SECURITY TOKEN MARKET, LLC, a Florida limited liability company (“we,” “STM,” “us,” or the “Company”) welcomes you to STM, a listing service where sophisticated investors can find companies seeking to raise capital through a security token offering of digital assets. These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of www.securitytokenmarket.com (the “Site”) and the services, websites, and applications offered by STM (together with the Site, the “Services”). Your access to and use of the Services are conditioned upon your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms of Use. By using STM, including by simply viewing content on the Site, you are agreeing that you, and each person you allow to access STM through your account, will abide by the terms of use set forth herein.
Users of our Services may open an account as an “Investor” when looking for active security token offerings of digital assets, or as an “Issuer” when seeking to list active security token offerings of digital assets. In addition, we have entered into agreements with “Listing Partners,” which are platforms that are providing security token-related services to Issuers.
Certain limited content of the website has been made available to the general public without registering, referred to as “General Users.” Only Accredited investors who complete a third party online Accredited Investor questionnaire (and are determined to be an Accredited Investor) may view the profiles for Issuers raising capital through Accredited Investor only offerings. Significant regulatory considerations apply to the capital raising process, and this Agreement sets forth terms upon which visitors may access and use our Listing Service.
INVESTORS : If you wish to register as an Investor, you must be a sophisticated investor with personal or professional experience with the extremely volatile nature of digital assets and securities token offerings, and be able to assess the long-term business prospects of early stage companies. As an Investor, you must understand the risk of investing in digital assets and early stage companies, including the high likelihood of loss and long period of illiquidity.
ISSUERS :If you are an Issuer, you are welcome to upload information about your company and your business plan, including information you consider confidential, at your own risk.
LISTING PARTNER :If you are a Listing Partner, you may use our Services for Issuers that are your clients, provided that you have explicit, written authorization by your clients to do so.
GENERAL USERS : Certain portions of the Site will be visible to users who have not signed up as Issuers, Investors or Listing Partners. Those users, nevertheless, are bound by this Agreement. Users should be aware that information they provide will be visible to everybody.
The Site is not directed to any person in any jurisdiction where (by reason of that person’s nationality, residence or otherwise) the publication or availability of the Site is prohibited. Persons in respect of whom such prohibitions apply must not access the Site. For more information, see Section XII.a (Availability of Services).
Capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section XIII (Definitions) of this Agreement.
The securities laws applicable to private company securities offerings are complicated and occasionally ambiguous. In general, they are designed to protect unsophisticated people from making poor investment decisions. Federal securities law requires securities sold in the United States to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), unless the sale qualifies for an exemption. Generally, startup ventures use one or more of the “private placement” exemptions because they allow for the raising of capital without complying with the costly and time-consuming registration process. One of the requirements of the private placement exemption is that neither the company which is offering its securities nor any person acting on such issuer’s behalf may offer or sell the securities by any form of “general solicitation”, except where, as provided under Rule 506(c) of Regulation D, the Issuer has taken reasonable steps to verify that all of the investors in the offering are Accredited Investors. Furthermore, many states and foreign countries all have their own regulations governing securities transactions that must be observed. You must make your own assessment regarding regulatory requirements as may be applied to your activities on the Site.
a) To Act Responsibly. You are promising to act responsibly – which means:
1.Requirements to Use the Services.
2.Requirements related to Content on STM.
2.Requirements related to Investments.
b.) Indemnify STM and Related Parties. You are promising to hold the Company harmless against any damage that may happen to us as a result of your use of the Site.
c) Republishing. With the exception of Listing Partners acting pursuant to Section 2.d.vii be.ow, you agree that you will not republish any information you acquire through the Services in any form or medium.
d)Other User Obligations.
1.You must use a descriptive user agent header.
2.You must follow robots.txt at all times.
3.You must make it clear how to contact you, either in your user agent string, or on your website if you have one.
Privacy & Cookies Policy.STM values your privacy. Please review our Privacy & Cookies Policy to learn more about how we collect and use information about you via the Services. The Privacy & Cookies Policy explains how STM treats your personal information and protects your privacy when you access STM and use the Services.
