Welcome to Great Meets, Great Meets™ is an interactive, online service owned, operated and provided by:
Personals Plus, INC. (Great Meets™)
P.O. Box 637
Ruskin, FL 33575
E-Mail: webmaster@greatmeets.com
By using the Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. Website (the "Website") you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions
of this Agreement (the "Terms"), as a member of the Service (a "Member"), and you
agree to be bound by the Terms for as long as you continue to be a Member. Your
membership in Great Meets service is for your sole, personal use. You may
not authorize others to use your membership, and you may not assign or otherwise
transfer your account to any other person or entity.
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 Great Meets, Personals
Plus, INC. from time to time, such modifications to be effective upon posting by
Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. on the Website. This Agreement includes
Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC.'s Terms of Use Policy for Content Posted
on the Website, Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC.'s,
and any notices regarding the Website. The TERMS constitute the entire agreement
between you and Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. and govern your use of
the Service, superceding any prior agreements between you and Great Meets,
Personals Plus, INC. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that
may apply when you use affiliate services, third-party content or third-party software.
You may also receive a copy of this Agreement by emailing us at:
webmaster@greatmeets.com.
Promotions and Special Offers:
By using this service or signing up for this service, you agree to allow Great Meets
to submit email messages to you regarding special promotional offers and
other information pertaining to your account. This will not be considered to be
"unsolicited" email because you are using this service. If you do not wish
to receive such email messages, then it will be up to you to request that
your account be removed.
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1. Eligibility.
You must be eighteen or over to register
as a member of Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. or use the Website. Membership
in the Service is void where prohibited. By using and/or viewing this 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 18-years old (21-years old in AL, MS, NE, WY, and any
other location where 18 is not the age of majority).
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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 sending an email request to
webmaster@greatmeets.com. Please allow up to
5 days upon receipt by Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. of your email
notice of termination, from the email address in your account, to process the request.
Great Meets also reserves the right to remove any account at anytime for
any reason or no reason to protect our service, employee's or its member base.
If Great Meets, Personals Plus,
INC. terminates your membership in the Service because you have breached the Agreement,
or you acted in a manner not within the spirit of the website or this agreement,
you will not be entitled to any refund of unused subscription fees. Even after membership
is terminated, certain provisions of this Agreement will remain in effect, including,
but not limited to, Sections 4, 5, 7 and 11-19 of this Agreement.
Special Note - Threats:
Any threat posed against Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC., its employees or
its members, that includes, but is not limited to, physical harm or damage, or legal
or financial action being taken, will result in the immediate removal of your account
with no possibility of any refund of unused subscription fees.
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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 or even non-commercial
endeavors, including, but not limited to, businesses, organizations, groups, charities,
services and/or events. Organizations, groups, 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 Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC..
Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. owns and retains
all proprietary rights in the Website and the Service. The Website contains the
copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC., and its licensors.
you may not copy, modify, decomplie, reverse engineer, decode, hack, publish, transmit,
distribute, perform, display, or sell any such proprietary information without expressed written permission.
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5. Content Posted on the Site.
- You understand and agree that Great Meets,
Personals Plus, INC. may review and delete any content, messages,
photos or profiles (collectively, "Content") that, in the sole judgment of Great Meets,
Personals Plus, INC., violate this Agreement or which might be offensive, Pornographic,
illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of Members,
or does not comply with the intended use or spirit of this agreement. This content
may be removed with or without your being notified of such removal. The offending
content may also be edited by Great Meets comply with this agreement at
the webmasters discretion. In the event an edit is necessary you also agree to leave
such edits in place or face the complete removal of any and all content posted by
you including but not limited to email messages, profile content, or any and all
postings to any area of the web site.
- You are solely responsible for the
Content that you publish or display (hereinafter, "post") on the Service, or transmit
to other Members.
