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Stefano Messori Terms of Service


TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Introduction

These terms and conditions govern your use of this website; by using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this website.


[You must be at least [18] years of age to use this website. By using this website [and by agreeing to these terms and conditions] you warrant and represent that you are at least [18] years of age.]


[This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our stefanomessori.com's use of cookies in accordance with the terms of stefanomessori.com's [privacy policy / cookies policy].]

License to use website

Unless otherwise stated, stefanomessori.com and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages [or [OTHER CONTENT]] from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

republish material from this website (including republication on another website);

sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;

show any material from the website in public;

reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;]

[edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or]

[redistribute material from this website [except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution].]

[Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed [within your organisation].]


Acceptable use

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without Stefano Messori's express written consent.

[You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.]

[You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without Stefano Messori’s express written consent.]

[Restricted access [Access to certain areas of this website is restricted.]] Stefano Messori reserves the right to restrict access to [other] areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at Stefano Messori’s discretion.

If Stefano Messori provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.

[Stefano Messori may disable your user ID and password in Stefano Messori sole discretion without notice or explanation.]

[User content] In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to Stefano Messori a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to Stefano Messori the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or Stefano Messori or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

Stefano Messori reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on Stefano Messori’s servers, or hosted or published upon this website.

[Notwithstanding Stefano Messori rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, Stefano Messori does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.]

No warranties

This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. Stefano Messori makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, Stefano Messori does not warrant that:

this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or

the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind. [If you require advice in relation to any [legal, financial or medical] matter you should consult an appropriate professional.]

Limitations of liability

Stefano Messori will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:

[to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;]

for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or

for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if Stefano Messori has been expressly advised of the potential loss.


Exceptions

Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit Stefano Messori’s liability in respect of any:

death or personal injury caused by Stefano Messori’s negligence;

fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of Stefano Messori; or

matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for Stefano Messori to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.

Reasonableness

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable.

If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

Other parties

[You accept that, as a limited liability entity, Stefano Messori has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against Stefano Messori officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website.]

[Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph,] you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect Stefano Messori’s officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as Stefano Messori.



Unenforceable provisions

If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.


Indemnity

You hereby indemnify Stefano Messori and undertake to keep Stefano Messori indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by Stefano Messori to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of Stefano Messori‘s legal advisers) incurred or suffered by Stefano Messori arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions[, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions].



Breaches of these terms and conditions

Without prejudice to Stefano Messori’s other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, Stefano Messori may take such action as Stefano Messori deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.



Variation



Stefano Messori may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.



Assignment



Stefano Messori may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with Stefano Messori’s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.



Severability

If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.



Entire agreement

These terms and conditions [, together with [PRIVACY POLICY],] constitute the entire agreement between you and Stefano Messori in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.


Law and jurisdiction

These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with Irish Law.



Heights Platform Terms of Service

1. Introduction

Thank you for visiting our Site and/or using Heights, an app designed to allow you to build and manage your own online education program. Please read these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy carefully, as you must agree to them as amended in order to have our permission to use our Site and Service.

2. Definitions

Throughout this Agreement, we may use certain words or phrases, and it is important that you understand the meaning of them. The list is not all-encompassing and no definition should be considered binding to the point that it renders this Agreement nonsensical:

“Agreement” means these Terms of Service;

“App” refers to our Heights app, which provides a platform for creating and managing online education programs;

“Heights” refers to our company, known as “Velora Studios, LLC”; our Site; our Service; our App; or a combination of all or some of the preceding definitions, depending on the context in which the word is used;

“Service” refers to the services that we provide through our Site, including our Site itself, our education platform creation services, our App, and any other services we may provide online or offline;

“Site” refers to our website, www.heightsplatform.com;

“User” refers to users of our App, user who pay for our Service, and general visitors to our Site;

“Program” refers to the account created by a User in which they will use our Service and build their education content.

“Student” refers to a person who signs up to use the Program which the User has created;

“You” refers to you, the person who is entering into this Agreement with Heights.

3. Corporate Information

Heights is owned and operated by Velora Studios, LLC, a Limited Liability Company formed and doing business in the State of Delaware, and registered with the Delaware Department of State’s Division of Corporations under File Number 4658163. Any legal documents to be served or other queries should, unless otherwise provided or required by this Agreement, our Privacy Policy, or any provision of any applicable law, be sent via certified mail to:

Attn: Velora Studios, LLC
16192 Coastal Highway
Lewes, Delaware 19958
United States

4. Heights’ Purpose

Heights is an online course creation software platform for creating and managing an online education program. We provide tools that help you to create and organize educational content to teach Students and analyze their progress.

