An Introduction to BTI’s Terms of Service

Welcome to BTI! Here is a quick summary of the highlights of our Terms of Service:

• Our mission is to change the world for better. The BTI platform offers a place to ask questions and connect with people who contribute unique insights and quality answers. This empowers people to learn from each other and to better understand the world.
• You own the content that you post; you also grant us and other users of the BTI platform certain rights and license to use it. The details of these licenses are described in section below.
• You are responsible for the content that you post. This includes ensuring that you have the rights needed for you to post that content and that your content does not violate the legal rights of another party or any applicable laws.
• You can repost content from BTI elsewhere, provided that you attribute the content back to the BTI platform and respect the rights of the original poster, including any “not for reproduction” designation, and do not use automated tools.
• We do not endorse or verify content posted by users. Our content and materials are provided to you “as is,” without any guarantees. You are solely responsible for your own use of the BTI platform. Posts from lawyers, doctors, and other professionals should not be treated as a substitute for professional advice for your specific situation.
• You agree to follow the rules of our platform. When you use the BTI platform, you also agree to our Terms of Service
• We offer tools for you to give feedback and report complaints. If you think someone has violated your intellectual property rights, other laws, or BTI's policies, you can initiate a report complaint

We are pleased that you want to join the BTI platform and encourage you to read the full Terms of Service.

BTI Terms of Service

Last Updated: Oct 1 2021

Welcome to BTI! BTI is a platform to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world and make it a better place.

These terms of service (“Terms of Service”) set forth the agreement (“Agreement”) between you and BTI, Inc. (“BTI” “we” or “us”). It governs your use of the products and services we offer through our websites and applications (collectively the “BTI Platform”).

Please make sure to read it, because, by using the BTI Platform, you consent to these terms.

• 1. The Mission of the BTI Platform

  BTI's mission is to change the world for better. The BTI Platform is a place to ask questions and connect with people who contribute unique insights and quality answers. This empowers people to learn from each other and to better understand the world

