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MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE TO REGISTER OR USE THE INTERNATIONAL
HOUSE OF WIVES WEBSITE. BY ACCESSING THE WEBSITE YOU ARE WARRANTING THAT
YOU ARE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE.
Welcome to the Terms and Conditions for International
House of Wives (hereinafter referred to as “I-How” or “Site”).
You must read and agree to these Terms and Conditions before entering,
accessing, viewing, and/or becoming a member of the Site. By accessing
the Site, you are agreeing to its terms. If you do not agree or do not
wish to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement, do not
use or access our services or our website.
1. Binding Nature.
You must read, agree with, and accept all of the terms and conditions
contained in this Agreement and our Privacy Policy, which include those
terms and conditions expressly set out below and those incorporated by
reference, before you use our website or become a member of I-How. We
strongly recommend that, as you read this Agreement, you also access and
read the information referred to in this document, as it may contain further
terms and conditions that apply to you as an I-How user and/or member.
2. Change Control.
I-How reserves the right to change any of the terms and conditions contained
in this Agreement or any policies or guidelines governing the Site or
Services, at any time and in its sole and independent discretion. Any
changes will be effective upon the posting of the revisions on the Site.
You are responsible for reviewing the notice and any applicable changes.
Changes to referenced policies and guidelines may be posted without notice
to you. Your continued use of the Site following I-How posting changes
will constitute your acceptance of such changes or modifications. If you
do not agree to any changes to this Agreement, do not continue to use
the I-How Site.
3. Eligibility.
Our services are only available to, and may only be used by, individuals
who can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. Without limiting
the foregoing, you must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to enter
the I-HOW website. By using/viewing the site, 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 and
that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age (twenty-one (21) years
of age in AL, MS, NE, WY, and any other location where eighteen (18) is
not the majority age). The materials on this site may include graphic
visual depictions of nudity and sexual activity and should not be accessed
by anyone who is younger than eighteen (18) years of age (twenty-one (21)
years of age in AL, MS, NE, WY, and any other location where eighteen
(18) is not the majority age) or who is offended by, or does not wish
to be exposed to, such materials.
By using the I-How Site you also represent and warrant that you are familiar
with the standards in your community regarding the acceptance of sexually
oriented materials, and the materials you expect to encounter are within
those standards. You represent and warrant that the average adult in your
community accepts the use of sexually oriented materials by willing adults
in circumstances such as this Site which offers reasonable insulation
from the materials for minors and unwilling adults. You further represent
and warrant that you will not find such materials to appeal to a prurient
interest or to be patently offensive.
You agree and warrant not to use and/or view the Site in a restricted
location, including, but not limited to, a place, country, or location
in which doing so could be deemed a violation of any law, regulation,
rule, ordinance, edict or custom.
Competitors are not authorized to access or use our website without express,
written permission from us in advance of such access. If you do not qualify,
please do not use the I-How site.
Your I-How account User ID and password may not be transferred, loaned,
given or sold to another party.
4. Proprietary Rights of Content on I-How.
I-How owns and retains proprietary rights in the I-How site and service.
The site contains the copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary
information of I-How and its licensors. You may not copy, modify, publish,
transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any such proprietary information.
5. Content on the I-How Site.
By using the I-How Site, you agree that I-How may delete any content,
messages, photos or profiles that in the sole discretion of I-How may
violate this Agreement or which may be offensive, illegal, or violate
the rights, harm or threaten the safety of I-How, its employees and agents,
and/or I-How’s members or users. You are solely responsible for
the content you publish, display, and/or post on the Site or transmit
to other I-How members and/or users.
When you post content, messages, photos, or profiles to any public area
of the Site, you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant,
and automatically grant, an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully-paid,
worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute such
content, rights of publicity, and content to I-How. You also automatically
grant, and represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to
I-How the right to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other
works and other media, such information and content, and to grant and
authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
Opinions, advice, statements, offers or other information or content made
available through the Site are those of their respective Member-author
and not of I-How and should not necessarily be relied upon. Such members/users
are solely responsible for such content.
