Date of Last Revision: September 30, 2009
Welcome to the Help Each Other website, a cause-based social network providing users with an Internet platform, electronic tools, features and services enabling users to help each other and do social good. The Help Each Other service and network (collectively, "the Service") are operated by Help Each Other Corp. and its corporate affiliates (collectively, "us", "we" or "Help Each Other"). By accessing or using our web site at www.helpeachother.com (the "Site"), you (the "User" and together with all other users of the Site and/or the Service "Users") signify that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use ("Terms of Use" or "Agreement"), whether or not you are a registered member of Help Each Other.
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY AS THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND OBLIGATIONS. THESE INCLUDE VARIOUS LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS, AND A DISPUTE RESOLUTION CLAUSE THAT GOVERNS HOW DISPUTES WILL BE RESOLVED. YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE WILL CONSTITUTE YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS OF USE AND IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, DO NOT USE THE SERVICE.
HELP EACH OTHER DOES NOT PRESCREEN ANY POSTINGS ON THE SITE AND DOES NOT INVESTIGATE ANY OFFERINGS POSTED ON THE SITE. WE STRONGLY ENCOURGAE YOU TO RESEARCH AND LEARN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE ABOUT THE INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANIZATION THAT YOU WILL BE DONATING TO OR INTERACTING WITH.
CHANGES TO THESE TERMS OF USE
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.
USER ACCOUNTS, SECURITY AND PRIVACY
THIS SITE IS INTENDED SOLELY FOR USERS WHO ARE THIRTEEN (13) YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. ANY REGISTRATION BY, USE OF OR ACCESS TO THE SITE BY ANYONE UNDER 13 IS NOT AUTHORIZED UNDER THESE TERMS OF USE.
From time to time we may ask you to provide certain information in connection with your use of the Service. If you do not want to provide this information, certain features of the Service may not be available to you for your use. If you choose to provide such requested information, you agree to provide accurate, current and complete information and update such information from time to time to keep it complete and current. If the information your provide falls within the scope of Help Each Other's Privacy Notice, such information will be used in accordance with our then-current Privacy Notice, which is hereby incorporated by reference. (Privacy Policy) By using the Site or the Service, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.
In some cases we may permit you to open a user account and in such case you agree to maintain the security of your password and identification and be fully responsible for all use of your account and for any actions that take place using your account.
PROPRIETARY RIGHTS IN SITE CONTENT; LIMITED LICENSE
All content on the Site and available through the Service, including text, graphics, pictures, video, information, software, sound (including their selection and arrangement) (collectively, the "Content"), are the proprietary property of Help Each Other or its licensors. You are not permitted to modify, copy, distribute, frame, republish, download, scrape, display, post, transmit and upload at another site or sell, in whole or in part, or in any manner, the Content, without Help Each Other's prior written permission. Subject to these Terms of Use, you are granted a nonexclusive, revocable license to access and use the Site (including the Content) solely for your personal, non-commercial use, and only in accordance with applicable law for legal purposes. You agree that you will not remove or alter any copyright or other proprietary notices included on the Content. You agree not to use any data mining, robots, scraping or similar data gathering or extraction methods in connection with the Site and the Service. Help Each Other reserves all rights in the Site and Service not expressly granted to you herein. Without limiting the foregoing, you acknowledge and agree that no rights or licenses are granted to Help Each Other's trademarks, service marks and logos.
YOUR CONTENT
However, to the extent that you provide Content to the Site or through the Service ("Your Content") the foregoing restrictions on the use of Content would not apply to you with respect to Your Content. By posting Your Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Help Each Other an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part) distribute and exploit Your Content for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, on or in connection with the Site or Service or the promotion thereof, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, Your Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing. You acknowledge and agree that Help Each Other is not obligated to copy, modify, display, distribute, frame, republish, download, post, transmit, upload and exploit Your Content.
You represent, warrant and agree that no materials of any kind submitted through your account or otherwise posted, transmitted, or shared by you on or through the Service will violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary rights; or contain libelous, defamatory or otherwise unlawful material. You are solely responsible for Your Content. You may not post, transmit, or share any Content on the Site or Service that you did not create or that you do not have permission to post. You understand and agree that Help Each Other may, but is not obligated to, review the Site and may delete or remove (without notice) any Content (including Your Content) in its sole discretion. You are solely responsible at your sole cost and expense for creating backup copies and replacing Your Content you post or store on the Site or provide to Help Each Other.
You may remove Your Content from display and availability on the Site at any time. If you choose to remove Your Content, you acknowledge that Help Each Other may retain archived copies of Your Content. Help Each Other does not assert any ownership over Your Content; rather, as between us and you, subject to the rights granted to us in these Terms of Use, you retain full ownership of all of Your Content.
You acknowledge and agree that any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, feedback or other information about the Site or the Service, provided by you to Help Each Other ("Feedback") are non-confidential and Help Each Other shall be free to use and exploit such Feedback without restriction for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without notice or compensation to you.
HELP EACH OTHER CODE OF CONDUCT
The Users of this Site agree to be bound by the conduct consistent with the mission of the Site, which is people helping each other to make a better world. Users shall use the Services of this Site in complete truthfulness, accountability and transparency. Users will be accountable to the community of Users and Help Each Other for the authenticity of their identity, their causes and use of services and funds received through Help Each Other for the persons, charities and causes as posted on the Site.
You agree not to use the Service or the Site to:
- collect email addresses or other contact information of other Users from the Service or the Site, including for the purposes of sending unsolicited emails or other unsolicited communications;
- use the Service or the Site in any unlawful manner or in any other manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the operation of the Site or Service;
- use automated scripts or software routines to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Service or the Site;
- impersonate any person or entity, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent yourself, your age or your affiliate with any person or entity or use or attempt to use another's account, service or system without authorization from Help Each Other, or create a false identity on the Service or the Site;
- make available any advertising, solicitations, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation through the Service or the Site;
- solicit personal information from anyone under 13 or solicit passwords or personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes;
- make available any Content on the Site or through the Service that (i) is illegal or, encourages or provides instructions for a criminal offense, violates the rights of any party, or that would otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national or international law, (ii) intimidates or harasses another, (iii) is a virus or any other software which has the effect of interrupting, destroying or limiting the functionality of the Service or the Site or any computers or software that interacts with the Service or Site, (iv) is any image that is not owned by you or include images of persons who have not consented to have their image available for others to view through our Service or the Site, (v) that can reasonably be considered harmful, threatening, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable, (vi) is the private information of any third party, including, address, phone numbers, email addresses, Social Security numbers and credit card numbers, or (vii) in the sole judgment of Help Each Other, is objectionable or which restricts or inhibits any other person form using or enjoying the Site, or which may expose Help Each Other or its Users to any harm or liability of any type.
