Section I: About the Disclaimer
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members, you, and/or your) MUST carefully read, fully understand, and
unconditionally agree to all of the terms in the following,
TravelMatesOnline.com (hereinafter also referred to as TravelMatesOnline, us,
we, our site, this site, the site, creators, system operators, owners,
developers, officers, founders, associates, and/or representatives)'s Terms
of Service (hereinafter also referred to as disclaimer, TOS) and Privacy Policy
prior to any direct or indirect use of the site or use of any content,
material, or service provided by this site, its users, viewers, visitors,
creators, officers, owners, associates, partners, and/or affiliates in any
way. Furthermore, users should be capable of legally entering this contract;
this means that users should be at least eighteen (18) years of age. Use of
the site includes, but is not limited to: viewing, using, linking to or from,
downloading, saving, and/or otherwise in anyway accessing any content,
material, or service provided by TravelMatesOnline and/or any of its
associates, representatives, sponsors, affiliates, users, viewers, visitors,
members, founders, owners, developers, and/or creators. All current and new
content and service(s) (unless explicitly stated otherwise) of
TravelMatesOnline and its associates are subject to this TOS. This disclaimer
functions as an agreement between you and TravelMatesOnline and governs your
use of TravelMatesOnline in any way or form. Moreover, this disclaimer
overrides any prior agreement(s) between the user and TravelMatesOnline
(unless explicitly stated otherwise). The failure of TravelMatesOnline or any
of its affiliates, associates and/or representative to enforce or otherwise
exercise any right(s) and/or provision(s) of this disclaimer (or right(s)
and/or provision(s) granted by any other content provided by
TravelMatesOnline) should not functions as a waiver of such right(s) and/or
provision(s).
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The terms
of this disclaimer and the Privacy Policy are subject to change at any
time without notice. Users must carefully read, fully understand and
unconditionally agree to any and all further update(s) or change(s) made to
this disclaimer and the Privacy Policy. This disclaimer shall be made
readily available, but from time to time it may be unavailable due to system
problems, updates, and/or other inconveniences. Therefore, all users are
strongly encouraged to print and keep available the most recent version of
this disclaimer whenever possible.
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TravelMatesOnline,
its owners, representatives, associates, developers, creators, officers,
partners, operators, and/or affiliates are in no way liable or responsible
for action(s) of user(s), visitor(s), viewer(s), guest(s), member(s), or
otherwise other parties who in any way (directly or indirectly) violate the
terms of this disclaimer. Moreover, we are not responsible for any
consequence(s), harm(s), damage(s), injuries, or any type(s) of
inconvenience(s) resulting from, caused by, arising (directly or indirectly)
from, or related to action(s) of user(s), visitor(s), viewer(s), guest(s),
member(s), or other parties who in some way (directly or indirectly) violate
the terms of this disclaimer.
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All terms
of the TravelMatesOnline Privacy Policy are a part of this disclaimer.
Therefore, by agreeing to this disclaimer you indicate that you have
carefully read, fully understood, and unconditionally agreed to all of the
terms TravelMatesOnline Privacy Policy.
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All
users, visitors, viewers, members, guests, and other parties hereby
acknowledge that any claim in regards to or in relevance with the service(s)
offered by TravelMatesOnline must be brought to attention and filed within
twelve (12) months after the cause of the claim arose or be forever
forgotten.
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Section II: The Nature of Our Services
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TravelMatesOnline
is currently designed to function as a means for Internet users all over the
world to meet like-minded travelers around the world. Our consumer services
include free and paid options. Services and content offered by
TravelMatesOnline.com, its associates, affiliates, and representatives are
intended to be available to anyone at least 18 years of age who can provide
his/her own equipment and ISP to access them.
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Section III: Newsletter
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As a subscriber to TravelMatesOnline you have the option
of receiving
the TravelMatesOnline newsletter.
TravelMatesOnline reserves the right to
modify the frequency of and/or cancel the newsletter at any time without
warning.TravelMatesOnline does not
guarantee that information provided in the TravelMatesOnline newsletter is
correct or current.Users hereby
agree that they will in no way hold TravelMatesOnline.com or any of its
owners, creators, developers, representatives, and/or associates liable or
responsible for any damages, reimbursements, injuries or any type of loss,
harm, and/or inconvenience incurred directly or indirectly as a result of
content written in the TravelMatesOnline newsletter.
