Welcome to Dog.community! Dog.community is a web mingling
place for pets and to some extend their owners. By using the Dog.community
Website you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, whether or not you register
as a member. If you wish to become a Member and communicate with other Members
and make use of the Dog.community service, read these Terms of Use and indicate
your acceptance of them.
Definitions:
In these conditions, unless the context requires otherwise, the
following words shall have the following meanings:
Member or you means the person who signed up for membership with Dog.community;
Agreement means Terms of use described herein;
Service means any services supplied or to be supplied by Dog.community;
Website or we means Dog.community;
This Agreement sets out the legally binding terms of your use of the
Website and your membership in the Service and may be modified by
Dog.community from time to time, such modifications to be effective
upon posting by Dog.community on the Website. This Agreement includes
Dog.community's Acceptable Use Policy for Content Posted on the Website,
Dog.community's Privacy Policy, and any notices regarding the Website.
1. Who is Eligible?
Anyone can register as a member of Dog.community or use the Website.
Membership in the Service is void where not in accord with these Terms
and Conditions. 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. Duration of Agreement
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 writing an Email to Dog.community.
Dog.community may terminate your membership for any reason, effective
upon sending notice to you at the email address you provide in your
application for membership, or such other email address as you may
later provide to Dog.community. Even after membership is terminated,
this Agreement will remain in effect. Even after this Agreement is
terminated, certain provisions will remain in effect, including sections
4, 5, 7 and 9-13 of this Agreement.
3. Use by Members
Illegal and/or unauthorized uses of the Website, including collecting
usernames and/or email addresses of members by electronic or other
means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email and unauthorized
framing of or linking to the Website will be investigated, and
appropriate legal action will be taken, including without limitation,
civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.
4. Proprietary Rights on Dog.community
Dog.community owns and retains all proprietary rights in the Website
and the Service. The Website contains the copyrighted material,
trademarks, and other proprietary information of Dog.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. About the Content Posted on Dog.community
a. You understand and agree that Dog.community may review and delete
any content, messages, Dog.community Chat messages, photos or profiles
(collectively, "Content") that in the sole judgment of Dog.community
violate this Agreement or which might be offensive, illegal, or that
might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of Members.
b. You are solely responsible for the Content that you publish or
display (hereinafter, "post") on the Service, or transmit to other
Members.
c. By posting Content to any public area of Dog.community, you
automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the
right to grant, to Dog.community an irrevocable, perpetual,
non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform,
display, and distribute such information and content and to prepare
derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information
and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
d. The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is
illegal or prohibited on the Website. Dog.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. It includes Content that:
- 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," or
unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming";
- promotes information that you know is false, 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;
- contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or
images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);
- provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual
or violent manner, or solicits 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 personal identifying information for commercial
or unlawful purposes from other users; and
- engages in commercial activities and/or sales without our prior
written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising,
and pyramid schemes.
e. You must use the Service in a manner consistent with any and all
applicable laws and regulations.
f. You may not include in your Member profile any telephone numbers,
street addresses, last names, URLs or email addresses.
g. You may not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other
Members 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 Dog.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,
Dog.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 Dog.community deems appropriate in its sole discretion.
6. Copyrighted Material
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.
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.
7. Member Subscription
If you sign up for multiple subscriptions to Dog.community, you will be
limited to only one instance of Dog.community, regardless of the number
of subscribing accounts you may have with us.
8. Member Disputes
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other
Dog.community Members. Dog.community reserves the right, but has no
obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
9. Privacy Policy
Use of the Website and/or the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy.
10. Disclaimer
Dog.community is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content
posted on the Website or in connection with the Service, whether caused
by users of the Website, Members or by any of the equipment or
programming associated with or utilized in the Service.
Dog.community is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or
offline, of any user of the Website or Member of the Service.
Dog.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, user or Member communications.
Dog.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 email or
players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the
Internet or at any Website or combination thereof, including injury or
damage to users and/or Members or to any other person's computer
related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in
connection with the Web and/or in connection with the Service.
Under no circumstances will Dog.community be responsible for any loss
or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from anyone's
use of the Website or the Service, 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 Dog.community expressly disclaims any warranty of
fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Dog.community
cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use
of the Website and/or the Service.
11. Limitation on Liability
Except in jurisdictions where such provisions are restricted, in no
event will Dog.community be liable to you or any third person for any
indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive
damages, including also lost profits arising from your use of the Web
site or the Service, even if Dog.community has been advised of the
possibility of such damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein, Dog.community’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 Dog.community for the
Service during the term of membership.
12. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold Dog.community, its subsidiaries,
affiliates, officers, agents, and other partners and employees,
harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including
reasonable attorney's 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.
13. Conclusion
This Agreement, accepted upon use of the Website and further affirmed
by becoming a Member of the Service, contains the entire agreement
between you and Dog.community regarding the use of the Website and/or
the Service. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, the
remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect.
Please
contact us with any questions regarding this agreement.
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