Terms
PageSync
Terms of Service
Welcome
to PageSync, an online community that connects people through networks of
friends for communicating, sharing and making new friends. The PageSync service
is operated by PageSync.com. ("we," "us," or
"PageSync"). By using the PageSync website (the "Website")
you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service (this "Agreement").
In addition, if you are an individual who wishes to become a PageSync Member (a
"Member"), communicate with other Members and make use of the
PageSync service (the "Service"), you must read this Agreement and
indicate your acceptance of its terms by following the instructions on the
"Sign Up" page and checking the box labeled "I agree to
PageSync's terms of service."
This
Agreement sets out the legally binding terms of your use of the Website
(whether or not you become a Member) and your membership in the Service, if
any, and may be modified by us at any time without prior notice. All such
modifications will be effective upon posting on the Website and any use by you
of the Website or the Service (whether or not you are a Member) after the
posting of any such modification will constitute your agreement to that
modification. The terms of our Privacy Policy and any notices regarding the
Website or the Service sent to you or posted on the Website are incorporated
into and made part of this Agreement. Links to copies of PageSync’s policies
and notices can be found on the PageSync Home Page.
1. Eligibility. You must be sixteen or over
to use the Website, register as a Member or create a Fan Profile. Use of the
Website and membership in the Service are void where prohibited. By agreeing to
these terms or by using the Website, you represent and warrant 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. Term. This Agreement will remain in full
force and effect while you use the Website and/or are a Member. You may
terminate your membership at any time for any reason by following the instructions
on the Cancel Account page in Account Settings. We may terminate your
membership for any reason at any time. If you are using a paid version of the
Service and we terminate your membership in the Service because you have
breached this Agreement, you will not be entitled to any refund of unused
subscription fees. Even after your membership is terminated, certain sections
of this Agreement will remain in effect. See Section 16 below for a list of the
provisions of this Agreement that will survive the termination of your
membership.
3. Other Agreements. Please note that, if
you sign up for one or more features of the Service that are provided by third
parties, such as PageSync Blogs, one of the services featured on the PageSync
Video Tab such as YouTube, or any of the widgets and applications that may be
listed or marketed on PageSync.com (collectively, "Third Party
Features"), then you may be required to agree to terms of service with
those third parties as well. Any such terms of service are different from and
in addition to this Agreement. You may find a link to the current version of
the terms of service for some of our third party service providers here.
The Website also contains links to third
party sites and third party content, widgets and applications (collectively,
and, for purposes of this Section 3, including Third Party Features,
"Third Party Materials") and PageSync has no control over any such
sites or Third Party Materials. Links to Third Party Materials are provided by
PageSync solely as a convenience; PageSync neither endorses nor bears any
responsibility for or control over any Third Party Materials or any links
contained therein. All policies and statements by PageSync herein pertaining to
the Website do not apply in any way to these Third Party Materials. Once you
leave this Website and/or access Third Party Materials, PageSync’s Terms of
Use, Privacy Policy and other policies are no longer in effect. PageSync
recommends that you read the terms of use of each and every website which you
visit and any and all Third Party Materials that you add to your profile.
PageSync reserves the right in its sole discretion and without notice to: (i)
terminate any and all links to this Website from any third party site, (ii)
terminate any and all links from this Website to any third party site and/or
(iii) terminate any Third Party Materials made available or accessible via this
Website and remove any online posting thereof.
In addition, you acknowledge and agree
that any third party developer that makes a widget, application or other
third-party service available to you on or via PageSync may use a PageSync or
other application programming interface to retrieve and/or collect
personally-identifiable and/or PageSync-specific information about you to
populate your copy of its widget or application with relevant information
and/or content created, provided or posted by you. As noted above, you should
review the terms of use of any such third party developer and/or Third Party
Materials, including its privacy and data gathering policies and procedures.
4. Non Commercial Use by Members. The
Service and the Website are for the personal use of individual Members only.
