Terms of Service

Personals.Companions.com Terms of Service

You must read and consent to these terms before joining:

(You must be at least 18 years old to register with or use 
Personals.Companions.com website. Access or use of this site or its contents by 
any person under the age of 18 is strictly prohibited.)

Please read this member terms and conditions agreement (the "agreement") 
carefully. 

The agreement sets out the terms under which Personals.Companions.com
services (the "services") are provided to you by us through the 
Personals.Companions.com website (the "site"). By registering with 
Personals.Companions.com, you become a member of the service (a "member"), and 
you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement (the "terms")
for as long as you continue to be a member. If you do not agree to the terms, 
please do not register with the Personals.Companions.com or otherwise access or
use this site.

We reserve the right at any time to:

 * Change the terms and conditions of this agreement;

 * Change the site, including eliminating or discontinuing any content or
   feature of the site; or

 * Change any fees or charges for using the site.

Any changes we make will be effective immediately upon notice, which we may 
provide by means including, but not limited to, posting on the site or email. 
Your use of the site after such notice will be deemed acceptance of the changes. 
Be sure to review this agreement periodically to ensure familiarity with the most 
current version.

Registration.

To become a member you must register with Personals.Companions.com. When and if 
you register to become a member, you agree to provide accurate, current and 
complete information about yourself as prompted by our registration form 
("registration data"), and to maintain and update your information to keep it 
accurate, current and complete. You agree that we may rely on your registration 
data as accurate, current and complete. You acknowledge that if your registration 
data is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete in any respect, we reserve 
the right to terminate this agreement and your use of the site.

When you register, we will require that you provide sufficient information to 
indicate that you are at least 18 years old. By becoming a member, you represent 
and warrant that you are at least 18 years old, which is the minimum required age 
to become a member. However, we cannot guarantee that each member is at least the 
required minimum age, nor do we accept responsibility or liability for any content,
 communication or other use or access of the site by persons under the age of 18 
in violation of these terms.

Either you or Personals.Companions.com may terminate your membership at any time, 
for any reason, effective upon sending written notice to the other party. All 
membership fees paid are non-refundable. We reserve the right to immediately 
suspend or terminate your access to the service, without notice, upon any breach 
of this agreement by you which is brought to our attention.

Your membership in the service is for your sole, personal use. You may not 
authorize others to use your membership, and you may not assign or otherwise 
transfer your account to any other person or entity.

Username and Password.

As part of the registration process, you will be asked to select a username, 
password and member id. We may refuse to grant any username or member id that 
impersonates someone else, is or may be illegal, is or may be protected by 
trademark or other proprietary rights law, is vulgar or otherwise offensive, 
or may cause confusion, as we determine at our sole discretion. You are 
responsible for the confidentiality and use of your username and password and 
agree not to transfer or resell your use of or access to the site to any third 
party. If you have reason to believe that your account is no longer secure, you 
must promptly change your password by updating your account information, available
at the 'control panel' page after logging on to Personals.Companions.com, and 
immediately notify us by email.

You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your username 
and password and for any and all activities that are conducted on your account.

Online Conduct.

As a member, you agree that:

 * You are solely responsible for the content or information you publish or 
   display (hereinafter, "post") on the site, or transmit to other members.
 * You will not post on the site, or transmit to other members or employees, 
   any defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, profane, offensive, sexually 
   oriented, threatening, harassing, racially offensive, religiously offensive, 
   or illegal material, or any material that infringes or violates another party's
   rights (including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, and rights
   of privacy and publicity). please notify us by sending an email from the 
   Contact option on www.companions.com of any material contained in the site that
   you believe infringes these rules.

 * You will use the service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable
   laws and regulations. You will not include in your profile any telephone
   numbers, street addresses, last names, urls, email addresses, offensive 
   anatomical or sexual references, or offensive sexually suggestive or 
   connotative language, or any confidential information of any third person, 
   and you will not post your photographs or other images containing nudity or
   such personal information. Personals.Companions.com reserves the right, but has
   no obligation, to reject any profile or photograph or image that does not 
   comply with these prohibitions.

 * You will not impersonate any person or entity.

 * You will not "stalk" or otherwise harass any person.

