Terms of Service

Lean Global Marketplace's Terms of Service

Last Update: April, 2023

The following terms of service (these “Terms of Service“), govern your access to and use of the Lean Global Community website, including any content, functionality and services offered on or through www.market.leancommunity.org (the “Site“) by Astral Hodling OU registered in Estonia. Astral Holdling, the owner of Lean Global Community, is collectively referred hereto as “Astral”, “Marketplace” “we” or “us” and “you” or “user” means you as an user of the Site.

Please read the Terms of Service carefully before you start to use the Site. By using the Site, opening an account or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Service when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree, on behalf of yourself or on behalf of your employer or any other entity (if applicable), to be bound and abide by these Terms of Service and Payment Terms, found here(“Payment Terms”), which is incorporated herein by reference. You further acknowledge, you have read and understood our Privacy Policy, found here. If you do not want to agree to these Terms of Service or the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Site. For more detailed policies surrounding the activity and usage on the Site, please access the designated articles herein.

This Site is offered and available to users who are at least 18 years of age and of legal age to form a binding contract. If you are under 18 and at least 13 years of age, you are only permitted to use the Site through an account owned by a parent or legal guardian with their appropriate permission. If you are under 13 you are not permitted to use the Site or the Marketplace services. By using the Site, you represent and warrant that you meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements. If you do not meet all of these requirements, you must not access or use the Site

Our Customer Support team is available 24/7 if you have any questions regarding the Site or Terms of Service. You can expect the answer within 72 hours. Contacting our Customer Support team can be performed by submitting a request by e-mail: contact@leancommunity.com.

The original language of these Terms of Service, as well as all other texts throughout the Site, is English. Marketplace makes this translation available for convenience only. In case of conflicts between the original English version and any translation, the English version shall prevail.

Key Terms

Buyers are users who purchase services on Marketplace.

Sellers are users who offer and perform services through Marketplace.

LEAN is the Leancoin – a representative currency on the Marketplace. See the Leancoin White Paper for details about Leancoin.

Stable LEAN represents a point used on the Marketplace for internal transactions which is 1 to 1 pegged with Leancoin (LEAN)

Offers are services and products that a Seller offers to a Buyer.

Orders are the formal agreements between a Buyer and Seller after a purchase was made from the Seller’s page.
Video Conversation is a service offered by Sellers to Buyer by Zoom application.

Time Zone is always presented in UTC which represents the referral time zone for scheduling all Video Conversations.

Overview (Main terms)

  • Only registered users may buy and sell on Marketplace. Registration is free. In registering for an account, you agree to provide us with accurate, complete and updated information and must not create an account for fraudulent or misleading purposes. You are solely responsible for any activity on your account and for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your password. We are not liable for any acts or omissions by you in connection with your account.
  • Offers on the Marketplace are published in USD (American Dollar) and their value are presented in the value of LEAN
  • The value of the offered services and products can be changed because of changing price of LEAN, the value in USD is constant
  • The actual price of LEAN is taken from external providers like CoinMarketCap, CoinGecko,CoinCodex etc. and the value of LEAN is an average price from many exchanges where LEAN is traded.
  • Buyers need to buy LEAN to buy products and services on the Marketplace (see Payment Terms).
  • Orders are purchased with LEAN through the Buy button found in a cart.
  • For fees and payments please read the Payment Terms
  • Sellers must fulfill their orders, and may not cancel orders on a regular basis or without cause. Cancelling orders will affect Sellers’ reputation and status.
  • Sellers receive LEAN for selling their services and products at the actual value of LEAN at the moment of purchase.
  • Internal transactions of LEAN on the Marketplace are made with usage of Stable LEAN
  • Buyers and Sellers have possibility to withdraw LEAN on the given blockchain address after paying a fee which will be used for gas fee for blockchain transfers.
  • Users may not offer or accept payments using any method other than placing an order through Marketplace.
  • All schedules for Video Conversations are presented in UTC Time Zone which is referral time zone for the Marketplace.
  • We care about your privacy. You can read our Privacy Policy here.

SELLERS

Basics
  • Sellers create offers on Marketplace to allow Buyers to purchase their services and products.
  • Sellers may also offer Video Conversation where the meeting will be set up in the Zoom Meeting application. For the scheduling Video Conferences must be used UTC Time Zone.
  • Each service and product you sell and successfully complete, accredits your account with a revenue equal to 92% of the purchase amount.
  • For selling Your services and products You will earn LEAN which are able to withdraw.
  • Marketplace accredits Sellers once an order is completed.
  • For more information about receiving payments and fees see the Payment Terms.
  • The Seller’s rating is calculated based on the order reviews posted by Buyers.
  • For security concerns, Marketplace may temporarily disable a Seller’s ability to withdraw revenue to prevent fraudulent or illicit activity. This may come as a result of security issues, improper behavior reported by other users, or associating multiple Marketplace accounts to a single withdrawal provider.
  • Sellers are responsible for obtaining a general liability insurance policy with coverage amounts that are sufficient to cover all risks associated with the performance of their services.

