When you completed your initial profile on this site, you indicated your
agreement in full to all the Terms and Conditons specified below.
Every time you access this service, or any other web site owned by The Owner of
this site, Laurant Systems, you confirm your
full and complete agreement with these Terms and
Conditions set out below by the owner and operator of this web site ("The
Owner"). The site and its Owner shall be collectively referred to as "We" below. Should you not agree in full with all
of the terms below, please
do not continue to use the services offered by this web site, and in
that case, visit this page in order to deactivate your profile permanently.
If any provision in these
Terms and Conditions is invalid or unenforceable under applicable law, such
provision will be inapplicable, but the remaining provisions of this agreement
will continue in full force and effect. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless
The Owner, its agents, affiliates, partner sites and third parties, from any
loss, claim or damage, including reasonable attorney's fees, arising out of or
resulting from your use of this site. Your sole remedy for any damages you may
suffer, shall be limited to the subscription fees (if any) you may have paid. This includes any violation of the Terms
and Conditions of this agreement or any action arising from the content that you
publish on this site that infringes the intellectual property rights (e.g.
copyright, trade secrets, trademark or patent) of any third party or content or
communication that denigrates, libels or invades the privacy of any third party.
The owners of this site reserve the right to, at any time, for any reason they
see fit, and without the provision of reasons to the person being removed,
remove or bar any person who has previously registered from the site. No
correspondence of any nature will be entered into should the owners decide to
take such a step.
These terms shall be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy and our POPIA Notice,
which shall be deemed to constitute part of these Terms and Conditions.
These terms are subject to change at any time.
Legal age
You hereby certify that you are of a legal age to use this site in your country,
and that your country's laws permit you to do so. No person under the age of 18
may use this site and we will not hesitate to immediately remove underage persons from this site.
Your email address and permission to contact
you
By providing your email address and cellular phone number when you register, you
expressly agree that the site and its affiliate sites, with which the site you are
on, shares a database, may contact you via email, SMS or in
any another electronic format. When you register, you are also able to
supply your cellular phone number, and you hereby agree that, should you do so,
this site may send you electronic correspondence, such as SMSs, to your cellular
phone number.
Should your email address, for any reason, become unable to receive mails from this
site, and our mails bounce back or we determine that you are using a temporary
mail address, we reserve the right to immediately delete your
profile permanently, without refunding any moneys you may have previously paid as a
subscriber. You are hereby advised that The Owner
owns operates several other related dating sites, each with its own branding,
name and target market, and that you hereby also agree to receive electronic
correspondence, including promotional materials, from these related sites, or
their members, as well. (This fact is stated on the registration page that you
used to register on this site with as well.) You are hereby informed that the
site you are currently using, shares a common database with the above mentioned
sites. The common database is solely and exclusively owned and managed by
Laurant Systems, the Owner of this site, and will not be shared with any third
party. Should you however not agree to the sharing of your profile data in the
shared database mentioned above, please stop using this site immediately and
deactivate your profile by using this page.
Content
You alone are responsible for any content or information you enter on your
profile and any communication with other Members. The Owner is not the publisher
and only provides the channel for Members to publish and/or distribute their
personal information. No responsibility is assumed by The Owner for the
publication of any member's information, including pictures published by
Members. The Owner furthermore does not verify the accuracy or truth of any
information published by Members. You therefore communicate with other members
at your sole and exclusive risk. Because the Owner cannot guarantee the veracity
of any information published by members, or of any communication between
members, you are hereby advised to take the appropriate care in communicating
with other members. The Owner points out that you should never provide any
personal, and especially not any financial or banking, information to another
member. You may not publish offensive content, and this includes content that
contains offensive language aimed at other users, copyrighted content (including
photographs), is unlawful, threatening, slanderous, abusive, harmful, bigoted,
racially offensive or harassing.
Furthermore, you may not publish content that
encourages behaviour that may constitute a criminal offence, result in civil
liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or
international law or regulation. You are expressly prohibited from advertising,
displaying or promoting any adult or sexually-related services on this site,
including: pornography, adult massage services, escort agencies, prostitution,
adult dating sites or any other sexually-related services. Should your profile
text or photos you upload contain or promote any such services, we will remove
your profile immediately, and you will NOT receive any refund for any
subscription you may have paid. You may not publish content that
contains, promotes or advertises commercial or for-profit services of any
nature. You may not send or display any text, images or messages of a commercial
nature to other members via the site. You may specifically not attempt to induce our members to join any other site,
regardless if you yourself stand to gain from illegally encouraging our members to join another site.
