TERMS & CONDITIONS
Cosmosing.com Terms of
Use Agreement
September 5th, 2006
Cosmosing.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 Cosmosing.com ("Cosmosing.com" or "we") include the Cosmosing.com Website
(the "Website"), the Cosmosing.com instant messenger, and any other features,
content, or applications offered from time to time by Cosmosing.com in
connection with the Website (collectively, the "Services").
This Terms of Use
Agreement ("Agreement") sets forth the legally binding terms for your use of the
Services. By using the Services, you agree to be bound by this Agreement,
whether you are a "Visitor" (which means that you simply browse the Website) or
you are a "Member" (which means that you have registered with Cosmosing.com).
The term "User" refers to a Visitor or a Member. You are only authorized to use
the 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 Website and discontinue use of the Services immediately. If you wish to
become a Member, communicate with other Members and make use of the Services,
you must read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance at the end of this
document before proceeding to the Registration process.
This Agreement includes
Cosmosing.com's policy for acceptable use of the Services and Content posted on
the Website, your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of the
Services and Cosmosing.com's Privacy Policy. In order to participate in certain
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 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@Cosmosing.com, Subject: Terms of Use Agreement.
Cosmosing.com may modify
this Agreement from time to time and such modification shall be effective upon
posting by Cosmosing.com on the Website. You agree to be bound to any changes to
this Agreement when you use the 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 Cosmosing.com and that you provide to other Users.
Your Cosmosing.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 Cosmosing.com Members (for instance, in their Profile) may contain
inaccurate, inappropriate, offensive or sexually explicit material, products or
services, and Cosmosing.com assumes no responsibility or liability for this
material. If you become aware of misuse of the Services by any person, please
contact Cosmosing or click on the "Report Inappropriate Content" link at the
bottom of any Cosmosing.com page. Cosmosing.com 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
Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and
without liability.
1) Eligibility.
Use of and Membership in the Services is void where prohibited. By using the
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
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.
2) Term.
This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use the 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.
Cosmosing.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.
3) Fees.
You acknowledge that Cosmosing.com reserves the right to charge for the Services
and to change its fees from time to time in its discretion. If Cosmosing.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.
4) 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 Cosmosing.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.
5) Non-commercial Use by
Members. The
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 Cosmosing.com. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the
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 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 Services.
6) Proprietary Rights in
Content on Cosmosing.com.
a)
By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content, messages, text, files,
images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or any other
materials (collectively, "Content") on or through the Services, you hereby grant
to Cosmosing.com, a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide
license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees)
to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display,
store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and through the
Services. This license will terminate at the time you remove such Content from
the Services. You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by
you on or through the 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 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 Services.
b)
The Services contain Content of Cosmosing.com ("Cosmosing.com Content").
ClickBox.com Content is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret
and other laws, and Cosmosing.com owns and retains all rights in the
Cosmosing.com Content and the Services. Cosmosing.com hereby grants you a
limited, revocable, nonsublicensable license to reproduce and display the
Cosmosing.com Content (excluding any software code) solely for your personal use
in connection with viewing the Website and using the Services.
c)
The Services contain Content of Users and other Cosmosing.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 Services.
7) Content Posted.
a)
Cosmosing.com may delete any Content that in the sole judgment of Cosmosing.com
violates this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the
rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any person. Cosmosing.com assumes no
responsibility for monitoring the Services for inappropriate Content or conduct.
If at any time Cosmosing.com chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the
Services, Cosmosing.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.
b)
You are solely responsible for the Content that you post on or through any of
the Services, and any material or information that you transmit to other Members
and for your interactions with other Users. Cosmosing.com does not endorse and
has no control over the Content. Content is not necessarily reviewed by
Cosmosing.com prior to posting and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or
policies of Cosmosing.com. Cosmosing.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.
