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Terms of Service
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MyGamerBio Terms of Service
Welcome to MyGamerBio, an online community that connects people through
networks of friends for communicating, sharing, and making new friends. The
MyGamerBio service is operated by MyGamerBio, Inc. ("we," "us," or
"MyGamerBio"). By using the MyGamerBio website (the "Website") you agree to be
bound by these Terms of Service (this "Agreement"). In addition, if you are an
individual who wishes to become a MyGamerBio Member (a "Member"), communicate
with other Members, and make use of the MyGamerBio service (the "Service"), you
must read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance of its terms by following
the instructions on the "Sign Up" page, and checking the box labeled "I agree to
MyGamerBio's terms of service."
PLEASE NOTE: if you represent a group
or entity of the type listed in Section 9 below, or otherwise wish to use the
Website and the Service to promote a person, business, product, or service by
registering yourself or your group or entity as a "Member Entity" and creating a
"Fan Profile" (each as defined in Section 9 below), you must Contact Us!
This Agreement sets out the legally binding terms of your use of the Website
(whether or not you become a Member) and your membership in the Service, if any,
and may be modified by us at any time without prior notice. All such
modifications will be effective upon posting on the Website, and any use by you
of the Website or the Service (whether or not you are a Member) after the
posting of any such modification will constitute your agreement to that
modification. The terms of our Privacy Policy, and any
notices regarding the Website or the Service sent to you or posted on the
Website are incorporated into and made part of this Agreement. Links to copies
of each of these policies and notices can be found on all MyGamerBio pages
located at the bottom.
- Eligibility. You must be sixteen or
over to use the Website, register as a Member, or create a Fan Profile. Use of
the Website and membership in the Service are void where prohibited. By agreeing
to these terms or 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.
- 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 on the Cancel Account page in Account Settings. We
may terminate your membership for any reason, at any time. If you are using a
paid version of the Service, and we terminate your membership in the Service
because you have breached this Agreement, you will not be entitled to any refund
of unused subscription fees. Even after membership is terminated, certain
sections of this Agreement will remain in effect. See Section 16 below for a
list of the provisions of this Agreement that will survive the termination of
your membership.
- Other Agreements. Please note that,
if you sign up for one or more features of the Service that are provided by
third parties, such as MyGamerBio Blogs or one of the services featured on the
MyGamerBio Video Tab, such as YouTube or Grouper, then you may be required to
agree to terms of service with those third parties as well. Any such terms of
service are different from and in addition to this Agreement.
- Non Commercial Use by Members. The
Service and the Website are for the personal use of individual Members only.
Unless you have registered a Fan Profile (see Section 9 below), you may not use
the Website or the Service in connection with any commercial endeavors without
our express written consent in each case. Organizations, companies, and/or
businesses (other than Member Entities who have registered Fan Profiles) may not
become Members and should not use the Service or the Website for any purpose. No
Member may copy, transfer, or use any names, photos, links, text, data, or other
content belonging to or posted by MyGamerBio or other Members for the purpose of
selling, engaging in, marketing, or promoting any other product or service.
Illegal and/or unauthorized uses of the Website, including collecting usernames,
e-mail addresses, or other personally identifiable information of Members by
electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited e-mail,
unauthorized framing of or linking to the Website, or any other use not
expressly permitted in this Agreement will be investigated, and appropriate
legal action will be taken, including without limitation, civil, criminal, and
injunctive redress. In addition to the above restrictions, you may not
authorize, enable or otherwise grant to any other person, organization, company,
or business access to your MyGamerBio profile or other content uploaded on the
Website for the purpose of extracting such information or other content.
- Proprietary Rights in Content.
- Rights in Content Posted by
MyGamerBio or Other Members. We own and retain all proprietary rights in
the Website and the Service. The Website contains certain copyrighted material,
including links and compilations of individual data, trademarks, and other
proprietary information of MyGamerBio, our Members, and our licensors. Except
for any information which is in the public domain, you may not copy, modify,
publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any such proprietary
materials or information without our express written consent in each case.
- Rights in Content Posted by
You. By publishing, displaying, or uploading (collectively, "Posting")
any text, links, photos, video, messages, or other data or information
(collectively, "Content") on or to the Website (including on or to your
profile), you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have
the right to grant, to MyGamerBio an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive,
fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute
such Content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other
works, such Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
- Content Posted by You to the Service and the
Website.
