Terms of Service
Last updated: April 24, 2025
Welcome to Mentor Labs. Please read these Terms of Service ("Terms") carefully as they contain important information about your legal rights, remedies, and obligations. By accessing or using the Mentor Labs platform, you agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms.
1. Acceptance of Terms
By accessing or using our platform, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not access or use our platform.
2. Changes to Terms
We may modify these Terms at any time. If we make changes, we will provide notice of such changes, such as by sending an email notification, providing notice through our platform, or updating the "Last Updated" date at the beginning of these Terms. Your continued use of our platform following notification of changes will constitute your acceptance of such changes.
3. Platform Overview
Mentor Labs is a platform that connects startups with experienced mentors. We provide tools and services to facilitate these connections, but we do not guarantee specific outcomes or results from these relationships.
4. Account Registration
To access certain features of our platform, you must register for an account. You agree to provide accurate, current, and complete information during the registration process and to update such information to keep it accurate, current, and complete. You are responsible for safeguarding your password and for all activities that occur under your account.
5. User Conduct
You agree not to:
- Use our platform for any illegal purpose or in violation of any laws
- Violate or infringe other people's intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or other legal rights
- Impersonate any person or entity or falsely state or misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity
- Interfere with or disrupt our platform or servers or networks connected to our platform
- Use any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering or extraction methods
- Use our platform to send unsolicited communications, promotions, or advertisements, or spam
- Forge headers or manipulate identifiers to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through our platform
6. Intellectual Property
Our platform and its original content, features, and functionality are owned by Mentor Labs and are protected by international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws. You may not copy, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, or transmit any of the material on our platform without prior written consent.
7. User Content
You retain all rights in, and are solely responsible for, the content you post to our platform. By posting content, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, distribute, and display such content in connection with providing our platform.
8. Mentorship Relationships
Mentor Labs facilitates connections between mentors and startups but is not responsible for the actions or conduct of users. All arrangements, agreements, and understandings between mentors and startups are solely between those parties. We do not guarantee the quality, safety, or legality of any mentorship services.
9. Fees and Payment
Some aspects of our platform may require payment of fees. All fees are stated in U.S. dollars and are non-refundable unless otherwise specified. We reserve the right to change our fees at any time with notice to users.
10. Termination
We may terminate or suspend your account and access to our platform at any time, without prior notice or liability, for any reason, including if you breach these Terms. Upon termination, your right to use our platform will immediately cease.
11. Disclaimer of Warranties
Our platform is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. We make no warranties, expressed or implied, regarding the operation of our platform or the information, content, or materials included on our platform.
12. Limitation of Liability
In no event shall Mentor Labs be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including without limitation, loss of profits, data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from your access to or use of or inability to access or use our platform.
13. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Mentor Labs and its officers, directors, employees, agents, and affiliates from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys' fees) that such parties may incur as a result of or arising from your violation of these Terms.
14. Governing Law
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
15. Dispute Resolution
Any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or our platform shall be resolved through binding arbitration conducted in San Francisco, California, in accordance with the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association.
16. Contact Information
If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at:
Mentor Labs
123 Innovation Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Email: legal@mentorlabs.com
Phone: (555) 123-4567