The following terms of service constitute a binding legal agreement (the “Agreement”) between You and bip.so (hereinafter referred to as “bip” / "bip.so" / “we”/ “us”), (which expression shall include its successors and assigns), setting forth the terms and conditions (“Terms”) of your use of the bip website and online tools, including the website hosted at https://bip.so and https://ansy.ai and associated services offered through integrations with 3rd party software such as Slack, Discord, Notion, Loom etc. (all tools made available are hereinafter referred to as the “Service” / "Application").

By accessing or using Service, you accept this Agreement and agree to use the Service in compliance with this Agreement. By accessing or using Service, You represent to bip that You are competent to enter into a contract (i.e. You a major according to applicable law, of sound mind and not disqualified from entering into a contract under the applicable law) and You have read this Agreement, understand it and agree to be bound by its Terms. Please review the Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Service. The terms “Subscriber,” “you,” “your,” “yours,” and “authorized user” refer to you, the account administrator, any individual user that is authorized by an account administrator, or an entity using the Service. We may periodically make changes to this Agreement, and you may view the most current version at https://bip.so/@bip.so/Terms-of-Use-klnmF. These Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy at https://bip.so/@bip.so/Privacy-Policy-xulEV important agreements between us and should be read by you in their entirety.

The bip Application, Ansy Application, and related services are currently made available to You by bip.so as per the subscription plan selected by you. 

The bip Application is a service that allows users to create, share, discover, or engage with documents with other members, mostly co-workers and other acquaintances, over the internet and third-party cloud services (Slack, Notion, E-mail etc.). More information about the Application is available at https://bip.so.

The Ansy Application is a service that allows users to ask and get questions answered based on the data made available to it. More information about the Application is available at https://ansy.ai.

The Application can be integrated from third party application stores such as Slack App Directory. You agree to comply with all third party terms and conditions & privacy policy, if any, applicable to the use of the Application or related services. bip shall not be responsible for violation and infringement of any third party right, terms and conditions in connection with access, download or installation of the Application by You.

You must register for and maintain an account with us to use the Service. You can do this via the site or through your account with certain third-party tools (a “Third Party Account”). If you choose the Third Party Account option we’ll create your Account by extracting from your Third Party Account certain personal information such as your name and email address and other personal information that your privacy settings on the Third Party Account permit us to access.

When registering, you must provide accurate and complete information and promptly update this information. If you provide any information that is inaccurate or incomplete, or we have reason to believe that the information is inaccurate or incomplete, we may suspend or terminate your account and your use of the Service. Only authorized users may use your account to use the Service and conduct other activities with us. You are responsible for all activities that occur through your account. To protect your account from unauthorized use, keep your user identification, OTPs, magic links secure. Please notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. If there is unauthorized use by anyone who obtained access to the Service directly or indirectly through you, you will take all steps reasonably necessary to terminate the unauthorized use. You will cooperate and assist with any actions taken by bip to prevent or terminate unauthorized use of the Service.

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, bip grants to Subscriber a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right during the term of this Agreement for the use of the Service by the Subscriber provided that (a) You shall use the Service solely for lawful use only and comply with all applicable laws, including privacy laws; (b) Except as may be expressly permitted by applicable law or authorized by us in writing, You will not, nor allow third parties on Your behalf (i) to resell or charge others for use of the Service; (ii) to duplicate, disassemble, decompile, transfer, exchange or translate the Service, create derivative works of the Service of any kind whatsoever or attempt to reverse engineer, alter or modify any part of the Service; (iii) to circumvent or disable any security or other technological features or measures of any portion of the Service; (iv) to use the Service in a manner that threatens the integrity, performance, or availability of the Service; (v) to remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notices (including copyright notices) on any portion of the Service; and (c) You warrant to otherwise comply with the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

bip will provide you with technical support services relating to the Service in accordance with your tier of service. You acknowledge and agree that: (a) the Services are still in development by bip; (b) the Services may not operate properly, be in final form or fully functional; (c) the Services may contain errors, design flaws or other problems; and (d) bip is under no obligation to update or continue to develop the Services.