You may not attempt to circumvent the site's security by sending contact details while you are a free member.
Sending contact details will result in your profile being banned permanently.
You may not send multiple mails in an attempt to beg for or extort money from other members.
Should you ignore these requirements, and in
violation of these terms of use send a commercial message of any nature
whatsoever to any other member of the site, you will be banned for life, be prosecuted criminally, where applicable, and expose yourself to a claim
of not less than $100 000 (one hundred thousand US Dollars) for unauthorized
or commercial usage of this site.
You may not send any communication, in any format, to any other member or any
third party that is disparaging, denigrating, insulting or derogatory to this site or any of its members,
or communication that transgresses any applicable law. Should
you do so, The Owner reserves the right to ban you immediately and permanently,
without prior notice,
even though you may be a paid member, should you send communication that can be construed as insulting or harmful. You will immediately forfeit any
subscription fees you have paid, should you do so.
You may not impersonate any other person or entity.
You may not use this site for any criminal or illegal purpose and you may not
encourage or solicit any other member to commit any illegal act. Should any
other member attempt to contact you with a criminal or illegal purpose in mind,
please notify us immediately. The Owner reserves the right to excerpt content
from profiles, along with the Member screen name and photo(s), and feature them
in promotional material. By creating a profile you grant The Owner permission to
publish your profile on our site or on any of our partner sites, or to use your
profile information for the purposes of marketing and communication.
Furthermore, you may not in any way, including, but not limited to, your profile
on the site, messages you send to other members or by any other means, attempt
to cast the site in a negative light, to denigrate or bring the site, its
design, other members or its owners into disrepute. This includes statements
made both on this site, or on external sites or media. Should we be made aware
of any such negative comments, denigration or attempts to bring the site into
disrepute, we reserve the right to immediately and permanently ban you from the
site, in which case you will automatically forfeit all and any subscription fees
you may have paid, in addition to exposing yourself to possible legal action in
addition.
Free members and exchanging contact details
This site is offered on a free-to-try basis for a limited trial period.
The above mentioned trial period should be seen by
you as a marketing or advertising initiative on our behalf, to encourage you to
become a paid up subscriber. and you acknowledge that this site
is a commercial business run on a for-profit basis.
Even though you can register for free and send free messages, you acknowledge
this to be a temporary marketing strategy to encourage you to become a fully
paid-up member and you accept this in this spirit.
Should The Owner or the site software detect that you have attempted to
register more than one profile, all your profiles will be permanently banned from the site,
regardless of whether any of these profiles may be a paid-up profile.
Free members may not exchange any external contact details with any other member, in any
way, shape or form, whether it be in messages, in their profile headlines, in
their nicknames or their profile narratives. Contact details include but are not
limited to email addresses, instant messaging IDs, addresses, Facebook or other social media profile names,
telephone
numbers, cell phone numbers, web site URLs, member names on other sites or any
other form of contact details that are not specific to this site. You are hereby
advised that the site's software has automated algorithms that will automatically remove any contact
details from messages that it deems contains contact information. Should you attempt to do so,
the software will block your profile and you will then be unable to send messages
until you became a paid-up member, should the algorithm detect that you
tried to send contact details.
Should any member attempt
to include membership details or references to other similar or dating sites, in an attempt
to get the other member to join another site, he or
she will be immediately and permanently banned. If a member attempts to circumvent
the prevention of exchanging contact details, by any means, without being a paid up member,
we will not hesitate to permanently ban such a member from our site, without notice thereof to yourself.
Furthermore, all contact details
exchanged PRIOR to a member becoming a subscriber, shall be permanently and
irrevocably deleted. Members who become paid-up members, will have to contact
other members again in order to exchange contact details after subscribing.
Paid-up subscribers may exchange any contact details they see fit with other members,
PROVIDED that the recipient is also a premium member.For contact details to be exchanged,
BOTH members - sender and recipient - have to be premium member. If either the sender or the recipient is a free member,
the site will remove contact details from any messages sent between the two
members, even though one of the two members may be a premium member.
