Terms of Use Agreement

Revised: November 17th, 2022

Our mission at Vero Labs, Inc. (“Vero,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) is to provide a social network where the user is the center of the network, not an advertiser or some entity looking to follow and track you. Vero is a true social network where you can connect with other people and build your community without worrying about us tracking your behaviour for advertisers or selling your content. This Terms of Use Agreement (“Agreement”) includes the terms by which you may access and use that social network and the online and/or mobile services, website, and/or software provided on or in connection with that social network (collectively, the “Service”).

Because the law is technical and we need to protect our users (including you) and ourselves so that everyone has a great experience with the Service, the Agreement is set out in the “Legal Terms of Use” section below. (Also, our lawyers made us do it, and we want them to be happy too). However, we believe in transparency for our users so we’ve also provided you a plain-English explanation of this Agreement in the right column. So we’re clear, that column is only intended to provide an explanation of the “legalese” to the left and some examples of what the legal terms actually mean in practice. Only the “Legal Terms of Use” in the left column is legally binding, so please review those terms in addition to our plain-English explanation on the right before you use the Service.

If you have any questions about this Agreement, please see the “Legal” section of our Support & FAQs page or contact us at any time at [email protected].

 
 

Before using our Service, please make sure you read all of the terms of this Agreement. Once you begin accessing or using our Service, you’ve made a contract with Vero and agreed to all the terms of this Agreement - even if you’re just visiting the public part of the Service.


 

You cannot use our Service if you are under 13 years old or if your use of the Service is prohibited by law. As long as you comply with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you have our permission to use the Service.


 

You must register for an account to use the features and functionalities of the Service. As part of the registration process and setting up an account, we ask you to provide us information about yourself, including your name and email address. You must also provide us your phone number so we can send you a verification text and make sure you’re a real person, because we only want real people on Vero!

When you sign up for an account, we ask you to select a strong password. Make sure you keep your password safe and don’t let anyone else use your account since you’ll be responsible for any and all activity that occurs under your account. If you think someone else has your password or is using your account, let us know as soon as possible so we can help protect your account.


 

This Section contains our rules for using the Service. Please review and make sure you do not engage in any of these prohibited activities. Taking part in or assisting any third party in taking part in any of these prohibited activities may result in the termination of your account by Vero, in addition to any other remedies available to Vero.


 

We cannot monitor every user of the Service, nor every user interaction. While we may provide you assistance (including dispute resolution), you are ultimately responsible for your interactions with other users on the Service.

If you choose to run a contest or a promotion on the Service, then you are responsible for that promotion and ensuring it is run according to any applicable laws. You must make people aware that Vero does not sponsor your promotion unless we have officially agreed to do so.


 

Vero is a social network that allows you to post or share content like music, photos, and videos. We do not own your content and nothing under this Agreement transfers to us or to other users ownership of any of the content you post or share on the Service, nor does it restrict the way you use the content outside of the Service. It’s yours and we want to keep it that way.

Again, we do not and will not own your content; however, since the Service is a social network, we need you to give us permission to use the content you post or share solely as necessary to provide the Service and for a few additional purposes identified in our Privacy Policy. Basically, it’s so when you post something, the other users you want to share it with can see or hear the content you posted on Vero.

Digging deeper, here are some examples and more detailed explanations about the license you’re granting us in this Agreement:

Royalty-Free: To be a viable social network where you can provide and exchange your content without restriction, we need to be able to use your content without having to pay you a fee for each use.

Sublicensable: Vero works with third parties to provide the Service and some of those service providers need access to your content to assist us in providing you the features and functionalities of the Service. As the saying goes, it takes a village.

Reproduce: When you provide content to the Service, we make copies of that content so that you may retain the original while a copy is displayed on your profile.

Modify: The technical requirements of the Service may require us to modify your content so that it may be displayed on the Service, like resizing a photo to display on the Service.

Publish, Publicly Display, and Publicly Perform: We need your permission to make your content available to other Vero users or on the public parts of the Service. For example, if you post a video, we must be able to publish the collective work on the Service; publicly display the images within the video; and publicly perform the audio contained in the video.

Translate: Since Vero is a global network, we need your permission to translate your content into different languages to make it available to users around the world.

Distribute: You grant us the right to deliver your content to other users you have connected with on the Service.

Make Derivative Works: Derivative works include previews of your videos.

Rights to Name, Likeness and Image: If you post a picture or video of yourself, we need these rights without having to blur your image in your photos and videos.

If you choose to run a contest or a promotion on the Service, then you are responsible for that promotion and ensuring it is run according to any applicable laws. You must make people aware that Vero does not sponsor your promotion unless we have officially agreed to do so.