• 2. Using the BTI Platform
  • a. Who Can Use It. Use of the BTI Platform by anyone under 13 years of age is prohibited. You represent that you are at least the age of majority in the jurisdiction where you live or, if you are not, your parent or legal guardian must consent to these Terms of Service and affirm that they accept this Agreement on your behalf and bear responsibility for your use. If you are accepting these Terms of Service on behalf of someone else or an entity, you confirm that you have the legal authority to bind that person or entity to this Agreement.
  • b. Registration. When you set up a profile on the BTI Platform, you will be asked to provide certain information about yourself. You agree to provide us accurate information when you create your account on the BTI Platform. We will treat information you provide as part of registration in accordance with our privacy policy. You should take care in maintaining the confidentiality of your password.
  • c. Privacy Policy. Our privacy practices are set forth in our privacy policy. By use of the BTI Platform, you agree to accept our privacy policy regardless of whether you are a registered user.
  • d. Acceptable Use Policy. In your interaction with others on the BTI Platform, you agree to follow the acceptable behavior at all times.
  • e. Termination. You may close your account at any time by going to account settings and disabling your account. We may terminate or suspend your BTI account if you violate any BTI policy or for any other reason.
  • f. Changes to the BTI Platform. We are always trying to improve your experience on the BTI Platform. We may need to add or change features and may do so without notice to you.
  • g. Feedback. We welcome your feedback and suggestions about how to improve the BTI Platform. Feel free to submit feedback at info@borntoimagine.com. By submitting feedback, you agree to grant us the right, at our discretion, to use, disclose and otherwise exploit the feedback, in whole or part, freely and without compensation to you.
• 3. Your Content
  • a. Definition of Your Content. The BTI Platform enables you to add posts, texts, photos, videos, links, and other files and information about yourself to share with others. All material that you upload, publish or display to others via the BTI Platform will be referred to collectively as “Your Content.” You acknowledge and agree that, as part of using the BTI Platform, Your Content may be viewed by the general public.
  • b. Ownership. You, or your licensors, as applicable, retain ownership of the copyright and other intellectual property in Your Content, subject to the non-exclusive rights granted below.
  • c. License and Permission to Use Your Content.
    • i. By submitting, posting, or displaying Your Content on the BTI Platform, you grant BTI and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable (through multiple tiers), license to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, store, display and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public, and otherwise use Your Content in connection with the operation or use of the BTI Platform or the promotion, advertising or marketing of the BTI Platform or our business partners, in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed), including via means of automated distribution, such as through an application programming interface (also known as an “API”). You agree that this license includes the right for BTI to make Your Content available to other companies, organizations, business partners, or individuals who collaborate with BTI for the syndication, broadcast, communication and making available to the public, distribution or publication of Your Content on the BTI Platform or through other media or distribution methods. This license also includes the right for other users of the BTI Platform to use, copy, reproduce, adapt, modify, create derivative works from, publish, transmit, display, and distribute, translate, communicate and make available to the public Your Content, subject to our Terms of Service. Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Service, this license will not confer the right for you to use automated technology to copy or post questions and answers or to aggregate questions and answers for the purpose of making derivative works. If you do not wish to allow your answers to be translated by other users, you can globally opt out of translation in your profile settings or you can designate certain answers not for translation.
    • ii. Once you post a solution to a question, you may edit or delete your answer at any time from public display on https://www.borntoimagine.com, except in the case of anonymously posted answers. However, we may not be able to control removal of the answer from display on syndicated channels or other previously distributed methods outside of https://www.borntoimagine.com. BTI may remove suspected spam from your answers. Once you post a question, it may be edited or deleted by other users or by BTI at any time. Any edits and changes made by you may be visible to other users. The right for BTI to copy, display, transmit, publish, perform, distribute, store, modify, and otherwise use any question you post, and sublicense those rights to others, is perpetual and irrevocable, to the maximum extent permitted by law, except as otherwise specified in this Agreement.
    • iii. You acknowledge and agree that BTI may preserve Your Content and may also disclose Your Content and related information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process, applicable laws or government requests; (b) enforce these Terms of Service; (c) respond to claims that any of Your Content violates the rights of third parties; (d) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or (e) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of BTI, its users, or the public.
    • iv. You understand that we may modify, adapt, or create derivative works from Your Content in order to transmit, display or distribute it over computer networks, devices, service providers, and in various media. We also may remove or refuse to publish Your Content, in whole or part, at any time.
