Terms of Service

The following Terms of Service are valid from and were last updated on November 3, 2022.

WIN GRAVITY SRL, Dacia Street 1, 700259, Iasi, Romania, Managing Directors: Corina Craescu, Daniel Berigoi, VAT-ID: RO37233986 (hereinafter referred to as "Slashscore" or "us") operates a real-time profiling platform for software developers via https://app.slashscore.com/  and other channels (the "Service").

1. Scope

After you connect your third-party accounts (like Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket, Stack Overflow, Meetup, Medium, or others), Slashscore automatically calculates your professional, extra, community, and popularity scores. After the profile is complete, including integrations, Slashscore allows the Software Developers to participate in the Service.

Slashscore only offers services to Software Developers based on these Terms of Service, which are also called the "Developers Terms of Service" or just "Terms of Service."

2. Software Developers Eligible to Participate

Slashscore offers the Service only to Software Developers.

With their account registration or participation in the Service, Developers represent that they are of legal age and of legal capacity.

3. Developers Enrolment

Participation in the Service requires that the Software Developers enter a binding agreement with Slashscore as defined below in Section 3 and the setup of a Developer account ( "Account" ).

Software Developers must connect their third-party accounts and complete their profiles to participate in the Service on Slashscore's platform.

Software Developers must accurately complete their profiles and connect their accounts and not use any aliases or other means to mask their true identity or contact information.

By connecting their accounts and completing their profiles, Developers submit a binding offer to enter into an agreement with Slashscore according to the terms and conditions of these Terms of Service ( "Agreement" ).

Slashscore is entitled but not obliged to verify the accuracy of the Developer's information. This may be done by Slashscore requesting documents to prove the identity.

4. Limits of Use / Prohibited Conduct

Slashscore provides the Service solely for use in accordance with these Terms of Service. Automated login is prohibited. Only the official clients and apps or websites provided by Slashscore may be used to connect to the Service. The Software Developers may not create, support, host, link, or provide any other options, which can be used by other persons to utilize the Service.

The Software Developers are prohibited from transferring their Accounts to third parties without the prior written consent of Slashscore.

The Sofware Developers are not entitled to use any means, mechanisms, or software in connection with the Service, which can disturb the functions of the Service. The Software Developers may not undertake any action, which can result in an unreasonable or excess load of the technical capacities of Slashscore. In particular, the Developer is not permitted to block, overwrite or modify the contents generated by Slashscore unless Slashscore has permitted it specifically in writing.

The Software Developer will refrain from anything that could endanger the performance and availability of the Service.

By using the Service, the Software Developer will not violate any applicable legal provisions such as the criminal code or third party rights and the Developer assures not to contribute or transmit any illegal or immoral contents to the Service. This includes specifically any content (including member names, etc.),

• which are false, inaccurate, or misleading;
• which are insulting, racist, sexist, pornographic, or obscene;
• which can damage the reputation of Slashscore;
• suitable to violate copyrights, patents, brands, or any other intellectual property rights, the rights on a person's own image, and other personal rights or third-party rights.

The Software Developer is not permitted to disseminate commercial advertising for third-party products or programs, to send unsolicited mass emails, and unsolicited advertising in the Service. The Developer will honor the privacy of third parties. In addition, the Developer is not permitted to disseminate in the Service unauthorized any third-party work that is protected by copyrights or other rights. Moreover, the Developer is not allowed to refer to offers with such content.

Slashscore is entitled to stop such violations against this Section 4. In addition, Slashscore is entitled to delete the breaching contents of the Developers. The same applies to definite indications of a violation against these Terms of Service to contents, which are otherwise illegal. There is no entitlement to the recovery of breaching deleted content. Such a claim is also voided if the restoration is not possible for technical reasons.

Without the prior express written consent of Slashscore, any blocked Developer is prohibited from creating a new account. If this ban was circumvented, then Slashscore has the right to block this Account permanently without prior announcement.

The terms of this Section 4 don't limit Slashscore's right to end the agreement, especially its right to end it right away, as stated in Section 12.

5. Slashscore's responsibilities

Slashscore provides the Service. The Service works as follows: Developers sign-up for the Service, connect their third-party accounts, and complete their profiles and other information as specified in the Terms of Service or the Developer Terms of Service available.

6. Obligations of Developers

Developers must connect their third-party accounts that are needed to calculate the scores and fill out the required and optional fields on their profile forms with the information about those accounts. Slashscore may add/remove compulsory or voluntary fields from time to time. The Developer shall not transmit any personal data of third parties (i.e., data allowing identification of an individual) to Slashscore unless data protection laws allow for such transmission or the Developer has obtained consent from the concerned parties.

