Terms of Use
Please read these Terms of Use (“Terms of Use”) carefully. ARK Investment Management LLC, a registered investment adviser (“ARK”) owns and operates this website, https://ark-invest.store (“Site”). By visiting and/or otherwise using the Site in any way, you indicate that you understand and intend these Terms of Use to be the legal equivalent of a signed, written contract, and you accept these Terms of Use and agree to be legally bound by them. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please do not access this Site or any pages thereof.
Reservation of Rights
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these Terms of Use at any time. Your continued use of the Site following reasonable notice of such modifications will be conclusively deemed acceptance of any changes to these Terms of Use. You agree that notice of changes to these Terms of Use posted on the Site constitutes reasonable and sufficient notice. At all times, you are bound by the then-current version of the Terms of Use and of all applicable laws.
Use of Content
The Content (as defined below) of this Site is available for informational purposes only. The posting of Content and access to this Site does not constitute, either explicitly or implicitly, any provision of services or products by ARK.
Copyright and Trademarks
This Site (including the software and files), the computers hosting this Site, and content provided on this Site, including any text, music and sound, graphics, images, photographs, audio and video, footage and animations (all such content collectively, the “Content”) are the exclusive property of ARK, are licensed to ARK, or are publicly copyrighted, and are protected by law, including United States copyright, database, trade secret, and trademark law, as well as other state, national, and international laws and regulations. ARK is a trademark or registered trademark in the United States and throughout the world. ARK reserves all rights with respect to its proprietary information or material on this Site and will enforce such rights to the full extent of applicable copyright and trademark law. Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use, ARK does not grant any express or implied rights to you. All rights in the pages and Content are owned by ARK and their respective licensors. You agree not to sell, distribute, publish, broadcast, circulate or commercially exploit Content in any manner without the express written consent of ARK. Any downloading or otherwise copying from this Site will not transfer title to any software or material to you. Unless otherwise noted, ARK, and other brands featured on the Site constitute our trade/service marks. You agree not to, directly or indirectly, attempt to register, challenge or contest the validity of ARK’s ownership of, such copyrights, trademarks or any other intellectual property of ARK, or assist any third party in doing so.
Grant of License
ARK grants to you a personal, revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable license to use this Site conditioned on your continued compliance with these Terms of Use. Unless and except as otherwise expressly permitted by these Terms of Use, you may not access, copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works of, alter, publicly distribute, republish, upload, post, transmit, publicly perform or display, license, transfer, sell, mirror, frame, “deep link,” “scrape,” data mine, or otherwise use any information or material obtained from or through this Site, without written permission from ARK. Any unauthorized use of this Site or the Content, or any violation of applicable laws, will terminate the permission granted herein.
No Offer or Advice
Nothing contained herein constitutes an offer, solicitation or recommendation regarding any investment management product or service, or the offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security; nor shall any such services be provided, or securities be offered or sold, in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation, provision or sale would be unlawful. All Site Content is subject to applicable statutes and regulations.
The information provided is for informational purposes only. It does not constitute any form of advice or recommendation to buy or sell any securities or adopt any investment strategy. Nothing contained on this Site constitutes investment, legal, tax or other advice and is not to be relied on in making an investment or other decision.
No Warranty
The information and opinions contained on this Site are provided ‘as is’ without any warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, to the fullest extent permissible pursuant to applicable law. You are responsible for evaluating the adequacy, accuracy, reliability, merchantability, non-infringement, completeness of any information or the content available on the Site or fitness for any particular purpose with respect to the Site or any of its Content. ARK further assumes no responsibility for, and makes no warranties that, functions contained on this Site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that this Site or the servers that make it available will be free of viruses or other harmful components.
Liability Waiver
Neither ARK nor any of their respective affiliates, directors, officers, registered representatives or employees, nor any third party vendor, will be liable or have any liability, whether in contract, tort, strict liability or otherwise, for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive or special damages arising out of or in any way connected with your access or use or inability to access or use the Site or reliance on the Content, or any failure of performance, interruption, defect, delay in transmission, computer viruses or other harmful components, or line or system failure associated with the site, regardless of our knowledge thereof.
Where applicable law does not permit the limitation of liability, implied warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain damages set forth above, the aggregate liability of ARK shall not exceed one hundred dollars ($100).
Indemnification
You hereby indemnify, defend, and hold ARK and any of their respective affiliates, directors, officers, registered representatives or employees, nor any third party vendor harmless from and against any and all liabilities, judgments, fines, damages, settlements and costs (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements) incurred in connection with any claim arising out of any breach by you of these Terms of Use or claims arising from your use of this Site. You will cooperate with us in the defense of any claim. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you.
Events Beyond ARK’s Control
You expressly absolve and release ARK and all of its officers, directors, employees, registered representatives, shareholders, legal representatives, attorneys, agents, successors and assigns, from any claim of harm resulting from a cause beyond its control including, but not limited to, the failure of electronic or mechanical equipment or communication lines, telephone or other interconnect problems, computer viruses or software failures, unauthorized access, theft, operator errors, severe weather, earthquakes, or natural disasters, strikes or other labor problems, wars, acts of domestic or foreign terrorism or governmental restrictions. ARK does not warrant that this Site will be available at any time or that your access to this Site will be uninterrupted, timely or free from viruses or other harmful components. [ARK reserves the right to cease operating this website or to terminate your access and use of any part of this Site at any time without notice and for any reason.
User Representations
You represent and warrant to ARK that you will not use this Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use, including but not limited to attempting or actually: (a) disrupting, impairing or otherwise interfering with the operation or integrity of the Site or circumventing any Site security system; (b) collecting any information about other users of the Site; (c) systematically, or by any automated means, extracting Content or other information or data contained in the Site to populate databases or other sites; or (d) engaging in any fraudulent or manipulative activity with respect to issuers, securities or markets. ARK may terminate your access and use of any part of the Site for such violations.
Linked Sites
Certain hyperlinks or referenced websites on the Site may for your convenience forward you to third parties’ websites, which generally are recognized by their top level domain name. Any descriptions of, references to, or links to other services do not constitute an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship by or affiliation with ARK with respect to any linked site or its sponsor, unless expressly stated by ARK. Any such information, products or sites have not necessarily been reviewed by ARK and are provided or maintained by third parties over whom ARK exercises no control. ARK expressly disclaims any responsibility for the content, the accuracy of the information, and/or quality of products or services provided by or advertised on these third-party sites. ARK reserves the right to terminate any hyperlink or hyperlinking program at any time.
Information Submitted By You
ARK’s usage of your personal information is governed by our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms of Use. You should not submit any confidential or proprietary information via the Site. By submitting any information or material to us through the Site, you grant us an unrestricted, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit and distribute those materials or information. You also agree that ARK is free to use for any purpose any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that you submit to us through the Site. ARK shall not be subject to any obligations of confidentiality regarding submitted information, except as agreed to by ARK or as otherwise specifically agreed or required by law. You agree not to use this Site to upload, display or distribute any materials that are defamatory, threatening, obscene, harassing, or otherwise unlawful, or that incorporate the copyrighted, confidential or proprietary material of any other person or entity.
Jurisdiction, Severability
Any action arising out of these Terms of Use or the Site shall be litigated in, and only in, courts located in New York, and you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of those courts and further agree that they are a convenient forum for you.
In the event that any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, the validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions will not be affected, and the unenforceable provision will be replaced with an enforceable provision that comes close to the intention underlying the unenforceable provision.