Please read these Terms and Conditions (the “Terms”) and our Privacy Policy https://epochforge.io/privacy (“Privacy Policy”) carefully because they govern your use of the website located at https://epochforge.io (the “Site”) and the validator NFT service and other functionalities made available on the Site (collectively, the “Services”) offered by the 186Kapital Group LLC d.b.a Epoch Forge (“Epoch Forge,” “we,” “our”).

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1. Agreement to Terms

By using our Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you don’t agree to be bound by these Terms, you are not authorized to use the Services.

2. Privacy Policy

Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs your use of the Services, for information on how we collect, use and share your information.

3. Changes to these Terms or the Services

We may update these Terms from time to time at our sole discretion. If we do, we’ll let you know by posting the updated Terms on the Site, and we will also post on our official Discord server. It’s important that you review the Terms whenever we update them or you use the Services. If you continue to use the Services after we have posted updated Terms, it means that you accept and agree to the changes. If you don’t agree to be bound by the changes, you may not use the Services anymore. Because our Services are evolving over time, we may change or discontinue all or any part of the Services, at any time and without notice, at our sole discretion.

4. Who May Use the Services?

Eligibility

You may use the Services only if you are 18 years or older and are not otherwise barred from using the Services under applicable law. By using these services you expressly agree that you are not a sanctioned person or entity as defined by the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). 

Compliance

The Services are only available to users in certain jurisdictions who can use the Services as permitted under applicable law. You certify that you will comply with all applicable laws (e.g., local, state, federal and other laws) when using the Services. Without limiting the foregoing, by using the Services, you represent and warrant that: (a) you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo; and (b) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited, sanctioned, or restricted parties. If you access or use the Services outside the United States, you are solely responsible for ensuring that your access and use of the Services in such country, territory or jurisdiction does not violate any applicable laws. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor where our Services are accessed from. Furthermore, we reserve the right, at any time, in our sole discretion, to block access to the Services, in whole or in part, from any geographic location, IP addresses and unique device identifiers or to any user who we believe is in breach of these Terms.

5. About the Services

Our Services

Our Services facilitate interaction with certain decentralized cryptographic protocols (“Protocols”) to help users craft and execute transactions on the decentralized blockchain(s) supported by the Services (“Blockchain”) to stake their cryptographic tokens (such as ETH) and receive rewards for staking.

You may participate in the Services by linking your digital wallet(s) on supported bridge extensions, which allows you to purchase, store, and engage in transactions using supported digital assets. Before putting up your unique digital asset for sale or putting in an offer to purchase a unique digital asset from another user, we will ask you to download a supported electronic wallet extension and connect and unlock your digital wallets with that extension. Once you submit an order to sell or purchase a unique digital asset, your order is passed on to the applicable extension, which completes the transaction on your behalf.

Transactions Are Conducted on the Blockchain

We do not buy, sell or take custody or possession of any tokens, or act as an agent or custodian for any user of the Services.

Transaction Fees

Transactions facilitated by the Services may be subject to fees that Epoch Forge collects as posted on the Site or otherwise set forth in these Terms, and you agree to pay such fees. You further agree to pay all other fees applicable to the transactions facilitated by the Services, including Gas Fees (as defined below) and hosting fees. “Gas Fees” mean the fees that fund the network of computers that run the decentralized blockchain network, meaning that you will need to pay a Gas Fee for each transaction that occurs via the blockchain network. If you are a Seller, you authorize Epoch Forge to automatically charge you for any fees due to Epoch Forge under these Terms or deduct such fees (including the Transaction Fee defined below) directly from your amounts paid to you by the Purchaser.

Taxes

Each party shall be responsible for all Taxes imposed on its income or property. Purchasers will be responsible for paying all such fees.

Suspension or Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Services at any time in connection with any transaction as required by applicable law, any governmental authority, or if we in our sole and reasonable discretion determine you are violating these Terms or the terms of any third-party service provider. Such suspension or termination shall not constitute a breach of these Terms by StakeStar. In accordance with its anti-money laundering, anti-terrorism, anti-fraud, and other compliance policies and practices, we may impose reasonable limitations and controls on the ability of you or any beneficiary to utilize the Services. Such limitations may include where good cause exists, rejecting transaction requests, freezing funds, or otherwise restricting you from using the Services.

6. Feedback

We appreciate feedback, comments, ideas, proposals and suggestions for improvements to the Services (“Feedback”). If you choose to submit Feedback, you agree that we are free to use it without any restriction or compensation to you unless agreed in advance.

7. Your Content

Posting Content

Our Services may allow you to store or share content such as text (in posts or communications with others), files, documents, graphics, images, music, software, audio and video. Anything (other than Feedback) that you post or otherwise make available through the Services is referred to as “User Content”. User Content includes the NFT Content. Epoch Forge does not claim any ownership rights in any User Content and nothing in these Terms will be deemed to restrict any rights that you may have to your User Content.

Permissions to Your User Content

By making any User Content available through the Services, you hereby grant to Epoch Forge a non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, modify, create derivative works based upon, distribute, publicly display, and publicly perform your User Content in connection with operating and providing the Services.
 

Your Responsibility for User Content

You are solely responsible for all your User Content. You represent and warrant that you have (and will have) all rights that are necessary to grant us the license rights in your User Content under these Terms. You represent and warrant that neither your User Content, nor your use and provision of your User Content to be made available through the Services, nor any use of your User Content by Epoch Forge on or through the Services will infringe, misappropriate or violate a third party’s intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation.