- Opinions, advice, statements, offers,
or other information or content made available through the Service, but not directly
by Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC., are those of their respective authors
and not of Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC., and should not necessarily
be relied upon. Such authors are solely responsible for such content. Great Meets,
Personals Plus, INC. does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or
usefulness of any information on the service and neither adopts nor endorses nor
is responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice, or statement
made by parties other than Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. Under no circumstances
will Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. be responsible for any loss or damage
resulting from any reliance on information or other content posted on Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. service, or transmitted to Great Meets,
Personals Plus, INC. members.
- By posting Content to any public area
of Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC., you automatically grant, and you
represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Great Meets,
Personals Plus, INC. 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.
- You understand and acknowledge that
Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. may establish general practices and limits
concerning the use of the Service, including, without limitation, to the maximum
number of days that email messages, message board postings or other uploaded Content
will be retained by the Service, the maximum number of email messages that may be
sent from or received by an account on the Service, the maximum size of any email
message that may be sent from or received by an account on the Service, the maximum
disk space that will be allotted on Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. our
servers on your behalf, and the maximum number of times (and the maximum duration
for which) you may access the Service in a given period of time. You agree that
Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. has no responsibility or liability for
the deletion or failure to store any messages and other communications or other
Content maintained or transmitted by the Service. You acknowledge that Great Meets,
Personals Plus, INC. reserves the right to remove accounts that are inactive
for an extended period of time.
- The following is a partial list of
the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Website.
Great Meets,
Personals Plus, INC. 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:
- Is adult in nature, pornographic or contains nudity of any kind.
- Is patently offensive to the online
community, such as Content that promotes solicitation, racism, bigotry, hatred or
physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
- Harasses or advocates harassment of another person;
- Involves the transmission of "junk
mail", "chain letters," or unsolicited mass mailing or "spamming"
- Promotes information that you know
is false (i.e., posting photos that are not of you), misleading or deceitful (i.e.,
single posing as a couple to circumvent a block, creating new accounts to circumvent
blocks, etc.) or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening,
obscene, defamatory or libelous;
- Promotes an illegal or unauthorized
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;
- Contains script tags (<script></script>),
especially JAVA, or an overabundance of any code that is likely to, or is designed
to inhibit, lock out, crash or otherwise cause damage to other members' computers.
- Contains restricted or password only
access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible
page);
- Provides material that contains, portrays,
or exploits people under the age of 18 (21-years old in AL, MS, NE, WY, and any
other location where 18 is not the age of majority) in any manner, non-sexual or
sexual, non-violent or violent, or solicits personal information from anyone under
18 (21-years old in AL, MS, NE, WY, and any other location where 18 is not the age
of majority);
- Provides material that exploits animals
in a sexual or violent manner;
- Provides material that is sexual in nature;
- 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; and
- Engages in commercial activities and/or
sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising,
and pyramid schemes.
- You must use the Service in a manner
consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
- You may not include in your Member
profile, or send messages through Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC.'s mail
system any information or URL, direct or indirect, that...
- Provides a service or services
the same or similar to those offered by Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC.,
such as picture posting or matchmaking of any kind.
- Requires, encourages or influences
the member to sign up for or join any group, list, web site or service, paid or
free with the exception of the areas provided for such information.
- Requires, encourages or influences
the member to purchase any type of product or service.
- Requires, encourages or influences
the member to engage in any illegal activities or schemes.
- 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 include in your Member profile any advertising, solicitation,
or promotion of any product, business, service or event, for profit or non-profit.
You may not transmit
any chain letters or junk email to other Members. Although Great Meets,
Personals Plus, INC. 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, Great Meets,
Personals Plus, INC. 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 Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. deems appropriate in its sole discretion.
- NO RESALE OF SERVICE: You agree not
to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes,
any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service.
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6.a. 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 your work has been copied and posted onthe Service in a way that constitutes
copyright infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent with the following information:
- An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;
- A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;
- a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Website;
- Your address, telephone number, and email address;
- a written statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
- a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.