Amendments to the Privacy & Cookies Policy.We may amend the Privacy & Cookies Policy at any time in our sole discretion, effective upon posting the amended Privacy & Cookies Policy at the domain of www.privacy.securitytokenmarket.com where the prior version of the Privacy & Cookies Policy was posted, or by communicating these changes through any written or other contact method we have established with you. Your use of the Services following the date on which such amended Privacy & Cookies Policy is published will constitute consent to such amendments to the extent they do not have retroactive applicability.
Data Processing Addendum.If you are a paying subscriber to the Services, to the extent that STM processes any Personal Data (as defined in the DPA) that is subject to the GDPR (as defined in the DPA)( European Union General Data Protection Regulation), on your behalf, in the provision of the Services, the terms of the data processing addendum at www.privacy.securitytokenmarket.com ("DPA"), which are hereby incorporated by reference, shall apply and the parties agree to comply with such terms. For the purposes of the Standard Contractual Clauses referenced in the DPA, when you are the data exporter, your agreeing to these Terms of Service shall be treated as signing of the DPA, including, without limitation, the Standard Contractual Clauses and their Appendices.
License to Use the Service. All right, title, and interest in and to the Services (including Content provided by Issuers) is and will remain the exclusive property of STM and its licensors. The Services are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of both the United States and foreign countries. Except as expressly provided herein, nothing in this Agreement gives you a right to use the STM name or any of the STM trademarks, logos, domain names or other distinctive brand features. Subject to your acceptance of this Agreement, STM grants to Listing Partners a worldwide, non-assignable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable limited license to use the Services and related software and to display any results of such Services anywhere on the rest of the web, provided that you:
No Claim to Any Rights in Your Information.We are promising not to claim any ownership interest in the Content provided by you to us solely because you have provided it, although we will claim a license sufficient to display such items through STM.
All New Investors Must Execute an “Accredited Investor Questionnaire”.Site users who identify themselves as Investors may execute an Accredited Investor Questionnaire in order to gain access to Issuers conducting Accredited Investor only offerings. Note that the Company does not verify the representations made in the questionnaires.
Right to Control Content. STM may, but is not required to, monitor or control the Content posted via the Services. Our failure to exercise this right does not give you any right to make a claim against STM. Any Content that has been uploaded through the Services may be deleted at any time without notice to you.
Right to Discontinue the Services. STM reserves the right to discontinue the Services or to change the Services in any way and at any time, with or without notice to you, without liability.
Right to Terminate User Access.STM reserves the right to terminate your access to the Services without notice and, if you violate this Agreement, to pursue other remedies at law or in equity. We may delete your account for any reason or for no reason at all, and if we delete your account you will lose all access to any information, connections or other features that may have value to you that may have been associated with your account.
Right to Refuse or Cancel Registration. The Company has the right to refuse registration of or cancel your user account in its discretion for any reason or for no reason. In addition, the Company reserves the right at all times (but will not have an obligation) to remove or refuse to distribute any Content on the Services and to terminate users and/or reclaim usernames. We also reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as we reasonably believe is necessary to (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, (ii) enforce this Agreement (including investigation of potential violations hereof), (iii) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, (iv) respond to user support requests or (v) protect the rights, property or safety of STM, its users and the public.
User Acknowledgement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you specifically acknowledge that the Company is exempt from liability to any person for any claim based upon its termination of an account or disabling of access to or removal of any Content, including material it believes, in its sole discretion to violate this Agreement, regardless of whether the material ultimately is determined to be infringing or otherwise prohibited, and regardless of whether such termination or disabling has the effect of reducing the value of any Content or opportunities that might otherwise have been available to you. By using the Services, you agree that notice to you through an email to the email address you provided in your profile constitutes reasonable efforts to notify you of any removal or disabling if such notice is required.
Content Provided by Issuers and Listing Partners.Any Content created, submitted, posted, transmitted, published or distributed to the Company or to/via the Services will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary, and shall deemed to have been licensed to the Company on a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual basis.
Comments, Feedback, Suggestions, Ideas, And Other Submissions.The Services may invite you to chat or participate in blogs, message boards, and other functionality and may provide you with the opportunity to create, submit, post, transmit, publish or distribute Content to the Company or to/via the Services. Any such material you transmit to the Company or otherwise through the Services will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. All comments, feedback, suggestions, ideas, forum posts and other submissions disclosed, submitted or offered to the Company in connection with the use of the Services or otherwise, and any chat, blog, message board, online forum, text, email or other communication with the Company, shall deemed to have been licensed to the Company on a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual basis. For more information, see our Privacy & Cookies Policy.
