1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 By accessing any part of the Website, you
shall be deemed to have accepted the Terms in full. If you do not accept
these Terms in full, you must leave the Website immediately.
1.2
You are responsible for obtaining access to the Website, and that
access may involve third-party fees (such as Internet service provider
or airtime charges). You are responsible for those fees. In addition,
you must provide and are responsible for all equipment necessary to
access the Website.
1.3 The Company makes no guarantee that the
Website will be secure, continuously accessible – without interruption
or delay – and completely error free 100% of the time. The Company
accepts no liability or responsibility for any breaches of security,
interruptions or delays, or errors, which you might experience on the
Website other than as set out in these Terms.
1.4 Access to the
Website may be suspended temporarily and without notice in the case of
system failure, maintenance or repair or for reasons beyond the
Company’s control.
1.5 The Company reserves the right to modify
or withdraw, temporarily or permanently the Website (or any part of it)
with or without notice and shall not be liable to you or any third party
for any modification or withdrawal of the Website.
2. OUR RIGHTS
2.1 We reserve the right at any time to:
-change the terms and conditions of the Agreement;
-change the Website, including eliminating or discontinuing any content on or feature of the Website;
-any
changes we make will be effective immediately upon notice, which we may
provide by means including, without limitation, posting on the Website
or email. Your use of the Website after such notice will be deemed
acceptance of the changes. Be sure to review this Agreement periodically
to ensure familiarity with the most current version. Upon our request,
you agree to sign a non-electronic version of this Agreement.
3. REGISTRATION
3.1
To become a Member you must register with us. When and if you register
to become a Member, you agree to provide accurate, current and complete
information about yourself as prompted by our registration form
("Registration Data"), and to maintain and update your information to
keep it accurate, current and complete. You agree that we may rely on
your Registration Data as accurate, current and complete. You
acknowledge that if your Registration Data is untrue, inaccurate, not
current or incomplete in any respect, we reserve the right to terminate
this Agreement and your use of the Website.
3.2 When you
register, we will require that you provide sufficient information to
indicate that you are at least 16 years old. By becoming a Member, you
represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years old, which is the
minimum required age to become a Member. However, we cannot guarantee
that each Member is at least the required minimum age, nor do we accept
responsibility or liability for any content, communication or other use
or access of the Website by persons under the age of 18 in violation of
these Terms.
3.3 Your Membership in the Service is for your sole,
personal use. You may not authorise others to use your Membership, and
you may not assign or otherwise transfer your account to any other
person or entity.
3.4 This website uses cookies. By registering you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
4. USERNAME AND PASSWORD
4.1
As part of the registration process, you will be asked to select a
username and password. We may refuse to grant any username that
impersonates someone else, is or may be illegal, is or may be protected
by trademark or other proprietary rights law, is vulgar or otherwise
offensive, or may cause confusion, as we determine in our sole
discretion. You are responsible for the confidentiality and use of your
username and password and agree not to transfer or resell your use of or
access to the Website to any third party. If you have reason to believe
that your account is no longer secure, you must promptly change your
password by updating your account information.
5. ONLINE CONDUCT
5.1 As a Member, you agree that:
-you
are solely responsible for the content or information you publish or
display (hereinafter, "post") on the Service, or transmit to other
Members.
-you will not post on the Service, or transmit to other
Members or employees, any defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene,
profane, offensive sexually oriented, threatening, harassing, racially
offensive, or illegal material, or any material that infringes or
violates another party's rights (including, but not limited to,
intellectual property rights, and rights of privacy and publicity).
-you
will use the Service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable
laws and regulations. You will not include in your profile any
telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs, email addresses,
offensive references, or offensive language, or any confidential
information of any third person, and you will not post any photographs
or other images containing personal information. We reserve the right to
reject any profile or photograph or image that does not comply with the
following prohibitions:
(a) You will not impersonate any person or entity;
(b) You will not "stalk" or otherwise harass any person;
(c)
You will not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other
Members to buy or sell any products or services through the Service. You
will not transmit any chain letters, spam or junk email to other
Members;
(d) You will not express or imply that any statements you make are endorsed by us, without our specific prior written consent;
(e)
You will not harvest or collect personal information about other
members whether or not for commercial purposes, without their express
consent;
(f) You will not use any robot, spider, site
search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or
process to retrieve, index, "data mine", or in any way reproduce or
circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Website or
its contents;
(g) You will not post, distribute or reproduce in any
way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary
information without obtaining the prior consent of the owner of such
proprietary rights;
(h) You will not remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in the Website;
(i)
You will not interfere with or disrupt the Services or the Website or
the servers or networks connected to the Services or the Website;
(j)
You will not post, email or otherwise transmit any material that
contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs
designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any
computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
(k)
You will not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order
to disguise the origin of any information transmitted through the
Service;
(l) You will not "frame" or "mirror" any part of the
Website, without our prior written authorization. You also shall not use
metatags or code or other devices containing any reference to
Matrimoniale Romania or the Service or the Website in order to direct
any person to any other Web Website for any purpose;
(m) You will not
modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decipher,
decompile or otherwise disassemble any portion of the Website or any
software used on or for the Website or cause others to do so;
(n) You
are solely responsible for your interactions with other Members.
