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Acceptance of Terms

When you access bkln.com, referred to herein as the Platform, you are agreeing to be bound by the following Terms and Conditions, as well as the Brooklyn Investment Group (BKLN) Privacy Policy linked here both of which may be updated by us from time to time without notice to you. Please review them carefully.

The section below titled “Arbitration Clause” requires all claims to be resolved by way of binding arbitration. The section below titled “Class Action Waiver” contains a binding class action waiver. Please read both sections carefully, as they affect your legal rights.

General Information

In general, references to “BKLN” on the Platform refer to “Brooklyn Investment Group, LLC”, and references to our “investment tool” refer to the use of our optimizer after the user’s initial search.

BKLN visitors are users who visit the Platform and establish an account. Visitors are able to view community strategies and use our search feature. A visitor is only able to create their own custom investment strategy when they become a registered user and answer our suitability questions, which is prompted before they use our investment tool to optimize their custom strategy. Once a registered user is ready to invest in their strategy, they will sign up to become a BKLN client, register with our brokerage partner, Apex Clearing, and link their funding account through our ACH partner, Plaid.

The provision of advisory services to BKLN retail clients is governed by the BKLN Client Agreements or, for registered users solely using our investment search tool, the Registered User Agreement. The provision of advisory services to BKLN for Advisors clients is governed by the BKLN for Advisors client agreements. The provision of services by BKLN LLC is governed by the BKLN terms and conditions. Each of the foregoing client agreements, collectively and individually, are referred to herein as the “Client Agreements.” You should read any of the applicable Client Agreements carefully before determining whether to engage BKLN to provide you with advisory services.

Use of the Platform

The Platform is intended solely for individuals who are age 18 or older. Any access to or use of the Platform by anyone under 18 is unauthorized, unlicensed, and in violation of these Terms and Conditions. By accessing or using the Platform, you represent and warrant that you are 18 or older.

The Platform is only intended for use by persons located in the United States. BKLN makes no representation that the Platform is appropriate or available for use outside the United States. Similarly, BKLN makes no representations that accessing the Platform from locations outside the United States is legal or permissible under local law.

Visitor Access to Platform is for Educational Use Only

The publicly available portions of the Platform (i.e., the sections of the Platform that are available to visitors who are not party to a Client or Registered User Agreement) are provided for educational purposes only and are not intended to provide legal, tax, or financial planning advice. In using the publicly available portions of the Platform, you agree that you are responsible for your own investment research and decisions, that you will not rely on the Platform as the primary basis for your investment decisions, and, except as otherwise provided herein, BKLN will not be liable for any actions you take based on information you receive via the publicly available portions of the Platform.

Investments discussed on the Platform, if any, may not be suitable for all investors. Investors should make their own investment decisions based upon their own financial objectives and financial resources, and should obtain independent investment and tax advice before deciding to invest.

Access to the Platform

BKLN reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to deny you access to the Platform, or any portion of the Platform, without notice and without reason. For the avoidance of doubt, your access to and use of the publicly available portions of the Platform shall be governed by these Terms and Conditions, and the provision of any investment advisory service shall be governed by the Client Agreements with respect to such services. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything else in these Terms and Conditions to the contrary, in the event of any conflict between the Terms and Conditions and a Client Agreement, the Client Agreement shall control.

Investment Tools and Model Predictions

BKLN makes no representation regarding the likelihood or probability that any actual or hypothetical investment will in fact achieve a particular outcome or perform in any predictable manner. Any historical return information on the Platform does not represent the actual performance of any specific investor’s account and may not reflect all factors that could impact such performance for an individual investor. Past performance is not a guarantee of future success and returns in any period may be far above or below those of a previous period. No representation is being made that any investment will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those achieved in the past, or that significant losses will be avoided. Investing involves risk and investments at BKLN may lose value.

The return, composite, and performance information shown on our investment tool uses or includes information compiled from third-party sources, including independent market quotations and index information. For a full list of our disclosures visit our disclosures page here. For more information on how our tool works, please review our investment policy here.

Conditions of Use

You agree that you will comply with all applicable laws, including, without limitation, privacy laws, intellectual property laws, anti-spam laws, export control laws, tax laws, and regulatory requirements. You further agree that you will use the Platform solely for your personal, non-commercial use and will not attempt to interfere with the functioning of the Platform in any way.

Access and Interference

You agree not to engage in any of the following:

  • Use any robot, spider, scraper, deep link or other similar automated data gathering or extraction tools, program, algorithm or methodology to access, acquire, copy or monitor the Platform or any portion of the Platform, other than via software that sends queries to the Platform to index or rank a website for search and location purposes, without BKLN express written consent, which may be withheld in BKLNs sole discretion.

  • Use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent, or other device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatars or intelligent agents) to navigate or search the Platform, other than the search engines and search agents available through the Platform and other than generally available third-party web browsers (such as Microsoft Explorer).

  • Post or transmit any file which contains viruses, worms, Trojan horses, or any other contaminating or destructive features, or that otherwise interfere with the proper working of the Platform.

  • Attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse-engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Platform.

Intellectual Property

The Platform contains material, such as videos, photographs, software, text, graphics, images, sound recordings, and other material provided by or on behalf of BKLN (collectively referred to as the “Content”). The Content may be owned by us or by third parties. The Content is protected under both United States and foreign laws. Unauthorized use of the Content may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws. You have no rights in or to the Content, and you will not use the Content except as permitted under this Agreement. No other use is permitted without prior written consent from us. You must retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the original Content on any copy you make of the Content. You may not sell, transfer, assign, license, sublicense, or modify the Content or reproduce, display, publicly perform, make a derivative version of, distribute, or otherwise use the Content in any way for any public or commercial purpose. The use or posting of the Content on any other website or in a networked computer environment for any purpose is expressly prohibited.

