Terms and Agreements

THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE
engagement, community rules and etiquette

Thankyou again for joining this movement.this is an exclusive community of go-getters conducting business worldwide! Let us create an open, globally-connected, secure, and trustworthy business network for everyone. Brand yourself with The MOTHERLAND COMMERCE unlike other communities that restrict promotion. So don't waste time to:

access our member directory
network with each other
tell your story
brand your business
list your events on our website
do you have and idea (event, product, service, funder, etc) then collaborate with The MColab an exclusive opportunity

Please contact us at success@motherlandcommerce.com with questions. Civil dialogue is our priority.

Respect legitimate intellectual property rights, do not plagiarize work, and give credit to the originators of ideas.
Don’t share the posts of others without permission.
- Discussion Group Etiquette
All defamatory, abusive, profane, threatening, offensive, or illegal material is strictly prohibited.
Discriminatory, hostile or intimidating messages or language will not be tolerated, whether based on a person’s race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, social or economic class, educational level, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, size, family status, political belief, religion, or mental or physical ability.
The MOTHERLAND COMMERCE (MC) strives to create and maintain a community in which people of many different backgrounds and cultures are treated with respect.
Be mindful and respectful of linguistic background – while the language for online fora discussions is mostly English (unless otherwise specified), remember not everybody is a native English speaker / writer.
Keep subject lines concise and clear so that members can respond appropriately and easily search the archives.
Include only relevant portions of the original message in replies.
Only send a message to the entire list if everyone can benefit from it. Do not send “thank you” and “me too” replies to the full list.
Avoid administrative messages, such as remove me from the list (use the web interface to change your personal settings).
If relevant, add “Long Message” to the subject line or at the beginning of the message body.
Do not spam several lists or libraries with the same message.
Don’t publicly post commercial messages.
Use caution when discussing products. Information posted on the member space is available for all members to see. Comments are subject to libel, slander, and antitrust laws.
Please carefully read the items; particularly regarding the copyright ownership of information posted in the privacy policy.

This Privacy Policy and Terms of Use applies to any person accessing any information on any of ourWebsites or Platforms, including:

THE MOTHERLAND COMMRECE (MC)
FEVAA EVENTS - TRADE SHOWS

that is/are accessible with or without a username and password, including but not limited to text, content, photographs, video, audio, graphics and services.

MC is a global online membership business network that supports and promotes the development of cross border trading; as a global technical infrastructure, a resource to enrich people’s lives, and a force for good in society.

MC is committed to respect the privacy of our members and of visitors to our site. We do not sell, rent, or share any personally-identifiable information shared by visitors or our membership mailing list. In keeping with our purpose we recognize that individual privacy is an important consideration in all facets of the Internet, and that your choice to share information with us is a critical part of how we can try to achieve our purpose. Our Privacy Notice explain how and why we collect, use, share and otherwise process your personal information. This Privacy Notice is not a contract and does not create any legal rights or obligations.

Our Services: When we use the term “Services”, we are referring to all the services that we offer on our own behalf, including our membership offerings, events, mailing lists, trainings, and the websites that post or link to this Notice. This Privacy Notice does not cover or address personal information and privacy practices relating to job applicants, employees and other personnel.

Information We Collect and Use

Personal Information: When we use the term “personal information” in this Privacy Notice, we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to you. It does not include aggregated or anonymized deidentified information that is maintained in a form that is not reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to you. We collect personal information in a variety of different ways:

Information you provide to us.

We collect and use personal information you provide in the following ways:

Registration. If you register as a member or for an event, we may collect your name, account credentials, contact information, demographic information and billing information, including email and physical address, username, password, and payment card information. We use this information to administer your account, provide you with the relevant Services and information, communicate with you regarding your account and your use of the Services, and for member support purposes. Please note that we work with a third-party payment processor for the collection and use of payment card information and do not receive such data directly.
- If you represent a company or organization interested in registering for an organizational membership, we will collect your name, company name, and email address. We collect this information to facilitate your organization’s members, respond to any inquiries, communicate with you and to help facilitate our organizational relationship, including any sponsorship or grant activities.
Communications. If you communicate with us through any paper or electronic form, including through public comments on social media sites, we may collect your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, date of birth, or any other personal information you choose to provide to us. We use this information to investigate and respond to your inquiries, and to communicate with you to enhance the Services to our users and to manage and grow our organization. If you register for our newsletters or updates, we will communicate with you by email. To unsubscribe from promotional messages, please follow the instructions within our messages and review the Online privacy choices section below. We may also send you transactional and Service-related messages by email, push notification, or – if you provide your phone number – by text message.
Events. If you participate in any of our events, conferences, webinars, or discussion groups, we may collect your name, title, company/organization name, postal address, email address, work, home, and mobile phone numbers. We use this information to administer the event, communicate with you regarding the event, record your feedback about the event and to help improve our operations.
Sponsorships and gifts. If you choose to sponsor goods or services to The MC, we will collect your name, member information, email address and billing information, including physical address and payment card information.

