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EspaceMwen.com 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 services offered by EspaceMwen.com
("EspaceMwen.com" or "we") include the EspaceMwen.com
website (the "EspaceMwen Website"), the EspaceMwen.com Internet
messaging service, and any other features, content, or applications offered
from time to time by EspaceMwen.com in connection with the EspaceMwen Website
(collectively, the "EspaceMwen Services"). The EspaceMwen Services
are hosted in the U.S.
This Terms of Use Agreement ("Agreement") sets
forth the legally binding terms for your use of the EspaceMwen Services. By
using the EspaceMwen Services, you agree to be bound by this Agreement, whether
you are a "Visitor" (which means that you simply browse the
EspaceMwen Website) or you are a "Member" (which means that you have
registered with EspaceMwen.com). The term "User" refers to a Visitor
or a Member. You are only authorized to use the EspaceMwen Services (regardless
of whether your access or use is intended) if you agree to abide by all
applicable laws and to this Agreement. Please read this Agreement carefully and
save it. If you do not agree with it, you should leave the EspaceMwen Website
and discontinue use of the EspaceMwen Services immediately. If you wish to
become a Member, communicate with other Members and make use of the EspaceMwen
Services, you must read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance during the
Registration process.
This Agreement includes EspaceMwen.com's policy for
acceptable use of the EspaceMwen Services and Content posted on the EspaceMwen
Website, your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of the
EspaceMwen Services and EspaceMwen.com's Privacy Policy. In order to
participate in certain EspaceMwen Services, you may be notified that you are
required to download software or content and/or agree to additional terms and
conditions. Unless otherwise provided by the additional terms and conditions applicable
to the EspaceMwen Services in which you choose to participate, those additional
terms are hereby incorporated into this Agreement. You may receive a copy of
this Agreement by emailing us at: privacy@EspaceMwen.com, Subject: Terms of Use
Agreement.
EspaceMwen.com may modify this Agreement from time to time
and such modification shall be effective upon posting by EspaceMwen.com on the
EspaceMwen Website. You agree to be bound to any changes to this Agreement when
you use the EspaceMwen Services after any such modification is posted. It is
therefore important that you review this Agreement regularly to ensure you are
updated as to any changes.
Please choose carefully the information you post on
EspaceMwen.com and that you provide to other Users. Your EspaceMwen.com profile
may not include the following items: telephone numbers, street addresses, last
names, and any photographs containing nudity, or obscene, lewd, excessively
violent, harassing, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable subject matter.
Despite this prohibition, information provided by other EspaceMwen.com Members
(for instance, in their Profile) may contain inaccurate, inappropriate,
offensive or sexually explicit material, products or services, and
EspaceMwen.com assumes no responsibility or liability for this material. If you
become aware of misuse of the EspaceMwen Services by any person, please contact
EspaceMwen or click on the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of any
EspaceMwen.com page.
EspaceMwen.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion,
to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting (including private messages) by
you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of
the EspaceMwen Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior
notice, and without liability.
- Eligibility. Use of and Membership
in the EspaceMwen Services is void where prohibited. By using the
EspaceMwen Services, you represent and warrant that (a) all registration
information you submit is truthful and accurate; (b) you will maintain the
accuracy of such information; (c) you are 14 years of age or older; and
(d) your use of the EspaceMwen Services does not violate any applicable
law or regulation. Your profile may be deleted and your Membership may be
terminated without warning, if we believe that you are under 14 years of
age.
- Term. This Agreement shall remain
in full force and effect while you use the EspaceMwen Services or are a
Member. You may terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason, by
following the instructions on the Member's Account Settings page.
EspaceMwen.com may terminate your Membership at any time, without warning.
Even after Membership is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect,
including sections 5-17.
- Fees. You acknowledge that
EspaceMwen.com reserves the right to charge for the EspaceMwen Services
and to change its fees from time to time in its discretion. If
EspaceMwen.com terminates your Membership because you have breached the
Agreement, you shall not be entitled to the refund of any unused portion
of subscription fees.
- Password. When you sign up to
become a Member, you will also be asked to choose a password. You are
entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password.
