Terms of Use

MeetAnOstoMate.org Terms of Use Agreement

Welcome to MeetAnOstoMate.org, the service for adults to meet and talk to each other online, operated by JDBS. By using the MeetAnOstoMate.org Website, (the “Website”) you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use (this “Agreement”), whether or not you register as a member of MeetAnOstoMate.org (“Member”). If you wish to become a Member and make use of the MeetAnOstoMate.org service (the “Service”), please read these Terms of Use. If you object to anything in this Agreement or the MeetAnOstoMate.org Privacy Policy, do not use the Website or the Service. The Terms of Use are subject to change by JDBS at any time, effective upon posting on the MeetAnOstoMate.org website, and your use of the Service after such posting will constitute acceptance by you of such changes.

1. Acceptance of Terms of Use Agreement

a. Electronic Agreement
This Agreement is an electronic contract that sets out the legally binding terms of your use of the Website and your membership in the Service. This Agreement may be modified by JDBS from time to time, such modifications to be effective upon posting by JDBS on the Website. This Agreement includes JDBS’s Acceptable Use Policy for Content Posted on the Website, JDBS’s Privacy Policy, JDBS’s subscription policies and any notices regarding the Website. By accessing the Website or becoming a Member, you accept this Agreement and agree to the terms, conditions and notices contained or referenced herein.

b. Electronic Form
By accessing the Website or becoming a Member, you consent to have this Agreement provided to you in electronic form.

c. Non-electronic Copy
You have the right to receive this Agreement in non-electronic form. You may request a non-electronic copy of this Agreement either before or after you electronically sign the Agreement. To receive a non-electronic copy of this Agreement, please send an e-mail to here.

d. Withdrawing Your Consent
You have the right at any time to withdraw your consent to have this Agreement provided to you in electronic form.

(i) Effect.
Should you choose to withdraw your consent to have this Agreement provided to you in electronic form, we will discontinue your then-current username and password. This means that you will not have the right to use the Service unless, and until, we issue you a new username and password. We only will issue you a new username and password after we receive a signed copy of a non-electronic version of this Agreement, which we will send to you upon request.

(ii) Notice.
To withdraw your consent and/or request a non-electronic copy of this Agreement, please send an email here.

(iii) Prospective Nature.
Your withdrawal of consent shall be effective within a reasonable time after we receive your withdrawal notice described above. Your withdrawal of consent will not affect the legal validity or enforceability of the Agreement provided to, and electronically signed by, you prior to the effective date of your withdrawal.
e. Access and Retention.

In order to access and retain this electronic Agreement, you must have access to the World Wide Web, either directly or through devices that access web-based content, and pay any service fees associated with such access. In addition, you must use all equipment necessary to make such connection to the World Wide Web, including a computer and modem or other access device. Please print a copy of this document for your records. To retain an electronic copy of this Agreement, you may save it into any word processing program. Via, the Website, we will notify you of any changes in the hardware or software requirements needed to access and/or retain this Agreement that create a material risk that you will not be able to continue to access and/or retain this electronic Agreement.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to register as a member of MeetAnOstoMate.org or use the Website. Membership in the Service is void where prohibited. By using the Website, you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority and capacity to enter into this Agreement and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.


3. Membership, Subscription and Pricing

Membership and profile creation at MeetAnOstoMate.org is FREE. In order to contact other members, use the Private Chat, view Premium Content and write blogs a member would need to purchase a Subscription. You may request a refund no later than 7 days after the purchase of the subscription. JDBS reserves the right to refuse the refund if you have already used the services offered to subscription members. For purposes of this Agreement the term “Member” includes subscribers, unless where its usage indicates otherwise.


4. Term

This Agreement will remain in full force and effect while you use the Website and/or are a Member. You may terminate your membership and/or subscription at any time, for any reason by e-mailing JDBS a notice here. If you terminate your subscription, your subscription will remain active until the end of your then-current subscription period (that is, the subscription period through which you had paid prior to your termination). JDBS may terminate your membership and/or subscription by sending notice to you at the email address you provide in your application for membership, or such other email address as you may later provide to MeetAnOstoMate.org. If JDBS terminates your membership in the Service because you have breached this Agreement, you will not be entitled to any refund of unused subscription fees. All decisions regarding the termination of accounts shall be made in the sole discretion of JDBS. JDBS is not required to provide you notice prior to terminating your membership and/or subscription. JDBS is not required, and may be prohibited, from disclosing a reason for the termination of your account. Even after your membership or subscription is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect. All terms that by their nature may survive termination of this Agreement shall be deemed to survive such termination.