 

In addition to the rights you grant to us, when you post your content on the Service, it may be accessed and viewed by other users of the Service and the public (if you’ve made such content available to the public on the Service). As such, we need you to grant those other users and the public (as applicable) rights to access and view the content you post and share as permitted by the features and functionality of the Service.

WE REPEAT – YOUR CONTENT, NOT OURS. If anything in this section is unclear, please contact us at the email above and we will be happy to answer your question or resolve your concern.


 

Please review this Section for our rules about content that you are allowed to post or share on the Service. We at Vero want to ensure a great and safe user experience so we have the right to monitor and/or remove your content in our sole discretion.

When you post or share content on the Service – whether you own such content or it’s owned by someone else - you are responsible for getting the necessary permissions to do so. For example, if you post pictures of other people to the Service, you must get their permission or have the rights to use their image and to display it on the Service.

You are solely responsible for the content you post or share on the Service and for the content of other users you come across using the Service, so provide, create and browse wisely.


 

We at Vero respect artists’ and content owners’ rights. If your rights are being infringed by the content on the Service, please notify us using the procedure in this Section.


 

Our mobile application is available for download on the iTunes Store and Google Play, but Apple and Google have no obligations to you with regard to our mobile application. That said, you must download and use the mobile application in compliance with the iTunes Store and Google Play Terms of Service, depending on who you downloaded the mobile application from.

You’re responsible for any charges in connection with your use of our mobile application on your mobile device.


 

Except for the content posted or shared by our users, the information, graphics, and other aspects of the Service are owned by us.

You may have thoughts and suggestions about the Service that you may want to provide to us. If you provide us feedback about the Service, then you gave it to us for free (thank you!) and we can use it to make Vero even better for all our users.


 

If you are a paying member of the Service or you purchase any goods or services from Vero through the Service then this Section applies to you and you should read it carefully. If you live in California, please take note of the extra rules for our California resident users.


 

We allow users to run promotions and market their products or services on our Service. If you are a user running promotions or marketing your products on our Service, you must do so in compliance with any and all applicable laws, rules and regulations, including those of the Federal Trade Commission.

Users who run promotions or market their products or services on our Service are not associated with us, nor are they promoting products or services on our behalf. These promotions are not Vero advertisements or sponsors paying Vero for access to you.

Unlike other social media companies, we treat the promotions and marketing of users as user content. So if you don’t want to see the promotions or marketing of other users, simply unfollow the user or filter out those posts through your settings.

In addition to allowing our users to promote their goods and services, we also allow users to make their products and services available for purchase. When you purchase products or services from another user on the Service, you’re purchasing them directly from the selling user – not Vero. We are not involved in the manufacturing, distribution, or any other part of the creation or sale of those products or services. If you and the selling user have a disagreement about the sale, we may assist you, but it is ultimately between you and the selling user to resolve the dispute.


 

Please read our Privacy Policy, which you are also agreeing to as part of this Agreement.

 

We do our best to make sure the information you provide to us is protected, but no system is 100% safe.


 

There are links to third-party sites on the Service, and those links will take you to other websites or services that are not governed by our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy.


 

The Service includes materials that other companies made and continue to make available to us. Those other companies do not endorse the Service, but they do have legal protections in the materials they have let us access and use. You must not violate those legal protections by copying or disclosing the material or removing any copyright mark of those other companies without our permission.


 

This Section specifically limits our liability to you to the amount you paid us through the Service, requires you to indemnify us for your access and use of the Service and disclaims our other liabilities around the Service and around the content you provide and your use of the Service.


 

In the unlikely event of a legal dispute, we like to handle any disputes under the agreement through binding arbitration. Binding arbitration under this Agreement will take place in New York.

YOU ARE AGREEING TO A MANDATORY INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION/JURY TRIAL WAIVER PROVISION THAT REQUIRES THE USE OF ARBITRATION ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS TO RESOLVE DISPUTES, RATHER THAN JURY TRIALS OR CLASS ACTIONS.


 

We at Vero are constantly innovating, so we reserve the right to change, suspend or end any part of the Service for any or no reason without liability to our users. We do not plan to end any of our services, but to the extent we figure out there are new products we need to launch or products that are not working then we need the flexibility to turn features on and off to make Vero better.

We can also suspend or terminate your access to the Service at any time or for any reason, including if we determine you violated this Agreement. We don’t want to have to do this and this is just so we can keep Vero a safe community.

We may change this Agreement from time to time. Normally, these are unimportant changes so we just update the date at the bottom of this page and move on; however, if we change the Agreement in an important way, we will try to provide you notice of the change (which may include posting a notice on the Service or emailing you directly).


 

This Section contains necessary legal terms around how we can transfer the Agreement, what happens if a court finds any section of this Agreement invalid, and similar terms.