Terms and Conditions
Friendango.com Terms of Use Agreement
February, 2007
Friendango.com is a social networking service that allows Members to create
unique personal profiles online in order to find and communicate with old and
new friends. The services offered by Friendango.com ("Friendango.com"
or "we") include the Friendango.com website (the "Friendango
Website"), and any other features, content, or applications offered from
time to time by Friendango.com in connection with the Friendango Website
(collectively, the "Friendango Services"). The Friendango Services
are hosted in the U.S.
This Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") sets forth the legally
binding terms for your use of the Friendango Services. By using the Friendango
Services, you agree to be bound by this Agreement, whether you are a
"Visitor" (which means that you simply browse the Friendango Website)
or you are a "Member" (which means that you have registered with
Friendango.com). The term "User" refers to a Visitor or a Member. You
are only authorized to use the Friendango Services (regardless of whether your
access or use is intended) if you agree to abide by all applicable laws and to
this Agreement. Please read this Agreement carefully and save it. If you do not
agree with it, you should leave the Friendango Website and discontinue use of
the Friendango Services immediately. If you wish to become a Member,
communicate with other Members and make use of the Friendango Services, you
must read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance during the Registration
process.
This Agreement includes Friendango.com's policy for acceptable use of the
Friendango Services and Content posted on the Friendango Website, your rights,
obligations and restrictions regarding your use of the Friendango Services and
Friendango.com's Privacy Policy. In order to participate in certain Friendango
Services, you may be notified that you are required to download software or
content and/or agree to additional terms and conditions. Unless otherwise
provided by the additional terms and conditions applicable to the Friendango
Services in which you choose to participate, those additional terms are hereby
incorporated into this Agreement. You may receive a copy of this Agreement by
emailing us at: privacy@Friendango.com,
Subject: Terms of Use Agreement.
Friendango.com may modify this Agreement from time to time and such
modification shall be effective upon posting by Friendango.com on the
Friendango Website. You agree to be bound to any changes to this Agreement when
you use the Friendango Services after any such modification is posted. It is
therefore important that you review this Agreement regularly to ensure you are
updated as to any changes.
Please choose carefully the information you post on Friendango.com and that
you provide to other Users. Your Friendango.com profile may not include the
following items: telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, and any
photographs containing nudity, or obscene, lewd, excessively violent,
harassing, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable subject matter. Despite
this prohibition, information provided by other Friendango.com Members (for
instance, in their Profile) may contain inaccurate, inappropriate, offensive or
sexually explicit material, products or services, and Friendango.com assumes no
responsibility or liability for this material. If you become aware of misuse of
the Friendango Services by any person, please contact report@Friendango.com.
Friendango.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse
to post or remove any posting (including private messages) by you, or to
restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the Friendango
Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and
without liability.
- Eligibility.
Use of and Membership in the
Friendango Services is void where prohibited. By using the Friendango
Services, you represent and warrant that (a) all registration information
you submit is truthful and accurate; (b) you will maintain the accuracy of
such information; (c) you are 14 years of age or older; and (d) your use
of the Friendango Services does not violate any applicable law or regulation.
Your profile may be deleted and your Membership may be terminated without
warning, if we believe that you are under 14 years of age.
- Term.
This Agreement shall remain in
full force and effect while you use the Friendango Services or are a
Member. You may terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason, by emailing
admins@friendango.com.
Friendango.com may terminate your Membership at any time, without warning.
Even after Membership is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect,
including sections 5-17.
- Fees.
You acknowledge that
Friendango.com reserves the right to charge for the Friendango Services
and to change its fees from time to time in its discretion. If
Friendango.com terminates your Membership because you have breached the
Agreement, you shall not be entitled to the refund of any unused portion
of subscription fees.
- Password.
When you sign up to become a
Member, you will also be asked to choose a password. You are entirely
responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. You
agree not to use the account, username, or password of another Member at
any time or to disclose your password to any third party. You agree to
notify Friendango.com immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of
your account or access to your password. You are solely responsible for
any and all use of your account.
- Non-commercial Use by Members.
The Friendango Services are for the personal use of Members only and may
not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that
are specifically endorsed or approved by Friendango.com. Illegal and/or
unauthorized use of the Friendango Services, including collecting
usernames and/or email addresses of Members by electronic or other means
for the purpose of sending unsolicited email or unauthorized framing of or
linking to the Friendango Website is prohibited. Commercial
advertisements, affiliate links, and other forms of solicitation may be
removed from Member profiles without notice and may result in termination
of Membership privileges. Appropriate legal action will be taken for any
illegal or unauthorized use of the Friendango Services.
- Proprietary Rights in Content on Friendango.com.
- Friendango.com
does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos,
video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or any other materials
(collectively, "Content") that you post to the Friendango
Services. After posting your Content to the Friendango Services, you
continue to retain all ownership rights in such Content, and you continue
to have the right to use your Content in any way you choose. By
displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content on or through
the Friendango Services, you hereby grant to Friendango.com a limited license
to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and
distribute such Content solely on and through the Friendango Services.
