Terms of service
Terms of Service
Last updated: March 23, 2023
Please read these Terms of Service carefully before using our service.
Acknowledgment
These are the Terms of Service governing the use of this service and the agreement that operates between you and the company. These Terms of Service set out the rights and obligations of all users regarding the use of the service.
Your access to and use of the service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms of Service. These Terms of Service apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use the service.
By accessing or using the service you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you disagree with any part of these Terms of Service, you may not access the service.
You represent that you are over the age of 18. The company does not permit those under 18 to use the service.
Your access to and use of the service is also conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with the Privacy Policy of the company. Our Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information when you use the application or the website and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects You. Please read our Privacy Policy carefully before using our service.
Your Account
You may need to create an account to use some of our services, which requires you to provide us with a username, password, and certain other information about yourself. You are responsible for keeping your account safe by using strong password and keeping it secured. You must immediately notify us if you discover or suspect that someone has accessed your account without your permission. You agree that you will not license, sell, or transfer your account without our prior written approval.
As an alternative to registering directly with the website or application, we give you the option to register and login to your account via one of your accounts with social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter or Google.
Content on the Services
You are accountable for your use of the services and for any content you provide, including compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations. You should only provide content that you are compliant sharing with others. Any ideas, suggestions, and feedback about our services that you provide to us are entirely voluntary, and you agree that we may use such ideas, suggestions, and feedback without compensation or obligation to you.
Any use or trust on any content or materials posted via the services or obtained by you through the services is at your own risk. We do not support or guarantee the comprehensiveness, trustworthiness, correctness, or reliability of any content or communications posted via the services or commend any opinions expressed via the services. You understand that by using the service, you may be exposed to content that might be offensive, harmful, deceptive, inexact, or otherwise inappropriate or mislabelled. The person who posted the content is entirely responsible for the content. We cannot take responsibility for such content.
We reserve the right to remove content that violates the Terms, including for example copyright or trademark violations or other intellectual property misuse, impersonation, illegal behaviour, or harassment. Also, please note that if you knowingly misrepresent that any activity or material on our service is harmful, you may be liable for certain costs and damages.
By posting content on the service, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, copy, reproduce, process, modify, publish, display and distribute such content in any media or distribution methods now known or later developed by us.
Your Commitments to WallStreetTrends
We require you to make the following commitments:
You create only one account (your own) and use it for personal purposes
You do not share your password, give access to your account to others, or transfer your account to anyone else
You cannot use WallStreetTrends if:
You are under 18 years old
You are a convicted sex offender
We've previously disabled your account for breaches of our Terms or Rules that apply to your use of WallStreetTrends. If we disable your account for a violation of our Terms or Rules, you agree not to create another account without our permission.
You are prohibited from receiving our products, services, or software under applicable laws
You may not use our products to do or share anything:
That breaches these Terms or Rules that apply to your use of our products
That is unlawful, misleading, discriminatory, or fraudulent (or assists someone else in using our products in such a way)
That you do not own or have the necessary rights to share
That violates or breaches someone else's rights, including their intellectual property rights (such as by violating another’s copyright or trademark, or distributing or selling counterfeit or pirated goods), unless an exception or limitation applies under applicable law
You may not upload viruses or malicious code, use the services to send spam, or do anything else that could disable, overburden, interfere with, or impair the proper working, integrity, operation, or appearance of our services, systems, or products
You may not access or collect data from our products using automated means (without our prior permission) or attempt to access data (for example another user’s account) you do not have permission to access. We also reserve all rights against text and data mining.
You may not proxy, request, or collect product usernames or passwords, or misappropriate access tokens
You may not sell, license, or purchase any data obtained from us or our services
You may not misuse any reporting, flagging, dispute, or appeals channel, such as by making fraudulent, duplicative, or groundless reports or appeals
You may not access the services or content in order to build a similar or competitive website, product, or service
You consider reporting content or conduct that you believe breaches your rights (including intellectual property rights) or our terms and policies if this feature exists in your jurisdiction
We also need certain permissions from you to provide our services:
Permission to use content you create and share
Note: you retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (things like copyright or trademarks) in any such content that you create and share
Permission to use your name, profile picture, and information about your actions with ads and sponsored or commercial content
Permission to update software you use or download
Controllers
At WallStreetTrends anyone who starts a discussion may operate as a controller of the discussion if that person wishes so. This means in practise that you may pin your selection of comments regarding that discussion. This is a voluntary position that may be available to users of the services. We are not responsible for actions taken by the controllers. We reserve the right to disable or limit a user’s ability to control at any time and for any reason, including for a violation of these Terms.