    • v. You further give us the permission and authority to act as your nonexclusive agent to take enforcement action against any unauthorized use by third parties of any of Your Content outside of the BTI Platform or in violation of our Terms of Service.
  • d. Your Responsibilities for Your Content. By posting Your Content on the BTI Platform, you represent and warrant to us that: i) you have the ownership rights, or you have obtained all necessary licenses or permissions to use Your Content and grant us the rights to use Your Content as provided for under this Agreement, and ii) that posting Your Content violates no intellectual property or personal right of others or any applicable law or regulation, including any laws or regulations requiring disclosure that you have been compensated for Your Content. You accept full responsibility for avoiding infringement of the intellectual property or personal rights of others or violation of laws and regulations in connection with Your Content. You are responsible for ensuring that Your Content does not violate BTI’s privacy policy other published BTI policy, or any applicable law or regulation. You agree to pay all royalties, fees, and any other monies owed to any person by reason of Your Content.
• 4. Our Content and Materials
  • a. Definition of Our Content and Materials. All intellectual property in or related to the BTI Platform (specifically including, but not limited to our software, the BTI marks, the BTI logo, but excluding Your Content) is the property of BTI, Inc., or its subsidiaries and affiliates, or content posted by other BTI users licensed to us (collectively “Our Content and Materials”).
  • b. Data. All data BTI collects (“Data”) about use of the BTI Platform by you or others is the property of BTI, Inc., its subsidiaries, and affiliates. For clarity, Data does not include Your Content and is separate from Our Content and Materials.
  • c. c.Our License to You.
    • i. We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive license to use and access Our Content and Materials and Data as made available to you on the BTI Platform in connection with your use of the BTI Platform, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
    • ii. BTI gives you a worldwide, royalty-free, revocable, personal, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to re-post Our Content and Materials anywhere on the web, subject to these Terms and Conditions and provided that: (a) the content in question was added to the BTI Platform after April 22, 2010; (b) the user who created the content has not explicitly marked the content as not for reproduction on the BTI Platform; (c) you do not modify the content; (d) you attribute BTI by name in readable text and with a human and machine-followable link (an HTML anchor tag) linking back to the page displaying the original source of the content on https://borntoimagine.com on every page that contains Our Content and Materials; (e) upon request, either by BTI or a user, you remove the user's name from content which the user has subsequently made anonymous; (f) upon request, either by BTI or by a user who contributed to the content, you make a reasonable effort to update a particular piece of content to the latest version on the BTI Platform; and (g) upon request, either by BTI or by a user who contributed to the content, you make a reasonable attempt to delete content that has been deleted or marked as not for reproduction on the BTI Platform; (h) you don’t republish more than a small portion of Our Content and Materials; (i) you do not use any automated tools to aggregate or create derivative works. In exercising these rights, you may not implicitly or explicitly assert any connection with, sponsorship or endorsement by BTI, or any BTI user, without separate, express prior written permission from us.
    • iii. We may terminate our license to you at any time for any reason. We have the right but not the obligation to refuse to distribute any content on the BTI Platform or to remove content. Except for the rights and license granted in these Terms of Service, we reserve all other rights and grant no other rights or licenses, implied or otherwise.
  • d. Permitted uses. If you operate a search engine, web crawler, bot, scraping tool, data mining tool, bulk downloading tool, widget utility, or similar data gathering or extraction tool, you may access the BTI Platform, subject to the following additional rules: i) you must use a descriptive user agent header; ii) you must follow robots.txt at all times; iii) your access must not adversely affect any aspect of the BTI Platform’s functioning; and iv) you must make it clear how to contact you, either in your user agent string, or on your website if you have one. You represent and warrant that you will not use any automated tools such as artificial intelligence or machine learning i) to create derivative works of Our Content and Materials; ii) to create any service competitive to the BTI Platform; or iii) for other commercial purposes except as expressly permitted by these Terms of Service or the written consent of BTI.
  • e. No Endorsement or Verification. Please note that the BTI Platform contains access to third-party content, products and services, and it offers interactions with third parties. Participation or availability on the BTI Platform does not amount to endorsement or verification by us. We make no warranties or representations about the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of any content posted on the BTI Platform by anyone.
  • f. Ownership. You acknowledge and agree that Our Content and Materials remain the property of BTI's users or BTI. The content, information and services made available on the BTI Platform are protected by U.S. and international copyright, trademark, and other laws, and you acknowledge that these rights are valid and enforceable.
