INTRODUCTION:
VetFriends provides you
access to its online community, subject to your compliance with the
terms and conditions
below (the "Agreement").
Please read this Agreement carefully. By enrolling as an "Member," you
agree to be bound by these
terms and conditions and the terms and conditions
of any activity that you conduct on the website.
VetFriends.com is only for individuals 18 years of
age and older.
Registration:
By registering, you
agree to provide accurate and current information about yourself and to
update that information if it changes.
VetFriends is a self-registering website and makes
no guarantees as to the accuracy or completeness of members' information.
Credit Card Use:
(A) In order to upgrade to a VetFriends Gold, Platinum, or Legacy membership, members are required to provide
credit card or
other payment
information.
Gold is a monthly, recurring auto payment. Platinum is a semi-annual, recurring auto payment. Legacy is a yearly, recurring auto payment.
Any questions regarding
billing and credit card use should be addressed to VetFriends.com
Support Group
support@VetFriends.com .
Privacy:
We may provide your personal information to the
police or other investigating agencies to assist them in the
investigation of any suspected
violations of law. We
also have the right to share your name and contact information with our
attorneys in the event of serious violations
of conduct.
Member Conduct:
Although we have no
obligation to screen or edit information that is posted or shared by
members, we reserve the right to remove any
objectionable
information, at our discretion, without notice.
You agree to:
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Follow all local, state, national and international laws and regulations.
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Take responsibility
for all acts that occur under your account or password, including any
content transmitted or
broadcast from your
account.
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Maintain the confidentiality of your password and log in identity.
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Comply with all
intellectual property and other proprietary rights laws, including but
not limited to federal copyright
and trademark
laws, in the use of the site and in making your personal profile and
submissions of stories.
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Provide only
accurate and appropriate personal information about yourself. Please do
not post sexually explicit language. You
agree to keep your personal information posted on
the site within the convention of good taste. We do not review the
directory or
individuals'
profiles looking for inappropriate material, but if it is brought to our
attention, we will require that you revise or
delete the inappropriate information. We have the
right to request edits or make edits to your personal information at
our discretion.
You agree NOT to:
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Use incognito names when registering or communicating onour site.
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Post your phone number or addresses.
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Republish
information found in the site without first obtaining written permission
from VetFriends.
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Post any false,
misleading, slanderous, libelous, or inaccurate information about others
on our site.
In the event you
do, we have the right to release your identifying information to the
police, our attorneys or the individual
you mentioned in
your posting so that they may take action against you.
Other important rules:
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VetFriends reserves
the right to modify, suspend or terminate access to the site at any
time without notice or
refund if you are suspected of violating any of
these Terms of Service. We also reserve the right, on occasion, to
require you to change your log in name and
password.
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Payment for joining VetFriends is non-refundable.
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Swearing,
obscenities, and inappropriate behavior (as solely determined by
VetFriends) on bulletin or message boards, chat rooms,
or otherwise on the site will not be tolerated, and your
membership will be immediately terminated if we determine that you have
participated in
such behavior on the site.
Abuse of Conduct:
Reporting abusive conduct:
Please contact us at support@VetFriends.com
in the event you need to report abusive conduct.
Although we have no obligation to police the site, we do try to remove
content that is clearly inappropriate when it is brought to
our attention.
Consequences for abusive conduct:
In the event you violate
these Terms of Service, VetFriends has the right to terminate your
account without refund. In the event of a serious
violation (as solely
determined by VetFriends) VetFriends may also file suit against you for
business interference or other appropriate legal
theories and we will
seek compensation from you for potential damage to our reputation caused
by your actions. VetFriends has the right to
eliminate any Private
Group suspected of violations of the law or our Terms of Service.
VetFriends will cooperate with the authorities on
any said suspected
violations.
Content Rights:
Please do not copy
content from our site without our permission. This site
(VetFriends.com), and all of the content of the site,
is protected by
intellectual property and other laws throughout the world, and is the
copyrighted property of VetFriends and/or its
various third party licensors. None of the content
found on this site may be copied, reproduced, republished, distributed,
sold,
licensed, transferred, distributed or modified without the
express written permission of VetFriends. Unauthorized use of the
site would be a violation of VetFriends' and its
licensors' rights. In addition, the trademarks, logos and service marks
displayed on this site (collectively, the "Trademarks") are
the property of VetFriends, its affiliates, and various third
parties. The site and the software incorporated in
the site may not be reverse engineered, decompiled or disassembled.
Personal Information and Submissions:
By submitting your
personal, reunion and related information to us, you are thereby
granting to VetFriends a royalty-free, worldwide,
nonterminable, exclusive
license to use this information and your exact words (and excerpts and
edited versions of your submissions) in all
media now known or hereinafter developed, and in
promotions, and to sublicense and transfer this right to third parties,
and you
waive all claims against VetFriends for any
violations of copyright, rights of privacy, publicity, and defamation or
other
personal torts arising from VetFriends' use of the
information in such media. No payments shall be due to you for such
grant of
rights, and you may or may not receive credit as
the author of such works in any use of them.
