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Last updated: September 15, 2025

Welcome to The Culture Mastery, LLC. By using our website, you agree to the following terms and conditions. Please read them carefully.

The Culture Mastery, LLC offers their services (the “Service”) according to the terms of service (the “Terms of Service”), as well as the privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”), which together constitute an agreement (the “Agreement”) declared below. The Culture Mastery, LLC reserves the right to modify these terms without notice. Your continued usage of the service constitutes your acceptance of these terms. Violation of any terms will result in termination of your account.

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing or using this website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you must not use our website.

2. Use of the Website

- You may use our site only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these terms.

- You agree not to use the site in any way that could damage, disable, or impair the website or interfere with others’ use.

- You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account (if applicable) and for all activities under your account.

- The Service is not intended for children under 13. By using the Service, you are representing that you are at least 18 years old, or that you are at least
13 years old and have your parents’ (or other legal guardian’s) permission to use the Service.

- The Culture Mastery, LLC may prohibit any user from using the Service in its sole discretion at any time for any reason, and is not liable for any
damage or loss resulting from such prohibition.

- You are responsible for using the Service in a private and secure manner. The Culture Mastery, LLC is not liable for any damage or loss due to
unauthorized account access resulting from your actions.

- You may not use the Service for any illegal activity or to violate laws in your jurisdiction.

- You may not use the Service to distribute unsolicited email (“spam”) or malicious content such as viruses or worms.

- You may not exploit the Service to access unauthorized information.

- Any abuse or threatened abuse of other users of the Service or of Company personnel will result in immediate account termination.

- Any failure of The Culture Mastery, LLC to enforce or exercise a right provided in these terms is not a waiver of that right.

- Should any provision of these terms be found invalid or unenforceable, the remaining terms shall still apply.

- This Terms of Service constitutes the entire agreements between you and The Culture Mastery, LLC and supersedes any and all previous agreements,
written or oral, between you and the Company, including previous versions of the Terms of Service.

3. Intellectual Property

All content on this website — including text, graphics, logos, images, videos, and software — is the property of The Culture Mastery, LLC or our licensors, and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works without our prior written permission.

The Culture Mastery, LLC respects the intellectual property of others. It may, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe others’ rights. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide the following information to The Culture Mastery, LLC’s copyright agent:

- an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest;

- a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;

- a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site; your address, telephone number, and email address;

- a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;

- a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or
intellectual property owner or are authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner’s behalf.

By email: office [at] theculturemastery [dot] com

4. User-Provided Content

If you submit comments, feedback, or other content to us, you grant The Culture Mastery, LLC a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use, reproduce, and distribute that content for business purposes. You remain responsible for the content you provide and agree not to submit unlawful, offensive, or infringing material.

5. User Conduct and Submissions

A. Subject to the license granted below, any remarks, ideas, graphics, photographs, or other information (collectively, “Content”) communicated to the Account Holder (as defined below) and posted on the Service in a Hosted Area (as defined below) belong to the person who posted such content. You may use any Content posted by you in any other way without restriction. You may only use Content posted by others in the ways described in these Terms of Service.

B. You give the party (the “Account Holder”) who owns the domain name as hosted on the Service in which you post your Content (the “Hosted Area”) a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable , fully-sublicensable license to publish and use your Content. In addition to the right to publish, you also grant the Account Holder under said license the following rights, without limitation: (i) the right to reproduce or copy or create derivative works thereof; (ii) the right to transfer, deliver, and sell the Content, which includes the distribution via computer and networks; (iii) the right to edit, modify, adapt, arrange, improve, correct, develop, translate, in all or in part; (iv) the right to update/upgrade by adding or removing; (v) the right to film, perform or post the Content in any media, and (vi) the right to use or incorporate all or any part of the Content in any products or services of the Account Holder (whether or not associated with the Service). Except as described in our Privacy Policy, neither the Company nor any Account Holder will be required to treat any Content as confidential. By posting Content you hereby waive any and all rights to be compensated by The Culture Mastery, LLC or any Account Holder for such Content.