5. Non-commercial Use by Members

The Website is for the personal use of individual Members only and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors, except paid advertising. Organizations, companies, and/or businesses may become Members and should only use the Service or the Website for allowed, paid advertising. Illegal and/or unauthorized uses of the Website, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email and unauthorized framing of or linking to the Website may be investigated, and appropriate legal action will be taken, including without limitation, civil, criminal, and injunctive redress. Use of the Website is with the permission of JDBS, which may be revoked at any time, for any reason, in JDBS’s sole discretion.


6. Account Security

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the username and password that you designate during the Registration process, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your username and password. You agree to:

(a) immediately notify JDBS of any unauthorized use of your username or password or any other breach of security, and

(b) ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session.
JDBS will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this provision. You should use particular caution when accessing your account from a public or shared computer so that others are not able to view or record your password or other personal information. If you share your computer with others, you may wish to consider disabling your auto-sign in feature.


7. Your Interactions with Other Members

You are solely responsible for your interactions with other Members. You understand that JDBS does not, in any way, screen its Members, nor does JDBS inquire into the backgrounds of its Members or attempt to verify the statements of its Members. JDBS makes no representations or warranties as to the conduct of Members or their compatibility with any current or future Members. In no event shall JDBS be liable for any damages whatsoever, whether direct, indirect, general, special, compensatory, consequential, and/or incidental, arising out of or relating to the conduct of you or anyone else in connection with the use of the Service, including without limitation, bodily injury, emotional distress, and/or any other damages resulting from communications or meetings with other registered users of this Service or persons you meet through this Service. You agree to take reasonable precautions in all interactions with other Members of the Service, particularly if you decide to meet offline or in person. In addition, you agree to review JDBS Dating Safety Tips prior to using the Service. You understand that JDBS makes no guarantees, either express or implied, regarding your ultimate compatibility with individuals you meet through the Service. You should not provide your financial information (for example, your credit card or bank account information) to other Members.


8. Content on MeetAnOstoMate.org

(a) Proprietary Rights.

JDBS owns and retains all proprietary rights in the Website and the Service. The Website contains the copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary information of JDBS, and its licensors. Except for that information which is in the public domain 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.

(b) Reliance on Content, Advice, Etc.

Opinions, advice, statements, offers, or other information or content made available through the Service, but not directly by JDBS, are those of their respective authors, and should not necessarily be relied upon. Such authors are solely responsible for such content. JDBS does not:

(i) guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information on the Service, or

(ii) adopt, endorse or accept responsibility for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice, or statement made by any party that appears on the Website. Under no circumstances will JDBS or its affiliates be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from your reliance on information or other content posted on the Website or transmitted to or by any Members.

9. Content Posted by You on MeetAnOstoMate.org

a. You are solely responsible for the Content that you publish or display (hereinafter, “post”) on the Service, or transmit to other Members. You will not post on the Service, or transmit to other Members, any defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, profane, offensive, sexually oriented, threatening, harassing, racially offensive, or illegal material, or any material that infringes or violates another party’s rights (including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, and rights of privacy and publicity). You will not provide inaccurate, misleading or false information to the Company or to any other Member. If information provided to MeetAnOstoMate.org, or another Member, subsequently becomes inaccurate, misleading or false, you will promptly notify JDBS of such change.

b. You understand and agree that JDBS may review and delete any content, messages, double-blind emails, photos or profiles (collectively, “Content”), in each case in whole or in part, that in the sole judgment of JDBS violate this Agreement or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of Members.

c. By posting Content to any public area of MeetAnOstoMate.org, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to JDBS, its affiliates, licensees and successors, an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, reproduce, adapt, modify 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 sublicenses of the foregoing. You further represent and warrant that public posting and use of your content by MeetAnOstoMate.org will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party.

