Terms and Conditions
Goodzone

 

Last updated 26/06/2022

Please read these Terms and Conditions (“Terms) carefully before using our website and our Goodzone application (“App) downloaded through the App Store or Play Market.

These Terms contain essential information about your legal rights and obligations. If you disagree with these Terms, please do not continue using the website and download the App.

The App is operated by GZ Limited OÜ, whom we may refer to as “Goodzone” or “we”.

Our Privacy Notice for the App describes our collection and use of personal data connected to your access to and use of the App.

Our Privacy Notice for the website describes our collection and use of personal data connected to your access to and use of the website.

If you have any questions or comments about these Terms, please contact us.

Table of contents

Entire agreement

App

Account

Subscriptions

Benefits

Rules for users

GoodEvents and celebrities’ services

Intellectual property

Third-party websites and services

Warranties and disclaimers

Limitation of liability

Indemnification

Applicable law and jurisdiction

Electronic communications

Termination

Other terms

Questions and contact information

Entire agreement

In brief: 

These Terms and any operating rules and policies posted on our website or in the App, including Privacy Notice for the App and Privacy Notice for the website, constitute the entire legally binding agreement and understanding between Goodzone and our users (“you” or “user”), governing your access to and use of the website and the App.

By using the website or downloading the App, you declare and warrant that:

App

In brief: 

Goodzone App is a tool with which philanthropic stars can communicate with their fans to help in raising funds for the projects (GoodEvents). You can download the App via AppStore or PlayMarket and use it for free.

In the App, users can make publications, share and like the publications and enjoy the activities of other users. Among that, users can subscribe to their favorite celebrities to get unique benefits.

Celebrities can also create special content, communicate with their fans to accumulate funds for GoodEvents, and receive remuneration for their services to Goodzone.

Goodzone does not take any commission or fee from transactions of Ukrainian celebrities while there is a war in Ukraine and fighting continues.

Account

In brief: 

You need to register a personalized account (“Account”) as a celebrity or fan to use the App. To create an account, provide your password and email address or use one of the available services to authorize. 

To sign in as a celebrity, we also ask you to provide your social network account link and Goodzone hashtag verification video. We verify your identity to ensure the best experience for our users. The celebrities get access to all functions of the Account after the verification.

You can switch your Account between celebrity and fan mode at any time via the profile settings.

The Account intends to manage your profile, enjoy the App, and subscribe to celebrities. The celebrities may also request a withdrawal of remuneration for their services to their bank account and advise Goodzone to transfer funds to a particular GoodEvent.

You can have only one Account, and you may not transfer or assign it to someone else.

If you have lost access to your Account, you can contact us. If you know or have any reason to suspect that someone has gained access to your Account without your authorization or your credentials, have been lost, stolen, misappropriated, or otherwise compromised, please immediately contact us.

To irreversibly terminate your Account, please contact us.

Subscriptions

In brief: 

You can subscribe to a celebrity to get:

Read more about it in “Benefits”.

Payment processing

The subscription is subject to a subscription fee indicated at the checkout screen, paid via Apple In-App Purchase or Google Play billing. We may offer you other in-app purchases, such as extra requests, also paid via Apple In-App Purchase or Google Play billing.

You may bear additional charges that payment provider, bank, or another financial service provider may levy on you.

Please note, if your local currency is different from the currency in which the prices are quoted, your bank will apply the exchange rate applicable per the date of purchase, which is beyond our control.

Subscription renewal and cancellation

Your subscription will automatically renew, and you will be charged a subscription fee for the subsequent subscription period unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the billing date in your device settings.

Upon cancellation, your access to the benefits will remain until the end of the current subscription period.

Benefits

In brief: 

From time to time, celebrities may provide their subscribers with the benefits: posting publications, arranging 1-to-1 live video calls, and providing shoutout videos.

Publications

The celebrities may post publications on their profiles.

Unsubscribed users can see only a part of the publications of the celebrities.

