These Payment Terms govern payments you make or receive through www.dominicanentrepreneur.com (the “Website”), operated by Dominican Entrepreneur, Inc. (Mount Vernon, NY, 10553, United States of America), its agents and/or subsidiaries, which are collectively referred hereto as “Dominican Entrepreneur”, “we” or “us”.

Please read these Payment Terms carefully before making or receiving payments through the Website. By making or receiving payments through the Website, you accept and agree, on behalf of yourself or on behalf of third parties (if applicable), to be bound and abide by these Payment Terms. These Payment Terms are supplemental to Dominican Entrepreneur Terms of Service, as applicable (the “ToS”).

Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the respective meanings given to them in the ToS.

Contracts between Users

Users are free to sign up, post a project, receive bids from other Users, review the User's portfolio and discuss the project requirements.

If you are awarded the Project as Seller, we will charge you a 3% or $3.00 USD (whichever is greater) project fee relative to the value of the Contract, as an intermediation fee. Such fee is levied at the time a Project has been awarded to you. If the Buyer subsequently pay the Seller more than the original bid amount, we will also charge the project fee on any overage payments.

Membership Plans

You can work on the site as a free member, or gain additional benefits as a paid member by upgrading to a paid plan.

Select from a range of membership plans to determine the fees you pay for our service.

Memberships will recur on either a monthly, quarterly or annual basis on the anniversary of your subscription, unless cancelled. If funds are insufficient we will try to renew your membership for up to 30 days, until funds are made available.

You may cancel your membership at any time from the user settings page, which will cease billing at the end of your membership period, without additional costs.

Memberships’ Features, Services and Prices

1. FREE PLAN (FREE)

• Access to our entrepreneurs/business services directory.
• Able to post a Job Offer or service request to hire an entrepreneur or business service.
• Invite entrepreneurs to your Job Offer or service request.
• Award your Job Offer request to the entrepreneur of your choice.
• Access to our blog.

2. BASIC PLAN ($9.99 a month)

All of Free Plan +

• Profile or company name in our business directory of Users.
• Able to be searched by all Users by name or industry.
• Users will see you, your company and/or service description, email contact and your website.
• Profile can be found and searched for on Google.
• Able to upload one profile picture or business logo.

3. PREMIUM PLAN ($19.99 a month)

All of Basic Plan +

• Users can invite you to bid/make proposals on their job request.
• Able to be hired by Users.
• Able to upload multiple profile or business pictures.
• Able to write Bio or company description with full contact and business information.
• Able to provide educational background and job experience in profile.
• Able to share your profile to social media.
• Access to our forum to network with other Users.

4. DELUXE PLAN ($29.99 a month)

All of Premium Plan +

• Free entry to our local meet-ups and business networking events.
• Able to upload videos to your profile (future).
• 15 minutes monthly of business development time.

5. VIP PLAN ($59.99 a month)

All of Deluxe Plan +

• Social media package (social media business pages created).
• Business interview promoted in our social media/blog.
• 30 minutes monthly of business development time.
• VIP seating in our local meet-ups and business networking events.
• Featured in our User of the month blog articles.

Arbitration Fees

The arbitration fee for a dispute submitted to our Dispute Resolution Team (as per our Dispute Resolution Policy) is $5.00 USD or 5% of the disputed Project, whichever is greater, payable by each of the parties of the dispute.

The winner of the arbitration will get a refund on the fee the winner paid (that is, $5.00 USD or 5% of the disputed Project, whichever is greater).

Withdrawal Fees

All payment services, including withdrawal services, will be provided by Dominican Entrepreneur’s Payment Services Provider, Stripe™ (https://stripe.com/), and as per their terms of service. Fees may be levied depending on the method of withdrawal.

Our third-party payment processor may impose a minimum and a maximum withdrawal amount for funds earned. This will be set out in their terms of service.

Withdrawals are final and cannot be undone. We will not be able to reverse this process once it has begun.

Maintenance Fee

User Accounts that have not logged in for twelve months will incur a maintenance fee of up to $10.00 USD per month until either the account is terminated or reactivated for storage, bandwidth, support and management costs of providing hosting of the user's profile, portfolio storage, listing in directories, file storage and message storage. These fees will be refunded upon request by users on subsequent reactivation.

Taxes

Taxes are applied based on local rates and rules defined by the user's country of residence / registered country.

Sellers are responsible for paying any direct or indirect taxes, including any GST, VAT or income tax, which may apply to them depending on residency, location or otherwise, under provisions of their jurisdiction. Sellers represent and warrant that they comply, and will comply at all times, with their obligations under income tax provisions in their jurisdiction.

Dominican Entrepreneur and its affiliates do not provide tax, legal or accounting advice. This material has been prepared for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide, and should not be relied on for, tax, legal or accounting advice. You should consult your own tax, legal and accounting advisors.

Terms of Service

The fees and charges summarized on this page are governed by the Dominican Entrepreneur Terms of Service (ToS) and related Website policies. The ToS includes other important terms and should be read in full. In particular, Section 25 of the ToS specifies the consequences of termination for violations of the ToS and/or User Contract. Those consequences can include fines for damages that Dominican Entrepreneur will sustain as a result of actions that breach the ToS and/or the User Contract.

Payment Administration Agents

You acknowledge and agree that we may in our sole discretion, from time to time, appoint our related corporate bodies, affiliates, or any other third party to act as our agent to accept or make payments (including merchant facilities) from or to Users on our behalf.

Such a third party will have the same rights, powers and privileges that we have under the ToS and will be entitled to exercise or enforce their rights, powers and privileges as our agent or in their own name. In no event shall we be liable to any User for any loss, damage or liability resulting from the Payment Administration Agent's negligence and/or acts beyond the authority given by Dominican Entrepreneur.