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Meet Your Date online dating service terms and conditions
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(YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD TO REGISTER ON OR USE THE
MEETYOURDATE.NET ONLINE DATING SERVICE. ACCESS OR USE OF THIS SITE
OR ITS CONTENTS BY ANYONE UNDER THE AGE OF 18 IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.)
GENERAL
Please read this Member Terms and Conditions Agreement
(the "Agreement") carefully. The Agreement sets
out the terms under which MeetYourDate.net's services (the
"Services") are provided to you by us (MeetYourDate.net,
Silversteen Estate, Steenberg Road, Tokai, Cape Town, South
Africa) through the MeetYourDate.net website (the "Site").
By registering with the site, you become a member of the Service
(a "Member"), and you agree to be bound by the terms
and conditions of this Agreement (the "Terms") for
as long as you continue to be a Member. If you do not agree
to the Terms, please do not register for the Service or otherwise
access or use this Site. By becoming a member, you also agree
to be bound by our member conduct terms and conditions ("Conduct").
We reserve the right at any time to change the:
Terms and conditions of this Agreement
The site, including eliminating or discontinuing any content on
or feature of the site
Any fees or charges for using the Site
Any changes we make will be effective immediately upon notice,
which we may provide by means including, without limitation, posting
on the web site or send via email. Your use of the site after such
notice will be deemed acceptance of the changes. Be sure to review
this Agreement periodically to ensure familiarity with the most
current version.
MEMBERSHIP
To become a Member of the online dating service you must register
with us. Should you choose to become a Member by registering with
us, you agree to provide accurate, current and complete information
about yourself as prompted by our membership form ("Membership
Form"). You also agree to maintain and update your information
inside the membership area of the web site to keep it accurate,
current and complete. Additionally you agree that we may rely on
your Membership Data as being accurate, current and complete. You
acknowledge that if your Membership Data is untrue, inaccurate,
not current or incomplete in any respect, we reserve the right to
terminate this Agreement and your use of the Site.
When you register to become a member, we will require that you
provide sufficient information to indicate that you are at least
18 years old. By becoming a Member, you represent and warrant that
you are at least 18 years old, which is the minimum required age
to become a Member of an online dating service. However, we cannot
guarantee that each Member is at least the required minimum age,
nor do we accept responsibility or liability for any content, communication
or other use or access of the Site by persons under the age of 18
in violation of these Terms.
Either you or the MeetYourDate online dating service may terminate
your membership at any time, for any reason, effective upon sending
written notice to the other party. All membership fees paid are
nonrefundable.
We reserve the right to immediately suspend or terminate your access
to the Service, without notice, upon any breach of this Agreement
by you, which is brought to our attention. This includes litigation
by a Member with our associated companies or us. Your membership
to the online dating service is for your sole, personal use. You
may not authorize others to use your membership, and you may not
assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other person or
entity.
USERNAME AND PASSWORD
As part of the membership registration process, you will be asked
to select a username and password. We may refuse to grant or change
at a later date any username that impersonates someone else, is
or may be illegal, is or may be protected by trademark or other
proprietary rights law, is vulgar or otherwise offensive, or may
cause confusion, as determined by us in our sole discretion.
If you have reason to believe that your account is no longer secure,
you must promptly change your password by updating your account
information, available at the 'account info' Page after logging
on to the membership area at www.meetyourdate.net. Also immediately
notify us by emailing us at info@meetyourdate.net.
You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of
your username and password and for any and all activities that are
conducted through your account.
ONLINE CONDUCT
As a Memberof the online dating service, you agree that: You are
solely responsible for the content or information you publish or
display (hereinafter, "post") on the Service, or transmit
to other Members. You will not post on the Service, or transmit
to other Members of the Site or employees, any defamatory, inaccurate,
abusive, obscene, profane, offensive sexually oriented, threatening,
harassing, racially offensive, or illegal material, or any material
that infringes or violates another party's rights (including, but
not limited to, intellectual property rights, and rights of privacy
and publicity). Please notify us of any material contained in the
Service that you believe infringes these rules by writing to (MeetYourDate.net,
Silversteen Estate, Steenberg Road, Tokai, Cape Town, South Africa)
or by sending an email to info@meetyourdate.net.
You will use the online dating service in a manner consistent with
any and all applicable laws and regulations. You will not include
in your profile any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names,
URLs, e-mail addresses, offensive anatomical or sexual references,
or offensive sexually suggestive or connotative language, or any
confidential information of any third person, and you will not post
any photographs or other images containing nudity or such personal
information. MeetYourDate.net reserves the right, but has no obligation,
to reject any profile or photograph or image that does not comply
with these prohibitions.
AS A MEMBER YOU FURTHERMORE AGREE THAT YOU WILL NOT:
- Harvest or collect personal information about other Members whether
or not for commercial purposes, without their express consent.
