Terms & Conditions

1. The agreement

These Terms & Conditions (the “Terms”) form a binding agreement between you and BekarConnect, the operator of BekarConnect (“we”, “us”, “our”), governing your access to and use of BekarConnect at https://bekarconnect.com and every feature within it (the “Platform”).

By creating an account, signing in, or otherwise using the Platform, you confirm that you have read and accept these Terms and our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, which are incorporated into them by reference. If you do not accept them, you must not use the Platform.

If you are using the Platform on behalf of a company, team or other organisation, you confirm that you are authorised to bind it, and “you” means that organisation.

2. What BekarConnect is, and what it is not

This clause describes the fundamental nature of the Platform, and you should read it before any other. Much of what follows depends on it.

BekarConnect is a neutral venue. It provides tools that let independent users publish posts, describe skills, advertise opportunities, form teams, message one another, share files and organise their own projects. Everything of substance on the Platform is created, published and controlled by users, not by us.

Accordingly, and without limitation:

• We are not a party to any dealing between users. Any engagement, collaboration, contract, employment, freelance arrangement, investment, partnership, loan, sale or other transaction that users enter into is solely between those users. We are not a party to it, do not supervise it, and take no responsibility for its performance or outcome.
• We are not an employer, employment agency, recruiter or staffing business. We do not offer employment, do not act as an intermediary in the formation of employment contracts, and make no promise that any opportunity posted on the Platform is genuine, available, lawful, or offered by the person who posted it.
• We do not vet, verify, screen, endorse or background-check users. We do not confirm identity, age, nationality, qualifications, employment history, skills, certifications, financial standing, criminal record, or the truth of anything a user says about themselves or about anyone else. A profile, a skill tag or a post is a claim made by a user, and nothing more.
• We do not handle money. The Platform contains no payment facility. We do not process, collect, hold, escrow, transfer, remit, guarantee or refund any payment between users. Where the Platform allows a project’s income and expenses to be recorded, those records are self-reported bookkeeping entries typed in by users for their own convenience. They are not evidence of any payment, create no obligation on anyone, are never verified by us, and have no legal or financial effect whatsoever.
• We do not give professional advice. Nothing on the Platform is legal, financial, tax, investment, employment, medical or other professional advice, and it must not be relied on as such.

We have no obligation to monitor user activity or content in advance. We may do so, and we operate the reporting and moderation processes described in clause 10, but doing so does not make us the author, publisher, endorser or supervisor of anything a user does, and it does not create any duty to detect or prevent any particular act.

3. Eligibility

To use the Platform you must:

• be at least 18 years old and have full legal capacity to enter into a binding contract;
• not be barred from using the Platform under any applicable law;
• not have had an account previously suspended or terminated by us, unless we have given written permission for you to return; and
• provide accurate registration information and keep it up to date.

The Platform is not directed at children. If we learn that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will close it and delete the associated data.

4. Your account

You are responsible for everything that happens under your account. You must keep your password and any one-time codes confidential, must not share your account or let anyone else use it, and must notify us immediately at support@bekarconnect.com if you suspect unauthorised access.

You must not create an account using false information, impersonate any person or organisation, misrepresent your affiliation with anyone, or create an account on behalf of someone else without their authority. You must not maintain multiple accounts in order to evade a suspension, manipulate visibility, or mislead other users.

You may close your account at any time. Clause 14 explains what happens to your content and data when you do.

5. Acceptable use

You must use the Platform lawfully and in good faith. Without limiting that obligation, you must not do, attempt, facilitate, or encourage any of the following.

Fraud and financial crime

• Defraud, deceive or mislead any person, or attempt to obtain money, goods, services, credentials or property from any person by deception.
• Operate or promote any advance-fee scheme, fake-job or fake-employer scheme, fake-client scheme, “pay a deposit to start work” scheme, training-fee or registration-fee scheme, cheque-overpayment scheme, cryptocurrency or investment scheme, pyramid or Ponzi scheme, multi-level marketing scheme, or any other scheme whose purpose or effect is to extract money from another user.
• Launder money, finance terrorism, or evade sanctions, tax or currency controls.
• Solicit payment outside a genuine, agreed engagement, or induce another user to pay you before you have any intention or ability to perform.