If you choose to control a discussion:
You agree to strictly follow the Terms and Rules
You agree that you will not pin comments containing content that violates any of our policies
You are not, and may not represent that you are, authorized to act on behalf of WallStreetTrends
You may not enter into any agreement with a third party on behalf of WallStreetTrends, without our written approval
You may not perform controlling actions in return for any form of compensation, consideration, gift, or favour from third parties
WallStreetTrends reserves the right, but has no obligation, to overturn any action or decision of a controller if WallStreetTrends believes that such action or decision is not in the interest of WallStreetTrends
Intellectual Property
The services are owned by WallStreetTrends. The visual interfaces, graphics, design, compilation, information, data, computer code, products, services, trademarks, and all other elements of the services provided by WallStreetTrends are protected by intellectual property and other laws.
Links to Other Websites
Our service may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by the company. The company has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that the company shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such websites or services. We strongly advise you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third-party websites or services that you visit.
Termination
You may end your legal agreement with WallStreetTrends at any time by deactivating your account and discontinuing your use of the services.
We may terminate or suspend your access immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation, if you breach these Terms of Service. Upon termination, your right to use the service will cease immediately.
Indemnity Clause
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold WallStreetTrends, its affiliates, and their respective executives, employees, affiliates, contractors, third-party service providers, and licensors harmless from and against any claim or demand made by any third party, and any related liability, damage, loss, and expense due to: (i) your use of the services, (ii) your violation of these Terms, (iii) your violation of applicable laws or regulations, or (iiii) your content. We reserve the right to control the defence of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate with our defence of these claims.
Limitation of Liability
Notwithstanding any damages that you might incur, the entire liability of the company and any of its suppliers under any provision of this Terms and your exclusive remedy for all of the foregoing shall be limited to the amount actually paid by you through the service or 100 USD if you haven't purchased anything through the service.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall the company or its suppliers be liable for any special, incidental, indirect, or consequential damages whatsoever (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, loss of data or other information, for business interruption, for personal injury, loss of privacy arising out of or in any way related to the use of or inability to use the service, third-party software and/or third-party hardware used with the service, or otherwise in connection with any provision of this Terms), even if the company or any supplier has been advised of the possibility of such damages and even if the remedy fails of its essential purpose.
"AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" Disclaimer
The service is provided to you "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" and with all faults and defects without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted under applicable law, the company, on its own behalf and on behalf of its affiliates and its and their respective licensors and service providers, expressly disclaims all warranties, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, with respect to the service, including all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement, and warranties that may arise out of course of dealing, course of performance, usage or trade practice. Without limitation to the foregoing, the company provides no warranty or undertaking, and makes no representation of any kind that the service will meet your requirements, achieve any intended results, be compatible or work with any other software, applications, systems or services, operate without interruption, meet any performance or reliability standards or be error free or that any errors or defects can or will be corrected.
Without limiting the foregoing, neither the company nor any of the company's provider makes any representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied: (i) as to the operation or availability of the service, or the information, content, and materials or products included thereon; (ii) that the service will be uninterrupted or error-free; (iii) as to the accuracy, reliability, or currency of any information or content provided through the service; or (iv) that the service, its servers, the content, or emails sent from or on behalf of the company are free of viruses, scripts, trojan horses, worms, malware, timebombs or other harmful components.
The services may change at our discretion, and we may also stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the services or any features within the services to you or to users generally. We also retain the right to create limits on use and storage at our sole discretion at any time. We may also remove or refuse to distribute any content on the services, limit distribution or visibility of any content on the service, suspend or terminate users, and reclaim usernames without liability to you.
Market Information
Market Information (including, but not limited to, votes of the community, posts of the community, or actual stock market prices) provided on the services is not intended as an investment advice. WallStreetTrends does not endorse or approve the Market Information, and we make it available to you only as a service for your own convenience. WallStreetTrends and its third-party providers do not guarantee the accuracy, timeliness, completeness or correct sequencing of the Market Information, or warrant any results from your use or reliance on the Market Information. Neither WallStreetTrends nor the third-party providers are obligated to update any information or opinions contained in any Market Information, and we may discontinue offering Market Information at any time without notice. You agree that neither WallStreetTrends nor the third-party providers will be liable in any way for the termination, interruption, delay or inaccuracy of any Market Information.