You agree not to use the account, username, or password of another Member
at any time or to disclose your password to any third party. You agree to
notify EspaceMwen.com immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of
your account or access to your password. You are solely responsible for
any and all use of your account.
- Non-commercial Use by Members. The
EspaceMwen Services are 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 EspaceMwen.com. Illegal and/or
unauthorized use of the EspaceMwen Services, 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 EspaceMwen Website is prohibited. 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 for any
illegal or unauthorized use of the EspaceMwen Services.
- Proprietary Rights in Content on
EspaceMwen.com.
- EspaceMwen.com
does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos,
video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or any other materials
(collectively, "Content") that you post to the EspaceMwen
Services. After posting your Content to the EspaceMwen Services, you
continue to retain all ownership rights in such Content, and you continue
to have the right to use your Content in any way you choose. By
displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content on or through
the EspaceMwen Services, you hereby grant to EspaceMwen.com a limited
license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce,
and distribute such Content solely on and through the EspaceMwen
Services. Without this license, EspaceMwen.com would be unable to provide
the EspaceMwen Services. For example, without the right to modify Member
Content, EspaceMwen.com would not be able to digitally compress music
files that Members submit or otherwise format Content to satisfy
technical requirements, and without the right to publicly perform Member
Content, EspaceMwen.com could not allow Users to listen to music posted
by Members. The license you grant to EspaceMwen.com is non-exclusive
(meaning you are free to license your Content to anyone else in addition
to EspaceMwen.com), fully-paid and royalty-free (meaning that
EspaceMwen.com is not required to pay you for the use on the EspaceMwen
Services of the Content that you post), sublicensable (so that
EspaceMwen.com is able to use its affiliates and subcontractors such as
Internet content delivery networks to provide the EspaceMwen Services),
and worldwide (because the Internet and the EspaceMwen Services are
global in reach). This license will terminate at the time you remove your
Content from the EspaceMwen Services. The license does not grant
EspaceMwen.com the right to sell your Content, nor does the license grant
EspaceMwen.com the right to distribute your Content outside of the
EspaceMwen Services.
- You
represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or
through the EspaceMwen Services or otherwise have the right to grant the
license set forth in this section, and (ii) the posting of your Content
on or through the EspaceMwen Services does not violate the privacy
rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights
of any person. You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other
monies owing any person by reason of any Content posted by you to or
through the EspaceMwen Services.
- The
EspaceMwen Services contain Content of EspaceMwen.com
("EspaceMwen.com Content"). EspaceMwen.com Content is protected
by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other laws, and
EspaceMwen.com owns and retains all rights in the EspaceMwen.com Content
and the EspaceMwen Services. EspaceMwen.com hereby grants you a limited,
revocable, nonsublicensable license to reproduce and display the
EspaceMwen.com Content (excluding any software code) solely for your
personal use in connection with viewing the EspaceMwen Website and using
the EspaceMwen Services.
- The
EspaceMwen Services contain Content of Users and other EspaceMwen.com
licensors. Except for Content posted by you, you may not copy, modify,
translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or
sell any content appearing on or through the EspaceMwen Services.
- Content Posted.
- EspaceMwen.com
may delete any Content that in the sole judgment of EspaceMwen.com
violates this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the
rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any person. EspaceMwen.com
assumes no responsibility for monitoring the EspaceMwen Services for
inappropriate Content or conduct. If at any time EspaceMwen.com chooses,
in its sole discretion, to monitor the EspaceMwen Services,
EspaceMwen.com nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the Content, no
obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate Content, and no
responsibility for the conduct of the User submitting any such Content.
- You
are solely responsible for the Content that you post on or through any of
the EspaceMwen Services, and any material or information that you
transmit to other Members and for your interactions with other Users.
EspaceMwen.com does not endorse and has no control over the Content.
Content is not necessarily reviewed by EspaceMwen.com prior to posting
and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of
EspaceMwen.com. EspaceMwen.com makes no warranties, express or implied,
as to the Content or to the accuracy and reliability of the Content or
any material or information that you transmit to other Members.
