To ensure a pleasurable experience for all members, you must adhere to the following
rules (fuller details are available in our Terms and Conditions)
Content Posted on the Site and Prohibited Content.
a. The information that you supply to special-mates.co.uk and post on the Website
must be accurate and conform to reality.
b. Special-mates.co.uk may review and delete any content, messages, special-mates.co.uk
Messenger messages, photos or Portraits (collectively, "Content") that in the
reasonable judgment of special-mates.co.uk violate this Agreement or which might
be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights, harm, or threaten
the safety of members.
c. The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited
on the Website. Special-mates.co.uk reserves the right to amend this list at
any times and 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 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;
constitutes a Portrait or photographs of any third person used
without their permission;
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 promotes conduct, or that is abusive, threatening,
obscene, defamatory or libelous;
promotes an illegal or
unauthorised 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 music or links to pirated music 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 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.
d. You must use the Service in a manner consistent
with any and all applicable laws, regulations and codes of conduct.
e. You shall not include in your member Portrait
any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email
addresses.
f. You shall not engage in
advertising to, or solicitation of, other members 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.
g. Although special-mates.co.uk 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, special-mates.co.uk
reserves the right to restrict the number of emails which a member may
send to other members in any 24-hour period to a number
which special-mates.co.uk deems appropriate in its reasonable
discretion.
Prohibited Activities
Special-mates.co.uk 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 special-mates.co.uk without our specific prior written consent.
You will not post, distribute or reproduce in any way any copyrighted
material, trademarks, or other intellectual property or proprietary
information without obtaining the prior consent of the owner of such
proprietary rights.
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 transmit or post any material
which constitutes or encourages conduct that would be considered a
criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise be contrary
to the law of or infringe the rights of any third party in the UK
or any other country in the world.
Feel free to visit our 'Terms and Conditions' for fuller details of
membership rules
By following these rules you will ensure that special-mates.co.uk can
provide a pleasurable service to all of it's members.