Welcome to Laylom, an online community, a social networking platform that allows Members to create unique personal profiles and connects people through networks for communicating, sharing and making new friends. The Laylom service is operated by Laylom, Inc.
By using the Laylom website (the "Website") you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service (this "Agreement"). In addition, if you are an individual who wishes to become a Laylom Member (a "Member"), communicate with other Members and make use of the Laylom service (the "Service"), you must read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance of its terms by following the instructions on the "Sign Up" page and checking the box labeled "I agree to Laylom's terms of service."if you represent a group or entity of the type listed in Section 9 below or otherwise wish to use the Website and the Service to promote a person, business, product or service by registering yourself or your group or entity as a "Member Entity" and creating a "Musician Profile" (each as defined in Section 9 below), you must complete the Musician Profile Registration Form and check the box on the Form labeled "I understand that this Musician Profile is subject to Laylom’s Terms of Service, including those provisions applying specifically to Musician Profiles."
This Agreement sets out the legally binding terms of your use of the Website (whether or not you become a Member) and your membership in the Service, if any, and may be modified by us at any time without prior notice. All such modifications will be effective upon posting on the Website and any use by you of the Website or the Service (whether or not you are a Member) after the posting of any such modification will constitute your agreement to that modification. The terms of our Privacy Policy and any notices regarding the Website or the Service sent to you or posted on the Website are incorporated into and made part of this Agreement. Links to copies of Laylom’s policies and notices can be found on the Laylom Home Page.
1. Eligibility. Use of the Laylom Services and registration to be a Member is void where prohibited. By using the Laylom Services, you represent and warrant that (a) all registration information you submit is truthful and accurate; (b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information; (c) you are 13 years of age or older; and (d) your use of the Laylom Services does not violate any Applicable Law. Your profile may be deleted and your Membership may be terminated without warning, if we believe that you are under 13 years of age, if we believe that you are under 18 years of age and you represent yourself as 18 or older, or if we believe you are over 18 and represent yourself as under 18.
2. 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 at any time for any reason by following the instructions on the Cancel Account page in Account Settings.
Laylom also contains links to third party sites and third party content, widgets and applications (collectively, and, for purposes of this Section 3, including Third Party Features, "Third Party Materials") and Laylom has no control over any such sites or Third Party Materials. Links to Third Party Materials are provided by Laylom solely as a convenience; Laylom neither endorses nor bears any responsibility for or control over any Third Party Materials or any links contained therein. All policies and statements by Laylom herein pertaining to the Website do not apply in any way to these Third Party Materials. Once you leave this Website and/or access Third Party Materials, Laylom’s Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and other policies are no longer in effect. Laylom recommends that you read the terms of use of each and every website which you visit and any and all Third Party Materials that you add to your profile. Laylom reserves the right in its sole discretion and without notice to: (i) terminate any and all links to this Website from any third party site, (ii) terminate any and all links from this Website to any third party site and/or (iii) terminate any Third Party Materials made available or accessible via this Website and remove any online posting thereof.
In addition, you acknowledge and agree that any third party developer that makes a widget, application or other third-party service available to you on or via Laylom may use a Laylom or other application programming interface to retrieve and/or collect personally-identifiable and/or Laylom-specific information about you to populate your copy of its widget or application with relevant information and/or content created, provided or posted by you. As noted above, you should review the terms of use of any such third party developer and/or Third Party Materials, including its privacy and data gathering policies and procedures.
3. Non Commercial Use by Members. The Service and the Website are for the personal use of individual Members only. Unless you have registered a Musician Profile (see Section 9 below), you may not use the Website or the Service in connection with any commercial endeavors without our express written consent in each case. Organizations, companies and/or businesses, including third party companies or developers posting or otherwise making Third Party Materials available on or via the Website (other than Member Entities that have registered Musician Profiles) may not become Members and should not use the Service or the Website for any purpose. No Member may copy, transfer or use any names, photos, links, text, data or other content belonging to or posted by Laylom or other Members for the purpose of selling, engaging in, marketing or promoting any other product or service. Illegal and/or unauthorized uses of the Website, including collecting usernames, email addresses or other personally identifiable information of Members by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email, unauthorized framing of or linking to the Website or any other use not expressly permitted in this Agreement, will be investigated and appropriate legal action will be taken, including, without limitation, civil, criminal and injunctive redress. In addition to the above restrictions, you may not authorize, enable or otherwise grant to any other person, organization, company or business access to your Laylom profile or other content uploaded on the Website for the purpose of extracting such information or other content.
4. Proprietary Rights in Content.
1. Rights in Content Posted by Laylom or Other Members. We own and retain all proprietary rights in the Website and the Service. The Website contains certain copyrighted material, including links and compilations of individual data, trademarks and service marks and other proprietary information of Laylom, our Members and our licensors. Except for any information which is in the public domain, you may not use, copy, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, perform, display or sell any such proprietary materials or information without our express written consent in each case.
2. Rights in Content Posted by You. By publishing, displaying or uploading (collectively, "Posting") any text, links, photos, video, messages or other data or information (collectively, "Content") on or to the Website (including on or to your profile), you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Laylom an irrevocable, perpetual, nonexclusive, fully-paid and worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display and distribute such Content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such Content and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.