Furthermore, users hereby understand and
agree to the fact that by signing up for the TravelMatesOnline newsletter
users are giving TravelMatesOnline permission to send the TravelMatesOnline
newsletter to the email address provided by the user.
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Section IV: Posting Pictures and Using Other Service(s) |
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As a
registered member of TravelMatesOnline you have the privilege to post
pictures, messages, tips etc to be reviewed by visitors and members.
TravelMatesOnline reserves the right to take away this privilege at any time
for any reason we see fit. TravelMatesOnline does not guarantee any of its
services or content to be available at all times. From time to time, users
may be unable to use services offered by TravelMatesOnline due to
maintenance, system errors or further disruptions. Pictures that are posted
should be approved by our moderators before they are put into active rotation
and/or viewed by our guests, visitors, viewers, users, and members. To be
approved for active rotation the picture should be deemed appropriate and be
placed in the appropriate category. TravelMatesOnline reserves the right to
remove any picture (temporarily or permanently) from rotation that is deemed
inappropriate for any reason at anytime.
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Pictures
that may be deemed inappropriate include, but are not limited to, lewd,
offensive, vulgar, or explicit pictures. Additionally, pictures that contain
URL's, e-mail addresses or other forms of contact information are prohibited.
The only exception to this policy is pictures that are promoting the
TravelMatesOnline.com URL. Pictures may not contain messages that may be
deemed as racially, ethnically or otherwise hateful. ALL PEOPLE IN PICTURES
SHOULD BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE IN THE PICTURE AND FULLY CONSENT TO HAVE
THEIR PICTURE POSTED ON THIS SITE IN THE APPROPRIATE CATEGORY; This includes
pictures of singles, groups, and couples. To have the best chances of getting
your picture(s) approved, please only submit tasteful and appropriate
picture(s) of adults who consent to have their picture(s) posted on this
site. Moreover please make sure you choose the correct category for your
picture.
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All users
hereby fully agree that by providing any material/content to
TravelMatesOnline you lose all exclusive rights to it. TravelMatesOnline
reserves all rights to reproduce, distribute, reformat, resize or otherwise
alter any picture or content posted to TravelMatesOnline. Additionally you
waive any state granted rights pertaining to pictures, content, or material
posted to TravelMatesOnline.
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Posting
copyrighted content, pictures, or material which you do not own the copyright
to is considered a serious offense of International Laws as well as these
TravelMatesOnline terms of service. TravelMatesOnline is not liable or
responsible for any copyrighted material posted on our site. We do, however,
support the standards set by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. For more
information about the standards set by DMCA and other copyright issues,
please visit http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright
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Section V: Visiting, Viewing and Accessing the Site
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Users may
view profiles, pictures, messages submitted by other users provided that they
are AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE AND IT IS LEGAL TO DO SO IN THEIR AREA PER THE
TERMS OF THIS DISCLAIMER. TravelMatesOnline makes NO GUARANTEE that the
system will be available at all times to post, view or rate pictures and/or
use any other service provided by TravelMatesOnline or its affiliates.
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Although
TravelMatesOnline moderates the content of the site to a certain extent,
TravelMatesOnline, its affiliates, associates, and representatives IN NO WAY
GUARANTEE THAT THE SITE WILL BE FREE FROM PORNOGRAPHIC, VULGAR, HATEFUL,
INAPPROPRIATE, IMPROPER, UNETHICAL, TASTELESS OR OTHERWISE OFFENSIVE MATERIAL
OR CONTENT. Moreover, TravelMatesOnline, its affiliates, associates, and
representatives are in no way liable or responsible for any vulgar, hateful,
tasteless, or otherwise offensive message(s) or other material/content posted
by users, visitor, members, guests, and/or viewers. You are viewing,
visiting, using, downloading, linking to/from, contacting other users, or
otherwise accessing the content, services, and/or material provided by this
site and/or its affiliates/representatives AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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You
understand that all data, content, text, pictures, messages, and other
material (whether publicly or privately transmitted) are sole responsibility
of the person who transmitted or originated the content. In that respect,
TravelMatesOnline, its affiliates, associates, owners, officers, creators,
and/or developers are in no way liable or responsible for user uploaded,
transmitted, posted, or otherwise made available data, messages, pictures, or
any other type of material or content.