5. Eligibility

In order to use our Service, you must meet a number of conditions, including but not limited to:

  • You must not be in violation of any embargoes, export controls, or other laws of the United States or other countries having jurisdiction over this Agreement, Heights, and yourself. For example, if the Office of Foreign Assets Control prohibits conducting financial transactions with nationals, residents, or banks of your country, you must not use our Service.
  • You must be at least 13 years of age in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. If you live in a jurisdiction other than the United States and your jurisdiction has a higher minimum age to use our Site or Service without parental consent, then you must be at least that age.
  • You must sign up for only one account (this includes, but is not limited to, a prohibition on repeatedly signing up for different accounts to take advantage of more than one free trial offer). An exception can be made at our discretion if you send us an email explaining your business need for a secondary account.
  • You must provide us with personal information, payment information, and other information that we deem necessary to provide you with our Service.
  • You must be authorized by the holder of any payment method to use their account for the purposes of signing up for our Service.

6. Disclaimer

Heights provides its Service on an as-is basis and, notwithstanding any other statements or examples given on our Site or elsewhere, makes no representations as to how Heights can be best used by any specific User or Student. You agree that you bear the sole responsibility of determining whether the Heights App is suitable for your use, and that Heights shall not be liable for any losses which result from the use of our Service.

7. Rules of Use

Once you have met our eligibility criteria described above and paid the appropriate fee to Heights, you will be provided with access to our Service. Although you have met the preliminary requirements to use our Service, there are certain additional rules which apply before, during, and subsequent to your registration with Heights. You must not:

  • Violate the laws of the United States, its states, or any foreign political entity having jurisdiction over this Agreement, whether or not the foreign political entity is a country or a subdivision (such as a state or province) or municipality (such as a city, town, county, or region) of a foreign country.
  • Use Heights for teaching Students about topics that are illegal, unethical, or dangerous.
  • Be fraudulent or negligent when making payments to us (such as by using someone’s credit card without authorization, or using a card which you know will have the payment reversed for any reason).
  • Infringe on anyone’s intellectual property rights, defame anyone, impersonate anyone, or otherwise violate the rights of a third party.
  • Hack, crack, phish, SQL inject, or otherwise compromise, or attempt to compromise the security or integrity of the Heights Site, Service, App, or its Users’ computers.
  • Scrape data or scan the Site, Service, or App.
  • Abuse the Service you are provided by using it in such a way that is not intended by Heights or in a way that could impact Heights or its Users in a negative way.
  • Do anything else which, at the discretion of Heights, could harm the safety or legal interests of Heights or any third party, including but not limited to other Users or Students.

Fair Use Policy for Unlimited Uploading and Bandwidth: Generally, we do not limit or impose additional charges for video or data storage (ex: the data stored in your Program for courses, products, text, files, video, audio, and other multimedia content you create), or bandwidth consumption (ex: the data used in order to deliver your files, site pages, and videos to Students). This policy is subject to fair use: If your aggregate storage usage or bandwidth usage (across every account you control) is higher than 99% of Users on our App in any calendar month, we may, in our discretion, charge fees for excessive usage, require you to upgrade to a different plan, or terminate your account(s) upon advance written notice.

8. Payment, Billing, and Refunds

All payments are processed by our third party payment processor, Stripe, and payment may be made to them by Visa, MasterCard, American Express, JCB, Discover, and Diners Club cards. All prices on our Site, unless otherwise stated, are listed in United States dollars.

We may decide to apply varying payment plans from time to time. For example, we may require that you pay one lump sum for the purchase of our App, or we may rebill you on a recurring subscription basis. In either case, payment terms and, if applicable, rebilling periods shall be posted on our Site and are hereby incorporated into this Agreement by reference. If two or more listed payment terms conflict with each other, the one most beneficial to Heights shall take precedence.

You may cancel your subscription at any time. Refunds will be provided in full within the first thirty days of your subscription if for any reason you are not satisfied with our Service and notify us of your request for a refund within that time. After thirty days beyond your initial purchase, we will not be obliged to provide any refund, even on a pro rata basis. You may cancel your Service at any time after the initial thirty days and you will continue to have access to our Service until the end of the most recently paid subscription period, if applicable.

Should payment plans change or increase after an initial subscription, current Users will either have the option of staying on their current plan or may be grandfathered into the new subscription plan at their current subscription plan’s rate for a period of one year.

Active Student limits on subscription plans: An "Active Student" is a Student in a User's Program who has logged into the Program in the past 30 days. Heights does not set a hard limit on the number of active students that are allowed on our paid subscription plans. The following overages are allowed:

  • Overage of up to 15% above the plan limit for a single month on plans offering 1000 active students or more.
  • Overage of up to 50 students above the limit for a single month on plans with limits of less than 1000 active students.

An overage of 5% or more above the plan limit for 2 consecutive months will be required to upgrade.

9. Discounts

Heights may, but is not obligated to, provide discounts, including but not limited to an initial thirty day free trial offer for the use of our Service. The discounts provided will be made according to the information published on our Site, and if any information is conflicting, the terms most beneficial to Heights shall take effect. Discounts may not be applied to past payments.

Heights may refuse to provide such discounts for any reason including, but not limited to, fraud, unauthorized accounts (such as multiple accounts being used to take advantage of a one-time offer repeatedly), mistake on the part of our publication of information, actual or expected financial hardship, sale of all or part of our business, or any other reason.

