Website Terms of Use

Website Terms of Use

1. About these Terms

These Website Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your access to and use of sozaventures.com (the "Site").

The Site is operated by SOZA Ventures LLC ("SOZA Ventures", "we", "us" or "our"), a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Florida, United States.

SOZA Ventures LLC

Florida Document No. L23000542724

18117 Biscayne Boulevard #1434

Miami, FL 33160

United States

Email: hello@sozaventures.com

By accessing or using the Site, you agree to these Terms.

If you do not agree to these Terms, you should not use the Site.

Additional terms apply when you purchase Consulting Services through the Site, including our Consulting Services Terms and Cancellation & Refund Policy.

2. What this Site is

The Site is the corporate website of SOZA Ventures LLC.

It provides information about SOZA Ventures, its activities, brands, businesses, portfolio and related ventures, and may also offer certain professional consulting services for purchase.

Consulting Services purchased directly through the Site are governed by the Consulting Services Terms, Cancellation & Refund Policy and any applicable service description presented at the time of purchase.

Other products or services offered through separate websites, platforms, brands or businesses associated with SOZA Ventures may be governed by separate terms and policies applicable to those services.

3. No Investment Offer

Nothing on the Site constitutes an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security, membership interest or other investment in SOZA Ventures LLC or any other entity.

Any securities offering, if ever made, would be made only through appropriate definitive offering documentation and in accordance with applicable law.

4. No Professional Legal, Tax, Accounting or Investment Advice

Unless expressly provided under a separate written agreement, nothing published on the Site constitutes:

• legal advice;
• tax advice;
• accounting advice;
• securities advice;
• investment advice;
• financial advisory services; or
• another regulated professional service.

Information published on the Site should not be relied upon as a substitute for advice from an appropriately qualified professional.

Purchasing business, technology, marketing or strategic consulting from SOZA Ventures does not create an attorney-client, accountant-client, investment adviser-client or similar regulated professional relationship.

5. Forward-Looking Statements

Statements concerning our businesses, strategies, plans, objectives, expectations, anticipated developments or future activities reflect our views, plans or intentions at the time they are published.

They are not commitments, guarantees or predictions of future performance.

Actual circumstances and results may differ materially.

Unless required by applicable law, SOZA Ventures has no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.

6. Eligibility

You may use the Site only if you are legally capable of entering into a binding agreement under applicable law.

Purchases of Consulting Services are limited to persons who are at least 18 years old and who are purchasing primarily for business, commercial or professional purposes.

7. Permitted Use

Subject to these Terms, SOZA Ventures grants you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive and non-transferable right to access and use the Site for lawful purposes.

You may view publicly available content and share links to publicly available pages.

You may not:

• use the Site for any unlawful, fraudulent or abusive purpose;
• violate applicable laws or regulations;
• attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site, its servers, networks, databases or connected systems;
• circumvent security or access controls;
• introduce malware, viruses or malicious code;
• interfere with, overload or disrupt the operation of the Site;
• attempt to test the vulnerability of systems without authorization;
• impersonate SOZA Ventures or another person or entity;
• misrepresent your affiliation with SOZA Ventures;
• scrape, harvest or systematically extract substantial portions of the Site for creation of a competing database, website, service or commercial product;
• reverse engineer Site functionality except where such restriction is prohibited by law;
• use Site content in a manner that violates intellectual property or other rights; or
• assist another person in doing any of the foregoing.

Ordinary indexing by general-purpose Internet search engines in compliance with our technical instructions is not prohibited.

8. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise indicated, the Site and its contents are owned by or licensed to SOZA Ventures.

This includes, without limitation:

• text;
• graphics;
• photographs;
• illustrations;
• videos;
• software;
• website code;
• user interface elements;
• design;
• layout;
• databases;
• documentation;
• logos;
• brand names;
• trademarks; and
• other materials.

These materials may be protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property laws.

Your use of the Site does not transfer ownership of any intellectual property to you.

You may quote brief excerpts of publicly available content for legitimate commentary, reference, journalism or similar purposes where permitted by law, provided that appropriate attribution is given and the quotation is not misleading.

You may not reproduce, republish, distribute, adapt, sell, license or commercially exploit substantial portions of the Site without our prior written permission.

Nothing in these Terms grants you any license to use the SOZA Ventures name, logo, trademarks or branding.

9. Brands, Businesses and Affiliated Companies

The Site may describe brands, business lines, subsidiaries, affiliated entities, portfolio companies and other ventures associated with SOZA Ventures ("Portfolio Businesses").

Some Portfolio Businesses may be brands or business lines operated directly by SOZA Ventures LLC.

Others may be separate legal entities.

The appearance of a Portfolio Business on the Site does not by itself create or alter any:

• partnership;
• joint venture;
• agency;
• fiduciary relationship;
• guarantee; or
• other legal relationship.

Where a Portfolio Business is operated by a separate legal entity, that entity remains responsible for its own obligations, products, services and conduct except where SOZA Ventures has expressly assumed responsibility or applicable law provides otherwise.

Where a brand or service is operated directly by SOZA Ventures LLC, its applicable terms will identify SOZA Ventures LLC as the relevant contracting entity.

10. Third-Party Websites and Services

The Site may contain links to websites, platforms, applications or services operated by third parties or Portfolio Businesses.

Those services may have their own terms, privacy policies and practices.

A link does not necessarily mean that SOZA Ventures endorses or controls the linked service.

We are not responsible for the availability, security, accuracy, content or practices of third-party services that we do not operate.

Third-party names, logos and trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.

11. Consulting Services

Certain professional consulting services may be purchased directly through the Site.

