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Site Usage Policies
Introduction!
Welcome to CrushU.com LLC, an online directory that connects people through networks of academic and geographic centers. CrushU.com LLC service is operated by the CrushU.com LLC network ("CrushU.com LLC"). By using the CrushU.com LLC web site (the "Web site") you signify that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use (this "Agreement"). We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or delete portions of these Terms of Use at any time without further notice. If we do this, we will post the changes to these Terms of Use on this page and will indicate at the top of this page the Terms of Use's effective date. Your continued use of the Web site after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms of Use. If you do not agree to abide by these or any future Terms of Use, please do not use or access Web site. It is your responsibility to regularly review these Terms of Use.
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Eligibility
You must be eighteen years of age or older to register as a member of CrushU.com LLC or use the Web site. If you are under the age of 18, you are not allowed to register and become a member of CrushU.com LLC or access CrushU.com LLC content, features and services on the Web Site. Membership in the Service is void where prohibited. By using the Web site, you represent and warrant that you agree to and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement. CrushU.com LLC may terminate your membership for any reason, at any time.
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Member Conduct
You understand that the Web site is available for your personal, non-commercial use only. You agree that no materials of any kind submitted through your account will violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy or other personal or proprietary rights; or contain libelous, defamatory or otherwise unlawful material. You further agree not to harvest or collect email addresses or other contact information of members from the Web site by electronic or other means for the purposes of sending unsolicited emails or other unsolicited communications. Additionally, you agree not to use automated scripts to collect information from the Web site or for any other purpose. You further agree that you may not use Web site in any unlawful manner or in any other manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair Web site. In addition, you agree not to use the Web site to:
- upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, vulgar, obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
- impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself or your affiliation with any person or entity;
- upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation;
- upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses 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;
- intimidate or harass another;
- use or attempt to use another's account, service or system without authorization from Web site, or create a false identity on this website.
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Proprietary Rights in Content on CrushU.com LLC
All content on Web site, including but not limited to design, text, graphics, other files, and their selection and arrangement (the "Content"), are the proprietary property of CrushU.com LLC or its licensors. All rights reserved. The Content may not be modified, copied, distributed, framed, reproduced, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted, transmitted, or sold in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, without Web site's prior written permission. You may download or print a copy of any portion of the Content solely for your personal, non-commercial use, provided that you keep all copyright or other proprietary notices intact. You may not republish Content on any Internet, Intranet or Extranet site or incorporate the information in any other database or compilation. Any other use of the Content is strictly prohibited.
All trademarks, logos, trade dress and service marks on the Web site are either trademarks or registered trademarks of CrushU.com LLC or its licensors and may not be copied, imitated, or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of CrushU.com LLC.
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Member Content Posted on the Site
You are solely responsible for the content, photos or profiles Content that you publish or display (hereinafter, "post") on the Service, or transmit to other Members (collectively the "Member Content"). You understand and agree that CrushU.com LLC may review and delete or remove any Member Content that in the sole judgment of CrushU.com LLC violate this Agreement or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of Members.
By posting Member Content to any part of the Web site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to CrushU.com LLC an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, perform, display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) 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 may remove your Member Content from the site at any time. If you choose to remove your Member Content, the license granted above will automatically expire.
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Copyright Policy
CrushU.com LLC respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement or are aware of any infringing material on the Web site, please contact us at copyright@CrushU.com and provide us 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 Web 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.
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Links to other websites
The Web site contains links to other web sites. CrushU.com LLC is not responsible for the content, accuracy or opinions express in such web sites, and such web sites are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by us. Inclusion of any linked web site on CrushU.com LLC Web site does not imply approval or endorsement of the linked web site by CrushU.com LLC. If you decide to leave CrushU.com LLC Web site and access these third-party sites, you do so at your own risk.
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Member Disputes
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other CrushU.com LLC Members. CrushU.com LLC reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.
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Privacy
CrushU.com LLC cares about the privacy of its members.
