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Terms & Conditions

Effective Date: December 3, 2022

Last Updated: December 7, 2022

Overview

Ascender Consulting, LLC (“Ascender Consulting”, “AC”, “we”, “us” “our”, “Company”) owns and operates www.AscenderConsulting.com (“Website” or “Site”) and all affiliated social media platforms to include Instagram: Ascender.Consulting, Instagram: XMZ.Society and LinkedIn @JennAscender. The terms “user,” “you,” “your,” and “clients” refer to site visitors, clients, and anyone who interacts with the Site, social media platforms, and/or Services of the Company.

The following Terms & Conditions (“Terms & Permissions”, “Terms”) are entered into by and between you and Ascender Consulting, LLC. The Terms and Conditions, together with the Privacy Policy Agreement (“Privacy Policy”) and any other document referenced herein (collectively referred to as “Terms of Use,” or “Terms of Service”), govern your access to and use of AscenderConsulting.com (“Site,” or “Website”) all social media related to Ascender Consulting including XMZ Society, any content, resources, functionality and Services offered.

By using the Site and engaging with AC on social media, you are herein consenting to abide by and be bound by these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policy Agreement expressed in this Policy combined herein by reference.

The Site, social media and Services offered and available to users who are 18 years of age or older. Those under the age of 18 years of age do not meet requirements to interact with the Company and must not access or use the Company’s Site, resources, social media or Services.

To opt-out of Terms of Use, you must not use the Site or engage with Ascender Consulting, LLC at any level.

Changes to the Terms & Conditions

The Company reserves the right to change and update the Terms & Conditions at its discretion. When an update has occurred, the date will be notated at the top of this policy in the “Last Updated” section. All updates to this policy become effective upon publishing on the Site. You are responsible for keeping abreast of these changes as you continue to engage AC. You waive specific notice of any updates or changes to the Privacy Policy by continuing to use and access the Site, social media, email and other broadcast or communication channels affiliated with Ascender Consulting. By continuing to use the aforementioned platforms, you agree to any changes or updates to the policy.

Governing Law & Provisions

The Site, social media accounts and Services are operated from the United States. Thus, should you choose to access and use the Site, social media and Services of the Company from outside of the United States, you do so of your own volition and are responsible for compliance with your local laws, to the extent applicable.

If Ascender Consulting fails to assert a right or provision under these Terms of Use, it does not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. Furthermore, if any provision of these Terms is held by a court or other tribunal of jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent such that the remaining provisions of the Terms of Use shall continue in complete effect.

Any concerns relating to the Site, social media, or Services of Ascender Consulting will be governed by the laws of the United States in the State of Florida, in Lake County in addition to the General Data Protection Regulation, as it applies to residents of the European Union, and the California Privacy Protection Act, as it applies to California residents.

Privacy

Ascender Consulting is committed to protecting your privacy. Your access and use of the Site, social media, and Services of the Company is also subject to our Privacy Policy Agreement. Please refer to it often.

Accessing the Website

Ascender Consulting reserves the right to dissolve or amend the Site or social media to include content, functionality, Services, and resources provided by Ascender Consulting at our sole discretion and without notice. Some areas of the Site, social media or Services may be restricted to users. The Company is not liable if the Website, social media or Services are unavailable wholly or in part for any duration of time.

Account Security

You are responsible for the protection of your username, password or any other piece of confidential information used as part of your access and interaction with our Site, resources or Services, if applicable. You must implement security procedures to ensure your account is not compromised. If you suspect your account has been compromised, you agree to inform Ascender Consulting at your earliest convenience by emailing us at Info@AscenderConsulting.com or via the contact form at AscenderConsulting.com. You also agree not to share your account with other users.  

Ascender Consulting reserves the right to disable your account at any time. Any violation of any provision in the Terms of Use will result in your account being disabled.

Intellectual Property & Copyright

You have been granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Site and the downloadable resources available on the Site and social media accounts in agreement with these Terms of Use.

As a condition of your access and use of the Site, you guarantee the Company that you will not use the Site or any of its downloadable resources for any unlawful purpose, or any purpose prohibited by the Terms of Use. You agree not to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information not made readily available to you on the Site. You also agree not to use the Site in any manner that may damage, overburden, or impair the Site.

All images of people, places, products, as well as graphics, text, logos, and the compilation and design thereof, as well as any software used on the Site, social media, resources or Services are either the property of Ascender Consulting, LLC or used with express permission and thus protected by United States and International copyright laws and intellectual property laws. You agree to abide by these laws, will not make any changes or amendments or copies of this protected data. You also agree not to publish, transmit, sell or participate in the sale of, create derivative works, or exploit the content in part or in whole whether it is in the Site, social media accounts, resources or part of the Services provided by Ascender Consulting LLC or its partners, vendors, and affiliates.

The Company content is not for resale. Your use of the Site, or social media accounts, or any of the resources available for download from the Site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your individual use and will make no other use of the content without the express written permission of the Company and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of the Company or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these Terms.

Any unauthorized use of any content or materials of the Site, social media platforms, resources, or Services is strictly prohibited and may violate copyright and trademark laws, and laws of privacy, publicity, and communications regulations and statutes.