10. Chargebacks, Credit Card Cancellations, and PayPal Disputes

Where a User provides payment to Heights, and that amount of money is subsequently taken from Heights due to a chargeback or similar reversal, Heights shall be entitled to recover that amount from the User as liquidated damages, as well as our reasonable attorneys’ fees, court costs and disbursements, and/or collection agency fees required to collect these liquidated damages.

Please note that this restriction on chargebacks is designed to prevent fraud and keep our costs low, which allows us to offer lower prices for our Service. Users may of course bring disputes against us in accordance with the “Forum of Dispute” provisions found further below.

As a User of our App, if a Student requests a refund from you, it is your responsibility to handle this with your Student. Heights does not collect payments from your Students. Any disputes of Student payments are between the Student, User, and the third-party payment processor the User chooses to use. As a User with Students, it is your responsibility to have your own terms, privacy policy, and refund policy in place and follow all applicable laws. Further, while Heights provides email support to its Users, Heights does not offer email support to the Students of its Users.

11. Third Party Charges

Because Heights may be used with a mobile device, certain third party SMS charges, data charges, and other fees may be applied in relation to your use of our Service. You agree that you are responsible for tracking and paying these charges, and that Heights shall not be liable to you for such charges.

12. Limited License

Heights is provided as licensed software to you. When you provide the proper payment to us or otherwise meet the requirements to use our App (such as by being eligible for a trial offer), you are authorized to use one account for our software at the price given. You may not distribute this software, copy it, reverse engineer it, or otherwise tamper with it or reproduce it. Heights reserves the right to revoke our license for our App’s use at any time.

13. Server Maintenance and Other Downtime

At time, Heights may have server downtime or other Service outages for reasons including, but not limited to, server maintenance, legal compliance, security issues, or other business operations. You agree that we are not liable for any losses incurred by you as a result of such downtime, and that you should have a backup plan in place if you are relying on our Service for any purpose which could cause a loss to you if our Service became unavailable.

14. Our Copyright

Heights expended much effort on developing its App and ensuring that it is unique from other Apps. Copying our App or any portion thereof could, in addition to being prohibited generally by intellectual property law, harm our business. You agree not to copy, distribute, display, disseminate, or otherwise reproduce any of the information on the Site, including our App, without receiving our prior written permission.

15. Your Copyright

Heights must be assured that it has the right to use the content that is uploaded using its App. Such content may include, but is not limited to, arrangements of data by Users in which a copyright subsides. Whenever submitting content to us through our App, you agree that you are granting us a non-exclusive, universal, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable, commercial and non-commercial right to use the content that you submit to us for the purpose of providing you with our Service. You warrant to us that you have the right to grant us this right over the content, and that you will indemnify us for any loss resulting from a breach of this warranty and defend us against claims regarding the same.

16. Trademarks and Service Marks

“HEIGHTS”, “Heights Platform”, the Heights Platform logo icon, “Velora,” “Velora Studios,” and the Velora Studios icon are registered trademarks used by us, Velora Studios, LLC, to uniquely identify our Site, Service, and business. Additionally, the service mark “Climb Above” and the service mark “Creator Climb” are an unregistered trademarks protected generally by the provisions of the Lanham Act, as well as various status prohibiting unfair competition and the common law tort of passing off. You agree not to use our marks anywhere without our prior written consent. Additionally, you agree not to use our trade dress, or copy the look and feel of our Site, App, or their design, without our prior written consent. You agree that this paragraph goes beyond the governing law on intellectual property law, and includes prohibitions on any competition that violates the provisions of this paragraph, including starting your own App or other directly or indirectly competing business.

17. Revocation of Consent

We may revoke our consent for your use of our intellectual property, or any other permission granted to you under this Agreement, at any time. You agree that if we so request, you must take immediate action to remove any usage of our intellectual property that you may have engaged in, even if it would cause a loss to you.

18. Copyright & Trademark Infringement

Users must not post any information that infringes on anyone’s copyright. We take copyright infringement very seriously, and we have registered a Copyright Agent with the United States Copyright Office, which limits our liability under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. If you believe that your copyright has been infringed, please send us a message which contains:

  • Your name.
  • The name of the party whose copyright has been infringed, if different from your name.
  • The name and description of the work that is being infringed.
  • The location on our website of the infringing copy.
  • A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted work described above is not authorized by the copyright owner (or by a third party who is legally entitled to do so on behalf of the copyright owner) and is not otherwise permitted by law.
  • A statement that you swear, under penalty of perjury, that the information contained in this notification is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or have an exclusive right in law to bring infringement proceedings with respect to its use.

You must sign this notification and send it to our Copyright Agent at support@heightsplatform.com. Since we request notification by e-mail, an electronic signature is acceptable.


Although U.S. law does not provide for a similar procedure for trademark infringement, we recommend that you send us similar information to that above in regards to any allegation of trademark infringement, and we will address it as soon as practicable.

