MPAU Community is a social networking service that allows members to create unique
personal profiles online in order to find and communicate with old and new friends.
The service is operated by MPAU Community. By using the MPAU Community 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 MPAU Community 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.
MPAU Community may modify this Agreement from time to time and such modification
shall be effective upon posting by MPAU Community 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 MPAU Community'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 MPAU Community's Privacy Policy.
Please choose carefully the information you post on MPAU Community and that you
provide to other Members. Any photographs posted by you may not contain nudity,
violence, or offensive subject matter. Information provided by other MPAU Community
Members (for instance, in their Profile) may contain inaccurate, inappropriate or
offensive material, products or services and MPAU Community assumes no responsibility
nor liability for this material.
MPAU Community 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 lability.
By participating in any offline MPAU Community event, you agree to release and hold
MPAU Community 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 MPAU Community event.
1) ELIGIBILITY
Membership in the Service where void is 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 MPAU Community 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. 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.
MPAU Community may terminate your membership for any reason, effective upon sending
notice to you at the email address you provide in your Membership application or
other email address as you may subsequently provide to MPAU Community. By using
the Service and by becoming a Member, you acknowledge that MPAU Community reserves
the right to charge for the Service and has the right to terminate a Member's Membership.
Member should 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 may not be used in connection
with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved
by the management of MPAU Community. 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. 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 MPAU Community for any illegal or unauthorized use of the
Website.
4) PROPRIETARY RIGHTS IN CONTENT ON MPAU COMMUNITY
MPAU Community owns and retains all proprietary rights in the Website and the Service.
The Website contains copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information
of MPAU Community 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 MPAU Community may review and delete any content,
messages, MPAU Community Messenger messages, photos or profiles (collectively, "Content")
that in the sole judgment of MPAU Community 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 any Content to the public areas of the Website, you hereby grant to
MPAU Community the non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, publicly
perform and display such Content on the Website. This license will terminate at
the time you remove such Content from the Website.
d. The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited
on the Website. MPAU Community 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. f. You may not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, any
Member to buy or sell any products or services through the Service. You may not
transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members. Although MPAU Community
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, MPAU Community 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 MPAU Community deems appropriate in its sole discretion.
g. You may not cover or obscure the banner advertisements on your personal profile
page, or any MPAU Community page via HTML/CSS or any other means.
h. Any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends, is prohibited.
i. You may not attempt to impersonate another user or person who is not a member
of MPAU Community.
j. You may not use the account, username, or password of another Member at any time
nor may you disclose your password to any third party or permit any third party
to access your account.
k. You may not sell or otherwise transfer your profile.
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 MPAU Community
to terminate membership privileges of any member who repeatedly infringes copyright
upon prompt notification to MPAU Community by the copyright owner 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. MPAU Community's Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright
infringement can be reached via email address.
7) MEMBER DISPUTES
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other MPAU Community Members.
MPAU Community reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between
you and other Members.
8) DISCLAIMERS
MPAU Community 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. MPAU Community is not responsible for the conduct, whether
online or offline, of any user of the Website or Member of the Service. MPAU Community
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. MPAU
Community 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 MPAU Community 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 MPAU Community
expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement.
MPAU Community cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use
of the Website and/or the Service.
9) LIMITATION ON LIABILITY
IN NO EVENT SHALL MPAU Community 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 MPAU
Community HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING
TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, MPAU Community.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 MPAU Community FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE TERM
OF MEMBERSHIP.
10) 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 area
in which we are based without regard to conflict of law provisions and you agree
to personal jurisdiction by and venue in the area in which we are based.
11) INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify and hold MPAU Community, its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers,
agents, and other partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim,
or demand, including reasonable attorneys' 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.
12) 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 MPAU Community regarding the use of the Website and/or the Service.
The failure of MPAU Community 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. MPAU Community
is a trademark of <owners business name>.
I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.
