Akwaynt.com Terms of Service

By using the Akwaynt.com web site, a service of Akwaynt, Inc. ("Akwaynt"), you agree to be bound by the following terms and conditions ("Terms of Service").

Basic Terms

1. Adult users only. The Akwaynt website is not intended for users younger than 18 years old. If you are under 18 you are not authorized to become a member of the Akwaynt website. Users under 18 will not be allowed access to membership features that allow you to provide information to or communicate with Akwaynt members.
2. You are responsible for activity and communications on the Akwaynt site that occur under your screen name.
3. You are responsible for the security of your password.
4. You agree not to harass, intimidate, threaten, or impersonate other Akwaynt members.
5. You may not use the Akwaynt service for any unauthorized or illegal purpose, including but not limited to promotion of alcohol, drugs, firearms, pornography, or activities generally regarded as "spam."
6. You are solely responsible for your conduct and any information or data that you submit, post, or display on the Akwaynt website, including but not limited to text, user names, photos, graphics, profiles, video and audio clips, journal entries, and comments.
7. You agree not to hack, modify, adapt, or attempt to hack, modify, or adapt Akwaynt.com in any way.
8. You agree not to modify or create another website to falsely imply an association with Akwaynt.com.
9. You agree not to submit spam email to Akwaynt members, or to post spam journal entries or journal comments.
10. You agree not transmit or post destructive or invasive computer code such as worms or viruses.
11. You agree not to post content to Akwaynt.com that violates laws in your jurisdiction, including but not limited to copyright laws.
12. Violation of any of these terms will result in termination of your Akwaynt account. While Akwaynt prohibits certain conduct and content, you understand and agree that Akwaynt cannot be held responsible for conduct or content on the Akwaynt web site. You understand that despite our best efforts you may be exposed to such materials on the site, and that you use Akwaynt.com at your own risk.

Conditions

1. We reserve the right to change or end the Akwaynt.com service at any time and for any reason, without notice.
2. We reserve the right to alter these Terms of Service at any time. We will notify you either through email or on the site if alterations constitute a material change to the Terms of Service. What constitutes a "material change" will be determined at the sole discretion of Akwaynt, in good faith with reasonable judgment and common sense.
3. We reserve the right to refuse or terminate service to anyone for any reason at any time.
4. We may at any time, but have no obligation to, remove content and user accounts containing content that we determine at our sole discretion to be in violation of these Terms or Service or to be in any way offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise objectionable, or in violation of any party's intellectual property.
5. We reserve the right to reclaim user names on behalf of individuals or businesses that hold legal claim or trademark on those user names.
6. The Akwaynt website may contain links to other websites. Some of these links may be provided by members and some may be provided by Akwaynt. Akwaynt is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of these linked websites, and does not endorse or authorize their use.

Copyright

1. Akwaynt claims no intellectual property rights over material you provide to Akwaynt.com. Your profile, journal entries, journal comments, images, and other data uploaded to the service are yours and you may change or remove individual items at any time. You may at any time permanently delete all your information from our system by deleting your account.
2. Akwaynt undertakes to obey all relevant copyright laws. We review all claims of copyright infringement and will remove content deemed to have been distributed or posted in violation of such laws. To make such a claim, please provide us with the following:
1. A signature of the copyright owner or the person authorized to act on the owners behalf.
2. A description of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed.
3. A description of the infringing material and information sufficient for Akwaynt to locate the material.
4. Your contact information, including address, telephone number, and email.
5. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate and, under the pains and penalties of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

Privacy

1. Akwaynt.com does not sell, give, rent, or share user contact information. Contact between members of the Akwaynt service passes through the Akwaynt system so that individual user's email and contact information remains private.
2. Akwaynt.com collects certain personal information as an integral part of our service for such features as member searches and matching with other members. We do not supply this personal information to any third parties, other than as specified by you in your user settings.
3. Akwaynt.com utilizes stores cookies on your computer for the purposes basic site functions.
4. Third party advertises on Akwaynt.com may, independent of Akwaynt.com, store cookies on a users computer.
5. Akwaynt.com allows the sharing of personal information posted by members (such as in journals and profiles) with other members and (at each member's sole discretion) with non-members. Akwaynt cannot and does not assure that the sharing of such information or direct contact between Akwaynt.com users is safe. Your sharing of such private information is at your own discretion and with the understanding that Akwaynt.com is not and will not be held responsible for the repercussions of such information sharing. If you believe that any user of this website is using personal information about you for unlawful purposes, we encourage you to inform law enforcement authorities and then contact us so that we may take appropriate action.
6. Akwaynt takes reasonable measures to secure private information (such as email addresses) supplied to our site. Akwaynt will not purposefully release this information without authorization, but we cannot and do not guarantee that personally identifiable data provided to us will not become public under any circumstances.