Terms of Service


These User Terms of Service (the "Agreement") govern all access and use of our online cybersecurity knowledge and awareness content, tools and services accessible through https://www.beyondmachines.net (the "Website"), or delivered through third-party integrations with collaboration platforms like Slack (the “Collaboration Platforms” ).

The terms "you" or "your" refer to the person accessing or using the Service, or the company or organization on whose behalf that person accesses the Service.

By accessing https://www.beyondmachines.net, or using our applications, you agree to abide by these Terms of Service and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. If you do not agree with these Terms of Service, you are prohibited from using or accessing this website or using any other services provided by BeyondMachines.

Offered Service

BeyondMachines provides online cybersecurity knowledge and awareness content, tools and consultancy via the Websiteand via integration to collaboration platforms like Slack.

Relationship with Collaboration Platforms

BeyondMachines and providers of colllaboration platforms like Slack, Microsoft or others are different entities (the "Providers"). There is no relationship between BeyondMachines and the Providers, other than BeyondMachines being a licensee and use of the Provider's API for the purpose of providing the BeyondMachines Service. The Providers are not responsible for the BeyondMachines Service and will not provide support for it.

Services Scope and Pricing

BeyondMachines provides two types of service - free and commercial. 

The free Service is provided to all users that have registered for it. The functonalities and pricing of the free Service are defined in the Services page on this website. The free Service scope is equal for all customers and cannot be modified for individual user. The free Service can be supported by sponsors, with the limitation that the sponsor message is clearly marked separate from the Service content and doesn't impede nor reduce the free Service scope and quality in any way.

The commercial Service is provided to all users that have registered for it. The functonalities and pricing by the commercial Service are defined in the Services page on this website. The users have the ability to change the commercial service scope to the extent defined in the Services page. 

Price change - The price of the commercial Service remains valid for the entire period that the user has chosen to register for the commercial Service. The price can change at renewal of the commercial Service for a new period.

Refunds - We do not offer refunds, instead we offer a free service which can be used to evaluate our Service. 

Using the Service

You may only use the BeyondMachines Service as permitted by law. We may investigate and/or suspend or terminate our Service to you at any time if we find your use of our Service violates these terms or any policies published on our Website.

Using our Service does not grant you ownership of any intellectual property right in our Service or the content you may have access to. You may not use any copyrighted content in our Service unless you obtain a permission from the content owner and/or are otherwise permitted by law. Our Service may display some logos, trademarks, or branding materials that are not the property of us. These types of content are the sole responsibility of the entity that makes it available.

You must not abuse and/or misuse our Service, including but not limited to:

  • Using the Service for any unlawful purposes or activities;
  • uploading any content to the Service in violation of any applicable law, including but not limited to, intellectual property laws and publicity laws;
  • accessing or tampering with the Service’s server systems;
  • interfering with or disrupting the access of any user, host, or network;
  • abusing or submitting excessively frequent requests to the Service via the API or via the Collaboration Platforms

BeyondMachines, in its sole discretion, will determine abuse and/or misuse of our Service.

Limitations of Use

By using our Website, you warrant on behalf of yourself, your users, and other parties you represent that you will not:

  • modify, copy, prepare derivative works of, decompile, or reverse engineer any materials and software contained on this website;
  • remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from any materials and software on this website;
  • transfer the materials to another person or "mirror" the materials on any other server;
  • knowingly or negligently use this website or any of its associated services in a way that abuses or disrupts our systems or any other Service BeyondMachines provides;
  • use our Website or its associated services to transmit or publish any harassing, indecent, obscene, fraudulent, or unlawful material;
  • use our Website or its associated services in violation of any applicable laws or regulations;
  • use our Website in conjunction with sending unauthorized advertising or spam;
  • harvest, collect, or gather user data without the user’s consent; or
  • use our Website or its associated services in such a way that may infringe the privacy, intellectual property rights, or other rights of third parties.

Your content

Content created on our Website or through the Service

Any content and material created by you through the Service or our Website remains your intellectual property. That content is intended to be used only in your commercial Service and not to be shared with other users or the public.

BeyondMachines will make reasonable efforts to indicate the owner of the intellectual property and limit the use of that content to it's intended commercial Service.

