Terms of Use
Last updated: January 18, 2025
AGREEMENT TO OUR LEGAL TERMS
We are HIVE
We operate the mobile application HIVE
HIVE is the ultimate app for discovering and organizing local events that bring people together. In HIVE you can host and join events. Whether you’re looking to attend a casual meetup, join a fitness class, or find a networking event, HIVE makes it easy to connect with like-minded individuals in your community.
You can contact us by email at hiveapp.connect@gmail.com
These Legal Terms constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (‘you’), and HIVE, concerning your access to and use of the Services. You agree that by accessing the Services, you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by all of these Legal Terms. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THESE LEGAL TERMS, THEN YOU ARE EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED FROM USING THE SERVICES AND YOU MUST DISCONTINUE USE IMMEDIATELY.
Supplemental terms and conditions or documents that may be posted on the Services from time to time are hereby expressly incorporated herein by reference. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to make changes or modifications to these Legal Terms at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the ‘Last updated’ date of these Legal Terms, and you waive any right to receive specific notice of each such change. It is your responsibility to periodically review these Legal Terms to stay informed of updates. You will be subject to, and will be deemed to have been made aware of and to have accepted, the changes in any revised Legal Terms by your continued use of the Services after the date such revised Legal Terms are posted.
The Services are intended for users who are at least 13 years of age. All users who are minors in the jurisdiction in which they reside (generally under the age of 18) must have the permission of, and be directly supervised by, their parent or guardian to use the Services. If you are a minor, you must have your parent or guardian read and agree to these Legal Terms prior to you using the Services.
We recommend that you print a copy of these Legal Terms for your records.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
OUR SERVICES
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
USER REPRESENTATIONS
USER REGISTRATION
PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES
USER GENERATED CONTRIBUTIONS
CONTRIBUTION LICENCE
MOBILE APPLICATION LICENCE
SOCIAL MEDIA
SERVICES MANAGEMENT
PRIVACY POLICY
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENTS
TERM AND TERMINATION
MODIFICATIONS AND INTERRUPTIONS
GOVERNING LAW
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
CORRECTIONS
DISCLAIMER
LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
INDEMNIFICATION
USER DATA
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSACTIONS, AND SIGNATURES
MISCELLANEOUS
CONTACT US
1. OUR SERVICES
The information provided when using HIVE is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject us to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country. Accordingly, those persons who choose to use HIVE from other locations do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.
2. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Our intellectual property:
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our app, including all source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics in HIVE (collectively, the ‘Content’), as well as the trademarks, service marks, and logos contained there (the ‘Marks’).
Your use of our Services:
Subject to your compliance with these Legal Terms, including the ‘PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES’ section below, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to:
- Download the app and
- Download or print a copy of any portion of the Content to which you have properly gained access, solely for your personal, non-commercial use or internal business purpose.
Except as set out in this section or elsewhere in our Legal Terms, no part of the Services and no Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written permission.
Your submissions and contributions:
By directly sending us any question, comment, suggestion, idea, feedback, or other information about the Services (‘Submissions’), you agree to assign to us all intellectual property rights in such Submission. You agree that we shall own this Submission and be entitled to its unrestricted use and dissemination for any lawful purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you.
3. USER REPRESENTATIONS
By using HIVE you represent and warrant that:
- All registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current, and complete;
- You will maintain the accuracy of such information and promptly update such registration information as necessary;
- You have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Legal Terms;
- You are not under the age of 13;
- You are not a minor in the jurisdiction in which you reside, or if a minor, you have received parental permission to use the Services;
- You will not access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script or otherwise;
- You will not use the Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose; and
- Your use of the Services will not violate any applicable law or regulation.
4. USER REGISTRATION
You may be required to register to use the Services. You agree to keep your password confidential and will be responsible for all use of your account and password. We reserve the right to remove, reclaim, or change a username you select if we determine, in our sole discretion, that such username is inappropriate, obscene, or otherwise objectionable.
5. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES
You may not access or use HIVE for any purpose other than that for which we make the app available. HIVE may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by us.
As a user of the Services, you agree not to:
- Systematically retrieve data or other content from the app to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us.
- Trick, defraud, or mislead us and other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information such as user passwords.
- Circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the app, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on the use of the Services and/or the Content contained therein.
- Disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the app
- Use any information obtained from the app in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person.
- Make improper use of our support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.
- Use the app in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations.
- Engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to HIVE
- Upload or transmit viruses, Trojan horses, or other material that interferes with any party’s uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the app or modifies, impairs, disrupts, alters, or interferes with the use, features, functions, operation, or maintenance of the Services.
- Create fraudulent events to mislead, deceive, or enact unlawful acts of any kind.
- Impersonate others who may or may not be a user in the app.
6. USER GENERATED CONTRIBUTIONS
HIVE may invite you to chat, contribute to, or participate in blogs, message boards, online forums, and other functionality, and may provide you with the opportunity to create, submit, post, display, transmit, perform, publish, distribute, or broadcast content and materials to us or on the platform, including but not limited to text, writings, photographs, graphics, comments or personal information or other material (collectively, ‘Contributions’). Contributions may be viewable by other users of the app. As such, any Contributions you transmit may be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary.
When you create or make available any Contributions, you thereby represent and warrant that:
- The creation, distribution, transmission, public display, or performance, and the accessing, downloading, or copying of your Contributions do not and will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or moral rights of any third party.
- You are the creator and owner of or have the necessary licences, rights, consents, releases, and permissions to use and to authorise us, the Services, and other users of the Services to use your Contributions in any manner contemplated by the Services and these Legal Terms.
- You have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in your Contributions to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of your Contributions in any manner contemplated by the Services and these Legal Terms.
- Your Contributions are not false, inaccurate, or misleading.
- Your Contributions are not unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, pyramid schemes, chain letters, spam, mass mailings, or other forms of solicitation.
- Your Contributions are not obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing, libellous, slanderous, or otherwise objectionable (as determined by us).
- Your Contributions do not ridicule, mock, disparage, intimidate, or abuse anyone.
- Your Contributions are not used to harass or threaten (in the legal sense of those terms) any other person and to promote violence against a specific person or class of people.
- Your Contributions do not violate any applicable law, regulation, or rule.
- Your Contributions do not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party.
- Your Contributions do not violate any applicable law concerning child pornography, or otherwise intended to protect the health or well-being of minors.
- Your Contributions do not include any offensive comments that are connected to race, national origin, gender, sexual preference, or physical handicap.
- Your Contributions do not otherwise violate, or link to material that violates, any provision of these Legal Terms, or any applicable law or regulation.
Any use of the app in violation of the foregoing violates these Legal Terms and may result in, among other things, termination or suspension of your rights to use the app.
7. CONTRIBUTION LICENCE
By posting your Contributions to any part of the app or making Contributions accessible to the app by linking your account from the app to any of your social networking accounts, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to us an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide right, and licence to:
- Host, use, copy, reproduce, disclose, archive, store, cache, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, transmit, excerpt (in whole or in part), and distribute such Contributions (including, without limitation, your image and voice) for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise,
- Prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such Contributions, and grant and authorise sublicences of the foregoing.
The use and distribution may occur in any media formats and through any media channels. This licence will apply to any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed, and includes our use of your name, company name, and franchise name, as applicable, and any of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos, and personal and commercial images you provide.
You waive all moral rights in your Contributions, and you warrant that moral rights have not otherwise been asserted in your Contributions.
We do not assert any ownership over your Contributions. You retain full ownership of all of your Contributions and any intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights associated with your Contributions. We are not liable for any statements or representations in your Contributions provided by you in any area in the app.
You are solely responsible for your Contributions to the Services and you expressly agree to exonerate us from any and all responsibility and to refrain from any legal action against us regarding your Contributions.
We have the right, in our sole and absolute discretion:
- To edit, redact, or otherwise change any Contributions;
- To re-categorise any Contributions to place them in more appropriate locations in the app
- To pre-screen or delete any Contributions at any time and for any reason, without notice.
We have no obligation to monitor your Contributions.
8. MOBILE APPLICATION LICENCE
Use Licence
If you access the App, then we grant you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to install and use the App on wireless electronic devices owned or controlled by you, and to access and use the App on such devices strictly in accordance with the terms and conditions of this mobile application licence contained in these Legal Terms. You shall not:
- Except as permitted by applicable law, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, or decrypt the App;
- Make any modification, adaptation, improvement, enhancement, translation, or derivative work from the App;
- Violate any applicable laws, rules, or regulations in connection with your access or use of the App;
- Remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notice (including any notice of copyright or trademark) posted by us or the licensors of the App;
- Use the App for any revenue-generating endeavour, commercial enterprise, or other purpose for which it is not designed or intended;
- Make the App available over a network or other environment permitting access or use by multiple devices or users at the same time;
- Use the App for creating a product, service, or software that is, directly or indirectly, competitive with or in any way a substitute for the App;
- Use the App to send automated queries to any website or to send any unsolicited commercial email; or
- Use any proprietary information or any of our interfaces or our other intellectual property in the design, development, manufacture, licensing, or distribution of any applications, accessories, or devices for use with the App.