- Profile Information. PLEASE NOTE: The Service includes an option which
allows Members (other than Member Entities, as defined in Section 9) to
determine who may view their full profile. These levels are: "Friends," "Friends
of Friends," and "Anyone." If you are an individual Member, and you choose to
allow your MyGamerBio profile to be viewed by "Anyone," you should be aware that
anyone who accesses the Website, whether or not they are a Member, will be
allowed to view all of the information in your profile. In addition, the Service
includes an option which allows individual Members to include their last names
in their MyGamerBio profiles. If you choose this option, your last name will be
included in both your normal MyGamerBio profile, as well as your "public
profile" (which is described in subsection (b) below). Your public profile will
be available to anyone, regardless of the level of access you've chosen for your
full MyGamerBio profile. WHEN CHOOSING THESE OPTIONS, PLEASE CONSIDER CAREFULLY
THE LEVEL OF ACCESS YOU WISH TO ALLOW TO YOUR MyGamerBio PROFILE, AS WELL AS
WHETHER YOU WANT YOUR FULL NAME TO BE AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
- Public Profile Information.
Regardless of what personal information a you choose to include in your
MyGamerBio profile, or what level of sharing of your profile you choose, certain
information about every MyGamerBio Member will be included in that Member's
"public profile." A Member's public profile is an abbreviated version of the
Member's regular MyGamerBio profile, containing the information listed below,
which will be available to any user of the Website, as well as to the general
public through, for instance, search engines like Yahoo! or Google. Each
individual Member's public profile includes the following information about the
Member:
- Name (first, or first and last, depending on which option the Member
chooses)
- Gender
- Age
- Marital Status (or the Member's other response to this category of the
MyGamerBio profile)
- People the Member is interested in meeting (e.g., "Dating Men," "Dating
Women," "Friends," etc.)
- Astrological sign
- Location
- Hometown
- "Member Since" date
- The URL of the Member's MyGamerBio profile
- Removal of Content. You
understand and agree that we may review and delete any Content that you include
in your profile, or otherwise Post on any area of the Website (which may include
deleting your entire profile) that we, in our sole judgment, believe (1)
violates this Agreement, (2) might be offensive or illegal, or (3) might violate
the rights of, harm, or threaten the safety of any other Member.
- Member Identities and Fan
Profiles. Unless you are a Member Entity who has registered a Fan Profile
(see Section 9 below), your profile must describe you, an individual person.
Examples of inappropriate profiles include, but are not limited to, profiles
that purport to represent an animal, place, inanimate object, fictional
character, or real individual who is not you.
- Member Responsibility for
Content. You are solely responsible for the Content that you Post on the
Website or the Service, or transmit to other Members.
- Prohibited Content. Below is
a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the
Website. Posting of any of this Content by you may, in our sole discretion,
result in termination of your membership. In addition, we reserve the right to
investigate and take appropriate legal action, in our sole discretion, against
anyone who violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the
offending communication from the Website and reporting such violators to the
appropriate legal authorities. Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited
to, Content which, in our sole judgment:
- 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," "spam," or any
other unsolicited mass mailing, e-mailing, or other communication;
- includes any information that (1) you know is false or misleading, (2)
promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, or (3) is threatening,
obscene, defamatory, or libelous;
- constitutes or includes any illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's
copyrighted or copyrightable work, including, but not limited to, (1) pirated
computer programs or links to them, (2) information which circumvents
manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, (3) pirated music, images, or
video, or links to pirated music, image, or video files, or (4) Content which
otherwise violates the terms of Section 8 below;
- displays pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind;
- includes material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or
violent manner, or is intended to solicit 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 personally identifying information for commercial or
unlawful purposes from other Members;
- constitutes or includes any promotion, sales or other commercial activity
such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, or advertising, unless you are a Member
Entity who has registered a Fan Profile; or
- solicits people you don't know to add you or accept you as a friend on the
Service, unless you are a Member Entity who has registered a Fan Profile.
Even though all of the above Content is strictly prohibited, there is a small
chance that you might become exposed to such items while using the Website or
the Service. If so, neither we, nor any of our officers, directors, employees,
shareholders, advertisers, or corporate partners will in any way be responsible
for any damages (to or from any party) related to any such exposure. Please see
Sections 11 and 12 below for further limitations on our liability.
- Further Restrictions on Your Use of the
Website and the Service.
- You must use the Website and the Service in a manner consistent with any and
all applicable laws and regulations.