d. The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Website. JDBS reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action in its sole discretion against anyone who violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Service and terminating the membership of such violators. It includes, but is not limited to, Content that:

- is patently offensive to the online community, such as Content that promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;

- harasses or advocates harassment of another person;

- involves the transmission of “junk mail”, “chain letters,” or unsolicited mass mailing or “spamming”;

- promotes information that you know is false, misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;

- promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person’s copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated images, audio or video, or links to pirated images, audio or video files;

- contains restricted or password only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);

- provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner, or solicits personal information from anyone under the age of 18;

- provides instructional information about illegal activities such as making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone’s privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;

- solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users; and

- engages in commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes.

e. Your use of the Service, including but not limited to the Content you post on the Service, must be in accordance with any and all applicable laws and regulations.

f. You may not include in your Member profile or any public areas (such as forum and blogs) any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs, email addresses and other private, contact information.

g. You may not engage in advertising to, or solicitation of, other Members. This includes but is not limited to solicitation or advertising to buy or sell any products or services through the Service or to attend parties or other social functions or networking for commercial purposes. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other Members. Although JDBS cannot monitor the conduct of its Members off the Website, it is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Service in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person, or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any Member without their prior explicit consent. In order to protect our Members from such advertising or solicitation, we reserves the right to restrict the number of message which a Member may send to other Members in any 24-hour period to a number which we deem appropriate in our sole discretion.

h. All information you include in your Member profile must be accurate, current and complete.

10. Prohibited Activities

JDBS reserves the right to investigate and terminate your membership if you have misused the Service, or behaved in a way which could be regarded as inappropriate or whose conduct is unlawful or illegal. The following is a partial list of the type of actions that you may not engage in with respect to the Service:

- You will not impersonate any person or entity.

- You will not “stalk” or otherwise harass any person.

- You will not express or imply that any statements you make are endorsed by JDBS without our specific prior written consent.

- You will not use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, “data mine”, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Service or its contents.

- You will not post, distribute or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior consent of the owner of such proprietary rights.

- You will not remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in the Service.

- You will not interfere with or disrupt the Services or the site or the servers or networks connected to the Services or the site.

- You will not post, email or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.

- You will not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any information transmitted through the Service.

- You will not “frame” or “mirror” any part of the Service or the Website, without JDBS’s prior written authorization. You also shall not use meta tags or code or other devices containing any reference to MeetAnOstoMate.org or the Service or the site in order to direct any person to any other web site for any purpose.

- You will not modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decipher, decompile or otherwise disassemble any portion of the Service or the Website or any software used on or for the Service or cause others to do so.


11. Customer Service

JDBS provides assistance and guidance through its customer care representatives. When communicating with our customer care representatives, you may not to be abusive, obscene, profane, offensive, sexist, threatening, harassing, racially offensive, or otherwise behave inappropriately. If we feel that your behavior towards any of our customer care representatives or other employees is at any time threatening or offensive, we reserve the right to immediately terminate your membership and you will not be entitled to any refund of unused subscription fees.


12. Subscriptions, Charges on Your Billing Account

(a) General.
Membership and profile creation at MeetAnOstoMate.org is FREE. In order to contact other members, use the Private Chat, view Premium Content and write blogs, a member would need to purchase a Subscription.

(b) If paid, the following rules apply:
JDBS bills you through an online account (your “Billing Account”) for use of the Service. You agree to pay JDBS all charges at the prices then in effect for any use of the Service by you or other persons (including your agents) using your Billing Account, and you authorize JDBS to charge your chosen payment provider (your “Payment Method”) for the Service. You agree to make payment using that selected Payment Method. JDBS reserves the right to correct any errors or mistakes that it makes even if it has already requested or received payment.

(c) Payment Method.
The terms of your payment will be based on your payment method and may be determined by agreements between you and the financial institution, credit card issuer or other provider of your chosen Payment Method (the “Payment Method Provider”).

13. Modifications to Service

JDBS reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that JDBS shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.


14. Blocking of IP Addresses

In order to protect the integrity of the Service, JDBS reserves the right at any time in its sole discretion to block Members from certain IP addresses from accessing the Website.