19. Representations & Warranties

WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES AS TO THE MERCHANTABILITY OF OUR SERVICE OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU AGREE THAT YOU ARE RELEASING US FROM ANY LIABILITY THAT WE MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO YOU IN RELATION TO OR ARISING FROM THIS AGREEMENT OR OUR SERVICES, FOR REASONS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, FAILURE OF OUR SERVICE, NEGLIGENCE, OR ANY OTHER TORT. TO THE EXTENT THAT APPLICABLE LAW RESTRICTS THIS RELEASE OF LIABILITY, YOU AGREE THAT WE ARE ONLY LIABLE TO YOU FOR THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF DAMAGES THAT THE LAW RESTRICTS OUR LIABILITY TO, IF SUCH A MINIMUM EXISTS.

YOU AGREE THAT WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE IN ANY WAY FOR DAMAGES CAUSED BY THIRD PARTIES WHO MAY USE OUR SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PEOPLE WHO COMMIT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT, DEFAMATION, TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE WITH ECONOMIC RELATIONS, OR ANY OTHER ACTIONABLE CONDUCT TOWARDS YOU.

WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY MISUSE OF OUR APP, AND YOU AGREE THAT YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE SUITABILITY OF OUR APP AS IT APPLIES TO YOU.

WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSSES WHICH RESULT FROM SERVER DOWNTIME OR OTHER TECHNICAL ISSUES.

WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY FAILURE ON THE PART OF OUR PAYMENT PROCESSOR TO PROCESS YOUR PAYMENTS PROPERLY, AND YOU SHOULD CONTACT THEM AND/OR YOUR CARD COMPANY DIRECTLY TO SOLVE ANY PAYMENT ISSUES WHICH YOU MAY HAVE.

WE ARE NOT LIABLE FOR ANY FAILURE OF THE GOODS OR SERVICES OF OUR COMPANY OR A THIRD PARTY, INCLUDING ANY FAILURES OR DISRUPTIONS, UNTIMELY DELIVERY, SCHEDULED OR UNSCHEDULED, INTENTIONAL OR UNINTENTIONAL, ON OUR WEBSITE WHICH PREVENT ACCESS TO OUR WEBSITE TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY.

THE PROVISION OF OUR SERVICE TO YOU IS CONTINGENT ON YOUR AGREEMENT WITH THIS AND ALL OTHER SECTIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT. NOTHING IN THE PROVISIONS OF THIS “REPRESENTATIONS & WARRANTIES” SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO LIMIT THE GENERALITY OF THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF THIS SECTION.

For Jurisdictions that do not allow us to limit our liability: Notwithstanding any provision of these Terms, if your jurisdiction has provisions specific to waiver or liability that conflict with the above then our liability is limited to the smallest extent possible by law. Specifically, in those jurisdictions not allowed, we do not disclaim liability for: (a) death or personal injury caused by its negligence or that of any of its officers, employees or agents; or (b) fraudulent misrepresentation; or (c) any liability which it is not lawful to exclude either now or in the future.

IF YOU ARE A RESIDENT OF A JURISDICTION THAT REQUIRES A SPECIFIC STATEMENT REGARDING RELEASE THEN THE FOLLOWING APPLIES. FOR EXAMPLE, CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS MUST, AS A CONDITION OF THIS AGREEMENT, WAIVE THE APPLICABILITY OF CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542, WHICH STATES, “A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR." YOU HEREBY WAIVE THIS SECTION OF THE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE. YOU HEREBY WAIVE ANY SIMILAR PROVISION IN LAW, REGULATION, OR CODE THAT HAS THE SAME INTENT OR EFFECT AS THE AFOREMENTIONED RELEASE.

20. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us harmless for any claims by you or any third party which may arise from or relate to this Agreement or the provision of our service to you, including any damages caused by your use of our website or acceptance of the offers contained on it. You also agree that you have a duty to defend us against such claims and we may require you to pay for an attorney(s) of our choice in such cases. You agree that this indemnity extends to requiring you to pay for our reasonable attorneys’ fees, court costs, and disbursements. In the event of a claim such as one described in this paragraph, we may elect to settle with the party/parties making the claim, and you shall be liable for the damages as though we had proceeded with a trial.

Heights provides an App to its Users as a service. Heights is not a marketplace, and is not responsible for any interactions between its Users and their Students.

21. Choice of Law

This Agreement shall be governed by the laws in force in the State of Texas. The offer and acceptance of this contract are deemed to have occurred in the State of Texas.

22. Forum of Dispute

You agree that any dispute arising from or relating to this Agreement will be heard solely by a court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Texas. Specifically, where the subject matter of a dispute is eligible for it, you agree that any disputes shall be head solely within the lowest court of competent jurisdiction having the authority to hear civil matters in the State of Texas (“Small Claims Court”).