Information we collect online automatically

We use various technologies to collect information about the device or browser you use to navigate our websites or from your use of our Services, including:

Web logs. Like many websites and email communications, we automatically collect certain information about your device and store it in log files. This information may include IP addresses, browser type, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp and/or clickstream data. We then analyze patterns on our Services, manage and administer the content, improve the performance of the Services, for fraud protection and to protect our rights and the rights and safety of individuals.
Cookies and other data collection technologies. We, and our service providers, use cookies, scripts, and similar technologies to manage the Services and to collect information about you and your use of the Services. These technologies help us to recognize you, customize or personalize your experience, advertise products or services, and analyze the use of our Services to make them more useful to you. These technologies may also allow us to collect demographic and statistical data and provide this information to our service providers to help deliver their services. Most internet browsers allow you to remove or manage cookie functions and adjust your privacy and security preferences. For information on how to do this, access the “help” menu on your Internet browser, or access aboutcookies.org. Please note, however, that disabling our cookies may mean that you will not be able to take full advantage of our Services. For more information about our use of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.
Google Analytics. We use “Google Analytics” to collect information about your use of the Website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users access the Services, what pages they access when they do so and what other sites they used prior to using the Services. Google uses the data collected to track and examine the use of the Services to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. To learn more about the use of data collection technologies by Google for analytics and to exercise choice regarding those technologies, please visit the Google Analytics Opt-Out browser add-on page.

Information from third party sources

We may receive personal information about you from other users or our business partners and service providers and combine this information with other information that we have.

Referrals. We may obtain information about you from other users who think you may be interested in the Services, including our articles. If so, we will collect your name and contact information, which we will use to reach out to you with information about our Services.
Payment processors. If you donate, we will receive confirmation about the transaction from the applicable payment processor. We will not receive any payment card information or account numbers. We may use this information to complete transactions, to provide receipt information to you, for recordkeeping purposes, to prevent fraud or to protect our rights or the rights of others.
Background check information. For funderd referral applicants, we may collect information about you from references or third-party information sources, which we will use to determine your eligibility for the grant and making grant decisions.

Other uses of personal information

In addition to the uses described above, we may collect and use personal information for the following purposes:

To create, maintain, improve, and operate the Services.
To personalize your user experience.
To communicate with you to provide technical or administrative support.
To conduct, manage, and grow our organization.
To enable, analyze, research, investigate and improve the use of our Services and interactions with our chapters.
To prevent, investigate, and provide fraud notifications, unlawful or criminal activity, unauthorized access to or use of personal information, our data system services, and to meet governmental and institutional policy obligations.
To investigate and resolve disputes and security issues and to enforce our Terms of Service.
For any other lawful, legitimate business purpose.

How We Share and Disclose Personal Information

We may share your personal information in the following ways:

Within The MC. We are a global network of affiliated organizations and function together to promote the development of MC which disclose personal information to other MC partners for purposes and uses that are consistent with this Privacy Notice.
Service providers. We share personal information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as technology providers (including web platforms and hosting providers, email communications providers, analytics providers, our member database and data storage providers) and our payment providers for any donations you may make.
Regulatory or legal requirements, safety and terms enforcement. We may disclose personal information to governmental regulatory authorities as required by law, including for tax or accounting purposes, in response to their requests for such information or to assist in investigations. We may also disclose personal information to third parties in connection with claims, disputes, or litigation, when otherwise required by law, or if we determine its disclosure is necessary to protect the health and safety of you or any other person, to protect against fraud or credit risk, or to enforce our legal rights or contractual commitments that you have made.
Business transfers. We may disclose personal information as part of an business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture or financing. We may also disclose personal information in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.
Publicly. At your direction, we may make your information publicly available, for example, if you post public comments on our sites or provide product testimonials.

Online Privacy Choices

You have some choices regarding how we use your personal information, including the following:

Modifying or deleting your information. If you have questions about reviewing, changing, or deleting your information, you can contact us directly at success@motherlandcommerce.com.
How to control your email communications preferences. You can stop receiving promotional email communications from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe link” provided in the email. You can always change your email preferences by visiting our membership portal and clicking through to the preferences page. You may not opt-out of Service-related communications (e.g., account verification, transactional communications, changes/updates to features of the website, technical and security notices).

Children’s Privacy

Our websites and online services are not directed to, and we do not intend to, or knowingly, collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not use our websites or online services or otherwise provide us with any personal information either directly or by other means. If a child under the age of 18 has provided personal information to us, we encourage the child’s parent or guardian to contact us to request that we remove the personal information from our systems. If we learn that any personal information we collect has been provided by a child under the age of 18, we will promptly delete that personal information.

Third Party Websites and Services

Our Services may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Except where we post, link to, or expressly adopt or refer to this Privacy Notice, this Privacy Notice does not apply to, nor are we responsible for, any personal information practices of third-party websites and online services or the practices of other third parties. To learn about the personal information practices of third parties, please visit their respective privacy notices.