BUYERS

Basics
  • You may not offer direct payments to Sellers using payment systems outside of the Marketplace platform.
  • Marketplace retains the right to use all publicly published delivered works for Marketplace marketing and promotional purposes.
Purchasing
  • Please refer to the Payment Terms for making Payments through the Marketplace platform and to learn about fees.
  • You may not offer Sellers to pay, or make payment using any method other than through the Marketplace site. In case you have been asked to use an alternative payment method, please report it immediately to contact@leancommunity.org.

ORDERS

Basics
  • Once payment is confirmed, your order will be created and given a unique order number.
  • Sellers must deliver completed services or products according to the service that was purchased and advertised on their Offer.
  • We encourage our Buyers and Sellers to try and settle conflicts amongst themselves. If for any reason this fails after using the contact to contact@leancommunity.org. For more information about disputes, Order cancellations and refunds please refer to the Payment Terms.

Disputes and Cancellations

We encourage our Buyers and Sellers to try and settle conflicts amongst themselves. If for any reason this fails after using the contact to contact@leancommunity.org. Order cancellations and refunds please refer to the Payment Terms.

Non-Permitted Usage

Adult Services & Pornography – Marketplace does not allow any exchange of adult oriented or pornographic materials and services.

Inappropriate Behavior & Language – Communication on Marketplace should be friendly, constructive, and professional. Marketplace condemns bullying, harassment, and hate speech towards others. We allow users a medium for which messages are exchanged between individuals, a system to rate orders, and to engage on larger platforms such as our Community Forum and Social Media pages.

Phishing and Spam – Members’ security is a top priority. Any attempts to publish or send malicious content with the intent to compromise another member’s account or computer environment is strictly prohibited. Please respect our members privacy by not contacting them with offers, questions, suggestions or anything which is not directly related to their Offers or Orders.

Privacy & Identity – You may not publish or post other people’s private and confidential information. Any exchange of personal information required for the completion of a service must be provided in the Order Page. Sellers further confirm that whatever information they receive from the Buyer, which is not public domain, shall not be used for any purpose whatsoever other than for the delivery of the work to the Buyer. Any users who engage and communicate off of Marketplace will not be protected by our Terms of Service.

Authentic Profile – You may not create a false identity on Marketplace, misrepresent your identity, create a Marketplace profile for anyone other than yourself (a real person), or use or attempt to use another user’s account or information; Your profile information, including your description, skills, location, etc., while may be kept anonymous, must be accurate and complete and may not be misleading, illegal, offensive or otherwise harmful. Marketplace reserves the right to require users to go through a verification process in order to use the Site (whether by using ID, phone, camera, etc.).

Intellectual Property Claims – Marketplace will respond to clear and complete notices of alleged copyright or trademark infringement, and/or violation of third party’s terms of service. Our Intellectual Property claims procedures can be reviewed here.

Fraud / Unlawful Use – You may not use Marketplace for any unlawful purposes or to conduct illegal activities.

Abuse and Spam

Multiple Accounts – To prevent fraud and abuse, users are limited to one active Marketplace account. Any additional account determined to be created to circumvent guidelines, promote competitive advantages, or mislead the community will be disabled. Mass account creation may result in disabling of all related accounts. Note: any violations of Marketplace’s Terms of Service and/or our Community Standards is a cause for permanent suspension of all accounts.

Targeted Abuse – We do not tolerate users who engage in targeted abuse or harassment towards other users on Marketplace. This includes creating new multiple accounts to harass members through our message or ordering system.

Selling Accounts – You may not buy or sell Marketplace accounts.

Proprietary Restrictions

The Site, including its general layout, look and feel, design, information, content and other materials available thereon, is exclusively owned by Marketplace and protected by copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws. Lean Global Marketplaceand Lean Community are all registered trademarks owned exclusively by Astral Hodling OU. Users have no right, and specifically agree not to do the following with respect to the Site or any part, component or extension of the Site: (i) copy, transfer, adapt, modify, distribute, transmit, display, create derivative works, publish or reproduce it, in any manner; (ii) reverse assemble, decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to derive its source code, underlying ideas, algorithms, structure or organization; (iii) remove any copyright notice, identification or any other proprietary notices; (iv) use automation software (bots), hacks, modifications (mods) or any other unauthorized third-party software designed to modify the Site; (v) attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage or disrupt the Site or the computer systems or networks connected to the Site; (vi) circumvent, remove, alter, deactivate, degrade or thwart any technological measure or content protections of the Site; (vii) use any robot, spider, crawlers or other automatic device, process, software or queries that intercepts, “mines,” scrapes or otherwise accesses the Site to monitor, extract, copy or collect information or data from or through the Site, or engage in any manual process to do the same, (viii) introduce any viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other materials that are malicious or technologically harmful into our systems, (ix) use the Site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the Site, or interfere with any other users’ enjoyment of the Site or (x) access or use the Site in any way not expressly permitted by these Terms of Service. Users also agree not to permit or authorize anyone else to do any of the foregoing.
Except for the limited right to use the Site according to these Terms of Service, Marketplace owns all right, title and interest in and to the Site (including any and all intellectual property rights therein) and you agree not to take any action(s) inconsistent with such ownership interests. We reserve all rights in connection with the Site and its content (other than UGC) including, without limitation, the exclusive right to create derivative works.

