Last updated on 7 January 2016

 

1. Introduction

 

By using this Website (the "Website") , operated by Dating PLANET (the "Company"), you agree to be bound by these Terms and conditions of use (this "Agreement"), whether or not you register as a user ("Registered User"). If you wish to become a Registered User and communicate with other users and use the Website service (the "Service"), please, read these terms of use carefully and indicate your acceptance of them by following the instructions in the Registration process.
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 The Website from time to time, such modifications to be effective upon posting on the Website.
This Agreement is valid for all the Websites, owned by Dating Planet net (hereinafter referred to as Network). (Network is many Websites owned by Company or by its affiliate participating in White Label Affiliate program, that share database, messaging system, payment processing engine, contests etc.).
This Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and Company with respect to your use of this Website or any other site of this net.
Website uses cookies for identifying Registered Users. By using the website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the our Privacy Policy
Usage of the Site by persons who are younger than 18 y.o. is strictly forbidden.
Company remotely and by electronic means supplies an online dating Service via Internet

 

2. Changes to these Terms and Conditions

 

Company reserves the right to change these terms of use from time to time and the changes take effect when we post them on the Websites.
Users will be notified of any Terms of Use changes on our Terms of Use page.
Your continued use of Website and Services after the posting of revisions will constitute your acceptance of such revisions.

 

3. Registration and Account

 

3.1 ATTENTION: YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 18 YEARS OLD TO REGISTER ON OR USE THIS WEBSITE. ACCESS OR USE OF THIS SITE OR ITS CONTENTS BY ANY PERSON UNDER THE AGE OF 18 IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED
3.2 Registered Users may transmit or post on the website only images that contain them, do not breach any third person's rights, and do not contain any third person if a Registered person is not shown also on the photo.
3.3 When you register to use the Service, you will provide us with your email address, date of birth, place of residence and a name, will choose a username and password for your account. You must ensure that the email address that you provide us is, and remains, valid. Your email address and any other information you chose to provide about yourself will be treated in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
3.4 Please, be aware and agree that all content uploaded by you to the Website will be available to all users or to the part of users who register on all or on part of Website in Network. As a result, you have much wider choice of Users to communicate with, and much more users see your profile and may show their interest in you.
3.5 Please, be aware that your username is part of your Public profile, other users will be able to see it on the website. Avoid using any personally identifiable information when creating your username. This includes your first or last name, your username in facebook or other social nets.
3.6 You are also required to verify your account through email (follow instruction in validation email)
3.7 You consent to allow the Company conduct investigations and background checks on all Registered Users, to determine whether any information presented on the site by you is false. the Company reserves the right to terminate your membership if your the information presented by you is false.
3.8 As a part of registration process, you will be required to select a password. You are solely responsible for selecting a password that is not easily guessed and for keeping your password safe. If you have reason to believe that your account is no longer secure, please, immidiately notify Customer Support and change your password in 'My Settings'. You are solely responsible for all activities that are conducted through your account
3.9 Your account is for your personal use only. You may not authorize others to use your account, and you may not transfer your account to any other person.
3.10 You must not use other person's account even if he/she breached the Terms of Use and transferred his/her account to you.
3.11 For qualify reasons we hide profiles of those users who have not visit their profile for more than 6 months. If you want to continue using the Service in this case, please, login and click "Show my profile" on "My home" page.
3.12 The computer, telecommunications systems and other equipment used to access the Website and use its Service shall be the responsibility of the Registered User.

 

4. Use of website and access

 

4.1 You represent, warrant and undertake that information and photos that you supply to the the Website are accurate in all details and in full compliance with this Agreement.
4.2 Your information on the Website should not be harmful to any third person.
4.3 You must not use this Website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website, the Company or third person.
4.4 You must not use the Website in connection with any unlawful, fraudulent, harmful or illegal activity or purpose.
4.5 You agree that you will not send any virus, worm, Trojan horse or other computer code, file, or program that is harmful or invasive.
4.6 You must not use the site to send any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials or collect other users email addresses to send such advertising
4.7 You must not harvest or collect email addresses or other personally identifiable information about other users of the Website
4.8 You guarantee that you will not post any personally identifiable information (your email address,facebook or another social net logins, telephone, skype, urls) in public area of the Website .
4.9 You should be aware that the usage of the Website for any unauthorised commercial purposes is forbidden; you agree not to use the site for developing your business, searching workers, business partners, advertising, etc.
4.10 Following non commercial use of the Website you will not use it to distribute, promote or otherwise publish any material containing any solicitation for funds, advertising or solicitation for goods or services, etc.
4.11 You must not use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application or other device to retrieve the data of the Website.
4.12 You guarantee that you will use profile, created by you, only by yourself. You will not create profiles for any third persons or solicit such communication.
4.13 You guarantee that you will keep all the information that you got through the Service private, if the person from whom you received it did not give a prior permission to disclose it. You will not use any information that you got from the Service in order to abuse, harass or make any harm to another person.
4.14 You agree that in communication with our customer service employees you won't be offensive, abusive or harassing.