1. User-Provided Information

You may be asked to create a username and password, along with providing other registration information (collectively “Registration Data”) to use our Platform. You are responsible for the accuracy and currency of your Registration Data and for maintaining the security of your password
You may be asked to provide us with information about yourself such as your name, photo and email address.
You may be asked to provide us with your credit card information. We do not store or retain your credit card information; we use a secure third-party service provider to process your credit card information which is not permitted to store, retain, or use billing information except for the purpose of credit card processing on THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE behalf.
If you are an investor, you may be asked to provide us with information about your organization such as name, website, geographic location, description of your organization, investment objectives, sectors and geographic location of interest to you and any other information you wish to provide about your organization. This information will be used to provide investment-related services to you including providing you with access to investment opportunities registered on our Platform, Portals or Sites that we think meet your specific mandate criteria, and other services that we believe will enhance your ability to connect with investment opportunities in Afru-ika Atlas, the Karibbean and the Amerikas . When you upload information on your investment mandate/parameters to us you should assume that any information you provide is in the public domain, as it will be accessible to other users of the service. Therefore you must not upload price sensitive information or any information that you do not want to be made public. We do not do any due diligence on investment propositions uploaded to our Platform, Portals or Sites, and therefore you are expected to do your own due diligence on any investment propositions or business opportunities that you discover on our Platform or Portals or Sites and wish to pursue. You accept that THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE or any other related, affiliated or associated companies will not be liable for any loss or liability that you or other parties related to you incur as a result of information that you have received through use of the Platforms, Portals or Sites.
If you are an entity seeking capital from investors, or an entity wishing to promote a business opportunity, or an entity using one of our Platforms you may be asked to provide us with information about your organization such as name, website, geographic location, description of your organization, description of your investment or business opportunity, contact details and any other information you wish to provide about your organization and business opportunity. This information will be used by us to provide business and investment-related services to you including, where possible, referring you with relevant investors, and other parties that might be of assistance to you. This may include summarizing your business or investment proposition, or company profile, or biography into a Word document or PDF for distribution to investors and other recipients, including attendees at events managed by our related company FEVAA Events - TRADE SHOW, or via email or other methods including our websites. You must not add information to the Platform, Portals or Sites that you do not want in the public domain, or that is price sensitive, or that you are not permitted to reveal because of relevant securities regulations, or because of any legal regulations, including active Non Disclosure Agreements and any other reason. If you add information to our Platform, Portals or Sites that you are not permitted to upload you agree to indemnify us for any losses that we may incur as a result of legal action that is taken against us due to the information having been added to our Platform, Portals or Sites. It should be assumed by you that any information that you add to our Platform, Portals or Sites will immediately be in the public domain, regardless of whether you have marked it as "Public" or not, and will for instance be accessible by all users of the Platform, Portals or Sites. We do no due diligence on investors, or any other people who can view Investment or Business Opportunities or other data on our Dashboards, Portals and Sites. You accept that THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE, FEVAA Events or any other associated, affiliated and related companies will not be liable for any loss or liability that you or other parties related to you incur as a result of information that you have uploaded onto our Platform, Portals or Sites. You may ask us to make your information available to the public, and then at a later date ask to make the information private and not available to the public. Please note that website browsers can cache historic information, for this reason and others (including but not exclusively human and system errors), you must assume that when you advise us to make information private that your information may continue to be available for viewing on our Platform, Portals and Sites and elsewhere including being distributed by us in emails or digital communication. If you add an investment proposition to THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE Platform and we decide that it is, in our sole opinion, not ready for whatever reason to be added to our platform then you agree that we may remove the information and send you an email.
If you are an entity or person seeking to join THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE to promote your services or business opportunities to internet users, or anyone else not identified in previous sections, you may be asked to provide us with information about your organization such as name, website, geographic location, description of your organization, description of your business or investment opportunity, contact details and any other information you wish to provide about your organization. This information will be used by us to provide services to you including where possible matching you with relevant investors, businesses, and other parties that might be of assistance to you. You must not add information to the Platform, Portals or Sites that you do not want in the public domain, or that is price sensitive, or that you are not permitted to reveal because of relevant securities regulations, or because of any legal regulations, including active Non Disclosure Agreements and any other reason. If you add information to our Platform, Portals or Sites that you are not permitted to upload you agree to indemnify us for any losses that we may incur as a result of legal action that is taken against us due to the information having been added to our Platform, Portals or Sites. It should be assumed by you that any information that you add to our Platform, Portals or Sites will immediately be in the public domain and will for instance be accessible by all users of the Dashboards, Portals or Sites. We may also post your profile on social media sites for instance LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter to give you greater prominence. We do no due diligence on investors, members of THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE Community or people who are approved to view Investment or Business Opportunities on our Dashboards, Portals and Sites. Information that you upload will be accessible by users of our Dashboards, and may be sent via email to investors and other parties that we deem, in our sole discretion, may be useful in order to promote your investment or business proposition. You accept that THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE, FEVAA or any other associated, affiliated and related companies will not be liable for any loss or liability that you or other parties related to you incur as a result of information that you have uploaded onto our Platform, Portals or Sites. You may ask us to make your information available to the public, and then at a later date ask to make the information private and not available to the public. Please note that website browsers can cache historic information, for this reason and others (including but not exclusively human and system errors), you must assume that when you advise us to make information private that your information may continue to be available for viewing on our Platform, Portals and Sites and elsewhere.
You are aware that multiple large companies with highly sophisticated IT security systems and budgets have successfully been hacked in the past. Data can be leaked and used maliciously. While we will strive to ensure that this does not happen to your data our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use insist that you should only submit data to the Dashboard that would not be damaging to you if leaked to the public domain. You have accepted that you will only submit data that would not be damaging to you if leaked or hacked or made public by mistake as part of the Terms of Use of this website and system, and waive any rights to claims for damages or other claims if your information is made public for malicious or any other reason.
If you have provided us with information to upload onto our Platform, Portals or Sites on your behalf and we upload the information onto our Platform, Portals or Sites, or in email communications on your behalf, you agree that we can publish the information in the same manner as if you have uploaded the information yourself.
Our objective is to assist you with business development, raising funding, and finding investment opportunities in Afru-ika Atlas, the Karibbean and the Amerikas. We do this using our member directory to refer our members to investors, trade and investment opportunities inAfru-ika Atlas, the Karibbean and the Amerikas . In order to assist you we profile any information you submit to us, including text and numeric data, websites, videos, as well as images, and PDF files among any other type of data to a global audience. In using our Platform, Portals, Websites and Systems, or attending FEVAA Events - TRADE SHOW via virtual or physical in Afru-ika Atlas, the Karibbean and the Amerikas you authorize us to publicly display on our Websites, Platforms, Dashboards, Social Media and in email communications any information that you have submitted to us.
To assist companies, funds and any other entity raise money at FEVAA EVENTS - TRADE SHOW, members complete our preliminary FUNDERS REQUEST APPLICATION on our website accessible to our MAGIK INVESTORS DIRECTORY. OUR FUNDERS REQUEST is a preliminary application for our investors. If an investor is interested further inquiry will be furnished from the investor to the business member. By making a submission on one of our websites, platforms or dashboards you agree to be included, in our sole discretion, into our MAGIK INVESTOR DIRECTORY created by us and you recognise that:
1. Your sole relationship with regard to your submission of the FUNDERS REQUEST is with THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE
2. The FUNDERS REQUEST will be accessible to all delegates attending FEVAA EVENTS - TRADE SHOW, and may be accessible to others (in THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE sole judgment) who are not attending FEVAA EVENTS - TRADE SHOW. FUNDERS REQUEST is produced by us and may be distributed to a wide range of investors and other recipients. You acknowledge that once we publish and distribute our FUNDERS REQUEST that we have no ability to control who the FUNDERS REQUEST is forwarded to. As such you must not provide us with any information you do not want in the public domain.
3. You agree that THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE and FEVAA Events - TRADE SHOW may use your company name, logos or corporate images, or corporate videos which you have provided to us to highlight the investment opportunities profiled on our websites, platform, social media platforms, emails or other public platforms.
You may provide us with information with the intention that it be published on our Platform,, Portals or Sites, in providing us with information you recognise that we may, in our own discretion, decide on the order in which your information is published vis-a-vis information provided by other users.