The subscribers can see all the publications of the celebrities they subscribe to.

Live Video Calls

Sometimes the celebrities may arrange live video calls, indicating the term of the collection of the requests.

The subscribers may send their call requests to get a chance to communicate with celebrities. Those subscribers, who are under 18, can also buy extra requests to increase the chance of being chosen to participate in the live video call with celebrities.

After collecting the requests, our system chooses one of the subscribers’ requests. We will present the owner of such a request to the celebrity, who may take part in the 1-to-1 live video call.

The celebrity may refuse to participate in the video call on own discretion. In that case, we will provide no refund.

Both the celebrity and the user can share the recordings of the video calls they took part in if none of them makes it private.

Shoutout Videos

The celebrities also may start Shoutout Events, indicating the term of the collection of the subscribers’ requests.

The subscribers may send their shoutout requests to get a chance to get a shoutout video from the celebrities. No extra requests are available for Shoutout Events.

After collecting the requests, our system chooses one of the subscribers’ requests. We will present the owner of such a request to the celebrity, which may take a special shoutout video for that user.

The celebrity may refuse to take a shoutout on own discretion. In that case, we will provide no refund.

Both the celebrity and the user can share the shoutout video if none of them makes it private.

Rules for users

In brief:

You are prohibited from posting and sharing publications and shoutout videos, which:

During Live Video Calls, you are correspondingly prohibited from:

Goodzone may, but is not obliged to, control, is not responsible for, and makes no representations or warranties to any Content.

Goodzone may, at its sole discretion, remove any Content, delete the Accounts, which it considers as violating these Terms, as well as void your celebrity balance or fine you at the amount of 500 US dollars for each fact of the violation of these rules at our discretion without any prior notice.

GoodEvents and celebrities’ services

In brief: 

The celebrities have access to in-app balance (“celebrity balance”), reflecting the sum of money raised with the help of a particular celebrity through the subscriptions and purchases of the extra requests. The sum on the celebrity balance is displayed excluding payment providers’, Goodzone’s, and other commissions.

GoodEvents

GoodEvents are the projects, which need financing and meet our internal criteria. Goodzone cooperates with dobro.ua, other services, and celebrities to choose the GoodEvents to add to the App.

The celebrities in their profile can choose a particular GoodEvent and the sum of the money they want Goodzone to transfer to the GoodEvent. Goodzone will transfer the funds and reflect that transfer in the celebrity profile.

The celebrities’ services

The celebrities may provide Goodzone the services of posting publications, communicating with the users, and recording shoutouts.

The celebrities shall decide together with Goodzone an amount of the remuneration for their services through the App. The total amount of the remuneration shall not exceed 20 percent of the total amount of funds credited to the celebrity balance for the whole term of the App use.

An amount to be received by a celebrity may be decreased by a sum of taxes deducted according to the applicable legislation, the processing fees, and the currency conversion rate that Goodzone does not control.

Intellectual property

In brief:

Goodzone Content

The App is owned and controlled by Goodzone.

All materials of the website and the App, including text, graphics, information, images, drawings, trademarks, logos, video, sounds, music, software, and other materials (collectively, “Content”), as well as copyright and other intellectual property rights to such Content belong to Goodzone or is included in the website or the App with the consent of the owner.

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Goodzone with this grants you a limited, temporary, personal, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, revocable, non-transferable, worldwide license to access and use the Content and to download and use the App on the device(s) that you lawfully own or control in the manner provided for in these Terms.

Under this license, you may not:

You are not allowed to use the Content or any of its elements in any way not provided for in these Terms without the prior written permission of Goodzone or owners of the Content.

Any attempt to do so is considered a violation of these Terms and the rights of Goodzone. If you violate any of these restrictions, your use of the App will be reviewed and terminated, and you may be subject to legal actions and damages.

Goodzone may provide upgrades, modifications, updates, or additions to the App software during the term of this license. The terms of this license shall be applied to any such modification unless a separate license accompanies it.