The Company name, the Company logo, the Company slogan, and all related names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans are trademarks of the Company or its affiliates or licensors. You agree not use such marks without the prior written permission of the Company. All other names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans on this Site are the trademarks of their respective owners. You agree not to use their names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans without their express permission or outside of their Terms of Use.

You are granted a limited license to use the Site, social media content, and resources for personal use only. This grant does not permit you to do any of the following:

  1. Use the Site, resources, social media, content for any commercial purpose.
  2. Modify, amend, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, disassemble, or convert into human-readable form any of the contents of the Site, resources, social media, content not intended to be so read
  3. Copy, imitate, reproduce, mirror, distribute, publish, download, display, perform, post or transmit any of the content of the Site, resources of social media in any form by any means
  4. Use of any data mining bots, spiders, automated tools, or similar information gathering technology and extraction methods on the content r to collect any information from the Site, social media, or resources or on any user of the Site, social media, or resources.

The Company reserves the right to terminate your license to use the Site, resources, social media, or content, and to block or prevent future access to and use of the Site, resources, social media or content for any or no reason, in our sole discretion, without notice or attendant liability. Upon termination of your license, these Terms of Service will still apply.

Copyright Infringement

In compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Ascender Consulting, LLC respects the intellectual property rights of all.

In the event that you believe work protected by a U.S. copyright that you or someone else owns has been posted to the site or resources without authorization or proper credit, please notify us immediately with the following information.

  1. A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or the signature of owner of the allegedly infringed content
  2. The contact information of the owner of the infringed material or person legally acting on behalf of the owner of the allegedly infringed content including phone number, address and email address
  3. The identification of works or materials allegedly being infringed including information regarding the location of the infringed material that the copyright owner seeks to have removed, with enough detail so that we can easily locate the content to verify its presence
  4. A statement that you or the complaining party have a valid belief that the material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and a statement made under penalty of perjury that the information provided is accurate and you are the copyright owner or are authorized to speak on behalf of the copyright owner

Disclaimer

The information on this Site, social media, and the resources are for educational and informational purposes only. The content on the Site, social media and the resources are intended as, and shall not be understood or construed as legal, financial, tax, medical, health, or any other professional advice.

Your business’ particular circumstances and various other factors will influence business advice given by Ascender Consulting, LLC. The general information given here cannot take into account your business’ specific nuances and needs.

The information on the Site, resources and social media cannot be guaranteed for accuracy. Neither the company nor any of its employees will be held liable or responsible for any errors, omissions, or dated content on the Site, resources or social media, and will not be held liable for any damage you may suffer as a result of failing to seek competent advice from a professional that is familiar with your specific circumstances.

By using this Site, and the resources or content therein, and by social media and the content and resources provided on the social media accounts, you accept personal responsibility for any damage you suffer as a result of the use, non-use, or misuse of the information available on the Site, the content and resources therein and the content and resources on social media. You agree to use your judgment and conduct due diligence prior to implementing any action, plan, policy, suggestion or recommendation on the Site or social media.

Furthermore, you agree that the Company has not made any guarantees about the results of taking any action recommended or not on the Site or social media. You agree that your personal and business’ success depend on factors relevant to your particular skills and circumstances beyond the control or knowledge of the Company.

Testimonials

The testimonials, reviews, endorsements, and insights presented on AscenderConsulting.com (“Site’, or “Website”) are for illustrative purposes only and are applicable to the individuals depicted.

The testimonials, reviews, endorsements, and insights are a reflection of the unique experiences and opinions of the individuals depicted.

Results may vary and may not be representative of the experience of others using our products and/or services.

The testimonials, reviews, endorsements, and insights are not intended to represent, promise, or guarantee that others will achieve the same or similar results.

The experiences depicted on the Site may not be typical.

Unique experiences and past performances are not predictive of future results.

The testimonials, reviews, endorsements, and insights are voluntarily provided, and no compensation of any sort was provided in exchange.

The testimonials, reviews, endorsements, and insights are published on the Site verbatim as provided by the individuals depicted, except for the correction of grammar or typos. Some extraneous information irrelevant to the testimonials, reviews, endorsements, and insights may have been removed or shortened for the purpose of brevity or clarity.

Electronic Communication

By sending a message to Ascender Consulting through email, via the Website or on social media, you are sending electronic communication to us. If you engage in electronic communication with the Company, you agree to receive electronic communication from AC and that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communication that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

No electronic communication constitutes a business or contractual relationship between you and the Company. The Company cannot guarantee that any communication between you and the Company will remain confidential. However, the Company will take reasonable steps to keep your information confidential as outlined in the Privacy Policy.

Some content on the Site may require your personal information. You agree that all information submitted is truthful and you may not use any aliases or other means to mask your true identity.

The Company reserves the right to suspend or revoke your access to the Site, social media or content at any time, with or without notice. Some information may contain typos or grammatical errors, or pricing errors, or other inaccuracies which the Company may correct without notice or liability. At times, the Company may offer some products or Services for a limited time, or with limited quantites available per user. The Company reserves the right to revise, suspend, or terminate a promotion at any time with or without notice. We cannot guarantee that all products described on the Site or social media or via email will be available.