Apple Devices
The following terms apply when you use the App obtained from the Apple Store to access the Services:
- The licence granted to you for our App is limited to a non-transferable licence to use the application on a device that utilises the Apple iOS operating systems, as applicable, and in accordance with the usage rules set forth in the applicable App Distributor’s terms of service;
- We are responsible for providing any maintenance and support services with respect to the App as specified in the terms and conditions of this mobile application licence contained in these Legal Terms or as otherwise required under applicable law, and you acknowledge that each App Distributor has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to the App;
- In the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify the applicable App Distributor, and the App Distributor, in accordance with its terms and policies, may refund the purchase price, if any, paid for the App, and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the App Distributor will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App;
- You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to a US government embargo, or that has been designated by the US government as a ‘terrorist supporting’ country and (ii) you are not listed on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties;
- You must comply with applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the App, e.g. if you have a VoIP application, then you must not be in violation of their wireless data service agreement when using the App; and
- You acknowledge and agree that the App Distributors are third-party beneficiaries of the terms and conditions in this mobile application licence contained in these Legal Terms, and that each App Distributor will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce the terms and conditions in this mobile application licence contained in these Legal Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary thereof.
9. SOCIAL MEDIA
As part of the functionality of the Services, you may link your account with online accounts you have with third-party service providers (each such account, a ‘Third-Party Account’) by either:
- Providing your Third-Party Account login information through the Services; or
- Allowing us to access your Third-Party Account, as is permitted under the applicable terms and conditions that govern your use of each Third-Party Account.
You represent and warrant that you are entitled to disclose your Third-Party Account login information to us and/or grant us access to your Third-Party Account, without breach by you of any of the terms and conditions that govern your use of the applicable Third-Party Account, and without obligating us to pay any fees or making us subject to any usage limitations imposed by the third-party service provider of the Third-Party Account.
By granting us access to any Third-Party Accounts, you understand that:
- We may access, make available, and store (if applicable) any content that you have provided to and stored in your Third-Party Account (the ‘Social Network Content’) so that it is available on and through the Services via your account, including without limitation any friend lists and
- We may submit to and receive from your Third-Party Account additional information to the extent you are notified when you link your account with the Third-Party Account.
Depending on the Third-Party Accounts you choose and subject to the privacy settings that you have set in such Third-Party Accounts, personally identifiable information that you post to your Third-Party Accounts may be available on and through your account on the Services.
Please note that if a Third-Party Account or associated service becomes unavailable or our access to such Third-Party Account is terminated by the third-party service provider, then Social Network Content may no longer be available on and through the Services. You will have the ability to disable the connection between your account on the Services and your Third-Party Accounts at any time.
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR THIRD-PARTY ACCOUNTS IS GOVERNED SOLELY BY YOUR AGREEMENT(S) WITH SUCH THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS. We make no effort to review any Social Network Content for any purpose, including but not limited to, for accuracy, legality, or non-infringement, and we are not responsible for any Social Network Content.
You acknowledge and agree that we may access your email address book associated with a Third-Party Account and your contacts list stored on your mobile device or tablet computer solely for purposes of identifying and informing you of those contacts who have also registered to use the Services. You can deactivate the connection between the Services and your Third-Party Account by contacting us using the contact information below or through your account settings (if applicable). We will attempt to delete any information stored on our servers that was obtained through such Third-Party Account, except the username and profile picture that become associated with your account.
10. SERVICES MANAGEMENT
We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to:
- Monitor the app for violations of these Legal Terms;
- Take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in our sole discretion, violates the law or these Legal Terms, including without limitation, reporting such user to law enforcement authorities;
- In our sole discretion and without limitation, refuse, restrict access to, limit the availability of, or disable (to the extent technologically feasible) any of your Contributions or any portion thereof;
- In our sole discretion and without limitation, notice, or liability, to remove from the app or otherwise disable all files and content that are excessive in size or are in any way burdensome to our systems; and
- Otherwise manage the Services in a manner designed to protect our rights and property and to facilitate the proper functioning of the app
11. PRIVACY POLICY
We care about data privacy and security. By using the app, you agree to be bound by our Privacy Policy of the app. Please be advised the Services are hosted in Thailand. If you access the app from any other region of the world with laws or other requirements governing personal data collection, use, or disclosure that differ from applicable laws in Thailand, then through your continued use of the Services, you are transferring your data to Thailand, and you expressly consent to have your data transferred to and processed in Thailand.
12. COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENTS
We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any material available on or through the Services infringes upon any copyright you own or control, please immediately notify us using the contact information provided below (a ‘Notification’). A copy of your Notification will be sent to the person who posted or stored the material addressed in the Notification.
Please be advised that pursuant to applicable law you may be held liable for damages if you make material misrepresentations in a Notification. Thus, if you are not sure that material located on or linked to by the Services infringes your copyright, you should consider first contacting an attorney.
13. TERM AND TERMINATION
These Legal Terms shall remain in full force and effect while you use the app. WITHOUT LIMITING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THESE LEGAL TERMS, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION AND WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY, DENY ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE SERVICES (INCLUDING BLOCKING CERTAIN IP ADDRESSES), TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY REASON OR FOR NO REASON, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION FOR BREACH OF ANY REPRESENTATION, WARRANTY, OR COVENANT CONTAINED IN THESE LEGAL TERMS OR OF ANY APPLICABLE LAW OR REGULATION.
WE MAY TERMINATE YOUR USE OR PARTICIPATION IN THE SERVICES OR DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT AND ANY CONTENT OR INFORMATION THAT YOU POSTED AT ANY TIME, WITHOUT WARNING, IN OUR SOLE DISCRETION.
If we terminate or suspend your account for any reason, you are prohibited from registering and creating a new account under your name, a fake or borrowed name, or the name of any third party, even if you may be acting on behalf of the third party. In addition to terminating or suspending your account, we reserve the right to take appropriate legal action, including without limitation pursuing civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.
14. MODIFICATIONS AND INTERRUPTIONS
We reserve the right to modify, update, or remove any part of the app at our discretion, without prior notice. We are not obligated to keep the app updated or maintain them. We will not be liable for any changes, interruptions, or discontinuations of the app. We cannot guarantee that the app will always be available, and downtime may occur due to maintenance or technical issues. You acknowledge that we are not responsible for any loss or inconvenience resulting from such interruptions.
15. GOVERNING LAW
These Legal Terms are governed by the laws of Thailand. Any disputes will be resolved in the courts of Thailand.
12. DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Informal Negotiations: If a dispute arises, both parties agree to attempt informal negotiations for at least 30 days before initiating formal action.
Binding Arbitration: Disputes will be resolved by arbitration at the International Commercial Arbitration Court (Belgium), according to their rules. The arbitration will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, and be conducted in English or Thai.
Restrictions: Arbitration will be individual and cannot be combined with other claims or conducted as a class action.
Exceptions: Certain disputes, like intellectual property rights issues or claims for injunctive relief, are excluded from arbitration and may be brought to a court of competent jurisdiction.
17. CORRECTIONS
We may correct errors, inaccuracies, or omissions in the app at any time without prior notice.
18. DISCLAIMER
The Services are provided “as-is” and “as-available.” We disclaim all warranties, including those related to accuracy, completeness, and security. We are not liable for any errors, injuries, or losses arising from your use of the app or from third-party services linked to the app.
19. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
We are not liable for any direct or indirect damages arising from the use of the app, including lost profits or data loss. Our liability is limited to the lesser of the amount paid by you for the app in the past month or as required by applicable laws.
20. INDEMNIFICATION
You agree to indemnify us against any claims, losses, or damages resulting from your use of the app, your contributions, or any breach of these Legal Terms.
21. USER DATA
You are responsible for the data you transmit or use with the app. We are not liable for any loss or corruption of your data.
22. ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, TRANSACTIONS, AND SIGNATURES
By using the Services, you consent to receive electronic communications and agree that all agreements and notices can be provided electronically.
23. MISCELLANEOUS
These Legal Terms constitute the full agreement between you and us. We may transfer our rights and obligations to others at any time. If any part of these Terms is deemed unenforceable, the remainder will still apply. There is no partnership or employment relationship created by these Terms.
24. CONTACT US
For complaints or more information regarding the Services, please contact us at:
HIVE Thailand
hiveapp.connect@gmail.com