Membership Rules

Smooch.com is owned by MakeFriendsOnline Limited (“We”, “Us”, “Our”,“Smooch.com”) which is a company registered in England and Wales with registration number 04112961 and a registered office at Devlin House, 36 St George Street, London, W1S 2FW. Our VAT registration number is GB 799 344 72. MakeFriendsOnline Limited will hereby be referred to as Smooch.com for the purposes of these Terms and Conditions.

1. Membership Rules

These rules are the terms and conditions for your Membership to Smooch.com and your use of this site. By registering on this site and accepting Membership, you agree that the terms and conditions stated in these rules apply to your Membership, whether as a paying or non-paying Member, and that you will abide by them. Any infringement of the Rules may result in loss of chat-room access, loss of message board access, or your Membership being cancelled and you being barred from the site.

If you do not agree to the rules then do not use this site or become a Member.

2. Age Restriction

You MUST be over 18 years old to use Smooch.com. If you are under 18 years old you may not register on this site or use any part of it. We accept no liability for the actions of persons under 18 years old who use this site. We reserve the right to terminate or suspend your access to Our site upon becoming aware that you are or may be under 18 years old.

3. Membership

Your Membership is for your personal use. You may not authorise other people to use the site under your Membership or give your Username and Password details to other people. You are solely responsible for the confidentiality of your Username and Password and any actions performed through your account. If your Password has been disclosed to someone else you must change it immediately and inform us. You undertake as a Member to maintain a full, up-to-date and accurate Personal Profile.

We reserve the right to do the following at any time, with immediate effect, and you expressly agree that we may do so:

* change or delete or remove any content on this site, including usernames, messages, and personal profile information, on the grounds of infringement of the rules
* refuse membership, terminate membership or accounts
* refuse access to or limit your use of parts of the site
* amend the rules (e.g. by posting an amended set of rules on the site)
* change the membership fees
* email you with periodic bulletins, updates or other information (unless you ask us not to)
* monitor your communications with other members

4. Use of the Site

You are solely responsible for your interactions with our other members. We reserve the right, but have no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other members. You acknowledge that other users will be able to view your profile. You are solely responsible for any content you submit to the Site, and any actions performed through your account.

You will not submit material to the site that is inflammatory, obscene, indecent, racist, abusive, libellous, threatening, harassing, dishonest or illegal, or that infringes any third party's privacy, copyright or intellectual property rights. You will not forge or fake emails, letters or any other communications from other Members, or from Smooch.com.

You will not post your personal details such as your telephone number, address and/or e-mail address or URL in your profile or any other information which would allow other members and/or users to contact you directly.

You warrant and represent to us that all information posted by you is accurate, true, complete and is not misleading.

You will not solicit business or advertise products or services on this site as a Member, or send spam, junk mail or chain letters to other Members.

You will not use the service to promote another site, service and/or business in any way including but not limited to posting any personal e-mail addresses URL's and/or other personal telephone numbers in your profile.

You will not impersonate another Member, or any other third party.

You will not attempt to access pages of the site except through the navigation system. You will not hack into the site, or retrieve information using a computer program (other than common Internet browser software), for example, by the use of ‘spiders’ or other ‘screenscraping’ techniques.

You will not transmit viruses, computer code, files or programs on this site.

If you arrange any meetings with any person through your use of the service then you do so at your own risk. You should take any precautions you think necessary to ensure your own safety.

We are not liable for actions of, or content provided by a Member which violate the Rules.

We do not have an opportunity to check that the profiles are correct and not misleading. We do not make any representation or warranty that the information contained in any profile is accurate and we are not under any obligation to verify any information contained in any profile.

Before acting on any information contained in any profile or on any information received by you through your use of the Service, you should at your own cost and expense, carry out such investigation as you think is necessary to satisfy yourself of the truth and accuracy of such information.

5. No Guarantee

The service is provided in its current form and Smooch.com do not guarantee or warrant that the service, or any element of the service will meet your requirements, purpose and/or expectations.

We do not warrant that any of the information and/or material provided in the service is accurate.

We do not provide any warranty in respect of the service, results, availability, and/or uninterrupted use of the service.

We will operate this web site with the reasonable skill and care of an online service provider.

We will do our best to maintain the operation of the web site for the service, however, we may need to temporarily suspend the service for operational reasons (e.g. for repairs, planned maintenance or upgrades). We promise to try to restore the service as soon as possible after any suspension.

We reserve the right to make changes to the service from time to time provided that they do not have a material adverse effect on the quality of the service.

If we cannot do what we have promised in this agreement because of something beyond our reasonable control (including, without limitation, disputes involving our employees), we will not be liable for this.

