1. Acceptance of Terms

Thank you for selecting markless.io. Subject to this Terms of Service (this "Agreement"), ("Markless", "us", "we", "our") gives you certain rights and imposes on you certain responsibilities as more fully described below. By accepting this Agreement or by accessing our Service (as defined below), you indicate that you have read, fully understood and agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. If you are entering into this Agreement on behalf of a company, business or other legal entity, you represent that you have the authority to bind such entity and its affiliates to this Agreement, in which case the terms "you" or "your" shall refer to such entity and its affiliates. If you do not have such authority, or if you do not agree with this Agreement, you must not accept this Agreement and may not use the Services.

2. Description of Service

The "Service" includes providing a platform for creators to sell their files with automatic watermarking and secure delivery. Our services enable you to upload, store, manage, and sell your digital files. We provide payment processing through Stripe, automatic watermarking of preview files, and secure delivery of original files to buyers after successful payment. We are a private organization that facilitates transactions between creators and buyers. You maintain full ownership and copyright of your files, and we act solely as a platform to facilitate sales.

3. Access and Use

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you may use the Service solely for the purposes set forth in this Agreement. You are not licensed or permitted under this Agreement to do any of the following:

(i) attempt to access any other Markless systems, programs or data that are not made available for public use;

(ii) use the Service in any unlawful manner (including without limitation in violation of any data, privacy or export control laws);

(iii) upload any content that is pornographic, sexually explicit, contains nudity, excessive violence, hate speech, discriminatory content, or any other NSFW (Not Safe For Work) material;

(iv) work around any technical limitations in the Services, use any tool to enable features or functionalities that are otherwise disabled in the Services, or decompile, disassemble, or otherwise reverse engineer the Services;

(v) sublicense, resell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, time share or otherwise commercially exploit or make the Service available to any third party;

(vi) perform or attempt to perform any actions that would interfere with the proper working of the Service, prevent access to or the use of the Services by other users;

(vii) upload content that infringes on others' intellectual property rights.

Markless.io reserves the right to remove any content that violates these terms and to terminate accounts that upload prohibited content without notice or refund.

4. Reservation of Rights and Ownership; Your Content

Markless reserves all rights not expressly granted to you in this Agreement. The Services is protected by copyright, trade secret and other intellectual property laws. This Agreement does not grant you any rights to trademarks or service marks of Markless or any third party.
You are solely responsible for all data, information, feedback, suggestions, text, content and other materials that you upload, post, deliver, provide or otherwise transmit or store (hereafter “post(ing)”) in connection with or relating to the Service (“Your Content”). You own all right, title and interest in and to Your Content. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, Markless shall have the right to collect and analyze data and other information relating to the Services and related systems and technologies.
Markless has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the Service, Content, or Your Content. You further agree that Markless may remove or disable any Content at any time for any reason (including, but not limited to, upon receipt of claims or allegations from third parties or authorities relating to such Content), or for no reason at all. You understand that the operation of the Service, including Your Content, in certain circumstances, may be unencrypted and involve (a) transmissions over various networks; (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices and (c) transmission to Markless’s third party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, and related technology required to operate and maintain the Service. Accordingly, you acknowledge that you bear sole responsibility for adequate security, protection and backup of Your Content. Markless will have no liability to you for any unauthorized access or use of any of Your Content, or any corruption, deletion, destruction or loss of any of Your Content.
The failure of Markless to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not be a waiver of that right. You acknowledge that this Agreement is a contract between you and Markless, even though it is electronic and is not physically signed by you and Markless, and it governs your use of the Services. Markless reserves the right to use your name and/or company name as a reference for marketing or promotional purposes on Markless’s website and in other communication with existing or potential Markless customers. To decline Markless this right you need to email contact@markless.io stating that you do not wish to be used as a reference.

5. Rights You Grant To Us

For purposes of this Agreement and solely access and use the account information as part of the Services, you grant Markless a limited power of attorney, and appoint Markless as your attorney-in-fact and agent, to access third party sites, retrieve and use your information with the full power and authority to do and perform each thing necessary in connection with such activities, as you could do in person relative to the Services. By agreeing to these Terms and Conditions you are hereby providing authorization to fill out, file, and sign documents, forms, and any other items on your behalf or on behalf of the requesting party

6. Acknowledgement

You acknowledge that the Services provided by Markless merely involve the filing of applications in the System for Award Managemnt based solely on information you provide. Markless and its personnel and affiliates are not accountants, tax advisors, or lawyers, and are not providing any legal, tax advice or guidance of this type.

7. Representations and Warranties

You represent and warrant to Markless.io that:
(i) you have full power and authority to enter into this Agreement;
(ii) you own all rights to the files you upload or have obtained all necessary permissions, releases, rights or licenses required to sell these files, including but not limited to model releases, property releases, and copyright ownership;
(iii) your uploaded files and other activities in connection with the Service, and Markless.io's exercise of all rights and license granted by you herein, do not and will not violate, infringe, or misappropriate any third party's intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, or other legal rights;
(iv) you are eighteen (18) years of age or older;
(v) you agree to indemnify and hold Markless.io harmless from any claims arising from the use or sale of files you upload that infringe upon the rights of others;
(vi) you understand that you are solely responsible for ensuring you have the right to sell each file you upload, and Markless.io reserves the right to remove any content that is reported to infringe upon the rights of others.