5. Content Posted by You to the Service and the Website.
1. Profile Information. PLEASE NOTE: The Service includes an option which allows Members (other than Member Entities, as defined in Section 9) to determine who may view their full profile. These levels are: "Friends," and "Anyone." If you are an individual Member and you choose to allow your Laylom profile to be viewed by "Anyone," you should be aware that anyone who accesses the Website, whether or not they are a Member, will be allowed to view all the information in your profile. In addition, the Service includes an option which allows individual Members to include their last names in their Laylom profiles. If you choose this option, your last name will be included in both your normal Laylom profile as well as your "public profile" (which is described in subsection (b) below). Your public profile will be available to anyone, regardless of the level of access you have chosen for your full Laylom profile.
WHEN CHOOSING THESE OPTIONS, PLEASE CONSIDER CAREFULLY THE LEVEL OF ACCESS YOU WISH TO ALLOW TO YOUR LAYLOM PROFILE AS WELL AS WHETHER YOU WANT YOUR FULL NAME TO BE AVAILABLE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. For more information about the various levels of sharing of your Laylom profile and your last name, click here.
2. Public Profile Information. Regardless of what personal information a you choose to include in your Laylom profile or what level of sharing of your profile you choose, certain information about every Laylom Member will be included in that Member's "public profile." A Member's public profile is an abbreviated version of that Member's regular Laylom profile, containing the information listed below, which will be available to any user of the Website, as well as to the general public through, for instance, search engines like Yahoo! or Google. Each individual Member's public profile includes the following information about that Member:
* Name (first, or first and last, depending on which option the Member chooses)
* Gender
* Age
* Marital Status (or the Member's other response to this category of the Laylom profile)
* People the Member is interested in meeting (e.g., "Dating Men," "Dating Women," "Friends," etc.)
* Astrological sign
* Location
* Hometown
* "Member Since" date
* The URL of the Member's Laylom profile
3. Removal of Content. You understand and agree that we may review and delete any Content that you include in your profile or otherwise Post on any area of the Website (which may include deleting your entire profile) that we, in our sole judgment, believe (1) violates this Agreement, (2) might be offensive or illegal or (3) might violate the rights of, harm or threaten the safety of any other Member.
4. Member Identities and Musician Profiles. Unless you are a Member Entity who has registered a Musician Profile (see Section 9 below), your profile must describe you, an individual person. Examples of inappropriate profiles include but are not limited to profiles that purport to represent an animal, place, inanimate object, fictional character or real individual who is not you.
5. Member Responsibility for Content. You are solely responsible for the Content that you Post on the Website or the Service or transmit to other Members.
6. Prohibited Content.Below is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Website. Posting of any of this Content by you may result, in our sole discretion, in termination of your membership. In addition, we reserve the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action, in our sole discretion, against anyone who violates this provision, including, without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Website and reporting such violator to the appropriate legal authorities. Prohibited Content includes but is not limited to Content that, in our sole judgment:
* 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," "spam" or any other unsolicited mass mailing, emailing or other communication;
* includes any information that (1) you know is false or misleading, (2) promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive or (3) is threatening, obscene, defamatory or libelous;
* constitutes or includes any illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted or copyrightable work, including but not limited to, (1) pirated computer programs or links to them, (2) information which circumvents manufacturer-installed copy-protect devices, (3) pirated music, images or video or links to pirated music, image or video files or (4) Content which otherwise violates the terms of Section 8 below;
* displays pornographic or sexually explicit material of any kind;
* includes material that exploits people under the age of 18 in a sexual or violent manner or is intended to solicit 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 personally-identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other Members;
* constitutes or includes any promotion, sales or other commercial activity such as contests, sweepstakes, barter or advertising, excluding any Content posted by a Member Entity on its registered Musician Profile; or
* solicits people you do not know to add you or accept you as a friend on the Service, excluding any Content posted by a Member Entity on its registered Musician Profile.
Even though all of the above Content is strictly prohibited, there is a small chance that you may become exposed to such items while using the Website or the Service. If so, neither we nor any of our officers, directors, employees, shareholders, advertisers or corporate partners will in any way be responsible for any damages incurred or suffered by any party or caused by any party arising out of or related to any such exposure. Please see Sections 11 and 12 below for further limitations on our liability.
6. Further Restrictions on Your Use of the Website and the Service.
1. You must use the Website and the Service in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.
2. Unless you are a Member Entity who has registered a Musician Profile, you may not include in your Member profile any telephone numbers, street addresses or email addresses.
3. Although Laylom cannot monitor the conduct of its Members off the Website, it is a violation of this Agreement to use any information obtained from the Service or the Website in order to harass, abuse or harm another person or in order to contact, advertise to, solicit or sell to any Member without the prior explicit consent of such Member and Laylom. To protect our Members from such conduct, we reserve the right, in Laylom’s sole discretion at any time, to restrict the number of emails or other communications that a Member may send to other Members.
7. Copyright Protection Policy. You may not Post, distribute or reproduce in any way any copyrighted material, trademarks or service marks or other proprietary information owned by another party without obtaining the prior written consent of the copyright owner. If you believe that your work has been copied and Posted on the Website without your permission or in any other way that constitutes copyright infringement, please contact us.