C. In order to operate and improve the Service, The Culture Mastery, LLC needs the right to make certain uses of your Content as well. Therefore, when you post Content in any Hosted Area, you also agree to grant The Culture Mastery, LLC an irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, fully sublicenseable, non-exclusive license to copy, distribute, sell, publicly display, publicly perform and make derivative works of your Content on the Service and on services affiliated with the Service regardless of the form of media used or of whether such services now exist or are developed in the future.

D. The submission of your Content on the Service is entirely voluntary, non-confidential, gratuitous, and non-committal. You understand that the Account Holder may be working on the same or similar Content, that it may already know of such Content from other sources, that it may simply wish to develop this (or a similar Content) on its own or it may have taken/will take some other action. In return for the Account Holder’s review and consideration of your Content, you acknowledge that you have read, understand and agree to the terms enumerated below, and further agree that these terms shall apply to any additional material previously or later submitted:

1. The Content represents your own original work. You have all necessary rights to disclose the Content to the Account Holder. In doing so, you are not violating the rights of any third party and you know of no other individual or entity whose rights will be infringed upon by the Account Holder’s review and/or use of the Content.

2. You understand that disclosure of Content to the Account Holder does not establish a confidential relationship or obligate the Account Holder to treat your Content (or any related materials) as secret or confidential.

3. You understand that the Account Holder has no obligation, either express or implied, to develop or use your Content and that no compensation is due to you or anyone else for any inadvertent or intentional use of your Content, related ideas or ideas derived from your idea. You understand that the Account Holder assumes no obligation with respect to any of your Content unless and until the Account Holder enters into a written contract with you, and then only as expressed in that contract. In the absence of a separate formal contract, your rights shall be limited to those existing under the patent laws of the United States.

4. If your Content is the subject of a pending or issued patent, you have disclosed or will disclose that fact to the Account Holder. To the extent you hold a patent in the Content, the Account Holder acknowledges that no license under any patent is herein granted to the Account Holder. Any license to use a patented Content shall be in the form of a written contract, in which event the Account Holder’s obligations shall be only those expressed in such contract.

5. The Account Holder will give your Content such consideration as is warranted by its sole judgment. The Account Holder’s review of your Content shall not be construed as any recognition of the novelty or originality of the Content. The Account Holder is not obligated to give reasons for rejecting your Content or to reveal the Account Holder’s activities that are related to the subject matter of the submitted Content.

6. Neither the discussion or negotiations between the Account Holder and you relating to the possible purchase or license of the Content, nor the making of any offer for the purchase or license of the Content, shall prejudice the Account Holder in any way, or be construed as recognition of the novelty, originality, priority, other rights or value of the submitted Content. Further, the Account Holder’s consideration or its discussions or negotiations with you will not in any way impair the Account Holder’s right to contest the validity or infringement of your rights.

7. Neither the discussion or negotiations between the Account Holder and you relating to the possible purchase or license of the Content, nor the making of any offer for the purchase or license of the Content, shall prejudice the Account Holder in any way, or be construed as recognition of the novelty, originality, priority, other rights or value of the submitted Content. Further, the Account Holder’s consideration or its discussions or negotiations with you will not in any way impair the Account Holder’s right to contest the validity or infringement of your rights.

8. You acknowledge that the Account Holder, directly or indirectly, may (i) be working on the same Content or a similar Content to the Content, or (ii) already know of such Content from other sources, or (iii) simply wish to develop this Content or as similar to the Content on its own.

9. You hereby irrevocably release and forever discharge the Company and all Account Holders and their affiliates and subsidiaries (together, the “Released Parties”) from any and all actions, causes of actions, claims, damages, liabilities and demands, whether absolute or contingent and of any nature whatsoever, which you now have or hereafter can, shall or may have against the Released Parties or their respecting successors and assigns with respect to the Content, including without limitation in respect of how The Culture Mastery, LLC and its affiliates and subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, use the Content, with the sole exception in respect of the foregoing release and discharge being your right to bring a claim of patent infringement.