I-How does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, reliability or usefulness
of any information on the Site and neither adopts nor endorses nor is
responsible for the accuracy, reliability, or truthfulness of any opinion,
communication, advice or statement made. Under no circumstances will I-How
be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from anyone’s reliance
on information or other content posted on the Site or transmitted to members
or users.
6. Prohibited Content on I-How.
Content that is illegal or prohibited on the I-How site includes, but
is not limited to: content that is patently offensive to the online community,
such as content that promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or physical harm
of any kind against any group or individual; harasses or advocates harassment
of another person or invades another person’s or persons’
privacy; involves the transmission of chain letters, junk e-mail, or unsolicited
commercial e-mail; promotes information you know is false, misleading
or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is obscene, threatening,
abusive, libelous or defamatory; promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy
of another person’s copyrighted work; provides material that exploits
persons under the age of eighteen (18) in a sexual or violent manner or
solicits personal information from anyone under the age of eighteen (18);
provides content that involves incest, swearing, violence, necrophilia,
falsifying gender, bestiality, impersonation of a third party or another
member, threat of suicide or harm to oneself or others, or drug paraphernalia;
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; sending
advertisements in chat messages; and/or engages in commercial activities
and/or sales without our prior written consent such as, but not limited
to, contests, sweepstakes, and pyramid schemes.
In its sole discretion, I-How will investigate and take appropriate action
against anyone who violates this provision, including, but not limited
to, limiting your activity, issuing a warning, removing the offending
communication and/or content from the site or service, temporarily suspending
you, indefinitely suspending you or terminating your membership and refusing
to provide our services to you, and/or appropriate legal action. YOU MUST
USE THE I-HOW SITE IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH ANY AND ALL APPLICABLE
LAWS AND REGULATIONS.
7. Prohibited Activities on the I-How Site.
You represent and warrant that you will not use any robot, spider, scraper
or other automatic device, or manual process to monitor, copy, reproduce,
modify, create derivative works from, distribute or publicly display our
web pages or the content contained herein without our prior expressed
written permission and that of the appropriate third party, if applicable.
You represent and warrant that you will not use any software, device,
or routine to bypass, interfere, or attempt to interfere with the proper
functioning of the I-How site or take any action that may impose or imposes
an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure
and/or servers, or bypass any measures we may use to prevent or restrict
access to the site.
Your activities on the Site shall not: (i) be false, inaccurate or misleading;
(ii) infringe any third party’s copyright, patent, trademark, trade
secret, or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
(iii) violate any law, statute, ordinance, or regulation; (iv) be defamatory,
trade libelous, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing; (v) be
obscene or contain child pornography; (vi) contain any viruses, Trojan
horses, or the like or other computer programming routines that may damage
or interfere with the Site; and (vii) create liability for I-How, its
directors, officers, employees, agents, and/or representatives or cause
I-How, its directors, officers, employees, agents, and/or representatives
to lose (in whole or in part) the services of our ISPs or other suppliers.
Furthermore, you may not consummate any transaction that was initiated
using our Site that could cause us to violate any applicable law, statute,
ordinance or regulation.
The Site may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors including,
but not limited to, sending unsolicited commercial e-mail, sending advertisements
to other websites, businesses, and/or services in the Site’s chat
rooms, or using member personal identifying information for commercial
purposes. All illegal and/or unauthorized uses of the site will be investigated
and appropriate legal action will be taken.
8. 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. Without limiting
the foregoing, 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:
(i) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on
behalf of the owner of an exclusive copyright that is allegedly infringed;
(ii) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed,
or, if multiple copyrighted works, a representative list of such works;
(iii) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing
or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed
or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient
to permit us to locate the material;
(iv) information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining
party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic
mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
(v) a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that
use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the
copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
(vi) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate,
and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized
to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly
infringed.
