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Roadmates.com
Terms and Conditions
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Welcome to Roadmates.com,
the service for motorists in the UK to meet each other online operated by
Roadmates.com. By using the
Roadmates.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
communicate with other Members and make use of the Roadmates.com service (the
"Service"), read these Terms of Use and indicate your acceptance of
them by following the instructions in the registration pages.
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 Roadmates.com from time to time, such
modifications to be effective upon posting by Roadmates.com on the Website.
This Agreement includes Roadmates.com's Acceptable Use Policy for Content
Posted on the Website, Roadmates.com's Privacy Policy, and any notices
regarding the Website. You may also receive a copy of this Agreement by
emailing us at: info@Roadmates.com, Subject: Terms of Use Agreement.
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1. Eligibility.You must be eighteen or over to register as a member of Roadmates.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.
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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 upon receipt by Roadmates.com of your written or email
notice of termination. Roadmates.com 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 Roadmates.com. If Roadmates.com 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, 7 and 9-14 of this Agreement.
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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.
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4. Proprietary Rights in Content on
Roadmates.com. Roadmates.com owns and retains all
proprietary rights in the Website and the Service. The Website contains the
copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of
Roadmates.com, 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.
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5. Content Posted on the Site.
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a.
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You understand and agree
that Roadmates.com may review and delete any content, messages,
Roadmates.com Messenger messages, photos or profiles (collectively,
"Content") that in the sole judgment of Roadmates.com violate
this Agreement or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate
the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of Members.
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b.
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You are solely responsible
for the Content that you publish or display (hereinafter, "post")
on the Service, or transmit to other Members.
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c.
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By posting Content to any
public area of Roadmates.com, you automatically grant, and you represent
and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Roadmates.com 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.
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d.
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The following is a partial
list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Website.
Roadmates.com 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:
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· 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;
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· harasses or advocates harassment of
another person;
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· involves the transmission of
"junk mail", "chain letters," or unsolicited mass
mailing or "spamming";
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· promotes information that you know is
false, misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is
abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
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· promotes an illegal or unauthorised
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;
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· contains restricted or password only
access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from
another accessible page);
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· provides material that exploits people
under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal
information from anyone under 18;
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· provides instructional information
about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons,
violating someone’s privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;
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· solicits passwords or personal identifying
information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users; and
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· engages in commercial activities
and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests,
sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes.
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e.
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You must use the Service
in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
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f.
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You may not include in
your Member profile any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names,
URLs or email addresses.
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g.
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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 Roadmates.com 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,
Roadmates.com reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a
Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which
Roadmates.com deems appropriate in its sole discretion.
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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.
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7. Subscription. Roadmates.com subscription is free at the moment, Roadmates.com
management team may change the policy on this clause at any time they see fit
and charge the appropriate fees for the use of the site, those persons who
fail to pay the sum demanded, may at Roadmates.com discretion have their
account terminated with immediate effect.
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8. Member Disputes.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Roadmates.com
Members. Roadmates.com, reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor
disputes between you and other Members.
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9. Privacy. Use of the Website and/or the Service is also governed by our Privacy
Policy.
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10. Disclaimers. Roadmates.com 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 utilised in the Service. Roadmates.com is not responsible
for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the Website or
Member of the Service. Roadmates.com assumes no responsibility for any error,
omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission,
communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorised access to,
or alteration of, user or Member communications. Roadmates.com 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 Roadmates.com 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 Roadmates.com expressly disclaims any warranty of
fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Roadmates.com cannot
guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the Website
and/or the Service.
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11. Limitation on Liability. Except in jurisdictions where such provisions are restricted, in no
event will Roadmates.com 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 Roadmates.com has been advised of the possibility of such
damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein,
Roadmates.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 Roadmates.com for the Service during the term of membership.
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13. 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 England and Wales.
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14. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold Roadmates.com, its subsidiaries,
affiliates, officers, agents, and other partners and employees, harmless from
any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable legal 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.
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15. 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 Roadmates.com 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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16. SAFE
USE ON THE ROAD. Roadmates.com states quite
clearly that any road user must be aware of the Highway Code, Road Traffic
Act and other Road Safety Regulations and that you are obliged to obey these
rules, failure to do so could and / or will result in the appropriate action
by the governing bodies / departments of Government in England and Wales. Roadmates.com do not condone the use of
mobile telephones whilst driving, we encourage you to pull over where it safe
to do so to use your mobile telephone or take down a Roadmates.com
registration number.
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Roadmates.com Accessibility
Roadmates.com has and will
continue to create a functional website for all. We have designed the website
with easy colours and large fonts in order to make it easier to read and
understand for our visitors / members.
We do not believe in small
print, all our print is font size 12 where it matters, such as Terms and
conditions and Privacy statements and policies.
At Roadmates.com, we believe
size is everything!
If there is any aspect of
Roadmates.com you think the accessibility could be improved, then please email
us at dda@roadmates.com
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