As a user of any of our Platform, Portals, or Sites related to us you accept that any contractual arrangement is between you and THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE. You acknowledge that you are responsible for the accuracy and currency of all information you provide to us and that you will only add information to our Platform, Portals or Sites that you would be comfortable to see in the public domain, regardless of whether or not you have checked a business or investment proposition as “Public Deal” (for companies seeking investment), or your profile as “ VIP BUSINESS MEMBER” or any other viewing option that we offer. It should be assumed that information you have provided will be viewed by companies and persons affiliated, associated and related as well as those unaffiliated to THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE (for example other users of the Platform, Portals or Sites) and it is acknowledged by you that we have no control over how information that can be viewed by third parties unrelated to us distribute any information that they can view.

2. Records of Correspondence

THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE may collect records and copies of your correspondence with us (including email addresses), and messages that you send on any of our mentioned, related or associated with our Platform, Portals and Sites.

3. Cookies

When you visit our Site, we may send one or more “cookies” – small data files – to your computer to uniquely identify your browser and let the MOTHERLAND COMMERCE and related companies help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through the Site. A persistent cookie remains on your computer after you close your browser so that it can be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser’s directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. In this respect, the following links provide instructions in order to manage your cookies preferences or search the respected browser for their instructions.

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-…

4. Log Files

Log file information is automatically reported by your browser each time you access a web page. When you use the Site, our servers may automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, referring/exit pages and URLs, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other such information.

5. Uses of Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information, in the following ways:

to enable us to achieve our legitimate objectives of offering you a better experience on our Site (by presenting the Site and its contents in a suitable and effective manner for you and for your computer) and having an ongoing relationship with you (by notifying you about any changes to the Site);
to enable us to achieve our legitimate objectives of providing a platform to refer/match investors with investment opportunities in Afru-ika Atlas, the Karibbean and the Amerikas and to promote business leaders wishing to profile themselves and their business; and to promote business opportunities in Afru-ika Atlas, the Karibbean and the Amerikas.
to enable us to further your own business objectives, whether this is to assist you to raise capital, seek suitable investments in Afru-ika Atlas, the Karibbean and the Amerikas or to connect you with relevant business parties in Africa; or other commercial reasons that may be of assistance to you;
to provide you with information on products or services. If you do not want to receive such marketing emails, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at success@motherlandcommerce.com
To provide remarketing services that will offer you what we believe to be relevant services or products that we believe you may have an interest in as determined among other ways through historic website visits;
to enable us to fulfill our legal obligations to which THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE and FEVAA Events is subject.