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Disclaimers
CrushU.com LLC is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the Web site or in connection with the Service, whether caused by users of the Web site, Members or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Service. CrushU.com LLC is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the Web site or Member of the Service. The Service may be temporarily unavailable from time to time for maintenance or other reasons. CrushU.com LLC 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. CrushU.com LLC 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 web site 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 CrushU.com LLC be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from anyone's use of the Web site or the Service, any Content posted on the Web site or transmitted to Members, or any interactions between users of the Web site, whether online or offline. THE WEB SITE, THE SERVICE AND THE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND CRUSHU DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. CRUSHU CANNOT GUARANTEE AND DOES NOT PROMISE ANY SPECIFIC RESULTS FROM USE OF THE WEB SITE AND/OR THE SERVICE.
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Limitation on Liability
EXCEPT IN JURISDICTIONS WHERE SUCH PROVISIONS ARE RESTRICTED, IN NO EVENT WILL CRUSHU 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 CRUSHU HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, CRUSHU'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 CRUSHU FOR THE SERVICE DURING THE TERM OF MEMBERSHIP.
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Governing Law and Venue
If there is any dispute about or involving the Web site and/or the Service, you agree that the dispute will be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You also agree to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts of the state and federal courts of Santa Clara County, California and waive all defenses of lack of personal jurisdiction and forum non conveniens. Any cause of action by you with respect to the Web site and/or the Service must be instituted within one (1) year after the cause of action arose or be forever waived and barred.
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Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold CrushU.com LLC, 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 or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.
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Other
These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and CrushU.com LLC regarding the use of the Web site and/or the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and CrushU.com LLC relating to your use of the Web site or the Service. The failure of CrushU.com LLC to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect.
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Questions
Please visit our Contact Us page.
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Privacy Policy (Effective of June 28, 2005)
Introduction
The CrushU.com LLC Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information that you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using the CrushU.com LLC web site located at www.CrushU.com (the "Web Site").
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The Information We Collect
When you visit the Web Site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Web Site use information collected by us on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web Site.
When you register on the Web Site, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address, your gender, schools attended and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.
When you enter our Web Site, we collect the user's browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all users to the Web Site. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the users close the browser. We do not use cookies to collect private information from any user.
CrushU.com LLC also collects information about you from other sources, such as newspapers and instant messaging services. This information is gathered regardless of your use of the Web Site.
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Children Under Age 18
CrushU.com LLC does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or allow such persons to register. If you are under 18, please do not send any information about yourself to us -- including information like your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address. No one under age 18 is allowed to provide any personal information or use our public forums. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at: info@CrushU.com.
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Use of Information Obtained by CrushU.com LLC
When you register on the Web Site, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, are displayed to people in the groups specified in your privacy settings to support the function of the Web Site. In addition, we may use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding the Web Site and, occasionally, new services we think you may find valuable.
No personal information that you submit to CrushU.com LLC will be available to any user of the Web Site who does not belong to at least one of the groups specified by you in your privacy settings.
We use the information about you that we have collected from other sources to supplement your profile unless you specify in your privacy settings that you do not want this to be done.
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Sharing Your Information with Third Parties
We may share your information with third parties, including responsible companies with which we have a relationship. For example:
- We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to send email solicitations. In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use in connection with these business activities.
- We may be required to disclose customer information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law or to protect our interests or property. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.
- If the ownership of all or substantially all of the CrushU.com LLC business were to change, your user information would likely be transferred to the new owner.
If you do not want to receive promotional email from CrushU.com LLC and/or do not want us to share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, please submit a request by clicking here. We will make every effort to implement any choice you make as soon as possible.
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Links
This site may contain links to other websites. CrushU.com LLC is not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by CrushU.com LLC Web Site.
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Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on the Web Site are delivered to users by our advertising partners. Our advertising partners may download cookies to your computer. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement. In this way, they may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. This information allows an advertising network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. CrushU.com LLC does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by CrushU.com LLC and does not cover the use of cookies by any of its advertisers.
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Changing or Removing Information
CrushU.com LLC users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately.
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Security
CrushU.com LLC takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. Because email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. If you have any questions about the security of the CrushU.com LLC Web Site, please visit our Contact Us page for more information.
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Changes in Our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change our privacy policy at any time. If we do this, we will post the changes to this policy on this page and will indicate at the top of this page the policy's effective date. We therefore encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy.
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Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please visit our Contact Us page for more information.
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