 * You will not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other members to buy
   or sell any products or services through the service. You will not transmit any
   chain letters, spam or junk email to other members.

 * You will not express or imply that any statements you make are endorsed by us,
   without our specific prior written consent.

 * You will not harvest or collect personal information about other members 
   whether or not for commercial purposes, without their express consent.

 * You will not use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other
   manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, "data mine", or in 
   any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of 
   the site or its contents.

 * You will not post, distribute or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material,
   trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior 
   consent of the owner of such proprietary rights.

 * You will not remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights 
   notices contained in the site.

 * You will not interfere with or disrupt the services or the site or the servers
   or networks connected to the services or the site.

 * You will not post, email or otherwise transmit any material that contains 
   software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to 
   interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or 
   hardware or  telecommunications equipment.

 * You will not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to 
   disguise the origin of any information transmitted through the service.

 * You will not "frame" or "mirror" any part of the site, without our prior 
   written authorization. you also shall not use metatags or code or other devices
   containing any reference to Personals.Companions.com or the service or the site
   in order to direct any person to any other web site for any purpose.

 * You will not modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer, 
   decipher, decompile or otherwise disassemble any portion of the site or any
   software used on or for the site or cause others to do so.

 * You are solely responsible for your interactions with other members.
   Personals.Companions.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor 
   disputes between you and other members.

Indemnity by member.

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us, our officers, directors, employees,
agents and representatives harmless from and against any and all claims, damages,
losses, liabilities, costs (including reasonable attorneys' fees) or other 
expenses that arise directly or indirectly out of or from:

 * 1. Your breach of this agreement;

 * 2. Any allegation that any materials that you submit to us or transmit to the 
   site infringe or otherwise violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret or 
   other intellectual property or other rights of any third party; and/or

 * 3. Your activities in connection with the site. this indemnity shall be 
   applicable without regard to the negligence of any party, including any 
   indemnified person.

Online content.

Opinions, advice, statements, offers or other information or content made available
through the service are those of their respective member-authors and not of 
Personals.Companions.com, and should not necessarily be relied upon. Such members 
are solely responsible for such content. Personals.Companions.com does not 
guarantee the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information on the 
service and neither adopts nor endorses nor is responsible for the accuracy or 
reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made. under no circumstances 
will Personals.Companions.com be responsible for any loss or damage resulting
from anyone's reliance on information or other content posted on the service 
or transmitted to members.

The site may contain links to other internet web sites or resources. we neither 
control nor endorse such other web sites, nor have we reviewed any content that 
appears on such other web sites. You acknowledge and agree that we shall not be 
held responsible for the legality, accuracy or inappropriate nature of any 
content, advertising, products, services or information located on or through 
any other web sites or for the operation or policies of any such websites, nor 
for any loss or damages caused or alleged to have been caused by the use of or 
reliance on any such websites or such content or other information.

Warning!! Please read:

It is possible that other members or users (including unauthorized users, or 
"hackers") may post or transmit offensive or obscene materials on the service 
and that you may be involuntarily exposed to such offensive and obscene materials.
It also is possible for others to obtain personal information about you due to 
your use of the service, and that the recipient may use such information to 
harass or injure you. Personals.Companions.com is not responsible for the use 
of any personal information that you may choose to disclose on the service. 
Please carefully select the type of information that you post on the site or 
release to others.

Personals.Companions.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor 
the materials posted in any area of the service. Personals.Companions.com shall 
have the right but not the obligation to remove any such material that violates,
or is alleged to violate, the law or this agreement. notwithstanding this right 
of Personals.Companions.com, you remain solely responsible for the content of 
the materials you post in any area of the site and your private email messages. 
Emails sent between you and other members that are not readily accessible to the 
general public will be treated as private by Personals.Companions.com to the 
extent required by applicable law and pursuant to the commercially reasonable 
efforts of Personals.Companions.com.

Proprietary Rights.

Personals.Companions.com owns and retains other proprietary rights in the services
and the site. the services and the site contain the copyrighted material, trademarks
and other proprietary information and software of Personals.Companions.com and its
licensors. In addition, other members may post copyrighted information, which has 
copyright protection whether or not it is identified as copyrighted. Except for 
that information which is in the public domain or for which you have been given 
permission, you will not copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, 
display or sell any such proprietary information.