I-How’s agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement is:
________________________________.
9. Subscription Fees.
I-How’s subscription fees are $29.95 for a 30-Day membership via
credit card or online check payment. These fees are provided to you upon
registration, but may change from time to time upon electronic notice
to you. The membership fee is charged on a recurring basis and you shall
not be required to manually renew membership each month. By becoming a
member, you agree that $29.95 will be automatically withdrawn from your
checking account or charged to your credit card every thirty (30) days
until you cancel your membership. Your monthly membership fee will be
processed by the CCbill Services, I-How’s authorized sales agent.
Credit card statements are discreetly charged as “cci.”
Your membership fee is non-refundable once you use your username and password
to access the Site. In rare circumstances, I-How may issue a refund. Such
refunds will only be made by crediting the credit card or checking account
that was used to make the original purchase. No refunds will be made by
cash or check.
You understand and agree that you are charged monthly for the I-How service.
You understand and agree that should you choose to cancel your membership
prior to the beginning of the month, you will be billed for a month’s
membership. You also understand and agree that you will not be able to
access the site for the remainder of the month after providing I-How notice
of your intent to cancel your membership. You may terminate your membership
at any time by contacting customer service at customercare@i-how.org.
10. Indemnity.
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: (i) your breach of this Agreement; (ii) 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 (iii) your activities
in connection with the site. This indemnity shall be applicable without
regard to the negligence of any party, including any indemnified person.
11. Privacy.
We only use your information as described in our Privacy Policy. Our current
Privacy Policy is available at http://[insert url]. I-How may change the
Privacy Policy in the future. You should check the Privacy Policy frequently
for changes. You agree not to use any information regarding other participants
which is accessible on the Site or disclosed to you by I-How. You agree
not to use any such information for purposes of solicitation, advertisement,
initiation of unsolicited e-mail or spam, harassment, invasion of privacy,
or otherwise objectionable conduct.
12. No Warranty.
WE, OUR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AGENTS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS AND REPRESENTATIVES
PROVIDE OUR WEBSITE AND SERVICE “AS IS” AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY
OR CONDITION, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY. WE, OUR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS,
AGENTS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS AND REPRESENTATIVES SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM
ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. Some states do not allow the disclaimer
of implied warranties, so the foregoing disclaimer may not apply to you.
This warranty gives you specific legal rights and you may also have other
legal rights that vary from state to state.
IN ADDITION, WE SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES THAT THE SITE OR
THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, WILL ALWAYS BE AVAILABLE, ACCESSIBLE,
UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR OPERATE WITHOUT ERROR; THAT THE INFORMATION,
CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, OR SERVICES INCLUDED ON THE SITE WILL BE
AS REPRESENTED, LAWFUL, OR THAT USERS OR MEMBERS WILL PERFORM AS PROMISED;
ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY ARISING FROM COURSE OR DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE;
AND ANY OBLIGATION, LIABILITY, RIGHT, CLAIM OR REMEDY IN TORT, WHETHER
OR NOT ARISING FROM THE NEGLIGENCE OF I-HOW TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE
UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, I-HOW DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL SUCH WARRANTIES.
13. General Release.
IF A DISPUTE ARISES BETWEEN ONE OR MORE USERS, EACH OF YOU RELEASE I-HOW,
OUR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AGENTS, EMPLOYEES, AND REPRESENTATIVES FROM CLAIMS,
DEMANDS AND DAMAGES (ACTUAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL) OF EVERY KIND AND NATURE,
KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, SUSPECTED AND UNSUSPECTED, DISCLOSED AND UNDISCLOSED,
ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH SUCH DISPUTES. YOU WAIVE THE
PROTECTIONS AFFORDED BY CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE § 1542, WHICH SAYS:
“A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR
DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING
THE RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS SETTLEMENT
WITH THE DEBTOR.” YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT THIS WAIVER IS
AN ESSENTIAL AND MATERIAL TERM OF THIS AGREEMENT, AND THAT WITHOUT SUCH
WAIVER, THIS AGREEMENT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ENTERED INTO BY I-HOW.
14. Limitation of Liability.
IN NO EVENT SHALL WE, OUR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AGENTS, EMPLOYEES, AND
REPRESENTATIVES, BE LIABLE FOR LOST PROFITS OR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES HOWEVER ARISING, INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE, ARISING
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT AND/OR YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE.