Great Meets, Personals Plus,
INC.'s Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement can be reached
as follows:
Personals Plus, INC.
P.O. Box 637
Ruskin, FL 33575
E-Mail:
webmaster@greatmeets.com
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6.b. Picture Posting Policy.
Great Meets,
Personals Plus, INC. limits the posting of photos to only those of you within your profile.
The space provided is for your photos and is intended to show others what you look
like. If people other than you, are in the posted picture, they cannot
be the main object or focus of the picture and you must have their permission to
post their likeness. If they previously granted their permission, but have since
changed their mind and retracted that permission, the pictures must be removed immediately.
The space provided for photos may also not be used to display banners of any type
- especially those that are commercial, promotional, political, controversial, abusive, pornographic, nudity
or anything libelous in nature. You are also
responsible for any copyright issues associated with these images.
Children should never be depicted in any type of image on this web site. Having any child's image
posted in any way, shape or form is inappropriate.
Any pictures that do not conform to these Terms is subject to immediate removal
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8. E-mail Addresses/JAVA/JAVA Script/HTML/URL's/Links(Direct or Indirect).
- All profiles must contain a current,
valid email address. Your email address
is the only way we have to contact you should there be a problem with your account
or you lose your username and password. Failure, on your part, to provide a current,
valid email address may cause your profile to be removed. If your profile does not
have a current, valid email address, you may be sent a message on the website asking you to provide
one. If this is not corrected within 48 hours, your account may be removed at the
Webmaster's discretion.
- IFRAME tags, REDIRECTORS, CURSOR replacements,
MARKEES and other distructive HTML is also prohibited within the your profile or online
messaging system of Great Meets web site.
- HTML - is only allowed for the purpose
of placing icons or images provided those images are not for the promotion or selling
of products or services. HTML is also allowed for the purpose of changing font colors
as sizes. Provided these changes do not interfere with the intended purpose of the
pages they are viewed on. HTML table tags may also be used provided those table
tags comply with the current standards in all browsers used on the internet today.
Meaning in the event a tag does not work on a certain browser this content may be
removed at our discretion. Other HTML tags may be prohibited as well as the ones
listed above. In the event we remove such content you agree to comply with such
removal of content unfit for this web site.
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9. Member Disputes.
You are solely responsible for your interactions
with other Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. Members. Great Meets,
Personals Plus, INC. reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes
between you and other Members. Should the Webmaster become involved, will
act in an arbitration capacity only to resolve the dispute. However, if the Webmaster
discovers that one member or the other, or both, has violated these Terms, their
account(s) may be removed from the Service.
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10. Termination.
Great Meets, in its sole discretion, may terminate your password,
account (or any part thereof) or use of the Service, and remove and discard any
Content within the Service, for any reason or no reason, including, without limitation:
- For lack of use. Any trial or paid
user that has not been seen on the system for over 120 with the exception of a lifetime
membership will be removed. Lifetime members must log into the system within 180
days in order to avoid having their account removed for neglect;
- If Great Meets, Personals
Plus, INC. believes that you have violated or acted inconsistently with the letter
or spirit of the TERMS;
- Any threat, real or implied, posed
against Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. or any other system owned and
operated by us, or its personnel, employees, or its members made via the Service's
mail system, regular email or through any other media or delivery source.
- Great Meets, Personals Plus,
INC., at any time discontinues providing the Service, or any part thereof, with
or without notice;
You agree that any termination of your
access to the Service under any provision of these TERMS may be effected without
prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that Great Meets, Personals Plus,
INC. may immediately deactivate or delete your account and all related information
and files in your account and/or bar any further access to such files or the Service.