• 5. Integrated Service Provider. You may enable another online service provider, such as a social networking service (“Integrated Service Provider”), to be directly integrated into your account on the BTI Platform. By enabling an integrated service, you are allowing us to pass to, and receive from, the Integrated Service Provider your log-in information and other user data. For more information about BTI’s use, storage, and disclosure of information related to you and your use of integrated services within BTI, please see our privacy policy. Note that your use of any Integrated Service Provider and its own handling of your data and information is governed solely by their terms of use, privacy policies, and other policies.
• 6. More About Certain Offerings on the BTI Platform
  • a. Digests. When you sign up for the BTI Platform, the service includes receipt of digests of content that may be of interest to you. You can opt out of receipt of the digests, and adjust other communication settings, by going to “Email and Notification” settings in your account profile, as further described in our privacy policy.
  • b. Advertisements. The BTI Platform may include advertisements, which may be targeted to content or information on the BTI Platform, queries made through the BTI Platform, or other information, in an effort to make them relevant to you. The types and extent of advertising by BTI are subject to change. In consideration for BTI granting you access to and use of the BTI Platform, you agree that BTI and its third-party providers and partners may place such advertising on the BTI Platform. If you wish to become an advertiser, you will be required to enter into separate and supplemental terms with us about providing advertising services on the BTI Platform.
  • c. Spaces. is a feature that allows a user to curate content and form communities around shared interests and tastes.
  • d. Subscriptions. Certain content in Spaces or from other areas of the BTI Platform may be available only by subscription, subject to supplemental terms and conditions
  • e. Legal, Medical & Other Professional Contributors. Some users who post content are members of legal, medical, and other licensed professions (collectively, “Professional Contributors”). Content posted by Professional Contributors should not be relied on as a substitute for advice from a professional that is appropriate for your specific situation. BTI has provided certain disclaimer template language that Professional Contributors may edit and incorporate in their answers. Ethics rules differ by state or location, and it is the responsibility of Professional Contributors to determine and provide disclaimers appropriate for their profession and the content provided.
  • f. Buttons, Links and Widgets. You have permission to use BTI's buttons, links, and widgets, subject to these Terms of Service (including the disclaimers and limitations of liability) and provided that: (a) your use of such buttons, links and widgets link only to the BTI Platform; (b) you will not modify such buttons, links, or widgets or associated code in any manner; (c) you will not use any such buttons, links, or widgets in any manner which implies or suggests that BTI endorses, sponsors, or recommends the website on which such buttons, links and widgets are used; and (d) the use of such buttons, links and widgets, and the website on which such buttons, links and widgets are used do not violate BTI’s acceptable use policy
  • g. Web resources and third-party services. The BTI Platform may also offer you the opportunity to visit links to other websites or to engage with third-party products or services. You assume all risk arising out of your use of such websites or resources.
  • h. Services that Require Separate Agreement. Certain features or services may require that you enter into a separate and supplemental written agreement prior to use.
• 7. Reporting Violations of Your Intellectual Property Rights, BTI Policies, or Applicable Laws. We have a special process for reporting violations of your intellectual property rights or other violations of BTI policies or applicable laws.
  • a. Copyright Policy and Trademark Policy. We have adopted and implemented a copywrite policy and trademark policy. For more information, including detailed information about how to submit a request for takedown if you believe content on the BTI Platform infringes your intellectual property rights, please mail to info@borntoimagine.com
  • b. Reports of Other Violations. If you believe content on the BTI Platform violates BTI’s policies, please report to info@borntoimagine.com.
  • We have no obligation to delete content that you personally may find objectionable or offensive. We endeavor to respond promptly to requests for content removal, consistent with our policies and applicable law.
• 8. DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
  • PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY SINCE IT LIMITS THE LIABILITY OF BTI ENTITIES TO YOU.
  • “BTI ENTITIES” MEANS BTI, INC., AND ANY SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, RELATED COMPANIES, SUPPLIERS, LICENSORS AND PARTNERS, AND THE OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF EACH OF THEM. EACH PROVISION BELOW APPLIES TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
  • A. WE ARE PROVIDING YOU THE BTI PLATFORM, ALONG WITH OUR CONTENT AND MATERIALS AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT WITH OTHERS, ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, BTI ENTITIES EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, TITLE, ACCURACY AND COMPLETENESS, UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE SERVICE, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF COURSE OF DEALING OR TRADE USAGE.