 

5. Notifications

 

You can opt-out of all notifications from Network or choose which notifications you want to receive from us during registration or later in "My settings.".
You can also unsubscribe from any notification by using the link at the bottom of each email or change "Email notification" in your "My Settings".

 

6. Membership and Payments

 

Registered User can use some services free of charge. In order to access additional features they must purchase membership and become a Premium member.
Some new features on the site can be in the process of testing, and they can be free now. After the period of testing is over they can be made available only for Premium members.
Periods of membership and their corresponding fees are located at the `Prices page. These periods of membership are subject to change, which changes will be posted on the page of the Website.
All the payments are done on the site "https://dmpayment.com". This domain belong to white label affiliate program www.owndating.com and after a user registers on one of the site of the net then they can login to any site of the net with their login and password.
In the case of suspicious payment activity, we reserve the right to temporarily or permanently suspend payment via your credit card and/or request additional information from you.
There are two Premium membership on the Website: Gold and Platinum. Only the latter may hide their being online on the site and highlight their profile. Information about features included into membership plans is available at Prices page.
The activation of a Premium membership occurs a few moments after a valid transaction has been completed.

 

7. Renewals

 

In order to provide continuous service, Network automatically renews all paid subscriptions for the Services on the date such subscriptions expire. Such automatic renewals are for the same duration as the original subscription term (for example, a 1-month subscription will renew on a monthly basis, a 3-month subscription will renew on a 3-month basis, and so on). By entering into this Agreement, you acknowledge that your account will be subject to the above-described automatic renewals. If you do not wish your account to renew automatically, you may cancel automatic renewal of membership at least 2 days prior to renewal by clicking the link 'Cancel subscription' on the main page of the Site or in 'My Settings' or by contacting the Support.

 

8. Refunds and Chargebacks

 

All refunds are made at manager's discretion. The client is not entitled for refund if he has breached the terms of use or for unused subscription fees if he has terminated membership himself. In all other cases, please, contact Support.
The company will pursue chargebacks perceived as friendly fraud to the full extent of the law. You are liable for payment, as well as processing and legal fees. We will attempt to recover fraudulently disputed charges plus additional costs via a third-party collection agency.

 

9. Termination, Suspension and Cancelling

 

You can terminate your membership at any time in your My Settings or via a notice to Support. Termination by you won't entitle you to any reimbursement.
The Website may terminate your membership in the case, when you breached the Agreement, or the Administration has the reasons to believe, that the information in the profile is false and you refuse to send the verification, or in the case of multiple complaints of other users on your misbehavior. If The Website terminates your membership for the Service for the reason that you have breached the Agreement, you won't be entitled to any refund.
Even after the membership on the Website is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect.

 

10. Special Termination rules

 

 

Right of Withdrawal for German Residents Only
- You may cancel your Free or Premium Membership for any reason within two weeks of registration or purchasing the membership. In this case, please, contact Support and state clear your decision to withdraw from this contract. Your membership will be terminated within 1 day and the payment will be refunded. The User shall be obliged to restore any benefits received.
- In accordance with §312d Par. 3 BGB (German Civil Code), the Users right of termination will lapse prior to the two week period if the Company has begun performing the services with the express consent of the User or the User has begun using the purchased services.

 

Termination Rights of a resident of the European Union, but not a resident of Germany
- if you have not commenced to use the Service and a 'consumer' as defined in the Consumer Protection Regulations 2000, you may terminate your Premium membership within seven working days of registering and have full refund. This is applicable to you if you have not sent any messages to other Registered Users and have not read any messages from them. For termination and refund , please, apply to Support.

 

Termination Rights of a resident of the USA from the states of Arizona, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio or Wisconsin
- You may terminate your Premium membership within 3 working days after your payment. For cancelling your subscription and refund, please contact the Support.

 

11. Obligation for Users

 

You must not use the Website when applicable laws do not allow you to do so.
When using the Website, the Member undertakes to comply with these Terms of Use.
You must respect the intellectual property rights relating to information and content supplied by Company and by other Registered Users

 

12. Safety

 

It is Registered User responsibility to keep their password and entry codes confidential and do not share or make accessible them to any third party.
You must notify us immediately via support if you become aware of any disclosure of your password or entry code or suspect an unauthorized use of your account.
We may from time to time request some identification to verify your identity or information provided by you in your profile.
If you disclose to other members any confidential or sensitive information about yourself then you do so entirely at your own risk.
If you send any money to other members met on the site, you do so entirely at your own risk.
The Company does it best to background check all Registered users and make your online dating safe, but the authentification on the internet is extremely difficult and we can't guarantee that all Registered users profiles are reliable, accurate or complete.
You are solely responsible for necessary precautions when communicating or meeting with other users , especially in person.