6. Sharing of Information for Third Party Services

a. Personally Identifiable Information

We will only disclose personally identifiable information we collect from you to third parties without your permission to the extent necessary to:

to comply with the “law”;
to protect the interests, rights, safety, or property of THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE;
to provide you with the services or products requested by you including promoting your profile and business and investment opportunities online;
to enable us to assist you, in our sole judgment, to achieve your business objectives whether this be raising investment, seeking suitable business or investment opportunities in Afru-ika Atlas, the Karibbean and the Amerikas that match your interests and or mandate, or broadening your business interests in Afru-ika Atlas, the Karibbean and the Amerikas. among other objectives;
to perform other activities related to such services and products, including billing and collection;

In addition please note:

We may store personally identifiable information in locations outside the direct control of THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE (for instance, on servers or databases provided by external providers).
We may share or disclose your personally identifiable information, for example if you are a company seeking to raise capital to companies or persons that we believe may assist you in raising capital, or if you are an investor looking for investment opportunities we may connect you to investment opportunities that we think match your investment mandate criteria, or if you are a business we may connect you with businesses that we think may assist you;
THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE may disclose your personally identifiable information to address fraud, security or technical issues.
THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE may share your personally identifiable information with unaffiliated companies for marketing purposes without your prior permission. In general this is the case where we believe, in our sole opinion, that being put in touch with unaffiliated companies may be beneficial for you; for instance an investment banker experienced in a specific sector may be connected to a company seeking to raise capital in the same sector.

b. Non-Personally Identifiable Information

We may share non-personally identifiable information (such as anonymous usage data, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third parties to help them understand the usage patterns for certain of THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE services.

7. SEARCH METHODS

You acknowledge that investors may use a variety of methods to search VIP Business Profiles, and any Business or Investment Opportunities appear on our Websites and Platforms. This includes, among others, preferring profile by industry, business location, preferential treatment for citizens in specific regions, Artificial Intelligence and paid promotion.

8. Retention of your Personal Information

THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE shall retain your personal information for no longer than is necessary for the purposes identified under this Privacy Policy.

9. Your Rights

You can review, update, or remove the information you included in your MEMBER PROFILE, Portal or Site profile by logging into the Platform or Portal or Site, and making changes. You may also request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us or opt out of maintaining your profile on the Site. You may also cancel your membership at any time from your SUBSCRIPTION PAGE.

10. Protection of Your Information

In order to protect your personal information, THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE has put in place what THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE believes to be reasonable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure your personal data. However, no assurances can be given that these security measures will prevent any unauthorized interception of or access to your personal data and, to the extent THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE has complied with its data security obligations under the applicable legal requirements, and in particular the Data Protection (Trinidad and Tobago) Chapter 22:04, 2011 Act 13, 2011, you hereby agree not to hold THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE for use of your personal data obtained in any unauthorized manner. Importantly you agree to only upload information to the Platform, Portal or Site that you are happy to see in the public domain, and which you are authorized to disclose, and which is not price sensitive.

11. Changes to Privacy Policy

THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use at any time at its sole discretion. Revisions to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use will be effective immediately upon posting them to this Site, www.motherlandcommerce.com

and you are deemed to have accepted the revised terms of our Privacy Policy upon your first use of the Site following the revision.

12. Third-Party Vendors

We may use information that you provide for remarketing purposes or for similar audiences to advertise online. Third-party vendors, including Google, may show ads to you on sites across the Internet. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies and/or device identifiers to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to your website or use of your app. Visitors can opt out of Google’s use of cookies or device identifiers by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page or control the use of device identifiers by using your device’s settings.

13. Law Applicable to this Agreement

You accept that your sole legal relationship as a user of our Sites, Portals or Platform is with THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE, a Trinidad and Tobago registered company. Use of any of our Platform, Sites or Portals is subject to the law of Trinidad and Tobago, and the jurisdiction of the Trinidad and Tobago courts. Any communication with the Platform, Portal or Sites shall be deemed to have taken place in Trinidad and Tobago, irrespective of where the actual user may be physically located.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about our practices or this Privacy Policy, please contact the Data Controller for THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE via the email box success@motherlandcommerce.com

Do not post any information or other material protected by copyright without permission. By posting material, the posting party warrants and represents that they own the copyright with respect to such material or has received permission from the copyright owner. In addition, the posting party grants the Internet Society and users of this site the nonexclusive right and license to display, copy, publish, distribute, transmit, print, and use such information or other material.

The Internet Society provides communication tools as a service for its members. The MOTHERLAND COMMERCE is not responsible for opinions and information posted on this site. The MOTHERLAND COMMERCE does monitor but does not moderate postings on this site, but if any inappropriate posting is brought to the attention of The MOTHERLAND COMMERCE which reserves the right to take appropriate action, including, without limitation, terminating access to any user who does not abide by these guidelines.

Limitations of Liability

To the extent allowed under law, The MOTHERLAND COMMERCE (a) disclaim all implied warranties and representations (e.g. warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy of data, and noninfringement); (b) does not guarantee that the communications tools will function without interruption or errors, and (c) provide the communication tools (including content and information) on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the extent permitted under law (and unless the internet society has entered into a separate written agreement that overrides this contract), the internet society shall not be liable to you or others for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, opportunities, reputation, profits, or revenues, related to the communications tools (e.g., offensive or defamatory statements, downtime or loss, use of, or changes to, your information or content). In no event shall the liability of The MOTHERLAND COMMERCE exceed, in the aggregate for all claims, $1000 ttd. This limitation of liability is part of the basis of the bargain between you and The MOTHERLAND COMMERCE and shall apply to all claims of liability (e.g., warranty, tort, negligence, contract, law) and even if The MOTHERLAND COMMERCE has been told of the possibility of any such damage, and even if these remedies fail their essential purpose.

1. Your acceptance of the Agreement, whether in writing or by conduct, signifies agreement with, and acceptance of, these Conditions in their entirety. The words contained in these Conditions will have the same definition and/or interpretation as those contained in the Agreement. All prices are exclusive of The Motherland Commerce (MC).

