Welcome to Lovechitter.com (the “Site”)! The Site offers a fun gathering place where single adults may meet other single adults online. These terms govern use of the Site (the “Terms”) and constitute an electronic agreement which is legally binding upon each individual who accesses the Site, whether or not such individual registers for a Lovechitter.com account (each a “User”). By registering for an account or otherwise accessing, viewing, or using the Site, you acknowledge that you have read, understand, and agree to be bound by these Terms. If you have any questions about the Site or these Terms, please contact us. We may amend these Terms at any time, in our sole discretion, and such amended Terms shall become effective immediately upon posting on the Site. Your continued use and/or access to the Site following any such amendment shall constitute your acceptance of the Terms, as amended. If you do not agree to any of these Terms, your sole recourse is to discontinue your use of and access to the Site.
This Site is not intended for individuals who are not single or children under eighteen (18) years of age. If you are under 18 or are not single, you are not authorized to use this Site. Therefore, you represent that you are single and at least eighteen (18) years of age. You further agree to comply with all applicable laws, rules, ordinances, policies and regulations governing your use of this Site. Membership to and/or use of the Site is void where prohibited by law.
We expect all Users to conduct themselves with integrity and decency. You agree (i) to create only one profile for yourself on the Site, (ii) to represent yourself truthfully in your profile, (iii) not to impersonate any other person, (iv) not to post on the Site or send to any other User any obscene, illegal, pornographic, or otherwise offensive message, photo or other content, (v) not to harass, threaten, or otherwise abuse other Users, (vi) to stop contacting any User that asks you to stop contacting them and (vii) not to post, or request other Users to post, any personally identifying information, including but not limited to, full name, phone number, street address or email address. We reserve the right to remove any profile, block access to the Site from any IP address and/or cancel any account at any time in our sole and absolute discretion, for any reason or no reason, including but not limited to, any breach of these Terms.
Due to the public nature of the Internet, you understand and acknowledge that any information posted or submitted through the Site may become publicly accessible. You are solely responsible for maintaining and protecting the privacy of your information. We are not responsible for protecting, nor are we liable for failing to protect, the privacy of information you post or submit through the Site. Please view our privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) for additional information concerning our privacy practices. Our Privacy Policy is incorporated into these Terms by this reference.
By accessing this Site, you agree to use any personal information provided to you by other Users in a lawful and responsible manner. You further agree that you will not use personal information about other Users for any reason without the express prior consent of the User that has provided such information to you.
You shall keep your password in strict confidence. We shall have no responsibility or liability for any activity occurring through your account. It is your responsibility to notify us if you need to change or discontinue your user ID or password. You should use caution when accessing your account from a public or shared computer so that others are not able to view or record your password or other personal information.
You are solely responsible for any and all information that you post on our Site, including but not limited to messages, content, photos and profiles (“Submissions”). Your Submissions must not be defamatory, trade libelous, threatening, harassing, obscene, indecent, pornographic or otherwise offensive. We are not liable or responsible for any Submissions made on or through the Site, including but not limited to any information posted by any other User about you, directed to you, or otherwise related to you. We reserve the right to take any action with respect to Submissions posted on the Site which we believe is appropriate, in our sole and absolute discretion, including but not limited to termination of your account and your access to the Site. However, we cannot, nor do we, control any Submission by you or any other User or other content providers which is made available through the Site. By its very nature, information submitted by other Users may be offensive, harmful, or inaccurate.
By submitting, transmitting or otherwise providing Submissions to us, the Site, or any other User of the Site, you hereby expressly grant us, our affiliates and our respective successors, a perpetual, exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, sub-licensable, transferable, royalty-free right and license under all of your intellectual property rights, to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, compile, prepare derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display (in whole or in part) your Submissions, in any medium now known or hereafter discovered.
You understand and agree that we may review and delete any content, messages, double-blind emails, photos or profiles, in each case in whole or in part, that we deem, in our sole and absolute discretion, violates these Terms or which might be offensive, illegal, or which might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of other Users.
The nature of the Site enables the sharing of personal information by Users with other Users. The safety and security of our Users is very important to us. However, we cannot and do not make any representation, warranty or guarantee that it is safe for you to have direct contact with any other User. Current technology makes it possible for users of the Internet to obtain personal information about, and to easily locate, other users of the Internet. THEREFORE, WE URGE YOU TO USE COMMON SENSE AND EXTREME CAUTION BEFORE SHARING ANY PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WITH ANY OTHER USER OF THE SITE.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Users. You understand that we do not in any way screen our Users, nor do we inquire into the backgrounds of any of our Users or attempt to verify statements made by any Users. We are not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any User. You agree to take reasonable precautions in all interactions with other Users, particularly if you decide to meet in person.
If you believe that any User is harassing you or is otherwise using personal information about you for illegal or inappropriate purposes, promptly contact your local law enforcement authorities and also notify us so that we may take appropriate action to block further use of the Site by any User who is using this Site or information obtained through it for improper purposes.