  • B. BTI MAKES NO PROMISES WITH RESPECT TO, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR: (i) CONTENT POSTED BY ANY USER OR THIRD PARTY; (ii) ANY THIRD-PARTY WEBSITE, THIRD-PARTY PRODUCT, OR THIRD-PARTY SERVICE LISTED ON OR ACCESSIBLE TO YOU THROUGH THE BTI PLATFORM, INCLUDING AN INTEGRATED SERVICE PROVIDER OR PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTOR; (iii) THE QUALITY OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY YOU ENCOUNTER IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE BTI PLATFORM; OR (iv) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, USE OR ALTERATION OF YOUR CONTENT. BTI MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT: (a) THE BTI PLATFORM WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; (b) THE BTI PLATFORM WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE; (c) THE RESULTS OR INFORMATION THAT YOU MAY OBTAIN FROM THE USE OF THE BTI PLATFORM, A PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTOR, OR ANY OTHER USER WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE; OR (d) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL OBTAINED OR PURCHASED BY YOU THROUGH THE BTI PLATFORM WILL BE SATISFACTORY.
  • C. YOU AGREE THAT TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BTI ENTITIES WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, YOU AGREE THAT, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, BTI ENTITIES SPECIFICALLY WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, REPUTATIONAL HARM, OR LOSS OF DATA (EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR SUCH DAMAGES ARE FORESEEABLE) ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE BTI PLATFORM.
  • D. YOUR SOLE REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE BTI PLATFORM IS TO STOP USING THE BTI PLATFORM.
  • E. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, BTI’S MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR LOSSES OR DAMAGES THAT YOU SUFFER IN CONNECTION WITH THE BTI PLATFORM OR THIS AGREEMENT IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID TO BTI IN CONNECTION WITH THE BTI PLATFORM IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRIOR TO THE ACTION GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY.
  • F. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF DAMAGES. AS A RESULT, THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU IN WHOLE OR IN PART, AND THE FOREGOING SECTIONS 8(c), 8(d), AND 8(e) WILL NOT APPLY TO A RESIDENT OF NEW JERSEY, TO THE EXTENT DAMAGES TO SUCH NEW JERSEY RESIDENT ARE THE RESULT OF BTI’S NEGLIGENT, FRAUDULENT, RECKLESS, OR INTENTIONAL MISCONDUCT.
• 9. Indemnification
  • You agree to release, indemnify, and defend BTI Entities from all third-party claims and costs (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or related to: i) your use of the BTI Platform, ii) Your Content, iii) your conduct or interactions with other users of the BTI Platform, or iv) your breach of any part of this Agreement. We will promptly notify you of any such claim and will provide you (at your expense) with reasonable assistance in defending the claim. You will allow us to participate in the defense and will not settle any such claim without our prior written consent. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you. In that event, you will have no further obligation to defend us in that matter.
• 10. Dispute Resolution
  • This Agreement and any action arising out of your use of the BTI Platform will be governed by the Indian Laws without regard to or application of its conflict of law provisions or your state or country of residence. Unless submitted to arbitration as set forth in the following paragraph, all claims, legal proceedings or litigation arising in connection with your use of the BTI Platform will be brought solely in Trivandrum Jurisdiction, Kerala, India, and you consent to the jurisdiction of and venue in such courts and waive any objection as to inconvenient forum.
• 11. General Terms
  • a. Changes to these Terms of Service. We may amend this and any policies laid forth by us that are incorporated into this Agreement) at any time, in our sole discretion. If we amend material terms to this Agreement, such amendment will be effective after we send you notice of the amended agreement. Such notice will be in our sole discretion, and the manner of notification could include, for example, via email, posted notice on the BTI Platform, or other manner.. Your failure to cancel your account, or cease use of the BTI Platform, after receiving notification of the amendment, will constitute your acceptance of the amended terms. If you do not agree to the amendments or to any of the terms in this Agreement, your only remedy is to cancel your account or to cease use of the BTI Platform.
  • b. Governing Law and Jurisdiction. You agree that BTI is operated in the India and will be deemed to be solely based in Trivandrum and a passive service for purposes of jurisdictional analysis. For any claims for which arbitration is inapplicable, you agree that such claims will be brought in Trivandrum Jurisdiction, Trivandrum and governed by laws of the state of Kerala without regard to any conflict of law provisions.
  • c. Use Outside of the India. BTI expressly disclaims any representation or warranty that the BTI Platform complies with all applicable laws and regulations outside of the India. If you use the BTI Platform outside of the India, you expressly understand and agree that you are responsible for determining compliance with different laws, regulations, or customs that may apply in connection with your use of the BTI Platform.
  • d. Export. The BTI Platform is controlled and operated from our offices in Trivandrum. BTI software is subject to Indian export controls. No software for BTI may be downloaded or otherwise exported or re-exported in violation of any applicable laws or regulations.
  • e. Applications and Mobile Devices. If you access the BTI Platform through a BTI application, you acknowledge that this Agreement is between you and BTI only, and not with another application service provider or application platform provider (such as Apple Inc. or Google Inc.), which may provide you the application subject to its own terms. To the extent you access the BTI Platform through a mobile device, your wireless carrier’s standard charges, data rates, and other fees may apply.