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YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD TO REGISTER AS A MEMBER OF MEET THE ONE OR USE THE WEBSITE!
MEET THE ONE (collectively, our "Service"), provides a portal for you to interact with others around the globe and to meet people for leisure activities, friendship or for marriage. Your use of our Service is subject to the following Terms of Use. 1. ELIGIBILITY By using the Website of MEET THE ONE, you guarantee 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. USER CONDUCT (1) In your use of our Service, you agree to act responsibly in a manner demonstrating the exercise of good judgment. For example and without limitation, you agree not to: (a) violate any applicable law or regulation, (b) infringe the rights of any third party, including without limitation, intellectual property, privacy, publicity or contractual rights, (c) use the information available through our Service for any unauthorized purpose, (d) interfere with or damage our Service, including, without limitation, through the use of viruses, cancel bots, Trojan horses, harmful code, flood pings, denial of service attacks, packet or IP spoofing, forged routing or electronic mail address information or similar methods or technology, (e) use our Service to transmit, distribute, post or submit any information concerning any other person or entity, including without limitation, photographs of others, personal contact information or credit, debit, calling card or account numbers, (f) use our Service in connection with the distribution of unsolicited commercial email ("Spam") or advertisements, (g) "stalk" or harass any other user of our Service, (h) collect or store any information about any other user other than in the course of the permitted use of our Service, (i) use our Service for any commercial purpose whatsoever or (j) assist any third party in doing any of the foregoing. (2) You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of our Service. We will not be responsible for any damage or harm resulting from your interactions with other users of our Service. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor interactions between you and other users of our Service and take any other action in good faith to restrict access to or the availability of any material that we or another user of our Service may consider to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing or otherwise objectionable. 3. PRIVACY We understand the concerns that you may have about your privacy and respect your right to protect your personal information while online. MEET THE ONE will keep confidential ALL information supplied by you including credit card numbers and shall use or disclose such information only for the purposes for which such information was collected, or as required by law. We reserve the right to transfer such information without your consent to prevent an emergency, to protect or enforce our rights, to protect or enforce the rights of a third party or in response to a court order or subpoena as otherwise required or permitted by law 4. USER CONTENT (1) You are solely responsible for any content that you submit, post or transmit via our Service. You agree not to post or submit any content that: (a) is libelous, defamatory or slanderous, (b) contains sexually explicit content (including nudity), (c) may denigrate any ethnic, racial, sexual or religious group by stereotypical depiction or otherwise, (d) exploits images or the likeness of individuals under 18 years of age, (e) encourages or otherwise depicts glamorized drug use (including alcohol and cigarettes), (f) makes use of offensive language or images, (g) characterizes violence as acceptable, glamorous or desirable, or (h) contains any of your personal contact information other than your email address. 5. THIRD PARTY CONTENT In your use of our services you may access content from third parties ("Third Party Content"), either via our Service or through links to third party web sites. We do not control Third Party Content and make no representations or warranties about it. You agree that by using our Service, you may be exposed to Third Party Content that is false, offensive, indecent or otherwise objectionable. Under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for any Third Party Content, including, without limitation, any errors or omissions in any Third Party Content or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Third Party Content posted, stored or transmitted via our Service. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, Third Party Content, including without limitation, profiles of other users of our Service. 6. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS (1) You agree that all content and materials available on our Site are protected by rights of publicity, copyright, trademarks, service marks, patents, trade secrets or other proprietary rights and laws. Except as expressly authorized by us, you agree not to sell, license, rent, modify, distribute, copy, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, adapt, edit or create derivative works from materials or content available on our Site. Notwithstanding the above, you may use the content and materials on our Site in the course of your normal, personal, non-commercial use of our Service. (2) You agree not to systematically retrieve data or other content or any materials from our Site to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, directory or the like, whether by manual methods, through the use of "bots" or otherwise. You agree not to use of any of our trademarks as metatags on other web sites. You agree not to display any of our Site in a frame (or any of our content via in-line links) without our express written permission, which may be requested by contacting us at support@meet-the-one.com. You may, however, establish ordinary links to the homepage of our Site without our written permission. 7. USERNAME AND PASSWORD You will select a username and password when completing the registration process. You are solely and fully responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your username and password, and are solely and fully responsible for all activities that occur under your username and password. You agree to: (a) immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your username and password or any other breach of security and (b) ensure that you log off from your account at the end of each session. We cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this Section 7. 8. TERMINATION You may terminate your membership at any time, for any reason online through "Services" or upon receipt of your written or email notification of termination by MEET THE ONE. You agree that MEET THE ONE may terminate your access to our Service for any reason, including, without limitation, your breach of these Terms. You agree that any termination of your access to our Service may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that we may immediately deactivate or delete any of your accounts and all related information and files in such accounts and/or bar any further access to such files or our Service. Further, you agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your access to our Service. 9. DISCONTINUANCE OF SERVICE 10. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES You hereby represent and warrant to us that: (a) that you have the full power and authority to enter into and perform under these Terms, (b) your use our Service will not infringe the copyright, trademark, right of publicity or any other legal right of any third party, (c) you will comply with all applicable laws in using our Service and in engaging in all other activities arising from, relating to or connected with these Terms, including, without limitation, contacting other users of our Service and (d) you own or otherwise have all rights necessary to license the content you submit and that the posting and use of your content by us will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party. 11. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES (2) We do not warrant (a) our service will meet your requirements, (b) our service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, (c) any information that you may obtain on our service will be accurate or reliable, (d) the quality of any products, services, information or other material purchased or obtained by you throught our service will meet your expectations, (e) any information you provide or we collect will not be disclosed to third parties or (f) any errors in any data or software will be corrected. (3) If you access or transmit any content throught the use of our service, you do so at your own descretion ans your sole risk. You are solely responsible for any loss or damage to you in connection with such actions. 12. LIMITS ON LIABILITY (1) You agree that we will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidential, special, consequental or exemplary damages (even if we habe been advised of the possibility of such damages), arising from, related to or cennected with (a) the use or inability to use our service, (b) the cost of replacement of any goods, services or information purchased or obtained as a result of any information obtained from or transactions entered into throught or from our service, (c) disclosure of, unauthorized access to or alternation of your content, (d) statements, conduct or omissions of any service providers or other third party on our service or (e) any other matter arising from, relating to or connected with our service or these terms. (2) We will not be liable for any failure or delay in performing under these Terms of Use where such failure or dealy is due to causes beyond our reasonable control, including natural catastrophes, governmental acts or omissions, laws or regulations, terrorism, labor strikes or difficulties, communications system breakdowns, hardware or software failure, transportation stoppages or slowdowns or the inability to procure supplies or materials. 13. INDEMNITY You agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from any claim, demand, action, damage, loss, cost or expense, including without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees, incurred in connection with any suit or proceeding brought against us arising out of your use of our Service or alleging facts or circumstances that could constitute a breach of any provision of these Terms by you. If you are obligated to indemnify us, we will have the right, in our sole and unfettered discretion, to control any action or proceeding and determine whether we wish to settle it, and if so, on what terms. 14. SEVERABILITY You agree that the terms of this Agreement are severable. If any term or provision is declared invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, that term or provision will not affect the remainder of this Agreement; this Agreement will be deemed amended to the extent necessary to make this Agreement enforceable, valid, and to the maximum extent possible consistent with applicable law, consistent with the original intentions of the parties; and the remaining terms and provisions will remain in full force and effect. 15. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION This Agreement and your use of the Website and Service shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Germany. MEET THE ONE is a service provided by the-e-project.de OHG, Franz-Wüllner-Str. 1, 81247 Munich, Germany. München, 25.04.2005 |