Unless you have registered a Fan Profile (see Section 9 below), you may not use
the Website or the Service in connection with any commercial endeavors without
our express written consent in each case. Organizations, companies and/or
businesses, including third party companies or developers posting or otherwise
making Third Party Materials available on or via the Website (other than Member
Entities that have registered Fan Profiles) may not become Members and should
not use the Service or the Website for any purpose. No Member may copy,
transfer or use any names, photos, links, text, data or other content belonging
to or posted by PageSync or other Members for the purpose of selling, engaging
in, marketing or promoting any other product or service. Illegal and/or
unauthorized uses of the Website, including collecting usernames, email addresses
or other personally identifiable information of Members by electronic or other
means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email, unauthorized framing of or
linking to the Website or any other use not expressly permitted in this
Agreement, will be investigated and appropriate legal action will be taken,
including, without limitation, civil, criminal and injunctive redress. In
addition to the above restrictions, you may not authorize, enable or otherwise
grant to any other person, organization, company or business access to your
PageSync profile or other content uploaded on the Website for the purpose of
extracting such information or other content.
5. Proprietary Rights in Content.
1. Rights in Content Posted by
PageSync or Other Members. We own and retain all proprietary rights in the
Website and the Service. The Website contains certain copyrighted material,
including links and compilations of individual data, trademarks and service
marks and other proprietary information of PageSync, our Members and our
licensors. Except for any information which is in the public domain, you may
not use, copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display or sell
any such proprietary materials or information without our express written consent
in each case.
2. Rights in Content Posted by You. By
publishing, displaying or uploading (collectively, "Posting") any
text, links, photos, video, messages or other data or information
(collectively, "Content") on or to the Website (including on or to
your profile), you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you
have the right to grant, to PageSync an irrevocable, perpetual, nonexclusive,
fully-paid and worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display and distribute
such Content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other
works, such Content and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
6. Content Posted by You to the Service and
the Website.
1. Profile Information. PLEASE NOTE:
The Service includes an option which allows Members (other than Member
Entities, as defined in Section 9) to determine who may view their full
profile. These levels are: "Friends," "Friends of Friends"
and "Anyone." If you are an individual Member and you choose to allow
your PageSync profile to be viewed by "Anyone," you should be aware
that anyone who accesses the Website, whether or not they are a Member, will be
allowed to view all the information in your profile. In addition, the Service
includes an option which allows individual Members to include their last names
in their PageSync profiles. If you choose this option, your last name will be
included in both your normal PageSync profile as well as your "public
profile" (which is described in subsection (b) below). Your public profile
will be available to anyone, regardless of the level of access you have chosen
for your full PageSync profile. WHEN CHOOSING THESE OPTIONS, PLEASE CONSIDER
CAREFULLY THE LEVEL OF ACCESS YOU WISH TO ALLOW TO YOUR PageSync PROFILE AS WELL
AS WHETHER YOU WANT YOUR FULL NAME TO BE AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. For
more information about the various levels of sharing of your PageSync profile
and your last name, click here.
2. Public Profile Information.
Regardless of what personal information a you choose to include in your
PageSync profile or what level of sharing of your profile you choose, certain
information about every PageSync Member will be included in that Member's
"public profile." A Member's public profile is an abbreviated version
of that Member's regular PageSync profile, containing the information listed
below, which will be available to any user of the Website, as well as to the
general public through, for instance, search engines like Yahoo! or Google.
Each individual Member's public profile includes the following information
about that Member:
* Name (first, or first and
last, depending on which option the Member chooses)
* Gender
* Age
* Marital Status (or the
Member's other response to this category of the PageSync profile)
* People the Member is
interested in meeting (e.g., "Dating Men," "Dating Women,"
"Friends," etc.)