Removal of User Content

You can remove certain of your User Content by specifically deleting it. You should know that in certain instances, some of your User Content (such as posts or comments you make, or your NFT Content) may not be completely removed and copies of your User Content may continue to exist on the Services or NFT. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not responsible or liable for the removal or deletion of (or the failure to remove or delete) any of your User Content.

Epoch Forge's Intellectual Property
 

We may make available through the Services content that is subject to intellectual property rights. We retain all rights to that content.

8. Copyright Policy

Epoch Forge respects copyright law and expects its users to do the same. It is Epoch Forge's policy to terminate in appropriate circumstances users who repeatedly infringe or are believed to be repeatedly infringing the rights of copyright holders.

9. Links to Third Party Websites or Resources

The Services (including the official Discord server) may allow you to access third-party websites or other resources. We provide access only as a convenience and are not responsible for the content, products or services on or available from those resources or links displayed on such websites. You acknowledge sole responsibility for and assume all risk arising from your use of any third-party resources.

10. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to and use of the Services at our sole discretion, at any time and without notice to you. You may disconnect your digital wallet at any time. You acknowledge and agree that we shall have no liability or obligation to you in such an event and that you will not be entitled to a refund of any amounts that you have already paid to us or any third party, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

WE FURTHER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY IN CONNECTION WITH THIRD PARTY SERVICES. NOTHING HEREIN NOR ANY USE OF OUR SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH THIRD PARTY SERVICES CONSTITUTES OUR ENDORSEMENT, RECOMMENDATION OR ANY OTHER AFFILIATION OF OR WITH ANY THIRD PARTY SERVICES.

WE CANNOT GUARANTEE THE SECURITY OF ANY DATA THAT YOU DISCLOSE ONLINE. YOU ACCEPT THE INHERENT SECURITY RISKS OF PROVIDING INFORMATION AND DEALING ONLINE OVER THE INTERNET AND WILL NOT HOLD US RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY BREACH OF SECURITY.

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EPOCH FORGE WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOSS AND TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR, AND WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOSSES, DAMAGES OR CLAIMS ARISING FROM: (I) USER ERROR SUCH AS FORGOTTEN PASSWORDS, INCORRECTLY CONSTRUCTED TRANSACTIONS, OR MISTYPED WALLET ADDRESSES; (II) SERVER FAILURE OR DATA LOSS; (III) BLOCKCHAIN NETWORKS, CRYPTOCURRENCY WALLETS OR CORRUPT FILES; (IV) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO SERVICES; OR (V) ANY THIRD PARTY ACTIVITIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE USE OF VIRUSES, PHISHING, BRUTEFORCING OR OTHER MEANS OF ATTACK.

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PERFORMANCE OF THE SERVICES CAUSED BY SUCH FACTORS. WE DO NOT MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES AGAINST THE POSSIBILITY OF DELETION, MISDELIVERY OR FAILURE TO STORE COMMUNICATIONS, PERSONALIZED SETTINGS OR OTHER DATA.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS OF WARRANTIES MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

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11. Assumption of Risk

You accept, acknowledge, and assume the following risks:

The prices and liquidity of digital assets are extremely volatile. Fluctuations in the price of other digital assets could materially and adversely affect the tokens made available through the Services, which may also be subject to significant price volatility.
You are solely responsible for determining what, if any, Taxes and Gas Fees apply to your transactions through the Services. Epoch Forge is not responsible for determining the Taxes that apply to such transactions.

There are risks associated with using Internet-based digital assets, including but not limited to, the risk of hardware, software and Internet connections, the risk of malicious software introduction, and the risk that third parties may obtain unauthorized access to information stored within your wallet. Epoch Forge will not be responsible for any communication failures, disruptions, errors, distortions or delays you may experience when effecting transactions involving tokens and other supported digital assets, however caused, including Gas Fees paid or payable in connection therewith.

By accessing and using the Services, you represent that you understand the inherent risks associated with using cryptographic and blockchain-based systems, and that you have a working knowledge of digital assets. Such systems may have vulnerabilities or other failures, or other abnormal behavior. Epoch Forge is not responsible for any issues with the Blockchains, including forks, technical node issues or any other issues having fund losses as a result. You acknowledge that the cost and speed of transacting with cryptographic and blockchain-based systems such as Ethereum are variable and may increase at any time. You further acknowledge the risk that your digital assets may lose some or all of their value while they are supplied to or from the Services. You further acknowledge that we are not responsible for any of these variables or risks and cannot be held liable for any resulting losses that you experience while accessing Services. Accordingly, you understand and agree to assume full responsibility for all of the risks of accessing and using and interacting with the Services.

12. Indemnity

You will indemnify, defend (at Epoch Forge's option) and hold Epoch Forge as well as the 186Kpaital Group LLC, and its officers, directors, employees and agents, harmless from and against any claims, disputes, demands, liabilities, damages, losses, and costs and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees arising out of or in any way connected with (a) your access to or use of the Services, (b) your User Content, or (c) your violation of these Terms. You may not settle or otherwise compromise any claim subject to this Section without Epoch Forge's prior written approval.

13. Limitation of Liability
 

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER EPOCH FORGE NOR ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING, OR DELIVERING THE SERVICES WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUES, LOST SAVINGS, LOST BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, LOSS OF DATA OR GOODWILL, SERVICE INTERRUPTION, COMPUTER DAMAGE OR SYSTEM FAILURE OR THE COST OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES OF ANY KIND ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OR FROM THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, AND WHETHER OR NOT STAKESTAR OR ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, EVEN IF A LIMITED REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

14. Governing Law and Forum Choice

These Terms and any action related thereto will be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict of laws provisions.

15. Contact Information

If you have any questions about these Terms or the Services, please contact Epoch Forge at terms@186k.group.