The trademarks, service marks, and logos of BKLN (the “BKLN Trademarks”) used and displayed on the Platform are registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks of our parent company, Skopos Labs. Other company, product, and service names located on the Platform may be trademarks or service marks owned by others. Nothing on the Platform should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to use the Trademarks, without our prior written permission specific for each such use. Use of the Trademarks as part of a link to or from any site is prohibited unless establishment of such a link is approved in advance by us in writing. All goodwill generated from the use of BKLN Trademarks inures to our benefit.

Elements of the Platform are protected by trademark, unfair competition, and other state and federal laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part, by any means, including, but not limited to, the use of framing or mirrors. None of the Content may be retransmitted without our express, written consent for each and every instance.

Secured Areas

Access to and use of password protected and/or secure areas of the Platform is restricted to authorized users only. Unauthorized persons attempting to access these areas of the website may be subject to legal action.

Communications with BKLN

Authorized employees or agents of BKLN may monitor and record all or portions of your telephone calls, emails, text messages, chats and other communications with BKLN for quality control, customer service, employee training, security, legal, compliance, and other lawful purposes. You hereby consent to such recording. That consent is ongoing and need not be confirmed prior to, or during, such monitoring or recording, except to the extent applicable law expressly requires otherwise. BKLN may also archive your communications for regulatory and other purposes.

Limited Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, BKLN AND ITS AFFILIATES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY OR INDIRECT DAMAGES, OR ANY LOST PROFITS OR LOST REVENUES, ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, ANY OF THE PLATFORMS, OR ANY CONTENT, EVEN IF BKLN OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR LOSSES. YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THE SERVICE, ANY OF THE PLATFORMS, OR ANY CONTENT IS TO DISCONTINUE YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, THE PLATFORMS, AND ANY SUCH CONTENT. To the extent that applicable law does not allow such a limitation or exclusions for damages, some or all of the limitations or exclusions in this Section 12 may not apply to you.

No Warranties

The materials in this site are provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, to the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law. BKLN further assumes no responsibility for, and makes no warranties that functions contained at this site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the site or the server that makes it available will be free of viruses or other harmful components. BKLN shall not be liable for any damages, viruses, or services, repairs or corrections that must be performed on your computer or other property on account of your accessing or using this site. Please note that some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some or all of the above exclusions may not apply to you.

Choice of Law

All Website activity or use and these Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of the United States of America and the applicable laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflict of law principles.

Arbitration Clause

In the event of a dispute arising under or relating to this Agreement, the Content, or the Platform (each, a “Dispute”), either party may elect to finally and exclusively resolve the dispute by binding arbitration governed by the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”). Any election to arbitrate, at any time, shall be final and binding on the other party. If either party chooses arbitration, neither party shall have the right to litigate such claim in court or to have a jury trial, except either party may bring its claim in its local small claims court, if permitted by that small claims court rules and if within such court’s jurisdiction. Arbitration is different from court, and discovery and appeal rights may also be limited in arbitration. All disputes will be resolved before a neutral arbitrator selected jointly by the parties, whose decision will be final, except for a limited right of appeal under the FAA. The arbitration shall be commenced and conducted by theJudicial Arbitration and Mediation Services (“JAMS”) pursuant to its then current Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures and in accordance with the Expedited Procedures in those rules, or, where appropriate, pursuant to JAMS’ Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures. All applicable JAMS’ rules and procedures are available at the JAMS website www.jamsadr.com. Each party will be responsible for paying any JAMS filing, administrative, and arbitrator fees in accordance with JAMS rules. Judgment on the arbitrator’s award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction. This clause shall not preclude parties from seeking provisional remedies in aid of arbitration from a court of appropriate jurisdiction. The arbitration may be conducted in person, through the submission of documents, by phone, or online. If conducted in person, the arbitration shall take place in the United States county where you reside. The parties may litigate in court to compel arbitration, to stay a proceeding pending arbitration, or to confirm, modify, vacate, or enter judgment on the award entered by the arbitrator. The parties shall cooperate in good faith in the voluntary and informal exchange of all non-privileged documents and other information (including electronically stored information) relevant to the Dispute immediately after commencement of the arbitration. Nothing in this Agreement will prevent us from seeking injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction as necessary to protect our proprietary interests.

Class Action Waiver

You agree that any arbitration or proceeding shall be limited to the Dispute between us and you individually. To the full extent permitted by law, (i) no arbitration or proceeding shall be joined with any other; (ii) there is no right or authority for any Dispute to be arbitrated or resolved on a class action-basis or to utilize class action procedures; and (iii) there is no right or authority for any Dispute to be brought in a purported representative capacity on behalf of the general public or any other persons. You agree that you may bring claims against us only in your individual capacity and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding.

Waiver and Severability

Any waiver of any provision contained in these Terms and Conditions shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any other right, term, or provision of these Terms and Conditions. If any provision in these Terms and Conditions is determined to be wholly or partially invalid, illegal or unenforceable, such provision shall be enforced to the extent it is legal and valid and the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall in no way be affected or impaired thereby.

Assignment

You may not assign these Terms and Conditions (by operation of law or otherwise) without the prior written consent of BKLN, and any prohibited assignment will be null and void. BKLN may assign these Terms and Conditions or any rights hereunder without your consent.

Platform and Terms Subject to Change

We reserve the right to change these Terms and Conditions by posting a revised agreement. If you don't agree with these changes, you must stop using the Platform. The information on the Platform is subject to change without notice.

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