With regard to any Market Information displayed on the services, you hereby represent and warrant that you shall not: (i) copy, store, sell, license, distribute, transmit or duplicate to any third-party or to any person any Market Information or any part thereof in any form or by any means; (ii) make the Market Information available on any website or in an application, or available to the public via the internet or otherwise; (iii) use the Market Information for the purpose of creating and/or operating (directly or by any third-party) any financial product, index or service, or in any other manner without WallStreetTrends or its applicable third-party providers' permission.
No Market Information or other information on the services is to be interpreted as financial advice or a recommendation. The content of the service is for informational purposes only. You should not interpret any such information as investment, financial or other advice. Nothing contained on our website constitutes a request, recommendation, or endorsement by WallStreetTrends or any third-party service provider to buy or sell any securities or other financial instruments.
Under no circumstances the user of the service is allowed to vote or post comment(s) for the purpose of provoking or otherwise coordinating a group buying effort in order to move the market for a security or other financial instrument. Encouraging others to buy or sell any securities or other financial instruments is strictly prohibited. Any such a behaviour will not be accepted, and such user accounts, votes or posts will be immediately deleted. The users of the service agree to immediately report any content that may breach these rules.
Governing Law
The laws of the country in question, excluding its conflicts of law rules, shall govern this Terms and your use of the service. Your use of the service may also be subject to other local, state, national, or international laws.
Disputes Resolution
If you have any concern or dispute about the service, you agree to first try to resolve the dispute informally by contacting the company.
For European Union (EU) Users
If you are a European Union consumer, you will benefit from any mandatory provisions of the law of the country in which you are resident in.
United States Legal Compliance
You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to the United States government embargo, or that has been designated by the United States government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and (ii) you are not listed on any United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
Severability and Waiver
Severability
If any provision of these Terms is held to be unenforceable or invalid, such provision will be changed and interpreted to accomplish the objectives of such provision to the greatest extent possible under applicable law and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.
Waiver
Except as provided herein, the failure to exercise a right or to require performance of an obligation under these Terms shall not affect a party's ability to exercise such right or require such performance at any time thereafter nor shall the waiver of a breach constitute a waiver of any subsequent breach.
Translation Interpretation
These Terms of Service may have been translated if we have made them available to you on our service. You agree that the original English text shall prevail in the case of a dispute.
Changes to These Terms of Service
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material, we will make reasonable efforts to provide at least 30 days' notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.
By continuing to access or use our service after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, in whole or in part, please stop using the website and the service.
Miscellaneous Terms
Some of the products we offer may also be governed by supplemental terms. If you use any of these products, you will be provided with an opportunity to agree to supplemental terms that will become part of our agreement with you.
We may need to change the username for your account in certain circumstances (for example, if someone else claims the username or the name violates the Terms)
These terms apply also if you access or use our products for any commercial or business purpose
If you added your phone number to your account and you later change or deactivate that phone number, you must update your account information to help prevent us from communicating with anyone who acquires your old number
Contact Information
For any questions or concerns regarding these Terms of Service, you can contact us by visiting this page on our website:
https://wallstreettrends.com/contact
The Rules
Every user of the website should comply with the legal obligations and respect the safety and privacy of WallStreetTrends users and other people. Therefore, we have set these rules to remind you about the dos and don’ts.
Rule 1
Be polite and kind. Do not exercise hate speech, discrimination, harassment, or threatening with violence. Also the glorification of such topics is prohibited.
Rule 2
Respect the privacy of others. Do not post personal, intimate, or confidential information.
Rule 3
Do not use the website to perform or endorse illegal activities.
Rule 4
We have zero tolerance towards any material that contains child sexual exploitation or any sort of sexual content involving minors.
Rule 5
Do not post content that is generally considered sensitive, disturbing, or sexually offensive.
Rule 6
Do not try to manipulate or falsely amplify or suppress information on the website. Do not use coordinated activity to create harm to others or pursue unethical benefit to yourself.
Rule 7
Do not impersonate individuals, groups, or organizations to mislead or deceive others, and do not use a false identity in a way that may disrupt the experience of others.
Rule 8
Do not vote or post comment(s) for the purpose of provoking or otherwise coordinating a group buying effort in order to move the market for a security or other financial instrument. Encouraging others to buy or sell any securities or other financial instruments is strictly prohibited.