owner assumes no obligations in case of any damage, loss, or any other impact directly or indirectly arising from the use of any content, goods, or services available on or through any such third-party websites and resources. Please note that these services may have their own rules. SelfStartGlobal assumes no responsibility for these policies. Please review the policies of such services before using them.

3.1. We may allow you to send messages and otherwise communicate with us or other users through the Website and/or Platform. You are solely responsible for your Messages and the consequences of sending them, and you expressly release us and agree to hold us harmless from any liability arising from your Messages. You grant us (and we accept) a global right to use, store, and reproduce your Messages for the limited purpose of facilitating their transmission to your chosen recipients (we may also use third-party service providers to facilitate the transmission of your Messages), enabling the use of our services by you or other users, to analyze and improve our services, in relation to legal claims by or against us, and for any other reasons as required by any applicable law. You represent and warrant that your Messages will not infringe any third-party rights.

3.2. You are not permitted to engage or attempt to engage in any activity that violates the Terms of Use, including:

• Impersonating another individual or entity or misrepresenting yourself in a way that is considered misleading or deceptive;
• Engaging in activities that are deemed fraudulent, illegal, and/or unlawful, including but not limited to within the jurisdiction of Applicable Law and the jurisdiction of the country of which you are a citizen;
• Posting any content that can be qualified as offensive, obscene, defamatory, discriminatory based on any grounds, threatening or otherwise harmful and/or inappropriate, including towards minors, within any communication format;
• Using our Website in any way that violates any applicable local, national, or international laws or regulations;
• Sending mass unsolicited promotional materials, including spam, advertisements for your own services or yourself in general, third parties, as well as your own organization and third-party organizations;
• Deliberately transmitting any data, or sending or uploading any materials containing viruses, trojans, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware and/or adware, or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any software or hardware;
• Deliberately sending, receiving, uploading, downloading, using, or reusing any material that does not comply with these Terms;
• Violating the privacy of individuals or distributing confidential or personal information relating to individuals;
• Infringing or attacking any intellectual property or proprietary rights of individuals or entities, including but not limited to copyrights.

3.3. We may remove any Messages or other content on the Website and/or Platform that violates the principles outlined in clause 3.2 or which, in our sole discretion, we determine to be unsuitable for the Website and/or Platform.

3.4 The Website may contain options for posting personal content or other personal information in a public information field. By agreeing to these Terms, you acknowledge that any information posted in such an information field becomes public and may be accessible to other users. SelfStartGlobal cannot and does not take responsibility for any unauthorized and/or other unauthorized use of the information you publish by other Users.

4.1. To the extent permitted by Applicable Law, you must indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Website Owner and/or its subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, and permitted successors from any and all claims, losses, lawsuits, complaints, demands, proceedings, expenses, and/or liabilities (including but not limited to reasonable attorney’s fees and/or necessary for successfully establishing the right to indemnification) filed/incurred by any third party against the Website Owner resulting from any breach by you of any warranties, representations, or obligations under this Agreement. You must maintain the confidentiality of your account on the Website, and you are solely responsible for maintaining such confidentiality.

4.2. You may not make any claims against the Website Owner in connection with the Website Owner’s failure to fulfill any of its obligations under these Terms due to reasons beyond its control, including but not limited to any strike, lockout, shortage of labor or materials, delays in transportation, hacker attacks on the Website or any resources related to the Website, any kind of accident, any natural disaster, any act of a government body, beyond the control of the Website Owner, or any events beyond the reasonable control of the Website Owner.

5.1. The Website hosts an educational Platform designed to assist Users in applying to higher education institutions abroad. The Platform provides Users with the ability to register and track all their work related to the application process, including the User’s personal data, application profile information, activities and achievements, documents for university applications, as well as general information about the application process.

5.2. SelfStartGlobal takes necessary security measures regarding User account data. However, SelfStartGlobal cannot and does not take responsibility for cases of unauthorized access to the User’s account if such access was made using data provided by the User, as well as in the case of the User publishing their data in a public information field. Users are strongly advised to take all necessary reasonable security measures to safeguard their registration data to avoid unauthorized use.

5.3. To ensure the reliable and secure storage of your personal data, our platform uses third-party hosting services. We carefully select our service providers and require them to comply with all applicable data protection norms and standards, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

5.4. The use of third-party hosting services allows us to provide you with high-quality and reliable services while ensuring the security and confidentiality of your data. Our hosting service providers are required to implement appropriate security measures to protect personal data from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction, ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of the data stored on their servers, and to process personal data only to the necessary and reasonable extent. To ensure compliance with these Terms, we regularly monitor and audit our service providers to verify their adherence to GDPR and other applicable regulations. However, we cannot fully control the actions of third parties and, therefore, are not responsible for any data leakage or disclosure of your personal data caused by the hosting provider or other third parties, if such disclosure is not the result of our intentional misconduct or gross negligence.

