HSsegue.com is a
networking service that allows Members to create unique personal profiles
online in order to find and communicate with other members. The services
offered by HSsegue.com ("HSsegue.com" or "we")
include the HSsegue.com website (the "HSsegue Website"), the HSsegue.com
Internet messaging service, and any other features, content, or applications
offered from time to time by HSsegue.com in connection with the HSsegue
Website (collectively, the "HSsegue Services"). The HSsegue
Services are hosted in the U.S.
This Terms of Use Agreement
("Agreement") sets forth the legally binding terms for your use of
the HSsegue Services. By using the HSsegue Services, you agree to be bound by
this Agreement, whether you are a "Visitor" (which means that you
simply browse the HSsegue Website) or you are a
"Member" (which means that you have registered with HSsegue.com).
The term "User" refers to a Visitor or a Member. You are only
authorized to use the HSsegue 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 HSsegue Website and discontinue use of the
HSsegue Services immediately. If you wish to become a Member,
communicate with other Members and make use of the HSsegue Services, you
must read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance during the Registration
process.
This Agreement includes HSsegue.com's
policy for acceptable use of the HSsegue Services and content posted on the
HSsegue Website, your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding
your use of the HSsegue Services and HSsegue.com's Privacy
Policy. In order to participate in certain HSsegue 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 HSsegue 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: info@HSsegue.com,
Subject: Terms of Use Agreement.
HSsegue.com may
modify this Agreement from time to time and such modification shall be
effective upon posting by HSsegue.com on the HSsegue Website. You
agree to be bound to any changes to this Agreement when you use the HSsegue
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 HSsegue.com and that you provide to other Users. Your HSsegue.com
profile may not include the following items: telephone numbers, street
addresses, 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 HSsegue.com
Members (for instance, in their Profile) may contain inaccurate, inappropriate,
offensive or sexually explicit material, products or services, and HSsegue.com
assumes no responsibility or liability for this material. If you become aware
of misuse of the HSsegue Services by any person, please
contact HSsegue or click on the "Report Inappropriate Content" link
at the bottom of any HSsegue.com page.
HSsegue.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 HSsegue 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 HSsegue Services is void where prohibited.
By using the HSsegue 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 18 years of age or older; and (d)
your use of the HSsegue 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 18 years of
age.
2. Term. This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you
use the HSsegue 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. HSsegue.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 HSsegue.com reserves the right to charge
for the HSsegue Services and to change its fees from time to time in its
discretion. If HSsegue.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 HSsegue.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 HSsegue 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
HSsegue.com. Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the HSsegue
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 HSsegue 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 HSsegue Services.
6. Proprietary Rights in content on HSsegue.com.
6a. HSsegue.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 HSsegue
Services. After posting your Content to the HSsegue 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 HSsegue
Services, you hereby grant to HSsegue.com a limited license to use,
modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such
Content solely on and through the HSsegue Services. Without this license, HSsegue.com
would be unable to provide the HSsegue Services. For example, without the
right to modify Member Content, HSsegue.com would not be able to digitally
compress files that Members submit or otherwise format Content to satisfy
technical requirements, and without the right to publicly perform Member
Content, HSsegue.com could not allow Users to listen to music posted by
Members. The license you grant to HSsegue.com is non-exclusive (meaning you
are free to license your Content to anyone else in addition to HSsegue.com),
fully-paid and royalty-free (meaning that HSsegue.com is not required to pay you for
the use on the HSsegue Services of the Content that you
post), sublicensable (so that HSsegue.com is able to use its affiliates
and subcontractors such as Internet content delivery networks to provide the HSsegue
Services), and worldwide (because the Internet and the HSsegue Services are
global in reach). This license will terminate at the time you remove your
Content from the HSsegue Services. The license does not
grant HSsegue.com the right to sell your Content, nor does the license
grant HSsegue.com the right to distribute your Content outside of the HSsegue
Services.
6b. You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on or
through the HSsegue 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 HSsegue
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 HSsegue Services.
6c. The HSsegue Services contain Content of HSsegue.com ("HSsegue.com
Content"). HSsegue.com Content is protected by
copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other laws, and HSsegue.com
owns and retains all rights in the HSsegue.com Content and the HSsegue
Services. HSsegue.com hereby grants you a limited, revocable, nonsublicensable
license to reproduce and display the HSsegue.com Content (excluding any
software code) solely for your personal use in connection with viewing the HSsegue
Website and using the HSsegue Services.
6d. The HSsegue Services contain Content of Users and other HSsegue.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 HSsegue Services.
7. Content Posted.
7a. HSsegue.com may delete any Content that in the sole judgment of HSsegue.com
violates this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal or violate the
rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any person. HSsegue.com assumes no
responsibility for monitoring the HSsegue Services for inappropriate Content
or conduct. If at any time HSsegue.com chooses, in its sole
discretion, to monitor the HSsegue Services, HSsegue.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.
