Welcome to DateHookup.com, the service for adults to meet each other online.
By using the DateHookup.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 DateHookup.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 DateHookup.com from time to
time, such modifications to be effective upon posting by DateHookup.com on the
Website. This Agreement includes DateHookup.com's Acceptable Use Policy for Content
Posted on the Website, and any notices regarding the
Website.
1. Eligibility: You must be eighteen or over to register as a
member of DateHookup.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 'Account Options' page.
DateHookup.com may terminate your membership for any
reason. Even after membership is terminated, this Agreement
will remain in effect. Even after this Agreement is terminated, certain
provisions will remain in effect, including sections 4, 5, 7 and 9-14 of this
Agreement.
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
DateHookup.com: DateHookup.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 DateHookup.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 DateHookup.com may review and delete any content,
messages, DateHookup.com messages, photos or profiles (collectively,
"Content") that in the sole judgment of DateHookup.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 DateHookup.com, you automatically grant,
and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to DateHookup.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. DateHookup.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 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);
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.
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 DateHookup.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, DateHookup.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 DateHookup.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.
7. DateHookup.com Chat: Our chat application requires that javascript is enabled
on your browser. It also requires Flash. If you don't have Flash installed it will prompt you
to install it.
8. Member Disputes: You are solely responsible for your interactions
with other DateHookup.com Members. DateHookup.com reserves the right, but has no
obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
9. Refunds: DateHookup.com does not provide refunds of any kind. All transactions
are final. Then again we don't charge for anything so this should not be a problem.
10. Forums: If you should decide to delete your account, your profile will be deleted along
with your photos, messages, etc. However any forum posts you have made will remain.
11. Disclaimers: DateHookup.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. DateHookup.com is not
responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the
Website or Member of the Service. DateHookup.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. DateHookup.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 DateHookup.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 DateHookup.com expressly disclaims
any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. DateHookup.com
cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the
Website and/or the Service.
12. Limitation on Liability: Except in jurisdictions where such
provisions are restricted, in no event will DateHookup.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 DateHookup.com has been advised of the possibility of
such damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein,
DateHookup.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 DateHookup.com for the Service during the term of membership.
13. 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, City of Sacramento.
14. Indemnity: You agree to indemnify and hold DateHookup.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.
15. 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 DateHookup.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.
|