This Agreement is deemed to incorporate the Privacy Policy posted on the Site https://bip.so/@bip.so/Privacy-Policy-xulEV. 

You will communicate information with and through the Service. You acknowledge and agree that in order to use certain features, you can provide bip with access to certain Third Party Accounts, such as Slack / Twitter. In addition, we may collect registration and other information about your use of the Service. You hereby grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable license to use and exploit all information that we collect: (a) internally in any way subject to bip's obligation of non-disclosure in Section 7; and (b) internally or externally in any way in aggregate or anonymous format or otherwise in conformity with our Privacy Policy.

Subject to bip’s rights under Sections 6, 19, 20, bip will not disclose to any third party, without your consent, the information or material you upload to the Service. Although we take security and privacy very seriously at bip, bip makes no warranty or guarantee to you regarding the security or confidentiality of any User Information. bip may, however, disclose that information or material if required by law or if bip reasonably determines that disclosure is necessary to prevent harm to bip or any third party. Your consent to disclosure shall be deemed given when you use bip in connection with a third party application or Third Party Account, solely with respect to disclosure in connection with your use of such third party application (i.e., data is passed to Slack, Notion, Twitter etc.). If bip is required by law to disclose any of that information or material, bip will make reasonable efforts to provide you prompt written notice of that requirement prior to disclosure.

bip is offered free of cost to you. However, certain features or actions can be offered under a paid plan in the future. In such an instance, You will pay the fees for the services selected by you as published on the bip website at th time that the term of this Agreement, or any renewal, begins. You authorize bip (either directly or through its third party payment processor) to charge the credit card identified by you (which you represent and warrant that you are authorized to use) for all applicable fees for your subscription in US dollars, including all applicable taxes. If bip does not receive payment from your credit card provider, you agree to pay all amounts due upon demand, in US dollars, and bip may suspend your access to the paid features. All sales are final and bip will not issue refunds except as expressly provided in this Agreement. You will promptly reimburse bip for any costs incurred in connection with collection of past-due amounts, including attorneys’ fees, and bip may, as a result of late payment, among other remedies available to it, discontinue its provision of the Service to you in accordance with this Agreement.

The term of this Agreement commences upon your registration for a Service subscription and remains in effect for as long as you hold an active account with bip, unless otherwise agreed. The term of your subscription, including the obligation to pay the applicable Service subscription fees, will automatically renew for additional successive terms of the same duration unless terminated as specified in this Section. You may terminate this Agreement at any time upon written notice to bip. For the purposes of providing notice of non-renewal as described in this paragraph, notice via email to bip at hey@bip.so will be deemed sufficient. Upon termination, your access to the Service and any information stored by the Service will also terminate. bip may terminate this Agreement at any time upon 30 days’ prior written notice for its convenience, and will refund to you a pro-rata portion of any unused, prepaid fees. Upon any termination for any reason, bip shall have no liability to You and no further obligations under this Agreement, except as explicitly provided in this Section.

We may immediately, without notice, suspend or terminate your access to the Service and terminate this Agreement for any of the following reasons: (a) you breach any provision of this Agreement; (b) you seek to hack the security mechanisms of the Service or we otherwise determine that your use of the Service poses a security risk to us or to another user of the Service; (c) you introduce a malicious program into the network or a virtual machine instance; (d) you cause network interference that affects Service performance for other customers; (e) you use the Service in a way that we determine, in our sole discretion, is abusive or disrupts or threatens the performance or availability of the Service; or (e) we receive notice or we otherwise determine, in our sole discretion, that you may be using the Service for an illegal purpose or in a way that violates the law or violates, infringes, or misappropriates the rights of any third party.

If this Agreement is terminated for any reason: (i) you will pay to bip any fees or other amounts that have accrued prior to the effective date of the termination; (ii) any and all liabilities accrued prior to the effective date of the termination will survive; and (iii) the following sections will survive: Sections 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, and 23. bip is not obligated to retain that information following any termination and makes no representation to the integrity, completeness or timeliness of any data following termination of our legal relationship.

All other sections that may be reasonably interpreted to or are intended to survive this Agreement will survive this Agreement.