We shall retain all right, title and interest in and to the Site, its content and source code, including but not limited to all worldwide copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, patents, moral rights, contract rights and other intellectual property rights related thereto. You may not scrape, harvest or otherwise extract information, data or content from the Site, nor reproduce, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify or create derivative works with respect to the Site and/or the related intellectual property, including any services provided via the Site, and these Terms do not grant you permission to do so. The pages and content on this Site may not be copied, distributed, modified, published, or transmitted in any manner, including use for creative work or to sell or promote other products. Violation of this restriction may result in infringement of intellectual property and contractual rights and could result in substantial civil and criminal penalties.
The Site may contain links to third-party web sites not operated by us or under our control. Such links are provided by us solely as a convenience to our Users. We do not endorse and are not responsible for the content of any linked site or any link or content contained in any linked site.
THE SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR GUARANTEES OF ANY KIND. WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED AND/OR STATUTORY RELATED TO THE SITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement of third-party rights and any implied warranties arising out of course of performance or course of dealing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, WE expressly disclaim any warranties of guaranteed Site uptime, ANY WARRANTIES AS TO THE ACCURACY OF ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, any WARRANTIES THAT personally identifiable information posted to the Site or otherwise submitted to us our TO any of our users will not become public, ANY WARRANTIES that it is safe for you to have direct contact with any other user of the site, OR ANY WARRANTIES AS TO THE CONDUCT OF OTHER users OF THE SITE OR YOUR COMPATIBILITY WITH ANY OTHER users OF THE SITE. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO MODIFY THE SITE AND ANY FEATURE OR SERVICE PROVIDED THEREON AT ANY TIME.
Except in jurisdictions where such provisions are restricted, IN NO EVENT SHALL WE BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, GENERAL, SPECIAL, COMPENSATORY, CONSEQUENTIAL AND/OR INCIDENTAL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE, YOUR ACCESS TO THE SITE, OR YOUR INABILITY TO ACCESS THE SITE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOUR SOLE REMEDY IN THE EVENT OF ANY DEFICIENCY, DEFECT, FAILURE, ERROR OR INTERRUPTION IN THE SITE SHALL BE TO DISCONTINUE YOUR USE OF THE SITE. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, Under no circumstances will we be responsible for any loss or damage, including BUT NOT LIMITED TO, personal injury or death, resulting from YOUR use of the Site or any interactions YOU MAY HAVE WITH OTHER users of the Site, whether online or offline.
You may not use any device, software or routine, including but not limited to any viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or denial-of-service attacks, which is intended to or which may damage or interfere with the proper working of the Site, or to surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information from the Site. You may not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Site infrastructure, including but not limited to "spam" or other such unsolicited mass emailing techniques.
The Site is for the personal use of individuals only and may not be used for any commercial purposes whatsoever. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the Site, including but not limited to, collecting usernames and/or email addresses of Users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email and unauthorized framing of or linking to the Site may be investigated, and may subject you to serious civil and criminal liability. At our sole and absolute discretion, we may take reasonable steps to prevent abuse of the Site, including but not limited to, limiting the number of messages you send or receive and electronically filtering, throttling or terminating your e-mail.
You may not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other Users of the Site. This includes but is not limited to advertising to buy or sell any products or services or solicitations to attend social functions or networking for commercial purposes. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Users of the Site.
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 Site in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you may submit a notification by providing our Copyright Agent with the following information in writing: an electronic 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 Site; 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. Our Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached by e-mail at copyright at Lovechitter.com. Please note that ONLY copyright notices should go to our Copyright Agent; any other feedback, comments, requests for technical support, and other communications should be directed to us using our contact form on the Site. You acknowledge that if you fail to comply with all of the requirements of this section, your notice may not be valid.
These Terms will remain in full force and effect throughout the duration of your use of and/or membership to the Site. You may cancel your account at any time by using the cancel feature in your account. All provisions herein that by their nature should survive termination of these Terms shall be deemed to survive such termination and/or cancellation of your account and will remain in effect.
14.1 Governing Law; Venue. These Terms shall be governed by the laws of Finland, without regard to principles of conflicts of law. Any action or proceeding arising from or relating to these Terms must be brought in a court in Finland, and you irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of any such court in any such action or proceeding.
14.2 Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold us, our affiliates, officers, agents, 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 Site in violation of these Terms.
14.3 Waivers. All waivers must be in writing. Any waiver or failure to enforce any provision of these Terms on one occasion will not be deemed a waiver of any other provision or of such provision on any other occasion.
14.4 Severability. If any provision of these Terms are deemed invalid or unenforceable, such provision will be changed and interpreted to accomplish the objectives of such provision to the greatest extent possible under applicable law and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.
14.5 Construction. The headings of sections of these Terms are for convenience and are not to be used in interpreting these Terms. As used in these Terms, the word “including” means “including but not limited to.”
14.6 Entire Agreement. These Terms, and the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between the parties regarding the subject hereof and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous agreements, understandings, and communication, whether written or oral. Any representations, promises or conditions not incorporated herein shall not be binding upon us or our successors or assigns.