2. Behaviour and Program:

2.1 Behaviour- The Motherland Commerce (MC) reserves the right to prohibit and eject any persons attending their events based on behaviour deemed to be inappropriate by The Motherland Commerce (MC) staff and/or its agents and others working under its authority.

2.2 Program - The Motherland Commerce (MC) reserves the right to change the program at any time. Every effort will be made to ensure a program of equivalent standard will be provided.

3. You agree that the act of sponsoring an event is for the purpose of, not only promoting your business, but also enhancing the reputation and legitimacy of The Motherland Commerce (MC) and furthering the aims and mission of The Motherland Commerce (MC). Therefore, if at any time the committee of The Motherland Commerce (MC) forms the view, in its absolute discretion, that the sponsorship arrangement will be detrimental to the reputation of The Motherland Commerce (MC), or detrimental to its aims and mission, then The Motherland Commerce (MC) may elect to terminate the sponsorship agreement. Should the agreement be terminated after any money has been paid to The Motherland Commerce (MC) under this agreement, the sponsor will be entitled to a refund of the amount paid less any reasonable expenses incurred by The Motherland Commerce (MC) in the course of arranging the event.

4. Canvassing by delegates is strictly prohibited at any Motherland Commerce (MC) events and forums. Promotional material may not be distributed at any event/forum except by event sponsors. Delegates violating this policy will be asked to leave the event and The Motherland Commerce (MC) members may have their membership terminated. The exception to this is only when agreed upon under the negotiated sponsorship package and will be outlined in the full agreement. The Host shall discharge its obligations in connection with this Agreement (including, but not limited to, performance of the Activities) to the standard of a competent professional and always in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.
5. The Host shall provide (or procure the provision of) such assistance as is reasonably required by the Sponsor to enable it to comply with any request or requirement of The Motherland Commerce (MC) or any other regulatory authority, relating to this Agreement, to which the Sponsor is subject.
6. Image Release: In registering for The Motherland Commerce (MC) events delegates grant permission to The Motherland Commerce (MC) its agents and others working under its authority to take and to have full free use of videos/photographs containing their image/likeness. It is understood that these images may be used for promotional, news, online/multi media, research and/or educational purposes by and for The Motherland Commerce (MC). Delegates agree that they are not entitles to remuneration, residuals, royalties or any payment from The Motherland Commerce (MC) in respect of their image/likeness or its use.

7. Invoices: When you complete and sign your copy of the sponsorship agreement form, you will be issued with a tax invoice in compliance with MC requirements. This can be used to make payment by electronic funds transfer or credit card (via PayPal). Payment terms are strictly 7 days unless alternative arrangements are made in writing between the user and The Motherland Commerce (MC).

8. Privacy Notice: The Motherland Commerce (MC) is concerned with the protection of your privacy and the privacy of our members. We support the privacy principles contained in the Privacy Act (Privacy Act). Soliciting or contacting The Motherland Commerce (MC) members without prior written/verbal consent is prohibited. Our complete privacy agreement can be found at the conclusion of this document.

9. Communication from The Motherland Commerce (MC): The Motherland Commerce (MC) may use your details to promote an upcoming sponsored event in the form of email communications and/or other types of communication. If there is any specific information that needs to be shared with The Motherland Commerce (MC) members in relation to your sponsored event please ensure we have this via email ASAP to email: success@motherlandcommerce.com

10. For the purposes of the event: Your details will be provided to parties directly related to the event including the registration manager, venues and accommodation providers for the purpose of room bookings, catering needs and other conference options.

11. Insurances: for the purposes of your sponsored event, The Motherland Commerce (MC) will require a paid in full payment to the value of the said contract agreement. The Motherland Commerce (MC) take no responsibility for any injury or accident sustained during a sponsored event.

12. If the sponsor does not utilise the benefits of this agreement during its validity period, Motherland Commerce (MC) is not liable to provide any extension of the benefits unless agreed in writing with both parties.

13. Trademarks/Logos Trademarks appearing on this website are trademarks of The Motherland Commerce (MC) and may not be copied, downloaded, reproduced, modified or distributed in any way or used as mete-tags for another website or to attract users to any other websites by any other means.

14 Liability: The Parties’ maximum aggregate liability to each other under this Agreement shall be limited in contract, by way of indemnity, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, however arising, to an amount equal to the Sponsorship Fee under this Agreement. The Host shall under no circumstances be liable for any:-
A) loss of income; loss of profit; loss of customers; loss of opportunity or damage to the Sponsor’s reputation; and/or
B) indirect; special; incidental; or consequential loss or damage, whatsoever and howsoever such loss, damage or delay was caused, whether from contract, breach of statutory duty, by indemnity, tort (including negligence) or otherwise.
Nothing in this Agreement shall exclude either party’s liability for death and personal injury; fraud; and any other liability that cannot be excluded by law.
15. The rights and remedies provided under the Agreement are in addition to, and not exclusive of, any rights or remedies provided by law.

16. The Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes and extinguishes all previous agreements, contract, promises, assurances, warranties, representations and understandings between them, whether written or oral, relating to its subject matter.

17. Each party agrees that it shall have no remedies in respect of any statement, representation, assurance or warranty (whether made innocently or negligently) that is not set out in the Agreement. Each party agrees that it shall have no claim for innocent or negligent misrepresentation or negligent misstatement based on any statement in the Agreement.