Harm to people

• Harass, bully, stalk, threaten, intimidate, defame, or incite violence or hatred against any person or group, including on grounds of religion, ethnicity, nationality, sex, gender, disability or political belief.
• Publish sexual content, child sexual abuse material, non-consensual intimate imagery, or content that sexualises a minor in any way.
• Engage in human trafficking, forced labour, exploitative labour arrangements, or the recruitment of any person into them.
• Publish another person’s private information — including home address, national identity number, phone number, financial details or private communications — without their consent.

Unlawful and prohibited content or trade

• Advertise, offer, solicit or arrange anything unlawful, including illegal drugs, weapons, stolen goods or data, forged documents, examination or academic fraud, hacking services, or the sale of accounts or identities.
• Infringe anyone’s copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, privacy, publicity or other rights, or upload content you do not have the right to upload.
• Publish anything obscene, or anything prohibited under the laws of Bangladesh or of any other jurisdiction from which you use the Platform.

Harm to the Platform

• Upload or transmit malware, ransomware, spyware or any other harmful code; or use the Platform to attack, probe, scan or disrupt any system.
• Access, or attempt to access, any account, data or area you are not authorised to reach; circumvent authentication, rate limits, permissions or any other technical control.
• Scrape, crawl, harvest or bulk-collect user data by any automated means, or use the Platform to build a competing dataset or product.
• Send spam, chain messages, mass unsolicited solicitations, or repeated unwanted contact.
• Interfere with the Platform’s operation, place unreasonable load on it, or reverse engineer, decompile or attempt to derive its source code except where that restriction is prohibited by law.
• Misuse the reporting tools, including by making reports you know to be false in order to silence or harm another user.

If you become aware of any of the above occurring on the Platform, report it under clause 10. If you are the victim of a crime, report it to the police as well — we are not a substitute for law enforcement, and we cannot investigate, adjudicate or provide a remedy for a criminal offence.

6. Your content

“Your Content” means everything you submit to the Platform: posts, comments, messages, profile information, skills, opportunity listings, applications, team notes, polls, tasks, meeting details, project records and uploaded files.

You keep ownership of Your Content. We claim no ownership in it. So that we can operate the Platform, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable and sublicensable licence to host, store, copy, reproduce, adapt for technical purposes such as resizing or format conversion, publish, transmit and display Your Content, solely for the purposes of providing, securing, maintaining and improving the Platform and as described in the Privacy Policy. This licence lasts as long as Your Content remains on the Platform and for a reasonable period afterwards while backups are rotated out.

Content you share with a team, a conversation, or the public feed may have been copied, quoted or downloaded by others before you delete it. Deleting it removes it from the Platform; it cannot recall copies already made by other people.

You represent and warrant, for everything you submit, that:

• you own it or have all rights and permissions necessary to submit it and grant the licence above;
• it does not infringe anyone’s rights or breach any law or duty of confidence; and
• it does not breach clause 5.

We may, but are not obliged to, review, refuse, edit for formatting, restrict, hide or remove any content at our discretion, with or without notice, including content we consider unlawful, harmful, deceptive or in breach of these Terms.

Feedback and suggestions you send us about the Platform are given voluntarily and we may use them without restriction, obligation or payment.

7. Dealings between users — your risk

You are solely responsible for your decisions about who to trust, who to work with, who to meet, what to agree, and whether to pay or accept money. You interact with other users entirely at your own risk.

Other users may misrepresent who they are, what they can do, what they are offering, and what they intend. Some may act dishonestly or criminally. We do not and cannot prevent this. You accept that risk when you use the Platform.

Before you commit anything of value, you should at minimum:

• verify independently who you are dealing with, outside the Platform;
• agree scope, deliverables, timelines and payment terms in a written contract of your own;
• be extremely cautious about paying anything in advance, and never pay a fee to be given work;
• keep your own records; and
• take your own legal and financial advice where the stakes justify it.