Unless otherwise provided in these Terms of Service, Slashscore will usually communicate with the Developers via email. The Developer shall make sure that it receives all emails sent by Slashscore to the address submitted during the sign-up, or at a later date. The Developer will in particular configure the spam filter accordingly and regularly check all incoming emails under this address. Slashscore may choose any other appropriate means of communication.

The Developer shall keep all access data (login, passwords, etc.) for the Service ( "Access Data" ) strictly confidential. The Developer shall promptly inform Slashscore in case it learns or suspects that an unauthorized third person is in possession of the Access Data.

n the event that Slashscore has reason to believe that an unauthorized third party is in possession of Access Data, Slashscore may, without assuming any responsibility to do so and always acting in its sole discretion, change the Access Data without prior notice or block the respective account. Slashscore will promptly inform the Developer and will, upon request, communicate the new Access Data to the Developer without undue delay. The Developer cannot claim to have its initial Access Data restored.

In the event that a third party uses Access Data, with the Developer at fault, the Developer's Access Data, the Software Developer is liable for all such actions, and damages. In such an event, all access through the Developer's Access Data shall be considered an access by the Developer.

7. Payment

The use of Slashscore is free for Software Developers.

8. Quality of the Service / Technical Deficiencies

Our Service is continuously advanced and updated. By changing and advancing the Service, Slashscore intends to provide Developers with a useful Service and a pleasant experience. Therefore, Slashscore grants the Developer access to the Service in its available form or version. Changes and advancements can affect system requirements and compatibility requirements. The Developer has no claim for maintaining or reconstructing a specific condition of the scope of services. Any of the Developer's claims for deficiency, which refer to the technical usability of the Service itself, shall remain unaffected thereby. Due to the continuous advancement of the Service, Slashscore reserves itself the right to offer new features and/or remove them from the Service or change them. The Developer consents to these continuous changes to the Service.

Excluded from warranty are generally such errors, which occur through external influences such as operating errors by the Developer, force majeure, or any modifications, not carried out by Slashscore or any other manipulations.

Slashscore does not assume any guarantees in a legal sense as long as they are not expressly provided for in these Terms of Service.

9. Availability

Slashscore shall be liable under the terms of this Agreement only in accordance with the provisions set out in Section 8. Except in cases of intent or gross negligence, any liability of Slashscore shall be disclaimed. The same applies in cases of slight negligence by agents or assistants in performance. However, the foregoing does not apply in the following cases:

• Slashscore shall be unrestrictedly liable for losses caused intentionally or with gross negligence by Slashscore, its legal representatives, or senior executives and for losses caused intentionally by other assistants in performance.
• Slashscore shall be unrestrictedly liable for death, personal injury, or damage to health caused by the intent or negligence of Slashscore, its legal representatives, or assistants in performance.
• If Slashscore provides a warranty it shall be liable for losses arising from the lack of any warranted characteristics up to the amount which is covered by the purpose of the warranty and which was foreseeable for Slashscore at the time the warranty was given.
• Slashscore shall be liable for losses caused by the negligence (including simple negligence) or intentional breach of its primary obligations by Slashscore, its legal representatives, or assistants in performance.
• Primary obligations are such basic duties, which form the essence of the Agreement, which were decisive for the conclusion of the Agreement and on the performance upon which the Developer may rely upon.
• If Slashscore breaches its primary obligations through simple negligence, then its ensuing liability shall be limited to the amount which was foreseeable by Slashscore at the time the respective service was performed.

Slashscore undertakes to assure an availability of the Service of 99% (ninety-nine percent) as a yearly average. Periods during which the Service is not available because of technical or other problems outside Slashscore's This doesn't include things out of your control, like "force majeure" or a mistake made by a third party, or times when regular maintenance is being done. Slashscore may restrict access to the Service if required for network security, maintenance of network integrity, and the prevention of severe malfunction of the network, the software, or stored data. The Developer's rights in cases of intent or gross negligence remain unaffected.

10. Intellectual Property

Slashscore or its respective licensor is the exclusive owner of the rights of all contents of the Service. The content is protected by national and international law, particularly by copyright. The unauthorized dissemination, copying, deletion, or any other violation of intellectual property rights and copyrights of Slashscore are prosecuted under both civil and criminal law.

