Terms of Penewo

  1. Welcome to the general terms and conditions of Penewo (People’s Network)

    Penewo wants to support you in the best possible way in connecting with others by any topic. This also includes connecting people with companies and businesses.

    This Agreement governs your relationship with Penewo and your use of and access to all services and products provided by Penewo. You agree that by accessing or using any part of the Services you are bound by the terms of this Agreement, including Community Guidelines incorporated herein. By using Penewo you accept these Terms.
  2. Fundamental services

    Penewo wants to give people, business, companies and other entities the best equipment to display and express themselves in a comprehensive but as far as possible all-encompassing way. This includes primarily a webpage-like presentation with the possibility for the upload of movies, pictures, text, location, interests/keyword setting, incognito mode and review - both for desktop and mobile devices.

    Furthermore, Penewo would like to ensure the visibility of the uploaded content in the internet as good as possible. This is managed on the one side via a search by keywords/interests that are predefined by the users. On the other side Penewo provides a news feed related to keywords/interests that are set by the users. Your internet surfing behavior is not the basis of Penewo’s information flow.

    In addition, Penewo enables users to communicate with each other within the network.

    Beside that Penewo compares user accounts with same keywords to give you keyword suggestions.

    Mainly Penewo wants to give users support and improve their live by:

    Connecting companies and business according to interests, products and services,
    Connecting people for jobs according to their skills and know how.
    Connecting people to perform and support their professional tasks, business, or research and development (e.g. scientists).
    Connecting people for any private affairs and interests.
  3. Advertisement

    As every company in the usual economic process we have expenses to be covered. We therefore display ads at Penewo. We are paid to promote these ads. These ads can be related to keywords/interests that are defined and uploaded to the system by the users.

    Using Penewo you agree that:

    We can show you ads and you agree that Penewo may displays ads related to keywords/interests uploaded by you.

    We have the right to show useful data to advertisers like information about how often is a keyword/interest used in order to give them support to place efficient ads.

    We give advertisers only general information. and we do not sell personal data.

    We don’t share information that directly identifies single users.

    We inform advertisers about the performance of their ads. Penewo does not sell personal data (like your name, birthday etc.) so that anyone could identify you.
  4. Requirements for using Penewo:

    If you are under 13 years old (or under the minimum legal age in your country where you use Penewo) you cannot use the Penewo system.

    You are not allowed to use Penewo in any way to commit crimes under the applicable law or share anything that is unlawful, misleading, discriminatory or fraudulent.

    If we've previously disabled your account for violations of the terms described here, you cannot use Penewo.

    You cannot use the service of Penewo if it is not allowed by applicable laws.
  5. Requirements and provisions for uploading content on Penewo

    You must have the legal rights for everything that you upload and post on Penewo (watch out for legal violations!)

    Using the Penewo system you may not infringe or violate someone else's rights (such as copyrights and trademark rights).

    The content uploaded at Penewo is in the sole responsibility of the user who created the content. Penewo does not take responsibility or endorses, supports, represents or affirms the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy or reliability for the content uploaded by its users.

    Penewo does not endorse any opinions expressed through its services.
  6. Conditions and provisions for using our system:

    You may not interfere in any way that could disable, overburden, or impair the proper working or appearance of the Penewo system like implementing viruses or malicious code into the system.

    You may not access or collect data from Penewo by automated means or attempt to access data outside of the normal use of Penewo where you do not have permission to access. This includes automated means in a manner that puts excessive demand on the Penewo Services,

    by hacking the Penewo services,

    by accessing without authorization areas of the Penewo system that are protected by technical measures designed to prevent unauthorized access,

    by testing the vulnerability of the Penewo services,

    by impersonating Penewo or its services,

    by accessing the Penewo services for any purpose that competes with the interests of Penewo,

    by spamming Penewo users,

    by failing to respond to operational communications or requests from Penewo,

    or through any other type of interference with the Services or Penewo’s relationships with others.

    We can remove or restrict access to content that is in violation of these provisions.
  7. Right to distribute

    You give us the permission to use the content of your uploads (again, when you use social media like Penewo, be aware that you have to respect intellectual property laws!).

    This permission includes:

    You give us a worldwide, royalty free, transferable, non-exclusive, sub-licensable license to host, use, copy, process and display publicly, distribute, translate, reproduce, adapt, modify, publish, transmit and create derivative works of your uploaded content.

    You also grant a limited non-exclusive, royalty-free license to any Penewo user to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, and distribute any content posted by you to Penewo solely in connection with that member’s use of the Service of Penewo.

    The licenses granted by you hereunder do not include any moral rights or right of attribution.
  8. Regarding the delete of content and account

    You can delete content individually or all at once by deleting your account.