If a dispute claims multiple claims and one or more of those claims would be eligible to be heard by the Small Claims Court, you agree not to bring the other claims against us and to instead proceed within the Small Claims Court.

If you would be entitled in a dispute to an amount exceeding the monetary jurisdiction of the Small Claims Court, you agree to waive your right to collect any damages in excess of the monetary jurisdiction and instead still bring your claim within the Small Claims Court.

You agree that if a dispute is eligible to be heard in Small Claims Court but you would be entitled to an additional or alternative remedy in a higher court, such as injunctive relief, you will waive your right to that remedy and still bring the dispute within the Small Claims Court.

If you bring a dispute in a manner other than in accordance with this section, you agree that we may move to have it dismissed, and that you will be responsible for our reasonable attorneys’ fees, court costs, and disbursements in doing so.

You agree that the unsuccessful party in any dispute arising from or relating to this Agreement will be responsible for the reimbursement of the successful party’s reasonable attorneys’ fees, court costs, and disbursements.

If for any reason the provisions in this section as to the proper forum of dispute are found to be unenforceable and another state may have jurisdiction over such disputes, you agree that this section shall apply as analogously as possible in that other state, including but not limited to the requirement that the dispute be brought in that state’s small claims court.

23. Force Majeure

You agree that we are not responsible to you for anything that we may otherwise be responsible for, if it is the result of events beyond our control, including, but not limited to, acts of God, war, insurrection, riots, terrorism, crime, labor shortages (including lawful and unlawful strikes), embargoes, postal disruption, communication disruption, unavailability of payment processors, failure or shortage of infrastructure, shortage of materials, or any other event beyond our control.

24. Severability

In the event that a provision of this Agreement is found to be unlawful, conflicting with another provision of the Agreement, or otherwise unenforceable, the Agreement will remain in force as though it had been entered into without that unenforceable provision being included in it.

If two or more provisions of this Agreement are deemed to conflict with each other’s operation, Heights shall have the sole right to elect which provision remains in force.

25. Non-Waiver

Heights reserves all rights afforded to us under this Agreement as well as under the provisions of any applicable law. Our non-enforcement of any particular provision or provisions of this Agreement or the any applicable law should not be construed as our waiver of the right to enforce that same provision under the same or different circumstances at any time in the future.

26. Termination & Cancellation

We may terminate your account or access as well as access to our Site and Service to you at our discretion without explanation, though we will strive to provide a timely explanation in most cases. Our liability for refunding you, if you have paid anything to us, will be limited to the amount you paid for goods or services which have not yet been and will not be delivered, except in cases where the termination or cancellation was due to your breach of this Agreement, in which case you agree that we are not required to provide any refund or other compensation whatsoever.

27. Assignment of Rights

You may not assign your rights and/or obligations under this Agreement to any other party without our prior written consent. We may assign our rights and/or obligations under this Agreement to any other party at our discretion.

28. Amendments

We may amend this Agreement from time to time. When we amend this Agreement, we will post the changes here. You must read this page every time you access our Site or Service, and if you do not agree to any changes, you must cease using our Site and Service immediately and inform us of your non-agreement with sufficient information to identify your account at support@heightsplatform.com so that we may disable your account.

29. California Users and Residents

Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1789.3, any questions about pricing, complaints, or inquiries about Heights must be sent to support@heightsplatform.com.

Lastly, California users are also entitled to the following specific consumer rights notice: The Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs may be contacted in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (916) 445-1254 or (800) 952-5210.

Last Modified: January 4, 2023

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Privacy Policy:

Stefano Messori Privacy Policy


PRIVACY POLICY

Stefano Messori ("I") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our terms of use https://www.stefanomessori.com/terms-conditions and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data I collect from you, or that you provide to me, will be processed. Please read the following carefully to understand my views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting https://www.stefanomessori.com/ you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

Information I collect from you:

​​I receive, collect and store any information you enter on my website or provide me in any other way. In addition, I collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. I may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. I also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

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How do you collect information?

When you conduct a transaction on my website, as part of the process, I collect personal information you give me such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.

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Why do I collect such personal information?

I collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

To provide and operate the Services;

To provide my Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

To be able to contact my Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;

To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which I may use to provide and improve my services;

To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

How do I store, use, share and disclose your site visitors' personal information?

Stefanomessori.com and its subdomains are hosted on different online platforms such as WIX, MailChimp, ConvertFox, Invanto, Viral Loops, Plutio. These providers allow me to sell my products and services to you. Your data may be stored through their data storage, databases and the general applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

All direct payment gateways used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

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How do I communicate with your site visitors?

I may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about my work, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes I may contact you via email.


How do I use cookies and other tracking tools?

It's important to note that third-party services, such as Google Analytics, LeadWorx, or other applications, placing cookies or utilizing other tracking technologies through my website, may have their own policies regarding how they collect and store information.

​How can you ‘visitor' withdraw your consent?

If you don’t want stefanomessori.com and other platforms I use to process your data anymore, please contact me at [stefano@stefanomessori.com].

