Welcome to Couplets.com, an online social community designed exclusively for couples interested in making new couple friends. Couplets.com is operated by Couplets, LLC ("Couplets"). By using the Couplets.com Website (the "Website") you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use (this "Agreement"), whether or not you register as a member ("Member"). If you wish to become a Member and browse and/or communicate with other Members and make use of the Couplets.com service (the "Service"), read these Terms of Use and indicate your acceptance of them by following the instructions in the registration process.
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 Couplets from time to time, such modifications to be effective upon posting by Couplets on the Website. This Agreement includes Couplets' Privacy Policy, and any notices regarding the Website. You may also receive a copy of this Agreement by emailing us at: members @ Couplets.com, Subject: Terms of Use Agreement.
1. Eligibility.
You must be eighteen (18) or over to register as a member of Couplets.com or use the
Website. Membership in the Service is void where prohibited. 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. Term.
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 following the
instructions in Account Settings, or upon receipt by Couplets of your written or email
notice of termination. Couplets 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 Couplets. If Couplets
terminates your membership in the Service because you have breached the Agreement, you
will not be entitled to any refund of unused subscription fees. 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, and 9-14 of this
Agreement.
3. Non Commercial Use by Members.
The Website is for the personal use of individual Members only and may not be used in
connection with any commercial endeavors. Organizations, companies, and/or businesses may
not become Members and should not use the Service or the Website for any purpose. 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 in Content on Couplets.com.
Couplets, LLC owns and retains all proprietary rights in the Website and the Service. The
Website contains the copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information
of Couplets, LLC, 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. Content Posted on the Site.
You understand and agree that Couplets may review and delete any content, messages, posts,
photos or profiles (collectively, "Content") that in the sole judgment
of Couplets violate this Agreement or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might
violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of Members. You are solely responsible
for the Content that you publish or display (hereinafter, "post") on the
Service, or transmit to other Members. By posting Content to any public area of
Couplets.com, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the
right to grant, to Couplets 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.
The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Website. Couplets 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.
You must use the Service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations. You may not include in your Member profile any telephone numbers, street addresses, URLs or email addresses. You must use the Service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations. 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 Couplets 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, Couplets reserves the right to restrict the number of messages in which a Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which Couplets deems appropriate in its sole discretion.
6. Copyright Policy.
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.
7. Member Disputes.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Couplets.com Members. Couplets
reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other
Members.
8. Privacy.
Use of the Website and/or the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy.
9. Disclaimers.
Couplets 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. Couplets
is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the Website
or Member of the Service. Couplets 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. Couplets 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 Couplets be responsible for any
loss or damage of any kind or type, 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. Although Couplets reserves the right to monitor Content and user or
Member communications, Couplets has no obligation to do so, and use of the Website and/or
the Service is at your own risk. The Website and the Service are provided
"AS-IS" and Couplets expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a
particular purpose or non-infringement. Couplets cannot guarantee and does not promise any
specific results from use of the Website and/or the Service.
10. Limitation on Liability.
Except in jurisdictions where such provisions are restricted, in no event will Couplets 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 Couplets has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Couplets’ 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 Couplets for the Service during the term
of membership.
11. U.S. Export Controls.
Software from this Website (the “Software”) is further subject to United
States export controls. No Software may be downloaded from the Website or otherwise
exported or re-exported (i) into (or to a national or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya,
North Korea, Iran, Syria, or any other Country to which the U.S. has embargoed goods; or
(ii) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or
the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of Deny Orders. By downloading or using the Software,
you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under the control of, or a national
or resident of any such country or on any such list.
12. Disputes.
If there is any dispute about or involving the Website and/or the Service, by using the
Website, you agree that the dispute will be governed by the laws of the State of New York
without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree to personal jurisdiction by
and venue in the state and federal courts of the State of New York.
13. Indemnity.
You agree to indemnify and hold Couplets, 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.
14. Other.
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 Couplets 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 Couplets.com with any questions or concerns regarding this agreement. Couplets.com is a service mark of Couplets, LLC.
