Terms
Military Friends Online 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 Military
Friends Online. By using the Military Friends Online 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 Military Friends Online
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.
Military Friends Online may modify this Agreement from time
to time and such modification shall be effective upon posting by Military
Friends Online 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 Military Friends Online'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 Military Friends Online's
Privacy Policy.
Please choose carefully the information you post on Military
Friends Online 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 Military Friends Online Members (for instance, in their
Profile) may contain inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive material, products
or services and Military Friends Online assumes no responsibility nor liability
for this material.
Military Friends Online 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 lability.
By participating in any offline Military Friends Online event,
you agree to release and hold Military Friends Online 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 Military
Friends Online event.
Terms of Use
1) Your Interactions.
You are solely responsible for your interactions and
communication with other Members. You understand that Military Friends Online
does not in any way screen its Members, nor does Military Friends Online
inquire into the backgrounds of its Members or attempt to verify the statements
of its Members. Military Friends Online makes no representations or warranties
as to the conduct of Members or their compatibility with any current or future
Members. We do however recommend that if you choose to meet or exchange
personal information with any member of Military Friends Online then you should
take it upon yourself to do a background check on said person.
In no event shall Military Friends Online be liable for any
damages whatsoever, whether direct, indirect, general, special, compensatory,
consequential, and/or incidental, arising out of or relating to the conduct of
you or anyone else in connection with the use of the Service, including without
limitation, bodily injury, emotional distress, and/or any other damages
resulting from communications or meetings with other registered users of this
Service or persons you meet through this Service.
2) 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 Military Friends Online
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.
3) 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. Military Friends Online 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 Military Friends Online. By using the Service and by
becoming a Member, you acknowledge that Military Friends Online reserves the
right to charge for the Service and has the right to terminate a Member's
Membership if Member should breach this Agreement or fail to pay for the
Service, as required by this Agreement.
4) 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 Military Friends Online.
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 Military Friends Online for any illegal or unauthorized
use of the Website.
5) Proprietary Rights in Content on Military Friends Online.
Military Friends Online owns and retains all proprietary
rights in the Website and the Service. The Website contains copyrighted
material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of Military Friends
Online 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.
6) Content Posted on the Site.
a. You understand and agree that Military Friends Online may
review and delete any content, messages, Military Friends Online Messenger
messages, photos or profiles (collectively, "Content") that in the
sole judgment of Military Friends Online 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 Military Friends Online 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. Military Friends Online 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 Military Friends Online 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, Military Friends Online 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 Military Friends Online deems
appropriate in its sole discretion.
g. You may not cover or obscure the banner advertisements on
your personal profile page, or any Military Friends Online 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 Military Friends Online.
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.
7) 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 Military Friends Online to terminate membership privileges of
any member who repeatedly infringes copyright upon prompt notification to Military
Friends Online 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. Military Friends Online's Copyright Agent
for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached via email
address.
8) Member Disputes.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Military
Friends Online Members. Military Friends Online reserves the right, but has no
obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
9) Disclaimers.
Military Friends Online 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. Military
Friends Online is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline,
of any user of the Website or Member of the Service. Military Friends Online
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. Military Friends Online 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 Military
Friends Online 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 Military Friends Online expressly disclaims
any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Military
Friends Online 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 Military Friends Online 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 Military Friends Online HAS BEEN
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE
CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, Military Friends Online'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 Military Friends Online FOR THE
SERVICE DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
11) 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.
12) Indemnity.
You agree to indemnify and hold Military Friends Online, 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.
13) 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 Military Friends Online
regarding the use of the Website and/or the Service. The failure of Military
Friends Online 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. Military
Friends Online is a trademark of <owners business name>.
I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.