GayLynx.com Terms of Service
The following are terms of a legal agreement (“Agreement”) between you and GayLynx.com (“Site”). By accessing, browsing and/or otherwise using this web site, GayLynx.com, (“Site”), you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agreed to be bound by these terms and conditions, and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including U.S. export and re-export control laws and regulations. You must be 18 years of age or older to use this Site and to register as a member. If we discover or have any reason to suspect that you are not over 18 years of age, then we reserve our right to suspend or terminate your membership to this Site immediately and without notice.
If you do not agree to all of these terms and conditions, you may not access, browse and/or use this Site. The material provided on this Site is protected by law, including, but not limited to, United States copyright law and international treaties.
These terms of access apply to your access to and use of this Site and do not alter in any way the terms and conditions of any other agreement you may have with the Company for products, software, services or otherwise, unless otherwise directed by the Company. If you breach any of these terms and conditions, your authorization to use this Site automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed materials and discontinue use of any hyperlinks to this Site.
STATE OF NEW JERSEY INTERNET DATING SAFETY ACT DISCLOSURE
IF YOU ARE A USER OR MEMBER COMING FROM THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY, WE ARE REQUIRED TO NOTIFY YOU THAT WE DO NOT CONDUCT CRIMINAL BACKGOUND CHECKS ON ANY USER, MEMBER OR PROSPECTIVE MEMBER.
1. Terms
By accessing this web site, you are agreeing to be bound by these web site Terms and Conditions of Use, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this web site are protected by applicable copyright and trade mark law.
2. Use Restrictions
You shall not post, transmit, e-mail, re-transmit or store material on or through any of the services (the “Services”) provided by Gaylynx.com (the "Company") which, in the sole judgment of the Company: (i) is in violation of any local, state, federal or non-United States law or regulation, (ii) is threatening, obscene, indecent, defamatory or that otherwise could adversely affect any individual, group or entity (collectively, "Persons") or (iii) violates the rights of any person, including rights protected by copyright, trade secret, patent or other intellectual property or similar laws or regulations including, but not limited to, the installation or distribution of "pirated" or other unauthorized photos or software products that are not appropriately licensed for use by you. You shall be responsible for determining what laws or regulations are applicable to its use of the Services. In addition, you may only use the Services in a manner that, in the Company's sole judgment, is consistent with the purposes of such Services. If you are unsure of whether any contemplated use or action is permitted, please contact the Company at support@gaylynx.com. By way of example, and not limitation, the following uses described below of the Services are expressly prohibited:
a. upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other materials (collectively, “Content”) that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, sexually intolerant or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
b . impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a Company official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
c. forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Services or develop restricted or password-only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to from another accessible page);
d. upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements;
e. upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
f. upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes" or any other form of solicitation;
g. upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses, worms or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
h. disrupt the normal flow of user interaction, cause a screen to "scroll" faster than other users of the Services are able to type, or otherwise act in a manner that negatively affects other users' ability to engage in real time exchanges;
i. interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Services;
j . intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law;
k. ‘stalk’ or otherwise harass another user of the Site or Company employee or official;
l. promote or provide instructional information about illegal activities, promote physical harm or injury against any group or individual, or promote any act of cruelty to animals. This may include, but is not limited to, providing instructions on how to assemble bombs, grenades and other weapons, and creating "Crush" sites; and
m. effecting security breaches or disruptions of Internet communication. Security breaches include, but are not limited to, accessing data of which you are not an intended recipient or logging into a server or account that you are not expressly authorized to access.
n. advertising to, or soliciting any user of the Site to buy or sell any products or services through the unauthorized or impermissible use of the Services. You may not transmit any junk email or chain letters to other users. In order to protect our users from such advertising or solicitation, the Company reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a user may send to another user in any 24-hour period to a number which the Company deems appropriate in its sole discretion. If you breach this Agreement and send unsolicited bulk email, instant messages or other unauthorized commercial communications of any kind through the Services, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to the Company, but that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to ascertain. As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay the Company $300 for each such unsolicited email or other unauthorized commercial communication you send to each user through the Services.
3. Disclaimer
The materials on GayLynx.com's web site are provided "as is". GayLynx.com makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties, including without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights. Further, GayLynx.com does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on its Internet web site or otherwise relating to such materials or on any sites linked to this site.
GayLynx.com does not claim credit for any images featured on our site, unless otherwise noted. All visual content, copy and images, is copyright to it’s respectful owners. If you own rights to any of the featured images and articles and do not wish to appear here, please don’t hesitate to contact us at support@gaylynx.com for direct removal.
Image and Content Use
The types of images GayLynx.com utilizes on our site include, but is not limited to:
1) Images licensed from photographic archive vendors.
2) Images supplied to gaylynx.com or released into the public domain by public relations and marketing companies for press purposes.
3) Reader-submitted images, with the implied representation that the person submitting the image owns the copyright in the image and the right to give it to us for use on our site.
4) Images published on Flickr or other public photo sites with licenses granted under Creative Commons, with attribution in accordance with the CC license granted in each case.
5) Images commissioned by GayLynx.com.
6) Images that we believe to be covered by the Fair Use Doctrine.
7) Many images appear on the site automatically through RSS syndication. All images obtained in this manner link back to the original site. These images are outside of GayLynx.com control, and are provided as a service for site users to find new content on the web.
4. Limitations
In no event shall GayLynx.com or its suppliers be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption,) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on GayLynx.com's Internet site, even if GayLynx.com or a GayLynx.com authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.
5. Revisions and Errata
The materials appearing on GayLynx.com's web site could include technical, typographical, or photographic errors. GayLynx.com does not warrant that any of the materials on its web site are accurate, complete, or current. GayLynx.com may make changes to the materials contained on its web site at any time without notice. GayLynx.com does not, however, make any commitment to update the materials.
6. Links
GayLynx.com has not reviewed all of the sites linked to its Internet web site and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by GayLynx.com of the site. Use of any such linked web site is at the user's own risk.
7. Site Terms of Use Modifications
GayLynx.com may revise these terms of use for its web site at any time without notice. By using this web site you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these Terms and Conditions of Use.
8. Governing Law
Any claim relating to GayLynx.com's web site shall be governed by the laws of the State of Texas without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