- Content/Activity Prohibited. The
following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or
prohibited to post on or through the EspaceMwen Services. EspaceMwen.com
reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action
against anyone who, in EspaceMwen.com's sole discretion, violates this
provision, including without limitation, removing the offending
communication from the EspaceMwen Services and terminating the Membership
of such violators. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to
Content that, in the sole discretion of EspaceMwen.com:
- is
patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm
of any kind against any group or individual;
- harasses
or advocates harassment of another person;
- exploits
people in a sexual or violent manner;
- contains
nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link to an
adult website;
- solicits
personal information from anyone under 18;
- provides
any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email
addresses;
- promotes
information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal
activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or
libelous;
- 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;
- involves
the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or
unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, "spimming," or
"spamming";
- contains
restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those
not linked to or from another accessible page);
- furthers
or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional
information about illegal activities including, but not limited to making
or buying illegal weapons, violating someone's privacy, or providing or
creating computer viruses;
- solicits
passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful
purposes from other Users;
- involves
commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such
as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
- includes
a photograph of another person that you have posted without that person's
consent; or
- for
band and filmmaker profiles, uses sexually suggestive imagery or any other
unfair, misleading or deceptive Content intended to draw traffic to the
profile.
The following is a partial list of the kind of activity that
is illegal or prohibited on the EspaceMwen Website and through your use of the
EspaceMwen Services. EspaceMwen.com reserves the right to investigate and take
appropriate legal action against anyone who, in EspaceMwen.com's sole
discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, reporting
you to law enforcement authorities. Prohibited activity includes, but is not
limited to:
- criminal
or tortious activity, including child pornography, fraud, trafficking in
obscene material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming,
spimming, sending of viruses or other harmful files, copyright
infringement, patent infringement, or theft of trade secrets;
- advertising
to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or services
through the EspaceMwen Services. You may not transmit any chain letters or
junk email to other Members. It is also a violation of these rules to use
any information obtained from the EspaceMwen Services 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, EspaceMwen.com 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 EspaceMwen.com deems appropriate in its sole discretion. If
you breach this Agreement and send unsolicited bulk email, instant
messages or other unsolicited communications of any kind through the
EspaceMwen Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial
harm to EspaceMwen.com, but that the amount of such harm would be
extremely difficult to ascertain. As a reasonable estimation of such harm,
you agree to pay EspaceMwen.com $50 for each such unsolicited email or
other unsolicited communication you send through the EspaceMwen Services;
- covering
or obscuring the banner advertisements on your personal profile page, or
any EspaceMwen.com page via HTML/CSS or any other means;
- any
automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends or send
comments or messages;
- interfering
with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the EspaceMwen Services
or the networks or services connected to the EspaceMwen Services;
- attempting
to impersonate another Member or person;
- for
band profiles, copying the code for your EspaceMwen Player and embedding
it into other profiles or asking other Members to embed it into their
profiles;
- using
the account, username, or password of another Member at any time or
disclosing your password to any third party or permitting any third party
to access your account;
- selling
or otherwise transferring your profile;
- using
any information obtained from the EspaceMwen Services in order to harass,
abuse, or harm another person;
- displaying
an advertisement on your profile, or accepting payment or anything of
value from a third person in exchange for your performing any commercial
activity on or through the EspaceMwen Services on behalf of that person,
such as placing commercial content on your profile, posting blogs or
bulletins with a commercial purpose, selecting a profile with a commercial
purpose as one of your "Top 8" friends, or sending private
messages with a commercial purpose; or
- using
the EspaceMwen Services in a manner inconsistent with any and all
applicable laws and regulations.
Copyright Policy. You may not post, modify, distribute, or
reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary
information belonging to others without obtaining the prior written consent of
the owner of such proprietary rights. It is the policy of EspaceMwen.com to
terminate Membership privileges of any Member who repeatedly infringes the
copyright rights of others upon receipt of prompt notification to
EspaceMwen.com 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 EspaceMwen Services in a way that constitutes copyright
infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent with the following
information: (i) an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized
to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; (ii) a description of
the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; (iii) a description of
where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the EspaceMwen Services;
(iv) your address, telephone number, and email address; (v) 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; (vi) 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. EspaceMwen.com's Copyright Agent for notice of claims
of copyright infringement can be reached as follows: copyright@EspaceMwen.com.