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Privacy policy updates

I reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If I make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information I collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, I use and/or disclose it.

Questions and your contact information

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information I have about you, you are invited to contact me at [stefano@stefanomessori.com].



Heights Platform Privacy Policy

We believe that privacy is important. As such, we only collect the information needed to conduct business and improve your experience. We will never sell your data and we will not share your data without your permission. Our Privacy Policy below, and our list of Subprocessors covers a list of the data we collect, how and why we use it, and where it is kept.

1. Introduction

Thank you for visiting our Site and/or using Heights, an app designed to allow you to build and manage your own online education program. This Privacy Policy, like our Terms of Service, is an integral part of using our service, and you must completely agree to it in order to use our website and service.

2. Definitions

Throughout this document, we may use certain words or phrases, and it is important that you understand the meaning of them. The following is a non-exhaustive list of definitions of words and phrases found in this document:

“App” refers to our Heights app, which provides a platform for creating and managing online education programs;

“Heights” refers to our company, known as “Velora Studios, LLC”; our Site; our Service; our App; or a combination of all or some of the preceding definitions, depending on the context in which the word is used;

“Privacy Policy” refers to this Privacy Policy;

“Service” refers to the services that we provide through our Site, including our Site itself, our education platform creation services, our App, and any other services we may provide online or offline;

“Site” refers to our website, www.heightsplatform.com;

“Subprocessor” refers to an entity which processes personal data on behalf of Heights so that we can provide our Service;

“User” refers to users of our App, and general visitors to our Site;

“You” refers to you, the person who is governed by this Privacy Policy.

3. Information Collected

Identifying Information

We collect certain personal information from you when you sign up to our Service that can be used to identify you, such as your name, e-mail address, credit card information, IP address, time zone information, password, and any other information that we may deem relevant to provide our Service to you. The information we collect from you, to the extent that it is private, is disclosed only in accordance with our Terms of Service and/or this Privacy Policy. We will never sell your personal info to third parties, and we won’t use your name or company in our marketing materials without your permission.

Non-Identifying Information

Whenever you visit our Site, we may collect non-identifying information from you, such as your IP address, referring URL, browser, operating system, cookie information, and Internet Service Provider. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, this information alone cannot usually be used to identify you.

4. Use of Your Information

We may use your information to:

  • Enhance or improve User experience, our Site, or our Service.
  • Process transactions.
  • Send e-mails about our Site or respond to inquiries.
  • Target advertisements that we believe may be of interest to you.
  • Provide you with our Service (such as by storing data of courses and lessons you create on our servers so that you may access them using the App).
  • Provide support to help you improve your program and or courses within them.
  • Tracking behavior metrics for improvement of our Service. Please note that although we may track User behavior (e.g., last login date and percentage of lessons completed, last lesson views, numbers of students and courses in a program), we will not store and track sensitive payment information on our servers. Payment information is instead stored by a PCI compliant third party vendor (Stripe).
  • If Heights merges with or is acquired by another company. Should this ever happen, we will notify you before any personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different policy.
  • Perform any other function that we believe in good faith is necessary to protect the security or proper functioning of our Site or Service.

5. Accessing, Editing, and Removing Your Information

Users may in some cases be able to review and edit the personal information they have provided to us by logging into your account on the Site and editing their account. Although most changes may occur immediately, information may still be stored in a web browser’s cache. We take no responsibility for stored information in your cache, or in other devices that may store information, and disclaim all liability of such. In addition, we may, from time to time, retain residual information about you in our backup and/or database.

6. Cookies

We use cookies to create a session and remember a User as they use our Site, in order to distinguish them from other Users. We also use them to remember your preferences, compile statistical data about the usage of our Site, protect against malicious usage of our Site and optimize the speed of our Site. For this reason, it is necessary that you enable cookies in your browser in order to use our Service, and you hereby acknowledge that we have informed you of our use of cookies and that you consent to our use of cookies in relation to your computer system. There are four primary uses for different types of cookies we may use:

Cookie Type Purpose
Operation Essential These cookies are necessary for us to provide our Service. They help to recognize your account status, protect your account security, and remember your preferences.
Analytics These cookies help us to maintain and continuously improve our Service. We use this type of cookie to help improve your experience using our Service.
Advertising We use these cookies to serve advertisements that we believe may be relevant to your interests, and to measure the effectiveness of these advertisements. We also may use the information provided by this type of cookie for frequency capping purposes (ie: to ensure we are not serving the same advertisement to you too many times).
Third Party Subprocessors and other businesses we have contracted may use cookies for the same purposes as described above.