* Astrological sign
* Location
* Hometown
* "Member Since" date
* The URL of the Member's
PageSync profile
3. Removal of Content. You understand
and agree that we may review and delete any Content that you include in your
profile or otherwise Post on any area of the Website (which may include
deleting your entire profile) that we, in our sole judgment, believe (1)
violates this Agreement, (2) might be offensive or illegal or (3) might violate
the rights of, harm or threaten the safety of any other Member.
4. Member Identities and Fan Profiles.
Unless you are a Member Entity who has registered a Fan Profile (see Section 9
below), your profile must describe you, an individual person. Examples of
inappropriate profiles include but are not limited to profiles that purport to
represent an animal, place, inanimate object, fictional character or real individual
who is not you.
5. Member Responsibility for Content.
You are solely responsible for the Content that you Post on the Website or the
Service or transmit to other Members.
6. Prohibited Content.Below is a
partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the
Website. Posting of any of this Content by you may result, in our sole
discretion, in termination of your membership. In addition, we reserve the
right to investigate and take appropriate legal action, in our sole discretion,
against anyone who violates this provision, including, without limitation,
removing the offending communication from the Website and reporting such
violator to the appropriate legal authorities. Prohibited Content includes but
is not limited to Content that, in our sole judgment:
* is patently offensive to the
online community, such as Content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or
physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
* harasses or advocates
harassment of another person;
* involves the transmission of
"junk mail," "chain letters," "spam" or any other
unsolicited mass mailing, emailing or other communication;
* includes any information that
(1) you know is false or misleading, (2) promotes illegal activities or conduct
that is abusive or (3) is threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
* constitutes or includes any
illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted or copyrightable
work, including but not limited to, (1) pirated computer programs or links to
them, (2) information which circumvents manufacturer-installed copy-protect
devices, (3) pirated music, images or video or links to pirated music, image or
video files or (4) Content which otherwise violates the terms of Section 8
below;
* displays pornographic or
sexually explicit material of any kind;
* includes material that
exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner or is
intended to solicit personal information from anyone under 18;
* provides instructional
information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons,
violating someone's privacy or providing or creating computer viruses;
* solicits passwords or
personally-identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from
other Members;
* constitutes or includes any
promotion, sales or other commercial activity such as contests, sweepstakes,
barter or advertising, excluding any Content posted by a Member Entity on its
registered Fan Profile; or
* solicits people you do not
know to add you or accept you as a friend on the Service, excluding any Content
posted by a Member Entity on its registered Fan Profile.
Even though all of the above
Content is strictly prohibited, there is a small chance that you may become
exposed to such items while using the Website or the Service. If so, neither we
nor any of our officers, directors, employees, shareholders, advertisers or
corporate partners will in any way be responsible for any damages incurred or
suffered by any party or caused by any party arising out of or related to any
such exposure. Please see Sections 11 and 12 below for further limitations on
our liability.
7. Further Restrictions on Your Use of the
Website and the Service.
1. You must use the Website and the
Service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and
regulations.
2. Unless you are a Member Entity who
has registered a Fan Profile, you may not include in your Member profile any
telephone numbers, street addresses or email addresses.
3. Although PageSync cannot monitor
the conduct of its Members off the Website, it is a violation of this Agreement
to use any information obtained from the Service or the Website in order to
harass, abuse or harm another person or in order to contact, advertise to,
solicit or sell to any Member without the prior explicit consent of such Member
and PageSync. To protect our Members from such conduct, we reserve the right,
in PageSync’s sole discretion at any time, to restrict the number of emails or
other communications that a Member may send to other Members.
8. Copyright Protection Policy. You may not
Post, distribute or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks
or service marks or other proprietary information owned by another party
without obtaining the prior written consent of the copyright owner. If you
believe that your work has been copied and Posted on the Website without your
permission or in any other way that constitutes copyright infringement, please
contact us.
9. Member Disputes. You are solely
responsible for your interactions with other Members. We reserve the right,
although we have no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other
Members and to take any action that we feel may be appropriate in our sole
discretion, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, including termination
of the membership of one or more Members.