18. Notices:

18.1 Any notice given to a party under or in connection with the Agreement shall be in writing and shall be sent by e-mail to success@motherlandcommerce.com.
18.2. This Clause 16 does not apply to the service of any proceedings or other documents in any legal action or, where applicable, any arbitration or other method of dispute resolution which must be addressed to the Legal Director, Laws of Trinidad and Tobago. Ministry of The Attorney General and Legal Affairs. Legalaffairs.gov.tt

19. Governing and Arbitration:
19.1 The Agreement and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with it or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of Trinidad and Tobago.
19.2 Each party irrevocably agrees that the courts of Trinidad and Tobago shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with the Agreement or its subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims).

20. Privacy Notice – Motherland Commerce (MC) We protect client information securely and per privacy principles. This policy letter makes clear the way that The Motherland Commerce (MC) handles data and information on behalf of our marketing clients. 1. The Motherland Commerce (MC) subscribes to all National Privacy laws of Trinidad and Tobago. 2. We do not sell or share client information with any party unless a negotiated agreement is in place. 3. We will not make cold calls to individuals who have not opted in to one of our clients programs through personal contact, website or other collection means. We expect our clients to take responsibility for their own databases and we will ask them for evidence that they have received an opt in from a recognised method. 4. We do not use lists that have been phished or scoured from yellow pages or other online methods, and only purchased approved lists from professional list broking firms. 5. All client data is stored in a secure online cloud based program and is only available to through password protected areas. 6. We do not share or sell data collected from our own website. Our policy is to remain compliant with changing legislation as it occurs.

Disclaimer The Motherland Commerce (MC), its employees, representatives and associates provide the information and general information. The user accepts sole responsibility and all arise for using the information. The Motherland Commerce (MC) does not accept any liability for any loss or damage whatsoever which may arise as a result of the event being held on any of the premises we hold an event.

MARKETING AND BRANDING SOLUTIONS ie. website design and online advertising.

The following Terms and Conditions of Service apply to all products and services provided by THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE and in the event of any dispute. All work is carried out by THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE on the understanding that the client has agreed to our terms and conditions.

Copyright is retained by THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE on all design work including words, pictures, ideas, visuals and illustrations unless specifically released in writing and after all costs have been settled. If a choice of designs is presented and one is chosen for your project, only that solution is deemed to be given by us as fulfilling the contract. All other designs remain the property of THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE, unless specifically agreed in writing.

Project Acceptance

At the time of proposal, THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE can provide the customer with a written SCOPE OF WORK estimate or quotation by email. These Terms and Conditions below can be read at any time on the THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE website. The client is required to send an official purchase order obtained from https://www.motherlandcommerce.com/promotion-request in reply to the estimate or quotation which binds the client to accept our terms and conditions. All client images and materials must be uploaded on THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE promotion request site provided above.

Design Charge

Charges for design services to be provided by THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE will be set out in the written SCOPE OF WORK estimate or quotation that is provided to the customer. At the time of the customer’s signed acceptance of this estimate or quotation, indicating acceptance of the Terms & Conditions, a non-refundable deposit of 100% of the quoted fee will become immediately due.

Unless agreed otherwise with the Client, all design services require an advance payment of a minimum of fifty (50) percent of the project quotation total before the work commences or is supplied to the Client for review. The remaining fifty (50) percent of the project quotation total will be due upon completion of the work prior to upload to the server or release of materials.

Source Files

We will supply proofs and PSD files as appropriate for printing, or other graphic files as detailed in the job scope or request. Charges for design work do not cover the release of our copyright design source files, including but not restricted to indd, psd, AI, png, fla or other source files or raw code; if the Client requires these files for transfer to an in-house or other designer, they will be subject to a separate quotation or ‘buy-out’ charge.

Charges for Other Services

Charges for any additional services requested during the project that are over and above the estimated time or out of scope, will become fully payable (100% of the quoted amount) at the time of estimate or quotation acceptance.

Payment

Payments may be made by online transfer, PayPal, credit card (Visa, MasterCard) or Debit Card. Payments made by wire cheque must be previously agreed and may be subject to an administration charge. Cheques should be wired only and will incur an additional fee per bank. THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE reserves the right to consider an account to be in default in the event of a returned wire cheque.

Default

An account shall be considered default if it remains unpaid for 30 days from the date of invoice, or following a returned wired cheque. THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE shall be entitled to remove THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE‘s and/or the customer’s material from any and all computer systems, until the amount due has been fully paid. This includes any and all unpaid monies due for services, including, but not limited to, hosting, domain registration, search engine submission, design and maintenance, sub-contractors, printers, photographers and libraries.

Removal of such materials does not relieve the customer of its obligation to pay the due amount. Customers whose accounts become default agree to pay all THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE‘s reasonable legal and accounting expenses and third party collection agency fees in the enforcement of the debt and these Terms and Conditions.

Copyrights and Trademarks

By supplying text, images and other data to THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE for inclusion in the customer’s website or other medium, the customer declares that it holds the appropriate copyright and/or trademark permissions. The ownership of such materials will remain with the customer, or rightful copyright or trademark owner.

Any software, code, plugin or other third party material used in a web or digital project remains the property of the creator and any ongoing license fees or fees for upgrades are the responsibility of the client, not THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE. By supplying images, text, or any other data to THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE, the customer grants THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE permission to use this material freely in the pursuit of the design. The customer agrees to fully indemnify and hold THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE free from harm in any and all claims resulting from the customer in not having obtained all the required copyright, and/or any other necessary permission.