Revoking permission of certain cookies that are not operation essential for us to provide our service:

Heights uses the Facebook Conversion Tracking Pixel, a service of Facebook, Inc. (https://www.facebook.com/policy.php). This cookie is an advertising type cookie which allows us to record the results of our advertisement performance for marketing purposes. You can revoke the permission for Facebook to track this at the following link: https://www.facebook.com/ads/website_custom_audiences/

Heights uses Google Analytics, a service of Google, Inc. (https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) which allows us to track visits to our website and other browser data so that we can improve your experience. Our particular use of Google Analytics keeps your IP address anonymized before Google records it. This anonymized, or masked IP address, will not be connected to any other data on Google. This is an analytics type cookie. You can prevent analysis of your browser behavior across all websites using Google Analytics by installing this browser plugin: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Google Analytics Advertising Features may also use anonymized insights into your device behaviors, and you can access and or delete such data via Google's "My Activity" page.

7. Third Party Websites

Heights may post links to third party websites on its Site. These third party websites are not screened for privacy or security issues by Heights, and you release us from any liability for the conduct of these third party websites.

Please be aware that this Privacy Policy, and any other policies in place, in addition to any amendments, does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to members of the Service or Site. Heights bears no responsibility for the information collected or used by any advertiser or third party website. Please review the privacy policy and terms of service for each site you visit through third party links.

8. Third Party Access to Your Information

Although you are entering into an Agreement with Heights to disclose your information to us, we do use third party individuals and organizations to assist us, including contractors, web hosts, and others.

Throughout the course of our provision of our Service to you, we may delegate our authority to collect, access, use, and disseminate your information. For example, our web host stores the information that you provide us, and we may hire outside contractors to perform maintenance or assist us in securing our website. A current list of vendors is available upon request.

It is therefore necessary that you grant the third parties we may use in the course of our business the same rights that you afford us under this Privacy Policy. For this reason, you hereby agree that for every authorization which you grant to us in this Privacy Policy, you also grant to any third party that we may hire, contract, or otherwise retain the services of for the purpose of operating, maintaining, repairing, or otherwise improving or preserving our website or its underlying files or systems. You agree not to hold us liable for the actions of any of these third parties, even if we would normally be held vicariously liable for their actions, and that you must take legal action against them directly should they commit any tort or other actionable wrong against you.

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you authorize us to use the following third party services which may also store data about you:

Supplier Data Type Anonymized Discarded Archived
Airbrake Error logs
Amazon Web Services Media files Yes
ActiveCampaign Email, name
ActiveCampaign Browser identifiers
CloudFlare Media files Yes After trial or subscription ended
Continually Email, name
Continually Browser identifiers
Google Analytics Browser identifiers Yes
Help Scout Email, name
Help Scout Browser identifiers
Heroku Email, name After trial or subscription ended
Heroku Password Bcrypt encryption After trial or subscription ended
Heroku Account data/media files After trial or subscription ended
Plerdy Browser identifiers Yes Automatically after 6 months
Scout APM Operation heuristics Yes
Segment Browser identifiers
Segment Email, name
Segment Account analytics
Sendgrid Email, name
Stripe Credit card data PCI Compliant
Transloadit Media files Yes Automatically after ~24 hours
  • Anonymized: Any data that could be used to identify the data subject is scrubbed, or a specific encryption policy is used in a case where data is not anonymized.
  • Discarded: Data is destroyed automatically without requiring a request by data subject
  • Archived: Data can only be accessed by Heights founder.

You authorize us to allow third party Site and App visitors to view and download data to their respective devices (not limited to mobile phones, tablets, laptops, computers), whether these third party visitors access this content via our Site, App or view and download this content via any mobile application which displays it. Without limiting generality, you understand that the ability of other parties to view information you save in our App and Site is a part of the Service we are providing to you.

9. Release of Your Information for Legal Purposes

At times it may become necessary, for legal purposes, to release your information in response to a request from a government agency or a private litigant. You agree that we may disclose your information to a third party where we believe, in good faith, that it is desirable to do so for the purposes of a civil action, criminal investigation, or other legal matter. In the event that we receive a subpoena affecting your privacy, unless we are legally prevented from it, we will notify you to give you an opportunity to file a motion to quash the subpoena, or we may attempt to quash it ourselves, but we are not obligated to do either. We may also proactively report you, and release your information to, third parties where we believe that it is prudent to do so for legal reasons, such as our belief that you have engaged in fraudulent activities. You release us from any damages that may arise from or relate to the release of your information to a request from law enforcement agencies or private litigants.

10. Commercial and Non-Commercial Communications

By providing information to the Site that forms the basis of communication with you, such as contact information, you waive all rights to file complaints concerning unsolicited email from Heights since, by providing such information, you agree to receive communication from us other anyone else covered under this Privacy Policy. However, you may unsubscribe from marketing communications by clicking on the unsubscribe links in our marketing emails, or by notifying Heights that you no longer wish to receive solicitations or information and we will remove you from the database. We may still send certain transactional emails required in order to provide you notice to important alerts regarding your account in our Service.

