Terms of Use

Welcome to Andela. Please read on to learn the rules and restrictions that govern your use of our website(s), products, services (including any AI Services (as defined below) and applications (the “Services”). If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding these terms or the Services, please contact us at:

Email:  [email protected]
Address:  169 Madison Avenue, Suite 15766, New York, New York 10016

These Terms of Use the “Terms”) are a binding contract between you and ANDELA INC. (“Andela,” “we” and “us”). Your use of the Services in any way means that you agree to all of these Terms, and these Terms will remain in effect while you use the Services. These Terms include the provisions in this document as well as those in the Privacy Policy, Copyright Dispute Policy in the “What if I see something on the Services that infringes my copyright?” section of these Terms and any other relevant policies.

Your use of or participation in certain Services may also be subject to additional policies, rules and/or conditions (“Additional Terms”), which are incorporated herein by reference, and you understand and agree that by using or participating in any such Services, you agree to also comply with these Additional Terms.

• Please read these Terms carefully. They cover important information about Services provided to you. These Terms include information about future changes to these Terms, limitations of liability, a class action waiver and resolution of disputes by arbitration instead of in court. PLEASE NOTE THAT YOUR USE OF AND ACCESS TO OUR SERVICES ARE SUBJECT TO  THE FOLLOWING TERMS; IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING, YOU  MAY NOT USE OR ACCESS THE SERVICES IN ANY MANNER.

• ARBITRATION NOTICE AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER: EXCEPT FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF DISPUTES DESCRIBED IN THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT SECTION BELOW, YOU AGREE THAT DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND US WILL BE RESOLVED BY BINDING, INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION AND YOU WAIVE YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN A  CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT OR CLASS-WIDE ARBITRATION.

Categories of Personal Data We May Collect

We are constantly trying to improve our Services, so these Terms may need to change along with our Services. We reserve the right to change the Terms at any time, but if we do, we will place a notice on our site located at https://www.andela.com/, send you an email, and/or notify you by some other means.

If you don’t agree with the new Terms, you are free to reject them; unfortunately, that means you will no longer be able to use the Services. If you use the Services in any way after a change to the Terms is effective, that means you agree to all of the changes.

We may also suspend or discontinue any part of the Services, or we may introduce new features or impose limits on certain features or restrict access to parts or all of the Services. We’ll try to give you notice when we make a material change to the Services that would adversely affect you, but this isn’t always practical. We reserve the right to remove any Content from the Services at any time, for any reason.

Except for changes by us as described here, no other amendment or modification of these Terms will be effective unless in writing and signed by both you and us.

Andela takes the privacy of its users very seriously. For the current Andela Privacy Policy, please click here.

• Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) requires that online service providers obtain parental consent before they knowingly collect personally identifiable information online from children who are under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personally identifiable information from children under 16 years of age; if you are a child under 16 years of age, please do not attempt to register for or otherwise use the Services or send us any personal information. If we learn we have collected personal information from a child under 16 years of age, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 16 years of age may have provided us personal information, please contact us at [email protected].

You may be required to sign up for an account, select a password and username (“Andela User ID”), and provide us with certain information or data, such as your contact information. You promise to provide us with accurate, complete, and updated registration information about yourself. You may not select as your Andela User ID a name that you do not have the right to use, or another person’s name with the intent to impersonate that person. You may not transfer your account to anyone else without our prior written permission. Andela may maintain different types of accounts for different types of users. You will comply with all documentation, instructions, guidelines and requirements relating to any direct integration to the Services.

Some of Andela’s Services or components thereof may be powered by artificial intelligence (“AI”). You may, accordingly, interact with AI-powered technology made available by Andela (“AI Services”) and outputs, including text, images and video that are made available to you in connection with the use of any AI-powered technology in the course of utilizing the Services (“AI Outputs”). Andela hereby grants you a limited right to internally access and use AI Outputs only for your internal business purposes in accordance with these Terms.

As part of the Services, you may receive communications through the Services, including messages that Andela sends you (for example, via email, Google messages or Slack). When signing up for the Services, you may receive a welcome message and instructions on how to stop receiving messages.