15. Copyright Policy

You may not post, distribute, or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks, or other proprietary information without obtaining the prior written consent of the owner of such proprietary rights. Without limiting the foregoing, if you believe that your work has been copied and posted on the Service in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide our Copyright Agent with the following information: an electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest; a description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed; a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the Website; your address, telephone number, and email address; a written statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.


16. Member Disputes

You are solely responsible for your interactions with other MeetAnOstoMate.org members. JDBS reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other Members.


17. Privacy

Use of the Website and/or the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy.


18. Disclaimers

JDBS is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate Content posted on the Website or in connection with the Service, whether caused by users of the Website, Members or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Service. JDBS is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the Website or Member of the Service. JDBS assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, user or Member communications. JDBS is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of email or players on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any Website or combination thereof, including injury or damage to users and/or Members or to any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participating or downloading materials in connection with the Web and/or in connection with the Service. Under no circumstances will JDBS or any of its affiliates, advertisers, promoters or distribution partners be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from anyone’s use of the Website or the Service, any Content posted on the Website or transmitted to Members, or any interactions between users of the Website, whether online or offline. The Website and the Service are provided “AS-IS” and JDBS expressly disclaims any warranty of fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. JDBS cannot guarantee and does not promise any specific results from use of the Website and/or the Service. In addition to the preceding paragraph and other provisions of this Agreement, any advice that may be posted on the Website is for informational and entertainment purposes only and is not intended to replace or substitute for any professional financial, medical, legal, or other advice. JDBS makes no representations or warranties and expressly disclaims any and all liability concerning any treatment, action by, or effect on any person following the information offered or provided within or through the Website. If you have specific concerns or a situation arises in which you require professional or medical advice, you should consult with an appropriately trained and qualified specialist.


19. Links

The Service may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. Because JDBS has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that JDBS is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any Content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that JDBS shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of, or reliance upon, any such Content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource.


20. Linked Accounts

JDBS permits you to associate a MeetAnOstoMate.org username and password with your Microsoft .Net Passport ID or your AOL ScreenName ID. When you establish a linked account, you can sign into Microsoft Passport or AOL ScreenName and automatically sign into MeetAnOstoMate.org at the same time. JDBS is not responsible for the operation or functionality of Microsoft Passport or AOL ScreenName. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation and AOL is a registered trademark of America Online, Inc.


21. Limitation on Liability

Except in jurisdictions where such provisions are restricted, in no event will JDBS be liable to you or any third person for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including also lost profits arising from your use of the Web site or the Service, even if JDBS has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, JDBS’s liability to you for any cause whatsoever, and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to the amount paid, if any, by you to JDBS for the Service during the term of membership.


22. Jurisdiction and Choice of Law

If there is any dispute arising out of the Website and/or the Service, by using the Website, you expressly agree that any such dispute shall be governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario, Canada, without regard to its conflict of law provisions, and you expressly agree and consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts of the Province of Ontario, Canada, for the resolution of any such dispute.


23. Indemnity by You

You agree to indemnify and hold JDBS, its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and other partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorney’s fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Service in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above.


24. No Third Party Beneficiaries

You agree that, except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, there shall be no third party beneficiaries to this Agreement.

25. Visibility of your profile on MeetAnOstoMate.org

You agree that, your profile information may be displayed and visible to other members and non-members on the Home Page of MeetAnOstoMate.org in the Featured Profiles section, Highest Ranked Members section and Lowest Ranked Members section. You agree that you will not take any legal actions against JDBS or any of JDBS's employees with regards to the visibility of your profile on MeetAnOstoMate.org

26. Visibility of your profile on Internet

You agree that, your profile information may be spidered and cached by Internet search engines and other similar robots. You also agree that your profile information may be displayed in the search results of these search engines and robots and therefore be visible to any Internet user. You agree that you will not take any legal actions against JDBS or any of JDBS's employees with regards to the visibility of your profile on Internet.

27. Other

This Agreement contains the entire agreement between you and JDBS regarding the use of the Website and/or the Service. If any provision of this Agreement is held invalid, the remainder of this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect.

Please contact us with any questions regarding this agreement. MeetAnOstoMate.org is a trademark of JDBS. I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.