Introductions.We are not obligated to introduce you to any Issuer or Investor or any other user of the Site.
Verifying Due Diligence.We are not responsible for doing diligence on any Issuer, Investor, Listing Partner or other users you meet through STM or verifying any representations, materials or other information provided by the Company, Investors, Issuers, Listing Partners or other users to you.
Verifying Accredited Investor Status. We are not responsible for verifying that any Investor is an Accredited Investor or otherwise authorized or appropriate to invest in you, or for determining whether any use of STM constitutes a general solicitation of securities under the securities laws of the United States, or the laws of any state or other jurisdiction, including foreign jurisdictions.
No Recommendations. We do not recommend any Issuers for investment, endorse their fitness for investment or verify or claim the accuracy of information provided by Issuers on the Site or in connection with our Services. In particular, we do not act as an investment adviser to any Investor(s) or act as a broker or dealer, and no part of this Site or Services is intended to constitute investment advice or to sell securities.
Client Confidentiality. We are not obligated to maintain the confidentiality of any Content you give us.
Intellectual Property Rights.The Company has no obligation to monitor or enforce any intellectual property rights that may be associated with Content you provide to us, but the Company does have the right to enforce such rights through any means it sees fit, including bringing and controlling actions on your behalf.
No Endorsement of Content. The Company does not control or endorse the Content, messages or information found on the Site or in connection with the Services or on external websites that may be linked to or from STM and, therefore, the Company specifically disclaims any responsibility with regard thereto.
No Obligation to Display Content.The Company has no obligation to accept, display, review, verify, monitor or maintain any Content submitted by any Issuer, Investor, Listing Partner or other users, or any Content provided in user forum posts, commentary, ratings or compliments (“Comments”). We have the right to delete Content or Comments from the Services without notice for any reason at any time. The Company may move, re-format, edit, alter, distort, remove or refuse to exploit Content or Comments without notice to you and without liability. Notwithstanding the forgoing rights, the Company reserves the right to treat Content provided by users and Comments as content stored at the direction of users for which the Company will not exercise editorial control except as required to enforce the rights of third parties and applicable Content restrictions when violations are brought to the Company’s attention.
Verifying Advertisement Accuracy. The Services may contain or deliver advertising and sponsorships. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion is accurate and complies with applicable laws. We are not responsible for the illegality or any error, inaccuracy or problem in an advertiser’s or sponsor’s Content.
STM respects the intellectual property rights of others and expects users of the Services to do the same. We will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable law and are properly provided to us. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) provides recourse to copyright owners who believe that their rights under the U.S. Copyright Act have been infringed by acts of third parties over the Internet.
If you believe that your copyrighted work has been copied without your authorization and is available on or in the Services in a way that may constitute copyright infringement, or if you believe that any material on the Services violates this Agreement or your intellectual property rights, please notify the Company as soon as possible by sending an email to [email protected].
the right to remove Content alleged to be infringing or otherwise illegal without prior notice and at our sole discretion. In appropriate circumstances, STM will also terminate a user’s account if the user is determined to be a repeat infringer.
Unless terminated by the Company, this Agreement will remain in full force and effect while you use any of the Services. Subject to the last sentence of this Section VIII, you may terminate this Agreement at any time by deleting all Content you have provided to STM and ceasing to use the Services. The Company may terminate this Agreement at any time, particularly if you are suspected of violating any provision of this Agreement. Upon termination of this Agreement for any reason, you shall destroy and remove from all computers, and other storage media all copies of any intellectual property owned by the Company or any other user of the Services that you acquired via use of the Services. Your representations in this Agreement and the provisions of Section II (User Obligations) and any other provision of this Agreement which by their nature are designed to survive termination shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement.
YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE (EXCEPT ONLY TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED UNDER THE LAWS APPLICABLE TO TERMS OF SERVICE WITH ANY LEGALLY REQUIRED WARRANTY PERIOD TO THE SHORTER OF THIRTY DAYS FROM FIRST USE OR THE MINIMUM PERIOD REQUIRED). WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, NEITHER THE COMPANY NOR ITS AFFILIATES OR SUBSIDIARIES, OR ANY OF THEIR DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, ATTORNEYS, THIRD-PARTY CONTENT PROVIDERS, DISTRIBUTORS, LICENSEES OR LICENSORS (COLLECTIVELY, “COMPANY PARTIES”) WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE.
TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE DISCLAIMERS OF LIABILITY CONTAINED HEREIN APPLY TO ANY AND ALL DAMAGES OR INJURY WHATSOEVER CAUSED BY OR RELATED TO USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SERVICES UNDER ANY CAUSE OR ACTION WHATSOEVER OF ANY JURISDICTION, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ACTIONS FOR BREACH OF WARRANTY, BREACH OF CONTRACT OR TORT AND THAT THE COMPANY PARTIES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SERVICES. YOU FURTHER SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE COMPANY PARTIES ARE NOT LIABLE, AND YOU AGREE NOT TO SEEK TO HOLD THE COMPANY PARTIES LIABLE, FOR THE CONDUCT OF THIRD PARTIES, INCLUDING OTHER USERS OF THE SERVICES AND OPERATORS OF EXTERNAL WEBSITES, NOR FOR ANY CONTENT PROVIDED BY ISSUERS, LISTING PARTNERS OR OTHER USERS, AND THAT THE RISK OF THE SERVICES AND EXTERNAL WEBSITES AND OF INJURY FROM THE FOREGOING RESTS ENTIRELY WITH YOU.
The Company is not responsible for any technical malfunction or other problems of any telephone network or service, computer systems, servers or providers, computer or mobile phone equipment, software, failure of email or media players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website or combination thereof, including injury or damage to your or to any other person’s computer, mobile phone or other hardware or software, related to or resulting from using or downloading materials in connection with the web and/or in connection with the Services, including any mobile software. Under no circumstances will the Company be responsible for any loss or damage, including any loss or damage to any content or personal injury or death, resulting from anyone’s use of the Services, any Content or third party applications, software or content posted on or through the Services or transmitted to Issuers or any interactions between Issuers of the Services, whether online or offline.
We make no warranty and disclaim all responsibility and liability for the completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Services or any Content thereon or any content you receive as a result of your relationship with STM. STM will not be responsible or liable for any harm to your computer system, loss of data or other harm that results from your access to or use of the Services or any Content. You also agree that STM has no responsibility or liability for the deletion of, or the failure to store or to transmit, any Content and other communications maintained by the Services. We make no warranty that the Services will meet your requirements or be available on an uninterrupted, secure or error-free basis. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained from STM or through the Services, will create any warranty not expressly made herein.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL ANY COMPANY PERSON BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR MORE THAN THE AMOUNT YOU HAVE PAID THE COMPANY.
To the extent any provision(s) relating to arbitration, disclaimer, waiver of liability or any other rights and obligations set forth herein is not permissible or enforceable under foreign laws as applied to users from such foreign jurisdictions, each such provision shall be deemed removed and invalid, but all remaining provisions shall be in full force and effect.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT WE ARE NOT A REGISTERED INVESTMENT ADVISER, NOR A BROKER-DEALER, AND DO NOT OFFER ANY INVESTMENT ADVICE NOR ISSUE ANY RECOMMENDATION TO BUY OR SELL ANY SECURITY OF ANY ISSUER. EACH USER IS URGED TO RELY ON THEIR OWN INVESTIGATION AS TO THE MERITS OR VALUATION OF ANY INVESTMENT IN ANY OF THE ISSUERS, AND AS TO THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY OF THE CONTENT.
We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor and/or manage disputes between you and other users of the Services. If you have a dispute with other users, you release the Company Persons and hereby agree to indemnify the Company Persons from any claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of, or in any way connected with, such a dispute. Without limiting the foregoing, each of the Issuers and Listing Partners hereby agree to indemnify the Company Persons from any claims, demands, and damages (whether direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary or consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of, or in any way connected with, the Content provided by such Issuer or Listing Partner, as applicable.