Member Disputes.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other EspaceMwen.com
Members. EspaceMwen.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor
disputes between you and other Members.
Privacy. Use of
the EspaceMwen Services is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is
incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
Disclaimers.EspaceMwen.com is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content
posted on the EspaceMwen Website or in connection with the EspaceMwen Services,
whether caused by Users of the EspaceMwen Services or by any of the equipment
or programming associated with or utilized in the EspaceMwen Services. Profiles
created and posted by Members on the EspaceMwen Website may contain links to
other websites. EspaceMwen.com is not responsible for the Content, accuracy or
opinions expressed on such websites, and such websites are in no way
investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by
EspaceMwen.com. Inclusion of any linked website on the EspaceMwen Services does
not imply approval or endorsement of the linked website by EspaceMwen.com. When
you access these third-party sites, you do so at your own risk. EspaceMwen.com
takes no responsibility for third party advertisements which are posted on this
EspaceMwen Website or through the EspaceMwen Services, nor does it take any
responsibility for the goods or services provided by its advertisers.
EspaceMwen.com is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline,
of any User of the EspaceMwen Services. EspaceMwen.com 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.
EspaceMwen.com 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 on any of the EspaceMwen
Services or combination thereof, including any injury or damage to Users or to
any person's computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading
materials in connection with the EspaceMwen Services. Under no circumstances
shall EspaceMwen.com be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal
injury or death, resulting from use of the EspaceMwen Services, attendance at a
EspaceMwen.com event, from any Content posted on or through the EspaceMwen
Services, or from the conduct of any Users of the EspaceMwen Services, whether
online or offline. The EspaceMwen Services are provided "AS-IS" and
as available and EspaceMwen.com expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for
a particular purpose or non-infringement. EspaceMwen.com cannot guarantee and
does not promise any specific results from use of the EspaceMwen Services.
Limitation on
Liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL EspaceMwen.com 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
SERVICES, EVEN IF EspaceMwen.com HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN,
ESPACEMWEN.COM'S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF
THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF
ANY, BY YOU TO EspaceMwen.com FOR THE EspaceMwen SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF
MEMBERSHIP.
U.S. Export Controls. Software available in connection with the Espace
Mwen Services (the "Software") is further subject to United
States export controls. No Software may be
downloaded from the EspaceMwen Services or otherwise exported or re-exported in
violation of U.S.export laws. Downloading or using the Software is at your sole risk. Disputes. If there is any dispute about
or involving the Espace Mwen Services, you agree that the dispute shall be
governed by the laws of the State of California, USA, without regard to
conflict of law provisions and you agree to exclusive personal jurisdiction and
venue in the state and federal courts of the United States located in the State
of Florida, City Miami. Either EspaceMwen.com or you may demand that any
dispute between EspaceMwen.com and you about or involving the EspaceMwen
Services must be settled by arbitration utilizing the dispute resolution procedures
of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) in Miami, Florida, USA, provided
that the foregoing shall not prevent EspaceMwen.com from seeking injunctive
relief in a court of competent jurisdiction. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold EspaceMwen.com, its
subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their respective officers, agents, 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 Espace Mwen Services 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 and/or if any Content that you
post on the Espace Mwen Website or through the Espace Mwen Services causes
EspaceMwen.com to be liable to another.
Other. This
Agreement is accepted upon your use of the EspaceMwen Website or any of the
Espace Mwen Services and is further affirmed by you becoming a Member. This
Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and EspaceMwen.com
regarding the use of the Espace Mwen Services. The failure of EspaceMwen.com 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. EspaceMwen.com
is a trademark of The Union, LLC. This Agreement operates to the fullest extent
permissible by law. If any provision of this Agreement is unlawful, void or
unenforceable, that provision is deemed severable from this Agreement and does
not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Please contact us at: Espace Mwen with any questions
regarding this Agreement. I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE
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