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Terms and Conditions - St Andrews Dating

IMPORTANT: ST ANDREWS DATING IS IN NO WAY AFFILIATED WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS – INCLUDING ANY OF ITS STAFF, STUDENTS, CLUBS, SOCIETIES OR ANY OTHER ASSOCIATED ORGANISATIONS.

1. Terms and conditions:

IMPORTANT NOTICE: YOU MUST CAREFULLY READ AND THEN AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET OUT BELOW BEFORE ACCESSING AND USING THIS DATING SITE. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR USE THIS DATING SITE OR ASSOCIATED WEBSITES.

By accessing or viewing the Material and on registration to be become a Member on the St Andrews Dating you have indicated to us that you both understand and agree to be bound by its Terms and Conditions.

Although we do check new Member profiles for any content we deem unsuitable we cannot verify the identity of Members or the accuracy of Member Content, nor can we guarantee that we will identify all inappropriate Member Content. Please do not take any Member Content and information as wholly accurate, we will not be responsible for false and misleading statements given by other Members. If you have any concerns over the Member Content on the St Andrews Dating, please contact us.

2. No warranty

St Andrews Dating is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis and in particular we do not warrant that:

  • St Andrews Dating will continue to be available to you in either its current format;
  • St Andrews Dating or any software available from it will be free from viruses or defects;
  • Material contained on St Andrews Dating will be true, accurate or complete in all respects, except always to the extent otherwise set out in the Terms and Conditions and to any warranties which would be implied by law (including without limitation, warranties as to satisfactory quality and fitness for a particular purpose).

3. Liability

We shall not be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage (including without prejudice to the foregoing generality, any lost business opportunities, loss of profit or goodwill) arising from or in any way connected with St Andrews Dating, or your inability to use it.

4. Use of the Web Site

You undertake:

  • not to use St Andrews Dating or its Material for any unlawful purpose;
  • that you shall not make any use of St Andrews Dating in any which causes it to be interrupted, damaged, rendered less efficient, or impairs its functionality any way; in particular that you shall not run any automated scripts on any part of the site without our express authorisation.
  • not to use St Andrews Dating for the transmission or posting of any computer viruses or any material which is defamatory, false, misleading, offensive or of an obscene, sexually explicit or menacing character, or in such a way as to cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety;
  • not to use St Andrews Dating in a manner which constitutes a violation or infringement of any person, firm or company (including but not limited to rights of copyright or confidentiality);
  • that you shall not use St Andrews Dating to transmit any material for the purposes of publicity, promotion and/or advertising without our prior written consent; and
  • that in the event that you may have any right, claim or action against any other Member arising out of the use of St Andrews Dating you shall pursue such right, claim or action independently of, and without recourse to, us.
  • That you will indemnify and defend us against all claims, liability, damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees, arising out of a breach of these Terms and Conditions or any use of the Material or the Site.
  • We shall have the right to immediately suspend your access to St Andrews Dating if you commit a breach of these Terms and Conditions.

5. Intellectual Property Rights

We provide Material on St Andrews Dating solely for your personal use and the reproduction of the whole or any part of the Site (including all imagery which remain the copyright of St Andrews Dating or 3rd party Stock Image Websites – such as Shutterstock), except for any temporary copies made necessarily in downloading the services of St Andrews Dating, for purposes other than private and personal use, is prohibited, as is distributing, displaying or copying the St Andrews Dating.

6. Links to other Sites

Any web sites to which you link through St Andrews Dating (including, without limitation, any web site provided by a third party but co-branded web site) are independent of St Andrews Dating and we have no control over them and accept no liability in respect of your use or inability to use them or any of the content of such web sites.

7. Registration

When seeking access to parts of St Andrews Dating, such access to interact with other Members you will be asked to register and/or subscribe. You must then supply certain details if requested, such as your email address and a password. To become a Member and you can only access the registration areas of the site if:

  • You are aged 18 or older;
  • Your email address and password (if requested) are personal and may not be used by anyone else to access the site;
  • You do not do anything to allow anyone who is not a registered Member to access any registration area of the site;
  • You do not create additional registration accounts which may cause disruption or abuse of the site;
  • You do not supply us with false or misleading information or pass yourself off as another Member.

If we believe that you have not complied with these requirements, we may cancel your access to the site immediately and without notice.