7b. You are solely responsible for the Content that you post on or through any
of the HSsegue Services, and any material or information that you transmit
to other Members and for your interactions with other Users. HSsegue.com
does not endorse and has no control over the Content. Content is not
necessarily reviewed by HSsegue.com prior to posting and does not
necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of HSsegue.com. HSsegue.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 HSsegue
Services. HSsegue.com reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate
legal action against anyone who, in HSsegue.com's sole discretion, violates
this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending
communication from the HSsegue Services and terminating the
Membership of such violators. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited
to Content that, in the sole discretion of HSsegue.com:
8a. is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm
of any kind against any group or individual;
8b. harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
8c. exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;
8d. contains nudity, violence, or offensive subject matter or contains a link
to an adult website;
8e. solicits personal information from anyone under 18;
8f. provides any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email
addresses;
8g. promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes
illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory
or libelous;
8h. 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;
8i. involves the transmission of "junk mail," "chain
letters," or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging,
"spimming," or "spamming";
8j. contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images
(those not linked to or from another accessible page);
8k. 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;
8l. solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or
unlawful purposes from other Users;
8m. involves commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written
consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;
8n. includes a photograph of another person that you have posted without that
person's consent; or
8o. 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 HSsegue Website and
through your use of the HSsegue Services. HSsegue.com reserves the
right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in HSsegue.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 HSsegue 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 HSsegue 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, HSsegue.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 HSsegue.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 HSsegue Services, you acknowledge that you
will have caused substantial harm to HSsegue.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 HSsegue.com $50 for each such unsolicited
email or other unsolicited communication you send through the HSsegue
Services;
3. covering or obscuring the banner advertisements on your personal profile
page, or any HSsegue.com page via HTML/CSS or any other means;
4. any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends or
send comments or messages;
5. interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the HSsegue
Services or the networks or services connected to the HSsegue Services;
6. attempting to impersonate another Member or person;
7. copying the code for your HSsegue Player and
embedding it into other profiles or asking other Members to embed it into their
profiles;
8. 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;
9. selling or otherwise transferring your profile;
10. using any information obtained from the HSsegue Services in order
to harass, abuse, or harm another person;
11. 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 HSsegue 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 contacts, or sending private messages with a commercial purpose; or
12. using the HSsegue 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 HSsegue.com to terminate
Membership privileges of any Member who repeatedly infringes the copyright
rights of others upon receipt of proper notification to HSsegue.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 HSsegue
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 HSsegue 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.
10. Member Disputes. You are solely responsible for your interactions
with other HSsegue.com Members. HSsegue.com reserves the right, but has no
obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
11. Privacy. Use of the HSsegue Services is also governed by our
Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.
12. Disclaimers.HSsegue.com is not responsible for any
incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the HSsegue Website or in
connection with the HSsegue Services, whether caused by Users
of the HSsegue Services or by any of the equipment or programming associated
with or utilized in the HSsegue Services. Profiles created and
posted by Members on the HSsegue Website may contain links to other
websites. HSsegue.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 HSsegue.com. Inclusion of
any linked website on the HSsegue Services does not imply approval
or endorsement of the linked website by HSsegue.com. When you access these
third-party sites, you do so at your own risk. HSsegue.com takes no
responsibility for third party advertisements which are posted on this HSsegue
Website or through the HSsegue Services, nor does it take any
responsibility for the goods or services provided by its advertisers. HSsegue.com
is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any User of
the HSsegue Services. HSsegue.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. HSsegue.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 HSsegue 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 HSsegue Services. Under no circumstances
shall HSsegue.com be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal
injury or death, resulting from use of the HSsegue Services, attendance at a HSsegue.com
event, from any Content posted on or through the HSsegue Services, or from
the conduct of any Users of the HSsegue Services, whether online or
offline. The HSsegue Services are provided "AS-IS" and as available and HSsegue.com
expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or
non-infringement. HSsegue.com cannot guarantee and does not
promise any specific results from use of the HSsegue Services.
13. Limitation on Liability. IN NO EVENT SHALL HSsegue.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 HSsegue.com HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING
ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, HSsegue.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 HSsegue.com FOR THE HSsegue
SERVICES DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
14. U.S.
Export Controls. Software available in connection with the HSsegue
Services (the "Software") is further subject to United States export controls. No
Software may be downloaded from the HSsegue Services or otherwise exported or
re-exported in violation of U.S.
export laws. Downloading or using the Software is at your sole risk.
15. Disputes. If there is any dispute about or involving the HSsegue
Services, you agree that the dispute shall be governed by the laws of the State
of New York, 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 New York. Either HSsegue.com or you may
demand that any dispute between HSsegue.com and you about or involving the
HSsegue Services must be settled by arbitration utilizing the dispute
resolution procedures of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) in New York.
16. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold HSsegue.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 HSsegue 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 HSsegue Website or through the HSsegue
Services causes HSsegue.com to be liable to another.
17. Other. This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the HSsegue
Website or any of the HSsegue Services and is further affirmed
by you becoming a Member. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement
between you and HSsegue.com regarding the use of the HSsegue
Services. The failure of HSsegue.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. HSsegue.com is a
trademark of HSsegue, Inc. 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.