E. The Culture Mastery, LLC has the right, but not the obligation, to remove Content that it determines in its sole discretion to be unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene or otherwise objectionable, that violates any party’s intellectual property, or that is detrimental to the quality or intended spirit of the Service. The Culture Mastery, LLC also has the right, but not the obligation, to limit or revoke the use privileges of account of anyone who posts such Content.

F. The Culture Mastery, LLC reserves the right to remove any Content from the service, at its sole discretion, including unacceptable content.

G. Examples of unacceptable Content or behavior on the Service include:

- abuse, harassment, threats, flaming or intimidation of any person or organization.

- engaging in or contributing to any illegal activity or activity that violates others’ rights

- use of derogatory, discriminatory or excessively graphic language

- providing information that is false, misleading or inaccurate

- hacking or modifying the The Culture Mastery, LLC Service or another Web site to falsely imply an association with The Culture Mastery, LLC

- implying or pretending to be affiliated with a company or organization with which you are not affiliated, or misrepresenting the extent of your
affiliation or role with an affiliated company or organization

- transmitting worms, viruses or harmful software

- sending spam

- disclosing personal or proprietary information of another user, person or organization.

6. Communications

By providing your contact information, you consent to receive communications from us, including emails and text messages, as outlined in our Privacy Policy. You can opt out at any time.

7. Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, or practices of third-party sites. Accessing those sites is at your own risk.

8. Disclaimer of Warranties

This website and its content are provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. We do not guarantee that the site will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of viruses.

All the information on this website – https://theculturemastery.com – is published in good faith and for general information purpose only. The Culture Mastery, LLC does not make any warranties about the completeness, reliability and accuracy of this information. Any action you take upon the information you find on this website is strictly at your own risk. The Culture Mastery, LLC will not be liable for any losses and/or damages in connection with the use of our website.

From our website, you can visit other websites by following hyperlinks to such external sites. While we strive to provide only quality links to useful and ethical websites, we have no control over the content and nature of these sites. These links to other websites do not imply a recommendation for all the content found on these sites. Site owners and content may change without notice and may occur before we have the opportunity to remove a link which may have gone “bad.”

Please be also aware that when you leave our website, other sites may have different privacy policies and terms which are beyond our control. Please be sure to check the Privacy Policies of these sites as well as their “Terms of Service” before engaging in any business or uploading any information.

9. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, The Culture Mastery, LLC shall not be liable for any damages arising out of or related to your use of the website or reliance on its content. The Culture Mastery, LLC cannot control all Content posted by third parties to the Service, and does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. You understand that by using the Service you may be exposed to Content that you may find offensive, indecent, incorrect or objectionable, and you agree that under no circumstances will The Culture Mastery, LLC be liable in any way for any Content, including any errors or omissions in any Content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of your use of any Content. You understand that you must evaluate and bear all risks associated with the use of any Content, including any reliance on the content, integrity, and accuracy of such Content. If you would like to report objectionable materials, you may use the “Flag for review” feature on any topic or reply. Urgent issues can be reported to office [at] theculturemastery [dot] com.

10. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless The Culture Mastery, LLC, its affiliates, employees, and agents from any claims, damages, or expenses arising from your use of the website or violation of these terms.

Each party agrees to defend, indemnify and hold the other party and its affiliates harmless from and against any third-party claim and any related losses, costs, liabilities and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out of the breach of any representations, warranties or covenants made by such party herein, or out of such party’s negligence or willful misconduct. Each party (the “Indemnified Party”) reserves the right, at the other party’s expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which the other party is required to indemnify the Indemnified Party and the other party agrees to cooperate with the Indemnified Party’s defense of such claims.

11. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by and construed under the laws of the U.S. State of Georgia, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any disputes shall be resolved in the courts of Georgia/Fulton County.

12. Changes to Terms

We may update these Terms of Service from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date. Your continued use of the site after changes means you accept the updated terms.

13. Contact Us

If you have questions about these Terms, please contact us at:

The Culture Mastery, LLC

1438 Allegheny Street SW

Atlanta, GA 30310

[email protected]

+1 (404) 890-5096

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