Terms of Use
CapitolHillMatch.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 service is operated by
CapitolHillMatch.com. By using the CapitolHillMatch.com 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,
communicate with other Members and make use of the CapitolHillMatch.com
services (the "Service"), please read this Agreement and indicate
your acceptance by following the instructions in the Registration process.
This Agreement sets out the legally binding terms for your use of the
Website and your Membership in the Service.
CapitolHillMatch.com may modify this Agreement from time to time and such
modification shall be effective upon posting by CapitolHillMatch.com on the
Website. You agree to be bound to any changes to this Agreement when you use
the Service after any such modification is posted. This Agreement includes
CapitolHillMatch.com's policy for acceptable use and content posted on the
Website, your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of the
Website and the Service and CapitolHillMatch.com's Privacy Policy.
Please choose carefully the information you post on
CapitolHillMatch.com and that you provide to other Members. Any photographs
posted by you may not contain nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter.
Information provided by other CapitolHillMatch.com Members (for instance, in
their Profile) may contain inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive material,
products or services and CapitolHillMatch.com assumes no responsibility or
liability for this material.
CapitolHillMatch.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to
reject, refuse to post or remove any posting (including email) by you, or to
restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website
and/or Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior
notice, and without liability.
By participating in any offline CapitolHillMatch.com event, you agree
to release and hold CapitolHillMatch.com harmless from any and all losses,
damages, rights, claims, and actions of any kind including, without limitation,
personal injuries, death, and property damage, either directly or indirectly
related to or arising from your participation in any such offline
CapitolHillMatch.com event.
Terms
1) Eligibility
Membership in the Service where void is prohibited. By using the
Website and the Service, you represent and warrant that all registration
information you submit is truthful and accurate and that you agree to maintain
the accuracy of such information. You further represent and warrant that you
are 18 years of age or older and that your use of the CapitolHillMatch.com
shall not violate any applicable law or regulation. Your profile may be deleted
without warning, if it is found that you are misrepresenting your age. Your
Membership is solely for your personal use, and you shall not authorize others
to use your account, including your profile or email address. You are solely
responsible for all Content published or displayed through your account,
including any email messages, and for your interactions with other members.
2) Term/Fees
This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use the
Website, the Service, and/or are a Member. You may terminate your membership at
any time. CapitolHillMatch.com may terminate your membership for any reason,
effective upon sending notice to you at the email address you provide in your
Membership application or other email address as you may subsequently provide
to CapitolHillMatch.com. By using the Service and by becoming a Member, you acknowledge
that CapitolHillMatch.com reserves the right to charge for the Service and has
the right to terminate a Member's Membership. Member should breach this
Agreement or fail to pay for the Service, as required by this Agreement.
3) Non Commercial Use by Members
The Website is 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 the management of CapitolHillMatch.com.
Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the Website, 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
Website will be investigated. 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 by CapitolHillMatch.com for any illegal or unauthorized use
of the Website.
4) Proprietary Rights in Content on
CapitolHillMatch.com
CapitolHillMatch.com owns and retains all proprietary rights in the
Website and the Service. The Website contains copyrighted material, trademarks,
and other proprietary information of CapitolHillMatch.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 CapitolHillMatch.com may review and
delete any content, messages, CapitolHillMatch.com Messenger messages, photos
or profiles (collectively, "Content") that in the sole judgment of
CapitolHillMatch.com violate this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal
or violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any Member.
b. You are solely responsible for the Content that you publish
or display (hereinafter, "post") on the Service or any material or
information that you transmit to other Members.
c. By posting any Content to the public areas of the Website,
you hereby grant to CapitolHillMatch.com the non-exclusive, fully paid,
worldwide license to use, publicly perform and display such Content on the
Website. This license will terminate at the time you remove such Content from
the Website.
d. The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is
illegal or prohibited on the Website. CapitolHillMatch.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. Prohibited Content includes Content that:
i. Is patently offensive and promotes
racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or
individual;
ii. Harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
iii. Involves the transmission of "junk mail", "chain
letters," or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming";
iv. Promotes information that you know is false or misleading or
promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene,
defamatory or libelous;
v. 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;
vi. Contains restricted or password only
access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another
accessible page);
vii. Provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a
sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under
18;
viii. Provides instructional information about illegal activities such
as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing
or creating computer viruses;
ix. Solicits passwords or personal identifying information for
commercial or unlawful purposes from other users or;
x. Involves commercial activities and/or sales without our prior
written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid
schemes.
e. You must use the Service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
f. You may not engage in advertising to, or
solicitation of, any Member 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 CapitolHillMatch.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, CapitolHillMatch.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 CapitolHillMatch.com deems appropriate in its sole discretion.
g. You may not cover or obscure the banner advertisements on
your personal profile page, or any CapitolHillMatch.com page via HTML/CSS or
any other means.
h. Any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add
friends, is prohibited.
i. You may not attempt to impersonate another user or person who is
not a member of CapitolHillMatch.com.
j. You may not use the account, username, or password of another
Member at any time nor may you disclose your password to any third party or
permit any third party to access your account.
k. You may not sell or otherwise transfer your profile.
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. It is the policy
of CapitolHillMatch.com to terminate membership privileges of any member who
repeatedly infringes copyright upon prompt notification to CapitolHillMatch.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
Service in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our
Copyright Agent 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. CapitolHillMatch.com's Copyright Agent for
notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached via email address.
7) Member Disputes
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other CapitolHillMatch.com
Members. CapitolHillMatch.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to
monitor disputes between you and other Members.
8) Disclaimers
CapitolHillMatch.com is not responsible for any incorrect or
inaccurate Content posted on the Website or in connection with the Service
provided, whether caused by users of the Website, Members or by any of the
equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Service.
CapitolHillMatch.com is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or
offline, of any user of the Website or Member of the Service.
CapitolHillMatch.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. CapitolHillMatch.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 at any Website or combination thereof, including
any injury or damage to users and/or Members or to any person's computer
related to or resulting from participation or downloading materials in
connection with the Website and/or in connection with the Service. Under no
circumstances shall CapitolHillMatch.com be responsible for any loss or damage,
including personal injury or death, resulting from use of the Website or the
Service or from 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 CapitolHillMatch.com
expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or
non-infringement. CapitolHillMatch.com cannot guarantee and does not promise
any specific results from use of the Website and/or the Service.
9) Limitation on Liability
IN NO EVENT SHALL CapitolHillMatch.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
WEB SITE OR THE SERVICE, EVEN IF CapitolHillMatch.com HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED
HEREIN, CapitolHillMatch.com LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND
REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO AMOUNT
PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO CapitolHillMatch.com FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE TERM OF
MEMBERSHIP.
10) Disputes
If there is any dispute about or involving the Website and/or the
Service, by using the Website, you agree that any dispute shall be governed by the
laws of the area in which we are based without regard to conflict of law
provisions and you agree to personal jurisdiction by and venue in the area in
which we are based.
11) Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold CapitolHillMatch.com, its subsidiaries,
affiliates, officers, agents, and other 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 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.
12) Other
This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the Website and is further
affirmed by you becoming a Member of the Service. This Agreement constitutes
the entire agreement between you and CapitolHillMatch.com regarding the use of
the Website and/or the Service. The failure of CapitolHillMatch.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. Please contact us
with any questions regarding this Agreement. CapitolHillMatch.com is a registered
trademark of Jordec Sav Inc.
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