Terms and Conditions

This Agreement sets out the legally binding terms for your membership. This Agreement may be modified by UofODating.com from time to time, effective upon notice to you as a Member.

UofODating.com cannot verify the accuracy of the information provided by its members. We do not do background checks, and have no way of verifying that the individuals using the UofODating.com web site are in fact The University of Ottawa students. When arranging any kind of meeting, be sure to be careful and take appropriate precautions. Click here to read 10 tips you can follow when arranging a meeting with someone for the first time. This page is also available on the footer of our web site, under "Safety First".

1. Eligibility. You must be eighteen or over to register as a member of UofODating.com or use this Site. Membership in the Service is void where prohibited. By using 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.

2. Term. This Agreement will remain in full force and effect while you use the Site and/or are a Member of UofODating.com. UofODating.com may terminate your access to the Site. UofODating.com may terminate your membership for any reason effective upon sending notice to you at the email address you provide in your application for membership or such other email address as you may later provide to UofODating.com. Even after this Agreement is terminated, certain provisions will remain in effect including sections 4,5,7,9 -15, inclusive, of this Agreement.

3. Non Commercial Use by Members. The UofODating.com Site is for the personal use of individual Members only and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors. Organizations, companies, and/or businesses may not become Members of UofODating.com and should not use the UofODating.com Service or Site for any purpose. Illegal and/or unauthorized uses of the Site, including unauthorized framing of or linking to the Site will be investigated, and appropriate legal action will be taken, including without limitation, civil, criminal, and injunctive redress.

4. Proprietary Rights in Content on UofODating.com. UofODating.com owns and retains other proprietary rights in the UofODating.com Site and the UofODating.com Service. The Site contains the copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of the Owner and its licensors. Except for that information which is in the public domain or for which you have been given permission, you may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any such proprietary information.

5. Content Posted on the Site.

a. You understand and agree that UofODating.com may delete any content, messages, photos or profiles (collectively, "Content") that in the sole judgment of UofODating.com violate the Terms of Use or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of other UofODating.com and/or its Members.

b. You are solely responsible for the Content that you publish or display (hereinafter, "post") on the UofODating.com service, or transmit to other UofODating.com Members.

c. By posting Content to any public area of UofODating.com, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to UofODating.com and other UofODating.com Members, 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.

d. The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Site. UofODating.com will 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 patently offensive to the online community, such as Content that promotes 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, misleading 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 restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page); displays pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind; provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under 18; 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.

e. You must use the UofODating.com Service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.

f. You may not include in your Member profile any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URL's, and email addresses.

g. You may not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other Members to buy or sell any products or services through the Service. You will not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other UofODating.com Members. Although UofODating.com cannot monitor the conduct of its Members off the UofODating.com Site, 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.

h. You agree that prior to being able to access UofODating.com's main Content areas, namely "The University of Ottawa Personals" and "The University of Ottawa Student Profiles," you must create a profile of your own.

6. 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 on the UofODating.com 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 our Site; 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.

7. Member Disputes. You are solely responsible for your interactions with other UofODating.com Members. UofODating.com reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.

8. Privacy. Privacy Regulations of the UofODating.com Site and/or the UofODating.com Service is governed by our Privacy Policy.

9. Disclaimers. UofODating.com is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the Site or in connection with the UofODating.com Service, 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 any User and/or Member of the UofODating.com Service whether online or offline. UofODating.com 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 and/or Member communications. UofODating.com 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 UofODating.com Site and/or in connection with the UofODating.com Service. Under no circumstances will UofODating.com be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from anyone's use of the Site or the Service and/or any Content posted on the UofODating.com Site or transmitted to UofODating.com Members. UofODating.com expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. UofODating.com cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the Site and/or the UofODating.com Service.

10. Limitation on Liability. Except in jurisdictions where such provisions are restricted, in no event will UofODating.com 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 Site or the UofODating.com Service, even if UofODating.com has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, UofODating.com 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 UofODating.com for the Service during the term of membership.

11. Disputes. If there is any dispute about or involving the Site and/or the Service, by using the Site, you agree that the dispute will be governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree to personal jurisdiction by and venue in the province and federal courts of the Province of Ontario, City of Ottawa.

12. Indemnity. You agree to indemnify and hold UofODating.com, 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 these Terms of Use and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above.

13. Other. This Agreement, accepted upon use of the Site and further affirmed by becoming a Member of the UofODating.com service, contains the entire agreement between you and UofODating.com regarding the use of the Site 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.

ALL MEMBERS OF THIS SITE ARE ASSUMED TO HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREED TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.