5.5. By providing your personal data through our Website, you agree that your data may be transferred to and processed on the servers of our hosting service providers located in various jurisdictions, including countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). We will take all necessary measures to ensure the proper protection of your data during such transfers. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the storage of your data, please contact us via the email address provided in the "Contacts" section. In the event of a data breach caused by the hosting provider, we commit to promptly inform you and take all possible measures to minimize the consequences of such an incident.

6.1. All materials, copyrights, trade marks (whether registered or unregistered), designs, patents and other legal interests are recognized or protected as intellectual property under the jurisdiction of these Terms ("Intellectual Property").

6.2 SelfStartGlobal is the exclusive owner of all the Intellectual Property rights in all parts of the Platform and the Website, including but not limited to any documents, articles, writing, products and services provided by us, but excluding any User generated content. We grant Users a revocable, limited, non-exclusive and non-transferable license to view published materials and information and use them for the purposes of familiarization and personal non-commercial use, but not for other purposes. If you believe that any materials or information on the Website violates your copyright or other rights, we ask you to immediately notify us at the contact address to resolve the issue.

6.3. You may not:

• Share your password, let anyone besides yourself access your account on the Platform, or do anything that might put your account at risk.
• Attempt to access any other user’s account.
• Reproduce, transfer, sell, resell, or otherwise misuse any Intellectual Property, unless specifically authorized to do so.
• Try to reverse engineer any portion of our Services.
• Impersonate or misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity.
• Encourage or help anyone do any of the things on this list.
• Visit or use our Website and/or Platform for any form of content, data, or text scraping (including but not limited to screen scraping, web harvesting, or web data extracting) through manual, mechanical, or automated means including by the use of bots or other similar software.
• Use any content, data, or text in any form in the Website and/or Platform for text or data mining purposes, or develop or train any application, software, code, or data models including but not limited to generative artificial intelligence or other artificial intelligence and machine learning models irrespective of the purposes whether commercial or non-commercial.

6.4. The use of materials from the Website without our consent is not allowed. When quoting and/or otherwise mentioning materials belonging to our company, it is mandatory to refer to our company and Website.

7.1. We undertake to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applicable to the processing of personal data of users from the European Union. We also take all necessary measures to protect the privacy and security of your personal data in accordance with GDPR requirements.

7.2. Your personal information will be used exclusively for the purposes for which it was collected. You have the right to access, correct or delete your personal data, as well as to restrict their processing or object to processing. To exercise your rights, please contact us by e-mail hello@selfstartglobal.com.

7.3. We store your personal data only for the time necessary to achieve the purposes for which it was collected, including compliance with any legal, accounting and reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate period for storing personal data, we take into account the amount, nature and confidentiality of the data, the potential risks from unauthorized use or disclosure of your data, the purposes for which we process your data and the possibility of achieving these goals by other means, as well as applicable legal requirements. After the specified retention period has expired or when the data is no longer needed for the specified purposes, we will safely delete or anonymize your personal data. If you have any questions about our data retention periods or need additional information, please contact us using the contact information provided in the "Contacts" section.

7.4. We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure the security of your personal data from unauthorized access, modification, disclosure or destruction.

7.5. In case of data leakage, we undertake to notify you and the competent authorities in accordance with the GDPR requirements.

8.1. These Terms constitute the complete and exclusive agreement between the parties regarding your use of the Website and the Services and supersede all previous agreements between the parties regarding this subject matter. If the parties conclude a separate agreement on the provision of services, the provisions specified in this agreement also apply.

8.2. Termination and suspension. Notwithstanding anything contained herein, the Website Owner reserves the right, without prior notice and at its sole discretion, to terminate these Terms, suspend your right to access the Website, and delete or deactivate your Account and all related information and files in such Account without any liability, including (but not limited to) in the event of your violation of these Terms or if the Owner of the Website believes that you have committed fraud, negligence or other misconduct. You may terminate these Terms of Use at any time by notifying us. All rights granted to you in accordance with these Terms will be immediately revoked upon termination of these Terms by the Owner of the Website or suspension of your access to the Website. In the event of any force majeure event (as defined in clause 7.8), violation of this Agreement or any other event that would make the provision of services commercially unreasonable, the Website Owner may, at its sole discretion and without liability to you, with or without prior notice, suspend your access to all or part of its services or Website.