Further, you agree that Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. shall not be liable
to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Service. While
Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. reserves the right to remove your account
at anytime for any reason at the webmasters discretion, of course the reason will
be justified if this become necessary. However, Great Meets, Personals
Plus, INC. is under no obligation to provide such justification. If your account
was removed in error or by software or hardware failure Great Meets will
make every effort to get you setup with a new account as soon as possible. However,
you will agree to hold harmless Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC., its
officers, directors, employees, agents and third parties, for any losses, costs,
liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) relating to such
account. The Web master, Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC., is not required
to remove your information at your request.
If your account has been disabled for any reason and you cannot remove your account
on your own, you agree to send an email request for removal to webmsaster@greatmeets.com,
This request must be within seven (7) days of the date your access to the service was disconnected. Great Meets,
Personals Plus, INC. will have seven (7) days after the receipt
of this request to remove the account if, at the webmaster's discretion, the request
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11. Privacy.
Great Meets will keep confidential
all information supplied by you to Great Meets, including credit card number(s),
and shall use or disclose such information only for the purposes for which such
information was collected, or as required by law. All information supplied by you
will be kept private and confidential in all cases except when ordered by a court
of law to disclose any or all information supplied.
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12. Disclaimers.
Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC.
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 utilized in the Service.
Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. is not responsible for the conduct, whether
online or offline, of any user of the Website or Member of the Service. Great Meets,
Personals Plus, INC. assumes no responsibility for 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 or Member communications. Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. 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 Great Meets, Personals
Plus, INC. 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 Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. expressly disclaims any warranty
of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. Great Meets, Personals
Plus, INC. cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results, expressed
or implied, from use of the Website and/or the Service. Great Meets, Personals
Plus, INC. cannot guarantee and does not promise that any Content you post or transmit
through the Service is safe from being copied and/or displayed by another member.
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13. Limitation on Liability.
Except in jurisdictions where such provisions
are restricted, in no event will Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. 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 Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC.
has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary contained herein, Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC.'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 Great Meets,
Personals Plus, INC. for the Service during the term of membership.
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14. U.S. Export Controls.
Software from this Website (the "Software")
is further subject to United States export controls. No Software may be downloaded
fromthe Website or otherwise exported or re-exported (i) into (or to a national
or resident of) Cuba, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Iran, Syria, or any other Country
to which the U.S. has embargoed goods; or (ii) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's
list of SpeciallyDesignated Nationals or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table of
Deny Orders. By downloading or using the Software, you represent and warrant that
you are not located in, under the control of, or a national or resident of any such
country or on any such list.
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15. 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 the State of Florida without regard to its conflict
of law provisions. You agree to personal jurisdiction by and venue in the state
and federal courts of the State of Florida, City of Tampa, County of Hillsborough. |
16. Indemnity.
You agree to indemnify and hold Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC., its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents,
and other partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand,
including reasonable attorney's 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
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17. Severability.
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 Great Meets, Personals Plus, INC. 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. |
18. Chargeback Policy.
In the event you attempt to chargeback
your membership fee, or threaten to chargeback your membership fee, your access
to the website will be immediately revoked and your information will be forwarded
to our collection agency to get payment. This will include being billed for any
and all collection fees, including, but not limited to; a $50 chargeback fee, third
party collection fees, attorney's fees and any and all administration fees accrued
in an effort to obtain information to collect said fees. This policy will remain
in affect even if the service provided is no longer available to you due to your
violation of any part of this agreement. This policy will also be enforced by any
and all legal remedies necessary to insure your payment is received. |
18. Spam Policy.
Anyone found to engage in any type of spam will be removed from the
website without possibility of refund for any unused time.
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19. Refund Policy.
We do not offer refunds for unused time.
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20. Cancellation Policy.
In order to cancel your autobill membership. Send an email to webmaster@greatmeets.com or call/text 813-358-1947
If you DO NOT AGREE to the TERMS, please
ask for your account to be removed from this system. This document can always be
found at http://www.greatmeets.com/terms unless otherwise indicated here.
Please
contact us with any questions regarding this
agreement. Great Meets is a trademark of Personals Plus, INC. |