Consulting Services may include advice concerning areas such as:

• technology;
• information technology;
• business strategy;
• business development;
• entrepreneurship;
• market analysis;
• market positioning;
• branding;
• marketing;
• digital marketing;
• technology infrastructure;
• digital products; and
• related strategic matters.

The purchase and provision of Consulting Services are additionally governed by our Consulting Services Terms.

12. Prices and Payments

Prices are displayed before payment is submitted.

Unless otherwise stated, prices are denominated in United States dollars (USD).

Prices may be exclusive of applicable taxes unless the checkout expressly states otherwise.

Where required by law, applicable taxes may be calculated and added at checkout.

Payments may be processed through third-party payment processors, including Stripe.

By submitting a payment, you authorize the applicable payment processor to charge the payment method you provide for the amount displayed at checkout.

SOZA Ventures does not generally receive or store complete payment card numbers where payments are processed through a properly configured third-party payment processor.

We may receive limited transaction information such as:

• payment status;
• transaction identifiers;
• payment method type;
• last digits of a payment card;
• billing information; and
• fraud or risk indicators.

SOZA Ventures is not responsible for service interruptions or delays caused solely by third-party financial institutions, card networks or payment processors.

13. No Automatic Renewal Unless Expressly Stated

The standard Starter and Advanced Consulting packages are one-time purchases.

They do not automatically renew.

SOZA Ventures will not automatically charge the Client for a new Consulting package unless a separate recurring service is expressly offered and accepted.

14. Order Acceptance

Submission of payment does not obligate SOZA Ventures to accept a Consulting engagement.

We may decline an engagement where, for example:

• the engagement would be unlawful;
• a conflict of interest exists;
• the requested services fall outside our reasonable capabilities;
• the Client has provided materially misleading information;
• providing the engagement could create material security, ethical or regulatory concerns; or
• we otherwise reasonably determine that we cannot provide the service.

If we decline an engagement before services have begun, payments received for that engagement will be refunded.

15. Cancellation and Refunds

Purchases of Consulting Services are subject to our Cancellation & Refund Policy.

You should review that Policy before completing a purchase.

16. Accuracy of Site Information

We take reasonable care in preparing information published on the Site.

However, information may contain errors, omissions or become outdated.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not warrant that all Site information is accurate, complete, current or suitable for every purpose.

We may modify, update or remove Site content at any time.

17. Site Availability

We do not guarantee that the Site will always be:

• available;
• uninterrupted;
• secure;
• error-free; or
• free from harmful components.

We may suspend, restrict, modify or discontinue all or part of the Site where reasonably necessary.

18. Disclaimer of Warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Site and its publicly available information are provided "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE."

SOZA Ventures disclaims all warranties and representations, whether express, implied or statutory, including implied warranties of:

• merchantability;
• fitness for a particular purpose;
• title;
• non-infringement;
• accuracy; and
• availability.

Some jurisdictions do not permit exclusion of certain warranties.

In those jurisdictions, these exclusions apply only to the maximum extent permitted by law.

19. Limitation of Liability for Website Use

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, SOZA Ventures LLC and its members, managers, officers, employees, contractors and agents will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages arising from your general use of the Site.

This includes loss of:

• profits;
• revenue;
• business;
• opportunities;
• data;
• goodwill; or
• reputation.

For claims arising solely from use of the publicly available portions of the Site and not from paid Consulting Services, SOZA Ventures' aggregate liability will not exceed US$100.

Liability relating to paid Consulting Services is governed separately by the Consulting Services Terms.

Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that applicable law does not permit to be excluded or limited.

20. Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify and hold harmless SOZA Ventures LLC and its members, managers, officers, employees and agents from third-party claims, liabilities, damages and reasonable expenses arising from:

• your unlawful use of the Site;
• your material violation of these Terms; or
• your infringement of another person's intellectual property or legal rights through your use of the Site.

This section does not require indemnification where prohibited by applicable law.

21. Privacy

Our collection and use of personal information are described in our Privacy Policy.

Our use of cookies and similar technologies is described in our Cookie Policy.

22. Electronic Transactions

You agree that transactions relating to the Site and Consulting Services may be conducted electronically.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, electronic communications, records, confirmations and acceptance processes may satisfy legal requirements for written communications or signatures.

23. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Website Terms from time to time.

Changes generally apply prospectively from the date they are published.

The date at the top of these Terms identifies the current version.

Changes to Website Terms will not retroactively alter material contractual rights relating to an already purchased Consulting package except where:

• you agree to the change;
• the change is required by law; or
• the change does not materially reduce your existing contractual rights.

24. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms and disputes arising from general use of the Site are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, without regard to conflict-of-law principles.

Subject to rights that cannot lawfully be waived, legal proceedings will be brought exclusively in:

• the appropriate state courts located in Miami-Dade County, Florida; or
• where federal jurisdiction exists, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

You consent to the personal jurisdiction and venue of those courts.

If mandatory law gives you rights that cannot lawfully be waived, nothing in these Terms eliminates those rights.

25. Severability

If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, the provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted by law and the remaining provisions will remain effective.

26. No Waiver

Failure by SOZA Ventures to enforce a provision does not waive its right to enforce that provision later.

27. Entire Agreement for Website Use

These Website Terms constitute the agreement concerning general use of the Site.

Purchases of Consulting Services are additionally governed by the Consulting Services Terms and Cancellation & Refund Policy.

A separately signed agreement or Statement of Work may supersede portions of these documents for a specific engagement.

28. Contact

SOZA Ventures LLC

Florida Document No. L23000542724

18117 Biscayne Boulevard #1434

Miami, FL 33160

United States

Email: hello@sozaventures.com