Without this license, Friendango.com would be
unable to provide the Friendango Services. For example, without the right to modify
Member Content, Friendango.com would not be able to digitally compress music
files that Members submit or otherwise format Content to satisfy technical
requirements, and without the right to publicly perform Member Content,
Friendango.com could not allow Users to listen to music posted by Members. The
license you grant to Friendango.com is non-exclusive (meaning you are free to
license your Content to anyone else in addition to Friendango.com), fully-paid
and royalty-free (meaning that Friendango.com is not required to pay you for
the use on the Friendango Services of the Content that you post), sublicensable
(so that Friendango.com is able to use its affiliates and subcontractors such
as Internet content delivery networks to provide the Friendango Services), and
worldwide (because the Internet and the Friendango Services are global in
reach). This license will terminate at the time you remove your Content from
the Friendango Services. The license does not grant Friendango.com the right to
sell your Content, nor does the license grant Friendango.com the right to
distribute your Content outside of the Friendango Services.
- You
represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or
through the Friendango Services or otherwise have the right to grant the
license set forth in this section, and (ii) the posting of your Content
on or through the Friendango Services does not violate the privacy
rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights
of any person. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other
monies owing any person by reason of any Content posted by you to or
through the Friendango Services.
- The
Friendango Services contain Content of Friendango.com
("Friendango.com Content"). Friendango.com Content is protected
by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other laws, and
Friendango.com owns and retains all rights in the Friendango.com Content
and the Friendango Services. Friendango.com hereby grants you a limited,
revocable, nonsublicensable license to reproduce and display the
Friendango.com Content (excluding any software code) solely for your
personal use in connection with viewing the Friendango Website and using
the Friendango Services.
- The
Friendango Services contain Content of Users and other Friendango.com
licensors. Except for Content posted by you, you may not copy, modify,
translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or
sell any Content appearing on or through the Friendango Services.
- Content
- Friendango.com
may delete any Content that in the sole judgment of Friendango.com
violates this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the
rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any person. Friendango.com
assumes no responsibility for monitoring the Friendango Services for
inappropriate Content or conduct. If at any time Friendango.com chooses,
in its sole discretion, to monitor the Friendango Services,
Friendango.com nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the Content, no
obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate Content, and no
responsibility for the conduct of the User submitting any such Content.
- You are
solely responsible for the Content that you post on or through any of the
Friendango Services, and any material or information that you transmit to
other Members and for your interactions with other Users. Friendango.com
does not endorse and has no control over the Content. Content is not
necessarily reviewed by Friendango.com prior to posting and does not
necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of Friendango.com.
Friendango.com makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the Content
or to the accuracy and reliability of the Content or any material or
information that you transmit to other Members.
- Content/Activity
The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or
prohibited to post on or through the Friendango Services. Friendango.com
reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action
against anyone who, in Friendango.com's sole discretion, violates this
provision, including without limitation, removing the offending
communication from the Friendango Services and terminating the Membership
of such violators. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to
Content that, in the sole discretion of Friendango.com:
- is
patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm
of any kind against any group or individual;
- harasses
or advocates harassment of another person;
- exploits
people in a sexual or violent manner;
- contains
nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an
adult website;
- solicits
personal information from anyone under 18;
- provides
any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email
addresses;
- promotes
information that you know is false or 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;
- involves
the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or
unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming," or
"spamming";
- contains
restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those
not linked to or from another accessible page);
- furthers
or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional
information about illegal activities including, but not limited to 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;
- involves
commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such
as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
- includes
a photograph of another person that you have posted without that person's
consent; or
- for band
and filmmaker profiles, uses sexually suggestive imagery or any other
unfair, misleading or deceptive Content intended to draw traffic to the
profile.
The following is a partial list of the kind of
activity that is illegal or prohibited on the Friendango Website and through
your use of the Friendango Services. Friendango.com reserves the right to
investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in
Friendango.com's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without
limitation, reporting you to law enforcement authorities. Prohibited activity
includes, but is not limited to:
- criminal
or tortious activity, including child pornography, fraud, trafficking in
obscene material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming,
spimming, sending of viruses or other harmful files, copyright
infringement, patent infringement, or theft of trade secrets;
- advertising
to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or
services through the Friendango Services. You may not transmit any chain
letters or junk email to other Members. It is also a violation of these
rules to use any information obtained from the Friendango Services 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, Friendango.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 Friendango.com deems appropriate in
its sole discretion. If you breach this Agreement and send unsolicited
bulk email, instant messages or other unsolicited communications of any
kind through the Friendango Services, you acknowledge that you will have
caused substantial harm to Friendango.com, but that the amount of such
harm would be extremely difficult to ascertain. As a reasonable
estimation of such harm, you agree to pay Friendango.com $50 for each
such unsolicited email or other unsolicited communication you send
through the Friendango Services;
- covering
or obscuring the banner advertisements on your personal profile page, or
any Friendango.com page via HTML/CSS or any other means;
- any
automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends or send
comments or messages;
- interfering
with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the Friendango Services
or the networks or services connected to the Friendango Services;
- attempting
to impersonate another Member or person;
- for band
profiles, copying the code for your Friendango Player and embedding it
into other profiles or asking other Members to embed it into their
profiles;
- using
the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or
disclosing your password to any third party or permitting any third party
to access your account;
- selling
or otherwise transferring your profile;
- using
any information obtained from the Friendango Services in order to harass,
abuse, or harm another person;
- displaying
an advertisement on your profile, or accepting payment or anything of
value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial
activity on or through the Friendango Services on behalf of that person,
such as placing commercial content on your profile, posting blogs or
bulletins with a commercial purpose, selecting a profile with a
commercial purpose as one of your "Top 8" friends, or sending
private messages with a commercial purpose; or
- using
the Friendango Services in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable
laws and regulations.