When using electronic communication on social media, you agree to conduct yourself in a respectable manner. You will not:

  1. Defame
  2. Abuse
  3. Harass
  4. Stalk
  5. Threaten

Or otherwise violate the legal rights of others. You will not:

  1. Post
  2. Publish
  3. Upload
  4. Distribute
  5. Disseminate

Any inappropriate profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name or material or information. You will not tag, or forward information to minors. You will not harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including but not limited to email addresses, names, or locations without their explicit consent. You will not promote sales or other business without express permission from the Company.

The Company is not required to monitor social media or other electronic communications. However, we reserve the right to review materials sent electronically and may remove them at our discretion. The Company also reserves the right to terminate your access to our social media or Site at any time without notice at our sole discretion. Furthermore, the Company reserves the right to disclose any information to law enforcement with or without a court order.

The Company does not control third-party communication vendors and social media platforms used by the Company. All privacy policies and terms of use for third-party services must be reviewed by you. We do not conform to third-party policies and they do not conform to ours. Your participation in third-party services is of your own volition and the Company is not liable for any actions resulting from your participation in third-party products and services.

Resources uploaded via a communication service may be subject to limitations on usage. You agree that you are responsible for learning and abiding by such limitations should you download the resources.

Materials Provided to the Company

The Company does not claim ownership of any material, including but not limited to, testimonials, feedback, suggestions, images, and videos, you provide to the Company via the Site or social media or other forms of communication. However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing, or submitting your submission you grant the Company, our affiliated companies, and necessary sub-licensees permission to use your submission in connection with the operation of the Company including, without limitation, the rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate, and reformat your submission; and to publish your name in connection with your submission.

No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your submission, as provided herein. The Company is under no obligation to post or use any submission you may provide and may remove any submission at any time in the Company’s sole discretion.

By posting, uploading, inputting, sending, providing, or submitting your submission you warrant and represent that you own or control the rights required to provide, post, upload, input or submit the submissions.

Permission

The content and resources on this Site are copyrighted by Ascender Consulting. You can do the following without express permission from Ascender Consulting:

  1. Link to the Ascender Consulting’s website or any specific page on the Site, provided you credit Ascender Consulting and do not use a forwarding URL (Uniform Resource Locator). It must be the original URL on Ascender Consulting’s Site.
  2. Extract and repost up to 100 words on any other site, provided you credit Ascender Consulting and link back to the original post.
  3. Print up to 50 copies of Site content or resource PDFs for internal distribution within your own organization, provided the content is not changed, altered, or amended, in accordance with the Terms of Use.
  4. Print our posts or resources in any non-commercial publication, provided you include the following copyright notice: “© [year of content publication], Ascender Consulting. All rights reserved. Originally published at AscenderConsulting.com”

You may not do any of the following without express written permission from Ascender Consulting:

  1. Use any of the content for commercial purposes, including selling or licensing printed or digital versions of the content.
  2. Alter, transform or build upon the work.
  3. Utilize the content on your website without linking directly to the Site and crediting Ascender Consulting.
  4. Extract or report over 100 words on any other site.
  5. Print over 50 copies of Site content or resource PDFs for internal or external distribution.
  6. Print or post our content in any non-commercial publication without crediting the Company using the following notice: “© [year of content publication], Ascender Consulting. All rights reserved. Originally published at AscenderConsulting.com”

You may not do any of the following:

  1. Repost any of our content in its entirety to include posts, resource PDFs or Site pages. Google will penalize both of our Sites for duplicate content.
  2. Translation or publication of our work in other languages.

Guest Sharers

The Company may provide information from a third party in the form of a podcast guest interview, article, interview on other platform, guest blog post, or other medium. The Company does not control the information provided by such third-party guests, is not responsible for investigating the truth of any information provided by the third party and does not guarantee the accuracy of any statements made by such guests.

Individuals who agree to appear as guests on any channel offered by the Company agree to transfer all intellectual property rights they may have in any such interviews to the Company and further provide a license to any rights they are unable to assign.

Please seek out Guests to understand their specific Permissions associated with their content.

Indemnification

You hereby indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Company, successors, affiliates, contractors, subsidiaries, officers, employees, agents, attorneys and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) relating to or arising out of your use of or inability to use the Website or Services, any user postings made by you, your violation of any terms of this Agreement, to include Terms of Use, or your violation of any rights of a third party, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations. The Company reserves the right, at its own cost, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with the Company in asserting any available defenses.

No Partnership, Joint Venture or Other Business Relationship

You warrant that no partnership, joint venture, employment or agency relationship exists between the Company and you as a result of these Terms of Use or use of the Site, social media, resources or content created by the Company. Nothing within this agreement is in derogation of the Company’s right to comply government, law enforcement or court requests relating to your use of the Site or information retained by the Company with respect to such use.

English

It is the express wish of the Company that all legal communication between you and the Company be in English.  

Contact Us

Questions about these Terms of Use can be directed to Info@AscenderConsulting.com or mailed to

Ascender Consulting, LLC
PO Box 303
Lady Lake, FL 32158