By providing us with your email address or with access to a Google or Slack account, you also consent to Andela using the email address and your contact information to send you services-related notices, including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail. Andela may also use your contact information to send you other marketing or advertising messages, such as changes to features of Andela and special offers, in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

You represent, warrant, and agree that you will not provide or  contribute anything, including any Content or User Submission (as those  terms are defined below), to the Services, or otherwise use or interact  with the Services, in a manner that:

• Infringes or violates the intellectual property rights or any other rights of anyone else (including Andela);
• Violates any law or regulation, including, without limitation, any applicable export control laws, privacy laws or any other purpose not reasonably intended by Andela;
• Is dangerous, harmful, exploitative, fraudulent, deceptive, threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise objectionable;
• Causes any technical problems, damage, interruption or degradation of the Services;
• Integrates any application programming interface into the Services without Andela’s prior written approval;
• Jeopardizes the security of your Andela User ID, account or anyone else’s (such as allowing someone else to log in to the Services as you);
• Introduces any viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful;
• Attempts, in any manner, to obtain the password, account, or other security information from any other user;
• Violates the security of any computer network, or cracks any passwords or security encryption codes;
• Runs Mail list, Listserv, any form of autoresponder or “spam” on the Services, or any processes that run or are activated while you are not logged into the Services, or that otherwise interfere with the proper working of the Services (including by placing an unreasonable load on the Services’ infrastructure);
• “crawls,” “scrapes,” or “spiders” any page, data, or portion of or relating to the Services or Content (through use of manual or automated means);
• Copies or stores any significant portion of the Content; or
• Decompiles, reverse engineers, or otherwise attempts to obtain the source code or underlying ideas or information of or relating to the Services.

A violation of any of the foregoing is grounds for termination of your right to use or access the Services and you agree to take all necessary steps to remediate any such violation.

The Services and the materials displayed or performed or available on or through the Services, including, but not limited to, all contents, features, functionalities, software, displays, text, graphics, data, articles, photos, images, designs, illustrations and so forth (all of the foregoing, the “Content”) are owned by Andela and its licensors and are protected by copyright and/or other intellectual property laws. You promise to abide by all copyright notices, trademark rules, information, and restrictions contained in any Content you access through the Services, and you won’t use, copy, reproduce, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, upload, display, license, sell, commercialize or otherwise exploit for any purpose any Content without the express prior consent of Andela.

Subject to these Terms, we grant each user of the Services a personal, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable and non-transferable license to use Content solely for purposes of using the Services as set forth below:

• Your computer may temporarily store copies of such materials in RAM incidental to your accessing and viewing those materials;
• You may store files that are automatically cached by your Web browser for display enhancement purposes;
• You may print or download one copy of a reasonable number of pages of the Services for your own personal, non-commercial use and not for further reproduction, publication or distribution; and
• If Andela provides desktop, mobile or other applications for download, you may download a single copy to your computer or mobile device solely for your own personal, non-commercial use, provided you agree to be bound by our end user license agreement for such applications. 

Use, reproduction, modification, distribution or storage of any  Content is otherwise expressly prohibited without prior written  permission from us. You understand that Andela owns the Services. You  won’t modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce (except as expressly provided in this Section), create  derivative works based on, or otherwise exploit any of the Services or  any Content. You won’t delete or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices from copies of materials from this site.

The Services may allow you to copy or download certain Content, but please  remember that even where these functionalities exist, all the  restrictions in this section still apply. If you print, copy, modify,  download or otherwise use or provide any other person with access to any part of the Services in breach of these Terms, Andela reserves the  right to immediately suspend your access to the Services and require you immediate return or destruction of any copies of the materials you have made.

Except as expressly set forth herein, no right, title or interest in or to the Services or any Content is transferred to you, and all  rights not expressly granted are reserved by Andela. Names, logos,  product and service names, designs and slogans presented through the  Services are the trademarks of their respective owners. For the  avoidance of doubt, Andela, Qualified and Codewars and all related  names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans are  trademarks of Andela or its affiliates or licensors. You must not use  such marks without the prior written permission of Andela or its  applicable affiliates or licensors.

1. Procedure for reporting copyright infringements: If you believe that material or content residing on or accessible through the Services infringes your copyright (or the copyright of someone whom you are authorized to act on behalf of), please send a notice of copyright infringement containing the following information to Andela's Designated Agent to Receive Notification of Claimed Infringement (our “Designated Agent,” whose contact details are listed below)

   • A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright that has been allegedly infringed;
   • Identification of works or materials being infringed;
   • Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing including information regarding the location of the infringing materials that the copyright owner seeks to have removed, with sufficient detail so that Company is capable of finding and verifying its existence;
   • Contact information about the notifier including address, telephone number and, if available, email address;
   • A statement that the notifier has a good faith belief that the material identified in (1)(c) is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
   • A statement made under penalty of perjury that the information provided is accurate and the notifying party is authorized to make the complaint on behalf of the copyright owner.
2. Once proper bona fide infringement notification is received by the designated agent. Upon receipt of a proper notice of copyright infringement, we reserve the right to:

   • Remove or disable access to the infringing material;
   • Notify the content provider who is accused of infringement that we have removed or disabled access to the applicable material; and
   • Terminate such content provider's access to the Services if he or she is a repeat offender.
3. Procedure to Supply a Counter-Notice to the Designated Agent. If the content provider believes that the material that was removed (or to which access was disabled) is not infringing, or the content provider believes that it has the right to post and use such material from the copyright owner, the copyright owner's agent, or, pursuant to the law, the content provider may send us a counter-notice containing the following information to the Designated Agent:

   • A physical or electronic signature of the content provider;
   • Sending emails anIdentification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or disabled; other communications according to your preferences.
   • A statement that the content provider has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material; and
   • Content provider's name, address, telephone number, and, if available, email address, and a statement that such person or entity consents to the jurisdiction of the Federal Court for the judicial district in which the content provider’s address is located, or, if the content provider's address is located outside the United States, for any judicial district in which Company is located, and that such person or entity will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of the alleged infringement.
4. Procedure to Supply a Counter-Notice to the Designated Agent. If the content provider believes that the material that was removed (or to which access was disabled) is not infringing, or the content provider believes that it has the right to post and use such material from the copyright owner, the copyright owner's agent, or, pursuant to the law, the content provider may send us a counter-notice containing the following information to the Designated Agent:

   • A physical or electronic signature of the content provider;
   • Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or disabled;
   • A statement that the content provider has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material; and
   • Content provider's name, address, telephone number, and, if available, email address, and a statement that such person or entity consents to the jurisdiction of the Federal Court for the judicial district in which the content provider’s address is located, or, if the content provider's address is located outside the United States, for any judicial district in which Company is located, and that such person or entity will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of the alleged infringement.

You access all information and Content made available through the Services at your own risk, and we aren’t liable for any errors or omissions in that information or Content or for any damages or loss you might suffer in connection with it. We cannot control and have no duty to take any action regarding how you may interpret and use the Content or what actions you may take as a result of having been exposed to the Content, and you hereby release us from all liability for you having acquired or not acquired Content through the Services. We can’t guarantee the identity of any users with whom you interact in using the Services and are not responsible for which users gain access to the Services.

The Services may contain links or connections to third-party websites or services that are not owned or controlled by Andela and are provided for your convenience only. When you access third-party websites or use third-party services, you accept that there are risks in doing so, and that Andela is not responsible for such risks.
Andela has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, accuracy, privacy policies, or practices of or opinions expressed in any third-party websites or by any third party that you interact with through the Services. In addition, Andela will not and cannot monitor, verify, censor or edit the content of any third-party site or service. We encourage you to be aware when you leave the Services and to read the terms and conditions and privacy policy of each third-party website or service that you visit or utilize. By using the Services, you release and hold us harmless from any and all liability arising from your use of any third-party website or service.

Your interactions with organizations and/or individuals found on or through the Services, including payment and delivery of goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such organizations and/or individuals. You should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any online or offline transaction with any of these third parties. You agree that Andela shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings.

If there is a dispute between participants on this site or Services, or between users and any third party, you agree that Andela is under no obligation to become involved. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other users, you release Andela, its directors, officers, employees, agents, and successors from claims, demands, and damages of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, disclosed or undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and/or our Services. You shall and hereby do waive California Civil Code Section 1542 or any similar law of any jurisdiction, which says in substance: “A general release does not extend to claims that the creditor or releasing party does not know or suspect to exist in his or her favor at the time of executing the release and that, if known by him or her, would have materially affected his or her settlement with the debtor or released party.”

You’re free to do that at any time by contacting us at [email protected]; please refer to our Privacy Policy, as well as the licenses above, to understand how we treat information you provide to us after you have stopped using our Services.

Andela is also free to terminate (or suspend access to) your use of the Services or your account for any reason in our discretion, including your breach of these Terms. Andela has the sole right to decide whether you are in violation of any of the restrictions set forth in these Terms.

Account termination may result in destruction of any Content associated with your account, so keep that in mind before you decide to terminate your account.

If you have deleted your account by mistake, contact us immediately at [email protected] – we will try to help, but unfortunately, we can’t promise that we can recover or restore anything.

Provisions that, by their nature, should survive termination of these Terms shall survive termination. By way of example, all of the following will survive termination: any obligation you have to indemnify us, any limitations on our liability, any terms regarding ownership or intellectual property rights, and terms regarding disputes between us, including without limitation the arbitration agreement.