- Use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other
manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, "data
mine", or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational
structure or presentation of the Site or its contents.
- Post, distribute or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material,
trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the
prior consent of the owner of such proprietary rights.
- Remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices
contained in the Site.
- Interfere with or disrupt the Services or the Site or the servers
or networks connected to the Services or the Site.
- Post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any material that contains
software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed
to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer
software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
- Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to
disguise the origin of any information transmitted through the Service.
- "Frame" or "mirror" any part of the Site,
without our prior written authorization.
- Use metatags or code or other devices containing any reference
to MeetYourDate.net or the Service or the Site in order to direct
any person to any other website for any purpose.
- Modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer,
decipher, decompile or otherwise disassemble any portion of the
Site or any software used on or for the Site or cause others to
do so.
- Impersonate, "stalk" or otherwise harass any person
or entity.
- Engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other Members to
buy or sell any products or services through the Service. You will
not transmit any chain letters, spam or junk email to other Members.
- Express or imply that any statements you make are endorsed by
us, without our specific prior written consent.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Members
of the online dating service. MeetYourDate.net reserves the right,
but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other
Members. We do not exclude any liability for death or personal injury
due to our negligence.
INDEMNITY BY MEMBER
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us, our officers, directors,
employees, agents and representatives harmless from and against
any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs (including
reasonable attorneys' fees) or other expenses that arise directly
or indirectly out of or from (i) your breach of this Agreement;
(ii) any allegation that any materials that you submit to us or
transmit to the Site infringe or otherwise violate the copyright,
trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property or other
rights of any third party; and/or (iii) your activities in connection
with the Site. This indemnity shall be applicable without regard
to the negligence of any party, including any indemnified person.
ONLINE CONTENT
Opinions, advice, statements, offers or other information or content
made available through the Service are those of their respective
Member-author and not of MeetYourDate.net, and should not necessarily
be relied upon. Such Members are solely responsible for such content.
MeetYourDate.net does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness or
usefulness of any information on the Service and neither adopts
nor endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or reliability
of any opinion, advice or statement made. Under no circumstances
will MeetYourDate be responsible for any loss or damage resulting
from anyone's reliance on information or other content posted on
the Service or transmitted to Members. The Site may contain links
to other Internet websites or resources. We neither control nor
endorse such other websites, nor have we reviewed any content that
appears on such other websites. You acknowledge and agree that we
shall not be held responsible for the legality, accuracy or inappropriate
nature of any content, advertising, products, services or information
located on or through any other websites or for the operation or
policies of any such websites, nor for any loss or damages caused
or alleged to have been caused by the use of or reliance on any
such websites or such content or other information. We do not exclude
any liability for death or personal injury due to our negligence.
WARNING - PLEASE READ: It is possible that other Members or users
(including unauthorized users, or "hackers") may post
or transmit offensive or obscene materials on the Service and that
you may be involuntarily exposed to such offensive and obscene materials.
It also is possible for others to obtain personal information about
you due to your use of the Service, and that the recipient may use
such information to harass or injure you. MeetYourDate.net is not
responsible for the use of any personal information that you may
choose to disclose on the Service. Please be selective of the type
of information that you post on the Service or release to others.
MeetYourDate.net reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor
the materials posted in any area of the Service and shall have the
right but not the obligation to remove any such material that violates,
or is alleged to violate, the law or this Agreement. Notwithstanding
this right of MeetYourDate.net, you remain solely responsible for
the content of the materials you post in any area of the Service
and your private email messages. E-mails sent between you and other
Members that are not readily accessible to the general public will
be treated as private by MeetYourDate.net to the extent required
by applicable law and pursuant to the commercially reasonable efforts
of MeetYourDate.net. We do not exclude any liability for death or
personal injury due to our negligence.
PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
MeetYourDate.net owns and retains other proprietary rights in the
Services and the Site. The Services and the Site contain the copyrighted
material, trademarks and other proprietary information and software
of MeetYourDate.net and its licensors. In addition, other Members
may post copyrighted information, which has copyright protection
whether or not it is identified as copyrighted. Except for that
information which is in the public domain or for which you have
been given permission, you will not copy, modify, publish, transmit,
distribute, perform, display or sell any such proprietary information.
By posting information or content to any area of MeetYourDate.net, you
automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have
the right to grant, to MeetYourDate.net and other Members 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.
INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY MEMBER
We will respect your personal information and undertake to comply
with all applicable data protection legislation in the jurisdictions
in which we offer the Service, subject to the Privacy Policy of
MeetYourDate.net.The personal information (including sensitive personal
information) you provide to us will be stored on computer. You consent
to us using this information to build up a profile of interests,
preferences and browsing patterns and to allow you to participate
in the MeetYourDate.net Service. All Members also agree to uphold
and maintain our Privacy Policy and to the terms and conditions
thereof. You may read a full description of our Privacy Policy at
http://www.meetyourdate.net/privacy.html.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY. MEETYOURDATE.NET PROVIDES THE SERVICE
AND THE SITE ON AN "AS IS" BASIS AND GRANTS NO WARRANTIES
OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, IN ANY COMMUNICATION
WITH MEETYOURDATE.NET OR ITS REPRESENTATIVES, OR OTHERWISE WITH
RESPECT TO THE SERVICE OR THE SITE. MEETYOURDATE.NET SPECIFICALLY
DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NONINFRINGEMENT. MEETYOURDATE.NET DOES NOT
WARRANT THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE OR THE SITE WILL BE SECURE,
UNINTERRUPTED, ALWAYS AVAILABLE OR ERROR-FREE, OR WILL MEET YOUR
REQUIREMENTS, OR THAT ANY DEFECTS IN THE SERVICE OR THE SITE WILL
BE CORRECTED. MEETYOURDATE.NET DISCLAIMS LIABILITY FOR, AND NO WARRANTY
IS MADE WITH RESPECT TO, TELEPHONE OR OTHER SERVICE, INCLUDING COVERAGE,
RANGE, OR ANY INTERRUPTION IN TELEPHONE OR OTHER SERVICE.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. IN NO EVENT WILL MEETYOURDATE.NET
BE LIABLE:
(i) TO YOU FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INDIRECT DAMAGES
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF DATA, LOSS OF
PROGRAMS, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES OR SERVICE
INTERRUPTIONS) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE
SERVICE OR THE SITE, EVEN IF MEETYOURDATE.NET OR ITS AGENTS OR REPRESENTATIVES
KNOW OR HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
(ii) TO ANY PERSON OTHER THAN YOU. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY CONTRARY
PROVISION HEREIN BUT SUBJECT TO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION ON LIABILITY,
IN ALL EVENTS MEETYOURDATE.NET 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 MEETYOURDATE.NET FOR THE SERVICE
DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
In addition, MeetYourDate.net disclaims all liability, regardless
of the form of action, for the acts or omissions of other Members
or users (including unauthorized users, or "hackers")
of the Service. Certain jurisdictions limit the applicability of
warranty disclaimers and limitations of liability so the above disclaimers
of warranty and limitations of liability may not apply to you. We
do not exclude any liability for death or personal injury due to
our negligence.
COPYRIGHT POLICY
We respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask our Members
to do the same. If you believe that a copy of your work is available
on the Service without your consent or that a copyright infringement
has otherwise occurred, please supply us with the following information:
- A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been
infringed.
- Details of where the infringing material is located on the Site.
- Your address, telephone number and e-mail address.
- A statement by you that you believe in good faith that the use
of the work on the Site is not authorized by the copyright owner
or any person entitled to act on their behalf or by law.
- An affidavit executed by you that the information you provide
concerning the copyright infringed is accurate and that you are
the copyright owner authorized to act on their behalf.
Please deliver this information to: MeetYourDate.net, Silversteen
Estate, Steenberg Road, Tokai, Cape Town, South Africa.
COMPLAINTS
To resolve a complaint regarding the Service or the Site, you should
contact MeetYourDate.net Customer Support using the current contact
information supplied inside and outside the members area.
TRADEMARK NOTICES
All trademarks, logos, service marks; company or product names set
forth in this Website are the property of their respective owners.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
This Agreement with you, set out in these Member Terms and Conditions,
is governed by English law and you and we submit to the non-exclusive
jurisdiction of the English Courts in the event of any dispute regarding
these Terms or the Service or the Site or any matter related thereto.
This Agreement shall not be governed by the United Nations Convention
on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, the application
of which is hereby expressly excluded. This Agreement, accepted
by you upon registering for the Service, contains the entire agreement
between you and MeetYourDate.net regarding the Service and the Site,
including the MeetYourDate.net Privacy Agreement. In the event of
any conflict between the Privacy Agreement and this Agreement, this
Agreement shall control. Unless otherwise explicitly stated, the
Terms will survive termination of your membership to the Service.
This Agreement shall terminate immediately and without notice if
you breach any of the Terms, subject to the survival of all rights
and reservations of MeetYourDate.net. If any provision of this Agreement
is held invalid, the remainder of this Agreement shall continue
in full force and effect. The Member certifies that the Member has
read and agrees to be bound by these MeetYourDate.net Member Terms
and Conditions.
The Member certifies that the Member has read and agrees to
be bound by these MEETYOURDATE.NET ONLINE DATING SERVICE Member
Terms and Conditions.
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