By posting information or content to any area of Personals.Companions.com, you 
automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to 
grant, to Personals.Companions.com and other members 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.

Information supplied by member.

We will respect your personal information and undertake to comply with all
applicable data protection legislation in the United States and other
jurisdictions in which we offer the service, subject to the privacy policy
of Personals.Companions.com.

The personal information (including sensitive personal information) you provide 
to us will be stored on computer. You consent to us using this information to 
build up a profile of interests, preferences and browsing patterns and to allow 
you to participate in the Personals.Companions.com service. All members also agree
to uphold and maintain our privacy policy and to the terms and conditions thereof.
You may read a full description of our privacy policy on our top page.

Disclaimer of warranty.

Personals.Companions.com provides the service and the site on an "as is" basis 
and grants no warranties of any kind, express, implied or statutory, in any 
communication with Personals.Companions.com or its representatives, or otherwise
with respect to the service or the site. Personals.Companions.com specifically 
disclaims any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular 
purpose or noninfringement. Personals.Companions.com does not warrant that your 
use of the service or the site will be secure, uninterrupted, always available 
or error-free, or will meet your requirements, or that any defects in the service 
or the site will be corrected. Personals.Companions.com disclaims liability for, 
and no warranty is made with respect to, telephone or other service, including 
coverage, range, or any interruption in telephone or other service.

Limitation of liability.

In no event will Personals.Companions.com be liable.

 * 1. To you for any incidental, consequential, or indirect damages (including, 
   but not limited to, damages for loss of data, loss of programs, cost of 
   procurement of substitute services or service interruptions) arising out of the 
   use of or inability to use the service or the site, even if 
   Personals.Companions.com or its agents or representatives know or have been 
   advised of the possibility of such damages, or

 * 2. To any person other than you. notwithstanding any contrary provision herein
   but subject to the foregoing limitation on liability, in all events 
   Personals.Companions.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 Personals.Companions.com for the service during 
   the term of membership.

In addition, Personals.Companions.com disclaims all liability, regardless of the 
form of action, for the acts or omissions of other members or users (including 
unauthorized users, or "hackers") of the service.

Certain jurisdictions limit the applicability of warranty disclaimers and
limitations of liability so the above disclaimers of warranty and limitations of 
liability may not apply to you.

Copyright policy.

We respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask our members to do the 
same. if you believe that a copy of your work is available on the site without 
your consent or that a copyright infringement has otherwise occurred, please 
supply us with the following information:

 * a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;

 * details of where the infringing material is located on the site;

 * your address, telephone number and email address;

 * a statement by you that you believe in good faith that the use of the work on 
   the site is not authorized by the copyright owner or any person entitled to act
   on their behalf or by law; and

 * an affidavit executed by you that the information you provide concerning the 
   copyright infringed is accurate and that you are the copyright owner authorized
   to act on their behalf.

Please deliver this information to: Personals.Companions.com

Complaints.

To resolve a complaint regarding the service or the site, you should contact 
Personals.Companions.com customer using the Contact form found at 
www.companions.com

Trademark notices.

Personals.Companions.com is the trademark of www.companions.com. All other
trademarks, logos, service marks, company or product names set forth in this 
website are the property of their respective owners.

General provisions.

This agreement with you, set out in these member terms and conditions, is governed
by us law and you and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the us courts
in the event of any dispute regarding these terms or the service or the site or 
any matter related thereto. this agreement shall not be governed by the united 
nations convention on contracts for the international sale of goods, the 
application of which is hereby expressly excluded.

This agreement, accepted by you upon registering for the service, contains the 
entire agreement between you and Personals.Companions.com regarding the service 
and the site, including the Personals.Companions.com privacy policy. in the event 
of any conflict between the privacy policy and this agreement, this agreement 
shall control. unless otherwise explicitly stated, the terms will survive 
termination of your membership to the service. this agreement shall terminate 
immediately and without notice if you breach any of the terms, subject to the 
survival of all rights and reservations of Personals.Companions.com. If any 
provision of this agreement is held invalid, the remainder of this agreement 
shall continue in full force and effect.

The member certifies that the member has read and agrees to be bound by these 
Personals.Companions.com member terms and conditions.