We are not liable for the acts, omissions, statements, content, conduct, defaults, debts, crimes or negligence of any user, whether occurring on the Platform or elsewhere. If a dispute arises between you and another user, you must resolve it directly with them or through the courts or authorities with jurisdiction over it. We are not a mediator, arbitrator, investigator or guarantor, and we have no obligation to become involved. To the fullest extent permitted by law, you release us, and our officers, employees, contractors and agents, from all claims, demands, damages and liabilities of every kind arising out of or connected with any dispute between you and any other user.

Reporting a user to us under clause 10 may lead to action on their account. It is not, and must not be treated as, a substitute for reporting a crime to the police.

8. Automated and AI-assisted features

The Platform includes features that generate suggestions using automated systems and third-party artificial intelligence services, including idea validation, career and business guidance, proposal drafting, pricing suggestions, skill and team matching, and automated flagging of content that may be fraudulent.

These outputs are suggestions produced by software. They are frequently wrong. They may be inaccurate, incomplete, biased, out of date or entirely fabricated. They are not advice of any kind, are not reviewed by a human before you see them, and must not be relied on as the basis for any decision that matters. You are responsible for verifying anything you act on.

Scam and fraud detection features are best-effort aids only. They will not identify every fraudulent post, message or user, and they may flag legitimate ones. The absence of a warning is not an assurance that something is safe, and we give no warranty that these features will detect any particular risk.

To provide these features, content you submit to them is transmitted to third-party AI providers for processing. The Privacy Policy identifies those providers. Do not submit confidential, sensitive or personal information about yourself or anyone else to these features.

9. Availability and changes to the Platform

We provide the Platform on a best-effort basis. We do not guarantee that it will be available, uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free, and we may suspend, withdraw or restrict all or part of it at any time, including for maintenance, security, legal or commercial reasons.

We may add, change, restrict or remove features at any time. Where a change materially reduces the Platform’s usefulness to you, we will give reasonable notice where it is practical to do so.

We do not guarantee that content, messages or files will be retained, and you should keep your own copies of anything you cannot afford to lose. The Platform is not a backup service, a record-keeping system of legal record, or an archive.

10. Reporting, moderation and takedown

If you encounter content or conduct that breaches these Terms or the law, report it to abuse@bekarconnect.com. To let us act, include:

• a link to the post, message, profile or file concerned;
• what is wrong with it, and which clause or law you say it breaches;
• any evidence you hold, such as screenshots or transaction records;
• your name and a means of contacting you; and
• if you are claiming infringement of your own rights, enough detail to identify the right and confirmation that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them.

We aim to triage properly made reports within 7 days. Where we judge a report to be well-founded, we may remove or restrict content, issue a warning, limit account features, suspend or terminate the account, refuse re-registration, and where the matter appears to involve a criminal offence, refer it to law enforcement.

Our decisions are made on the information available to us and are not findings of fact, determinations of liability, or legal adjudications. We may decline to act, and we may act without giving reasons. If your content or account is actioned and you believe we were wrong, you may appeal once to legal@bekarconnect.com within 30 days.

11. Law enforcement and legal requests

We cooperate with law enforcement and regulatory authorities. We may access, preserve and disclose your account information, content, messages and technical records, without notice to you, where we believe in good faith that doing so is necessary to:

• comply with a law, court order, warrant, subpoena or other lawful request;
• respond to a request from a competent authority in Bangladesh or elsewhere;
• investigate a suspected breach of these Terms;
• detect, prevent or address fraud, security or technical problems; or
• protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or the public, including where there is a risk of death or serious injury.

Where we are legally permitted and it is not prejudicial to do so, we will try to notify a user whose data has been requested.

Authorities should direct requests to legal@bekarconnect.com or to BekarConnect, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

12. Our intellectual property

The Platform itself — its software, source code, design, layout, graphics, text written by us, and the BekarConnect name and logo — belongs to us or our licensors and is protected by intellectual property law. We grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Platform for its intended purpose while these Terms are in force. No other right is granted, and you must not copy, modify, distribute, sell, licence, frame or create derivative works from any part of it without our written permission.

13. Third-party services and links

The Platform relies on third-party services, and users may post links to external sites. We do not control those services or sites, do not endorse them, and are not responsible for their content, practices, availability or security. Your use of them is governed by their own terms and privacy policies, and is at your own risk. The Privacy Policy lists the third-party services we use to operate the Platform.