8. Privacy of Personal Information

Our privacy policy can be reviewed at the following link: Privacy Policy.

9. Consent to Disclosure

You consent to allow Markless’s intermediate service provider, transmitter or electronic return originator to send the applicable tax return forms to the proper state agency and to receive associated information from the proper state agency.

10. Disclaimer Of Warranties

The services are provided “as-is” and, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Markless, its affiliates, licensors, participating financial institutions, third-party content or service providers, retailers, distributors, dealers and suppliers (collectively, “suppliers”) disclaim all guarantees and warranties, express orimplied,regarding the services, including any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose, title,merchant ability, quality, timeliness, and non-infringement., Markless does not warrant that services will beuninterrupted,timely,secure or free from bugs, viruses, interruption, errors, or other program limitations nor does it make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from use of the services, and no information, adviceor services obtained by you from Markless or through the service shall create any warranty not expressly stated in this agreement. Some states do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusions may not apply to you. In that event, any implied warranties are limited in duration to 60 days from the date of purchase of services as applicable. However, some states do not allow limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts, so the above limitation may not apply to you. This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may have other rights that vary from state to state.

11. Limitation of Liability and Damages

You understand that Markless may not audit or otherwise verify any information you provide, and is not responsible for any rejection of your tax return or any resulting taxes, penalties or interest using the services. Further, Markless shall not be responsible for any taxes, penalties and interest that are assessed as the result of incorrect, incomplete or misleading information that you have given to Markless in connection with your preparation of your tax return.
notwithstanding any other provision of this agreement to the contrary, the entire cumulative liability of Markless and its suppliers for any reason arising from or relating to this agreement or your license or use of services shall be limited to the amount paid by you for the services to Markless in the six (6) months preceding the event giving rise to your claim or, if no fees apply, one hundred ($100) u.S. Dollars.
to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Markless and its suppliers are not liable for any indirect, special, incidental, exemplary or consequential damages or for damages relating to loss of business, telecommunication failures, loss, corruption, security or theft of data, viruses, spyware, loss of profits or investment, tax positions taken by you, inability to file your tax return , delay in preparing your tax return , incorrect or incomplete information provided to Markless, any access to, or use of, your password and user id by an unauthorized person, or the like, whether based in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability, product liability or otherwise, even if Markless or its suppliers have been advised of the possibility of such damages and even if a remedy set forth herein is found to have failed of its essential purpose. In no event will Markless be liable for any loss, cost, liablity or damage incurred as a result of your receipt of or participation in third party services or third party websites. In no event does Markless assume any liability to any party other than you arising out of your use or inability to use the services.
the limitations of damages set forth above are fundamental elements of the basis of the bargain between Markless and you. Markless would not be able to have provided the services without such limitations.

12. Indemnification

You shall defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Markless from and against any claims, actions or demands, including without limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising or resulting from your breach of this Agreement, any of Your Content, or your other access, contribution to, use or misuse of the Service. Markless shall provide notice to you of any such claim, suit or demand. Markless reserves the right to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter which is subject to indemnification under this section. In such case, you agree to cooperate with any reasonable requests assisting Markless’s defense of such matter.

13. Miscellaneous

You may not assign this Agreement without the prior written consent of Markless, but Markless may assign or transfer this Agreement, in whole or in part, without restriction. This Agreement (and any additional terms and conditions with which Markless amends or supplements this Agreement), is a complete statement of the agreement between you and Markless, and sets forth the entire liability of Markless and your exclusive remedy with respect to the Services and their use. Except as expressly stated herein, you agree that Markless is not acting as your agent or fiduciary in connection with your use of the any Services.
Any waiver of the terms herein by Markless must be in a writing signed by an authorized officer of Markless and expressly referencing the applicable provisions of this Agreement. Markless shall be not be liable for any default or delay in the performance of its obligations under this Agreement to the extent its performance is delayed or prevented due to causes beyond its reasonable control, such as acts of God, natural disasters, terrorist acts, war or other hostilities, labor disputes, civil disturbances, the actions or omissions of third parties, electrical or communication system failures, or governmental action. If any provision of this Agreement is invalid or unenforceable under applicable law, then it shall be changed and interpreted to accomplish the objectives of such provision to the greatest extent possible under applicable law, and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect. This Agreement will be governed by Kentucky law as applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within California, without regard to its choice of law or conflicts of law principles that would require the application of law of a different jurisdiction, and applicable federal law. The parties hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the state courts in Jefferson County, Kentucky, or federal court for the Western District of Kentucky. THE PARTIES AGREE THAT ANY DISUPTE ARISING OUT OF THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SERVICES SHALL BE HEARD BY A JUDGE, AND NOT A JURY.
Headings are included for convenience only, and shall not be considered in interpreting this Agreement. As used in this Agreement “including” means “including but not limited to”. This Agreement does not limit any rights that Markless may have under trade secret, copyright, patent or other laws.

14. Refunds

Due to the digital nature of the products sold through our platform, all sales are final and no refunds will be issued unless required by law. If you experience technical issues with downloading your purchased files, please contact our support team for assistance.

15. Termination

Markless.io may terminate your access to the Service immediately and without notice if you fail to comply with these Terms of Service. Upon termination, you must cease all use of the Service, and any outstanding sales will be processed according to these terms.