- Copyright
You may not post, modify, distribute, or reproduce in any way any
copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information
belonging to others without obtaining the prior written consent of the
owner of such proprietary rights. It is the policy of Friendango.com to
terminate Membership privileges of any Member who repeatedly infringes the
copyright rights of others upon receipt of proper notification to
Friendango.com by the copyright owner or the copyright owner's legal
agent. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work has
been copied and posted on the Friendango Services in a way that
constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent
with the following information: (i) an electronic or physical signature of
the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright
interest; (ii) a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has
been infringed; (iii) a description of where the material that you claim
is infringing is located on the Friendango Services; (iv) your address,
telephone number, and email address; (v) 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; (vi) 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. Friendango.com's Copyright Agent for notice of
claims of copyright infringement can be reached as follows: email: copyrightagent@Friendango.com.
- Member
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Friendango.com
Members. Friendango.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to
monitor disputes between you and other Members.
- Privacy.
Use of the Friendango Services
is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into this
Agreement by this reference.
- Disclaimers.
Friendango.com is not
responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the
Friendango Website or in connection with the Friendango Services, whether
caused by Users of the Friendango Services or by any of the equipment or
programming associated with or utilized in the Friendango Services.
Profiles created and posted by Members on the Friendango Website may
contain links to other websites. Friendango.com is not responsible for the
Content, accuracy or opinions expressed on such websites, and such
websites are in no way investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or
completeness by Friendango.com. Inclusion of any linked website on the
Friendango Services does not imply approval or endorsement of the linked
website by Friendango.com. When you access these third-party sites, you do
so at your own risk. Friendango.com takes no responsibility for third party
advertisements which are posted on this Friendango Website or through the
Friendango Services, nor does it take any responsibility for the goods or
services provided by its advertisers. Friendango.com is not responsible
for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any User of the Friendango
Services. Friendango.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, any User or Member
communication. Friendango.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
any email or players due to technical problems or traffic congestion on
the Internet or on any of the Friendango Services or combination thereof,
including any injury or damage to Users or to any person's computer
related to or resulting from participation or downloading materials in
connection with the Friendango Services. Under no circumstances shall
Friendango.com be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal
injury or death, resulting from use of the Friendango Services, attendance
at a Friendango.com event, from any Content posted on or through the
Friendango Services, or from the conduct of any Users of the Friendango
Services, whether online or offline. The Friendango Services are provided
"AS-IS" and as available and Friendango.com expressly disclaims
any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement.
Friendango.com cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results
from use of the Friendango Services.
- Limitation
IN NO EVENT SHALL FRIENDANGO.COM BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR
ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE
DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE
SERVICES, EVEN IF FRIENDANGO.COM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN,
FRIENDANGO.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 FRIENDANGO.COM FOR THE FRIENDANGO SERVICES DURING
THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
- U.S. Export Controls.
Software available in
connection with the Friendango Services (the "Software") is
further subject to United States export controls. No Software may be
downloaded from the Friendango Services or otherwise exported or
re-exported in violation of U.S. export laws. Downloading or using the
Software is at your sole risk.
- Disputes.
If there is any dispute about
or involving the Friendango Services, you agree that the dispute shall be governed
by the laws of the State of Wyoming, USA, without regard to conflict of
law provisions and you agree to exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue
in the state and federal courts of the United States located in the State
of Wyoming, City of Cheyenne. Either Friendango.com or you may demand that
any dispute between Friendango.com and you about or involving the
Friendango Services must be settled by arbitration utilizing the dispute
resolution procedures of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) in Cheyenne,
Wyoming, USA, provided that the foregoing shall not prevent Friendango.com
from seeking injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.
- Indemnity.
You agree to indemnify and
hold Friendango.com, its subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their
respective officers, agents, partners and employees, harmless from any
loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees,
made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the
Friendango Services 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 and/or if any Content that you post on the
Friendango Website or through the Friendango Services causes Friendango.com
to be liable to another.
- Other.
This Agreement is accepted
upon your use of the Friendango Website or any of the Friendango Services
and is further affirmed by you becoming a Member. This Agreement
constitutes the entire agreement between you and Friendango.com regarding
the use of the Friendango Services. The failure of Friendango.com to
exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not
operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in this
Agreement are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual
effect. Friendango.com is a trademark of Friendango, Inc. This Agreement
operates to the fullest extent permissible by law. If any provision of
this Agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision is
deemed severable from this Agreement and does not affect the validity and
enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Please email us at: privacy@Friendango.com
with any questions regarding this Agreement.
I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED
ABOVE.