Terms of Use

Welcome to ChatSports, a sports hub that connects you with people that have similar interests from around the globe. The ChatSports service and network (collectively, "ChatSports" or "the Service") are operated by ChatSports By accessing or using our web site at www.ChatSports.com, you (the "User") signify that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use ("Terms of Use" or "Agreement") as well as theMeebo Terms of Use, whether or not you are a registered member of ChatSports or Meebo. 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 date these terms were last revised. Your continued use of the Service or the 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, do not use or access (or continue to use or access) the Service or the Site. It is your responsibility to regularly check the Site to determine if there have been changes to these Terms of Use and to review such changes.

Eligibility

Membership in the Service is void where prohibited. This Site is intended solely for users who are thirteen (13) years of age or older, and users of the Site under 18 who are currently in high school or college. Any registration by, use of or access to the Site by anyone under 13, or by anyone who is under 18 and not in high school or college, is unauthorized, unlicensed and in violation of these Terms of Use. By using the Service or the Site, you represent and warrant that you are 13 or older and in high school or college, or else that you are 18 or older, and that you agree to and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

Restrictions on Use

Content You Post to the Services

You may post and share comments and content with other users through the Services. By using the Services, you agree not to upload, post, transmit, cause the display or performance of, or otherwise make available any content that:

  1. is harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortuous, vulgar, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise offensive or discriminatory;
  2. is obscene, pornographic, excessively violent or harmful to minors or depicts minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct or in a sexually explicit manner;
  3. is illegal;
  4. is tortuous, defamatory, libelous or invasive of another's privacy or publicity rights;
  5. infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary or intellectual property rights of any party;
  6. you do not have a right to make available under law or contractual or fiduciary relationships;
  7. includes copyrighted materials for which you do not possess appropriate rights to so display, perform or otherwise make available;
  8. bears any false, disguised or misleading origin;
  9. contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to destroy, interrupt or otherwise limit the functionality of any computer software, computer hardware or other equipment.

All messages, information, digital files or other materials, whether publicly posted, displayed or performed on, or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person who sends or publishes such items. Accordingly, you are responsible for all items that you message, upload, post, cause the display or performance of, email, transmit or otherwise make available via the Services.

Chatsports reserves the right to, but has no obligation to, monitor or screen the content transmitted through, displayed or posted through the Services and to remove any content in its sole discretion. Nevertheless, YOU REMAIN SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OF THE MATERIALS YOU TRANSMIT, DISPLAY OR POST THROUGH THE SERVICES.

Prohibited Activities

You may not use the Services to do any of the following:

  1. harass or advocate harassment of another person or entity;
  2. perform any activities that violate, intentionally or unintentionally, any applicable state, local, federal, or international laws or regulations promulgated by governmental agencies that have the force of law;
  3. provide resources to or otherwise support any organization(s) designated by the United States government as a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act;
  4. impersonate any person or entity or misrepresent in any way your affiliation with a person or entity;
  5. transmit unsolicited mass mailings, "spim" or "spam;"
  6. collect or store any information about other users or members, other than in the normal course of using the Services for their intended purpose of facilitating voluntary communication among users;
  7. transmit any virus, worm, defect, Trojan horse or similar destructive or harmful item.

You may not do any of the following to the Services:

  1. use the Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, disrupt or impair the Services or any Chatsports server, or the network(s) connected to any Chatsports server, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Services;
  2. disobey any applicable policies or regulations of networks connected to the Services;
  3. modify, adapt, translate or reverse engineer the Services
  4. use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any portion of the Services;
  5. frame the Services or reformat them in any way; or
  6. create user accounts using any automated means or under false pretenses.

Third Party Content/Action

You understand that the Services, including Chatsports Rooms, act only as a forum and technical interface between users and that Chatsports does not itself verify the qualifications of users and does not evaluate or control exchanges between users. Any opinions or statements expressed by a user are those of the user alone, and are not to be attributed to Chatsports. Chatsports cannot and does not assume responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, safety, reliability, timeliness, innocuousness, or legality of anything said, written, posted, displayed or otherwise made available by any user.

You understand that you may be exposed to content that you find offensive to you and that you use the Services at your own risk.

The Services may contain links to third-party sites that are not under the control of Chatsports, and Chatsports is not responsible for, nor does it guarantee the accuracy or integrity of, the content(s) of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site, or any changes or updates to such sites. The inclusion of any link does not imply that Chatsports endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content on any third-party site. Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, any third party website found through the Services, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such third party. Chatsports is not responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of links to such third party websites on the Services.

In addition, links to advertising that has not been approved by Chatsports may be embedded in third party content displayed on the Services. Chatsports is not responsible for any content, cookies, or other technology used in connection with such advertising.

Registration Data; Account Security

In consideration of your use of the Site, you agree to (a) provide accurate, current and complete information about you as may be prompted by any registration forms on the Site ("Registration Data"); (b) maintain the security of your password and identification; (c) maintain and promptly update the Registration Data, and any other information you provide to Company, to keep it accurate, current and complete; and (d) be fully responsible for all use of your account and for any actions that take place using your account.

License and Confidential Information

By sending messages or posting information or content to the Services, including in any Chatsports Room, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Chatsports an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully-paid, worldwide license to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly 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 sub-licenses of the foregoing.

No information or content of any kind that you submit to Chatsports, upload, post, cause to be displayed or performed, transmit or otherwise make available using the Services shall be deemed confidential or secret information.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Chatsports will only disclose communications or content transmitted through private IM chats in accordance with the Chatsports Privacy Policy.

Privacy Policy

Chatsports respects your desire for privacy. ChatSports' Privacy Policy can be found at http://www.chatsports.com/privacy. By using the Services, you are consenting to the terms of our Privacy Policy.

Disclaimer of Warranty and Limitation of Liability; Ability to change or terminate services

EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED OTHERWISE, THE SERVICES AND ALL INFORMATION ARE PROVIDED "AS-IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND AND CHATSPORTS HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN ADDITION, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY PROVIDED OTHERWISE, CHATSPORTS DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, TITLE, OR QUIET ENJOYMENT. Because some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, some of these exclusions may not apply to you. If any state or other jurisdiction does not allow the exclusion or warranties, then ChatSports' warranties shall be limited in those jurisdictions to the extent permitted by law.

IN NO EVENT SHALL CHATSPORTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF THE SERVICES OR INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM THE SERVICES. If any state or other jurisdiction does not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for damages, then ChatSports' liability shall be limited in those jurisdictions to the extent permitted by law.

Except as expressly provided otherwise, you assume all risks concerning the suitability and accuracy of the information within the Services. The Services may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Chatsports assumes no responsibility for and disclaims all liability for any such inaccuracies, errors, or omissions on the Services.

Chatsports may terminate or make changes to all or any portion of the Services, product offerings, and any other information and materials available on or through the Services and may delete any content that has been submitted to the Services at any time and without notice or liability.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold Chatsports and its affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders, partners, and employees harmless from any claim or demand made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Services, your connection to the Services, your violation of the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy, or your violation of any rights of other users of the Services. Any such indemnification shall include the payment of reasonable attorneys. fees incurred in the defense of such claim.

Other

These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and Company regarding the use of the Site and/or the Service, superseding any prior agreements between you and Company relating to your use of the Site or the Service. The failure of Company to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision in that or any other instance. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect. If any provision of these Terms of Use shall be deemed unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Terms of Use and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

Comments and Questions

If you have any comments or questions you may address them to the customer service department at Chatsports at comments@chatsports.com.