It is understood and agreed that Goodzone is the owner of all right, title, and interest in and to the original, and any copies of the App software and related information, improvements, enhancements, or derivatives to it and ownership of all intellectual property rights on it, in whole or in part, shall be, vest with, and remain the exclusive property of Goodzone.

If you download or copy the Content, no right, title, or interest in any downloaded or copied Content is transferred to you due to any such downloading or copying. You are not allowed to reproduce, publish, transmit, distribute, modify, create derivative works, or otherwise use the Content for commercial or illegal purposes without our prior written permission. You agree not to change or delete any ownership notices from materials downloaded or printed from the website or the App.

You are also advised that we are determined to enforce our intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law, including through civil remedies and criminal prosecution.

Your license to use the App is automatically revoked if you violate these Terms. We reserve all rights not expressly granted in these Terms.

User Content

You can upload, publish, and distribute materials, including images, videos, texts, designs, graphics, icons, or other materials and information (User Content). If you contribute User Content through the App, such User Content will be accessible to other users and available for copying, sharing, distributing, and publishing outside the App.

Between you and Goodzone, you own your User Content and information that you post through the Account.

You, with this, grant Goodzone a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, sub-licensable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide license to access, use, copy, modify, distribute, publish, reproduce, prepare derivative works of, store, cache, and otherwise fully exploit the User Content that you provide through the App, without any further consent, notice and/or compensation to you or others.

You can end this license anytime by deleting your User Content or Account. However, the license and permissions regarding your User Content will continue to be in force for the users who have previously shared/reposted, or downloaded your User Content.

When you upload or make available any User Content, you thereby represent and warrant that:

You are solely responsible for any User Content you upload to the App. The User Content published through the App can be subject to Goodzone’s prior moderation. However, we do not give any promises or guarantees relating to the User Content.

 

Third-party websites and services

In brief: 

Some App or website features are available in compatibility with third-party services, including the subscription payment. We cannot guarantee that any currently supported third-party services will remain compatible with the App and that all features are constantly available and uninterrupted.

You can visit third-party websites, which we do not control, using the App. We are not responsible for the content of such websites. We cannot guarantee that all the websites are compatible with the App software. All features are constantly available and uninterrupted, or that you will have access to the website. Goodzone reserves the right to block any user’s access to any content, website, or web page at our sole discretion.

You acknowledge that different terms of service and privacy policies may apply to your use of third-party websites, services, and content. Goodzone shall not be held responsible for any losses, damages, or other liabilities incurred due to your interaction with those third-party websites and services.

 

Warranties and disclaimers

In brief:

The App is provided to you “as is”.

Goodzone warrants that the App will perform substantially according to its documentation within the period of your license. Goodzone disclaims all other warranties regarding the App, its features, and content, to the fullest extent permitted by law, including without restrictions, guarantees of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement of intellectual property rights of third parties or other rights.

Goodzone may provide updates to the App from time to time that you have to install to continue using the App. You agree that we may cease to be available to your data and celebrity balance without any notice after an update or without such.

We do our best to keep your data safe and secure and maintain the App functionality. However, the App may be subject to unavailability for various factors beyond our control, including emergencies, third-party service failures, hacker attacks, transmission, equipment or network problems or limitations, interference, signal strength, and may be interrupted, refused, limited, or curtailed.

We are not responsible for data loss or the inability to use passwords or other information for login or identification.

We are not making any promises of any kind, including the App’s and Сontent’s accuracy, usefulness, reliability, and correct operation.

Goodzone does not guarantee that the App will be uninterrupted or secure, that any defects will be corrected, or that the App is free of viruses or anything harmful.

 

Limitation of liability

In brief:

Goodzone is not responsible if any information, materials, or content available through the App is inaccurate or incomplete.

You are solely responsible for the legality of your actions within the App and your use under the laws and regulations applicable to you.