Matrimoniale Romania reserves the right, but has no obligation, to
monitor disputes between you and other Members;
(o) We do not exclude any liability for death or personal injury due to our negligence.
6. INDEMNITY BY MEMBER
6.1
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Company against all
claims, expenses and costs (including legal costs) incurred or suffered
by us as a result of or in connection with (i) your breach of this
Agreement; (ii) any allegation that any materials that you submit to us
or transmit to the Website infringe or otherwise violate the copyright,
trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property or other rights
of any third party; and/or (iii) your activities in connection with the
Website unless as a result of your compliance with our requirements.
7. ONLINE CONTENT
7.1
Opinions, advice, statements, offers or other information or content
made available through the Service are those of their respective
member-author and not of Matrimoniale Romania, and should not be relied
upon. Such Members are solely responsible for such content. Matrimoniale
Romania does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of
any information on the Service and neither adopts nor endorses nor is
responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or
statement made. Under no circumstances will Matrimoniale Romania be
responsible for any loss or damage resulting from anyone's reliance on
information or other content posted on the Service or transmitted to
Members.
7.2 The Website may contain links to other websites or
resources operated by parties other than the Company . The Company's
inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement
of the material on such websites or any association with their operators
. You acknowledge and agree that we shall not be held responsible for
the legality, accuracy or inappropriate nature of any content,
advertising, products, services or information located on or through any
other websites or for the operation or policies of any such websites,
nor for any loss or damages caused or alleged to have been caused by the
use of or reliance on any such Websites or such content or other
information.
7.3 Links to third party websites on this Website
are provided solely for your convenience. If you use these links, you
leave the Website. If you decide to access any of the third party
websites linked to the Website, you do so entirely at your own risk.
8. WARNING - PLEASE READ:
8.1
It is possible that other Members or users (including unauthorized
users, or "hackers") may post or transmit offensive or obscene materials
on the Service and that you may be involuntarily exposed to such
offensive and obscene materials. It is also possible for others to
obtain personal information about you due to your use of the Service,
and that the recipient may use such information to harass or injure you.
Matrimoniale Romania is not responsible for the use of any personal
information that you may disclose on the Service. Please carefully
select the type of information that you post on the Service or release
to others.
8.2 Matrimoniale Romania reserves the right, but has
no obligation, to monitor the materials posted in any area of the
Service. Matrimoniale Romania shall have the right but not the
obligation to remove any such material that violates, or is alleged to
violate, the law or this Agreement. Notwithstanding this right of
Matrimoniale Romania, you remain solely responsible for the content of
the materials you post in any area of the Service and your private email
messages. Emails sent between you and other members that are not
readily accessible to the general public will be treated as private by
Matrimoniale Romania to the extent required by applicable law and
pursuant to the commercially reasonable efforts of Matrimoniale Romania.
9. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS
9.1
The Website, its design, layout, look, appearance and graphics and any
necessary software used in connection with the Services and the Website
is the exclusive property of the Company.
9.2 Any content
contained in sponsor advertisements or any information presented to you
through the Website is protected by copyright, trademarks, service
marks, patents or other proprietary rights.
9.3 Unless otherwise
stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all
material on the Website are owned by [or licensed to the Company]. In
addition, other Members may post copyrighted information, which has
copyright protection whether or not it is identified as copyrighted.
Except for that information which is in the public domain or for which
you have been given permission, you will not copy, modify, publish,
transmit, distribute, perform, display or sell any such proprietary
information.
9.4 By posting information or content to any area of
Matrimoniale Romania, you automatically grant, and you represent and
warrant that you have the right to grant, to Matrimoniale Romania and
other Members an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully-paid,
worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display and distribute such
information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or
incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant
and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
COPYRIGHT POLICY
9.6
We respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask our Members
to do the same. If you believe that a copy of your work is available on
the Website without your consent or that a copyright infringement has
otherwise occurred, please supply us with the following information:
-a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
-details of where the infringing material is located on the Website;
-your address, telephone number and email address;
-a
statement by you that you believe in good faith that the use of the
work on the Website is not authorized by the copyright owner or any
person entitled to act on their behalf or by law; and
-an affidavit
executed by you that the information you provide concerning the
copyright infringed is accurate and that you are the copyright owner
authorized to act on their behalf.
10. INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY MEMBER
10.1
We will respect your personal information and undertake to comply with
all applicable data protection legislation in the UK and other
jurisdictions in which we offer the Service, subject to the Privacy
Policy of Matrimoniale Romania.
10.2 The personal information
(including sensitive personal information) you provide to us will be
stored on computer. You consent to us using this information to build up
a profile of interests, preferences and browsing patterns and to allow
you to participate in the Matrimoniale Romania Service. All Members also
agree to uphold and maintain our Privacy Policy and to the terms and
conditions thereof.
11. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
11.1 By
entering the Website you agree that under no circumstance will the
Company or its agents, officers or employees be held liable or
responsible for: any content contained on or omitted from the Website;
any person’s reliance on any such content, whether or not the content is
complete, current or correct; any viruses or defects that may be found
to exist on the Website.
11.2 The Company will not be liable or
responsible for any damage or loss caused as a result of your doing, or
not doing, anything as a result of reading, viewing or listening to any
material, or any part of it, on the Website.
11.3 The Company is
not liable or responsible for any inaccuracies, errors (including
typographical errors) or omissions, or for the results obtained from the
use of the Website or its content. WORLD DATING PARTNERS PROVIDES THE
SERVICE AND THE SITE ON AN "AS IS" BASIS AND GRANTS NO WARRANTIES OF ANY
KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, IN ANY COMMUNICATION WITH WORLD
DATING PARTNERS OR ITS REPRESENTATIVES, OR OTHERWISE WITH RESPECT TO THE
SERVICE OR THE SITE. WORLD DATING PARTNERS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WORLD DATING PARTNERS DISCLAIMS LIABILITY FOR, AND
NO WARRANTY IS MADE WITH RESPECT TO, TELEPHONE OR OTHER SERVICE,
INCLUDING COVERAGE, RANGE, OR ANY INTERRUPTION IN TELEPHONE OR OTHER
SERVICE.
11.4 The views expressed on the Website do not
necessarily reflect the views of the Company. All content, and any
advice received via the Website, are not intended, and should not be
relied upon, for any personal, professional, legal, or religious
decisions you may wish to make. Instead you should consult an
appropriate professional in order to obtain specific advice tailored to
your situation.
11.5 Material on the Website may be susceptible
to data corruption, interception and unauthorised amendment for which
the Company does not accept liability or responsibility. The Company
does not accept liability or responsibility for the presence of any
computer viruses contained in any material on the Website, whether it is
read, viewed, listened to, copied, downloaded, printed or accessed in
any other way. The Company does not accept liability or responsibility
for any losses caused as a result of any computer viruses contained in
any material on the Website.
11.6 Advertisements (including
banner adverts and pop-ups) featured on the Website do not imply
endorsement of the services or products advertised. The Company will not
be liable or responsible for services or products advertised nor will
the Company be liable or responsible for any damage to your computer
equipment, software, data or other property as the result of your
viewing, or responding to, advertisements (including banner adverts and
pop-ups) featured on the Website.
11.7 The Company does not
guarantee that the Website will be compatible with all hardware and
software that may be used by you. The Company will not be held liable or
responsible for any damage to your computer equipment, software, data
or other property as the result of your access to, use of, or browsing
of any material on the Website.
11.8 If your use of material on
the Website results in the need for servicing, repair or correction of
equipment, software or data, you shall be responsible for all costs
thereof.
11.9 Nothing in these Terms shall exclude any liability
of the Company, which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable
law.
11.10 Subject to Clause 11.9 you enter the Website entirely
at your own risk and if you are dissatisfied with any portion of the
Website, or with any of these Terms of use, your sole and exclusive
remedy is to discontinue using the Website.
12. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
12.1
MATRIMONIALE.RO NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY indirect or consequential
loss, damage or expenses (including loss of profits, business or
goodwill) INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF DATA, LOSS
OF PROGRAMS, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES OR SERVICE
INTERRUPTIONS ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE
OR THE WEBSITE.
12.2 In addition, Matrimoniale.ro disclaims all
liability, regardless of the form of action, for the acts or omissions
of other Members or users (including unauthorized users, or "hackers")
of the Service.
12.3 Certain jurisdictions limit the
applicability of warranty disclaimers and limitations of liability so
the above disclaimers of warranty and limitations of liability may not
apply to you.
12.4 We shall have no liability to you for any
failure to provide the Services to you if caused by any event or
circumstances beyond our reasonable control including, without
limitation, strikes, lockouts and other industrial disputes, breakdown
or systems or network access, flood, fire, explosion or accident.
12.5
Although we have limited our liability in this Clause 12 nothing in
these Terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by
our negligence and nothing affects your legal rights.