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By using the Compatible Relationships web
site (the "Web site") you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service (this
"Agreement"). If you wish to become a Member and communicate with other Members
and make use of the Compatible Relationships service (the "Service"), read these
Terms of Service and indicate your acceptance of them by following the
instructions in the Register page.
This Agreement sets out the legally binding terms of your use
of the Web site and your membership in the Service and may be modified by
Compatible Relationships at any time and without prior notice, such
modifications to be effective upon posting by Compatible Relationships on the
Web site. This Agreement includes Compatible Relationships’ acceptable use
policy for content posted on the web site, Compatible Relationships’ Privacy
Policy, and any notices regarding the Web site.
- Eligibility. You must
be eighteen or over to register as a member of Compatible Relationships or use
the Web site. Membership in the Service is void where prohibited. By using the
Web site, you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority, and
capacity to enter into this Agreement and to abide by all of the terms and
conditions of this Agreement.
- Term. This Agreement
will remain in full force and effect while you use the Web site and/or are a
Member. You may terminate your membership at any time. Compatible
Relationships may terminate your membership for any reason, at any time. If
Compatible Relationships terminates your membership in the Service because you
have breached the Agreement, you will not be entitled to any refund of unused
subscription fees. Even after membership is terminated, this Agreement will
remain in effect.
- Non Commercial Use by
Members. The Web site is for the personal use of individual Members only
and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors.
Organizations, companies, and/or businesses may not become Members and should
not use the Service or the Web site for any purpose. Illegal and/or
unauthorized uses of the Web site, including collecting usernames and/or email
addresses of members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending
unsolicited email and unauthorized framing of or linking to the Web site will
be investigated, and appropriate legal action will be taken, including without
limitation, civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.
- Proprietary Rights in
Content on Compatible Relationships. Compatible Relationships owns and
retains all proprietary rights in the Web site and the Service. The Web site
contains the copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary
information of Compatible Relationships, and its licensors. Except for that
information which is in the public domain or for which you have been given
written permission, you may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute,
perform, display, or sell any such proprietary information.
- Content Posted on the
Site.
- You understand and agree
that Compatible Relationships may review and delete any content, messages,
photos or profiles (collectively, "Content") that in the sole judgment of
Compatible Relationships violate this Agreement or which might be offensive,
illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of
Members.
- You are solely responsible
for the Content that you publish or display (hereinafter, "post") on the
Service, or transmit to other Members.
- By posting Content to any
public area of Compatible Relationships, you automatically grant, and you
represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Compatible
Relationships an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid,
worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute such
information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate
into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize
sublicenses of the foregoing.
- The following is a partial
list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Web site.
Compatible Relationships reserves the right to investigate and take
appropriate legal action in its sole discretion against anyone who violates
this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending
communication from the Service and terminating the membership of such
violators. It includes Content that:
- is patently offensive to
the online community, such as Content that promotes racism, bigotry ,
hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
- harasses or advocates
harassment of another person;
- involves the
transmission of "junk mail", "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing
or "spamming";
- promotes information
that you know is false, misleading or promotes illegal activities or
conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
- promotes an illegal or
unauthorized copy of another person’s copyrighted work, such as providing
pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to
circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing
pirated music or links to pirated music files;
- contains restricted or
password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to
or from another accessible page) ;
- displays pornographic or
sexually explicit material of any kind;
- provides material that
exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or
solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
- provides instructional
information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal
weapons, violating someone’s privacy, or providing or creating computer
viruses;
- solicits passwords or
personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from
other users; and
- engages in commercial
activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as
contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes;
Even though all
of this is strictly prohibited, there is a small chance that You might become
exposed to such items and You further waive Your right to any damages (from any
party) related to such exposure.
- You must use the Service
in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
- You may not include in
your Member profile any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names,
URLs or email addresses.
- You may not engage in
advertising to, or solicitation of, other Members to buy or sell any
products or services through the Service. You may not transmit any chain
letters or junk email to other Members. Although Compatible Relationships
cannot monitor the conduct of its Members off the Web site, it is also a
violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Service in
order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in order to contact,
advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior explicit
consent. In order to protect our Members from such advertising or
solicitation, Compatible Relationships reserves the right to restrict the
number of emails which a Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour
period to a number which Compatible Relationships deems appropriate in its
sole discretion.
- Copyright Policy. You
may not post, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material,
trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior
written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. Without limiting the
foregoing, if you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the
Service in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide the
following information: an electronic or physical signature of the person
authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; a
description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; a
description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on
the Web site; your address, telephone number, and email address; a written
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 owner or authorized to act on the
copyright owner's behalf.
- Member Disputes. You
are solely responsible for your interactions with other Compatible
Relationships Members. Compatible Relationships, Inc. reserves the right, but
has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
- Privacy. Use of the
Web site and/or the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy.
- Disclaimers.
Compatible Relationships is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate
Content posted on the Web site or in connection with the Service, whether
caused by users of the Web site, Members or by any of the equipment or
programming associated with or utilized in the Service. Compatible
Relationships is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline,
of any user of the Web site or Member of the Service. Compatible Relationships
assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion,
defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft
or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, user or Member
communications. Compatible Relationships is not responsible for any problems
or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online
systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of email
or players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the
Internet or at any web site or combination thereof, including injury or damage
to users and/or Members or to any other person's computer related to or
resulting from participating or downloading materials in connection with the
Web and/or in connection with the Service. Under no circumstances will
Compatible Relationships be responsible for any loss or damage, including
personal injury or death, resulting from anyone's use of the Web site or the
Service, any Content posted on the Web site or transmitted to Members, or any
interactions between users of the Web site, whether online or offline. The Web
site and the Service are provided "AS-IS" and Compatible Relationships
expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or
non-infringement. Compatible Relationships cannot guarantee and does not
promise any specific results from use of the Web site and/or the Service. The
service may be temporarily unavailable from time to time for maintenance or
other reasons. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by
user from Compatible Relationships or through or from the service shall create
any warranty not expressly stated herein.
- Limitation on Liability.
Except in jurisdictions where such provisions are restricted, in no event will
Compatible Relationships be liable to you or any third person for any
indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages,
including also lost profits arising from your use of the Web site or the
Service, even if Compatible Relationships has been advised of the possibility
of such damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein,
Compatible Relationships’s liability to you for any cause whatsoever, and
regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to the
amount paid, if any, by you to Compatible Relationships for the Service during
the term of membership.
- Disputes. If there is
any dispute about or involving the Web site and/or the Service, by using the
Web site, you agree that the dispute will be governed by the laws of the State
of New York without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree to
personal jurisdiction by and venue in the state and federal courts of the
State of New York, City of New York.
- Indemnity. You agree
to indemnify and hold Compatible Relationships and DVC Productions, Inc., its
subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and other partners and employees,
harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable
attorney's fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of
the Service in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of
this Agreement and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set
forth above.
- No Agency. There is
no agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or
franchisor-franchisee relationship between Compatible Relationships and any
User of the Service.
- Other. This
Agreement, accepted upon use of the Web site and further affirmed by becoming
a Member of the Service, contains the entire agreement between you and
Compatible Relationships regarding the use of the Web site and/or the Service.
The failure of Compatible Relationships to exercise or enforce any right or
provision of these Terms of Service shall not constitute a waiver of such
right or provision. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, the
remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect. The
section titles in these Terms of Service are for convenience only and have no
legal or contractual effect.
Please contact us with any questions
regarding this agreement.
Compatible Relationships is a service mark of DVC Productions,
Inc.
I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS
CONTAINED ABOVE.
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