- Unless you are a Member Entity who has registered a Fan Profile, you may not
include in your Member profile any telephone numbers, street addresses, or
e-mail addresses.
- Although MyGamerBio cannot monitor the conduct of its Members off the
Website, it is a violation of this Agreement to use any information obtained
from the Service or the Website in order to harass, abuse, or harm another
person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member
without the prior explicit consent of such Member and MyGamerBio. In order to
protect our Members from such conduct, we reserve the right to restrict the
number of e-mails or other communications which a Member may send to other
Members at any time and in our sole discretion.
- Copyright Protection Policy. You may
not Post, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material,
trademarks, or other proprietary information owned by another party without
obtaining the prior written consent of the copyright owner. If you believe that
your work has been copied and Posted on the Website without your permission or
in any other way that constitutes copyright infringement, please contact us.
- Fan Profiles.
- Registering a Fan Profile.
If you wish to create a profile on behalf of a public person, group, entity, or
organization (a "Fan Profile") or otherwise wish to use the Website or the
Service to promote a person, business, product, or service, you must complete
the Profile Registration Form, and you or your Fan
Profile must be approved by MyGamerBio. If your Fan Profile is approved, you
will become a "Member Entity" under this Agreement. Until such approval is
obtained you may not create a Member profile or use the Service on behalf of any
group, entity, or organization or otherwise to promote any person, business,
product, or service. MyGamerBio reserves the right to deny approval of a Fan
Profile at any time and for any reason or for no reason.
- Fan Profiles and Use of
Service. In completing the Fan Profile Registration Form and submitting
it for approval, you agree, on behalf of yourself or your group, entity, or
organization (as applicable), to adhere to and be bound by all of the terms of
this Agreement applicable to Members in general, as well as the provisions of
this Section 9 applicable only to Fan Profiles. Unless otherwise expressly
provided herein, any reference to a "Member" or "Members" in this Agreement,
shall also be deemed a reference to a Member Entity or Member Entities (as
applicable). Notwithstanding MyGamerBio's prior
approval of any Fan Profile, MyGamerBio reserves the right, at any time, in its
sole and absolute discretion, and for any reason or no reason, to delete any
Content that is included in any Fan Profile (which may include the deletion of
the entire Fan Profile) or to revoke such Member Entity's membership.
Although the features available on Fan Profiles and elsewhere on the Website and
the Service for Member Entities may from time to time include features not
available to individual Members, MyGamerBio reserves the right, at any time, in
its sole and absolute discretion, and for any reason or no reason, to change,
add, remove, or selectively allow the use by any Entity Member of any such
feature.
- Eligible Individuals and
Groups. Subject to MyGamerBio's absolute right to approve or disapprove
any Fan Profile, the following individuals, groups, entities, and organizations
may be eligible to create Fan Profiles:
- Actors
- Artists
- Athletes
- Authors
- Bands or Musicians
- Bars or Nightclubs
- Bloggers
- Celebrities
- Churches and other Religious Groups
- Clubs
- Comedians
- DJs
- Events or Festivals
- Fashions (e.g., Brands, Retail Outlets, etc.)
- Films or Videos (including Producers, Production Companies, etc.)
- For Profit Businesses
- Journalists
- Models
- Non-Profit Organizations
- Political Organizations
- Politicians
- Promoters
- Publications
- Restaurants
- Sports Teams or other Sporting Organizations
- Travel-Related Entities
- Websites
- Widgets (i.e., Programmers, Developers, etc.)
PLEASE NOTE, however, that the above
list is not exhaustive, and MyGamerBio may, in its sole and absolute discretion
and at any time, require any Member to register a Fan Profile as a condition to
such Member's use of the Website or the Service, even though such Member or such
Member's entity, group, organization, product, or service is not expressly
listed above.
- Content of Fan Profile. The
Fan Profile created and maintained by each Member Entity must describe only such
Member Entity and the person, group, entity, organization, business, product, or
service associated with such Member Entity, all substantially as reported to
MyGamerBio upon approval of such Fan Profile. If you wish to add any new or
additional person, group, entity, organization, business, product, or service to
an existing Fan Profile, you must complete a new Fan Profile Registration Form
and submit it for approval.