All rights not expressly granted in these Terms of Service are reserved by Slashscore. Slashscore will retain all rights, titles, and interests in and to the Service (except for any licensed content and third-party content included therein), including all data (such as any usage data and compilations thereof), information, and software related thereto. The Developer acknowledges that the software, information, content, and data related to the Service (such as any usage data or compilations thereof) are protected for Slashscore under copyright and similar rights and may contain trade secrets or other intellectual or industrial property owned or licensed by Slashscore.

Developers warrant that they have the right (i) to submit the information to the Service and (ii) can grant Slashscore the right to use the information as described above.

11. Confidentiality

Except as otherwise provided in these Terms of Service or with the consent of Slashscore, the Developer agrees that all information, including, without limitation, business information and information about tech stack concerning Slashscore shall remain strictly confidential and secret and shall not be utilized, directly or indirectly, by Developer for any purpose other than the Developer's participation in the Service ( "Confidential Information" ).

Developers shall especially not use any information obtained from the Service to develop, enhance, or operate a service that competes with the Service, or assist another party to do the same.

After and during the term of the Agreement, neither party will use for any purpose or disclose to any third party any Confidential Information of the other party. Any exception to this must be obtained in advance.

The foregoing restriction does not apply to information that has been developed independently by the receiving party without access to the other party's Confidential Information or has been rightfully received from a third party authorized to make such disclosure or has been approved for release in writing by the disclosing party or has become publicly known through no breach of this Section by the receiving party or is required to be disclosed by a competent legal or governmental authority, provided that the receiving party gives the disclosing party prompt written notice of such requirement prior to disclosure and assists in obtaining an order to protect the information from public disclosure.

12. Termination

The Agreement shall commence on the date of creating a Slashscore profile and shall continue thereafter until terminated as provided herein.

Section 11 shall survive any termination of the Agreement Section 11 for five years.

The parties remain free to terminate the Agreement for cause at any time.

13. Data Protection

Slashscore processes and utilizes the Developer's data collected during the performance of the Agreement and within the framework of These Terms of Service, specifically to the extent necessary to fulfill the agreement properly, in accordance with all applicable data protection provisions.

The Developer understands that the performance of the Agreement includes the making available of personal data to third parties with which Slashscore cooperates subject to these Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy.

14. Changes to the Terms of Service

Each login to the Service is subject to these Terms of Service.

Slashscore may make changes to these Terms of Service (including amendments) at any given time, in the future, if this should prove necessary (in particular to reflect changes in the Service or changes in the legal framework applicable to it, such as new legislation or case-law) and provided the Developer is not disadvantaged contrary to good faith.

The Developer will be notified of changes to the Terms of Service in the appropriate form. Slashscore will notify the Developer of the Service, or via email. Changes to the Terms of Service will always be highlighted upon the first login after the changes or amendments have been made.

The Developer may dispute changes to the Agreement within a time period of six weeks following receipt of the notification of the changes and the possibility of taking notice thereof. It is recommended that the Developer submits their opposition in writing (for example via email).

The changes to the Terms of Service become binding in the event that the Developer (i) does not dispute the changes within the above-mentioned time period or (ii) continues to use the Service after the above-mentioned period.

15. Governing Law / Jurisdiction

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Romania.

16. General Provisions

The Agreement contains the entire agreement between Slashscore and Developer with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes all prior and/or contemporaneous agreements or understandings, written or oral. Terms and conditions of the Developer do not become part of the Agreement unless Slashscore has accepted them in writing.

All or any of Slashscore's rights and obligations under the Agreement may be assigned to a subsequent owner or operator of the Service in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or substantially all of Slashscore's assets. The Developer must not assign or transfer the Agreement or any or all of its rights thereunder without the prior written consent of Slashscore. This Agreement will be binding on and inure to the benefit of the legal representatives, successors, and valid assigns of the parties hereto.

Except as set forth in Section 14 above, the Agreement may not be modified without the prior written consent of both parties. Any changes, amendments, or abrogation of the Agreement (partly or entirely) require written form (letter, fax, or email); the requirement of written form can only be waived in written form.

Each party to this Agreement is an independent contractor in relation to the other party with respect to all matters arising under this Agreement.

The English version of these Terms of Service is decisive.

By creating a profile and joining the Service, the Developer affirms and acknowledges that they have read these Terms of Service in their entirety and agrees to be bound by all of their terms and conditions. If the Developer does not wish to be bound by these Terms of Service, the Developer should not create an account to join the Service.