OUR LIABILITY TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE IS LIMITED
TO THE LESSOR OF A) THE AMOUNT OF FEES YOU PAY TO US IN ANY ONE YEAR OR
B) $100.
15. Termination/Cancellation.
I-How reserves the right to terminate your access to the site for any
reason. In addition, without limiting other remedies, I-How may limit
your activity, issue a warning, temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend
or terminate your membership and refuse to provide our services to you
if, within our sole and independent judgment: (a) you breach, or we anticipate
that you are about to breach, this Agreement or the documents it incorporates
by reference; (b) we are unable to verify or authenticate any information
you provide to us; or (c) we believe that your actions may cause financial
loss or legal liability for you, our users, or us. I-How may terminate
your membership upon sending notice to you at the email address you provide
in your application for membership or other such email address as you
may later provide to us. If I-How terminates your membership for breach
of this Agreement, you will not be entitled to any refund of any unused
subscription fees.
16. Disputes.
I-How does not control the information provided by other users. You may
find other user’s information to be offensive, harmful, inaccurate,
deceptive, or misleading. Please use caution when using the I-How Site.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other I-How members
and/or users. If there is any dispute about or involving the Site, by
using the Site you agree that any controversy or claim arising out of
or relating to this Agreement and/or your use of the website, except for
matters exclusively between I-How members, shall be settled by binding
arbitration in accordance with the arbitration rules of the American Arbitration
Association. Any such controversy or claim shall be arbitrated on an individual
basis, and shall not be consolidated in any arbitration with any claim
or controversy of any other party. The arbitration shall be conducted
in Richmond, Virginia, and judgment on the arbitration award may be entered
in any court having jurisdiction thereof. Either you or I-How may seek
any interim or preliminary relief exclusively from a court of competent
jurisdiction in Richmond, Virginia necessary to protect the rights or
property of you or I-How pending the completion of arbitration.
17. Disclaimers.
I-How and its officers, directors, agents, employees and subsidiaries
are not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate content posted on
the Site, whether caused by users, members or by any of the equipment
or programming associated with or utilized in the service, nor for the
conduct of I-How, its officers, directors, agents, employees and subsidiaries,
or any user and/or member of the I-How site, whether online or offline.
I-How is not responsible or 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
and/or member communications. I-How is not responsible for any problems
or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line-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 I-How site. Under no circumstances is I-How responsible
for any loss or damage resulting from anyone’s use of the Site and/or
any content posted on the Site or transmitted to I-How members. I-How
cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of
the Site and does not guarantee or promise that e-mail communications
received by users and/or members will be from real members and/or users
of the site.
18. Licenses.
I-How grants a limited license to each member or user to make personal
use only of the Site and the Services in accordance with this Agreement.
This license expressly excludes, without limitation, any reproduction,
duplication, sale, resale or other commercial use of the Site and the
Services, making any derivative of the Site or the Services, the collection
and use of participant e-mail addresses or other participant information,
ratings or listings, or any data extraction or data mining whatsoever.
You agree that you will not compile, reproduce, republish or resell for
any commercial purpose any information on our Site and not use any device,
software or routine that may interfere with the operation of the Site.
19. General Provisions.
This is the entire Agreement governing the use of the I-How Site. No delay
by either party shall waive rights under this Agreement. This Agreement
is governed by, and to be construed in accordance with, the laws of the
State of California, without regard to that state’s conflict of
laws provisions. No waiver of any breach of this Agreement shall be a
waiver of any other provision of this Agreement, and no waiver shall be
valid unless in writing signed by the parties. If any provision of this
Agreement is held invalid, such provision shall be restated to reflect,
as nearly as possible, the original intention of I-How in accordance with
applicable law and the remainder of the Agreement shall remain in full
force.
20. Notices.
Except as explicitly stated otherwise, any notices shall be given by postal
mail to I-How Attn: [put I-How legal address here] (in the case of International
House of Wives) or to the email address you provide to I-How during the
registration process (in your case). Notice shall be deemed given 24 hours
after email is sent, unless the sending party is notified that the email
address is invalid.
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