8.3. If any provision of these Terms is declared invalid or unenforceable by a court or other competent authority, such provision will be amended and interpreted in such a way as to maximize the objectives of the original provision within the framework of applicable law, and the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect.

8.4. Any unwillingness or delay by us in exercising any right, power or privilege under these Terms or our partial or one-time exercise of any such right, power or privilege does not constitute a waiver of any further exercise of this right, power or privilege or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege under these Terms. Our waiver of any right or provision under these Terms does not act as a waiver of any other right or provision under these Terms.

8.5. We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms at any time, provided that such transfer is carried out without prejudice to your rights and obligations under these Terms. You may not transfer or transfer your rights and obligations under these Terms without our prior written consent. Any transfer or delegation without the prior written consent of the Website Owner is invalid.

8.6. Any communication regarding the execution and/or violation of these Terms should be carried out only through your email and through the contact form of the Website Owner on the Website. The languages of communication are English, Ukrainian and Russian. The Website Owner may provide you with any notice in accordance with this Agreement by: (i) posting a notice on the Website; or (ii) sending an email to the email address (if you have provided it to the Website Owner). Notifications that the Website Owner provides by posting on the Website will take effect from the moment of publication, and notifications that the Website Owner provides by e-mail will take effect from the moment such e-mail is sent. You are responsible for keeping your email address up to date. You will be deemed to have received any email sent to the email address associated with your account when the Website Owner sends such an email, regardless of whether you actually received or read the email.

8.7. You agree to cooperate with the Owner of the Website and assist him in connection with any investigation, verification or request from any government agency. You must immediately provide the Website Owner with any documents, certificates, records or other information that he may request in connection with such an investigation, study or request.

8.8. The Website Owner is not responsible for any loss or damage resulting from any event beyond his reasonable control, including among other things, flood, extreme weather conditions, earthquake or other natural disaster, fire, war, insurrection, riot, labor dispute, accident, government action, communications, power failure, hardware or software malfunction, or any other cause beyond reasonable control.

8.9. All matters relating to the interpretation, validity, performance and interpretation of this Agreement shall be governed by, interpreted and applied in accordance with the laws of the Netherlands. The provisions of these Terms of Use are considered to be separable. This implies that if any provision is found to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision will remain in force to the maximum extent permitted by law. Invalidation of any provision will not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions. An invalid or unenforceable provision will be replaced by a provision that most accurately reflects the meaning of the original.

8.10. In order to resolve any disputes, disagreements or claims between them arising in connection with this Agreement or its violation, the Parties agree first to negotiate in good faith for at least sixty (60) days after written notification of such disagreements or claims to the other Party. If negotiations do not resolve the dispute, disagreement or claim to the reasonable satisfaction of all Parties during such a period, the Parties unconditionally and unconditionally submit the relevant claim to compulsory arbitration with the Terms of the Arbitration Chamber of the International Chamber of Commerce. The claim is subject to review by one or more arbitrators appointed in accordance with these rules. With the exception of any disputes, claims, lawsuits, complaints, causes of action, demands or proceedings in which either Party seeks an injunction or other equitable remedy in connection with the alleged illegal use of intellectual property, including, but not limited to, copyrights, trademarks, trade names, logos, trade secrets or patents, you and the Website Owner (a) waive your respective rights and the rights of the Website Owner to resolve any and all disputes arising in connection with these Terms or related to them in court, and (b) waive the respective rights of you and the Website Owner to the jury trial. The substantive Law is the Applicable Law (including all other operating rules, policies and procedures that may be issued by the Website Owner and published on the Website from time to time), without regard to conflict of laws rules or principles. The language of arbitration is English.

8.11. Nothing in the Terms limits our right to open enforcement proceedings in another jurisdiction or to seek temporary, protective or preliminary protection in courts of another jurisdiction.

8.12. SelfStartGlobal is not affiliated with any of the universities whose information is published (may be published) on the Website. The website does not display any guarantees of the quality of certain higher education institutions, academic and other programs. We do not provide and are not obligated to provide quality guarantees for any university and/or program. Any information about the status and competence of such universities and/or programs is subjective.

8.13. In case of purchase of any of our services, you grant us the irrevocable right to use your profile description, receipt results, including received offers, for necessary purposes, including commercial and advertising. Such use may include, among other things, publication on the Website and on social networks with reasonable use of personal data, in particular, indicating the name, age, year and country of admission, the admission program and the amount of funding received. We do not publish information such as last name and patronymic, exact date of birth, registration and residence address, contact and banking information.