8) 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 Services. Cosmosing.com reserves the right
to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in
Cosmosing.com's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without
limitation, removing the offending communication from the Services and
terminating the Membership of such violators. Prohibited Content includes, but
is not limited to Content that, in the sole discretion of ClickBox.com:
a)
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;
b)
exploits people in a sexual or violent manner; contains nudity, violence, or
offensive subject matter;
c)
solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
d)
provides any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email
addresses;
e)
promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal
activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or
libelous;
f)
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;
g) involves
the transmission of "junk mail," "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing,
instant messaging, "spimming," or "spamming";
h) contains
restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not
linked to or from another accessible page);
i)
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;
j)
solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or
unlawful purposes from other Users;
k)
involves commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent
such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
l)
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
Website and through your use of the Services. Cosmosing.com reserves the right
to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in
Cosmosing.com's sole discretion, violates this provision, including without
limitation, reporting you to law enforcement authorities. Prohibited activity
includes, but is not limited to:
1)
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;
2)
advertising to, or solicitation of, any Member to buy or sell any products or
services through the 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 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, Cosmosing.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 Cosmosing.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 Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused
substantial harm to Cosmosing.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 Cosmosing.com $50 for each such unsolicited email or other
unsolicited communication you send through the Services;
3)
covering or obscuring the banner advertisements on your personal profile page,
or any Cosmosing.com page via HTML/CSS or any other means;
4)
any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends;
5)
interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the Services or the
networks or services connected to the Services; attempting to impersonate
another Member or person;
6)
for band profiles, copying the code for your music or videos and embedding it
into other profiles or asking other Members to embed it into their profiles;
7)
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;
8)
selling or otherwise transferring your profile; using any information obtained
from the Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person; or
9)
using the Services in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable laws and
regulations.
9) 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 Cosmosing.com to terminate Membership privileges of
any Member who repeatedly infringes the copyright rights of others upon receipt
of prompt notification to Cosmosing.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 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 Website; (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.
10) Member Disputes.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Cosmosing.com
Members. Cosmosing.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor
disputes between you and other Members.
11) Privacy.
Use of the Services is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is
incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
12) Disclaimers.
Cosmosing.com is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted
on the Website or in connection with the Services provided, whether caused by
Users of the Services or by any of the equipment or programming associated with
or utilized in the Services. Profiles created and posted by Members on
Cosmosing.com may contain links to other websites. Cosmosing.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 Cosmosing.com. Inclusion of any linked website on
Cosmosing.com does not imply approval or endorsement of the linked website by
Cosmosing.com. When you access these third-party sites, you do so at your own
risk. Cosmosing.com takes no responsibility for third party advertisements which
are posted on this Website or through the Services, nor does it take any
responsibility for the goods or services provided by its advertisers.
Cosmosing.com is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of
any User of the Services. Cosmosing.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. Cosmosing.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 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
Services. Under no circumstances shall Cosmosing.com be responsible for any loss
or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from use of the
Services, attendance at a Cosmosing.com event, from any Content posted on or
through the Services, or from the conduct of any Users of the Services, whether
online or offline. The Services are provided "AS-IS" and as available and
Cosmosing.com expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular
purpose or non-infringement. Cosmosing.com cannot guarantee and does not promise
any specific results from use of the Services.
13) Limitation on
Liability. IN
NO EVENT SHALL COSMOSING.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
COSMOSING.COM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, COSMOSING.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
COSMOSING.COM FOR THE SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
14) U.S. Export Controls.
Software available in connection with the Services (the "Software") is further
subject to United States export controls. No Software may be downloaded from the
Services or otherwise exported or re-exported in violation of U.S. export laws.
By downloading or using the Software, you represent and warrant that such
download or use is not in violation of any such law.
14) Disputes.
If there is any dispute about or involving the Services, you agree that the
dispute shall be governed by the laws of the State of Wisconsin without regard
to conflict of law provisions and you agree to personal jurisdiction by and
venue in the state and federal courts of the State of Wisconsin, Outagamie
County. Either Cosmosing.com or you may demand that any dispute between
Cosmosing.com and you arising out of this Agreement must be settled by
arbitration utilizing the dispute resolution procedures of the American
Arbitration Association (AAA) in Wisconsin.
15) Indemnity.
You agree to indemnify and hold Cosmosing.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 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 Website or through the Services causes
Cosmosing.com to be liable to another.
16) Other.
This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the Website or any of the Services
and is further affirmed by you becoming a Member. This Agreement constitutes the
entire agreement between you and Cosmosing.com regarding the use of the
Services. The failure of Cosmosing.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. Cosmosing.com is a trademark of Cosmosing.
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 Cosmosing with any
questions regarding this Agreement.
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AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.