Disputes
You may not harass any Member and agree to cease contacting
any other Member who has requested you to cease. The Owner will not become
involved in any disputes between Members and does not provide any arbitration or
settlement services should a dispute arise between members. You alone are
responsible for ensuring that your interaction with other Members is lawful. The
Owner advises you that there may be risks of dealing with Members acting under
false pretences or with criminal intent, or that you may receive messages that
may be offensive to you. If you yourself abuse the site in a way that can be
construed as harmful, bigoted, insulting or criminal, the Owner will instantly
and permanently ban you, with no prior notice thereof.
Deactivation of your profile
You may only deactivate your profile if you have no unanswered messages in your
mailbox. This is to prevent confusion by other members who contact you, but then
your profile disappears because you deactivated your profile. Before
deactivating your profile, kindly either respond to any messages in your inbox,
or delete those messages.
Uploading photographs
To improve the quality of the profiles on the site, the Owner may, at his discretion, request that you upload a photograph of yoursel, in order to keep your profile
active, failing which you may not be able to respond to messages from other
members. The Owner will, in this case, require you to keep the image of yourself loaded and active on the site, for as long as you want to be able to repond to messages from other members. Should you attempt to circumvent this in any way, your profile may be suspended.
User inquiries
We do not respond to
inquiries that our FAQ page covers. It is also our policy not to respond
to any abusive communication directed to us by our members, such as an email
containing swear words, insulting language or threats. Should you contact us by any means,
in a way that is judged by us to be insulting, abusive, threatening, contains swearing,
making false allegations or exhibits poor manners,
we reserve the right to decline to respond to such abusive communication completely, and furthermore
we will not hesitate to permanently remove the profile of any member who contacts us in such a manner,
without notice thereof to yourself. No
refunds of any nature shall be paid in this case, even if the abusive member is a paid subscriber.
If do you wish to contact the Owner, you should use this page.
Privacy
The Owner will obey the relevant country's legislation in terms of privacy. The
Owner will not disclose, sell or provide to a third party any personal details supplied by Members,
and that is not
publicly displayed on the Member's Profile. This includes the Member's name,
email address contact details, etc without the Member's prior written consent,
or in case of a dispute between the Owner and the member in question.
Information will only be disclosed as necessary or appropriate to comply with
applicable laws or in legal authorities where such information is relevant as
has been requested with the appropriate authority.You can read our full privacy
policy here.
No Warranty
This service is provided on an "as-is" basis by The Owner without warranty of
any kind, either express or implied, including, without limitation, warranties
of title and the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
particular purpose. By registering on the site, and/or paying a suscription, you
accept the site's software and way of working as it is at that point in time.
Even though you may subscribe, there is no obligation on us to make any changes
to the site in order to suit any requirements you may have. You accept the
functionality that is on the site and there is no onus on the Owners to make any
changes to suit your requirements. Any software or database changes shall take
place at the sole and exclusive discretion of the Owner.
To the maximum extent allowed by law, you indemnify The
Owner against any loss you may suffer, directly or as a consequence of the using
this site. Specifically, this site offers no warranty of any nature whatsoever
that you will find any matching person who conforms to your search requirements,
or with regard to the number of persons who fall within any particular
geographical region, age group or any other search criteria that this site
affords you. This site expressly offers no warranty that you will meet a suitable partner, and offers
no guarantee whatsoever that you will receive responses to messages you send to any other member.
As stated elsewhere in these terms and conditions, the site and
its owners cannot verify that any member you may contact is who his or her
profile states and you are cautioned to take reasonable care in establishing
whom you are communicating with. Furthermore, the Owners make no guarantee of a)
error-free operation of this site, or b) uptime or availability of this site.
Deletion of old mails and winks
Please note that, in order to conserve space and optimise
database performance, mails, profile views and winks older than a certain number
of days are automatically deleted from our database.
Maximum Age Difference
The Owners of the site reserves the right to limit searches for other members to a certain maximum age difference.
Subscription refunds policy
Subscribers are immediately able to exchange contact details with other members.