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By
viewing, visiting, downloading, linking to/from, accessing or otherwise using
the site in any way, you completely indemnify TravelMatesOnline.com and all
of its owners, creators, officers, developers, system operators, affiliates,
associates, and representatives from any liability or responsibility for any
damage, harm, compensation, reimbursement, injury and/or loss directly or
indirectly caused by the services/content/concepts/material provided by
TravelMatesOnline, its affiliates, representatives, users, viewers, members,
visitors, guests, owners, creators, sponsors, officers and/or any other
associates (this also includes attorney fees). All services and/or
content/material offered by TravelMatesOnline and/or its affiliates are
provided in the form of "AS IS" & "AS AVAILABLE" and
TravelMatesOnline makes NO GUARANTEES to the timeliness, security, accuracy
or precision of services, data, material, and/or content contained on the
site or produced by any of TravelMatesOnline 's owners, developers, creators,
associates, affiliates, sponsors, officers, users, visitors, viewers, and/or
representatives. Although user content posted to TravelMatesOnline is
moderated to a certain extent, users hereby fully understand that content
posted by users, visitors, and/or viewers of TravelMatesOnline may at times
be racially, ethnically or otherwise hateful and/or in some way offensive,
vulgar, inappropriate, explicit and/or pornographic in nature. Users hereby
agree that they will in no way hold TravelMatesOnline.com or any of its
owners, creators, developers, representatives, and/or associates liable or
responsible for any damages, reimbursements, injuries or any type of loss,
harm, and/or inconvenience incurred directly or indirectly as a result of
offensiveness, inconvenience, inappropriateness, insecurity, inaccuracy
and/or any by other aspect of the content associated with the site and/or any
content of any other site affiliated or linked to or from TravelMatesOnline.
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Section VI: Improper Use of TravelMatesOnline
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TravelMatesOnline
may terminate your account if any of the services provided by
TravelMatesOnline are used in an improper fashion. Improper use of the site
or TravelMatesOnline services includes (but is not limited to): Harassing or
stalking another user/member/visitor/viewer of TravelMatesOnline; breaking
any law (local, state, national, or international); posting, transmitting,
uploading, and/or otherwise making available any improper
text/message/picture/material/content (please see the Posting Pictures
section for more information); harming others (especially minors) in any way
via the use of TravelMatesOnline service(s); impersonating or otherwise
acting as another person, entity, or organization (this includes, but is not
limited to, impersonation of TravelMatesOnline affiliates, associates,
officers, creators, developers, users, viewers, visitors, system operators,
members, and/or representatives); and any other use that TravelMatesOnline or
its affiliates, associates, creators, and/or owners may see as being somehow
improper.
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Additionally,
services and material provided, created, developed, or otherwise offered by
TravelMatesOnline and its affiliates are sole properties of
TravelMatesOnline, its owners, and affiliates. TravelMatesOnline STRICTLY
FORBIDS any reselling, duplication, and/or redistribution of any service or
content (and/or access to any service or content) provided by
TravelMatesOnline without a fully documented and valid authorization
agreement (made by TravelMatesOnline) specifically permitting said
activities.
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Section VII: Private Data
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You agree
to provide true, accurate, current, and complete information about yourself
and constantly keep your account information updated, true, and accurate.
TravelMatesOnline forbids users, visitors, viewers, guests, or any other party,
from attempting or successfully gaining access to data that is not meant to
be available to public. This includes all successful or unsuccessful attempts
to wrongfully view or in any way improperly access other users' private or
contact data, per the terms of this disclaimer and our Privacy Policy. If you
in any way become aware of any unauthorized use of an account and/or any
breach in security, you agree to notify TravelMatesOnline immediately. You
are responsible for logging out and ending your TravelMatesOnline session;
TravelMatesOnline, its associates, affiliates, creators, owners, and/or
representatives are in no way liable or responsible for any type of harm,
loss, injury, inconvenience, or damage resulting from a user account not
properly logging off. For more information on privacy issues and what data is
considered to be "public," please read our Privacy Policy.
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