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Terms and Conditions
Welcome to Collegecatch, the service for Boston area college students to meet
each other through both communication online and in person. By using the
Collegecatch system you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, whether or not
you register as a member. If you wish to become a Member and communicate with
other Members and make use of the Collegecatch service, you must abide by our
conditions.This Agreement describes the legally binding terms of your use of the
Website and our services and may be modified by Collegecatch from time to time,
such modifications to be effective upon posting by Collegecatch on the Website
or by e-mail notification. This Agreement includes Collegecatch's Acceptable Use
Policy for Content Posted on the Website, Collegecatch’s Privacy Policy, and any
notices regarding the Website.
- Eligibility. You must be eighteen or older and attend a college
or university. In order to become a member you must be enrolled in a greater
Boston area college or university. By using the service, 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 effect while you utilize any
function of this service as a Member. You may terminate your membership at
any time, for any reason by following the instructions that we would provide
upon notification. Collegecatch 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 Collegecatch. If Collegecatch 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 9-12 of this Agreement.
- 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.
- Proprietary Rights in Content on Collegecatch. Collegecatch owns
and retains all proprietary rights in the Website and the Service. The
Website contains the copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary
information of Collegecatch, 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.
- Content Posted on the Site.
- You understand and agree that Collegecatch may review and
delete any content, messages, photos or profiles that in the sole
judgment of collegecatch that 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 Collegecatch, you
automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the
right to grant, to Collegecatch 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. Collegecatch 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 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 Collegecatch 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. If we receive
complaints of a violation we will take measures that may result in
membership suspension or termination.
- 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.
- Member Disputes. You are solely responsible for your interactions
with other Collegecatch Members. Collegecatch reserves the right, but has no
obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
- Privacy.
- Disclaimers. Collegecatch is not responsible for any incorrect or
inaccurate Content provided to us by you, the member 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.
Collegecatch is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline,
of any user of the Website or Member of the Service. Collegecatch 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. Collegecatch 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
Collegecatch 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 any
interactions between users of the Website, whether online or offline. The
Website and the Service are provided "AS-IS" and Collegecatch expressly
disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or
non-infringement. Collegecatch cannot guarantee and does not promise any
specific results from use of the Website and/or the Service.
- Limitation on Liability. Except in jurisdictions where such
provisions are restricted, in no event will Collegecatch 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 Collegecatch has been advised of
the possibility of such damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein, Collegecatch’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 Collegecatch for the Service during the
term of membership.
- 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 Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts, City Boston.
- Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold Collegecatch, its
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.
- 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 Collegecatch 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.
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