6. Material Ownership

All intellectual property rights in the content of this site anywhere in the world, including website design, structure, pages, text, images, their selection and arrangement, information from Members' personal profiles, all software compilations, underlying source code, meta tags and all other material, is solely owned by (or licensed to) Smooch.com and its affiliates. All rights in relation to the content of the site are reserved. You may access the site and use its contents only for your own personal, non-commercial use in accordance with these rules. You may not otherwise copy, reproduce, mirror, frame, modify, sell, translate any part of the site without our written permission. You hereby grant Us and our affilates a non-exclusive worldwide licence to make available any and all material you submit to the site in connection with the Smooch.com service and for such purpose, to use, reproduce, adapt, distribute, transmit, communicate to the public and display such material (and to sublicence other users of the site to access and use this material in connection in accordance with these rules).

We may monitor or use for statistical purposes, or keep records on any aspect of your activity on the site, including information about your browser and logs of your use of the site, any information you submit to the site, your profile details, pictures, and public and private messages. In doing this we may place cookie files on your browser and receive information from them.

We reserve the right to copy, reproduce, alter or delete any content you submit to the site including your profile details, pictures, and public and private messages.

We will not sell or rent out your personal information or disclose your email address to any third party without your permission. We will use industry standard security measures to protect your information, and we undertake to comply with all obligatory privacy and data protection laws regarding your personal information.

7. Termination of Membership

You may terminate your Membership with Smooch.com at any time. Smooch.com can terminate your membership at any time for a breach of any of the Membership Rules without notice.

If you rejoin the site having previously had your access to the site revoked, your Membership terminated or having been banned from the site for infringement of the Membership Rules, Smooch.com reserve the right to deny your access or to remove you again without notice.

8. Disclaimer

Smooch.com shall have no liability for users of the site who breach these rules.

You agree not to hold us liable for any losses, breach of copyright, defamation, damages, liabilities and expenses arising from your or other member's use of this website, infringement of the rules, or from any allegation of breach of copyright or other violation of intellectual property.

All opinions, advice, offers and information given on the site are those of the respective writer, and are not necessarily those of Smooch.com.

Members are solely responsible for all of the content provided under their account.

We are not liable for the acts or omissions of other Members or users of the site, whether authorised or unauthorised.

For the avoidance of doubt, any contract between you and Smooch.com will be deemed to have been concluded in the United Kingdom, and will be interpreted, construed and enforced in all respects in accordance with the laws of England and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.

To the fullest extent permitted at law, Smooch.com is providing this service and website and its contents on an "as is" basis, making no (and expressly disclaiming all) representations or warranties of any kind with respect to this website or the information, content, materials or products included in this site including, without limitation, warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

Except as specifically stated on this website, to the fullest extent permitted at law, Smooch.com and its affiliates, directors, employees and other representatives will not be held liable for damages arising out of or in connection with the use of this site or the information, content, materials or products included on it. This is a comprehensive limitation of liability that applies to all damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties. Smooch.com does not limit its liability for death or personal injury arising from its negligence.

9. Limitations of Liability

We shall have no liability for any defect or error in the service caused or contributed to by you and/or any other member.

We shall have no liability to any member if any monies owed to us by that member have not been paid in full by the due date for payment.

Members shall produce to us written evidence of any claims for which it is alleged that we are liable together with written details of how any loss was caused by us and the steps the member in question has taken to mitigate the loss before we shall have any liability for any claim by a member.

All members shall give us a reasonable opportunity to remedy any matter for which we are liable before said member incurs any costs and/or expenses in remedying the matter. If said member does not do so then to the fullest extent permitted by law Smooch.com shall have no liability to said member.

It is possible for other members and/or unauthorised users to obtain and misuse information about other members as a result of their use of this service. We will have no liability to you arising out of any member's and/or unauthorised user's misuse of information and/or other material posted by any member on the service and/or to other members.

Our total liability to you under and/or arising in relation to their Membership and any agreement shall not exceed 5 times the amount paid by you for the service (if any) under that agreement or the sum of £500, whichever is the higher.

If any of the provisions of these rules is judged to be illegal or unenforceable, the continuation in full force and effect of the remainder of them will not be prejudiced.

We are not responsible or liable for the contents of any third party websites that link to our site or that are linked to from our site.

10. Indemnity

All members agree to indemnify and keep indemnified Smooch.com and all members of its staff against any and all losses, proceedings, lost profits, damages, awards, expenses, costs (including increased administration costs and legal costs on a full indemnity basis), claims, actions and any other losses and/or liabilities suffered by Smooch.com and arising from and/or relating to your use of the service, information and/or other material posted on the service by you and/or arising from or due to any breach of contract, any tortious act and/or omission and/or any breach of statutory duty by you.

11. Mobile Services

Your mobile phone number will never by displayed or used by the other members of Smooch.com. Your number is processed by a reputable third party solely for the puposes of providing the services offered on Smooch.com. Your number is held in the strictest confidence and is used only in the following ways:

To send you occasional marketing messages at our expense drawing your attention to special offers on our website or reminding you of the services available on our website.

To invite you to use other mobile services offered by this website such as but not limited to "You Have Mail" alerts.

You may stop these services at any time by replying to any of these messages with the word STOP, or by emailing your request to us by using the "contact us" page

Membership Rules

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