There is no effective way for the owners of the site to monitor this and it
would therefore be open to abuse if we were to allow refunds - a member could
subscribe, exchange contact details the other members of his choice, and then
ask for a refund immediately afterwards. In this sense, the situation is similar
to most music stores not being willing to exchange CDs after sale, because it's
too easy to copy and then ask for a refund and accordingly also open to abuse.
Therefore, as a matter of policy, we do not offer any refunds, unless very
exceptional circumstances exist.
Furthermore, as stated in Item 7 above, we do not offer any warranty regarding
site uptime, nor do we offer any guarantee that you will meet a suitable person
on the site, or that you will receive a response to the messages you send to
other members. None of the above shall therefore be grounds for a refund, and
you agree to this when you purchase a subscription.
No personalized support
Due to the impossibility of providing user support to the large number of
members using this site, except for the help documentation as provided for on the Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQ) page, the Owner will not provide you with any further manuals
or system documentation. Furthermore, you agree that you will not receive any
telephonic, written or any other form of one-on-one support or training from the
Owner. The above will apply even if there is a problem or bug in the site's
database or software. You agree that your usage of this site will be on an as-is
basis. If do you wish to contact the Owner, you should use this page.
We may, at our sole and exclusive discretion, respond to queries
you submit using the page above, but we make no warranty whatsoever regarding response times to any queries
you may submit, or that you will receive a response to your queries at all.
We specifically draw your attention once again that all queries must be in writing and that we do not offer
any form of in-person support, such as telephonic suppport or support by means of email, instant messaging or
by any other person-to-person medium.
Fair use
Regardless of whether you are a paid member or not, we reserve the right to
block, suspend or ban profiles who send excessive numbers of messages to other
members, especially when the messages appear to be of a suspicious nature and
designed for purposes other than legitimately wanting to meet a partner. The
Owner of this site shall be the sole and final judge of whether your messages
are of a suspicious nature. Should your profile be suspended because of a
violation of this provision, you will forfeit any subscription moneys paid and
you may be permanently banned. Should the Owner suspect that any member is
abusing the site for other reasons than legitimately wanting to meet a partner,
the Owner reserves the right to ask for proof of identity from any member, in
the form of a sworn affidavit to be made at a police
station, before possibly reactivating such a profile.
Identity Verification
To protect the reputation of this site, and to ensure the safety of other members,
The Owner may at any time and at The Owner's sole discretion, require you to provide proof of your identity. Should
The Owner, or any reason, suspect that your profile is fake, or that you are not who you pretend to be,
The Owner may ask you to prove your identity by any means The Owner sees fit, including, but not
limited to, a copy of your passport or identity documents, your land line phone number or any
other mechanism of proving your identity. Furthermore, if, upon
investigation, your profile does turn out to be fake or misleading, your profile shall instantly and
permanently be banned from this site, and you will immediately forfeit all subscription fees you
may have paid.
Suspension of suspicious profiles
The Owner, at his sole discresion, reserves the right to suspend profiles in
which suspicious activities occur, such as profiles sending out multiple
phishing mails, or where there is a suspicion that the same person as registered
more than one profile to evade paying subscription fees. The Owner reserves the
right to disable such accounts, and also prevent users from deleting such
accounts, pending investigation of such suspicious activity. The duration of
such a suspension shall be at the sole and exclusive discretion of The Owner,
and no correspondence shall be entered into in this regard, and no refunds shall
be payable to paid members engaging in suspicious behaviour.
Modifications to Site and to these Terms and Conditions
The Owner may modify these Terms and Conditions from time to time in its sole
discretion. It the The Member's responsibility to visit this page from time to
time in order to keep himself informed of the terms of use. Furthermore, the
Owner reserves the right to modify, add, remove or deprecate any functionality
or operations of the site, its servers, its database and its documentation,
without prior notice thereof to you.
Severability
If any provision in these Terms and Conditions is deemed to be invalid or
unenforceable for any reason, the remaining provisions will continue in full
force without being impaired or invalidated in any way..
Entire Agreement
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties pertaining
to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes in their entirety any and all
written or oral agreements previously existing between the parties with respect
to such subject matter. No waiver, relaxation or indulgence afforded to one
party by the other party shall have any effect, unless committed to in writing
by the duly authorized agents of both parties.