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Terms of Use Agreement
TheConnectionCenter.com is a community networking service
that allows members to create unique personal profiles
online in order to find and communicate with one another.
The service is operated by TheConnectionCenter.com,
("TheConnectionCenter.com"). By using the
TheConnectionCenter.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 TheConnectionCenter.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.
TheConnectionCenter.com may modify this Agreement from
time to time and such modification shall be effective
upon posting by TheConnectionCenter.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 TheConnectionCenter.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 TheConnectionCenter.com's
Privacy Policy. You may also receive a copy of this
Agreement by emailing us at: privacy@theconnectioncenter.com.,
Subject: Terms of Use Agreement.
Please choose carefully the information you post on
TheConnectionCenter.com and that you provide to other
Members. Your TheConnectionCenter.com profile may not
include the following items: any photographs posted
by you may not contain nudity, violence, or offensive
subject matter. Information provided by other TheConnectionCenter.com
Members (for instance, in their Profile) may contain
inaccurate, inappropriate or offensive material, products
or services and TheConnectionCenter.com assumes no responsibility
or liability for this material.
TheConnectionCenter.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 TheConnectionCenter.com
event, you agree to release and hold TheConnectionCenter.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 TheConnectionCenter.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 18 years of age or
older and that your use of the TheConnectionCenter.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, and you
are younger than 18. 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. TheConnectionCenter.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 TheConnectionCenter.com.
If TheConnectionCenter.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. TheConnectionCenter.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 TheConnectionCenter.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 commercial endeavors
must be specifically endorsed or approved by the community
administrator or management of TheConnectionCenter.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. Unauthorized 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 TheConnectionCenter.com
for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Website.
4. Proprietary Rights in Content on TheConnectionCenter.com.
TheConnectionCenter.com owns and retains all proprietary
rights in the Website and the Service. The Website contains
copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary
information of TheConnectionCenter.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 TheConnectionCenter.com may review and delete
any content, messages, TheConnectionCenter.com Messenger
messages, photos or profiles (collectively, "Content")
that in the sole judgment of TheConnectionCenter.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 Content on
any public area of TheConnectionCenter.com, you automatically
grant as well as represent and warrant that you have
the right to grant to TheConnectionCenter.com, an irrevocable,
perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license
to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute such
information and content to TheConnectionCenter.com and
that TheConnectionCenter.com has the right 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. TheConnectionCenter.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. You may not transmit any chain letters
or junk email to other Members. Although TheConnectionCenter.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, TheConnectionCenter.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 TheConnectionCenter.com deems
appropriate in its sole discretion. h. You may not cover
or obscure the banner advertisements on your personal
profile page, or any TheConnectionCenter page via HTML/CSS
or any other means. i. You may not attempt to impersonate
another user or person who is not a member of TheConnectionCenter.com
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 TheConnectionCenter.com
to terminate membership privileges of any member who
repeatedly infringes copyright upon prompt notification
to TheConnectionCenter.com by the copyright ownder 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. TheConnectionCenter.com's
Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement
can be reached as follows: Copyright Agent, TheConnectionCenter.com
7. Member Disputes. You are solely responsible for
your interactions with other TheConnectionCenter.com
Members. TheConnectionCenter.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. TheConnectionCenter.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. TheConnectionCenter.com
is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or
offline, of any user of the Website or Member of the
Service. TheConnectionCenter.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.
TheConnectionCenter.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 TheConnectionCenter.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 TheConnectionCenter.com expressly disclaims any
warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement.
TheConnectionCenter.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 THECONNECTIONCENTER.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 THECONNECTIONCENTER.COM
HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN,
THECONNECTIONCENTER.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 THECONNECTIONCENTER.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 California 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 California, City of Los Angeles.
13. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold TheConnectionCenter.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.
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 TheConnectionCenter.com
regarding the use of the Website and/or the Service.
The failure of TheConnectionCenter.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.
I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS
CONTAINED ABOVE.
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