Alterations

The customer agrees that changes required over and above the estimated work, or in addition to the agreed scope, or where the client makes changes to the supplied copy or changes required to be carried out after acceptance of the draft design, will be liable to a separate charge. The customer also agrees that THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE holds no responsibility for any amendments made by any third party, before or after a design is published.

Licensing

Any design, copywriting, drawing, idea or code created for the customer by THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE, or any of its contractors, is licensed for use by the client on a one-time only basis and may not be modified, re-used, or re-distributed in any way or form without the express written consent of THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE and any of its relevant sub-contractors.

All design work – where there is a risk that another party make a claim, should be registered by the client with the appropriate authorities prior to publishing or first use or searches and legal advice sought as to its use.

THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE will not be held responsible for any and all damages resulting from such claims. THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE is not responsible for any loss, or consequential loss, non-delivery of products or services, of whatever cause. The customer agrees not to hold THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE responsible for any such loss or damage. Any claim against THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE shall be limited to the relevant fee(s) paid by the customer.

Data Formats

The client agrees to THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE’s definition of acceptable means of supplying data to the company. Text is to be supplied to THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE in electronic format as standard text (.txt), MS Word (.docx) on CD, or via e-mail / FTP or shared folder. Images which are supplied in an electronic format are to be provided in a format as prescribed by THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE via CD-ROM, or e-mail / FTP. Images must be of a quality suitable for use without any subsequent image processing, and THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE will not be held responsible for any image quality which the client later deems to be unacceptable.

THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE cannot be held responsible for the quality of any images which the client wishes to be scanned from printed materials. Additional expenses may be incurred for any necessary action, including, but not limited to, photography and art direction, photography searches, media conversion, digital image processing, or data entry services, color correction and alteration of images

Design Project Duration

Any indication given by THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE of a design project’s duration is to be considered by the customer to be an estimation. THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE cannot be held responsible for any project over-runs, whatever the cause. Estimated project duration should be deemed to be from the date that cleared funds are received by THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE for the initial payment or by date confirmed in writing by THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE.

Rights of Access for Website Construction

The client agrees to allow THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE all necessary access to computer systems and other locations, as required, in order to complete a website project and until all due funds are cleared, including the necessary read/write permissions, usernames and passwords.

The customer also agrees to allow THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE access to any computer systems, usernames and passwords required to remove data and/or sites for failure to comply with these Terms and Conditions. The customer agrees to supply THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE with all necessary materials, electronic, or otherwise, required to create and complete the project, and to supply them in a timely manner.

Website design (CODING)

THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE requires that a template is approved by the customer before coding of a site commences. Once the template(s) for the web site are approved by the customer, coding will commence; clients will have 3x times for feedback review period at no extra cost directly on the site before publishing. Any changes to navigation items, colors, structure or content that requires changes will incur an additional charge once the site is FINAL launched/published.

Website design only

THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE requires that a template is approved by the customer before

published/launched. Clients will have 3x times for feedback review period at no extra cost directly on the site before publishing. Any changes to navigation items, colors, structure or content that requires changes will incur an additional charge once the site is FINAL launched/published.

Design Credits

The customer agrees to allow THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE and its design partner to place a small credit on printed material exhibition displays, advertisements and/or a link to THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE and or our Marketing & Branding partner's own website on the customer’s website. This will usually be in the form of a small logo or line of text placed towards the bottom of the page.

The customer also agrees to allow THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE to place websites and other designs, along with a link to the client’s site on THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE’s own website for demonstration purposes and to use any designs in its own publicity and portfolios.

Rights of Refusal

THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE will not include in its designs, any text, images or other data which it deems to be immoral, offensive, obscene or illegal. All advertising material must conform to all standards laid down by all relevant advertising standards authorities. THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE also reserves the right to refuse to include submitted material without giving reason. In the situation where any images and/or data that THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE does include in all good faith, and subsequently discovers is in contravention to such Terms and Conditions, the customer is obliged to allow THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE to remove the contravention without hindrance, or penalty. THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE is to be held in no way responsible for any such data being included.

Cancellation

In case of no response from the customer/clients end more than 7 days period past, the project will be canceled without any notice or intimation to the client or customer and no amount will be refunded.

Domain and Hosting

We provide notification at least 30 days prior to the expiration of your domain. Upon expiration, we retain your website data for a period of 30 days before initiating its complete deletion. Should you wish to retain or reuse your data after this period, additional charges may apply. Please note that after the domain has expired, there may be additional charges imposed by the domain service provider if you choose to reclaim the domain.

General

These Terms and Conditions supersede any previous Terms and Conditions distributed in any form. THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE reserves the right to change any rates and any of the Terms and Conditions at any time and without prior notice.

Acceptance of Terms and Conditions and Quotation

The placement of an order for design and/or any other services offered by THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE, by email, verbally or in writing, is deemed to be acceptance of these terms and conditions, which are freely available at https://www.motherlandcommerce.com/terms-and-agreement

An estimate validated by the customer’s signature on the estimate or SCOPE OF WORK quotation form, or by email, constitutes acceptance of the estimate or quotation and agreement to comply fully with all the Terms and Conditions and forms a Contract for Business between the signatory and THE MOTHERLAND COMMERCE or our Marketing and Branding Partner.

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