10. Access to the Service; Modifications to the Service

We do not provide you with the equipment to access the Service or other services required to make use of the Service. You are responsible for all fees charged by third parties to access and use the Service (e.g., Internet access charges, subscription fees on third party applications). We reserve the right to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, all or a part of the Service without notice. We will not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of the Service, except that if we permanently discontinue the Service we will provide you, as your sole and exclusive remedy, and our sole and exclusive liability, a pro-rated refund representing the unused (as of the date of termination) portion of any subscription fees that you have paid in advance, and access to all canvases created on bip in machine-readable format for export to other applications. Access to this data should be made through an email to hey@bip.so within 30 days of date of termination. 

Except for the rights to access the Service expressly granted to you in this Agreement, we retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Service, including all related intellectual property rights. The Service is protected by applicable intellectual property laws. By using the Service, you hereby grant, and represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant, bip the right to list Subscriber as a customer or client of bip on public facing websites and to use Subscriber’s name and photo subject to applicable privacy laws, if any, and to use Subscriber’s logo subject to communicated brand guidelines, if any.

We welcome feedback, comments and suggestions for improvements to the Services (“Feedback”). You can submit Feedback by emailing us at hey@bip.so or share it via the corresponding option shown in the Application. You authorize us to use that Feedback without restriction and without payment to you. Accordingly, you hereby grant to us perpetual and irrevocable license to use the Feedback in any manner and for any purpose.

bip warrants that the Service will, during the term of your subscription, materially conform to any description of the Service published by bip. As bip's sole and exclusive liability for breach of this limited warranty, and your sole and exclusive remedy, bip will make reasonable efforts to correct the non-conformity.

Subscriber represents and warrants that: (a) Subscriber will not upload any information to the Service unless Subscriber has all permissions or licenses necessary to do so and to authorize bip's use of that information in accordance with this Agreement; (b) Subscriber’s use of the Service will not subject bip to any liability or cause bip to violate any law, rule, or regulation or guideline; (c) Subscriber shall not use bip or Ansy to incite hate speech, abuse self or others, or try to provoke Ansy into responding in a harmful way; (d) Subscriber acknowledges that Ansy is used only to answer questions regarding their community as an extension of their customer support and engagement function and will ensure that it is used only for that purpose.

SOME COUNTRIES AND JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE DISCLAIMER OF IMPLIED TERMS IN CONTRACTS WITH CONSUMERS AND AS A RESULT THE CONTENTS OF THIS SECTION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING PARAGRAPH, THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS AND bip EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF THE SERVICE, AND YOU RELY ON THE SERVICE AT YOUR OWN RISK. ANY MATERIAL ACCESSED, DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR HARDWARE OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY MATERIAL THROUGH THE SERVICE. YOU SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENCES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM ANYTHING TRANSMITTED OR CAUSED TO BE TRANSMITTED BY YOU, TO OR THROUGH THE SERVICE. bip MAKES NO WARRANTY AGAINST INTERFERENCE OF YOUR BENEFITS FROM THE SERVICE; FOR LOSSES OR DAMAGES INCLUDING ANY PERSONAL INJURY ARISING FROM OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO YOUR ACCESS OR USE OF THE SERVICE, USE OF ANY CONTENT POSTED, TRANSMITTED, OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE VIA THE SERVICE OR FOLLOWING A FAILURE, SUSPENSION OR WITHDRAWAL OF ALL OR PART OF THE SERVICE AT ANY TIME; ANY BUGS, VIRUSES, OR THE LIKE WHICH MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH OUR SERVICE OR RELATED SERVICES, THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE FUNCTIONAL, UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE OR BUG-FREE OR MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; REGARDING THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY OR TIMELINESS OF THE SERVICE; THAT ANY ERRORS, BUGS OR FAILURES IN THE SERVICE WILL BE CORRECTED. ACCORDINGLY, YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT USE OF THE SERVICE IS PURELY VOLUNTARY ON YOUR PART, AT YOUR OWN RISK AND THEREFORE AGREE TO BEAR ANY AND ALL RISK WHATSOEVER AND/OR HOWSOEVER CAUSED.  NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM bip OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE WILL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THIS AGREEMENT. SOME STATES MAY PROHIBIT A DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND YOU MAY HAVE OTHER RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE.

