Welcome to MatchConnection.com, the service for adults to meet
each other online operated by MatchConnection.com, ("MatchConnection.com").
By using the MatchConnection.com Website (the "Website") you agree to be bound
by these Terms of Use (this "Agreement"), whether or not you register as a member
("Member"). If you wish to become a Member and communicate with other Members
and make use of the MatchConnection.com service (the "Service"), read these
Terms of Use and indicate your acceptance of them by following the instructions
in the Registration process. This Agreement sets out the legally binding terms
of your use of the Website and your membership in the Service and may be modified
by MatchConnection.com from time to time, such modifications to be effective
upon posting by MatchConnection.com on the Website. This Agreement includes
MatchConnection.com's Acceptable Use Policy for Content Posted on the Website,
MatchConnection.com's Privacy Policy, and any notices regarding the Website.
1. Eligibility. You must be eighteen or over to register as a
member of MatchConnection.com or use the Website. Membership in the Service
is void where prohibited. By using the Website, 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.
2. Term. This Agreement will remain in full force and effect while
you use the Website and/or are a Member. You may terminate your membership at
any time, for any reason by following the instructions on help pages, or upon
receipt by MatchConnection.com of your written or email notice of termination.
MatchConnection.com may terminate your membership for any reason, effective
upon sending notice to you at the email address you provide in your application
for membership, or such other email address as you may later provide to MatchConnection.com.
If MatchConnection.com 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.
3. Non Commercial Use by Members. The Website 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 Website for any purpose. Illegal and/or
unauthorized uses of the Website, 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 Website will
be investigated, and appropriate legal action will be taken, including without
limitation, civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.
4. Proprietary Rights in Content on MatchConnection.com. MatchConnection.com
owns and retains all proprietary rights in the Website and the Service. The
Website contains the copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary
information of MatchConnection.com, 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.
5. Content Posted on the Site.
a. You understand and agree that MatchConnection.com may review
and delete any content, messages, photos or profiles (collectively, "Content")
that in the sole judgment of MatchConnection.com violate this Agreement or which
might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten
the safety of Members.
b. You are solely responsible for the Content that you publish
or display (hereinafter, "post") on the Service, or transmit to other Members.
c. By posting Content to any public area of MatchConnection.com,
you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right
to grant, to MatchConnection.com 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.
d. The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that
is illegal or prohibited on the Website. MatchConnection.com 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
persons 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); 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 someones 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.
e. You must use the Service in a manner consistent with any and
all applicable laws and regulations.
f. You may not include in your Member profile any telephone numbers,
street addresses, last names, URLs or email addresses.
g. 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 MatchConnection.com
cannot monitor the conduct of its Members off the Website, 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, MatchConnection.com
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 MatchConnection.com
deems appropriate in its sole discretion.
6. 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 MatchConnection.com with 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 Website; 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.
7. Member Disputes. You are solely responsible for your interactions
with other MatchConnection.com Members. MatchConnection.com, Inc. reserves the
right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
8. Privacy. Use of the Website and/or the Service is also governed
by our Privacy Policy.
9. Disclaimers. MatchConnection.com is not responsible for any
incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the Website or in connection with
the Service, whether caused by users of the Website, Members or by any of the
equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Service. MatchConnection.com
is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of
the Website or Member of the Service. MatchConnection.com 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. MatchConnection.com
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 Website 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 MatchConnection.com
be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting
from anyone's use of the Website or the Service, any Content posted on the Website
or transmitted to Members, or any interactions between users of the Website,
whether online or offline. The Website and the Service are provided "AS-IS"
and MatchConnection.com expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular
purpose or non-infringement. MatchConnection.com cannot guarantee and does not
promise any specific results from use of the Website and/or the Service.
10. Limitation on Liability. In no event will MatchConnection.com
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 MatchConnection.com has
been advised of the possibility of such damages. Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary contained herein, MatchConnection.com’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 MatchConnection.com for
the Service during the term of membership.
11. U.S. Export Controls. Software from this Website (the software)
is further subject to United States export controls. No Software may be downloaded
from the Website or otherwise exported or re-exported (i) into (or to a national
or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Syria, or any other Country
to which the U.S. has embargoed goods; or (ii) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury
Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's
Table of Deny Orders. By downloading or using the Software, you represent and
warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or
resident of any such country or on any such list.
12. Disputes. If there is any dispute about or involving the Website
and/or the Service, by using the Website, you agree that the dispute will be
governed by the laws of the State of California 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 California.
13. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold MatchConnection.com,
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.
14. Other. This Agreement, accepted upon use of the Website and
further affirmed by becoming a Member of the Service, contains the entire agreement
between you and MatchConnection.com regarding the use of the Website and/or
the Service. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, the remainder
of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect. Contact us with any
questions regarding this agreement. MatchConection.Com is a registered trademark
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