8. Rejection, cancellation or suspension

We can at our discretion, refuse any application to become a Member. We may also suspend or cancel this agreement and your ability to use St Andrews Dating with immediate effect, at any time for any reason, including but not restricted to your serious or repeated breach of these Terms and Conditions or any conduct in connection with your use of St Andrews Dating that we consider inappropriate or disruptive and which is serious or persistent.

9. Your responsibilities

You are legally responsible for material you post or submit and you understand that by doing so you intend it to be published on the St Andrews Dating Such material may include without limitation words, photographs.

10. Infringement of third party rights

By publishing or posting material on St Andrews Dating, you warrant to us that:

  • You do not infringe the rights of any individual, corporation or organisation, including but not restricted to the owners of any copyright and other intellectual property, confidentiality or privacy right, and you have obtained any necessary permissions.
  • You have not defamed any individual, corporation organisation or otherwise affected their legal rights. This may include but is not restricted to: comment which cannot be justified; facts which are untrue or unprovable; statements breaching an individual’s privacy; statements which may prejudice a court case; images or statements which are obscene, pornographic or illegal; statements which are offensive on grounds of race, religion, creed, colour or which may incite hatred or disrespect in any third party; statements which breach the criminal law, whether or not known to be illegal; statements which may breach professional ethics or standards.

11. Intellectual Property

You may use and contribute to St Andrews Dating for your own private purposes but not for any advertising or other commercial purpose (which includes junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes or any other form of solicitation or commercial exploitation). You will not otherwise copy, store, distribute, publish, broadcast, transmit, show in public, create a database (in electronic or any other medium) from downloaded materials or otherwise use any part of St Andrews Dating without our written permission, except that you may reproduce reasonable extracts of any contribution to St Andrews Dating and its community, without our prior permission for non-commercial purposes.

12. Indemnity

You indemnify and will keep indemnified St Andrews Dating against all claims, actions, proceedings, liabilities, losses, damages, expenses and costs (including legal costs) arising from any breach of these Terms and Conditions by you or from the publication of any posting or submission howsoever contributed by you or on your behalf. We reserve the right to take over the exclusive defence of any claim, action or proceeding for which you shall be financially responsible, and for which we are entitled to indemnity from you. In such event, you shall provide us with all co-operation as may reasonably be requested by us.

13. Loss or damage – disclaimer

You acknowledge that:

  • the contributions to St Andrews Dating and its dating community are the statements and views of the contributors and not of us or any of our connected companies, directors employees or shareholders;
  • it is your sole responsibility to check the accuracy of any facts and opinions given by any Member on St Andrews Dating before entering into any commitment based upon them;
  • we reserve the right, as a matter of course, to actively moderate, monitor or edit the Member contributions to St Andrews Dating and its community;

any third parties advertising on St Andrews Dating, or external (or link) sites accessible via our websites, are not under our control and we are not responsible in any way for any of their contents or for any agreement you may enter into with a third party arising from your visit to our websites.

14. Limitation of Liability

We are not liable for any loss or damage, howsoever arising, from your registration to St Andrews Dating and its community by other parties, your use of it or inability to use it, or any errors and omissions on St Andrews Dating, whether in contract, tort or otherwise and whether such loss or damage is foreseen or foreseeable. This includes but is not restricted to indirect, consequential, special or exemplary damages, loss of business, loss of profit, loss of revenue, loss of opportunity, loss of reputation, loss of data and loss suffered by third parties. This does not exclude our liability for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or for any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited by law.

15. No warranty

We make no representations and give no warranties with regard to the quality, suitability, reliability, compatibility, accuracy, non-infringement or completeness of the contents or Members of St Andrews Dating, and any implied warranties are excluded to the extent permitted by law.

We do not warrant that St Andrews Dating, the server that supplies it, or any other of our systems will be uninterrupted or free of errors, viruses or bugs and we shall not be liable if this site is inaccessible at any time. Access may be suspended temporarily without notice for technical reasons or for reasons over which we have no control.

16. Data protection

We will use your personal details to administer this site.

17. Inappropriate Use

If we find your use of this site seriously inappropriate, offensive or disruptive, we may use information we have about you to stop such conduct, and this may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, email provider or, in the case of any suspected unlawful activity, the police.

18. Privacy Policy

Further privacy terms are given in the Privacy Policy.

19. Severability

If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by any court then, to the extent to which that term is illegal, invalid or unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these Terms and the remaining terms shall remain in full force and effect.