In no event shall Goodzone, its subsidiaries, directors, partners, employees, contractors, or agents be liable for indirect, incidental, special, punitive, or consequential damages related to any use or inability to use the App, including, without limitation, any damages, caused as a result of the use of the information provided through the App or by mistakes, omissions, interruptions, defects, viruses, even if Goodzone has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

The preceding limitations of liability do not apply to the extent prohibited by law.

If any part of the warranty disclaimers or limitations of liability is found to be invalid or unenforceable for any reason or if we are otherwise found to be liable to you in any manner, then our aggregate liability for all claims under such circumstances for liabilities shall not exceed the total amount of payments made by you to Goodzone within one year preceding the claim.

Indemnification

In brief:

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Goodzone, our subsidiaries, directors, partners, employees, contractors, and agents from and against all claims, responsibility, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable legal and accounting expenses, arising from:

We reserve the right to handle our legal defense; however, we see fit, including instances when you indemnify us. Therefore, you agree to cooperate with us, so we execute our strategy.

Applicable law and jurisdiction

In brief:

Except as otherwise outlined in these Terms or any policies, these Terms shall be exclusively governed by and construed under the laws of Estonia, excluding its rules on conflict of laws.

If any material in the App, or your use of the App, is contrary to the laws of the place where you are when you access it, the App is not intended for you, and we ask you not to use it. You are responsible for informing yourself of the laws of your jurisdiction and complying with them.

Except where prohibited by applicable law, and without limitation to any statutory rights of consumers, you agree that any dispute, conflict, claim, or controversy directly or indirectly arising out of in connection with or relating to the App or these Terms, including, without limitation, those relating to its validity, its construction or its enforceability shall be resolved through amicable negotiations directly with Goodzone team following the principles of good faith and cooperation.

Suppose the negotiations may not reach a consensus. In that case, the dispute shall be settled exclusively in the national courts of Estonia, subject to its jurisdiction rules, with the applicable substantive law of Estonia.

All claims shall be brought within one (1) year after the claim arises, except to the extent that a more extended period is required by applicable law.

Electronic communications

In brief:

By using the App and providing us with your contact information, you understand and agree that we may send you the electronic communications via email or push notifications regarding, without limitation:

Note, however, that some email messages may be more “commercial” in nature than others, as they may advertise our services or offers in which we believe you may be interested. You may unsubscribe from receiving these emails from us by following the instructions provided in such communications.

You can read more about the practices of personal data processing in our Privacy Notice for the App and Privacy Notice for the website.

 

Termination

In brief:

Termination by Goodzone

At any time, we reserve the right at our sole discretion with prior notice to modify, suspend or discontinue the App, Content, feature or offers through the App. You agree that we shall not be liable to you or any third party should any preceding occur concerning the App.

Goodzone reserves the right to take whatever lawful actions it may deem appropriate in response to actual or suspected violations of these Terms, including, without limitation, the suspension or termination of your license and access to the App.

Goodzone may cooperate with legal authorities and/or third parties to investigate any suspected or alleged crime or civil wrong.

Termination by you

You may terminate this agreement with Goodzone at any time by deleting and no longer accessing or using the App. If you terminate this agreement, all permissions and licenses granted to you in these Terms will immediately terminate, and your balance on the virtual wallet will be void without Goodzone’s obligation to provide any refunds.

Other terms

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to a third party, but this will not affect your rights or our obligations.

At any time at our sole discretion, we reserve the right to modify these Terms. If material changes affect your use of the App, we’ll notify you before the changes’ effective date by emailing you. If you continue to use the App, you agree to the updated version of these Terms.

If any provision of these Terms is determined to be unlawful, void, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of these Terms will continue to be fully valid and enforceable.

A printed version of these Terms shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based on or relating to the use of the App to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.

 

Questions and contact information

If you have any questions or comments about these Terms, website, or App, please contact us at good.zone.me@gmail.com, via our website on the Contact page or via the Help center in the App.

Address: Harju maakond, Tallinn, Kesklinna linnaosa, Vesivärava tn 50-201, 10152