Terms & conditions

 

Welcome to our Terms and Conditions of Use. This is an important document which affects your legal rights, so please read this and our Privacy Policy carefully.

As a User your agreement with us includes these Terms and Conditions of Use and our Privacy Policy. If you are a Subscriber your agreement with us includes additionally the Data Processing Agreement

Please see the Introduction below where User and Subscriber is explained.

You acknowledge that you have read and understood the agreements, accept these agreements, and agree to be bound by them.

 

1. Introduction

Meet2Talk offers a subscription service (“Service”) for companies and other international organisations (“Subscribers”). The purpose of the Service is to help employees and their spouses/partners with the challenges of moving and living abroad while working for the Subscriber.

Only companies, universities and other organisations can be Subscribers and subscribe to our Service, and only employees and spouses of the Subscriber have access to the Service and the features available.

Once a Subscriber has subscribed to the Service employees and spouses of the Subscriber (“Users”) have access to the Service and the features available. The Service is thus made available by the subscribing companies to their Users.

On Meet2Talk employees and spouses can find and connect with colleagues and spouses from the same company, or find and connect with employees and spouses from other Subscribers locally or worldwide.

The Service is accessible on Mac/PC and mobile devices.

“Subscriber” means companies, universities and other organisations who have subscribed to our Service and now have access to the network and the features available.

“User” means all the employees and spouses of the Subscriber.

“Admin User” means an employee who can take on roles and responsibilities on behalf of the Subscriber.

 

1.1. Agreement

This agreement is entered into between you and Meet2Talk and applies to your use of our Service (“Agreement”).

When you use our Service as a Subscriber, you agree to all the terms subject to this Agreement. Your use of our Service is also subject to our Cookie Policy, our Privacy Policy and the Data Processing Agreement which explain in what capacity we process personal information and describes how we collect, use, share, and store personal information.

When you use our Service as a User, you agree to these Terms and Conditions, our Cookie Policy and our Privacy Policy.

By clicking “Accept”, “OK”, “Join” or similar, registering, accessing or using Services provided by us, you are agreeing to enter into a legally binding agreement with Meet2Talk – this also applies if you are using our Service on behalf of a company. If you do not agree with the terms of this Agreement, do not click “Accept” or similar registering, and do not access or otherwise use any of our Service.

 

1.2 Processing of Personal Information

Meet2Talk processes personal information in different situations and as a capacity of both data controller and data processor in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

Personal information is regarded in accordance with the GDPR and means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Meet2Talk acts as a data processor in the following situation:
a) When Subscriber’s Admin Users submit or upload documents, information etc. on behalf of the Subscriber (the data controller).

In these situations, Meet2Talk and the Subscriber enters into the Data Processing Agreement.

To the extent possible Meet2Talk assists the Subscriber in fulfilling the Subscriber’s obligation to provide information to the Users (data subjects) and to handle requests from the Users (data subjects), cf. Article 13 and Articles 15-22 of the GDPR.

Meet2Talk acts as a data controller in the following situation:
a) When Subscriber’s Users and Admin Users create a profile on the Service submitting or uploading personal information (mandatory or optionally).

As a User of our Service you act as a data controller, while Meet2Talk only provides you with our Service, in the following situation:
a) When you post, chat etc. on the Meet2Talk Service and thereby submit or upload personal information about yourself and others in this connection.

You can read more about our processing of personal information in our Privacy Policy.

 

1.2.1 Posting Sensitive Data About Yourself and Others 

When posting, chatting etc. on the Meet2Talk Service you should be aware not to submit any special categories of personal information (“Sensitive data”) about yourself or others.

If you do submit sensitive data, or other personal data, regarding other persons than yourself, you are responsible to insure that you have a consent or likewise (a legal basis) for this data sharing.

 

1.2.2 The Rights of the Data Subject

In the capacity of a data controller, Meet2Talk is obliged to handle requests regarding the rights of the data subject as set forth in the GDPR.

When Meet2Talk acts as a data processor, Meet2Talk is also obliged to help Subscribers with inquiries regarding the rights of the data subject, when the inquiry regards the data processed in relation to Meet2Talk’s Service, cf. Data Processing Agreement.

 

1.3. Services

This Agreement applies to Meet2Talk and other Meet2Talk-related sites, apps, communications and other services that state that they offer under this Agreement.

 

1.4. Subscribers and Users

By registering and joining our Service, you become a User or a Subscriber.

A subscription to the Service allows access for all the Subscriber’s employees worldwide who are in possession of a valid company e-mail address. All spouses will automatically gain access to the platform. Users can access the Service from any internet-enabled device and location.

 

1.5. Changes in Agreement

Meet2Talk may modify this Agreement, our Privacy Policy, our Cookie Policies and our Data Processing Agreement . If material changes are made to the Agreement, we will provide you notice through our Service, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective.