LIMITATION ON AND EXCLUSION OF REMEDIES AND DAMAGES. TO THE EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY LAW, YOU CAN RECOVER FROM bip ONLY DIRECT DAMAGES UP TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE APPLICATION. YOU AGREE NOT TO SEEK TO RECOVER ANY OTHER DAMAGES, INCLUDING CONSEQUENTIAL, LOST PROFITS, SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES.

WHILST bip SHALL UNDERTAKE ALL REASONABLE EFFORTS AND DUE DILIGENCE TO ENSURE SECURITY AND INTEGRITY, bip SHALL, IN PARTICULAR, NOT BE LIABLE FOR THE FOLLOWING: DELAY OR ERRORS IN TRANSMISSION AND/OR STORAGE OF INFORMATION TO OR THROUGH bip THAT MIGHT OCCUR FROM TIME TO TIME; INTRUSION, DISTORTION, LOSS OR FORGERY OF DATA, ETC DUE TO ACT OF ANY THIRD PARTY, FAILURE OF ANY SOFTWARE AND/OR HARDWARE OR SERVICE PROVIDER(S) USED BY US OR ANY OTHER ACT BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAWS, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE WILL bip, ITS DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS, BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF bip HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF THESE DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL bip's TOTAL LIABILITY OF ALL KINDS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTY CLAIMS), REGARDLESS OF THE FORUM AND REGARDLESS OF WHETHER ANY ACTION OR CLAIM IS BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, EXCEED THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY YOU TO bip FOR THE SERVICE. BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

EACH PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT THAT PROVIDES FOR A LIMITATION OF LIABILITY, DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES, OR EXCLUSION OF DAMAGES IS TO ALLOCATE THE RISKS OF THIS AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PARTIES. THIS ALLOCATION IS REFLECTED IN THE PRICING OFFERED BY bip TO SUBSCRIBER AND IS AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN THE PARTIES. EACH OF THESE PROVISIONS IS SEVERABLE AND INDEPENDENT OF ALL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT. THE LIMITATIONS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL APPLY EVEN IF ANY LIMITED REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

ANY CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM YOU MAY HAVE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE WEBSITE MUST BE COMMENCED WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES, OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless bip, its subsidiaries, affiliates and agents and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, successors and assigns from and against any claim, proceeding, loss, damage, liability, cost, demand or expense (including but not limited to attorney's fees) of any kind arising out of: (i) Your access to or use of the Service; (ii) any breach by You of Your obligations under this Agreement; (iii) Your violation of the rights of a third party, including but not limited to infringement of any intellectual property, proprietary right or trade secret of any person or entity, or of any privacy or consumer protection right that is implicated herein; (iv) any violation of law or contractual obligation and any claims, demands, notices pursuant to such violation; (v) Your negligence or willful misconduct. These obligations will survive termination of this Agreement.

bip shall not be liable to you for any  for any delay or failure to perform any obligation under this Agreement  caused directly or indirectly by any act of God, wars (declared or undeclared), insurrections, acts of terrorism, acts of governments or boycotts, lockouts and other civil unrest, or any act of similar nature beyond bip's reasonable control.

If one or more provisions of this Agreement are held to be illegal, unenforceable, or invalid under Applicable Law(s), the remainder of this Agreement shall be valid and enforceable. If any material limitation or restriction on the use of the Service under this Agreement is found to be illegal, unenforceable, or invalid, Subscriber’s right to use the Service will immediately terminate.

The waiver by either party of any breach of any provision of this Agreement does not waive any other breach. The failure of any party to insist on strict performance of any covenant or obligation in accordance with this Agreement will not be a waiver of such party’s right to demand strict compliance in the future, nor will the same be construed as a novation of this Agreement.

This Agreement  or any right, duty, or obligation under this Agreement, may be assigned by bip, at any time without your consent, to its successors and assigns including if there is any re-organization of bip.