Binding Arbitration at Option of Either Party. If you and the Company are unable to resolve a Dispute through informal negotiations, either you or the Company may elect to have the dispute, controversy or claim related to this Agreement (“Dispute”)(except those Disputes expressly excluded below) finally and exclusively resolved by confidential binding arbitration. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT ABSENT THIS PROVISION, YOU WOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO SUE IN COURT AND HAVE A JURY TRIAL. The arbitration shall be commenced and conducted under the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) and, where appropriate, the AAA’s Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes (“AAA Consumer Rules”). The determination of whether a Dispute is subject to arbitration shall be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act and determined by a court of proper jurisdiction rather than an arbitrator. Your arbitration fees and your share of arbitrator compensation shall be governed by the AAA Rules and, where appropriate, limited by the AAA Consumer Rules. Judgment upon any award rendered by the arbitrator(s) may be entered and enforcement obtained thereon in any court having jurisdiction.
Restrictions/No Class Actions.You and the Company agree that any arbitration shall be limited to the Dispute between the Company and you individually. To the full extent permitted by law, (1) no arbitration shall be joined with any other; (2) no Dispute between you and the Company is to be arbitrated on a class-action basis or will utilize class action procedures; and (3) you may not bring any Dispute in a purported representative capacity on behalf of the general public, other Issuers of the Services or any other persons.
Availability of Services.
Injunctive Relief. You acknowledge that the rights granted and obligations made hereunder to the Company are of a unique and irreplaceable nature, the loss of which shall irreparably harm the Company and which cannot be replaced by monetary damages alone, so that the Company shall be entitled to injunctive or other equitable relief (without the obligations of posting any bond or surety) in the event of any breach or anticipatory breach by you. You irrevocably waive all rights to seek injunctive or other equitable relief and agree to limit your claims to claims for monetary damages (if any).
Amendments to this Agreement. We may amend this Agreement at any time in our sole discretion, effective upon posting the amended Terms of Service at the domain of www.terms.securitytokenmarket.com where the prior version of this Agreement was posted or by communicating these changes through any written or other contact method we have established with you. Your use of the Services following the date on which such amended Terms are published will constitute consent to such amendments. Neither the course of conduct between the parties nor trade practice will act to modify this Agreement.
Venue and Governing Law. his Agreement and all aspects of the Services shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the United States and the State of Delaware governing contracts entered into and to be fully performed in Delaware (i.e., without regard to conflict of law’s provisions) regardless of your location except that Section XI (Arbitration) of this Agreement shall be governed by the Federal Arbitration Act. For the purpose of any judicial proceeding to enforce an arbitration award or incidental to such arbitration or to compel arbitration, or if for any reason a claim proceeds in court rather than in arbitration, you hereby submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the state and Federal courts sitting in Miami-Dade County, Florida. With respect to any Disputes not subject to informal dispute resolution or arbitration (as set forth above), you agree not to commence or prosecute any action in connection therewith other than in the state and federal courts located in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Waiver and Severability.
Section Headings; Verification Documentation; Waiver of Execution Defenses.The section headings used herein are for convenience only and shall not be given any legal import. Upon the Company’s request, you will furnish the Company any documentation, substantiation or releases necessary to verify your compliance with this Agreement. You agree that this Agreement will not be construed against the Company by virtue of having drafted them. You hereby waive any and all defenses you may have based on the electronic form of this Agreement and the lack of signing by the parties hereto to execute this Agreement.
Prohibition of Assignment.You may not assign this Agreement without the Company’s prior written consent.
Entire Agreement.This Agreement, and any other agreement entered into by you and the Company in connection with this Agreement, contains the entire understanding of you and the Company, and supersedes all prior understandings of the parties hereto relating to the subject matter hereof, and cannot be changed or modified by you except as posted on the Services by the Company. No waiver by either party of any breach or default hereunder shall be deemed to be a waiver of any preceding or subsequent breach or default.
No Third Party Beneficiaries.This Agreement is between you and the Company. No user has any rights to force the Company to enforce any rights it may have against any you or any other user, except to the extent that users may enforce their own intellectual property rights related to Content offered through the Services.
"Accredited Investor" is defined by the SEC in Rule 501 of Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933.
"Community Rules": Participants in the STM community will not, in connection with the Services:
"Content" means any information, text, graphics or other materials uploaded, downloaded or otherwise appearing on the Services. You retain ownership of all Content you submit, post, display or otherwise make available on the Services.
Last updated: October 1st, 2018