14. Suspension and termination

We may suspend or terminate your account or access, in whole or in part, immediately and without notice, where we reasonably believe that you have breached these Terms or the law, that your account presents a risk to other users or to us, or that suspension is required by law. Where notice is practical and appropriate, we will give it.

You may stop using the Platform and close your account at any time. Termination by either side does not affect any right or liability that accrued before it. Clauses 2, 6, 7, 11, 15, 16, 17, 19 and 20 survive termination.

On termination we may delete or retain Your Content as described in the Privacy Policy, including retaining what we are required to keep for legal, security or evidential reasons.

15. Disclaimer of warranties

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Platform is provided “as is” and “as available”, with no warranties, conditions or representations of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory.

We specifically disclaim any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, quiet enjoyment, accuracy and non-infringement, and any warranty that the Platform will be uninterrupted, secure or error-free, that defects will be corrected, that it is free of harmful components, or that any content, user, opportunity or outcome on it is genuine, accurate, lawful, suitable or safe.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

16. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we, together with our officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents and suppliers, will not be liable for:

• any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive or exemplary loss, or any loss of profit, revenue, business, opportunity, goodwill, anticipated savings or data, however arising;
• any loss arising from the conduct of any user, including fraud, misrepresentation, theft, non-payment, non-performance, breach of contract, defamation, harassment, assault, or any criminal act, whether occurring on the Platform or elsewhere;
• any loss arising from money you paid, agreed to pay, lent, invested or failed to recover in connection with any dealing arranged through the Platform;
• any loss arising from your reliance on any content, listing, profile, claim, or output of an automated or AI-assisted feature; or
• any unavailability, interruption, data loss, or unauthorised access to or alteration of your content, except to the extent caused by our own failure to take reasonable security measures.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability to you for all claims arising out of or connected with these Terms or the Platform, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), statute or otherwise, is limited to the greater of (a) the total amount you have paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim, and (b) BDT 5,000. The Platform is currently free to use, so for most users this amount will be BDT 5,000.

This allocation of risk is a fundamental basis on which the Platform is provided to you free of charge.

17. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless BekarConnect and its officers, directors, employees, contractors and agents from and against all claims, demands, proceedings, losses, damages, fines, penalties, liabilities, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or connected with:

• your use of the Platform;
• Your Content;
• your breach of these Terms or of any law;
• your infringement of any third party’s rights; or
• any dispute between you and any other user or third party.

We may, at our own cost, assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter otherwise subject to this indemnity, in which case you will cooperate with us. You must not settle any such matter in a way that admits fault on our behalf or imposes any obligation on us without our prior written consent.

18. Changes to these Terms

We may amend these Terms from time to time. The current version is always published at this address with its effective date. Where a change is material we will take reasonable steps to notify you, such as a notice in the Platform or an email, before it takes effect. Continuing to use the Platform after a change takes effect means you accept the amended Terms. If you do not accept them, you must stop using the Platform and may close your account.

19. Governing law and jurisdiction

These Terms, and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them, their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims), are governed by the laws of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. You and we submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. If you access the Platform from outside Bangladesh, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for complying with local law.

20. General

• Entire agreement. These Terms, with the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, are the entire agreement between you and us about the Platform, and replace any earlier understanding.
• Severability. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it is to be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable, or if that is not possible, severed. The rest remains in force.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of it or of our right to enforce it later.
• Assignment. You may not assign or transfer your rights under these Terms. We may assign ours to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.
• No partnership. Nothing in these Terms creates a partnership, joint venture, agency, franchise or employment relationship between you and us.
• Third parties. Nobody other than you and us has any right to enforce these Terms, save that our officers, employees and agents may enforce clauses 15, 16 and 17.
• Force majeure. We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

21. Contact

BekarConnect
Dhaka, Bangladesh

• General: support@bekarconnect.com
• Reports and abuse: abuse@bekarconnect.com
• Legal and law enforcement: legal@bekarconnect.com
• Privacy: privacy@bekarconnect.com