- Member Entity Representations and
Warranties. In the event that your or your group's, entity's, or
organization's Fan Profile is approved, you represent and warrant to MyGamerBio
that:
- You or your group, entity, or organization (as applicable) has the right and
full power and authority to enter into this Agreement;
- If your group, entity, or organization is a corporation, limited liability
company, limited partnership, trust, or other form of organized entity:
- it is duly organized, validly existing, and in good standing under the laws
of the state of its incorporation or formation, and
- the agreement to become a Member Entity, create a Fan Profile, and be bound
by the terms of this Agreement have been duly authorized and approved by such
entity;
- This Agreement is a valid and binding agreement of the Member Entity,
enforceable in accordance with its terms;
- Any individual entering into this Agreement on behalf of the Member Entity
has full authority to agree to these terms and to bind the Member Entity fully
to this Agreement; and
- All information with regard to either the Fan Profile, the Member Entity, or
its business, products, services, clients, or customers provided to MyGamerBio
is and will be complete and accurate in all respects.
- Member Disputes. You are solely
responsible for your interactions with other Members. We reserve the right,
although we have no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other
Members, and to take any action that we feel may be appropriate in our sole
discretion, consistent with the terms of this Agreement, including the
termination of the membership of one or more Members.
- Disclaimers.
- We are 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, our advertisers or corporate partners, or by any of the
equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the operation of the
Website or the Service.
- WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONDUCT,
WHETHER ONLINE OR OFFLINE, OF ANY MEMBER OR OTHER USER OF THE WEBSITE. UNDER NO
CIRCUMSTANCES WILL WE 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 OTHER USERS, OR ANY
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN OR AMONG MEMBERS OR OTHER USERS OF THE WEBSITE, WHETHER
ONLINE OR OFFLINE.
- We assume 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. We are 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 e-mail or players on account
of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website or
combination thereof. We are not responsible for any injury or damage to any
computer equipment belonging to any user of the Website, any Member, or any
other person related to or resulting from use of the Website, viewing, playing
or downloading any materials on or from the Website, or otherwise in any way in
connection with the Service. The Website and the Service are provided "AS-IS"
and, except as otherwise prohibited by applicable law, we expressly disclaim any
warranty of any kind, including, but not limited to warranties of
merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We
cannot guarantee and do not promise any specific results from use of the Website
or the Service. No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by
you from us, or from or through the Website or the Service shall create any
warranty not expressly stated herein.
- Limitation on Liability.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, our entire 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 us for the Service
during the term of this Agreement. Except in jurisdictions where such provisions
are restricted, in no event will we be liable to you or any third person for any
indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages,
including lost profits arising from your use of the Website or the Service, even
if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
- Disputes. If there is any dispute
between you and us about or involving the Website or the Service, by using the
Website or the Service, you agree that the dispute will be governed by the laws
of the State of Michigan without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You
agree to personal jurisdiction under and venue in the state and federal courts
located in Detroit, Michigan for the resolution of any such dispute.
- Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and
hold MyGamerBio, its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, employees, and
corporate or other partners harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand,
including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or relating to: (a) your
use of the Website or the Service (including the Posting by you of any Content
on the Website) in violation of this Agreement; (b) any other breach of this
Agreement by you; or (c) any breach of your representations and warranties set
forth above.
- No Agency. There is no agency,
partnership, joint venture, employee-employer or franchisor-franchisee
relationship between you and us or between us and any other Member or user of
the Website.
- Survival. Although this Agreement may
be terminated by you or us at any time and for any reason, the terms of the
following sections of this Agreement will survive any such termination, and you
and we will continue to be bound by such terms indefinitely: Section 2 (Term),
Section 5 (Proprietary Rights in Content), Section 9 (Fan Profiles), Section 10
(Member Disputes), Section 11 (Disclaimers), Section 12 (Limitation on
Liability), Section 13 (Disputes), Section 14 (Indemnity), Section 16
(Survival), and Section 17 (Other).
- Other. You will be deemed to have
accepted the terms of this Agreement upon use of the Website or by becoming a
Member. This Agreement, together with our Privacy Policy, and any notices regarding the
Website or the Service sent to you or posted on the Website, which are
incorporated herein by this reference, contains the entire agreement between you
and us regarding the use of the Website or the Service. Our failure to exercise
or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not constitute a
waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of this Agreement is held
invalid or unlawful, the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full
force and effect. The section titles in this Agreement are for convenience only
and have no legal or contractual effect.
Please contact us with any questions regarding this
Agreement.
MyGamerBio is a service mark of MyGamerBio, Inc.
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