Monday, May 21, 2012

Terms of Service

  • Phone-Personals.com and all affiliated services will be referred to in this service agreement as PP. A user is defined as any person or persons using any services provided by PP with or without an account, including the toll free network, website, etc.
  • PP is a service intended to assist with and facilitate creation and response to personal advertisements that are recorded over the phone. In order to use the voice features provided by PP, you must have access to a landline, cell, or VoIP phone. Use of the website requires a device with internet connectivity.
  • You indicate acceptance of these terms by your continued use of the service.
  • The services provided by PP are provided via a toll free phone network and website. PP may discontinue or suspend any and all of its services at any time and for any reason.
  • PP can place limitations at its discretion on the use of its service.
  • Recordings may be taken during any utilization of the phone services provided by PP and all recordings may be stored.
  • PP can change this agreement at any time by updating this document. Continued use of PP's services indicates acceptance of new terms of service.
  • You certify that you are 18 years of age or older and legally able to consume the services provided by PP within your community. You indemnify the publisher, the service provider and the telecommunications companies from any losses, liability, costs and/or expenses incurred by them and any legal action commenced against them or any of them as a result of the viewing or the retrieving of materials or use of the services. You acknowledge all responsibility for using the services provided by PP.
  • We'll do our best to be up 24 hours a day and 7 days a week but are not responsible in the event of an outage. We aren't responsible if your internet access provider isn't working.
  • As a member of PP, it is likely you'll be contributing your own content. Content you contribute may not infringe on property rights of others. The content you contribute must not be malicious or cause actual damage (i.e. a virus). If PP warns you to remove content from public view, or make it private ourselves, you may not leave it up or put it back into public display. The content you contribute must not be hateful or generally intended to offend most people who view it.
  • PP reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason. Some reasons that may get you banned: obscene content contributions, being a nuisance to the PP community, or spamming.
  • In case your account is suspended for reasons of delinquency (obscene content, being a nuisance, spamming, etc), PP is not required to provide a refund of any incurred fees. We are not liable for any losses.
  • You are soley responsible for anything uploaded under your account, even if it was not you. Guard your account credentials.
  • Do not spam users. Do not harass users. Do not impersonate another's identity (username or real). Do not post false information. Do not delete or edit others' materials in a way that ruins the original.
  • Access to services provided by PP is limited by geographic location. We are not liable if you can not use the PP for any reason including your choice of phone service provider. Currently, the services provided by PP are available to users in Canada and the United States only.
  • Use of PP's services require a PP account. Accounts may be created for free and are provided with 15 minutes of free trial usage.
  • Some services provided by PP require phone minutes. If a user has depleted all of their available minutes, they will be denied access to these services. Account phone minutes may be replenished by purchasing minutes by logging into their account via the website at http://www.phone-personals.com/. Purchase of minutes requires internet access and can not be completed via the toll free network. Payments are handled by trusted 3rd parties. We are not liable if you are unable to purchase minutes because you are not capable of providing a required form of payment.
  • Minutes are deducted from a user's account in several use cases. Minutes will be deducted from a user's account whenever a user logs into their account via the toll free network to create personals, listen to personals, or to compose voice messages in response to personals. Minutes will be deducted from a user's account whenever they respond to personals by voice using the website. The number of minutes deducted from a user's account is mathematically equivalent to the floor of the number of minutes utilized by a user to complete any of the actions described in this clause. The minimum amount of minutes that will be deducted from an account is 1 minute.
  • Some services provided by PP do not incur a deduction of minutes from a user's account. User's may listen to voice personals and voice messages sent in response to their personals via the website without incurring a deduction of their account minutes. Users may listen to voice personals published by other members via the website without incurring a deduction of minutes from their account. Users may send non-voice enabled electronic messages (such as those composed with a keyboard) to other's user's without incurring a deduction of minutes from their account.
  • In order to create and respond to personals each user must verify their phone number by using our automated phone verification service or calling into the toll free network.
  • Creation of a personal will require you to create a voice recording. You are alloted a maximum of five minutes for a personal recording.
  • There are two options a user has to respond to a personal: by voice message, or by electronic message.
  • To receive message's sent to you by other users of PP, you must have access to the internet as messages can only be received and responded to by logging into your account at http://www.phone-personals.com/.
  • Responding by voice allows a user to record a voice message via the website or toll free network. Once the message is recorded the message is then delivered to the author of the personal whom may optionally choose to listen and respond to the message.
  • Responding by electronic message (termed eMail on the website) delivers a message composed by the author and delivers it to the author of the personal.
  • Users are not permitted to contact any user of PP's services. A user may be denied the ability to send a message to any other member for any reason including a user's request or at any discretion decided by PP' moderators and service operators. Restrictions preventing users from contacting other users that are not of the gender sought are currently enforced. For example, a male may not contact a male, female, or couple if that entity is seeking females. We provide no guarantee as to the reliability of these restrictions for any reason including software application errors or dishonest users providing inaccurate information about themselves.
  • You are responsible for any charges incurred by your phone service provider while using PP. Be aware of your phone service agreement and charges that you may incur as a result of using PP.
  • PP is not responsible for any event that may occur that results in a user's phone number becoming known unintentionally such as via application bugs.
  • Any content that you contribute to the community may be viewable by the public. Any recordings created to facilitate personal creation and message composition are recorded and may be stored indefinately. There are no gaurantees to privacy while using PP's services.
  • Each phone number is allowed one and only one account. If you get a new phone number, you must create a new account. Account phone numbers can not be changed.
  • PP is not liable for anything you find on the site. That being said, we will do our best to remove bad users and content.
  • PP is not liable for any loss of data.
  • PP may have some application bugs. Let us know, and we'll get to work on fixing them.
  • PP is not responsible for harm to your computer or phone that comes as a result of using PP, directly or indirectly.
  • PP is not responsible for any content posted on a third party site that links to or mentions PP or any site site linked to by PP.
  • You agree to hold PP and its personnel blameless in any lawsuit.
  • While using PP, you may be given the option to receive email messages from PP such as for account notifications. Use of PP does not require an email address.
  • While using PP, we may send SMS text messages to your phone to alert you that someone responded to your personal or has sent you a voice message. You shall be able to disable this feature at any time.
  • We reserve the right to change the cost of PP phone minutes or methods of acquisition at any time. All charges made before price changes will still be honored at the terms for which the acquisition was conducted.
  • If your credit card is declined, your payment does not go through, or fees received from advertisers (as a direct result of actions on your behalf) are charged back, we reserve the right to deduct PP phone minutes acquired through such action.
  • If you close your account or your account is idle for a year, we reserve the right to no longer store any of the data you have contributed to PP. That being said, we will do our best to maintain as much data as possible should you decide to utilize the services provided in the future.
  • Any data or content you contribute to PP becomes PP's property. This includes personals that you have created, any voice recordings conducted, images uploaded, or any other data you provide becomes PP's property. PP may utilize these resources in any way seen fit. You do have ownership of your account. Private data, including phone numbers and email addresses, will not be sold, or made public on the internet. Private data may be shared with partner companies to help facilitate the services provided by PP.
  • We are not responsible for the anonymity of your use with PP. That being said, we regard your privacy (especially your phone numbers and email addresses) with the utmost importance and will be on the watch for improved procedures, methodologies, and technologies for protecting your private information.
  • You are not allowed to transfer your account to another person or phone number for any reason.
  • RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds are provided for many different interests, including location, dating category, author gender and seeking gender. These feeds may be subscribed to for consumption using an RSS reader, included in RSS aggregators, or published on another private or public medium.
  • This agreement overrides any previous Terms of Service agreements you had regarding PP.