Amazing.com Terms of Use Agreement
Amazing.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 Amazing.com,
("Amazing.com"). By using the Amazing.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, communicate with other
Members and make use of the Amazing.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. Amazing.com may modify this Agreement from time
to time and such modification shall be effective upon posting by Amazing.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
Amazing.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 Amazing.com's Privacy Policy. You may also receive a copy of this
Agreement by emailing us at: mailto:billy@amazing.com
Subject: Terms of Use Agreement.
Please choose
carefully the information you post on Amazing.com and that you provide to other
Members. Your Amazing.com profile may not include the following items:
telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, and any photographs posted by
you may not contain nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter. Information
provided by other Amazing.com Members (for instance, in their Profile) may
contain inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive material, products or services
and Amazing.com assumes no responsibility or liability for this material.
Amazing.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 Amazing.com event, you agree to release and hold
Amazing.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 Amazing.com event.
1.
Eligibility. Membership in the Service is void
where 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 14 years of age or older and that your use
of the Amazing.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, for any reason by following the
instructions on the member Account page. Amazing.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 such other email address as you may
subsequently provide to Amazing.com. If Amazing.com terminates your Membership
in the Service because you have breached the Agreement, you shall not be
entitled to the refund of any unused portion of subscription fees. Even after
membership is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect, including
sections 4, 5, 7 and 9-14. Amazing.com's Terms of Use and/or subscription fees
that were provided to you at registration may change from time to time. By
using the Service and by becoming a Member, you acknowledge that Amazing.com
reserves the right to charge for the Service and has the right to terminate a
Member's Membership should Member 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 Amazing.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 Amazing.com
for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Website.
4.
Proprietary Rights in Content on Amazing.com. Amazing.com
owns and retains all proprietary rights in the Website and the Service. The
Website contains copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary
information of Amazing.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 Amazing.com may review and
delete any content, messages, Amazing.com Messenger messages, photos or
profiles (collectively, "Content") that in the sole judgment of
Amazing.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 Amazing.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. You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by
you on the Website or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth
in this section, and (ii) your Content does not violate the privacy rights,
publicity rights, copyright rights, or other intellectual property rights of
any person. You agree to pay for all royalties and fees owing any person by
reason of any Content you post on the Website. d. The following is a partial
list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Website.
Amazing.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; (xi)
for band profiles, uses sexually suggestive imagery or any other unfair,
misleading or deceptive content intended to draw traffic to the profile. 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, 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 Amazing.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, Amazing.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 Amazing.com deems appropriate in its sole
discretion. h. You may not cover or obscure the banner advertisements on your
personal profile page, or any Amazing page via HTML/CSS or any other means. i.
Any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends, is
prohibited. j. You may not attempt to impersonate another user or person who is
not a member of Amazing.com. k. For band profiles, you may not copy the code
for your Amazing Player and embed it into other profiles or ask other Members
to embed it into their profiles. l. 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. m. You may
not sell or otherwise transfer your profile.
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. It is the policy of Amazing.com to terminate membership
privileges of any member who repeatedly infringes copyright upon prompt
notification to Amazing.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.
Amazing.com's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement
can be reached as follows: Copyright Agent, Amazing.com; Emerald Hill Mansion:
417 Coyle Curtain Road: Monongahela, Pennsylvania 15063.
7.
Member Disputes. You are solely responsible for
your interactions with other Amazing.com Members. Amazing.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. Amazing.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.
Amazing.com is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of
any user of the Website or Member of the Service. Amazing.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.
Amazing.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 Amazing.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 Amazing.com expressly
disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement.
Amazing.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 SHALL AMAZING.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 AMAZING.COM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, AMAZING.COM.S
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
AMAZING.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 any dispute shall be governed by the laws of the State of
Pennsylvania without regard to conflict of law provisions and you agree to
personal jurisdiction by and venue in the state and federal courts of the State
of Pennsylvania, County of Washington Pennsylvania.
13.
Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and
hold Amazing.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.
14.
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
Amazing.com regarding the use of the Website and/or the Service. The failure of
Amazing.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.
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