1. Warranty Disclaimer. Andela and its licensors, suppliers, partners, parent, subsidiaries or affiliated entities, and each of their respective officers, directors, members, employees, consultants, contract employees, representatives and agents, and each of their respective successors and assigns (Andela and all such parties together, the “Andela Parties”) make no representations or warranties concerning the Services, including without limitation regarding any Content contained in or accessed through the Services, and the Andela Parties will not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality, or decency of material contained in or accessed through the Services or any claims, actions, suits procedures, costs, expenses, damages or liabilities arising out of use of, or in any way related to your participation in, the Services. The Andela Parties make no representations or warranties regarding suggestions or recommendations of services or products offered or purchased through or in connection with the Services. THE SERVICES, CONTENT AND AI OUTPUTS ARE PROVIDED BY ANDELA (AND ITS LICENSORS AND SUPPLIERS) ON AN “AS-IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR THAT USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN IMPLIED WARRANTY LASTS, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT ANY AI OUTPUTS ARE GENERATED THROUGH THE USE OF NON-HUMAN TOOLS, PLATFORMS AND/OR OTHER TECHNOLOGIES POWERED BY AI. ANDELA IS UNABLE TO GUARANTEE THE SUITABILITY, ACCURACY, QUALITY, SECURITY, LEGALITY AND RELIABILITY OF AI SERVICES, INCLUDING ANY AI OUTPUTS. AI OUTPUTS MAY NOT BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE OR INFORMATION AND ANDELA MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER REGARDING ANY AI OUTPUTS, WHICH ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND SHOULD BE USED AT YOUR OWN RISK. GIVEN THE PROBABILISTIC NATURE OF MACHINE LEARNING, USE OF AI SERVICES MAY IN SOME SITUATIONS RESULT IN INCORRECT OR INACCURATE INFORMATION. BEFORE LEVERAGING ANY AI OUTPUTS, YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING YOUR OWN DETERMINATION THAT THE AI OUTPUTS ARE SUITABLE, AND YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY RELIANCE ON THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF ANY AI OUTPUTS. YOU SHOULD EVALUATE THE ACCURACY OF ANY AI OUTPUTS AS APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR USE CASE, INCLUDING BY USING HUMAN REVIEW OF THE AI OUTPUTS. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL ANDELA BE LIABLE IN ANY WAY FOR ANY AI OUTPUTS OR FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND INCURRED AS A RESULT OF YOUR INTERACTION WITH ANY SERVICES. YOU SHOULD NOT ACT OR REFRAIN FROM ACTING ON THE BASIS OF THE AI OUTPUTS.
2. Limitation of Liability. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES AND UNDER NO LEGAL THEORY (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, TORT, CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE) SHALL ANY OF THE ANDELA PARTIES BE LIABLE TO YOU OR TO ANY OTHER PERSON FOR (A) ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOST PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF GOODWILL, WORK STOPPAGE, ACCURACY OF RESULTS, OR COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION, (B) ANY SUBSTITUTE GOODS, SERVICES OR TECHNOLOGY, (C) ANY AMOUNT, IN THE AGGREGATE, IN EXCESS OF ONE-HUNDRED ($100) DOLLARS OR (D) ANY MATTER BEYOND OUR REASONABLE CONTROL. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL OR CERTAIN OTHER DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. ANY CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM YOU MAY HAVE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICES MUST BE COMMENCED WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES; OTHERWISE, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.
3. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold the Andela Parties harmless from and against any and all claims, liabilities, damages (actual and consequential), losses and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) arising from or in any way related to any claims relating to (a) your use of the Services (including any actions taken by a third party using your account), and (b) your violation of these Terms. In the event of such a claim, suit, or action (“Claim”), we will attempt to provide notice of the Claim to the contact information we have for your account (provided that failure to deliver such notice shall not eliminate or reduce your indemnification obligations hereunder).
4. Assignment. You may not assign, delegate or transfer these Terms or your rights or obligations hereunder, or your Services account, in any way (by operation of law or otherwise) without Andela's prior written consent. We may transfer, assign, or delegate these Terms and our rights and obligations without consent.
5. Choice of Law. These Terms are governed by and will be construed under the Federal Arbitration Act, applicable federal law, and the laws of the State of New York, without regard to the conflicts of laws provisions thereof.
6. Arbitration Agreement. Please read the following ARBITRATION AGREEMENT carefully because it requires you to arbitrate certain disputes and claims with Andela and limits the manner in which you can seek relief from Andela. Both you and Andela acknowledge and agree that for the purposes of any dispute arising out of or relating to the subject matter of these Terms, Andela's officers, directors, employees and independent contractors (“Personnel”) are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and that upon your acceptance of these Terms, Personnel will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as the third-party beneficiary hereof.