You may not assign this Agreement or any right, duty, or obligation under this Agreement, without bip’s prior written consent. If consent is given, this Agreement will bind your successors and assigns. Any attempt by you to transfer any right, duty, or obligation under this Agreement except as expressly provided in this Agreement is void. 

bip may utilize one or more subcontractors or other third parties to perform its duties under this Agreement so long as bip remains responsible for all of its obligations under this Agreement.

Except as otherwise expressly set forth in this Agreement, any notice required or permitted to be given in accordance with this Agreement will be effective if it is in writing and sent by certified or registered mail, or insured courier, return receipt requested, to the appropriate party at the address set forth below for bip, and at the address set forth in the Subscriber account for Subscriber and with the appropriate postage affixed. Either party may change its address for receipt of notice by notice to the other party in accordance with this Section. Notices are deemed given two business days following the date of mailing or one business day following delivery to a courier.

You shall be solely responsible for all contents that You upload, transmit, share or display through the Application or the Site, (collectively the “Contents”) including but not limited to any profiles (including Your name and image), messages, information, and links. bip does not guarantee as to the validity, accuracy or legal status or confidentiality with respect to any Contents and You shall be solely responsible and assume all risks for any consequences of uploading, posting, transfer or disclosure of the Contents. You hereby confirm and warrant that the Contents do not violate the representation and warranties provided in Section 6 above. bip does not assert any ownership over the Contents and subject to the rights granted to bip in this Agreement, You retain full ownership of all of Your Contents and proprietary rights associated with the Contents. Upon termination of the Service, bip may delete all Your Contents from its database and servers after a minimum of 30 days, except to the extent required to be retained by applicable law. bip reserves the right to send You periodic communications for the purpose of sharing new updates with You. 

You acknowledge that You have read this Agreement, understand it and agree to be bound by its terms and conditions. You also agree that this Agreement read with the terms of the Privacy Policy is the complete and exclusive statement of the Agreement between bip and You and supersedes all proposals, representations or prior agreements, oral or written, and any other communications between bip and You relating to the subject matter of this Agreement. No employee, agent, or other representative of bip has any authority to bind bip with respect to any statement, representation, warranty, or other expression unless the same is specifically set forth in this Agreement. No usage of trade or other regular practice or method of dealing between the parties will be used to modify, interpret, supplement, or alter the terms of this Agreement. This Agreement may be changed only by a written agreement signed by an authorized agent of the party against whom enforcement is sought. bip will not be bound by, and specifically objects to, any term, condition, or other provision that is different from or in addition to this Agreement (whether or not it would materially alter this Agreement) that is proffered by Subscriber in any receipt, acceptance, confirmation, correspondence, or otherwise, unless bip specifically agrees to such provision in writing and signed by an authorized agent of bip.

This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of India. You irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of courts in Hyderabad, India for all disputes arising out of or relating to this Agreement.

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Terms of Use

The following terms of service constitute a binding legal agreement (the “Agreement”) between You and bip.so (hereinafter referred to as “bip” / "bip.so" / “we”/ “us”), (which expression shall include its successors and assigns), setting forth the terms and conditions (“Terms”) of your use of the bip website and online tools, including the website hosted at https://bip.so and https://ansy.ai and associated services offered through integrations with 3rd party software such as Slack, Discord, Notion, Loom etc. (all tools made available are hereinafter referred to as the “Service” / "Application"). By accessing or using Service, you accept this Agreement and agree to use the Service in compliance with this Agreement. By accessing or using Service, You represent to bip that You are competent to enter into a contract (i.e. You a major according to applicable law, of sound mind and not disqualified from entering into a contract under the applicable law) and You have read this Agreement, understand it and agree to be bound by its Terms. Please review the Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Service. The terms “Subscriber,” “you,” “your,” “yours,” and “authorized user” refer to you, the account administrator, any individual user that is authorized by an account administrator, or an entity using the Service. We may periodically make changes to this Agreement, and you may view the most current version at https://bip.so/@bip.so/Terms-of-Use-klnmF. These Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy at https://bip.so/@bip.so/Privacy-Policy-xulEV important agreements between us and should be read by you in their entirety.