10. Disclaimers.
1. We are not responsible for any
incorrect or inaccurate Content Posted on the Website or in connection with the
Service, whether made or caused by users of the Website, Members, our advertisers
or corporate partners or by any of the equipment or programming associated with
or utilized in the operation of the Website or the Service.
2. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
CONDUCT, WHETHER ONLINE OR OFFLINE, OF ANY MEMBER OR OTHER USER OF THE WEBSITE.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL WE BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS, LIABILITY OR
DAMAGE, INCLUDING PERSONAL INJURY OR DEATH OR PROPERY DAMAGE, RESULTING FROM OR
ARISING OUT OF ANYONE'S USE OF THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICE, ANY CONTENT POSTED
ON THE WEBSITE OR TRANSMITTED TO MEMBERS OR OTHER USERS OR ANY INTERACTIONS
BETWEEN OR AMONG MEMBERS OR OTHER USERS OF THE WEBSITE, WHETHER ONLINE OR
OFFLINE.
3. We assume 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 user or Member communications. We are 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 email or players on account of technical problems or traffic
congestion on the Internet or at any website or combination thereof. We are not
responsible for any injury or damage to any computer equipment belonging to any
user of the Website, any Member or any other person related to or resulting
from use of the Website, viewing, playing or downloading any materials on or
from the Website or otherwise in any way in connection with the Service. The
Website and the Service are provided "AS IS" and, except as otherwise
prohibited by applicable law, we expressly disclaim any warranty of any kind,
including but not limited to warranties of merchantability, fitness for a
particular purpose and non-infringement. We cannot guarantee and do not promise
any specific results from use of the Website or the Service. No advice or
information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from us or from or
through the Website or the Service shall create any warranty not expressly
stated herein.
11. Limitation on Liability. Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Agreement, our entire liability to you for any
cause whatsoever, regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be
limited to the amount paid, if any, by you to us for the Service during the
term of this Agreement. Except in jurisdictions where such provisions are
restricted, in no event will we be liable to you or any third person for any
indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages,
including lost profits arising from your use of the Website or the Service,
even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
12. Disputes. If there is any dispute between
you and us about or involving the Website or the Service, by using the Website
or the Service, you agree that the dispute will be governed by the laws of the
State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree
to personal jurisdiction under and venue in the state and federal courts
located in Santa Clara County, California for the resolution of any such
dispute.
13. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and
hold PageSync and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, employees and
corporate or other partners harmless from any loss, liability, claim or demand,
including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or relating to: (a) your
use of the Website or the Service (including the Posting by you of any Content
on the Website) in violation of this Agreement, (b) any other breach of this
Agreement by you or (c) any breach of your representations and warranties set
forth above.
14. No Agency. There is no agency, partnership,
joint venture, employee-employer or franchisor-franchisee relationship between
you and us or between us and any other Member or user of the Website.
15. Survival. Although this Agreement may be
terminated by you or us at any time and for any reason, the terms of the
following sections of this Agreement will survive any such termination and you
and we will continue to be bound by such terms indefinitely: Section 2 (Term),
Section 5 (Proprietary Rights in Content), Section 9 (Fan Profiles), Section 10
(Member Disputes), Section 16. (Disclaimers), Section 12 (Limitation on
Liability), Section 13 (Disputes), Section 14 (Indemnity), Section 16
(Survival) and Section 17 (Other).
17. Other. You will be deemed to have
accepted the terms of this Agreement upon use of the Website or by becoming a
Member. This Agreement, together with our Privacy Policy, and any notices
regarding the Website or the Service sent to you or posted on the Website, all
of which are incorporated herein by this reference, contains the entire
agreement between you and us regarding the use of the Website or the Service.
Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement
shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of
this Agreement is held invalid or unlawful, the remainder of this Agreement
shall continue in full force and effect unless such deletion materially
frustrates the intent of the parties, in which case this Agreement will
terminate.