   • (a) Arbitration Rules; Applicability of Arbitration Agreement. The parties shall use their best efforts to settle any dispute, claim, question, or disagreement arising out of or relating to the subject matter of these Terms directly through good-faith negotiations, which shall be a precondition to either party initiating arbitration. If such negotiations do not resolve the dispute, it shall be finally settled by binding arbitration in New York County, New York. The arbitration will proceed in the English language, in accordance with the JAMS Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures (the “Rules”) then in effect, by one commercial arbitrator with substantial experience in resolving intellectual property and commercial contract disputes. The arbitrator shall be selected from the appropriate list of JAMS arbitrators in accordance with such Rules. Judgment upon the award rendered by such arbitrator may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
   • (b) Costs of Arbitration. The Rules will govern payment of all arbitration fees. Andela will pay all arbitration fees for claims less than seventy-five thousand ($75,000) dollars. Andela will not seek its attorneys’ fees and costs in arbitration unless the arbitrator determines that your claim is frivolous.
   • (c) Small Claims Court; Infringement. Either you or Andela may assert claims, if they qualify, in small claims court in New York County, New York or any United States county where you live or work. Furthermore, notwithstanding the foregoing obligation to arbitrate disputes, each party shall have the right to pursue injunctive or other equitable relief at any time, from any court of competent jurisdiction, to prevent the actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation or violation of a party's copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents or other intellectual property rights.
   • (d) Waiver of Jury Trial. YOU AND ANDELA WAIVE ANY CONSTITUTIONAL AND STATUTORY RIGHTS TO GO TO COURT AND HAVE A TRIAL IN FRONT OF A JUDGE OR JURY. You and Andela are instead choosing to have claims and disputes resolved by arbitration. Arbitration procedures are typically more limited, more efficient, and less costly than rules applicable in court and are subject to very limited review by a court. In any litigation between you and Andela over whether to vacate or enforce an arbitration award, YOU AND ANDELA WAIVE ALL RIGHTS TO A JURY TRIAL, and elect instead to have the dispute be resolved by a judge.
   • (e) Waiver of Class or Consolidated Actions. ALL CLAIMS AND DISPUTES WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THIS ARBITRATION AGREEMENT MUST BE ARBITRATED OR LITIGATED ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT ON A CLASS BASIS. CLAIMS OF MORE THAN ONE CUSTOMER OR USER CANNOT BE ARBITRATED OR LITIGATED JOINTLY OR CONSOLIDATED WITH THOSE OF ANY OTHER CUSTOMER OR USER. If however, this waiver of class or consolidated actions is deemed invalid or unenforceable, neither you nor Andela is entitled to arbitration; instead all claims and disputes will be resolved in a court as set forth in (g) below.
   • (f) Opt-out. You have the right to opt out of the provisions of this Section by sending written notice of your decision to opt out to the following address: 169 Madison Avenue, Suite 15766, New York, New York 10016 postmarked within thirty (30) days of first accepting these Terms. You must include (i) your name and residence address, (ii) the email address and/or telephone number associated with your account, and (iii) a clear statement that you want to opt out of these Terms’ arbitration agreement.
   • (g) Exclusive Venue. If you send the opt-out notice in (f), and/or in any circumstances where the foregoing arbitration agreement permits either you or Andela to litigate any dispute arising out of or relating to the subject matter of these Terms in court, then the foregoing arbitration agreement will not apply to either party, and both you and Andela agree that any judicial proceeding (other than small claims actions) will be brought in the state or federal courts located in, respectively, New York County, New York, or the federal district in which that county falls.
   • (h) Severability. If the prohibition against class actions and other claims brought on behalf of third parties contained above is found to be unenforceable, then all of the preceding language in this Arbitration Agreement section will be null and void. This arbitration agreement will survive the termination of your relationship with Andela.
7. Miscellaneous. You will be responsible for paying, withholding, filing, and reporting all taxes, duties, and other governmental assessments associated with your activity in connection with the Services, provided that the Andela may, in its sole discretion, do any of the foregoing on your behalf or for itself as it sees fit. The failure of either you or us to exercise, in any way, any right herein shall not be deemed a waiver of any further rights hereunder. If any provision of these Terms are found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or eliminated, to the minimum extent necessary, so that these Terms shall otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable. You and Andela agree that these Terms are the complete and exclusive statement of the mutual understanding between you and Andela, and that these Terms supersede and cancel all previous written and oral agreements, communications and other understandings relating to the subject matter of these Terms. You hereby acknowledge and agree that you are not an employee, agent, partner, or joint venture of Andela, and you do not have any authority of any kind to bind Andela in any respect whatsoever.