    Penewo may remove any content and terminate your access to the Penewo Services at any time and for any reason to the extent Penewo reasonably believes you have violated Terms of d), e), f).

    We also can remove or restrict access to your content, services or information:

    if we determine that you create a risk or possible legal exposure for Penewo, or you are otherwise engaging in unlawful conduct.

    If we or others are exposed to legal liability by your actions,

    If users are harmed by your doing,

    If the integrity or operation of Penewo is compromised or interfered; where we are restricted because of technical limitations; or where we are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons

    If we determine that doing so is reasonably necessary to avoid or mitigate adverse legal or regulatory impacts to Penewo.

    Penewo may remove any content and terminate your access to the Services at any time if we reasonably believe that you have violated the Penewo Community Guidelines.

    Penewo will have no liability to you for removing any content, for terminating your access to our Services, or for modifying or terminating the Services of Penewo.

    If we remove content, we have to inform you.
  9. Disclaimer of Liability

    The Penewo Services are provided to you as-is and at your own risk. The Services come with no express or implied warranties, except those that cannot be disclaimed under the law.

    Penewo disclaims all express or implied warrenties and conditions, such as merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

    Penewo makes no representation or endorsement about the function of the Penewo services or any content available through the Services. Penewo has no responsibility or liability to you arising from your use of the Penewo services. Penewo has no responsibility or liability to you arising from content provided by you or any other person, even if such content is untrue, harmful, damaging, offensive, inappropriate, fraudulent, tortious, unlawful, contrary to social norms, etc.

    Although Penewo may make efforts to review or monitor content, you agree that you will not rely on this fact for any purpose.

    Penewo has no responsibility or liability to you arising from hacking event, data breach, theft, misuse of information, conspiracy, racket, fraud, act of terrorism, misappropriation of information, technical malfunction, interruption of service, or similar event that may cause you to suffer damage, loss, or injury, including without limitation any damage to or loss of your personal property, data, operations, information, reputation, goodwill, profits, etc.

    To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, and regardless of the nature of the cause of action, Penewo will not be liable to you for any direct, indirect, incidential, consequential, special, or punitive damages, or for any lost profits, whether incurred directly or indirectly, or for intangible losses, arising from
    • Your access to or use of (or inability to access or use) the Penewo services;
    • From the acts or omissions of any other person or third party, including, without Limitation, any defamatory, offense, or illegal conduct of other persons or third parties;
    • Any content obtained from the Penewo service; or
    • Unauthorized access, use, or alteration of your content or communications through the Penewo services. In no event shall the aggregate liability of Penewo arising out of or relating to these terms or the services exceed the greater of two hundred U.S. Dollars (U.S. $ 200.00) or the amount you paid Penewo, if any, in the past six month for the Penewo services giving rise to the claim. The limitations of this section shall apply to any theory of liability, whether based on warranty, contract, statute, tort (including negligence), or otherwise, and shall further apply whether or not Penewo has been informed of the possibility of any such damages and even if remedy laid out in these terms is found to have failed its essential purpose.
  10. Applicable law and jurisdiction.

    The laws of the Republic of Singapore, excluding its choice of law provisions, will govern these Terms and any dispute that arises between you and Penewo. All disputes related to these Terms or the Penewo services shall be submitted to the Courts of the Republic of Singapore which shall have exclusive jurisdiction over such dispute.
  11. Agreement modification

    Penewo may modify the Terms of this Agreement in any way and at any time without notice to you, and you agree to be responsible for making yourself aware of any modification of the Terms and to be bound by any modification of the Terms when you continue to access or use the Penewo Services after any such modification.

    As a matter of courtesy, Penewo endeavors to inform its community members of any such changes. These Terms supersede all prior agreements between you and Penewo pertaining to the Services.
  12. Further terms and agreements

    You affirm that you are competent to agree to be bound by this Agreement, meaning that you are over the age of 18, an emancipated minor, or have legal parental or guardian consent. Parents of minors should be aware that there are a number of Parental Control products and features available on the market, which can help you tailor your child’s experience on our platform.

    Penewo cannot waive any right to enforce this Agreement, unless it does so expressly in writing. No waiver of any part of this Agreement, will be a further or continuing waiver of that part or any other part, and no failure to enforce any part of this agreement will be deemed a waiver of any kind.

    Except for the statements in this document and the documents expressly incorporated herein by reference, no statement by Penewo or anyone associated with Penewo, whether verbal or written, can modify or supplement the Terms of this agreement unless the modification or supplement is stated expressly in writing by referring to this Agreement.

    If any of the Terms in the Agreement are held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court or arbitrator or by operation of law, the remaining Terms will remain in effect.