Content created on social media or public platforms

Any content that you create on social media or other public platforms that mentions, references or replies to BeyondMachines content can be used by BeyondMachines for marketing efforts.

Changes to the Service

We reserve the right to modify and discontinue offering or updating the Service at any time without notice. We will not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.

Amendments

We may amend, modify, change, add or remove portions of these Terms of Service at any time without prior notice to you. We will provide notification of the changes to these Terms of Service via the Collaboration Platforms. The revised version will take effect immediately from the date of publication. Your continued use of the Service after such update or notification of the changes constitutes your binding acceptance of such changes.

Termination

You may terminate your account and end your use of the Service at any time and for any or no reason. BeyondMachines has the right (at its sole discretion) for any reason to (i) delete, disable or deactivate your account, block your email or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of the web site or (ii) shut down an account, with or without notice, and with no liability of any kind to you.

On termination of the Agreement by any party and for any reason all rights granted to you under the Agreement shall cease and you must immediately cease all activities authorized by the Agreement, including your use of the BeyondMachines Service. BeyondMachines rights survive the termination of this Agreement.

Limited Liability for our Service

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the BeyondMachines Service is provided "as is" and "as available". You expressly understand and agree that when permitted by law, BeyondMachines and its service partners, licensors, employees, agents will not be responsible for any lost profits, revenues, or data, financial losses or indirect, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages under any circumstances.

Your use and/or purchase of Service are all at your sole risk.

BeyondMachines does not warrant that:

  • The Service will meet all of your requirements at all times;
  • the Service will be error-free and all errors in the service will be corrected;
  • the Service will be uninterrupted.

While BeyondMachines takes reasonable measures to prevent harmful content through it's Service, all content downloaded, uploaded and/or otherwise obtained through the use of the Service is done at your own discretion and risk. You are solely responsible for any damage to your computer equipment or devices, including but not limited to, laptop computers, desktop computers, tablets, smartphones and smartwatches, or any data loss resulting from download or use of any such above mentioned material.

Accuracy of Materials

The materials delivered on our Website and through our Service are not comprehensive and are for general information purposes only. BeyondMachines does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on our Website or through our Service.

Links

BeyondMachines makes reasonable effort to check link content, but has not reviewed all of the sites linked to its website and Service. BeyondMachines is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement, approval, or control by BeyondMachines of the site. Use of any such linked site is at your own risk and we strongly advise you make your own assessment with respect to the suitability of those sites.

General Representation and Warranty

You represent and warrant that your use of the BeyondMachines Service will be in strict accordance with the Agreement. In particular, you represent and warrant that:

  • you will comply with the Collaboration Platform's terms at all times;
  • you will provide us with accurate information (where required);
  • you will not use the Service in the event of an emergency;
  • you will not use the Service in any unlawful manner, for any unlawful purpose, or in any manner inconsistent with the Agreement, or act fraudulently or maliciously, for example, by hacking into or inserting malicious code, including viruses, or harmful data, into the Service;
  • you will not infringe our intellectual property rights or those of any third party in relation to your use of the Service;
  • you will not do any of the following in relation to your use of the Service:
    • be obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory,
    • defame any person,
    • promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age,
    • promote violence,
    • promote any illegal activity,
    • promote sexually explicit material,
    • disclose the name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any other personal data in respect of any individual without their consent,
    • harass, upset, embarrass, threaten, alarm or annoy any other person,
    • be likely to mislead or deceive any person,
    • impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person,
    • contain any advertising or promote any services or web links to other sites;
  • you will not use the Service in a way that could damage, disable, overburden, impair or compromise our systems or security or interfere with other users; and
  • you will not collect or harvest any information or data from any content or our systems or attempt to decipher any transmissions to or from the servers running the Service.

Severance

Any term of these Terms of Service which is wholly or partially void or unenforceable is severed to the extent that it is void or unenforceable. The validity of the remainder of these Terms of Service is not affected.

Contacting BeyondMachines

If you have any questions about BeyondMachines Terms of Service, you may contact us at contact [at] beyondmachines [dot] net.

Governing Law

These Terms of Service are governed by the laws of North Macedonia and all disputes will be resolved in the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of North Macedonia.

Change log

  • 08 May 2022: Initial version