Disclaimer of Warranties:
EXCEPT AS SPECIFICALLY
PROVIDED IN THIS PROVISION, THE SITE AND ITS CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS
IS" AND VetFriends DISCLAIMS,
AND YOU WAIVE, ANY
WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR USE OR PURPOSE, TITLE,
NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR ANY
OTHER WARRANTY, CONDITION, GUARANTY, OR REPRESENTATION RELATED TO THE
SITE AND ITS CONTENT AND THOSE
ARISING BY STATUTE OR
OTHERWISE IN LAW OR FROM A COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. THE
FUNCTIONS, MATERIALS AND CONTENT OF
THE SITE ARE NOT
WARRANTED TO BE UNINTERRUPTED OR WITHOUT ERROR, AND VetFriends AND ITS
PROVIDERS DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY,
CURRENCY OR RELIABILITY
OF INFORMATION ON THE SITE. YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE RISK AND COST OF
REPAIRS OR CORRECTIONS TO YOUR HARDWARE
OR SOFTWARE DUE TO THE
USE OF THE SITE. This disclaimer of warranty may not apply toall users.
Limitations of Liability & Remedies:
YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS
ENTIRELY AT YOUR SOLE RISK. VetFriends, AND VetFriends' DIRECTORS,
OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, LICENSORS, AGENTS
OR AFFILIATES SHALL NOT
BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTIES FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER
FROM USE OF THE SITE OR VIRUSES, OR DIRECT
OR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OR LOSSES
(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOST
PROFITS OR LOST SAVINGS), WHETHER BASED IN
CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, WHICH YOU MAY INCUR IN
CONNECTION WITH
THE USE OR NONPERFORMANCE OF THE SITE, INCLUDING
WITHOUT LIMITATION LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF REVENUES, BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION OR OTHER
PECUNIARY LOSS EVEN IF
VetFriends HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR LOSS.
Your sole and exclusive remedy for any breach
of this agreement by
VetFriends shall be a refund of the fees paid for membership. VetFriends
is not responsible for, and shall have no
liability with respect
to, the content of third party Web sites that are linked to or from the
site. VetFriends is not responsible for
the user generated content on the site. Some states
do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability to the extent set
forth
herein; therefore, this provision may not apply to
every person as written.
Customer Warranties & Indemnification:
You warrant andrepresent that
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You shall abide by all the terms and conditions of this agreement;
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You are of
sufficient legal age to use this site and to create binding legal
obligations
for any
liability you may incur as a result of the use of this site;
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You will not take
any action which would derogate VetFriends' or its licensors' rights in
and to their intellectual
property or
content;
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You will not infringe on the copyrights of any third parties;
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You will not
violate any laws in your use or postings of information on the site; and
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You will not
interfere in the business of VetFriends by posting information that
violates the rules outlined above or by attempting to
divert traffic from the Site. You shall indemnify
and hold harmless, and at VetFriends' request defend, VetFriends, its
directors,
officers,
shareholders, employees, agents, affiliates and owners (each, an
"Indemnified Party") from and against any and all claims,
proceedings,
damages, injuries, liabilities, losses, costs and expenses (including
reasonable attorneys' fees, an allocation for in-house
counsel, and
other legal costs) arising out of any claim of any third party resulting
from any breach of your representations, warranties
or covenants set
forth in this agreement. You shall reimburse each Indemnified Party on
demand for any costs, expenses and liabilities
incurred by such
Indemnified Party to which this indemnity relates.
Links to Other Sites:
The site may contain
links to other sites. VetFriends does not endorse any other site and is
not liable for any loss or damages related
to the content, products
or services available through those sites. If you have any problems or
concerns regarding other sites, please contact
their site administrator
or Web master directly.
Changes to Site & this Terms of Service:
VetFriends reserves the right to discontinue,
delete and change the content or purposes of the site from time to time.
VetFriends also reserves
the right to change the Terms of Service. The Terms of Service in
effect at the time of your use
shall govern your use of
the site.
Opt-in emails
Certain opt-in emails VetFriends.com sends to its
members contain links that check for existing VetFriends.com cookies on a
member's computer
and, if no
authentication cookie is found, will set such a cookie so that the
member can be logged into the site without the need to enter a
password. VetFriends.com
members should not forward emails they receive from VetFriends.com with
the footer: "TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY, DO NOT
FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO
ANYONE NOT AUTHORIZED BY YOU TO ACCESS YOUR PROFILE" to anyone else and
should keep these emails secure.
Choice of Law & Venue:
This Agreement shall for
all purposes be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws
of the State of South Carolina, United States of
America, applicable to
contracts negotiated and fully performed within that State, and the
parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction
of the courts of the
State of South Carolina in any action brought to enforce or arising out
of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
VetFriends shall have
the right to commence and prosecute any legal or equitable action or
proceeding before any Unites States or non-United
States court of
competent jurisdiction to obtain injunctive or other relief in
VetFriends'sole discretion.
Miscellaneous Terms:
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No
Partnership/Assignment. Our relationship is not one of agency or
partnership and you will not be deemed to be a
partner, employee, fiduciary, agent or
representative of VetFriends by your use of the site. You may not
assign or
transfer your rights to any third party.
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Severability.
These terms are severable. In the event that any provision is determined
to be unenforceable or invalid,
such provision
shall nonetheless be enforced to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, and such determination shall
not affect the
validity and enforceability of any other remaining provisions.
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No Waiver. Failure
to enforce a term of this agreement shall not be deemed a subsequent
waiver of that term or other terms.
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Termination of
Membership Permitted. The license granted in this agreement shall
terminate automatically without notice from VetFriends
if you fail to
comply with any provision of this agreement. VetFriends may terminate a
free membership at its sole discretion.
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Headings of No
Effect. The headings in this agreement are used for convenience only
and not for interpretation.
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Entire Agreement.
This agreement is the entire understanding between us regarding your
access to, license and use of the site
and its content and supersedes any prior
agreements, statements or representations with respect to the same.
We sincerely hope
you enjoy your use of the VetFriends.com site.
Please understand
that these rules help protect the integrity ofthe information for all of
our members.
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