If you object to any changes, you may cancel the subscription and/or cease using our Service by deleting your account. Your continued use of the Service after we publish or send a notice about our changes to these terms means that you accept the updated terms.

 

2. Obligations

2.1. Eligibility

By entering into this Agreement, you promise that:

You are eligible to enter into this Agreement, and you are at least our “Minimum Age” (described below). The Service is not to be used by anyone under the Minimum Age.

To use the Service, you agree that:

(1) you must be the “Minimum Age” or older; and

(2) you are not already restricted by Meet2Talk from using the Service.

“Minimum Age” means 18 years old. However, if any law requires that you must be older in order for Meet2Talk to lawfully provide the Service to you without parental consent (including using of your personal information), the Minimum Age is such older age as decided by the applicable law.

 

2.2. Your Account (Profile)

You agree to:

(1) choose a strong and secure password;

(2) keep your password secure and confidential;

(3) not transfer any part of your account,

(4) not sharing an account with anyone else, and

(5) follow the applicable law and our Code of Conduct provided under Section 7 in this Agreement.

You are responsible for anything that happens through your account unless you close it or report misuse.

You agree to notify Meet2Talk immediately of any unauthorised use, or suspicion of any unauthorized use, of your user profile or password or any unauthorized access to your account.

In the event that Meet2Talk suspects any unauthorised use Meet2Talk will contact you.

 

2.3. Payment and Prices

Our Service is a subscription based service. Only companies, universities and other organisations can subscribe to the Service.

If a Subscriber buys any of our paid Services, the Subscriber agrees to pay us the applicable fees and taxes. The Subscriber further agrees to additional terms specific to the paid Services. Failure to pay these fees will result in the termination of the Subscriber’s paid Services.

The Subscriber will honor their payment obligations. The Subscriber understands that there may be fees and taxes that are added to our prices.

 

2.3.1. Our Subscriptions

A subscription to our Service is valid for a minimum of twelve (12) month from the date of accepting these Terms and Conditions, our Privacy Policy and our Data Processing Agreement, unless anything else is particularly agreed between Meet2Talk and the Subscriber.

Please see www.meet2talk.com for further information.

 

2.3.2. Changes

We may change and modify prices for the subscription(s) at our own discretion. We will communicate any price changes to Subscribers in advance. Price changes will take effect at the start of the next subscription period following the date of the price change. You accept the new price by continuing to use our Service after the price change takes effect. If you do not agree with the price changes, you have the right to reject the change by unsubscribing from the Service prior to the price change going into effect. Please therefore make sure you read any such notification of price changes carefully.

 

2.4. Right of Cancellation

The Subscription will automatically renew at the end of the applicable subscription period, unless you cancel your Subscription.

If a Subscriber wishes to cancel the Subscription this can be done at any time during the current subscription period, however no later than three months prior to the end date of the current Subscription period. The cancellation of the Subscription will however only take effect the day after the current subscription period ends and any subscription fee for the remaining subscription period after the cancellation will not be reimbursed.

If the Cancellation is not received by Meet2Talk with three months’ notice prior to the end of the current subscription period, the subscription is renewed for another subscription period.

If Meet2Talk cancels a subscription of a Subscriber and terminates this agreement, the termination will take effect at the end of the current subscription period, unless the cancellation is due to breach of agreement or the misusing of the Service, cf . Article 3.4.

Users can at any time discontinue using the Service and delete their profile.

 

2.5. Notices and Service Messages

By entering into this Agreement, you agree that we may provide notices to you through our Service (websites, apps) using your contact information in accordance with your personal settings. You agree to always update your contact information. If the contact information is out of date, you may miss important notices. It is your responsibility to keep your contact information updated.

 

2.6. Sharing

When you share information, others can see, copy and use that information.

Our Service allows messaging and sharing of information through your profile. Other Users and Subscribers may see information and content that you share on your profile. Where we have made settings available, Meet2Talk will honor the choices you make about who can see your content or information.

Meet2Talk is not obligated to publish any information or content on our Service and can remove it at its sole discretion. Any such removal may be done with or without notice.

 

3. Rights and Limits

3.1. Your License to Meet2Talk

You own all the content, feedback, and personal information you provide to us, but you also grant Meet2Talk a non-exclusive license to it.

You may only provide information and content that you have the right to share, and you promise that your user profile will be truthful.