General Terms

  • Marketplace reserves the right to put any account on hold or permanently disable accounts due to breach of these Terms of Service and/or our Community Standards or due to any illegal or inappropriate use of the Site or services.
  • Violation of Marketplace’s Terms of Service and/or our Community Standards may get your account disabled permanently.
  • Users with disabled accounts will not be able to sell or buy on Marketplace.
  • Users who have violated our Terms of Service and/or our Community Standards and had their account disabled may contact our Customer Support team for more information surrounding the violation and status of the account.
  • Users have the option to enable account Security features to protect their account from any unauthorized usage.
  • Users must be able to verify their account ownership through Customer Support by providing materials that prove ownership of that account.
  • Marketplace may make changes to its Terms of Service from time to time. When these changes are made, Marketplace will make a new copy of the terms of service available on this page.
  • You understand and agree that if you use Marketplace after the date on which the Terms of Service have changed, Marketplace will treat your use as acceptance of the updated Terms of Service.

User-generated Content

User-generated content refers to the content added by users as opposed to content created by the Site. All content uploaded to Marketplace by our users (Buyers and Sellers) is user-generated content. Marketplace does not check user uploaded/created content for appropriateness, violations of copyright, trademarks, other rights or violations and the user uploading/creating such content shall be solely responsible for it and the consequences of using, disclosing, storing, or transmitting it. By uploading to, or creating content on, the Marketplace platform, you represent and warrant that you own or have obtained all rights, licenses, consents, permissions, power and/or authority, necessary to use and/or upload such content and that such content or the use thereof in the Site does not and shall not (a) infringe or violate any intellectual property, proprietary or privacy, data protection or publicity rights of any third party; (b) violate any applicable local, state, federal and international laws, regulations and conventions; and/or (c) violate any of your or third party’s policies and/or terms of service. We invite everyone to report violations together with proof of ownership as appropriate. Reported violating content may be removed or disabled.
Furthermore, Marketplace is not responsible for the content, quality or the level of service provided by the Sellers (even if they are Pro Sellers, Top Rated Sellers, offer Promoted Offers or otherwise). We provide no warranty with respect to the Offers, their delivery, any communications between Buyers and Sellers. We encourage users to take advantage of our rating system, our community and common sense in choosing appropriate services.
By offering a service, the Seller undertakes that he/she has sufficient permissions, rights and/or licenses to provide, sell or resell the service that is offered on Marketplace.
For specific terms related to Intellectual Property rights and for reporting claims of copyright infringement or trademark infringement – please see our Intellectual Property Claims Policy which forms an integral part of these Terms of Service. Note that it is our policy in appropriate circumstances to disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who are repeat infringers.

Ownership

Ownership and limitations: When purchasing an Offer on Marketplace, when the work is delivered, and subject to payment, the Buyer is granted all intellectual property rights, including but not limited to, copyright in the work delivered from the Seller, and the Seller waives any and all moral rights therein. Accordingly, the Seller expressly assigns to the Buyer the copyright in the delivered work. All transfer and assignment of intellectual property to the Buyer shall be subject to full payment for the Order, and the delivery may not be used if payment is cancelled for any reason.

Disclaimer of Warranties

YOUR USE OF THE SITE, ITS CONTENT AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE SITE, ITS CONTENT AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. NEITHER MARKETPLACE NOR ANY PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH MARKETPLACEMAKES ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPLETENESS, SECURITY, RELIABILITY, QUALITY, ACCURACY OR AVAILABILITY OF THE SITE. THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY WARRANTIES WHICH CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

Limitation on Liability

IN NO EVENT WILL MARKETPLACE, ITS AFFILIATES OR THEIR LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OFFICERS OR DIRECTORS BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, UNDER ANY LEGAL THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE SITE, ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO IT, ANY CONTENT ON THE SITE OR SUCH OTHER WEBSITES OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE OR SUCH OTHER WEBSITES, INCLUDING ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PERSONAL INJURY, PAIN AND SUFFERING, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOSS OF DATA, AND WHETHER CAUSED BY TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), BREACH OF CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF FORESEEABLE.
THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY LIABILITY WHICH CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.