11. Security Measures

We take certain measures to enhance the security of our Site and Service, such as by using SSL Certificates. Your data is encrypted in transit between you and Heights for account and payment related pages. Should you be accessing our service through a custom domain (ie: a domain other than heightsplatform.com), ensure that the domain used to access our service also has HTTPS if you want your data to be encrypted throughout our entire App. We make routine, secure backups of your data, and we use multiple techniques to eliminate points of failure. We also conduct security reviews on our Service periodically and ensure that third party contractors and employees only have access to the information that is necessary for them to perform their job. However, we make no representations as to the security or privacy of your information. It is in our best interest to keep our website secure, but we recommend that you exercise precautions and use anti-virus software, firewalls, and other precautions such as not telling others your password to protect yourself from security threats. If you need to report an exploit, or you have noticed and incident with your account, please contact us at security@heightsplatform.com.

12. Security Breach Notifications

In the event that your private data are disclosed to unauthorized people (ie: hackers), Heights will send email notifications to all possibly affected parties. We may also make an announcement on our Site directly.

13. Deleted Data

We retain your personal information for the duration of our business relationship, and afterwards for as long as necessary for legitimate business purposes until you exercise your right to erase your personal information. When you request your account and personal information be deleted, we’ll ensure that nothing is stored on our servers past 30 days. Data that you choose to delete from your account while it is active will also be deleted within 30 days, though most data is deleted instantly.

14. GDPR Rights

The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) gives people under its protection certain rights with respect to their personal information collected by us on the Site. Accordingly, Heights recognizes and will comply with GDPR and those rights, except as limited by applicable law. The rights under GDPR include:

  • Right to Be Informed. This is your right to know how we will process your data, who will process it, and where it might be located.
  • Right to Access. This includes your right to access the personal information we gather about you, and your right to obtain information about the sharing, storage, security and processing of that information.
  • Right to Rectification. This is your right to request correction errors and updating of incomplete information.
  • Right to Erasure. This is your right to request, subject to certain limitations under applicable law, that your personal information be erased from our possession (also known as the "Right to deletion" or "Right to be forgotten"). However, if applicable law requires us to comply with your request to delete your information, fulfillment of your request may prevent you from using Heights services and may result in closing your account.
  • Right to Restrict Processing. This is your right to request restriction of how and why your personal information is used or processed.
  • Right to Object. This is your right, in certain situations, to object to how or why your personal information is processed.
  • Right to Portability. This is your right to receive the personal information we have about you and the right to transmit it to another party.
  • Right to not be subject to Automated Decision-Making. This is your right to object and prevent any decision that could have a legal, or similarly significant, effect on you from being made solely based on automated processes. This right is limited, if the decision is necessary for performance of any contract between you and us, is allowed by applicable European law, or is based on your explicit consent.

Many of these rights can be exercised by logging in to our App and directly updating or deleting your account data. If you have any questions about exercising these rights, please contact us at privacy@heightsplatform.com.

15. Your California Online Privacy Rights

This section pertains only to residents of California. Heights permits residents of California to use its services. Therefore, it is the intent of Heights to comply with the California Business and Professions Code §§ 22575-22579 and the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). If you are a California resident, you may request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to any third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Various provisions throughout this Privacy Policy address requirements of the Californian privacy statutes. In summary, you must presume that we collect electronic information from all visitors.

Below are the rights you have, though these are not absolute. In certain cases we may decline your request as permitted by law.

  • Information: You can request the following information about how we have collected and used your personal information during the past 12 months:
    • The categories of personal information that we have collected.
    • The categories of sources from which we collected personal information.
    • The business purpose for collecting your personal information.
    • The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information.
    • Whether we have disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, and if so, the categories of personal information received by each category of third party recipient.
    • Whether we’ve sold your personal information, and if so, the categories of personal information received by each category of third party recipient.
  • Access: You may request a copy of the personal information that we have collected about you.
  • Deletion: You may ask us to delete the personal information that we have collected from you.
  • Nondiscrimination: You are entitled to exercise the above rights free from discrimination.

You may contact us at privacy@heightsplatform.com with any questions or to exercise these rights listed above. We may require government identification to process your request and to confirm your residency.

16. Minors

Individuals under 13 years of age are not allowed to use our Service. If you become aware of a User who is under the required age to use our Service, please notify us immediately at privacy@heightsplatform.com and provide us with full details as to why you believe they are below that age and we will address the issue. If you are a User who is reported in this manner, we may require you to provide suitable proof of age, such as a copy of government identification, in order to continue using our Site and/or Service.

17. International Transfer

Your information may be transferred to - and maintained on - computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. Heights transfers Personal Information to the United States and to multiple third party Subprocessors (List of Subprocessors). We enter into GDPR-compliant data processing agreements with each of these Subprocessors. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

18. Amendments

Like our Terms of Service, we may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will update this page. We may send out an email notification to notify you if more significant changes are made. You must read this page each time you access our Site and Service and notify us at privacy@heightsplatform.com with details sufficient to identify your account if you do not agree to the amendments, so that we may terminate your account. You may also contact us via mail with questions at:

Attn: Velora Studios, LLC
16192 Coastal Highway
Lewes, Delaware 19958
United States

Last Modified: December 20, 2021