Between the parties of this Agreement, you own the content and information that you submit or post to the Service, and you are only granting Meet2Talk the following non-exclusive license: A worldwide, transferable and sublicensable right to use, copy, modify, distribute, publish, and process, information and content that you provide through our Service, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others. These rights are limited in the following ways:

  1. You can end this license for specific content by deleting such content from the Service, or generally by closing your account, except only (a) to the extent you shared it with others as part of the Service, they copied, re-shared it or stored it and (b) for the reasonable time it takes to remove from backup and other systems.
  2. Meet2Talk will not include your content in advertisements for the products and services of third parties to others without your separate consent (including sponsored content).
  3. Meet2Talk will obtain your consent if Meet2Talk wants to provide third parties the right to publish information that you have provided within the Service. However, other Users may access and share your content and information, consistent with your choices.
  4. Meet2Talk shall be permitted to use and process data on the service to generate statistics, analysis, benchmarking, etc. Meet2Talk shall be permitted to use such statistics, analysis, benchmarks etc. in anonymised form for commercial purposes. No personal and private information will be shared with third parties in this process.
  5. Meet2Talk may edit and make formatting changes to your content (such as translating it, modifying the size, layout or file type or removing metadata). Meet2Talk will, however, not make changes that result in any misrepresentation of your expression.
  6. You may choose to make your own content available to others.

You accept that Meet2Talk may access, store and use any information that you provide in accordance with the terms of the Privacy Policy and your choices (including settings).

By entering into this Agreement, you agree that any feedback given by you to Meet2Talk may be used and shared by Meet2Talk for any purpose without any compensation to you.

 

3.2. Service Availability

Meet2Talk may change, suspend or end any Services prospectively at its own discretion.

Meet2Talk may also discontinue any of its Services.

Meet2Talk is not a storage service. By entering into this Agreement, you agree that Meet2Talk has no obligation to store, maintain or provide you a copy of any content or information that you or others provide, except to the extent required by applicable law and as noted in our Privacy Policy.

The Subscriber acknowledges that the Subscriber is singly responsible for the documents, information, links, photos and other information and data that the Subscriber decides to upload or share on the Service through an Admin User; e.g. when uploading information on the ‘Company Information’ page, when posting in Company Groups and Location Groups etc.

For information on your right to access information about you, please see our Privacy Policy.

 

3.3. Other Content, Sites and Apps & Interaction with Users

You are singly responsible for your interactions with other Users. You understand and accept that Meet2talk currently does not conduct criminal background checks or attempt to verify the statements of its Users.

Please be thoughtful about how you use the Meet2Talk Service and what you share. Our Service includes social and interactive features, including the ability to post user content, share content, and make certain information about you public. Remember that shared or publicly available information may be used and re-shared by other Users on the Meet2Talk Service or across the web, so please use Meet2Talk carefully and be mindful of your account settings. Meet2Talk has no responsibility for your choices to post material on the Service.

 

3.3.1. Other Content, Sites and Apps

The Meet2Talk Service and website uses services from third-party providers; e.g. Vimeo, Google Maps, Apple Maps etc.

Meet2Talk may also enter into collaboration with other services and collaborators for the benefit of our Subscribers and Users.

Meet2Talk is not responsible for any third-party activities on the Service.

In no event shall Meet2Talk be liable for any damages whatsoever, relating to the conduct of you or anyone else in connection with the use of Meet2Talk, resulting from communications or meetings with other Users or persons you meet through Meet2Talk.

You agree to take reasonable precautions and make good judgments in all interactions with other Users of the Service, particularly when you meet in person. You accept that Meet2Talk makes no guarantees, regarding your ultimate compatibility with individuals you meet through Meet2Talk.

 

3.3.2. Interaction with other Users

You are responsible for deciding if you want to access or use third party apps or sites that link from our Services. Third party apps and sites have their own legal terms and privacy policies, and you may be giving others permission to use your information in ways that Meet2Talk would not. Except to the limited extent it may be required by applicable law, Meet2Talk is not responsible for these other sites and apps – usage of these sites or apps are at your own risk.

 

3.4. Limits

Meet2Talk has the right to limit your conduct and interactions on our Service.

Meet2Talk reserves the right to limit your use of the Service, including your ability to contact other Users.

Meet2Talk also reserves the right to restrict, suspend, or terminate your account if we believe that you may be in breach of this Agreement or law, or if you are misusing the Service (e.g. violating the Code of Conduct in Section 7).

If Meet2Talk terminates the Agreement, or suspends your access to the Service, you agree that Meet2Talk shall have no liability or responsibility to you and Meet2Talk will not refund any amounts to Subscribers that have already been paid, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law.

 

3.5. Intellectual Property Rights

Meet2Talk provides you notice about our intellectual property rights.

Meet2Talk reserves all of its intellectual property rights in the Service. By using the Service, you do not obtain any ownership of our Service or the content or information made available through our Service. Trademarks and logos used in connection with the Service are to be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Meet2Talk trademarks, service marks, graphics, and logos used for our Services are trademarks or registered trademarks of Meet2Talk.