 

You acknowledge that there are risks involved in online dating
- unknowingly dealing with underage persons
- communicating with a person with criminal purpose, including scammers
- defamation, discovery, and damage to Your Reputation

 

13. Information available abroad

 

Any profile information that you have provided on the Website currently will be open for public view on your profile, irrespective of the gender and location of the viewing users. You acknowledge that foreign users will be able to view your profile. You consent to the transfer of information provided by you to users residing in other countries.
The Company may store the Personal Information in a country other than your country of residence. You consent to the transfer of Personal Information to countries other than your country of residence.
The Company's customer service staff, that conduct background checks, provide customer support, does fraud prevention tasks may need to access your profile or Personal information and may be located in a country other than your country of residence. You consent to the transfer of Personal Information to countries other than your country of residence.

 

14. Limited Warranties

 

We provide service on 'as is' and 'as available' basis. We do our best to make the Service secure, uninterrupted and always available, but we can't guarantee it.
Company can't guarantee that the Service will meet your requirements and will be error-free.
We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.
We are not held responsible for the completeness or accuracy of the information published on the Website;
We can't guarantee that the information on the Website is up to date.

 

15. Limitations of liability

 

It is not a marriage site, we provide a platform to post and allow Registered users to make contacts and communicate for personal and non-business purposes.
Company cannot be held responsible for the accuracy or inaccuracy of the information and content on the Website, provided by other Members, and consequences of you using this information.
Company shall not be liable for any indirect or consequential damages arising out of the conduct and communication of you on the Website, including emotional distress, loss of time, opportunities or data and any other damages resulting from communications or meetings with other members you meet through our Website.

 

16. Indemnity

 

To the meximum extent permitted by applicable law you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Company and Network, its affiliates, directors and employees from and against all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or expenses arising from your use of the Websites, your violation of any laws or this terms of use.

 

17. Breaches of this terms of use

 

Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way or we strongly believe that you breached the terms of use, we may send you one or more formal warnings, temporarily suspend your access to the website or prohibit you from accessing the website.
In the case if you have Premium membership, we may terminate your membership and you won't be entitled to any refund.

 

18. Severability

 

If any of these Terms of Use are held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable for any reason, the remaining Terms of Use shall continue in full force.

 

19. Laws and Jurisdiction

 

 

For Registered users, residents of the European Union
- This Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws in force in the Estonia or the law of the domicile country of the consumer

 

For Users who are residents of Germany
- The laws of the Federal Republic of Germany shall apply and they agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of German jurisdiction.

 

For Registered users outside of EU
- These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with Estonia Law, and any disputes related to these terms and conditions will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Russia.
If a dispute arises between you and Company, our goal is to provide you a neutral and cost effective means of resolving this dispute quickly. To that end, you agree to contact Support on the Website first or email us describing the problem and we will seek a resolution.

 

20. Copyright

 

The Website owns and retains all proprietary rights in the Website and the Service. The Website contains the copyrighted material, trademarks, images, graphics and texts and other proprietary information of The Website. Except for that information which is in the public domains or for which you have been given written permission, you may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any such proprietary information.

 

21. Notification of Copyright Infringement

 

If you encounter content displayed on the Website that you suspect belongs to you or a third party, and it is displayed in a manner that violate your copyright or intellectual property, please, contact the support with statement, containing your contact details, a description of the property and the url of the place where the material is located.
Notices may be sent to Email: [email protected]
The Company administers a takedown procedure upon receiving this notice in 3 business days. The Company may disable or remove access to any content on the Website that violate any copyright or intellectual property.

 

22. Terms of Use Dependant on Residency

 

 

Some additional terms are applicable for you if you are a resident of some countries. Please, check.
- Residents of Germany - Please, view some items that apply to you: 1 , 2 ,
- Residents of EU country, but not Germany - Please, view some items that apply to you: 3 , 4 ,
- Residents of USA from states Arizona, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin - Please, view some items that apply to you: 5 , 6 ,
- Residents of not a EU country - Please, view some items that apply to you: 7 ,

 

23. Our Details

 

The corporate details of 'Dating PLANET network':

• Company Name: Cat-Hap OÜ
• Country of Incorporation: Estonia
• Company number: 16543642
• Registered office: Harju maakond, Tallinn, Lasnamäe linnaosa, Valukoja tn 8/2, 11415

 

24. Definitions

 

Personal information is recorded information about an identifiable individual that may include his or her (1) name, address, email address, phone number, (2) race, nationality, ethnicity, origin, color, religious or political beliefs or associations, (3) age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, (4) identifying number, code, symbol, (5) finger prints, blood type, inherited characteristics, (6) health care history including information on physical/mental disability, (7) educational, financial, criminal, employment history, (8) others' opinion about the individual, and (9) personal views except those about other individuals.
Terms of Use or Terms and Conditions means these Terms of Use, which form the contract between you and the Company