Meet2Talk shall be permitted to use current Subscribers company logos on the Meet2Talk website as a client reference. If any Subscriber is opposed to this use they should send their objection in writing to Meet2Talk, and the use will be discontinued.

 

4. Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

We do our best to provide the best service we can, but you understand and agree that our Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without express or implied warranty or condition of any kind.

 

4.1. Warranties

TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED UNDER THE APPLICABLE LAW, MEET2TALK (A) DISCLAIMS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS (E.G. ACCURACY OF DATA AND NONINFRINGEMENT) AND (B) DOES NOT GUARANTEEE THAT THE SERVICES WILL FUNCTION WITHOUT INTERRUPTION OR ERRORS. MEET2TALK IS FURTHER NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INTERRRUPTION OR SUSPENSION OF THE WEBSITE, REGARDLESS OF THE CAUSE OF THE INTERRUPTION OR SUSPENSION.

 

4.2. Exclusion of Liability

TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED UNDER THE APPLICABLE LAW, MEET2TALK SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR OTHERS FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUANTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES. NEITHER SHALL MEET2TALK BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA, OPPORTUNITIES, REPUTATION, PROFITS OR REVENUES, RELATED TO THE SERVICES PROVIDED.

WHERE THE LAW DOES NOT ALLOW THE ABOVE LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY, IT DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Notwithstanding the foregoing the liability of Meet2Talk is at all times limited to an amount equal to the amount paid by you to Meet2Talk for the service which gives rise to the claim. However, if the service is a subscription or other ongoing service, any liability may amount to a maximum amount equal to the amount paid by you for the service within the last 12 months prior to the claim being made. However, the total liability of Meet2Talk can never exceed DKK 100,000. These restrictions also apply to product liability insofar as mandatory law does not preclude this.

 

5. Termination

Both Meet2Talk and the Subscriber can end and terminate this Agreement anytime the party wants to without prior notice to the other party. However, cancellation terms apply (see 2.3 Payments & Prices).

When a Subscriber terminates the Agreement, the Subscriber loses the right to access or use our Service and all Users of the Subscriber (employees and spouses attached to the company) lose access to the Service.

When a User terminates this Agreement, the User loses the right to access or use our Service.

In case of termination, the following will survive:

  • Our rights to use and disclose your feedback;
  • Users’ rights to further re-share content and information you shared through the Service to the extent re-shared or copied prior to termination.

To see our policy on deletion of personal information please see our Privacy Policy

 

6. Governing Law

Meet2Talk controls this site (excluding any linked sites) from our offices in the Kingdom of Denmark. As your destination might have laws that may differ from those of the Kingdom of Denmark, by accessing this site both parties agree that the Agreement and use of the Service are subject to Danish laws to the extent that it is possible under present law apart from the rules of Danish laws regarding applicable law internationally.

To the extent possible under present law, legal actions must be taken before the Court of Aarhus, Denmark.

 

7. Code of Conduct on Meet2Talk

On Meet2Talk we ask everyone to live by some common-sense guidelines:  Be yourself, be honest and be respectful when communicating with others even if you do not agree with them.

You agree to use Meet2Talk in accordance with the following Code of Conduct:

  1. You will not create a false profile. Profiles on Meet2Talk have to be ´real people’.
  2. You will not use Meet2Talk to engage in any form of harassment or offensive behaviour, including the posting of communications, pictures or recordings that contain libelous, slanderous, abusive or defamatory statements, racist, pornographic, obscene, or otherwise offensive content.
  3. You will not post text, pictures etc. or use Meet2Talk in any way that is fraudulent or otherwise unlawful.
  4. You will not post messages, pictures or recordings with religious content.
  5. You will not cause Meet2Talk to be accessed through any automated or robotic means.
  6. You will not use Meet2Talk to distribute or upload any malicious software of any kind, or do anything else that might cause harm to Meet2Talk or our systems in any way.
  7. You will not post any content which is illegal, or intended to promote or commit an illegal act of any kind.
  8. You will not post material which includes malicious content such as malware, Trojan horses, or viruses, or otherwise interferes with any user’s access to the Service.
  9. You will not post material which is intended to or does harass or bully other users or individuals not using the service.
  10. You will not engage in any activity which involves the transmission of unsolicited mass mailings or other forms of spam, junk mail, or the like.
  11. You will not engage in any activity which involves commercial or sales activities, such as advertising, promotions, contests, sweepstakes, or pyramid schemes etc.

You acknowledge and agree that posting any such user content may result in immediate termination or suspension of your access to the Meet2Talk service.

 

8. Contact us

If you have any questions concerning the Meet2Talk Service or the Terms & Conditions, please contact us. Se information on how to contact us on our website www.meet2talk.com